The SPHINX | Spring May 1941 | Volume 27 | Number 4 194102704

PHINX GRADUATION NUMBER

W i t h uplifted heads, a will to conquer, dreds of Negro boys girls are leaving our ondary schools and leges this month.

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A L P H A PHI A L P H A FRATERNITY, RAYFORD W. LOGAN Howard University, Washington, D. C. BERT

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General Officers ROBERT P. DANIEL President Vice-Fresitleir.

319 East 48th St., Los Angeles, Calif.

ROGER F. GORDON Second Vice-President 1530 French Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania F E R D I N A N D L. R O U S S E V E

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4636 Willow Street, New Orleans. La. JOHN FLEMING Fourth Vice-President 1532 Linn Street, Cincinnati. Ohio J O S E P H H. B. EVANS G e n e r a l Secretary 101 S. S t r e e t , N. W., W a s h i n g t o n , D. C. F A R R O W R. ALLEN Treasurer

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Alabama State College, Montgomery, Ala. BELFORD V. LAWSON. JR General Counsel 2001 11th, N. W., Washington, D. C. LAY MEMBERS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Edward W. Brooke, 1262 Hamlin Street. N. E., Washington, D. C ; Thomas Kelley, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce. Ohio: James n.

Robinson, 850 East Forty-Ninth Place, Los Angeles, California.

BELFORD V. LAWSON, JR. Chairman, Chapter Housing Commission 2001 11th St., N. W., Washington, D. C HOWARD H. LONG Chairman. Committee on Public Policy 1112 Girard St., N. W., Washington, D. C. M. G. FERGUSON Chairman, Auditing Committee Citizens Savings & Trust Co., Nashville. Tennessee HENRY L. DICKASON Chairman, Committee on Standards Bluefleld State Teachers College, Bluefleld, West Virgin".

Chairman, Budget Committee Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina CHARLES H. WESLEY Historian Howard University, Washington, D. C. JEWELS Dr. Henry A. Callis, 2306 E St., N. E., Washington, D. C.i Nathaniel A. Murray, 150 You Street, N. W., Washington, D. C ; Vertner W. Tandy, 221 West 139th St., New York, N. Y.; George B. Kelly, l-113th Street, Troy, New York.

•Charles H. Chapman—*Roy H. Ogle—*James H. Morton—*Deceased.

REGIONAL DIRECTORS WESTERN JURISDICTION—Bert A. McDonald, Vice-President; Tolly W. Harris. 119 N. Greenwood Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Walter M. Booker, Prairie View College, Prairie View, Texas; Ulysses S. Taylor. Samuel Huston College, Austin, Texas; Bernard E. Squires, 326 Railway Exchange, Seattle, Washington: James P. Johnston, 32ti Twenty-Third Avenue, N., Seattle, Washington; Jack Terry, 11627 Bandera Avenue, Los Angeles. California.

SOUTHERN JURISDICTION—Ferdinand L. Rousseve, Vice-President; Clinton L. Blake, 1415 Beattie's Ford Road, Charlotte, North Carolina; Benjamin F. Scott, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia; Stenson E. Broaddus, Kentucky State College, Frankfort, Kentucky EASTERN JURISDICTION—Roger F. Gordon, Vice-President; John M. Moore, Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia; G. A! Galvin, 216 W. State Street, Ithaca, New York; Frank Morris," Jr ', 1519 Page Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William J Parks' Jr 1917 3rd Street. N. W., Washington, D. C. MIDWESTERN JURISDICTION—John W. Fleming, Vice-President; John R. Lawrence, Jr., 947 Iglehart Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota' J. R. Lillard. 2547 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri; Attorney Charles F. Lane, 417 East 47th Street, Chicago, Illinois.

CHAPTER ROSTER

ALPHA—Cornell University, Ithaca, New Y o r k ; P r e s i d e n t , D r . G. A. G a l v i n , 216 W. S t a l e S t r e e t ; S e c r e t a r y , D r . A l b e r t P . J o h n s o n , 216 W. S t a t e S t r e e t .

BETA—Howard University, W a s h i n g t o n , D. C ; President., A r t h u r F . C a r t e r ; S e c r e t a r y , N. A l a n H a r r i s , 1917 3rd S t r e e t , N. W. G A M M A — V i r g i n i a U n i o n U n i v e r s i t y ; R i c h m o n d , Va.; P r e s i d e n t , E. D. M c C r e a r y , Jr., S e c r e t a r y , P e r c y P a t r i c k s , V i r g i n i a Union.

D E L T A — T i l l o t s o n College, A u s t i n . T e x a s ; P r e s i d e n t , S a m u e l Fuller; Secretary, Joseph B. Bracy.

E P S I L O N — U n i v e r s i t y of M i c h i g a n , A n n Arbor, Mich.; P r e s i dent, Watson Young, 210 G l e n n St.; Secretary, Peter J. C a r t e r , No. 2 A d a m s H o u s e .

Z E T A — Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y , New H a v e n , C o n n e c t i c u t ; P r e s .

Sec. Dr. R. S. F l e m i n g , 216 D w i g h t S t .

E T A — C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y , S t . L a w r e n c e . B r o o k l y n , C. C , S t . J o h n U n i v e r s i t y , B r o o k l y n , N e w Y o r k City; P r e s i d e n t , M a c C. Davies, 79 S t . N i c h o l a s P l a c e , N. Y. C ; S e c r e t a r y , L u c i u s C. W a t s o n , 35 W e s t 1 1 0 t h S t r e e t , N. Y. C. T H E T A — U n i v e r s i t y of C h i c a g o , C h i c a g o , I l l i n o i s ; P r e s i d e n t , R o b e r t W. H a r r i s o n , 740 E. M a r q u e t t e R o a d ; S a c r e t a r y , F r a n k A. B a n k s , 740 E. M a r q u e t t e R o a d .

9. I O T A — A t l a n t a , G e o r g i a ; T o b e s e t u p .

K 18. A P P A — O h i o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , C o l u m b u s , O h i o ; P r e s i d e n t , F o w l e r A. B r i g g s ; Secretary, G e r a l d G. H a s k e l l , 760 M t .

Vernon, Columbus. Ohio.

Minneapolis, Minnesota; 11. M U — U n i v e r s i t y of M i n n e s o t a , P r e s i d e n t , J o h n R. L a w r e n c e , 947 I g l e h a r t Ave., S t . P a u l , M i n n . , S e c r e t a r y , J o h n M. P a t t o n , 954 S t . A n t h o n y Ave., S t .

Paul, Minn.

12. NU—VLincoln U n i v e r s i t y , Pa., P r e s i d e n t , G r a n t S. S h o c k l e y ; S e c r e t a r y , W o o d s o n Hopewell, L i n c o l n U n i v e r s i t y .

13. X I — W i l b e r f o r c e U n i v e r s i t y , O h i o ; P r e s i d e n t , C h a r l e s Splvey; S e c r e t a r y , T h o m a s Kelley, W i l b e r f o r c e U n i v e r s i t y .

14. O M I C R O N — P i t t s b u r g h , Pa., P r e s i d e n t , P a u l L. J o n e s , 228 W e s t 1 4 t h , H o m e s t e a d , Pa.; S e c r e t a r y M c D o n a l d W i l l i a m s , 201 M i c h i g a n A v e n u e , B e t s h o o v e r , P i t t s , P a .

President. Samuel 15. P I — W e s t e r n Reserve, C l e v e l a n d , O h i o : W a d e , 2285 E a s t 8 9 t h S t r e e t ; S e c r e t a r y , J o s e p h D. S m i t h , 2813 C e n t r a l A v e n u e , N. 584.

16. R H O — G r a d u a t e G r o u p , P h i l a d e l p h i a , Pennsylvania; Pres.

Dr. W. P . J e r r i c k , 1843 C h r i s t i a n S t . : C. Sec. Dr. O. W i l s o n W i n t e r s , 28 C u r r e n A r c a d e : F. Sec. N o r r i s t o w n , Pa.; F . Sec. Dr. P e r c y I. Bowser, 5344 R a c e S t .

17. S I G M A — H a r v a r d University, Boston, Mass., President, Thomas A. C e n t e r , 54 M t . P l e a s a n t St., N. C a m b r i d g e .

Mass., S e c r e t a r y , J u l i a n C. B r a n k e r , 11 W a u m b e c k St., R o x bury, Mass 18. T A U — U n i v e r s i t y of I l l i n o i s , C h a m p a i g n - U r b a n a , 111.; P r e s i d e n t , J a m e s J. S e a b e r r y ; Secretary, N a t h a n i e l B. Green.

1301 W. C l a r k S t r e e t , U r b a n a .

19. U P S I L O N — U n i v e r s i t y of K a n s a s , Kansas, State Teachers College, E m p o r i a , K a n s a s ; K a n s a s S t a t e College of A g r i c u l t u r e & Applied Sciences, M a n h a t t a n , Kansas, Lawrence, K a n s a s ; P r e s i d e n t , R a l p h R o g e r s , S e c r e t a r y , Cecil F l o r e n c e 1101 M i s s i s s i p p i S t r e e t .

20. P H I — O h i o U n i v e r s i t y , A t h e n s , O h i o : P r e s . J o h n W. G a s a w a y ; Sec. W a l t e r B. Allen. 155 W. W a s h i n g t o n S t .

2 1 . C H I — M e h a r r y M e d i c a l College, N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . , P r e s i d e n t , W a l d e n s e C. N i x o n ; S e c r e t a r y , D o n a l d M. Carey, 1613 Jefferson Street.

22. P S I — U n i v e r s i t y of P e n n s y l v a n i a , T e m p l e U n i v e r s i t y , P h i l a d e l p h i a . Pa.; P r e s i d e n t , F r a n k l i n M o r r i s . 1519 P a g " S t r e e t W e s t : S e c r e t a r y , R o b e r t P o i n d e x t e r , 2128 C h r i s t i a n " S t r e e t .

23 ALPHA A L P H A — U n i v e r s i t y of C i n c i n n a t i . C i n c i n n a t i College of P h a r m a c y , M i a m i U n i v e r s i t y , C i n c i n n a t i . O h i o ; P r e s i d e n t J o h n W. F l e m i n g . 1532 L i n n S t r e e t ; S e c r e t a r y . S a u l S. S a n f o r d . 747 C l a r k S t r e e t .

24 ALPHA B E T A — T a l l a d e g a College, T a l l a d e g a , Ala.: Presid e n t , G e o r g e E. Lee; S e c r e t a r y , A n d r e w B . R a n d a l l . Corr e s p o n d i n g S e c r e t a r y , E r m a n W. E d g e c o m b e , T a l l a d e g a .

25 ALPHA G A M M A — B r o w n U n i v e r s l t v , P r o v i d e n c e . R h o d e I s l a n d : I N A C T I V E — A d d r e s s J o s e p h G. L e C o u n t . 42 W e s t m i n ster St. 26 ALPHA D E L T A — U n i v e r s i t y of S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a , Los A n geles, Calif.. P r e s i d e n t . H e n r v F e l t e n b e r g . 1286 S. S e r r a n o ; S e c r e t a r y . Edwa'-d Ym-k. 128f> S. S e r r a n o A v e n u e .

27 ALPHA E P S I L O N — U n i v e r s i t y of C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y , C a l i f o r n i a ; P r e s . M. R o b i n s o n B a k e r . 929 M a g n o l i a S t r e e t , O a k land. California: S e c r e t a r y , G e o r g e E. Bvas. 2844 G r a n t S t r e e t : Cor. S e c r e t a r y , M e l v i n C. A u s t i n , 1518 R u s s e l l S t .

28. ALPHA Z E T A — W e s t V i r g i n i a S t a t e College, I n s t i t u t e W e s t Va.; P r e s i d e n t , L a w r e n c e N. J o n e s ; S e c r e t a r y , G a r l a n R A l s t o n , W e s t Va. S t a t e College.

29. ALPHA E T A — H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y , C a m b r i d g e , M a s s a c h u s e t t s INACTIVE. 30. ALPHA T H E T A — U n i v e r s i t y of I o w a , I o w a City, Iowa- P r e s i d e n t , J a m e s F e o p l e s ; S e c r e t a r y , A. Low; C. S e c r e t a r y Geora-e B R. R a g l a n d , Jr., 818 S o u t h D u b u q u e S t r e e t .

3 1 . ALPHA I O T A — U n i v e r s i t y of C o l o r a d o , D e n v e r , Colo P r e s i d e n t , H o w a r d J e n k i n s , Jr., 3131 G i l p i n St., S e c r e t a r v Tnnn W a l l a r , 2606 G i l p i n S t . *' 32. ALPHA K A P P A — S p r i n g f i e l d College, A m h e r s t College A m h e r s t , Mass., S p r i n g f i e l d , M a s s a c h u s e t t s ; Sec Eric HMI-HPV S p r i n g f i e l d College. cauiey, 33. ALPHA M U — N o r t h w e s t e r n University, E v a n s t o n IllinoisP r e s i d e n t . W i l l i a m B . P o l l a r d , S e c r e t a r y W i l l i a m C JPr j v m1 1t ' 1930 B r o w n A v e n u e . ' "" '' 34. ALPHA N U — I o w a S t a t e College, Drake Universitv Des M o i n e s , I o w a , A m e s , I o w a ; P r e s . S. M. Riley, J r • Sec rVh/ a ii - i ee cs P . H o w a r d , 515 M u l b e r r y St., Des M o i n e s , I o w a . ' " "' 35. ALFHA X I — U n i v e r s i t y of W a s h i n g t o n , S e a t t l e W a s h i n g t o n P r e s i d e n t , J a m e s P . J o h n s o n , 928 31st St., S e a t t l e W i s h ' i n g t o n ; S e c r e t a r y , R o b e r t B . P i t t s , 326 23rd A v e n u e ' N o r t h 36. ALPHA O M I C R O N — J o h n s o n C. S m i t h U n i v e r s i t y , C h a r l o t t e N. C ; P r e s i d e n t , H o r a c e D a v e n p o r t ; S e c r e t a r y , ' T W i l k i n s Davis, J o h n s o n C. S m i t h U n i v e r s i t y .

37. ALPHA P I — L O U I S V I L L E MUNICIPAL COLLEGE Louisville K e n t u c k y ; P r e s i d e n t , R o b e r t C r a w f o r d , 2512 W W a l n u t S t r e e t ; S e c r e t a r y , J u l i u s L. G r e e n e , 1810 W. C h e s t n u t S t r e e t 38. ALPHA R H O — M o r e h o u s e College, Ga.; P r e s i d e n t , B e n j a m i n B u l l o c k , S e c r e t a r y , C l a r e n c e W i l l i a m s , M o r e h o u s e College 39 ALPHA SIGM-A—Wiley College, B i s h o p College, M a r s h a l l ' T e x a s ; P r e s i d e n t , J a m e s C. W a l l a c e , Jr., S e c r e t a r y , Kerveri W. C a r t e r , Wiley College.

40. ALPHA T A U — U n i v e r s i t y of A k r o n , O h i o ; P r e s i d e n t , A t t o r ney Artee Fleming, 2 2 W e s t M a r k e t S t r e e t , A k r o n , OhioS e c r e t a r y , H e r b e r t T. B r a c k e n . 385 W e l l i n g t o n .

4 1 . ALPHA U P S I L O N — C i t v College D e t r o i t , D e t r o i t , M i c h i g a n ; P r e s i d e n t N o r m a n T a b o r , 2001 C h e s t n u t S t r e e t ; C. S e c r e t a r y . Lloyd G. R i c h a r d s , 6264 E p w o r t h .

42. ALPHA P H I — C l a r k U n i v e r s i t y , A t l a n t a , G e o r g i a ; P r e s . E d w a r d M c G o w e n : S e c . J o h n T. Minis. C l a r k U n i v e r s i t y .

43. ALPHA C H I — F i s k U n i v e r s i t y , N a s h v i l l e , T e n n . ; P r e s i d e n t , J o h n W. P a r k e r ; S e c r e t a r v . R o s c o e B r v a n t .

