The SPHINX | Spring February 1933 | Volume 19 | Number 1 193301901

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Official Alpha Phi Alpha Directory Officers PRESIDENT. Dr. Charles H. Wesley, Howard U n i v e r s i t y , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C.

SECRETARY, J o s e p h H. B. E v a n s , 101 St., N. W., W a s h i n g t o n , D . C.

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TREASURER, Perclval R. Piper, 18032 W e x ford Ave., Detroit, Mich.

VICE-PRESIDENT, C h a r l e s W. Greene, 304 Griffin St., N. W., A t l a n ta, Ga.

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. W i l l i a m Warrick Cardozo, B o x 3084, O h i o S t a t e University Station, Columbus, Ohio.

T H I R D VICE-PRESIDENT, T h o m a s H. H e n derson, 1607 Brook Road, R i c h m o n d , Va.

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S P H I N X EDITOR, P. Eernard Y o u n g , Jr., 719 E. O l n e y Road, Norfolk, Va. DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, M a t t h e w E. Carroll, 310 T w e l f t h Ave., S. E., M i n neapolis, M i n n .

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, lay m e m b e r s : Dr. B. Andrew Rose, 402 S. B a n k St., D a y t o n , Ohio; W i l l i a m N. Lovelace. 845 R o c k d a l e Ave., C i n c i n n a t i , Ohio; W i l l i a m S. R a n d o l p h , 2168 E. 9 0 l h St., Cleveland, Ohio; Dr. H. A. Caliis.

Howard University, W a s h i n g t o n , D. O ; Charles H. C h a p m a n . Florida A. M. College, Tallahassee, Fla.; George B. Kelley, l - 1 1 3 t h St., Troy, N. Y.; N a t h a n i e l A. Murray. 1 5 0 Y o u St., N. W., W a s h i n g t o n , D. C i Robert H Ogle, 1721 Tea St., N. W.. W a s h i n g t o n . D. C ; Vertner W. Tandy. 221 West 139th St., N e w York City.

CHAPTERS ( I n cases w h e r e t h e addresses of chapter officers listed below are t h e same, t h e a d dress Is g i v e n In o n l y o n e i n s t a n c e . ) ALPHA Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; Sec'y., W. L. T h o m a s , 604 S. P l a i n St. BETA, Howard U n i v e r s i t y , W a s h i n g t o n , D .

C ; Pres., J u l i a n O. B l a n c h e , 1917 Third St., N. W.; Sec'y., William Stansbury.

GAMMA, U n i o n University, R i c h m o n d , Va.; Pres., A l l e n R. R o b i n s o n ; Sec'y., W. H. Quarles, 743 N. 5 t h St. DELTA, Montreal, Canada,

Inactive.

• P S I L O N , U n i v e r s i t y of M i c h i g a n , A n n Arbor, Mich.; Pres., Walter D . H i n e s , 1103 E. H u r o n St.; Sec'y., P a u l Hickman.

HsTA, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.: Pres., Dr. R. S. F l e m i n g , 216 D w l g h t St.; Sec'y., 100 D i p w e l l Ave. ETA, N e w York City College. Columbia, U n i versity, N e w York University, New York City; Pres., Charles E . Dallas, 273 W e s t 138th Street; Sec'y, R o b e r t J . A n t h o n y , 1012 Brook Ave. THETA, Chicago, 111.; Pres., S i d n e y A. Jones., Jr., 155 N. Clark St.; Sec'y., N e l s o n Woodley, 622 E. 51st St. IOTA, Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Y.;

Inactive.

KAPPA. Ohio S t a t e University, C o l u m b u s , Ohio; Pres., H e r m a n H. Harrison.

236 E. 11th Ave:; Sec'y., R a y m o n d W. White, 121 15th Ave. MU, S t . P a u l a n d M i n n e a p o l i s . Minn.; Pres., J o h n R. Lawrence, 556 St. A n t h o n y Ave., S t . Paul; Sec'y., H e n r y V o n Avery, 1705 S e v e n t h St., S. E., M i n n eapolis.

NU, L i n c o l n University, Pa.; Pres., R a y m o n d O. Hatcher; Sec'y, K e i t h W. Hall.

X I , Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, O.; Pres., R e g i n a l d Payne; Cor. Secy, Henry R o b i n s o n .

OMICRON, P i t t s b u r g h , Pa.; ( U n i v e r s i t y of P i t t s b u r g h , Carnegie Tech., D u q u e s n e U n i v e r s i t y ) ; Pres., Walter R. Talbot, 5635 M i g n o n e t t e St.; Secy., Henry A. Bridges, 627 C h a u n c e y Street.

PI, Cleveland, Ohio; W e s t e r n Reserve U n i versity, Case School of Applied S c i ence, J o h n Carroll University, Clevel a n d College, B a l d w i n - W a l l a c e College, Oberlln College, H i r a m College; Pres., Creed F. Ward, 2159 E. 4 6 t h St.; Sec'y., Maurice F. Gleason, 6007 O u t h w a l t e Ave.

UrriversHeyj of I l l i n o i s . C h a m p a i g n , 111.; Pres., George N e s b i t t ; Sec'y., J a m e s Morton, Jr., 602 E. Clark St.

ALPHA PI, A t l a n t a U n i v e r s i t y , A t l a n t a , Ga.; Sec'y, A. W. Brown, 164 C h e s t n u t S t . .

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UPSILON. Lawrence, Kan.; Pres., Bertram Carruthevs. 1101 Mississippi Street; Cor. Sec'y. Horace D. Murdock.

ALPHA RHO, Morehouse College. A t l a n t a , Ga.; Pres., M i l t o n J. White; Sec'y., Marlon I. Cablness.

PHI, O h i o University, A t h e n s , O h i o ; Pres., Charles Clarke, A l p h a P h i Alpha House; Sec'y., Marcus Hall.

ALPHA SIGMA, Wiley College, Marshall.

Texas; Pres., Willie Comb; Sec'y..

Willard G. Dlckerson.

CHI,

ALPHA TAU, Akron, Ohio; Pres., Henry C. Sparks, 721 Euclid Ave.: Secy., R o b e r t E. Black, 429 Windsor St.

TAU,

Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn.; Pres., George H. Evans; Sec'y., B a s c o m b S. W a u g h , 1017 S i x t e e n t h Ave., N.

PSI, U n i v e r s i t y of P e n n s y l v a n i a , P h i l a d e l phia, Pa.; Pres., Lewis T a n n e r Moore, 716 S. 19th St.; Sec'y., A l t o n Berry.

ALPHA ALPHA. C i n c i n n a t i , Ohio; Pros., R. P. McClain. 912 W. 7 t h St.; Sec'y., J o h n F l e m i n g , 305 Laurel S t .

ALPHA BETA, Talladega College, Ala.; Pres., Harold Logan; Secy., Herbert D e n t o n .

ALPHA UPSILON, Detroit, Mich.; (City College of Detroit, University of D e troit, Detroit College of Law, and D e troit College of M e d i c i n e ) ; Pres., T. R. S o l o m o n , 6027 B e e c h w o o d St.; Secy., T . C. Hollis, 6620 S c o t t e n A v e .

ALPHA PHI, Clark University, A t l a n t a , Ga.; Pres., Booker T. Carraway; Secy..

S a m u e l F. Howell.

ALPHA GAMMA, Providence, R. I.; Inactive.

ALPHA CHI, Flsk U n i v e r s i t y , N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . ; Pres., J u l i u s C. Brown; Sec'y, W i l l i a m H. Reeves, Flsk Univ.

ALPHA DELTA. Los Angeles. Cal.; Pres., Calvin Edwards, 1303 E. 2 8 t h Street; Sec'y, H u g h B e a t y , 1523 E. 4 5 t h St.

ALPHA PSI, L i n c o l n University, Jefferson City, Mo.; Pres., N a t h a n i e l G. Freem a n ; Sec'y., J o h n Turner.

ALPHA EPSILON, Berkeley, Cal.; Pres., B y ron R u m f o r d , 1154 A s h b u r y St., S a n Francisco. Cal.; Sec'y., Clay M. W i l son, 1128 E i g h t h St., O a k l a n d , Cal.

BETA ALPHA, Morgan College, B a l t i m o r e , Md.; Pres., R u f u s E. Hackett; Sec'y, Ollie T. Daly.

ALPHA ZETA, West Virginia S t a t e College, I n s t i t u t e , W. Va.; Pres., C l i n t o n J a c k s o n ; Sec'y., Durall Booker.

ALPHA ETA, Harvard University, bridge, Mass.; i n a c t i v e .

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ALPHA THETA. S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y of Iowa, Iowa City, la.; Pres., Roscoe L. B a r rett; Beefy., Charles B. Ware, 818 S. D u b u q u e St. ALPHA IOTA, Denver, Colo.; Pres., J o h n Waller, 2606 Gilpin St.; Sec'y., J a m e s G. Adams, Jr., 200 U n i v e r s i t y Blvd.

ALPHA KAPPA, 8pringfleld, Mass.; S p r i n g field College, A m h e r s t College, B a t e s College, B o w d o i n College, D a r t m o u t h College, University of N e w H a m p shire, U n i v e r s i t y of Vermont, W e s l e y a n University, W i l l i a m s College; Pres., Ernest W y a t t e K n o x ; Sec'y., Ernest D a w s o n , Box 128, Springfield College.

ALPHA MU. N o r t h w e s t e r n University. Eva n s t o n , 111.; Pres., Leaden W . Ford, 1014 E m e r s o n Street; Secretary, W i l l i a m C. P y a n t , 812 E m e r s o n Street.

ALPHA NU, Drake University, D e s Moines.

Iowa; Pres., Chas. P. Howard, 515 Mulberry S t .

BETA BETA, U n i v e r s i t y of Nebraska, L i n coln. Neb.; Pres., Arnold Walker, 825 N. 2 5 t h St.; Sec'y., P. M. E. Hill.

BETA GAMMA. Virginia S t a t e College, E t trick, Va.: Pres., J o s e p h Hubbard Cor. Secretary, Henry Creamer.

BETA DELTA, S o u t h Carolina S t a t e College, Orangeburg, S. C ; Pres., George McFall; Sec'y., E l m o J. W a t k l n s .

BETA EPSILON, A. a n d T. College, G r e e n s boro, N. C ; Pres., T. W. W a s h i n g t o n ; Sec'y., C. W. W i l l i a m s o n .

BETA ZETA, S a m H o u s t o n College, A u s t i n Texas; Pres., Jerry Bell; Sec'y, j o h n Warren.

CHI LAMBDA, Wilberforce University. W i l berforce. Ohio: Pres., F . A. M c G i n n l s ; Sec'y. Howard D a n i e l .

BETA ETA, Columbia, S. C. BETA

THETA, B l u e f i e l d S t a t e T e a c h e r s College, Bluefield, W. Va.; Pros., J. K e r m l t Hall; Sec'y., Edward Carter.

BETA IOTA, D u r h a m , N. C. BETA KAPPA, L a n g s t o n University. L a n g s t o n , Okla.; Pres., J a m e s R. Ellis; Sec'y., L u t h e r W. Elliott, B o x 183.

BETA MU, Frankfort, Ky.

RHO, P h i l a d e l p h i a , Pa.; Pres., Dr. W. P. Jerrick, 1843 C h r i s t i a n St.; Cor. Sec'y., Dr. O. W i l s o n W i n t e r s , 28 Curren Arcade, Norristown, Pa.

ALPHA XI, M a r q u e t t e University, w a u k e e , Wis.; i n a c t i v e .

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BETA NU. Florida A. a n d M. College, T a l lahassee, Fla.

SIGMA. Boston, Mass.; Pres., William Knox, 56 Prince St., Cambridge, Mass.; Sec'y., J o s e p h Keeble, Jr., 18 W e s t c o t t St., Dorchester, Mass.

ALPHA OMICRON, J o h n s o n C. S m i t h U n i versity. Charlotte, N. C ; Pres., J. Leslie Hollowell; S e c , J o h n B . T h o m p son.

ALPHA LAMBDA, Louisville, Ky.; Pres., E. H. B a n k s ; Sec'y., Lee L. Brown, 1012 W. C h e s t n u t St. ( C o n t i n u e d o n I n s i d e Back Cover'

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Editorially Speaking— i r j P UNTIL the last Christmas holidays only one <? *^ regional convention had been held, that by the chapters in the southern jurisdiction at Austin, Texas, in March, 1931. During last December, however, regional conventions were sponsored by the chapters in each of the jurisdictions. Those in the East trekked to Washington, those in the West to Indianapolis, and those in the South to New Orleans. In between December, 1929, when a general convention was held at Atlanta, and December, 1932, one general convention met in Cincinnati, in December, 1931.

When the Atlanta Convention voted to make the fraternity-wide conclave a biennial event, the success of the plan was predicated upon some substitute which would fill the intervening gap.

Regional conventions were proposed and urged as such a substitute. It is gratifying, then, that all of the jurisdictions found it possible to gather at some convenient point in their regions during December.

In reports of these regional conventions, published in this issue, indications are that they closely approached the fraternity's ideal as to what they should be and do. That will bear fruitful results. )\ LTHOUGH these regional conventions have no •^*- legislative powers, that being reserved to the general convention and, in the interim, to the executive council, the thoughtful discussions which occur at them serve a good purpose. In the diplomatic world we would call them "conversations" held prior to the ultimate actions which the powers take on vital questions. Like these "conversations" they help to clarify these problems before final disposition of them. Recommendations made by the regional conventions serve as guide posts to action or as mandates from an electorate. They represent the collective thought of the brothers after due deliberation. Instead of going to St. Louis next December with scores of viewpoints, the fraternity will gather with no more than three distinct viewpoints, voiced by the three regionals. What action on various matters these regionals proposed is not binding, of course, on the convention as the legislative body of the fraternity, but it certainly will be beneficial to enter into our St. Louis deliberations with concrete recommendations made at these section-wide gatherings spread before the delegates. npHERE seems -**- among some Alpha Phi Alpha gram, especially

to be a most pronounced feeling of the outspoken brothers that has got to readjust its entire proas it refers to our activities

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directed and sponsored by our educational department. Chapters as such are even becoming vocal on the matter, as a perusal of the letter in a recent Sphinx from Sigma Lambda Chapter of New Orleans demonstrated. There is no unanimity of opinion about the type of readjustment which must be made, but there is pretty general agreement that we've got to take stock of ourselves and chart new highways of activity. Some of these expressions, voiced in private conversations, in chapter meetings, at regionals, and in contributed articles to The Sphinx, are sharply critical. Some of them offer the outline of a new program. All of them should set us to thinking hard about these matters. The world is facing a crisis, and every individual and organization in the world is facing a crisis. We must pool our experiences and our most considered opinions and work with determination and firm faith for the measures which will prove Alpha Phi Alpha's salvation. Our general president, Brother Charles H. Wesley, spoke wisely at the Eastern regional convention when he declared that the St. Louis convention must adopt some constructive and farreaching legislation if it was to justify itself and it the fraternity was not to suffer serious setbacks.

The most hopeful sign that the fraternity will not disappoint Brother Wesley is the evidence that we recognize the existence of the stern realities facing us and are thinking about the way out. nnHERE is no debating the observation that times -"- are hard and money scarce. But Alpha men must realize that if Alpha Phi Alpha is to be kept a going concern it must have the financial backing of the men who compose it. The depression is making inroads on our allegiance, in so far as we must express it by meeting our obligations to the chapters and the general organization.

A special dispensation plan adopted before the regional conventions as an incentive for unfinancial brothers to come back into the fold, no matter how long they have been out, has been extended to last throughout 1933. Information about this plan is available from any chapter secretary or from the general secretary, Brother Joseph H. B. Evans, 101 S Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The plan is the most liberal one possible and should allow any brother to become financial, without working undue hardships on him. If you are already financial, pass this word on to a brother who is not. None of us can shirk any of our duties to Alpha Phi Alpha and expect it in the meantime to remain "first of all."

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Whither Alpha Phi Alpha?

Ity \V. WARRICK CARDOZO. (An address delivered before the Western Regional Convention, December 28, 1932)

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($10,000) of dollars when we include all AST December, while we celebrated the mechanism whereby the project is the twenty-fifth anniversary of our maintained. For the last four y e a r s founding, a very close friend of mine, alone, including the present two-year and a brother of ours, unsuspectingly . appropriation, we have spent three left an indelible impression upon my thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) mind with a speech that consisted, ironi- for this program. When we add to this cally, of exactly seven words.

That the sum spent by the eighty-three chapspeech engendered thoughts and ques- ters in our organization each year we tions which I have been unable to answer must realize with what stupendous force to my complete satisfaction. we have lent ourselves toward this civic At the time, one of our brothers had endeavor. just finished a mighty, lusty oration on a The means whereby some of the chapsubject that was arousing vehement discussion. The silver tongued William Jen- ters have placed themselves before the nings Bryant himself could not have used public has often been ingenious to say mob psychology more effectively. And the least. This program, was undoubtthen Brother Thomas W. Young gained edly, the stimulus for a similar program the floor. Before an excited, but stilled, in other organizations, all of them not fraternal. We have every reason to be attentive group he slowly said— proud of the fact that we were the first "I thought this was a social fraterto stimulate this interest in education nity?" among members of the race.

There was nothing more--and the convention swept, on as the tides sweep on.

What I'rice Philanthropy Brother Young was laughed down. He It was not long after we had started was wrong- so we said. Even our distinguished Doctor W. E. B. DuBois criti- the educational program that we saw the cized the statement sometime later in rieed of helping, in a more material way one of his articles in The Crisis. For than mere verbal urging, .some of those one year I have been thinking over those worthy individuals we had reached by seven words and still the question re- our campaign. Accordingly, we soon anmains—if not a social fraternity what nounced that we would give to those that are we? JUST WHAT ARE WE ANY- qualified one hundred dollar ($100) scholarships. By careful selection and wise HOW? usage we have aided over thirty, (30) What Is The Answer? boys and girls to start or to continue To attack this question it seems to ine work in college. Including the present that we must look to what we do, we biennial appropriation, we have given must look to what we say we are, and away in the past four years over three from these find out just what we are. thousands of dollars($3,000) and I do To end there would not be enough, for not believe it is too much to say that we we must find out what we should be and have probably given away over five thousands of dollars ($5,000) since the do. scholarship awards were begun.

As the result of four years of study our fraternity at its twelfth annual conEach of us has a right to be proud vention instituted what we now call our of his philanthropy, for each of us have Educational Campaign, more popularly given his share to this end through our known as the Go-To-High-School, Go-To- grand taxes. We might well look to the Colloge Movement. Each year from that day when we may say that there are time the general organization through many, many more we have helped to the convention has appropriated a large equip themselves with the cultural and proportion of its budget to the further- the intellectual advantages that are the ance of this campaign and to stimulating result of a good college education. the individual chapters to urge the members of their vaVious communities to The respect and the admiration that better prepare themselves through educa- has come to us from those educational tion to make the most of the all too few institutions, that are aware • of our enopportunities that come to us at best. deavers is pleasant to know and should I do not believe that it is an exaggera- bring to us a great measure of pride as tion to roughly estimate that during the the result of a worthy project. There is thirteen (18) years since the beginning no doubt but that the correct applicaof tin''; campaign our fraternity has spent tion of this venture will produce a prosomewhere close to ten t h o u s a n d s found effect upon ourselves.

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Some Comparisons The comparison of those things we do with those things others do is another form of recalling to mind the reasons for pride. In this respect we can not help but compare our own periodical, The Sphinx, with similar mediums of like groups.

By such comparison we can easily come to the conclusion that our magazine stands well up in the forefront of them all regardless of racial lines. Our quarterly deserves laudation and of its merits each of us is aware.

There are other things that we do, but time will not permit their detailing and at the risk of being abrupt let us pass on.

We say we are "the first of all." The first group of Negro college men to fraternally bind themselves to promote the development of the highest ideals of life. As such we have the largest membership of any Negro Greek-letter fraternity'—over 3,000 strong.

We havemore chapters and it is easily correct to say that we may be found represented in many parts of the world not to mention all of these United States. We have a chapter at every educational institution of size and note. We have grouped our graduates into chapters and these may be found in almost every city of importance. Some of our chapters have houses of which we may all be proud.

We say too we are "servants of ail" and we point to our civic endeavor in the form of our Educational Campaign; we point to our philanthropy in the form of our scholarships. All these and more do we say. And yet—there is the unanswered question—JUST WHAT ARE WE ANYHOW? Again, What Are We? Dear to the hearts of all Alpha men are those words in the preamble of the constitution—"We, the members of this organization, in order to promote a more perfect union among college men; to aid in and insist upon the personal progress of its members; to further brotherly love and fraternal spirit within the organization " These, and more words we have used to express our purpose and our aim.

We do not state we are a civic organization—like the Rotarians—but we promote a civic endeavor as we proclaim by our Educational Campaign. We are not philanthropists, for there is no endowment for altruistic work as such, but we foster such endeavor because we give away each year a goodly percentage of our income to those outside the fold.

We are not an economic amalgamation in

Page 4 the strict sense for the purpose of monetary gain, but we recognize there must be a sound financial status as incidental to the conduct and financial stability of the organization.

We do not require scholastic preeminence in the honorary sense, but needless to say this superior possession forms no barrier or bar to fraternal qualification, for, as a matter of fact, we encourage— or we should, super-scholasticism. We do not in any sense oppose any of the practices mentioned. We do not maintain anti-social requisites for admission to our group, but we specifically state that social acceptability be a possession of the applicant and we press this qualification to the point of total unanimity on our parts before we permit anyone to enter among us.

The Inequitable Conclusion We, therefore, can come to but one conclusion—we certainly must be a social organization. I say organization; what I should say is a social fraternity but I can not, for the actual program of our fraternity does not primarily promote a more perfect union among college men; it does not primarily aid in and insist upon the personal progress of its members; it does not primarily further brotherly love or a fraternal spirit within the organization! !

Instead we have fed the stranger without the gates and have forgotten— yea, we have starved the brother within.

Thus, we trend along the lines of utilitarianism—working for the many a humanitarian p r o j e c t commendable enough in itself, but disintegrating among us at present in that it lacks that practical substantiality so necessary for the development of a sound internal structure.

For those of you who would criticize this attitude of those rapidly increasing numbers of our brothers who have written in this vein in our Sphinx in the last four years and for those of you who would condemn me, a general officer, and one who has chosen as his life's work a humanitarian profession, I refer to you one inexorable law of ethics to which you will find no refutation. . . . ONLY IN SO FAR AS YOU PRESERVE SELF CAN YOU BE OF THE GREATEST COOIl TO YOUR COMMUNITY. Defends His Thesis Can you condemn me for using protective measures upon myself should I be treating a disease fatal to my physical economy ? If I did not how long would I be of service to my community? Can you condemn a man for first setting his own home upon a solid foundation before he sets out to place the homes of his community on a like construction ? If he did not how, long would he have a home ? Can you bring it into your minds

THE SPHINX to condemn Julius Rosenwald, that great philanthropist to the Negro race, for first of all stabilizing financially the Sears and Roebuck Company before he took twenty-five millions of dollars to give away? If he did not how long would that company last ?

I have not and will not attempt to suggest the complete abolition forever of anything we have done or are doing.

But I do contend that we have leaped far ahead of ourselves and now we must go back and reconstruct this house in order that it may endure. Time, and my own ability, will not permit me to mention all the alterations which our fraternal structure demands. However, I believe that there are two of preeminent importance.

These two changes are not separate and distinct, they go hand in hand—of equal importance.

Recommendations Made The first of these alterations is what I shall term THE PROMOTION OF FRATERNAL SOLIDARITY. Have we forgotten our prime motive of being?

Does not our preamble postulate as its first precept—that we are born to promote a more perfect union among college men ? All of us know that our program has carried us afield and that that which we call our constructive motive (the Educational Campaign) has driven us to perhaps a more real but less vital objective as far as those of our fraternity are concerned. It is now time to call a stop. The present economic crisis has caused a general unrest which has not failed to strike deeply into our organization.

Is it any wonder that our brothers want to know "Where does the money go"? Is it any wonder that they are questioning the usage of some of our income and are insisting upon a method of usage that will reflect more clearly and more tangibly the resultant benefits ?

At last we must be ready to lend our ear to those brothers that have been calling for a program of internal better ment. A program that not only says but promotes a more perfect union, a program that actually aids in and insists upon the progress of the members; a program that better fits the brothers and the chapter to adjust themselves to each other and to the institution where they may be located; a program by the members for the members in order that we may endure!

There are some that call this selfish.

But let us see! Granted that our ultimate aim is general social improvement, how can we better reach this aim than by building this impi-ovement first and foremost within our own ranks? I insist that we must not forget that the development of any group, of any race, of any nation is dependent upon the development of its individual members. Is

it any different with us, with our fraternity, with our race? I believe to be of the greatest service to the greater group we must lend our encouragement, inspiration, and material aid to our own.

