The broad ax., 1916-11-11


country is indeed an interesting thing
and you meet so many interesting peo-
pie and come in touch with them. You
meet from monarchs to beggars, from
noblemen to nobodies, and just meet
and exchange words and then 60 on
about your business, and the world will
take notice of you.
1 was just thinking of the places 1
have been, the people 1 have met and
the things 1 have seen since 1 wrote my
last letter to you, and the big men of
our race have touched and they have
touched me. 1 have seen the things
that made me shout, but none that
made me cry.
The last letter 1 wrote to you was
from Little Rock, Ark, and you re-
call 1 was there with DR.. Joseph A.
Booker, president of the Arkansas Bap-
fist College, and one of the great edu-
Gators of the race. It was manners to
come in touch with him and others.
When I>had finished then turned my
attention to leaving there.
Bright and early one morning 1 left
over the st. Louis and Iron Mountain
for Pine Bluff, which is just about
forty miles away. 1t did not take the
train a month to run those forty miles.
1 enjoyed making the trip, and when L
had finished 1 turned attention to
other things, and they turned atten-
tion to me. Reaching the city of Pine
Bluff there was a buggy from the
Branch Normal College awaiting my
arrival. DR.. A. H. Hill, pastor of Beth
ell A. NJ. E. church had phoned to
Superintendent J. G. Ish, Jr., that L
was coming and told him to send and
invite me over there to the school.
This was carried out to the letter.
For a long time there has been a
White man superintendent of this in
stitution, but he attempted to make
love to one of the girls, and she re-
scented it. 1t resulted in this big White
man losing a job which was paying
him about $4,000 year and trimmings.
The White man IS loss was our gain,
for when the board received his forced
resignation, they looked around for a
man of our race, and they found one on
hand, one of the members of the fac
ulty already, and man of sterling
parts. This was a man who had fin
ished his public school, Taladega Col
lege, and then got his finishing touch
at Yale. He was fully prepared for
the job.
1 am proud of the success of this in
stitution, for the enrolment jumped
from 160 to 300 and still they are
pouring in, hence it "doth not appear
what it will be" before the close of
the school year. This young man has
magnetic personality and he is loved
by people, students and teachers. He
pushes to the front all of his own
teachers, and is willing to help others.
Wonderful young man!
Of course, we had dinner in the
"Messing Science" department, which
is directly under Mrs. Adair. Then
there was the department of carpen-
try. where the tables were made under
the direction of one of the best trained
young carpenters in the country, I.
W. Cogg, who used to be with the Ar
kansas Baptist College and is Hamp-
ton trained man.
had the pleasure of meeting the
boys and girls of the school. Then 1
went out to Tucker, took in some of
the sayings there for the Baptist State
convention, and started from there to
Pine Bluff again, then on down the
line to New Orleans, La, where 1
made connection with the L. & N, for
Mobile, Ala.
It was my pleasure to meet the
Knox Brothers, in Mobile, the leading
planters in the city. They are plant
ers, because they plant human bodies
in the earth when they are dead. These
are two young men. They are polite
courteous and obiging.
OF course, I met Miss Daisy E.
jackson, the fast writing girl, called
a shorthand writer, shook hands with
IDr. b. Roger williams, and 50 many