44. ALPHA P S I — L i n c o l n U n i v e r s i t y , Jefferson C i t y M i s s o u r i P r e s i d e n t . J a m e s Lee H u n t ; S e c r e t a r y , J a m e s J o n e s L i n coln University.

45. B E T A A L P H A — M o r g a n College, B a l t i m o r e , M d • P r e s i d e n t W i l l i a m T. C a i n , 1621 1 2 t h S t r e e t . N. W., W a s h i n g t o n D C •' S e c r e t a r y , S i m o n C a r t e r , 515 N. S h r o e d e r S t r e e t 46. BETA B E T A — U n i v e r s i t y of N e b r a s k a . Crei<*hton U n i v e r s i t v Municipal University, Lincoln, Nebraska, President Gaines T. B r a f o r d , 1952 T. S t r e e t . L i n c o l n . N e b r a s k a Secretarv H a r o l d B i d d i e x , 299* S. S t r e e t . L i n c o l n . N e b r a s k a """"y.

47. BETA G A M M A — V i r g i n i a S t a t e College, E t t r i c k , Va • P r e s i d e n t , Jeffpv=nn F. B r y a n t : S e c r e t a r v . S i n c l a i r J e t e r "' 48. BETA D E L T A — S t a t e College, O r a n g e b u r g , S C • P r e s i d e n t F r a n k Hovel; S e c r e t a r v . M. R. F l i n t , s t a t e C " i W e ' 49. B E T A E P S I L O N — A g r i c u l t u r a l a n d T e c h n i c a l Colleee G r e e n * b o r o , N o r t h C a r o l i n a : P r e s i d e n t . C l i n t o n E t h e r l d e e Reeve" t p r v . Envi H o l l a n d . A. * T. College 'etiuge, becre50. B E T A Z E T A — S a m u e l H u s t o n College. A u s t i n Texas- P,-e=i d e n t , M a c e o D. P e m b r o k e ; Secretarv, Weldon K ' G r o v e s " S a m u e l H u s t o n College. A u s t i n , T e x a s Groves, 5 1 . BETA E T A — S o u t h e r n I l l i n o i s T e a c h e r s College C a r b o n d a l e 111.. P r e s i d e n t . C h a r l e s E. J o n e s , 211 N WallSecretarv w d Gaffnev T a v l o r , Colp, I l l i n o i s . "' secretary, 52. P E T A T H E T A — B l u e f l e l d S t a t e T e a c h e r s College Bluefleld W. Va.: P r e s i d e n t . A l o n z o D e s k i n s , J r aecretai Secretarv Eueene Fluid. S t a t e T e a c h e r s College. ' yEugene 53. BETA I O T A — W e s t e r n S t a t e T e a c h e r s College Kalamn™ M i c h i g a n : P r e s . H a c k l e v E. W o o d f o r d 114 N P a r k s ?

T J o h n T. T n n l e y . 1331 W. M i c h i g a n " 54. B E T A K A P P A — I L a n g s t o n U n i v e r s i t v .

Lang=ton OklahomaP r e s i d e n t . J a m e s H a t c h e t t : S e c r e t a v r . H a m i l t o n ' Vauo-hnn ' 55. BETA M U — K eL n tnuecmk y S t a t e College F r a n k f o r d Kv • Pre'si2 ? " ^ - fPtfSZ y S e c r e t a r y N a t h a n i e l L. ' S h i e l d s , K yJ .

S t a t e College. ' 56. B E T A N U — F l o r i d a A. * M C e l i e e e : P r e s i d e n t . Oliver H. J o n e s : S e c r e t a r y , J a m e s M. Y o u n g , F l o r i d a A. & M.

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Alpha Takes Wings at Chanute Field __. 2

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What Have We Here? Editorial

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College Personnel Center

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Issues Call For Patriotism

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Education For Health

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Along The Legal Front

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T O ALL C H A P T E R S : Alpha Phi Alpha must face this world crisis as realistically as we have faced other emergencies. 1 am therefore proposing two major steps.

First, 1 should like for every Chapter to send out copies of the questionnaire below to all Brothers, active and inactive, who have entered any branch or arm service, including civilian activities.

1. Name and Chapter.

2. Dale of entry into service.

3. Specify whether volunteer or selectee.

4. A brief history that will include the llrother's photograph, rank, exact nature of duties, dates of promotion, li any, and general conditions in the camp.

5. Unless censorship restrictions forbid, send in a report from time to time.

6. At the conclusion of the service. give exact date and place of discharge and complete any unfinished account to that time.

If the emergency lasts long enough and the replies warrant it, I shall urge a "History of Alpha Phi Alpha in the Sec.md World W a r " to be edited by our Fraternity Historian. Brother W e s ley was able, after great effort, to obtain enough material for his chapter, "THE WORLD WAR INTERLUDE" in his History of Alpha P h i Alpha. By starting now to assemble information, we shall be able to complete a comprehensive account.

In the second place, I am laying initial plans for the Negro in the Next Peace Conference. Alpha has a right and an obligation to assume the lead in this important project. Brother Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois initiated the PanAfrican Congress at the end of the First World W a r and your general president was his right-hand man.

Scholars of the dominant races in this country have already begun to draw up their blue prints for the New World Society. They have not seen fit to include Negro scholars in their planning.

Conferences on a limited scale are being called at Atlanta University and at Howard. Our project will endeavor to prepare definite proposals for Negroes in all parts of the world. T h e Executive Council has approved an ap(Turn to Page 4)

May, 1941 (white) either in school or waiting to enter, it is not at all definite how soon our schooling will start.

Eventually the 99th Pursuit Squadron will be based at Tuskegee, Ala., where the Army is now constructing two airports.

To date, most of our time has been taken up with the issuing of equipment, drilling in the fundamentals of Army life, etc. On the whole there is little cause for complaint as to the handling and treatment of the squadron, despite existing conditions in other branches of the service.

Alpha T a k e s Wings A t Chanute Field

By W. Moose Moore To brothers in Alpha Phi Alpha everywhere, greetings from seven loyal brothers representing you are as "charter members" in this newest and most revolutionary addition to the United States' forces, the 99th Pursuit Squadron U. S. Army Air Corps.

Upon our arrivals here, we have lost no time in looking up one another and making ourselves known. Hailing from all parts of the country we have found unity in the common bond of Alphadom and will soon be functioning as a body as we already are individually to place the name of Alpha Phi Alpha first in this venture as it has always been in so many others in the past.

As to the 99th itself, we can only say that at this time the outfit is still in its embryo stage and naturally is not yet an active unit. The 200 men who have been enlisting all over the United States and arriving here for the past three weeks are here to attend the Air Corps Technical School for training in the various specialized phases of ground crew work necessary for the establishment and maintenance of our squadron in active duty. Many of the men qualified have applied for pilot training, in the Flying Cadets. In the school here we will be allowed to specialize in several fields, such as aviation mechanics, radio, aerial photography, meteorology, etc. The courses average six months in length, and since Chanute Field is now housing some 16,000 Air Corps enlisted men

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Private—Leon Smith, Alpha Delta, Los Angeles, Calif.

Private—Walter E. Moore, Beta Rho and Beta Upsilon, Winthrop, Mass.

Private—Charles Miner, Alpha Zeta, Wheeling, W. Va. The little brothers are represented here by Sphinxmen William W a r n e r and H u g h Holmes from Atlanta, Al Bowers and George Agard from New York City, and A! Robinson from Los Angeles. We'll have more to write you about our progress later. On behalf of all the "gang," I close with the wish for a pleasant summer and Happy Landings,

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EDITORIALS What Have We Here?

By Reid E. Jackson N U M B E R of years ago, the writer, in true sophomoric zeal, selected the caption " W h a t Have We H e r e ? " for his high-school commencement oration. This choice ot subject had been accelerated by the desire to have a title that was "different." To tell the truth, though, all that we did have" was a perspiring lad of fourteen years, striving manfully to impress some ten thousand odd admiring parents, relatives and friends that "he was the cutest thing" and " O h ! so brilliant."

Nearly two decades have elapsed since those heroic forensic efforts of the writer. And even though, during this breach of time, tin. world has become accustomed to much nunc complex modes and means of living, one must realize that human problems, in their basic settings, remain the same.

That is to say, we yet are concerned with such problems as employment, marriage, health, education and crimeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to just mention a few.

T o return to our high-school graduate of the early nineteen twenties, his audience was addressed by a boy, little aware of the vicissitudes of life, as prevalent then. Testimony to this fact was to be had in the trite verbalism of his commencement speechâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a piece designed to display rhetorical effect and elecutionary skill. Nor can it be declared that the writer later, as a college graduate, had done much to improve his ability to comprehend and solve intelligently those practical problems incident to making a satisfactory living in an, oftentimes, hostile American scene (or, should we say democracy?)

But, to belabor this thesis is but to follow suit with a host of feverish commencement orators, the country over.

Although any admonition to the college graduate, at this time, might appear presumptuous, as well as repetitious, it might be apropos to direct attention to certain desiderata for the forthcoming college graduate. While what we shall say might apply to graduates on all levels, in some degree, the college graduate is referred to here, inasmuch as this journal is devoted primarily to the interests and activities of the college group.

Redundant as it might seem, college graduates (fraternity man or no) should be cautioned in regard to their tendency to impress others c.f their feeling of superiority. Such snobbish attitudes must be replaced by an intelligent awareness of the fact that a commencement exercise is all that the name implies. Rather than being a termination of ''select activities," it symbolizes the commencement of a period of functional living. To put it in another wise, the time has come when the graduate must demonstrate, in the unadulterated activity of life, his ability to utilize knowledge not only in coping with life problems but also in improving the status of his environment. These terms, the writer confesses, bear all the characteristics of academic verbiage. Nevertheless, they do define a situation which likely might prove serious to the naive and unsuspecting graduate.

Let us examine more carefully, then, the implications of this statement for the Negro college graduate.

Time and again, the writer has been much perturbed at the unwarranted apathy of Negro youth, insofar as basic problems, involving human relationships, are concerned.

Particularly is this evident in the case of participation in such virile youth movements as the Youth Councils of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the All-Southern Negro Youth Congress; the Young Women and Men Christian Associations; and the like.

While one may reject the avowed purposes of such organizations, at the same time, cognizance must be taken of the fact that youth must participate in activities seeking toward

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the solution of youth problems. In fact, the presence of individuals holding varied views and interests offers a fuller guarantee of a broader approach and range of activities for the group. The program of distilling these divergent points of view, though, demands a linn and intelligent leadership.

And here, unfortunately, has developed the "spot" of attrition.

It would seem, naturally, that the majority of such leadership would he forthcoming from the ranks of collegetrained young people. But, sad to relate, the converse is true. in most instances, poorly-prepared young people, equipped only with the fervent enthusiasm of their ambition and vision, struggle along in their efforts to provide an effective leadership. Usually, though, such leadership is tempered more by inspiration than intelligence.

More than tins, generally, only a representative feu of college persons manifest any continuous interest in liberal youth groups. Small wonder, than, that a reactionary spirit i n sists among Negro organizations, social or otherwise. Ail this, then, suggests that the Negro college graduate can not oppose the indictment of supercilious action unless lie gives evidence ol his ability t o work actively in social enterprises, common to a democratic order.

In somewhat the same vein, comment should be made regarding the timidity of the professional, i, e, collegetiained person to combat the abrogation of civil liberties for the Negro citizenry in America. Issues, involving residential covenants, discrimination in public places; denial of the ballot, and the like, can be resolved more through a realistic approach than philosophical discussion. By way of example, the N. A. A. C. P. has demonstrated already the efficacy of legal action in restraining subtile attempts at racial segregation of the Negro. And, peculiar as 11 may seem, many of the college-trained Negroes eschew this problem with the bland statements that "this is no business of mine" and "I am doing alright." What they fail to see is that any situation affecting ominously one member of a racial group contains serious implications for all members of that g r o u p !

Once more, then, the light against the infringement of civil liberties for the Negro must be waged mostly by those who lack benefit of proper preparation for assuming such responsibility. How distressing it is to hear one of our "socially elite" prate "1 can't afford to ruin my reputation!"

Worse than this, though, is the smug declaration of powcrsthat-be, in the majority group, that our (Negro) leaders endorse the policies which they endeavor to foist upon the general mass of the Negro race. The moral in this statement is self-evident.

The Negro race must have a new leadership and that leadership must come from the best intelligence in the race. This intelligence moreover; must be selected and educated in our schools and colleges.

The writer has retained evcr-vividly the mental picture of so-called Negro leaders, during his boyhood days, in his hometown. They were nondescript "bargainers" for a paltry sum and short-lived prestige. The pathetic aspect of the picture is that words could hardly describe their high state of illiteracy. It should not be difficult, then, to understand the estimate of the Nordic group for the Negroâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to say nothing of our own lack of self-respect!

Mention, also, should be made of the circumscribed vision of the typical Negro college graduate, in regard to employment. For some reason or other, he seems to feel that "white-collar" jobs are the only occupation in which he can engage.

This, no doubt, is a carry-over of the traditional schism between vocation and culture. In the opinion of the writer, however, these two elements should be weeded. Wliat is implied here is that any vocation possesses certain cultural aspects, which must be developed. This is just another way of saying that there is both a science and artistry (Turn to next page)

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By Robbie Turner, Manager J u n e ! another month of graduations and another million persons on the job market For the third year the Collegiate Personnel Center is beckoning to these job hunters to register their qualifications for inclusion in the An nual Directory of Negro College Graduates, This Directory is circulated thai employers may have at their linger tips the country's best.

A brief word about the history of the Collegiate Personnel Center. Last year we mentioned how the idea is the product of a real need for the placement function in vocational guidance. The choice factor and the training phase are most time very carefully taken over b_\ the school. Placement, too, is becoming more and more the concern of administrators. But to date too few Negro schools have inaugurated any more than a rudimentary advisory program and placementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ultimate aim of every student is sorely neglected.

The functioning agents of Collegiate Personnel Center are members of the Junior Guidance Guild, who are the prospective employees and the Senior Guidance Guild, who are persons willing to assist these initial job seekers become oriented. Each year a Directory of Negro College Graduates is published and is circulated to sources of employment.

An interesting meeting of the Senior Guidance Guild was held in Kansas City during the Tri-Conventions. Your fraternity representatives contributed many very worth-while suggestions.

Among them was that delegates representing Negro Universities contact their administrators and solicit their support for the Collegiate Personnel Center. Another recommendation was that seniors in colleges and universi-

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propriation of five hundred dollars that H-ill permit the first steps. Alpha

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Alpha again pioneers! As in the past, however, we shall always welcome cooperation with other agencies seeking the same end.

This second proposal is of especial significance in view of our international

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ties and graduates who are seeking employment should he informed of the Junior Guidance Guild and that Application blanks he put in the hands of the fraternities regional directors for ease- in distribution.

to all occupational pursuits, which demand educational preparation, on high levels. This view, it must he acknowledged, does violence to the popular conception of higher education.

The compiled list of potential employees serve a many fold purpose. A very interesting new use of the list is an overview of what fields ol work students are being trained in. President Herman T. Jones, of Kansas Vocational school remarked about the few persons listed that were trained in mechanical and industrial arts and dearth of English, history and social service majors.

If you are a job seeker write to your Regional Director, the grand secretary oi the Alpha Phi Alpha, Joseph 11. 1!.

Evans, the editor of the Sphinx, Lewis 0 . Swingler, or write direct to the Central office of the Collegiate Personnel Center, 2512 North 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, and an application blank will be sent to you. Fill this in immediately and return the blank to the Central office. If you need an employee or are willing to assist these Junior members of the Guidance Guild get in touch with us and we will send you a Directory to have on hand or to distribute to needy employers.

Vocational guidance is the plea of our Negro student from the Junior H i g h through College.

Vocational Counseling is the need of our Negro race from the cradle to the grave so that they may keep ever alert to gain joy in their labor and economic independence by keeping up with the trends in preparation and then being available for the job when opportunity beckons.