Financial Stability The second of these changes that I would make is one which I have called THE PROMOTION OF PERMANENCY THROUGH FINANCIAL STABILIZATION. There is nothing that gnaws at the vitals of the general organization, as well as the local chapters, than this want of financial stability and permanence.

Those of you without chapter houses recall some of the mad, hectic, and sometimes hopeless efforts you made for finances. Those of you with houses call to mind some of the wearisome hours of scheming to meet the rent and the second mortgage, and bring to mind some of the miserable conditions of the house—because there was no money.

Listen to the report of the general treasurer and imagine how he must have to figure in order to . . . . keep a favorable balance that even at best is a mere pittance in an organization of over three thousand (3,000) men. Who is at fault?

NO ONE and EVERY ONE. We have opposed every plan offered to perpetuate and financially stabilize ourselves. Yet we handsomely give away a thousand dollars. These plans have come in the form of an insurance plan, an endowment plan, and a life membership plan.

Each in its turn was defeated, not because it was worthless, but because political factionalism or personal motives overtook us with insufficient legislation.

What's The Solution?

How can we best recover? There are many possible ways, perhaps. My suggestion is, by the careful but wide selection of a committee of capable members of our organization. Give them one job.

Let them establish some plan or means whereby our organization can be put upon a sound, permanent financial basis.

Let them look without or within the fraternity for such information to gain this end. Do not stop there with our job.

Each of us within the organization must see that any essential constitutional steps to be taken to supply them with the resources necessary to carry out the job we have given them—EVEN, if need be, to the point of repealing some of the laws that govern the present usage of our income!

It may not take one year, it may not take ten years to attain our end but— it will make Alpha safe for our sons and our sons' sons and on through the generations to come. And thus, we look into the future with a firm financial foundation, with greater fraternal solidarity lifting ourselves, lifting our fraternity, lifting our race—Yes, lifting humanity.

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Tendencies In Negro Fiction '"ipiHE Negro is by no means a new -H- figure in the literary world, since even before the Civil War this race has been the subject for material for white writers, and at the same time there appeared a number of worth-while literary men from among its own group. It has not been, however, until recent years that the darker Americans have gained any real prominenc in the field of fiction writing—including the short story along with the novel—both as to quality and quantity. This new awakening has concerned itself not only with the productions being put forth by Negroes but also with those coming from white writers using Negro themes.

Prior to the World War, very little note-worthy fiction concerning the Negro was being written. Most of the literary efforts of the black American were extended in the poetic field. Always an emotional group, naturally the first outlet of any literary expression of the Negro would be through the medium of poetry rather than prose. This poetic instinct unconsciously created by the pioneer writers, soon came to be recognized as the main literary heritage of this people, with the result that those finding a latent literary spark burning within them began a conscientious perfection of the art of writing verse. So with Paul Laurence Dunbar as the guiding influence, much meritorious poetry was produced, with fiction being rather neglected. Those who were non-poetic writers turned their attention away from fiction to use their ability in effecting works dealing with the sociological, economic, and inter-racial problems of the race.

Hence, most of the books coming from the pens of Booker Washington, Kelly Miller, William Pickens, Robert Moton, and W. E. B. DuBois were concerned with trying to devise some means whereby a black man could gain peace and happiness in white America.

Before the World War only three Negroes had done any extensive novel writing. Charles Chesnutt, who is called the father of the American Negro novel, gave us "The House Behind the Cedars" in 1900, "The Marrow of Tradition" in 1901, and "The Colonel's Dream" in 1911. Paul Laurence Dunbar, whose fame as a poet has pushed his novels far in the background wrote "The Uncalled," and "Love of Landry," 1900, "The Fanatics," 1901, and "The Sport of the Gods" in 1902.

191] saw W. E. B. DuBois present his fellow readers with "The Quest of the

By JAMES O. HOPSON Alpha Omicron Lambda Silver Fleece." The above recordings represent the principal fictional outputs of the American Negro before the War. Early Efforts Some white writers tried to popularize the Negro in fiction during those early periods, but aside from Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and a few type characterizations that we find in such writers as Thomas Nelson Page, mostly such works were derogatory propaganda which had its inception after the Civil War. As representing works of this class we might remember those of Thomas Dixon and Octavius Roy Cohen. The former tried to stir up the bitter roots of race antagonism by presenting the Negro as one with little more than animalistic nature, whereas the latter tried to burlesque him to the extreme.

Neither type could hope to endure as representative types of fiction dealing with these people.

Just as the World War revolutionized industries, economic conditions, and what not; just so it had a revolutionary effect upon literature affecting black America. This reaction was necessarily felt in poetry, but more strongly perhaps in fiction.

The War caused the Negro to experience many influences that had not touched him before. He learned that the more creative ability to be found within a race, the more such race will be recognized by the other groups of the world. With this new realization combined with a greater confidence in himself that had been widened by broader intellectual contacts, the Negro began to launch out in all fields including literature. He began to discover there were writers capable of creating worthwhile literature if not given the proper incentive. Another encouraging factor in this literary struggle was that outstanding white publishing houses were more willing than ever to accept for publication books by Negroes. This was a great impetus, for no one can deny the selling advantages of books published by reputable houses such as Harpers, Knofp, Bonwi-Liverright, Stokes, Houghton-Mifflin Company, Christopher Publishing House, Viking Press, Brewer, Warren and Putnam, and others who have published recent interesting products by the Negro.

The result has been that an imposing list of contributions have been put be-

fore the public since the close the World War. To refresh our memories we might mention some of the important pieces of fiction offered readers during that period. Walter White's "Fire in the Flint" and "Flight"; Jessie Fauset's "There is Confusion," "Plum Bun" and "The Chinaberry Tree"; James Weldon Johnson's "Autobiography of an ExColored Man"; Nella Larsen's "Quicksand" and "Passing"; Claude McKay's "Home to Harlem," "Banjo" and "Gingertown"; Wallace Thurman's "The Blacker the Berry" and "Infants of the Spring"; Rudolph Fisher's "Walls of Jericho" and "The Conjure Man Dies"; W. E. B. DuBois' "Dark Princess"; l.angston Hughes' "Not Without Laughter"; George Schuyler's "Black No More" and "Slaves Today"; Taylor Gordon's "Born to Be"; Arna Bontemp's "God Sends Sunday"; Jean Toomer's "Cane"; Eri Waldond's "Tropic Death"; Victor Daly's "Not Only War"; Countee Cullen's "One .Way ,to Heaven" and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman" (New Edition) all belong to this post-war period. None of the above mentioned can be singled out as a masterpiece, and some do not even approach ordinary elemental literary standards; but—and this is the point that deserves thought—others show such a depth of sincerity, the mastering of craftsmanship, and sympathetic treatment of material that even the casual reader can see a renaissance is taking place, and that what has been produced can be used as a criterion for what will be produced in the future.

Literary Reaction It was mentioned that white writers, too, are involved in this literary reaction.

There are underlying reasons lor their interest also. The War caused the white man to know the Negro more intimately than ever before. A slight interest developed into a thirsty desire to know more about these people. Little did Negro individuals and groups realize they were being studied so carefully that their type would appear in the novels of white writers. The white reading public also played no small part in this shifting of literary taste.

The reading public was looking for something different. They were tired of the time-worn themes their writers were presenting them in a slightly revamped condition. They wanted to read novels about people with whom they were not so well acquainted.

They wanted to get an intimate glance into

Page 6 the lives of other people whom they knew merely from the surface but whose inner self had never been revealed. When this reading group devoured guch books coming from white writers, other whites were encouraged to use Negro material.

Thus we have within the same tenyear period Carl Van Vechten's "Nigger Heaven"; Julia Peterkin's "Green Thursday," "Black April," "Scarlet Sister Mary" and "Bright Skin"; DuBose Heyward's "Porgy" and "Mamba's Daughters"; Sarah Millin's "God's Stepchildren"; Howard Odum's "Rainbow Round My Shoulder," "Wings On My Feet" and "Cold Blue Moon"; Julia Sanborn's "Veiled Aristrocrats"; Gilmore Millin's "Sweet Man"; T. S. Stribling's "Birthright" and "The Store"; Roark Bradford's "01' Man Adam An' His Chillun," "This Side of Jordan," "Old King David and the Philistine Boys," and "John Henry"; E. C. L. Adams' "Nigger to Nigger" and "Congaree Sketches"; V e r a Caspary's "White Girl"; Mary White Ovington's "Zeke" and some few others. Like some of the works written by Negroes, a number of the last mentioned have little or no literary value, and quite a few have represented a rather distorted view of Negro life—a view that is often taken by white Americans as representative of the life of the entire group. On the other hand these works have helped to generally maintain the enthusiasm shown toward Negro literature, and at the same time a certain amount of artistry has been developed as will be pointed out more definitely later.

We have sketched briefly principal motives that have caused such a flow of present day fiction concerning the Negro. Now we shall try to compare the relative merits of the white author and the black author in dealing with this phase of American life.

The Negro author to a large extent, because of the unhappy position his group occupies in our American civilization, uses his works of fiction for propaganda to parade the ills heaped upon his people and to offer solutions tor the conflict between the races. It is true the propaganda novel has a definite place in our literary program, but when all else that a novel should contain is forgotten for the sake of putting over a fiery message, much of that development to be expected in a real work of art is lost. It is under these or similar conditions that such novel becomes ineffective.

Wa I t e r White's "Fire in the Flint" is a representative example of such propaganda The author's saturated enthusiasm in of race hatred in a part of Georgia, causes him to become oblivious to the proper technique in the expansion of his theme. For such reason the con-

THE SPHINX struction of plot and the structure of the work as a whole are weakened. Some of the Negro writers, therefore, are allowing too much race consciousness to limit their creative ability thus causing their works to lose a certain amount of force.

Some Types of Stories Another group of writers, taking their cue from their white brethern just write on the cheap vulgarized elements surrounding the lives of some of their people. With the present fad for Negro literature, many writers have turned to this phase of his life because a vivid presentation of lurid abnormal conditions causes a novel to have greater present day selling power. As works of art, however, they are valueless, and with the passing of our desire for something different and sensational so will pass the novel of this type. Most of these productions have even less merit as real works of fiction than the so called propaganda novel. Few, if any, show plot construction, real character development, and in many cases scarcely an entertaining story. Even with a sordid theme a novel has a chance to live if it possesses just a few of the qualities that critics and discriminating readers agree should be found in a novel.

Claude McKay's "Home to Harlem" typifies extremely well the point at issue. Here we have a novel with no recommendation as a genuine piece of literature. Even the sentence structure is faulty.

Its popularity—whatever little it might have possessed—was due to the cheap sentimentalized vulgarity contained throughout.

Many w h i t e readers accept at face value such episodes in which we have two Negro women stark naked fighting in their back yard over the illicit love of a man. This class of writing has a certain appeal because the masses of the white group like to picture Harlem as a terribly strange section of the country inhabited by sex mad perverts and similar human freaks. To sum up the writers in this group, we can say they are interested more in commercial profit rather than art.

A third class of Negro writers deals frequently with the ever discussed theme of passing—the much prevalent custom of Negroes merging their identities with the white race. These writers try to show us the development among the better classes of the group. Truer to life in many respects than the other types we have discussed, the novel loses out because the writers are trying to solve an apparently more and more unsolvable problem. Jessie Fauset's "Plum Bun" and Nella Larsen's "Passing" are interesting studies in this problem.

From the above, one is apt to surmise

that the fiction by the Negro has no redeeming qualities. This is not true.

Aside from those persons who are interested for commercial gain brought about by the already passing fad for everything negroid, the Negro writer shows a deep sincerity in the treating of his subject matter. Underneath the surface can be discerned an attitude struggling to put over to the reader the author's complicated view of the subject matter being treated. Sympathetic touches of real beauty are found scattered here and there along with spots of real depths of characterization.

Because, however, of the lack of real literary background, these qualities are not sustained throughout the work. A certain amount of narrowness, helps to dwarf those limited qualities of style he does possess. This condition is especially discernable in characterization.

Most of the writers portray characters on the surface alone with little or no presentation of the inner workings that motivate them on to the ultimate working out of their destinies. Lacking a subjective frame of mind, the Negro author gives us types rather than individuals. Constant practice alone will eradicate the faults cited. Even now, the forces are beginning to move in the other direction. A 'careful study of Langston Hughes' "Not Without Laughter" will show a new trend in the complete technical method employed. Breaking away from traditional themes and localities, Hughes presents a novel that is different. Told in a simple straightforward style, without any embellishments, the1 power of the story increases with a forceful vitality that does not have to depend on the usual devices used by the Negro writer to popularize his work. For this reason I dare say Hughes' effort will achieve a success that will last after many others are forgotten. Jessie Fauset's "The Chinaberry Tree' is another example of a well disciplined piece of writing.

Problems of White Writer The problem of the white writer is not the same. First, as far as fiction is concerned, the white writer has a much greater literary heritage than the Negro. Just as England still 'leads white America in literary qualities because she has been subjected to a literary discipline much longer, just so white America is able to maintain its lead over black America. For this reason, even writing on Negro themes, a white writer who is a real artist, is able to build up a novel with a real structural basis. Although a debased ugly theme might be used, we find especially such treatment of character that we cannot dismiss the book because it represents one of those worst sides of Ne(Continued on Page 10)

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Three Poems

By GEORGE LEONARD ALLEN, Alpha Pi Lambda

Portrait Her eyes?

Dark pools of deepest shade

Like glimmering lakes that lie In some dim-shadowed, tree-filled glade Beneath a moonlit sky.

Her cheeks?

The bursting chestnut's hue,-

Rich Autumn's luscious brown!

Caressed by sunbeams flickering through Red leaves that flutter down.

Her form?

A slender pine that sways

Before the ardent breeze In summer, when the south wind plays Soft music through the trees.

Herself?

A laughing, joyous sprite

Who smiles from dawn till dark,— As lovely as a summer night And carefree as a lark.

Brother Allen, whose poetry appears on this page, is the newly elected corresponding secretary of Alpha Pi Lambda Chapter, Winston-Salem, N. C. All of the verses have already appeared in Opportu n i t y, but are reprinted here so that brothers who missed them previottsly may have an opportunity to view the work of one of Alpha's co m in g literary lights. Brot her A lien has contributed also to The Crisis from time to time. At present he is employed as a teacher of English in the A tkins High School at Winston-Salem. He is 27 years of age.

Brother Allen promises to send other samples of hix lvork to The Sphinx, as well as that of others.

To a Negro Musician Improvising Brown slender fingers on the ivory keys, What is the strange alluring theme you play?

Whence came those rhythms, wild and sad and gay And whence those warm, exotic harmonies?

Where did you find such cadences as these Which seem, in fierce abandon, to portray The eerie throb of tom-toms far away, The mad wind moaning through the jungle trees ?

Thrilled by the potent magic of your spell, I see fantastic, mystic scenes arise,— Weird dances in some far-off, sunlit dell Beneath the splendor of the tropic skies; And fancy bears me far across the earth To lands of endless sunshine, love and mirth.

A Negro Salutes the Flag Unfurled in proud display against the skies, Borne high above the cheering of the throngs, My country's flag! With reverent, eager eyes And burning heart, I see thee pass along!

Red as the blood shed by a thousand slaves And spilled in Freedom's cause when Attucks fell,-— White as the daisies blooming on the graves of men who bore thee through the jaws of Hell,— Blue as the sea, beyond whose boisterous tide Dark heroes, nobly fallen, martyred lie,— I hail thee, emblem of a nation's pride, And in my heart I hold thee ever high!

Thou art MY flag, for in thy every strand Are woven black men's deeds, wrought in thy name.

Full many a faithful, toil-scarred, swarthy hand Has writ thy glory on the scroll of Fame.

So as I see thy gleaming colors flash, Forgotten are a thousand tyrannies;— The lyncher's rope, the cruelty of the lash, The lust, the hate, the wrong of centuries!

And gazing up in hope, my spirit cries: "Float on, O glorious banner of the free, From Maine's deep woods to Georgia's sun-warmed skies, From fertile plain to dark, impassioned sea!

From sunlit vale to rugged mountain crag Wave ever on, my own, my country's flag!"

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Alphas Invade Indianapolis

By JOHN OLIVER, Iota Lambda NOTHER step forward in the history of Alpha Phi Alpha was taken when the Alphas swarmed to Indianapolis, Ind. Dec. 28 and 29 for their first Western Regional Convention in the beautiful Walker Building as the guests of the Iota Lambda Chapter. The regional this year took the place of the general convention and was a preparatory step to relieve the quantity and congestion of business at the general convention in St. Louis next December.

From far and near the Alphas came representing chapters in the following cities: Ann Arbor and Detroit. Michigan; Chicago, Champaign, and Evanston, Illinois; Cleveland, Wilberforce, Athens, Columbus, Akron, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Toledo, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lincoln, Nebraska; Iowa City and Des Moines, Iowa; Denver, Colorado; Jefferson City, St. Louis, and Kansas City, Missouri; Minneapolis, Minn.; Lawrence, Kansas; Oklahoma and Lexington, Louisville, and Frankfort, Ky. Some of the distinguished guests attending were Brothers B. Andrew Rose, ex-general president, of Dayton, Ohio: W. W. Cardoza, second vice-president and presiding officer of the convention; and the little but mighty Wm. Randolph. member of the executive council, of Cleveland. Others present included .T. Flemming, Dr. Lockley, and C. H. Carroll, of Cincinnati; C. F. Lane, Sidney Jones, and Geo. Chapman, of Chicago; C. Deloache, J. Haynie, and M. Hill, of Columbus, S. Pickett, of Louisville; and R. F. Payne, of Wilberforce.

From the spirit of the papers read by the delegates, talks given by Brothers Rose on "Fraternal Trends." Cardoza on "Are We a Social Organization." and by H. T. Riley for Mathew Carroll on "Educational Work of Alpha Phi Alpha"; and general atmosphere of promptness and endeavor, and delegates showed that they were highly in favor of the convention and totally imbued with the spirit to press on for greater progress in every line of activity.

The officers of the convention were: Brothers H. M. Riley, Indianapolis, regional chairman; W. W. Cardoza, Columbus, Ohio, presiding officer; John J. Oliver, Brazil, Ind., secretary; R. L. Wright. Indianapolis, assistant secretary; and Dr. Geo. Chapman, Chicago, sergeant-at-arms. Much credit is due to Regional Chairman Riley, and his subchairman, Brother W. W. Walker, Jr.. regional co-chairman, and social, housing, and registration committee; R a d f o r d Morris, programme; Thomas Horner, dating; Grant Hawkins, transportation;

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H. T. Riley, checking; R. L. Wright, signs; John Clair, publicity; and John J. Oliver, decorations, and the other members of the Iota Lambda Chapter who aided in making the convention an overwhelming success.

The social side of the convention was in no wise lacking; in fact, few can remember the day when any group has enjoyed a round of more exclusive, delightful, and beautiful social affairs than was given in honor of the visiting Alphas.

The Delta Sigma Theta Sorority started the ball rolling on Wednesday evening, Dec. 28, with a most unique affair at the Walker Ballroom called "The Delta Coffee." It consisted of a programme made up of the Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Phi Alpha songs, several musical numbers, and two short plays. Coffee was served by the sorority members during the intermission. The affair ended at ten o'clock. From there the guests went to a delightful closed formal given

by Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi fraternities in the beautiful Trianon.

Fraternity Songs Sung During the intermission the Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi sang their fraternity songs. Much attention and respect was given Alpha men when they began "In our dear A<I>A." etc., led by the dignified Brother Cardozo.

This dance closed at 2:00 a. m. with everybody going to the Rainbow Gardens at 415 Indiana Avenue, where the Sigma Gamma Rho dawn party was given. The Gardens was artistically decorated and Alpha men danced to strains of popular music until 7:00 a. m.

Thursday evening was equally pleasant and exciting. At 7:00 p. m. in the beautiful new Y. M. C. A. located at West and Walnut Streets the Alpha-Omega basketball game was played in the gymnasium.

Much credit is due Brothers Pickett of Louisville, Jones of Chicago, Will Walker, Burrell Brown, and Pledgees George Gray of Indianapolis and John Oliver of Brazil, Indiana, for holding the invading Omegas at bay.

At 11:30 p. m. the grand and closing event of the regional took place at the Walker Casino, which was the Alpha Phi Alpha formal.

A thousand beautiful ladies and handsome men in formal attire were on hand to pay respect to Alpha Phi Alphas first western regional.

Two floral arches, one at the entrance of the Casino and the other on the stag'' for the orchestra leader were used re-

spectively. Three electric signs made by Brother Wright beautifully reminded Alpha men of their pledgees and secrets.

The orchestra was hidden behind ferns and palms. At 3:30 a. m. Alpha men with their wives, sisters, and sweethearts began departing for their homes, with everybody feeling and knowing that Alpha Phi Alpha's first western regional held in I n d i a n a p o l i s was a PRONOUNCED SUCCESS. Praised Editorially The following editorial comment appeared in the Indianapolis (Ind.) Recorder: Alpha Phi Alpha Regional" "Hoosier hospitality asserted i t s e l f with traditional thoroughness, and as a mark of deserved recognition for the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, during the recent regional meeting of that organization in this city.

Indianapolis, famed throughout the land as the nation's logical convention city, accorded the visiting college men a truly cordial reception. Of course, that was as it should be, and much credit is due local educators who used their influence to have the fraternity to meet in this city.

"Welcoming programs, formulated far in advance of the occasion, was conducted with splendid professional efficiency; cooperation on the part of members of Iota Chapter, hosts of the regional, was remarkable for its highly businesslike character and an evidence of an honest desire to make the brothers feel at home.

That was an excellent manifestation of a proper spirit.

"That the delegates were all favorably impressed with the manner in which they were received in Indianapolis, was quite evident from individual expressions.

"The convention was declared one of the most decidedly successful and inspirational ever held by the organization.

Involved in its discussion were numerous questions of import. The interests of the fraternity and of society as a whole were especially well served thereby. It all was in keeping with the basic principles of the organization which stand for the highest aim there is in human progress and cooperation. High ideals, scholarship and manliness being a slogan of the fraternity, the college men have it as their inseparable duty to maintain the dignity of their own maxims and function as so many guiding stars in the educational world. It is to be hoped that the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will see its way in the very near future to hold another meeting in Indianapolis."

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The IVestern Regional—sin T

HE first Western Regional Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha was a success. First, it accomplished its purpose —recharging the brothers with a new enthusiasm and spirit of fellowship, and uncovering and formulating the urgent problems of our fraternity. But it did more than this.

So inspiring was the whole tone of the effort that all of Indianapolis became infused with the spirit of comradeship.

Omegas, Kappas, Deltas, Sigma Gamma Rhos, all were caught in the spell of fraternal enthusiasm and responded with an eager and sincere hospitality that bespoke a new day in local interfiaternal relationships.

The city press, too, was generous in its acclaim, and the papers, daily and weekly, demonstrated this with liberal accounts and pictures relative to the meetings. Thus Indianapolis at Christmas time truly became, fraternalized.

Alpha had shown the way!

As to the conference sessions, more can be gleaned from the other accounts in this issue, doubtless. It is true the

By WM. S. RANDOLPH, Executive Council Lay Member attendance was not large, hardly over twenty-five being present at any one session. It was much like a chapter meeting in this respect. But one had only to appreciate that here were brothers true from Indianapolis, Columbus, Dayton, Ann Arbor, Wilberforce, Champaign, Cincinnati, and Cleveland—all live. earnest enthusiasts in Alpha Phi Alpha —to be deeply impressed with every word and action on the floor.

Our deliberations were broad and yet constructive, as the resolutions formulated in session will reveal. As to the high-lights of the sessions, it stems to me that the message of Vice-President Cardozo was the outstanding individual contribution.

Calling to the attention of our fraternity the real purpose of its origin, and insisting that such a purpose remains today our real reason-for-being despite a shift of emphasis in our program, Brother Cardozo graciously and without alarm, warned us of our need of internal con-

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^Ipprisal structive action. Matters of the house problem and means of raising money also proved live and profitable subjects, Brother Lane of Theta leading these discussions in real Chicago fashiion.

The social features of the convention have not been surpassed for real enjoyment, to my way of thinking, by any general convention I have attended. Perhaps there is a special reason! But the good spirit of the other fraternal groups and the citizens in general of Indianapolis, the inviting available ballrooms of the city, the melodious rhythm of Bernie Young and other orchestras—all joined with the general spirit of the Christmas season to make for a joyous holiday supreme.

