The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-10-10
Fall Activities of the Knowl-
edge Seekers Club. It's First
Meeting Which Was Largely
Attended Was Held at the
Phyllis Wheatley Home

with the brilliancy, the magnitude,
the regal splendor Of that eventful
day when Queen Catherine Of Ara
gon appeared before her ecclesiastical
judges; nor has this occasion the re-
motest semblance to that other his
toric event, when Anne Boylen was
crowned with imposing splendor, and
Henry VIII welcomed her to his royal
palace; nor can it be compared to the
day when Louis XVI bedecked Marie
Antoinette with the necklace of 800
diamonds. Despite, however, the non
comparable degree Of refulgent grand
eur, consequent upon those historic
incident with our humble gathering,
yet, with as much warmth, with equal
fervor, with ardent enthusiasm, and,
above all, with racial pride, d. we
welcome you:
Welcome, scions of noble dame,
Welcome, in Ethiopic's glorious
name;
We welcome you with sweet accord.
And know that Africa does applaud.
CAS- the mouthpiece Of the X. S. C.,
and simply ex-oficio, the senior among
my peers, am to make a brief re-
sumo of the aims and objects for
which our Club stands.
Every organization, whatever its
nature, is the manifestation on the
material plans of vital forces spiritual
forces) which have taken form in the
world of cause, anterior to the for
nation Of the corresponding organiza-
tion on the plane Of space and time.
The Divine Intelligence saw oppor-
tune to operate on this mundane plane
in concrete manner, and the influx
from the non-spatial world was picked
up by the electro-dynamica cerebrum
station of our very honored secretary,
Mrs. Irene Mccoy Gaines, conformity
with an associate worker. These, with
others, organized the K. S. C., and
cur very esteemed treasurer, Mrs. An
derson Ritchie, aureoled the then un-
named group with the BETTING appella-
ton Of knowledge Seekers Club.
The object of the club is to study
the history - life and times OF our
great men and women who have con-
tributed to the races welfare. advance
ment, progress and upward march:
tbs LOuvertures, and the Harriet
Iubmans, and the Douglasses. and the
Booker T. Washingtons. To gain IN
spiration from their character their
struggles, their invulnerability, and
their life's work, as men and women
OF bronzed hue; to endeavor to be-
come the continuators Of their noble
ideals and practical work during our
own time and generation, stands the
K. S. c.
Another phase of our endeavors is
TO inspire our young people who have
latent talent in the development Of his
and her literary gift. Research work
IN Orientalism will be an especial fea-
ture Of our program. The K. s. c.
is about to consider an Authors Circle
Tor those Of its members who are es-
Pccially inclined to transliterate from
the intellect to the papurus, knowl-
edge resulting from study, observa-
ton and experience.
1T is these ideals, basic to the con-
cept Of the X. S. G., that we, with
your unstinted cooperation shall, dur
ing the coming season, endeavor to
make effective.
@We live, ladies and gentlemen, in
New Age-the reconstruction period OF
the world. AS race, we are called
Upon to cooperate in the re-estab-
lishment of world affairs, in the re-
moulding Of world thought, in recast-
,ng Of world figures, in the appraisal
VI world values. in the determination