We stand ready to serve you for the future of Collegiate America!

membership. We already have a Chapter at London. (May I take this opportunity of suggesting that every Chapter and every officer send a word of good cheer to the Chapter in battle-scarred London:) Moreover, Brothers Steady and Nyabongo are urging the establishment of Chapters in Africa and Brother Bindley Cyrus, who has just returned from an extended tour of the West Indies, lends his loyal voice to

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There is yet another implication, in regard to the vocational selection of the college graduate.

Negro youth with appropriate personal characteristics and training, must explore the job ho rizon and somehow gain entry into new fields of endeavor. This can not be accomplished through lackadaisal or half-apologetic efforts. Rather, this must be achieved through positive and enduring action until the desired end is realized. While this defines no easy endeavor, it, nevertheless is a task that can he consummated successfully. Indeed. one would have to cast himself in the role of a hardy pioneer and keep in mind the fact that new areas of activity will be resistant to encroachment, for quite some time. But persistent action is not so easily denied.

All that we have been saying climaxes itself in the consideration that the college graduate must live within the societal group rather than above it.

Such mode of living involves the exercise of critical intelligence in the resolution of practical problems. A sense of humanity, moreover, should permeate all activities of the individual, whatever his level of training. It is only in consequence of this attitude that one will continuously strive to improve his immediate situation.

Finally, we as fraternity men can justify our selective status only to the degree that we foster and nurture principles of action, such as enunciated above. And, this activity can not be delayed ere graduation time. This is a program that must be initiated early in the school career and conspire t o ward fulfillment, beginning with graduation. Here again, then, we have a challenge which should enlist the cooperation of all groups which claim distinction as an asset to fuller living â&#x20AC;&#x201D;in and out of college. What have we hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a fraternity dedicated to the furtherance of clannishness in human relationship or an organization devoted to the development of principles of democratic living?

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A SOLDIER SPEAKS TO ALPHADOM

By H. A. Kobinson First Lieutenant, U. S. Army E have at long last arrived at a point in the onward course of events when every citizen must pause and give some thought to the past and to those who have been responsible for our present degree of success; we have also reached a designation which seems in cud our progress unless all of the citizens give serious thought to the many complexing problems facing us as an independent nation.

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If we will review the history of our country we will learn that our boundries were bought under circumstances that were not always pleasant to one's memories, and that many have died that such boundries should not be changed to the disadvantage of our great country. Those who have made our frontiers possible did so at great sacrifice to both themselves and to their heirs. Many gave their lives for the things we all now enjoy. To such persons, we offer tlu- deepest gratitude, and occasionally meet to honor their names.

We are now in the midst of a N a tional Defense Training Program, the success of which depends upon every man and woman in the United States.

College students must make their contiiibution either directly or indirectly io our security as an independent nalicm. The trend of events .vhich are running against Democracies can be turned if we all discharge our duties and responsibilities as loyal American citizens. There has been observed a tendency on the part of our college students to feel that they should be deferred from military services. Provisions were made for them for the period ending in June of this year.

After that time, every student, in whatever college or university, would be ready at a moment's notice to meet the call for services. He should be both ready and willing. No special consideration should be reserved for any .me class of people. If we are going to have a Democracy, all of the citizens must be willing to share equally the responsibility of defending the principles of that Democracy. An enrollment in an institution of higher learning is not presequisite for special consideration and privileges. The spirit of our Constitution dictates that one should be prepared to sacrifice in order T u r n to next page

L I E U T E N A N T H U G H E S A. R O B I N S O N Chaplain 77th Coast Artillery, United States Army The name of Hughes Alonzo Robinson is synonymous with pioneer work in the interest of Negro Education and progress among illiterate men. H e signed up with the Civilian Conservation Corps in April, 1931, for one dollar per year, and was assigned duties in Camp Dix, New Jersey, where he first organized a program of entainments for the enrollees, and later a recreational and athletic program. He later was transferred to Virginia, where he organized the activities for four camps at Yorktown, Virginia, and this work expanded and included 17 Negro camps in the State by March, 1934.

It was through the personal efforts of Hughes A. Robinson that N e g r o Educational Advisers were able to find openings in the camprs. H e personally financed a campaign in their interest, and declined a position for two thousand dollars per year rather than tolerate the practices of "employing, only white educational advisers with the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps." H e needs no introduction at present other than the fact that he is a progressive young man who is more interested in the welfare of the race than he is in his own economic and political future.

Lieutenant Robinson addressed five thousand teachers at the Annual Session of the Palmetto State Teachers' Association in the Township Auditorium in Columbia South Carolina, April 4th. He warned his audience against propagandists who are' out as speakers against the Foreign Policies of the present Admin.strat.on.

Brother Robinson appealed to the teachers to help with the problem of ehminating illiteracy in America. In his closing remarks, he aroused his aud.ence w i t h . a challenge to meet the present crisis with complete patriotism and loyalty to the Government under whose flag it lives.

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(From Page 5) that we may continue to be a prosperous nation, and that every citizen should hold himself in readiness to defend, if need be, the boundries of our country, and the principles on which the foundation of our Republic is built.

While we all agree that in a Democracy free speech prevails, we also will understand that an abuse of our privileges will encourage the curtailment of those liberties and privileges we all now enjoy under the Constitution of the United States. It is well, therefore, thalt we consider the suggestion of using more discretion in our speech less we do harm to the morale of our civilian population. Both students and instructors must be more cautious in their words and actions. This is not a time for criticism of our Foreign policies. Let no student or professor feel that he is so far advanced in the sciences of Government that he will seek to create the impression that he is better qualified to run the affairs of the nation than those who have been elected or otherwise designated for such purposes. We have a moral obligation; we are committed to keep up a strong morale among both soldiers and civilians.

With less criticism coming from our educators in our colleges and universities on the Foreign policies of our Federal Administration, it will be much easier to accomplish the desired results. Those not of military age can and should contribute toward the program of National Defense.

I can think of no way one can be of service to the nation during any crisis that would serve our interest better than refraining from criticising all of the Federal Administration's efforts to defeat the Totalitarian State. Our security as an independent nation depends upon the success of our Foreign policies. It is, therefore, necessary and essential that all citizens, whatever nature might be their work, cooperate to the fullest extent and offer moral support.

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Top scene shows the Chaplain on the campus of Florida A. & M. College, Tallahassee, Fla. following an address before students and faculty. Brother President Lee of the College is seen in center.

Bottom scene presents Brother Robinson (Back-turn, foreground) as he addressed members of the 77th and 76th Coast Artillery Regiments on Citizenship, appealing, to them to be good soldiers with a zeal for the Flag of the United States.

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Education For Health In The Modern

By M. Luther Smith, M. D.*

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T I S almost trite to say that the possession of health aiul the conservation of health represent the highest of all values. This sentiment in varied phraseology has been expressed many many times—so many times in fact that persons giving utterance scarcely ponder the implication of these truths.

If, as men say, health is the pearl of great price, the most prized possession which anyone can enjoy, it would seem that no educational effort toward its achievement can be too great. E d u cators themselves readily agree that perhaps the first aim of education should be good health. But to their everlasting discredit too many of them never translate their words into action.

They render to health only "lip" service.

Fortunately, however, in recent years there has been a noticeable change in attitude among some of the more far sighted administrators in our colleges, and health promotion has taken its rightful place as a leading force on the school campus. It is about health promotion and education for health in one of the colleges which has "seen the light" that these lines are written.

As we shall use it, the term "health education" will not refer alone to classroom instruction. To us it means something different—far different from the sort of hygiene teaching which is offered at some of our so-called better institutions today. 1 have for a number of years taught a course in what we commonly call hygiene, and I have been Convinced from this experience that the mere acquisition and recitation of the so-called rules of health arc not adequate to meet the needs of the student. Under the title "health education" then we shall include the sum total of all experiences that have any influence on health.

Many factors combine in this education process and not the least is direct classroom instruction, but this instruction must be made meaningful to the student by his actual participation in some of the recommended health preserving- procedures. As in all other areas of education the "doing" feature is of utmost importance.

For instance, it is all very well to tell the student that tuberculosis continues to be "the foe of youth," and that the college age group is in the middle of

the danger zone for the development of the disease, but he will be much more impressed if he sees the school authorities actually making available to him on the school campus the modern means for the detection of early tuberculosis. This leads up to the conclusion that the instructional phase of education for health must be supported and implemented by a rather comprehensive health service program.

F o r a number of years now Alcorn A. & M. College has proceeded along this pattern. We do not claim a perfect set-up. In fact we are very conscious of our limitations and are aware of having made mistakes. We shall no doubt make more mistakes for much of our work has been pioneering and some of it continues to be pioneering today. As we have previously observed there is a surprising lack of guiding standards in college health work among our group. If there is justification in setting forth our experience in writing it lies in the fact that the writer has spent the larger part of his professional career in this specialized kind of medical work and has consequently already made most of the mistakes that go along with charting a new course.

To appreciate gains that have been made it is sometimes helpful to look back and contrast the old with the new. We don't have to go back more than ten years to get the following typical picture of the health activities of our average college: There was no health program as such. There was perhaps a so-called college physician who was not a member of the faculty staff but who made calls to the dormitories in case of disabling illness only.

Or perhaps he came to the campus for a one-hour office conference two times weekly. Perhaps there were wards in the dormitories or even an infirmary building, but no one went near these wards or this infirmary unless he was ill. There was no routine physical examination of new students nor follow-up work with the old. At times there might have been a cursory physical inspection done by a local physician already overloaded with a heavy private practice which was his real interest. Oftimes the physician engaged was the city's leading surgeon who looked upon his school affiliation as a sort of recreational activity. This situation was particularly ludicrous

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College since less than 2 per cent of college students will need major surgery while in school. In this typical institution— which we hope no longer exists—the student might spend four years and not come under any kind of medical observation unless he came down with a disabling illness or accident. A college dentist was unheard of in most instances. No one ever heard of such a thing as instruction of students in problems of lighting. W h o knew or cared that he had headache from eye strain resulting from reading in his room which was illuminated by a SO watt bulb screwed into the top of the ceiling. No courses in hygiene were required, but he received a few lectures during Annual Health Week Observance. Meanwhile in the classroom he was taught to enumerate the moons of Jupiter, required to tell how many Carthaginians doffed their hats as Queen Dido passed; and in the laboratory he learned to tease out the nervous system of the cambarus virilis!

The picture painted above might appear overdrawn to some, but many of my readers could testify as to its accuracy. I venture to say that a number of the readers will experience a nostalgic reminder of their own Alma Mater.

And what of the modern college?

We shall outline briefly the essentials of the program in operation at Alcorn.

There is a distinct department of health staffed by physician and nurse who reside on the campus and enjoy full faculty status. Assistance in classroom instruction is given by other members of the faculty who have taken advanced degrees in health and physical education. Physical equipment includes a 14 bed infirmary which houses also dispensary, out-patient department and fully equipped dental room.

The student pays a medical fee at entry which entitles him to continuous service throughout the year. This includes medical and nursing care by physician and nurse and all ordinary prescription drugs. Being thus freed from the necessity of having to pay at each visit the student freely consults the medical adviser so that early treatment can be instituted. The student receives a thorough physical examination upon entry in the fall.

This examination is not a cursory inspection, but includes such as chest,

Page 8 blood pressure reading, urinalysis, Washerman test, Tuberculin test and X-ray follow-up of all positive reactors. All these things have been a routine part of the program now for about six .Mars. All cases of syphillis are treated on the campus with no additional charge to the student and with due consideration for the student's rights as a human being. No punitive measures whatever arc taken against an infected student and bis rights to privacy are not violated. Because our students are handled in the same manner as private patients we secure their cooperation and win their confidence. We thus eliminate almost entirely the problem of bidden cases and self-medication of venereal diseases.

Perhaps the must noteworthy of recent advances in education for health at the college is the attention being given to the dental needs of students.

Vbout two years ago a complete dental unit was installed at the college infirmary as a permanent pari ol the health service equipment. Since that time cooperating dentists have made regular visits to the college bringing doiial service to the students' very door. T o begin with this phase of the student health service program was operated on a "pay as you are served" basis. While this system enabled many students to secure dental service who would not have otherwise obtained it, we soon discovered that there was a wide disparity between the number needing dental service and the number presenting themselves for this service.

It was obvious that enough people were not being reached. We began to launch a long run dental education program.

Dentists cooperated unselfishly in this effort, making available literature and conducting free dental clinics on the campus. Last fall all students registered in hygiene courses were required to have their teeth cleaned as a laboratory requirement of the course.

Through cooperation of the State I lealth Department a dental hygienist was on the college campus for a month doing this work. The cost to the student was 25c. Having, thus set the stage, beginning with the next school year each student will be charged a dental fee in the same manner that he now pays a medical fee. This fee will be pooled and cooperating dentists will work on an hourly basis. All elementary dental needs of the student will be served including extractions, fillings, and prophylaxis.

The teeth cleaning work will be done by the den-

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tal hygienist. With such a plan we expect to reach every student in college. We do not feel that it is necessary to defend a dental health program, for there are enough statistics and competent surveys on dental cares to confound the ablest statistician.

Another responsibility we attempt to assume is the provision of a sanitary environment for the student and a control of the possible sources of in lection. Accordingly the health service cooperates with the personnel deans in setting standards for living, quarters.

Supervision over the food services is maintained, each food handler being first approved by the health department U hue being given permanent assignment. Moreover, any food handler may be called in for subsequent examinations at the discretion of the director of the health service. As further indication of how the health effort influences administrative procedures might be cited the fact that when a new dormitory was recently constructed and equipped all rooms were provided with I. I?.. S. desk lamps that students might study without eye strain due to insufficient illumination.

On the formal instruction side we might say that every student who graduates from Alcorn A. & M. College is required to take a course in personal and community health.

The course requires two hours weekly for an entire year. W e have said earlier that we are critical of mere "rule learning" in health education, but it becomes necessary for the student to a c quire a certain amount of factual knowledge. H e should be acquainted with the essential facts of diseases and should learn enough of the common terminology of medicine to speak intelligently with his physician.

Lest we carry this much writing on ad nauseam we shall hasten on to those always welcome words "in conclusion."

W e are often asked how and why we do so much for students at such small cost to them. I am not sure that I have the whole answer. There are several factors involved. One is that for a great number of years a physician and nurse have been integrated with the school program, residing on the campus and giving the largest share of their time to school health work. Another is that we have learned to work with and make use of the services of other individuals and agencies interested in health work. W e enjoy the active support of our State Health Department and that of private prac-

May, 1941 titioners of medicine and dentistry.

Our experiences in this respect lead us to the conclusion that if enough initiative and industry are shown from within there will always be found people on the out-side willing and even anxious to help. A third factor is that the institution has as its administrative head a man who gives to health promotion more than lip service. Health promotion is not regarded a mere adjunct to the learning effort, it is thought instead as constituting the very warp and woof of sound educational policy. This means that no attempt is made to run the health department on student fees alone. It means that funds are set apart for health promotion just as they are set apart for the development of a department of chemistry, biology, or mechanic arts. And finally, we believe that the emphasis on health at Alcorn is but an expression ol a basic philosophy of the school; that through these activities of formal teaching and actual demonstration of modern methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, the student will leave college better able to handle his individual health problems and better able to render a larger service in whatever community he chooses to live. â&#x20AC;˘Director Studem Health Service Alcorn A. & M. College Alcorn, Mississippi 0 PRESIDENT'S

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In this international crisis, Brothers, Alpha Phi Alpha must and will a s sume .her international obligations.

Visits that I have already made to chapters and individual Brothers in Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville.

Montgomery and Atlanta reveal a genuine appreciation of our new problems. I hope that the entire Brotherhood will rally around us in this broadening of our sphere of activities.

I was especially pleased to learn, as I know you will be, of the advanced stage of the careful plans that the Brothers in Louisville have already achieved. We may look forward to another great General Convention.

