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VICE GRAND
La..
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Jesse
SEAl., Geo ge
A.
lsdbell,
S. Slayton,
212 Auburn
e
ampshire,
Vermont,
Massachusetts,
and a d the Chapter at McGill UniversiTy. To
0, Canada.
District RepresentativeB"O er Eve ett Yates, 283 Walnut Avenue, Roxbury,
ass,
• 'd--f'e
York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
District
ep esentative-Brother
Roger M. Yancy, 45 ClinPlace, Newark, N; J.
nsyIvania, Maryland,
Delaware and District of
Co mbia.
District Representative-Brother
Wenden P. Grigsby, 3039 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
-Vi ginia.
Corbett,
-Te.
72 Mt. Vernon
Street,
District
Represontative - Brother
2501 West Avenue, Norfolk, Va.
essee, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
resentative - Brother Z. Alexander
Fo rth Avenue, N., Nashville, Tenn.
Ellis
District RepLooby. 419
CHAPTER
(Corrected
" •. ,......Boston. Mass.
Oscar Burrows. 690 Shawmut Ave.
" ley Corbin. 34 Williams St.
-';:::L. ••••~-"as'
·IIe. Tenn.
2416 Jefferson
E. L McPherson.
e.
. M. S. Young, 2416 Jefferson Ave.
-New
York. N. Y.
M. T. Gibbs, 52 St. Nicholas Place
Claude McAdams, 224 W 13'8th
St.
ic .0 d. Va.
der
Dearing,
Virginia Union
U iYersity
. Joseph
Pruden. Virginia
Union
U iYersity
: A-Marshall.
Texas
Bas., William
Briscoe. Wiley College
H. E. McCoy. Wiley College
.c-C icago. Illinois
De ton J. Brooks. 1311 W. 109th St.
S. Harold W. Woodson,
6619 St.
Lawrence Ave.
BDA-los
Angeles. Calif.
Bas., Dr. E. W. Narcisse, 1110 E. 18th
Street
KRS. Earl A. Ellis. 1305 W. 35th St.
U-i'
i1adelphia, Pa.
Ba$.., Robert Hazelwood. 916 N. 48th St.
KRS. W. P. Harris. 906 S. 19th St.
State College, Pa.
Bes., C. Dockens, Penna. State College
KRS. Henry Smith, Penna. State College
P'SILON-Wilberforce.
Ohio
Bas., William A. Brower, Wilberforce
University
KRS. Melvyn Gault, Wilberforce
University
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Street,
N.
GRAND
OF ORACLE, Frederick
W., Washington,
D. C.
MARSHAL,
C. W. Jenkins,
S. Weaver,'920
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New York City.
R E PRE S E N TAT I V'E S
DISTRICT
~;;nct--Ne
BASILEUS, Paris V. Sterrett,
Boston, Mass.
Mi
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Sixth District-North
Carolina, and South Carolina.
District Representative-Brother
S. Herbert Adams, Johnson C.
Smith University, Charlotte,
N. C.
Seventh
District-Georgia
•. Florida, and Alabama.
District Representative-Brother
M. R. Austelle,
53 Chestnut
Street, S. W., Atlanta, Ga.
Eighth Districf-Missouri,
Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado
and Minnesota.
District Representative-Brother
Ulysses S.
Donaldson, 4412 W. Belle Place, 'St. Louis, Mo •
Ninth
District-Texas,
Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California.
District
Representative-Brother
J. D. Bowles, 2708 Anita
Avenue, Houston, Texas.
District RepresentaTenth District-Michigan,
Illinois, and lndiene,
tive-Brother
Charles E. Harry, 419 W. Twentysixth Street, Indianapolis, Ind.
Eleventh District-West
Virginia, and Ohio.
District Representative
-Brother
A. P. Hamblin, West Virginia State College. Institute, W. Va.
DIRECTORY
March.
1939)
RHO-Charlotte,
N. C.
Bas.. T. O. Garrett,
J. C. Smith University
KRS. R. T. Amos, J. C. Smith University
XI-St.
Paul. Minn.
Bas.• R. C. Allen, 767 St. Anthony Ave.
KRS. J. W. Brooks
PI-Baltimore.
Md.
Bas.• Richard Sowell. Morgan College
KRS. John Cheatham, Morgan College
PHI-Ann
Arbor, Mich.
Bas., Raymond L. Hayes, 217 Glenn Ave.
KRS. Wm. H. Ridley, 1009 Ann St.
PSI-Atlanta.
Ga.
KRS. Walter R. Harley, Morehouse College
BETA PSI-Atlanta,
Ga.
Bas., Rufus Cooper, Clark University
KRS. George Williams. Clark University
GAMMA PSI-Talladega,
Ala.
Bas.• L. L. Wideman. Talladega College
KRS. Nimrod Sherman, Talladega
College
DELTA PSI-Raleigh.
N. C.
Bas., V. K. Tibbs, Shaw University
KRS. G. Browning, Shaw University
ZETA PSI-Brooklyn.
N. Y.
Bas.• Edward Taylor, 179 Decatur St.
KRS. Charles L. Trice. 386 Van Buren St.
THETA PSI-Institute,
W. Va.
Bas.• James Gaskins, W. Va. State College
KRS. Spencer
Roberts. W. Va. State
College
XI PSI-Orangeburg.
S. C.
Bes., Herman Sartor, S. C. State College
KRS. Holland Daniels, S. C. State College
ETA PSI-Nashville.
Tenn.
Bas., Wirt S. Grady, Fisk University
KRS. John A. Baugh, Fisk University
IOTA PSI-Columbur,
Ohio
Bas., W. A. Cowell, 333 Clarendon Ave.
KRS. George
Freman, 333 Clarendon
Avenue
(Continued
on Inside Back Cover)
KAPPA PSI-Washington.
D. C.
Bas.. James P. Ramsey, Howard Univ.
KRS. H. Franklin. Howard University
LAMBDA PSI-Salisbury.
N. C.
Bas.• A. B. Parke r, Livingston College
KRS. D. O. Francis. Livingston College
MU PSI-Greensboro,
N. C.
Bas., James E. Reid, A. & T. College
KRS. F. D. Wharton, A. & T. College
NU PSI-Ettrich.
Va.
Bas.. J. W. McDowell, Va. State College
KRS. J. W. Hawkins, Va. State College
OMICRON
PSI-Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Bas.. Robert Woodruff, 6701 Deary St .
KRS. Wendell P. Grigsby, 3039 Centre
Ave.
PI PSI-Urbana,
III.
KRS. John M. Jones. 1203 W. Stoughton
St.
RHO PSI-Nashville.
Tenn.
Bas., Luther Glanton. Tenn. State College
KRS. Harold Love, Tenn. State College
SIGMA PSI-Austin,
Texas
Bas., W. J. Coefjeld,
Samuel Huston
College
KRS. J. O. Adams,
Samuel Huston
College
TAU PSI-Durham.
N. C.
Bas.• David B. Cooke, N. C. College for
Negroes
KRS. Joseph A. Christmas, N. C. College for Negroes
UPSILON PSI-Tallahassee.
Fla.
Bas., Robert W. Gray, Florida A. & M.
College
KRS. Robert W. Gray (Acting)
PHI PSI-Langston,
Oklahoma
Bas., Leslie O. Hines. Langston
University
KRS. Robert Clegg, Langston University
CHI PSI-Memphis.
Tenn.
Bas., Robert E. Green, 741 Leach Place
KRS. Lewis McNeely,
1139 Mississippi
Ave.
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WASHINGTON,
• ~CONTENTS
MARCH,
FOR
N.
W.
D.
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1939
Page
William Edward Baugh (Biographical Sketch)
2
The Oracle Speaks (Editorials)
Brother Baugh's Death Mourned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3
Brother Oxley on Honor Roll............
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3
A Call to Omega Men. . . . . . .
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The 1939 Oracle.............................................
4
My Impressions of the Chicago Conclave
By Oscar J. Cooper....................................
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The Grand Basileus Makes His Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5
Beta Observes Silver Anniversary
By Theodore Bolden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8
Why Do Women Fall for Rascals?
By M. Beaunorus Tolson. . . . ..
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9
Omegas Active in Anderson Feud
11
Omega's Scholarship Program
By W. Montague Cobb
12
1938 Conclave-Chicago,
Ill. (Pictures)
14
In Ole Chicago
By Irving Selden
14
WilliJam Edward Baugh-v a Tribute
By Lawrence A. Oxley..................
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17
William Edward Baugh+-a Man of Principle
By Jesse O. Thomas
17
William Edward Baugh+-an Omega, Man
By Charles E. Harry
18
Colonel Charles Young, U.S.A
19
D.C. Chapters Hold Mardi Gras
21
Th.e Negro in Machine Politics
By Lawrence A. Hill.
22
Omega Snapshots
24
Chapter Caravan
By William Forsythe, Jr
25
r:
James Nabrit, Esq
Alphonzo Lyons
Arthur Wieseger
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Welford Wilson
John Aubrey Davis
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EDITOR
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J. O. Bowles
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John P. Murchison
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YEAR[
~GH~ 1876 - 1939
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preme Council, until his demise. His appearance
illiam Edward Baugh, former Grand Basiin the Supreme Council was as Grand Marshal
to ~ 0'" the Omeza P i Phi Fraternity died at his
in 1927. In 1932 he was elected to the office of
e. 1235 W. 25th
treet, Indianapolis, Ind.
Vice Grand Basileus. He was re-elected to this
.: - ouzh he had been ill periodically for nearly
office in Durham in 1933 and again in St. Louis
•• year. hi- death coming after a confinement of
in 1934. At the following Conclave in Atlanta
_ ::0 than NO
"eek , was a shock to the f'rahe was elevated to the office of Grand Basileus.
te
izy. community, and his many friends.
His re-election in 1936 at Philadelphia was by
"'\; 'am Edward Baugh was born in Tuscaacclamation thus setting a precedent in the an_-\la.. April 1,
nals of Omega.
His
Hi- early eduactive service as a
-':0 wa obtained
member of the Suthe
elementary
preme Council termis of that city.
nated with his presidsequently
he ating over the 1937
- ed Tu kegee InConclave
at
Cleve- -•.l-e. Howard and
land, Ohio.
C nell "Lniyersities.
The last rites for
~c
id further study
Brother Baugh were
B - er, Indiana,
held at Bethel A.M.E.
. iseon in UniChurch of Indianapo- __s: es. In 1902 he
lis on January 21, at
azce 0 Indianapolis
1 P. M.
Enologies
- a reacher in public
were
offered
by
I _-0.
17, of
Brother Frederick S.
- 'ch school he be·
Weaver on behalf of
e a m e principal
in
the Supreme Council;
He served in
Brother
Andrew W.
-- is capacity un t i 1
Ramsey on behalf of
Zeta Phi
Chapter;
919 "hen
he was
zransferred
to the
D. T. Weir, assistant
principal hip of 'School
superintendent
of the
_-0. 23, at which place
Indianapolis P Ll b 1 i c
he remained until his
Schcols;
and
Mrs.
eath.
