The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-08-23
MRS. S. JOE BROWN ADDPFSSEn
THE INTERNATIONAL cON rTsIsr,'
ENcE At PITTSBURGH, PA.

tsiaiFe 10 the manner "
appointing and the duties Of FOREIGN
Representatives.
7 also hnd that there i Sill much
confusion in our various Grand Iuris-
elections concerning the so-called
higher degrees"
Because Of these rnisunderstandinps.
much time Is consumed and the work
OF our beautiful Order verv much
muddled in some Of the subordinate
Chapters; and since a. w have CO
ready suggested that one Of the prime
objects Of this Conference is to trv 10
approach uniformity along Ill lines II
~ r ;. work, we have placed Oh our
program each Of these topics for an
open discussion, in which we hope %
bring out the opinions of The best
brain Of the Order. which we are sure
we have present here and we urge
upon those among Us Of less expert
ence along these several lines to take
the most earnest heed to the opinions
OF those better informed than our
selves and when we return to our sew
eral Grand Jurisdictions, let u out
INTO practice what shall here be agreed
upon as the proper method Of doing
these things; for it is only through
some such method as this that we shall
ever arrive at anything like uniformity
Of work.
Those Of US who were present Or
who have read the proceedings Of our
last Biennial Session will remember
that at that session we were favored
by the presence and an address Of DR..
VIM. Pickens, one of the Field Secre-
taries Of the National Association for
the Advancement Of CoIored People.
IN response to which this Conference
adopted a stirring resolution endorsing
the work Of that organization and urg
ing upon the U. S. Senate the passage
OF the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill; and
pursuant to the spirit of this resolu~
ton and in order to place our organi-
cation on record in a more tangible
way, especially with reference to the
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill in October,
1922, with the cooperation Of the good
women Of my own state, we raised
and sent in to the Anti-Lynching Fund
Of the N. A. A. c. P. the sum Of two
hundred dollars, as a result Of which
we were asked along with one hun
dred other men and women of both
races who had taken prominent parts
in this anti-lynching drive, to give
brief statement for publication by the
Anti-Lynching Committee, which we
gave under the caption Of "The IN
ternational Conference of Grand Chap
tiers of o. E. S"
In the early part Of the year 1928
we received a communication from
Mrs. Addie w. Hunton, another Field
Secretary of the N. A. A. c. p, as
Chairman Of the Committee on For
eign Relations, inviting us to go as a
representative of this Conference to
the 3rd Pan-African Conference which
was held in London and other points
in Europe, suggesting that she was
sure you would be pleased to take care
Of the expense of something like a
thousand dollars; and while I knew
or rather believed that you were de-
sirous Of being factor in all worth
while movements especially for Racial
uplift, 1 felt that the time was not ripe
for US to assume an obligation quite
80 great as this; hence + did not even
take the matter up with my cabinet,
but did send a message to the Con-
ference bearing the greetings and best
wishes Of this international Body
IN FEBRUARY 1924, 1 received com
munication from DR.. Kelley Miller,
inviting me as your presiding officer to
participate ii the Sanhedrin or All
PACE conference to Be held in Chicago
the week Of the 18th of that same
month, and approaching in measure
the importance Of such a movement,
having myself organized on March
1923 an Inter-Fraternal Council for
my home city Des Moines, Iowa,
comprising representatives Of ma
|iority Of the thirty-three subordinate
fraternal organizations in that city
coming from seven different fraternal
families or institutions. having an OBJ
;ect cutie similar to that Of the San
hedrin. namely closed contact between
different Of our groups. without ex-
penses to this Conference and with
view to giving further publicity to our
organization, / delegated Sister louisa
~ Webb. our international Secretary,
who resides in Chicago, to represent
IS III that meeting and to report the