Fraternally yours, R A Y F O R D W . LOGAN General President.

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May, 1941

S P H I N X

Along The Legal Front

By B. V. Lawson, Jr.

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T T H E First special Convention of our Fraternity held at Chicago.

August 19-22, 1934, Brothers Theodore M. Berry and l!. V. Lawson, Jr., General Counsel and Associate General Counsel respectively, made a report on the need for appropriate action against certain public supported Universities which made no provision for the professional and graduate training of N e groes, although adequate provision was made for the whites.-—1.

There was considerable discussion at that Convention based on the facts included in the report. The report stated that Negroes were excluded from the Universities of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and the Catholic University of America. Particular reference was made to the grossly unfair distribution of appropriations among white and colored citizens in the state of Maryland. Only $24,000 per year was spent by this state for the higher education of Negroes, while $2,083,000 was appropriated for white institutions engaged in higher education. Negroes, of course, were excluded from the white institutions. Tin report recommended that Alpha Phi Alpha take the lead in this tight with the following objectives : 1. Admission of Negro students to public supported institutions on the same basis as other students.

2. Larger appropriations for Negro Colleges within the state.

3. Payment of tuition of Negro students to schools outside of nonadmitting states.—2.

T h e report resentatives

recommended that of the

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Fraternity, the

Washington branch of the N . A. A. C. P. and the New Negro Alliance formulate plans for action. Letters of endorsement from the aforesaid organizations were presented to the Convention. The Convention adopted the report as presented and the first meeting was held in the office of Brother B. 1. History of Alpha Phi Alpha Wesley—(p. 321).

2. Report of B. V. Lawson, Jr. to Special Convention Chicago, 1934.

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V. Lawson, Jr., Washington, D. C. "Brother B. V. Lawson, Jr., attorney at law, took the leadership in this matter in cooperation with the Genera] Counsel. Brother Theodore M. Berry."—1.

After correspondence and

conferences with Brothers Charles II. Houston and Thurgood Marshall, it was decided that the X. A. A. C. I1 was better equipped to undertake this program.

The record is clear that all of the progress made in this important area of Negro life had its inception at our Special Convention in Chicago. Whether in the long view the Fraternity made a mistake by turning this program over to the N . A. A. C. P. is a debatable question. The N . A. A. C. P . has done a fine job. It has failed, however, to give proper recognition to the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for the conception of this program and its constant and extensive support thereto.

T h e Fraternity appropriated the first $125.00 to the office of General Counsel for the original investigation of this matter.—2. T h e F r a t e r nity paid the tuition for Donald Murray each year he was in law school and bought every book he used.

The man who saw the tremendous possihilties of this program and who urged the adoption of the aforesaid report at the Chicago Convention was Brother Charles H . Wesley. In his becoming modesty he, as Historian of the Fraternity, made no reference to this fact. T o the extent of this omission the record is incomplete. Without the courage and persuasive vision of Brother Wesley, the Chicago Convention would not have adopted the report and by so much the great achievements of the last few years by way of securing equal educational opportunities for Negro students and equal salaries for Negro teachers in State supported institutions might never have been made. It may be informative, therefore. briefly to state and appraise the legal attacks made in this field.

As is well known, the first case was (Please turn to next page) 1. History of Alpha Phi Alpha—Wes ley (p. 321) 2. Fraternity voucher dated March 21, 1935—$125.00.

J E S S E P . GRIGGS, Esq. Brother Jesse P. Griggs, 1939 graduate of Howard University Law School, successfully passed all parts of the March, 1941 B a r Examinations for a d mission to practice law in the State of Xew York. Requirements for admission to the Xew York Bar are generally considered the most rigid in the country.

Attorney Griggs will be an associate of the eminent attorney, Oliver L>.

Williams, Esq., 67 Wall Street. New York City. The opportunity to become a member of this outstanding law office was based upon the efficient and able work Brother Griggs did as a law clerk.

He has an excellent background for his profession, having received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Shaw University and Bachelor of Arts , from Virginia State College.

At both schools, Brother Griggs maintained close to an A average in scholarship.

As a student, he was regarded among the most able debaters and leaders in the school's history. At Howard Brother Griggs obtained his Bachelor of Laws Degree, ranking among the top students of his class. lie also studied law at Indiana University College of Law and did special legal research at New York University Law School, l i e was a member of the Medina Xew York Bar Review Classes and the Sainer-Bergman Lectures in New York substantive law.

Brother Griggs is a native North Carolinan and began his public career in North Carolina as a high school teacher. lie retain.-. membership in Phi Lambda Chapter, Raleigh, N. C , and at present is identified with the Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York.

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FREDERICK DOUGLAS STUBBS "SERVANT OF ALL"

By William H. Gray, Jr.

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E R V A N T of Allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is the ideal in practice in the life of Brother Doctor F. D. Stubbs, of Philadelphia's Psi chapter, one of the nation's outstanding medical men.

Unaffected by multitudinous honors which have ranged from election to Phi Beta Kappa to citation by Times magazine, for his pioneering work in pulmonary tuberculosis, Brother Stubbs still possesses the common touch of simplicity and unsophistication; and in this manner he serves with great dignity the most lowly of his race.

"First of All" accomplishments in the life of Brother Doctor Stubbs have been almost too numerous to mention. His Magna Cum Laude baccalaureate graduation from Dartmouth, his Cum Laude graduation from H a r v a r d Medical College, his position as Resident Surgeon Cleveland City Hospital, his position as Resident Thoracic Surgeon Sea View Hospital New York City, his position as Visiting Surgeon Philadelphia General Hospital, his performance of the lobectomy and pneumonectomy and his election to Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth have all been pioneering efforts. In each instance he has been the first man of color to merit such recognition or perform such achievements. Brother Stubbs regards his initiation into Alpha Phi Alpha along with the most sacred and outstanding of his most noble attainments.

A chronological account of his achievements can be obtained from the following biographical sketch.

F. D. Stubbs, physician, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, March 16, 1906.

H e graduated from Howard High

School, Wilmington, 1922; Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., 1923; Dartmouth College, 1927, A. B. Magna Cum L a u d e ; H a r v a r d Medical College, 1931, M. D. Cum Laude. He was the first Negro Interne and first Negro Resident Surgeon Cleveland City H o s p i t a l ; first Negro Resident Thoracic Surgeon, Sea View Hospital, New York City. At present he is serving as Visiting Surgeon, Philadelphia General Hospital; Associate Surgeon and Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Douglas Memorial H o s p i t a l ; Associate Surgeon, Mercy H o s p i t a l ; Surgeon to the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons.

He has the distinction of being the only trained Negro Thoracic Surgeon in America. H e performed the first lobectomy and pneumonectomy ever accomplished by a Negro surgeon. He trained the first Negro physicians in thoracic surgery ever to receive such training in a Negro institution. H e is a member of many local, state and national medical societies, and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha H o n o r a r y Medical Fraternity, being the only Negro ever elected at H a r vard. He has presented a number of scientific papers before local and national medical societies and they have been subsequently published. At present he has the following papers ready tor publication: "Preliminary Report of 46 Consecutive Thoracopplasties"; "Lobectomy in the Treatment of P u l monary Tuberculosis with the Report of two Cases"; Childhood Type Tuberculosis in Negro Adults with Consideration of Therapy." H e is a Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth, and a member of Sigma P i Phi.

SOUTHERN REGIONAL BACKS NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM T h e Southern Regional Conference, held in Birmingham, Ala., May 2, 3, 4th, endorsed the National Defense P r o g r a m as outlined by the Allied Councils for Defense following the major address by Brother Attorney Theodore M. Berry, of Cincinnati, Coordinator for the Allied Councils, and former General Counsel of Alpha Phi Alpha F r a t e r n i t y Brother Berry, speaker for the Conference Saturday, May 2nd, outlined

steps that every chapter can and should take to bring about greater participation of Negroes in the National Defense industries over the country.

Forum discussions were also held on Alpha's Education for Citizenship program, reclamation of delinquent brothers, and activities of Regional Directors. T h e Conference went on record to recommend that the next General ( T u r n to Page 19)

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Defense

Speaker

T. M. B E R R Y , Esq.

Toastmaster

C. J. G R E E N E Two notable Alpha personalities

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the Southern Regional Conference were Brother Attorney Theodore M. (Ted) Berry, top, who spoke on participation of Negroes in National Defense, and Brother Charles J. Greene, member of the host chapter, whose wit kept the banquet moving at a lively pace.

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Fun first. H o w do you create so much imagination and satirical h u m o r ? " From the Mississippi delta basin: "Keep up the broadcasting. The program is coming in fine every month."

Graduation Numberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Roses Or R a g w e e d Roses From Chicago: "Congratulations on your column in the recent March Sphinx. You have expressed my sentiments 'persactly'."

From D i x i e : "The recent change to a monthly Sphinx has stimulated you to finer productivity. Your articles are better than ever."

From the Ohio Valley: "Thanks for the diary submitted by your secretary.

I lived the entire convention over again. 'A prophet has honor save in his own country, and no man is a hero in the eyes of his office force.' Don't worry, keep up the good work."

From mountainous West V i r g i n i a : "Yes, my wife reads the Sphinx and she reads F r a t Fun first of all. It is either clever entertainment or good gossip."

\ F r o m the F a r W e s t : "Congratulations on the convention diary and Post Mortems. The ayes have it."

From the Nation's Capitol: "My wife turns to your column as soon as the Sphinx comes in. You are apparently immune to censorship it seems. At any rate we all enjoy your F r a t Fun." From the Kappa Journal Staff: "When I worked at the and the whole gang at the printing office used to meet and have a good laugh over your F r a t Fun. Your humor has lost none of its spice.''

From Washington, D. C.: "You get away with murder sometimes. Don't you know all of our wives read F r a t Fun. I can say for you that there has never been any slander or injurious gossip in your column."

F r o m a high ranking general officer: "My wife and I turn to F r a t

From the Eastern Seaboard: stoop, no squat, no squint in your umn. Good jokes, and some are finely polished for 'that wasn't the I heard them'."

"No colvery way

Ragweed In his discussion he was emphasizing the importance of a good education and a fair vocabulary. "Yes, I remember well my first attempt to secure a job as butler."

"I always require my butler to dress in the English style, lace collar and cuffs, knee breeches and patent leather p u r ; s , said Mrs. Buffington.

"How are your legs I detest scrawny, ill formed objects some butlers call legs.

Let me see your hands and your finger nails. I guess you will do. Now, let me see your credentials!" Well, fellows, my lack of education and my poor vocabulary made me lose that job.

Bathing B e a u t y : "You really want my picture. W h y ? " Young Theological S t u d e n t : "I want to put it up on the wall so the Lord can see how I was tempted."

W e took Grandpa to his first burlesque show and he was having a grand time. One of the girls in the chorus jokingly yelled to h i m : " H o w old are you g r a n d p a ? " H e muttered, "80, d a m m i t ! " Ethel (aged 6, combing hair): "Mama, what makes my hair crack when I comb i t ? " M a m a : "Why, dear, you have electricity in your hair."

E t h e l : "Aren't we a funny family ?

I've got electricity in my h a i r ; daddy's got water on the knee, and grandma has got gas on her stomach."

T w o friends met on the street. One of them remarked on the dirty state of the other's hands.

"Why," he exclaimed, "your hands are covered with soot!"

"Well, that's because I was down at the station seeing my wife away," replied the friend.

"But how does that affect your hands?"

"I patted the engine."

H e was a country boy from the Alabama fields. At the boarding school he envied the sleek well groomed hair of his sophisticated comrades. They told him to put toilet water on it. H e tried it but in doing so the lid fell down on his bead.

The old Negro was preaching his trial sermon. A very critical old deacon noted that he made several grammatical errors and told him about it. The old preacher s a i d : "God help the grammar that gits in my way when I'm preaching."

W i l l y : "A good deal depends on the formation of early habits."

N i l l y : 'I know it. When I was a baby, my mother paid a woman to wheel me around, and I've been pushed for money ever since."

H a n k y : "Where did you get your education?"

Panky: "I learned virtue at my mother's knee."

H a n k y : "And I suppose you learned vice at your father's joints."

D e b u t a n t e : "When you keep on kissing me, it makes me tremble from head t o foot."

Sophomore: "Yes, and when you tremble from head to foot, it makes me keep on kissing you."

Yes, that's a very good tan you got out on the beach with that young man â&#x20AC;&#x201D;but where are your bathing suit marks ?"

Malinda entered the maternity ward of the hospital and spoke to the interne at the desk. " W h a t is the matter with y o u ? " he asked. She r e ( T u r n to next page)

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filed against the University of Maryland, M u r r a y vs. Pearson, et al.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;1.

Donald Murray applied for admission to the Law School of the University of Maryland. He was refused admission. Whereupon a petition for writ of mandamus was filed against the P r e s ident, Registrar, and Board of Regents of the University, requesting the Court to direct them to accept the application of Petitioner Murray in the regular manner. The respondents replied that adequate provision had been made by the State of Maryland for the petitioner and other members of the colored r a c e ; that the Board of Regents had authority to allocate state appropriations to establish scholarship at Morgan College or institutions outside of the State for the higher education of Negroes and by so much the State of Maryland offered substantially the same advantages to Negro students in graduate and professional levels as it offered white s t u d e n t s ; that there was practically no demand for legal education for Negroes in the State and that Murray would suffer no damage by the denial of the application, for the reason that the State would provide for him at H o w a r d University or some other outside school. The trial court refused to issue the mandamus. W h e r e upon Murray applied to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which court reversed the lower court and held that the State had no right to refuse M u r ray admission and ordered the University of Maryland to accept his application and admit him. The F r a ternity paid his tuition and bought his books. H e was graduated from the Law School with a fine record, greatly admired by faculty arid students alike.

The University of Maryland is still standing. Race relations at the University have improved and Alpha Phi Alpha moves on to conquer and serve.

Let him who may get credit. W e shall try to transcend by larger and deeper service to all.

This favorable decision was the first successful legal attack upon one of the most vicious and unfair methods of "taxation without representation" which exists in this country. This decision enabled Negro students and teachers to leave the by-paths ot discrimination and Jim-Crowism in education and travel the high road of

1. 169 Md. 478 (1936)

equality of opportunity and justice.

Here, for the first time in Negro life, the legal approach to equality of opportunity for Negro students and equality of reward for services rendered by Negro teachers was effective.

The issues were so clear, the practices and customs so unfair, the methods of discrimination and denial so vicious that no court of justice could refuse to render a proper decision.

After the Murray case there have been a series of important legal victories in this field of attack.

The well advertised and important, albeit unsatisfactory, Gaines case illdicates the difficulties yet to be solved.

This case poses the question which is yet to be decided, namely, whethel or not America intends to give the Negro student absolute and complete equality of opportunity or whether we are to have a substitute, an alternative, a none too tasty morsel of equality State etc., ex rel Gaines vs. Canada â&#x20AC;&#x201D;1 did not compel the University of Missouri to admit Gaines to its' law school. The Supreme Court of the United States in that case ordered the State Court either to admit Gaines or to show cause why. It did say that race or color was no reason for their failure to admit him and if the state did not show that it had made equal provision for the legal education of Negroes the writ of mandamus would issue to compel Gaines' admission. In the interim the State of Missouri appropriated $200,000 for graduate and professional education in the State to be spent as the Curators of the University of Missouri thought best, whereupon a Jim-Crow Law School wax set up in St. Louis witli the consent and approval of Negro appeasers.

In the summer of 1939 there was a rehearing of this case before the Missouri Supreme Court which held that whether the Law School of Lincoln University offered a course the substantial equivalent of the Law School at the University of Missouri was a question of fact for the trial court which fact could not be determined by judicial knowledge or legal presumption.

Whereupon the Court ordered an investigation of the sufficiency and efficiency of the law course, reversing itself in conformity with the decision of the United States Supreme Court and remanded the case to the trial court to make the inquiry. The Court said that if the law course was opened 1. 305 U. S.

