The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-04-09

The long expected and much talked
of occasion anent the coming of Miss
Mamie Helen Burroughs has passed
into history, and now fingers in the
minds of Nashville people. Great speak
ers men and women, have occupied the
attention of the citizens time and
again. Nashville has singularly hon
ored each visitor and through its re-
cord, both metropolitan and cosmopol-
itan, gave honor to one of the greatest
and most noted orators now before
the public, one who is espousing the
cause of the American woman in no
uncertain tone, with a forceful and
eloquent delivery that has challenged
the admiration of the inhabitants of
two continents.
Miss Burroughs occupies the distin-
guished position of Secretary of the
Woman's Auxiliary to the National
Baptist Convention; founder and man.
ager of the Training School for Wom-
en-, which is located in the Dictrict Of
Columbia; and promoter and moving
spirit in the Douglass improvement Com
pany of Louisville, Ky. She was here
Monday and Tuesday nights under the
auspices of the Ladies Missionary
Union, composed of the allied mis-
sionary and educational organizations
Of Nashville.
On Monday night at Mt Olive Baptist
Church special program was rem
dered, but it was 9 o'clock before it
began. The first number was an in
strumental solo by Mrs Broughton-
jones' of Memphis, who was classi-
ca and entertaining; the invocation
by Mrs. M. H. Flowers was followed
by remarks by Rev G. H. Clark, the
pastor, who was also master of cere-
monies. The duet by Mesdames Hen
derson and Jones and a solo by Miss
Ella Hendry were next on the pro-
gram. Mrs. V. w. Broughton intro
duced the speaker Of the evening In
her remarks she covered the splendid
career of the visitor, outlining Ii
very entertain ne way ius: What the
women of the United States, especially
those identified with the race, are ac-
cOmplishing through the leadership of
Miss Burroughs, who is looked upon
as an able safe and courageous lead
er.
Miss Burroughs, after making some
preliminary remarks concerning the
purpose of her visit which she out
lined as being especially in the inter
est Of the women of Nashville, pro-
ceeded to speak on the Call of the
Present" 1t may be that people know
or think they know the "call of the
present" but those who heard Miss
Burroughs Monday night now see it
in a different light They were at
least favored with a woman's view of
of this duty, one who is able through
actual contact and years of experience
to see the needs, or the present de-
mands that are being made on our
people. 1t would be impossible to fol-
low her forceful remarks without Civ
ing her entire address But" using
/ her own words, "in order to stamp the
subject more indelibly upon the minds
of the people, I have reduced my vo-
| cabulary through my own mathemat-
ical process for the rest of my life to
three very short and concise SEN
tences." She led her hearers step by
step up to this point and then told
them that the sum and substance Of
her remarks from henceforth, regard
less of what platform, would be
the following three sentences: {:
First Get Busy" second, Make
! CoOd.V third WTf Not -YouiU no ppatan