The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-06-21
BY N. w. Harllee.

Prof. ?. Landry. a man of wide ex
perience ana careful observation
brings a message from the West, a
message of good cheer, and full 10
the brim at that, and sparkling like ru-
bies set in> diamonds, he hands this
message to us, coming as II does from
our relatives and friends These rel.
atives and friends, obeying the time
ly advice of the celebrated Horace
Greedy, saying Go west, young man.
and grow up with the country" but II
seems that the. persons, at least many
OF them, are certainly growing up with
the country. They are buying homes,
according to the message that Prof
Landry brings to us.
This message raises two questions
in our mind and one is, when is man
a citizen, and the other is, when does
he become a sovereign Is there any
difference between citizen and the
big term sovereign? Let us suppose
that there is difference, or at least
we shall presume difference for the
sake of mere affection. We all know
reasonably well the term of citizen,
at least we have much to say about
our citizenship, our rights and privi-
leges; but when does citizen become
a sovereign Not sovereign and heir
to a crown of a certain country, nor to
a realm, speaking in the term of royal
language, then what you urge. We
shall be charitable enough to allow
the reader to decide for himself, per
chance she may have the good fortune
to read the great Dallas Express that
is becoming the peoples weekly jour
nal. the beacon light of intelligence
that should hang out at night in ev-
cry mans front yard Napoleon un-
derstood the value of good and faith
full newspaper, for he declares that he
feared a newspaper more than he did
an army with banners.
But we asked you the difference in
the terms citizen and that of SOW
ereign? Well, let us see, the term cit
izen, means a member of n state or
city, and sovereign means a supreme
ruler. When, we insist, does the cit
izen change into sovereign? We once
once asked our professor the old CO
numdrum- If fish weighed five pounds
in the air how much should he weigh
in the water; that we heard that the
fish would weigh nothing in the water,
and without answering the student
time-killer. he, the professor, asked
If II were fact that the fish would
weigh nothing in the water, and that
his young quiz-masters might investi-
gate for themselves. II the fish in
question does not change its weight
to nothing when put in water, citizen
does change into sovereign when he
buys a home, and he at once becomes
supreme ruler, having q castle. for
tress greater than one that the gov
ernment of his country Is able to build
Then why not become sovereirns, be-
come monarchs? Indeed, the new
message that Prof. Landry brings to us
she can not answer 1t for herself?
from the west is good news, good
enough for a king.
What does it mean when the Negro
buys home, buys lot, buys farm.
buys U S. bonds, buys railroad stock ?
Who is wise enough to answer this
for the reader, provided, however that
Well, let us put in in this manner
What marks the difference between
the industrious and thrifty youngster
and the one that loiters around from
store to store on cold winter day
seeking place where he may warm
his toes sticking out in front of his
shoes which had seen better days, and |
the young man that has Old Try In |
his bones and Young Mr.. Do in his
will?
Prof. Landry is some sovereign him
self in several ways, being principal
of the Fred Douglas school at Phoenix
for five years, and graduate Of the
Straight University at New Orleans.
Here Prof. Landry was statistical
clerk in that city for The Government
that is, he was chief clerk OF the di-
vision. AS a craftman, he has been
Grand Keeper Of Records and Seal. We
admire man of ability like Prof
Landry, who is an asset to any COM
nuniity. We have examined his rec