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May, 1941 to Gaines and if the course was sufficient and equivalent to the course offered at the University of Missouri, Gaines' application should be denied; if not, it would be granted. Thereafter the Curators of the University of Missouri repleaded, alleging the course sufficient and equivalent.

In 1938 Lucile Bluford, Managing Editor of the Kansas City Call, applied by mail for acceptance in the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri. She was instructed to appear to register for the second semester of 1938-9. When she appeared to register and was found to be colored she was denied admission on the theory that the question of Negroes attending the University of Missouri was still in litigation. In September, 1940, M iss Bluford again applied for admission and was rejected on the ground that adequate provision for her had been made or would be made at Lincoln University, Missouri. At the time there was no school of Journalism at Lincoln University. Whereupon Miss Bluford filed a writ of mandafrius and sued for $20,000.00 damages. The graveness of her complaint was that the denial of her right to attend the University on account of her race, resulted in humiliation and delay in the

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B r u n e t t e : "I'm Mr. Blinker's wife!"

Pretty Blonde: "I'm his secretary."

Brunette: "Oh, were you?"

"Jones is a very persistent lawyer isn't h e ? " "Yes, I've known him to spend a whole evening trying to break a girl's will."

"I went back to the university and visited my old room.

"May 1 come in. It's the room I had when I went to college in '19."

He invited me in.

"Yes sir," I said, lost in reverie.

"Same old room. Same old windows.

Same old furniture.

Same old view of the campus. Same old closet."

I opened the door. In there stood a girl, terrified.

"This is my sister," he said.

"Yes sir, Same old story."

Graduation amid roses and rag weed! Same old Wilson W i n t e r s .

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May, 1941

June

Graduate

ROBERT BANKS Member of Beta Mu Chapter, has been both a class-A student and ah active personality at Kentucky State College, lie is majoring in Agriculture unci maintains a constant scholastic record much above the average.

As a neophyte brother, Brother Hank;, lias taken hold to his responsibility as a veteran Alpha man. Me served as treasurer of his chapter his first vear, and the next year became chapter president. H e is a member ol the Pan-Hellenic Council, of the < ollege Branch N A A C P , Kentucky P r o gressive, and the T I K Club. On the school paper, the "Thorobred," Brother Banks serves as makeup editor.

Brother Banks will be graduated in I nne and has already accepted a position as Vocational Agriculture teacher at \tuicks high school, Hopkinsville.

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ALONG THE LEGAL FRONT completion of her education. is still pending.

This case

Another important case in 19.58 was the ease of Mills vs. the State Board of Education—1 filed in the Federal District Court in Maryland, on the theory that Maryland's equalization law, which provided for payment of money to each County to aid them in the maintenance of a minimum program was discriminatory by reason of the differential in the salaries of white and colored teachers. On March 1st, 1939, there was an adverse decision in the case. The Court held that the Board of Education had no control over the amounts paid to teachers in various Counties and its disposition of state funds was not necessarily discriminatory.

The Court indicated,

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without deciding, that the proper parties to sue were the officials of the particular County. Whereupon Mills filed suit against the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Schools of Ann Arundel County. On March 22, 1939 the Court decided that fixed salaries over long periods on definite levels and levels based solely on race and color were unconstitutional; that differentials based on race or color are unconstitutional and ibat Teachers' Associations may sue in their own names. Mills' injunction was granted This puts a powerful, new weapon in the hands of teachers in their attack on racial discrimination and inequality. Here the Court struck at a long standing custom and set a precedent for attacking differentials in segregated school systems in all the Mates. This is a most important decision.

On November 4, 1940, the United States Supreme Court refused to grant a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in the case of Melvin O. Alston vs. the School Board of the City of Norfolk. This case brings to successful conclusion another phase of the legal effort to achieve equal educational rights, full equalization of salaries of white and colored teachers in the State of Virginia by 1942-3.

This decision will have persuasive but not conclusive effect throughout all the states.

There is pending in the State of Tennessee, the case of Homer L. Saunders, et al vs. the University of Tennessee—a case in which the petitioners applied to the graduate school and the school of law.

Page 13 the constitutional requirement for equal protection is not met because "the essence of the constitutional right is that it is a personal one."—1. (4) T h a t differentials based on race, color or custom are unconstitutional.

(5) That Teachers' Associations may sue state and county officials in their own names.

1 he Gaines case is now moot by reason of the fact that Gaines has mysteriously disappeared. The Alston and Mills cases will be satisfactorily adjusted when the attorneys and officials agree on the best methods of eon funning to the Courts' decrees.

Some of us believe that this educational fight is only the beginning of a much larger fight. There are those who feel that in separate schools Negro students have a better opportunity for development of self-confidence, self-esteem and self-determination.

Separate schools, they say, reduce friction between the races and by so much it is better for both races for Negroes to be educated in separate schools. Sincere believers in that doctrine do not understand or are not willing to fight for the essence of Democracy and Christianity. They compromise, they temporize, they appease.

They are not willing to pay the price for the only thing which makes life worth living—Equality. W e cannot accept black justice and black Christianity. Equal justice is the instrument of democracy. Without it democracy cannot survive.

These cases have all established important legal principles and extended the frontiers in the fight for equal educational opportunties. It is now pretty generally established (1.) that the admission of a qualified citizen to a state university is not a privilege but a right, (2) that it is the obligation of the state to provide Negroes with advantages of higher education substantially equal to the advantages afforded white students. This principle lias been validated by the Gaines case.

(3) That the mere declaration or intention of a state to furnish equal educational facilities in one way or another is not enough. There must be an actual establishment of equal educational facilities. If this is not done

There are those who feel that as long as there are Jim-Crow schools in this Country, just so long will the Negro be denied full democracy and justice and just so long will the white man's religion be the religion of inequality.

Until all of our general welfare institutions and public school systems are shared equally by all the citizens, there can be no democracy and no Christianity. For the ultimate goal of absolute and unequivocal justice Alpha Phi Alpha must continue to crusade.

There is no such thing as equal opportunity and equal educational facilities in separate schools. Separate schools can never be equal. The disposition of funds where there are separate schools always has been and always will be unjust and inequitable to the Negro. Negroes trained in separate schools do not have access to equal facilities. Bi-racialism violates (Please turn to Page 24)

1. 26 Fed. S.

1. State etc, ex rel Gaines vs. Can ada 305 U. S. 387

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T H O M A S E. K E L L E Y Lay Member oi tin- Executive Council of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to which high post he was elected at the General Convention, Kansas City. Mo. Brother Kelley, junior at Wilberforce University, is majoring; in Industrial Art. Aside from his national office in the Fraternity, he is a stalwart officer and member of Xi Chapter serving as secretary, member of the Advisory board, and Chairman of the Social committee.

Brother Kelley has been a member of the varsity baseball team for the past three years at Wilberforce.

Brother A. A. Low Gets Doctorate

By Albert P. Marshall

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T, T H E mid-year convocation of the University of Iowa, there was an outstanding recipient of the coveted Ph. D. degree, Augustus A. Low, of St. Louis, Missouri. Brother Low is a graduate of Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri, having graduated from that school with honors. H e served as president of the Junior class, and as president of Alpha Psi chapter, 1936-1937.

Throughout his undergraduate days he was a leader in many campus activities. In dramatics he was outstanding both as a writer and an actor.

Examining Brother Low's record, we find that he entered Lincoln University with the intention of majoring in chemistry and biology, for at Vashon High School in St. Louis, those were his favorite studies. Listing subjects in order of their preference, he placed chemistry first, biology second, and

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European history third. Evidently his interests changed somewhat, for he graduated with a major in history and English. His graduate work was done in history.

Even his high school career was distinguished by much activity. H e was a member of the track team, of the national honor society, president of the senior class, president of the library club, secretary of the Hi-Y, and was sport editor of the school paper.

Born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1916, he entered a small church school at the age of six. He attended one church school or another until he was nine, when the floods drove him and his mother to St. Louis. The terrible floods of the latter '20's left a definite imprint upon him and later he was to write a play which was based upon his experiences in that flood. On his application blank for entrance into Lincoln University, he wrote, "Those days of living in tents on the levee, rowing, fishing, and staying in gin houses, will never be forgotten. In 1927 these floods drove me t o St. Louis, to live with my mother."

As a student he was as serious and as energetic as one will find. H e was quick, alert, jovial, as well as brilliant.

During his junior year he served as first associate editor of the school paper, and would have been editor had he chosen to remain the fourth year.

Grasping the chance to continue in school he decided to be a candidate for graduation at the end of three and one-half years.

Yes, Alpha Psi, and Lincoln University are proud of Augustus Low, as well as all Alphadom. As his former room-mate and fellow student, I predict another Wesley, another Logan.

Well, why n o t ; we can certainly use them.

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Social History Is Made

By Brothers In Nashville Nashville brothers set a new pace for "socials" in Alpha Phi Alpha on the evening of May 9th. Seventy-five men, all financial with their chapters and the national organization, participated in the affair.

Distinguished guests included Brother Charles Greene, former Southern VicePresident; M r s . Thomas E. Jones, wife of the president of Fisk University; and Mrs. William J. Hale, wife of the president of A. and I. State College of Tennessee.

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Dean

DR. W A L T E R R. T A L B O T Dean of Men at Lincoln University, Mo., received his Doctorate at Pittsburg University in 1934. H e is a charter member of Beta Zeta Lambda chapter, and has served as chapter president.

Wearing their Black and Gold ribbons and dressed in formal attire, brothers entered the elegant Tennessee State College Dining Hall escorting wives and sweethearts of Alpha Phi Alpha, while the A. and I. popular Collegians played appropriate music. In the midst of an array of beautiful, yellow roses, ferns and palms with a glistening Alpha Phi Alpha neon insignia in the background, brothers and guests fraternized as never before!

The Banquet menu consisted of five courses, including Southern Fried Chicken Halves, Spanish Fruit Cocktails, Golden Potato Fluff, Broccoli A La Polonaise, H o t Buttered Rolls, Alpha Phi Alpha Cream and Cake, Devil's Food Petit Fours and DemiTasse.

F o r the first time, both undergraduate and graduate brothers participated on the program, which began with Carroll Moton Leevy, Alpha Chi, chairman of the Inter-Chapter Social Committee introducing Billy Jones, Beta Omicron, secretary of the com : ' mittee, who in turn, following words of welcome, presented Brother John M. Ross, Professor of Dramatics at Fisk' University, as Toastmaster.

Brother Leevy then gave briefly the purpose of the Joint Reception.

May, 1941

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Triumph For Th at Ole Alpha

That "good ole" Alpha spirit v a s never finer than on the evening of May 9th when members of the four

for

Alpha

Spirit

Phi ALpha F r a t e r n i t y ;

Miss J.

G.

Harrison,

Nashville

Mrs. Thomas Elsa Jones, wife of the president of Fisk Uni-

chapters, Chi, Alpha Chi, Beta Omicron, and T a u Lambda,

versity; and Mrs. W. J. Hale, wife of the president of A.

united again to present their fourth annual Joint Banquet

and I. State College, Nashville.

and

Dance.

The

panoramic views

present the

personalities at this history-making social

following

affair:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 4. Toastmaster J. M. R o s s ; 5. Brothers form circle as

1. Billy Jones and company; 2. Brother Geo. W . Hilliard,

they sang the Alpha

hymn

in the Crystal

Ballroom;

6.

Banquet speaker from Chi Chapter, M e h a r r y ; 3. Banquet

Brother F . E. Walker, from Social Committee table intro-

g r o u p ; left to rightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brother Carrol M. Leevy, Miss Single-

ducing Banquet speaker; 7. Brother Leevy, Chairman So-

ton, Brother Gandy, Miss Dorsey, Mrs. Ross, Brother Ross,

cial

Brother M. G. Ferguson, Chairman of Auditing Committee

Committee; Brother

Ferguson,

Brother Jones, committee secretary.

business

manager;

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May, 1941

VOICE OF THE SPHINX ALPHA ZETA CHAPTER WEST VIRGINIA STATE Members of Alpha Zeta Chapter wish to extend greetings to other Chapters lli M arc making such splendid landmarks for Alphadont. We, too, join you in doing our best to hold high the ideals oi our dear fraternity.

Like Chapters elsewhere, we spare no pains in trying to keep Alpha Zeta the guiding lighl of our campus.

Now that spring has conic ami with it lias come graduation, a time when we must say farewell to many outstanding brothers who have become dear to us. In view of this fact, Alpha Zeta wishes to dedicate this article to its graduating brothers.

Brother John Felix Cuyjet who hails from Philadelphia, has been outstanding in many activities while at this college.

Brother Cuyjet is president of the Student Council, president of the Dining Hall Council, president of the John Dewey Society, president of Alpha Delta Sigma Honorary Scholastic Society, former president of Alpha Zeta Chapter of Alpha r h i Alpha fraternity, member of the Tri Sigma Math Society. Mechanical Arts Guild. West Virginia Players, and assistant Proctor of dormitory. Brother Cuyjet will graduate in June with 15. S. degree in Industrial and Mechanical Arts, and plans to do graduate work at the University of Wisconsin or Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Brother Allen A. Holland, Jr. conies from Tulsa. Oklahoma, weighing 305 pounds and six feet seven inches t a l l ; he will also be a great loss to us.

Brother Holland will receive the A. I'.. with history as his major field.

He is an assistant in his department, being the first one in seven years. This unique honor was bestowed upon Brother Holland because of his excellent scholastic attainment in the department. H e is also a member of the College Historic Society. French Circle, Alpha Delta Sigma Honorary Society. former Secretary of Alpha Eta Chapter, and Men's Glee Club, Brother Holland plans to enter the University of Michigan Law School in the fall.

Bro. L. Wallace Cephas of Cleveland, Ohio is to receive his B. S. degree with Chemistry as his Major, of which

he is an assistant. Brother Cephas is engaged in a number of activities at the College. H e is a member of the Men's Senate, Tri Sigma Math Society, Biological Colloquim, Ohio Club, German Club, and former Financial Secretary of Alpha Zeta Chapter.

Brother Cephas plans to enter Meharry Medical College after graduation Brother Albert W. Jefferson of Baltimore, Maryland is a Candidate for the B. S. degree in Education with majors in English and So.-'al Sciences.

1 le is an assistant in the English department. H e is also former Editorin-Chief of the Yellow Jacket, Member of the John Dewey Society, N. A. A. C. P., Delta Phi Delta, and chairman of literary editors of Creative writing group.

Brother William E. Howard of Athens, Georgia is a candidate for the B. S. degree in Business Administration. H e is engaged in a number of activities at the college. H o w a r d is president of the Chamber of Commerce, President of the Y. M. C. A., President of the Student Loan Fund, Secretary of Men's Senate and Bible Class and chairman of Education Committee of N. A. A. C. P. Brother H o w a r d plans to enter the University of Chicago next fall for graduate work in Business Administration.

Brother G. H o w a r d Mitchell comes to us from Maitland. West Virginia, and is a candidate for the B. S. degree with Physics as his major field. H e is an assistant in the Physics Department.

Brother Mitchell is a member of the Men's Senate, Biological Colloquium, El Circulo Espanol and has been outstanding in many intramural sports.

Next fall Brother Mitchell hopes to enter the University of Pittsburgh in pursuit of a degree in Civil Engineering.

Brother Leroy Kellam hails from Winxtoti-Salem, Nortli Carolina and is very active on the campus. H e is president of Delta Phi Delta H o n o r a r y lonrnalistic Society, Vice President of the Y. M. C. A., member of the Yellow Jacket Staff, Treasurer of the Men's Senate, member of Tri Sigma Math Society and the reporter of Biological Colloquium. Brother Kellam is a candidate for the B. S. degree in Education having majored in Biology an 1 is

an assistant in the department. H e expects to enter Meharry Medical School in September, 1942.

