The SPHINX | Spring February 1938 | Volume 24 | Number 1 193802401

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DR. CHARLES H. WESLEY GENERAL PRESIDENT

CONVENTION

NUMBER

FEBRUARY, 1 938

ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, Inc OFFICIAL DIRECTORY General Officers PRESIDENT—Charles H. Wesley, Howard University, Washington, D. C. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT—Charles W. Greene, 304 Griffin St., N. W., Atlanta, Ga. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT—Sidney A. Jones, Jr., 3456 S. State St., Chicago, 111.

THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT—Farrow R. Allen, 337 West 138th St., New York City, N. Y. FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT—Bert A. McDonald, 319 East 48th St., Los Angeles, Calif.

SECRETARY—Joseph H. B. Evans, 101 S. Street, N. W„ Washington, D. C. TREASURER—Percival R. Piper, 18032 Wexford Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.

EDITOR OF THE SPHINX—Lewis O. Swingler, 390 Vz Beale Street, Memphis, Tenn.

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION—Rayfcrd W. Logan, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. GENERAL COUNSEL—Theodore M. Berry, 308 West 5 th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.

LAY MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL—Ferdinand L. Rousseve, 4638 Willow Street, New Orleans, La. Christopher M. Roulhac, Jr., 810 East McLemore St., Memphis, Tenn.

Walter S. Scott, Jr., 69 North 21st St., Columbus, Ohio.

JEWELS—Henry A. Callis, Howard University, Washington, D. C ; Nathaniel A. Murray, 150 You Street, N. W. Washington, D. C ; Vertner W. Tandy, 221 West 139th Street, New York City, N. Y.; George B. Kelly, 1-113th Street, Troy, New York.

'Charles H. Chapman — 'Robert H. Ogle — 'James H. Morton — 'Deceased.

REGIONAL DIRECTORS—Southern Jurisdiction: Charles W. Green, Vice-President; Horace L. Mosely, 1304 First Court, W., Birmingham, A5a.; M. G. Ferguson, Citizens Saving & Trust Co., Nashville, Tenn.; James O. Ellis, Atkins High School, Winston-Salem, N. Carolina; Eastern Jurisdiction: Farrow R. Allen, Vice-President; Belford V. Lawson, Jr., 2001 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C ; M. A. Allen, 360 William Street, Buffalo, New York; F. Irving Gray, 610 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Mass; Midwestern Jurisdiction: Sidney A. Jones, Jr., Vice President; Louis H. Schuster, 1348 E. Long Street, Columbus, Ohio; Henry J. Richardson, Jr., 379 Vi N. Illinois Ave., Indianapolis, Ind.; Sidney R. Williams, 2947 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.; Western Jurisdiction: Bert A. McDonald, Vice-President; F. Melvin Payne, 107 N. Greenwood St., Tulsa, Okla.; J. R. Lillard, R. T. Coles Junior High School, Kansas City, Mo.; C. P. Johnson, 2700 Flora Street, Dallas, Texas.

CHAIRMAN CHAPTER HOUSING COMMISSION—Belford V. Lawson, Jr., 2001 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

CHAPTER 1. A L P H A — I t h a c a ,

N e w Y o r k — A c t i v e thru membership of

Jewels.

2. B E T A — W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . — P r e s . Edward Plummer, 1 9 1 7 Third St., N .

W . , S e c J. Wesley Robinson, 3 3 2 1 Sherman Ave., N . W .

3. G A M M A — R i c h m o n d , V a . — P r e s . Richard T . Langston, F. Sec. Frederick C, Lewis, R. Sec. France Brinkley, Virginia U n i o n U n i v .

4. D E L T A — M o n t r e a l ,

Canada—INACTIVE

ROSTER 2 1 . C H I — N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . , Pres., Robert Arrington; S e c , S. M. M c D e w , Jr., 1017 16th A v e .

2 2 . P S I — P h i l a d e l p h i a . P a „ Pres. Roger F. Gordon, 1 5 3 0 French St.; S e c , Ernest Smith, 2 0 8 N . 53rd St. 2 3 . A L P H A A L P H A — C i n c i n n a t i . O h i o . Pres., D r . C. E. D i l H r d , 514 C'ark St.; S e c . D w i g h t L. M o o d y , 2 6 3 1 Kemperl Lane; F S e c , J o h n W .

Fleming, 6 3 6 W . 9th St.

5. E P S I L O N — A n n Arbor, M i c h . — P r e s . C. F. P o o l e , Sec. Joseph Jenkins, 1 1 0 3 E. H u r o n A v e .

2 4 . A L P H A B E T A — T a l l a d e g a . Ala., Pres., Prince W i l s o n ; Roberson; C. S e c , Herbert P e g u e s , Talladega College.

6. Z E T A — N e w H a v e n , C o n n . — S e c . D r . R. S. Fleming, 2 1 6 D w i g h t St.

2 5 . A L P H A G A M M A — P r o v i d e n c e . R. Island, I N A C T I V E — A d d r e s s G. LeCount. 4 2 Westminister St.

7. E T A — N e w York City—Pres. Raymond O. Hatcher, 3 2 0 Manhattan A v e . , Sec. Edward N . Byas, 2 W . 120th St. 8. T H E T A — C h i c a g o . 111.—Pres. Dr. Leonidas H . Berry, 4 1 2 E. 47th St., Sec. William H . Childs, C. Sec. Samuel J. Evans, 6 5 4 3 St. Lawrence A v e .

9. I O T A — S y r a c u s e , N . Y o r k — I N A C T I V E .

1 0 . K A P P A — C o l u m b u s . O h i o — P r e s . H e n r y P a r k s , J r . . Sec. E d w i n W i l l i a m s .

2 3 6 E. 11th A v e . , C. Sec. Bcgagy T . B e n t o n , 4 7 4 Taylor A v e .

1 1 . M U — M i n n e a p o l i s . M i n n . — P r e s . John R. Lawrence. 5 5 6 St. A n t h o n y Ave., St. Paul, Minn., Sec. John M. Patton, 9 5 4 St. A n t h o n y Ave., St. Paul, Minn.

12. N U — L i n c o l n University, P a . — P r e s . Arthur L. J o h n s o n , C. Sec. Patrick, R. Sec. William Griggs, Lincoln University.

LeRoy

1 3 . X I — W i l b e r f o r c e , O h i o — P r e s . James S. F. D u n n , Sec. James H . Robinson, Wilberforce University.

14. O M I C R O N Pittsburgh. P a . — P r e s . William K. Leftridge, 23 5 S. Freeland St., SS, Sec. H o w a r d W . Jordan, 2 3 0 Burgess St. 1 5 . P I — C l e v e l a n d , O h i o — P r e s . Emmason D . Fuller, 2 2 2 3 E. 100th St.; Sec. Clarence L. Sharpe, 4 6 0 8 Central Ave. SE 16

R H O — P h i l a d e l p h i a , Pa., Pres. Dr. W . F. Jerrick, 1843 Christian St.; C .

Sec. D r . O. WiLson Winters, 28 Curren Arcade, Norristown, Pa.; F. Sec. D r . Percy I. Bowser, 5 3 4 4 Race St .

17. S I G M A — B o s t o n . Mass.. Pres. Dr. F. Irving Gray, 6 1 0 C o l u m b u s Sec. Frederick J. Franklin, 34 W e n o n a h St., Roxburry, Mass.

18. T A U — C h a m p a i g n , Lll., Pres. Virgil L. Campbell; W e b b ; C. S e c , O t h o M. Robinson, 6 1 5 S. Wright St.

Sec.

Arthur

19. U P S I L O N — L a w r e n c e . Kansas, Pres. Author M c L e n d o n ; C. S e c , Voorhies; R. S e c , James Tribue, 1101 Mississippi St. 20

Ave.; H.

Herbert

P H I — A t h e n s , O h i o , Pres., J o h n W . Gasaway; S e c , Walter B . A l l e n .

W . W a s h i n g t o n St.

155

Sec,

William Joseph

2 6 . A L P H A D E L T A — L o s A n g e l e s . Calif.. Pres. Bert A. M c D o n a l d , 3 1 9 48th St.. S e c . Rufus S. (Norman, 7 0 8 E. 4 8 t h St.

E.

2 7 . A L P H A E P S I L O N — B e r k e l e y , Calif., Pres., Edward E. Aubert. 1 6 0 1 Tyler St.; S e c , T h e o d o r e Smith, 2 9 2 8 Grove St.; C. S e c , H e n r y L. Richardson, 15 5 7 — 7 t h St. Oakland.

2 8 . A L P H A Z E T A — I n s t i t u t e , W . Va., Pres., William Richard D . H o b s o n , W . Va. State C o l l e g e .

A.

Robinson;

Sec,

29. ALPHA ETA—Cambridge, Mass., INACTIVE. 3 0 . A L P H A T H E T A — I o w a City, Smith, 8 1 5 S. D u b u q u e St.

Iowa,

Pres.,

Bernard

Goss;

Sec,

3 1 . A L P H A I O T A — D e n v e r , Colorado, Pres.. James Chrysler, 2 8 0 0 PI.; S e c , James T . Sims, 25 11 Marion St. 32. A L P H A College.

KAPPA—Springfield,

Mass.,

Sec,

Eric

Headley,

Lamar Glenarm

Springfield,

3 3 . A L P H A M U — E v a n s t o n , 111., Pres., William C. Pyant, 1 9 3 0 Brown A v e . ; S e c , Colbert S. D a v i s .

3 4 . A L P H A N U — A m e s . Iowa. Pres., S. M. Riley, H o w a r d , 515 Mulberry St., D e s Moines, Iowa.

3 5. A L P H A

XI—Milwaukee,

Wisconsin,

Jr.;

Sec,

Charles

P.

INACTIVE.

3 6 . A L P H A O M I C R O N — C h a r l o t t e , N . Carolina, Pres., Earnest N . Mattison; C. S e c , E u g e n e A . A d a m s ; F. S e c , James A . Bond. Jr., J o h n s o n Smith University.

3 7 . A L P H A P I — L o u i s v i l l e , Ky.. Pres., Robert B. T h o m p s o n , nut St.; S e c , V e r n o n E. Miller, 1 7 4 0 D u m e s n i l e St.

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Chest-

3 8 . A L P H A R H O — A t l a n t a , Ga., Pres., George W a s h i n g t o n ; S e c , J. Raymond D a v i s , Morehouse C o l l e g e .

3 9 . A L P H A S I G M A — M a r s h a l l , Texas, Pres., James Taylor; S e c , Joseph Sample, Jr.; C . S e c , Warren A . Boswell, W i l e y C o l l e g e .

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THE SPHINX

Official Organ of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc PUBLISHED FEBRUARY. MAY. OCTOBER, and DECEMBER NUMBER 1

FEBRUARY. 1938

VOLUME 24

THE STAFF CONTENTS

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF L^'WIS O. SWINGLER 390 V2 Beale Avenue Memphis, Tennessee ASSISTANT EDITOR HUGH M. GLOSTER LeMoyne College Memphis, Tennessee WHO'S WHO EDITOR GEORGE B. KELLEY Troy, New York

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Convention Highlights General President's Address

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Judge Watson's Address

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HISTORY EDITOR JAMES B. BROWNING Miners Teachers College Washington, D. C.

Fraternity Fun

FRAT FUN EDITOR DR. O. WILSON WINTERS Norristown, Pa.

Hits and Misses

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Five Young Men

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Noted Educator of Kentucky

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Delta Phi Delta Journalistic Society

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ART EDITORS JAMES D. PARKS Lincoln University Jefferson City, Mo. FERDINAND ROUSSEVE Art Department Xavier University New Orleans, La. HERSHAL C. LATHAM Memphis, Tennessee CONTRIBUTING EDITORS MILTON S. J. WRIGHT Wilberforce University Wilberforce, Ohio

Funny Side of New Orleans

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Alpha in the'Realm of Sports

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Significant Alpha News

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Regional Directors

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Newly Elected Councilmen

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WILLIAM H. GRAY Southern University Scotlandville, La.

Alpha's Convention Banguet

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JOSEPH E. COTTON Memphis, Tennessee

Convention Picture

CLYDE L. COLE Carver Junior High School Tulsa, Oklahoma GRANT W. HAWKINS Indianapolis, Ind. 1939 CONVENTION EDITOR CHARLES L. FRANKLIN New York City, N. Y. CIRCULATION SPENCER SMITH Memphis, Tennessee ADVERTISING JOHN L. BRINKLEY, Jr. Memphis, Tennessee

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Education Week

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Voice of The Sphinx

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Omega Chapter

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S P H I N X

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—Photo by Frank L. Stanley—Louisville Defender

To the left below are three brothers who make up a triumvirate hallowed by a leadership that has helped to bring Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity through the depression years with flying colors. They are General Secretary Joseph H. B. Evans; President Charles H. Wesley, and Dr. B. Andrew Rose, president 1928-31, and retiring Executive Councilman.

To the right are shown Brothers B. V. Lawson, Chairman of the National Housing Commission, and Eastern Regional Director; Theodore M. Berry, General Counsel; Dr. Rose, autographing souvenir program of a N. Y. brother.

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EDITORIA L SLANTS JEWEL TANDY'S ADDRESS DROTHERS of Alpha Phi Alpha, the greatest Fraternity in the world. I can't live in the past anymore, I live in the future. These are troublesome times, the demagogues of Germany talk in exaltant strains; international morality is attaining a new high; Italy's brazen expedition into Ethiopia is one of the most brazen in this epoch.

Today we can claim very little in Africa. Berlin used to be a haven for Negroes—now they hate Negroes, so I am told by a friend recently from that city. The weak look to the strong. They look to you college men for protection.

In New York they were having an initiation. I was not allowed to talk to the initiates because I had no pin or badge. You have had a great opportunity, your educational program is good. In New Yoi-k, many think Alpha Phi Alpha is an Athletic Association because all they know about is the basketball game. I want the fraternity to stand out in the affairs of the nation. I must speak about New York because that is the one state I know well. Our doctors are called inferior because they come from Negro schools. Technical men face the same handicaps. Pictures regulations of boards prevent Negroes from being certified. We must do something about that.

Negroes say take all the world and give me Jesus. I want you to give that Philosophy of Life to the whitfe people. In Birmingham, I was told of the many Baptist Churches but was not told about Negro business. I went through hell founding this organization and I want something done about these problems. Think of it, we have over a hundred and twenty chapters and I ask what are we doing? We have got to do something for Negroes, there is too much politics in this fraternity. I have seen men beaten so badly that for three days they couldn't walk.

Another thing is this obnoxious black ball system. I saw a man at a meeting pick up a hand full of black balls] and said that he was going to black ball until times got better.

We need good men, furthermore, this is a good fraternity.

We need a good fight, we can help our Negro doctors. I know a Jew, a man who exercises the right to keep the Negro under his feet if he can. Shall we stand for it?

We won't fight. Do something constructive so that your sons, your daughters, and all who come behind them will be proud of you. We must fight till hell freezes over and then fight on the ice.

I may never come back but I want you to know that I have been here. I am going to demand that you do something. Cooperate with organizations, don't be satisfied with giving basketball games and good dances. I want to see you offer constructive work to fight the evils of yourselves and of your country. I was down in North Georgia and saw a car full of Negroes from South Georgia. The cop at the corner asked the Negroes if they saw that green light. The Negroes replied that they did but knew he wouldn't want them to go with the white people, so that was why they waited. When the green light goes, I want to see this fraternity go and go.

Again I say I may not be back, however, I want you to come to New York and see the World's Fair and, incidentally, we might hold the convention there. I have felt

many times that we should expand this work to include Africa. A friend over there asked me about Alpha Phi Alpha but I did not have the facts. We should go to Africa.

We should make the President of Liberia a member.

Some day we may have a convention in Liberia. I think this is a splendid body. I am glad to be here to see you.

I go to school every night—one is never too old to learn.

I hope that when you leave you will remember what I have said. I am but a father talking to his sons. We, the founders, went through the hardships and now you have the gravy. Carry with you home the thought that the founders wish you to continue what we started. Gentlemen, I thank you."

The Special Founders' Badge was presented to Brother Jewel Tandy and a brief response was made by Brother Robert P. Daniel: "Each brother would be proud to respond. Perhaps we are as you spoke to us. Our failings may be because we represent varied personalities. I speak frankly as you spoke to us. Our failing is such that we feel we did not have your guiding genius to show us the plan—come back and tell us when we deviate from the plan." o NEW CHAPTERS AUTHORIZED ^ L P H A PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, in session at its 26th General Convention, New Orleans, La., authorized the establishment of a graduate chapters at Jefferson City, Missouri; Albany, New York; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Liberia, Africa. Undergraduate chapters were approved for Dillard University, New Orleans, and Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Arkansas. The charters of Alpha Rho, Alpha Sigma and Alpha Psi Lambda Chapters were extended to permit the initiation of students at Morris Brown College, Bishop College and Allen University, respectively. Alpha Tau Chapter was granted permission to initiate students from the night school.

Jewelry Contract To Negro Company After a report from the Special Committee on Pins and Badges of their investigation of bids received from the L'Overture Company, New York City, and the Metal Arts Company, Rochester, New York, it was recommended and approved that the contract as official jeweler be awarded to the L'Ouverture Company, an entire Negro organization.

National Housing Commission A National Housing Commission was appointed, with Brother Belford V. Lawson, Jr. as Chairman, to study the question of chapter house financing and to make recommendations to the next general convention.

Two Undergraduate Brothers Elected To Executive Council Two undergraduate members, Brothers Walter S. Scott, Jr., and Christopher M. Roulhac, Jr., were elected as lay members of the Executive Council.

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Amendments To Ritual Several amendments were made to the Ritual and these will be mailed to each chapter secretary to be inserted in the Ritual. Th e grand tax and reinstatement fee will remain the same, namely, $4.50 and $1.00.

Alpha As A Donor It was recommended and approved that donations of $100.00 each be made to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, N. A. A. C. P., Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, New Negro Alliance, John Hope Memorial Fund, National Urban League, and the International Committee on African Affairs.

Alpha's Cup Awards After careful consideration of the eight chapter applications for cup awards, the Committee on Cup Awards finally presented the BALFOUR CUP to Eta Chapter and the McGHEE CUP to Eta Lambda Chapter, with honorable mention to Alpha Tau Lambda Chapter.

Convention To N. Y. City In 1939 The Committee on Place considered three invitations for the 1939 General Convention, from Iota Lambda, Indianapolis, Indiana: Beta Upsilon and Alpha Upisilon Lambda, Montgomery, Alabama, and Eta and Alpha Gamma Lambda of New York City. The Committee unanimously made the recommendation, which was adopted, that the 1939 General Convention be held in August in New York City.

Touching Moments When Brother Dr. Robert P. Daniel, (Picture with Phi Lambda News) president of Shaw University, responded to the address of Jewel Vertner W. Tandy. Said he:— "Each brother would be proud to respond. Perhaps we are as you spoke to us. Our failings may be because we represent varied personalities. II speak frankly as you spoke to us. Our failing is such that we feel we did nofc have your guiding genius to show us the plan—come back and tell us when we deviate from the plan."

When Brother Dr. W. F. Jerrick, moved by the bestowal of a life membership to Dr. O. Wilson Winters, his friend and brother for many years, by the Fraternity, declared:—"We've been together in Rho for lo these many years. We cannot part now. I therefore pay $100 for a life membership into this Fraternity."

Dr. Jerrick has been president of Rho Chapter, Philadelphia, for twenty-one years. The life membership awarded his long-time friend and brother, Dr. Winters, of Norristown, Pa., came as the result of a ten-year endowment policy he kept in force with Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity named as beneficiary. This policy matured in 1937.

When Brother President Wesley, in his Convention address, paid tribute to the late Jewel Robert H. Ogle.

The president said:—"He was, above all, a pioneer in Negro college fraternity history. Let us, his heirs, carry on!

Stirring Appeals The most stirring appeals made at the Convention were

by Brothers Sidney A. Jones, Midwestern Vice-President, on behalf of Chapter House financing; William Randolph, retiring Councilman, for the reduction of the grand tax fees, particularly for the undergraduate brothers; and Prof. Claude Williams, president of Commonwealth College, Polk County, Arkansas, in behalf of the sharecroppers.

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Most Conspicious Group Present The 26th General Convention was not only conspicious but distinguished by the large number of college administrators present, perhaps the largest group of college educators to attend a session. Among those present were Brothers Henry Lake Dickason, president of Bluefield State Teachers College; Robert P. Daniel, president of Shaw University; L. M. Harris, president of Philander Smith College; J. S. Clark, president of Southern University; William H. Bell, president of Alcorn College; H. A. Hunt, president of Fort Valley Industrial and College; and David D. Jones, president of Bennett College, and Banquet speaker.

Four other brothers whose positions of prominence made them stand out as convention notables were Honorable Judge James S. Watson, Municipal Court Judge, New York City; Representative Marshall Shepherd, member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature; Representative Charles W. Anderson, member of the Kentucky State Legisture; and former Indiana State Representative Henry J. Richardson, Jr., of Indianapolis.

ALL OFFICERS UNANIMOUSLY REELECTED The New Year found Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity in peace and concord. This state of harmony was the natural sequence of a work well done by the member chapters in their respective communities and general officers who coordinated their efforts that the best results may be gained for the common brotherhood.

In the dying moments of a busy four-day session, marked by the strain and stress of convention activities, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity said "well done" to her faithful officers and sent them back, each and all, to carry on!

New Sphinx Staff Members yThe Sphinx Magazine is glad to announce the names of three new members to its staff. They are Brothers James B. Browning, of Washington, D. C , History Editor; Charles L. Franklin, New York City, 1939 Convention Editor; and Hershal Latham, Memphis, Tennessee, Art Editor.

In Brother Browning the Sphinx has a historian of national recognition, and whose historical sketches and feature articles have appeared in previous editions of the Sphinx. Highlights of Brother Browning's achievements may be found in the Convention Number of the Sphinx, 1936, page 19. He is at present a teacher at Miner Teachers' College, Washington, D. C. Brother Franklin, as 1939 Convention Editor, will keep the Fraternity well informed regarding plans for the New York Session through the columns of the Sphinx.

He has already begun work in this respect. See the 1937 Pre-Convention Number of the Sphinx.

Brother Latham, a teacher at Booker T. Washington High School, Memphis, has been a bulwark of strength to the Sphinx Office since 1936. He has a keen sense for fine art, and is noted in the tri-state section as an interior decorator. All Greek-Letter Societies in Memphis have sought him one time or other when their occasions called for the finer art and decoration.

With these three members added to a staff already bearing the names of brothers gifted as artists and writers, the Sphinx turns to its task with optimism as bright as the new day that dawned upon us in New Orleans.

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G e n e r a l President's THE PRESIDENT EDITOR'S NOTES:—TSis edition of the Sphinx Magazine, des'gnated the Convention Number, has endeavored to pass on to you t'le highlights of 'the Twenty-Sixth General Convention, held in New Orleans, La, Decembe.- 28-31, 1937, in a condensed, readable form. The president's Anniversary Convention Address, because it touches upon every aspect of our fraternal life, i3 the only report made by a General Officer published in this edition. All reports of General Officers are in typed or mimeographed form. Delegates were instructed to take these reports back to their chapters. The day by day proceedings of the Convention, commi.tec reports, recommendations, and etc. will be published in the Minutes of the 26th General Convention.

Whatever material, sent by chapters, failed to be published in ih's edition of the Sphinx, will be revised, if necessary, and published in the Educational Number.

T O the Officers, delegates and brothers of the Thirtyfirst Anniversary Convention of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, assembled at New Orleans; Greetings:— I come to you today to make the report of my third term as General President. It has been my pleasant duty and privilege to serve our fraternity as its national presiding officer for a period of six years. At tha Twentyfifth Anniversity Convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1931, I was elevated to the presidency of our fraternity. I followed an illustrious record and became the heir of a tradition which had been set by my worthy predecessors, thirteen in number: Morrison, Giles, Miller, Garvin, Dickason, Callis, Long, Pollard, Fowler, McGee, Booker, Cannon and Rose. It was a distinction and an honor to become a part of this goodly company and it is significant that several of this distinguished number are present in this convention. It is also valuable to realize that a part of our successful past is clue to the competent leadership which ' our fraternity has been able to summon to the helm of its ship of state. We bring to a close at this convention our twenty-fifth administration—the Silver Administration— which began its term of office at the twenty-fifth anniversary convention—the Silver Anniversary Convention —two milestones in the history of the fraternity.

Our Material Development Since 1931, the fraternity has had a very remarkable development. At the close of 1931, we had in actual cash only $3,966.75. Today, our cash balance is more than four times this amount and approaches a total of $17,000.00, including $3,000 in United States Government Bonds, as the reports of our General Secretary and General Treasurer will show. The amount of the paid Grand Taxes have steadily increased. In 1932, this sum was $2,239.65; in 1933, it was $2,400.00; in 1934, it was $3,032.00 and in 1935, it was $5,788.50. At the Nashville Convention of 1935, it was estimated by our Budget Committee that our income for 1936-37 would be $16,670.00. But as a matter of fact, our income was more than $26,000 or about $10,000 more than was estimated. In spite of thoughts that may arise in the minds of brothers about the expenditures of funds, our treasury has grown more than ever. It is the belief of this administration that the results presented to this convention show the value of the program which we have initiated. Beyond any shadow of doubt, Alpha Phi Alpha has made material progress

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and stands today upon more secure financial foundation than it has ever had at any time in its history—and this prosperity is in spite of the depression years of 1929-1933 and the slow recovery hince this period.

