Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
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What Goes ON Here
OcToREk 6. 1871
BY BRENDA ICELAND

BY BRENDA UELAND
TOUCHING extraordinary banquet the other night At
A the Nicolet Cecil Newman editor of the
Negro newspaper Spokesman" the Gold Room You
walk up flight All kinds of people had gathered there Mr.
Washington of the Urban League Mayor McDonough Judge
Waite, E. E. Purdy, Judge Weeks Judge LaBele
because had reservation But Mrs Patton
of the reception commtee in the doorwayso TALL beau
tfu graceful with lofty plume in her pretty hat She took
care of me.
life, sparkle in it. pains, more love-
than in the banques of white people Such warm and generous
manners!
The table mile long and perhaps thirty people
sat against the red stripes of the flag on the wall
people in large Though know them
true special ends This struck me fOrcby They were so
tnelookng who athletic and scholarly at the same
time. women young and DID, beautifully dressed
such sparkle and in every nosegay and veil
Il felt badly about own workduled clothes and will
improve.)
THE HEAD TABLE there was Mr. Talmadge Carey (bg.
"A tall adshoudered then Cecil Newman "a quiet young
man with glasses and both fiery and humorous) Mrs:
Peavey Heffefnge Cowles Mr. Charles Horn pres
dent Cities Ordnance Plant Judge Lyons Cho looks
like Marine and that is what he was once).'
sing spanssd the dark and light
only floating sks" foS end che singing seemed to
from deeper lungs than usual che chords OF " piano h0d more
complex music in them.
Then Mrs Louise Hargrave Cecil Newmans life:
newsbo porter then 16 with terrible tenacy ne
got his little newspaper he thrown out by
secret wanted to shake hands with
President Wilson" told with humor and everybody
laughed there acceptance OF frghu nognes IN
their laughter Maybe but Negroes seem to nave
no selfpty. They have dignity of SOUL
Then piano faraway rostrn Jeanette Dorsey
played She told in the mosshung back
woods Georgia Nevertheless she has worked slowly into
the ght-a Masters Degree University she can
play Instruments lady whispered to me- Her CHOPIN was
sadder, deeper slower than others play it.
Mr. Horn spoke they have imprisoned graft
tde for him. because he took the Twin City
Ordnance plant believes in Them And ne doggedy
forcibly continuously solves problems for their sake
MR. CLARENCE MITCHELL was the speaker evening
h TALL athletic with golden specacles. He is on the Fair
Employment Practices mrs E. S. Weber of ST.
Paul sat and said 1--WE love him. And his wife
Oh they are wonderful" Equal for the same kind of
work. he was saying. But cannot be emotional We must
that sometimes the Negroes are wrong too When
clearly And he spoke OF Cecil Newman
"Who cannot be bought"
didn't know exactly until his young wife
spoke later to honor courageous man. he
cannot bought. (She is just fascinating looking
young beautiful face both exotic and intellectual one thought
of Hindu prncess worked all the country for the
association for the advancement of colored people
And she told little Negro she found
evewhere-sO few h0d They were bought
off," She meant bruvs inference In them They
never sad rue end things.
But Newman dfferent-ike Mr. Vaianttor4rutn
In Pilgrims Progress.
Then Cecil Newman spoke fire and bite and humor
"Now all you is to put in coffin and barry
me-" Everybody laughed delighted He meant that tey nao
snoken his entire obuarevery adjective had been
at this banquet testimonial isn't going to bury me
Instead being fairly careful got to be MIGHTY careful from
now on" meant not to flag, to work harder tnaA ever
At the end up and facing Mrs Cora Harris con-
Quoting us with eloquent and dark thinking face we
earnestly and warmly beautiful song tne NaIonAi
Negro Hymn: .
sing song th0s shs dark pest hos taught u.s.
Sing g song full hut The present hos brought US
God Of weary years,
God Of our silent tears
Swallowed beneath Thy hand.
M0y forever sSGnds
True to our God true to ow ISnd."