The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-12-22

Branch Normal College, in Little Rock.
She is making good in that part Of the
world.
After meeting and talking to the
many people there, 1 left for other parts
of Kansas, going to Hope, Texarkana,
and then on to Pine Bluff, Ark, where
1 had the pleasure of attending the cele-
bration of the fftieth anniversary of
the Baptist State Convention. They
called it a jubilee, and the people
seemed to be so very happy. DR.. E. c.
Morris, of Helena, is president of the
convention and has been for a number
of years. The matter of doing the ad-
vertising and working up the meeting
was in the hands of DR.. Joseph a.
Booker, president of the Arkansas Bap-
fist College, and secretary of the Home
Mission Board of the National Baptist
Convention. In this business he was
just an expert, and his work had much
to do with the large and perhaps the
most successful meeting ever held in
the history of the Baptists of that state.
There is this about DR.. Joseph A.
Booker, when he puts his hands to
thing his heart goes into it also, and he
is bound to make it succeed. For years
he has been pushing affairs in the
Arkansas Baptist College, and the young
people who have been turned out from
there will ever take their places in this
busy world. They have made good and
are still making good. He has not only
trained the children of other people,
but he has trained right in the same
college his own. Now there is his
daughter, who is married, and was for
a long time the teacher of musie-in
fact, she has charge of that department
right now. Then there is his son, Rob-
ert Booker, who is a frst-elass lawyer,
doing good work. He passed the exam
inatiOn in the state Just like a boy at
play. He will soon receive his diploma
from the Northwestern in Chicago.
Miss Carrie 1. Booker, who is teaching
in the public school at Russellville,
Ark, will some day make the world
know that she passed this way. She is
one of the finest musicians in the race,
and she is not only playing but she is
writing music. There is now on the
market sheet music, Friendship"
which is making hit, and is published
by one of the leading publishers in the
country. She informed me that others
would soon be out. She is kept busy
all the time. 1 am real proud of her
work and will tell you more another
time. Now Helen Booker is teaching at
LoanOke, and the others are in school.
Mrs. Booker is some teacher herself,
but shall have my say about her in
another letter.
Perhaps you want to know what 1
am doing way up here and will take
pleasure in telling you all about this
when 1 am through with this letter. 1
have been out to Lincoln, Neb., and it
is worth while to go there. 1 had the
pleasure of meeting Mrs. Anna Burck-
hardt, instructor in oil, water color and
china painting. She has her studio, and
it would be OF interest to YOU to know
that she is teaching some of the leading
white people in that part of the country.
She has fifty-six white and eight of our
own people. These people look at her
ability and not at her race or color
After all, that is what is going to count
in life. / am anxious that our young
people will get what the world wants,
and there will be made a beaten path
to their door. 1t was interesting to me
to see this busy woman and note what
she was doing.
l am not prepared to tell you all about
Lincoln, for am here at this great in
stitutiOn, the Topeka Industrial and
Educational Institute, of Kansas. At
the head of this school is a second
Booker T. Washington, DR.. W. r. Car
v.
He is doing things in the west, and the
people are proud of him. 1 am here at
work with the farmers, and we are going
to do things in this part of the world.
The Lord hath done great things for
us. We are looking forward to helping
to feed this world, and what we will
do next spring will be plenty. We are
proud of our organization, the Sun
flower Agricultural Association, with
DIR. w. R. Carter as our president. /
shall have more to say in my next.
OF course you know of the death of
that great editor in the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church, DR.. ]. Frank
McDonaldf He was a great writer, and
q great editor, but he is no more in
this world. 1 shall not say more Just
now. God bless you. Let me hear from