The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-06-29
NATIONAL NEGRO
BUSINESS
Annual Meeting August
l5-Chattanooga Host
One Session On the
Mountain.

Chairman Franklin of Local League In
the Historic Tennessee City Ar
ranges to Hold One Session Of the
Three Days Convention on Look.
out Mountain-Other Fine Features.
Tuskegee Institute, Ala.-As previ-
ously announced, the eighteenth an
nual session of the National Negro
Business League will be held in Chat.
tanooga, Tenn, Aug. Is, 16 and 7. The
Business League has always en-
deavored to keep before the country
the most reliable facts of the Negro's
progress. The program for this year
will include number of the foremost
leaders of both races, who will dis
cuss in spirit of helpfulness a con.
structive program for the race dur.
ing the present crisis.
The affiliated organizations Of the
league, which include the National
Negro Press Association, the National
Negro Funeral Directors Association,
the National Negro Insurance Asso-
citation, the National Negro Retail
Merchants Association, the National
Negro Farmers Association and the
National Negro Bar Association, will
hold their annual sessions at the
same time, as in former years. There
is eevry indication that the attend
ance this year will far surpass that
of any previous year in the history
of the league.
The Supreme Grand Lodge of the
knights of Pythias will hold its an
nual session in st Louis, and Hon.
S. w. Greene, the supreme chancel-
lor has assured Secretary Emmett j.
Scott that he will personally invite
the delegates to the Grand Lodge TO
90 to Chattanooga at the conclusion
of their Grand Lodge session. H. A.
Smith, president of the st. Louis Ne
gro Business League, and Fortune j..
Weaver, president Of the Kansas City
Negro Business League. have been
invited to cooperate with the officers
of the supreme lodge in order that If
possible a special train may bring the
Missouri delegates and the supreme
lodge delegates to Chattanooga in
time for the meeting Of the Business
League.
This session closes the first year
of the Hon. J. G. Napiers incumben-
cy as president of the league. Mr..
Napier was DR.. Washington's warm
personal friend and for number OF
years was chairman of the executive
committee of the league. At Kansas
City, Mo-, last year he was unanimous
Iy elected president of the league to
succeed DR.. Washington, and this
year he will give an account of his
stewardship as the leaguqes second
president.
Mr.. Napier is one of the races well
known public-spirited men, and ms
efforts are always directed along the
lines of progress and advanced
thought. He was for number OF
wears register of the United States
treasury and is cashier Of the One
Cent Savings Bank, Nashville, Tenn
He is putting forth every EFFORT 10
have a large delegation from the state
of Tennessee to attend the meeting
The first evening session, Aug. 10.
will probably be devoted to Dr1ef
discussion of the Negro migration,
and President Napier will deliver his
annual address. The three silver
cups offered by Allen w. Clark, chair.
man of the "Clean Up and Paint up
bureau of st. Louis, Mo-, for the most
effective work during the National
NEGRO health week, which was held
April 22-2S, will be awarded to the
three cities whose reports, in the
Judgment of the committee of award,
show the best results.
George w. Franklin, Jr, president
of the Chattanooga Local Business
League, in the report of his arrange
ments states that one session Of the
meeting will be held on top Of Look
out Mountain, where one of the most
historic battles of the civil war was
fought, the war whose conclusion
meant so much to the Negro and
made it possible for the race to be
recognized today as contributing
unit in American civilization.