To Vice-President Cardozo, Regional Chairman Riley, and Iota Lambda, Alpha Phi Alpha may well give thanks for the way in which the first western regional was directed, organized, and conducted.

Indianapolis will long remain a happy memory to the Alpha men who were there at Christmas time, 1932.

REGIONAL

CONVENTION T h i s photograph was made in front of headquarters at the Western Regional Convention in Indianapolis o n Dec e m b e r 28, 1932.

Shown in the picture are (left to right, front row): Brothers Joseph Carroll, president of I o t a L a m b d a Chapter, host to the convention; William Warrick Cardozo, second v i c e president o f the f r a t e r n i t y who presided at the regional; William S. Randolph, lay member of the executive council; (back row, left to right): Hermann Murray Riley, conference c h a i r man ; and Thomas Horner, secretary of Iota Lambda Chapter.

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Too Serious f Brother Says No!

By GEORGE B. NESBITT, TAU

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HE position taken by Sigma Lambda Chapter in an article appearing in the October number of the Sphinx, entitled, "Are We Too Serious?" is but indicative of a point of view which has always existed in the fraternity. Says our history: "The struggle between frivolous social purposes and the more serious purposes has continued throughout the fraternity's existence. Alpha Chapter was the scene of t'he first of these struggles."

And that the contest persists is evident from the fact that in the same October issue is another article urging extension and intensification of Alpha Phi Alpha's most serious activity—the .educational campaign. However, that those who query the efficacy of a serious fraternity program are gaining power, numerically and influentially, is manifested by the quarters from which dissent comes, by the unanimity of a graduate chapter in favor of that attitude, by conversation with y o u n g e r brothers, and lastly, but most forcibly and sincerely, by the debate on expenditures for the fraternity's educational program which occurred at the Cincinnati convention. The numerical strength of its protagonists and the inuflential positions earnestly administered which some of its supporters occupy, if not the cogency of their stand, induces thinking members of Alpha Phi Alpha not to take their expressions lightly.

Thus, with respect to those who array themselves counter to the sobriety of the fraternity—for let me repeat, many of them are men highly esteemed^in the fraternity and outside, and all are my brethren—I believe their position is unsound. Paradox of paradoxes! Here are men who practice but don't preach! That the sober-mindedness of Alpha must continue to thrive if Alpha is to thrive, is my firm conviction. The existence of Alpha Phi Alpha, in other words, is justified only in so far as it remains serious. Fraternities as phenomena of university life, have always and are today, being subjected to the criticism of doubting educators.

Worthwhile Objectives In the past, we have escaped condemnation by establishing for ourselves a unique position among college social groups.

Though born of the same motivation and imitative of white Greek letter societies, Alpha Phi Alpha early realized that it must have worthwhile objectives and make pragmatic its ideals. The im-

posing group of leading Negroes who attached themselves to the fraternity as honorary brothers and as graduate members, were in need of no additional club or lodge affiliations, free smokes, dance bids, or vest adornments. Rather they were impelled to join us by our seriousness—"our realization of the social needs of Negroes outside of the fraternity followed by conscious efforts to fulfill these needs, as exemplified by such activities as the educational drive, et cetera."

But let one of the most eminent of them speak—Dr. Emmett J. Scott at the Chicago convention—"I weigh my words well when I say that Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity does represent the most forward-looking group of colored men in the world. And this places upon our shoulders the responsibility for the leadership of twelve million p e o p l e . . . .

I thank you over and over again for the privilege of being a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity."

ligent behavior in such a situation is not to trim away at our worthy ends, but to strengthen ourselves, the means to those ends. We commit ourselves to abjuriations if we desire to slavishly imitate the college fellows who live on the other side of town; ours is a different world.

Self-Appointed Task

Let me reiterate that in order to escape the condemnation of thinking people, to retain our unique position as a Negro institution and pioneer of Negro secret collegiate societies; to refrain from satisfaction of our gregarious instinct alone which can be done more adequately and less pretentiously through other agencies; to grant Afro-American youth a worthy channel for its idealism; in short, to preserve our "raison d'etre," Alpha Phi Alpha must cherish seriousness. To our Iscariots, I say, take yourselves again across the burning sands and hear the echoing challenges, scan the pages of our history, gaze about yourselves at the personalities who are identified with you.

Let us observe in ritualistic retrospect that Alpha Phi Alpha has chosen the most beautiful of Ethiopia's p a s t for its symbolisms. Thus it is fitting and proper, lest our voluntary act be shallow hypocrisy and empty idealism that we dedicate our functions to Ethiopia's future. The fraternity chose for itself its position in American Negro life.

Ours is a self-appointed task. We set ourselves up as a means to worthy ends.

And when the sailing is rough the intel-

Admittedly, the fraternity can go too far in the direction of social work. But that time has not yet come. We shall have become overly serious only when the fraternity as a social agency—as a means to an end—is inadequate for its task and a better agency exists with which to replace it. Until then, sailor, the cargo must remain aboard. To throw it overboard now would leave Alpha Phi Alpha a worthless ship floundering at sea.

Tendencies In Negro Fiction Continued from Page 6 gro life. Take Julia Peterkin's "Scarlet Sister Mary," the Pulitzer Prize Novel of 1929.

Although the story is not complimentary to the race it represents, although it takes the Negro to lowest depths of degradation, still it cannot be denied that Mrs. Peterkin has drawn a real character in Mary. Such a deep probing is made into Mary's inner self that with all her faults she seems to be alive, pulsating with life. So much do we feel the result of psychological motivations working from within that we soon take a sympathetic attitude toward Mary because we have learned to understand her. When an author can cause similar thoughts within the reader, certainly the writer is showing at least some of the elements of characterization. What

is said of Mrs. Peterkin's work can also be said (of various qualities of other writers' works. After all we should not criticize a writer for the material he uses, but we should take into account how the material is treated. If the writer gives a faithful portrayal of the type of material used, we have one of the elements of an artistic production.

All works coming from the white man, however, are not of value. Some are mere trash that pseudo-artists are penning off in order to get a share of the profits being made from this Negro literature craze. These works have no more stability to endure than the works of the commercial driven Negro class of writers.

What then can be expected especially Continued on Page 16

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Gold In Kenya

By RAYFORD W. LOGAN, Mu Lambda

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HE literary editor, instead of offering a book review, wishes to call attention to events in Kenya that constitute one of the most immoral acts of modern times. The conservative English weekly, The New Statement and Nation, calls these events quite frankly a "felony."

A storm of protest has been raised in England which shows that the legacy of humanitarianism bequeathed

by Wilberforce and Bright and the spirit of Exeter Hall is not dead.

Kenya is an English crown colony and protectorate on the East Coast of Africa with some 3,000,000 natives and less than 20,000 European inhabitants.

Because of the salubrious climate Europeans have permanently settled there and, as in South Africa, have taken from the natives vast stretches of land which leave the natives with insuffcient land to nourish themselves.

In order to prevent the complete spoliation of the natives, the British Government set aside certain reserves for them, and specifically provide that this land could not be expropriated except for public purposes. It, moreover, explicitly prohibited alienation from the reserves for the benefit of individual Europeans. No language could have 1 een clearerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was the consciencestricken guarantee to offset the previous expropriation by rapacious whites of the best agricultural land.

Outrage Follows Gold Rush Recently, gold was discovered in the native reserves. What became of the legal protection of the natives. It was scrapped, just as such protection is usually scrapped when the rights of a weaker people conflict with the desire for gain on the part of the stronger.

In one day alone more than fifty motor cars arrived in the gold fields bringing whites from within the colony, from (Tanganyika, Uganda, the Rhodesias, and South Africa. The native owners have been dispossessed from their lands and forced to work as miners for ridiculously low wages.

Of course, the best legal talent has been assembled to find a justification for these acts. At present, the lawyers are able only to say that every consideration is being shown the dispossessed natives, and that their land is not being permanently taken away.

In other words, after the Europeans have extracted the last ounce of profitable gold, the land will be returned to the natives so that they may plant their food crops in the mining shafts and graze their cattle in the compounds,

Another Plain Steal In the face of this plain "steal," the British Government is showing a lamentable weakness. The Kenya Legislative Council has passed, and the GovernorGeneral has approved, an amendement to the Native Lands Trust Ordinance which will permit whites to carry on their mining enterprises in the native reserves. Here is another glaring example of what "The White Man's Burden" really means.

Is Ramsay McDonald to show himself as much a despoiler of native rights as the men whom he formerly castigated for their policy of exploitation? And how in the name of high heaven can he talk about the bad faith of the Persians who want to rid themselves of the famous oil agreement?

How can the United States, another Anglo-Saxon nation, berate the Liberians for their unilateral action changing the terms of the Firestone Agreement?

Since the editor of The Sphinx does not permit profanity, however justified and eloquent it may be, we will omit the "Oh Hell," and other righteous ejaculations that you will want to utter yourself.

HELP THIS BROTHER GET A JOB A registered pharmacist, reliable and capable, a Howard graduate. an Alpha man, and with 23 years professional experience behind him, is at present unemployedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a victim of the still-existing depression. If any brother knows any openings, or any place where there may be possibility of an opening for this brother, he should get in touch immediately with the director of education. Brother M. E. Carroll, who will see that the brother in question gets on the trail of the suggestion.

To The Sphinx

By J. CAESAR BRYANT (This original poem was read on the occasion of the first appearance of the Beta Delta Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at South Carolina State College for the school year 1932-1933 by the author.)

[AJESTIC Sphinx, thou'st stood for years Looking far out across the sand; Pointing to travellers, tired and worn, Their way into that midnight land; Majestic Sphinx.

Eternal Sphinx, thy sad, still gaze Hath seen great empires pass away; Through time's dark vista thou hast viewed Kings, thrones, and empires all decay; Eternal Sphinx.

Unchanging Sphinx, today we come, Proud tribute unto thee to pay; For thou dost still through patience guide.

Thy followers from dark night to day; Unchanging Sphinx.

O Silent Sphinx, thou dost impart To all who follow in thy train The spirit of true brotherhood Which Christ did teach through woe and pain; O Silent Sphinx.

O Constant Sphinx, stand on for aye, Thy gaze unchanging nevermore; Until the light of glory break Again across dark Afric's shore; O Constant Sphinx.

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Sign{ icant Alpha TWO ALPHA MEN were named by President Herbert Hoover to the commission for investigating alleged peonage conditions in the labor camps on the Mississippi levees. They are Eugene Kinckle Jones, Alpha Gamma Lambda, who 'holds the distinction of being the first person initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha after the society was chartered, and Judge James A. Cobb, Mu Lambda.

* * * * DR. NAPOLEON W. RIVERS, now of Kappa Lambda, has won new laurels with the publication in the December issue of the Modern Language Journal of a dissertation on his recent research in the French language. Brother Rivers about a year ago received his doctor of philosophy degree from Cornell at which institution he was also elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.

LINCOLN B. CIIILDS is a varsity debater at Florida A. and M. College, member of the band and orchestra, editor-inchief of the College Weekly, president of the Y. M. C. A., treasurer of the Sunday school, and treasurer of Beta Nu Chapter.

Brother childs is outstanding in student activities and one of the firmest believers of student initiative and student rights and freedom. He is a true Alpha man and a strong link in Beta Nu Chapter.

* * * * WILLIAM WARWICK C A R I) O Z O, Kappa Chapter, a senior in the medical school of Ohio State University and western vice-president of the fraternity has been appointed to serve his interneship at the Cleveland City Hospital. Brother Cardozo, well known in Alphadom, is a native of Washington, D. C ; was salutatorian of the 1924 academic class of Hampton Institute and ail-American football star there; and ranks seventh among the 90 seniors in the medical school. * * %% THOMAS W. YOUNG, Zeta Lambda lambda Chapter, and graduate of both the school of journalism and the college of law of Ohio State University, successfully passed the Virginia bar in January. One hundred and fifty-two men and women, including 12 Negroes, took the examinations; a total of 57 were passed, four of these being colored.

Brother Young is practicing in Norfolk,

wh- re he is also a member of the Journal and Guide staff.

This particular research project resulted in determining the final source and exact rendering of a significant French literary expression which originated in the Nineteenth c e n t u r y and which, since, has been often misquoted by numerous texts and handbooks on French literature.

Since the publication of this article, Doctor Rivers has received letters from professors of many universities who feel tihat an unshaken refusal to accept approximate and loose renderings tend to set high standards of research scholarship in the field of Romance languages and literatures.

While in Paris, Dr. Rivers formed a literary affiliation with Rene Maran, the brilliant French author of the novel, "Batouala," and winner of the Goncourt Prize, 1921. The author presented autographed volume's of his prose and poetic works to Dr. Rivers who is now translating, from the French, "Bourn et Dog," one of Monsieur Maran's novelettes on an animal episode in Africa. He has also accepted the American translation rights of Maran's forthcoming novel, "Le Livre de la Brousse."

America knows Rene Maran only as prosewriter and author of the celebrated "Batouala." But, according to Dr. Rivers, Maran's greatest creative powers lie in his poetry of which four volumes have appeared already. He states also that Maran belongs to that contemporary group of writers who are creating the French literature which we shall teach

ARTHUR L. KID1) is head of the extension department and director of Florida A. and M. College press service.

Brother Kidd took his bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan and his master's at Columbia. He has done further study at Iowa University. He is one of the alumni brothers responsible for the establishment of Beta Nu Chapter.

in our American colleges and universities tomorrow. Many of his short stories, poems, romances, and novels are already translated into the various European tongues. * * * * FOR THE SIXTH TIME within the past eight years Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority ranks first in scholarship among the twenty-six sororities at the University of Minnesota with an average of 1.78. The scholarship comparison of the fraternities also shows Mu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha for the second successive time ranking first among the forty fraternities, with an average of 1.37.

The normal enrollment at the University of Minnesota is about 10,000 students and includes students of all races, some from remote parts of the world, all of which makes the above achievements more outstanding.

THE SPHINX WILBUR (WINDY) WALLACE of Alpha Theta, from Washington, D. C , has been making good on the University of Iowa Campus. He ihas had the distinction of being the first Negro quarterback on Iowa's varsity. Owing to an injury of his thigh he was unable to make his best showing. But with an " I " in his possession he will be there fighting next season. He's no slouch in the classroom, either! * * * * VORIS (DICK) DICKERSON of Alpha Theta has shown what St. Louis can produce in the way of stellar athletes. Playing good steady football all season, he clinched his " I " with a brilliant "minute-to-go" run for Iowa's second touchdown of the season. Not only excelling in athletics, Brother Dickerson is an artist of exceptional ability. * * * * HORACE G. DWIGGINS, JR., a member of the junior medical class at Meharry College, has successfully passed the first half of the requirements of the National Board of Medical Examiners.

At the time of the examination he was rated in the upper third of the best sophomore medical students in the United States.

Passing the National Board tests entitles a doctor to practice anywhere in the United States. * » » * THE COURT OF PEERS, a student organization at the Howard University school of law, has had members of Beta Chapter for two years of its existence.

Last year the chief justice was Brother James G. Tyson.

Brother Thurgood Marshall holds office this year.

Message Of the General Secretary

By JOSEPH H. B. EVANS, General Secretary

tioning financial roll long before convention time.

ET me express to each and every one of my brothers my best wishes for a New Year and the hope that the year 1933 in looking forward to the St. Louis general convention, will be one of signal achievement for our Fraternity.

Some Good News

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And now here's good New Year news.

The executive council has voted on and approved the continuance of the special dispensation on reinstatements through the year 1933 up to the time of the convention. It has been extremely gratifying to see how some chapters pitched right in and began their program of reclamation. A large number wrote in to say that much more could have been done had they gotten the news earlier and many asked for an extension of the time. So here it is. My suggestion to each chapter now is to start right in to rebuild the old activity and have a func-

You may send direct to this office the fees collected from any Alpha Phi Alpha brother in your vicinity, but please bear this in mind: 1. If the reinstated brother is a member of your own chapter but has not been financial since 1925, be sure to s t a t e definitely that he is a member and give the approximate date of his initiation.

2. If the reinstated brother is a member of another chapter give the name of that chapter and state that he desires a transfer. We will handle all details pertaining to the transfer from this office.

3. Handle requests for transfers that come to your chapter with the greatest possible dispatch. Remember that when a brother gets the spirit to come back he doesn't want to be kept waiting. The general organization in granting this dispensation is setting the example for chapters. If a brother is worthwhile, let's think about the value of getting him to actively participate in the work of some chapter and not dampen his enthusiasm by the imposition of fines or transfer fees unless the assessment is regarded as a punitive one.

Some Reminders CORRECT ADDRESSES: A space is provided on the report forms for the address of each brother whose grand tax is submitted. We check our record cards for these addresses and when they are missing we are always in doubt as to whether the address sent to the Sphinx editor is correct.

Alpha IVelcomes INITIATED AT ALPHA OMICRON: Robert O' Daniels, Rollin P . Green, Vonner Dupre Jordan, E. Silby Johnson, V. Eugene Kennedy, Thomas Logan, James C. Simpson, and James E. Sneed. Simpson is a student at Livingstone College. * * * * INITIATED AT ALPHA CHI: Luther D. Gair, Audrey K. Fleet, L. Howard Bennett; Ernest Alexander, Horace W. Melvin, Jr., William J . Harvey, III; Eugene Yerby Lowe, Joseph Howard, Louis W. Roberts, John Hope Franklin, William N. Washington, Edward E. Mitchell. * » * * INITIATED AT ALPHA MU LAMBDA: J. Leonard Cary, Jr., George Lennon, Felix J. Banks, and Louie McDade. » « * » INITIATED AT BETA: Louis Akins, Charles Holly, Thomas Keer, F r a n k

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JEWEL CHARLES H. CHAPMAN is head of the department of animal husbandry at Florida A. and M. College. He is responsible along with others for the establishment of Beta Nu Chapter. Brother Chapman intends to make Beta Nu a strong link of Alpha.

Pinn, John Ragbier, Martin Sutler and John Wallace.

The new pledge club consists of: Joseph Sewell, Charles Wier, John Hopkins, Louis Wayne, Lincoln Hawkins, Frank Steele, Percy Brinkley, and Ewart Ma-

gruder,

NEW OFFICERS: We have made up the new official roster for chapters and of course it is not correct because only twenty per cent of the chapters have sent in the names and ADDRESSES of the new officers. Some I was able to get from reading the chapter letters in The Sphinx but they should be sent in officially for our files. Won't you see that this is attended to for your chapter?

I have not gotten the official reports from all of the regional meetings as yet, but if they accomplished as much as was done here in Washington we ought to have some interesting things to submit to the chapters for their discussion. As soon as all reports are in we shall send each chapter a summary of what was done at all of the regionals.

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Fraternity Futu>

By DR. O. WILSON WINTERS, Fraternity Fun Editor Dear Brothers: SPENT two days in Washington at the Eastern Regional Conference during the Christmas holidays. Well!

What's so funny about that, you ask?

Nothing funny at all, but in the most serious vein that I can conjure up from a humorous system let me tell you that it was the finest, most productive, most analytical, most constructive session I have ever attended. And I have attended every convention since the one in Richmond.

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Since there were two other regional conferences and I am sure the meetings and fact findings and recommendations from all three will be reported elsewhere in the Sphinx I will refrain from any further superlatives and cover the field about which you expect me to write.

So serious and sincere were the deliberations that humor was very much lacking.

However, to the eyes of one seeking humor it can always be found.

* * * * The cutest and most heart appealing situation was noted during the public session Thursday night in the Rankin Memorial Chapel at Howard University.

Miss Helen Ogle, beautiful and buxom daughter of Jewel "Bob" Ogle, was tendering the felicitations of Phi Delta Kappa Sorority in a short address of well chosen, eloquently spoken words.

Jewel "Bob" sat on the platform clad in the conventional formal attire, long gangling legs crossed, hands clasped across what would normally be his lap, head lowered with half closed eyes looking at the floor, nodding at intervals at some choice rhetorical phrase that was uttered and with a proud grin disclosing a generous number of incisors and molar teeth—evidently saying to himself, "That's my d a u g h t e r and those are choice words." Fellows, "thar was heart searching gold in them thar moments." * * * » The next situation of humor to a humorist was the preface of Brother Hansberry, noted anthropologist, who gave a scholarly twenty minutes on the ritual.

He completely debunked our r i t u a l , proved that Murray, Kelley et al didn't know their Greek, showed that the term "fust Ethiopian clansmen" was a misnomer, and he had more than twenty formidable looking books at hia elbow to

back him up. The only things he agreed on was that Omega really means last and he had an engraving proving that Brother Kelly Miller, Sr. looks very much like one of the Rameses.

* * * * The next situation that aroused my risibility but did not reach the banqueteers was during the very excellent speech of Brother Ragbir, "The Neophytes Dream." He had held us spellbound in his surprising development of a subject that many of us thought would be humorous or, possibly, a pioem. He was talking very sincerely, dramatically, and convincingly when he said, "Why do Alpha men still cling to such an archaic, barbaric expression of ritualistic lore as the paddle ? What is its function," Sotto voce, Brother Charlie Baltimore whispered to me, "To stir up a function that will always be remembered by the brother and because it feels so good when it stops at the final Alpha."

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Brother Long classified Alpha men; there were three types, all of which will be explained in the copy of his address.

I listened very attentively and heard every word of his speech and had great personal fun thinking of brothers I knew and classifying them in the types. Here, brothers, are the types. First, the Luna or reflected glory type; second, the Hystero—emotional, sometimes known as the paranoic type; and third, a type in between the above two, a happy medium,— for instance, our type, that is, Brother Long's type and my type. » * » * Then there was Brother Daniel's classic, a literary gem of purest ray, couched in euphonious language, with faultless diction and most pleasing of all (so far as I was concerned) a plethora of alliterations. Listen to them! If you are a frat man, all is well and A«J>A means "A Production Aggregation," Kappa Alpha Psi means a "Knowing Aggressive Phalanx," Phi Beta Sigma means a "Persevering Brotherly Society," and Omega Psi Phi mean an "Organization Preeminently Potent." On the other hand, if you are not a frat man, mirable dictu, then A*A means, "A Posthumous Apology," etc., etc., etc. I am glad there is no Negro frat named Sigma Omega Beta because the connotation coming from non frat men would be unspeakable.

I could comment on every personage attending the conference but the printer has warned me that my space is longsince used up.

Brother Long commented favorably on the absence of politics in the present regime; Brother Lawson said, "Oh, the politics is still there but the modern political machinery runs smoother than the old"—now, there are self starters, dual ignitions and free wheeling, so to speak. * * * * The Murphy Dynasty from Baltimore were very ubiquitous at all times.

* * * * Brother Rayford Logan was a veritable reincarnated Chauncey Depew at the banquet.

What did I do to retard the success of the otherwise successful conference?

Oh, I am too modest to speak about myself but since you insist I must tell you a few shadows that flitted thru what was supposed to be a speech entitled "Some Aspects of Anthropoidean Humor." For the sake of modesty the personal pronoun, I, will be hereinafter designated as "the speaker." I attempted, rather the speaker attempted, to give an analysis of the humor that goes into the Sphinx, the sources, the revamping, and the direct application of humor from isolated cases into personal cases naming some brother we all know and applying the case to him. Most of it is fictitious.

* * * * There is always an element of humor in misspelled and mispronounced words.

News items read as follows—Miss Inez Burgess is to be married soon and is busy now-a-days getting her torso ready.

Oxford, Pa.— L. F. Templeton versus Greyhound Bus Lines. Lincoln boys win fight to use busts—no color discrimination permitted.

Mahatma Gandhi discards saftey pin— adopts American Zipper System.

Baltimore and Ohio sues Life Buoy Soap Co. Claims latter's advertisemem hurts their business. Discriminating society women dislike saying B. O. responsible for their late arrivals.

Officer Henry Sullivan of 17th District is critically ill with peemonia.

1st girl, "U. S. Postal Officials predict Continued on Page 16

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Omega Chapter From Kansas City Call R. THOMAS CONRAD UNTHANK, foremost figure in the medical profession of Kansas City, Mo., and the Middle West, passed into the great Omega Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 1932. The dean of doctors and the father of Kansas City's Negro hospital succumbed to iheart disease at the age of 66 years, at his residence, 1016 Woodland avenue. He had been ill for several months.

Doctor Unthank was a member of Beta Lambda Chapter, one of the first doctors to begin practice in Kansas City, and since his arrival here in 1898 he has been one of the most colorful figures in Negro life in this section. He was active not only in his chosen profession, but in the political and civic life of the community as well. He was constantly behind some movement for the betterment of his race.

He was capable of planning and energetic of action. Once pledging himself to the support of a project, he stood behind it and pushed it to success. He followed through in his every undertaking.