Our Spiritual Development More important than money has been our spiritual growth. For many years fraternities have been losing caste in college and university circles. Criticism of their social trends, their expenditures of funds and time were common trends of several years past. This type of criticism has. not yet ended for A. Blair Knapp, Director of the Council on Men's Affairs at Syracuse University, in speaking to 350 delegates from Greek letter organizations at twenty-five Eastern universities, stated that the fraternities are being challenged on every college campus in the East. He said, "They stand charged with promoting snobbishness, exercising an undue influence on campus politics, causing poor scholarship and being too expensive." He urged a re-examination of their objectives.

Fortunately, Alpha Phi Alpha went through a period of self-criticism. In describing this period in our history, I have referred to it as, "The Leaven of Self-Examination."

This was a period of self-criticism, and it helped us to reform our lives and reconstruct our program. We adopted our educational program and began serving collegiate Black America in a direct way. However, our great contribution lies neither in its educational service nor in its housing program. It is in the development of that indefinable quality, that which the French call, the je ne sais quoi, the spiritual quality. We frequently refer to this as the Alpha Spirit. It is by no means a noisy demonstration, neither is it of necessity, a shout nor a song.

It may be a deep and sincere silence, but nevertheless it may have the power to move mountains of obstacles. It relates itself to our ideals and our objectives. It would have us as individuals and as an organization, first of all and transcending all. It recognizes no defeat and regards it as only temporary delay. It underlies all that we say and undergirds all that we do. It is a prize possession and may not be the possession of every man who has been initiated. It may come at once and it may come only after years of loyalty to the ideal which we would have Alpha men serve.

Through the years there has been a steady and consistent gain in this respect. Many graduate brothers have returned to our ranks. Those who had once lost hope that our fraternity would ever be a valuable organization beyond our college years have admitted their error of judgment and are now carrying on in true Alpha spirit.

The Passing Of A Founder It was my solemn duty at Nashville in 1935 to record the passing into the Great Beyond of one of our Jewels, Brother Charles H. Chapman, Founder and brother beloved in the bonds of Alpha Phi Alpha. For more than two decades the ranks of our founders had remained unbroken. But one breach in the ranks seemed to call for another, and so we come to record the passing of another of this number. In December, 1936, just thirty years after

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he had led in the organization of our fraternity, Brother Robert H. Ogle passed to his reward. He was with us at Nashville, our Silver Convention in 1935. Today, he is not here. Alpha Phi Alpha is the richer by his life and his endeavors. It is made the poorer by his absence today.

His life's contribution is enshrined in glorious letters that cannot fade upon the pages of our history. He was among the students at Cornell University who formed the Social Study Club. The first meetings of this club were held at the Singleton home, where he resided. In other words, his home was also Alpha's first home. He was the first Secretary of Alpha Chapter. The excellent minutes which we have in our possession today are the results of his labors. He proposed the colors which form Alpha's insigna, namely, old gold and black. He also proposed our methods of voting, the open right hand for the affirmative vote and the closed left for the negative vote. Invariably, when we make use of these colors and these signs, there will be many of us who will think of Brother Ogle. He was our Convention Parliamentarian and able counsellor. He was, above all, a pioneer in Negro college fraternity history. Let us, his heirs, carry on!

"To us from falling hands, he threw The torch. Be ours to hold it h'-gh!"

The funeral services were held at the Lincoln Congregational Church in Washington, D. C. The services were in charge of our fraternity, and although he was a member of other benevolent fraternal organizations, his request was that they were to give preference to our fraternity in this matter. Brother Jewel Callis presided and Jewels Kelly and Murray gave tributes. Flowers, tributes and condolences were received from many sections, chapters and individual brothers. He is gone from earthly scenes but he will not be forgotten by those of us who will carry on in his absence. We shall remember his idealism, his loyalty, his skillful manipulation of men and things and his signal services to Aipha Phi Alpha in its origins and its later years.

Alpha Funeral Rites In connection with the death of our two founders and of other brothers, the question has been presented to us about the development of a fixed funeral rite. Many of us have abhorred and protested against the type of hokum and bunk practiced by fraternal organizations at funeral services. It does not seem at all desirable that we should create any mysterious program for such an occasion. Recognition can be given to the passing of a brother in several ways: (1) a tribute of gold or yellow and black flowers can be sent, the yellow flowers so placed as to form a large A against a black background of leaves.

(2) the formation of the Alpha circle about the coffin and singing softly of the first and last verses of the Alpha Phi Alpha Hymn.

(3) the closing with the Fraternity Prayer.

This procedure was used at the founders' funeral services. Parents, relatives and students sometimes expect some such activity on our part. When we are silent, they may think us negligent. In order not to have developed any elaborate set of rites which may vary according to local desires, it might be desirable that we establish some such single ceremoney.

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California, in 1936. This action was taken in response to the invitation from the Los Angeles brothers who were present in Nashville. This convention was held in August, 1936, accounts of which have already appeared in the Sphinx. There were 50 registered delegates, aside from the brothers who were present locally and from adjacent communities. Twenty-six chapters were represented outside of the chapters of the General Officers. The representative character of the convention is shown by the fact that there were 17' states and 23 cities with representatives present, as well as one representative from Africa.

From the point of view of local good to the chapters in California as well as to the General Organization, this convention more than justified itself.

Annual Conventions This leads directly to the question of annual conventions.

At one time, the entertainment of an annual convention was so large a burden for the General Organization that it was agreed to have only the biennial conventions. The growth of the local chapters and the expansion of the fraternity have made it possible for the chapters to entertain the General Convention without great outlay on its part. Moreover, without realizing it we have been having annual conventions since 1933, as a result of the special conventions in Chicago and Los Angeles. It may well be the duty of this convention to consider whether it will follow the precedent now established of holding special conventions in the summer of alternate years or return to the method of earlier years, annual conventions.

I may add that there is considerable sentiment for the latter.

The Grand Tax The suggestion is persistent that we make some reduction in the Grand Tax. This proposal has been before us for three conventions consecutively. To those who insist that the Grand Tax is too high and that larger numbers would pay if we had a lower tax, it may be said that we have not been making such a poor record in this respect in the past. We have had an increasingly high number of Grand Taxes to be paid. In 1935 only, 750 Grand Taxes were paid. In 1936, this number was nearly doubled, namely, 1350. In 1937, there have been over 1500 Grand Taxes and more than 1000 at the present time! for 1938. A lower Grand Tax means reduced income and this may mean the reduction of expenditures. However, it does seem that we should consider the adoption of a differential tax for undergraduates and graduates, the tax for undergraduates to be $3.00 and for graduates the present amount of $4.50.

The reasons for this difference are so obvious that they need no repetition here.

Our Regional Organization The period of experimentation with the plan of regional directors comes to an end at this convention, according to the provision for its adoption. We must decide upon the basis of the results achieved whether we should continue it or not. It is my opinion that it has functioned well and that it should become a part of our organizational life. It is of distinct assistance to the General President, and I believe that this, will be the opinion of the vice-presidents.

Wherever the regional directors have been active and efficient, the problems have been more easily solved and the fraternity's work has advanced. The reverse of this is also true. Your attention to this program of connecting (Continued on Page 46)

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—Photo by Frank L. Stanley—Louisville Defender

Brother B. T. Harvey, Atlanta, Ga., left, was snapped as he emerged from a committee meeting. Brother Dr. H. A. Hunt, president of Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School, Fort Valley, Ga., obliges Brother Percival R. Piper, Detroit, Michigan, General Treasurer, by autographing his souvenir program.

Brother Anderson, shown in the above picture, is with the Universal Life Insurance Company, and is well known in Chicago and Jackson, Miss. Brother Latham, in the top picture, teaches at Booker T. Washington High School, Memphis, and serves on the Sphinx Staff as Art Editor. Bro. Williams coaches at Tougaloo College.

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Art Work—Hershal C. Latham

THREE NOTABLE BROTHERS AT THE 26th GENERAL CONVENTION IN NEW ORLEANS Below: Brother Rev. Marshall Shepard, member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, enjoys a hearty handshake and chat with Honorable Judge James S. Watson, Municipal Court Judge, New York City, and Convention speaker at the Public Meeting Tuesday night, December 28. Brother Watson's address begins on the opposite page. Representative Shepherd, the life of the Convention, is known the country over for having "prayed" Senator (Cotton) Ed Smith, of South Carolina, out of the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, 1936.

Shown above is that always immaculately dressed Brother, former Representative H. J. Richardson, Jr. of Indianapolis, Ind., noted orator, who made legislative history when his bill made possible a Negro Unit of Indiana National Guard. (See February Number—1936.)

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Judge W a t s o n ' s A M E S S A G E TO TT is particularly significant that the convention of this great Fraternity is held at this time of the year— the season of peace and good will toward men. Goodwill toward our fellowmen, as it was demonstrated by the Prince of Peace, for it is only in a true conception and practice of that principle lies the happiness of mankind, the security of nations and the maintenance of peace in this troubled world of today. To this principle the ALPHA PHI ALPHA Fraternity has not only subscribed but also has contributed and still is contributing its "Go to High School, Go to College" program, in the conviction that education is an important element in the solution of problems that are presently in the path of peace and concord.

Exigences may dictate a change in the convention date.

But no change of specific dates for the observance of any of the events in the activities of our Fraternity can alter its high motive of securing ideal human relations which ideal inspires our loyalty and devotion to it.

Transcending all of the investments available to, and indulged in, by humans is the investment in youth. Never before, in the history of the world have the hopes of the world centered more definitely and strongly in youth than at the present time. Men bearing the weight of years and worn by mental and physical struggle in their contribution to the rapid advance of civilization seek relief from the ever increasing responsibilities. They seek a basis of assurance that the spirit which inspired their devotion to the attainment of those higher values in the scheme of human relations will be transmitted in trust to the oncoming generations arid that they, in turn, will assume, with enthusiasm, the duty to carry on.

In the preparation of youth for the tasks that lie ahead certain foundations must be laid, upon which the structure of usefullness to the human family must rest. The fact that our young brethern are pursuing courses in the various schools and colleges is an acceptance of the truth that education is an essential weapon in the battle for human rights. Education teaches the intellect, the law of nature, men and their ways as well as things and their forces, and it also instructs us as to the effectiveness of its influence in creating an earnest desire to act in harmony with these laws. And we are also told, by way of emphasizing the value of education that "knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old".

But education alone is not sufficient to battle the forces of injustice in the trials of life. There must also be that high quality which we call character. When these two are combined, then, and only then, is developed that irrepressible spirit of enthusiasm and the /confidence which contribute so largely in securing successful results.

And character simply means the observance of those fundamental moral principles upon which all right conduct is predicated,—honorable conduct in our relations and dealings with our fellowmen. These solid backgrounds, combined with courage, sound the clarion call to the youth of today to marshal its forces and to march steadily onward to obliterate those agencies which are obstacles or barriers in the path of progress.

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The battle for human rights is nothing new in our development. History records the various struggle to secure and preserve them. The Magna Charta, the agreement of King John of England with his people that their rights should be the same as those that prevailed in the time of their fathers, is one of the earliest examples of those struggles. The Bill of Rights, adopted in England in 1689 is another example. The struggle of our country to be freed form the yoke of oppression and the first ten amendments to our Federal Constitution, which are sometimes referred to as our Bill of Rights, may be cited as other instances. Progeny of those struggles is the fight which the Negro of today is waging to secure his economic and political rights, which, briefly may be termed a square deal.

The civic life of all Negroes has always been the concern of this Fraternity. That fact was announced at the twenty-fifth Convention at St. Louis in 1933, re-stated at the Special Convention a t Chicago in 1934, and emphasized at the twenty-sixth Annual Convention at Nashville in 1935, and we now at this Convention re-dedicate ourselves to that principle. The lot of the Negro, as contrasted with the opportunities afforded other racial groups, is an unhappy one. In a great many instances he finds that there exists in private and public businesses and industrial organizations a practice to refuse him an equal chance to work in order that he may adequately maintain and support himself and his family, and when he is given half a chance he is the last to be employed and the first to be discharged. As a general rule he is given only menial positions, regardless of his intellectual training or his industrial skill. He is thus kept down in the lowest income group in our economic system, yet he is required to bear his share of the burden of taxation and other responsibilities imposed by governmental authorities upon citizens in the community in which he lives.

Some places of public accommodation and public amusement continue to practice discrimination against him.

But despite these handicaps, the Negro continues to strive and to hold high his head. And in this striving for economic freedom he is at times required to travel the road of Calvary to a civil crucifixion, but he bears his cross with matchless faith and inspired patience in the knowledge that harmony and unity of action by the several groups within the Race, and with organizations of the high principles of our great Fraternity co-operating, he will secure those economic rights to which all citizens are entitled.

We pass on to the other rights to which I have referred namely, "political rights". The economic right is an individual right. The political right deals with the rights of one group as against those of other groups. We are particularly concerned with political rights because they are important factors in our economic relationships. The political forces of the Negro throb and clamor for expression.

My young brethern, you are preparing yourselves to become participants in our economic life, and as citizens you will be called upon to help make decisions by which not only our country and the particular community in

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which you reside may be affected, but also in which the rights of the Negro will be protected and preserved by the use of these political forces. I am mindful of the fact that in certain sections of our nation these rights are either restrained or denied. But even where that situation exists, we must not be dismayed. We are committed to the task of banishing those barriers and we here make high resolve to attain that objective.

In localities where this right is not withheld or restrained, I urge you to take the fullest advantage of the exercise of your political franchise. I know of no greaterpower for the preservation of human rights than the power of the ballot. The benefits that flow from the intelligent use of it are definitely established in a great many instances.

As an instance of that fact may I bring to your attention an illustration of that situation: Harlem, in the City of New York, as you know, is on e of the largest, if not the largest of the Negro communities in this country. For ten years prior to 1930 Negro Assemblymen in the legislature of the State of New York, elected from the Harlem section of the City, sponsored bills for the election of colored judges to the Municipal Court of the City of New York. Several of those bills failed of passage and others after passage were vetoed by the Governor then in office.

We were not discouraged by the successive failures to accomplish our aim. Those failures gave us new courage to carry on. Finally in 1930, through efforts of Francis E. Rivers, one of the two Negro Assemblymen then in the legislature, a bill was passed creating a new district of that court in the Harlem section and increasing the number of judges in the Municipal Court, in other districts in the city and creating two new judgeships for the new district court.

When it became an accomplished fact that colored men would serve in one of the branches of the judiciary in the city for a period of ten years there was, of course, apprehension by our white brethren that the innovation would prove a failure. It was said that the time was not then ripe for black men to hold judicial office in the premier city of New York. Today, after seven years of demonstrated ability and fitness for such office, the innovation has proved a success and the reaction of the races to the new situation is general satisfaction and praise of the manner in which these men are discharging the duties of that office. This and other facts, such as" the members of our race serving in the capacity of Civil Service Commissioner, Commissioner of Taxes and Assessments, Assistant District Attorneys) Assistant Federal District Attorneys, Assistant Cooperation Counsel and other substantial and important positions in the city, State and Federal Goverments are tangible evidence of the fruits of our political'franchise exercised directly or indirectly.

These achievements in New York can be accomplished elsewhere, through political forces, if we pool our efforts to obtain them.

The satisfactory and recent appointment by the Mayor of New York City of th e Honorable Myles A. Paige, a distinguished member of this Fraternity, is a direct result of the acknowledgement of the fact that the Negro is capable of holding positions of responsibility and of major importance resulting from the efficacy of the ballot, aided by the creditable performance of the Negro judges, there and elsewhere.

I believe that America recognizes the fact that each race and each group within it has something of particular

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value which contributes to the attainment of those high ideals and noble objects for which it is striving. I believe that in this struggle for human rights and racial achievements, all groups of this race of ours, marching and fighting together in a common cause can Win a common victory over the forces of injustice and intolerance which arc obstacles in the path of progress, that in the end this Nation with its peoples of every race and creed united in the great ideals of democracy, may hold high the torch in leading the way to universal human accord and to the goal of peace for this troubled world. The younger men of our Fraternity are privileged to make their contribution to the accomplishment of that ideal. As you receive inspiration and new incentive from the deliberation of this Convention you will, as it was the custom in ancient Athens, make the pledge indicative of your loyalty to the cause in the terms of the Athenian Oath: "I will never disgrace those hallowed weapons or abandon my companions beside whom I am placed in battle, but will fight for both sacred and secular things with my fellows. I will not leave my country less, but greater and better by sea and by land. I will obey the rulers appointed and the established laws and whatsoever new laws the state may lawfully establish. And if anyone attempts to abolish the existing ordinance or disobey them, I will resist him and defend them individually and with the rest."

May I paraphrase the first sentence of that oath, in the light to its relation or significance to the Negro, as follows: "I will never disgrace these hallowed weapons of political franchise or abandon my companions beside whom I am placed in battle for the protection and preservation of those rights, but will fight for both sacred and secular things with my fellows for the furtherance of the progress of the race to which we have the honor to belong."

For the glory of the race and the honor and renown of our beloved Fraternity, "servants of all" press on with might and main, though obstacles beset your path, to achieve the goal of complete emancipation of the Race for, '"'There is no failure save in giving up, No real fall as long as one still tries, For seeming setbacks make the strong man wise.

There's no defeat, in truth, save from within; Unless you're beaten there, You're bound to win."

So then, in this great struggle for human rights, let me exhort you to act well your part; let your lives be exemplary and be reflective of the teachings of the Great Master. Cultivate the habit of good fellowship with all persons. Bend your shoulders to the oars of charity, cooperation and helpfulness. Instill and cement in the hearts of men the bonds of brotherhood and of love, for these are the gateways to peace, happiness and concord among men and they are effective means for the extinction of race hatreds.

We yet believe in the glorious traditions of fairness and equality of opportunity and fix our hopes and aspirations on the universal application of th e high principle upon which this great Nation was founded, namely, "that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

It is the cherished hope of those of us who are passing from the scenes of the activities of this Fraternity, that when the deep dark shadows of life's evening come upon us and the day is done we shall be able to look backl upon the past with pride, cognizant of the fact that by precept and example, we are leaving as an induring incentive to

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THE CHICAGO DELEGATION AT 26th GENERAL CONVENTION, NEW ORLEANS

—Photo by Frank L. Stanley—Louisville Defender

An Alpha Phi Alpha Convention would not be nearly so colorful and interesting without the Chicago delegation; especially the "Brown, Brown & Cyrus" combination. The Chicago Alpha men are known throughout the country for their palatial home on South Parkway, called the ALPHA HOUSE. Shown in this picture, reading left to right are:—Brothers Marcus A. Mahone, Calvin R. Harper, Sidney A. Jones, Jr., Midwestern Vice-President; Oscar' Brown, former Editor of the Sphinx; Bindley C. Cyrus, and Richard Mahone.

the generations coming upon the scene the duty to keep the faith and to consecrate their lives to the completion of those tasks to which I have invited your attention and which we have so far commendably carried.

My earnest prayer is that Divine Light will guide and inspire the programs of this Fraternity so that with the energies and devotion of its members it may exert its moral and spiritual forces in the cause of racial progress, and that it may be instrumental in imbedding in our hearts and minds those Christian ideals which will secure for us the richer life.

FORMER PRESIDENT CANNON EXPRESSES THANKS TO BROTHERS To the Brothers of the last General Convention:— I have a letter from Brother Evans written to me on behalf of the General Convention and I wish to express my sincere thanks and appreciation for the kind words and sentiments contained therein regarding my illness and inability to attend the great gathering in New Orleans. I hope the meeting was a source of inspiration and pleasure to you and glory for our Fraternity. Thanking you again.

Sincerely and fraternally, Raymond W. Cannon, General President '24, '25, '26, and '27.

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CONVENTION "SPELL BINDER" TALKS IT OVER

—Photo by Frank L. Stanley—Louisville Defender

Brother Rev. J. B. St. Felix Isaacs, of Los Angeles, Calif., extreme left, poses with the Mahone brothers, Dr. William Randolph, of New York City, retiring Councilman; and Attorney Bindley Cyrus, Chicago, the "convention spellbinder". It seems that Brother Mahone "got the drops" on Brother Isaacs when it came to smoking a pipe.

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—Photo by Frank L. Stanley—Louisville Defender

Two brothers who make up this trio were caught in a very informal pose. An attraction in the distance had caught their eyes. The cameraman explained that she was very lovely. One brother turned in time to greet the photographer with this smart pose. They left the scene before their names could be obtained.

Midwestern Vice-President Sidney A. Jones, left, and Brother Dr. Milton S. J. Wright, Wilberforce University, and Contributing Editor of the Sphinx Magazine, get together with Jewel Verner W. Tandy, middle, for an informal chat in New Orleans.

SALESMAN, INSURANCE EXECUTIVE ENJOY SMOKE BETWEEN SESSIONS

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Nothing was m5re enjoyable than a good smoke between sessions at the 26th General Convention in New Orleans, La. BrotheT Randall L. Tyus, Rumford Baking Powder salesman, left, and Brother G. E. "Grit" Delorme, manager of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta Ga., are shown enjoying the smoke that refreshes. "Grit" has been puffing away on a cigarette. Salesman Tyus is seen with his familiar pipe.

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Dear Eddie, I arrived home safe and sound—that is—relatively sound. It is very pleasant sitting here in the quiet solitude of my library in the wee small hours of the morning recalling the convention highlights and shadows that were recorded on the candid camera of my memory.

I've been telling the fellows about the Spanish Moss, the Louisiana Gumbo, and World famous Creoles. The Rousseves and Tureads and Creuzots can surely have justifiable pride over a glorious convention held in a glorious, interesting and hospitable city. And speaking of Creoles, don't look now, but methinks our president Dr. Wesley has Creolic infusions in his circulatory system. Look at those raven locks, those heavy sweeping eyebrows, those furtive eyes, those eloquent lips, those Creolean nose set in a face of Cameo chiseling. Yes, indeed, the Louisville Wesleys must have meandered at some time down among the Louisiana bayous. And Eddie, old boy, do you remember the historic moment when petite Miss Wesley gave us the piano solo at the public meeting. The grace, the poise, the artistry combined with the sureness and nonchalance of the musical expert was the Potomac's contribution to a Mississippi rendezvous. Ma Wesley looked on in reserved approval and maternal encouragement, the very quintessence of patrician dignity. And believe you me Eddie and you other fellows listening in, Ma Wesley still has beaucoup schoolgirl complexion, and 'tis very," very easy on the optics.

One thing I noticed about this convention and that was the eclipse of the lawyers but the refugence of the professors. Why the deans and the college presidents and sociologists infested the place, in fact, they virtually infected it. Oh yes, Brother Bindley Cyrus was there, constantly alert, exact, and always immaculately dressed; a little Blackstonish at times as he playfully baited the prexy but on Friday he made the best speech of his fraternity life when he spoke in defense of the undergraduates and outlined their status and their aims. The applause was very prolonged.

What are you Eddie? A college president, a dean or sociologist? C. P. A.? Insurance expert, or statistician?

No? Neither am I. We really felt like split atoms among them presidents—Brothers Robert P. Daniels. Shaw University, Felton Clarke, Southern University, Haley Bell Alcorn College, Henry Lake Dickason, Bluefield I n s t , big brother Eddie Harris, of Philander Smith and Brother David Jones, Bennett College. There were Deans Chas.

W. Wesley of Howard University, Milton Wright, Wilberforce, and James Browning, Miner Normal. Brothers Clarence Sharpe, Insurance Expert. Sociologist Howard Long, Kermit Hall, William C. Pyant and others. Kentucky Legislature sent us Representative Charles W. Anderson, and Pennsylvania Legislature loaned us Brother Marshall Shepard. Anyway, we've apparently rescued the fraternity from the lawyers.

If any of the brothers are interested there wasn't much "hog cutting" except Kermit Hall's inability to distingu-

WINTERS EDITOR ish between "commendation and condemnation." He insisted that his committee voted condemnation on some thing or other. Thrice did he enunciate an innuendo because of a lapsus linguae. Then there was that alien fraternity brother who dramatically declared in misquoted German "It does me proud."

Lost—One blue print of the ideal Alpha Man. Somewhere between 1906 Cornell Street and 1937 New Orleans Ave. No reward is offered because I have just designed a new conception of the 1938 Alpha Man as per my inspiration received at the New Orleans Convention aided and abetted immeasurably by the Creuzotian banquet cocktails and my first frat pin donated by the Executive Council—and of course my own well sampled private stock.

Signed Vertner W. Tandy.

Found—Two new jewels to add to the original seven after an interval of thirty-one years. Brothers 0 . Wilson Winters and Walter F. Jerrick voted life memberships in Alpha.

Analysis by Brother Dr. Howard Stratton of Rho Chapter. "Heck!" Winters and Jerrick aint no jewels; they are just rhinestones and of the black onyx variety at that.

Shall I tell the boys of the various sections some of the high lights furnished by their delegates? I'll tell some and you tell some. There was that swashbuckling Hollywooder Bert McDonald from the west. Did he come well capar.' soned! He had a secretary, a chaplain and a manager. Bro. Kufus Norman was the "sec"; Bro. J. B. St. Felix Isaacs was the chaplain (and "Mac" needed spiritual food constantly) and pretty Mrs. McDonald who skirted the sidelines of the countiy with a trip to Chicago, New York, and Baltimore, suddenly reversed her field and made a flying tackle to New Orleans and nabbed Brother Bert on the one yard Creole line; she was the manager.

