The Denver star., 1914-09-26
ISAAC FISHER
AGAIN WINNER
CoIored Man Awarded Prize
10 Magazine Contest
NINE THOUSAND COMPETED.
Tuskssee Institute, His Alma Mater,
Proud of Him and His Record-No
Question, However Taxing to Amer
lean Statesman or PubIieist, Seems
Too Difficult For Him.

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
pIetter on the subject. What We've
Learned About Rum. or Rum and Rem
edies." has been awarded to Isaac
Fisher. formerly of Nicksburg. Miss.
but now OF TuSkegce institute. Ala
bama.
OF his essay the editors of Every
body's Magazine say:
The article below is selected by us
from some o.UGo letters us the best all
round discus 'ion of rum. Certain other
letters have presented more extensive
scientific analysis. but have confined
the discussion 10 particular phases.
Others have been brilliant in literary
quality but hacking: in-iosical progress
sion AND care in the statement of facts.
The letter below MIR. Fishers sums
up the fariS about rum with admirable
comprelruSivrneSs and IL telling direct
ness of style and offers some remark
ubiy sane suggestions.
through ih,. hearts of all colored peo-
rle beneath the iiiss of many nations
is the fart HAT Isaac Fisher is IA Negro.
whom every coiored man. woman and
child may proudly claim as brother.
II any man in America deserves the
title ''tlprtor OF philosophy 1t is this
man because he has done again and
again more work in the philosophic ex
/ position of economic questions OF
worldwidc Importance than any uni
vcrsity has ever required of candi-
| date for the doctorate. His past rec
ord fuily teurs' out this statement
WfthuUt even mentioning large
/ number Of contests in which he has
been winner and IN which the prizes
were les than SO. this man, a Negro.
| TusLo-ee graduate. in nationwide
contestS with the best brains in Amer
| lea Of .II races. has been prize winner
some twenty or more times. and he
I has wou OH the following subjects.
! either me of which contains original
! work of the quaIity-higher than the
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
'Gernan and American Methods OF
4 Regulating Trusts" S4oO. (Alone and
I unaided MIR Fisher had to master in
few months sufficient reading knowl-
edge Of German to be able to write
I this e>sAy1
Ten Best Reasons Why People
Sbnul5 g., IN NiSSpnri S1OD
"A Plan to Give the South System
( of Highways Suited TO Its Needs.
500.
Scales and the Housewife" $50.
Digest of the Uses of Adding Mn
/ chimes" $50
THE Relation Between Manual
Training In the Public schools and In
dustrial Educa;ion and Efficiency" $40.
The Most Practicable Method of Be
ginning Reduction of the Tariff
honorable mention. CThis essay wa>
upon the request of its chief examiner
sent TO the United States tariff board
for its use,
These are only the big essays MIR.
| Fisher has written. At the recent meet
ing OF the Associated Advertising
I Clubs Of the World in Toronto, Canada.
Mr. Fishers paper on advertising 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-
gee institute. his alma mater. is very
proud Of him and his record. He is one
of her most loyal sons. and nothing
seems to give him greater pleasure
than 10 say that lie owes everything to
| Tuskesee. He has studied in no other
| school.
1t may be that the race has not fully
realized the real significance OF whit
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
| ton aud with Il success not true OF any
other colOred person. and he Is a 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 is that. how
ever eminent and learned the other
| competitors aud writer's. when Mr.
Fisher worki.g under his famous mot
to. used with telling effect In the st
Louis Post-DiSIatch 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 al
most invariably place the results OF his
tnvestisations his essays. his phiios-
ophy. nj the head OF all those who com
pete.
What the colored people want Isaac
Fisher 10 do now is to prepare some
books for, and about the NeSru-some
enduring works that colored children
may read and be helped: somc death
less classic that will inspire the race