1954 January ANCHOR

t WITH all the attacks on the fraternity system appearing in periodicals and newspapers it behooves us to search within ourselves for strength not only to repel these attacks but also to survive. There a re forces in the United States which would like to see the fra ternity system dissolved. Now is the crucial time for us to consider ways and means to strengthen ourselves. One of the most effective answers to adverse publicity is expanding strength . We must prove that there are many people who believe as we do in the abiding worth •of fraternities. For Alpha Sigma Tau the time has come when expansion is imperative. We must not only fight for th e fraternity system but for our own organiza tion.

Through the yea rs changes take place in chap ters. Sometimes a chapter is large and trong for five or ten years; then it becomes weak, whereas another chapter which has always been weak gradually becomes strong.

Sometimes college authorities ban all fraternities on campus and a chapter becomes inactive. Or a chapter becomes inactive for lack of member hip or funds. These situations occur in all fraternities, and to combat these changes, new chapters must be admitted at intervals. Many fraternities hire traveling secretaries who meet groups at various colleges with a view to organizing new chapters. This policy h as never met with approval in our sorority for two reasons: the expense is great and we h ave never paid salaries to any of our na tional officers. Officers have contributed their time to sorority duties. Offi cers who find it necessary to travel, in the pursuit of their duties, do get traveling expenses. At times funds are not available for the entire expense of the trip, in which case, the officer pays part of h er e;xpenses h erself.

All of which leads us to the point that we need more people to contribute of their time in the cause of expansion. If we hope to compete with sororities who have paid traveling secretarie , we must gather together a number of people who will give some of their time to this purpose. In order to cut

down traveling expenses and obtain peopl who are fami li ar with the local situa tion, state chairmen have been appointed. Their duties includ e traveling within their state, making contact with girls who might be members of a group that could be interested in becom ing a chapter of Alpha Sigma Tau, or in meeting girls who have not yet made friend at college and who could be sold on working toward a chapter. Now in ord er to meet girls, we must h ave names of girls.

These leads may be transfers to a new college of a member of one of our chapters.

It may be a girl whom one of our members knows. We can help in this organiza tion work if we know of such a girl.

The first thing to do is to notify the district president. She will direct the ac tivitie of the state chairman. We have been very fortun ate in organizing alumnae chaptersour number of alumn ae chapters have steadily increased. One of the purposes of these alumnae cha pters is to aid a nearby collegiate ch apter, and if there is no nearby coll egiate chapter, the alumnae can endeavor to organize one. Bu t they must have lead - names of girls who might be interested in joining a sorori ty at th e nearby college. It h as been sugge ted th a t a na tion al officer in charge of organizing be appointed. Up to this time, no one h as been found who can contribute the time necessary to coordin ate the efforts of the di trict presidents and state ch airmen in the cause of expansion. Until uch an officer can be fo und, ou r alumnae can help by getting in touch with their di trict pre idents, giving them name of girls who might be interested in sorority of group before which the tate chairman could appear, or with the informa tion a bout a certain campu whi h would welcome additional ch apters.

If the fraternity sy tern is to urvive we must begin to think eriously of expan ion in our cha pter a nd plan for the oraanizing of new collegiate chapter . If Alpha Sigma Tau will survive, we must redouble our effort to obtain additional chapters.

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;t. Mv mother always told me to be careful of the company I keep because birds of a feather flock together. If this be "guilt by association," it is still common sense and pursuant to the facts of life. When I was in college the members of my fraternity, on date nights, left practically en masse for a certain sorority house whose initials are Delta D elta Delta. Some of us birds found there some mighty pretty feathers.

My fraternity is called a social fraternity, but it was much more than that. We learned manners. We learned th at there are certain things a gentleman just does not do. We learned also some things that a gentleman will always do. We had to study and make our grades. We assisted in the education of each other.

I think it is safe to say, therefore, that Greekletter organizations are a part of our educational process. I am afraid, however, that we have put too much emphasis on and possibly we h ave left too much to formal education in the classroom. Education is essentially personal and self-acquired .

I begin to wonder whether parents and teachers have both been so concerned ahout "not breaking the child' s sp irit" that we are in the way of bringing forth a generation of moral and intellectual jellyfish with rudderless emotions. One canno t think logically from a sound premise to a reasonable conclusion if h e starts the process without the tools with which to work and with his feet firmly anchored on some pink cloud. Too many intellectual hern ias are being caused by jumping too rapidly to an unsound conclusion from an unwa rranted premise.

