The broad ax., 1922-03-18
CHARLES E. STUMP, WHO GREATLY
DELIGHTS TOPOSE AS THE REGU-
LAR TRAVELLING CORRESPOND
ENT OF THE BROAD Ak, HAS BEEN
SPENDING ALL OF HIS TIME
LATELY IN BASKING IN THE
WARM SUNSHINE OF FLORIDA.


Williams has passed into the Great
Beyond? When this news was hand
ed down to me / could hardly believe
It, but they tell me that it is true, and
of course there is a vacancy that will
not be filed.
There is a oneness in our race, and
that is to be regretted. We have only
one man in the class and when he is
gone, none other to take his place,
but this will not always be. 1 recall
the queen of songs, Flora Batson,
and when she passed into the great
beyond there was no one left here to
take her place. She filled her individual
place, and while there are others, but
none in the class in which she ranked.
The same is true with the Flyers Sis
tiers, Madam Seleka. James Europe
had his own place, and when that
coward sent him to the other world.
we had no one to say step up and
take the place of James Europe.
Did you know Bert Williams? He
was all alone in his class. He made
people laugh-in fact he could almost
make man laugh his fool brains out.
but then that is not to be considered
now, for Bert Williams is no more.
He has paid the price that We all must
sooner or later pay, the only thing
being now where will each of US
spend eternity? l want you to ask
yourself that question, and see if your
baggage is all ready. and whenever
the train comes for you you will be
ready to 60. You must answer for
yourself. As the old woman is quoted
to have said, Every tub must stand
on its own end"
AS / bask IN the Florida sunshine,
eat oranges and grapefruit, see beau
tiful yards with flowers IN bloom,
and see the members Of the other
race around in luxury and spiendor,
and here and there signs of proscrip-
ton, think of that beautiful land
over yonder, and then think of that
place of perpetual summer, and I ask
myself, (which place is going to draw
the color line?" How will the white
man get along down there. VIII we
all be one? If not why notl Where
will the white folks be, and then
where will my people be2 If that
fellow so full of prejudice should hap
pen to be in heaven, and he be as
signed in the same quarters with a
black man, then it would be just like
being in the hot place to him.
While / am not giving much con-
Germ about myself, / am thinking
about my brother in. white, who has
passed so many laws to humiliate me
down here on earth. Who will not
permit me in certain sections of my
own country to ride in bed car, who
will not permit me to eat in the eat
ing car, and who forces me to live in
certain sections of the cities and will
not put in sewers, lights, and then
wants me to be healthy. and strong.
Who will not permit my boys and
girls to get real education, only here
and there. For there are many places
in Florida where they have school for
us only three months, and when that
is over school is closed and stand
closed for nine months. When they
do take on teachers they are not re-
quired to know anything in many
cases. God looked down one day and
saw how. the hellions were acting, and
just shipped a number of our people
with deserving children to sections Of
the country where they can become
educated and help to take care of the
situation. / just feel like shouting all