Brother Richard Calfee of Pulaski, Virginia is a candidate for the B. S. degree in Education. He majored in Biology and is an assistant in the department. Brother Calfee is also engaged in a number of extra-curricula activities. Member of the College H i s torical Society, Biological Colloquim, Le Circle Francais, N. A. A. C. P., and has been outstanding in many intramural sports.

Brother Leon L. Lofton of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a member of the football and basketball teams, Tri Sigma Math Society and Mechanical Guild.

Brother Lofton is receiving his B. S. degree in Mechanical Arts this June.

Brother Lawrence Calfee of Pulaski, Virginia, is President of the Tri Sigma Math Society, member of the N. A. A. C. P., West Virginia Players, Mechanical Arts Guild, and a member of the Freshman and New Students Welcome Committee. Brother Calfee is receiving the B. S. degree in Mechanical Arts in June and expects to enter Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Brother Edward S. Flowers came to us from Chicago, Illinois and is a candidate for the B. S. degree with a major in English. Brother Flowers is a member of the El Circulo Espanol and West Virginia Players. Upon receiving his degree in June, he plans to enter Northwestern University for graduate work.

Brother Leonard McGhee of Montgomery, West Virginia is a member of the Aviators Club and is an excellent pilot. He is also a member of the Mechanical Arts Guild. Brother McGhee will graduate with the B. S. degree in Mechanical Arts in June.

Brother Alfred Caves comes to us from Staunton, Virginia and is a candidate for the A. B. degree with history as his major field. Brother Caves is vice-president of the West Virginia Players, member of the College H i s torical Society and Le Cercle francais.

He plans to do graduate work at the University of Michigan.

Yours in the Bond, STANLEY W. KEMP, Editor to the Sphinx.

May, 1941 BETA

THE

OMICRON L A M B D A MOBILE, ALABAMA

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XI Chapter, Wilberforce

University

Greetings Brothers—Yours truly together with th.ee other delegates in the persons of Brothers W a l k e r J. Carroll, Leslie C. Taylor and Marshall F. Robinson has just returned from the Southern Regional Conference held in Birmingham, Alabama, where Omi • cron Lambda served as host. I want to take this opportunity to tell all brothers in Alpha and especially those in the Southern Jurisdiction that n o occasion could have been better planned and more instructive.

The business session was inspiring and the social affairs were exhilarating.

T h e only disappointment lay in the fact that more delegates were not present. It was brought out in our session that we should seek means of closing the gap of mistrust and misunderstanding that exist between college trained people and the masses in the Negro group. Well Brothers, 1 want to ask you, especially those in the Southern Jurisdict.on, how can we hope to bring about coordination of effort between the masses and the college trained group unless we first have that coordination among college people who, presumably, will do the leading? Howcan Alpha be prominent in this movement unless there-is coordination anions Alpha men?

Xi Chapter, Wilberforce University, ever in the Eoreiront for Alpha Phi Alpha, presented Brother Henry Garcia, former member and Wilberforce graduate, in his Third Annual Organ Recital this spring. Proceeds were given to the school as a Founders' Day gift to aid in the construction of Faith Hall of Science.

The chapter imported a Hammond organ for this occasion, greatly surprising I) th students and faculty.

Shown in the above picture, left to right, a t e : Emory Polley, Robert Harris, Charles Spivey, Colerige Hendon, William Browning, |r„ Edward Bradley. Second r o w : David Blake, Romeo Cherot, Paul W. Willis, Benjamin Follis, William Goings. Third row:—John Leslie, Richard Dunn, William DeCosta, Lyman Alex amlii', and Raymond Thomas.

There were only sixteen out of town delegates present at our Regional and four of them were from Mobile. This seems deplorable when there are fortyseven chapters with over 661

financial

members in this jurisdiction. T h a t only means one thing Brothers.

It means

that we must awaken from our lethargic way of life, shake of the webs of inactivity, first by getting together then by planning and organizing. So let us make ourselves avowed to the purpose of attending our regional in the future.

It was a pleasure to pass on to the people of Mobile some of the vital and instructive points that were brought to us in our regional business session by Brother Theodore inspired.

Berry.

Men, I am

Perhaps it is just a reflection

of the smoothe

leadership

of

our

Southern Vice-President, Brother F e r dinand L. Rousseve.

Yours Fraternally, JAMES DIXON.

ALPHA TAU LAMBDA TULSA, OKLAHOMA (ireetings : During the month of February, the Chapter held its monthly meeting at the home of Brother Hughes. Brothers Archer Morgan, Dr. F . Melvin Payne, and James Rouse were the hosts. A delightful meal was served. A very interesting meeting was held.

It was agreed that the Chapter would. present Jules Bledsoe the noted baritone at the George Washington Carver Schools, March 30, at 4:00 p, m. The net proceeds will be used to aid some worthy boy or girl in furthering his or her education.

Many other projects will be sponsored by the Chapter.

The month of March found another interesting meeting planned and arranged.

This time Brothers W. D. Combs. E. W. South and Fred Parke were the hosts. A meal fit for the king and queen was served.

The State Basketball tournament was held in Tulsa March 13, 14, and 15.

Sands Sp.in.-. won the A. Division c a r v e r of which Brother C. L. Cole is principal won the B. division, anil Seminole, won the C. division. Many Alpha brothers were coaches of the participating team. I will not take the lime to enumerate their names. They were here in full bloom, however Alpha Tau Lambda presented the outstanding senior a beautiful trophy.

This is one project that the Chapter has, I hope will never be disproved or discarded.

The presentation of Jules Bledsoe at Carver was a great success. More than four hundred persons attended. There were no complaints made. All Alpha men were dressed in formal attire presented a beautiful picture, and to the glory of Alpha Phi Alpha, Brothers Bryant, Combs, Morgan and Ellis were the mainstay of the project and it was a hugh success. Many more projects will be presented.

Yours

fraternally,

R O B E R T L. F A I R C H I L D

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May, 1941

BETA KAPPAS OBSERVE NINTH ANNIVERSARY

WITH BANQUET

â&#x20AC;˘ H M i1 M j

B E T A K A P P A S AND G U E S T S AT N I N T H A N N I V E R S A R Y B A N Q U E T , I . A X G S T O N

By Jerry

Rushing

Beta Kappa astounded Langston University when it celebrated its Ninth Anniversary as a chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha F r a ternity. The was held -March 16th, and included a vesper program in University Auditorium, iullowed by an elab orate banquet in the Dining Hall.

Brother Attorney Edward Bruce, of Oklahoma City, Langston University graduate, and tormer member of Beta ivappa. was guest speaker. IK- spoke on "The Negro In National Defense.'

It was an excellent address.

BETA LANGSTON

KAPPA UNIVERSITY

There are more Alpha men to finish school every year than there is any other group on the campus.

This year Beta Kappa will lose eleven stalwart Alpha men, who are leaving their foot prints on the sand of time. They will not only be missed by the Chapter but by the student body and administration as a whole. The brothers a r e : Thomas Ashley, Mozella Crosley, Wendell Gray, Charles Jones, Marshall Love, Thomas English, Jewei Alaxie, Alanzo McKenzie, Cecil Ryan, Willis Summers and your humble servant Grant Franklin.

Each of these brothers have done commendable work in his field.

Brothcir Jewel Maxie will finish with A. B. S., degree in Biologicai science with a minor in history. F o r tour years Brother Maxie has served as trainer for the athletic department.

He has been the most outstanding and possibly the best trainer the department has ever had. H e is contemplating on entering into the field of medicine. At present he is instructing a N . Y. A. class in first aid under the National Defense P r o g r a m . Brother Maxie is a very sturdy and sincere worker and

Words "class" and "formality" are inadequate to express the scene when brothers in their tuxedos walked across the campus from the vesper program to the dining hall for the Banquet

reception. Brother J. E. Taylor, Jr., toastmaster, provided everyone with plenty of laughter with his witty and somewhat humorous jokes as seniors and visitors made their brief talks.

I feel positive he is worthy of some good opportunity.

Brother Thomas English will receive his B. S. degree in vocational agriculture in May. He is another one of those very sturdy, sincere workers. H e is president of the senior class and also a very .active member of the " T " serving as treasurer of the organization.

Bro. English has developed a very rounded personality through his working with different groups and organizations on the campus, and I feel that he is one of our very deserving brothers.

Brother Marshall Love will receive his B. S. degree in mathematics. He has shown a vast amount of intelligence in his field and I am sure he will finish with honors this spring. At present he works as secretary to the president's secretary. H e also has ability as a public speaker and debator. H e isn't a very large fellow but what he says carries weight.

"Everything is a product of the ego," so maybe it wont make much difference about what might be said, so in passing I would like to say a few words about your humble servant who will receive his B. S. degree in chemistry, and having played four years of football will be incapable of filling a coaching position and at the present time he is head technician in the chemistry department working as assistant to the Dean of the college.

There is another brother, small in statue but very powerful and genial in his field, in the person of Brother Cecil Ryan, who will receive his B. S. degree in Industrial Arts. H e will be a good man in someones shop.

I hope I will not be accused of being full of the ego. H o w e v e r ; Fichcte, a great German philosopher says that

I hope these few remarks on several of the Beta Kappa Chapter men will portray the type of men that this Chapter is producing, men who are doing something and who are capable of doing more if given the right opportunity.

I hope that through this medium of printing what the g r a d u a t ing Alpha men are doing and what they are capable of doing, something will develop that will stimulate the older Alpha men to boost the younger men in an effort to better preserve and perpetuate the aims and ideals of our fraternity. I hope the brothers will enjoy knowing what goes on in my jurisdiction and I send gracious greetings to all.

Fraternally, LEROY

RUSHING

May, 1941

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BETA KAPPA CHAPTER CELEBRA TES ON NINTH

ANNIVERSARY

Beta Kappa members observe Ninth Anniversary of the Chapter's founding with Vesper Service, Langston University, Langston, Okla. Front row, left to r i g h t : Charles Jones, Cecil R y a n , Hamilton Vaughn, Oscar Williams, Mazola Crossley. Center, Eugene Brown, E d w a r d Bruce, J. E. Taylor, Jr., James Hatchett. Front row, left w i n g : George Pearson, F r a n k Swain.

Grant Franklin, Jewel Maxie, Thomas Ashley. Back-row, left to r i g h t : Alonza McKenzie, Charles Adams, Jerry Rushing, Melvift Chatman. Right w i n g : Willie Summers, Jonathan W a l l a c e , Wendell Gray, and Marshal Love.

S O U T H E R N R E G I O N A L BACKS NAT'L D E F E N S E P R O G R A M (From

ed highly for his decorum in presiding and grasp on problems

relating

to

Alpha Phi Alpha.

Page 10)

Omicron Lambda, host chapter, feted Convention devotes one of its sessions

at Smithficld

to a full

visiting brothers with a Banquet, held

discussion of the organiza-

tion's Educational

Campaign

Court Auditorium,

and

and a

later with a dance at the Elks Rest.

budget for Regional Directors. A mes-

Closing feature of the Conference was

sage of greeting was sent to the West-

a well-planned Education for Citizen-

ern Regional

ship program at the First

Conference which con-

vened the following week-end at Wiley

tional Church,

College, Marshall, Texas.

William L. Cash, Sr.

Brother Ferdinand

L. Rousseve, of

pastored by

Atlanta, Ga. He spoke on the "Organizing Influence of a Crisis."

Sixteen out of town delegates from far-flung areas of the great Southern Jurisdictions were present at the Conference which chose as its theme, "Alpha Phi Alpha In the South Look. to National Defense."

Twenty-nine brothers

of

Omicron

Lambda combined their resources and

Congrega-

coordinated their efforts under leader-

Brother

ship of Brother H . Lovell Mosjey, Gen-

An eloquent and

timely address was delivered by Broth-

eral Chairman,

and Robert

Lincoln

Jackson, president, to make the Con-

New Orleans, La., presided as South-

er J. O. Slade, head of the History

ference

ern Vice President. H e was commend-

Department at Morris Brown College,

it was.

the

pronounced

success

that

Page 20 DELTA CHAPTER TILLSTON COLLEGE Here at Tillston College, On " B l u s bonnet Hill" Greetings Brothers: T h e curtain is about to fall on another colorful year of activities for the school year 1940-41. With the closing of this year, Delta Chapter will lose seven men, all of whom figure greatly in the activities of campus life. They u r c : Milton Granville of Boston, Mass., a t, ,ni- year letterman m football, and two y<.«u letterman in track. Joseph Li. Bracy, captain, and lour year letter man in football, secretary to the T r e a s urer of the College, most outstanding dramatic performer to. in.ee years, ami Cabinet member of the V. M. C. A . ; Bracy hails from Boston, Mass. Charles E. Smith, four year letterman in football and a member ol the track and basketball teams, is the most popular man on the campus. He is from Boston, Mass., and is the piano player in the college orchestra. Claude Harden of Fort Worth, Texas—a minister, and in rluential in the work ol the Y. M. C. A.—is acting in the capacity of college minister in the absence of Brother Charles Fisher, who was appointed to Fort Huachuca, Ariz., as Army Chaplain with the rank of 1st Lt. Brother E .

Bruce Liggins, of San Marcos, T e x a s , is President of the Senior Class, two year letterman in football, member ot the dramatic club, Cabinet member ot the Y. M. C. A. Brother Liggins is also your recently appointed reporter.

With the above brothers finishing in May, 1941, the chapter is left with few hut very capable workers. They a r e : Samuel Fuller of Plansfield, N . J., President of Delta Chapter. Brother Fuller represents the essence of character and holds the light of A Phi A ever aloft. Kelly Meador of Yoakum.

Texas, is one of the leading technician, in the D r a m a t i c Department. Clyde Cullen Long, better known as two word T a u , is from Itasca, T e x a s . Brother Long is one of the charter members and is also a three year letterman in football. i j i In the early spring, while brothers B. W. Burroughs, Bracy and Granville were touring Mexico with a group ot students, the chapter carried out a sk.l based on the novel "Native Son" which was written by our sponsor Brother Burroughs. This skit won first prize

THE

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May, 1941

in the "Jabberwock" which was sponsored by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

In promoting scholarship, Delta Chapter is giving one semester of free schooling to the^most all-around freshman who is to be selected by the Ail ininistrative Committee.

We the members of Delta Cbaptel extend our best wislies to our Brothers of A Phi A.

very hard to do his part, so as to make it the best chapter among chapters.

Fraternally yours.

J A S P E R C. M O R G A N Associate Editor to the Sphinx

ALPHA EPSILON CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Fraternally yours, Greetings B r o t h e r s : BRUCE

LIGGINS. Alpha Epsilon Chapter has accomplished numerous things in the last few months.

Editor to the Sphinx Magazine

0

GAMMA ALPHA CHAPTER TEXAS COLLEGE Greetings to Brothers

of Alpha

Phi

Alpha Another link has been added to the golden chain of Alpha Phi Alpha. This link is known as Gamma Alpha located at Texas college, Tyler, T e x a s . T h e members of Gamma Alpha have united themselves as one so as to increase the strength of the chain, because we realize the fact that no chain is stronger than its weakest link; therefore we are going to do all in our power to uphold the principles and ideals of the fraternity.

In spite of the sun baked sands and the lack of water, eleven of us were able to cross by pulling together. Those crossed were Brothers James Thompson, Clarence Nix, Jasper C. Morgan, William Lathan, Weldon Berry, Jimmie Patrick, Oliver Lattimoie, Way land .VlcClellan, Travis Carr, Stratford Hilliard and Henry Denson. After crossing the burning sands with exhausted bodies and fast beating hearts, we were greeted by our most honorable Brothers Hilliard, Odem, Walter Booker our regional director from Prairie View.

Dooley, W a r r e n , Hightower, Reins, and Gerran who quench of thirst stimulated our fatigued bodies and cooled our parching feet by preparing a very elaborate banquet that was enjoyed by all.

