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The Advocate Coming Storie* by Edward Worthy Edward Lawton Dorothy W r it «Ilf ! • «M l>v »I . <*»-•«• %4 a n tl aiwg U ILLUSTUATKD FKATUKE SECTION— November 12, m 2 . w it ninno h 1 1 < i hin III* roiiND i vr rM U lti: m t r im in AKT ION n REMINISCENCES Setteee la be right.** Among alt H it newspajs-r editor- .at* t am inclined to think llv- Louisville Courlri -Journal made the aanevl remark, T h e reporter tor the N*-w York Tim es had wrltlen that he had not .seen any "story '* The Courier-Journal said ot tlie d iiin »r | It U not altogether Improbable ith a t ihe reporter fo r the ‘yellow’ ¡Journal whs guilty o f m oie or lew, C H A P T E R SIX. T H A T C O S M O P O L I T A N C L U B D IN N E R . I M E E T T H E REPORTERS. By M A R Y W H IT E O V IN C T O N I have ipoken «I the t <e*iii<»|>olitan Club, an organi* ■/.'«ti.ui ninile up ol while atul roloreil men and women for the iliaeuvsion of present day problema. \\ hile it was amali, numbering about thirty membera, for a moment it aehieved fame. Ita doing* were reported North and South amt E u l ami West Especially did it reverberate m the South. It gave a dinner. In 11*08, New York waa becoming a restaurant city. The boarding house waa giving way to the lodging house, and count leas people were going out to their meals. A The* ( aim op oliu n (lu b dinner *• « ikmi of journalisin there was m i- it actually waa («T iil for a story T h e U'.’ tlnltion ol ---------- ----- --- ------- > I news that obtain knsi It is unusua: Brooklyn on Sunday*. She i <»uld in* hides the unusual h «* r had 7 h » à î r r 4 ’ i k M l n j r y 7 : * w' 111» - nd colored prople to dmr ,£ L r,1„ ' T^IV* ' » North A,nerica It L. «ro e, at the H a<,han.l fra .t had (lU|„ (uf lhe , .h e w aved Ih r bread tray llu l Ih r isr dinner look place and the pa- P**r* did not notice It. O l recent rears dinners have been given by «o 11,-11 v orgam/aUona. to so many dts- ttnguiahed colored .»Topic at winch the race» have b<*en about equal in number that no reporter would t » - 1' " to men h i that buck and * h,u‘ dom" together, i «sm op«litan C lub wrf«* pionrerv W f »uttered the no- t-ir It tv .,| piaBM VI M did » u( » w k In 1931. a r om ” »**tee uf prominent New Yorkers A dmiirr to Jame» Weldon h k S M S at the Hotel Pennsylvania. 1 « » " » » * «• < »«* Van Daren, and « he looked at the IM . f he d.n- »e r r.m m llle c he "T fcl, i, Ihe iu g-of- the-cacea-dinner to quarrel m##* distinguished list of name. [ /,i«.,1 ’ t», . ¡1 1 *h""i i, u ■ * ; r,r r ° n - * ■ * » *■»«• *"* ,| d "ia rw and " ,r unuaualneaa of the event “ « » " * 'la d led the people at Ihe amove Northern mm lelv. ¡ lo o k in g baik (Hi It now thu. com- able., white and colored Ode by horror over the d e c - ">ent seem, to me correct Jt » « a ‘ t* £ £ , h he could hold a meeting and talk of anything he chose. | mu ,n;v equalled equalled by by our our .unusual w h it, O n e o t the t h e favorite f a v o r i t e New N ew f o r k place.« p l a c e , at a t that th a t time t i m e for f o r dent deni women only 1,1 tor wn“ * » and '« «-o rrtm £ £ York men of a([ain. g i o n p . w it h m o r e id e a , th a n m o n e y w a . P e c k « r e s ta u r a n t y^k 110 •siut'r the m e rep< reporter» were * , 1 «... a», .... .. • , , . a ll that hitherto have been considered Yor* * 11 ,ld Mr. Vilisrd came over to speak on lower I* i! It «til Street. I his the ( <»*mopnhtun 1 luh mc decent, and s reputsUje writer tor invited to ‘ hi« ' m .