Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-09-13

spend Cne winter.
/. J. X. AT THE NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE IN CHICAGO.
@By I. j. X. Wells, President Amer
lean Federation of Negro Students,
the movement raising $150,000 for
business training.
preston News Service.)
1t seems never my privilege to
remain in pittsburgh when some
thing big is going on. The Shriners
were decorating and thousands of the
high Masons were pouring into the
Smoky City as i left for the Windy
one.
At Chicago think ! was compen-
stated fully for what l missed of the
Shriners, Knight Templar and Elks.
There were galaxy. of big person
ALT 'es, and I saw quite everything
from :Runnin Wild to Gaines God.
en- Glow the very newest and best
kind Of mayonaise. Game is Negro
and halls from Evanston. while ey-
eryhody is familiar with Miller and
Lyle's grand show playing to packed
houses n the middle west.
Beware in dealing with PERSONAL
tiles for then you clash with the
vanities of men,. Thus counseled the
wieilder of the lash of the Chicago
Whip. Good advice. Still, there
we're at the Silver Jubilee of the
National Negro Business League such
host of stars and satellites that I
have wondered if it we're profitable
to write on fifty instead of How
Twanty Prominent Personalities I'm
pressed Me. M
Indeed there were 80 many high
powered dignitarics Of every profess
ion present, at the Twentysfifth An
niversary OF the founding OF the
Lee que that unused, this is the
SCI hedrin. ~ e
should like to name the bishops,
but there we're a gang Of them The
same may be said Of the business
men. They were there from the
good natured Gilliepfe of Chicago to
the quiet Spaulding from the Old
North State The latter was so
unassuming that he was better rec
ognized by his striking head Of beau.
tiful gray hair, than from the great
noise he made. There was Harry
Pace from New York City; and the
astute banker, e. c Brown Of Phil
adelphiaf
Were there any politicians? Truly,
such solid group yraced the stage
that if one were lot Informed he
might assume that he were attending
the littleyU.. S Senate Perry How
ard, National Committeeman from
Mississippi, with hat and cane al
ways managed to be either present
at each session or to tip across the
stage while the league was in full
blast, conspicuous attempt Ia
avoid notoriety-evidently a deep
stroke of politics. Mrs. Mary Booze
National Committeeman from the
same state; and Miss Halle Quinn
Brown, of Wilberforce, o. National
Organizer, were there.
1t would be unfair, in fact unjust
not to mention the most controversial
appointee of the late President Hard
ing, Hon. Walter l.. Cohen, seeming
ly very personable man, now, Comp
troller of the Port of New Orleans
Who was that who did not see Roscoe
Conklin Simmons, G. o. P. Publicity
Director? Col. Henry Lincoln John
son was also in the saddle. He die
lots Of riding, but said little. Anc
I'D until Friday morning, so far as
! the masses at the league were con
cerned. one would not have known
that the well-liked I''Bobbie'' vann
who almost simultaneously has be
come National Advisor to the man
,agement Of the Campaign of the Re
publican Party and OF She Negro
Youth Movement, was there.
There was one elegant maneuvel
of politics executed at the League
meeting which viii be related in ;
later installment.
MY PURPOSE AT THE LEAGUE.
But what was doing at the ST
yer Jubilee? Was it simply to NEE
| these big guns? To see that smok'
Or hear that thunder roll? 1t wa
not. I went there in the interes
of the Negro Youth Movement.
was my purpose, and it is vet ou
purpose to get our business men tt
place the nest egg into the one hui
dred and fifty thousand dollar sum
the Negro Youth Movement Is raising
for the definite purpose of aiding an,
stimulating business training for tn
youth of the race. 1t was real jo)
camping upon the paths of some o
our business men, while few. o
them have furnished me with critica
material to write upon for a goo'
long time. / have every reason t.
imagine that the writer was not tn
only creature seeking the infuenc