St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-01-03
By Lucille II. BlufOrd
lin the K. C.. Call)

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 81
Great concern over the serious
problems facing the Negro today
and a 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-
tons 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, Decembe.
27, 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 Non
Partisan Council on Public Affairs
Vote Project Support
The A. K. 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 it's twenty-eightf
general convention Saturday morn.
ing, and ended Tuesday night, hello
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, Kansa:
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 II
session here.
Maybe it was the war in Europe
perhaps the threat to American
democracy that has awakened mer
and women to their responsibilities!
to the Negro race as whole.
ave have a responsibility fol
the welfare of the man farthes
down." said Judge Almond W
Scott of Washington as he brough
greetings from Kappa Alpha Ps
to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
Sorority women must join tn
movement of the people," sal
Beulah Whitby, Detroit, first vic
president Of Alpha Kappa Alph'
in her annual report. eve mus
fall into the ranks of the Negr'
Masses" she said, mot by leader
ship, but by membership"
Hold Joint Meeting
At the joint public meeting hell
by all three organizations Sunda!
afternoon in the Music hall, tn
presidents of the three groups lef
off all talk of trivialities so oftel
heard in convention public pro
grams and dealt with major issues
Dynamic and forceful speakers
the three presidents talked abou
the thing uppermost in the mind
of all American Negroes: the in
tegration Of the Negro into al
phases Of democratic life.
Attorney James E. Scott, Kapp'
polemarch, discussed the problem
of Negro labor. DR.. Dorothy Bould
ing Ferebee, president of Alph
Kappa Alpha, told how the wome,
of her sorority are blazing a nel
trail to a higher standard Of ma
tional health and culture for tn
Negro people.
Striking the most RESPONSIVE
note of the day, DR.. Charles E
Wesley, general president of Alph
phi A1nha dealt with the Amer