Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-23
English Sunday School Delegates
Criticize the Barring Of
Negroes From Parade.
SAID IT WAS UNCHRlSTIANLIKE
Incident Has Stirred ~ the Racial
Question aud MAY be Carried.
Into Convention.

Washington, May 2s.-Discussion is
hot today 90 the Worlds sixth annual
sunday school convention over some
OF the criticisms which the British
delegates made on the Washington
committee In the churches Yesterday
FOR barring the negro delegates of the
District o. Columbia from Inc mann
moth parade last Friday
Ia addition 90 the English speakers.
two American delegates w. ". HART
shorn of Boston and Louis STROLLER OF
Plymouth church. Brooklyn. dcnounc-
ed tho drawing Of the color line.
The Rev. DIT John DUDE. "a Zulu
delegate. said at one OF the meetings
THAI inc had been admitted 20 hotels
Eva LONDON and New York but not so
in Washington.
The whole incident has stirred up
racial feeling and % is not Improbable
that the question may be carried into
the convention today.
The days work began with eight
simultaneous conferences iu which
teachers assembled in divisions and
discussed the special branches 81 their
work an then reassembled IN con-
veuuon hail. the results and recon-
mendations OF the conferences being
presented 90 the convention and dis
cussed
Marian Laurence or the North
Dakota section. was in charge OF the
big meeting.
The Algerian mission band also had
"a session today under the presidency
81 Mrs W y. c. Rawson.
The afternoon session was divided
into two simultaneous meetings at
which reports from the field were
presented.
Delegates from Great Britisu To- the
sixth convention OF the Worlds sun
day school association, now I'm ses-
sion here. declared I'm addresses at
scvera church services yesterday that
tho action Of The local committee ion
barring negroes from the Mems Bible
class sate,., un i4iday last was un-
christian.
They said that such n thing would
not have happened in England where
the negro can OCCUPY positions on an
equality with his white brother
Rev. Or. John REID shannon. pas
tor Of the Metropolitan Methodist
Fniarnusl church also oriff-ised the
artiorf1f st iaca cuilniit,te
An omen letter has been addressed
by committee OF local negro min
listers IN the delegates attending the
convention, fully generating the gem
eral committee OF the association OF
race prejudice and placing the blame
entirely on the local committee on
WRINKLES sAfOOTHED OUT
Washington. May % All the wrnk-
lcs which were formed in the worlds
sixth Sunday school convention wnen
che color line was drawn on the negro
deleRa tes were smoothed over today
when Booker r. Washington was made
a life member Of the organization and
The necessary subscription OF 81 900 was
promptly pledged, mostly by delegate
nom the southern states
a white delegate from Kentucky
nominated Mr. Washington. saving:
We may an have our own ideas of
how the negro problem ls TO be worked
out hut we owe it az tribute 10 The
Christian negroes Of the world tl
make Mr Washington a life member
other life memberships We're created.
am az the rate of 81 900 each Women
delegates of the W. g.. r. r. subscribed
1ne f1r Mrs Lillian Al. y. Steven.
president Of that organization. Othel-
were voted FOR Lady Henry Somerset
lr London. Tor her work IN tho cause OF
Bishop John II Vincent
Sir Francis Flint Belsey or London
Hugh cork % New orleans and Mrs
r. 70 Meyer OF London, wife Of The
president OF the convention.
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