>a¥, MAY 8, 1924 number. VOLUME FORTTAeIQHT ■^ 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. . ■■ . . ..—; .. - -r 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 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 /■ / 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*