The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1921-08-27

Atlanta, Ga., august Zt.-Preceded
by extensive entertainment prepara-
tions on the part Of citizens and the
Local Negro Business League of At
lanta. the Twenty-second Annual
Meeting of the National Negro Busi
ness League held in Atlanta last week
on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
August H. Is and 10, 1921, was char
acterized by harmony among the Off
GERS and mutual confidence and re-
spect among the delegates who came
country to attend the Convention.
While the North and East were not
largely represented Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Lou
did delegations of successful business
men and women. Enthusiasm ran
high at all of the sessions, which
were held at Big Bethel A: NJ. E.
ing session which was held at the
Auditorium Armory
The day preceding the opening ses-
sion was filled with interesting fea-
rived early. The event of particular
Significance was the formal opening
of the Citizens Trust Company, a new
barking organization located at 176
Auburn Avenue. in the very heart of
the Negro business district of At
ianta, and capitalized at $250,000, with
surplus of the same amount of which
Institution Mr.. H. C. Dugas is Pres
ent and Mr.. Heman e. Perry is
chairman of the Board of Directors.
The evident approval Of the new pro
ject was seen in the unusual interest
which was exhibited by the long
lines of visitors and depositors who
crowded its modernly equipped offices
ing a special banquet was given by
the Atlanta Local League to the Off
GERS and members of the Executive
Committee of the National Negro Bus
fRAa II 1.aw. 20
Ire Odd Fellows Building at 200 Au-
burn Avenue, after which a prelim-
mary meeting of the Executive Com
l.tee of the National Organization
lanta Independent by the courtesy of
the Editor, Mr.. Benjamin ]. Davis.
Opening Session.
The main feature of the opening
session Wednesday morning, August
II. was the annual report of DIR. EN-
nett ]. Scott the Executive Secretary
of the organization at Big Bethel A.
M. Il. Church. DR.. Scott is the Secre-
tary- Treasurer of Howard University
retary Of the National Negro Business
League since Its organization. He
sketched in outline the history of the
League and it's achievements from
Boston in 1900 up to the present
to the new program adopted by the
League in st. Louis two years ago,
which is designed to bring Negro
Business League concerns into closer
affiliation with each other. This pro-
gram in short proposes:
% Fundamentally to serve the
cause of Negro business, as a clear
ing house for the collection, compila-
Ion, and dissemination of all kinds
Of useful and inspiring news data,
information, etc. that might be sent
into National Headquarters by any
of the officers, members or friends of
Business League, by any of the
several hundred branch Local Leagues,
" by any of the affiliated organiza-
tions now or hereafter connected with
the National Body;
(2) That National Headquarters
should keep the Negro Press and the
White newspapers and magazine press
regularly and rightfully informed as
the achievements of Negro men and
women In all parts of America and
the world, and to exploit and for
ward the interest of all worthy ra-
cial endeavors:
(S) To make. a special effort to
encourage the establishment of an in
creased and more diversified number