The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-11-16
DR.. |. 7. JEFFERSON
IN B[UEF|ELD, VA.
LECTURED TO RED CROSS CHAP
TER-ADDRESSED BETHEL LIT
ERARY .SOCIETY-CO-OPERA-
TON AMONG WOMEN NEEDED
GREAT WORK.
Lectures Red Cross Chapter-Ad-
dresses Bethel Literary Society.

Lectures Red Cross Chapter-Ad-
dresses Bethel Literary Society.
Bluefield, w. Va.-Rev. l. T. JEFF
ferson, D. D., one of the leading
preachers of Chattanooga, Tenn,
East Tennessee Conference, A. NJ.
E. Church. arrived in Bluefield, on
Tuesday, November 9Th, and is stop
ping with his sister, Mrs. NJ. l..
Clarkson, 142 Jones street. DR.. JEFF
ferson visited the Bluefield Red
Cross Chapter No. Z, (colored) on
Thursday afternoon and lectured to
them. In the course of his address
he said in part: 81 am proud that IN
this mammoth world-war there is
great needQof the cooperation of our
women in this great work of mercy.
| not only favor our women organ
izing Red Cross Chapters and maxi
ing bandages and knitting SOCKS and
sweaters at home, but | favor them
volunteering and going to France
where they can give firsthand ald
to our boys" Abiding to the hos
pital work he said, Doctors may am
putate limbs, sew up wounds and
prescribe medicines, but none but
the touch of the gentle hand OF
woman can charm away pain from
the homesick conscience or the
wogld-weaFy brain. Our men will
fight better land | tell you, we must
fight if we know our women are
pulling for us, and we have the SYM
Tatfc,, DNr ssH 'rccOurses, of our
own people behind us.
81 could whip two Germans and
four Austrians if | only knew when
| was wounded the hand of black
woman, the only woman who can
have true love and pure sympathy
for me, was to bind up my wounds;
and death to me would be only a
dream if | knew in my dying hours
was to be attended by black
American woman" DIR. Jefferson,
in addressing the Bethel Literary
Society at Kingslow's Hall said, lit
is a Godsend to humanity in gener-
al and the American Negro in par
ticular, that this world war broke
out when 1t did. 1t served to let
the nations of this earth discover
the volcano of intrigues and the Sc
cret preparations for war which the
German beasts had been preparing
among and around them for forty
years. VT will serve to fring Jhe
value and valor of the Negro before
the worlds eyes, and serve to give
the lie to Vardaman, Blease and
Hoke Smith, who have ranted up
and down the continent besmearing
our race with the muck" of their vi
tuperating tongues, and branding us
unfit for citizenship and enfranchise-
ment," said the speaker. I'VE have
shown the world that we are the
only people in this whole country,
not excepting any, who are standing
firmly and solidlv behind the Presi-
J dent and for this government. We
have not tried to shirk our duty.
According to numbers we have given
4 more volunteers, we have answered
the draft call withuot a murmur:
we have begged for the second call,
and will wecome the third We
mean to fight that this world will be
safe for democracy, and we hone our
government will make these United
States safe for us. We ask that
the south be compelled to Eenenl
the Jim Crow and Segregation laws
away his rope and the incendiar"
and compell the lvncher to throw
his firebrand and allow us an equal
show to live and participate in the
making of the laws of this great
country which we are fighting for
1t would be useless to die for this
great country if by our death we
our children's children this HERITAGE
Stop saving you have no country
Stop saying you have no flag. You
have both a country and flag. This
country is your country and this
American flag your flag, every stripe
and every star in Old Glory owes
you homage. and in the same Ian
guaee that Paul said 81 am a Rom
an" | say we are Americans. We
were born here. It is here our ia
theirs hled and died on the battle
field. We have felled these Ameri
can forests thrown up her highways
stood before her blazing furnaces
our blood, sweat and tears are mold
ed in the mortars of American civil
izatson and ikdepa1denceJ Surely
it is our country. We know no 9th
err, we want no other and We will
die for it's preservation and IFS hon
or. Then we demand that they hon
or Us with the same honor that II
given others"
DIR. Jefferson has been transferred
by Bishop Lee to the state Of Ala
bama where he will take up his pas
toral work for another year. DR.
, Jefferson was born thirty-eight years
, ago in a log hut on the Duck-pont
/ plantation in Southern Louisiana
, and studied finishing the publ,
: schools of Saint Joseph. He studied
through the normal course through
private teachers in Shreveport ant
Elm Grove, and later studied Theol
ogy under DR.. D. III. Butler, A. M
ID. d., now pastoring Warren Chap
ell A. NJ e. Church, Chattanooga
!. He is strong and logical preacher
a convincing orator and earles
leader.