Maude
Flack
of
In 1915 Brother
School No. 23. The
Baugh was married
obituary
written
by
o }Ii s Tommie Knox,
WILLIAM EDWARD BAUGH
Mrs. Lillian Brown,
also of Alabama. They
was read by Brother
Emory A. J.ames. The Rev. R. 'C. Henderson,
began their housekeeping in the same locality in
which he died. To them were born three chilthe pastor, officiated with the assistance of the
dren Frances, now a graduate of Butler UniverRev. H. H. Black. The active pallbearers were
members of Zeta Phi Chapter.
The funeral
sity, a son now deceased, and Wilma, a student at
establishment of Brother John A. Patton had
Purdue.
Besides the widow and the daughters,
charge of the body, and burial was in Crown Hill
he i urvived by three brothers and a sister.
In May, 19~5, he was initiated into Zeta Phi
Cemetery in Indianapolis.
May his soul rest in
peace.
Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
He
"a delegate to the Concla;ve of that year at TusTributes to this illustrious son of Omega will
kegee. He attended all other Conclaves except
be found on pages 17· and 18 of this issue of the
Oracle.
one either as a delegate or member of the SuTHE
ORACLE
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BROTHER BAUGH'S
DEATH MOURNED
ECAlJ E OF THE limited association the
editor of the Oracle had with our late
brother
William Edward
Baugh, he has reou sted three
persons
who were intimately
acquainted
and associated with him, to make
editorial comment on the life and fraternity
ac ..ivity of one whom we all loved dearly.
\\" e present
an article
from our former
Grand Basileus, Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley
becau e Brother Baugh served in Brother Oxley's
cabinet for three years as Vice Grand Basilens;
v.e invited Brother Jesse O. Thomas, a former
Vice Grand Basileus, because he served for two
vear in Brother Baugh's cabinet as his princinal assistant;
we invited Brother Charles E.
Harry, because he not only lived in the same city
ill h our departed
brother, but for the past several years has served as District Representative
of the district in which Brother Baugh lived.
These articles will be found on pages 17 and 18.
BROTHER OXLEY
ON HONOR ROLL
EA
H YEAR, the Living Church, one of. the
oldest publications of the Protestant
EPISCOpal hurch, devotes the first editorial of the new
vear to an honor roll of distinguished Christians
~ho have rendered notable service to Christ and
His Church during the previous year.
There was a difference this year, however, in
that the editorial did not confine its citations to
members
of the Episcopal
Church,
nor of
churches in communion or close fellowship with
the Episcopal Church.
A we read this editorial, "Roll of Honor," we
"ere pleasingly surprised to find among such
oustanding nominees as President
Franklin
D.
oosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Dr.
Toyohiko Kagawa, of Japan; former Governor
Alfred M. Landon and Dr. John R. Mott, not-ed
Protestant
leader, the name of our own Lawrence A. Oxley, who served Omega for three
:-ear~ as its Grand Basileus.
In placing Brother Oxley on the Roll of Honor,
the publication spoke of him as a "noted Negro
lavman of Washington,
D.C., who served as
executive director of the important
interracial
conference recently held at the University
of
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Chicago under the sponsorship of the Joint Commission on Negro Work.
Lieutenant
Oxley, a
recognized leader of his people both in the nation
and in the church, has made a notable contribution both by this conference and by his other
activities, to the cause of better understanding
between white and colored churchmen and the
improvement
of the church's ministry to N egroes."
Such was a glowing tribute paid to one of our
most loyal Brothers, and the Oracle cannot help
but take cognizanc-e of it, and wishes to commend the editorial board of the Living Church
for its fairness in placing on its Honor Roll a
gentleman
whom the Oracle feels certainly
merited that high consid-eration and honor.
A CALL TO
OMEGA MEN
CONGRESSMAN
HAMILTON FISH, of New
York, has introduced two Bills that should
receive the support of every true Omega man.
His Bill, H.R.3317, provides that the President shall appoint at least two Negro cadets to
West Point each year. His second Bill, H.R.3318,
prohibits racial discrimination
in appointment
promotions of officers and enlisted men of the
United States Army.
The Oracle wishes to commend Congressman Fish for his interest in the Negro's participation in the Army.
In keeping with the
ideals of the fraternity,
and its interest in social justice, we are urging every chapter of
Omega to adopt at its next meeting, suitable
resolutions urging- speedy consideration of these
two Bills.
Copies of the resolutions should be
sent to the Vice President, the Speaker of the
House, and the respective Senators and Representatives of the chapters.
An additional copy
should be mailed to the Oracle., The basilei
of the several chapters should make this must
legislation to be acted upon immediately.
Other Greek-letter organizations
have already
petitioned
the Congress
for consideration
of
these two measures, and Omega men cannot
afford to be caught napping when such important
legislation affecting the race is before the Congress.
An Honor Roll will be carried in the June
Oracle, and upon it will be listed the chapters
that have sent resolutions as suggested above.
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E 939 ORACLE
]L\T THE :lIE:\ffiER of Omega were satis~ed with the changes and innovations put
into - e 193 Oracle, was attested by the unani" re lection of the editcr-in-chief
of the
c . at the Chicago Conclave.
e empha ized last year that the Oracle be" c- -0 Omega,
and that its staff members were
-;'e servant
of Omega.
That notion has not
Zed. Because of the loyal service given to
c~ by la t year's staff members, and be-
CO CLAVE
cause of your expressed approval of that service,
we have seen fit, to retain, for the most part, the
entire staff.
A few changes have been made
that we may better be able to give you the kind
of magazine desired.
It shall be the aim of your 1939 Oracle staff to
give to you a magazine that will surpass in every
detail the job that you so overwhelmingly
approved for 1938. We are yours to serve, and
any suggestions or criticisms offered with a desire to improve that service, will be greatly
appreciated.
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IPRESSIONS OF THE CHICAGO
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OSCAR
J. COOPER
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that I voice the sentiment of every
man who was fortunate enough to be
Chicago for the 27th Annual Conclave, when
::- tnat the entire Conclave was a great sue: in that every detail had been so well planthat there was not a visible interruption
to
_ 0 ~ he proceedings.
_Iuch credit is due the Chicago chapters under
- f: Ieadership
of their very efficient grand mar. Brother Benjamin F. Wilson, who so care_: and killfully steered their course that they
"" +e us as near a perfect setting as was humanly
sible : and most commendable
of all, they
_ ov ed u ~ the receipted bills of all expenses incide - to the Conclave.
I am forced to say that it was the most credita .e. from every angle, of all the Conclaves that
have attended.
The high tone and quality of
- e general procedures were such as to reduce
any slight criticism one might have to a minim.
I shall mention one of the affairs which I consider the crowning
point in the history
of
Omega:
As I sat in the International
House on
- e Univeraity of Chicago campus, where luncheon wa
erved, my mind went back to the very
incipiency of our organization,
when, had we
artempted to visualize such a meeting for Omega,
e would have been considered fit subjects to be
detained indefinitely under strict guard .
•-\.~ I Ii tened to the very timely, learned yet
THE
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Dr. Oscar J. Cooper is well known to all Omega
men as one of the founders of our fraternity.
His
face is familiar to those who attend our annual conclaves, and we are happy to have him give his impressions on the Chicago Conclave.
voluminous speeches by Brothers William Stuart
Nelson and Roy Wilkins, which dove-tailed into
one another, each setting forth and developing
its own peculiar phase of his subject matter, I
felt that these two brothers had given Omega
new inspiration
and a wider breadth of vision
for the future, with a detailed and comprehensive workable plan upon which Omega should
approach the future.
These speeches
while
voluminous, were very practical and I f~el that
the observance of their plans will mean a renaissance in the history of Omega.
I have probably never been quite as punctual
in the meetings of any former Conclave but it
was a pleasure to devote my entire time to sit
beside the Grand Basileus and watch the proceedings from day to day, dipping in occasionally.
Brother Dent showed that he was thoroughly
conversant with all phases of Omega, and that
he had the situation well in hand at all times. I
was particularly
impressed
with the respect
given him in his grand office.,
The matter of committees was in keeping with
the general tone of the occasion. It seemed that
the best suited men had been chosen for their
(Continued
1011,
page 10)
ORACLE
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REPORT
1. Fir t of all, I visited one undergraduate
chapter initiation.
~ - BEE_ - 1IY pri ege to visit during
:he. ear he sites of for -one chapter, and to
have sat in mee ing with thirty-one.
These
visits extended
from
ew Orleans
in the
deep South to
Texas in the
Sou t h w est,
Florida in the
Sou the a s t,
Washington
and New York
in the East and
St. Louis and
Chicago in the
West. I could
give a detailed
report of these
visits
or
I
might even devote much time
DENT
to a resume of
- e detailed functions of my office; but I do not
C 00 e to give such a conventional report.
After I was elected to the office of Grand Basieus at the Cleveland Conclave a year ago, it
occurred to me that in addition to directing the
1"0 ' ine work of the
organization I might best
serve the fraternity by pointing-up for consideration by this Conclave certain matters fundamental to our progress.
A I have exchanged ideas with individuals
~ d with groups of Omega men, North, East,
South and West, I have tried to develop in my
mind a conception of what. the Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity really is and what it ought to be. I
frankly admit that we are not what we might
be. and I doubt that any sober, mature brother
rhink of us as living up to our fullest possibiliiee. As a matter of fact, I am sure that I could
not a the moment say what our fullest possibili. :: are.
The bringing together of the right type of men
must ever be fundamental.
Men possessing, to
a notable degree, Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift, are the foundation upon
which we build. The responsibility rests, very
largely, with the undergraduate chapters to determine how firm a foundation we shall continue
to build. I am not at all sure that our undergraduate chapters fully realize the obligation
entrusted to them in the matter of selecting
brothers for six thousand other Omega men .
However, without reference to our obviously
good points, and there are many, and without
attempting to survey the entire field of our
activity I wish to call attention to certain fundaen 81 problems to which, among other things,
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should direct our attention at this Conclave.
The right kind of Omega men can formulate
and execute a constructive program; but the
wrong kind of men canI do neither.
Our undergraduate chapters must not let competition drive
them into initiating large numbers and otherwise lowering Omega standards.
They must
-
To me it was the most barbaric and ridiculous
thing that could ever be expected of brothers. I
went to another city to set up a graduate chapter.
After speaking of the obligations and
privileges we assume as brothers, we all read
together the Fraternity
Oath. The solemness
of that occasion made a very deep impression. I
am convinced now, more than ever, that a more
solemn initiation ceremony would more nearly
create the impression that the fraternity really
wants to. make upon neophytes.
A conclave vote of disapproval of barbaric
practices is to my mind insufficient. We might do
well to require that each initiation be supervised
by a member of the Supreme Councilor by the
District Representative.
Such a fraternity requirement would, in addition to standardizing
the initiation ceremony on a more solemn basis,
bring national officers into closer contact with
local chapters and thereby more firmly knit together our internal organization.
2-N ext, the preamble of our Constitution sets
forth the basic thought which gave rise to the
founding of Omega. (It reads as follows:
"Believing that men of like attainments
and of the same ideals of fellowship and
manhood should bind themselves together
in order to approach these ideals, we have
incorporated ourselves under the name of
the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity."
