The Omaha guide., 1942-01-10
KC.Lawyer New Kappa Head

Indianapolis, Jan. 5 CAMP =
Carl Roman Johnson, militant at
torney of Kansas City, Mo-, grad
uate of Howard and Boston univ
ersities, fighting president Of the
Kansas City NAACP, and promin-
ent churchman, was elected grand
polemarch. of the Kappa Alpha
Psi Fraternity at the closing ses-
sion of the 31st Grand Chapter
meeting held here at the Indiana
University Extension Center.
At the same time, James e.
Scott, Washington, realtor, was
given a great ovation as he de-
clined a Draft Scott" nomination
for a fourth year as national head
of the fraternity. No grand pole
march, except the first, has ever
served more than three years.
Besides Attorney johnson, other
officers elected were DR.. I. Theo-
dore Donaldson, New York dent
list, vice grand polemarch; c. E.
Mcleod, junior grand vice pole
march and student at Howard IN
iversity, Washington; Atty. ]. Err
nest Wilkins, ST., grand keeper of
records and exchequer, Chicago.
elected for the Goth year; Ernest
K. Jones, grand strategus, stud+
ent at Southern university, Louis
lana; Thomas E. Rusan, grand
lieutenant strategus, student at
Lincoln university, Jefferson City,
Mo-; Girard T. Bryant, dean of the
Lincoln Junior college, Kansas
City, grand historian; Guy L.
Grant, Indianapolis dentist; Wet
or L. Hicks, Detroit court clerk,
James E. Anderson, Wichita, Kans
school teacher, and Card D. Hugh
es, student at West Virginia State
College, members of the national
board of directors.
The fraternity accepted a rec
ommendation from the board of
directors to buy $4,000 worth of
U. S. Defense Bonds, and in the
next action passed a resolution
calling on President Roosevelt to
end all discrimination, because Of
race and color, in the armed Fore
es, the Civil Service and defense
indu1tries. This resolution was
coupled with another pledging full
support to the nations all out eff
fort against Hitlerism.
Already, several chapters have
been enrolled nearly 100 percent
b ythe selective service, it vas
pointed out, and steps were taken
to keep these units active as long
as possible, despite the emery
ency. Steps yer also taken to
insure publication Of the Kappa
Alpha Psi Journal, as an import
ant means of keeping the fratern-
ity united, even under extreme war
time restraint. During World
War l, tn journal continued publ
LEGATION.
The defense bonds authorized
will be purchased with S2.250
from the housing fund of the frat
ernity-a sum which will increase
to $4,000 after three years.
The appeal to President Roose-
welt to end determinations again
st Negroes because of their race
and color was made both in a joint
resolution by the Kappas and the
national sorority of Phi Delta
Kappa, in a letter to the resident
and in a radio talk by James E.
Scott, over WFBM.
Scott called upon "men in posi-
tons of power and control to real
iZe that the success of war is de-
pendent upon the spirit of good
will which permits every American
citizen to fulfill his obligations to
his country in time of grave dan
ger and emergency, shoulder to
shoulder with his fellowmen in all
he protective branches of the arm
ed forces; that spirit of goodwill
which will permit every man to
serve his country as part of the as
sembly line turning out any and
all the implements of defense re-
CARELESS of union restrictions due
to race, and which guarantees all
citizens alike those rights privi.eg
and immunities set forth in the
constitution of this the greatest
democracy on earth.
In his final words, Scott as
sured 1.-THE President and the peo-
pie listening to this broadcast
that Kappa men stand ready, will
ing and able to answer the call to