The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-06-28

from our experience and observation !
that the fact that man is able to fill
position there as a compositor does
not give him single qualification for
the management of the vast machinery
of the publishing concern of the Sun
day-school Union. The Government
Printing Office is a vast institution,
employing five or six thousand men
and women, but all of the brains and
direction of the affairs of this Office
are vested in about ten people, and
contrary to prevailing idea among
certain class in the church, young
Mr. Ira T. Bryant is not one of them
He is of the ninety and nine, one of
the smallest cog-wheels in the ma
chine, the infinitessimal private in the
great army, who follows orders and
does what he is told to do without
knowing why, and who is not expected
to know why, and he is not paid to
know why
The fact that man is a printer does
not make him publisher AS our good
friend Banks Campbell recently said:
IF you can't ride nothin but a horse
an got mule yo' aint no use to
me-" So, the fact that Mr. Bryant is
able to fill a job in the Government
Office is a mere bagatelle in the con-
sideration of who shall succeed DR.,
Chappelle at the Sunday-School Union.
Nevertheless, we think that the dis
position of the church to place practi
cal men, who have a knowledge of
printing and publishing in charge of
it's printing and publishing to be
spirit that means good for the church.
A man who devotes life time to ae-
quiring knowledge concerning one line
of art should learn something about
it even in a young lifetime and such
a man should be eligible to take charge
Of the publishing house of the Sunday
School Union, all other things being
equal.
The Morning Nel0S happens to know
of such a man, and since Col. Henry
Waterson has been so successful in
astounding the public with dark
l horse, we take the liberty of bringing
! out one for the position of Secretary of
: the Sunday-school Union We know
: young man, who, like Ira T. Bryant
e was born in the church, but who un
J. like Ira T. Bryant, was not born with
d the silver spoon of the church in his
J. mouth. Our. young man is a trihC
S older than Bryant and has spent hi'
L whole life in the printing business
2 He is at present superintendent of tht
[. manufacturing department of the larg
r est enterprise that the Negroes in tn
d United States have ever set forth t.
s meet profit and loss. He built himsel
Il and educated himself, and last yea
l. purchased as agent for the purpose 0
printing Sunday-schOol and kindre,
d literature white paper to the amour
a. of 100000. He is directly over 70
a. colored employees = printers, press
20 men, binders, proofreaders, mailers
p linotypers, booBkeepers, and has don
e. much to make the great machine tha
st all of these people form efficacious an
id successful. He is good Christia
in and faithful worker in the A. M. I
il Church The Mergenthaler Compan
" sent for him to come to New Yor
y to learn their famous linotype that h
a might be able to teach the colore
IN printers in the South. He is identifie
with and developed with the wonde1
full advance of the art among the co
H. ored people in the South. He know
to the publishing business thorough
IN and knows where the people are an
40 how to reach them. His honesty
an religion and his religion is honest.
n. What member of the cloth has MOI
~. in orthodox to offer? Why, gracious
Il. angels present no more.
Oh Now, here is our dark horse H
he is practical not only in theory, but
u, practice; knows more of publishing {
i. Sunday-school literature than any otl
co c. err Negro; has practiced the purcha'
~, of printing supplies and is conversa1
W W with the whole business from alpha
~ ~ omega; rings true on church affair
u; Il and is a first-class Christian gentl
,ie man.
ra Accordingly The Morning Neu
ho arises to commend the great Africa
nd Methodist Episcopal Church for i
ar recognition of the laity; we sa
ch amen" to its desire to practical me
all to practical affairs, and along this lin
we are forced to ask: whats Il
err matter with Dock Hart, of Nashvill
as the most brilliant and successful N
lst gro printer in the Countrywide
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