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 UNDERSTANDABLE
Incident Has Stirred Up the Racial
Question and MAY be Carried.
Into Convention.

Washington. May 23.--Discussion Is
hot today 10 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 Of Columbia from the mann
moth parade last Friday
Ia addition to the English speakers,
two American delegates. W. n. Hart
shorn OF Boston and Louis STROLLER OF
Plymouth church. Brooklyn. dcnounc-
ed the drawing Of the color line.
The Rev. DIR. John DUDE. Zulu
delegate. said al one OF the meetings
that he had been admitted 90 hotels
in London and New York hut not so
iu Washington.
The whole incident has stirred up
racial feeling and 10 Is not Improbable
that the question may be carried into
the convention TO-DAY.
The days work began with eight
simultaneous conferences Goo which
teachers assembled in divisions and
discussed the special branches or their
work. am then reassembled 10 con-
veuton hall. the results and recon-
mendations OF the conferences being
presented TO the convention and dis
cussed
Marian Ls renee Of the North
Dakota section. was in charge OF the
big meeting
The Algerian mission band also had
a session TODAY under the presidency
Of Mrs. W. y. q. Rawson.
The afternoon session was di~ided
into two simultaneous meetings at
which reports from the ield were
presented.
Delegates from Great Britian 10 the
.faIH A.ar
day School association, now In ses-
sion here. declared i'm addresses at
several church services yesterday thai
tho action OF he local committee in
barring negroes from the Mems Bible
class parade on Friday last was un-
christian.
They said that such q thing would
not have happened Ia England where
the negro can OCCUPY positions on an
equality with his white brother.
Rev. Dr. John Reid shannon, PES
tor &c the Metropolitan Methodist
Fpiacnusl rlfurrh also cruf-ised fhf
action ~ taf lueai Cottnittae.
An omen letter has been addressed
by committee OF local negro min
listers 10 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
arrangements
WRINKLES SMOOTHED OUT
Washington. May IS All the wr.nk-
Ice which were formed In the worlds
sixth Sunday school convention when
The color line was drawn on the negro
delegates were smoothed over today
whom Booker r Washington was made
life member Of the organization and
The necessary subscription Of $1,000 wac
promptly pledged. mostly By delegate
nom the southern states.
white delegate from Kentucky
nominated Mr. Washington. saving
we may an have our own Ideas Of
how the negro problem o. 10 be worked
out. hut we owe q as a tribute 90 the
Christian negroes Of tho world CD
make Mr. Washington life member"
other life memberships were created
an ~ the rate OF 81 900 each. Women
delegates OF tho W. G.. r u subscribed
one FOR Mr. Lillian N. n Stevens
president OF that organization. Others
we've voted for Lady Henry Somerset
OF London. FOR ner work In the cause of
temperance Bishop John II. Vincent
Sir Francis Flint Beisey OF London;
Huah Cork 90 New orleans and MIS-.
p R Meyer ~ London, wife Of the
president of the convention
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