Brother Oscar Brown and Sidney Jones in their recital of the good management and social and financial status of the Alpha House in Chicago unwittingly exposed the fecundity of the Chicago brothers who give weekly "open house" to hundreds of their Alpha kiddies, near and remote.

There was Brother Farrow Allen, Bill Robinson's personal physician. He chaperoned Bro. "shorter than me" Fred Atwater and the ranking Lex Profundus of color in the Nation, Brother Judge James S. Watson (say Eddie some one said that Judge Watson and I look like brothers —which one of us should get peeved). Brother Fred Guinier, New York Civil Service Commissioner who came to us with chin all patched up from hot kisses and bites the Seventh Avenue Senoritas gave him on his departure for New Orleans. That accounts for his popularity at the convention.

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By J. Edward (Joe) Cotton CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS NUMBER W f E L L another milestone has been surmounted in the successful session of another Convention of good "Ape" Brothers.

If you don't think that it was a pleasant success just look at the group of smiling faces on the Convention picture and mind youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all of us are overcoatless.

Well when I finished my splunge in the last issue, closing two years of nonsense, I thought that I would have been divested of the royal robes of the "Hits and Misses" Column, but lo, to my surprise, here I am again in an effort to serve you. I want to thank all my friends everywhere for their various comments and trust that all that has been said was taken in the spirit of brotherly love. Thanks, if so.

Well there's one consolation that I have. I feel that this column has been responsible for at least three brothers being reclaimed by the fraternity. As good examples, I point to Brothers F. D. "Shorty" Atwater and Silas Rhodes. Mighty glad to see them in New Orleans.

Watch out for me in 1939, "Shorty".

Boy did I start something or did I start something when I mentioned about four brothers in a family and all of them Alpha Men. I had mentioned about the Rousseve brothers in New Orleans and time I hit the town the Tureaud brothers jumped all over me and laid claim to four brothers and all Alpha men. Back home my mail brought to my attention my good friends, Brothers Charlie and Frank Fairfax, of Huntingdon, W. Va., that they have in their family five brothers who are all Alpha men. So the Brothers Fairfax's of W. Va. stand at the top unless some one else comes to the fore. Guess we will have to give some kind of honorary award to the family with the largest number of Alpha brothers. As it stands now the Fairfax's hold the Pulverized Loving Cup award. Look around you Brothers. You may have a sextette of Alpha Brothers among you.

Quite a contrast in the weather conditions at the New Orleans Convention from that experienced in the snowbound in Nashville.

One bit of sad news always to mar an otherwise pleasant trip was to learn of the death of Brother J. Mason Davis, of Birmingham, Ala. An old school mate, a very dear friend and Brother, affectionately known as "Fish". Was from the fine family of W. C. Davis of B'ham, was principal of one of the local schools and active in all affairs.

This column takes time out to pay respects to his bereaved family and to note the passing of a Brother.

He died during the Xmas holiday season i-ather unexpectedly from pneumonia infection.

This was one convention that I had planned on having a good time with the Creoles, and, nothing else, but arriving at the Convention I found that the waters were being disturbed and that the placid calm that generally prevails over our great fraternity was about to be thrown upon the scrapheap. So with my feeble self I attempted to stretch my hand here and there with the hope of settling some of the proverbial oil upon the sea of trouble. After a few bucketsful carefully placed here and there and with the assistance I am happy to report that once again all seems to be well. Boy, oh Boy, but what a narrow escape we had. Never want another upset mind like that again.

Again I missed the smiling Brother Bishop John A. Gregg dropping in on our Conventions for a day or so at least. Don't forget, Bishop, we sometimes need your guiding hand. Hope to see you soon.

I told you to watch the parade of Alpha College Presidents and they were in evidence at New Orleans. I believe I could safely say that they were headed by "Dynamic" Daniels of Shaw Univ., the Mighty Trenholm of Ala. State, "Lord" Jones of Bennett College, who so masterfully delivered our banquet address, the "Youngster" M. L. Harris of Philander Smith and just lots of deans and college professors.

Those brothers who missed this Convention that marked another milestone, really missed something in not hearing "Jewel Brother Tandy give us the drubbing that we needed.

It will make us all become better Alpha men. Incidentally, Brother Tandy is an outstanding Architect of long renown, and has been awarded the con'.ract for designing the Liberian building to be erected for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. He is a great guy, fellows, you ought to meet him.

I hope that by the time that this is off the p r e j i Brother Allen, of Metal Arts fame, will have gotten himself together in order that he can present a convincing sales talk that can withstand the bombardment of Alpha men.

Don't know whether this will get in or not before press time, for this has been a mighty busy season. I know I have missed quite a few brothers who were there but I'll cover them in the next issue.

As usual my ole Pal, Bro. Maceo Hill, and myself were together. I won't tell you of the time we got lost driving around in the Crescent City but we came out 0. K.

Here's hoping that I can be able to make it by August, 1939 when we go to New York. I have started walking now.

I'll be seeingya soon.

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BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATOR TALK OVER CONVENTION "DOINGS"

—Photo by Frank L. Stanley—Louisville Defender —Photo by Frank L. Stanley—Louisville Defender

Brothers C. P. Johnson, left, teacher in the public school system of Dallas, Texas, and Ralph Metcalfe, celebrated Olympic track star of 1932 and 1936, and at present track coach of Xavier University, were not too busy with convention discussions to pose for the photographer. Brother Johnson was recently appointed Regional Director in the Western Region.

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(Continued from Tags 14) Bryan—all very brilliant young men—keen and far seeing visions have contiibuted much—each in h s own particular manner—to her present healthy state of affairs. Each has had—hard working committee men who have been filled with the spirit of "giving all for Eta". That on paper seems all right but Brother Allen either had a cold when he read his report or lushed by the presence of Madamoseille Etta Moten in New Orleans at the time, sounded like he was saying "Etta's" success etc. etc. Read it above using the word Etta for Eta as it sounded to me and you will see why the old Sphinx smiled at the paragraph.

I could go on but time and my space allottment forbids.

I wanted to tell you about the banquet, the whiskey tenors, the corn field baritones singing "Sweet Adeline" in compe-

Brothers T. H. Hayes, Jr., left, manager of T. H. Hayes & Sons Funeral Home, Memphis, oldest race concern in the Midsouth, and Representative C. W. Anderson, Louisville, Ky., member of the Kentucky State Legislature, first Colored man to be elected to such an office/ do not seem to be particularly worried about business or politics at the moment. They are shown on the Xavier campus.

Following his return to Kentucky, Brother Anderson introduced several significant measures in the Kentucky State Legislature, details of which may be read in the chapter news for Alpha Lambda. Brother Hayes hasn't missed an Alpha Convention in twelve years.

tition by tables. I wanted to give you a recipe for chicken gumbo soup. I wanted to refer to the story told in Brother Dr. David Jones' banquet speech how he asked a little country lad if he could read! and the lad said, "No sir boss!" "Can you write?" he said. "No sir boss!" "Can you spell?" Again he said, "No sir boss!" Whereupon Dr. Jones remarked, "why sonny, don't you know you are in a terrible fix in the light of present day education and knowledge. "Yes sir boss", said the lad, "I'm illegitimate."

You tell the rest of the convention story please for I've got to go now and when you've gotta go, you've just gotta go. And I'm gone!

Fraternally yours, Billy Winters.

P.S. Thought for the year! Don't be deceived by applause; notice how much it resembles apple sauce.

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NOTED EDUCATOR OF KY.

By JAMES B. BROWNING J J Y L A N Lewis has come a long way since the days in the last decade when he used to walk almost from Church has been made in just twenty-five years.

Hill to attend classes at Va. Union University. He has worked on several government projects of the white collar type; he has taught Social Science subjects at Howard University and has been called back to his Alma Mater twice to teach during the summer session. This record y [AROLD B. Jordan is also young in years but old in exexperience. He has not allowed family prestige and financial support to lul. him to sleep. He has moved into the nation's capital to make a name for himself in his own right. In just a quarter of a century he has become one of the other important officials of the Industrial Bank of Washington.

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f UTHER Hilton Forster, Jr., is two years younger than Messrs'. Lewis and Jordan but in that short span of years he has earned two degrees in his chosen field (Business Administration) and is now one of the three most important figures who have to do with the financial problems of Howard University. Moreover, he gives lavishly of his spare time to community activities; especially to Mu Lambda Chapter. ÂŁ H A R L E S F. Gaudy became the founder of the All Line Insurance Company in 1933 with very meagre capital.

Today the company does from about three to five thousand dollars worth of business per week and is housed in a building which is but the "lengthened shadow of Charles F. Gandy." The building also houses Vera's Gown and Sport Wear Shop (Mrs. Charles F. Gandy), and The Washington office of the Victory Life Insurance Company.

Our hero did his preparatory and college work at Virginia Union University. There he won the coveted Delta Sigma Chi debating key, he was an active member of the YMCA and Gamma Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. In short here is a man just twenty-nine years of age who heads an insurance (brokers) business carrying types of insurance with about thirty companies and who still has time to serve of his chapter in the Alpha fraternity.

1 V. Lawson, Jr., will be remembered for years Bâ&#x20AC;˘ELFORD for his fight with the New Negro Alliance, of which he is a founder, against t h e A. & P. stores, and his part in the case of Hay Stevens vs. People of Maryland. Students of Morris Brown University will no doubt hear for a long time to come about a brilliant young man who taught Economics there for a short time. The National Benefit Life Insurance Company is dead but the dazzling career of its manager of the National Office is still fresh in the minds of Washingtonians. Up in New Haven, Conn., the folk got a chance to observe this man earlier, for in that city he served as the Director of the Dixwell Communiy House.

As a student Belford won distinction as a scholarly individual and a hard-earned M for his work with the University of Michigan's football team. At Yale and at Howard University few, who have heard, will not be able to recall the unforgettable speaking style of Belford V. Lawson, Jr. Brothers, there they are, all Alpha men. All are under thirty-one years of age and all are really climbing the ladder to success.

Brother R. B. Atwood was educated in the public schools of Kentucky up to, and through the tenth grade. He received his remaining two years of high school work at Fisk University where he also graduated from college in 1920, with a B. S. degree in Biology. In 1923 he received a B. S. degree f r o m Iowa State with a major in Vocational Agricultural Education.

In 1934 he received an honorary L. L. D. deg: ee from L a n e R. B. ATWOOD College. He is now working at the University of Chicago.

In 1932 he taught at Kansas Vocational School, Topeka, Kansas. He served as director of Agriculture at Prairie View College from 1923 to 1929. He made a great reputation for himself while there. In addition to the above, he served as acting dean of the college for four months, director of summer session for one summer, advisor to registrar, Director of fair exhibits, Chairman of Extension Center, and Chairman of Principals Cabinet.

He was appointed President of Kentucky State College in 1929. Through his experience and training in Vocational Agriculture, his interest in Professional Education and his ability to do well the tasks assigned him, Kentucky welcomed home her son because she felt the need of a leader in Negro Education.

Under his administration at Kentucky State, wonderful work has been done. He has ironed out the flaws, clipped the claws, and made Kentucky State no longer a cat's paw for the politicians, but an integral part of the State's Educational Development.

Brother Atwood offered voluntary services at the beginning of the World's War, and served as Sergeant for twenty months in the 325th Field Signal Battalion of the 92nd Division, seeing nine months of service in France, on three different fronts.

He was praised for his bravery by Emmet J. Scott in his book upon the American Negro in the World's War. He has received several medals for his bravery.

Brother Atwood has recently been appointed Chairman of Special Problems in Negro Education by Mr. James H. Richmond, Supt. of Public Instruction in Kentucky. He is Secretary of the Conference of Negro Land Grant College Presidents. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Negro Colleges. He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Fisk University Alumni Association. He holds Membership in the National Association of Teachers in the Colored Schools, K. N. E. A., Kentucky Educational Commission, Kentucky Interracial Commission, American Library Association, Methodist Episcopal Church, Masonic Lodge and last, but not least, a true Brother in APA. He has also appeared in Who's Who in Negro America.

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HONORARY JOURNALISTIC SOCIETY ORGANIZED AS DELTA PHI DELTA

By MOSS HYLES KENDRIX For more than a quarter of a century, there have existed on the campuses of American universities and colleges, organizations that are designed to promote and stimulate among students an interest in the sciences of journalism. The greater majority of American universities and colleges have schools of journalism and student publications which are maintained as laboratory projects for the students of journalism. In the Negro universities and colleges of America, there are very few departments of journalism, few representative student publications, and no student journalistic societies of national reputation.

Since there exists no organization among the Negro youth of America which has as its primary function the forwarding and perpetuating of the lofty ideals of journalism, there has been formed at Morehouse College, Delta Phi Delta, a national intercollegiate honorary journalistic society. The object of Delta Phi Delta is fourfold: (1) To stimulate among Negro college men and women an interest in the science and art of journalism, and confer honor upon such students as hav e distinguished themselves by their meritorious services on the various college publications. (2) To unite in bonds of good fellowship college-trained Negro men and women either engaged in collegiate journalism or proposing to engage in the profession of journalism. (3) To confer honor upon those' who have distinguished themselves in the craft of writing.

(4) To appraise the works of Negro Novelists, Journalists, Essayists, and Poets, and bespeak the value of their contributions to America.

At the head of this organization there has been formed a Board of Governors, which is to function at the time of the first annual convention, a National Advisory Council, which is composed of a number of prominent Negro leaders who have expressed faith in the possibilities of such an organization as Delta Phi Delta. The Board of Governors, which serves as the national nucleus of the organization, is formed of V. Trenton Tubbs, Dallas, Texas, President; Edward Carter Maddox, Atlanta, Georgia, First Vice-President; Alphonso L. Lowry, Brooklyn, New York, Second Vice-President; Bernard Milton Jones, Tampa, Florida, Secretary-Treasurer; Toussaint Leon Crowell, Gary, Indiana, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer; Moss Hyles Kendrix, Atlanta, Georgia, Editor of the Delphid; Daniel George Sampson, Sumter, South Carolina, Historian; Dr. James Weldon Johnson, President of the National Advisory Council; and Dr. William Stanley Braithwaite, Secretary of the National Advisory Council.

All of the student members of the Board of Governors are students of Morehouse College. Besides the two members of the Advisory Council who are official and permanent members of the Board of Governors, the Council is represented by the following persons: Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, Howard University; Mrs. Rebecca Stiles Taylor,

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the Chicago Defender; Dr. Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Howard University; Dr. John W. Davis, President, West Virginia State College; Lewis O. Swingler, Editor, Alpha Sphinx; Dr. Rufus E. Clement, President, Atlanta University; Mr. George Schuyler, Pittsburg Courier; Miss Mary E. Potter, Editor, Tampa Bulletin; Mr. Nathaniel P. Tillman, Morehouse College; Dr. Howard Thurman, Dean of Chapel, Howard University; Mr. Elmer Anderson Carter, Editor, Crisis; Mr. Ralph H. Lee, Kentucky State College; Mr. A. L. Kidd, Florida A. & M. College; Mr. Crawford B. Lindsay, Morehouse College; Mr. Carl Murphy, President, Afro-American Publishing Company; Mr. Bertram L. Woodruff, Johnson C. Smith University; Mr. Robert D. Baskerville, former Editor, Omega Oracle; Mr. Frederick C. Gassett, Bursar, Morehouse College; Mr. Lionel F. Artis, Editor, Kappa Journal; Mr. A. Russell Brooks, A. & T. College, North Carolina; Mr. Edward P. Simms, Tuskagee Institute; Mr. C. A. Scott, General Manager, Scott Newspaper Syndicate; Mr. Hugh M. Gloster, Le Moyne College; Mr. Hillery C. Thorme, W. Virginia State College; and Mr. H. S. Murphy, President, House of Murphy, printers, Atlanta, Georgia. o WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT DELTA PHI DELTA "I shall be pleased in every possible way to cooperate with your organization." W. J. Hale, President, Tennessee State College.

"I consider it decidedly a progressive step and definitely worthwhile." Dr. D. 0 . W. Holmes, President, Morgan College.

"I think that you have started a very good and needed organization." Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, Department of Philosophy, Howard University. " I assure you that the aims of the Society will be brought to the attention of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity." Attorney Robert D. Baskerville, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. " I am very much interested in your endeavor to stimulate interest in the principles of journalism." Lionel F. Artis, Editor, Kappa Journal.

"I don't know of a more forward step in the virgin field of Negro journalism." Lewis 0 . Swingler, Editor, Alpha Sphinx.

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shall be glad to serve on your National Advisory Board."

George S. Schuyler, Pittsburg Courier.

"I congratulate you on the effort." Dr. Benjamin G. Brawley, Howard University, Department of English.

'I shall be happy to serve". Dr. James Weldon Johnson, Fisk University.

"Permit me to compliment you for the initiative." A. L. Kidd, Registrar, Florida A. & M. College.

"I am in complete accord with the idea." Dr. Howard W. Thurman, Howard University.

"Not only is the aim of your society a good one, but it is one that is greatly needed." Dr. Bertram I. Woodruff, Johnson C. Smith University.

"This is a project that should be stimulated and nourished by Negro colleges throughout America." Dr. William Stanley Braithwaite, Atlanta University.

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Lincoln University (Mo.) is depending upon these stars to bring home a trophy this season. All of them are flashy players and are hard to beat on the court. They are, left to right:—Sphinxmen Morris Fountain, Brothers Thomas (Bill) Campbell, James (Runty) Miller, acting captain Richard (Dead Pan) Turfley, Sphinxmen Lindsay (Showhouse) Strothers, and John Harvey. Campbell and Miller are seniors, Harvey a sophomore, and the others juniors.

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Significant PEP LEADER The Alpha Hymn is never more touchin.'; than when sung h â&#x20AC;˘ brothers at n:e cf their great v n enti mal gatherings. It is never more expressive of ; the sp'rit cf tho f atcrnil bond t h a n when led by Brother i Hi 1. Having r e v e d as pep 1; a lei at four Alpha Phi A'pha Convent'ons, Brother Hill was at his best in Ne.v Orleans. His pep, zest, and p e r s o n a l i t y cheered the brothers from the opening BROTHER MACEO HILL session of the Convention at Xavier to the banquet reception at Dillard.

Made in Alpha in 1930, while a student at Wilberforce University, Brother Hill served as president of Xi Chapter, and later enjoyed similar honor as president of Kappa Chapter, Ohio State University; and of Alpha Nu Lambda Chapter, Tuskegee Institute. He is at present parliamentarian of Alpha Rho Lambda Chapter, Columbus, Ohio.

He is nationally known as a tennis player, having won the Junior Tennis championship title several years ago.

After receiving his Masters in Phonetics from Ohio State University, Brother Hill served as Director of Speech at Tuskegee Institute.

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BROTHER DR. P. P. CREUZOT As General Chairman of the Convention Committee, Brother Dr. P. P. Creuzot was perhaps the busiest Alpha man at the 26th General Session. His congenial manner, and efforts to see that every brother was comfortably housed, properly fed, in receipt of badges, literature, and the like won for him many new friends among the delegation.

RELIGIOUS LEADER OUTSTANDING IN DALLAS

Bro. Dr. R. T. Hamilton, outstanding civic leader of Dallas, Texas, and member of A l p h a Sigma Lambda.

Assistant Director of Religious Act i v i t i e s , Tuskegee Institute, is doing much to vitalize Alpha Nu L a m b d a Chapter at the famous institution. He graduated i n 1931 from Springfield Col'ege, Springfield, Mass., and l a t e r completed a course in Business Administration a t Bay Path Institute. Brother Robinson is a former secretarytreasurer of Alpha Kappa Chapter, and Director of Educational Activities.

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REGIONAL DIRECTORS REPRESENTING THREE REGIONAL JURISDICTIONS

C. I*. JOHNSON

L. H. SCHUSTER

H. LOVELL MOSELY

â&#x20AC;˘The remarkable progress made by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity during the last biennium as the result cf activities directed by the four Vice-Presidents through their Regional Directors has justified General President Charles H. Wesley's recommendation, to the Silver Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, two years ago, that Regional Directors be appointed to aid chapters in the promotion of their activities. At the New Orleans Convention, 1937, each of the Vice-Presidents paid recognition to the work of their Regional Directors.

Shown in this group picture are Brothers C. P. Johnson, (left end) Dallas, Texas; Louis H. Schuster, Columbus, Ohio; and H. Lovell Mosely, Birmingham, Alabama. Brothers Johnson is secretary of Alpha Sigma Lambda Chapter, Dallas, and an active member of the nationally known Negro Chamber of Commerce of his city. Brother Schuster is also secretary of Alpha Rho Lambda Chapter. Columbus, Ohio. Brother Mosely is secretary of Omicron Lambda Chapter, Birmingham, having held this chapter position since 1933. Brother Mosley was recentyl offered a position as Director of th2 Birmingham Negro Boys' Club. Having won his four letters as an outstanding athlete at Morehouse College where he graduate;! in 1929 with the A. B. Degree, Brother Mosely has continued his interest in sports by coaching, managing the chapter's basketball team, and serving as one of the leading officials in the Southern Conference.

TWO NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Three new lay members were elected to the Executive Council at the 26th General Convention in New Orleans, La. to succeed Brothers B. Andrew Rose, William Randolph, and Lowell H. Bennett.

The newly elected Councilmen are Brothers Ferdinand L. Rousseve, New Orleans, La.; Walter S. Scott, Jr., Ohio State University; and Christopher M. Roulhac, LeMoyne College, Memphis. This is the first time in the history of the Fraternity that two undergraduate brothers have been represented in the Council, and undergraduate members throughout Alphadom look to Brothers Roulhac and Scott to hold their banner high. The picture of Brother Scott will be published in Educational Number of the Sphinx.

FERDINAND L. ROUSSEVE New Orleans, Louisiana

CHRISTOPHER ROULHAC, JB Memphis, Tennessee

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ALPHAS GATHER AT 26th CONVENTION BANQUET, DILLARD UNIVERSITY

The New Year was less than one hour old when Alpha Phi Convention Banquet, Dillard University. Only a few brothers convention business kept the majority of delegates and officers cember 31, 1937. Shown in the background are general officers, Dr. David D. Jones, President of Bennett College.

Alpha men posed for this picture at their 26th General are shown in their formal attire. The preponderance of in general session at Xavier University until midnight, DeJewel Vertner W. Tandy, and the guest speaker, Brother

Reading from left to right, standing, they are: Brothers Percival R. Piper, Treasurer; Theodore M. Berry, General Counsel; B. Andrew Rose, retiring Councilman, and former General President; Bert McDonald, Western Vice-President; Joseph H. B. Evans, General Secretary; Howard H. Long, Chairman of Committee on Public Relations, and former General President; Jewel Tandy; Dr. David D. Jones, J. Felton Brown, Master of Ceremonies; President Charles H. Wesley; Sidney A. Jones, Midwestern Vice-President; Lewis 0. Swingler, Editor of the Sphinx Magazine; Charles W. Greene, Southern Vice-President; Ferdinand L. Rousseve, newly elected Councilman; Dr. Rayford Logan, Director of Education; and Dr. Farrow Allen, Eastern Vice-President.

The report of the Committee.on Cup Awards, and the Installation of officers by Jewel Vertner W. Tandy were carried out at the Banquet Reception.

THE BANQUET MENU Sazarrac Cocktail with Hors d'oeuvres, celery and olives, white wine, Louisiana Creole Gumbo, Red Wine, Roast Turkey, Oyster Dressing, Green Peas,, Stuffed Mirliton, Sweet Potatoes Compote, Hot Rolls, Plum Pudding with Hard Sauce, Mints and Nuts, Cafe Noir.

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Skies as Blue as Indigo Greeted Alpha Host In Sunny New Orleans

Following a sight-seeing tour over the city December 29, 1 3 7 , delegates and visiting brothers gathered for this picture in front of the Administration Building of Xavier University. A noonday sun, bearing clown with heat of tropic intensity greeted the delegation to the delight of the cameraman.

THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS Finds the following brothers certified for representation at the Convention BETA-^John R. Pinkett, Jr. ETA—Vester G. Fowlkes and Fred D. Atwater.

THETA—Marcus Mahone and Calvin B. Harper.

MU—John M. Patton and John R. Lawrence, Jr., Alternates, William Cassius and William R. Sims.

KAPPA—Walter S. Scott, Jr. and Robert R. Watson.

XI—James Dunn.

PI—Clarence L. Sharpe.

RHO—Marshall Shepard and Leon Sargeant.

TAU—David W. Pelkey and Otho M. Robinson.

UPSILON—Clifford M. Spottsville.

CHI—Isaac B. English and Jesse S. Chandler.

PSI—Roger F. Gordon and William H. Gray, Jr.

ALPHA BETA—Edward Jacko, Stanley Ish; Alternates, Prince Wilson and William Roberson.

ALPHA ALPHA—Silas S. Rhodes; Alternates, W. Norfleet Lowe and Eugene Fulton.

ALPHA DELTA—J. B. St. Felix Isaacs and Rufus S. Norman; Alternates, William J. Powell and Elvin V. Neal.

ALPHA IOTA—James Chrysler.

ALPHA MU—William C. Pyant.

ALPHA OMICRON — James A. Bond, Jr., Alternate, George W. Young.

ALPHA RHO—William A. Bell and Edward Maddox.

ALPHA UPSILON^James C. Dunbar and Benjamin F. Davis; Alternates, M. Stewart Thompson and Lloyd Bailer.

