Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-29
100000 MARCH TODAY
FOR SABBATH SCHOOLS
450 Different Organizations Are
. Represented in Many Sectional
Parades Throughout City

More than 10000 persons. representing
$50 Sunday schools, paraded In different
sections of Philadelphia today. They
marched TO the martial strains of onward.
Christian Soldiers" rendered by eight bands.
The demonstration was the seventh an
nual review Of the Philadelphia Sunday
schools and was held under the auspices of
the Philadelphia County Sunday School AS
soCiaton.
The main demonstration started from
the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Church,
Broad and Spruce streets. at 2:3O O'clock
when twenty-nine little girls received a
greeting and carried copies to the twenty
nine convergiug points of the parade
Never We're things so upside down as
they are now" said County superintendent
of Schools John Walton, in addressing the
Couriers, land we never before needed the
Sunday school as we do now"
John Wanamaicr told the 300 children
gathered i'm the church that he had no
speech to make. Rather let the flag at
my side make the speech" he said. lie
then had the children stand, and, with
raised hands, repeat the following creed:
"As the big boys are going to war, I
have to keep the Sunday school up. The
war must be fought but since the Sunday
school rests on me, | am going to stand
by it and make it bigger and better than
ever before
The message carried to the converging
points by the little girls called for loyalty
and devotion to the cause. To-day the
call everywhere is for loyalty and devotion, d"
it said, land we of the great Sunday-school
army need, as never before, to be loyal and
devoted to our great Captain"
More than 10000 men, women and chli
dren were in the line of march from this
center. Following the main parade there
were other parades in each of the forty
five sections of the city divided off by tho
county association.
The largest Of the local demonstrations
was held in Kensington. where 1900 were
in line. Other very large parades were
held in Southwest Philadelphia, German
town. strawberry Mlnsion and Frankford.
In these five Centers about $4,000 paraded.
Among the schools having extremely large
delegations were those from simpson Me-
mortal NJ. H. Church. Kcusington, where
1000 were in line; Sloan NJ, f.. Church,
also i'm KensngtOn, with 500 In line; East
Baptist Church, of Kensington, with 500
| Castor Presbyterian Church, Eleventh street
| and Lehigh avenue. with 500; Fletcher
| NJ. f.. Church, Fifty-fourth and Master
| streets, 5000 and Free Church of st. John,
| Kensngton, with 500 in line.
| Among the features in these sectional
ptrades We're 800 American flags. from
| twenty to forty feet long, which were car
| ried by the children.
one thousand Boy Scouts 200 Girl Scouts
| and various temperance and missionary or
| ganizations took part
| Girls dressed in white, with uniformly
| colored parasols, were feature. While
| many schools came out I'm spectacular form
many others marched in the simplest OF
| array,
| The committee having the annual parade
| in hand is composed of the following mem,
| bers; George G. Ziegler, chairman Henry
G.. Talmadge, secretary; John Baker Tuttle
| John $. Klenk. John NJ. Doran, John NJ
| Neff, William II. Emhardt, Charles Bischoff
| George H. Chew and Charles II. Moore.