It is here that the fraternity or sorority can help. L et the student's conclusions and procedures by which he reaches those con-

elusions be tested in th crucible of the fraternity bull session . One's fellow students can always point out more dramaticall y and emphatically errors in reasoning.

There is a second and even more important area in this educational process in which the Greekletter organizations can perform , and I believe are performing, a vital function . If we train technicall y competent engineers and doctors and lawyers and philosophers and do not at the same time train good American citizens, we are missing our mark a mil .

Young people today must learn that th English language can be used to conceal as well as to convey thought. They must learn that many subtle and vicious attempts are being made to capture their minds. There are certain key words used carrying a connotation of good or evil. The word " liberal" is one of these. It carries the connotation of being not narrow but broadrninded. However, many self-styled professional liberal are advocating a bigger government, greater centralization of power in a few, a philosophy of the government knows best what is good for you- don't upset thing -give us your individual liberties and we shall take care of you. This of course i the real road to reaction. This i the real road back to serfdom, back to the very things our trul liberal ancestors fought against. This is the road to socialism and communism. But the road has been marked with the ignpost "liberal" and many have been confu d b it. Other key words are: conservative reactionary, ca pitalism, democracy welfare state, guilt by association, and many othe .

I suggest th a t we all look up the true meaning of these words and be careful hO\ 路we use them. Too often they ar used to pia upon emotion rather than to conve ide _ Some of these word h ave been deliberate! and maliciously u ed by Communi t t crea te confusion .

*Excerpts from an address given at a dinn er on November 4, 1953, before the National Panh e ll ~ nic Conference, meeting in Pasadena a t th e Huntmgton Hotel.

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Let us make no mistake about this Communist conspiracy.

We have all seen or read about the disgraceful performances of some witnesses before our courts and our duly constituted Congressional Committee on Un-Arnerican Activities who have sneeringly refused to answer, on the grounds that their answer would tend to .incriminate them, the question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" They rely upon the Fifth Amendm ent to the Constitution of the United States. Let us look at this amendment. It reads: "No p erson shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the la nd or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actu al service in time of 'Var ~r public danger ; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopard y of life or limb ; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. nor be deprived of life, liberty, or propert } without due proce s of law; nor sha ll priv:tt e property be taken for public u e, without just compensation."

Wh en a witness refuses to a nswer the sixtyfour doll ar qu es tion, ra ising the constitutional privil ege aga inst self-incrimination, we can reach only one of two conclusions: 1. His answer would give facts which would tend to incriminate him in a prosecution as a criminal under the federal law ; or 2. His answer would not so tend to Incrimin ate him ; and, if not, he is a liar when he says it would.

There is nothing whatsoever in the Fifth Amendment or anywhere else in our law which prevents an American citizen from drawing either one of these inescapable conclusions. Such a witness either knows he h as done some thing for which he can be prosecuted criminally and he h as chosen not to

be a witness against himself; OI .he is a liar.

When the federal crime is violation of the Smith Act which makes it a crime against the United States to teach or advocate the overthrow of ·our government by force and violence, and the witness states his answer would tend to incriminate him of such a crime, how in the world can he expect to have the confidence and respect of loyal Americans?. If he lied a bout it, we Americans don't like liars either. This is not "guilt by associa tion'1 hut is just a plain common-sense conclusion to be drawn from known facts.

Birds of a feather do flock together.

I believe th a t the Greekletter fraternities and sororities of our coll ege campuses can be and are bulwarks against the spread of communist doctrine. I believe that our sororities can be even more important in this educational process. If it is a man's world, I suspect it is the women who make it civilized .

When a boy goes to school, we are assi ting in the education of an individual; wh en a girl goes to school, we are assisting in the education of a family. Women, whether they ··ea lize it or not, m ust of necessity become tr ;chers in the family.

There is a third mo t important element of this educa tional process in which the Greekl etter organizations can be of vital assistance. This third and possibly most important element i a belief in God. I know of no <~;theistic or agnostic Greekletter organization. An abiding belief in God is the solid rock upon which our country was fo unded. We are too apt to measure man's progress principally or even olely by the development of material things and progress in .the physical sciences. We must always rem ember that no man is sufficient unto himself. No man can live alone. We a ll must, at ~im es, draw upon and be supported and protected by that power and strength which i only God's. The fundamental principle of our moral law form the very warp and woof of the law of our land . This was no accident.

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