The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-08-24

a0A many people To-Day
as they pick up the papers and read
what the boys are doing over yonder,
and how they are making good with
bayOnets and guns, and using them
great big guns to send them Huns down
yOnder where every day is summer and
where the wind was never known to
blow That is doing some getting
around, and that is making the world
know how brave we are.
1t is a great thing to be able to serve
your country, and to get the approval
'well done" and ''I told you he would
do it," or al told you So" The boys
who have gone with Pershing in France,
long before they left here decided to
kill or get killed or both. II must
die / am going to send a messenger in
advance of me to notify them in the
other world that 1 am on my way.
have been reading so much about war
and war until have just made up my
mind that I want to get in the swim
and want to be one of them angels
OF peace, although ] may die for that
peace, / will be called hero.
1 have discovered that fighting is not
like farming, and when that other fell
low shoots at you he shoots to kill.
While waiting for a train in Bierne,
Ark, heard two white men telling
about the war and for what it stood.
"You see" said one, "that Mr.. Will
son thought that all the world ought to
be Democrats and Mr.. Kaiser thought
that all should be Republicans, and
they went to fighting over this question
they call worldwide Democrats, and
believe me they are doing some fight
ing like hell. When the war is over
We will have put the Republican party
out Of business, and the Democrats win
rule the world. Colonel Roosevelt
as big a Republicans as you may call
him, his son died fighting with u.s." II
present you this without comment, ex-
cept to refer to Shakespeare, who said,
"what fools we mortals be" or some
thing like that
I have been around Texas and Ar
kansas for over a month and now am
getting ready to leave this section of |
the world and see some other part of the |
world, and / am not going to be long |
about it. Ny next big thing is to be at |
the National Baptist Convention in st. |
Louis, Mo-, in a few days now. 1t is
to meet September 4, and am told that |
there are going to be some people there,
and 1 believe it. The people of st.
Louis will be prepared to care for them,
and l expect to be there myself to help
to crown them all.
I was somewhere when / wrote to you
last week, and am here writing to
you this week. / have been to Little
Rock, Pine Bluff, to see the Masons in
session. You see have been hearing
about the MasOns for q long time, and
4 few days ago Prof. John H. Harrison,
Grand Master, invited me to visit the
Grand Lodge and the invitation was ae-
:epted. came up to Little Rock, spent
sunday, and had the pleasure of eating
Inner with young Robert Booker, who
8 now in the ofseers' Training School ,
n the United States Army, and 1 as
ure you that he is going to make an .
fieer, and his father, DR.. J. A. Booker,
rill feel proud Of him D
The whole day was spent in Little Z
lock. In the morning I visited Bethel I
n. Z. Church and spoke there, and !
4 the afternoon I called to see some Of ]
he Little Rock people Now there was
FRS. Henderson and her daughter. lei
henderson was for q long time one Of ]
he leading jewellers in the South, but
rent out Of bushes to take charge of
he Mosaic Guide, the ohieial organ {
( the order which is doing 80 much for {
umanity. Il
If you knew John E. Bush, then you 4
new the Mosaic Tempiars of America, ]
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