Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
By Lucille H. BlufOrd
lin the X. C. CALI

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 81
Great concern over the serious
problems facing the Negro today
and deep interest in motivating
a program to do something about
them were manifest here this
week by delegates and visitors at
tending the three Greek letter con-
ventions in session at the Munich
pal auditorium.
The conventions of the Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority and the AL
pha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha
Psi fraternities brought together
more than 1000 college men and
women, among them some of the
best minds in the country.
The social side Of the conven-
tions was secondary to the deliber-
ations, discussions and decisions
concerning the plight in which the
Negro finds himself today.
The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority,
whose twenty-third annual Boule
opened Friday morning, December
81, and ended Monday night, De-
cember 80, devoted the whole Of
Saturday to two panel discussions
on the national projects sponsored
by the sorority in the interest Of
the Negro masses.
The morning panel was devoted
to the Mississippi health project,
the afternoon panel to the Nom
Partisan Council on Public Affairs.
Vote Project Support
The A. X. AS voted to continue
support of these two projects, ap-
propriating $4,000 to the health
project and $4,000 to the public
affairs project for the year 1941.
The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity,
which opened its twenty-eighth
general convention Saturday morn
ing, and ended Tuesday night, held
a symposium Saturday on "The
Negro in the National Defense
Program" Participants were s. s.
Booker of Youngstown, Ohio; Mat
thew E. Carroll, Jr., Kansas City;
Rayford w. Logan, Washington
and William H. Towers, Kansas
City, Kans.
A more solemn note than usual
ly is struck at fraternity and So
rority conventions pervaded the
Municipal auditorium throughout
the week that the college gradu-
ates of the fraternities and soror-
ity and undergraduates were in
session here.
Maybe it was the war in Europe,
perhaps the threat to American
democracy that has awakened men
and women to their responsibilities
to the Negro race as a whole.
1--WE have a responsibility for
the welfare of the man farthest
down." said Judge Almond W.
Scott of Washington as he brought
greetings from Kappa Alpha Psi
to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority,
Sorority women must join the
movement of the people," said
Beulah Whitby, Detroit, first vice
president of Alpha Kappa Alpha
in her annual report. 1--WE must
fall into the ranks of the Negro
Masses" she said, mot by leader
ship, but by membership"
Hold Joint Meeting
At the joint public meeting held
by all three organizations Sunday
afternoon in the Music hall, the
presidents of the three groups left
off all talk of trivialities SO often
heard in convention public pro-
grams and dealt with major issues.
Dynamic and forceful speakers,
the three presidents talked about
the thing uppermost in the minds
of all American Negroes: the In
tegration of the Negro into all
phases of democratic life.
Attorney James E. Scott, Kappa
polemarch, discussed the problems
of Negro labor. DIR. Dorothy Bould-
ing Ferebee, president Of Alpha
Kappa Alpha, told how the women
of her sorority are blazing a new
trail to a higher standard Of ma
tional health and culture for the
Negro people.
Striking the most responsive
note of the day, DIR. Charles H
Wesley, general president Of Alpha
Phi Alpha, dealt with the Ameri-