The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-09-07
NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE

I audience demonstrated that he has
the confidence of the leaders.
Hon. ]. c. Napier, president of the
body, ably presided and was assisted
| by Charles Banks, of Mount Bayou,
Miss, and Chas. H. Brooks, of Phila-
delphia. His annual message was
brim full of interesting facts and
greatly inspired the vast audience.
The message brought by Captain
Spingarn and eloquently accentuated
by DR.. Roman, of Nashville, Tenn,
who also ELECTED unstinted applause
from the audience that filled Fitzger.
AIDS Auditorium, in which most of
the sessions were held, was one
fraught with facts of vital import to
the race and nation.
1t was clearly demonstrated at this
session that the mantle of the illus
trious DR.. Washington has fallen upon
DR.. R. r. Motion, principal of Tuske-
kee Institute. Every time that he
spoke he was given the kind of ova-
tion which showed that his leadership
is appreciated by the masses of the
races and leaders of the race from
every section of the country.
Hon. Emmett ]. Scott in beginning
the symposium on Winning the War
made one of the best patriotic ad-
dresses that has been delivered in this
city. Throughout his memorable ad-
dress he reached his vast audience
and aroused a kind of enthusiasm
that is needed for the winning Of the
War.
Mr. Scott in his report called atten-
ton to the fact that in he frs reg
istration 737,626 negroes were regis
tered out of total of 9,586,506; that
is to say 1853 per cent of the total
registration of June 5, 1917, was COM
posed of colored men called by the
Provost Marshal Generals office up
to and including July Is, 1918, was
227,541, while the total number call
ed to August 8, 1918, was 11,30S.
He spoke in detail of what the col
to help wen the war, mentioning,
among other things that some forty
colored chaplains are now serving in
the National Army along with one
thousand colored officers who have
been commissioned as captains, first
and second lieutenants in the nited
States Army and in the Medical Re-
serve Corps.
War for Liberty.
In his address he said the negro in
the present war for liberty and world
wide democracy was proving to be a
noble and inspiring figure. The re-
cent exhibition of independent valor
on the part of negroes in France
served to bring anew to the people of
this country and the world at large
the worth of the negro as a factor in
the productive and protective forces
of he republic.
Two divisions of negro troops are
now in France with eight combat reg
iments to be trained in various can
tonments in the country. He called
attention to he authorization by he
War Department Of the colored Red
Cross Nurses and spoke Of the oppor-
tunities that are being provided for
the technical training of colored men
in many institutions of learning.
Among the many distinguished
speakers and visitors were Judge
Robt. Terrell, DR.. George e. Haynes,
Director of Negro Economics of the
Department of Labor; Mrs. Booker T.
Washington, A. U. Craig, of the Food
Administration; T. M. Campbell, Dis.
trict Agent of the Extension Work in
Albania; DIR. ]. w. E. Bowens, Prof.
w. t. B. Williams, C. c. Spaulding,
and number Of bishops and Major
J. T. Tandy, the noted architect.