Gamma Alpha. is a relatively young Chapter; nevertheless, giant steps are Deing taken in order to catch up and

First we had election of officers in December and the following were elected: Brother M. Robinson Baker, president; Brother William Dixon, vice president ; Brother George Byas, recording secretary; Brother Melvin Austin, corresponding secretary; Brother James Allen, t r e a s u r e r ; and Paul Ford, editor to the Sphinx.

Brother Baker appointed Brother Joseph Gier chairman of the Program Committee and an extensive program has been outlined for the coming year.

Twenty-three brothers are financial and ten other brothers expressed the desire to get financial in the near future.

Saturday night, April 19, was an eventful night for Neophytes Robert Holmes and Sydney Flatear. They crossed the burning sands in great fashion. These men will add greatly to the progress of our chapter.

T h e annual chapter church services were held Sunday, April 20, at the 15th Street A. M. E. church where Brother Daniel Hill is pastor. The principal speaker was Brother E. Frederick Morrow, Representative of the N . A. A. C. P., who has been in our midst for the last few weeks visiting branches in this Region. His talk was inspiring and up to the minute.

Over thirty Brothers turned out for services and pictures were taken afterward.

The Sphinx Club has been functioning up to standard and should pro duce good material for the chapter in the near future.

Fraternally,

keep abreast with the onward marching chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha. All

PAUL FORD,

members of Gamma Alpha are striving

Editor to the Sphinx.

THE

May, 1941

To Take

SPHINX

B E T A PI, L A N E

Medicine

COLLEGE

Greetings B r o t h e r s : Again Beta Pi greets you in this lovely month of June. During the past year Beta l'i has been trying to live up to the standards of Alpha Phi Alpha. We have had a successful year and are hoping that we have a much better one next year. During the year we have given a grand smoker, a line founder's day program, a lovely Mother's Day program, and a lovely affair given by our little brothers.

U \ S O N D. C L O Y D Active young member of Beta Tau, and Associate Sphinx editor, will finish in June at Xavier University, New Orleans, La. H e plans to take up medicine.

BETA TAU CHAPTER XAVIER UNIVERSITY Greetings B r o t h e r s : For the last time of this academic year Beta T a u sends its best wishes.

This June will mark the end of a four year career of sixteen Brothers.

Some

have planned to continue the pursuit of an educational career; others our dear Uncle Sam has called to service.

Then there are those who will

face

life in the capacity of employees.

Brothers Carter, Coles, Chretien, Cloyd, Braboy, Myrick, Stafford, Smith, Tarver, Turner, LeMelle, Thomas. \\ heat, Wheeler, Williams, and W i l liamson are the prospective recipients of the degrees. With the exception of Cloyd and LeMelle, these men have at one time or another been members of varsity squads. This drop of the curtain on a college career is also the finis to a comradeship in Beta Tau but we hope to make some other chapter gain by this chapter's loss.

We send our best wishes to all those brothers who march in cap and gown.

May we meet along the broad highways of life. Here's hoping that this year ends successfully for all.

MASON DOUGLASS CLOYD

We have just brought live worthy young men across the burning sands.

These men a r e : Brothers Kelly Gra ham, Harding Thomas, William JO Longelon, Charles Jones, and Isaac Golden. We are sure that these new tiers will live up to the high ideals and standards that our fraternity stand.-, for.

Due to graduation, Beta Pi will lose five stalwarts who for the past three years have been true Alpha men from the bottom of their hearts. We, the members of Beta P i will miss these cogs in the working of its chapter machinery next year.

T h e following brothers graduate: Brother Paul Dobbs, former editor to the S p h i n x ; Brother Dobbs is a true brother, whose keen intellect has won for him the friendship and love of not only his brothers, but outside friends also.

Brother Wardell Beasley, our former president; besides being an excellent president of Beta Pi, Brother Beasley has been a stand out end on our college football team.

So long to Brother Verlen Wheeler, one of our most devoted workers, who has given three years of his college years to Dear old Beta Pi. Adois, fair Beta Pi says Brother Lane C. Cleaves, who also has climaxed a grand career as a brother of our chapter.

The last Brother, Theodore Travis has completed three years as a stalwart and ardent supporter of Beta Pi, and to him we wish much success in his life's work.

And as night must follow day, we the members of Beta Pi wish for all our Brothers a line and prosperous summer, and to the graduating brothers we wish much success and happiness. So until next year we bid you good bye and good luck.

Fraternally yours, ELLIOTT

MAYFIELD

Page 21 BETA ZETA CHAPTER SAMUEL HUSTON COLLEGE Beta Zeta again takes the lead. In the Oratorical Contest held April 17th, the chapter was ably represented by Brother Maceo 1). Pembroke, a junior. Theme of his oration was "The Pageant Of The Climbing Race." In his speech, he gave a vivid picture of tile Negro race in its Struggle to attain lofty objectives, lie was acclaimed winner over six other contestants.

Topping the social calendar for April and May, Beta Zeta planned an "All Greek Banquet" which took the place of the regular dance. Other activities include:â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Founder's Day Dinner, proceeds from which a scholarship will he given In some worthy student in Austin; and Educational Campaign, using the theme, "Education for Citizenship in a I lemoeracy."

The chapter was represented at the Western Regional Conference, held at Wiley College, .Marshall, Texas, with Alpha Sigma Chapter serving as host.

Fraternally yours, J O H N V. R O U S S E L L , Editor to the Sphinx.

0 ALPHA PSI

CHAPTER

LINCOLN UNIV.

(MO.)

Dear B r o t h e r s : Though

you haven't heard from us

since the January issue, we have been recuperating from our enthusiasm alter winning the L'Overture Cup. Hereafter, you can depend on our news each issue.

On April 6, Charles S. Brown, the only initiate, crossed the "burning sands." Brother Brown is an outstanding figure on the campus. Brother J. R. Lillard, Regional Director, supervised the initiation.

Alpha Psi has once more demonstated its versatility, this being in Aviation. There are four Brothers anil four Sphinxman taking the course.

Brother Bertran Wallace was the first to solo, with Brothers Compton A. Taylor, Richard Pullam, and Wendell Pruitt following in order named. There arc ten students enrolled in the course.

Fraternally yours, BERTRAN

F. WALLACE

Editor to Sphinx.

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THE

THETA CHAPTER CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

S P H I N X

May, 1941

Sphinx Club, Beta Delta

Chapter

"What's the hottest thing in town?" was the query put to Alpha men in Chicago during the early part of March. When the men confessed their ignorance their friends informed them, •The Alpha Formal, March 22nd at the Parkway Ballroom." This below the hell punch, lifted from the columns <>l uiie nf the Chicago papers, helped smoke OUt about 10(1 brothers who invited approximately a thousand guesl couples to "the hottest thing in imni," and really made it.

The line music of Floyd Camhell, Chicago's Favorite party band, the beautiful and m u Parkway ballroom, and the lovely women thai we Apes seem in have a monopoly on bringing to a party en masse made the affair a real "dancekreig" and the highlight of the Lenten season, After the dance—which slatted at the unprecedentedly early hour of ten P. M.—a chicken sandwich breakfast at the Fraternity 1 louse conveniently just across the Boulevard played to another full house and the exhausted brothers were through for another year.

The ball was one of the social and cultural activities which will form the major portion of the two chapter presidents' program for ibis year. E. K. McDonald, M. D., and Robert Harrison (almost D D S ) , presidents of Xi Lambda and Theta Chapters, have decided to put the accent on culture.

Brother T. T. Tatum, principal of Roosevelt High School in Gary, Indiana has been chosen the big stick of the Committee on Cultural Activities, and has already pulled off several coups, hirst was a program on music and art, presented one Sunday afternoon at the Alpha House, by special persons from Brother Tatiun's faculty.

This event went well, and Brother Tatum went on to the next event.

Brother Atty. William II. Temple was the featured speaker at a mass meeting at Metropolitan Church one Sunday afternoon in March, and analyzed the shortcomings and inequalities of the school set-up in Chicago, and presented a course of action.

"Ibis action is a suit against the school board, backed by the fraternity and co-operating organizations, and presented by Brother Temple and Brother Atty. Sydney P. Brown, in which they will seek In compel (he school board to correct glaring wrongs in the educational set-up particularly

Members of the Sphinx Club. Beta Delta Chapter, A. & M. State College, Orangeburg, S. C. Left to right: James Gibbs, Lester Mills, Harold Pope, Charles' Stith, Wilbert Smith, Cressey Baker, Daniel Lawrence. Charles DeCosta. Clyde Reese, Carl Green, James Lnm, Freddy Perry, Edgar Anderson, Kmmett Paulins, and George Jackson.

Not shown in picture are the following Sphinxmcn:—Ernest Thompson, Henry Hidden, Charles Penn, and Edward Fuller.

as it affects the colored population of Chicago.

On Easter Sunday afternoon, Brother S. B. Danley planned to present the third cultural effort, a discussion group at the Fraternity House. Brother Danley also sponsored a very line review and discussion of current literature not long ago, which turned out to be real

bull-session, The preceding night Theta met. and the Sphinx Club attempted to present a smoker. All they succeeded in presenting, however, were smokes and "eats," foi- the young brothers, and Brother Troy Hudson in particular, examined them for their qualification In speak on their various topics. Some of the repartee gives an idea of the general hilarity and discomfiture of the Sphinxmen.

A young man about to speak on " H a m " was asked to define ham, and announced that it was the posterior of a pig (poor lad). Another was to speak on "I low to make screws." Quite interesting to the uninformed young men

present was a talk on "Embryology."

The men were so pleased witli (he havoc they wreaked dial they considered eight men favorably lor the fraternity and went home at the remark-

able hour of 2:Mi A. M, Truly a record breaking session.

These young men who will cross the burning sands. The Neophitcs were Donald Jamison, Eugene Marshall, and Albeit Stewart of the University of Chicago. Julian Dawson, Jr., Maurice Hardeman, and E a r l Madison of Central Y. and Samuel Eskridge and Massie Kennard of Lewis Institute.

Theta is rather proud of the achievements of those of its members who have been spared by the draft long enough to attend to making their mark in the world. Those of you who attended the convention probably know that Brother Sidney A. "Ouija" Jones, is an attorney for the Wage and 1 lour Division of the Social Security Department, and has handled several big cases (legal) recently, as well as becoming the father of a second daughter not long ago.

Brother Neal F. Simeon, graduate in Mechanical Engineering of Armour Institute in '38, and member of Pi Tan Sigma honorary, is beating himself down with his engineering work all day, and five nights a week is instructor in the ground school of the local Civil .Aeronautics Civilian Pilot Training Program, the latter being the recent achievement of which we are proud.

Brother Vernon B. Williams is the first young colored man of Chicago to

May, 1941

THE

TAU CHAPTER'S BASKETBALL

SPHINX

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TEAM, ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

Many of Tati Chapter's activities during the first part of the year evolved around its splendid basketball team. Shown in im-iuie. left to right:—(Front row) Emmet Sims, William Rhodes, Cary B. Lewis, Jr., Coach Franklin Gayles (holding trophy), Edward Gayles, Charles McGhee, Harrison Daniels. Back r o w : Clint Watford, m a n a g e r ; Chris Howard, Richard Alexander!

W illiam Browne. I l l , Guy Castleberry, Nathaniel Green, and Harvey Proctor, manager.

hold an executive position with the Illinois Bell Telephone Co., and is, we understand, being groomed for big things.

The draft has taken its toll here.

Ted Lawson (brother of Bel ford "Supreme Court" Lawson) was the reluctant possessor of order number 4, Sam Evans sported his Lieutenant's uniform at our recent formal, and Jim (Fisk-Washington) McLendon and Bill (Brown, Brown, Cyrus and Greene) Brown are 1A—on the verge : and we hear they plan to become generals (nothing less) instead of nationally known legal figures.

And speaking of Bill Brown, does everyone know that Oscar C. Brown is the big boss at the Ida B. Wells Housing Project? lie's harder to get to than the President himself.

'Twas 90 here on Easter—that makes it Spring. So Theta drops back of the tracks and comes up with our closing

number.

[t's springy De boid is on the wing, But dat's absoid, Cause everybody knows De wing is on dc boid!

A L B E R T R. G E O R G E , Editor to Sphinx Theta Chaptei

ALPHA BETA CHAPTER TALLADEGA COLLEGE To our Brothers in Alphadom Alpha Beta sends greetings !

From Talladega College, Talladega.

Alabama, Alpha Beta sends its greetings to the men of Alpliadom. Alpha Beta is well in a year of success and achievement and is steadily forging ahead to maintain its place of prominence.

Willi nineteen hard working, loyal Brothers Alpha Beta has established a record of efficiency in both the social and constructive fields.

Socially Alpha Beta gave its Annual

Dance on May 3, when Callahan Gymnasium was turned into a Country ( lub. On each occasion when a Brother or group of Brothers have visited our campus we have entertained them with a smoker.

Alpha Beta is further awarding a scholarship to the man in the Freshman class of the highest all around achievement during the past year.

Several recent additions have strengthened our Sphinx. It is hoped that soon they shall become worthy Brothers.

Alpha Beta is to lose six of its best men by graduation. Those men a r c : Albert Brown, Purnell Goodenough, Robert Richardson, Richard Wilson, E r m a n Edgecombe, and Sidney H a r r i s .

Best wishes to these men and all other Brother-, who are graduating.

Fraternally, WILLIAM F. WILLIAMS Editor to Sphinx

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Chapter

and a white constitutional right.

Jim-Crowism, ri-racialism, separatism of any sort manifesting themselves in any manner are contralil our Courts and our citizens who are back of our Courts arc honest and bold enough to say that, even if a colored school in a given state furnishes substantially equivalent educational facilities, qualified Negro citizens still have the right, the pure, absolute, unrestricted right to attend any public supported institution, we do not have equal protection of the law. Until that time our white brethren ought to stop their empty blubbcrings about democracy and Christianity. Nowhere in the Christian religion is any reference made to black men and white men. Nowhere in our Bill of Rights, in the Constitution or Declaration of Independence, is there any reference to black rights and white rights. Equal justice under the law. equal protection, general welfare. the Kingdom of God, all of the ultimate, Utopian concepts and ideals in which black men and white men have been taught to believe, were not conceived in the alternative. It is not democracy, it is not justice, it is not equal protection for the Supreme Court of the United States to say to a state, "Admit a qualified Negro Citizen to your university if you care to, but if you do not want to, you must provide separate but equal facilities for him." T o say that is to deny equal protection and equal application of our basic principles of law and justice to all people. Legalism, technical legal distinctions of States' Rights fade into the scraphcap of antiquity before living, basic human rights. Before the Altar of Democracy, before the Bar of Justice as before the Cross, the ground is level, all men are equal.

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TAU CHAPTER ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Greetings to Brothers in Alphadom: Tau Chapter has made much progress during the past year and a half since it entered the new chapter house. Our achievement has been in the three main divisions of college life; scholastic, athletic and social. Each brother and Sphinxman is doing his part to make the Chapter a success at the university and tn let it be known everywhere that the spirit of Alphadom is a living force.

During the semester which ended in February we made definite progress in scholarship. Among fifty-nine fraternities at the University of Illinois, we stand fifth with a house average of 3.6442. This gave us the greatest gain (.7067) of any fraternity over the coresponding semester of '39-'40, for which we will receive a beautiful trophy which is given to the fraternity making the greatest gain.

In February brother James Seaberry, who is Chapter president, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the school of Liberal Arts and Sciences, lie has, since then, entered the law school where he is continuing to show that he has what it takes to reach the top.

While our scholastic standards have been pushed to the front our social life has not been neglected. W e have given several house parties and have participated in community activities.

Recently we gave a tea for the patrons club.

This club takes a great interest in the activities, successes and progress of the Chapter. Some of the clubj gilts for the house were new window shades, decoration for the parlor and second floor hall. W e are grateful for their interest and kindness.

With this short account of its a c t i vities T a u is making a definite bid as the chapter of the year in Alphadom.

Fraternally yours, CHRIS HOWARD, Associate Editor to the Sphinx

Courtesy

the basic question is yet to lie answered.

