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Show NEGROES TO HOLD ANTI-SALOON CONVENTION ' "SOUTHERN NEGRO ANTI-SALOON CONGRESS" IN GEORGIA. ' Prominent Men of Bladk Race Will Prove to Whites They Are Interested Inter-ested In Moral Movement. Dallas, Texas. Jan. 13. Following a movement started in Dallas, preparations prepara-tions are being made for the holding of an anti-saloon convention of the negroes ne-groes of the south at Atlanhi, Ga., on February 2G. The meeting Is to bo I known as "the Southern Negro Anti-Saloon Anti-Saloon congress," and it is declared to be tho Intention to make the affair an epoch In the history of the negTo race in the south. It Is announced that an elaborate program has been arranged. Including' addresses by some of the South's most able men of the white and the black races. In addition to the prominent negro ne-gro ministers and educators there ore many noted white men on tho program. Tlic committee making the announcement an-nouncement sajs: "We are determined to prove to our worthy white friends that we are as profoundly concerned in the great moral mor-al movement as any others. It Is an opportunity for our poi;p!c to give th r? world evidence that v.e are on the rlirht side of every question for tho , promotion of the public good." |