THE
ORACLE
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GR_~;n BA -ILE"C
- at rt ss no
. h every man that we can
iiand:: in life and death."
There are many bro hers who now think that
rnen should not be initiated into graduate chapters unless they hold an earned degree from a
-ollege comparable to those in which we have
mdergraduate chapters.
I should like to have this Conclave debate the
advisability
of requiring that undergraduate
candidate for membership have their qualifica'0 ~ approved by the District Representative
or
a member of the 'Supreme Council. I also suggesr for debate at-this Conclave the advisability
o~ requiring Supreme Council approval of candiiate for initiation into graduate chapters who
-0 no hold an earned degree from a college comble to tho e in which we have undergraduate
chap ers.
3. Our internal organization is dreadfully
eak. We must do some intensive planning in
rder to coordinate the efforts of our one hunt::
and twenty-three chapters and appro xi:e_::- six thousand members.
A-The By-Laws state that the Grand Basileu is to require of each chapter a
quarterly report of its activities. To a
letter sent to one hundred and twentythree chapters at the end of the first
quarter, I received eleven replies,-a reponse of less than ten per cent.
B-We have eleven District Representatives.
To my knowledge only four had district
conferences. Three of these conferences
"ere well attended; another covering an
area of five states had only five men
present,-one
from out of town and
four from the host chapter, which, incidentally, has a membership of about
thirty.
C-Last
August, I was present at a reorganization meeting of (a graduate)
chapter which has a membership of
150 men, where there had not been a
graduate chapter meeting in two years.
A week ago, I was in another Omega
stronghold.
I am told that there had
not been a graduate chapter meeting
there in six months.
D-Although our national dues are less than
the dues paid by any of the other Collegiate Greek Letter Fraterniti-es and
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Sororities, only twenty-five to thirty
per cent of our total membership pays
national dues.
The office of District Representative
should
either be abolished or established on such basis
as will require them to participate more fully in
the affairs of the fraternity in their respective
districts.
The thought has been advanced that
we would do better if we had a state director in
each state where 'there is more than one chapter.
Another thought is that we elect at each Conclave four Regional Vice Grand Basilei, who
would not be members of the Supreme Council.
They would be responsible to the Grand Conclave
and to the Supreme Council for promoting activity in four geopraphic regions. These four Vice
Grand Basilei might be permitted to appoint
state directors where desirable.
The contact between the national offices and
the several chapters should be more than the
correspondence usually incurred through the
carrying
on of financial transactions.
Our
quarterly Bulletin could be used more generally
to disseminate more or less personal fraternity
news to hundreds of detached brothers as well
as to chapters. Through the use of the Bulletin
and the activity of whomsoever we have working in geographic regions, we can begin now to
build more solidly our organization.
The fraternity
history reveals that it was
through the media of District Representatives
and the effective use of the Bulletin that we built
in the 1920's the strongest internal organization
we have had. I therefore wish to suggest that
this Conclave authorize constitutional status for
the District Representative or abolish that office. I wish further to suggest that this Conclave recognize the need for making budgetary
provisions for an expanded use of the Bulletin,
so as to include distribution to detached brothers.
4. At any Conclave we can change all national officers except one, and at every other
Conclave we can change all of them. One of our
contemporary organizations recently publicized
the fact that one of its national officers had held
office for seventeen years.
I know two officers in another fraternity who
have held the same office for fifteen years and
twelve years, respectively.
I do not mean to
suggest that our national officers should necessarily be retained for long periods; -but if we
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ing, we m st pro-
h ve had a notion that Omega might profit
. establi bing a policy making committee or
ard which might be composed of five or seven
:. Out most mature minds, elected to overlapping
zerms of considerable length. Such a plan would
prohibit the change of policy or program with
each Grand Basileus or new Supreme Council.
I am not yet ready to present this idea as a
recommendation;
but 1 do think we might begin
to consider the merit of some such plan; or at
Iea t, the obvious improbability
of developing
a long range program under OUr present system.
5. The matter
of purchasing
fraternity
hou e has been given very careful study during
the year. This will be revealed in the report of
hat committee to this Conclave.
There is no
question in my mind but that Omega should have
a hO:1 ing program.
Such a program will require
onz range planning and in order to accomplish
- .~ purpose, I, along with the Constitution Re+ision Ccmmittee and the Housing Committee,
'Till recommend the establishment
of a Housing
Authority, the members of which will serve overapping terms, and the functions of which I exect this Conclave to outline.
6. I find that there is tremendous
interest
in the inauguration
of some sort of national
program for the awarding of scholarships. With
the consent of the Supreme Council, I have appointed a committee which will present to this
Conclave for its consideration
and adoption a
plan for making awards beginning in 1939.
Omega scholarships should always be distinctive and we should give continuous and special
thought to the method and basis of awards.
To
accomplish these purposes, I should like to recommend that this Conclave authorize the establishment of a Scholarship Commission whose members will serve overlapping terms.
The Achievement Project is not as effecrive as it should be. Here again we need continuity of thought.
The project should be inten ified and coordinated with the general purpose of the fraternity.
To more nearly accomplish this aim, I should like to recommend that
his Conclave give consideration
to authorizing
a committee with overlapping
terms to whom
-c:-ill be given responsibility
to investigate and
conduct research into how the fraternity
might
gradually develop a more vital observance of
Achievement Week.
I should also like to have this Conclave consider the advisability of separating the office of
the "Director of the Achievement Project" from
the office of "Editor in Chief of the Oracle."
8. In several cities we have two or more
chapters and in some of these cities the activities of the brothers in one chapter are wholly
unknown to those of the other. As a matter of
coordinating our local activities and stimulating
fraternal
good will, I wish to suggest that this
Conclave recommend that "Inter-Chapter
Councils" be set up in all such cities.
Brother Dreer has had a history manuscript
ready for some time, but it has not yet been pub,
lished for two reasons:
First, I have insisted
upon having the manuscript criticized by at least
one other competent brother in the field of history and literature.
This we have had difficulty
in accomplishing.
Secondly, when the manuscript was sent to publishers for bids, we included one colored publisher.
We were later
told that they did not wish to bid on the job.
Although we at that time had bids from nationally known publishers, no colored publisher was
included.
It was then decided to submit the
manuscript
to other colored publishers.
This
we did and an additional delay was incurred.
Because of inadequate
records during our
early years, Brother Dreer has had much difficulty in verifying facts.
The first history published by the fraternity
must be unquestionably
accurate and from every point of view worthy
of our great past. It has been our desire not to
publish the book until we had taken every step
to assure our having a published history worthy
of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Much of the work of this administration
has
been with committees,
such as Housing with
Brother Asa T. Spaulding as chairman ; Scholarship with Brother W. Montague Cobb as chairman; and Constitution
and By-Laws Revision
with Brother Z. Alexander Looby as chairman.
These committees have done splendid work and
since each of their chairmen is here to make reports, I have not incorporated
into this report
more than slight mention of the tremendously
important
problems on which they have been
working.
(Continued
on page 28)
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0::" Omega men
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ilson in the
Pa __and organized
YEARS ago, in 1914, a group
met at the home of Mrs. Lottown of Lincoln University,
the second chapter in Omega
Brother Walter I. Johnson, recently retired basileus of Beta Chapter,
who was on the planning
committee for the silver
anniversary of Beta. He
. is a senior at Lincoln University, having been president of the Lincoln University Players and the
University Forum.
He is
a member of the Student
Council and the YMCA
• cabinet, associate
editor
of the year book, and was
chosen for the 1939 publication of "Who's Who
Aon 0 n g
Students
in
American
Colleges
and
Universities."
-Beta.
The chapter was organized in the home
:: _ ::. Wil on because at that time Lincoln Uniersity did not permit fraternities
on the camSunday February 19, Beta Chapter began a
eel(- observance of the founding of Beta Chapter. and opened its Silver Anniversary Celebraion with a stirring sermon by the Rev. Dwight
T-:~cent Kyle, Jr., of York, Pa. On February
22 an interfraternal
panel was presented at a
smoker : February
23, a closed banquet was
_~ en: February 25 they held a Beta reunion,
and
unday, February 26, the celebration was
c osed with a presentation of the Omega Glee
Cub of
ew York City, with Frederick S.
....•eaver editor of the Oracle, as guest speaker.
Beta
hapter did not forget the possibility
that "ere it not for the generosity of Mrs. Wilson in assisting in the organization of their
chapter, their silver anniversary might not have
come 0 soon. At the closing program they
presented to Mrs. Wilson, known to members of
Be a Chapter as "Sister" Wilson, an engraved
medal in appreciation of her loyalty and inters in Beta Chapter in particular, and the f'raternity in general. The presentation was made
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by John Thomas, the basileus of the chapter.
During the celebration Beta Chapter heard
Brother Oscar Cooper, one of Omega's founders,
and a former basileus of Beta Chapter, who was
presented to the student body in the chapel. It
also heard an address by Brother Colton Brown,
Brother John W. Thomas, newly-elected basiIeus
of Beta
Chapter,
who
headed the silver anniversary celebration.
He was
ably assisted by Brother
James
Bohannan,
who
presided over the closing
program. Brother Thomas
is an ardent believer in
the principles of Omega
and is due .many congratulations for the manner in
which the successful observance was conducted.
His home is in Philadelphia, Pa., and he is now a
junior student at Lincoln
University.
former member of the chapter now living in
New York.
Congratulatory messages came from brothers
and chapters from all over the country.
They
took pride in reading the telegram that came
from Brother Langston Hughes, a former member of Beta.
.
Through the courtesy of Brother La Fenus
Hutchins, chairman of the history committee of
Beta and president of the junior class at Lincoln University,
we present to members of
Omega the roll-call of the basilei of Beta:
Walter Stanton-rector,
Presbyterian Church,
Youngstown, Ohio.
Darlington
Asbury-teacher,
Asbury Park,
N.J.
Robert Pritchard-i-missionary
to- Africa, who
was killed while trying to save a fellow passenger on a boat on which he was traveling.
This
unfortunate
accident happened in the English
Channel.
Harry James-Steelton,
Pa.
Emory James-principal
of school, Indianapolis, Ind.
Charles R. S'aulter~Chicago,
Ill.
Herbert Anderson-college
professor, Rogers-
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\\in~ton Dougla s=-principal Booker T. \Ya h,
ington High chool,
orfolk, Va.
Howard D. Gray-deceased.
A. ::.\Ierrill Willis-editor-in-chief
of the HC~T'
lent Digest.
George Summerville-deceased.
Wendell Holmes-rector,
P.E. Church, Springfield, Mass.
Francis AtkinsWilliam Folkes-dentist,
Richmond, Va.
'Raymond G. Robinson-several
times grand
basileus, Atlantic City, N.J.
Fitzpatrick Stewart-one
time grand keeper
of records and eaL
J. C. l\Icl\Iorrie -profe sor, Lincoln University (Mo.).
Ulysses Young-one
time coach at Lincoln
University (Pa.).
Oscar J. Cooper-one of the founders of the
fraternity and a physician in Philadelphia, Pa.