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Father Of Negro Hospital In his mind was born the idea of a city hospital for Negroes, and through his efforts was established the first city hospital in Kansas City to be operated solely by professional Negro men and women. He conceived this idea in 1903, the year of Kansas City's great flood.

He was one of a committee of three doctors who had charge of medical service during this distressing year. His associates were: Dr. Samuel C. James and Dr. St. Clair Street, both white.

Flood refugees were temporarily housed in Convention Hall which was put under martial law. It was during this relief period that Doctor Unthank gave birth to the idea of a municipal hospital for Negroes where not only the sick could be cared for but where also Negro doctors and nurses could obtain professional training and experience.

His suggestions, coupled with his unremitting efforts and those of the men whose interests he enlisted, expanded the idea into a foundation.

Twice Superintendent Since the establishment in 1911 of the Old City hospital, which is now General hospital No. 2, Doctor Unthank had

been an active member of the medical staff. He served twice as superintendent of the institution of his conception.

His first term extended from May 14, 1916 to April 28, 1918. His second period began on July 24, 1924, and ended on April 9, 1926.

At the time of his death he was a member of the consultation staff, having retired from the active practice of medicine owing to his advancing years.

The colored division of the General hospital was not the only hospital, nor the first, for the establishment of which Doctor Unthank was responsible. He organized, shortly after his arrival here, the first Negro Hospital west of the Mississippi, the Douglass hospital, Quindaro and Springfield boulevards, Kansas City, Kan., which is still in operation.

Helped Start Wheatley In 1903, he established the Lange Hospital at 1227 Michigan avenue which was much needed at the time. In association with Dr. J . Edward P e r r y and the Wheatley association, he assisted in the organization of the Wheatley Provident hospital.

Doctor Unthank's interest in humanity extended further than concern over its health. In the interest of the general welfare of his race, he organized and headed a committee that interested the Jackson County Court in building the present Home for the Aged and Infirm at Little Blue, Mo. He was of the committee that induced the Park Board to set apart Garrison Square as a place of recreation for Negroes. He was a member of a stock company that organized and established the first colored drug store in Kansas City, at Twelfth street and Forest avenue. He also established a drug store of his own at Independence and Harrison avenues.

Doctor Unthank was one of the founders of the Kansas City Medical Society, which has grown into one of the city's leading organizations. That society presented Doctor Unthank with a silver loving cup in 1931 in appreciation of 33 years of untiring service and achievement for the benefit of his race.

The father of the Negro hospital was affiliated with many other organizations and was a leader in each. He was a member of the advisory board of the Kansas City Tuberculosis Society. He was on the board of directors of the Urban League. He was on the staff of

General Hospital No. 2, and of Wheatley Provident Hospital. He was a member of three lodges, the Odd Fellows, the Masons and the U. B. S. Charter Member of Chapter He was a charter member of Uplison chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, in Lawrance, Kan., and a member of the alumni chapter of that fraternity here. He was a member of Beta chapter of Chi Delta Mu, medical fraternity.

He was a member of Allen chapel A. M. E. church, and had served on the trustee board for many years.

He was one of the directors and a charter member of the Jackson County Negro Republican club. He stood high in Republican ranks, and his influence in Republican circles was steady and unrelenting during the many years that he lived here.

Lesser leaders came and went, occupying the limelight for short periods of time, but Dr. Unthank, the sage of them all, was always the first Republican.

When he was convinced of the worth of a movement or the merit of a candidate, his word went far with authorities. He was also responsible for obtaining for many Negro youths jobs in the post office department of the city during the Christmas rush.

Despite his intense interest in the serious problems of life there was a lighter side to the man's life. He found time for amusement and recreation with his fellows. He belonged to two bridge clubs, the Saturday Night Club, and the Fine Feathers Club. He was known as a bridge "shark."

Esteemed By All Doctor Unthank was a leader in a purely humanitarion way, and stood high in the esteem of all who knew him.

He was born of slave p a r e n t s in Greensboro, N. C , on March 15, 1866, one year after the close of the Civil War. His father was a carpenter employed by the Freedmen's bureau and was highly respected by the citizens of Greensboro, white and black. His mother was an industrious, Christian housewife. Both were ambitious for his education.

They sent him at the age of five to the first school established for Negroes in North Carolina by the Quakers. He attended this school, which was later changed to Bennett College, until he was

Page 16 18 years old. While attending school, young Unthank helped his father in his carpentry work and in a coffin factory which his father owned.

Attended Howard In 1S85 he started in life for himself by teaching school at Monroe, N. C., a position which he held for two terms.

Ambitious for a medical education, he moved next to Asbury Park, N. J., where he worked in hotels to secure money to enable him to enter a medical school.

He entered the Howard University Medical school in 1894 and remained there four years, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. During his collegiate days, he took and passed a Civil Service examination and worked in the Government Printing Office to pay his college expenses. After his graduation he served as an interne for one year without pay at the Freedmen's hospital.

In 1898 he came to Kansas City, where he opened his first office at Ninth street and the state line, near Armour Packing company's plant. Since that time he has been a civic leader, standing high in all phases of public life.

Funeral Held Thursday The funeral was held Thursday afternoon from the Allen chapel A. M. E . church, Tenth street and Charlotte ave., which was filled with admirers of the deceased man. According to his wishes, services were short.

The Rev. C. A. Williams preached the funeral sermon, paying tribute to the sterling character of the deceased. The service was a simple, solemn ceremony, lasting only 40 minutes in accordance with the wish, often expressed, of Doctor Unthank, and were well attended by several hundred persons, who filled the church to pay their last respects to their deceased leader.

For 30 minutes before the procession of family, pallbearers, close friends and officiating ministers entered the church, Eric Franker, at the organ, played solemn music: "March Funebre," Chopin; "Dead March," Handel; "Largo," Dvorak.

The procession was led into the church by the Rev. C. A. Williams, pastor of Allen Chapel, who officiated and preached the funeral sermon.

The services were opened by the singing by the Allen Chapel choir of, "There is a Land of Pure Delight." The scripture was read by the Rev. F . Jesse Peck, pastor of the Ward Chapel A. M. E. church, who is a former pastor of Allen Chapel. He read from the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians.

The Rev. Father Bernard G. Waitlock, rector of St. Augustins's Episcopal church, offered a prayer following which Mrs. Addie Bluford sang a solo, "I do, Don't You." The obituary of Doctor Unthank was

THE SPHINX read by Dr. E. S. Thompson, old friend of the deceased.

The Rev. Mr. Williams took the text of his sermon from Second Samuel 3:38: "And the King said unto his servants, 'Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?' " "A man's greatness," he declared, "is not measured by his honor, his wealth, his power, his fame, but by his pure heart, his Christian upright living, and his unselfish spirit."

Doctor Unthank, he said, was a great man. "Doctor Unthank will be remembered for his useful, unselfish life. He was a humanitarian, a lover of the church. In his passing the church of his choice has sustained a loss, the race, a champion, the community, a hero."

The Rev. Mr. Williams closed his eulogy by quoting the well-known verse from Longfellow: "Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And in parting leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."

Fraternity Fun (Continued from Page 14) heavy Christmas mails." (reading paper aloud).

2nd girl, "I would like to meet this heavy Christmas male everyone is talking about."

Yes dear, I had a swell time celebrating the New Year; first, I was a frequent guest at the bar and then I was a prisoner at the bar.

Society girl says Morgan College halfbacks not so clever football men. Last night she held one for two hours with less than a foot to go. Credit him with a touchback—her, with a safety.

Norfolk woman beats husband almost to death. Husband begs for mercy, reminds wife of the golden rule. Wife replies she went off the gold standard years ago.

That was what produced the most laughter and applause—did it ever occur to you how much the word applause looks like applesause? But it is time to bribe the printer and editor. Abyssinia!

Tendencies In Negro Fiction (Continued from Page 10) from the Negro fiction writer a few years from now? The glorious opportunities of the future lie ahead and if the best is made of that opportunity the Negro will accomplish worthwhile objectives in literature. Literary-minded folk see the great possibilities ir the wealth of material and folk-lore of the Negro group that have been hidden very safely away the past number or

Prayer was offered by the Rev. S. J .

Bacote and the choir sang, "What a Friend we Have in Jesus."

In accordance with a wish of Doctor Unthank's, no messages of condolence were read at the funeral services.

To Build Monument It was requested that friends refrain from sending flowers, but that they contribute to the erection of a monument at Wheatley-Provident hospital in memory of the doctor.

Burial was in Highland cemetery. The H. B. Moore Funeral home was in charge.

The funeral procession which went to the cemetery was one of the longest ever seen in Kansas City.

Surviving Doctor Unthank are his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Unthank of the home; a married daughter, Mrs. Louise Montgomery, of the home; three nephews Dr. DeNorval Unthank of Portland, Ore.; Edgar Unthank of Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Lafayette Unthank of New York; and a sister, Mrs. Alice Reynolds of Winston-Salem, N. C. years. With increased literary development of these people, we can hope to look forward to a real novel coming from the Negro. DuBose Heyward, the author of "Porgy," aptly says that the real novel of Negro life has not been written and when it is written it will be done so by a Negro and not a white man. Julia Peterkin, whose fame rests on her stories dealing with the southern Negro, tells us that the Negroes will become the future fiction writers because they love to tell stories and that the field of Negro fiction hasn't been really touched.

A realization of the above statements is what we should expect, for with all the literary standards of the white man, we cannot expect him to know the life of another race as intimately as a member of that race, who know the joys, Happiness, heartaches, sorrows, a n d pathos of his kindred. Truly no white writer can be as qualified as his darker contemporary to perfect a true Negro philosophy of life and give an insight into a real racial psychology. Given the proper time for a normal growth the writers of this group should reach a maturity that will cause their works to occupy an integral part in the future literary triumphs of America. How long it will be before such a person car, turn the trick we do not know; bu I, for one, shall look confidently forwarf' to the time when a novel by a Negre representing "the whole atmosphere of American life" will be considered for the Pulitzer Prize or some other worthy award—a novel that will stand the test of time and pass into the next generation as a work of art.

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The Interfraternity Forum Omegas To Meet Next In Durham, N. C. (From Journal and Guide) UNDREDS of visitors and official delegations flocked to Richmond, Va. from all parts of the country to attend the annual conclave of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, which began on Wednesday, December 28, and continued thru Friday, December 30. All business sessions were held in the auditorium of the Southern Aid Building, corner Thh'd and Clay Streets.

The most notable feature of the conclave was the fact that the fraternity, despite the depression, held here one of the best and most enthusiastic conclaves in its history. While many constructive plans for economies were adopted, affecting all items of the budget, none will essentially lower the efficiency of the administration or discontinue any part of the Omegas' annual program.

Keeps Achievement Week The fraternity will continue its chapter house building program, and to sponsor National Negro Achievement Week. It went on record also as stressing scholarship in undergraduate chapters and service by professional and business men in graduate groups.

Officers of the organization at the opening of the conclave were, Atty, Matthew W. Bullock, Boston, grand basileus; Ira. DeA. Reid, New York, vice grand basileus; Atty. Walter H. Mazyck, Washington, D. C , grand keeper of records and seal; Doctor Daniel B. Taylor, Philadelphia, grand keeper of finance; S. Malcolm D o d s o n, Brooklyn, editor-inchief of The Oracle; and Atty. Linwood G. Roger, Baltimore, national director of Achievement Week. The Rev. William R. Johnson, Richmond was grand marshad in charge of arrangements.

Go To Durham in 1933 The fraternity will meet next in Durham, N. C., where the arrangements will be under the direction of George W. Cox of that city.

Officers elected for the ensuing term were: Lieut Lawrence A. Oxley, Raleigh, N. C , grand basileus; William E. Baugh, Indianapolis, vice grand basileus; Walter H. Mazyck, Washington, grand keeper of records and seal; J. B. Blayton, Atlanta, grand keeper of finance; S. Malcolm Dod-

son, Brooklyn, editor-in-chief of the Oracle, and George W. Cox, Durham, grand marshal.

A colorful and elaborate social program was prepared under the direction of the efficient grand marshal. Beta Phi Chapter, of Raleigh-Durham, N. C. won out on its third bid for the grand conclave to go to the energetic Southern city.

The local Omega chapters and other fraternities and sororities cooperated nicely, working harmoniously to the end that the visiting delegates would carry away a good impression of Richmond, and it must be said that they succeeded beyond the fondest hopes of the most optimistic.

Richmond entertained t h e Omegas during their three-day visit as only Richmond can.

Kappas Authorize Three New Chapters (From Journal and Guide) HE 22nd annual conclave of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity at West Virginia State College, Institute, W. Va. December 27-30, proved to be a greater success than anticipated.

Delegates and their freinds representing nearly every state in the Union rolled in and converged for full days of Yuleseason merriment.

Spirited business sessions resulted in the election of officers, authorization of new chapters, and the adoption of a date set for the next conclave.

West Virginia State College, possessing one of the most beautiful campuses in the country, played her first role as host to a national Greek-letter fraternity and lent every possible aid in making this convention an achievement. President John W. Davis of the college, although not a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, zealously aided in preparation foi the conclave and appeared elated over its success.

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Election of Officers Reelected grand officers are: grand polemarch, A. Moore Shearin, Durham, N. C ; grand keeper of records and exchequer, J. Ernest Wilkins, Chicago, 111.; directors, Fred A. Clement, Institute, W. Va.; R. S. Stout, Tulsa, Okla.; and E. W. Diggs, Indianapolis, Ind. Newly e l e c t e d officers are: senior grand vice-polemarch, J. S. Hunnicutt, Topeka, Kan.; junior grand vice-pole-

march, Noble F. Payton, Atlantic City, N. J.; grand strategus, A. B. Henderson, Atlanta, Ga.; grand lieutenant strategus, L. Lee Jenkins, Institute, W. Va.; grand historian, W. V. Eagleson, Institute, W. Va.; and director, E. V. Moses, St. Louis, Mo. Three New Chapters New c h a p t e r s were authorized a t Louisville Municipal College, Louisville, Ky.; Florida A. and M. College, Tallahassee, Fla.; and A. and T. College, Greensboro, N. C. Representatives of the national fraternity will hold their next conclave at the World Fair, Chicago, August 27-31.

On December 29th, the delegates convened at the capital of the state, Charleston, and met Governor Conley and toured the new capitol, judged the most beautiful edifice of its kind in the country. They later held sessions in the City Council chamber where they were addressed by the mayor.

Many Social Affairs The social festivities rivalling all past conclaves, were attended by throngs of notable personages and embodied the holiday gaiety. Lovely and beautifully gowned ladies, for which West Virginia State College is famous, were present in large numbers on every blithesome occasion.

Bridge luncheons, teas, stags, and swanky formal, dawn, and breakfast dances featured the social calendar. Other fraternities and sororities of the campus joined with Tau, local Kappa chapter and host, in promoting rare entertainment for the delegation and their friends. The 22nd annual grand prom at the popular Peacock Gardens, near Charleston, culminated the formal social activities.

Phi Delta Kappas Reelect All But One Nat. Officer (From New York Amsterdam News) BUSY three-day session of the Phi Delta Kappa Sorority at the West 137th street branch of the Y. W. C. A., New York City, ended on Friday, Dec. 30, 1932. There were present at this ninth convention 24 official delegates and 10 national officers as guests of two chaptersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Theta of New York city and

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Epsilon of Charleston, W. Va. The sorority's next meeting will be held in Birmingham, Ala., in December.

the Y. W. C. A., at which Elmer Carter, editor of Opportunity Magazine, was the speaker.

The body voted to continue its national poster contest, awards to the given in three classes under the major heading of character building.

Social Events

At the election, which was held Friday, all the national officers were reelected except the editor-in-chief of The Krinon. The results follow: Miss Julia Goens, Atlantic City, supreme basileus; Mrs. Gartrude Robinson, New York, first anti-basileus; Miss Star Goodman, Birmingham, Ala., second anti-basileus; Mrs. Mamie Brown, Charleston, W. Va., third anti-basileus; Mrs. Helen Hoxter, Atlantic City, grammateus; Miss Ethel Lewis, Baltimore, epistoleus; Mrs. Agnes Freeman, Washington, tarn i o u c h o s ; Mrs. Gladys C. Nunery, Jersey City, tamias; Mrs. Nell Occomy Becker, New York, editor-in-chief of The Krinon.

A formal dinner was given Dec. 28 at

The sorority's social calendar included the formal dance by Phi Beta Sigma, on Wednesday night, at the Renaissance Casino; an egg nogg party at Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at the Bronze Studio, Thursday; a joint formal dance by Theta and Epsilon chapters at the Renaissance Casino, also on Thursday, at which a silk-lined, hand embroidered patchwork quilt was presented to Mrs. Lena Brown; an "at home" at Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Friday, at 5 o'clock, at the Trade and Commerce Building; open house by Omicron chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi at the Duck Inn, and an informal dance by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at the Republican Club, 229 Lenox Avenue also on Friday.

The officers of Theta chapter are Mrs. Elizabeth Mars Waddell, basileus; Mrs.

Rosetta Huggins, anti-basileus; Miss Katherine Mars, epistoleus; Miss Dorothy Spraggins, grammateus; Mrs. Sadella TcnEyck McNichols, tamouchos.

Official Delegates The official delegates in attendance at the convention were as follows: Gladys Ross and Sybil Archambeau, Alpha chapter, Jersey City; Maude Wayman and Marion Sparks, Beta chapter, Washington; Mamie Brown, Epsilon, Charleston, W. Va.; Ruth Young and Carolyn Hutchins, Eta chapter, Camden; Julia Porter, Maria Adams and Alice Johnson, Zeta chapter, Philadelphia; Ellen Scott and Bertha Cross, Gamma chapter, Baltimore; Katherine Mars, Louise Morris and Olive Sayers, Theta chapter, New York City; Clarence Barnes, Ruth Avans, Iota chapter, Atlantic City; Oneida Cockrell, Mu chapter, Chicago; Star Goodman, Nu chapter, Birmingham, Ala.; Leona Davis and Doreen Jolly, Xi chapter, Westchester, Pa.

The members of Beta Delta Chapter at South Carolina State College, Orangeburg. Front row, left to right—Gordon Williams, C. Odell Floyd, Paul R. Webber, Robert W. Anderson, J. Elmo Watkins, Geo. B. McFall, Edw. G. Grimes. I. English, Arthur D. Greene. Second row, left to right—Samuel L. Gandy, Isaiah B. Plair, J. Pinckney Davis, Bennie Pickett, J. Harold Montague, David A. Williams. Third row, left to right—J. Ceasar Bryant, F. Leslie Johnson, Joseph Greene. Absent—Wm. H. Bell, W. M. Buchannan, J. N. Freeman, R. A. Brooks, H. S. Persons.

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The Southern Regional Convention

By E. M. COLEMAN, Sigma Lambda REETINGS from Sigma Lambda and the Sunny South where the spirit of Alpha Phi Alpha is warm, vigorous, and enthusiastic! Yes, we have been up to our old tricks again. Sigma Lambda, in her own inimitable way, has been, and still is, going places and doing things. Those brothers who did not attend the Southern Regional Convention held here in the Crescent City on last December 30 and 31 just don't know how much they missed.

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In spite of the small attendance, much smaller than had been expected, I am sure that Brother Vice-President Greene and the brothers who did attend will heartily join the members of Sigma Lambda in saying that the days (and also the nights) spent here were exceedingly profitable, re-envigorating, and delightful.

The spirit of Alpha Phi Alpha was most charmingly expressed by all. Thru the courtesies of the administrative officers of Straight College, especially those of the president, Mr. Charles B. Austin, and Mrs. P. A. Aubry, the matron of the dining hall, that institution was made the headquarters for all of the official activities of the convention. And, brothers, our hats are off and our hearts are open to Straight!

The Business Sessions Business sessions were snappy and full of interest and profitable discussion mingled with sound and constructive thinking. The results of the meetings are embodied in the following recommendations to the general organization for the consideration of the rest of the brothers who are seriously interested in the progress and development of our beloved Fraternity: 1. That there be appointed a national committee to draw up plans for a unified procedure for Sphinx Clubs in order that the now existing variations in Sphinx Club administration may be discontinued.

2. That there be a program of retrenchment in the various chapters in order that the brothers may become and stay financial with both the chapters and the national organizations. We believe that the national organization cannot retrench without impeding the future progress of the fraternity; yet, many of the brothers cannot meet their obligations unless they are placed within their reach.

3. That the time of the special dis-

pensation on reinstatement be extended.

4. That the objectives of the educational program of the fraternity be modified so as to make them more in keeping with the trend of the time. This recommendation carries with it the idea of the adoption of a new slogan and a new method of procedure in place of the one now used, which we believe is out of date.

5. That scholarships as given by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., be discontinued entirely. We offer as a suggestion the giving of one "worthwhile" scholarship a year to a BROTHER for graduate study either here or abroad.

The recommendations committee was composed of Brother C. T. Simpson, chairman; F. Breaux Martin, R. A. Lay, and R. H. Porter.

The Social Program In addition to the business sessions, presided over by Brother Vice President Charles W. Greene in such an able and efficient manner, there were social programs of such a character as to leave countless long-to-be-remembered and much-to-be-cherished experiences in the minds of all who attended them. We are exceedingly sorry that we cannot give you here a detailed description of these but we shall have to be content with simply mentioning them and saying in the language of the great poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar, in "The Party," "You orter bin an' seed it fo' yo-self."

The buffet supper given on Friday evening by Brother Bishop Robert E. Jones and Mrs. R. E. Jones in their residence simply the last word in the category of suppers. Indeed it was a super supper!

So many good things were spread before us, and in such generous quantities, that even Brother Mcintosh of Alpha Chi had to give up his notion of clearing the tables.

Sorors Hospitable There might have been some serious cases of illness from "over-consumption" had not the Alpha Beta Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority come to our rescue with the most beautiful and the most delightful dance of the season on the same evening at the Autocrat Social and Pleasure Club. And, believe me, brothers, that dance was sizzling "hot"!

Right here let me challenge any chapter anywhere to produce a more loyal or a more fascinatingly entertaining group of

"sorors" than is to be found in Alpha Beta Omega. From the bottom of our hearts we express to them our deep appreciation for their fine spirit of courtesy, loyalty, and cooperation.

On Saturday morning the brothers were taken on a sight-seeing tour thru the famous old French quarter. On Saturday night, at the same Autocrat Club, Sigma Lambda entertained with a very elaborate and highly enjoyable evening of bridge which was very fully attended by the most charming "younger set ' of a city that is famed for its charms, feminine and otherwise. This was followed by a New Year's party at the residence of Mrs. Joseph DeJoie—a party filled with thrills and wholesome fun.

Delegates were present from Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and, of course, our own Louisiana.

Wants General Convention Sigma Lambda is proud and happy over the honor of being the host to our Southern Regional Convention during the year 1932. We welcome you to our hearts and our homes and to "the most interesting city in America." We are only praying that the time is not far-distant when we can have the national convention as our guests. Come again!

In the next issue of the Sphinx we will tell you the news of our chapter activities, the various and sundry activities of the local brothers, and the escapades of' Little Dan Cupid and his pal "Papa" Stork. Until then—.

GETTING THE LOW DOWN Absolute knowledge I have none, But my aunt's washerwoman's sister's son, Heard a policeman on his beat Say to a laborer on the street, That he had a letter just last week Written in the finest Greek From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo, Who said that the Cubans in Cuba knew Of a colored man in Texas Town Who got it straight from a circus clown, That a man in Klondike heard the news From a gang of South American Jews, And someone far in Borneo, Who heard a man who claimed to know A swell society female fake, Whose mother-in-law will undertake To prove that her husband's sister's niece Has stated in a printed piece, That she has a son who has a friend Who knows when the depression is going to end.

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The Eastern Regional Convention " T IBERALISM in Fraternalism" was tegration made necessary because of the J L the theme of the address delivered diversity of occupations and living conby Brother Dr. Robert P. Daniel, of ditions. Custom and tradition, or fraVirginia Union University, at the public ternity loyalty are non-rational forces session of the Eastern Regional Conferthat lead to clannishness. erence of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity The speaker concluded w i t h the Thursday night, December 29, in Andrew thought that through self-analysis and Rankin Chapel at Howard University, an understanding of the membership Washington, D. C. advantages of a fraternity, liberalism Dr. Daniel spoke of the unsavory opinion held by many non-fraternity will be achieved, and the unsavory opinmen, stating that restricted membership ion held by non-fraternity men will be and the lack of liberalism were factors changed to conform to a constructive that contribute to such opinions. "While ideal.