ALPHA PHI—Edward G. Taylor.

ALPHA CHI^Tames A. Gibbs, Jr. ALPHA PSI—Blanchard Tomlin.

BETA DELTA—Ronald S. Byrd.

Dr. Charles H. Wesley, General President, is seen on the fiont row, 14th from left end, with Jewel Vertner W. Tandy, Founders' Speaker, to his right. Other officers, delegates, and visitors may be recognized throughout the picture.

BETA ZETA—Ora H. Elliott.

BETA ETA—Henry Ratcliffe.

BETA THETA—Robert L. Gunn and Joseph W. Perry.

BETA KAPPA—Samuel E. Fuhr and Virgil R. Chandler; Alternates, Hasko V. Ellis and G. R. Ragland.

BETA NU—A. L. Kidd.

BETA XI—Henri L. Twigg and Christopher M. Roulhac; Alternates, Harvey P. Williams and James F. Perrie.

BETA OMICRON—Herman J. D. Carter.

BETA Pi—Joe S. Merry.

BETA SIGMA—Archie S. Lang and George Armstrong; Alternates, James S. Peters and George Davis.

BETA TAU—Numa J. Rousseve and Giles O. Wright; Alternates, Nathan A. Pitts and Peter W. Clark.

ALPHA LAMBDA—Frank L. Stanley and Reid E. Jackson; Alternates, J. B. Hudson and J. A. C. Lattimore.

GAMMA LAMBDA—Ernest R. Carney and J. Haley Bell; Alternates, William L. Postles and Herbert E. Simms.

DELTA LAMBDA—Leroy Berry.

EPSILON LAMBDA—Sidney R. Williams and John A.

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THETA LAMBDA—Theodore C. Carter and James N. Pierce; Alternates, Lloyd G. Phillips and Wendell Grigsby.

ETA LAMBDA—Nelson C. Jackson and Burwell T. Harvey; Alternates, And'-ew J. Lewis, II, Michael E. Turrentine and Theodore N. Alexander.

IOTA LAMBDA—Alfred D. Grayson and H. J. Richardson, Jr. MU LAMBDA—Howard W. Long, James B. Browning, and Gustave Auzsenne.

NU LAMBDA—Harry W. Roberts.

XI LAMBDA—Oscar C. Brown, Bindley C. Cyrus; A. R. Mahone and M. R. Hebert.

OMICRON LAMBDA—H. Lovell Mosely and Arthur D. Shores; Alternates, Damon Lee, Jr. and William E. Shortridge.

PI LAMBDA—Lafayette M. Harris, Isaac T. Gilla; J. V. (Continued on next page)

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By Rayford Logan

To All Brothers: It is a great honor that you have conferred upon in electing me to servo you again as your Director Education. I shall attempt to fulfill my duties during next biennial with due regard for your confidence and the greater opportunities which the present time offers

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Go-to-High School, Go-to-College Campaign I am designating this year the week cf May 2 to 8 as that for our educational activities. If all chapters that are planning to conduct this campaign will write me at once I shall explain to them the work we are planning to do this year. Several new features will be added but those features can be determined only with the knowledge as to the number and location of the participating chapters.

Education for Citizenship The wisdom of this campaign is clearly evidenced by the fact that one of the best known of our pressure groups has just launched a nation-wide campaign to arouse the interest of Negroes in voting. Once more Alpha can say that she has shown the lead to others. Because of this new inteiest by another organization we shall want to intensify our progiam this year more than ever. I suggest that all Brothers, individually and through their chapters, cooperate with the national organization and the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People during the coming year. We could hardly be criticized for mentioning the fact that Alpha Phi Alpha, since 1934, has been actively conducting a campaign for citizenship. A complete outline will be mailed to all chapters within a few days. In the meanwhile, I

BLUE SKIES GREET ALPHAS (Continued from Page 25) Jordan, J. R. Booker and F. P. Lytes.

SIGMA LAMBDA—Clyde L. Reynolds and E. M. Coleman.

TAU LAMBDA—W. D. Hawkins, Jr. and St. Elmo Brady; Alternates, Aaron L. Allen and Randall L. Tyus.

PHI LAMBDA—Robert P. Daniel and H. C. Perrin;Alternates, L. W. Roberts and George Snowden.

CHI LAMBDA—Milton S. J. Wright.

PSI LAMBDA—L. L. Patton.

ALPHA GAMMA LAMBDA — Gerald F. Norman and Ewart G. Guinier; Alternate, Charles L. Franklin.

ALPHA DELTA LAMBDA—J. Edward Cotton and Hugh Gloster; Alternates, H. E. Latham and Marvin Tarpley.

ALPHA EPSILON LAMBDA—Everett R. Lawrence and W. H. Williams; Alternates, Alan T. Busby and W. H. Porter.

ALPHA ZETA LAMBDA—Henry L. Dickason and Edward W. Browne, Jr.; Alternates, J. Claude Kingslow and Thomas S. Branch.

ALPHA ETA LAMBDA—G. Lamar Harrison.

ALPHA IOTA LAMBDA-^J. Kermit Hall and William A. McCoy. ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA—E. T. Browne and Gardner P. Downing.

hope that you will begin laying your plans so as to secure suitable meeting places and competent speakers.

Scholarships and Fellowships Upon my recommendation the General Convention in New Oi leans voted two One Hundred Dollar Scholarships in each of the four vice-presidential jurisdictions in place of one scholarship as before. The General Organization has thus appropriated $1,600 in outright grants to undergraduates during the next two years. All applicants must be eligible with the national organization and with the local chapter and must have maintained throughout their college career an average of at least "B".

I shall send, during the next few weeks, five application blanks to each active undergraduate chapter, since scholarships are available only to undergraduates. If any undergraduate fails, for any reason, to receive an application blank, he may obtain one by writing directly to me. These application blanks will contain all necessary details.

The Committee of Awards has voted that fellowships should be granted for only the following purposes: research, creative work, 01 grants-in-aid of publication. No fellowship blanks will be ma'led from this office. All applicants for fellowships should submit to me a detailed statement of their project, transcripts of their college and university records, the names of three scholars qualified to evaluate their project, and an itemized statement of expenditures necessary for the project.

The sum of $750 is available for the academic year 1938-1939. It may be awarded as a whole or in part.

Fraternally yours, Ray ford W. Logan.

ALPHA NU LAMBDA—William O'Shields.

ALPHA OMICRON LAMBDA—Joseph W. Givens and Wilbur C. Douglass; Alternates, Royal W. Taylor and W. Wendell Stanton.

ALPHA PI LAMBDA—Albert H. Anderson; Alternate, James Ellis.

ALPHA RHO LAMBDA—Louis R. Schuster and Thomas D. Shelby; Alternates, Charles D. Allen and Maceo Hill.

ALPHA SIGMA LAMBDA—C. P. Johnson.

ALPHA TAU LAMBDA—Archie L. Morgan and J. Tyler Smith; Alternates, Clyde L. Cole and F. Melvin Payne.

ALPHA UPSILON LAMBDA—Cohen T. Simpson and J. Garrick Hardy; Alternates, H. Councill Trenholm and James N. Reynolds.

ALPHA PSI LAMBDA—Joseph D. McGhee and Harry B. Rutherford.

DEADLINE FOR EDUCATIONAL NUMBER All copy, pictures, etc. for the Educational Number of the Sphinx should reach the Sphinx Office, 390% Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, not later than April 10th, 1938. This edition will go to press the first week in May. Fraternally yours, Lewis O. Swingler, Sphinx Editor.

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VOICE OF THE SPHINX ALPHA CHI LAMBDA CHAPTER, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA

MEMBERS OF ALPHA CHI LAMBDA CHAPTER, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Botton row, reading left to right:—Brothers Morgan C. Brown, Hinton James, LaVerte Jones, Lawrence D. Perry, Joel W. Wallace, and A. C. Griggs. . . .

Middle row:—Brothers S. Marcus Jenkins, A. Murray Cartjr, R. L. Lockett, Benjamin F. Holland and Clairmount WilTop row:—(Insets) Brothers R. W. White, J. M. Tutt, and Marion Johnson.

BETA ETA Southern Illinois Normal University We of Beta Eta extend greetings to our Alpha brothers everywhere, as we emerge from our silence and, again, hover under the wing of the Sphinx.

During the fall term, Beta Eta initiated four new members of Alpha Phi Alpha. They are: Brother Harold Walker, a graduate of S.I.N.U. and is now teaching at Perks, Illinois; Brother Delmar Algee, a senior who recently joined the students who have the privilege of unlimited cuts. He is, also one of the diminutive guards of the Dunbar basketball team, which is made up, primarily of

Alpha men and pledges; Brother Vincent Freeman, junior, is active in the Roland Hayes Choral Club and is serving his third consecutive year as treasurer of the Dunbar Literary Society; Brother Richard Thorpe, who hails from Ullin, 111., and is now teaching theTe. However, Brother Thorpe manages to be on hand for meetings and plans to complete work for his degree in the near future.

We, the members of Beta Eta, select this method of extending a vote of thanks to Brother Henry Ratcliffe for so ably representing our chapter at the Alpha Phi Alpha convention, held during the holidays. Brother Ratcliffe brought back a mighty fine report of the convention which made us feel as if we had been present ourselves.

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Brother D. Ormonde Walker, President of Wilberforce University, has been taking an active part in Chapter affairs whenever his many other important activities do not interfere. He was, the speaker of the evening at our last meeting and led a very interesting discussion period.

Also, at this meeting, Brother Wright, our delegate at •the Convention, gave a very enlightening resume of its activities.

Your correspondent, while en a recent business trip to Washington, enjoyed quite a chat with Brother Wesley, our beloved Piexy. We wish him continued success in his many endeavors.

In listing our Old Faithfu's I see that I have omitted Hi other J. Aubrey Lane. He indeed belongs in this select company and although ha is one of our charter members I'm afraid that Kappa Chapter and Alpha Alpha Chapter hold a large place in his heart. Its okay though, Doc. We are also glad to inform brothers, everywhere that he was recently re-elected to the presidency of the Midwestern Athlet'.c Association.

I think that I had bettor list our new officers and sign off.

President—Milton S. J. Wright.

Vice-President—Carl C. Jenkins,.

Secretary—Raymond O. Dickerson.

Asst. Secretary—J. Alfred Bradford.

Treasurer—Chas. S. Smith (a fixture in this office).

Associate Editor to Sphinx—Mark E. Parks.

Fraternally, Reymond C. Dickerson.

Several of our brothers are teaching in Carbondale and near-by towns: Brother J. C. Penn, principal of the Attucks high school here; Brother J. Q. Clark, formerly of Xi chapter, Wilberforce, is a member of the Attucks faculty; Brother W. Edward Woods, our president, is teaching in the Mound City high school; Brother Gaffney Taylor, secretary, is instructing at Colp; Brother Ruges Freeman one of our charter members, is instructor in Mathematics at Metropolis.

Brother Morrison England, our talented vioKnist, is No. 1 tennis, player at S. I. N. U. He is a senior, leaving our midst when he receives his B. Ed. in June.

Plans have already begun for our mid-spring dance which is to be given in the newly-decorated Gymnasium.

Extensive plans and efforts are being made to secure a suitab'.e fraternity house for next ysar. There are several possibilities and the housing committee is sparing no effort in order to attain its goal.

Enthusiasm is rapidly mounting, amrng the freshmen and sophomores, in the Sphinx club. It is now composed of several active students, many of whom plan to inake the Fraternity when it holds its spring initiation.

Yours fraternally, VINCENT FREEMAN, Associate Editor to the Sphinx.

CHI LAMBDA NEWS Wilbeiforce. Ohio Brothers, in Alpha: This is the Chapter's over-worked secretary making an effort to pinch hit for the Associate Editor who is of a very modest nature and refuses to write about himself.

So here gees.

Chi Lambda is in the midst of its "New Deal" under the leadership of our able president, Brother Milton S. J. Wright. Brother Richard Bennett and his program committee have submitted a very constructive program and the entire chapter is cooperating in carrying out its proposals.

An injection of "new blood" is good for any organization from time to time and we are very fortunate in having several new members this year. First, there is. Brother Dr. Clarence H. Mills who is serving as head of the French Department here at Wilberforce. He was formerly a member of the faculty at North Carolina A. & T. Then, there is Brother Mark E. Park^, of Lincoln and New York Universities, a faculty member of our Biological Department. He has recently been elected to the position of Associate Editor of the Sphinx and it is with pleasure that I turn over to him this particular duty. Then, there is Brother Robert Coleman, a Phi Beta Kappa from Western Reserve University, who is "showering down" on those courageous ones who dare to take Math. Brother Guy A. Ginn, who is now serving as medical officer in a CCC camp, has come back into the fold. He is a former Xi and Kappa Chapter man.

Other former Xi Chapterites who are associating are: James "Buttercup" Anderson, Richard Bennett, Herbert Pickens, Granville Smith, James "Farm" Smith, and Harold Johnson. The affiliation of the last named brother gives us a father-son combination. Brother Wm. E. "Custodian" Johnson is the honorable parent.

Among the Old Faithfuls who are exerting their steadying influences are Brother Chas. S. Smith, F. A. McGinnis, C. C. Jenkins, W. P. Welch, H. H. Summers, R. N. Pyrtie and several others whose names escape me at the moment.

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Brothers in Alpha:— Though Alpha Eta Lambda news has been conspicuously absent from these pages here of late, it is not because the Brothers and the Chapter have failed to make real news of interests here in the Southwest.

As we go to press Alpha Eta Lambda boasts of having completed its most successful year in history, certainly in the past eight years. Under the leadership of Brother Walter Booker (now studying at the University of Chicago), the Chapter outlined a live constructive program for the year, and as 1937 closed, everything promised was accomplished.

Reclaiming six long lost Brothers, the Spring dance, sponsoring a boy and a girl to the "Y" Summer Camp, a delegate to the Convention, and entertaining the Zeta Boule' with ninety per-cent of the Brothers paying their budget in full were just some of the things accomplished in the year's work.

While Brother G. Lamar Harrison was away representing the Chapter at the Convention, the other Brothers were busy be'ng entertained and entertaining the Zeta Boule'. The "Theatre Party" for the Zetas sponsored by the Chapter is still the toast of the current social season.

Orchids to Brothers James Law, John Davis, and Roger Lights for this colorful affair.

Brother J. Kermit Hall of Alpha Iota Lambda stopped in on his return to West Virginia from the Convention.

A regular "Alpha Smoker" at the home of "yours truly" was the result. Everybody reported a full evening.

Officers elected for the 1938 term are: Brother John E. Codwell, President; Brother George W. Morton, VicePresident; Brother F. A. Jackson, Secretary; Brother

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Roger W. Lights, Assistant Secretary; Brother E. B. Evans, Treasurer; Brother James Law, Historian; Brother John W. Davis, Sergeant-at-Arms; Brother Harvey Turner, Chaplain; and Brother R. O'Hara Lanier, Editor-tothe Sphinx.

We acknowledge here the visits of Brothers A. L. Kidd and William (Bill) Bell from Florida A. & M. College; William (Bill) Taylor, Coach at Arkansas State College; and Fred (Big) Long from Marshall, Texas.

Yours truly is just pinch-hitting in this issue but you can depend upon Alpha Eta Lambda to make real Alpha news here in th e Southwest.

Fraternally, Fred A. Jackson, Secretary.

BETA CHAPTER Howard University WASHINGTON, D. C. Greetings Brothers: Beta Chapter is setting out on a bigger and better program for the coming year, under the leadership of its newly elected officers who are: Edward Plummsr, president; John C. Robinson, vice-president; Edward J. Austin, recording secretary; J. Wesley Robinson, corresponding secretary; Cecil M. Andrews, treasurer; G. F. Stanton, financial secretary; George E. Cannady, chapter editor; Cornelius Henderson, chaplain; James A. Fairfax, historian; Wendell Parris, sergeant-at-arms; Jawn Sandifer, parliamentarian.

The early spring season was started off with a bang at a joint smoker of Mu Lambda and Beta chapters in the frat house, Thursday, January G, where among the many features, interesting and lively reports of the New Orleans Convention were made by the Mu Lambda delegates to that convention: Belford H. Lawson, and James H. Browning; and by the Beta delegate, John R. Pinkett, Jr. As all of us know, Mu Lambda chapter remains well represented in the general organization, with Dr. Charles H. Wesley, re-elected president; Dr. Howard H. Long remains chairman of the committee on Public Policy, Belford H. Lawscn remains regional director of the eastern division. Brother James Browning, president of Mu Lambda chapter, was secretary at the General Convention.

The 300 or more Alpha men here in Washington are being regimented and l.ned up to put over the program for this. year. Brother John C. Robinson is in charge of the Chapter House Renovation Project. The house at 1917 3rd St. is to be painted, plastered, papered, and gone over from top to bottom. The work is to be done almost entirely by the brothers.

On February 5th a unique banquet is scheduled, which as part of its theme will be the segregation of the brothers according to their professions and callings at different sections of the banquet board. The banquet will be closely followed up by the annual spring prom, which has come to be synonymous with "the tops" in social affairs here in the Capitol City.

Beta's Sphinx club is fast coining into its own as a productive and competent aid to the chapter. Mu Lambda and Beta chapters are determined to support financially and actively and to an increasing extent the approved movements for the uplift and betterment of the race. Beta is continuing the offering of three scholarships in the aid of deserving brothers attending Howard University; Beta made her usual Christmas contribution to the N. A. A, C,

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P.; Beta is standing benind the programs or the elevation and education of the Negro youth throughout the country.

Beta chapter extends best wishes for a successful and prosperous year to all Alpha Brothers.

Fraternally yours, George E. Cannady. o

ALPHA IOTA CHAPTER Denver, Colo.

Alpha Iota Chapter has resolved to make 1938 a banner year. To reclaim all its delinquent members, build up the chapter and turn in a worth-while performance.

On January 22nd we gave a Stag at the home of one of our members to which all delinquent members in the city were invited together with our pledges and members of our Sphinx club. President Chrysler gave his report on the general convention and especially the program outlined by the General president for the next two years.

Rev. Russell S. Brown installed the officers for the new year. Vice-President Jenkins, Jr. made an appeal to the delinquent members present to re-instate and assist the chapter in a worth while program. Two reinstated on the spot and the others promised to reinstate within the next month.

Our pledges and Sphinx club members were given a chance to meet all the members of the chapter and from a brief history of Alpha Iota Chapter given by Father Uiinning, were more than ever impressed with the greatness of Alpha Phi Alpha and a desire to become members. Our first effort for the new year was a great e uceess.

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BETA EPSILON LAMBDA Wewoka, Oklahoma A New Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha made its appearance, when Beta Epsilon Lambda was set up, Thursday, December 23, last, under the direction of Brother Bert A. McDonald, Western Vice-President.

The Chapter is composed of Graduate Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, who were desirous of seeing the high principles of Alpha Phi Alpha carried on, having been vigorously "impressed" of these ideals, they could not see them dormant.

Brother McDonald's work during the organization was both impressive and instiuctive. At the conclusion he gave cur Fraternity a glowing tribute. Former Regional Director Brother Tollie Harris, Alpha Tau Lambda at Tulsa was on hand to assist in the work. Brother Harris stated among other things that, "The Social and Economic Conditions among our people today are a direct challenge to the men of Alpha". Accompanying Brother Harris was Brother Clyde Cole, the very efficient principal of Carver Junior High School, Tulsa.

After the ceremonies were over, the visiting Brothers were the guests of Beta Epsilon Lambda at an informal smoker.

Officers and members of the Chapter are as follows: Brother Dr. D. A. French, President; Brother F. D. Moon, Vice-President; Brother W. A. Dobson, Secretary; Brother V. E. McCain, Asst. Secretary; Brother F. H. Harris, Treasurer; Brother Dr. F. E. Wesley, Sergeant-atArms; and Brother L. G. Ashley, Associate Editor of the Sphinx.

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Much interest was aroused in Columbus on Sunday, January 23rd when the Community Forum met in the first of a series of meetings which are scheduled until next June, with one meeting each month.

The speaker, Brother Joseph S. Himes, Research Director of The Columbus Urban League, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College, and at present a Ph. D candidate at Ohio State University, handled his subject 'American Minority Groups In A Crisis', quite well.

Brother John Turner, a graduate student at 0. S. U. and who is doing special work in the field, is director of the Forum. The Forum Committee is made up of the following Brothers: G. A. Steward, Frank Sherear, John Turner, Lucian Wright, Charles Allen, and B. Wm. Durham of the graduate chapter. The undergraduate members are: Clifford Valentine, Walter Scott, Henry Parks, and George Moore.

Says Brother Steward, the Chairman, "While the Forum is. being sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha, we hope to make it a community project; using the fraternity to supply the driving force.''

Mrs. Cora Jordan White will be the speaker on the fourth Sunday of February.

Yours fraternally, Barbee W. Durham o

BETA KAPPA CHAPTER Langston University Brothers in Alphadom: This first issue of the Sphinx for 1938 marks an interval in the achievement of Beta Kappa, an interval which always comes around just before the initial Sphinx of the new year. Our new officers have been installed and are carrying on to greater objectives. They are as follows: Samuel Fuhr, President; Hasko Ellis, Vice President; Clemon Ashley, Treasurer; Elmer C. Jackson, Secretary; Francis Ellis, Assistant Secretary; E. W. Moore, Historian; Anderson Lonian, Chaplain; W. T. McKenzie, Sergeant-at-Arms and Ben Love, Jr., Associate Editor to the Sphinx. We have also eight neophyte brothers; George Hubbard, Anderson Lonian, R. E. Oliver, Ora Ellis, Ora Kemp, Lorenza Sneed, William Hale and Prentic Nolan.

We are proud of these new brothers who already show by their work that our choice of them was merited. Even as I write several officers of the Chapter are assisting in the installation of officers of Beta Upsilon Lambda, a graduate chapter recently set up in Wewoka, Oklahoma.

Our Fraternity house of two stories and all modern conveniences and easily our greatest undertaking to date has paid us in dividends of a richer spirit and cooperation.

I feel certain that in no other way could we have learned the true idea of fraternalism so well as we have in maintaining this project. It is well to pay tribute to our dynamic Ex-President, Brother Paul Strong, and to say that we shall miss him and his staff. All graduate this spring.

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After a defeat at the hands of Xaviers Basketeers, we were happy to have them out to our house for an entertainment. We were also proud to note that the coach, Bro. Wright, has an entire team of Sphinxmen and one other Brother.

In achievement on the campus Alpha moves forward.

The Lion University Annual publication has been revived after a lapse of several years and heading t h e staff is Brother Paul L. Strong. He is ably assisted by such brothers as Emery Jennings and Wm. Hale. Brother Hale is widely known for his work in the Y. M. C. A. and recently represented the University at the International Convention held in Oxford, Ohio.

Fraternally yours, Ben Love, Jr., Associate Editor to Sphinx. o

PSI CHAPTER Philadelphia, Penn.

Our officers have been installed and we've set sail with Brother Roger Gordon at the helm. Brother Gordon gave an encouraging and inspiring inaugural address which will undoubtedly bear much fruit. It will be well to remember at this point that Brother Gordon attended the Convention in New Orleans as Psi's delegate.

The report of the convention submitted by him is a masterpiece of literature in that the facts were told concisely and logically but sufficently interspersed with humorous incidents told in exquisite English to be most enjoyable.

Thanks to Brother delegate, Bill Gray, of ISouthern University for aiding and abetting Brother Gordon, Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha.

As usual those who attended the closed party Christmas morning had a delightful time and characteristic of Alpha events urged the participants to look forward to the next social affair. The next affair to be of particular interest will be the Annual Relay Prom. Our tireleiss dance committee, even at this early date, is negotiating to make this year's dance more entertaining, and unique, if such is possible.

Mentioning the relay prom calls to mind Psi Chapter's outstanding athlete, Brother Eulace Peacock. For the last few weeks the daily papers have been carrying accounts of Peacock's comeback. The Philadelphia Inquirer carried the following account: "Peacock Hot After Comeback In Track."

Handicapped for two years by a series of misfortunes that would have discouraged lesser athletes, Eulace Peacock, ex-Temple speed merchant, is attempting a comeback. The same Negro comet who flashed across the track firmament with dazzling triumph over Jesse Owens in 1935, only to be grounded with a leg injury the following year, will open his comeback campaign in Convention Hall February 11th.

Brother Peacock is training and hurrying homeward at an early hour.

Brother Arthur Huff Fausett, author of "For Freedom", vice-president of the National Negro Congress and principal of Singerly School, spoke to the students of Temple University on the race problem. The school paper quote Brother Fausett as saying, "contrary to what most people believe, the race problem is not primarily due to color or creed. "Instead the roots of it can be found in

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First Row, left to right:—W. A. Miller and Charles Jones, members of the faculty of Huntington High School- T. Roger Thompson, principal Booker T. Washington School; Dr. L. A. Fowlkes, well known dentist; Clarence Johnson, member of the Huntington High School faculty. Second row, left to right:—0. H. Smith, prominent mortician; G. Edward Ellis, of the Resettlement Administration; G. Wesley Raney and W. H. Robinson, Huntington High School faculty members; L. F. Palmer, principal Huntington High School; Stephen Howe, member of Huntington High School faculty; Fernando Brown, Booker T. Washington School; J. R. Picott, principal John Marshall School; and John J. Ballou, Huntington High School faculty.

the present economic set-up. As for the Negro in America the white man in the South wants to keep him in subjection because the Negro represents a vital addition to organized labor if he is allowed to assert himself."