Allan Dingle-lawyer,
New York City.
Herbert Cain-student,
Howard University
Law School.
Walter L Johnson-student,
senior class, Lincoln University.
J. W. Thomas-student,
junior class, Lincoln
University; current basileus.
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WHY DO WOMEN FALL FOR RASCALS?
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BY
WHY
r:
BEAUNORUS
TOLSON
DO WOMEN fall for rascals?
I've
heard this question discussed on an observation car in the Rocky Mountains, at the
world's longest bar in J aurez. around a campfire in the Adirondacks, on the runningboard of
a car stalled one night in the Painted Desert,
and in the sombre study of one of America's
greatest pulpit orators.
Many an honest man is puzzled and hurt by
the anomaly of a good woman falling for a bad
man. Why does it happen? The foolish dismiss
the problem with a sneer: "Oh, she's crazy!"
And often the thoughtful
offer explanations
that do not explain. Opposites attract each other
is the favorite standby. It sounds reasonable.
But this truism is challenged by the proverb that
birds of a feather flock together! The mystery
deepens, as celebrated cases come to mind.
Take Lord Byron, the romantic rake with the
hideous foot. His name was a synonym for scandal in the cities of Europe. Yet some of the most
cultivated women, both married and single, fell
for him. Today he is the idol of thousands of
women through the novelizing of his dramatic
love-affairs in The Glorious Apollo-his
romances with his cousins, Mary Duff and Margaret
Parker; his liaison with the reckless Lady Caroline' his indiscreet flight to Geneva with Clare
Clairmont; his mad escapades with the Countess
Guiccioli in Venice. Yes, as a sheik, Rudolph
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Brother Tolson needs no introduction to "Oracle"
readers. As managing editor of the "Oracle" during
the past year, he played a large part in bringing to
Omega something new in a fraternity organ.
He
has been retained as managing editor, and his articles
will he read again before the year has expired.
Valentino was a piker when compared with Lord
Byron. And many decent women fought like
cats and dogs to gain his fleeting favor.
The poet Burns was a drunkard, a spendthrift,
a woman deserter. He had a child, without benefit of clergy, by little Jean Armour. His dissipations were common gossip. But that didn't keep
pretty Mary Campbell and other dames from
throwing themselves into his arms.
There's the case of Casanova de Seingalt of
Venice. For a woman to be seen in his company
was enough to ruin her good name, but his bad
reputation seemed to be a magnet for feminine
admirers. It required eight volumes for this libertine to tell the story of his escapades, amorous
and otherwise.
Take that old rake, Frank Harris. His autobiography, My Life and Loves, put the police of
two continents on his trail. New York cops seized
copies of his scandals and he fled to London.
Then to escape the cops in that city, he fled to
Paris. But he found no peace.
The old rake said: "The French police are on
my track. They come up here to my villa, armed
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WHY DO WOlVIE FALL FOR RASCALS?
with revolvers and permission to search my
papers."
Burton Rascoe, the eminent critic, says:
"Frank Harris, by all rules of law and order,
ought long ago to have been strung up by due
process of law."
And yet, lVIr.Harris, at eighty, was still boasting of his victories on the Field of Hearts!
You know how little Bonnie Parker was true
to notorious Clyde Barrow when the law was
tracking him down; how she wrote love poems
to him and followed him when he made his famous getaway. But in every community there are
respectable women who stick to rascals through
thick and thin. Why is that?
We circle back to our starting point, the case
of Lord Byron. Now, look at the facts carefully.
Lady Anabella lVIilbanke, the daughter of Sir
Ralph Milbanke, was wealthy and beautiful and
chaste-a
blue-stocking. Byron was a rake, a
father of illegitimate children. No woman had
been able to tame him. Lady lVIilbanke knew
about his hundred-and-one scandals.
Yet she
married him! Why did she do it? This is the reason: she thought that through her love she
could save him.
Women like to straighten out things, straighten out men. That's the reason I think women
will be unhappy in heaven: there's nothing to
straighten out up there! A woman likes to feel
that she's necessary, important.
In order for
her to feel that way, something must be wrong
so that she can fix it. When a woman looks at
a man, looks at another woman, looks at anything-she's
trying to discover a flaw. Have you
ever observed how a woman shopper will finger
a piece of cloth or examine a piece of meat? I
have seen a hefty butcher waiting on a housewife with fear big in his eyes, and I've wondered
why more shop-keepers haven't died of heart
failure.
A girl starts out mending the doll's dress; as
a woman, she ends up mending her husband's
clothes ... and personality. Have you ever seen
a wife who thought her husband was made just
right? She must find something to patch upsome habit, if it.s no more than his dropping
cigarette ashes on the floor or burnt matches on
a saucer. If the politician, the groceryman, the
movie director, the high school principal, the
preacher can please the women, they do not suffer from a nervous breakdown or insomnia.
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Now you can see that if a man is a rascal, a
woman has a golden opportunity. He needs a
whole lot of patching up and mending. He needs
saving. And women rank next to Jesus when it
comes to this business of saving men. A weakness in a man gives a woman a wonderful chance
to be necessary and important.
Female aimals, whether a hen or a lioness,
rush to the defense of the weak. Try to take
away a hen's chicks or a lioness's cubs!
A rascal is weak. So a woman will rush to' his
defense. He needs mending, patching up, saving. Rain, cold, heat, disease, society, an earthquake-nothing
can stop a woman when her
heart says: "He needs me!" That has been the
Waterloo of many a seducer.
Every woman is a Lady lVIilbanke. Through
her love she would redeem some rascal-brother, lover, friend, or husband. If a man becomes
somebody in the world, his wife will say without
cracking a smile: "I made him what he is today." And fifty million women and adolescent
girls will say: "Amen!"
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~Contin'Ueclfrom page 4)
respective committees; for the reports in every
case showed serious thought and most careful
judgment on the part of the committee. It gave
evidence of the fact that they had really been
together in conference, and that there were no
one-man committees.
The remarkable thing which deserves notice
is that, although this was a Constitutional Convention, and much time was necessarily consumed with the report of the committee on revision of the Constitution and By-laws, together
with the additional time for the adoption of the
same by the body, the Conclave transacted all of
the business before it and wound up on scheduled
time.
The noteworthy theme that permeated the entire convention was that "Good Old Omega
'Spirit" which kept the interest high and aided
materially in the usual accomplishments which
characterized the Twenty-seventh Annual Conclave of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
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}Iarian Anderson, world-famous contralto, has been
permitted to sing- in the auditorium of a white high school
in the District of Columbia" largely because of the presnee on the board of education of a .member of the Omega
P-i Phi Fraternity,
Colonel West A. Hamilton, one (If
three colored members of a board of nine.
Pictured above in the historic meeting of the board of
educa tion, which reversed its former decision banning
)liss Anderson from the Central High School, is Colonel
Hamilton, who cast the lone vote to permit Miss AnderOn to sing at the school at the time the renuest WI:!S
riginally presented.
In the inset above we see to the left Brother Garnet
•
C. Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent
of schools,
and Brother A. Kiger Savoy, assistant superintendent
of
schools, whose presence during the board's sessions had
its influence on the board's reversal.
To left, in bottom picture, is Brother Sterling Brown,
author, poet and professor of English a.t Howard University, and Brother James Nabrit, executive secretary
to the president of Howard University, prominent attorney and professor in the Howard Law School, chatting'
with Dr. Charles Edward Russell, noted white liberal, at
a protest mass meeting.
It was to this meeting that
Mrs. Roosevelt sent her telegram, to be added to the
hundreds of protests that showered the committee.
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BY W. f\.ONTAGUE
COBB
I.
T HE
CREATION of special stimuli for our
natural eagerness for the pursuit of knowledge is a perennial and vital activity of democratic education.
The name of means to this
end is "legion." We chafe that our ideals alone
are not always enough to set and hold our
courses, but human ideals are a recent acquisi-·
tion, so easily submerged by wish or circumstance beneath more primitive primate urges,
that we all embrace drives that will help our
wagons stay hitched to their stars.
An approach to one phase of this objective,
which has been adopted by our brotherhood in
the hope that it will produce desirable results in
a short time, is described here for the fuller information of our members and of all who find
common cause in efforts of this kind.
In the democratic spirit, our premises are
freely stated so that the fraternity as a whole,
as well as the larger community which these
pages reach, may share in the teaching of ensuing experience and aid in the task of perfecting
our plan. No suggestion which will contribute
to the success of this program will fail of appreciation.
II.
Omega Psi Phi is inalienably committed to
the advancement of scholarship.
This is inherent in the nature of the fraternity as an auxiliary to institutions of higher learning and is
avowed in its cardinal principle of "'S'cholarshp."
An ever effective and needed means of promoting scholarship is the extension of financial
aid to scholars of established achievement or
promise.
Our body has recognized this fact in
the stimulatory
awards of the Achievement
Week essay contest and in the particular instances of one fellowship award and one grantin-aid for a research project in chemistry.
The
wisdom and success of the latter substantial
awards appear in the facts that the recipient of
the fellowship has moved on to a university
presidency and the chemist has attained a responsible post in an advanced field of commercial chemistry.
Obviously, however, the greatest good from
financial awards to scholars is not to be expected
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This report embodies the collective wisdom of the
special Scholarship Committee of 1938 and its conferees in open hearings at the Twenty-seventh Conclave. The committee was composed of Dean David
A. Liane, Professor S. Milton Nabrit, Dr. Percy A.
Julian, Professor S. Randolph Edmonds and the writer, who is chairman of the committee.
from occasional grants which might be either
too hastily considered or strongly importuned,
but should be sought through a carefully planned
program which affords the best possible safeguards to ensure: the proper caliber of recipients;
real value in the projects; and actual need for
financial aid.
The preparation of such a program was the
difficult task of your Scholarship Committee. We
were not unaware that previously programs of
this nature had been attempted but had escaped
incorporation in our permanent national program. We took the persistent recurrence of the
scholarship idea as evidence that an aptly devised plan might work much good.
III.
In constructing a plan, the first basic consideration was the funds available for scholarship
awards.
The maximum sum in prospect for a
beginning was one thousand
dollars.
This
amount, as an annual appropriation for the purpose, was subsequently voted by the Grand Conclave.
The next fundamental was the determination
of eligibility for the awards.
National custom
in similar matters, the small amount of our fund
and the necessity of having only so many applications as our fraternity
organization could
justly evaluate, indicated that in the first years
at least, eligibility should be limited to members
in good standing of our own order.
In clear
recognition, however, of the importance of altruism and, free competition in a democracy, it was
accepted that we should work toward the eventual
elimination of restrictions as to sect, sex and
even race. The program was thus reduced to the
annual award of one thousand dollars within the
membership of the fraternity.
IV.
The problem then addressed was the level or
levels of performance it was wisest to salute
at this time with an award. Since all merit is
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The first two lines of Dr. W. Montague Cobb's article
on page 12 of this issue should read:
Alexander Meiklejohn in his presidential address at
the Amherst Centennial said, "There are two ways of facing life, two kinds of wisdom for mankind. One is the way
of dread,' the other the way of confidence ....
