New-York tribune., 1921-06-10
Coolidge Sees
l25,OOO SUNDAY
School Parade
Reviews Greatest Gathering
/. of Children in History OF
the Brooklyn Union; 20
Divisions March Past
Visits Sectional Stands
Vice-President Reminds of
Nations Spiritual Needs
i'm Address at Luncheon

The children of Brooklyn swept in
Joyous columns before the Vice Presi-
dent ct the United States yesterday
afternoon. 1t was the gala day of the
Brooklyn Sunday School Union. More
than 125,000 children were on review
in the ninety second and largest parade
in the history of the union. Owing to
the great number in line the column
was divided into twenty-six divisions,
which were visited by the reviewing
larty in the course of the afternoon.
The principal reviewing stand was
IN Prospect Park where 10000 chill
dren marched before Vice President and
Mrs. Coolidge, Postmaster General
Hays, Senator and Mrs William NJ,
Calder, Senator James Oddie, John
Wanamaker, Mayor Hylan, Borough
President Edward Riegelmann, ex-
Ambassador James W. Gerard, J. W.
Kinear, Colonel Sidney Grant, District
Attorney Harry f. Lewis, Frederick
Kracke, Park Commissioner John N.
Harman, Brigadier General Hutcheson,
Colonel F. W. Baldwin and Postmaster
Walter G. Burton, of Brooklyn.
The children of the Prospect Park
division were greeted by thousands of
relatives and friends j. Eugene Ryer-
son was grand marshal of the section.
The Clinton division, marshaled by A.
P. Stetfens, assumed the proportions
hoc Of nrl N al
floats were graced by the 10000 young
sters who composed it.
Parade Elsewhere in Borough
In Flatbush, there were three dis
tinct parades. Immediately after leav-
ing Prospect Park, Vice President
Coolidge and his party reviewed this
division. In the Ocean Parkway and
Linden divisions, there We're close to
1900 children in line. Five thousand
took part in the Eastern District par
ade. They were reviewed at the Bed
ford Avenue fountain.
w. S. Hueston was chief marshal of
the twenty-six divisions, which were
representative Of four hundred Protes-
tant churches. After the review the
churches for games and refreshments.
Before the parade Vice-President
Coolidge and Postmaster General Hays
swere the guests of honor and speakers
at luncheon given at the Montauk
Club.
81 an here simply to express my pleas
ure at the invitation extended to me
to participate in these Sunday school
exercises" said Mr Coolidge. 1T is
a day of hope to me and of rejusti-
fed faith in the American people and
American institutions. 1t demonstrates
that our people are still clinging
steadfastly to the realities Of life, and
so long as that is the condition, our
present position in the leadership of
the world is secure. 1t is known that
these are days Of great difficulties, not
only to the nation but to the world.
We expect to work out of them. We
nave enjoyed great prosperity in
America, extending to the confines of
the world The war in measure took
it away. What will bring it back?
Men must work, if they work at all,
for something more than the material
welfare of life. That hope in the in
stitution that / see around me to-day
turn to the religious activity that has
brought man out of savagery to the
present state of civilization.
Physical Well Being Not Enough
Material welfare has not been, is
not and never will be enough. We
must return to the religious cogsola-
tions. | am glad to come here to-day
to participate in this celebration for
what it signifies-a city of homes,
cities of churches, these go together,
and where they go there is an infiu-
ence against which no evil can prevail"
John Wanamaker compared the de-
velopment of the Sunday schools in the
last forty years to the more recent de-
velopment of the automobile. He spoke
of the immense amount of capital in
vested in the equipment of Sunday
schools and the training of teachers.
The institution had played an important
part in bringing about prohibition, he
declared.
William Hamlin Childs was host at
the luncheon
HAYS Pledges Square Deal