Brother Fausett made a plan to Psi to be represented in the local branch of the National Negro Congress. His plea was answered. Brother Bogan and Harris were named delegates.

Brother "Milt" Washington and Bill Harris are representatives to the InterFraternal Athletic Council, composed of Alpha, Omega, Kappa, and Phi Beta Sigma men.

The Council is set upon restoring interest in inter-fraternal basketball.

Brother "Les" Henry was amused at the report in th' last issue of the Sphinx that he was in Harvard's Medical School. He is at Howard University and is president of his class. I explained that my writing was the cause, but Mr. Editor, and brothers, my writing will improve—I hope.

Fraternally yours, William B. Harris.

ALPHA DELTA CHAPTER Los A n g e l e s ,

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The first meeting of the year was characterized by informality. Parliamentary proceedings were laid aside and the major part of the evening was given over to our delegates. A very lengthy and comprehensive report was given by Brother Rufus Norman. So vivid was the picture painted of New Orleans and the Convention activities that we could visualize everything that must have transpired.

I do think, however, that a few of the social activities our delegates participated in were not accounted for. I am not so sure that Brother Bert McDonald didn't exercise a certain amount of censorship.

We are more than elated over the disposition the Fraternity made of the program to help the school of aviation located in Los Angeles. Alpha Delta has long been proud of the work done in the field of aeronautics by Brother Lieut. William J. Powell, who is president, instructor and organizer of this school. We see in his great work a future for the Negro, heretofore undreamed of. Again we salute Brother Powell for his relentless and untiring efforts in making this school with an enrollment of 200

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what it is today and what it will be tomorrow.

The officers elected to guide the activities of our chapter for the year are: Brothers Bert McDonald, president; James A. Robinson, Jr., vice-president; Rufus S. Norman, secretary; Frank S. Maxwell, treasurer; Leonard C. Tibbs, Sr„ corresponding secretary; Dewey D. Davidson, Chaplain; Edward C. Strong, associate editor of the Sphinx.

By the time ihe Sphinx goes to press, we will have welcomed into our fold four very good men in Brothers Kennedy Washington, Woodrow W. Strock, both having made an enviable record in the U. C L. A. gridiron last year.

Also Brothers Lolan Payton and Horace Hampton who are scholars of no mean ability at U. S. C. and Chaplin College respectively. Much is expected of these neophyte brothers in carrying the torch.

Plans have been made and the date tentatively set for the formal banquet given in their honor.

It was with great reluctance that Alpha Delta relinquished its hold on Brother Fred Spann who left for Chicago to join his charming wife. Brother Spann is one of our very promising architects who was working in the office of Mr. Paul Williams, who has the distinction of being one of the finest architects in the country. Here's wishing you much luck and success in your new field of endeavor, and may you always be the "Good Brother" as we know you to be. Now take him away, Theta.

Now that we have received the stimulus through our delegates Alpha Delta plans great things for 1938. It is our sincere hope that our plans which will embrace the more constructive nature will meet the ever rising demand for Negro betteiment and educational enlightenment in Los Angeles. May the influence be felt elsewhere.

Again we say we are very proud of the accomplishment of our Fraternity at New Orleans.

Edward C. Strong, Associate Editor.

BETA PI CHAPTER Lane College Starting the New Year off light, Beta Pi begins with a boom by introducing its new officers. At the helm is our new president, W. H. Anderson, who proved tops among an array of good men. Much is expected of him. The program for the coming year has been outlined and met favorable approval by all the brothers.

Breaking into our ranks are five neophyte brothers in person of Harris, Steward, Meacham, J. Oglesby, and H. Forte who is captain-elect of the Lane College Dragons, having succeeded Brother Captain Warford.

Beta Pi still holds the lead in members on the honor roll for Greek-Letter organizations on the campus. Brother Gray who manages the boxing team has started on his program for the year with favorable results. On the team are both Alphas and Omegas.

Brother Jackson is all smiles again after winning his sweetheart back by the "hardest efforts."

At the time of this writing Beta Pi has completed preparations for its annual winter prom. We shall enjoy the presence of some of our charter and out of town brothers.

Brother C. Johnson of "Chi Town", Brother Bill Womack, and possibly Brother Bill Buford of Memphis.

Beta Pi pauses in profound sympathy with our new associate editor of the Sphinx, Brother Helm, who lost his grandmother. Brother Helm is away at present.

The new officers of Beta Pi are as follow W. H. Anderson, president; J. D. Abram, vice-president; M. Caruthers, recording secretary; S. Seals, corresponding

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Fraternally yours, J. Abram.

BETA TAU CHAPTER Xavier University "FAREWELL, BROTHERS" New Orleans was theirs.

On December 28, 1937, Beta Tau opened its arms, its doors and its hearts to dear Alpha, the assembling of brothers from all parts of our country—men from all walks of life. We enjoyed your acquaintance, your companionship. Our hospitality had not limits nor bounds— The week was a fast but interesting one; one that will always remain in the thoughts of Beta Tau. Then came the end.

As the old year passed out like the fading light of a dying candle's flame, our hearts felt glad and yet sorry; glad because of the happy moments spent during the last days of the year, and sorry to see the adjournment of Alpha's Convention which meant "adieu" to our brothers whom we met on such a short occasion.

Beta Tau sincerely regrets that time did not permit you to soe more of our "Creole City," America's most interesting city.

In our hearts will always lemain the thoughts of your brief stay with us. So closing we say:— "When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thoughts, While the chimes ring out with a carol gay, For the joy that the day have brought.

Do you think what the end of a perfect day, Can mean to a tired heart, When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, And the dear friends have to part."

Fraternally yours, Brother Harold J. Bouise, Beta Tau, New Orleans, La.

BETA MU CHAPTER Kentucky State Industrial College Greetings Brothers: Although Beta Mu was not represented at New Orleans in body she was there in spirit. Our thoughts were focused at that spot during the Yuletide Season.

The coming year brings us promises of a quite successful and eventful year. Brother James Hall, has done noble work while President of Beta Mu Chapter. Brother Hall has now relinquished the helm of Beta Mu in the hands of Brother Sheley F. Lynem. Brother Lynem has presented to us a constructive program for the new year.

We have already begun the program of the new year that was presented to, us by the president. We expect this program to make a banner year for Beta Mu which wdl equal if not excell the program outlined for us last year.

During the past initiation six brothers were taken into the folds of Alpha through Beta Mu. They were: Brothers Alfred Allen, John Bates, Dan Kenner, Elwood Saunders, Wheatley Steward, and William Stovall. Our Chapter now possesses the lucky no. thirteen. In spite of the fact of some people's superstitions we still are endeavoring to carry on the good work for B«ta Mu and APA. Fraternally yours, Wheatley S. Stewart.

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ALPHA ALPHA LAMBDA CHAPTER Newark, N. J. Greetings to Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha: It has been a long time since Alpha Alpha Lambda chapter has contributed news to the Sphinx. However we plan to be regular contributors in the futui-e.

The regular election of officers was held on the evening of November 20th at the Grand Hotel. It was unanimously decided upon to reelect the same brothers who had so successfully guided our Ship of State the past year. The officers re-elected were: Brother Dr. Ferdinand Williams, President; Brother Walter G. Alexander, Vice President; Brother Deckle McLain, Treasurer; Brother Arthur C. Williams, Secretary; Brother Dr. Aubrey E. Robinson, Chaplain; and Brother Ollie T. Daly, Associate Editor to the Sphinx.

This promises to be a banner year in the history of our chapter. Already Brother Williams, with his tactful ability and calm judgment has outlined a constructive program with every brother taking part. An important point in his program is the reclamation of brothers. There are over one hundred brothers living in our jurisdiction.

Our delinquent members can expect no quarter from us until they have again become financial with the chapter and General Organization. Alpha Alpha Lambda has pledged herself to leave no stones unturned until these brothers have again been brought into the fold.

On the evening of October 14th, three neophytes were led across the burning sands to behold the shiny light of Alpha Phi Alpha. They are: Brothers Harold Burnside, St. Augustine '31; Charles Francis, Howard University '34; and Guy R. Moorehead, Upsola College '36. Brother Moorehead is a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, the youngest man to ever hold such a position in the history of the State. While in college he was an outstanding athlete, winning a total of sixteen letters and also led his class in scholastic achievements.

November 20th a smoker was held for Brother Charles Wesley who spoke the following day at the Montclair, Y. W. C. A. A grand time was had by all brothers present.

Dan Cupid has struck the ranks of Alpha Alpha Lambda again. This time it was Brother William Eubanks who was married to Miss Ruth Rollins.

Once again Alpha Alpha Lambda takes this opportunity to inform her sister chapters of its activities through the pages of the Sphinx.

On December 13th cur chapter met with the other Metropolitan chapters at the Prince Hall Square Club in New York City. The joint meeting was presided over by the eastern vice president, Brother James Watson, Jewel Speaker of the convention, Brother Vertner Tandy, Brother Myles Paige and the delegates to the convention. A great deal of enthusiasm was shown at the meeting and the brothers went away with the hope that another joint meeting would be held in the near future.

Our program as oulined by our able president Brother Ferdinand Williams is moving along a t a rapid pace. At the present writing we have a large number of financial brothers and more have signified their intentions of coming back into the fold.

When one of our brothers, in the person of Arthur Hardy, Executive Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was

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sworn in as a member of the Labor Relations Board of the City Commission, it marked the first time that a Negro was appointed to an important committee of the Local Administration.

Ollie T. Daly.

ALPHA UPSILON LAMBDA CHAPTER Montgomery, A l a b a m a

Greetings from Upsilon Lambda to all Brothers and Chapters: Our chapter has begun what we of Upsilon Lambda hope will be a successful year. All brothers have pledged themselves to do their very best in what ever activities the chapter attempts to do.

Our program for the year includes some special efforts for the betterment of our community and the development of civic and race pride among members of our racial group. Upsilon Lambda will center its attention on the so-called "Forgotten" men and women of our group with programs designed to reach the very lowest strata of our social group. Upsilon Lambda calls on all other chapters to so plan their programs so that they will reach that part of our social group, which in most instances have not heretofore been benefited.

During the past year our chapter created two scholarships to be used at State Teachers College, for members of the undergraduate chapter and at present both of these scholarships are in use by deserving brothers.

On the night of January 24, this year, the members of the undergraduate chapter were our guests at a smoker.

A spirit of brotherly love existed and many problems were discussed. The smoker was enjoyed by all present and marked the beginning of the many we hope to have during the present year.

A party of brothers, their wives and daughters* enroute to the convention in New Orleans, were royally entertained at a breakfast given by the chapter. Included in the party were the following: Charles H. Wesley, general president, his wife and daughter and Joseph H. B. Evans, general secretary, his wife and daughter and Howard Long, chairman, public relations committee. There were others present whose names I did not get.

Brothers J. G. Hardy and Cohen T. Simpson were the delegates from this chapter to the convention held in New Orleans. They reported a grand time and brought back much helpful information from the convention. The following brothers also attended the convention: H. Council Trenholm, President of State Teachers College; G. Hubert Lockhart, C. J. Dunn, Theodore Smiley, A. L. Campbell, Frank Lewis and J. C. Can-.

The following brothers have been elected to guide the chapter during the year: President, Cohen T. Simpson; Vice President, G. H. Lockhard; Secretary, J. G. Hardy; Corresponding Secretary, Benjamin J. Simms; Chaplain.

Albert Fews; Sergeant-at-Arms, A. L. Campbell.

Fraternally yours, Benjamin J. Simms, Corresponding Secretary.

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BETA THETA NEWS NOTES

ALPHA CHI LAMBDA

Bluefield State College

Augusta, Ga.

Greetings, Brothers of Alphadom: We hope the new year finds each of you well and hearty, we are looking to this year for great things.

Final initiations services on December 1, 1937, ushered "Neophytes" Vannie Woods, Willie Burton, Lawrence Watkins, Paul Waller, Lee Roy Perry, Marshall Harris, Taft Johnson, and Phillip Reed into the bond of brotherhood.

True to the Alpha Spirit these new brothers have fallen in line and are upholding the name of Alpha Phi Alpha in various campus activities.

Beta Theta was honored highly recently in having one of its charter members to return to the campus for a brief visit. Brother Kermit J. Hall came up from the state Capitol for a weekend meeting of a different nature and while he was here a hurried "get-to-geth'r" was called for all Alpha men. 10 P. M. Saturday was the only available hour for Brother Hall; he came to the room of Brother Allen and yours truly and told us many interesting things about the New Orleans Convention and about Alpha Phi Alpha in general. Brother Hall also mentioned the days when Beta Theta was set up on this campus; he was the Chapter's first president.

Brother LeRoy B. Allen is running over with "Alphaism." He recently received a scholarship and wants all Alpha to know how proud he is. Incidentally Brother Allen is secretary of the chapter and is very efficient in that capacity. He is a conscientious student and is well liked on the campus.

On February 13 Beta Theta conducted a Memorial Service honoring the late Brother W. D. Miller who for a period of six years was Financial Secretary here at Bluefield State. The same position is held now by Brother Robert R. Carroll of Columbus- For the Memorial, Broth-"1 er Hall consented to come up and deliver the eulogy.

Brother Otheniel Bethel has consented to sing a favorite of Brother Miller, "Home On The Range". The affair promises to be outstanding and the Brothers are putting forth every effort to makte it excell all other events on this year's calendar.

Other events on the chapter's program of work for this school year are the Chapter Banquet on March 5, Delta's Jabberwockâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;participation, the Alpha Prom, and our annual "Go To High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Go To College Campaign."

In keeping with the pledge at New Orleans members of Beta Theta have sent telegrams to our State Senator and other supporters of the Anti-Lynch Bill asking a continuance of their fight for the bill. Senators Rush D. Holt and Robert Wagner answered with thanks for the messages and assured us that they would do all in their power toward the passage of the bill.

We are proud to announce that due to a close relationship and more interest in our Sphinx Club a better spirit of cooperation is exemplified. The club has increased its membership to twenty-two. On the 29th a closed party for the Sphinxmen and the Big Brothers has been planned by the club. In the near future the Sphinx Club will have full charge of a Sunday evening Vespers. We are proud of our Sphinx Club and will see that it keeps up the good work.

Alpha Chi Lambda emerging from a short silence as regards these pages sends cordial greetings to all Alpha brothers everywhere.

Recently the brothers of Alpha Chi Lambda were visited

by General Secretary Joseph H. B. Evans of Washington, D. C. Together in customary Alpha spirit and fashion, a smoker was enjoyed at the Taystee Shoppe. It was a grand get-to-gether and brother Evans' visit was a real inspiration to the local brothers.

Officers who will pilot the "Good Ship Alpha" during 1938 are: Brother Lawrence D. Perry, Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance official heading the clerical division of said company, was chosen president. Brother John M. Tutt, Assistant Principal of Haines Normal School, was chosen vice-president, Brother Joel W. Wallace, assistant principal of the Charles T. Walker Public School, is the new secretary; Brother S. Marcus Jenkins, Manager of the Augusta Branch of the Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company, is treasurer, Brother A. Murray Carter, Manager of the Ordinary Department of the Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company, was chosen Sergeant-at-Arms, and yours truly is chaplain and Editor of the Sphinx. Brother Lockett, Parliamentarian.

In all fields of endeavor in this section you will find Alpha men at the helm and very active in the business and professional fields of this city.

The history of Alpha Chi Lambda during the year of 1937 has been very interesting and tells the story of bigger and better achievements among the brothers of Alpha Chi Lambda, renewed spirit, and dynamic efforts toward maintaining the high ideals of the fraternity.

With the present corps of officers and the splended cooperation which the brothers give, Alpha Chi Lambda forges ahead with the hope of making more interesting history.

Brothers Morgan C. Brown and Benjamin F. Holland have just crossed the sands and were recently initiated into the ranks of Alphadom. Brother Brown is a graduate of Paine College and is connected with the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company of this city. Brother Holland is a graduate of Allen University, a stellar athlete and is connected with the Atlanta Life Insurance Company here.

These two new members were guests) at a smoker Tuesday evening, January 18th. The Taystee Shoppe was a scene of much festivity when the brothers of Alpha Chi Lambda honored brothers Brown and Holland.

On New Years' eve the brothers of the chapter were hosts supreme to their wives, sweethearts and friends at their party in the beautifully decorated hall of the Del Mar Casino. The Casino was a mecca of Black and Gold and the brothers and their guests tripped the light fantastic to rhythmic strains until the wee hours of the morning. It was a lovely beginning of the new year for the socially minded for it was an evening when "the night was filled with music and the cares that infested the day, folded their tents like the Arabs and silently stole away."

Loathe to stop, our broadcast for this period must end.

Bidding you Au Revoir.

Fraternally yours, Augustus C. Griggs, Editor to the Sphinx.

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NEWS OF BETA UPSILON A l a b a m a , State

HELLO, HELLO, HELLO! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! This is Beta Upsilon Chapter speaking from the Alabama State Teachers College at Montgomery, Alabama.

We send greetings from the Sphinx Club and a host of friends who admire Alpha Phi Alpha.

On November 22nd we took a forward step in Alphadom by adding to our number, Brothers James A. Dunn, outstanding gridder, who is elected to lead the "Hornets" as captain next season and who is noted for his ability to play end; Willis Jones, outstanding honor student who won an Alpha scholarship last year; Edward Caldwell, stellar science student, president of his class, and assistant photographer of that Department; Morris Mosely, acclaimed the most outstanding Mathematics student in the current enrollment of the Institution and a wizard in Foreign Languages; William Crenshaw, a noted gridiron hero, who contributed to the Hornets battles in winning the Championship of '35; Maxwell Graham, a streak o' light on the track team who holds promises of rising to great heights this year; Robert Smiley, known about the campus for his astounding dramatic and debating ability; Ishmeal Childs, a name known by the lowest drab to the highest senior for his speaking ability, personality and leadership; Louis Hill, a senior and an assistant in the Chemistry Department, who holds his own in the field of Science and Mathematics; and last but far from least, James Beatty who hails from Kentucky and anything you want to know about Social Studies, just ask "Jim" Beatty.

We feel that we have selected the best material that can be found in an Institution of learning. We are proud to present these newly made Brothers to the Alpha world.

On December the 16th, the Chapter presented a program for the Freshmen Chapel hour. The program was centered around Brother Charles Battle's address on "The Christmas Spirit." The program was a success. The following day we received the following letter from the Freshman Class: December 21, 1937 Mr. Eddie Mitchell, President of Beta Upsilon Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

Dear Mr. Mitchell: We the members of the Freshman Class wish to congratulate the members of the Beta Upsilon Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for the very impressive and inspiring program rendered on December 16, in our behalf.

We were also left with the impression that there are really some higher ideals on the campus that are worthy of our class's inspiration.

Yours truly, The Freshman Class, Theodore A. Smith, President Geraldyn Kelley, Secretary.

The good Brothers are settling down to hard work. In our last meeting Brother Perry brought his report on the Convention held during the Christmas holidays and the new roster of the Chapter was installed as follows: Brother I. C. Childs, president; Brother James A. Dunn, Vice President and Dean of Sphinx Club; Brother Willis

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Jones, Secretary; Brother R. Smiley, treasurer; Brother Maxwell Graham, Sergeant-at-Arms and Brother Edward Caldwell, Associate Editor of the Sphinx. These good Brothers have pledged to lead Beta Upsilon Chapter through this new year.

Our future looks bright and hopeful. We are starting the year off with eighteen (18) members and a Sphinx Club of twenty (20) members. We hope that all of the chapters have bright futures before them. We are saying s'long now but we'll be seeing ya in the next issue.

Fraternally yours, Brother W. L. Wright, Retiring Asso. Ed. Brother E. E. Caldwell, Elected Asso. Ed. o

ALPHA SIGMA LAMBDA Dallas. Texas Greetings and a New Year of Prosperity: Nineteen thirty-eight is here and with it has come many new features of a great year ahead. We of the Southwest are looking forward to one of the greatest years in Alpha Phi Alpha. In respect to our report from the thirty-first anniversary and twenty-sixth convention at New Orleans, Louisiana, we feel that Alpha Phi Alpha is still making great strides toward the goal of good will toward all men, yet, first of all, servants of all, and the transcension of all mankind.

Alpha Sigma Lambda here at Dallas, Texas, has now new inspiration and takes on new life. First, our secretary and senior delegate to the New Orleans convention brings back to us the seat of the Southwest Regional Directorship. Secondly our central location in the Southwest makes us the focal point of the section, and makes us therefore responsible for the thoroughfare of Alpha Phi Alpha this direction.

Although our present chapter roster does not boast of having every brother in Dallas intact, we are proufl of our progress. Our personnel and officers are as follows: Brother A. Maceo Smith, Executive Secretary of the Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce and Progressive Voters League, president. Brother Smith holds the distinction of being the only salaried, full time Negro Chamber of Commerce Secretary in America. Brother C. P. Johnson, Southwest Regional Director, instructor, physical education and play, public schools, secretary; Brother Roy A. Lay, instructor, general science, Booker T. Washington High School and Wiley Junior College, treasurer; Brother Richard Williams, social worker, seargent-at-arms; Brother James R. Edmonds, head coach, Booker T. Washington High School; Brother M. B. S. Slaughter, who at this writing is first in line as supervisor of one of our play parks; Brother B. B. Lipscomb, student of University of Iowa who is the proprietor of a well equipped radio sales and technical repair shop; Brother Dr. Richard T. Hamilton, an outstanding, if not the most outstanding civic leader in the Southwest; Brother W. H. Pace, editor, Dallas Express and former insurance tycoon of Texas, vice president; Brother Dr. H. A. Key, one of the leading dentists of the city.

There are several other brothers who by the time the next issue of the Sphinx goes to press are sure to be within the fold. They are Brother David N. Howell, Boys Work Secretary, Moorland Branch Y. M. C. A., transfer from Alpha Iota; Brother Fields, Assistant Coach, Booker T. Washington High School, transfer from Beta Iota; Brother Ernest Dillard, instructor, Booker T. Washington

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High School; Brother Roy E. Dixon, instructor, public school, and Southwest and Sports Editor for the Informer newspaper; Brother Herman I. Holland, charter president of Alpha Sigma Lambda and athletic director of Booker T. Washington High School; Brother Samuel Hudson, instructor, Booker T. Washington High School; Brother Attorney Roger Q. Mason, practicing attorney and general council of the Excelsior Mutual Life Insurance Company; Brother J. Leslie Patton, dean of men of the Booker T. Washington High School; Brother Thomas Tolbert, instructor, Washington High School, and the most outstanding young interracial protege of our city and state; Brother Rev. Chas. Warren, young minister who comes to us from Beta Zeta and Eta Lambda. We regret the loss of two outstanding brothers, Brother Rev. William L. Cash, who left us for Birmingham, Alabama. Brother Cash is a candidate for the Ph. D. degree at the University of Chicago. Brother J. W. White, our former chapter secretary, who after making 99.8 percent in a railway mail clerk civil service examination, was called to duty and now resides in Houston, Texas.

Alpha Sigma Lambda goes into 1938 with new vim and vitality. On to new heights and achievements for Alpha Phi Alpha. If you should start west and are looking for the only city southwest of Chicago, its Dallas, Texas, the seat of Alpha Sigma Lambda. Stop in and see us, you are always welcome.

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CHI CHAPTER Meharry Medical College Brothers In Alpha, Greetings:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; As this bit of news goes to press, your brothers here at Meharry are laboring tenaciously in the midst of mid y e a i x exams. When this news is read, there are those of us who will be in the "dead heat" of our last few months (that precede that long-looked-for and worked-for day, Commencement! Then there are those of us who are now freshmen who may unfortunately be counted in among the high mortality for which Meharry is so widely known.

The freshman class of this year boasts of sixteen Alpha men. We, the older brothers wish them good luck and God's speed in this broad field of endeavor.

We were overwhelmingly pleased with the convention report brought back by our two delegates, Brothers Jesse Chandler and Isaac English. The brothers in attendance a t the New Orleans Convention are indeed to be commended on such a marvelous and efficient piece of legislation, so masterfully executed.

Socially, Chi has been quite active, having sponsored a very successful cabaret party on Thanksgiving night, followed by two beautiful and gay evenings at the fraternity house during the Christmas holidays.

At our first meeting of this year, we were indeed fortunate in having Brother Dr. A. N. Adamson, Professor of Obstetrics at Meharry, to install the following newly elected officers of Chi Chapter for the year, 1938: Brothers Robyn Arrington, president; Maurice F. Gleason, vice-president, and associate editor to the Sphinx; Stephen M. McDew, Jr., corresponding secretary; Robert W. Dockery, corresponding secretary and chaplain; Clay M. Wilson, assistant secretary; Junious L. Taylor, treasurer; Max E. Johnson, sergeant-at-arms; Jesse Chandler, house manager.

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Besides these brothers our financial roster bears the names of Brothers Scott R. Barrett, Joseph P. Davis, Isaac B. English, M. G. Ferguson, James R. Gladden, Walter Richarde Peterson, James D. Phillips, Alfred D. Pleasants, Jr., L. H. Williams and Middleton Lambright.

We doft our hats to Brother Lambright who is a candidate for his M. D. Degree in May. He was successful in getting appointed as interne at Cleveland City Hospital, a municipal institution that has an interne roster of eighty and accept only two Negroes annually. The other Negro candidate is Mr. F. D. Bradford, a member of Brother Lambright's class. Chi sends best wishes to all brothers in Alpha for their year's program.

