The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-12-21
INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF THE OPENING And DEDl-
CATION OF THE PORO COLLEGE COMPANY AT ST.
LOUIS, MISSOURI.
PROF. AND MRS AARON E. MALONE ARE AMONG
THE MOST ENTERPRISING AFRO-AMERICANS
in THE UNITED STATES
By CHARLES E. STUMP

have seen all the things or some of
the things / have seen, am sure
you would have been just shouting
as / am doing. When l get happy,
police and everything else must get
out of my way, for / am determined
to serve my God, and some day /
am going to make it up into the
skies. All / want is to keep out of
the way of the "fiu." and make it
up some other way.
l am bound for the Promised Land
and as | looked at this great building
here which has been erected by the
Poro College Company, can but say
that God had an object in making
short hair, in order that one should
serve another, and / am told that
Mrs. Malone in her girlhood days
had some of that short hair and many
of the girls found an opportunity to
laugh at her because of the short
ness of the hair crop around and
about her plantation. But now she
is able to supply some of them with
the methods of making their hair
grow beautiful, and, believe me, this
beauty business has made a great
improvement on our women, and this
you may consider when you are at
leisure.
/ was down in Arkansas last week
and beat it from Helena to this
place. Down there in Arkansas /
was with the Baptists attending the
Baptist state convention at the home
of DR.. E. C. Morris, and saw him
there making good among his broth
ers. He has been president of the
convention for a long time, but
am not going to talk about that this
time, for / just want to empty my
self about what / have seen in st. |
Louis and to say to you that i have
never in all my life seen anything |
like it, and l just wish that could |
tell you so that you could just see
all that / have seen, and you would
then have but a slight idea of the
work which Prof. and Mrs. A. E.
Malone are doing to bless their race,
and / am right when / say race. 1t
it not a case of get all the wealth,
put it in your pocket, and forget
about your brother who is suffering
or your sister who had to come up
as you had to come, perhaps, sing
Jordan, a Hard Road to Travel"
For a long time we heard here
and there talk about Mrs. Annie
Turnbo Pope, and later we saw at
tached to that name Malone. and
that completed her name. Side by
side they started out for one had the
goods and the other the pluck, the
business training, the ability to make
things go, and this is what happened.
They put Mrs. Malone's experience
and knowledge into the business and
Mr.. Malone's training, and this then
started the work to going. Little
by little more people took to Poro
treatment, and little by little the
people learned how to use it until
now they have $4,000 agents and /
am not able to tell you how many
beautiful heads have been made by
Poro.
AS God added to their store house,
they in turn added to others, until
one day there came an appeal from
the Y. NJ. C. A. for a new building.
They got down and prayed over it,
and the two, husband and wife, dis
cussed it after prayer, and the peo-
pie were amazed when the subscrip-
ton list headed with $4,000 from
the Malones, and they have been CIV
ing ever since. They have helped
and now they have put
aside money enough to put s250,000 (
in one building, and this is what the
people from all parts of the coun-
Try came to see, and ! am like that
woman in the Bible whose name /
ion't remember who went to see some I