>a¥, MAY 8, 1924
number.
VOLUME FORTTAeIQHT
■^<Hniiiiiii»l
INUihb KHOM MY
DIARY, v
S. Athan Pomeyie.
O—— v>
As my friends and well-wishers de
sire to hiar from me. and know my
whereabouts* and as it wo’uld not be
possible owing to lack of time to
keep correspondence between each anjl
everyone of them and myself, I have
thought it not unwise to publish notes
from my Diary as it is believed by
\ that means) they wotfld all be well
served. *
Being a member of the Executive
Committee of the Educational Pund
for theHEast Gold Coast Section of
•the A. M. E. /Zion Mission, I-have
been asked to> accompany the * Rev.
Manager (Mrs. Henrietta J. Peters)
on ah educational trip to Ga. and
other districts on the West of the
Volta.
Qur party consisted besides Mrs.
Peters and myself, Mr. T. Bosworth
Asani, Miss Charity- Zormelo and
little Charlie Bannerman. Mr.
Thomas Aboh and Miss Jpko Titus
Glover having gone before via Addah
to join ns at Sontatnyah.
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REV.* W. R. LOVELL, OAKLAND, CAL.
At 8 ;30 a. m., on Monday the 24th
December, 1923, amid cheers aijfL
farewell we left Zion gate in the
Car No. 1 owned by Messrs. The
United Trading Company Ltd. of
Quittah, the driver of which is Kobla
Gbomur for Lome. We arrived at
the Preventive Sation Aflao' at 1(K?5
a. m,, and having' informed the Offi
cer-in-charge of the mission of our
tour we wished them “A Right
Merry JLnas ’ in advance and passed
down to the French Frontier which
is 'only about am eighth of a mile
away. We showed the Officer-in
charge the contents of our baggage
and as there was nothing new in
them to warrant the collection of an
import duty from u^ we were allow
ed to; pass in peace. The Officer-in
charge spoke to us in a very de»
corous language.
We arrived in Lome at 10:55 a. m,
arid proceeded straight /to Mr. J.
WiBSn Idan (Agent for Bean*. H. B.
W. Russell Ltd.) and having, given
him news of tfce success of his. dasgh
ter Thertai* in training .at the Eon
Mission, he wished us good !«<* and
nra wiflhflff him &u rcvoir*
wi&nwti mill ■
train, which started from Home for
Palime on that day at 9 a. m., a a
village called Amuzu Kopwe at 2:30
m. «’j j:'4
In front of us stood the high Agu
mountain. Our further advance was
by ascent and descent until we reach
ed 'the well-laid Government plan
tation. This was the first time some
members of our party have seen the
famous cocoa-tree with pods hanging
on it. Then began a -short Agri
cultural lecture by me while we wend
ed tfur way. - , • . i :
Having passed.the plantation a few
miles away we,> narrowly escaped an
, accident which would havis been very
deplorable. While ascending’ a hil
lock our engine began ttf fire and
further crotching became difficult..
The driver then decide^ to halt and
amend same when suddenly the car
reeled astern and instead of running
down into the deep <|rain by the
j side of the rodd knocked itself against
1 a tree and so we were providentially
saved and. np damage done to the'
’ car. We numbered this incident as
our Adventure No. 1.
At 4 :15 p. m., we arrived at Paliuie.
| Incidentally stopped in front of
the work shop of Mr. Daniel • D.
Kwashie one of the past pupils of
the Zion Mission School, tjuittah* and
\tho has taken up the profession of
Mechanical Engineering. Within a
short while he gathered around, us a
goodly number of our past pupils
prominent among whom were KwaShie
Fummey and Daniel Agboka. We
were well entertained by them.
We left Palime at 5:10 p. m., and
reached British Nyiwe aU5:40 p. m.
Having nothing to debate we were
permitted ,to pass. The courtesy
which the Officer-in-uharge Mr. D.
Ntow and his assistant Mr. M. ft.
Addoh “shcfwn us, was significant.
Towards Ho we directed our course,
arriving there at 6:50f p. m. Here
too we "met our old hoys namely
Mess*. GeorgO Deh, Felix Amega
shi, Alister Ackumey, Phillip Dagadu
and George Kumahia. Their persua
sion for our stay foi\ the night was
rrrtrcrrK
tfuitcame
M. E. Z
tramck,
By "Rev. J. C. Dunbar.
I think it bating at this timer to
let our Zion kj|ow What is going on
more'fully in ibis part of our great
church family. Just a few years ago
we were worshipping in a small di*.
lapidated frame shack in this city,
then a suburban Tillage of Detroit,
now a city of j|naay thousand inhab
itants. During-the pastorate? of that
tireless and heroic, worker. Rev-. T.
S. Allen, plan? were laid for'a new
church, that was finally consummat
ed, and the new edifice was erected?
afteJr. which thp Rev.. J. A. S. * Cole
completed the jplans and built a very
beautiful parsottage, 'the most com
plete of any i&t^le conference, with
the exception <pf4i&rmagniflcen# nine
or J;en room'"j|a;,sonage here in De
troit, that wa> acquired Or secured
When that mo| beautiful piece of
property was fought on CatherEba
Street during#{he pastorate of our
good friend anj| brother, Rev. L. T.
Conquest. .. % r • ■ :
Rev. J. R. t&epaiss has outstripped
himself as Mpto? of Hamtramck,
Coming as h%|does from the third
generation in Ms "family of preach
ers, he was b^fn in North Carolina,'
March. 18th, 1§75. His mother died
when he was at the age of six years,
leaving three |»mall children. His
father, the nett sainted Rev. J. R.
