Afro-American courier. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1926-19??, 1934-07-01
CUSTODIAN'S LETTER.

The Custodian took much needed rest by leaving
the state for trip to Washington D. c., that took him
through eight states His account of the trip follows
In company with Mississippi delegates we left Mem
phis Monday night about 815, went far out of
by Pittsburgh Pennsyv to prevent sirhour ayover
in Cincinnati. This journey took through the grain
belt wheat and being the chief agricultural products
The wheat crops poor due to the drouth and in
places where the wheat had been harvested long enough
had been planted although entirely too early to pre-
diet results the plant looked fairly good.
We reached the Capital Wednesday morning about
eight o'clock There only hiry-two delegates from
Mississippi but all states fairly represented and
when all delegates got there they represented the pick
and chosen from very every state in the Union
The Congress began in first class order The mail
was handled under government supervision with post
office installed in the Metropolitan Church. the meeting
place The B. Y P. U. ably conducted by Professor
Isaac and held in another church together with the
Sunday School department. 70 see how anxious and
earnest the delegates to study the Bible and young
Christians be properly trained in church services
inspiration to all who witnessed the occasion. All
meeting at various times encouraged with inspra-
tonal addresses The B. Y P U. gave 1872 diplomas and
Sunday School 121. Everything full of inspiration
to me.
Rev. j. W. Gayden treasurer of the General Baptist
State Convention discussed interesting subjects in the B.
~ p u department and held the gave in absence of the
President of the Congress Of two occasions Among
great preached by the able dVnes there
greater heard than the preached by Rev. Varnado
of Jackson Miss.
Through Rev. j. W. Gayden of Bezon, Miss, Il got
an opportunity speak the Congress s after Judge
Harris, of Chicago, had spoken. There is Mississippi
Club in Washington, D. c., that delightfully."- entertained
the Mississippi delegates at the ~ This entertainment
enjoyable to Mississippi delegates we'll as the
Mississippi Club in Washington, D. c. We got from them
Just what progress Missssppians making in Wash
ngton including business and church life, and to
prise them had pressed their way to the front III
good many government positions that paid enough fo
their families to subsist and then more. In re
turn, told them the progress made by Mississippi Ne
and know when it my time to talk could
cheerfuy with PRIDE speak of the progress the AfrD
Americans have made along all lines. I suppose ] had
fifty invitations in the first thirty minutes, to
qualify the Afros in Washington promising cooperation
to the last member of the party If Mississppians vii
love and cooperate with another in the state like they
TO be willing to do out of the state would ma
Mississippi the best state in the Union.
The Congress pulled eff parade representing almoj
every State in the Union. The parade fully five
miles long and drove fully fifteen miles to the park
There plenty things to in Washington, including
Howard University and government buildings. including
the White House | drove to Washington's Mt Vernon
home | rug the floor given him by Louis XIV,
of France. Lafayete's room, the French General who
and rendered his valuable assistance during the
been two hundred years his home has been kept
up his old COACH sword spear and his death
bed still there. After looking through the house,
ourneyed hundred and fifty yards to the tomb of George
and Martha Washington. In going able TO glimpse
John Browns monument at Harper's Ferry. The trip
helped and feel we'll rested to begin the big task that
lies before