The broad ax., 1917-09-01


there met so many of my old friends.
Things moved along nicely until Mon
day night. I got the Poro College au-
tomobile and toted some friends out in
GLIDING Mrs. Tuggle and her cabinet,
and at night went to the reception,
or to the Central Baptist church where
the people who were paying $3.50 and
So day were told how welcome they
were. Now the man who represented
the Mayor, Secretary of the Board of
Public Service, Hon. W. T. Finley, told
the people how welcome they were to
st. Louis, and made excuses for the
Mayor not being present. I liked a
a part of his speech, but I did not like
what he said about Illinois, and how
he took off his gloves and handled East
st. Louis, and expressed his joy that
it did not belong to Missouri. Well, he
won the people, and they applauded
him, while I just sat up and looked
wise. liked what he said about send
ing troops 5000 miles across the sea,
when we had not cleaned up our own
house. But why abuse Illinoisf Well
he was a white man and I congratu-
late him on being able to speak out in
church.
While he was speaking, thought of
the thousands of dollars my people
have had to spend here in this town, to
keep from being Inundated. 1 thought
of the mean things that were said during
the segregation canvass here and how
the people voted for it, and one man,
who was a real man, a judge, granted
an injunction restraining them from
putting it into execution. L thought of
the other mean things they do to you
here. thought of how hard it is to
get sleeping car accommodation out of
this place, it matters not which way
you are going, and many other things
came up in my mind, and just had to
close my eyes and keep my peace.
Roscoe Conkling Simmons responded
to the address He has learned his
speech we'll, and got it off in good
shape. The remarkable thing about
that speech was that he had in it
new things, which had not been used
in the speech before. Mr.. Finley was
one of them.
Speechmaking was over that night
after several others, and the introduc-
ton of Mrs. Mary Talbert, of Buffalo,
N. Y, and we were all ready for the
opening Tuesday morning.
1t will pleasure as well as please you
to have me tell you about that Su-
preme Court of Calanthe, of which
General Joseph L. Jones is at the head.
he is the supreme vice chancellor, and
as such he presides over the courts,
and he is the right man in the right
place. He is remarkable when it comes
to that He knows his work by heart,
so to speak, and he can deliver the
goods. The women who compose the
court recognize his ability, his worth,
and they all rally to him. He is polite,
and as modest as a woman the one who
invented modesty.
1t was interesting when Mrs. Bertha
Buckner raped for order and opened
in shape the Grand Court of Missouri.
She is great woman in great posi-
ton. I enjoyed the opening exercises,
and then I heard the welcome address
which was delivered by Miss Zenobia
grand R. of D., and respond
ed to by Mrs. Willie Hill of Savannah,
Ca, cultured young widow, teach
er. Then little girl, Christine Bugs,
came along with an address of well
come, and this brought to service an
other great woman, Miss Emma Joe
of Nashville. I wish you
could have heard her wonderful ad-
dress to those people and her plea for
the girls. This wrung a speech out Of
the great speaker, Prof. A. 8. jackson,
Of Waco, commissioner of education for
the A. M. E. church. He spoke for
the boy and declared without the boy
properly trained into higher manhood,
it would be impossible to build up a
great race. "Take pains with the
boys" he said, "and you will help our
whole race" After all this was over,
then Mrs. Buckner told how the work
was getting along in Missouri, and
how glad they were to touch the lead
ers, and what it meant to them al,
turned over to the Supreme Counsellor,
General Jones, the gavel, and the su-
prsme court was opened in due form
after the opening, the
committee on rules was announced, and
reported. The report was read by Mrs
Moreno Dawn, Of Kansas City, Kans., .