(Full text of address printed the membership is restricted," said the elsewhere in this issue). speaker, "it contains a wide diversity In addition to greetings by representaof training, mental equipment, intellectual interests, social ideals, and future tives of the several fraternities and sororities, an address of welcome was deobjectives." livered by Brother Dr. Emmett J. Scott, The absence of liberalism, the speaksecretary of the University. er attributed to the experiences and anAfter paying tribute to Washington, tagonisms of undergraduate life. "Since as the center of Negro culture, striving membership advantages are matters of personal adaptations, rather than group and achievement, where resides three of distinctiveness," the guest speaker con- the founders of the fraternityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dr. tinued, "valid comparisons among fra- Henry A. Callis, Robert Ogle, and Naternities are impossible. Personal con- thaniel Murrayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the general president, siderations that enter into the selection general secretary, and other distinguishof a particular make of car, or wife, are ed members of Alpha Phi Alpha, Brothsimilar to those that determine the selec- er Scott urged his hearers not to fail the tion of a fraterhity.

A woman who hungry multitude looking to college trained men for guidance during these would be an ideal choice as the wife of days of misery and discouragement. one man, may be a millstone around He urged Alpha Phi Alpha men to the neck of another." regard their education as a trusteeship, Phases Function The function of fraternity member- with a debt to society not to be reship, according to Brother Daniel, is in- pudiated; that the men of Alpha Phi Al-

pha should not be satisfied with any achievement until full and complete educational opportunity has been secured for every boy and girl, irrespective of race, color or creed. (Full text of address printed elsewhere in this issue).

Brother B. V. Lawson, chairman of the general committee, presided at the public session. Musical selections were furnished by R. Todd Duncan, Miss Jesse Muse of Zeta Phi Beta, and Miss Gladys Thomas, of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Business sessions were held in the parlors of the Beta Mu Lambda Fraternity house, 1917 Third Street, Northwest. Tea was served by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority on Tuesday, December 27, and luncheon on Thursday, December 29, by Zeta Phi Beta at noon, which was followed by a sight-seeing tour of the city of Washington.

The major social feature of the convention was the formal reception held at the new Masonic Auditorium Thursday night, December 29. The conference closed with a fraternity banquet Friday evening, December 30, in the Howard University dining hall.

The newly elected officers of Beta Chapter are: Robert A. Burwell, president; Walter H. Pay ton, vice-president; Kenneth Brown, recording secretary; Henry B. Matthews, treasurer; Frank F . Davis, Jr., corresponding secretary; James Fairfax, financial secretary; William Bell, sergeant-at-arms Prentice Thomas, chaplain and chapter editor.

Snobbishness And Cruel Initiations (From Afro-American) "Jesus Christ could not 'make' Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity today. They would blackball Him because He was not 'hot' enough."

In these words Belford V. Lawson, member of the National Benefit Life Insurance claims staff, told nearly 70 members of the oldest Negro Greek-letter society in the country attending a banquet in Washington during December, that the fraternity, through its "narrow snobbishness and exclusiveness," has "developed intellectual pimps and parasites," instead of holding to the highest ideals of intellect and culture.

"There has been too much stampeding on our college campuses of 'smart, hot men,' " he said, "while we have rejected the sons of men whom we considered nobodies."

Tortures Inflicted Pointing to the tortures inflicted upon initiates into the fraternity as evidence of a foolish clinging to old traditions, Lawson said: "This tragic and criminal action of brutally beating men who come into the fraternity has disappeared from the chain gangs in the states of many of the men who inflict this punishment.

"These cruel beatings, which, in many instances, have left men marked and scarred for life, is driving men away from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Many men are outside the fold because of this.

"With the coming of younger men into the fraternity there is some evidence of change toward a more democratic and humane spirit. We need, like Saul, to arise and go to the city, and it shall

be told thee what to do."

Lazy Thinking John Ragbir, a Howard University student, told the members present at the banquet that the excuses offered by fraternity men for continuing the practice of brutal beatings at initiations evidenced "lazy thinking, and a sign of decay."

Ragbir urged that Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity set a high mark for itself by being the first Greek-letter society to do away with the practice.

Dr. Charles H. Wesley, general president of the fraternity, invited members of the organization to bring back to their ranks a "flaming enthusiasm," to remember their "texts" and make the words which they had heard "real flesh."

Other speakers at the banquet included; Dr. Rayford W. Logan, professor

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The banquet, staged in the trustees' dining hall at Howard University, was held in connection with the fraternity's first Eastern Regional Conference.

Scores Caste Lines That the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity was founded to destroy caste was voiced

by George B. Kelly, of Albany, N. Y., one of the organizers of the fraternity, in the founders' address delivei-ed before the conference.

"I think we often lose many good men who might be excellent members of the fraternity," Mr. Kelly said, "because of cliques and some of the methods used in many of the chapters.

"I was told once a man was rejected, because of his color. To me that is deplorable. We never founded Alpha Phi Alpha to be a light-skinned fraternity, or one in which fellows could trace their ancestry back for years and years.

We chose Alpha Phi Alpha for men, regardless of family, for what they themselves are doing, what they can do for the future of the fraternity."

The depression, according to Mr. Kelley, has caused the fraternity to lose many men because they do not have the money to keep up their financial obligations.

A delegate to the conference pointed out that in Philadelphia men were required to go through a "refining process'' before being t a k e n into the chapter there. One man, the delegate said, was black balled because he did not invite a member of the fraternity to a pajama party.

New England Colleges New England colleges came in for considerable adverse criticism, when delegates alleged that these schools attempt to make a social aristocracy out of the chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha in this area.

Pointing out that many members of the fraternity regarded the organization's operating expenses as too costly Dr. Charles H. Wesley, general president, said the budget for 1933 had been reduced considerably, that the 1934 budget would be reduced further.

With approximately 8000 members in

the fraternity, only an average of 1,200 are financial, he said.

Dr. Wesley made it clear that he came into the presidency of the fraternity owing allegiance to no faction or section of the country, that he hoped the air would be clear in the general convention, which meets next December in St. Louis, to get through much constructive legislation.

Resolutions The conference approved the following resolutions to be presented to the general convention at St. Louis: 1. That a commission investigate the system of balloting on a candidate with a view to revision; 2. That a study be made of the contributing factors in the make-up of the Alpha type of man, the result of such study to be submitted to the general committee for action; 3. That, in view of the Go-to-High School, Go-to-College program's inadequate meeting of recent developments, a committee investigate the fraternity's educational adjustment program and re-

commend a wider program to include: a. Fraternity research centers for disseminating information. b. The formation of a board of strategy to inquire into and release impartial information on problems vital to Negro welfare. c. The creation of an educational foundation. d. The requiring of holders of scholarships to write papers on subjects chosen by the commission.

4. That a committee make a study of the life-membership plan.

5. That a committee study the fraternity's operating expenses with a view to establishing a national office.

6. That the general convention encourage the establishment of a uniform system of accounting for the chapters.

7. That a bi-annual publication, listing the names of all financial members of the fraternity be brought out following each general convention.

8. That the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity take out life membership in the association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

Book Source On The Negro (Being assembled by Dr. Charles S. Johnson of Fisk, an Alpha brother).

ASHVILLE, Tenn.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The collaborators on a "Source Book on the Negro" being assembled by Dr. Charles S. Johnson for use as a text in white and Negro colleges, met here with the editor and an advisory committee in Nashville, January 27 and 28, the sessions .being held at Fisk University and the Y. M. C. A. Graduate School.

This conference, under the sponsorship of the National Interracial Commission of Atlanta, was held for the purpose of presenting the first selection of materials for the volume to the joint committee.

In addition to the editor, Dr. Johnson, who is director of the department of social science at Fisk, and R. B. Eleazer of the Interracial Commission, the meeting was attended by the contributors: Sterling Brown and Dr. Charles H. Thompson of Howard University; A. A. Schomburg, of New York City; and Dr. E. Franklin Frazier and Horace Mann Bond of Fisk University.

The members in attendance representing the Peabody Conference on Education and Race Relations were: Fred McCuiston, executive agent of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools; Dr. U. H. Leavell, of Peabody College; Dr. S. A. Kruse, State Teachers College of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Miss Elizabeth Edwards, Alabama

Woman's College in Montevalla; Dr. Dennis Cooke, of Peabody; and W. D. Weatherford, substituting for Dr. Guy Johnson of the University of North Carolina.

How Project Started The assembling of the material for this volume is an outgrowth of a conference held by the Interracial Commission two years ago, when a group of college men and women indicated their interest in a course dealing with race relations or information regarding the subject.

As a result of their discussions, it was '.disclosed that sixty-two ycolleges and universities in the South offered courses on the subject varying in the different institutions from occasional discussions in a class in sociology or economics, to well organized courses running through a quarter or even longer.

Dr. Johnson's Negro Dr. Johnson's course on the American Negro, which he had been giving at Fisk for the past five years was considered after careful study to be the best of the kind being offered; and on the basis of this he was therefore selected to formulate plans to standardize such a course for general use in other colleges and universities.

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Liberalism In Fraternities

By R. P. DANIEL

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HERE is a liberalizing influence in regional and national conventions when graduate a n d undergraduate brothers exchange points of view; and when chapters with one type of problems meet chapters with solutions to these problems but presenting other types.

There is a liberalizing influence in the public sessions held in connection with a convention when grips and passwords are not the tokens of admission; and where we receive the stimulating fellowship conveyed by words of greeting and good-will from those of different fraternal affiliations.

In such a setting, there is a pertinence suggested in the discussion of the subject "Liberalism in Fraternalism."

Scores Clannishness A college fraternity bespeaks clannishness. Frequently the non-fraternity man represents this clannishness as that of a group of self-important, self-exalted, sophisticated individuals with one fraternity differentiated from another by a characteristically glorified distinctive snobbery. To him the A. P. A. of Alpha Phi Alpha means "a pretentious adornment"; the 0. P. P. of Omega Psi Phi symbolizes an "ostentatious presumptious prig"; the K. A. P. of Kappa Alpha Psi reveals the "knavish arrogant pretender"; and the P. B. S. of Phi Beta Sigma indicates the "poor bragging snob."

While such characterizations may be true in some instances, they do not fairly represent the average fraternity man in any group. At least two factors, however, have contributed to such an unsavory opinion: (1) the circumstance which a fraternity imposes; and (2) the absence of liberalism often found in instances of distorted fraternalism.

With reference to the first it must be admitted that in the very nature of the case a college fraternitv renrpsents a restricted situation. A fraternity extends its privileges of brotherhood onlv to those who show evidence of possessing those properties of mind and heart which will enable them to N>nnfit from its own peculiar activities and contribute to its wider social objectives. It is indeed true that not to everyone w^" asks is a shingle of membership given. nor is the door of an initiation opened to all who knock.

Absence of Liberalism Nevertheless, notwithstanding the presumed selective nature of the requirements for membership, the stream

(Address delivered by Brother Dr. Daniel on occasion of the public meeting of the Eastern Regional Conference of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, in Andrew Rankin Chapel of Howard University, Washington, D. C, Thursday, December 29, 1932.)

of men permitted to flow thru the floodgates shows a very wide diversity of training, mental equipment, intellectual interest, social ideals, and future objectives.

With reference to the secondâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the absence of liberalism often found in situations of fraternalismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I shall speak chiefly tonights. The absence of liberalism found among graduate members may be traced usually to attitudes brought over from unfortunate undergraduate experiences; while that found among undergraduates seems to be related to fraternity antagonism growing out of hostilities during the "rushing season" and popular sanctions of superiority in public activities. These circumstances tend to indicate that many fraternity members have shifted the emphases of fraternity affiliation, and the public influenced by them has correspondingly set-up false evaluations.

Basic to a belief in liberalism in fraternalism are certain concepts: The first of these concepts is that liberalism in fraternalism eliminates comparisons of fraternities since membership advantages are matters of personal adaptations rather than group distinctiveness.

Is red or blue or white or black the best color for a woman's evening gown?

Obviously the answer depends upon several personal factors. In my preference for a Buick and in yours for a Studebaker there are introduced elements of personal consideration that make comparison of our car ownership odious.

A woman who would be an ideal choice as a wife for one man may be a millstone around the neck of another.

Need Objective Criteria An important fact to keep in mind is that the most satisfactory comparisons are made between elements that can be evaluated according to obiective criteria. Situations involving to such a large degree personal considerations, attitudes, and satisfactions as represented in the

choice of a car, or a wife, or a fraternity are too subjective to permit comparisons on valid criteria.

Bias will influence our attempts a t comparisons. The basis of narrowmindedness is laid when having made our choice we surround the object of choice with a halo of grandeur. We reflect in the glory of our fraternity the personal egotism of our choice and thereby as a defense mechanism ascribe to any other group the general evaluation of inferiority. We become, consequently, antagonistic to the activities of any other group which tends to overshadow that of our own. In our antagonism to others we are often but patching our punctured self-conceit. Such is the psychology of fraternity prejudice. The result is that liberalism in fraternalism is impossible in an atmosphere surcharged with jealousy, selfishness, and conceit.

What Does It Mean The second of the concepts basic to the belief in liberalism in fraternalism concerns the meaning of fraternity membership. What is the meaning of fraternity membership? Ladies and gentlemen, I submit that the function of fraternity membership is integration.

Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, read your history. The fraternity idea among Negro college men was begun for the function of integration. A handful of Negro college students diffused among a great mass of white students felt the need of cooperative activity. Obtaining first thru social club a larger ui derstanding of and a deeper sympathy with each other as fellow-students, they organized a fraternity in order to provide those social experiences which foster cooperative living.

The necessity for emphasis upon the function of integration is due chiefly to the fact that the increasing diversity of occupations and of living conditions tends constantly to increase the forces of differentiations between individuals.

This situation demands increased forces of integration to balance and compensate. A fraternity is so set-up as to be very satisfactory as one of the forces of integration; so that fraternity membership should bring to one balancing influences.

Illustration Made By way of illustration, consider the hetrogeneity of the personnel of a graduate chapter involving doctors, lawyers, teachers, business men, and many other

THE SPHINX vocational groups. The varied life pursuits of these individuals tends constantly to increase the diversity of their social heredity and social concern. There is vitality in the program of a fraternity-chapter whose activities provide for its members a medium of balance and compensation thru the integrative forces cf common knowledge, of common action, and of common ideals.

Therefore, the concerns of one fraternity need not be those of another fraternity any more than the local activity of one chapter needs to be that of another chapter within the same fraternity. There is a wide range of individual differences among human beings, and their development depends upon proper recognition of the needs due to these differences.

tional practice is also significant in the evaluation of the meaningfulness of membership in a particular fraternity: "In view of the great individual differences in original nature, in view of the intense specialization of modern living, it is futile to attempt the general evaluation of an activity without reference to the specific individual who is to undertake it. An activity only has values, for a particular person at a particular time, with a particular biological and educational history, and with a particular future. An activity cannot be judged in vacuo, it is always the activity of a definite person taking place in a peculiar setting, and having certain consequential effects on the activities of others."

After all, the choice of a fraternity by a boy in college should be on the basis of derived assimilations. He should join that fraternity whose members have interests, abilities, and activities which seem to offer some degree of integration with his own. This is essential because group integration and individual differences must always work in proper relation to each other. Membership in a fraternity is a happy privilege when the harmony between the individual and the group is a matter of continuous development.

On this basis we can readily see that a person well-integrated in one group may be a misfit in another. In the keen competition for candidates in which undergraduates especially at times engage this fact is often overlooked. Later on we discover too late that the fraternity activities are impeded because we are trying to fit "square pegs in round holes."

Essence of Liberalism Herein is the essence of liberalism in fraternalism: If I make my choice of a fraternity on the basis of my desired assimilations of a particular group, I should have no quarrel with or antagonisms toward other fraternities because individuals of other interests and associations saw desired assimiliations in the membership privileges which they extended.

Students of sociology realize that "instead of considering the excellence or lack of excellence of a culture it may be better to consider its adaptation to its physical and its social environment.

Spanish houses of stone and plaster may be no more nor less comfortable and sanitary than French houses occupied by persons of similar social status."

(Kinneman, J. A., Society and Education, p. 243). In like manner, fraternities in general must not be thought of as superior or inferior, but as different from one another in the group assimilations provided. Thus fraternity X may be superior in the group assimilations which will prove meaningful to Mr. A.; while fraternity Y will offer the superior assimilations for Mr. B. The statement of Chapman and Counts (Principles of Education, p. 368) with refernce to the evaluation of an educa-

It All Depends

The third concept basic to a belief in liberalism in fraternalism is a recognition of the fact that fraternity tradition and self-interest may be overstimulated as to lead to narrowmindedness and the absence of liberalism. Most certainly, customs and traditions are the rallying posts of fraternity loyalty. Every fraternity member present can recall instances when appeals to tradition and self-interest were as persuasive as the rhetorical eloquence of literary embellishments or the adventitious aids of oratorical pyrotechnics. Our attitudes become egotized; our emotions narctoized; our thinking paralyzed.

But custom and tradition are non-rational ways of conforming. They are the statics of group behavior. Group loyalty may prescribe habits which become as powerful as any second nature, and constitute a pledge of order far more reliable than law. Under the influence of fraternity loyalty, the more clannish we become, the more susceptible to the opinions of our brothers, the more attached to custom and convention. In fact| the shibboleths lof fraternalism become a menace to liberalism.

Narrow Group Conformity Well does Lindeman express the point of the narrowness of group conformity, "We still stumble along in the sphere of human relations with no guide other than the wornout, discredited, cruel presumption that power is achieved by vic-

Page 23 tory over another person or group; that my advantage must mean your disability; that efficacy for me can exist only thru your disqualification." (Lindeman, E. C , Adult Education, p. 21).

The liberalism for which I am pleading is that which will free one's thinking from the narrow confines of his specific affiliations, and show him the wider obligations and fields of service toward life that frees from dogmatism and narrowness in ideas, doctrines, and sympathies.

If thru the rise of various fraternity groups, antagonistic and non-social tendencies have developed, a new social consciousness must be awakened and restatement of the conception of the significance of fraternity membership must be made.

Self-Analysis Needed Addressing ourselves to an attempt at liberalizing our attitudes a self-analysis is in order as the first step in the procedure. If thru the analysis of the self there is a resultant liberalism in fraternalism, then may fraternity and non-fraternity men alike see Omega's O. P. P. become the symbol of an "Organization Preeminently Potent" in its four-square emphasis on scholarship, uplift, perseverance, a n d manhood; Kappa's K. A. P. a s "Knowing Aggressive Phalanx" directed to achievement through fraternity, knowledge, and fidelity; Sigma's P. B. S. reveals a "Persevering, Brother Society" achieving "culture for service, service for humanity"; and Alpha's A. P. A. denotes "A Production Aggregation" believing that "First of all, servants of all, we shall transcend all."

Source Book Continued from Page 21 school libraries with respect to volumes dealing with the Negro, Dr. Johnson's first major task was the selection of source material to be used with a syllabus containing the course of study.

Plan of Source Book He states his plan of presentation of the Source Book to be: "The development of a frame of reference in which significant relationships can be seen and comprehended; brief factual treatment of topical discussions, followed by extracts from authoritative comment selected for their interpretative values; brief and carefully selected illustrative source documents, reinforced by references for further reading; and a topical bibliography. These are to be given substantial unity by a connecting text which attempts to be explanatory with being dogmatic."

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THE SPHINX

The Sphinx Speaks Concise Reports of Chapter Activities By Associate Editors To The Sphinx

Activity Plus Earmarks Beta Nu Alphamen Brother Noah H. Bennett, Jr., is vicepresident of Beta Nu Chapter, Florida A. and M. College, Tallahassee, Florida. He Is one of t h e most eyoquent debaters and enthusiastic students on the campus. For two years he has served as state president of the Y. M. C. A. in Florida and was reelected at the last meeting. Brother Bennett is using all of his energy to make Beta Nu Chapter the strongest link, in Alphadom.

Brother Frank E. Plnder, Jr., of Beta Nu Chapter is the most ideal Alpha man on the campus. He has served in the capacity of secretary to the chapter since the charter was granted to us. His services have been most efficient. He Is state secretary to the committee on Better Homes In America, state secretary to the Farm and Home Demonstration Agents of Florida, member of the college band and symphony orchestra and alumni editor of t h e College Weekly.

Brother Jubie Barton Bragg, Jr., of Beta Nu, Is literary editor of the College Weekly, member of the Famcee Players, member of t h e band, varsity debater and a strong advocate of student activity and student initiative. He is also assistant secretary of the chapter. Brother Malcom Dubose Is the most outstanding tenor on t h e campus and is president of the choral club, member of the glee club, music editor to the College Weely, editor of the Sphinx from Beta Nu Chapter, and an outstanding s t u d e n t of history and English. Brother Dubose is a d j u t a n t in the military corps.

Brother Jerome Emory Matthews is president of the Famcee players, head of the political forum of which he is t h e founder, sereant-at-arms of Beta Nu Chapter, member of the mathematics club, member of the band and news editor to the College Weekly. Brother Matthews Is also a member of t h e choral and glee club. Brother Samuel O'Tanner Cohen, retired president of the college literary society, president of mechanic arts club, president of the student council, news editor to the College Weekly, member of t h e mathematics club, senior captain, member of the choral club and president of Beta Nu Chapter, Is a noted student for his ability In mathematics and science. He Is one of t h e leading students in t h e Mechanic Arts Division.

Beta Nu enjoys the hearty support or the several brothers on the faculty here Among these are: Dean R. O'Hara Lanier, outstanding orator and a specialist .In vocational guidance and dean of the college who comes from Nu Chapter at Lincoln.

Professor L. A. Whitfield. Phi Beta appa, from the University of Chicago, who heads the department of biology, Is a candidate for t h e Ph. D. degree and has also done work on his M. D. Brother N. L. Mereeld, head of the department of music who comes from Northwestern University where he received his master's degree in music. Brother C. C. Frazler from Alpha Lambda who is professor of English.

Brother J . L. Langhorne, who Is professor of English and comes to us from Epilson Chapter at the University of Michigan. and was doing graduate work last summer at Iowa University; Brother F . C. Parker who hails from Upsilon Chapter at the University of Kansas, and is professor of industrial arts.

Brother J . R. E. Lee has Just returned from t h e hospital in Rochester, N. Y. He Is again carrying on the great work t h a t he started in t h e educational system of

Florida. Brother Lee is president of Florida A. and M. College and Is one of the most outstanding educators in the country.

Brother Eugene Bragg, who comes from Alpha Beta Chapter a t Talladega College is an economist, taking special work at Iowa State College towards his master's degree in agricultural economics.

Brother W. H. Baker, trom Xi Chapter at Wilberforce and Chi Chapter, Meharry Medical College, who is the Interne at the college hospital.

Brother L. A. Whitfield represented Beta Nu chapter, a t the southern regional convention held In New Orleans, Louisiana.

The male members of the freshman class were entertained by members of Beta Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at a smoker Saturday night, Dec. 17, at the Junior High School. The freshmen were familiarized with ideals and purposes of fraternities. Dr. W. H. Baker. M. C. C. Frazier, and t h e members of the local chapter spoke to the group.

In order to stimulate a keener interest in politics among students and give them an Insight into the conduct of political conventions, opportunity f o r platform speaking, and the privilege of hearing the election returns. Beta Nu Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity conducted a political forum in the college auditor.um from 8:00 p. m., to 9:30 p. m., on the night of the general election.

The s t u d e n t group was divided into four sections representing t h e Republican party, the Democratic party, the Socialist party, and the Communist party.

Ten persons gave very interesting speeches, each pointing out why they preferred their particular candidates, expounding their platforms, and urging the student group to consider seriously their arguments and to use their privilege of voting when they become of voting age. The speakers for the four parties were as follows: Republican party—Misses Terrecita Butler and Bernlce Gordon, and Messrs. Frank E. Plnder, Jr., Lincoln Childs, and J . B. Bragg, Jr.; Democratic party—Messrs. Samuel O. Cohen and Harold Robinson; Communist party—Messrs. Alzo McMillan and Noah H. Bennett, Jr.; and Socialist party— Jerome Matthews. These speeches were delivered a t intervals between the important election returns.

F . E. James spoke on behalf of the faculty, pointing o u t t h e fact such meetings should serve as a successful stimulus for our political activities in coming years. The votes as cast by the student group gave Roosevelt 161. Hoover 116, Foster 35, and Thomas 10.

Beta Delta Suffers Through Graduation After a long period of silence. Beta Delta t h e lone chapter in the Palmetto State returns with a record of achievements of her worthy sons. Along with this record we send greetings to all Alphadom.

As Is usual for undergraduate chapters Beta Delta suffered losses through graduation. These illustrious brothers are. H James Green, who was appointed head of the department of high school science of Bethune-Cookman College. Daytona Fla • J. Alford Ellerbe. principal of Boman High School. Bowman, S. C ; Elliot E Franks principal of one of the leading Darlington County high schools; P. Leon Colty "and L. H. Trawlck. who are actively engaged in business pursuits in New York City and Macon Ga„ respectively, while last year's star tackle. J . R. Henderson, taking advantage

of a scholarship, is doing graduate work at Atlanta University.

