The broad ax., 1916-08-12
Charles E. Stump, Jumps
from Birmingham, Ala
bama to Kansas City,
Missouri, in Order to
Attend the Sixteenth
Annual Meeting of the
National Negro Bust
ness League

Birmingham, Ala.-This is moving
world and the people move with it.
Did you ever try to make a world! /
used to think that wanted to make one
myself, but then L have looked around
and find that you would have too much
to do in order to make it, so L am just
to use this one as long as L am here,
and when 1 leave, will have to then
decide on other things.
The world is full of misunderstand-
ing, and it seems that men don't take
time to get together. 1 would like to
see them Just one time have a real
good understanding, and then L won
der if it would be just little heaven.
Men kill each other, simply because
they don t take time to understand and
adjust their differences. Two men 60
ing in the opposite direction each con-
tending that he is right, and unless
they stop and reason it out there is
likely to be trouble.
saw in paper the other day where
the matter between the A. NJ. E. Zion
church, and DR.. J. S. Jackson, former
financial secretary had been adjusted,
and DR.. Jackson is now in good stand
ing with his church. 1 am sure this
could have been done in Louisville,
KY, just as well, if men had not been
so hot headed and even refused to hear
DR.. Jackson. They did hear him, and
now they have kissed and made up, and
will go on serving the Lord as they
should have done in the first place.
It took the wisdom and common
sense of one of the best women in our
race to accomplish this, Mrs. Pauline
H. Jackson, the wife of the former
secretary. He did not realize what a
jewel he was securing when he spent
so much time in trying to win her heart
and hand, but he got both and she is
just blessing by his side. Perhaps
her real value to him will never be
known.
This race of ours has produced some
real fine women, and we have them now
and we have them coming on. We
need only to take time to know them
to study them, and we will see just
how fast we are growing, and just
what we are doing for the betterment
and uplift of our kind. The woman
is really the backbone and sinew of
this race of ours. She is an angel in
disguise. Not always in disguise. Be-
lieve me honey, if Mrs. Jackson is not
called to heaven before 1920 her hus-
band will be one of the bishops in the
A. NJ. E. Zion church.
But then, 1 come to consider how
men are killing up each other in Eur
ope, how they have killed them in Mex
leo, and how in our country they just
have human barbecues, but fail to eat
the meat when they are through. 1
thought of all of this when was in
Waco, Texas a few days ago and saw
the place where they burned a young
boy, and 1 wish you could have seen
the cuss word coming up in my mind,
and was ready to say some of them,
and it was then 1 thought of how men
should have an understanding. 1 then
let Jesus into my heart and the euss
thoughts even left me although the
thoughts are still lingering in my fond
memory, and may bust out any time.
There was a young man working for
the Paul Quinn Weekly. The Chicago
Defender had an article in which it
declared that the white man, the hus-
band of the murdered woman had con-
fessed the crime and was in Jail. This
young man thought it was good news,
and published it in the Weekly with
out giving credit to the Defender, and
it landed him right in Jail, and he has
been there ever since. For fear of mis-
understanding I am not going to COM
ment on it this week. Some of them
cuss words may creep out.
NV regiment was doing well down
in San Antonio, Texas, until white
man thought he could run dozen ne
gro soldiers dressed in the uniform Of
the government, and then from Hi
nois at that. He tried it, and they al
most have to patch him just like a
woman patching a quilt. All other
white men will run from them soldiers
before 4sSey will touch them again.
Now That man should have taken time
to have had an understanding with
them. He should have known before