The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-04-22
EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE HELD IN MONR0VA LIBERIA
WILLIAM WILCOX PRAISES
NEGRO LEADERS.

Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, April
Conspicuous among the visitors to the
recent unwilling of the Booker T.
Washington Memorial at Tuskegee In
stitute was a group of DR.. Washing
toms friends. members of the old
Guard" who were invited by Or. II. H.
Motion. Principal, to serve upon an Hon
Orary dwelling Committee. In com
menting upon the unwilling exercises
Honorable william q. Wilcox. New
York City, Chairman of the Board Of
Trustees of the Institute said
"ro my mind nothing was more en-
couraging than to see that splendid
Honorary Unwilling Committee of the
Booker r. Washington Memorial, that
committee of about one hundred col
ored citizens of the country. whom DIR.
Motion had invited to act rs the Hon
orary Unwilling Committee. | look ed
and looked at their faces, the strong,
intelligent, forceful faces of those men
and | thought had never seen more
to cause me to feel more encouraged
about the Negro race.
Il have never had any doubt in my
own mind that the students at Tuske-
gee Institute were going to make good
used of the opportunities and advan-
tages offered here, but it Is one thing
10 Ittl lidl lnulNlOQalS would make
good and ii is another thing to see such
a fine group of men who already have
made good; who already have won dis
tinCtiOn In their different lines of work
and | think if anyone had any question
about the capabilities of the Negro
race, that glance at the type OF men
composing that committee, should re-
assure the most doubtful"
The Committee was composed of the
following:
w Darden, W. J. Edwards, DR.. L. G.
Mason, DR. A. +. owens. James 7. Peter
son, V. II. Tulane \. j. Wilborn, and
r. b. Hudson of Alabama; c. f. Bush,
Scott Bond, Mrs. NJ, d. Josenberger, and
John l., Webb of Arkansas; Noah ID,
Thompson, of California; James A,
Cobb. DR.. Emmett J. Scott, Whitfield
Mckinley. Judge Il. f. Terrell. Perry
Kelly Miller of the District of Colum-
bia: DR.. 5. G. Ebert of Delaware;
Charles Fl. Anderson, n. B. Young, n. W
| Collier and DR. Charles V. Smith, oi
| Florida j. w. r.. Bowen. h. ]. Davis
A f. Herndon, II. A. Rucker, NJ. W
| Reddick Walter S. Scott, and DR. John
| Hope of Georgia; DR.. George G. Hall
Charles stewart and Claude a. Barnette
Bridgeforth of Kansas; W. II; steward
| of Kentucky; j. :. Clark, Walter Coher
! and Bishop r.. f., Jones of Louisiana
! w. T. Andrews and DR., Ernest Lyon o.
]
| DeBerry, william II. Lewis, and DIR
| $. Il. Courtney, of Massachusetts; Chas
| Banks, w. Fl. Holtzclaw, Isaiah 7
Montgomery, Or. d, w. Sherrod ant
Bishop Elias Cottrell, of Mississippi; w
c. Gordon and A. T.. Malone Of Mis-
souri,; Charles W. Anderson, T. II. Gil
bert. Fred r. Moore, II. H. Proctor. DIR
Il. p. Roberts. w. II. Smith and ]. w
Thompson, of New York DR.. a. NJ
Moore, S G. Atkins, Berry OKelly.. anC
c. c. Spaulding. of North Carolina
George H. Hayes, Joseph l.. Jones
George A. Myers and W. $. Scarbor
ough, of Ohio; II. j. Elliot, of oklahoma
Charles II. Brooks and r.. S. Jackson o.
| Pennsylvania: Richard Carroll, DR.. J
r. Levy and r. W. Westbury Of Soutl
Carolina: r. Il. Clay, Isaac Fisher. T
II Hays. J. c. Napier, Bishop T. b. Scott
r. II. Boyd, Il. II, Church, and G. w
| Franklin of Tennessee; NJ. w. Dogai
and Il. L. Smith of Texas; j. NJ. Candy
and Allen Washington of virginia. an'
r. c. Bruce and Byrd Prillerman o
West Virginia