Fraternally, Maurice Gleason, Associate Sphinx Editor. o

BETA RHO CHAPTER S h a w University Greetings Brothers:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Beta Rho Chapter is again on the wire. Since you last heard from us we have added four to our number. They are William Bunch, of Newark, N. J.; Harvey O. Freeman, Richmond, Va.; Claude B. Gorman, Newark, J. J.; and John White, of Ponettsville, N. C. They are now brothers, brave and true. Our chapter is a t present composed of eleven brothers.

Our fall project consisted of locating and renovating our fraternity room. It has been beautifully decorated with black and gold of Alpha Phi Alpha colors. With the aid of Phi Lambda Chapter, we are now in the process of furnishing the room. The fraternity room will be opened to all brothers who happen to be in Raleigh.

B. A. Collier was the recipient of the Alpha Phi Alpha undergraduate scholarship for the present year. He is also captain of the football team and president of the student body. Other brothers who are outstanding in athletics are Brothers Moore, Marable Bunch, and Gavan.

Brother Gavan was the second highest scorer in the Conference. He was selected as full back on the All-C. I. A. A. Conference team. "Pony" Marable is Shaw's ace, leading the squad in scoring this season. Brother Marshall at center and Sphinxman Howard at guard hold up for Alpha on the court.

Recently we were the guests of Phi Lambda in a joint meeting at which time the new president of Phi Lambda and also president of Shaw University gave a very interesting report of the New Orleans Convention. Brother Joseph H. B. Evans, General Secretary, paid us a weekend visit and added to the information given us concerning the national convention. So enthusiastic are the Alpha men over these reports, they indicate readiness to attend the New York City Convention en masse.

The officers of Beta Rho for th e ensuing year are Claude Trotter, president; W. Coleman Sharks, Jr., vicepresident; George D. Marshall, recording secretary; Harvey 0. Freeman, financial secretary; Claude B. Gavan, treasurer; Moses Newsome, associate editor to Sphinx, John White, Sphinx representative, Benjamin A. Collier, sergeant-at-arms.

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ALPHA TAU LAMBDA CHAPTER Tulsa, Oklahoma Greetings Brothers:— Delegates recently returned from New Orleans with their report of an entertaining as well as an educational meeting in the Convention City. They brought the well wishes of the many brothers, who had come from the "four corners" of America, to the chapter here. These Alpha Tau Lambda representatives gave a good account of themselves, both at the Convention and in Tulsa upon their return. In New Orleans they were active, having been appointed to the various offices by the General President. Then, on their return, they carried us to the Southland with their reports.

This chapter can rightfully be proud of th e types of men connected with it. Every man is possessed with the true Alpha spirit. Every member feels it his duty to help some one else and is doing so, The following is a list of the newly elected officers and members of the chapter, and delegates to the Convention: Brothers Archie L. Morgan, president; Tollie W. Harris, vice-president; J. Tyler Smith, secretary; F. Melvin Payne, treasurer; E. W. South, Chaplain; R. C. Bryant, sergeantat-arms; Jesse L. Greadington, historian; Julius A. Moran, Alphagram Editor; E. W. Clark, E. W. Woods, and James T. A. West, Directors; Clifford H. Johnson, Associate Editor of the Sphinx.

Members:—Fred H. Parker, James A. Rouce, Horace iS. Hughes, Lloyd H. Williams, Willie D. Combs, S. D. McCree, Robert L. Fairchilds, Clyde L. Cole, F. D. Moon, V. E. McCain, Francis H. Harris, Foraker R. Tillman and William A. Dodson.

Convention delegates and alternates: — Archie L. Morgan, J. Tyler Smith, Clyde L. Cole, and F. Melvin Payne.

Fraternally yours, Clifford Johnsoi Associate Editor of the Sphinx.

ETA LAMBDA CHAPTER Atlanta, Georgia Greetings, Fraters:— Off with a bang! !—With memory of the successful 26th convention of Alpha fraters at New Orleans, December 28-31, and our seizure of the McGhee Cup in mind, we started the year off with a spirit that must have been akin to the Jewels when Alpha was established—the January meeting with Brother C. Waymond Reeves at his Fair Street domicile was a "sender"—largely attended, enthusiastic, spicy, tasty, fulfilling, et al. The reports of the annual meet, of Eta Lambda's participation (twenty brothers attended, mind you) and presentation of the prized cup for excellent activity in local and national affairs brought tumultous cheers. After their scalp: members of Eta Chapter, which holds the Balfour Cup, and aspiring chapters might as well be informed that we will take the cup at the next general meeting with highest honors in everything—the appointment of a Housing Committee, which activity virtually "helped" Eta outstep us in preceding months, and the other promising activities virtually assure us. the desired goal, for Eta Lambdans are "showing others how" in all other respects—Things that cheer along the way: our inviting, yet adequate bud-

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get and real brotherhood in the Gate City that's bringing delinquents back to the fold for keeps. Illuminating: Brother B. T. Harvey's- 'inside' dope on electioneering amidst Convention politicdom at N. O. We laughed when—they told us of brothers who went escortless ( ? ) to several sorority dances and of traffic difficulties on the way with a copper finally "letting off"—also the round of parties, the feminine and other spices. Informative: that PreConvention Number of the Sphinx which told who we are and what we're doing. Every brother ought to have one for keeping tabs on th e nation's "Apes". It couldn't be repeated in every issue, but ought to serve as inspiration for aspirants and old-timers as well. It shows the high position of Alphas in every community. An objective indefinitely set but which will be achieved: Eta Lambda's determination to build a chapter house (something of which the city can't boast for any group). He'll teach 'em respect and to keep their contract: Brother Rayford W. Logan, Direcor of Education, who recently instituted suit for considerable damages against the Pullman Company when they refused service, through a conductor, as he alleges, on a ticket from Memphis, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga—represented by a law firm in Washington, D. C, and in a District of Columbia suit, Brother Logan seems to have the "uppers" on the Pullman Company for not returning him to Atlanta in comfortable manner that he might teach his Atlanta University classes as usual and from which he reportedly suffered illness.

Achievement: Brother Andrew J. Lewis II keeps up his stride in youth leadership in Atlanta. Formerly teacher at Howard Junior High school, he is now attendant officer at the central office of the Department of Education, ten floors up in the City Hall—and Chapter Secretary N. C. Jackson's elevation to the chairmanship of the Board of Directors of Atlanta Musicians' Protective Association, Local 462—and—to so many others.

They're in the lead for 1938: T. M. Alexander, President; B. T. Harvey, Vice-President; Nelson C. Jackson-, Secretary; J. Jerome Robinson, Assistant Secretary, William Fowlkes, Jr., Editor-to-the Sphinx; M. E. Turrentine, Treasurer; Alonzo G. Moron, Chaplain; and John Allen, Sergeant-at-arms—Committee Chairmen: B. T. Harvey, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Andrew Lewis, II, Chairman of Membership Committee; J. R. Henderson, Social Committee; J. O. Slade, Program Committee; Rayford Logan, Education and Projects; M. E. Turrentine, Budget; Calvin Beckett, Co-operation with Undergrads; Alonzo G. Moron, Housing; and Wm. Fowlkes, Publicity.

We entertained: On January 6, the well-appointed cafe of "Ma" Sutton was the site of a pretentious dinner honoring the presence of Brother Attorney Henry J. Richardson, Jr., Indianapolis, former member of the Indiana legislature and first Negro member of that body. An impromptu affair, it had as its master of ceremonies Southern Vice-President Charles W. Greene. Short talks were given by many of the local brothers, while Attorney Richardson responded in his captivating manner. Among members present were: Brothers T. M. Alexander, B. T. Harvey, Nelson C. Jackson, M. E. Turrentine, Charles W. Greene, Rayford W. Logan, Arnette G. Lindsay, Alonzo G. Moron, J. R. Henderson, Hobart Jackson, Richard Martin, Brainard Birch, A. T. Walden, H. S. Murphy, Walter Smith, Washington, Attorney Richardson and company.

Congratulations to our Charles W. Greene upon his re-election as Southern Vice-President and his dongenial brotherhood; to our Brother Logan in re-election as National Director of Education; and

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to our Brother Roderick B. Harris, of Athens, Ga., who was appointed to the National Housing Commission.

Also congrats to out-of-city brothers who hold their own as national and local chapter officers, who will see to it that Alpha keeps on her way "first of all."

Fraternally, William Fowlkes, Jr., Editor to the Sphinx.

PI LAMBDA CHAPTER Raleigh. N. C.

Dear Brothers: Phi Lambda chapter is happy to greet you this New Year 1938. We feel that you join us in the New Year's resolution to do Bigger and Better things for A l p h a Phi Alpha.

We were glad to meet you officially through our representative, Brother Dr. Robert P. Daniel, at the General Convention in New Orleans. B r o t her " Daniel reported a DR. ROBERT P. DANIEL beneficial and an enjoyable meeting and informed us that the General Organization was safe and progressing. x During the past year, under the presidency of Brother M. W. Akins, principal of the Washington High School, the chapter was pleased with its record. When Mr. Akins and his cabinet closed the year they were able to report that eighteen brothers had paid their grand tax for 1938.

This was the best financial record for Phi Lambda Chapter.

At our last meeting in December we had the election of officers for 1938. The following were elected: Dr. Robert P. Daniel, president; M. W. Akins, vice-president; Walker H. Quarles, Jr., secretary; J- C. Harlan, assistant secretary; R. L. Lynch, treasurer; H. C. Perrin, editor-toSphinx; Roger D. O'Kelly, historian; Rudolph Jones, chaplain; D. A. Williams, Undergraduate co-ordinator; J. M. Stevens, Seargent-at-arms; H. L. Trigg, representative to the Inter-fraternal Council.

Brother Daniel outlined his program for the year under three general aims, (1) Reclamation of brothers (2) participation in civic projects (3) Interesting meetings by having a combined business-social meeting once a month.

The wives and sweethearts to take part in the social feature of the meetings.

A regular meeting of the chapter was held at the home of Brother Robert P. Daniel on January 11. Nineteen graduate and eleven undergraduate brothers were present to hear the report of Brother Daniel of the recent Convention held in New Orleans The chapter met with Brother Joseph H. B. Evans, General Secretary, a t the home of Brother Daniel on Saturday, January 15. This was an informal fellowship gath-

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ering which enabled the brothers to become acquainted with Brother Evans and the work of his office.

Ten brothers from Raleigh and Brother Evans motored to Durham Sunday, January 16, for a fellowship and social hour in honor of the General President, Charles H. Wesley.

This occasion was fostered by several Durham brothers in the home of Brother J. T. Taylor. It is hoped that a graduate chapter will soon be formed in Durham.

Our first business-social meeting was held at the Arcade Hotel dining room January 22 with Brothers H. L. Trigg, Roger D. O'Kelly, Rudolph Jones, J. M. Stevens, and H. I. F. Nanton as hosts. The business meeting was held first at which time reports of activities of the chapter since the last meeting were made. Brother J. C. Harlan reviewed the report of Brother H. H. Long at the General Convention. After the business meeting the brothers joined their wives and sweethearts in cards and dancing. We were pleased to have several visiting brothers enjoy the evening with us. An enjoyable repast was served with "smoked" turkey and other palitable dishes.

Fraternally yours, H. C. Perrin.

MU CHAPTER St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha, Greetings: With inspiration gained from the glowing reports that Brothers John Patton and John Lawrence brought back from the 26th General Convention in New Orleans, Mu Chapter began the year 1938 with new hopes and ambitions. Several fine meetings have been held and the adopted program is functioning.

The brothers and Sphinxmen are pursuing their studies diligently. The scholarship of the group was deserving enough that all that were in residence during the Fall Quarter returned for the Winter Quarter, reporting that they had received good grades.

Brother Horace Bell, the kicking star of the Golden Gopher football team, has just received a certificate from the All-America Football Board of which Christy Walsh is Chairman, awarding him honorable mention with AilAmerican rating. Brother Bell should be considered for the All-American in his Senior year. At present Brother Bell has not decided whether he will participate in spring football or track. Brother Bill Simms is very active on the Minnesota campus as Chairman of the Student Symphony Committee. We feel that this is a position of honor and the esteem that the student body holds for Brother Simms merits the same.

Brothers Norman Lyght and Henry Robert Thomas are staff members at Phyllis Wheatley House, Minneapolis.

Brother Lyght is Director of Boys' activities.

Brothers William Foster, Hank Thomas and Elbert Rogers of Xi are in the Graduate School.

Sphinxman Victor Calloway is striving for a berth on the varsity track team and all indications point to success for this former St. Paul High School star.

New Sphinxmen include Ira L. Ferguson, Charles E. Moore and Ernest Potts.

Although the health of Brother Raymond W. Cannon has not been so good lately, he is still faithful to his. chapter duties and attends every meeting.

Brother Charles W. Washington is now Urban League Secretary in Minneapolis. Another appointee having taken over the work in St. Paul. Brother and Mrs. Washington have accordingly taken residence in Minneapolis.

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.James, John Patton and John Lawrence are still around and are working hard in their various fields. These are the old-timers of Mu along -with Brother Cannon.

Mu Chapter was pleased to have received letters from Brother Henry (Half Pint) Von Avery of Epsilon Lambda and Brother Claiborne Hill of Beta Beta. Brother Hill surprised us last fall by wedding Miss Minnie Parker of St. Paul when they were both supposed to b e witnessing the Minnesota-Nebraska football game. Congratulations through the Sphinx are in order.

Mu also received a fine Holiday Greeting from Brother William Campfie'.d formerly of Mu, but now residing and teaching at Tuskegee Institute.

Brother John Hickman, a Mu founder, and A. James Lewis have been very ill. Both were confined in the hospital, but are now well on the road to recovery. Brother Lewis also made a trip to the altar last fall. He was married to Mrs. Mabel McGavock Lewis, one of the Twin Cities most beloved and accomplished ladies.

The Sphinx Club is doing a splendid work. On January 28, they gave a very beautiful party for the "U" student; at Sterling Club in St. Paul.

The big question at Mu is, "Why has Brother Lyght been awarded the monickerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"The Light That Failed' ?

Good old Lyght, better luck next time.

By the way, watch our chapter basketball team! It is Good! . , , .

To all .sister chapters, Mu sends greetings and best wishes for a succesful year.

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rather makes me feel as one feels in about a day or two just after that night of nights.

I imagine it will be needless to mention the convention as so many other writers will attend to that, but I will say that our chapter was represented by Brothers William E. Shortridge, Arthur D. Shores and the writer.

We certain few here who are determined to carry on for Alpha are still plodding on and, nothing that comes up seems to be able to serve as a barrier. So far we are getting results and pretty soon we expect to do much better. One of our number, Brother Mosely, was made one of the Southern Regional Directors and he says that the best place to start his house cleaning program is right here at home.

The chapter activities as outlined for the year, we hope, will serve to entice some of the negligent brothers back into activity. Our proposed program of a monthly closed forum, one social meeting, the basketball team and the Annual Spring formal will soon see them treking back.

Just now the active roster of Omicron Lambda is comprised of brothers; William Bolden, B. Atkins Collins, Frederick A. Curtis, William J. Dowdell, Cleophas Haygood, Wilbur H. Hollins, Jesse Jones, Damon Lee, Edward B. McCarroll, Dr. Marion G. McCall, H. Lovell Mosely, William E. Peterson, Herbert Shepard, Arthur D. Shores, William E. Shortridge and Charles O. Webb.

We pledge ourselves to be loyal to the newly elected administration and we will be letting you hear from us from time to time.

Fraternally yours, H. Lovell Mosely.

KAPPA CHAPTER Ohio

Dear Brothers: With the holidays over and the general convention another bit of history in the life of Alpha Phi Alpha, Theta Lambda has set about with activities for the year which we hope will not only build up our local organization but will add strength to the general structure of our national organization. .

Brother Lloyd Phillips heads the Committee which is to sponsor our annual prom. He is being assisted by1 Bros.

F. A. Young, Earl Taylor, Thomas Bush, E. E. Campbell, Fred Grigsby, Thomas Robinson and Brother R. E. Peterfcrd of Springfield. Other Brothers, however, are cooperating in order that the affair will succeed.

Many Brothers have invited the Chapter to the use of their homes in order that we might enjoy a closer fellowship and that we might keep high the spirit of the Fraternity. We shall put forth every effort to make every Alpha man in our community financial before the year is past.

With best wishes for a successful year, I am Fraternally yours, James Pierce, Associate Editor.

OMICRON LAMBDA CHAPTER Birmingham, A l a b a m a Greetings:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Again we go to press but this time with just a little bit more of the certain something -that makes a man truly an Alpha man. And I do wish that quite some few men who once crossed the burning sands could be seized with this feeling that I happen to possess just now. It

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With the return of our delegates from the Convention and the coming of the New Year, Kappa chapter has begun its 28th Year in Alpha Phi Alpha with renewed inspiration and vigor. We are quite proud of the snowing made by the Columbus brothers at New Orleans. Brothers Hill, song-leader; Schuster, Regional Director; Wright, National Housing Committeeman; Allen, and Shelby, of Alpha Rho Lambda Chapter, were quite cooperative with Brothers Scott and Watson of Kappa Chapter. We wish to take this means of thanking them and the Brothers of the General Convention for their hospitality, kindness, and general helpfulness to our undergraduate representation.

With the coming of the news that Brother Melvin Walker was chosen as the American High Jump Champion and that Brother Dave Albritton was chosen the Collegiate High Jump Champion, Kappa adds their names to its athletic Hall of Fame so recently glorified by the presence of the "greatest of them all", Brother Jesse Owens.

Our basketball team is practicing hard to prepare for the interfraternity games of the coming month. On the squad are such fine players as: Brothers Dave and Horace Raines, John Gandy, Henry Parks, Dave Albritton, Melvin Walker, Eddie Singer, Wm. Atkins, Jerry Woodward, Don Reed, Edwin Gibbs; Little Brothers Roswell, Walker, and others. We are looking forward to a very successful season and the Championship of Columbus.

From last Quarter's scholastic wars we emerged unscratched with a very high standing both in the chapter and Sphinx Club. To assure the same type of showing for the future. We are encouraging the Sphinxmen by the awarding of a Key to the Little Brother with the highest accumulative average since "pledging".

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pay their tuition elsewhere, has received favorable comment. The married Teachers' Bill, and the Bill to repeal Public Hanging is being supported by the public.

It was asked some time ago in "Postscripts" if "Doc" Hudson had been tamed yet?

Miss Lillian L. Williamson, popular Alpha Kappa Alpha, and the charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Williamson of New Albany, Ind., answered "Yes", and they took the vows November 15, 1937. Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Hudson are at home to their friends.

The officers for the year are as follows: Lyman Johnson, president, F. L. Stanley, vice-president, Dr. C. M. Young, treasurer, Lee L. Brown secretary.

Fraternally yours, Steward T. A. Pickett, Editor to Sphinx

In line with the suggestion of the General Convention to do away with brutality in our Chapter activities, we have revised our "Merit System" of dealing with the Sphinx Club so as to do away with our Quarterly "Quiz Session." We are hoping that this program will succeed and that Brothers of other Chapters will cooperate in this National effort to civilize Negro Fraternities.

Plans are going forward for a development of a broader civic and educational program this Spring. We are also instituting a more inclusive social program for Kappa chapters, in an effort to apply the aims of the Jewels to the Ohio State University campus in 1938. Their ideas then of a Fraternity are still applicable to the chapters on mixed campuses.

We have installed our officers for the coming year: Brother Henry Parks is President; Brother Campbell Warren is Vice-President; Brother George DeLoache is Secretary; Brother Lucien Wright is Treasurer; Brother Begagy Benton is Corresponding Secretary; Brother Frank Bean in Parliamentarian and Chaplain, and Brother Fowler Biggs is Sergeant-at-arms.

The Sphinx Club of Kappa chapter is given its 9th Annual Formal on the 18th of February and we are expecting all the Financial Brothers in this territory to come to this Alpha town for the big doings.

We are justly proud of our Lay Member of the Executive Council, Brother Walter S. Scott, Jr. and want all the chapters and Brothers to cooperate with Brother Roulhac and him in order that the undergraduates may have a larger spot in the sun of Alpha Phi Alpha.

Kappa chapter sends Congratulations to General Officers and Delegates of the 1938 Convention for the great work they did, and extends Greetings and Felicitations to the Brothers in A Phi A. o

ALPHA SIGMA CHAPTER W i l e y College Marshall, Texas

ALPHA LAMBDA CHAPTER Louisville, Ky. Greetings, Alpha Brothers:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alpha Lambda is starting the year with the hope that this will be one of the best in its history. The Brothers are thankful that there was no flood to contend with this year, and our recently installed officers are moving along with the spirit that has become characteristic of this Chapter.

We are getting ready to celebrate our 27th Anniversary and the Brothers on the present roster wish to send their Fraternal and respectful greetings to all former members of the Chapter, and especially do we wish the Divine blessings on the charter members spread across the length and breadth of our country, who twenty-seven years ago founded this, the first Graduate Chapter in Alpha Phi Alpha.

Brother Frank L. Stanley and Brother Charles W. Anderson, Jr., brought a very stirring and splendid report from the Convention at New Orleans. We regret that we could not have been present.

Brother Dr. C. M. Young was appointed Associate Health Director, last September, and the services rendered the community have been many and are greatly appreciated.

Brother Chas. W. Anderson, Jr., has introduced several bills in the House of Representatives of Ky., General Assembly, and is working faithfully to see that they are passed. His Rural Educational Bill, to provide High School facilities for the Negro youth in rural counties of Ky., or

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Greetings Brothers: The new year of 1938 found Alpha Sigma progressing peacefully and harmoniously, imbued with the spirit of doing bigger and better things for all mankind as well as for Alpha Phi Alpha.

It also brought with it five neophyte brothers, who were selected with utmost precision. They are: Brothers Jesse Widemon, a senior and three letter man in football and playing his third year of varsity basketball; Howard Mason, a sophomore, associate editor of the Wiley Reporter and honor student for the past year; Herman Clay, a sophomore and an honor student for the past three quarters; Edward Gibson, a senior, outstanding in dramatics and an assistant librarian; Proncell Anderson, a sophomore, student of excellent repute and honor student of last year. These with the old brothers are pulling together as a unit to conquer all problems and tow Alpha Sigma onward.

Just as Alpha men played an important role on Wiley Wildcat's football team, they also dominate the hoopsters.

With Brother Wilbur "Stretch" Byrd, captain of the 1937 Southwest Conference champions, |back in the fold and raring to go assisted by Brother Jesse "St. Joseph" Widemon, and little Brother Leonard "Blinkey" McClain, the Wiley cagers have already caused the downfall of Arkansas State and are out to repeat the success of 1937.

When the scholastic averages of the different fraternities were compiled for the fall quarter, Alpha Sigma was found in first place. Keeping pure and true one of the standards of A Phi A. Brother Leo L. McGee, a recipient of an Alpha scholarship, has been elected president of the International Relations Club for this year and editor-in-chief of the Wiley Reporter, the college news agency.

Present plans indicate the building of a frat lounge to be used for functions given by Alpha Sigma, and as a home for Alpha men visiting this part of the country.

It will commemorate the deceased brothers: Ben Cavil and Oscar N. Johnson, former members of Alpha Sigma.

Brother Cavil was a noted athlete during his college days and Brother Johnson was a recent graduate of Wiley and was planning doing research work at the time of his death, this past fall. The lounge will be the first structure built by a fraternal group on this campus and will certainly be a forward step for Alpha Sigma.

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You will hear more about this soon.

Alpha Sigma wishes to commend Beta Tau, Sigma Lambda, and Beta Sigma chapters for the great success of the twenty-sixth General Convention. May all of our endeavors be as successful and as enjoyable.

Fraternally yours, Curtiss B. Sprott, Editor-to-Sphinx

ALPHA XI LAMBDA CHAPTER Toledo, Ohio Greetings Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha!

The following officers were elected for the year 1938: William T. McRnight, president; Ivan C. McLeod, vicepresident; Roy C. Shelton, Secretary; Dr. Herbert S. Goodloe, treasurer; Albertus Brown Conn, Sgt.-at-arms; and Joseph E. Doneghy associate editor of the Sphinx.

Other brothers are: Charles H. Clarke, Jr., Dr. Leo V. English, Morris M. Leavelle, George Randall, William W. Stewart, Charles Tyus, Roy Shelton, Benjamin F. Fisher, John James, James Burgette and Alfred D. Blanchet.

Since last breaking print the chapter initiated Neophyte Brothers: Joseph E. Doneghy, Lucas County Juvenile Probation Officer and John James, Director of Physical Education, Indiana Avenue Branch Y.M.C.A. who is now doing graduate work at George Williams College, Chicago, 111., on leave of absence. The boys saw "the light" September 25, 1937.

The Chapter has organized a Sphinx Club on the campus of the University of Toledo. The roster is as follows: William Jones, president; Vic English, secretary-treasurer; James Thomas, Joseph Braboy, Charles Doneghy, Harold Strickland and Charles Ward. The Sphinx club honored the Chapter with a breakfast Sunday, January 2nd, at the Indiana Avenue Branch Y.M.C.A. Brother McKnight spent the holiday in Cleveland. While there he attended the dance sponsored by the Pi Chapter for visiting Fraters.

