St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-10-15
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What Goes On Here
BY BRENDA UELAND

TOUCHING and extraordinary banquet the other night At
"A the Ncouet Cecil Newman, editor of the
Negro "The Spokesman In the Gold Room You
walk flight All kinds Of people had gathered here Mr.
Washington of the Urban League Mayor McDonough Judge
Waite Mr. E. E. Purdy, Judge Weeks Judge LaBele
because had reservation But Mrs Patton
(of the reception commtee stood in the doorwaso TALL beau
tul graceful with lofty plume in her pretty hat She took
care Of me-
life, sparkle in it. palms. more love,
banques of white people Such warm and generous
manners!
The head table was mile long perhaps thirty people
sat against the stripes of the flag the wall
colored people in large groups Though know them
special fiends This struck me forcby They were so
fneookng: who athletic and scholarly at the same
time The women young and DID, beautifully dressed
There was sparkle and in nosegay and VEIL
very badly about workduled Clothes ana Will
mprove)
"A tall broadshouldered Cecil Newman "a quiet young
man with glasses and both fiery and humorous); Mrs.
Peavey Hefnge John Cowles Mr. Charles Horn pres
the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant Judge Lyons (Wo looks
like Marine and that is what he was once).
To sing Spunsed the went dark and light
.hone only on floating ug. and the singing seemed to
come uuo the chords Of the piano had more
complex music in them.
Then Mrs Louise Hargrave of Cecil Newman's e
newsboy porter then 16 with terrible tenacity ne
got his little newspaper he thrown out by
manbecause he wanted to shake hands with
President Wilson, This was told with hmor ana everybody
laughed but there acceptance of ghtfu ndgnes IN
laughter Maybe wrong but Negroes seem TO nave
no selfpty They have dignity of SOUL
piano the faraway rostru Jeanette Dorsey
PLAYED She was been told in the mosshung back
woods Georgia Nevertheless she has worked slowly up into
the lght-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 mpassioned graft
tude for him. took colored workers into the Twin City
Ordnance plant And he believes in them And he dogged
forcib. continuously solves problems for their sake
MR. MITCHELL was the speaker of the evening
4N tall athletic golden spectacles. He is the Fair
Employment Practices Commission (Mrs E. s. Weber OF ST.
Paul sat next to me said 1--WE love him. And his wife
Oh they are wonderfully Equal pay for the same kind OF
work. he was saying cannot be emotional We must
see this that the Negroes wrong too When
this So clearly And he spoke OF Cecil Newman
"Who cannot be bought"
didn't know exactly until his young wife
spoke later here to honor courageous man. me
cannot be bought. She is just fascinating oongs
young; beautiful both exotic and Intellectual; thought
Hindu prncess She has worked all over the country Tor the
association for the advancement of coored people
the weak little Negro newsp0pe she found
everhereso few few, he'd They were 6oHS"t
off," She there brave inference Z" s"sm' '"T
never " and things.
But Cecil Newman was dfferent-lke valantforTruth
In Pilgrims Progress.
Then Cecil Newman spoke and bite and humor
TIow all you do is to put in coffin and bury
me-" Everybody laughed delighted He meant that they nao
spoken his entire obuarvery adjective had been
at this banquet this testimonial isn't going to bury me
being fairly careful got to be careu lr0
now meant not to flag to work harder than ever
At the end up and facing Mrs Cora Harris con-
Quoting us with eloquent hands and dark, thinking race we
earnestly and warmly sang beautiful song the Natona1
Negro Hymn:
Sing song tb0t the present hot boSSht u.s."
God Of weary years,
God Of silent tears
shoSowsd beneath Thy hand.
May forever ssGnd
True to our God true 10 motive s0d."