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orthy of reward, it would be desirable to make
provision for the recognition of exceptional
scholarship by all categories of students, namely:
undergraduates at the completion of their first,
second, third and fourth years; graduate and
professional students at the end of any of their
respective training years; and of careerists for
he execution or continuance of professional
projects of sound value. However ideal this arrangement, it was clearly of too broad scope for
one thousand dollars, if the awards were to be
of significant amounts.
The considered judgment of the Committee
and all opinion it was able to corral, were unanimous on two pertinent points here, namely, that
for the greatest possible good to result from our
program, first, the awards would have to be of
the nature of prizes, attainable only through
evidence of high achievements, and second, they
would have to be of sums adequate, according
to current academic standards, for major financial aid to scholars in the classes chosen.
v.
The simplest way to reach the ultimate in both
these objectives at once would have been the
e tablishment of a single annual one thousand dollar fellowship.
Such an award would demand
the highest possible qualifications; it would provide the largest stipend; and it would present
fewest problems in selection of the recipient. In
addition, it would confer greatest distinction and
re ponsibility upon the fellow and the fraternity.
It would be hardest to win and hence most highly
prized. It would serve as a perpetual notice to
the community at large that this organization
had attained the ethical and altruistic development and the social vision necessary to make
ix thousand men happy to pool their annual contributions, in order that one man, the best qualified of their number, might each year push a bit
further in the advanced levels of some line of
high endeavor.
Moreover, it is always more difficult to get
funds for the higher levels of learning than for
he more general and with the imminent reduction in the number of foundation fellowships
available to Negro scholars, the support of a fellow by the enlightened members of his own group
would have a special significance.
Organizarions of- educated Negroes could maintain at
lea t fifteen scholars a year on. full-time fellow-
PROGRAM
ships if they were so minded.
Attractive as were the merits of the single annual thousand dollar fellowship, the Committee
and its conferees felt that at the present time
only half this amount was advisable for this type
of grant.
Accordingly" recommendation
was
made to and approved by the Conclave for one
award of five hundred dollars for advanced study
and creaiiue uiork in any field of letters, art 01'
science.
Any member in good standing is eligible for
this award, from a college freshman to an established professional.
He : need only show best
qualification in the year in which he applies. It
is the expectation that ordinarily this award
would be won by a person of advanced training,
but prodigies in literary, musical, artistic or
scientific ability might occasionally appear whose
actual achievements might place them at the
head of the field unusually early.
The remaining five hundred dollars, it was
believed, would serve the best purpose if divided
into scholarships for graduate and professional
students.
These are the most highly selected
group of regular students which are enrolled in
our institutions because they have survived more
qualifying or elimination rounds in the educational system. As a class, therefore, they represent the safest student investment for the fraternity in terms of their obvious chances for significant attainments in exacting occupations in
life.
Expenses in graduate and professional schools,
especially the latter, are generally much higher
than in the colleges. Too often able students
have been forced to withdraw in these phases,
because, on the one hand, personal resources
ha ve already been depleted by the long drain of
undergraduate years, and on the other, it is difficult to obtain special aid for the various types
or post-graduate training.
It appeared that the number of possible applicants in this field would not be too large or their
qualifications too variable for the fraternity's
board to appraise them fairly.
Hence the Conclave approved the recommendation
for two
scholarships of two hundred-fifty dollars each
for duly selected students in graduate or professional schools. Any student regularly enrolled
in an accredited institution for work beyond the
level of the bachelor's degree will be eligible for
these awards.
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Ab.ove: Left and rtght-e-Combining
a
business and social session into one, the
Chicago hosts had arranged ~a luncheon session at the International House In the campus of the University of CIJicag:~,.
IN .OLE C]
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Above: Attending the Omega ball at the Savoy were: 1. to r., Mrs. Cade, Dr. Cade, basileus,
igrn a Omega; Miss Davenport, F. 'Weaver, Mrs. Dent, Grand Basileus Dent, Miss McNeal, G. Isabell, Miss Porter, B. Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, J. Kemp, basileus of iota Chapter, and Mrs. Tarkington.
Below: Group of fraternity
officers
holding a pow-wow.
BY IRVING
SELl
THE
TWENTY-SE1
Omega Psi Phi j
because it is past, but
by Omega in Chicago
cember
27-30,
app
crowded their greetir
yes caucuses, along
study, plan, forecast
ing and' crystalizing
. birth.
The Chicago Concl
ever was one. It was
royal flush; concocted
its pomp had those of
dering what would h
the keynote.
Progre
neophyte could' have E
concluded that our
Sigma Omega and lot
strati on of marked I
and cooperation.
HE
no secret to us. Out-c
realized the atmosphei
headquarters.
No brother, who be
pitality in Chicago, sl
self, without first s:
mented under the lea
Wilson, grand marsh:
for old Omega. It is
business calendar wii
Conclave.
Each can
worthy of separate ri
port of our annual g:
ness first.
Business, there was
that brevity of the in
be a calamity.
.HOW
(Continuec
Below: One of the social highlights of the
Conclave was the closed dinner dance given
at the most popular night spot on the South
Side, the Grand Terrace.
CHICAGO.., ILLINOIS
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Below: At the Savoy dance are seen Marva L ouis,
Marshall Robinson and Edwinna Harris.
Frederick
S. Wea ver,
OC!.miIIaDavenport,
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THE 0
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CHOLAR HIP PROGRAM
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e consideration of undergraduate
scholar-..,'_:0 w ~ a grave concern of the Committee and
o~ - e Conclave. It was felt that the larger number or applicants which might be anticipated for
mdergraduate
cholarships, for which the stuen ,'grade
would have to be the chief criterion
determining fitness, would raise problems in
ing fair election of recipients beyond the
a' , ':-y of the fraternity organization to handle
satisfactorily.
The sums which would he avail::01' undergraduate
scholarships would be
_
st in amount and probably the most diffi....:- OI correct placement.
It was the conclusion
-.:..:.a-we were not equipped with either the funds
_ - e admini trative mechanism for a really
_- ':ab e undergraduate scholarship program at
e,
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rom the tandpoint of policy it was held that
a ard had best be focussed on the higher
of learning.
The social philosophy of
-- <: day i continually raising the educational
sets for which the state is responsible, as
anifest in state universities, state scholarship
:::-:o-e
and National Youth Administration
sc olarships.
Many institutions
have efficient
Ioeal routines for preventing the withdrawal of
undergraduates
for financial reasons.
Amid
se as well as the private scholarship funds of
individual institutions, the few small undergraduate scholarships which Omega Psi Phi
~ould be able to offer would be relatively insignificant as representation of a national orzanization of our size.
In hort, it was believed not practicable to attempt to cover the whole field of learning with
a scheme of awards backed by one thousand dolars. As our funds increase, so may our pro-gram expand. The nearer a high goal is approached, the fewer become the aids to its attain,
ment. So it is in learning, the further one advances without interruption, the more difficult
hi financial way becomes. The state carries us
hrough high school and sometimes college. We
mu t look more and more to ourselves for progre
in the further range. Our creed binds us
always to aim at supreme excellence without
compromise with mediocrity.
This is what our
initial scholarship program would symbolize.
VII.
G
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annually entitled to our awards was made the
duty of a Scholarship Commission, to be composed of five men from our number, of the required integrity,
competence and experience.
The members of the Commission and its chairman will be regularly appointed by the Grand
Basileus, with the approval of the Supreme Council, for overlapping terms of five :y:earseach. The
Commission will prepare its own details of operation, which shall be available for advance review by the executive council of the fraternity.
The annual choices for the awards will be forwarded to the Supreme Council which will make
the actual bestowals in the name of the fraternity.
'This' arrangement permits the Commission full
freedom for efficient operation; it ensures that
there will always be a majority of experienced
members; and it places responsibility so as to
provide the proper checks and balances essential
in any organization of mere human beings.
I-VII.
The rationale and modus operandi of a program
of annual scholarship awards adopted by the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in its Twenty-seventh
Annual Conclave are explained ..
These awards consist of one scholarship of
five hundred dollars for advanced study and
creative work in any field of letters, art or
science; and two scholarships of two hundred
fifty dollars each for duly selected students in
graduate or professional schools.
This program is expected to be subject to
normal modification in detail as experience and
the future may require.
May we never weary
of striving for its perfection, ever mindful that,
"The bowman hitteth the mark, as the steersmanreacheth the land, by diversity of aim."
The June Oracle
The June Oracle will go to press May
1, and will be mailed in time to reach the
members by May 20.
Deadline for material,
including
changes in directory listings, is April 25.
The entire work of selecting the candidates
I
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Former
CE A. OXLEY
Grand Ba ileus)
T I 1:\ a spi rit of deep humility that I attempt to pen this tribute to our late brother,
William Edward Baugh, who departed this life
January 18, 1939, at Indianapolis, Ind. He was
born sixty-three years ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
He early established a reputation for thoroughne , character, and aggressive activity. I met
Brother Baugh for the first time at the Richmond
Conclave in 1933. There are many brothers
in Omega who knew Brother Baugh much better and who meant so much more to him. But
i
one of the great honors of my life that becau e of circumstances I was afforded the privilege of serving with him in a close association
during the period of three years that I was
Grand Basileus and during the subsequent two
years when he was honored by unanimous election to the highest office in the gift of the fraternity.
We shall strive in vain to understand and appreciate the life and achievements of Brother
Baugh if we approach him in other than a
spiritual mood. His testament has long since
been written in the life of Omega. To his vision,
his insight, his spirit, his understanding, we owe
more than any of us will ever realize. How profoundly we shall feel his loss will be experienced
as the years come and go. This editorial tribute
is a most inadequate expression of the faith of
the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity that the spirit of
William Edward Baugh will never die, but so
long as human need exists and people feel the
impulse of human service that spirit will be with
us to guide and strengthen us and those who
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come after us. One great writer has said:
"Such souls never die; they only go out of sight.
Dying, behold they live. Death transforms them
from an individual power among us into universal presence with us."
It is therefore quite fitting and proper that
Omega men should pause and pay grateful tribute to the memory of William Edward Baugh,
and humbly thank God for his life of unselfish
service. Never to his dying day did he relinquish
his grasp upon the problems of Omega, or the
willingness to give himself, his mind, his support, and his thought to the solution of the problems of the Negro in America. This is the demand he makes upon us, and the challenge which
Omega men are glad to accept. Brother Baugh
was an intellectual man, but I question that we
think enough about that, because he was so natural. He never had any of the forms of intellectualism, but always the consciousness of it
was there, so that when you heard him speak
you were thinking of what he had to say and not
how an intellectual would say, or write it. But
no doubt that intellectual quality united with his
sensitiveness and emotional responses, made
him the most coordinated personality, so that
whatever he did say or whatever direction he
moved, he was always certain. In that way he
demonstrated enormous character and definite
VISIOn. He never mistook fact for fancy, never
in any sense lived a dream life; it was always
based on common sense and fact.
As we hold him and his achievements in our
memory, there will come to us continually the
words of the ancient prayer which all men have
offered up for their beloved dead:
"May he go from strength to strength in the
life of perfect service."