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the basic principles ism, based as they on the concept of religion of Jesus

of American idealare supposed to be, democracy and the Christ. Therefore,

is a

but it failed

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to answer the

fundamental question; namely, do qualified Negro citizens have the unrestricted right to attend state universities or are they compelled

to accept a Jim-

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Until the Supreme

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COUGH McDANIELS Wlhose death Inst February was a distinct loss to the educational livid of Baltimore, Maryland, his native home, and Alphadom in general.

He was a member of Delta Lambda Chapter, teacher at Senior-Junior High School, and took great interest in dramatics, having produced several original plays.

Gaines case,

of hi-racialism

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These contributions in the field of education were made by lawyers belonging to Alpha Phi Alpha. They understand the essence of liberty and the details of its administration. They understand that America is one of the most corrupt pluto-democracies of the West. Its moral impotence renders it incapable of practicing democracy where it affects Negroes. Until the Federal Government and all of the United States give equal justice to the Negro in all the areas of his life we are unfit to defend democracy. France fell because of her inability to face the real tests of democracy. America may fall unless we meet and master those forces that deny the Negro's soul.

CHAPTER

R O S T E R—C o n t i n u e d

57. BETA XI—LeMoyne College, Memphis, Tennessee; President Oscar W. Speight, 598 Walker Avenue; Secretary, Benjamin Jones, 34 S. Parkway, E., C. Secretary, Daniel G. Carter, LeMoyne College.

58. BETA OMICRON—Tennessee State College, Nashville, Tenn.; President, Billy Jones; Secretary, Ira Evans, Tennessee State College.

59. BETA PI—Lane College, Jackson, Tenn.; President, Theodore Lightioot; Secretary, Herman Stone, Lane College.

60. BETA RHO—Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C ; President, Claud Whitaker, Jr.; Secretary, Milford Taylor, Shaw Uni61

62. BETA TAU—Xavier University, New Orleans, La.; President fi-5 R P T A r n P Q i ? r , M e ° Q ? t ? r y ^ S t a S d f o r d W r i g n t ' 3817 Pine Street! bd. BETA UPSILON—State Teachers College, Montgomery Ala noil Stanley J. Reese, Jr., Secretary, Kennieth A. Ver64. BETA PHI—Dillard University, New Orleans, La.; President Harold Lucien; Secretary, Joseph Mack, 1911 St. Bernard 65

" p ? J ^ ^ ? I _ l F . l l i l a n T d e r S , n i i t h C o I ) ege, Little Rock, Arkansas; Piesident, Alton Russell; Secretary, Tullis E Freeman Philander Smith College. ' 66. BETA PSI CHAPTER—Oxford, Cambridge, London Universities, London, England: President, Dr. C. B. Clarke, Belfleld House, New Barnet, England; Secretary, N. A. Fadipe, 43 Calthorpe Street, London, England.

PHA yl Texas es • GA ,^JH, A A V "^TM. S.V ' P rTexas - Stratford Secretary.

Jame?

Thompson.

College. S. Hilliard;

" £ £ T £ SIGMA—Southern University, Scotlandville, La.; PresUniversit m ° n H a r r i s ' Secretary, Lenard Clarke, Southern

C H A P T E R R O S T E R - G r a d u a t e Chapters

101. ™ L P , H A , ^ A I £ B D , A ~ L o u i s v i l l e . Kentucky; President, Dr. J. H. 2627 W Madison sT.? 011 S t l ' e 6 t ; S e c r e t a r y - ^ y m a n T - Johnson, City, Mo., Fresident, J. R. Lillard.

102. BETA LAMBDA—Kansas IOOT T i ' a c v ; Corresponding Secretary, James Alfred Jeffress, 1824 Paseo St. 103. GAMMA LAMBDA—Detroit, Mich., President, Henry S Dunbar, 561 Chandler; Secretary, Grover D. Lange, 607 Adams Ave., E. 104. DELTA LAMBDA—Baltimore, Md. President, Rufus E. Hackett, 1536 McC'ulloh Street; Secretary, David J. Whitfield 704 Gay Street, Baltimore.

105. EPSILON LAMBDA—St Louis, Mo.; President John G. Davis, 11 N. Jefferson; Secretary, Patrobias C. Robinson, 4573 Garfield St.; Corr. Secretary, Arnold B. Walker, 3017 Delmar Blvd.

106. ZETA LAMBDA—Newport News, Va.; President, T. Roger Thompson, 641 Hampton Avenue; Secretary, Fernando Brown, 2411 Jefferson Ave. 107. THETA LAMBDA—Dayton, Ohio; President,, Lloyd G. Phillips, 617 Randolph Street; Secretary, Walter C. a l o u n t Jr 417 S. Euclid Avenue.

108. ETA LAMBDA—Atlanta, Ga.; President Charles W. Greene, 304 Griffin St., N. W., Secretary, Nelson C. Jackson, 247 Henry St., S. W. 109. IOTA LAMBDA—Indianapolis, Ind.; President, Arnold C. Banister, Jr. Senate Avenue Branch YMCA; Secretary J o h n Mansfield, 724 Blake Street, No. 114.

110. KAPPA LAMBDA—Greensboro, N. C , Pres., William E Beaver; Sec, Benjamin H. Crutcher, A. & T. College 111. MU LAMBDA—Washington, D. C ; President, C. C. House, 149 W. St., N. W., Secretary, George W. Peterson, 604 D. St., N. W. 112. NU LAMBDA—Ettrick, Va.; President, James B. Cephas Virginia State; Secretary, Charles J. Wartman, Jr., Virginia a State College.

113. £ L L o M B P A — £ h i c a g o > n l - President, Dr. E. K. McDonald, 5624 S. State Street; Secretary, Alton M. Childs, II, 3653 Calumet Avenue.

114. OMICRON LAMBDA—Birmingham, Alabama; President R. Lincoln Jackson, 54 9th Avenue, N.; Secretary H Lovell 115. i£osTeiyV.,i2,04 l s t C o u r t w - 6 " 8 4 29, Birmingham/Alabama.

LAMBDA—Little Rock.. Ark., President, I. T. Gillam, 1211 116. PI S u A 8 L^ 1 .M? ^ A^ BSecretary, C. Franklin Brown, 1019 Cross St. Fv i P , o . £ J P : r . i ! f f a l 0 ' N - Y - President, Charles B. Hayes, 117. 350 12th Street, Niagara Falls. New York; Secretary, Dr J. McDonald Bobb, 215 William St., Buffalo SIGMA LAMBDA—New Orleans, La., President. Herman 118. Washington, 2506 Louisiana Avenue; Secretary, Clarence T Mason, Dillard University.

119. T A U LAMBDA—Nashville, T1 e1 r1m6 . , President, W. D. J Hawkins.

SeCretary inde^son^Sk^th^Ave!^ ' ^ ^ " a m e s R" UPSILON LAMBDA—Jacksonville, Fla., President, T. M 120. Christopher, 3640 Laura Street; Secretary, T. V. Thomas, 1760 PHI LAMBDA—Raleigh, N. C ; President, J o h n Percy Bond. lil. versny.

Rall!gh N. C.^' W & I k e r H ' Q u a r l e s ' J r " S h a w U n l " f I „ . ^ ArM BtarP A ~ ' ^ l l b e , r f o r c e ' o h i o : President. James T. 122. wc il Jr ,y.', ..?SS. J? y-C Harold Johnson, Wilberforce University.

T «5^, A ^ BD inn7; =, att , a i 100 , g fli Tennessee; President,, Booker 0 9 f ^ ' K J l Blackford Street; Secretary, Dr. W. B. Davis, 123. 124Vi. E. 9th Street. £ P H A ALPHA LAMBDA—Newark, N. Jersey; President, Dr Cliarles Harris, 269 Grove Street, Jersey City; Secretary trelar 124. ^ S TP FI A. W l l El i a m s . 136 Lincoln Street, Monfclatr yR ^ i f i o ^ S A T T L A M B = D A - ^ L e x l n S t o n - KyPresident, F. L. Baker. 629 N. Upper St., Secretary, Dr. H. A. Merchants, 126 DeWeese St. 125. A LPHA GAMMA LAMBDA—New York City: President, Frank A. Walker. 450 St. Nicholas Avenue; Secretary C Arthur Jackson. 400 Convent Avenue.

126. ALPHA DELTA LAMBDA—Memphis, Tennessee; President James G. King. 758 Ayers Street; Secretary, Abner B. Owen.

Jr., 598 Williams Avenue.

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

128. ALPHA ZETA LAMBDA—Bluefleld. W. Va ; President W Charming Spencer, Bluefleld; Secretary. Edward W. Browne,' Bluefleld.

129. ALPHA ETA LAMBDA—Houston. Texas: President. Dr. J. W Davis, 419'i Milam St.. Houston, Texas; Secretarv, Lee Perkins, Prairie View, Texas.

130. ALPHA THETA LAMBDA—Atlantic City, N. J.: President, Ferdinand C. Newton, 217 N. Jersey Avenue; Secretarv, Arw lr i A Hamm, 124 N. New York Avenue.

T 131. A L P H A IOTA LAMBDA—Charleston, W. Va.: President. ma E w=i°i L ^ ?, 0 ? e 5 i Institute, W. Va,; Secretary, Kermit J. Ha ' L 3 0 8 B Elizabeth St..

Charleston W Va 132 „ „ J r ^ ^ P P A LAMBDA—Roanoke, Va.: President. Dr. Elwood D Downing, 236 Patterson Avenue; Secretary, Dr. pTe2rge A. Moore. 106 Wells Avenue. N. W. 133 w „ P H M U LAMBDA—Knoxville.

Tenn.; President. N. A. E E VineT' ' V ' n e A V 6 ' ' S e c r e t a r y - M - D - Senter, 2134 134.

P r i P S A „ + N I L LAMBDA—Tuskegee Institute. Tuskegee. Ala.; f-iesictent. Burnette Jackson; Secretarv Horace Dwtee-ins uw:gglns Veterans' Facility, No. 91. Tuskegee Alabama '

135 n ^ P H A i X I ^ L A M B I ? A ^ T o l e d 0 ' O n i o ; President, Leo V. Engi CharleS Pe Avonc^e I S f * S t " • T " °PIes' BIS 136. Wendfl ^ n t o n * LAMBDA Pittsburgh, P a , President. W. M M K h A v l n u f A V e U U e ; S e c r e t a r y . W l l b « r O. 137. A T Lr iv HA « PI „ L A M B , D A ~ W i n s t o n - S a l e m . N. C ; President Dr J. M Walker.

Jr., 457 311 N. Church S t - Secretarv Vaughn, P. o . Box secretary, O u. H H. 138.

LA M D C 0l mbus hl Crcfshv l ^ ° M 9 ? ^ ; l i ' ° ° : President, A. DeV. d Btreet: BBBW ChSendon Ave * " ' » . B e g a g y T. Benton, 246 139. ALPHA SIGMA LAMBDA—Dallas, Texas- President H I 5?li a K d eat 2 mg 3 Iv?™* ^ ^ Secretary/ S. W ^ B ^ V ; 140. A L ~ P H A T A U LAMBDA—Tulsa, Okla.- President w n m ^ h c wo°odNSt?e0etf0lk S t ' ; S e c r e t a r y ' '• Tyler Smttn?'1^4 N. G ^ n J 141. ALPHA UPSILON LAMBDA—Montgomery Alabama- Presl142.

Secretary Wi iam S S & •&££&££«' " »^S£, ALPHA PHI LAMBDA—Norfolk. Va., President T>r F w

T b ^ ' L 16°8 Effingham Street. Portsmoum V a • S ^ r e t a £ " W. Young, 721 Chapel St o-ciecarv, 143. Thomas D L p ? r 1 : v C R n I v Q A 4 M ? I ? A ~ A ^ g U S , i a - ' G a - President, Lawrence g n m InS C : Secretar 1108 Philhp St ' - °' y . J o h n M. Tutt, 144. A ^ P ^ . P 8 1 LAMBDA—Columbia, S. C- President losenh 145. BETA ALPHA LAMBDA—Jersey City, N J • President TohT, B. Frazier, 57% Jewett Avenue, Jersey Citv','N J - S e c r e t ^ ? ? S a n c i i ^ H e n d e r s o n - 2 6 9 Clinton Street, N E O r a n - " N j ' 146. BETA BETA LAMBDA—Miami. Florida; President Anthony E u ^ r ^ n6306 f i V 'Northwest ' ; , , 1 4 8 6 , . Northwest Lucas, 14 Avenue 6 Court; Secrelai-y L e o T 147. BETA GAMMA LAMBDA—Richmond. VirginiaPresident 8 e G°r S a e ^.!o8 R w nS £e7g e h 8 S 1 t%e J t ^ ^ ^ - °"id A 148. BETA DELTA LAMBDA—Daytona Beach. Fla.. President H Har^iel. ^ ^ d ^ A v e ' °" B ° X 1 7 8 9 : S e C r e t a r y ' ^ ^ 149. BETA EPSILON LAMBDA—Wewoka. Okla.. Pres Dr D A 01 S Seminole: Oklahoma ' Secretary, L. G. Ashley'' Boley,' 150. BETA ZETA LAMBDA—Jefferson Citv. Missouri- President Christopher C. Hubbard; Secretary Armistead S Pride C Secretary, Arthur Pullam, Lincoln'University 151. BETA ETA LAMBDA—Oklahoma City. Oklahoma; President.

Dr Graveley E Fmley, 324% N. E. 2nd Street, Secretaryy John E. Jackson. 522 S. Bell Street. Shawnee. Okla 152. BETA THETA LAMBDA—Durham, N. C, Pres James T Taylor 2106 Fayetteville St.. Sec. John E. Payne, 1609 Lincoin St. 153. BETA IOTA LAMBDA—Bato*i Rouge. La.; President. Dr B P O BoxOI2005 ' ° ' B ° X 2 0 ° 5 : S e c r e t a l ' y - R - M - Ampey, P. 154. BETA KAPPA LAMBDA—Charleston. S. C : President, Dr. «• S- P m : v i s . 52 Anson St.. Charleston, S. C ; Secretarv F A. DeCosta. Avery Institute. ' 155. ? E £ A M U LAMBDA—Statesville. N. C ; President, Hatchet y 2 2= 5 E Flsner ATIT ' . ,L . Salisbury, N. C : Secretary, Isaac H. Miller. Jr.. 1009 W. Monroe. Salisbury. N. C. 156. BETA NU LAMBDA—Charlotte, N. C ; President Secretary Clinton L. Blake. 423 E. l s t St.. Financial Secre.

Y I . K n T ' i ' - ' 2 U 2 W- T r a d e Street157 RliT'A hf - ; , x , X I . LAMBDA—Omaha. Nebraska, President Dr Herbert Wiggins. 1518V, N. 24th Street. Omaha Nebraska- Sec158 retary. George A. Stams. 1119 N. 21st St.. Omaha, Nebi w ^ OMICRON LAMBDA-Mobile. Ala., President' Prof Walker J. Carroll, Baldwin County Training School Danhne Alabama; Secretary, Orland H. Johnson. 201 N. Laur?nce ' 159 BETA PI LAMBDA—Albany, N Y- President CiZZl' n Kelley. 1 113th Street Troy N Y r e s i d e n t , George B, 160

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LAMBDA-Ft. Worth. Texas; To Be Set Un 163 BETA UPSILON LAMBDA Jackson, Tenn • To Be «&' rr„ 164 BETA PHI LAMBDA—Savannah G e o , * ^ 7 ! * P' 165.

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215 Wassie Street; Secretarv A W " w , £ « A l « S 8 t a S t r e e t - Staunton. b v e ^ r e t a i y ' A - »• Ware, Jr..

168. & GAMMA BETA LAMBDA—Frankfort. Ky Kentuckv c , St ottea 169. S ^ i f ? ? ; President. Stenson Broaddus- S e m t o l A I > „ ? , GAMMA GAMMA LAMBDA-OreenvHle. S C T O B E S E T D I '

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