Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1937-05-01
NEGRO SCIENTIST WINS WORLD
APPLAUSE

Last month when the Mississippi Chemurgc Confer
ence in session, which included the smarest of
America, who should win the acclaim of the press of the
nation but fellow member of the Negro race Dr. George
Washington Carver director of chemical research and
pertinent at Tuskegee Institution, Alabama.
The white scientists listened with amazement while
the aged Dr. Carver told them facts concerning chemistry
that strange to their ears Especially did his infor
nation concerning the owlyS peanut which is given be-
low expressions of admiration and surprise The
press of the world quoted his very words
Offers from the leading countries of the world pour
ed into his lap He offered any amount of money to
leave the South and establish himself in large city
or foreign country Corporations to buy his
service nations glad to offer to buy his knowledge
To all of them he said This man. who boy
had every obstacle and stepped into enduring
fame stated that he of the South part of its ife
piece of its clay and for that he preferred to
remain in the South that he could give his people the
advantages of what he had learned
Here is an editorial taken from the leading daily
newspaper of Mississippi, The Jackson Daily News:
White folks and coored folks in Mississippi we'll
afford join hands and pay high homage to Dr. George
Washington Carver who lis coming from Tuskegee In
sttute to attend the Mississippi Chemurgc Council
lin this city April 1918
Dr. Carver is Of the worlds most remarkable
and foremost scientists and his life story is more
fascinating than any piece of fiction He was born OF
slave parents a farm Diamond Grove, Missouri,
about 1864 In infancy he lost his father and car
red off to Arkansas with his mother who was sold Off
and he never saw her again Later he bought for
horse valued $500 and carried back to Missouri The
ended and he next appeared at Minneapolis Kansas
where he worked his way through school, At the age OF
80 he graduated with B. s. degree at Iowa State College,
and since that time he has been gladly awarded string
of letters behind his almost long as the alphabet
among them being membership in the British Royal So
ciety of Arts, London
Since 1896 DR.. Carver has been member of the ia
Guilty at Tuskegee Institute. He the prize discovery
of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington. Today he holds
rank among the foremost chemists and botanlsts OF the
nation The outstanding feature of his work has been
the discovery of at least 1876 for peanuts so
marvellous have been his achievements in this respect ne
might be called peanutologist He knows more about
peanuts than any living That's just one OF many
notable accomplishments.
During the World War the army borrowed DIR. Car
YER from Tuskegee and he taken to Washington To
serve as chemist for the Military Intelligence Dd-
vision of the General Staff 1t while serving IN that
capacity that this writer first met him. His specially
was solving the mysteries of the secret inks used by Ger
man agents in transmitting to Berlin, and ne never
failed to find the original formula develop the reagent
that brought out the writing.
Dr. Carver lis today in his 73rd year-lust an Ola farm
Nesro you would say at first glance perhaps a share
Teropper He's always shabbily dressed, his manner
bumble as Urah Heep but he's man worth knowing