The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-03-28
COL. CHARLES E. STUMP, THE REG
ULAR OLD TIME TRAVELLING
CORRESPONDENT FOR THE
BROAD AK, STILL CONTINUES TO
ENJOY HIMSELF WHILE BASKING
IN THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE OF
FLORIDA.

Tallahassee, Florida.-There is no
question about it in my mind now, my
people are interested III education, and
we are no longer sitting down com
planning about what others fail to do
for US, but we are simply going down
il our pocket and doing for ourselves,
and then If friends want to help We
are willing to accept it.
saw the doctrine of Help Your
self" displayed a few days ago as
have never seen it before, and / just
had To shout right out, Praise the
Lord, the Negro is waking up, and
as he wakes up put it down that l told
you he is doing someting. The walters
and bellmen 81 the Royal Ponciana
hotel, Palm Beach, Florida, headed by
Joseph S. McLane, headwaiter, placed
on the table $1,000 for the Florida
Normal and Industrial Institute, St
Augustine, Florida, Sunday afternoon,
March Is, and they seemed to be hap
py to do it in the name Of education
for the youth, and expressed a will
ingness to do more in the future.
Just before the time to serve dinner
the meeting was staged, and at the
head 81 it was Joseph S. McLane, who
made all the arrangements and who
without a doubt is one of the greatest
men Of this race Of ours. You do not
hear much about him, for he is not in
the papers, and he is a modest man,
but l believe he knows to the square
inch more millionaires in America
than any other one man belonging to
our group. But with all Of this he Is
interested in his race, and has pledged
to do something for education and
missions every year This he has told
God and he is living up to it.
One year ago, Mr.. McLane was at
the dedication Of the first permanent
building of the Florida Normal and
Industrial Institute, which cost $780,
600, and was dedicated by the Cover
nor Of the state. He saw the mere
naked building and heard the plans for
furnishing it. After many had pledged
chairs and other kinds of seating, and
when it was announced that it, would
cost $500 to furnish room, it was
then that he stepped forward and said,
Il will furnish one room in memory
OF my departed son, Joseph S. Nc
Lane, Jr., and then will pledge one
room for the walters and bellmen Of
Royal Ponciana'
AT the opening Of the season he had
the men together and told them what
he had done, and they pledged to back
him in his pledge AS the season was
drawing to close, he invited Prof
Collier to come down, and the meeting
was staged for $50 Sunday afternoon.
All the help at the hour appointed as
sembled in the dining room, and the
guests Of the hotel had been invited
to be present also. Hence about 500
help and about 800 guests made up the
audience. Prof. L. A. Payne led in
singing the Jubilee songs, which were
sung BY the help. Then followed a
practical talk by Mr. McLane, who an
nounced that in addition to the walters
and bellmen, the officers had declared
that they wanted a part in it, hence
they had also pledged FIVE hundred
dollars and would pay the same.
Mr.. McLane told the wealthy of the
hotel that the Negro was no longer
going around with his hand out asking
for aims, but He was taking the posi-
ton Of a man and was willing to help
himself, and then after he has gone
his length, if friends desired to help
him, he would accept Of it, He pre-