The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-09-20
Mr.. j. S. Brown, Hon. G. 7. Smith,
= Mrs. Helen Maxwell, MIR. Thomas
ROuth-High School Custodian.
By N. w. Harlee.

How shall we judge the merits Of
the individual, by what he says OIL
by what what he does? If we judge
him by what he does and with the
skill and ease by which he accom-
plishes results, then we would be
/ delighted to include Mr.. ]. S. Brown
an efficient young man as belonging
to this class of doors, for he is g
man who does things. Mr.. Brown is
the head of the culinary department
of the great Baptist Hospital OF this
city, where the best of service must
be rendered with care and even pains
taking in every detail, and where
politeness and courtesy are required
to be unit at all times.
Here service counts for much,
alacrity, honesty, straight forward in
every particular, all have real
meaning and must be balanced at
all times. Service, what little word
and how much does it imply and
what a force bound up in living en-
ergy. The real master of all is he
Fwho serves best. 1t is not what
position we occupy as so much as
to how we fill that position; not
| " ANAN w III puI WudJ We are, nOL
what we are doing but what are we
accomplishing. Shall the foot refuse
to walk, because the hand occupies
the upper part of the body? Shall
the ears refuse to perform their func-
ton because they occupy the side
or the face instead of the front as
the eyes? Then it is not question
OF what kind of work we are doing
SO much as to how do we do that
work. 1t is not the governor of the
state that can accomplish some
things that others must accomplish.
and that thing which some ole else
must accomplish however trivial, is
just as important as that which the
great statesman is assigned to do.
Our subject Mr.. Brown seems to
have caught this spirit when he was
employed to direct the preparation
of the food for six hundred persons
daily at this great institution where
the food must b eprepared with the un-
DERIVING principles of scientific hy-
giene, and with dispatch and sysmte-
matte order. We can readily see why
some cooks. the chef cooks at some
colleges should receive a higher sal
airy than the presidents of the col
leges when we take into account
the health and comfort in con-
nection with the very life and energy
OF all concern from a physical point
of view.
When we were shown through
great institutions and its various de-
partments, 1t was a source of infor-
nation as well as pleasure to see
how this young man, Mr.. Brown
could manipulate machinery. direct
the help, arranged everything with
order and system, we were. convin-
J WINGED that every position is a DO
! sition of humor and trust, and that
1t is just honorable to serve in
the kitchen and to carefully direct
affairs there as it is to be at the
head Of an army and direct affairs
j there for each is a leader in his
own capacity, and that the success
OF the one depends upon the sue
cess of the other.
| We are pleased to note that Mr..
Brown is also worthy layman in
his church, and what we have found
as general thing that the man who
does it duty well, is member of
| some branch of the great army of
the living God, and this should be an
incentive to the careless youngster
who thinks that out side of the
church is the best place, and that
he can succeed without its stronc
arm. You are wrong there young
man. Remember thy thoughts so
are you.
We wish to speak of a worthy
citizen also of our city. a fine spe-
cimen of what man should be in
his life and character and in his
general demeanor, and that worthy
man is no other than the Hon. G. T.
Smith, who is graduate of the
Rushville High School Of Rushville.
Indiana. DR.. Smith is also a clever
piet, and has written some excellent
verses containing some loft inspira-
tons capable of high didactic teach
ing and instructive a like in many
ways. He is high class church
man a layman of ability, served his
church as leader of laymen for
twenty-seven years. He has the dis
tinction of being the President of the
Layman's Association of the Mace.
donna and also that of the state. He
is also leader in the secret fra
ternity and a man that works the
general uplift of his people. Let us
have some more Smiths and Browns,
and we shall tell more about others
and what they are doing along the
same lines, but it will take time
There is lady, rather a woman,
and we rather term better than the
term lady, for the latter means more
as 1t is broader term, that deserves
to be mentioned in these paragraphs,
and what has she done that she
should be mentioned here along with
these men who rose from the bottom
to the top? Come relate her excellen-
cies and point them out to us for
we are waiting to hear. All right,
just read about it in the next para
graph and know for yourself
Mrs. HELEN Maxwell is the one
woman who has distinguished her.
self by raising in her profession to
the very height of usefulness in her
capacity. She began as house girl
waiting on the table and arranging
the details of the domestic affairs,
hut brains and pluck and industry,
decreeded that she should NOT long