Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-04
AS MAN TO MAN

am most important matter, an, if you please, veal would like to with draw and consult with de soldiers demse'ves and de o.her colored folks befo' we decides"
 Late that evening the committee presented itself with great dignity and solemnity before the ladies and au- nounced that they had arrived at a decision Well, who have you de- cided upon?" asked one of the ladies' We done decided we wants Dr. Shine" replied the spokesman. and In his tones there sounded an irrevo- cable conclusion.
 : But why Dr. Shine?" asked the lady. in some surprise He is not an orator, nor is he even in the habit of making public speeches"
 [ Dat may be, ma'am." replied the committee chairman, with simple dig. nity, but he done understan' de col ored race, he have der bes' intrusts al heart. and de colored people have pi1cit confidence in him. Dey say dey want him and no one else"
 The newspaper man takes of his
 battered old felt hat to Dr. F. E. Shine and bows low. This eminent surgeon. head of the splendid Copper Queen hospital staff. has won many and high ncnors, and the more thoughtless os his friends might be inclined to sheer because undue emphasis is placed up- on his selection by these humble folk to address their simple little dinner party
 But it is not so. The corored man has an unerring instinct in his clas- sification of the individuals of the proud white race. He lawns and bows and scrapes and accepts our tips and our wages and our old clothes: he laughs immoderately at our poor wit ticisms, and he does our bidding with both real and pretended cheerfulness. But all the time he has us sized m with the most profound shrewdness and exact accuracy for the exact place we should really occupy in the worlds warehouse of worth and wisdom. Un- der the black mask of his wide smile the simple colored man chooses. sorts and indexes his lordiy white brother with the same speed and certainty that dog or little child hicks ifs friends and indicates it's natural enc mics.
 NQ man is hero to his valet. The bootblack and the Pullman porter and the dining room waiter and the chsuf- feur and the gardener and the butler and the fiddler and the cotton picker and the janitor and the porter and the steward on the cood and the crapshooter, all these know the white man at his true worth. But they keen their opinions closely to themselves. Only the chosen are admitted to know the black mans real thoughts and ore. ferences and worship and fears. His instinct to dodge work and danger and scent security and ease and sense the greatness and littleness of the mas. ters of the earth came to him direct from the wilds.
 So when these colored people. pre- pairing for the great event of their lives, beset by the solemnity of the occasion. alive to their importance be- fore the community for a day. and with their best foot forward, sought for spokesman their hearts told them that none but the greatest and the best would do. They wanted a man who knew the colored man through and through, and who. whether he said much or little. would hit the spot in colored mans heart. And so they picked on Dr. Shine. head surgeon for the Copper Queen. and the son of an old Southern house.
 And the newspaper man. who knows something of the colored mans lit- tie ways and fancies and of his fn- stincts that pierce shams and chican- cry like lance. holds his hat in his hand while this white man of the South speaks to the black men who had called for him in the hour of their greatest triumph to tell them the way they should go