Neophyte Brother Doneghy spent the Holidays in Birmingham, Ala., and sends greetings to Brothers Haygood, Collins, Webb, Hollins, and Bolden of Omicron Lambda, Birmingham, Ala. o

OMICRON CHAPTER Pittsburgh. Pa. Greetings to all Brothers: The first meeting in January was very impressive due to the installation of new officers elected. Brother Howard Jordan was elected president, Bro. Paul Jones, vice president; Bro. Donald Dammond, secretary; Bro. George Mason, Treasurer; Bro. Henry D. McCullough, sergeantat-arms; and Bro. William Leftridge, associate editor of the Sphinx.

We regret very deeply the passing away of Bro. Paul Jones' mother and the Chapter extends heartfelt sympathy to our dear brother.

Plans are being made for the anniversary dance and we expect this dance to be the best of all time due to the fact that the Chapter will celebrate its Silver anniversary.

At the present time there are two founders of Omicron residing in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brother Robert Small who recently came to us from Kansas City, Mo., and Brother Arthur D. Stevenson, a life resident of the city.

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Congratulations in order: Mel Goode, proud papa of a daughter, and oh was Mel tickled to death.

Max Thompson, Henry McCullough, Hugo Wynne, Jimmie Dougan, William McKinney on their appointments to the Unemployment Bureau of Compensation State of Penna.

To George Dorsay who has been employed in this department for some time and doing a fine piece of work.

The Brothers from Beta Chapter who: played Basketball recently in Pittsburgh against the Flash Big Five were made quite at home by the large number of Brothers in Omicron. Bro. Joe Sewell, Pimp Taylor, and Windy Wallace seemed to have won the hearts of our fair young damsels.

Brothers of Omicron who are doing good out in the world are: Walt Talbot, Doctor of Mathematics, Lincoln Uni. Mo., Dr. Lorraine Jones, Southern University, Scottlandville, La., Tom Smith Executive Secretary of the Y.M.C.A., Oakland, California, Reginald Talbot in the Federal Housing Administration with 5 G's annually to his income. Aaron Holland, a successful dentist of Washington, Pa., Garfield Nyckens and McKinley King, two prominent young Physicians in the city.

Wishing the Brothers in the fold a Prosperous New Year, I remain, William K. Leftridge o

ALPHA ZETA CHAPTER Institute, West Virginia Greetings Brothers: Since the last issue Alpha Zeta has had its "face lifted".

Our Fraternity Room has been entirely renovated and a home-like atmosphere provided. Everything has been painted, new furniture installed, rugs and curtains bought, etc., making the room an ideal place for good, ofcl Alpha sessions.

Officers who took over their new duties in January include the following: William A. Robinson, President; Lloyd G. Lewis, Vice-President; Richard Hobson, Secretary; A. W. Curtis, Treasurer; John E. Cary, Ex-Officio of the Sphinx Club; and Willie T. Alexander, Historian.

Alpha Zeta has been spending much of its time lately in the development of a worthy future in the Sphinx Club and has succeeded rather well. At the head of the Club is Philip Waring of New York, who is also President of the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. His pleasing personality and executive ability has won him esteem all over the campus. Virgil Davis, a member of the football squad, is Vice-President. The Secretary is Harry C. Lee of Cleveland, Ohio. He is Secretary of the Men's Senate, Circulation Manager of the Yellow Jacket, a West Virginia Player, and Assistant Proctor of Prillerman Hall. James "Step" Preston, trainer of the football team, is the Chaplain.

Other members are: Henry "Hillbilly" Brown, 6'5" guard on the varsity basketball team; Moses Jones, Assistant in Chemistry, and a member of the varsity " B " basketball squad; J. H. Lewis, Jr., of the Debating Society; Tim Mickey, Assistant in Physical Education, and Frank McDaniel both members of the basketball team; Bennie Taylor, at 215, divides his time between playing guard on the basketball team, tackle on the football team,

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and in the Mathematics Department. Bennie is noted for his unusual ability to handle a basketball with one hand; Charles Minor, Technical Director of the West Virginia Players; Mac Ross, Assistant in the Piinting Department; Oliver Smith, center on the football team; Leon Lofton, a member of the varsity " B " basketball squad; and William Reed, who blows the saxophone in the school orchestra.

Others of the Sphinx Club working their way to the top in scholarship and college activities are: Kermit Carter, Robert Craig, Douglass Campbell, Wallace Cephas, Jerome Edwards, James Huger, Reginald Jackson, John Pritchard, William Allen, and Ladd Sawyer. The Club opens the prom season with its annual formal dance on Saturday, January 29.

Members of the Fraternity too are doing good work in fostering Alpha. Bro. "Bill" Stokes is manager of the basketball team, Bro. McCarthy, President of the Men's Senate, Bro. Bondurant, Assistant in Chemistry, Bro. Lewis, Assistant in Chemistry, Bro. Lewis, Assistant in Education, and Bro. William Robinson, Secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., etc.

So until the May issue, Alpha Zeta says Au Revoir.

Willie T. Alexander, Historian. o

ALPHA PI LAMBDA CHAPTER Winston-Salem, N. C. Greetings Brothers: We approach the New Year with great determination to carry out our program in the typical Alpha way, after having been greatly inspired at the convention in New Orleans.

In as much as all of the brothers here were not able to attend the convention in person, in our first meeting of the year, we were carried back to the historical City of New Orleans by the report given us by our delegate, Brother A. H. Anderson. His report was very picturesque, detailed and in every way characteristic of New Orleans.

We were pleased with the report and the accomplishment made by Alpha in the past two years. (Above all we are sure that Brother Anderson attended all of the sessions, because the wife was keeping check).

Because of the interesting and outstanding program made by the chapters "contacted", Brother James O. Ellis was re-appointed Regional Director at the convention.

Alpha Pi Lambda was indeed happy to give our 1937 Scholarship Award to Brother Leonidas Lanier, a "Hometowner", and a undergraduate at Nu Chapter at Lincoln University in Pa. Alpha men are taking a conspicuous part in community activities here. Brother J. W. Burns was guest speaker at the Winston-Salem Art Forum January 23. He used as a subject, "The Negro and His Labor Problem."

Visiting Brother Burns recently was Brother Davis of Omicron. At present Brother Davis is teaching in Durham, N. C. Alpha Pi Lambda is always glad to have Brothers in to see us. We gladly extend the hospitality of the Chapter and our city at all times.

Since the first leaf is about to be torn from the calendar, we wish each and every Brother a great year in "ALPHADOM." Fraternally yours, William R. Crawford, Associate Editor.

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Talladega College Greetings Brothers!

Alpha Beta Chapter has been inspired by the program at the National Convention. Our chapter representative, Bro. Edward Jacko, made us all feel as if we were at the convention by his most interesting report. Here is hoping that you brotheis who did not get to the Convention had a representative as responsible as ours.

Being inspired byl such a report, Alpha Beta has accepted the challenge to produce bigger and better programs. Plans are already under way for a more extensive "Go to High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Go to College" campaign. Plans are being made to reach out into the community and aid the many aspirant students there. Brothers are to make speeches and contacts at the various places, urging young people to go to school in order that better citizenship might exist among our people.

Alpha Beta lent a hand to Delta Sigma Theta in carrying out their founder's day program by participating in their annual "Jabberwock". Our skit, "The Dixie Swing" which was based upon the filibuster in the Senate against the Anti-Lynch Bill, won the first prize. Much discussion and comments came from those who saw the skit. So timely was the subject of the skit that the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. has asked us to repeat it in February for the benefit of some of the officials of that organization who will be on the campus at that time. This was the first notable achievement of the new year, but many others are expected to come under the newly elected and installed officers for the present year. The officers are Brothers Prince Edward Wilson, President; G. W. Stanley Ish, Jr., Vice-President; William J. Robinson, Secretary; Herbert Pegues, Corresponding Secretary; William DeBerry Kindle, Treasurer; Edward Long, advisor to the Sphinx Club; John Claude Woods, Chaplain; and Ellis Toney, Sergent-at-arms. The installation ceremony was performed by Brother Dr. William J. Knox, a graduate Brother on the faculty. He challenged the Negro leaders cf tomorrow to be more intelligent in their leadership and more militant in their quest for that which belongs to themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the right to live, the right to learn, and the right to political justice. We were also honored with the presence of two of our former founders, Brother William A. Harris, Asscciate Professor of Chemistry, and Brother John Jones, medical Doctor of the city.

Alpha Beta Chapter is proud to have at its site four other graduate brothers on the campus. They are Brothers; Edwin Phillips, Associate Professor of Education and Dean of Men; James R. E. Hayden, Assistant Professor of Biology; Tourgee DeBose, Professor of Music, and Director of the School of Music; and Joseph Fletcher, Superintendent of Plants and Grounds. We regret that under the peculiar circumstances on our campus that these graduate brothers can not take an active parlt in the Chapter's affairs.

To the brothers in Alphadom, we proudly announce the following neophyte brothers who crossed the burning sand November 12, 1937: James Tureman, Richard Moore, William Roberson, William Kindle, John Claude Woods, and George Patton. We are hoping that these neophytes will more than adequately fill the places of two Brothers who graduated in December, Brothers Roy Jones Gilmer and Andrew Harris.

Fraternally yours, Herbert Pegues, Corresponding Secretary.

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NU LAMBDA CHAPTER Virginia State College Greetings Brothers: In the spirit of Alpha the Brothers of Nu Lambda accept the challenge of our noble president, Brother Charles H. Wesley, at the New Orleans Convention when, in referring to the passing of our Jewel Brother Ogle, he said, "Let us, his heirs, carry on!"

The Brothers accepted with enthusiasm the report of Brother Roberts, delegate to the Convention, and resolved to redouble their efforts to serve not only our great Fraternity but also the World, of which every true Alpha man considers himself a citizen.

The four new buildings on our College campus, started a year ago, near completion, thanks to the statesmanship of Brother John M. Gandy, president, and the business genius of Brother Luther H. Foster, Treasurer-Business Manager.

Two Brothers are on leave of absence: Brother C. H. Townes, pursuing his M.A. degree in physics at Penn State; and Brother R. McDaniel, pursuing his doctorate in mathematics at Cornell University.

Brother J. B. Brown, a true shepherd of his people and an inspirer of youth, recently held a Silver Jubilee celebration, marking twenty-five years of successful community service as pastor of Zion Baptist Church, in Petersburgh.

Brother Roberts spent one month making a survey of two rural counties of Virginia, under the auspices of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, for the purpose of discovering the causes of poverty among Virginia's Negro marginal farmers.

Brother Davies, Director of Religious Activities, is doing a commendable piece of religious service on the campus; more particularly is he to be commended for his efforts to build up a finer spirit among the student Greek letter organizations.

The Chapter continues this year its $10.00 membership in the N. A. A. C. P. and is also contributing toward its fund for carrying to the courts the inequalities in Virginia's Negro teachers' salaries. A series of activities are planned for early spring.

New officers of the Chapter for 1938 are: Brother George W. Owens, President; Brother William A. Rogers, Vice President; Brother James B. Cephas, Secretary; Brother John E. Settle, Treasurer; Brother Everett E. Davies, Chaplain; and Brother Harry W. Roberts, Associate Editor to the Sphinx.

Fraternally, Harry W. Roberts. o

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Greetings Brothers: Of course the first thing to make mention of is the recent convention held in the Crescent City, because after all such an enjoyable and inspirational time was enjoyed, it has continued to be the chief subject for discussion among the "Boys from Beale Street". Representing Beta Xi as delegates were Brothers Chris Roulhac and Henri Twigg, with Brothers Harvey Williams and James Perrie alternating. Brother Robert Lewis' was there also and was regularly seen in the sessions to offer moral support. If I'm not mistaken "Beale Street" had one of the largest,

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if not the largest representing forces present. They were Brothers Joe Cotton, T. H. Hayes, Jr., John Brinkley, H. C. Latham, Marvin Tarpley, Lewis O. Swingler, Chi-is Roulhac, James Perrie, Harvey Williams, Robert Lewis and Henri Twigg. Rather nice isn't it? It was the good fortune of Brother Roulhac to be elected to the Executive Council, and the honor of Beta Xi to boast of a Councilman in its fold. Anyway as it appears, Brother Roulhac is the only definite delegate to New York in '39, with the exception of myself, 'cause I'll be right there.

In the last edition of the Sphinx, Brother Joe Cotton made a remark to the effect that the "Boys from Beale Street" should be watched, because of the memories of the previous convention in Nashville. He even went so far as to say they improved with age like good Oh, well I wonder!! However, I'll leave that to the judgment of the other Brothers who were present.

Since the last writing Beta Xi has taken into its lineup three new Brothers, namely Brothers Robert Lev/is, Milton Barber and Fred Lyle, who have already become conscious of their responsibility. Glad to say that they are doing a good job of shouldering it.

Since the Semester exams are completed at LeMoyne, Beta Xi can look more eagerly in the future and make more definite plans for a very unusual and successful Educational program during "Go to High School, Go to College Campaign". To cap the climax, the Annual Alpha Formal will be given. So until the next edition or may I say epistolary visit, here's hoping for Alphadom a most successful and enjoyable 1938.

Fraternally yours, Henri Twigg. o

GAMMA CHAPTER Virginia Union Greetings Brothers: The members of Gamma Chapter hope that all of the Brothers spent very enjoyable vacations and we rejoice over the fact the 1937 Convention was such a complete success.

We express our heartiest congratulations to the national officers elected for the year 1938-39.

At this time most of the Brothers are neck-deep in books, preparing for those little things called examinations which come around ever so often. As usual the Brothers here aim to stand high in academic work as in other respects.

Brother Robert B. Johnson graduated in January but he will remain a member of Gamma. We congratulate him and wish him success. Brother James Brinkley also graduated and may remain with us. We also congratulate him and wish him much success.

On the hardwood this season, the red and steel are enjoying considerable success. Representing Alpha on the squad are to be found Brothers Arthur Wilson and Elmer "Puffy" Howard, and little Brother Howard Jones.

At the conclusion of the first semester probation period, three timid hopefuls who dared to strive "saw the light" and managed successfully to "cross the burning sands" into the realm of Alpha Phi Alpha. These fortunate gentlemen are Neophyte Brothers Lawrence D. Jackson, of Oklahoma City, Okla.; John S. L. Holloman, Jr., of Washington, D. C ; and Edward D. McCreary, Jr., of Charlottesville, Va. Gamma chapter congratulates all Neophyte Brothers,

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including her own, upon their splendid achievement and trusts that they have been truly "impressed" with the spirit of Alpha and will ever hold its standard high.

Fraternally yours, James W. Booker, Associate Sphinx Editor.

ALPHA TAU CHAPTER Akron, Ohio Greetings Brothers:— Brother Dr. John B. Walker and wife, Mrs. T. Etna Walker, were the splendid hosts to Alpha Tau Chapter at their most beautiful home in Canton, Ohio. Having invited the chapter, wives and sweethearts to a lovely party which took place immediately after the business meeting was over. The meeting was held in the spacious den on the third floor. The ladies played cards while the brothers were busily engaged with the workings of Alpha.

When the meeting was over, Mrs. Walker served a most delicious menu—turkey salad, if you please, with all the trimmings.

During the meeting committees were appointed. Brother George H. Dunbar heads the finance committee with Brothers John Sneed serving as a member. The Athletic committee is composed of Brothers Emmer M. Lancaster, Charles Nunn, Raymond R. Brown, and Brother Dr. John W. Dunbar. The work of this committee is to make contact with the coach and Athletic Director at the University of Akron to see if it isn't possible to acquire jobs for some very fine Negro athletes enrolled at the institution.

The chapter wishes to extend to its progressive Brother Raymond R. Brown, Assistant Executive Secretary of the Colored Community Welfare Workers Association, its sympathy in the loss of his dear mother.

At this writing the brothers are very gay and elated over the enlisting of former General President Booker within our group. He has always hoped to associate himself with us and now will do so. Brother John Booker is head of the Youngstown Y. M. C. A. and should do the chapter an appreciable amount of good. He anticipates the pleasure of inviting General President Wesley to Youngstown very soon and will invite the chapter i.o attend the meeting.

Examinations have had the brothers on the "run" here.

Brother Charles Nunn, and Brother Thomas are doing graduate work and pointing for higher positions in social work. Brother Stiggers who was initiated during the Christmas holidays maintains his high average on points.

He tells me he likes that way and that way only. Brother Kenneth Morris dropped down from Cleveland and brought a fine trained "Y" basketball team with him. Brother Morris is Athletic Director of the Cleveland "Y" League.

I'll bring you more later.

Fraternally, H. C. Sparks. o

ALPHA PSI CHAPTER Lincoln University (Mo.) Greetings Brothers: With the entrance of the second semester the Alphas of Alpha Psi are working conscientiously to accomplish a definite aim. Our intentions are to make a name for Alpha Psi that will long be remembered. The plans that are to be carried out this semester are so numerous, I shall

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not attempt to reveal them to you in order, but shall give, instead, a miscellaneous grouping.

During our most recent initiation, eight young men, Albert Branham, Ferdinand Clark, Victor Barker, Joseph McDuffie, William Haywood, James Lee Hung, John Mitchell, and Lee Banner James sang to alleviate their misery and to satiate our blood thirsty brothers. The harmony of these ambitious Neophytes yet enchants us and as a result, an Alpha quartette and octet are in the making. Both groups are to give a radio program soon over the local station KWOS. The Alphas are to broadcast a Mother's Day Program over the same station.

Brother Blanchard Tomlin attended the Alpha Convention and returned with many pleasing accounts of the Crescent City. Unfortunately Brother Tomlin is leaving Lincoln to enter Ohio State. The members of Alpha Psi will miss Brother Tomlin, who was really an energetic Alpha and a member of the varsity football team. Brother Thaddeus Whayne graduated the past January and will also be missed by the Brothers and the coeds.

Relative to sports and frivolity, I might say that Alpha Psi is not constrained to indulge in either. The Alpha Basket Ball team is ready to make its debut in new regalia and from all indications a winning team is in the making. The personnel of the team: Brothers Boone, Duncan, Clark, Branham, Gunnell, Freeman, Hunt, and Newsom. At present, the only necessary thing lacking is a mascot. The versatile Alphas are dominating in boxing also. Representing the chapter, we have Nelson Greene, middleweight; Horatio McNeil, lightweight; Ode Taylor, feather weight; Sphinxman Louis Ledbetter, lightheavyweight. Brother Garland Robinson, classy lightweight entry is unable to participate in boxing this year because of illness.

The A. K. A. Sorors gave a candlelight reception for the graduating sorors and brothers. You know—dainty cookies, palatable punch, dear, dear. What? No Sandwiches? We were fortunate in having with us two visiting brothers, Walter Mitchell and Edward Mitchell, brothersin-law of Brother Dr. Walter R. Talbot.

Well you will be hearing more of the activities of Alpha Psi in the next issue of the Sphinx.

Fraternally yours, Ode "Kid" Taylor.

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ALPHA PHI LAMBDA CHAPTER Norfolk. Va. Greetings, Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha: The members of Alpha Phi Lambda chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha, have followed with genuine interest the activities of the national fraternity and the inspiring work of the other chapters in the organization as reported in the issues of the Sphinx. In our own way, we have devoted our energies to putting over a program of racial uplift, which, we think, will serve the needs of our own community here and at the same time will point in the direction of the broad objectives of the national organization.

We wish to compliment the editors of the Sphinx and those who have contributed in any way to our national organ for the splendid job that has been done and offer our sincerest wishes that the general Convention Issue be a success.

We will here briefly review our work for the past year.

Our civic program has required a great deal of work but we have still found time to thoroughly enjoy our intra-

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fraternal associations in the brotherhood of Alpha Phi Alpha, to eat, drink, and be merry in the spirit of true comradeship. In addition, we have on New Year's Eve of the years 1936 and 1937 given exclusive, formal dances, which in all modesty are generally conceded to be the high spots of Norfolk's social offerings. As an Alpha project these affairs had to be the best. We do not hesitate to say that they were.

The principal feature of our civic program was a project, begun in January, 1936, in which we developed the "Education for Citizenship" idea. It occured to us that the colored electorate of our community could be increased if more people could pay the poll tax required by the Virginia constitution as a pre-requisite for voting. We proposed the formation of a city-wide poll tax bureau which would maintain a collection office and which would accept installment payments on poll tax levies so that the citizens would be prepared to vote when election time came around. We worked out the idea in our own group, and then presented it to the other civic and social organizations in the city. It caught on beauifully and was a success. We have more recently considered developing this poll tax bureau idea as a permanent community institution.

Other phases of our program here are briefly outlined as follows: A donation of $10 for books on Negro history to the Norfolk, Unit, Virginia Union University; a donation of $5 to the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History; a $15 scholarship to aid a worthy student of Norfolk Unit, Virginia Union University; a $15 subscription to the Norfolk Community Hospital; a Education Week program at the weekly forum at the Grace P. E. Church; the sending of 14 telegrams (one for the chapter and 13 members present) to senators and representatives in Washington opposing the passage of the Harrison-Fletcher Black bill; an appropriation of $5 to a citizens committee to stimulate public sentiment in favor of a gymnasium and recreation center which was being considered by the municipal administration. Our Brother P. B. Young, Jr. heads the City's gym project committee.

Fraternally yours, Lemuel E. Graves, Jr.

ALPHA MU CHAPTHER Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois Brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha, Greetings: Members of this chapter have taken on new life flpr 1938 and indications point to one of the most successful years in the history of the chapter. The chapter membership has been increased by the addition of brothers Bernard Jefferson and Alvin Brooks. These neophytes crossed the burning sands and completed the journey in fine shape in December of last year. They have now become integrated into the chapter activities and are finding the brotherhood much to their liking.

The first meeting of this year was devoted to a report of Brother Wm. C. Pyant, chapter president who represented our chapter in a creditable manner at the New Orleans convention. Brother Pyant's report indicated the progress which the fraternity has made since the last convention. Our delegate's report was made particularly interesting with copies of the General Officers report and certain charts and graphs which Brother Pyant prepared for the meeting.

The chapter is anticipating an unusual Education and

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BROTHER ROBERT W. ALLEN Brother Doctor Robert W. Allen, a pioneer druggist of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the father of Brother Doctor Farrow Allen, Eastern Vice President of Alpha Phi Alpha, departed this life in October, after a lingering illness. Brother Allen was born in Nashville, of distinguished parentage, and received his education there, including his professional training at Meharry Medical College.

The entire period of his professional life was spent in Chattanooga, and he wielded a large influence in the business, professional and fraternal life of that City.

He was an early member of the Psi Lambda Chapter and served as an officer of the Chapter for a number iof years.

Brother Allen was a member of the Episcopal Church and the final rites were in accordance with the ritual of that Church, with the Reverend Brother J. B. Barber, a Presbyterian, delivering the eulogy. Brothers Doctors E. F. Mcintosh, W. B. Davis, G. Haven Moores, W. A. Thompson and L. L. Patton served as pall bearers. In addition to his son, Brother Allen is survived by his widow, Mrs. Alice Farrow Allen, long a teacher in the public schools of Chattanooga. Peace to his ashes; rest to his soul.

Citizenship program for this year because the chairmanship of this important committee has been accepted by Brother Brooks, whose wide experience in community affairs will enable this committee to do a thorough job.

Plans are likewise under way for the annual formal dance which will be given during the month of April. The chairmanship of this committee has been accepted by charge of our Rushing Committee and has indicated recharge of our Rushing Committee andhas indicated renewed activity in this phase of the chapter program.

Brother Pyant, who is Vice Chairman of the National Pan Hellenic Council, spoke before the Chicago Pan Hellenic Council on February 2. He described the work of the National Pan Hellenic Council and indicated the type of program the Council will follow in the future.

Fraternally submitted, Fred Gay, C.Hapter Editor.

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS (Continued from Page 6) the General Organization more directly with the chapters.

Regional Conventions continue to be held with remarkable success attending them. The Mid-Western Regional met at Wilberforce May 14-16, 1937. This was held in connection with Xi Chapter's Twenty-fifth Anniversary.

The number who were present and the spirit elicited, it is said, gave this meeting the appearance of a General Convention. Nu Chapter at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, also celebrated its Twenty-fifth Anniversary. This meeting also had the appearance of a regional session of the fraternity. Thus Alpha marches on from its Silver anniversaries towards its gold ones.

A Third Edition Of Our History â&#x20AC;˘ The first edition of our history was published in 1930.

It embraced 294 pages and contained 58 illustrations. A second edition covering the account of events from 19291934 was published in 1935. This edition embraced 352 pages and 75 illustrations including the music of the Alpha Phi Alpha Hymn. There are now about 200 copies of the 1500 copies printed in the hands of the General Secretary.

This means that before we assemble again we will have to order a third edition. Since it is difficult to add with perspective the nearer we are to events, it does not seem to me to be desirable to add additional matter unless the names of chapters only are added to the list in the appendix. Our Sphinx gives us the current happenings and we should depend t h e more upon this magazine and not to give current history in our printed volume. It is proposed accordingly that we issue a third edition with minor changes only.

The estimates of the publication of this volume by the same publishers who issued the second edition are as follows: () For an actual reprint of the volume, (2) For an edition with five additional pages of ready matter, two pages of appendix and one page of cuts.

The Foundation Publishers In accordance with the instructions of the convention at Nashville in 1935, w e have proceeded to incorporate the Foundation Publishers. This corporation is intended to be the channel through which the Foundation may advance the cause of scholarship and letters by the publication of works which possess permanent value and interest.

