The broad ax., 1923-06-23
yOI. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REGU-
LAR TRAVELLING CORRESPOND.
EMIT FOR TIE BROAD AK, WHO
Will. NEVER BECOME. AN OLD
TIME NEWSPAPER WRITER, HAS
BEEN LIVING HIGH DOWN IN
TEXAS AND LOU ISIANA FOR THE
PAST TWO WEEKS.

town, where remained until next
morning.
We have people in Texarkana who
are really on the map, but ] did not
come in touch with many Of them this
time, because / did not get around 50
much | went to the home Of Mrs
Duckie Kennedy, the woman who has
made her way III her profession to the
top. She is hair dresser, attends to
the hands and feet, and is just kept
busy all the time. waiting on some OF
the wealth of this city. Her work
commends her to them and she has all
she can do all the time. She has
beautiful home. Miss Virginia Adama
is the housekeeper, and they tell me
she is one more cook. She is study
ing how to write with little marks,
cooked or | should say crooked and
straight, curves and bends. They cali
il shorthand ! would just put my
phule brains out trying to put that
kind OF stuff in my head. They say
she is doing well. Miss Carrie Adams
is the nurse, and she is now at home
rusticating, but vii soon be working
again. She has been at work in Aus
tin, Texas at the deaf, dumb and blind
school where she made a mark.
Two days in Texarkana, and then
one day in Hot Springs ! am not
going to say much about it now be-
cause am going back there next
week and will have much to say to
you about it and the National Baptist
Sunday School and B. Y. P.eU. Con-
gress, which is to convene there.
There is where / found the people
getting ready to entertain the Arkan-
sas State Negro Business League and
the National Negro Business League
all IN the same week in August. The
people are certainly doing the proper
things in this mans town.
From there made it to Hope, Ark,
where / found about 200 teachers get
ting in line for work next year. They
are reviewing Now you see there is
something wrong with me, for i
thought that when fellow graduated
and got to teaching there was nothing
else left for him to do. ! thought that
liz was all in his head, for he was a
professor" That is just where l
showed that / had rooms for rent. Il
recall show one fellow knew so much
that all the people gazed and gazed at
him, and wondered how such small
head could hold all that he knew. He
was just one of them knowing men.
Ii was conducted by Prof. Henry Clay
-Yerger, one of the greatest men in this
country. He has been teaching about
10 years and his mind is both young
and active, for he keeps up. He
studies all the time / was glad to
meet him and those associated with
him in this good work. saw how
these people were at work.
While in Hope, ! heard Of the Won
derful work being done by the Ma
lones and ] inst had to shout right
ont in school You see / know Prof.
Aaron E., and then | know Mrs.
Annie NJ. Malone. know their
struggles, and how they have grown
and how God is now using them. He
has made them custodians of some OF
his money, or stewards. and they are
using ii for the Glory Of God and the
uplift Of humanity. just $4,000 con-
tributed by them recently to the Med
ical Department Of Howard Univer-
sity. The reason for this contribution.
says Mr.. Malone, is to help the large
number of students and physicians
who are DESTROYS of attaining more
efficiency in medicine and surgery.
We have been prompted further to do
this for the sake of the large number
of Poro Agents and patrons, the
Christian men and women and chill
dren who have been and are still hum
gering and thirsting for greater and
more efficient attention from the pro-
fession of medicine"
Back to Texarkana, and here / am
this week or today in Shreveport, only
to spend Sunday, and then off to Hot
Springs for the big congress. ] am
here the guest Of Attorney Charles M.
Robertson, who IS one Of the leading
lawyers in this country, and is now
attorney for the National Baptist con
yention. | win have more to say'about
him and his work another time. Will
bring this letter to 4 stop.
CHARLES <. STUMP