=----=~~-----.--------~----WILLIAM EDWARD BAUGH - A MAN OF
PRIN~IPLE
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BY JESSE
O. THOI"\AS
(Former Vice-Grand Basileus)
I
THE PASSING of Brother William E.
Baugh, ex-Grand Basileus, the fraternity
ha lost one of its most patriotic members, de-
voted servants and loyal supporters.
The farther we are removed from his administration the clearer we may discern its efficiency and effectiveness.
As other administrations are compared with his, a more objective
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appraisal may be given of the sacrificial manner
in which he put all of his resources upon the
altar of executive administration of our beloved
fraternal body.
Brother Baugh was a man who kept his own
counsel, frequently
misunderstood,
and often
difficult to understand.
He was, nevertheless, a
person who had deep conviction and the courage
to follow his conviction.
He was loyal to any
cause to which he once pledged himself and
labored sacrificially for the realization of any
ideal which he set up as an objective.
I frequently didn't understand and often misundsrstood him, but I never questioned his sincerity
or loftiness of purpose.
We must now take comfort in the fact that we
were privileged to associate so intimately with
a personality that lived above the under-surging
of littleness, and which was always striving in
the direction in which all creation moves.
----===---------)1(-----=-=-------WILLIAM EDWARD BAUGH - AN OMEGA MAN
•
BY CHARLES
E. HARRY
(Tenth District Representative)
Z ETA
PHI CHAPTER of the Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity was chartered in April 1925 and
one of the two first men initiated following its
organization was William E. Baugh. From the
very first Brother Baugh gave every indication
of the true Omega spirit which ultimately carried him to the highest office within the gift of
the fraternity.
His first evidence of ability to
achieve was in the drive for the Colonel Young
Memorial, when he directed a local campaign
that carried Zeta Phi over the top with over
one hundred dollars to rank near, if not at the
head of all chapters reporting funds for this
worthy project.
Elected in 1925 as an alternate delegate to the
conclave at Tuskegee which he attended, because
of illness in the family of the regular delegate,
he thereafter attended every conclave save one
to the time of his death, frequently at an expense to himself
His sense of loyalty was of the
highest order.
In fact on several occasions he
refused to run for office against those above him
because his first obligation came 1'0 the organization and personal considerations were secondary.
Three things stand out as major contributions
he made to the fraternity.
First, a plan of reinstatement whereby the roster and finances of
the national organization
were strengthened.
Secondly, the visitation of chapters by a national
officer on a scale unknown up to that time, thus
bringing about a closer and deeper feeling of
unity and cooperation between the Supreme
Council and the local chapters.
Third, the first
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THE
actual ownership of real estate, with deed in
hand, by the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was consumated during his final year as Grand Basileus
and of this he was genuinely proud .. True all
these things were not done single handed nor did
he attempt to claim credit for them, but his was
the privilege of playing a large part in these
milestones of the fraternity he loved.
Throughout the duration of his connections
with the fraternity, Brother Baugh never realized nor appreciated the practical importance of
fraternity politics. In fact his career is a concrete example of his often expressed belief that,
"If the fraternity wants me they will elect me."
To this end he refused to be a candidate for office on several occasions, and even after his services and worth had forced themselves upon the
organization so that he was awarded with the
offices of Vice-Grand Basileus and subsequently
Grand Basileus, he failed to encourage and further those alliances which might have enabled
him to realize his greatest ambition that he might
serve for three years as Grand Basileus in accordance with the precedent set by his three immediate predecessors.
He, believed that true
service in behalf of the organization would entitle 'him to this honor, since his reports of service rendered the organization and found as part
of the minutes of the conclave compare him
favorably with any Grand Basileus since the
pioneer days of a five-chapter Omega. He knew
that the time was coming when the fraternity
must reorganize internally, must revise its laws
and enlarge its aministrative force, but, he also
knew that his immediate task must be to nur(Continued 'on page 28)
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.. s.
-EL CHARLE
YO ~G was born in
)Iay lick, Kentucky, March 12, 1864, the
son of Gabriel and Araminta Young. When he
was nine months of age,
his parents moved to
Ripley, Ohio, where they
thought the opportunities for their son to
~ grow into normal man1
I hood were greater.
He
, was tutored for eight
; years by his maternal
t grandmother,
the first
Negro
appointed
to
teach school in Ripley.
Afterwards
he entered
COL. YOUNG
Rip ley
High School,
from which he was graduated at the age of 16.
Immediately
after
graduating
from high
school Charles Young was given a teaching
positi~n' in Ripley, which he held until appointed
to study at West Point.
In 1884 he took the competitive examination
at Hillsboro, Ohio, for entrance to the Military
Academy.
He was made alternate and upon
failure of the principal to pass the entrance
examination at West Point, Young was sent,
passed the examinations and entered the institution, not quite twenty years after the Civil War.
He was graduated from West Point, August 31,
1 89, and commissioned a second lieutenant.
His first assignment was with the Tenth
Cavalry; shortly thereafter he was assigned to
the Thirty-fifth Infantry, and shortly after that
was transferred to the Ninth Cavalry. Officials
didn't know just what to do with a colored army
officer.
From November, 1889 to March, 1894, he was
on frontier duty at Fort Robinson, Nebraska,
and at Fort DuChesne, Utah, where it became
his duty to protect the settlers from the Indians.
From 1894 to May, 1898, Lieutenant Young
was professor of Military Science and Tactics
at Wilberforce University, Ohio. Because of his
knowledge of French, German and mathematics,
he taught these subjects at the request of the
faculty.
He organized the first band at Wilberforce University.
After the period of service at Wilberforce,
Young found himself assigned first to duties at
ULO.
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The late Brother Charles Young, colonel ill the
United Sfa tes Army at the time of his death. is
memorialized each year by all of the chanters of
Omega during the month (If March. This year the
"Oracle" presents a life sketch of Our departed
brother, in response to the many inquiries that have
come to this office for information concerning his life.
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military posts along the Atlantic Coast and then
on the Western frontiers of the United States.
From May to August in 1898, he commanded a
battalion at Camp Alger, Va. For one month
thereafter he was stationed at Camp Meade, Pa.,
and at Summerville, ,S.C. for an additional month.
After this service he was returned to his troop
at Fort DuChesne, Utah, where he remained
until April 1, 1901.
After his service in the West, Lieutenant
Young found himself en route to the Philippine
Islands where he commanded the troops at Samar,
Bianca, Aurora, Daraga, Tobaca, Rosanta and
San Josaquin.
During this period of service he
was promoted to the rank of captain.
On October 31, 1902, he was ordered back to
the States, and was placed in command of a
troop at San Francisco, California.
Following
this service he was made acting superintendent
of Sequoia and General Grant National Parks of
California.
His next service was with his troop
at The Presidio of San Francisco.
The next assignment given to Captain Young
was that of Military Attache to Haiti, which
position he held for four years. While on duty
there he made an accurate map of the country
and collected material for an exhaustive monograph in which he revealed the causes of the
outbreaks in Haiti.
He also collected material
for his drama, entitled, "Toussaint .L'Over turc."
Immediately
after leaving Haiti, he was
placed on duty in Washington with the General
Staff. Again he was assigned to the Philippines
where he took command of his troops and the
Third Squadron.
He returned to the States in
1909 with his regiment and commanded his troop
and the Second Squadron until March, 1911. He
was in the Maneuver Division at San Antonio,
Texas from that time to July of the same year.
After spending some time at Fort D. A. Russell,
he again was on duty in the office of the Chief
of Staff until March 30, 1912. At that time he
was promoted to the rank of major.
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COL CH...-illLE
s ne rank came a foreign a signment
as made llilitary Attache to Liberia.
~ 2 ga; ered material
for a map of the country
d reorganized it frontier forces.
1- .as while he wa on duty in Liberia that he
as ci ed and awarded the Spingarn Medal.
From Februar
16, 1916 to March 9, 1917, he
_ w service with the Punitive Expedition in
_ exico.
The la t military desire of Charles Young was
c~er realiced. It was to come to active engagee r in the World War. This would have given
- im an opportunity to serve his country in a
-a acity which even his enemies will have to
ir would have heightened the morale of every
ack soldier in the service. Charles Young, by
means, should have been raised to the rank
-: .lIajor-General and given command of a divisi n of black soldiers.
He had a long period of varied service; he was
-~cient· and he was loved by all his command.
"TIcer who had served shorter periods and
n-- 0 were
known to be less efficient were thus
advanced while Young was retired as a Colonel
on a technical charge of physical disability,
which appears upon good authority to have peen
compensatory for long periods of service in the
ropics. His retirement shut the door of hope
Lot only in the face of Charles Young, but it was
a silent warning to every black boy in the land
that his aspiration to rank above that of Colonel
would meet a similar fate.
But our hero has left another heritage to us.
He has shown us that a soldier need not be devoid
of culture.
That desire for learning kindled in
hi heart by the maternal grandmother already
referred to, and fanned to a glowing flame by
his association with Mr. Parker at Ripley, Ohio.:
wa in evidence throughout his career. We have
already mentioned the drama, "Toussaint L'Overture."
From his pen came also "The Military
:Jlorale of Races" and "Service."
In manuscript
he has left one hundred and three short poems
entitled "Song Wings."
On November 4, 1919, he was ordered to
Liberia again for the second time. He could
have refused this appointment and continued to
draw a colonel's pay and live comfortably, but
that did not appeal to his active nature.
Young
was no quitter.
Africa needed him to build her
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YOU TG, U.S.A.
roads .. The race and the world needed more
knowledge of African culture. He would carry
helpers.
He would plunge far into the interior
and collect information about "Anci-ent African
Civilizations."
He would write up his findings
and leave his people a richer heritage.
He did not leave without forebodings.
He
seemed to know that he would never see the
United States again. He left the fraternity house
of Gamma Chapter, Boston, Mass., singing and
playing a song of resignation, "My Jesus as Thou
Wilt." Captain Atwood tells us that his last act
was one of service.
He penetrated seven hundred miles into the interior to the ancient town
of Kano to get material for his history.
He returned to the coast after having accomplished
his last objective and then he fell asleep upon the
bosom of Africa, January 2, 1922, there to be
at "ease" until the time for "rest" in a permanent grave at Arlington, where he was interred with all the pomp and ceremony which
his life and services demanded.
Our Colonel's voice is hushed, but he has left
orders for us to make every reveille that means
scholarship, manhood, perseverance, and uplift.
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The boys at Kappa Sigma Chapter are doing big thing's,
and [,re engaged in promoting everything from oyster
suppers to football teams, according to Brother Meacham.
The chapter, located at Lana College, Jackson, Tenn., has
nine members, eight of whom are pictured here, left to
right, front row: Henry W. Meacham, Fred Perry, Marcellus Howard, Herbert
Burton.
Back row: Robert
Browne, Amos Berr-y, Colonel Shaw and .J,a.mes Davis.
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IL TERS HOLD
II ARDI GRAS
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The
Mardi
Gras dance is an
annual feature of
the social program 0 f
the
three chapters in
Washington.
It
is marked by its
hilarity,
goo d
music, proper amount of Omega
oil, and the distin c t i v e costumes, etc. worn
by the guests.