*> ii u j • ;he cured for a Riven night ami proceeded to sell ticket*. inataum » in that wltchea cauldron ,n M ‘ o l the occurrence. to mr between two course, oil that black ni, it ** Hut the dinner acrompll.hed one " You * n d 1 c* n * •** discouraged I h r (è* kria wrm urli, fur (hr Thu» »poke our enemie* We who Important th in .. The dining of on *|JU r* Cf Huestlon." he »aid T h e •pralurr« *d*erll«»rd » r r * prominent sf ; were present mid Utile * saw more while and < olorrd to frlh rr in New world doe» move Think of the Coa- mopolitan Club dinner ’* •eptHlefN the week after thr event York eeaoed to be new« tm it \ •• t.» II «¿ t II r V k M tl ur«« O t m ‘ f t 9t ¡than X had seen before m my whole1 (T o He Continued! w ild (orrlk tm \ilUrd. of thr l o The next yesr s mailer but slmi- i life but I could only give my mild in 114 r«M(. HsntlKon Holl uf (hr li* V' I version of the affair T h e E ve tlrp. m irili John SpAffu. spargu. fe b*illiawl »v ilia a sit 'T M ' ‘^1 ning Po»t carried a letter or two \Vk ¡and the independent a short editor-! k|i ik rf fur ihrw SorialUt parly I lal There were a few days of hub- \in .itI the Negrw »praliery were. ! bub and the dinner's new» value « ......... " , r , , U * U ,rt " ,r •* I l o J 'un i .hr while p rr., v . ,1 ■ »Vr, vey'» furrmiMt » • r k m , and thr He* — M» n a n and addre«« were In the l.rwrge natter Miller Hr Owen M » . . _ > . ^ l'^P^r. I had been one of the »peak i g» » and white had »at d wti to- rr, and I rame In for the m(KI Waiter i»r «in a. gether m a revtaurant in New York pi-blHity. N v mail waa very heavy. *n»e coll, ed propio who went to Al|(| n.itergenation No apeerh My Addrw«a had lieen given at the the dinner for the nu at |»«rt vere r a s given any apace except the few Hotel st Oeorge. Brooklyn, where the old-fastitoned grouo. living in temarks that Molt made when h- [ went from the Ptnppa tenement Iti.Miklvii that I have attempted to JJV* ,hr t,nJ r l»w»lble solutions of f(ìr my wrf»k end A a I entered tire — *, ¿ (- • '.ta in a n t w o u l i i r e n t o n e o f ita r o o m * t o a ll o r g a n i z a t i o n f n r t h e e v e n i n g , t h u . g i v i n g t h e d i n e r u f r e e h a ll in w h ic h E J X A few were Hociatít. bu. ™ C , r i . H.» iw. i c*9rn *Mon But the speechea w»r* t!w uidiurlly believed ili»! Ihe be.1,,,,» lh# r, , i n „ new* r b thin« that had ever been »aid re die dinner lt» lf and Ihe report «aiding the right* of Individual» w «» et. liad indtMlrkmily gathered the .aid by Je(ter»on m the ope.,in. t the Deelaiatkm of Iiideiieiidrnre Ttiey w ou U1 be »allotted II they could ael «» «> »«1 a chance 111 America * » ........................ wrIr the white man I h«* whi of variola .ties.» people like Vlllsrd of .bd time «b u llio n heritage Ho riali»!» i adirala, aortal woiker». trend» of member, el the club 1 doubl il tlierc w u more than |ie(MHi there undew tl Irty. It wa» a wdwr galh erin « .... . | We had singularly good .p e e ,h e , K**vtti 9 dy s Servant h* th** iiou*r w «s tM*iug sclrd. and morr than one referred to the Christ who figured aa Uir aervant W ith tire exception ol H p argo» and M iller's Sorlwll»' ap ^ " * r l, 1 * "* rnember the mail clerk, Tavlor, a „.imed man. . n .1 how considerale i,e was when I approached the desk mv m4l| m p., |,wnd that ^ U me iS T S i ' me l " / siorv , , ^ !, • i,e hibby an e*tra T Ub" “ d V’ f He 9 »aid l" he «om en ' V H* iiiiu moment iiioiouglilv drrnrhed In Ilieu „ , « 1,1,,, b,a 1 fr it m, »ympathy imuginallou the gathering became * n,e mall wa» of all sort» A few meeting of votuptuoua white women friendly teller», eongratulatlng me * M1* amlrking Negro men A . all loiter» from Negroes regretting what the nrwapsprr writer» were men. | ^ gomg througl» and the rest t|irr^ ,v, remurk made of the ^|mwmg contempt or scorn Some ¡m onior of Negro wiHiten by white were threatening llia t was rather ,,,r" ,1''•*•* |,,r n w r r ,‘ railed )(l||y one 1» complimented to leet¡ but the white »omen wetr , , „ y |1>vr endangered one'» rated lower than that tile lor a cause Home were very se- one fcdi ,ir. ihrougtiout the country vrre but d l«n ifled T h e bulk were gave their («unions. illiterate and nausewllngly obscene * > havr hitter contempt.