The certification of incorporation follows: No. 23872.

Certificate of Incorporation of the Foundation Publishers of The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated.

We, Rayford W. Logan, Howard H. Long, W. F. Jerrick, Sydney P. Brown, Dwight O. W. Holmes, H. Council Trenholm, Charles H. Wesley and Charles H. Thompson, all being persons above the age of twenty-one years, citizens and residents of the United States, and most of whom are citizens of the District of Columbia, pursuant to and in conformity with the provisions of Title 5 Chapter 5 Section 121, of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia, do hereby incorporate the Foundation Publishers of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and do certify: FIRST: The name and title by which said Corporation shall be known is the Foundation Publishers of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated.

SECOND: The term for which said Corporation is or-

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ganized is perpetual.

THIRD: The objects for which the Corporation is organized are the mutual improvement and promotion of the collection, preservation, publication, dissemination and diffusion for civilization of the creative and artistic heritage of the human race. More particularly the object for which it is organized is to perform and promote all and every transaction, incident to the mutual prosperity and welfare thereof with all the powers, privileges, immunities and franchises granted by and under the Laws of the District of Columbia regulating the conduct of this class of Corporation.

FOURTH: The Corporation is to have the power of acquiring and holding property, both real and personal of such character and kind, and in such amounts as may be requisite to accomplish the aforesaid objects of the Corporation.

F I F T H : The number of Trustees or Directors of the said Foundation Publishers of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated for the first year of its existence shall be eight (8).

SIXTH: The principal office of the Corporation shall be at Howard University.

SEVENTH: This Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter or change any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation in any manner prescribed by the Laws of the District of Columbia.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands & seals this 16th day of March, A. D., 1936.

(Seal) Rayford W. Logan Rayford W. Logan.

Howard H. Long (Seal) Howard H. Long.

(Seal) W. F. Jerrick W. F. Jerrick.

(Seal) Sydney P. Brown Sydney P. Brown.

Dwight O. W. Holmes (Seal) Dwight O. W. Holmes.

(Seal) H. Council Trenholm H. Council Trenholm.

(Seal) Charles H. Wesley Charles H. Wesley.

Charles H. Thompson (Seal) Charles H. Thompson.

District of Columbia, ss:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Be it remembered that on this 16th day of March, A. D. 1936, before me a Notary Public in and for the District of Columbia, personally appeared Rayford W. Logan, Howard H. Long, W. F. Jerrick, Sidney Brown, Dwight O. W. Holmes, H. Council Trenholm, Charles H. Wesley, and Charles H. Tompscn all of them being, personally known to me as the parties to the foregoing Certificate of Incorporation dated March 16th, 1936, and that each one of them acknowledged the same to be his and their act and deed.

Witness my hand and notarial seal the year and day above written.

(Notarial Seal) Otis S. Boyd, Notary Public.

Office of the Recorder of Deeds District of Columbia This is to Certify that the foregoing is a true and verified copy of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Foundation Publishers of the Alpha Phi Alpha

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Fraternity, Incorporatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and of the whole of said Certificate of Incorporation, as filed in this Office the 13th day of July, A. D. 1936 In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this office this 13th day of July, A. D. 1936.

William J. Thompkins, Recorder of Deeds, D. C. (Seal) The Foundation Publishers will bring out the third edition of our history, if this is ordered by this convention. It was originally proposed and adopted that the income from the histories should constitute a revolving fund for the publication of Alpha Phi Alpha Studies. The publication of the history in a third edition will prevent the consideration of any other publication by the Foundation Publishers. In the meantime this continues to be one of our future programs.

Aid To Organizations At Work In Negro Life There are several organizations now at work to advance Negro life, which deserve our consideration and support.

The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History has worked for more than twenty years to encourage Negroes to have pride in their past. This organization is now proposing that the Negro fraternities and sororities shall cooperate in the development and maintenance of a fund for the publication of studies which represent the contributions of Negro scholors to knowledge. We have been asked to cooperate with this effort. This plan is in line with our program and should receive our support.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People continues to carry on its program for the extension of educational opportunities for Negroes, as well as the political, economic and social opportunities. This organization deserves our support. We have paid for the third year the tuition of Donald Murray at the University of Maryland Law School, who was admitted there as a result of the joint effort of Alpha Phi Alpha and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The National Urban League with its economic and welfare program also deserves our consideration and aid in the advancement of its work. The Student Emergency Peace Campaign and the Southern Tenants Farmers Union are both worthy of our cooperation. The latter has employed one of the Alpha's sons, Brother Prentice Thomas, as one of its workers. Assistance of some sort to these organizations is entirely in line with our purpose and objectives. Moreover, they are doing and can do a better job than we can do if we undertake to do the same work directly. Alpha brothers are in all of these organizations or are affected by them in some way and in supporting their work, we support them. Our work should be not to rival these organizations or to do the work which they are organized to do. Our task has been and should be to be a stimulus to them by moral support and material aid. This is the way the Alpha spirit works. Its impulses and its motivation are spiritual and mental. In the midst of other fraternities and sororities, any other plan on our part would lead to fraternal jealousy, competitive endeavor and the end of the cause for which we labor. The National Pan-Hellenic Council continues to work for this type of cooperation. We join with them through our representatives in registering our faith in this cause.

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and has continued this relationship with the National Negro Congress. Its work for the Harrison-Black-Fletcher Bill and against educational inequalities was among its most significant contributions. The Anti-Lynching Bill occupied much of the time of the committee during both of these years, 1935-1937. We are fortunate that we have a committee of this type, composed of Brothers H. H. Long, Henry J. Richardson, Charles H. Houston, Rayford W. Logan, B. Andrew Rose, the General Secretary and the General President, to act for us in these matters. If we did not have this committee, one or two general officers would be speaking and acting for us and their individual judgment in such matters might be subject to more criticism and make us more vulnerable than we would otherwise be. Living in a nation with so mhny divergent individual and sectional views on matters of race, such a committee with its idea of conference and concerted action is one of the best channels through which a racial organization could best express sane, deliberate and representative views upon public questions. This committee should be continued.

The Educational Foundation We can be justly proud of the program which is represented in this agency which we have established. It was the logical development of our earlier educational campaign. Its purpose is to assist in the encouragement, maintenance and development of scholarship among Negroes in the high schools, colleges and universities and in the preparation of a leadership of character and attainments. It was created to aid in meeting the expanding economic, political and educational needs of Negroes. Its "Go-to-High School, Go-to-College" and its "Education for Citizenship" are slogans which express its purposes and objectives. We should not be unmindful of our plans to contribute to its permanency by donations.

Student loans may well become a part of its helpful work. An undergraduate may need a small loan, which would stand between him and graduation or remaining in school. His fraternity could help to keep him there. Such a plan should be helpful but it should b e given careful study prior to its adoption. The work of the Foundation could thus be expanded and could touch undergraduate life in a very direct way.

The increase of scholarships for undergraduates should be one of our purposes for the future, although the National Youth Administration still furnishes a real assistance to those who will make use of it in both white and Negro institutions. The award of our fellowships has been so changed that they are granted not only for study toward the Ph.D. degree but also for creative scholarship. If we really mean to be first of all, we must be interested in achievement in scholarship. Chapters and individual brothers have frequently shown distinction in scholarly pursuits Chapter Extension In accordance with the constitutional provisions and in response to the demands of local groups of brothers, chapters have been established at several places since 1935. These will appear in the reports of the vice presidents and will need no repetition here.

Chapters In Africa And England For some years it has been proposed that we establish a chapter in Africa. Authority for the establishment of a chapter on the West Coast of Africa was granted by the Fifteenth Annual Convention at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1922. This action was taken with enthusiasm. The efforts

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the matter of Chapter House Financing, other than by advice and cooperation. The field is so large and the costs so tremendous that our resources sink into insignificance as a basis for such a program. Again and again, this matter has been proposed by someone and as many times committees have given their considered judgment in the negative. Even among the larger American fraternities, the national organizations have not found that it was good business to hold mortgages on local chapter houses, except in the way of temporary loans. It is still the best policy to permit the local chapters to steer their own courses in this matter. The chapter house in Washingon has found its way out of a difficult situation and is again on sound foundations, so that student rentals alone will carry the costs. The chapter house in Chicago is another example of local success. Xi Chapter at Wilberforce has broken ground for a house and thereby has made history.

A Housing Committee appointed by this convention could be of assistance in future developments in this direction of better housing for our brothers. This is particularly true in college situations in which housing is a problem.

The Mid-Western and the Eastern areas are especially in need of some supervision and direction in the matter of housing.

which have been made since then have all failed. At the Los Angeles Convention in 1936, Brother I. C. Steady of West Africa, formerly of Xi Chapter at Wilberforce and Zeta Chapter at Yale, again presented this proposal to us. His observations to the convention were presented on several grounds: 1. That the time was opportune for Alpha Phi Alpha to materialize its extension program so far as it concerns international scope.

2. That Africa has ample material of college grade and that several men are now engaged in educational work there.

3. That the General Convention grant permission for the establishment of graduate and undergraduate chapters in Africa and in England.

4. That a delegate be appointed for this purpose, granted an appropriation by the Budget Committee and make a report to the next General Convention.

As the Los Angeles Convention had no authority to legislate, these proposals were taken as recommendations to this convention. This matter is again before you for consideration.

The same situation is true of the proposed chapter in England. At Nashville this proposal was discussed.

Brother Harry W. Roberts, who had studied in London, took the leadership in the presentation of the matter. It was finally voted that the Extension Committee with Brother Roberts added should consider the question. The report of the committee stated "this committee awaits further appointments to this committee by the President concerning the establishment of a chapter in London, England." Pursuant to this action, I am again adding Brother Roberts to this committee and also Brother A. K. Nyabango, all of Queen's College, Oxford, who now holds an Alpha Phi Alpha Fellowship. Correspondence may be carried on with him in regards to the proposal.

Definitive action is recommended on both of these matters.

A Fraternity Endowment Fund

> Initiation The initiation of candidates for admission to our fraternity has been conducted, so far as reports have reached this office, with dignity and impressiveness, and without the brutality and coarseness which were reported at our last convention. I believe that we are all pleased with this improvement. The Los Angeles Convention reaffirmed its approval of the rules of initiation as set forth by the Ritual Committee at Nashville. It was voted again that the voting on candidates should be governed by the by-law that "one black ball rejects a candidate". This action was taken after prolonged debate. It may be that this should be considered again, for it is reported that injustices have been done to candidates of good repute by the use of the one black ball.

Our Fraternal Insignia Proposals have been received from two companies for the furnishing of pins to the fraternity. One Company has Negro workmen and salesmen and the other gives employment to Negroes as their official representatives.

A committee was appointed to investigate one of these companies. Its report will be made to you. Your decision will have to be made on both proposals, and upon the continuance with the Balfour company which has served us through all the past years.

Chapter House Financing It is still of doubtful value that we should undertake

We have been thinking in terms of an endowment fund for many years. There was quite a discussion in our fraternity conventions at one time concerning an Insurance endowment. For many reasons, this plan was not adopted.

But some brothers as individuals took out endowments in sums ranging from $100 upward, payable to the Fraternity upon maturity or upon their death. The first step in this direction was taken by one of our distinguished brothers on his own initiative. Brother O. Wilson Winters of Rho Chapter took out, ten years ago, an endowment policy with the Victory Life Insurance Company. This policy was a ten year endowment and matured in 1937.

A check for $100 was received by the General Secretary and a photograph of this check was presented in the pages of the Sphinx.

This is a splendid example of loyalty to the Alpha ideal, which has been typical of Brother Winters through the years of his membership, both as an undergraduate and as a graduate. He has set the pace, who among us will follow ? This is one of the ways towards the permanent foundation for which we hope.

Our Futurie Program The program which we hav e adopted and set in motion has only just begun. We have feebly grasped at its possibilities and we are only on the ground floor of the superstructure which we hope to erect. In the spirit of the Founders, may Alpha Phi Alpha carry on. In the spirit of fraternity, may we continue the work which we have undertaken. Whatever the future holds, let us keep our visions centered upon the light which shines in darkness.

Motivated by this light, education, citizenship, chapter life, endowment, housing, scholarship, things new and things old in Negro life will show marked improvement.

Let us continue to advance as one body, united in thought, ideals and action, confident of the merits of our program and assured of its profound and far-reaching significance for black folk who still live under white domination but who yearn to be free and look to us for the leadership they must have.

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40. ALPHA TAU—Akron. Ohio, Pres.. Norman O. Chestnut. 276 Euclid St.; Sec, Rufus L. Thompson, 647 Edgewood Ave.

52. BETA THETA—Bluefield, W. Va„ Pres., Joseph W. Perry; Sec, LeRoy B. Allen, State Teachers College.

41. ALPHA UPSILON—Detroit. Mich., Pres., Nathaniel H. Leach, 2334 McDougall; Sec, Colonel Smith, 5511 McKinley.

53. BETA IOTA—Kalamazoo, Mich., Pres., Hackley E. Woodford, 114 N. Park St.; Sec, John T. Tapley, 1331 W. Michigan.

42. ALPHA PHI—Atlanta, Ga., Pres., Edward McGowen; Sec, John T. Mims, Clark University.

54. BETA KAPPA—Langston, Okla., Pres., Samuel Fuhr.; Sec, Elmer C. Jackson, Langston University.

43. ALPHA CHI—Nashville, Tenn., Pres., Ralph W. Amerson; Sec, Robert M. Hendrick, Jr., Fisk University.

55. BETA MU—Frankfort, Ky., Pres., Sheley Lynem; Sec, W. Burghardt Turner, Ky. State College.

44. ALPHA PSI—Jefferson Gty, Mo.. Pres., James F. Goble; Sec, Mallalieu S. Wooifolk; C. Sec, Roger Duncan, Lincoln University.

56. BETA NU—Tallahasee, Fla., Pres., David B. Jones; Sec, Amos L. Parrish, Fla. A Be M College.

45. BETA ALPHA—Baltimore, Md., Pres., Herbert G. Hardin; Hyland Reid, Morgan College.

5 7. BETA XI—Memnhis. Tenn., Pres., Martin D. Bolton, 11 Cynthia St.; Sec, Harvey P. Williams, 598 Walker Ave. 58. BETA OMICRON—Nashville, Tenn., Pres., L. C. Turner; Sec, William M. Hafford, A at I State College.

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46. BETA BETA—Lincoln, Nebraska, Pres., Merle Herriford, 1035 Rose St., Sec. Love joy Crawford, 1929 You St. 47. BETA GAMMA—Ettrick. Va., Pres., Jack H. Robinson, C. Sec, Walter C. Blount, Jr., R. Sec, W a i d S . Phelps, Virginia State College.

59. BETA PI—Jackson, Tenn.., Pres., W. H. Anderson; R. Sec, M, Caruthers; C. Sec, Samuel W. Seals, Lane College.

60. EETA RHO—Raleigh, N. C , Pres., Claude Trotter; R. Sec, George D .

Marshall, Shaw University.

48. BETA DELTA—Orangeburg, S. C , Pres., Ronald H. Pride; Sec, Albert H. Manning, State College.

61. BETA SIGMA—Scotlandville, La., Pres., John D. Davis; Sec, Edgar T. Thornton, Southern University.

49. BETA EPSILON—Greensboro, N. C , Pres., Stanford L. McKethan; Sec, Mercer Z. Ray, A. 4: T. College.

50. BETA 2ETA—Austin. Texas, Pres., Jackson D. Smith, Jr., Samuel Huston College; Sec, LaVon E. Smith, 1314 Bob Harrison St. 51. BETA ETA—Carbondale. 111., Pres.. W. Edward Woods, 326 No. Illinois St.; Sec, Gaffney Taylor, Colp, 111.

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62. BETA TAU—New Orleans. La., Pres., Peter W. Clark; Sec, Walter Morial, Xavier University.

63. BETA UPSILON—Montgomery, Ala., Pres., I. C. Childs; Sec. Willis Jones, State Teachers College.

64. BETA PHI—N. Orleans, La., TO BE SET UP 65. BETA CHI—Little Rock, Ark., TO BE SET UP.

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101. ALPHA LAMBDA—Louisville, Ky.. Pres., Lyman T. Johnson, 2627 Madison St.; Sec, Lee L. Brown, 1012 W. Chestnut St. 102. BETA LAMBDA—Kansas City, Mo., Pres., Dr. A. C. Wilson, 2219 Tracy; C. Sec, James A. Jeffrcss, 2732 Highland.

103. GAMMA LAMBDA—Detroit. Mich., Pres., Dr. William L. P«stles, 503 E. Warren Ave.; Sec, Grover D . Lange, 607 Adanu A T * . B. 104. DELTA LAMBDA—Baltimore, Md., Pres., Furman L. Tempieton, 1402 McCulIough St.; Sec, Clarence C. Jackson, 232 5 Madison Ave. 105. EPSILON LAMBDA—St. Louis. Mo., Pres., Dr. J. Owen Bl.1c.he, 2945 Lawton Ave.; C. Sec, Joseph C. Chapman, 4222 W. North Market St. 106. ZETA LAMBDA—Newport News, Va„ Pres., T. Roger Thompson, 841 Hampton Ave.; Sec, Attorney R. H. Pree, 2411 Jefferson Ave.; Asst.

Sec, Charles H. Jones. 1125—40th St. 107. THETA LAMBDA—Dayton, Ohio., Pres., Dr. C. R. Price., 476 S. Broadway; Sec, Theodore C. Carter, 16 Sweetman St. 108. ETA LAMBDA—Atlanta, Ga., Pres., Theodore M. Alexander. 982 Ashby Grove S. W.; Sec., Nelson C. Jackson, 247 Henry St., S. W. 109. IOTA LAMBDA—Indianapolis, Ind., Sec, Grant W. Hawkins, 2627 Shriver Ave. 110. KAPPA LAMBDA—Greensboro, N. C , Pres., William E. Beaver; Sec, Benjamin H. Crutcher, A at T. College.

H I . MU LAMBDA—Wash., D. C . Pres., James B. Browning, 151 "V" St., N. W.; Sec, George W. Peterson, 604 D St., N. W. 112. N U LAMBDA—Ettrick, Va., V. Pres., George W. Owens; Sec, James B. Cephas, Va. State College.

113. XI LAMBDA—Chicago. III., Pres., Luther S. Peck., 3560 S. Parkway; Sec, Laurence T. Young, 6542 St. Lawrence Ave. 114. OMICRON LAMBDA—Birmingham, Ala., Pres., Arthur D. Shores, RFD No. 1, Box 755, Bessemer, Ala.; Sec, H. Lovell Mosely, 1304 First Court, W. 115. PI LAMBDA—Little Rock, Ark., Pres., Dr. J. B. Jordan, 6IOV2 W. 9th St.; Sec, C. Franklin Brown, 1019 Cross St. 116. RHO LAMBDA—Buffalo, N. York, Pres., Alfred D. Davis, 121 Northland Ave.; Sec, Robert A. Burrell, 732 Brisbane Bldg.

117. SIGMA LAMBDA—New Orleans. La„ Pres., William E. Belton, 2216 St. Philip St.; Sec. Ferdinand L. Rousseve, Xavier University.

118. TAU LAMBDA—Nashville, Tenn., Pres., William D . Hawkins, Fisk University: Sec, James R. Anderson, 1027—18th Ave. N. 119. UPSILON LAMBDA—Jacksonville, Fla.. Pres., Charles S. Long. Jr., Edward Waters College; Sec, H. James Greene, Edward Waters College.

120. PHI LAMBDA—Raleigh, N. C , Pres., Dr. Robert P. Daniel; Sec, Walker H. Quarles, Jr., Shaw University.

121. CHI LAMBDA—Wilberforce, Ohia, Pres., Milton S. J. Wright; Sec, Raymond O. Dickerson, Wilberforce University.

122. PSI LAMBDA—Chattanooga, Tenn., Pres., Booker T. Scruggs, 1909 Blackford St.; Sec, George A. Keys, 1211 Poplar St. 123. ALPHA ALPHA LAMBDA—Newark, N. Jersey, Pres., Dr. Ferdinand D. Williams, 191 Bloomfield Ave., Montclair, N. J.; Sec, Arthur C. Williams. 136 Lincoln St., Montclair.

124. ALPHA BETA LAMBDA—Lexington, Ky., Pres., Edward M. Chenault, 226 W. 6th St.; Sec, Dr. Henry A. Merchant, 126 DeWeese St. 125. ALPHA GAMMA LAMBDA—New York City, Pres., Dr. Farrow R. Allen. 337 W. 138th St.; Sec, Ewart G. Guinier, 327 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

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126. ALPHA DELTA LAMBDA—Memphis, Tenn., Pres., Hugh McGloster, 711 Edith St.; Sec, Abner B. Owen, Jr., 598 Williams Ave.; C. Sec, J. Edward Cotton, 348 N. Manassas.

127. ALPHA EPSILON LAMBDA—Jackson, Miss.. Pres., Everett R. Lawrence, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Miss.; Sec, Alan T, Busby, Bo* 176, Alcorn, Miss.

128. ALPHA ZETA LAMBDA—Bluefield, W. Va., Pres., John H. Fmklin, Kimball, W. Va.; Sec, Edward W. Browne, Box 576, Kimball, W. Va. 129. ALPHA ETA LAMBDA—Houston. Texas. Pres., John E. Codwell.

3420 Dennis St., Houston, Texas; Sec, Fred A. Jackson, Prairie View College, Prairie View, Texas.

130. ALPHA THETA LAMBDA—Atlantic City, N. J., INACTIVE — Address—C. M. Cain, Artie Ave., YMCA. 131. ALPHA IOTA LAMBDA—Charleston, W. Va., Pres., Earl J. Reason, Jr., 611 Shrewsbury St.; Sec, J. Kermit Hall, 1332 Washington St. E. 132. ALPHA KAPPA LAMBDA—Roanoke, Va., Pres., Dr. Elwood D. Down. ing, 236 Patterson Ave., NW; Sec, Dr. George A. Moore, 160 E^ Vine St. 13 3. ALPHA MU LAMBDA—Knoxville, Tenn., Pres., Dr. N. A. Henderson, 123 E. Vine St., Sec, J. I. Seals, 209 Deaderick Ave. 134. ALPHA N U LAMBDA—Tuskegee, Ala., Pres., W. Henri Payne; Sec, Hollis F. Price, Tuskagee Institute.

135. ALPHA XI LAMBDA—Toledo, Ohio. Pres., William T. McKnight, II., 738 City Park Ave.; Sec, Roy L. Shelton, 1019 Palmwood Ave. 136. ALPHA OMICRON LAMBDA—Pittsburgh, Pa., Pres., Henry D .

Primas, 8360 Bricelyn St.; Sec, Wilbur C. Douglass, 518 Fourth Ave. 137. ALPHA PI LAMBDA—Winston-Salem, N. C , Pres., Walker E. Pitts.

1117 E. 11th; C. Sec, W>Uiam R. Crawford; F. Sec, Dr. E. Shepatd Wright, Bruce Bldg.

138. ALPHA RHO LAMBDA—Columbus, Ohio, Pres., Dr. H. Sherman Manuel, 275 S. Grant Ave.; Sec, Louis H. Schuster, 1348 E. Long St. 139. ALPHA SIGMA LAMBDA—Dallas. Texas, Pres., A. Maceo Smith, 2913 Thomas Ave.; Sec, C. Paul Johnson, 2700 Flora St. 140. ALPHA TAU LAMBDA—Tulsa, Okla.. Pres., Archie L. Morgan, 643 E. Marshall PI.; Sec, J. Tyler Smith, 124 N. Greenwood St. 141. ALPHA UPSILON LAMBDA—Montgomery, Ala, Pres., Cohen T. Simpson; Sec, J. Garrick Hardy, State Teachers College.

142. ALPHA PHI LAMBDA—Norfolk, Va., Pres., W. T. Mason; Sec, Thomas W. Young, 721 Chapel St. 143. ALPHA CHI LAMBDA—Augusta, Ga., Pres.. A. Murray Carter, 1108 — 12th St.; Sec, Joel W. Wallace, 1112 Philip St. 144. ALPHA PSI LAMBDA—Columbia, S. C , Pres., , Sec, Harry B. Rutherford, 1330 Gregg St. 145. BETA ALPHA LAMBDA—Jersey City. N. J., Pres., Dr. W. Harold Branch, 190 Duncan Ave.; Sec, John B. Fraxier, 57Vi Jewett Ave. 146. BETA BETA LAMBDA—Miami, Fla., Pres., Dr. Felix E. Butler, 366 N. W. 14th St.; Sec, Frederick L. Johnson, 159 N. W. 10th St. 147. BETA GAMMA LAMBDA—Richmond, Va.. Pres., E. M. Burke, 806 N. 6th St.; Sec, David Graves, 622 Judah St.; Asst. Sec, Lester Hill, 1600 Everette Sr. 148. BETA DELTA LAMBDA—Daytona Beach, Fla., Pres., Charles J. Greene, Sec, James A. Colston, Rigby Junior High School, Ormond, Fla. 149. BETA EPSILON LAMBDA—Wewoka, Okla., Pres., Dr. D. A. French, 201 S. Seminole; Sec, William A. Dobson, Box 216, Lima, Okla.

150. BETA ZETA LAMBDA—Jefferson City, Mo., TO BE SET UP. 151. BETA ETA LAMBDA—Oklahoma City, Okla., TO BE SET UP.

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