The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-20
RACE QUESTION
CAUSING WORRY
Negroes Insist on Place
in Sunday-School
Parade.
NO RIGHT THERE,
SA VS. COMMITTEE
Have Failed to Join District AS
sociation and So Will Be Bar
red-President Taft Cen
trail Figure at the Days
Session = His Words
Applauded.

Washington, .. c., May i9.--Presi
dent Taft was the central figure at
today's session of the Worlds Sunday
School Association. now in convention
here. At to-night's mass-meeting, held
In Convention Hall, which was sur
rounded by crowd of fully as large
as the 5000 within the big structure.
he acknowledged the Bible school as
powerful force in the moral and educa-
tional uplift of the world. Again and
again his utterances on this subject
were cheered to the echo.
..It is one of the two or three great
I. instrumentalities." he declared, Tor
making the world better, moro moral
and more religious. AS the twig Is
bent. so the tree is inclined and youth
is the time to inculcate, for results.
moral and religious ideas. No matter
what views are taken Of general edu-
cation, we all agree, Protestant. Cath
| olic and Jew. that Sunday school edu-
| cation is necessary to secure moral up
lift and religious spirit"
The Race Question.
The race question has invaded the
Iconyention. Local negro Sunday school
leaders are protesting because members
\ of their race are to be barred from
| the mems monster Bible parade to-
| morrow.
1 Members of the local committee say
/ the negro Sunday schools of the Dis
trict OF Columbia have had plenty OF
| opportunities to join the SUNDAY
| School Association of the District
/ without taking advantage thereof; and,
/ that therefore. they have no right In
the parade as the chairman OF the
press committee expressed 1t, than II
| they were members of a labor union or
any other unafiliated organization.
! The local committee has entire charge
/ of the arrangements for the conven-
4 ton. so that the general committee
ldeclares itself helpless to do anything
4 In the matter.
Rev. +. b. Meyer, u. D.. of Eng
i land. president of the association IN p
Iintroducing President Taft, declared
4 that for the past twenty years he had
i prayed for the President of the United
/ states every sunday after prayer for
! the King OF England. And this he
4 added, lis a common custom in Eng
i land Mr.. Taft replied to this by
i saving that he hoped their prayers
would continue
"A1y experience he said. lis that
4 these prayers are needed.
Thanks President.
i DR.. Meyer thanked the President for
"the noble cablegram which he sent
I when King Edward died.
Referring to this, Mr.. Taft said:
4 The reference to the death OF the
4 late King, the feeling of mourning or
both sides of the world. brings &c
4 mind how much such convention az
y this means in perpetuation of th'
peace of nations.
:. Our public school education" ht
J said, 'has only secular teaching Wit
the teaching of morality in general
But that is not enough. There ar
those. whose opinions ! respect. wh'
feel that it is dangerous to have edu
/ cation at all, unless it Is associated
5 with religious training. But this ha
not been found practical In thl
country. Therefore there is need 70
3 Sunday school education"
3 Speaking of the rise Of the sunda,
school movement and of it's growth i
i the United States. he declared =
9 movement of such strength should D
0 welcomed in every community for tn
q good it is doing"