The Denver star., 1914-09-19
ISAAC FISHER :.
AGAIN WINNER
CoIored Man Awarded Prize
In Magazine Contest.
NINE THOUSAND COMPETED.

Question, However Taxing to Amer
lean Statesman or Publicist, sesms
Too Difficult For Him.
New York. = Everybody's Magazine
for September, 1914, published in New
York city, contains the announcement
that its first prize of $500 for the best
letter on the subject, What We've
Learned About Rum. or Rum and Rem
edies," has been awarded to Isaac
Fisher. formerly Of Vicksburg, Miss.
but now of Tuskegee institute, Ala
bama.
OF his essay the editors of Every
body's Magazine say:
1.-The article below is selected by US
from some 5000 letters as the best all
round discussion of rum. Certain other
letters have presented more extensive
scientific analysis. but have confined
the discussion to particular phases.
Others have been brilliant in literary
quality. but lacking in logical progress
sion and care in the statement of facts.
The letter below MIR. Fisher's) sums
up the facts about rum with admirable
comprehensiveness and telling direct
ness of style and offers some remark
ably sane suggestions"
What will send a thrill of pride
through the hearts OF all colored peo-
pie beneath the flags of many nations
is the fact that Isaac Fisher Is a Negro.
whom every colored man. woman and
child may proudly claim as brother
If any man in America deserves the
title doctor of philosophy" 1t is this
man. because lie has done again and
again more work in the phiiosophic ex-
position of economic questions Of
worldwide Importance than any uni
versity has ever required of a candi-
date for the doctorate. His past rec
ord fully bears out this statement.
Without even mentioning q large
number OF contests in which he has
been winner and In which the prizes
were less than $40. this man, Negro.
Tuskegee graduate. in nationwide
contests with the best bruins in Amer
lea of all races, has been prize winner
some twenty or more times. and hs
has won on the following subjects,
either one of which contains original
work of the quality-higher than tho
| quality-of the theses required by
universities from candidates seeking
the degree of doctor of. philosophy.
| "What We've learned About the
Rum Question" $500
| -<;erman and American Methods OF
| Regulating Trusts" S4OO. (Alone and
| unaided Mr.. Fisher had to master In
few months sufficient reading knowl-
! edge OF German to be able to write
this essay
'.Ten Best Reasons Why People
| Should Go to Missouri" 500.
| "a Plan to Give the South System
Of Highways Suited to Its Needs"
$1O0
"Scales and the Housewife" $50.
Digest of the Uses Of Adding Ma
chimes" $50.
| Training In the Public Schools and In
dustrial Education and Efficiency" $40.
"The Most Practicable Method Of Be
ginning Reduction OF the Tariff
honorable mention. CThis essay WAS
upon the request of it's chief examiner
sent to the United States tariff board
for Its useJ
i These are only the big essays Mr..
Fisher has written. AT the recent meet
ing of the Associated Advertising
i Clubs of the World In Toronto, Canadn.
Mr.. Fishers paper on "A dYertising and
Selling" was selected by the committee
on awards as one OF the ''forty-nine
best on the subject" thereby giving
him winning place in the first inter
national contest he had entered. Tuske-
| jfuf htc nj q
4 proud OF him and his record. He Is one
Of her most loyal sons. and nothing
seems to give him greater pleasure
than to say that he owes everything to
Tuskegee. He has studied In no other
school.
1t may be that the race has not fully
realized the real Significance Of what
Mr.. Fisher is doing for the race in his
own way and line In verify he Is blaz-
ing broad trail for us all In a direc
tion and with success not true Of any
other colored person. and he il mas-
ter In his line. No question, however
taxing to the American statesman or
publicist. seems too difficult for him.
and the thing which makes glad the
heart OF every loyal Negro IL that. how
ever eminent and learned the other
competitors and writer's. when Mr..
Fisher. working under his famous mot,
to. used with telling effect In the st.
Louis Post Dispatch essay and In the
essay on rum-"Get the Truth"-turns
his mind to the analysis OF question.
Judges who do not know his race a.
most invariably place the results Of his
: Investigations. his essays. bis philos-
ophy. at the head Of all those who COM
pete.
Fisher to do now n to prepare some
books for and about the Negro-soos
enduring works. that colored childrsu