The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
THE GRAND FRATERNITY OF
TEXAS NOTABLE INSTITU-
TION-HON. H. ID. VIM,
GRAND MASTER AND
TEACHER
Financial Membership Nine thousand
Eight Hundred Seventy Three
Representing Four Hundred
and Fifty Lodges.
The Work OF the Fraternity--The
Masonic Temple-By n. w.

Among the agencies that count in
the social, moral and civic uplift Of
the black people of the south and
throughout the country, the secret fra
ternities may be counted as a source
in which much good work is being ac-
complished. While nothing can ever
take the place of the church and the
school, the secret orders and the strong
men and women at their heads, per-
haps, come third in the advancement
as social center from which radiates
that fellow feeling and racial help
fulness without which, we should be
at los for much mutual helpfulness
in our forward trend.
Again, the center of the secret
fraternities are the only institutions
where we may gather and hold COM
munion which the church dogma of
creeds, and where politics have no
lettering appreciation, but where every
one is free from his religious tenets
and where his political opinion is not
considered and his only requirement
is to be upright and TO believe in a
supreme being. The black man takes
naturally to organization, and this is
one Of the hopeful indications that he
is destined to reach high stage of
civilization and even enlightenment.
The civil society is held together by
co-ordinating agencies of organiza-
tons. But to have organizations,
there must be some one worthy, to
organize and to take the leadership in
these fraternities, men and women of
characters and ability. For this pur-
pose the writer has taken the pains
to look up the man who have stood
at the head of the great masonic
order in this state and to seek out
what each has accomplished.
The present Most Grand Worshpful
Master, is the Hon. Henderson Darius
Winn, a native Texan, a man Of sterl-
ing worth, a citizen of high repute.
Being at the head of this great fra
ternity, has not lessened his love for
the church, but on the contrary, when
his craft honored him, he seemed to
have raised his generation for the
church and its cause.
Grand Master VIM received his
preliminary education in this state,
and with that caliber within him that
called for the improvement, he at
tended summer schools and schools of
methods, and in the main time, he
enters the schools as teacher, where
he strove to teach the Three RS for
thirty-four year, spending his useful
career in the school at Chapel Hill
as principle and at Buck Horn school.
He was the principal of the Sauney
Chapel for thirty years, when he re-
signed to enter upon the work Of the
masonic fraternity as its Grand
Master. 1t seems that destiny has
decreeded that the leaders of our
people must either be leaders in the
churches, in the schools and in the
secret fraternities, and then up from
these to the civic positions in the
broader world Of activity where great
er measurers are to be carried out
and where the stage of actions re-
quire both ability and vision bast-
ed on wisdom and fore thought
Grand Master VIM has been honor
ed through service to the Grand Lodge
OF Free and Accepted Masonry, be-
ing elected its Grand Junior Warden
in 1900, Senior Warden in 1901, and
reelected to same position in 1902, and
in 1908 was chosen Grand Lecturer,
and the following year was selected
as Deputy Grand Master, and he had
the distinction of being chosen by
reclamation each year but one till 1916.
In 1916, Mr.. Vim on account of his
distinguished and faithful service in
the various positions which he filled
in the craft, was elected Grand Master,
and in this new position, it seems
that all the members think that he Is
the man for the place, being a man
OF vigilant and having the great maso-
ME institution at heart, and constant |
ly working for its good and the well |
fare OF its members. We are to ex- |
pect results when such leaders as Mr.. |
VIM are ct the head Of the order.
We are ever looking for men who are
qualified for the positions and measure
them by their home life and their de-
votion to the home and it's inmate 4.
We are sure of the leader, if we viii
take time TO investigate his home
life, and after all this is the place
to measure any man, and if he meas
ures up in this particular, other things
being equal, he is the man mark him,
take him, place him, he will answer.
But Mr. VIM has been a leader else
where as well as in the leadership Of
fraternity of which he is the head.
lie has taken the time and money to
educate his three daughters, Misses
Irene, Ella, and lola, all Of whom
trained both in the Mary Allen Sem
mary and at the Prairie View State
Normal. These young ladies complet-
ed the regular literary. courses and
also the domestic Science and also
domestic Art. Miss Irene succeeded
her father as principal of the Sunday
School at the Chapel Hill, Miss lola
VIM is the first assistant in the same
school. Miss Eula P. VIM taught in