The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-23
TO MEET NEXT in
SAN T RAN.CI.SC.0.
international Sunday-Scllool Con-
vcntion Selects Western City
After Much Discussion.
CONDITION OF NEGRO RACE
Booker Washington Delivers Ad.
dress Referring to Situation
in South To-day.

LOUISVILLE. KY. June a2.-with
enthusiasm undated In spite OF the
excessive heat OF the last three days.
officers and delegates attending tho
international Sunday School Conven-
ton at the armory to-day begin to
see The conclusion OF their very ardu-
Gus labors. The convention is sched-
uled to close Tomorrow. Consdera-
ton OF the report OF the executive
committee occupied the attention OF
the body to-day. Other business IN
the program included the report of the
treasurer. Frederick A. Wells. of CHI
cago, and discussion OF the subject
Our Opportunity and How to Nee.
It. by Justice j. 3. McLaurin, Of To-
ronto. Ont: George w. Bailey, Of Phil
adelphia; John II. Pepper, Of Memphis,
and Marion Lawrence, of Chicago.
The entire afternoon session wa.
taken up with the selection of the
next meeting place. The vote stood:
San Francisco, 6S2: New Orleans. 3O7,
Des Moines. 49, The convention Will
sit in June, the exact date to be an
nounced later.
The Negro in the South.
The principal speakers at the night
session were w. N. Hartshorn, of Bos-
ton, chairman of the International ex-
ecuttve committee, who took for his
topic New Plans for Sunday School
Work" and Booker r. Washington,
principal Of Tuskegee Institute, at
Tuskegee. Ala. Washington spoke in
part as follows:
II was born In the South I was
born slave. In the Southern part of
the United States there are more than
100000 OF my race The blacks and
whites are here to remain, in my opin-
ion. for all time. Whatever affects
the one race affects the other. We
are fast learning in every part OF
America that one man cannot hold an
other man down In The ditch without
remaining in the ditch with him.
1T may not be known outside OF the
South and to the general public. but
nevertheless 1t Is true that every
branch OF the Southern white church is
assisting In some manner in the edu-
cational moral and religious develop
ment of the negro. through their COL
lese. Sunday school or church work.
THE whole future Of the relations
of the two races in the South hinges
largely upon our being able to incul-
cate into the young minds of black
children and white children proper
ideas Of Justice and spirit of tolera-
ton and friendship between race and
race. II We fall to teach these les
sons in the Sunday school. in that de-
gree, the future relation between the
races becomes a matter of speculation
and danger The good Father has so
arranger matters on this earth that
one man cannot get on without the
help of the other man. Our relations
are so delicately and infinitely inter-
woven that one race cannot in any
large degree get away from the other.
Pence Between Races.
TN nine-tenths Of our Southern COM
munitIes there Is peace good will and
tween the races. The outside world
hears of the isolated cases of friction
resulting IN mob violence and lynch
ing, and too often concludes that this
represents our Southern Christian civ
ilization. and that there are no ada
quate results following the work be-
ing done in church. Sunday school,
public school and elsewhere.
Attention is often called to the fact
that the young negro gives trouble. I
grant that there Is far too much crime
committed by the negro youth, but in
this phase of negro life, we
must remember that 1t is the young
that gives trouble. Statistics show
that two years ago 100000 children
of my race entered no public school.
and a large proportion of those who
were in school attended only four or
five months during the year. There
are hundreds of thousands of black
who enter no Sunday school
or church on the Sabbath day. But
no Notwithstanding the enormous amount
of work to be done. what has already
been accomplished In moral and reli-
gious growth indicates the possibilities
Of such work and justifies further eff
forts in that direction.
This country owes debt of graft.
tude already to group of brave, un-
selfish. courageous Christian white
men and women In the South. which
1t can never repay. It has been largely
owing to the Influence of this group.
in cooperation with the edu-
Gated negro, that peace and harmony
and good will prevails in the South
to the extent that 1t does. The future
for both of our races is not dark