The broad ax., 1922-09-02

Chicago, IIL-Dr. r. II. Boyd. Of
National Baptist Publishing Board
fame, has passed into the Great
Beyond. This information came to
me last Saturday just as was about
to leave Philadelphia and / at once
started out to find out just when the
funeral would be, but when / got the
proper information it was too late for
me TO start. He died on "Wednesday.
did not learn of it until | went to
see DR.. w. G. Parks Saturday after
noon. We shall miss him.
Then comes the information that
on account of the strike the National
Baptist convention win not meet next
week in Los Angeles, but will wait
until the men get through striking,
and then the Baptists will come to-
gether from all parts of the country
and take up grave matters OF interest
10 them ALL expect to be there and
enter into them.
Rev. DIR. A. II. Townsend is going
right on with the work of construct
ing that great publishing house. and
when it is finished the whole country
will sit up and take notice. They
are going to put in the building just
100000, and that is worth while. The
Baptists of the National Baptist con-
vention are working today as just
one, and you know when you get
Baptists to pull together then some
thing is bound to happen.
But do you known that HI broke
loose in New York ard the old devil
walked right into Col. Garvey's
camp, and / am informed that the
business has been split wide open,
and if you don't watch before they
are through with it there is some
thing going to drap, and will not
be in the drapping, for / have never
been in the thing. Now this is what
happened: There was one man who
Wis at the head of the American
Negroes, and he stepped forward and
declared that His Excellency, Honor
able Marcus Carney, President-Gen-
eral OF the United Negro Improve
ment Association, and Provisional
President of Africa, with a salary for
the two positions alleged to aggre-
gate 900 annually, was incapable
to ruling, and that he had been short
sighted in his investments and just
squandered the money OF the people;
that he had raised Sl44.OO0 for i'm
provements in Africa and only $4,000
of that amount found IFS way to
Africa and il would take judgment
alone to tell where the other had
soho. Big salaries and unwise invest
ments had been the graveyards for
few thousand dollars.
Honorable Marcus Garvey is the
bandmaster, and the people love TO
follow the big horn blower, and be-
lieve me, honey, that black man has
been blowing some horn, and people
have followed him by the thousands.
Preachers have left their pulpitS, to
leave Jesus and follow Garvey, and
every one of them has fallen by the
wayside. There is poor Rev. J. d.
Brooks = took Garvey instead of
Jesus Christ; became one of the most
cussingest men in the country, and
the next thing ] heard Carney had
him inside looking out through little
cracks, praying to God to deliver him
from THE l AN ALL MIGHTY"
and to get him out of jail Then he
went into court and got judgment
for his salary, ! am told, and he is
now no longer connected with that
great organization.
Now, if you want to know the rest,
just call on the Rev. Mr.. Eason, who
has been preaching Garveyism, and at
the session last week he was tried,
convicted by the Carney court ex-
PEELED from the order, and when he
got straight and brought suit against
his Lord and Master Carney in the
same court, Of course Carney was
turned spank clean free, and was not
even told to go in peace and sin no
more" Eason was the sinner and
Garyey the saint, but ! am told that
Eason has received a charter for an
other organization which will be
purely American. and told Garvey he
could go where it was perpetual
summer and the wind was never
known to blow, and / am looking
geography to find out Just
where that unknown cline is.
have devoted enough space to
hat stuff for this time, but now per-
nit me to tell you that | have been
going some since / wrote you that
asst letter you read from me, and /
Am going some more in few days,
70 YOU just look and listen and get
he Information for yourself
Do you remember that attended
he National Negro business League
n Norfolk 1t was some meeting.
believe me, honey. ! told You about