The lady at the
right
said she
was Dorothy
Lamour, w h i 1e
the couple across
the page must
represent
"Two
Babes in th e
Wo 0 d."
Two
prizes were awarded
to the
ones wit h the
b est
costumes,
and
souvenirs
were distributed
to all the guests.
Brothers
fro m
Richmond, New
Yo r k, Lincoln
University, PhiL
adelphia,
Vi r,
ginia 'State, and
other
n ear b y
points journeyed
to the
Capital
for this night of
festivity .
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(Continued
A. HILL
.h'O'11'L
last issue)
Another illustration
from Gosnell's Negro
Politician will show how he dealt with colored
audiences.
"On the Sunday before the majority primary in 1931, Thompson addressed a mammoth meeting at the Eighth Regiment Armory. Early in the afternoon every seat in the
hall was filled. As Thompson made his triumphal entry down the center aisle, the entire audience stood up and cheered lustily.
The police quartet sang "Happy Days" and
"Big Bill the Builder." After a laudatory
introduction by State Senator Roberts, Mayor Thompson began to speak in his usual
thick voice:
" 'Mr. Chairman, the representative of the
church and my good friends: As Senator
Roberts, your chairman, said, the Mayor
cannot and does not brag about his black
mammy. But it might be well for you to
know that when I was a cub in politics and
just beginning (they nominated aldermen
in those days in conventionthe different
ward conventions) and when I was nominated, who do you suppose nominated Bill
Thompson? Did a white man arise to do the
job? No, sir! a Negro, your now Senator
Del Roberts (applause) is the man that
arose in that ward aldermanic convention
and put your mayor in politics.' "
Thompson was shrewd in that he tried to link
the beginning of his speech with some personage present. All of his speeches are psychologically delivered and after nearly every sentence
his audiences burst forth with applause. One of
Thompson's aids called himself "poor Swede"
in order to remind the ward voters that he belonged to a minority group. Thompson was surrounded by both white and colored leaders who
used every method possible to obtain Negro votes.
George L. Harding, a white associate of Thompson, was generous in helping South Side Negroes who were in trouble, very liberal in paying for workers at the polls, and careful in rewarding faithful
supporters.
During Thompson's mayorality so many Negroes were placed
in municipal offices that one of. his Republi-
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This article, written in two parts, was begun in the
last issue of the "Oracle" and is concluded in this.
Its author is circulation assistant in the Founders'
Library at Howard University and a member of
Alpha Omega Chanter.
can factional opponents called the City Hall
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." Thompson was liberal on
race situations. Discrimination existed in some
of the eating places about Chicago. On a number of occasions Thompson championed the cause
of the Negro leaders against prej udices of many
white politicians. Thompson was mixed in with
racketeers of both races. In his third administration he appointed a lieutenant of Al Capone
to an important office, also Daniel Jackson, a
notorious Negro gambler, was selected as the
leader of the Thompson forces in the 'Second
Ward. Thompson represents
one example of
"boss rule." His term in office is more important than have been other "Bosses" because _of
his intimate relation to the Negroes.
Thompson won the favor of the Negro voter
by kissing dark hued babies and abusing Irish
police who raided the Negro clubs and sometimes made mistakes and raided Negro homes.
A good deal of vilification and scurrilous propaganda was circulated during his campaigns. Indeed, it is said that on election day Thompson, in
1928, loaded a truck with hams and distributed
them throughout the South Side of Chicago.
There was a Negro gambler by the name of
"Mushmouth" Johnson, who ran a large gambling business. At election time he would donate
$10,000 to the Democrats and $10,000 to the
Republicans so that no matter who won he would
be protected. When "Hinky Dink" Kenna and
"Bathhouse John" Coughlin became the ruling
powers in the First Ward, Johnson made' his
arrangements with them and they protected him
against raids. Daniel M. Jackson, another gambling king, reached his height of power during
the second and third Thompson administrations.
He was rated as head of the strongest syndicate
ever organized in the "Black Belt," the czar of
the colored underworld. He operated the famous
Tia J uana policy which drew large crowds until the Democratic party came into power; however, later with the reelection of Mayor Thompson in 1927, his business began to flourish again.
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HE _-EGRO L - _lACHL -E POLITIC
cson ater became a Committeeman of the
See d
ard.
~ e machine at work i quite interesting. The
!" ster of the precinct
captains for typical Re_ blican organizations in the Second and Third
~ar - would be made up of persons who, in
e way, had shown their superiority over
-' err fellow party members. These workers were
representative of all groups and classes. At a
+ard meeting the workers were addressed as
=ollo\\"M:"Go into homes again and again. Let
them know the facts of the case. If sister is
v ashing, go down into the laundry
and help
her wash. If cleaning, get yourself a feather
duster and talk." The canvasser was versatile,
he could pray with an old woman, talk craps
with a gambler, and talk with men about their
"omen. Precinct captains furnished their prospective voters with coal, rent and clothing when
they saw it necessary. At Christmas time baskets were distributed. The first step in securing
votes is to see that all those who are favorably
disposed are registered. All kinds of methods
are used to get the voters to vote correctly. Violence and intimidation as political devices have
been more commonly used against the Negro
voters than for them.
The political meetings are very interesting.
In many cases entertainment is used to attract
a crowd. In the intervals
between speeches,
bands, tap dancers, jazz orchestras, male quartet , comedians, buglers, chorus girls, community choirs, and soloists, may be brought in to
vary the programs. A skillful master of ceremonies at one of the Negro political meetings
arranges the order of the speakers so that the
tempo is varied. Often gifts were distributed,
refreshments served or some form of compensation were given the people who attended.
In other cities similar methods are used. It is
not an unusual custom to see a large parade
moving up 7th Avenue in New York's Harlem.
This parade near election time has a great significance for its followers are led to a corner
where political speeches are made. Great promises to people who will support these candidates
are heard and thunderous applause greets each
speaker. Small gifts are often handed out to the
listeners.
Vare, Philadelphia boss for a number of years,
once said:
"Take care of your people and your people will take care of you."
The Negro may be justly said to be different
from any minority group in America, both socially and economically. American prejudice
against the Negro race has been an important
factor in keeping the Negro in a certain social
status. Despite his political participation in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York or any other city,
he has been made the scapegoat of city politics.
He is dependent for economic support and thus
he finds himself in a peculiar situation. In his
own group he has advanced socially. He has been
unable to get very far in the national politics.
The machine has aided him economically in some
cases because of his support. When the machine
fails he falls. The Negro has not developed race
solidarity and cooperation as have other minority groups. New York now has an Italian mayor
who represents the Fusion Party in New York
City. The policies of foreign groups in large
cities have resulted in a stronger racial group
supporting candidates and educating their fellows to give support to their choices. Negroes
are not economically independent and are therefore preyed upon by machines.
Other groups
have been able in most instances, to accumulate
money and become leaders. In Chicago, Philadelphia and New York the names of foreigners
predominate the political arena-of machines. In
Chicago there are a number of non-voting Negroes, who, because they lack voting qualifications, are denied the privilege. "One out of every
five Negroes interviewed," says Merriam, in his
book N on- Voting, "who had not gone to the polls
on election day accounted for his abstention on
the ground of insufficient legal residence."
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lice Grand Basrleus P. Vaughn Sterrett was the guest
cf honor at a reception sponsored recently by Gamm-a
and Eta Phi Chapters, of Boston, Mass. As is customary
with Gamma and Eta Phi affairs, the reception went over
with a bang. In the group caught by the "Oracle" cameraman are Francis Bowles, Butler 'Williams, Ernest
laughter, J. Clyde Coates, basile us of Eta Phi, and the
rice grand basileus, P. Vaughn Sterrett; Oscar S. BurL
rows, basileus of Ga.mma; Ev.erett C. Yates, district representative; Darnley L. Corbin, Dr. Washington, James
"" Cannady, Wiflfam H. Dabney, Robert Royster, Charles
_ Robinson, Dr. N. A. Handy, Dr. Oliver G. Mayo, Attorney
Dorch, G.eorge W. Goodman, Alvin Andrews, E. Frank
", Ellis, Willard Ransom, Toye Davis, Walter Gray, Edward
Hutchins, Edward Cooper, Joseph C. James. Edward
Dixon, John Shelbourne and Bernadine Dabney.
Right -- Brother ..William Dabney,
newly-appointed me-mber of the Parole
Board of the State i~f Massachusetts.
Brother Dabney was initiated into Kappa
Psi Chapter at Howard University, and
is now affiliated with "Eta Phi Chapter
at Boston.
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Left - Connie W. Jenkins, our new
grand marshal, who is in charge of
arrangements
for the' New York Conclave.
Brother Jenkins was initiated
into Rho Chapter of Johnson C. Smith
University and is now engaged in the
insurance business in New York City.
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FORSYTHE, JR.
J -~ like any other chain, it is no stronger
i ~ weake t link. So if the links of the
van are not abetted by the support of the
c
brethren throughout the nation, then the
ara an "ill be stalled on the desert of despair,
and the de pair will be for lack of material that
- e bre men could very easily send in to us.
There "as a time when the good Omega men
co d justly complain about their chapter notes
o being published; but that time has passed.
Our good editor has made it possible for the
chapter to throw the notes together and send
-' em in, and your Caravan eel' will re-hash them
what i hoped is the most approved Omega
manner.
All we want is the information, and
- e r t will take care of itself. So it is up to
Omeza men throughout the world to cooperate
a d keep the Caravan brimful of petrol, oats,
coal, or whatever makes the Caravan tick.
From Pittsburgh, Pa., Omicron Psi and Iota
Phi Chapters are bending every effort towards
reviving the lagging Omega interest in that sec-or. and their most recent efforts reveal that the
"Q'~" got off to a good start by instilling new
spirit in the brothers via a court team that contacted by licking the Kappas in Pittsburgh last
week. Brother Frank W. Clark, basileus of the
under-grad chapter, is leading the brothers out
of the forest. Great things are expected from
he Pennsylvania brothers centered in the vicini of Pitt, Carnegie Tech and Duquesne Univerities.
Theta Phi Chapter at Institute, W.Va., has
elected James Gaskins as the new basileus and
pencer Roberts as keeper of records and seal.
Despite the fact that Omega's vast world hears
very seldom from the brothers shunted back into
the hills of West Virginia, they want the world
to know they are still in action. They have a
chapter of 29 active brothers, six of them having
been taken in this semester.
Of the smokers
given this year, the most colorful one was for
Brother Purvis Bates, who left the school last
semester, and will be greatly missed by the chaper. Brother Bates compiled one of those mucho-be-envied records while a student at West
Virginia State, and Theta Psi brethren will miss
im. Out at State there are three big brothers
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Chapter Caravan was popularly r.eceived by the
delegates to the Twenty-seventh
Conclave, therefore, the policy of presenting chapter notes as inaugurated last year will continue, with "Jolly" Forsythe
pushing t.he pen. Because the chapters in New York
City will be our hosts in December, we will. as far
as space will permit, carry their notes in toto. that
you .may have the latest data on what the New York
boys are planning for us.
and two lamps on the floor team, and the captain
of the team is Brother Hubert Jones. In the
Delta Jabberwock held in February Tneta, Psi
presented a dramatization of the persecution of
the Jews by Hitler in Germany. Brother Samuel C. Hunter is chapter eddy and has done a
nice job of relaying the info to the Caravaneer so
that all Omegans might get the low-down on the
activities of Theta Psi.
