The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-11

Mrs. c. Young of Camden; Mrs. Mag
gle Wright of Argenta; Mrs. Carrie
Cross of Monticello; Mrs. M. Joshen-
burger, Fort Smith; Mrs. A. B. P. Hal
lum, Pine Bluff; Mrs. Maggie Harrison,
Fort Smith; Mrs. Ida B. Young, Pine
Bluff; Mrs. Georgia Pembroke, Gaines
Landing, and host of others. I could
just mention these, and if I were
pushed could tell you what offices they
fill. He enjoys the confidence of the
women, and they look upon him as
children upon their own father. He is
busy from the time he enters his office
until he leaves, and has a number of
young people employed as stenogra-
piers, clerks and whatnots.
This Pythian bath house is in better
shape than it has ever been since it has
been a bath house, and you can get
good and first class accommodation
there all the time. The devil is kept
busy keeping this water hot, and 1
made sure that it would be much hot
ter these days, since there are so many
new people going to the devil from
this European war.
From there 1 made a stop over to
Little Rock, with DR.. Joseph A. Book
er, secretary of the Home Mission
Board of the National Baptist Conven-
tion and one of the busy men in that
department. DR.. Booker took time and
got his education, and then he went
right to work. He is one of the best
preachers in this country of ours and
then he is one of the best secretaries in
the Baptist church. His work is to
look after the home mission work of
the Negro Baptists of the country, and
believe me he is doing it. He knows
how to attend to this kind of work.
He did not just start out to making
speeches alone when he was elected to
the Office, but got right down to hard
study. He became familiar with the
country, and then was in better posi-
tion to direct the work. He can tell
you almost every mission church in the
country and its needs.
But now let me tell you about the
meetings on for this month. The Ma
tional Negro Business League will
meet in Chattanooga, and it is going
to be one more great meeting. 1 wish
you could just drop over and see it. 1
want to here congratulate Mr.. Emmett
j. Scott, the secretary, Hon. j. C. Ma
pier, the president, Hon. Charles Banks,
the first vice-president, and all those
other big men who have kept this
meeting on the map, and who are still
keeping it on the map. They took up
right where Mr.. Washington left off,
and they are just busy men, and
nothing more. 1 was delighted beyond
expression to see them.
Following the Business League will
come the meeting of the Supreme
Lodge of Knights of Pythias. This
will be one more big meeting worthy
of a place. 1 am of the opinion that
the Uniform Rank and the encamp-
ment will not be what it has been in
former years, because so many of the
soldier men of the order are getting
ready to 60 to war, and they are going
to war too, as fast as possible. This
will keep many of them from being in
the Pythian camp. The business of the
Supreme Lodge will be carried on and
perhaps there will be some very i'm
portant legislation carried out. Hon.
S. w. Green will preside, and there will
be Joseph L. Jones who will preside
over the Calanthe. He is the right
man in the right place.
The following week will come the
National Medical Association in Phila-
delphia. DR.. D. W. Byrd is one busy
man on this great and important meet
ing. These men have much to do with
the life of the race, and they fill an
important place in the world. -.
Then will follow the meeting of the
National Baptist convention in Mus
kogee, Okla, September 5. Already
people are ready for the meeting, and
DR.. E. Arlington Wilson announces that
the Oklahoma people are strictly ready
for the meeting, and will be there in
full bloom.
Most of the states have adopted the
Missouri Pacific for the official route,
and they are getting ready to give to
the men and women their best service.
They are going to put in charge of the
some of their very best men.
I will have to tell you all about it in
another letter. DR.. L. Z. Williams viii
have charge of the movement out Of