Last but not least.

Brother Joseph Hicks, a varsity football man while in college, is coaching a high school team in Alabama.

The spotlight is now turned on the activities of this year. First, we welcome a distinguished brother into the state, in t h e person of A. Simpson, who will be remembered first as the writer of our cherished hymn and at present we congratulate him for his recent appointment as president of Allen University, Columbia, S. C. Brother J . Caesar Bryant of Nu has been added to our faculty as the head of the English department. Brother William H. Bell of Alpha Nu, Dean of the College, Is the proud father of a bouncing baby boy.

Brother Buchanan completes Beta Delta's list of deans as the dean of the department of music.

Brother R. A. Broaks, head coach and director of physical education, also celebrated a "blessed event" identical with t h a t of Brother Bell, during October. Brother J .

N. Freeman, an active co-worker of Brother Buchannan, is serving his fifth year as advisor to the Student Publication.

Turning to the achievements of t h e u n dergraduates on the campus, they are many and varied. The chapter feared at the first of the term t h a t it would be without the leadership of our very energetic president Brother G. B. McFall, b u t late in October he returned to us.

Brother Edward Grimes, vice-president of our chapter, is carrying on very creditably.

He was elected to the presidencies of t h e Junior Class and Glee Club, and Is also a member of t h e Y. M. C. A. cabinet.

Brother Arthur D. Green, senior, is president of the Choral Society, assistant in the department of biology, and a varsity football man.

Brother R. W. Anderson, a senior, Is president of t h e Dramatic club, assistant secretary of thhe agriculture seminar, and a member of the Glee Club.

Brother J . Elmo Watkins. a junior, is secretary of Beta Delta, manager of the football team, and a member of the Dramatic club.

Paul R. Webber, a senior and our varsity end, was given honorable mention for t h e All-Southern Conference team.

Brother Webber is president of the Agriculture Seminar for the second consecutive year. He is the winner of a gold medal at Florida as t h e first prize In an Intercollegiate essay contest. He is also treasurer of the chapter, and student teacher in the department of agriculture.

Brother Gordon B. Williams, a senior, Is the star pianist in the orchestra and a member of the Dramatic Club.

Brother 1. B . Plalr, our B. M. O. C , is a member of the "S' Club for participation in baseball, and a member of the Agriculture Seminar.

Brother Joseph M. Green, our stellar quarterback, received honorable mention for the All-Southern conference team. Brother Green is a popular senior and will be missed by everyone who knows him.

Brother Houston Person, our varsity tackle. also received honorable mention for the All-Southern Conference team. He Is chaplain of the senior class and a member of the Agriculture Seminar.

Brother J . P . Davis, who came to us from Alpha Mu, is president of the Floyd Hall Club.

Brother I. B. English, Jr., Is president of the senior class, business manager of the Collegian, our student, publication, assista n t In the department of chemistry, as-

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THE SPHINX slBtant to the sperlntendentl of t h e Sunday school, secretary of the Inter-Fraternal Council, and reporter to the Sphinx for Beta Delta.

T h u s brothers ends t h e report to Alphadom, which we think Justifies our existence.

We are carrying on. with banners flying. striving to maintain the integrity of all concerned, living up to our motto, and praying to Ood for guidance.

—I. B. ENGLISH, JR.

Alpha Iota Basketeers Outclass Denver Omegas For the last time your news-hound pecks away at the good Underwood to tell t h e world about this and t h a t at Alpha Iota. the Mile High C h a p t e r . . . .Let there be loud hand-clapping and throwing of handkerchiefs for, on New Year's Eve. the good basket flippers did stride forth on the Y. M. C. A. court, and there administer a sound, thorough, and convincing threshing to the local Omega Psi Phi quintet. Throwing up an impenetrable defense, and at the same time flashing a well-balanced and effective offense t h a t registered points most unexpectedly, Alpha achieved a well-earned 30-22 win.

Trailing throughout the first period, the boys went to work In the second quarter to gain the lead which they never relinquished.

Herm Washington turned in one of hie old Virginia Union days game, starting most of the plays down the floor, covering the floor like the morning dew, and being wellnigh Impregnable on the defense; the hustle and floor work, to say nothing of three timely goals, of little Jim Adams was a revelation, particularly in the first half; Riley turned In another neat all-round performance. while the effective guarding of Sims and LeBlanc had the Omegas talking to themselves.

Andrews led in scoring, registering 9 points; Adams. Riley and Washington each contributed 7 markers to the total. Altho' Alpha had to play without Walton, the behemoth Colorado University varsity guard, Omega had to register all its field goals from the center of the floor, the Ape defense stopping all play within the shortshot regions. Just too much Alpha!

The chapter political Juggernaut has agaiiv been In action, electing to guide the destinies of Alpha Iota— Dr. William Fountain, president: C. L. Lawson, vice-president: Harold Brown, secretary: Herman Washington. treasurer; Ralph LeBlanc. editor-to-the Sphinx.

The retiring officers are. John Waller, president: U. J. Andrews, vice: James Adams. secretary; Harold Brown, treasurer; U. J . Andrews, editor.

In announcing Its pledges and Sphinx club membership. Alpha Iota reveals t h a t the cream of the college crop has "gone Alpha"—Glenn Davis, former Alpha P6l Chapter Sphinx club vice president and Lincoln University athlete now at Colorado Aggies, and John Cary. University of Colorado. have been granted membership In the Sphinx club: Howard Jenkins. University of Denver, has been pledged—all three men are characterized as Ideal Alpha material.

Alpha Iota Is eagerly anticipating one of the best years of the Chapter's life. Your f-'crtbe bids you boodbve and good luck.

—U. J. ANDREWS

Epsilon Chapter Holds On At U of Michigan Up Michigan way Epsllon is being reincarnated. Last year the "Old Alpha House" located Just off the campus on the corner of Huron and Glen Streets was visited bv Mr. Depression. Ensilon lost the ensuing battle and Mr Depression won the house.

Mrs. Kemp, a former Bostonian. has remodeled the residence and it is still the Bachelor's quarters for Michigan men. Don't be bashful girls and send In your bids,

At the beginning of the semester the men were given a surprise visit by Mrs. Singleton, the mother of the Alphas, who expressed her enjoyment t h a t the men were able to live in such a comfortable and Intellectual environment.

Now for a few interesting facts concerning the activities of the brothers. Charles Finch, the Harlem doctor; Joe Pierce, the Texas professor; Walter Hines, t h e scholar from North Carolina; Horace Bradfleld, the chemist from Detroit; and George Hayes an old familiar landmark—all are promlent clock punchers.

In the athletic world a brother won the two fall tennis tournaments. He now holds the all-campus championship. An Alpha basketball team is also entered In t h e fraternity league.

As to scholarship, one needs only to mention such notables as President Brother Lyman Johnson. Brothers Albert Turner, Joe Pierce. Jerald Marteena, Hines Finch, Mike Towns, and McFall.

—D. GARDNER KEAN

'Watch Our Smoke' Is Cry Of Beta Lambda And Lo! after many years of tribulations.

Beta Lambda has arrived and from hence forth watch her smoke.

With renewed vigor Beta Lambda has faced 1933 with a determination t o include within its ranks before the end of the year. 100 percent of t h e brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha now living In Greater Kansas City within its folds. At Its annual meeting the following were chosen to guide the destinies of the chosen for 1933: President. Mack C. Spears, 1514 North St., Kansas City. Kan.; vice-president. J. H. Bluford; recording secretary. Thomas A. Webster, 1905 Vine, Kansas City, Mo,: corresponding secretary, James A. Jeffress, 2453 Tracy: treasurer. H. O. Cook; sergeant-at-arms G. A. Curry: educational director, S. D. Scruggs; Chaplain. G. B. Buster; Sphinx correspondent, W. Robert Smalls.

A committee was also appointed to make special effort to invite the membership of all brothers who are without the fold, and encouraging news is coming to headquarters. Beta Lambda entertained the visiting brothers with a rousing Christmas party and dawn dance on Dec. 31, from 12:30 a. m.. to 4 a. m.. at which time an English breakfast was served. We were favored with the presence of the visiting brothers from many of the neighboring chapters and with t h e singing of. 'Blest Be The Tie T h a t Binds," all voted this to be one of the most unique affairs of the season.

Keep your eyes on Beta Lambda, more yet!

—W. ROBERT SMALLS

Tau Chapter Brothers Active In Many Ways The voice of T a u speaks! from the Alpha penthouse Just over Boyd's cafe.

First, returns of the election of Monday November 7. 1932 In t h e chaDter room of Tau. were given after a tense session of voting. The results— Brothers. George Nesbit. president: Alexander Caldwell, vice-president: Henry Hunter, secretary: Theodore Harding, corresponding secretary: Charles Ashmore. treasurer: Cornell Cromer, sereeint-at-arms and critic, and John E. Sullivan, associate editor of the Sphinx. Brother Henry Hunter was the only new member of the cabinet.

The voice of Tau reaches Into the past a hit to tell of merry times at the great hnmccominw event. After the football game In which our team was defeated we were still anxious for the evening and the party to come.

During the interludes of the dinner at Rovd's cafe brother caldwell entertained with several hot tunes on his banio. and brother Hunter sane his number tn. his crooning style so well known here.

The next event concerns t h e ghostly night of November 29, Hallowee'en. A mysterious evening enjoyment was the reward of t h e guests. Pledgee William King furnished the music.

Tau successfully opened t h e first meeting of Lyceum on December 9 with a musical program directed by Brother Caldwell. A brief sketch of the program follows: piano solo, Mr. King; short talk on t h e French University system, Brother Barksdale. a popular number by the Quartette, Brothers Caldwell. Cromer, Hunter, and Pledgee King; a talk on Negro History, Brother James Morton; banjo solo, Brother Caldwell. The program was closed with two Christmas carols by the septette—Brothers Ashmore, Caldwell, Cromer. Hunter, Young. and pledgees. Turner and King.

Sunday, December 18. a tea was held In honor of our patrons and patronesses, Mr. and Mrs. C. J . Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Edwards, and Mr. W. A. Thomas.

Tau has been honored with t h e presence of well known Alpha men such as. Brother George R. Arthur of the Rosenwald Welfare Fund; Brother A. L. Foster, executive secretary of the Urban League in Chicago; Brother William Ashby. executive secretary of the Urban League. Springfield. Illinois: and Mr. Alonzo Thayer. Omega Psl Phi head of the Industrial Relations Department of the Urban League in Chicago during last semester. Brother Arthur was guest of honor a t a banquet at t h e house and repersentatlves from all t h e organized houses were present.

A radio program was given over station WDZ. Tuscola, Illinois Sunday, January 8. during which several numbers were dedicated to Tau chapter.

The Voice of Tau fades away for the present hoping for a most successful and enjoyable year for all Alphadom.

—JOHN E. 8ULLIVAN

Alpha Zeta Lambda Elects New Officers Alpha Zeta Lambda chapter of Bluefield, W. Va.. is yet on the map and Its true brothers are pledged as never before to "carry on."

Alpha Zeta Lambda's newly-elected officers will carry on until the general convention In St. Louis. Maceo E. Carr is president; Dr. P. R. Hlgginbotham, vice president; Dr. J. C. Klngslow. treasurer. E. W. Browne, secretary, and John Franklin, editor.

The former president of Alpha Zeta Lambda, Brother Lawrence V. Jordan, entered upon his new duties at the beginning of the school year as Dean of t h e college department of IKttrell College. He was for five years head of the language department of t h e Kimball High School, during which time he produced one or more winners each year In t h e state-wide essay, declamation, and oration contests, t h u s placing the Kimball High School In the first rank of high schools in the state.

His fraternity spirit, and loyalty Is u n excelled. Alpha Zeta Lambda regrets his leaving. But commends him to t h e very highest to any and all the chapters. The brothers of Alpha Zeta Lambda are deeply indebted to Brother Jordan for having represented them at the regional convention In Washington.

The chapter has adopted its budget for the year, and the secretary wants nothing short of one hundred per cent cooperation.

The distribution of the budget Is as follows: thirty per cent for grand tax. thirty per cent for education, twenty per cent for socials, five per cent for chapter expense. five per cent for philanthropy, and ten per cent for the slneing fund.

One of the most beloved men of Aloha Phi Alpha in eeneral. and Alpha Zeta Lambda In particular, has left the ranks of the bachelors. This Is none other t h a n our big brother H. L. Dickason. Come on Brother Cannon for we are expecting something like this at the 1933 convention— Brother Cannon to Brother Dickason. Brother Dickason, meet Mrs. Cannon —JOHN FRANKLIN

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Still Talking About Alpha Zeta Prom People are still talking. That means t h a t Alpha Zeta has again succeeded in giving -the best prom of the current season.

During the Christmas holidays t h e Kappas held their annual conclave a t West Virginia Stat* College.

On Wednesday, December 28. the Alphas entertained Jointly with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority by giving a Christmas prom, and everyone agrees t h a t It had Its usual original atmosphere.

Alpha Zeta men are taking advantage of the low reinstatement tax to begin a movement whereby t h e graduate members may become more closely affiliated with this chapter and t h u s give a closer harmony with the graduate and undergraduate chapters.

Last year we succeeded In the various competitive fields of organized societies. Of course first place went to the Alphas In the scholastic field, and basketball fell prey to easy concentration.

With t h e election of new officers every Alpha man shook hands and pledged himself to work for Alpha Phi Alpha. So with the maturation of otir plans you may expect to hear of big doings from Alpha Zeta.

Beta Theta Holds First Initiation At Bluefield The brothers of Beta Theta experienced their first great sensation prior to the Christmas holidays as they led four pledgees across the sandy desert in t h e chapter's premier Initiation. The men who entered the fold were indeed worthy of the trust nlaced in them. The newlv-made brothers, Early T. McGhee, Robert Coleman. William Alexander, and William Lester Banks have nil been active both scholastically and extra-currlcularly since enrolling.

The chapter was unfortunate in not being able to send a delegate to t h e regional convention due to lack of funds but the men are looking forward to being prepared for all future conventions.

In electing officers for the coming year the brothers selected a working unit from which only the best is expected. Brother Kermit J. Hall was reelected president. At present Brother Hall, who helds his B. S. degree from Bluefield, is taking work Is the business department. Brother John Adams. varsity football quarterback, basketball letterman. and Junior in the school of education. was elected vice president. Brother William H. Gray, Jr.. president of the senior class, editor-in-chief of the school paper, basketball letterman, and varsitv debater. was elected secretary. Brother William V. Chappelle became treasurer and B r o t h e r Lawrence Drew, assistant student coach of football, chaplain.

Brother Clarence P. Horton. varsity end on the Big Blues, mentioned on several All-Amerlcans. two-letterman In basketball, and last year's captain was elected associate editor to the Sphinx.

Alpha Sigma8 Out To Do Good Turn Daily Alphaism is being retained at its helsrht of supremacy bv t h e brothers of Aloha Sigma chanter Because of their loyalty and fraternal consciousness everv rt'v finds the brothers doing something worthwhile.

On Thursday night, Jan. 4. the new officers were Installed to guide Alpha Sterna on to another successful year. Thev were: Brothers. W. D. Combs, president: H. M Sweatt. vice-president: T. W. Cole. secretary: W. W. Sewell. coresponding secretary: H. W. Milton, treasurer; L. E. Smith, chaplain; A. W. Patterson, sereeant at arms: W. A. Warren, director of Snhlnx club, and W. E. Bracken, associate editor to Sphinx.

The brothers loyally pledeed their support to help make this year one of the most outstanding years In the history of this chapter.

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THE SPHINX The brothers of Alpha Sigma presented their annual Yuletide program to t h e p u b lic Christmas Eve night. The success of the playlet was shown by an unusual amount of Interest expressed by those in the audience.

Brother Ford, a graduate member and manager of the Wildcat Inn college cafe, entertained the brothers and Sphinx club on New Year's Day. Smokers and soft drinks were served. The brothers and Sphinx members played bridge.

Brothers Combs, Patterson, and Milton well represented the chapter on the varsity suad last season. We are also represented in forenslcs. Brother T. W. Coles is president of the society. Brothers Combs, Johnson. and Bracken are members. Brothers N. H. Anderson, a graduate member of Alpha Sigma, Is the assistant coach.

The brothers are always thinking of the Sphinx club.

Before the close of t h e old year, a smoker was given for the club. "The Duty of a Sphinx member" was emphasized by our president. Brother W. D. Combs. We have a varied amount of talent in t h e club. It is made up of social, dramatic, athletic, and scholastic stars.

Alpha Sigma has already begun its arrangement of its activities during the 'Goto-Hlgh School. Go-to-College" campaign The brothers have entered into t h e work with plenty of pep and zeal. The plan Is to make this a unique campaign in the history of the chapter. Well, we'll see you In the next issue.

—W. E. BRACKEN, JR.

Nu Has Brother Who Tips Scales At 268 Pounds Nil Chapter held initiation on the night of December 9. 1932. With the dawn of the following morn, came forth thirteen new brothers.

These Neophite Brothers are: Capers Bradham. Charles Evans Albert Coleman. Harold Cooper, Carlton Richards, Geo. Mouzon. William James. Frank Veney, Hollls Tildon. George Taylor. H. T. McCrary, James Walden. and Willard Matthews.

This chapter now boasts of the largest brother who happens to be Neophite Brother Frank Veney, 268 pounds.

The following brothers have distinguished themselves as instructors on the campus: Willard Matthews, chemistry: Hollis Tildon, French, and Earl Pree. anatomy. Incidentally two of our pledge brothers are instructors. They are Wilfred Chandler. Greek; and James Day. physical education.

We wish to take this time to congratulate Brother Willard Matthews for his Induction into the Beta Kappa Chi Scientific society.

The offices of vice president and assistant treasurer t h a t were held open for sophomore brothers are now being filled by Brothers George Mouzon and Carlton Richards respectfully.

The brothers are fighting hard scholastically In order t h a t we mav reeain the leadership t h a t we were forced to surrender last year. Brother "Spank" Smith, basketball coach has started the season off with a bang. We wish both the coach and the captain. Brother Oren Riiev much luck.

—EARL O. PREE

Delta Lambda Chapter Reclaims Many Members At the first meeting of Delta Lambda Chapter of Morgan College earlv in November. Brother Irwin Underhlll. who If for no other reason would be acceptable to us because of the fine taste he evinced in attaching himself to a Baltimorean for a wife. described briefly and with vividness the people with whom he lives and works as a missionarv in Africa.

Brother Joseph H. B. Evans, penernl secretary. came over from the Canltal cttv. antf in addition to unravelling n number of bothersome financial knots snoke verv lnterestincrlv from the subject of chanter organization rehabilitation and operation.

Following Brother Evans' talk the entire set

of officers was reelected for the year.

They are: president, W. A. C. Hughes. Jr.; vice president, Norman Bishop; treasurer, Dr. George Hall; sergeant-at-arms, Clarence Chambers; secretary, C. C. Jackson and editor to the Sphinx. J. W. Haywood. Jr. From the thorough report of Brother Howard concerning the regional convention in Washington last December, we see signs of a renaissance in our fraternity. We behold with Joy this reawakening.

Our reclamation program Is now beginning to bear fruit. Each meeting shows the faces of several erstwhile wayward brothers filled with penitence. Already the n u m ber of brothers regularly attending, has tripled. Brother Aubrey Marshall and his social committee, are planning many wholesome, enjoyable and profitable affairs for us.

Brothers, in such times as these, when so many opportunities are offered for delinquency, test the genuineness of your affection for t h a t "dear fraternal bond." and help us to earn prosperity for Alpha Phi Alpha In 1933.

—J. W. HAYWOOD, JR.

Alpha Omicron Lambda Hears Of Virgin Islands Let no one get the idea t h a t because Alpha Omicron Lambda of Pittsburgh has been absent from these pages for the past two Issues t h a t the chapter is on t h e deadlist. Far from It! Not only do meetings continue to be well attended and interesting, b u t every member of the chapter is actively functioning in various ways In the community. The Y. M. C. A., the Urban League, the N. A. A. C. P.. the Livingstone Hospital, and a dozen other organizations would have a hard time getting board and committee members of all the Alpha men withdrew. And incidentally it's an Alpha man who heads each of the organizations named.

Brother Edward N. Robinson is handing out cigars celebrating the arrival of the youngest Alpha Omicron Lambda-ite, an eight-and-a-half-pound boy who entered the world almost to the blare of New Year horns. Brother R. D. Brown has been on the sick list b u t a visit from the sick committee headed by Brother Royal W. Taylor. seems to have . worked wonders.

Brother Brown is now back in his pulpit at the Holy Cross Church.

We now have the world's champion letterwriting president. Brother Charles A. Lanon was named to t h a t office at the December meeting and, since he lives fifty miles away at South Brownsville, keeps up with his presidential duties by mail. The paper industry and the post office have almost come out of the red in the past month of his activities. Brother Joseph W. Glvens was named to sit on the right hand side of the throne as vice, with Brother Wilbur C. Douglass still calling for dues as the secretary.

Order is kept by Brother Arthur Crockett. with Brothers C. Wallace Hawkins and R. Maurice Moss as assistant-secretary and associate editor, respectively. The money (such as there is) still reposes in the bank in the name of Brother Royal W. Taylor, the reelected treasurer.

Brother Jimmy Fowler made the installation speech and sent the new gang to work. If we do half of the things outlined in the new president's inaugural address we'll have all the cups Alpha can award in Pittsburgh.

At the January meeting. Brother Alonzo Moron. ex-Hamptonlte and winner of a Phi Beta Kappa key at Brown University (Moron —Phi Beta Kappa—believe It or not), was the programmed speaker. He told in an interesting manner of his native city In the Virgin Islands, and of the effects of American possession since 1917. The gang kept him answering questions for an hour and all decided to make t h a t the place for the next Alpha picnic. His statement t h a t there were far more women t h a n men In the Virgin Islands may have been responsible for this decision.

During the holidays several of the brothers motiored over to Homestead to Join with

THE SPHINX the under-grads In their Christmas party.

Some of them liked it so well that they returned to the same city for the Sphinx party the following week. Brothers Moss and crockett left their pass cards at home and had to argue their way Into a Sphinx party.

Can you imagine! They're that strict.

Under the general president's special December dispensation two brothers returned to the fold In the persons of Harry Brown and Lawrence Downing.

"Technocracy—What and Why," will be discussed by Frederick D. Hawkins at the February meeting. Speakers for other meetings will be as follows: March—Charles A. Lanon, "Morbidity, Longevity, Mortality"; April—Wilbur C. Douglas, "Alpha in History, Tradition and Ritual"; May—-Herbert T. Miller, "Present Status of the Negro in the Entertainment World"; September—Royal W. Taylor, "The Relation of Alpha to the Community": October—R. Maurice Moss, "The Negro and Crime;" November—Charles H. Carroll, "Factors That Should Be Embodied in Present-Day Negro Leadership."

That's about all this trip but we'll tell you about Brother Hawkins' discussion of Technocracy at the February meeting. I'll be seelngya!

'—R. MAURICE MOSS

Brothers Of Mu Lambda Hear Japanese Diplomat Since Mu Lambda Chapter of Washington, D. C, does not have to pass through an Interregnum like the one In which the Republicans "and Democrats are giving such a wonderful exhibition of how not to cooperate, It is moving forward smoothly under its new officers. Brother Frank Adams, the assistant district attorney who actually obtained a conviction before a District court recently, is our new president. Dr. Edward Howard Is the new vice-president.

M'sieu; Gustave Auzenne will continue his invaluable services as financial secretary, while Brother Thornhlll fills the post of treasurer. Ferdinand Rousseve—another of the descendants of the Old Guard at Waterloo—in his ppst of secretary, is already giving such literary form to his minutes that Vic Daly sees a conspiracy to displace him from the ranks of the author of Alpha's best seller. (But wait until Vic's new book .Shadows In the Valley, is out, that is, if the Daughters of the American Revolution do not get out an injunction to prevent its publication.)

Jewel Brother Nat Murray, having despaired of ever teaching the Lord's Prayer to some of the members, positively refused to serve another term as chaplain. Brother J. W. Bailey, Instructor in history at Howard. assumes this onerous task. Brother Howard Hale Long Installed these officers in his own inimitable serio-facetlous manner.

Carrying out its purpose of bringing before the chapter Interesting speakers, the entertaining group in January had invited an attache from the Japanese embassy to speak on the situation in the Far East.

The attache's name is not Ishii, but he will probably become as famous as that distinguished diplomat.

He "proved" that Japan's "punitive expedition" into Manchuria was a measure of "self-defense" against the "attacks" of the Chinese. Judge Cobb cross-examined him and got about as far as has the League of Nations.

