Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-26 | Page 1 | Hope for All Who Can Smile

DOPE FOR ALL WHO CAN SMILE Statement Made by Minister! in Supporting Freedman's Report to Presbyterian Assembly. Chicago. May 2K. "There is hope fur anybody win. can smile, and the negro has never forgotten how to smile' said Kev John M Gaston of Philadelphia today before the general assembly ot the Presbyterian church in the United States, in supporting the report of the standing committee on Freerlmen The report itself presented by the hairman of tho committee on Preed-men. Preed-men. Rev h y Mcllelaud. of ("larks burs. w. Va., told of the advance in the work among the negroes of the south In addition to listening to the Freedman's Freed-man's report, the assembly endorsed the work of the Anti-Saloon league, the National Temperance Union and the Woman's Christian Temporani e Union. Specific endorsement of the Anti-Salnon league wa6 asked of the assembly In an overture but the particular par-ticular request was ordered filed and the blanket endorsement of the so-( so-( hies named, together with all similar agencies, was substituted for it.