The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-03-24

down the stove, thinking summer wa.
on hand, and they held services in the
parsonage.
saw some people and got some busy
while in town, and when 1 left there
went to Selma, Ala, to visit one
great educator, Prof. R. B. Hudson
principal of the public school, and one
of the best in the country, and secre.
tary of the National Baptist conven-
ton, which position he has held for a
long time and will continue to hold as
long as he desires to hold it. He
knows how to be a real secretary and
his work is being done.
While in the city, was the guest
of Selma University, DR.. R. T. Pollard,
president. 1t was to me a pleasure to
be in this institution, and to see that
large number of young people getting
ready for real life and duty. They
have a great plant there, and soon will
start out to raise $4,000 for. the pur-
pose of getting out of debt. For a
school to get out of debt, means that
it is only getting out to go back again.
1 keep on going to these schools, will
come out with some education myself.
just go into the class rooms, sit down
and look wise, hear what they are talk
ing about, and that always gives me
something new. In the ministerial
class, under Dean Owens, and he is
some educated preacher, I caught me
a word like this, "Deamputurelus, +"
and I am going to learn the meaning
of that word and use it when I 90 back
on my farm, to talk to my young mules,
for it is the youngster who ought to
know these big things.
Getting away from Selma, a day was
spent in school in Montgomery, Ala,
and it was a real happy day for me,
for got to see something and to hear
I got to touch the people
and they touched me. spent a whole
day in the State Normal school there.
Prof. John W. Beaverly, is at the head
Of the school and he is doing good
there. He has been connected with
the school ever since "Heck was a
pup" and you know that noted dog
lived to get so old that he died from
old age, and did not take any kind of
disease. Nearly a thousand young peo-
pie were there getting education in the
latest style and methods.
All need to do now is to just say
to you that went to Tuskegee Insti-
tute, and at once you see the late
Booker T. Washington, and his sue
lessor, DR.. Robert R. Motion, and to
zee him, you see that prominent figure,
Emmett J. Scott, the secretary of the
and the man who stood
tight by the side of DR.. Washington,
ind he is to be found by the side of
Dr.. Motion. Of course you will remem-
per that Mr.. Scott is also secretary of
he National Negro Business League,
which is to meet next August in Chat
anooga, Tenn, and I am trying to get
money enough to be right there on the
Job, telling about this farming business.
DR.. Motion is a busy man, and as
,usy as any one man can be. His
friends are anxious that he shall take
rood care of himself, and live a long,
ime. We need these big men, the
nen of brain, the men of thought, the
men who are truly representing our
ace. and who touch arms and elbows
With the men of the other race, and
hen it is thought touching thought,
md brain associating with brain. We
ire proud of our men. I will not dis
uss Tuskegee Institute this week, but |
will have something to say about it
alter, also about the National Negro |
BUSINESS League. I am told that Chi
ago is going to Chattanooga in large |
numbers.
From Tuskegee, I went to Atlanta,
nd you know they have some schools
here. I went to three of them, and |
hen was sorry that I did not get to
more. I visited Moorehouse college,
'rof. John Hope a member of our race,
resident. He is the first member of |
his race to be president of that school
nd his success led to the appointment
f z. T. Hubert, at Jackson college.
,hen the election of John E. Ford, d.
D., president of Leland University, and
am going to talk about that later.
he 50th Anniversary Of Moorehouse
vas celebrated last month. Atlanta
University, one of the best known
chools in the country, and right by
IS side is Spelman Seminary for girls.
low these two institutions have White
residents, and when I left them I went
o Morris Brown, where I was again
{ home, because Dr.. W. A Fountain,