The broad ax., 1922-11-18
COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REG
ULAR TRAVELLING CORE
SPONDENT FOR, THE BROAD AK,
HAS BEEN ATTENDING THE A. M.
E. CONFERENCES THROUGHOUT
TEXAS WHERE HE HAD THE TIME
OF HIS LIFE.


move and the earth am square wa
the declaration made by the late Rev
John Jasper. and by these words h,
was made famous the world over H,
was one Of the characters who stoo,
lout prominently in the age in which h,
lived. and often you hear him referres
to today ] was just wondering how
many young men Of today win max,
a name that viii live after they hay,
changed worlds.
Do you want to iivei II so. you
must be producer as well as a con.
|sumer. You must be able to give tc
the void a thought. and that thought
will be handed down to another, and
ianother, and so on and on. but thought
lis not all, you must have a life be-
hind that thought. for the value of an
utterance depends on who says it
Then how much do you weigh in the
scale Of civilizationl What is there
back of you that will give you .
placer
! hope you viii not think me out Of
my head, but have been assoeiat-
ing with thinkers, and have Just got
ten to the place where want to shine,
and II struck me 10 say something
that sounded like the things the edu-
Gators, the great men of this race OF
ours, are saying, and who will say OF
me, "He is one more smart man." /
would like to shine with you, but fear
may not, but viii stay in sight as
long as my legs and brains viii carry
me, and then ] viii sink. may create
me little world in which can shine.
/ may never be an electric spark or
gas light, yet l may be bug that
carries his light in one end, and not IN
his brains.
/ have been mingling with Bishops,
and would-be bishops, general officers
and would-be general officers, big Bap-
tist breaches and medium sized Baptist
presehers-in fact I have been IN all
class and classes for the past few
days, and / may feel little beside my
self. 1 have even been with bankers
one anyway, and he is some pump
kin in this world.
When / wrote to you that other time,
] was in Yoakum, Texas, and they
sent 20 stop with me and sleep IN the
same bed with Major r R. Wright Of
Philadelphia and he told me that he
was delighted. to stop with me and
that like to have made my head swell
TO the size CT bursting open, but it re-
NAMED, and I remained, and slept so
far on one side that / fell out of the
bed three times during the night.
Do you know Major Wright I wish
that you did. He is an old educator,
and taught in the school room fifty
years, during which time, under him,
over 1900 young people have gradu-
ated. What does it mean 10 man
to have signed 1900 diplomas piusi
He is down through Texas telling our
people to wake up, to open their eyes
and see the day. He is telling them
TO get in the financial pool and swim |
a little, for the world has no time for
beggars. or paupers / think he is
about right, for his name IS Wright. |
He is making friends. He Is telling ct
that three million of our people who |
are putting in the Metropolitan In
surance Company each year over $685.
100000 and he wants that big COM
pany to return some Of that money in
4 living way to our people None re
employed by them and have never
been to my knowledge
am only making a hint this week,
for don't know just what this busy
man is doing. viii find out more
,bout Major Wright and viii write to
you about II. I have beard him make
,ome good speeches. and VIII hear him
gain for he is going to remain IN the
South. We are just gsttinginto every
hing. and some times we fail and
sometimes we 60 over the top Ike all (
,ther business enterprises
Galveston Is business place, but
,ou recall that old gulf can do some
,usiness. I think it swept QUE at one
ime about 6,0oo people, but you would
Iardly know that there had been :
torn down here. / fell into good
,ands. because was met By Rev. 1
russell c. Barbour. pastor Of the
facedonis Baptist church. one u tie 1
,rkest churches IN the staie. and he is Z
bout Is years IN the world. His {
.ther. Rev. A. Barbour. vas pastor I
{ that church al Of ms Iise, and
ho-tIy after ne had passed into the :
reat beyond his son vas called IN to
Ike charge. and has been n charge
YER since. he Is making good as 4