Phoenix tribune., 1918-10-19
TEXAS NEGROES AMONG LEADING MEN
Of THE RACE IN EVERYTHING THAT IS
ENTERPRSING, PROGRESSIVE. UPLIFTING

Note The following article, clipped
from the Houston Observer, a race
gives one a fair idea of what Texas
has produced. Many of our readers
hail from this grand old state, and the
article below will cause feeling of
bride to rise in their chests. We be-
lieve this an excellent opportunity
and the proper time to inform our
readers of the fact that the editor of
The Tribune is Texan and product
Of Tillotson College at Austin.
The article follows:
Senator Sherman's recent TRADE
upon the administration in general
and the part Texans are playing in
particular was very amusing, if not in
teresting, and while the Observer can
not condemn or agree with everything
the solon uttered on the floor of con-
gress, it does know that not only are
white Texans making their presence
felt at Washington, but former colored
Texans are cutting big swaths of ice
throughout the country, from the ma
tons capital down.
Holds Big Position
Perhaps the biggest position ever
held by race man in the history of
the race in this country is now occu-
pied by Texas offspring, DR.. Emmett
jay Scott, Houston boy, former
newspaper man in this city, and pro-
duct of Willy University, Marshall,
who has been drafted to serve as as
.sistant secretary of war in the cabinet
of President Wilson during the war
Mr.. Scott is an honor to his native
state and is doing the race and nation
incalculable good.
Publisher
In the publishing business it re-
manned for Texas, DR.. r. H. Boyd,
of the race in the printing and pub
fishing industry and today the Nation
al Baptist Publishing House, Nash
vile, Tenn, of which he is the dis
tinguished and proficient head, ranks
as the greatest plant OF its kind
among our people in the world. 1t af-
fords decent and profitable employ
ment to many race men and women
and produces literature for the Bap-
tist denomination. 1t stands as a
monument TO the brains and possibili-
ties of the black Americans.
Soldier
1t was Texan, Colonel Franklin A.
Denison, who halls from San Antonio,
who had the distinction of being the
only member of the black race to lead
a regiment of colored soldiers to the
battlefields of France from America.
: In civil life he was honored with scme
of the highest positions in the state
of Illinois, being assistant attorney
general of that state at the outbreak
of the present conflict AS a lawyer,
he stands shoulder to shoulder with
the leading barristers of the Prairie
state, and as a military expert and
leader it has long since been conceded
that he "knew his stuff and could peel
his onion without getting any juice in
his eyes"
Minister
In the ministerial realm, Texas has
given the North pastor for the larg-
est church of that section, member
ship considered, which is the Olivet
Baptist church, Chicago, H., and the
shepherd of that flock is the Rever-
end Lacy Kirk Williams, formerly
pastor of Mount Gilead Baptist church,
Fort Worth, and a product of Bishop
College, Marshall, Texas. AS a pull
piteer, DR.. Williams has no superior in
the American pulpit, and was often
called the pulpit Demosthenes of
Tex as"
Expert Y. M. c. A. Man
In the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation work, Texas has given the
country one of her most noble and
manly sons in the person Of Professor
John Brown Watson, himself Bishop
College product. He is an expert in
Y. M. c. A. work and is city field
secretary with headquarters in At
lanta, Ga.
Teacher
In the educational realm, Texas can
point with pride to Prof. ]. R. E. Lee,
the eminent and efficient principal of
the Lincoln High School, Kansas City,
Mo-, and formerly dean of the aca-
demic department of Tuskegee Insti-
tute. Professor Lee was the first
collegiate graduate of Bishop College