Respass, died jft Washington, N. C.,
two y^ars agq&^ng done a\l in his.
tion. On -account of his small -earn
ings he could only give to, them a
common school education.
The subject of this sketch not being
satisfied with a common school edu
cation, and not being able Jtb attend
College, 'he received private instruc
tions . . V
,He has kept up with all current ex
penses of the church, made a round
report at each session of the annual
conference, atfd met eveJry obligation
as fast as they came before him. His
ft! RE8PAS8, Dr D-, PASTOR.
report at the last quarterly confer*
eh.ce shows that he has a member
ship of 280, raised for all purposes
during the last quarter $6000. V \
He is now arranging and has al
most completed all plans to entertain
the annual conference that meets in
group. He is a Master Mason, El£,
President or the^ Detroit Ministers
Union of the A. M. E. Zion minis
ters and he> is practically the pastor
of all Haintramck, having the loyal
at all the citizens white and
ired of this fast growing city. Al
ine to say ,4o all Of my friends
' tout the Connection, that* have
been so anxiously inquiring about
me, that ’’Joseph” is still very much
alive, and still on the firing line, do
ing my bit, when called upon. Hope
to see many of them in Indianapolis
pi May as .1 hope to be there in the
lobby and see who goes over the
top.
.y
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Detroit, Michigan.
N. A. A. C. P. SENDS BOOKS
ON NEGRO TO AMERICAN
LIBRARY IN P^RIS. .
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 691
Fifth Avenue,.New York, has sent a
collection of books by colored au
thors and about the 'Negro to the
American library in Paris whiqh
hopes by means of article^ in its
publication and in French and other
European magaines, to present some
thing of Negro culture and the Negro
problem in their true light.
The books sent to“ Paris by the
N. A. A. C. P., all of them donated
by their authors or publishers, are as
follows: ’; .
A Social History of The Amer
ican Negro, Benjamin Brawley; Th^
Negro in Chicago, Chicago Commis
sion on Race Relations; The Negro
Year Book; Dark Water, W. E. B.
puBois) IJp
- sms
Slavery. Booker T
ing A Way Out
lems of Todays Moorfield Storey;
The Book of American Negro Poetry
James Weldon Johnson; Negrojoets
And Their Poems, Robert Tv KerHn:
The Negro In Literature And Art
Benjamin Brawley; .Harlem Shadows,
Claude McKay; Sopgs And Traces
From The Dark Continent, Natalie
Curtte; Afro-American Folk Songs;
Henry T. Krehbiel; the Voice Oi
The Negro, Robert T. Kerlin; The
The Shadow—A Novel, Mary White
MF?,
Ovmgton; Nigger—*A Novel, Element
'wJodl Annnual, Report—N. A. A.
a P. (3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th,
13th.) Row N. A. A. Cr P. Began—
Thirty Years Of Lynching. f
The library is expected td be of
service to members of American
‘Scientific societies and tonBsts’Hravel
i greatness,
V. c: E. UNION CON
VENTION.
iH
By Mrs. A. L. Brown.
.
The second annual V / C'. E. Union
convention of th© Western North. ■
Carolina conference wan held at Sol
diers’ Memorial chuifeh, Salisbury1,
N. C., April ll to 13, 1924. The
convention „ adJonrned on Sunday
night, after a busy three-day ses
sion.
Th© purpose of the convention was
to stimulate a greater interest to the
Christian Endeavor work; to.help this
society function in all the churches,
to make the society an asset to thd
Church; and to - take care of the
leisure time of the young people,
during the week as far as possible.
The Sunday program wae carried
out to the letter. The convention
sermon was'preached by Rev. 1. J.
Jackson, pastor of Soldiers’ Memo- .•
rial , church J'rom the text, “Go ye
therefore and teach all nations.”
Matt. 28:19; theme: “Make Chris
tians of all Nations. ” H© said among
many things that/ the sole purpose /
of the Christian ^ndeavor was to
train children to Cbecpme Chistians
and to keep them in the Church. It '
was inspiring'as well as instructive,.
A paper, “Paretit’s Responsibility of
Educating their Children,” was read
by Miss 'D. Cj- Thurman. A solo by
Miss Jamesena McCaBum, both of
Livingstone College. The afternoon
program ways -opened with a song
service, conducted by Mr, H . Hous
ton. He gave a wonderful dewnm
stmtion in5 song, leafing. He soon
had everybofir to the house staging
Conference elects him Secretary of
the V. C. % Union, he wffl put the
Chistian Endeavor Society on the
map in Zion Churgh. The song ser
vice was followed by & discussion,
“How can the Christian Bndeftvor be
made to function in the Churches?”
This discussion, led by Mr.-fe. Hous
ton, whs entered into by mant of the
delegates. Vocal and instrumhetal
solos were gendered by Misses Free
man and Loydt of Livingstone Col
imm
«*e. r f
At the evening session a gong ser
vice was conducted from 7 to 8 by
Mr/H. Houston, assisated by the lo
cal V- C. E. choir.
Promptly^ at $ o'clock,
els Lee conducted a mo
society. He gave a den
organizing and conducts
V. C. E. society. Dr.
many helpful thoughts am
geetions to carrying on
Mfteic was , rendered by th,
Endeavor Society of Soldi*