Brother James Porter of the art department of Howard University, gave a brilliant lecture at the February meeting in which he discussed the failure of Negro artists to reflect the problems of modern life In their work. He called attention, on the other hand, to the work of the Mexican communist, Diego Rivero, who has dramatized the class struggle with startling force In his frescoes. Brother Porter also lamented the fact that very few of our colored schools make any effort to have mural paintings depicting the life of the Negro.

If the opportunity is offered for artistic work of this kind, there are competent Negroes, he Is convinced, to do the job.

The chapter was glad to note In its midst

at the February meeting. Brother Joe Hill, down from Lincoln. Incidentally, our general president has not missed a meeting since the opening of the school term.

Mu Lambda looks forward to an Interesting year. It is confidently believed that the splendid spirit which manifested Itself at the regional conference will continue, and will play its part in the convention at St. Louis.

—RAYFORD W. LOGAN

Alpha Omicron Breaks Traditions; Reelects Officers Great changes have taken place at Alpha Omicron since we wrote last. Certain traditions to which we have adhered, have been traded for something which we shall cherish as much as we did those things which we have parted with. In a recent meeting two broters were reelected to their former positions: Brother William David Coaxum, financial secretary, and Brother H. Rembert Malloy, associate editor to The Sphinx. Never before in the history of Alpha Omicron chapter has any person been reelected to his former position. Undoubtedly the services rendered to the chapter by these brothers were very satisfactory.

We sincerely hope that the breaking of this tradition will prove quite profitable to the chapter.

To progress one has to add, and In doing so one has to be tactful In taking on something that will not detract, but serve to advance. This is what Alpha Omicron tried to do In choosing new men for the elevation Into Alpha Phi Alpha. We sincerely believe that we have chosen a group of men who will add much to our chapter and to Alpha Phi Alpha. It Is with great pleasure that Alpha Omicron welcomes Into the bonds of. Alpha Phi Alpha the following neophyte brothers: Robert O'Danlels, Rollln P. Green, Vonner Dupre Jordan, E. Sllby Johnson, U. Eugene Kennedy, Thomas Logan, James C. Simpson, and James E. Sneed. Brother Simpson Is a student of Livingstone College.

Here Alpha Omicron Is pleased to present to Alpha Phi Alpha, the achievements of our neophyte Brothers. Neophyte Brother O'Danlels was the varsity quarterback of the Smith "Golden Bulls" and Is also a member of the Varsity "8" club, of which Brother Tom Martin was recently elected secretary.

Neophyte Brother Rollln P. Green is out for the basketball team, and Is also a member of the English-Philosophical Society, of which Brothers James Hairston, William Coaxum, Herman Hill and Neophyte Brother Kennedy are members: Neophyte Brother Jordan Is manager of the University Quintette, was a varsity end on the football team, and a member of the Varsity ;'S" club. Neophyte Brother Tom Logan is a member of the University Student staff, of which Neophyte Brother Sneed is the asistant circulation manager, Is a member of the Y. M. C. A. cabinet, and Is also out for the basketball team. Neophyte Brother Johnson was a varsity man and is a member of the Y. M. C. A. cabinet, a member of the University Student staff, and has shown wonderful abllty on the basketball court this season.

The recent reorganization of the Little Theatre group has among Its number the following brothers: William D. Coaxum, J. Edwin Halrston, E. Sllby Johnson, V. Dupre Jordan, H. Rembert Malloy, and Emory L. Rann, who was elected vice-president.

In "Bathane," a recent play presented by the Student Volunteer group, Brothers E. Sllby Johnson, H. Rembert Malloy, and Emory L. Rann were members of the cast.

According to the general opinion and expressions of the audience the play was a great success.

Among our Brothers at Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C, Brother Miller was quite outstanding as an end last football season.

There comes a time in each organization which causes regret among all of Its members. This regret was ours in a recent meeting which brought to a close tha ad-

Page 27 ministration of our beloved and admirable president, Brother James Leslie Hollowell.

II. Brother Hollowell was a faithful leader, a sincere worker, and a brother whom Alpha Omicron Is proud to consider as one among them. Brother Thomas S. Martin. former vice-president, succeeds Brother Hollowell as our leader. He has as his coworkers, Brother E. Sllby Johnson, vicepresident; Brother William D. Coaxum, financial secretary; Brother Rollln P. Green. corresponding secretary; Brother James E. Sneed, recording secretary; Brother Emory L. Rann, treasurer; Brother H. Remberi ,Malloy, associate editor to the Shpinx; .Brother U. Eugene Kennedy, historian; Brother Thomas Logan, chaplain; and Brother Robert O'Daniels, sergeant-atarms. With this new regime Alpha Omicron is looking forward to a year of suc,oess, progress, and achievements greater than ever before.

We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to the general president of Alpna Phi Alpha, Brother Charles H. Wesley, and to the general secretary, Brother Joseph H. B. Evans, for allowing us to send our delegation to the Eastern Regional convention which met in Washington, D. C , December 29 and 30, 1932. We also wish to thank Beta Chapter and Mu Lambda chapter for hospitalities and pleasures received by our representative while at the regional.

Alpha Omicron Is now looking forward with much interest to the Go-to-Hlgh School Go-to-College campaign, which We hope to make a great success. May all Alpha Phi Alpha Join in and make this year's campaign the greatest yet.

—H. REMBERT MALLOY

Beta Gamma Continues Active At Virginia State ±»eta Gamma returned to Virginia State College this year (minus the graduates and plus the neophytes) with a grimmer uetermination than ever before to maintain uur beloved Alpha Phi Alpha in its rightful position on our campus—that of first and foremost—in every activity offered. Tu date we have kept our promise, running true to form—but more Is to be said concerning that later.

Our first Important step at the beginning of the school year was the election oi officers for the ensuing term. The new administration follows: president, Joseph Hubbard; vice-president, Roscoe Lewis; recording secretary, Samuel Madden; corresponding secretary, Henry Creamer; treasurer, Reginald Clarke; associate editor of The Sphinx, John Robblns. These brothel;, have all pledged hearty cooperation in the matter of carrying out the business oi Alpha Phi Alpha.

Next in order came the initiating Into the mystic rites and secrets of Alpha Phi Alpha ten of our most desirable hopefulb The neophytes who saw the light on December 17 are Brothers J. S. T. Hlnes.

B. Jordan, V. Thomas, P. Lily, W. Solomon.

M. Davis, C. Townes, J. Robinson, N. Johnson, and R. Rogers. Surely these good brothers will not forget, for a long time to come, the most unfavorable conditions which confronted them during their recent Hell Week.

The very difficult and tactful procedure of pledging future hopefuls, by way of replenishing the Sphinx Club (which was left quite shaken in numbers by the recent Initiation) has Just been completed.

As usual Beta Gamma feels that she has made a wise and careful selection, having obtained what Is generally conceded to be the "cream of the crop." Pledge buttons were given to nine new students.

We mentioned before that our aim here Is to keep Alpha on top by being represented in every activity offered. "Well," speaking in the popular collegiate vernacular, "Get a load of this representation": The senior class presidency has been entrusted to Brother Alfred Pleasants; and the Junior class has as Its chief officer, Brother Reginald Clarke. The only male

Page 28 representative on the Student Welfare Committee lb r>rother Stephen Howe. i_.ooK.iug over the football roster we a i t pieasea to report such robust members us brothers a. xiowe, X. Hall, R. .Lewis, w. auiomon, i . i_,awson and W. S. uaraoiu. i'nese brothers uiu much in helping our scnool A L M O S T to win the championship.

The oasitetball season is in full swing and numoered among the mainstays 01 the team are m o t h e r s T. Hall, W. Solomon, e. Lny. and H. Creamer.

Caning on ' nouoiauie judges" in persistent enoits to show deep points, and s u b sequently oring honors to tneir Alma Mater IB the ueid 01 deDating are Brothers n.. mgginbotnam, C. Jones, J. H. Piumaii, J. oephas, L. Johnston, A. Pleasants, anu J. a. T. nines, .brother Higginbotham is president oi the Debating Society.

The dramatic side oi tne school is being more widely developed, and we are pieaseu to Dote among the future Uables and Barryniores, Brothers E. Henderson, J. s.

X. Hlnes, a. Howe, S. Madden, B. Jordan, and J. Robinson.

Lending harmony of a sort to the Choir and Glee Club may be found Brothers 11. Creamer, W. S. Barabln, R. Clarke, C. Townes, B. Jordan and J. U. Robbins.

Journalistically and columnistically inclined are Brothers E. Higginbotham, o H. Plttman, S. Madden, H. Creamer, anu J. U. Robbins, who make outstanding contributions to our student publication, the Virginia Statesman.

Brother Charles Jones was chosen by the Executive Council to represent the student body in an address a t the college's annual President's Day celebration held Jan. 27.

Lest we forget,—we have in our group a dean of the high school and college freshmen, in the person of Brother Harry Lee Smith.

Having presented in detail the activities of the various members of our group, Beta Gamma feels t h a t she has a right to teel proud of her accomplishments. Certainly we have made a creditable beginning for this year, and you are at liberty to expect even greater achievemnts from us in the near future.

—JOHN G. "Jack" ROBBINS.

Chi Initiates Neophytes, Installs New Officers Since the last writing of this scribe seven members of the Chi Sphinx Club have realized one of their greatest ambitions which was to become true Alpha men. The "crossing of the desert" to Alphadom was made by the men on the evening of December t h e seventeenth. This proved to be one of the most Impressive experiences of their lives. Finally in the wee hours of the eighteenth the men saw the beautiful and luminous dawn of Alpha Phi Alpha, a very inspiring sight to those assembled. The seven neophyte brothers to en tor the folds of Chi and Alpha were: A. B. Richardson of Meharry Medical College: A. B. Allen, L. W. Davis, R. B. Davis, R. Osby, J. Petway and L. Watkins, A. and I. State College.

During the Christmas holidays the brothers rested from their labors, had some full, and prepared themselves to bear t h e cross for t h e remainder of the semester. Chi wishes you and brothers In Alpha much success in your chosen fields of endeavor during the present new year.

After the brief and impressive Installation ceremonies of: M. M. Cann, president; H. E. Tann, vice-president; B. S. Waugh. secretary; G. E. Finley, corresponding secretary; L. B. Ward, financial secretary; W. B. Holland, house manager; T. C. Stowc, sergeant-at-arms; A. B. Allen, chaplain; and C. A. Method, associate editor to The Sphinx, t h e new officers pledged themselves to perform their duties to the best of their abilities, to make both Chi and Alpha better by their having served the organization. We realize t h a t the organization must not take a backward step but must continually make progress.

Brother Henry Arthur Kean, coach at

THE SPHINX Kentucky State Normal College, located at Frankfort, brought his fighting quintet to Nashville to play the Bull Dogs of Flsk.

Brother Kean was pleased as to the outcome of the game, his team being on the long end of the score. The teamwork Indicated skillful coaching.

—C. A. METHOD.

Alpha Chi Represented On Fisk U. Choir Season's greetings from Alpha Chi, of Flsk University and here's hoping t h a t you'll all share a successful and happy New Year.

At present Alpha Chi has the following officers: Brother Ransom, president; Brother Turner, vice-president; Brother Mcintosh, secretary; Brother Adams, recording secretary; Brother Brumfield, Treasurer; Brother Morton, chaplain; Brother Hall, sergeant-at-arms; Brother Martin, parliamentarian, and Brother Howard, editor to Sphinx.

Alpha Chi is proud to welcome the following new brothers: Mitchell, Franklin, Bennett, Washington, Harvey.

Melvin, Fleet, Galr, Roberts, Alexander, J. Howard, and Love. They are all well-rounded men. who have made a place for themselves on the campus.

On December 7, 1932, Alpha Chi celebrated its Founder's Day by conducting chapel.

Brother Ransom, our president, presided.

The program consisted of a short tribute to the fraternities and sororities on the campus by Brother Ransom; prayer by Brother Galr, a short history of Alpha Phi Alpha, and of Alpha Chi, by Brothel Tinner, and musical selections by Brother Lawson, professor of music.

On December 9, Alpha Chi entertained the Freshmen at the home of Brother Dr. Charles S. Johnson. At eleven, a short program was presented. Brother Martin proved himself an able master of ceremonies. The speakers were Brother Gore. Dean of A. and T. State College, and Brothers Ransom.

Franklin and Bennett. Mr. Daniel responded from the freshman class. There were also several selections by the chapter's octette.

A rising vote of thanks was given to Brothers Martin, T. M. Brumfield, Jr., and F. E. Howard, for the success of the committee in promoting the smoker. Alpha Chi was glad to welcome Brothers Tyus and Scruggs to the meeting of December 11, and is proud to know t h a t they are successful in their new business heretofore unopened to our people.

The chapter sent Brothers Martin and Mcintosh to the Southern Regional Convention of 1932.

Alpha Phi Alpha is well represented in the Fisk University choir, which made an extensive Northern tour in January. The following brothers made the trip: Brothers Harvey, Ransom, Washington, Brumfield, Franklin, Mitchell and Turner.

The Alpha Chi basketball team began practising December 14th, under the [supervision of Coaches Adams, Bennett and Mitchell. The team is composed of the following brothers: Sapp. Galr, Martin, Crump, Ransom, Alexander, Fleet. Hall, Washington, and F. E. Howard. Alpha Chi also boasts of six men on the Fisk varsity in the persons of Brothers Adams. Bennett, Mitchell, Morton. J. Howard, and Fisher.

We are expecting fine things from t h e m all.

—FREDERICK E. HOWARD

Believe It Or Not, Alpha Theta Still Exists It is really true! Peihaps. however, only after a careful scrultny of the binding of this publication you will be convinced of this fact. Now t h a t our brains are again clear, after holiday revels—old maids and confirmed bachelors call them Indiscretions —here we are attempting to present a summary of recent chapter activities.

Open season on Freshman brought about

a smoker for the purpose of acquainting new students with a bit of campus life. oood oi skipper, Brother Barrett, anu our good shepherd, watcher of the flock oi pitdges, Brother Williams, were the principal speakers. As a result of their gift or gab and the obvious advantages of this chapter, eight new sheep came into the fold.

Life was Just one book after another until the week-end beginning October 21. 'ihe annual Homecoming got off to a big start, in the dark, at the "housewarmer i r i d a y night. Saturday night, good old 'led Williams and his Golden Pheasants piayed lovely music.

Due to the ravages of the current low trend oi affairs, the dance was the result of the cooperation between all the Negro ureek-letter societies on the campus. Fraternities were Alpha, Kappa and Omega; tilt sororities, A. K. A.'s and Deltas.

A train of guests from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and parts unknown flocked to Iowa City. Brothers Seabron and Caldwell arrived (fell In the Joint in true Chicago and Evanston glory) while Brothers White and Wilson, of St. Louis, lent their august perjjon&gts to the gathering.

All were members of Alpha Theta.

Routine was again agreeably Interrupted by election of officers. The returns were: brother McGUvery Wilson, president; Brother Bernard Goss, secretary; Brother R. C. (Chris) Williams, assistant secretary; Brother H. L. Barrett, treasurer and steward.

Brother 1. f. Uooley, auditor; and Brother K. R. O'Neal, editor to the Sphinx. Watch and see what they do!

Weil they gave a smoker! In an attempt to further niendship between the two fraternities on the campus, Kappas and Alphas, a smoker was given. The "big shots" n o m both fraternities spoke constructively pertaining to better relations between themselves, w i t h cards and refreshments (were they reviving) things were further livened.

A—hh!

Now comes the fun!

Three lowly crabs were ambitious enough to 6tart on that long hard road. Surprisingly, all three survived and were enthus astlcally welcomed into the bond. These new brothers were Wilbur C. Wallace of Washington, D. C ; Harry A. Johnson and Cassell Goss. both of Kansas City, Mo. Then, a banquet to acquaint the new brothers with the ritual was staged. (Food by "Chris" Williams.) It went over with a bang! Alter nursing their frames, the neophytes romped Joyfully off to celebrate during Christmas.

Happy New Year!! A celebration was In order, so with due ceremony the new ofilcers were placed under the yoke. A few changes made necessary by resignations of Brothers Barrett and O'Neal, were made: steward. Brother T. P. Dooley; editor to the Sphinx. C. Goss; auditor, Wilbur Wallace.

That's all, there ain't no more! 'Til next

Theta Lambda Keeps Things Humming In Dayton Brothers of Alphadom. Theta Lambda is on the air again, broadcasting recent and near recent events. Please stand by.

October 21, an Informal frat party was given at the home of Brother W. O. Stokes.

Twenty-three members with their wives and sweethearts attended. This affair was the first of Its kind In three years. During this three-year period all social functions were of "stag" variety. So everybody made the most of this novelty—especially J. E. Bush and Burns Cassell, who kept the party live from its beginning until the end.

October 23, Brother Rev. D. M. Jordan was host to Theta Lambda Chapter at his McKlnley A. M. E. Church, where he Is now pastorlng. Brother Jordan has done some big things for the church during thi short time he has been its pastor. He has Just completed a successful campaign for $3,000, the second of its kind since he has been here. What's wrong with Jordan?

THE SPHINX Well, everybody says he's all right—and reigning over the country since 1929. Old he Is. man depression said as he shook hands with Theta Lambdlans are doing much these cur dear brother, days toward enlightening the Community "Son, you'll have to get a job in some on topics of the day. Sunday, Nov. 4, at other field temporarily, for all positions the Y. M. C. A. people gathered to heat; in the scientific field seem absolutely fillBrother Rev. Samuels Belboder on t h e afed." So far. Brother Alexander has found firmative "Should the Eighteenth Amendt h a t statement to be a fact and has been ment Be Repealed?" After his talk the doing quite well in the catering business meeting was thrown open for discussion.

—at least well enough to visit an out-ofThe meeting proved to be a very interesttown lady every week-end. Reports have ing one,—sufficiently Interesting to have a it t h a t he is engaged to the lady In quescrowd awaiting Brother Rev. D. M. Jortion. We won't tell you who she Is, b u t dan the following Sunday to take up the she lives with Mrs. Irene Kendall on Spring negative side of the question. But their Street.

Columbus, Ohio. There are three eager ears were disappointed, for illness had girls who make their homes with Mrs. Kenconfined Brother Jordan to his bed. The dall—Miss Jane Kendall, Miss Pauline Kenpatrons, expressing their sorrows for Brothdall, who are daughters of Mrs. Kendall, er Jordan's condition, turned away hoping and Miss Eureta Moore. to return Sunday, November 18. to hear Brother Alexander is a member of the Brother J. A. Parsons speak on the "Gold Chesterfield Social Club of this city. Each Standard." year this club has a basketball team enWe sent individual invitations to other tered In the Community Social League and sororities and fraternities.

The meeting Brother Alexander has been a member of was well advertised by the local press. the team until this year—he withdrew— Sunday, December 18. ws the date. Frawell, the reason is, t h a t trunks could not ternities and sororities came—the A. K. be purchased small enough for him. Too A. Sorority was about 100 per cent in atbad. for he was a good player. tendance. Well, to make a longer story Treasurer—Brother Thomas Bush, forshorter, there appeared only three Theta merly from down home, b u t later from Lambdlans other than the speaker. You Wilberforce University will take care of can Imagine my embarassment—from a list Theta Lambda's money this year. Brother of forty brothers only a total of four apBush entered Wilberforce with b u t 145 lbs. peared. of flesh to his credit, when he left he Brother Parsons, however, made such an carried away 225 lbs. plus—and we thought Impression on the crowd that attended the Wilberforce food was bad. t h a t he was flooded with requests to give Sergeant-at-Arms—It would be out of the talk to various clubs. order to have an official staff without Bro. The second regular fall meeting, scheduled James M. Pierce, so he Is to swing t h e Friday, December 16. was held a day earlier.

Black Jack when things become unruly.

But you see, the management of our local He will also be King of the Rush Comtheatre gives away cash prizes on Fridays mittee. Many seasons have passed since and the president didn't think t h a t we Theta Lambda has brought a lamb u n t o could hold a meeting—a fraternity meetits fold through the initiation route—won't ing—at the Classic Theatre, so the date be long now. was set back. The first part of the proDirector of Education—Brother R. W. gram consisted of cards, then came talks Findley, the retiring president, has served from Brothers Dr. J. E. Bush and Lloyd Theta Lambda as no predecessor has done.

Phillips, followed by a short business sesHe has made a mark for successors to sion then a feed and home. We also gave shoot at. Being aware of the value of a rlosed Christmas party.

Brother Findley to the welfare of Theta President Dr. M. R. Clark, yes, smiling Lambda, he was chosen to plan Its worthDr. Clark, some lassies call it the million while educational program. Brother Finddollar smile. Mrs. Clark says t h a t she ley has been in the city only the short wishes she could sell It. Brother Clark time of three years. During t h a t time his hails from Meharry, good old Meharry. workings In the community has made him Somehow he has worked his way from a much sought after man when there Is Tennessee, stopped in Cincinnati long something "big" to do. This year1 he enough to get Mrs. Clark, now we find has put over the community's two greatest him a medical practioneer in Dayton, a projects: the Y. M. C. A. Campaign and little town t h a t towers above many cities the Community Chest Drive. Brother Findmany times Its size. And by the way. ley Is district manager of the Supreme LibBrother Clark now has an assistant, little erty Life Insurance Company. He has made M. R. Jr., who works away while papa's a big success of the job and is still fightnt play. Brother Clark has been affiliated ing for bigger successes. So brothers, with with Theta Lambda one year only, but a set of officers as these, all obstacles in he has won the respect and admiration of the path of Theta Lambda's progress will all Thetalamdom. be removed.

Vice-President— Another Meharry man, In concluding, Theta Lambda sends a who began his practice in Dayton and has Happy New Year to all chapters and brothkept the number of patients cured, so much ers of Alpha Phi Alpha. higher than the number sent to the u n Now Brothers, I'll turn the old mike over dertaker, t h a t he. Brother Dr. O. D. Mcto my successor. Brother Foster AlexandFall. is recognized as one of Dayton's best. er. who will entertain you during t h e Secretary—This duty; brothers, has fallen season of 1933. upon the broad and proud shoulders of —EARL P. TAYLOR. Brother Dr. C. Richard Price, a Daytonian by birth. Brother Price received his elementary and high school education here.

While at Steel High School, he was prominent in both scholastic and athletic attainments. These merits he transferred to The New Year finds Alpha Phi Chapter Ohio State University where he made Varstanding on the threshold of Its 365 and sity football squad and graduated with a fraction days, feeling t h a t 1932 was a B.A. and M.D. degrees. Brother Price has year of vast accomplishments. We have hren practising medicine here for about succeeded in securing the only frat quarone year and has created a patronage much ters on the campus of Clark University. worth mentioning. we are the only men who have proven Corresponding Secretary and Edttor-toworthy enough to have a place on the Sphinx—Another Daytonian. Brother Foshonor roll, and we boast a roster larger ter L. Alexander, who received his elem«>nAnd more significant than the combined tarv and high school education here, and members of all other organizations on the college education at O. S. U.. graduated in famous. Just another Alpha characteristic, J u n e 1930. with B. S. in chemistry. When brothers: that's all.

Brother Alexander stepped from the graduSince your humble servant last communating platform In June, he shook hands icated with you through the Sphinx, five with old man depression who had been of the most outstanding men in the school

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Page 29 have been led across t h e burning sands t o enjoy the good old Alpha spirit and brotherly love with t h e rest of us.

Neophyte brothers are Rossman Turpen. leader in various campus organizations, the most versatile actor in the Thespian Dramatic Club, and is said to be able do more with organizing a student body, t h a n perhaps the president himself.—Not apeakitog slack of Brother IDavage, our president, b u t a brother is a brother. Next. we have Edgar Kinney, scholar, athlete, and all-round fellow.

We are looking for Brother Kinney to keenly represent us on the hardwood, as his older brother in Alpha Phi Alpha has done In the past. Neophyte Brother Clarence Sykes is slated to do his part on the basketball court also. Next is Theodore "Little Teddy" Johnson, football, basketball and baseball star, who came Into our folds carrying seven subjects with an average of 2.5. Brother Johnson comes from Denver, Colorado, the seat of Alpha Iota, and Intends to be someday one of Its most ardent workers. Last is Marvin Riley, who was sent to this Institution on an Alpha Phi Alpha Scholarship, awarded by Eta Lambda Chapter, and has by his scholastic record along with his extra-curricular activities made us proud to welcome him into t h e world of Alphadom.

