The broad ax., 1925-03-07

much myself, and If ! do not tell you,
you just keep on guessing. am at a
place where a fellow is liable to say
anything, and where he IS liable to
come IN contact with anything and
anybody; some Of them filing posi-
tions, some people filing jobs; some
got on grandfather's boots and cannot
FIJI them; they are going to find it out
some day, then | say I told you SO.
wish I could pay the proper trib-
ute to Robert Russo Motion. He IS
indeed a wonderful chief. His whole
life is spent in extending his hand to
the other fellow, trying to help him up.
believe if it were in his power he
would get down on his knees and
spread out his broad hands and put
them under the feet Of every poor
black boy and girl in this land and
dash them up among the stars, but
that is not possible; he is doing his
step by step and one by one, and you
see whole race being benefited. I
am not going to say word this time
about how he has been abused, how
he has been misunderstood, because
that is a part OF life, but all America
rejoices in the United States Veterans
Hospital No. 81, and they say they
knew Or. Motion was going to put it
over and before he did put it over,
some Of them certainly did give him
hash-e-square-lull.
Then there is another chief, per-
haps the world will never know him,
but man every inch Of him gentle
man, friend to every man, and that
lis Warren Logan. You never hear
much talk about him, But the great
Tuskegee Institute will some day
praise God for his life. He worked
side by side with Booker T. Washing
ton, and when his health failed he did
not just quit all together, for he is
still connected with Tuskegee Insti-
tute, not as Treasurer, but he is active.
One Of the great problems is to find
his successor. It is hard to find man
who can loose himself, his prejudices,
his personal whims and feelings and
just step on the shoulder Of Warren
Logan and take the work on and on.
The other fellow will want to shout
and give God the glory and honor, and
he will want to be seen and will not
want to be like a wise old owl who
lived in an oak, the more he saw the
less he spoke, the less he spoke the
more he heard, I wonder if his sue
cessor viii be like that wise old bird.
l don't exactly know who is in line,
therefore ! amt going to say anything
about it. but God has a man some
where Now I am through with that
part Of it, and we want to take Up an
other phase Of life.
1t is an easy thing to tear down but
hard thing to build up. It is an easy
thing to holler seek and tag and start
two dogs to fighting, but It IS hard to
keep dogs from fighting. 1t is an easy
thing to say a thing that will get an
other fellow into trouble, but it is hard
to get him out when he gets in. We
have lot of damphules who are ready
to do what the other damphules say,
or the one who gives the command
won't always execute it, but will stand
off in his own importance and say, see
who / is. l say these words with
sadness as I think of a great Institu-
ton; one of the greatest in the coun-
try Fisk University, where men and
women are trained, some Of the best
men and women in this country hold
their sheep skin from Fisk University.
They have honored it, the Institution
has honored them, but here comes a
man who is not pleased with the man
agement, he has preached his sermons
in the press, from the rostrum, and he
has stirred the hearts of students
Schools are to produce men not hood
lums, and this country is full of
schools, all kinds and grades, and if
one don't suit you, 60 to another.
Why should coIored men, representing
the thought and brain 60 to an insti-
tuition Of learning with guns and
bludgeons? That is not the place to
look for trouble, but it seems that these
latter day saints have found it neces-
sary to 60 loaded and then become
intoxicated on some ism" and like
Bolsheviks come out and defy the pres
ident to show his face, shoot from
windows and make it necessary to call
the police department to a temple of
knowledge. I don't know the parties,
but / do know that somebody has
acted damphule. somebody has