The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-12-13

He is the educational hero of Texas.
His life is an open book, moral up
right, honest, a scholar. Christian
gentleman, an exemplary citizen, an
honor to the state, a stafNfor his
people. He has served the state over
twenty-five years.
We wish to speak briefly of one
leading educator, one who has
wrought well in his day and gen.
Grafton, leaving his tracts on the
sands of time and his worthiness in
the minds Of those he has taught, and
his name is no other than Hon. /.
NJ. Terrell, the late principal of the
Prairie View State Normal. He was
for years principal of the Fort Worth
high school for his race. His work,
too speaks for itself He is grad
uate of the Straight University at
New Orleans, and is one Of the pio-
neer teachers of the state.
He was constantly connected with
the summer normal Institutes several
years ago, and worked for the inn
provement of the teachers to inn
prove and develop their methods in
'order that they might be able to
reach and advance the work in hand,
that is, to reach the child. We wish
to state that he as others of the
old line of teachers, and many of
the rising teachers Of the present,
have spent their scanty earnings in
the education of their children in
the preliminary education and in the
professional.
No other nation is making the
sacrifice in the eduction of their
children that the Negroes are making.
Say what you WILL the black woman,
and the black man, are making many
sacrifices for the education of their
children in the preliminary education
and in the professional.
No other nation Is making the
sacrifice in the education OF their
children that the Negroes are making.
Say what you will, the black woman,
and the black man, are making
many sacrifices for the education
of their children. No kind of work
is too mental. If we shall call the
dignity of king labor, mental, for
them to do to earn money to educate
their children. We have known a
mother who had four children to-
have them all in college at the same
time. while she worked like galley
slave, day in and day out, not that
her children might have soft jobs
as she put it, but that they might be
able to be prepared to meet life's
duty, to answer the stern demand of
the new age, the new era that is
about to down with glad fruition and
better feelings and better UNDER
standing and a better relation, and
of creation in every respect.
Christian education and right think
ing, right actions. 1t was with this
spirit that the four veteran educa-
tors: G.. W. jackson, L. c. Anderson,
Hon. Edward L. Blackshear and /.
M. Terrell, have given their unstinted
labors that the new south. that the
new Negro might adjust themselves
to the enlightenment Of the masses
in the great work Of reducing the
illiteracy, misunderstanding and
make our Southland the garden spot
Of creatinon in every respect.
These men have given one hundred
years Of service to the state of Tex
as, and an unlimited of years multi
piled in the minds Of the youth whom
they have taught. Who can measure
this century of intelligence in the
minds ,of the children who sat at
their feet? The professional the far
mers, the business man and every
thing connected along this line?