The social activities of Alpha Phi has been far above par. On the night of December 5, the chapter gave a smoker for the Freshmen in t h e "frat" room. Fifteen bridge tables were scattered throughout t h e place on which some happy battles were fought. Songs were sung until far Into the night. Then t h e "barbs" passed around the chicken salad, potato chips, olives, and hot chocolate. The night passed as all nights pass, b u t this particular night was thought of and shall forever be thought of as "one night of fun and frolic."

During the entire Yuletlde season the chapter entertained the student body with various social affairs each day and night.

December 30. t h e chapter "pulled" one of those semi-closed swelegant affairs for brothers, their guests, and visitors from out of town stopping on the campus attending a "Y" conference.

The house was gorgeously decorated while many masterpieces of feminine pulchritude dashed. glided, and tipped llghtlv across the hardwood to the music of Mells and his Rhythm Makers. Brother Samuel F. Howell sawed and plucked the old bass fiddle furnishing a weird African background to the music so effectively t h a t we were at times carried through the wilds of Africa, as well as the harems of Egypt. Visiting brothers who shared In the merrymaking were from Alpha Rho. Beta Epstlon, Alpha Omlcron. end Beta Delta.

Among t h e ponular young women of t h e campus who added n o small amount of vitality to this never-to-be-forgotten affair were the president of Alpha Pi Chanter of the A. K. A. Sorority. Miss J. Elizabeth Adorns: Miss Thelma Barnes. A. K. A.: Miss Ruby Gordon. Delta: Miss Luclnda Smith.

Zeta, and lust countless numbers of their Sorors. What a night!

Knowing t h a t every period of depression carries within Its hosom seeds from which a new prosperity must grow, periods ushering In new eras, we Intend to put. more emnhasls on the Go-to-Hlgh-School.

Oo-to-College Campalen than ever bPfor° so t h a t the future boy and elrl will be better prepared to cone with the problems arising out. of t h e coming new areas.

We are proud to know t h a t Alpha Phi Alpha stands for more t h a n SELF, and as we strive to hold Its banner far above all others, we are also striving to help others to become adlusted to an ever chancing world where men shall be graded on the basis of their Intelligence.

Brother E. Lloyd Simon, president of the <*lass of '33. associate editor t o t h e "Mentor." vice-president of t h e Inter-Fraternal Council; member of the Alpha Delta Alpha

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Page 30 Scientific Society, and student instructor was chosen from the entire football squad .is the principal speaker for the football banquet. Just another significant endeavor that Brother Simon Is always doing for, what he says, "nothing but good old Alpha 'Jhl Alpha."

Alpha Phi Chapter was allowed to initiate the bursar of the university, who Is now Brother M. E. Turrentlne, one-time member of Sphinx Club in Virginia State College, but was called away from that Institution on account of death In the family. This initiation was presided over by Brother President M. S. Davage. Those who took an active part In It were Dean James P. Rrawley. Prof. A. A. McPheeters. Prof. E. T,. Lipscomb. Prof. Frederick Hall, and Prof.

E. Luther Brookes. Brothers of Alpha Phi welcome Brother M. E. Turentine along with the other five neophyte brothers.

The year 1933 saw Brother Robert Bonner taking his seat as our new president. "rom the manner in which he presided over his chapter in his first meeting, makes nil brothers feel sure that he is going to be among the best Alpha Phi has known.

Wishing that all chapters will have a very prosperous New Year, and that each will be successful In reinstating as many unfinan-ial members as possible —GEORGE LOGAN EDWARDS. Jr.

ties may arise which will force a financial reorganization.

Probably, In the near future, the national organization will deem it expedient to adopt a national house plan. Under such plan, loans could be made to those distressed chapters that, In the eyes of a national house loan board, seem worthy, and the debtor chapter could repay the national organization with interest at a time stipulated in the contract. The national organlzaton could obtain funds to make the loans by cutting Its educational activities appropriation and by appropriating an amount, proportionate to the educational activity cut, to a national house fund.

—JOHN BLUFORD, Jr.

Gamma Brother To Receive Masters Degree

Gamma Chapter of Union University greets you with the best wishes for a Happy New Year! Brothers, the past year has been a hard one and we are well aware of that fact. However, we at Gamma have decided to take stock of ourselves and make the most of this year of Rooseveltlan "belly wash (beer)" and "prosperity." If the latter does not obtain, then, we are going to make the most of It anyway. . . and that's a darn good way to begin the year, even tho' I do say so.

Talking about Gamma news!

That sounds like adding a police tag to the postmortem of a pauper. The past holidays Concluding an unusually Inspiring edugave to Gamma a new impetus to take cational "bullfest" in the parlor of TJpsion the reigns of good times in the good lon's Chanter room last week, the leader old Alpha way. Gamma entertained the nut the direct Question before the hr.uRe. Omega Psi Phi Fraternity on December which had been indlrectlv debated t.hrouzh29. and If you want to know how elaborate out the three hours bullfest—will the presthe affair was. ask any good timer who. perent depression point out the poorly conchance. stopped over during the holidays. structed fraternal organizations as It has Speaking about the holidavs reminds us weeded out the marginal financial Instithat our president. Brother Thomas H. Hentutions?—thus sending each "bullfester" derson, reports a 'heluva' good time at the dreamily to bed wondering what effect regional In Washington. "In fact." says the depression would have on Upsllon and he. "so much took place I couldn't begin Aloha as a whole. to tell you all about it."

The "bullfest" had grown out of a preBrother Hylart "Dizzy" Lewis writes that viously heated discussion over a plan prohe will receive his master's degree In sonosed bv Rrother Ora Elliott, senior in the ciology from the University of Chicago In K. U. business school. The nlan is design•Time. Brother Lewis is an honor graduate ed to liouidate the TJpsllon Chanter House of Union, class of '32. morteaee in a shorter oeriod than it can On December 19. Gamma met at. Brother become Houidated under the present house Walker H. Quarles' home. On Januarv F nlan. Elliott pronoses to estahlish a sink Gamma met at. the home of Brother DuIng fnnri to h» built of $5 contributions from Pont Evans. With many recollections of all Unsllon brothers not In school but fiwell served plate lunches, methlnks Brothnancially obligated to the chanter- a *s er Evans' culinary dexterity is par-excellassessment on each active TJnsilon hrother ent. For the year. Gamma has selected and each newlv initiated Snhinx- of small the following brothers as officers: nresicontributions from Lawrence visitors stoodent. Brother Jesse "Mnsbmouth" Wilson; niu" at the chanter house, from Unsllon vice-president. Eugene "Kink" Jones: secadmirers and from a ten per cent, tax r\-r\ retary. Brother Junius "Jack Lazy" Taynartv and rent revenues The fund wl'' lor. Aside from other flunky positions. be nlaced in the hands of a trustee, nreyours truly holds down this task with ferablv a well known and responsible brothsome degree of perplexity. er from Beta Lamhda, TJpsllon's "bi" brothGamma gives a rousing cheer to Brothers er" In Kansas Citv.

"LIT Gut" Williams, "Jack Lazy" Taylor.

The Elliott nlan has the heartv onnrnya' and Benlamin "Big Tom" Thompson and and ornfounri cunnort of Guv p^v's cento* Pledgee Sam Jenkins for their nrowess on K. TT hns'"«ss student, and prosen + TJpslthe cleated turf. Brothe- "Out" Williams lon steward Brother Davis nnlnt«d out has the distinction of piaving all games that the present mort«ftff* with a local without being relieved. Three cheers for hnlldlni* and lonn association, calls for :,n this nhysical giant!!! cvorbintant Interest rate execeedtng ten Exams are lust around the corner and per cent snring on ton of that. But never you "TJnHer the Fiilntt nlan " i w « ^ Tlavis mind, ve scribe and the rest of us wl" "we will be able to rnmnletn'r wir>» out pull through if we have to do so on r^ir indebtedness ir, less th«n turn vonrs stilts. at t h e end of wh'^b r ° n t nun he dpeidedlv —G. JAMES GILLIAM. reducer! the potential fraternity house toy to be Inflicted bv the munlclnal rrovrn. empt. mav be easily met and tv.« hnus«

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Tau Lambda Plans For New Year Impressive

Tau Lambda is carrying on despite the fact that Its president. Brother Dean A. A. Taylor, is on a leave of absence from Ftsk University to complete reoulrements for the Ph D decree in th» department of historv at Harvard University. Brother R. B. J. Campbelle. vlce-nres1d°nt has been carrying on nobly. Monthly meetings which

have been characterized by attention to business and social recreation have been held at the Flsk Faculty Club. Chi Chapter House, and at the residence of Brother Dean G. W. Gore.

At the December meeting the following officers were elected for 1933: president.

Dean A. A. Taylor, Flsk University; vicepresident, R. B. J. Campbelle. Tenn. A. and T. State College: secretary, J. R. Anderson: assistant-secretary, Dean Lloyd Cofer. of Flsk University; treasurer. T. W. Talley.

Fisk University; associate editor of "The Sphinx," Dean G. W. Gore, A. and I. State College: sergeant-at-arms. Joseph Anderson, Fisk University; chaplain. Dr. C. S Johnson. Fisk University; parliamentarian.

Dr. E. Franklin Frazler. Fisk University.

Chapter plans for the new year Include an active educational campaign, social and civic features, and more definite relationship with the local undergraduate chapters and the national organization.

—GEORGE W. GORE, Jr.

Alpha Delta Lambda Has Impressive Quintet Greetings Brothers: First, we of Alpha Delta Lambda chapter and as individual brothers, wish to extend to all brothers far and near, best wishes for the new year.

Unfortunately we were not able to meet our brothers at the New Orleans regional.

However, we heartily sanction any action that was taken by the body.

Our first meeting of the year was very Inspirational. About twelve of the brothers met at the home of Brother J. Edward Cotton and saw the officers for the new year hold their initial meeting.

Well, you should see the boys getting under way, whipping into shape a mighty fine quintet for the basketball season We are boasting such stars as "Big Jack" Adkins. former Fisk Star and mentor of Le Moyne College Athletics and Jimmy "Fats" King, also of Fisk U. Then there's S. M. "Committee" Smith and J. Edward "Joe" Cotton and E. C. "Deacon" Jones. all formerly of the 'Force, with "Reed" M. Robinson and "Bob" Morris of Tennessee State, all contributing toward the Alpha Five. Watch our smoke.

Brother Jack Adkins was inst-umental In bringing the Renaissance Big Five to Memphis for an engagement and a very fine showing was made, especially by brothers on the visiting team.

Had a letter from the general president the other day and of course I am all swelled up over the fact—says he might get a chance to come South soon and nay us a visit. We got to be good friends this summer in Ohio and the Middle West.

Our new roster of officers for the year is as follows: S M. Smith, president: James G. King, vice-president: E. C. Jones, secretary: J. N. Bowman, treasurer: J. Edward Cotton, corresponding secretary and associate editor to the Snhinx: H. L. Latham. chaplain; and Reld M. Robinson. sergennt-at-arms.

We extend to all brothers visiting in this vicinity an Invitation to look In on us. We welcomed in our midst Brother D. J. Thomas, who comes to manage a first rate drug store In the citv.

Until the next time, we bid vou adieu —J. EDWARD COTTON

Alpha Pi Lambda To Concentrate On Camnaign The brothers of Alpha PI Lambda Chapter of Winston-Salem. N. C . are working hard to bring more glory to the illustrious name of Alpha Phi Alpha.

We are planning several important prolects for the year. Our greatest efforts will he concentrated upon the "Go-to-HighSchool. Go-to-College Campaign. In connection with the campaign this year, our chapter Is sponsoring in the local high

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THE SPHINX school, an oratorical contest, which Is to be an annual affair. The contest Is to end during the week of the campaign. We are hoping also to present a scholarship to some deserving high school senior at t h e end of the year.

Brother George F. Newell, formerly corresponding secretary and now vice-president of our chapter, has won much distinction in educational circles through his unusual oratorical talent and ability.

Brother Newell is coach and instructor of the Atkins High School debating team. He is to direct the annual triangular high school debate in the early spring. Alpha Pi Lamber Chapter is proud to have among its members four athletes who have dis-

tinguished themselves In local athletic circles. They are Brothers A. H. Anderson, J. L. Cary, J. O. Ellis and E. Shepard Wright. Brother Anderson (our retiring president) Is coach of t h e Atkins High School Pedagogues Basketball team, and is m u c h in demand as an athletic official.

Brothers Cary and Wright were both featured in t h e game recently played between the local Y. M. C. A. and t h e world-famous Renaissance cagers of New York City. The game ended 38-22 in favor of the Renaissance team. Brother Anderson officiated as referee. Brother Ellis is the outstanding player of t h e Winston-Salem Olympians.

All of our members report a very enjoyable holiday season. Some Journeyed far

in answer to Cupid's call, including Brother J. W. Holmes, formerly of Omlcron, who spent the holidays In Pittsburgh, and Brother T. C. Williams, formerly of Nu Chapter, who spent Christmas with his "better half" at home a t Lincoln University, Pennsylvania.

We have had two highly Interesting meetings this year. At the first meeting of 1933 our new officers were Installed by the retiring chaplain, Brother C. E. Colter.

At the second meeting, we were very pleasantly entertained by Brothers Otis Hogue and G. P. Newell, a t t h e home of Brother Hogue.

Best wishes to all brothers for a happy and successful year.

—G. LEONARD ALLEN.

A Call To Arms Welcome address delivered on behalf of Mu Lambda a n d Beta Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity: Eastern Regional Conference: Dec. 29, 19S2 r n p H E t r i t e and obvious t h i n g to say - i . upon an occasion of t h i s kind is t h a t we a r e glad to welcome you to our g r e a t city, to all of t h e facilities of t h i s G r e a t e r H o w a r d U n i v e r s i t y , a n d to t h e w a r m , f r a t e r n a l h e a r t s and t h r o b bing affection of t h e b r o t h e r s of Mu L a m b d a and Beta C h a p t e r s of A l p h a Phi A l p h a F r a t e r n i t y . I t is w i t h genuine sincerity we voice these s e n t i m e n t s .

H e r e , a t t h e capital of t h e nation, t h e center of N e g r o c u l t u r e , s t r i v i n g , and achievement, you will find an a t m o s p h e r e calculated to inspire you and to quicken h e a r t t h r o b s , not only of f r a t e r n a l goodwill, but also of racial pride a n d t h e h i g h e r t h i n g s of the spirit.

H e r e , in W a s h i n g t o n , t h e seat of Mu L a m b d a and B e t a C h a p t e r s , m a y be found in t h e full f r u i t a g e of purpose ful achievement the glowing personalities of those honored reverend seignors of A l p h a Phi A l p h a .

Alpha H e a d e r s In W a s h i n g t o n Wesley, scholar, eloquent o r a t o r , ecclesiastical leader, p r e s i d e n t of our beloved F r a t e r n i t y , whose wise a d m i n i s t r a t i o n of our affairs h a s a l r e a d y b r o u g h t new l u s t r e a n d glory to our name; Kelly Miller, sage oracle, whose keen blade flashes r a p i e r - l i k e in college hall and on p r i n t e d p a g e ; J u d g e Cobb, seasoned s t u d e n t of t h e law, judicially minded, and a l w a y s even tempered (when not c h a s t i s i n g a friend

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surgery;

Cassell, whoe w i z a r d y in a r c h i t e c t u r e and e n g i n e e r i n g h a s t r a n s f o r m e d a bleak u n i n v i t i n g hill into a s u m m i t of classic beauty; Houston, t h e y o u n g e r , himself

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t r a i n e d in t h e intricacies of t h a t p r o fession justly r e f e r r e d to as a j e a l o u s m i s t r e s s , a d m i n i s t e r s t h e affairs of t h e only C l a s s A law chool for Negroes in the world; H a n s b e r r y , delver into t h e mystic sec r e t s of K i n g T u t and all who preceded a n d have followed h i m ; t o g e t h e r w i t h t h r e e of our founding f a t h e r s , J e w e l s M u r r a y , Callis, a n d Ogle, s o m e w h a t aged now, 'tis t r u e , b u t a s agile a s t h e t e s t i n g y e a r s will p e r m i t ; a n d dozens of o t h e r s of like capability a n d achievement,—too n u m e r o u s on a n occasion of this kind to mention, b u t loyal a n d t r u e disciples, all, of the foundation principles which underly our beloved f r a t e r n ity.

An O b s e r v a t i o n I am s u r e I m u s t not risk seeking to offer you advice, or admonition, and y e t I would v e n t u r e an o b s e r v a t i o n : You a r e a selected g r o u p , set a p a r t , a s it were, to p r e p a r e yourselves for divine purposes of leadership of a m i n o r i t y

theless still l a r g e l y d i s a d v a n t a g e d a n d underprivileged.

A lighted t o r c h h a s been confided to y o u r c a r e a n d keepingYou m u s t n o t fail t h e h u n g r y m u l t i t u d e s who a r e looking t o you for g u i d a n c e a n d direction d u r i n g these d a y s of t r a v ail a n d s o r r o w , t h e s e d a y s of t e c h n o c r a cy, w h a t e v e r it m a y eventually come to m e a n in t h e lives of t h e g r e a t m a s s e s of men and w o m e n ; these d a y s of t r i a l a n d disillusionment, you m u s t n o t , you c a n n o t fail t h e m .

You a r e A l p h a P h i A l p h a Men. U n t o you h a v e been opened t h e g a t e s of educational o p p o r t u n i t y — y o u m u s t not seek ease-loving c a r e e r s , nor y e t selfishly t h e a d v a n t a g e s of t h e powerful, privileged few. Y o u r education is a t r u s t e e ship. Y o u r debt to society is one you cannot r e p u d i a t e . T h e golden torch, t h e lighted torch you bear m u s t be c a r r i e d ever, ever f o r w a r d .

Must Not Fail A n d , a s t h e y e a r s come a n d go, and you feel it falling from y o u r failing g r a s p , it shall be y o u r d u t y to throwit f o r w a r d a bit f u r t h e r t h a t it m a y be snatched by o t h e r s a n d finally set upon t h e e t e r n a l h e i g h t s of full and complete manhood, full a n d complete educational o p p o r t u n i t y for e v e r y boy a n d girl in the land w i t h o u t r e g a r d to r a c e , creed, or color, and w h e r e t r i u m p h a t over all shall reign t h a t s p i r i t of noblesse oblige which should c h a r a c t e r i z e e v e r y college-trained m a n , especially those imbued with t h e s p i r i t of A l p h a P h i Alpha.

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Official Alpha Phi Alpha Directory — Continued (Continued from Inside Cover) BETA LAMBDA, Kansas City, Mo.; Pres., S. D. Scruggs, Jr., 1312 N. 12th St.; Kansas City, Kan.; Sec'y., B. A. Mayberry, 2811 Vine St., Kansas City., Missouri.

OAMMA LAMBDA, Detroit, Mich.; Pres., C. Henri Lewis, 6190 Iroquois Ave.; Sec'y., Grover D. Lange, 1700 St. Antolne St. DELTA LAMBDA, Baltimore, Md.; Pres., W. A. C. Hughes, Jr.; Sec'y., Clarence C. Jackson, 7 East Mulberry St. •PSTLON LAMBDA, St. Louis. Mo.; Pres., S. E. Garner, 11 N. Jefferson; Cor. Sec'y., S. P.. Redmond.

ZETA LAMBDA, Norfolk, Va.; Pres., Dr. L. A. Powlkes, 2510 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, Va.; Sec'y., A. D. Manning, 555 Twenty-fifth St., Newport News, Va. THETA LAMBDA, Dayton. Ohio; Pres., M. R. Clarke, 1121 Germantown Street; Cor. Secretary, P. L. Alexander, 1013 Gard Avenue.

•TA LAMBDA, Atlanta, Ga.; Pres., P. B. Washington, 239 Auburn Ave., N. E.; Sec'y, C. W. Washington, 239 Auburn Ave., N. E. IOTA LAMBDA, Indianapolis, Ind.; Pres., Joseph C. Carroll, 2944 Indianapolis Ave.; Secy., Thomas L. Horner, 1647 Beliefon talne St. KAPPA LAMBDA, Greensboro, N. C; Pres.

Dr. B. W. Barnes, 811 1-2 E. Market St. MTJ-LAMBDA, Washington, D. C; Pres., Robert A. Burrell; Cor. Sec'y, Frank F. Davis, Jr., 1810 Fifteenth St., N. W. NU LAMBDA, Va. State College, Ettrlck.

Va.; Pres., John L. Lockett; Sec'y., Doxey A. Wilkerson.

XI LAMBDA, Chicago. 111.; Pres., William H. Benson, 3507 South Parkway; Sec'y., Mason W. Fields. 6526 Eberhart Ave.

ALPHA EPSILON LAMBDA, Jackson, Miss.; Pres, W. H. Williams; Sec'y, R. A. Hamilton. (Write c|o F. W. Bonner.

Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Miss.)

OMICRON LAMBDA. Birmingham, Ala.; Pres., W. E. Shortridge, 311 Seventeenth Ave., Ensley, Ala.; Sec'y., L. R. Hall, 6432 First Ave., S., Birmingham, Ala.

ALPHA 2ETA LAMBDA. Bluefield, W. Va.; Pres, Lawrence V. Jordan, Kimball.

W. Va.; Sec'y, E. W Browne, Box 676, Kimball, W. Va.

PI LAMBDA, Little Rock, Ark., Pres., J. R. Booker, Mosaic Temple Bldg.; Sec'y.

C. Franklin Brown, 1019 Cross St. RHO LAMBDA. Buffalo, N. Y.; Pre*.. John L. Waters, 247 William St.; Sec'y, Rev. O. H. Brown, 166 Goodall St. SIGMA LAMBDA, New Orleans, La.; Pres, Dr. Ernest Cherie; Sec'y, E. M. Coleman, 2420 Canal St. TAU LAMBDA, Nashville, Tenn.; Pres, A. A. Taylor, Fisk University; Sec'y, J. R. Anderson, 1027 18th Ave. N. UPSILON LAMBDA, Jacksonville, Fla.; Pres, Dr. R. W. Butler, 627 Davis St. PHI LAMBDA, Raleigh, N. C; Pres, H. L. Trigg, 117 E. South St.: Sec'y, Chaa.

H. Boyer, St. Augustine's College.

PSI LAMBDA, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Pres, the Rev. J. B. Barber; Sec'y, Dr. W. B. Davis, 124'/2 E. 9th St. ALPHA ALPHA LAMBDA, Newark, N. J.; Pres., Aubrey Robinson, 15 Walnut S t , Madison, N. J.; Sec'y, Lawrence Willette, 1375 Stephens S t , Belleville.

N. J. ALPHA BETA LAMBDA, Lexington, Ky.; Pres, Dr. J. R. Dalton, Georgetown, Ky.; Sec'y. Dr. H. A. Merchant, 128 Deweese S t , Lexington, Ky. ALPHA GAMMA LAMBDA, New York City; Pres, Dr. Lucien M. Brown, 2460 Seventh Ave.; Sec'y, Dr. Robert S. White, Jr., 142 W. 140th S t , Apt. 1-M. ALPHA DELTA LAMBDA, Memphis, Tenn.; Pres, W. P. Atkins, 566 Polk St.; Sec'y, Edwin C. Jones, 1230 Cannon St.

ALPHA ETA LAMBDA, Houston, Texaa; Pres, R. W. Lights, 2611 Holman St.; Sec'y, C. L. Banks, 1920 St. Charles Street.

ALPHA THETA LAMBDA, Atlantic City, W. J.; inactive.

ALPHA IOTA LAMBDA, Va.; inactive.

Charleston,

W.

ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA, Roanoke, Va.; Pres, Dr. Elwood D. Downing, Brooks Building: Secy, Dr. G. A. Moore, 430 Commonwealth Ave, N. E. ALPHA MU LAMBDA, Knoxville. Tenn.; Dr. N. A. Henderson, 128 E. Vine St.; Sec'y, J. I. Seals. 1714 College St. ALPHA NU LAMBDA, Tuskegee Institute.

Ala.; Pres, Neal F. Herrlford; Sec'y, Joseph E. Fuller.

ALPHA XI LAMBDA, Toledo, Ohio; Pres, Leo V. English, 5 N. Michigan St.; Sec'y, H. T. Miller, 669 Indiana Ave. ALPHA OMICRON LAMBDA, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Pres., Dr. Voyle Butler, 6260 Franktown Ave.; Sec'y, Wilbur C. Douglass, 518 Fourth Avenue.

ALPHA PI LAMBDA, Wlnston-Salem. N. C ; President, J. A. Carter, 1100 Rich Ave.; Cor. Sec'y, G. Leonard Allen, Atkins High School.

ALPHA RHO LAMBDA, Columbus, Ohio; Pres, Dr. H. Sherman Manue' 37* S. Grant St.; Sec'y, Charles P. Blackburn, 237 N. 22nd St. OMEGA. The Great Beyond (Chapter o* the Dead)