* Ihe I wa. smothered In mud Like M> Rlehnmnd le a d er .aid. "lo r the many ol the women ol iny class 1 Uu| N , l(l l p il W „ JBd ,<Mj w , stuttered Ule That mail iii«,irst«*d that drxrnrrscy will «rvk «•i»tir«*lv from th r South, tsught mr n « Irvrl.* much. It did not endear mr to that This miscegenation dinner was * * * • « « ' When I read of a lynch- lowthsome enough to rotiMgn thr ,,l*f t alay I think o f thoae letters whole iraterm ty r l pervert.» who * l,d k,,>» 'b e men who engineered peal», no Iianaeea wa» onei(*d H o lt; (|,r st Loul» Despateli wa« ihe .Mily iwrson to mention m l, RnrteMin of Texas, «aid that Ihe ergenalUHi and tlie 1 to dlsnnaa II aflair wa« "unbelleyable. ahhorrnl ft... I..- 1 ..I of human brotherhood Ineoneeiyable" T h e beauty of human orow ern ora. n|||(iill| bllHtdv .,hlrl the thought Dial all men la u w >ik " T ill» Incident, trivial together lor good, wraa the dominant ipw.ll. mily marks the rapid pro WIH(I I have never heard Oswald gre»» we are niaklii« toward the OarrtwHi Villaid make a more m o y - .•ata.stro,jhe I Imve ron- . , . . ___ t-nded lor yea tl.at rxUHng c « mi - m g aptrltual appeal Aa we *e n t )|li(,|u P. n , , . vr bul r ll- bllK>dy out. we «aid to one another, that I* conflicts " had iHi’ ii good to be there. | T lie longest and moat picturesque Now while tin., waa the spirit o l »«-count w«., by Judge T to m a s N ! Norwood 111 llie Savannah News tli? meeting and o l the club, a lew Som etim e» the Judge was funny niem bc!» w-re up to nilaclllel T lie ’ ,11c told o l the two IVsdrinotMs, otic president o l Ihe Cosmopolitan Chili .other »Ide an Othello, who told Ills was Andie Trldon, a Frenchman, ' M 'lotl» In the Spanish American W ar M r. sterlin g a woman then and delight ltd tMgan Hr atul one, , . about seventy, was described lean- or two other» had invited reporter» ln|J »morouitly against a very black W hen they aiqieared and wanted to Weal Indian Yomqi girl« tone young take a flashlight picture, Mr. Villard | Western girl WM iwesent with Iter .. , . . I mother) dressed in decollete, drop- told me that trouble was ahead I |h, tr ,„ .„ d , OIl b , , (.k refiiaed to allow the picture to be •houlden Worst of all was "the high priest taken nud then forgot about the re m oter« T liey were recalled to me r»«. M l*. Ovlngton. whiMe f»tlie r I» rich and who altH U Ir. live dara in the nekt nuH'nlngt every week with Negro in? a and The atory went over the count! y . dine« with them at lie r home * (••>' letter from the sonlh that I loved II came tnnn a man ln * httle town of Maryland II was written ‘ n a w raggl* hand and wa. „ „ 1 , . f „ | , while man.' It «aid. "hoi I glory In yoor »ponk in «landing up for whal you — --------------------------------------- 1 ■ "V ^ 1 k O' W hen 1 read about a lynching today V * • % R O Y A L ROM ANCE C U LM IN A TE S IN FRANCE — His Royal IliRhiu'ss Firince Kojo Touvalou-Houenoti of l*a- homey. Africa, with his new bride, the former Mrs. Ro berta Dutltl Crawford, singer, from Chicago. III. They are shown in Paris after the wedding. At the left id il. A. Rogers, A F R O correspondent.