Z eta Sigma Chapter at Bluefield State Teachers'
College flashes greetings to brothers in Omega,
and advises that this is just a hint to let you
know they are stilI alive and kicking. William
A. Johnson is the basileus of the chapter and
James Hubbard, keeper of records and seal.
Nu Psi brothers at Virginia State College,
Ettricks. Va., added twenty stalwarts to their
roster in their 1939 initiation ceremonies. This
group represents the cream of the campus crop,
and brings the membership of the chapter to
fifty-six: William Bailey, James Brewer, Raymond Brooks, Edward Copper, Winston Douglas,
Hugh Fitzgerald, Granville Green, Dan Harris,
"Shy" Harriston,
John Holt, Ralph McGhee,
"Stretch" Milby, E. Pankey, Len Poole, "Runt"
Richardson, Ernest Rowe, Percy Smith, Charles
Windbee, Leo Woods and Parker Ward. With
this excellent crop of neophytes N u Psi expects
to accomplish great things during the coming
year. Down at Nu Psi it is Brother James Swan
who sees to the deliverance of the news items
to the Caravan.
Brothers of Mi: Psi have elected James E. Reid
as their basileus and James B. Brown as vicebasileus; Ferdinand D. Wharton, Jr., keeper of
records and seal; Roy Hill, keeper of peace;
Joseph W. Jordan, Jr., keeper of finances, and
Brother Aubrey B. Kearney has promised to relay the news of the Carolina chapter to the Caravan.
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Alpha Phi Chapter
un-kissed South.
e chapter led the fight against the construeion of a low-co thou ing project on a site that
ad been re erved for a playground
for the
iwel.ers of the other ection of the project. They
on the first prize in the J abberwock sponThe
sored by- the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
bro hers composing the winning team were Mar's Dan,
Alton Davenport, Melvin Caswell and
Horace Jackson.
According to Brother Emory
O. Jackson, there will be plenty of news emanat. g from the Birmingham
front from now on.
Ersking Hayes of the Industrial
High faculty
~ - promoted from the vice basileus to the basi=e' s. succeeding William Elston, who was given
s anding vote of appreciation for his untiring
e=or-- to revive the spirit of the organization
- ere.
ingham Alabamas
"Q.; •••.•.•••
. ':"""0- biz things down in the
Epsilon Chapter in blase New York is busily
reparing for the 1939 Conclave, and under the
eful guidance of Grand Marshal Connie Jenins. preparations
are progressing
rapidly for
what ::\ew York brothers claim will be the greatest Omega gathering
in history.
Epsilon now
casts a debating team that took the measure of
•.he Universal Improvement Association, veteran
debating team. Brother Mifnin T. Gibbs was reelected to the post of basileus for the third time,
ucceeding himself; Dudley Clark is the vice;
Claude McAdams, re-elected keeper of records
and eal; Bertrand Green, keeper of the finance;
Roland K. Fortune and McArdle Lynn, re-elected
chaplain and keeper of peace, respectively.
Irving H. Selden has charge of the chapter notes'
safe arrival in the Oracle office.
Brooklyn's Zeta Psi Chamter merely drops a
line to let us know that Edward Taylor has been
elected basileus;
the vice-basileus
is Hewitt
Bourne; keeper of records and seal, Charlie Trice;
keeper of finance, Dr. Gerald Seon : Prince Saundel' is the chaplain, Danny Goodridge is keeper
of the peace and the Oracle editor is Archie
Beckles.
In staid old Boston, the local chapters tossed
a reception in honor of the vice grand basileus,
Brother Paris V. Sterrett in February that was
asterisked in capital letters.
It was a formal
affair to end all formal affairs, and the folks of
the Back Bay colony are still talking about it.
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Aipha. Cluupier in Washington not to be outdone
by any of the chapters in the country, is proudly
pointing to the unusually successful year that
the once nugatory Alpha. Chapter has enjoyed.
Besides rising to new heights on the campus, the
brothers with the aid and cooperation of Alpha
Omeaa held a Mardi Gras at the Lincoln Colonnade that drew visitors from four states. It was
done up in the true carnival spirit and to say it
was a huge success is being very modest.
Omegans everywhere, in order for the Caravan to keep rolling, the good brothers will have
to send the newsy notes in to the office in time
for the pilot of the epistle to get them re-hashed.
Get behind your chapter editor and just have
him send in the jottings about all the Omegans
in your neck of the woods, and we will take care
of the rest.
Brother Eugene Howard McGill of Omicron
Phi, Columbia, S.C., died at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital,
Baltimore,
Monday morning, March
13. At the time of his death Brother McGill was
president of Allen University, in which capacity
he had served with distinction
since August,
1937.
The Psi Phi Chtupter of New York City began
its 1939 activities with its annual formal banquet on January 14, 1939, at the Rose Room of
the Y.W.C.A. This banquet had been postponed
from the usual December meeting because of
some unusual happenings to the memories of the
chapter
officers who were charged with the
responsibility
of this function;
but they made
good by the elaborate table spread, and left no
stone unturned to make this belated meeting an
occasion of great success.
The annual banquet is held for several reasons.
It is the custom to install the newly-elected officers at this banquet and to discuss the affairs of
the fraternity
in general, in order to give the
delegates to the Grand Conclave the sentiment
of the chapter in matters which come up at that
gathering.
It was necessary
to reverse this
order, and the discussion was centered on 'What
took place at the conclave, rather than 'What 'Was
to take place there. This was done in the true,
lively Omega spirit, with candor and sincerity.
The officers were installed by Brother Granady.
They were as follows: Brothers
A. C.
Garner, basileus; E. E. Best, vice-basileus; N. A.
Burrell, keeper of records;
C. S. Fairclough,
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commerce and financing is invited to Washington
as guest of the day. This year they sent to
Atlanta and brought our grand keeper of finances, Jesse B. Blayton.
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B. ~al-' er.ess. chap ain: James Granady
rer editor.
The guests of the occa ion were Brothers
=- i=-:n Gibbs, ba ileu of Ep ilon Chapter, and
. Je ins, aloof Epsilon and the newly-elected
marshal of the Conclave. They both urged
- every Omega man in this area give his best
e=o_ - to make this the finest of any that has
ver been held in the history of Omega.
e newly-elected officers began to function
February 11, 1939, when Brother A. C. Gar~ r and Brother Lisle Carter were hosts at the
orne of Brother Garner.
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Brothers are still showering Brother William
H. S. Dabney,
of "Beantown,"
who was
appointed by Governor Charles F. Hurley to the
Board of Paroles and Pardons of the State of
Massachusetts.
Brother Dabney was initiated
into the fraternity in 1928 at Ka/ppa Psi Cluupter
in Washington, D.C. Since 1933 he has bee):
affiliated with Gamma and Eta Phi Chapter» in
Boston.
We offer our condolences to Brother M. Beaunorus Tolson, our managing editor, and his family.· Mrs. Ella Southall, of Philadelphia, Brother
Tolson's mother-in-law, died February 21.
The Commerce Club of Howard University
- onsor each year "Commerce Day," during
hich some outstanding Negro in the field of
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net in the "Windy City," nor represented
b:- loyal sons of Omega, it is only fair to spotight and highlight.
To begin, national, local,
_resent and past officialdom lent its presence
and dignity.
Familiar Conclave faces, and first
gcers as well, were present and took active part.
The Conclave was called "Constitutional."
Every
minute counted and was used accordingly. Once
underway, each knock of the gavel of Grand
Ba ileus Dent, indicated, law was being made.
The annual reports of the Grand Officers were
accepted without exception.
With the following
brothers named to head the committees appointed, the net results of the Conclave were obviously sure to be thoroughly accomplished: R. N. Harris,
budget and audit;
Asa T. Spaulding,
housing;
Dr. W.
Montague
Cob b,
scholarship;
A. R.
Terrell, discipline;
Att'y. A. Alexander
Looby, constitution;
S. Herman Dreer,
SELDEN
resolutions
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The reports made by the Housing Committee,
coordinating with the Budget and Audit Committee; the Scholarship and the Constitutional
Committees are worthy of praise. They showed
study, research and work over a period of time
and reflected the final results of our Conclave.
There was one welcomed and striking
anr.ouncement. Brother Oscar J. Cooper said that
he and the other three founders of our great
fraternity had agreed that at least one would be
present at future Conclaves, until "death we
should part."
Brothers William Stewart Nelson, president
of Dillard University, and Roy Wilkins, editor
of the C risis and assistant secretary of the
N.A.A.C.P., were the principal speakers at the
Grand Conclave luncheon, held in the International House, on the University of Chicago campus.
They challenged,
with substantiating
facts, whether we have grown and are meeting
our own needs, 'the needs of the community and
nation.
The last day of business was devoted to constitution and by-law revision, election, and time
and place report. Everything went well, as you
may have heard.
New York City is the place.
December 27-30, 1939, is the time. It is needless to state how the election went for the world
knows now.
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e.se co d one do, with 0 much business
S eep ? _- 0 ~ The "Qs" had their
er ror . -to luncheon, tea, cocktail parties
dances. the bOI went hither and yon. Bemlnn,'il1gwith the Grand Conclave Smoker at the
c:- Men'~ Club, the "Qs" got together, im-bed in the pirit
and decided on the social
artac - made on the feminine pulchritude of Chigo.
_ pha Phi Alpha, who played a genial host,
=ered the first opportunity for Omega to shine.
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BAUGH
The ballroom, lobby and lounges of the Vincenes
Hotel were jammed for the gala occasion.
But listen, not until the second day, did the
brothers from. far and nigh actually know that
such a harvest of "cordial sweets" could gather
under one roof. The wives and sweethearts of
Chicago Omegans gave an "Omega Nog." They
brought with them a superabundance of the fairer
sex, made in "QC" style. Here was a mart.
Social engagements only for the asking.
No
"Qs" were lost in the storm.
---------.-------reaffirm and hereby solemnly pledge that(Continued from page 18)
strengthen and arouse this large organiza--;0_ of over ninety chapters to the place where
re than one-half of the chapters should be
eial. and to the time when thirty-five votes
-~ - e grand conclave should no longer be a maHe felt that the duly elected officers of
-' '" great organization should personally carry
- is me- age to the scattered brothers, and this
e did at the expense of his time, money and
health.
Ironically enough, the very success of his project contributed to the thwarting of his ambition.
The fraternity was more closely bound together
and became more conscious of itself sooner than
he realized. Before he knew, his fraternity was
financially sound to such an extent that it was
nece ary to halt raids on the treasury.
The
districts which he had nursed from infancy during his term as Vice-Grand Basileus had grown
-0 that they clamored for recognition of their
man) worthy accomplishments.
The mid-West
which used to accept Omega along with taxes
and hay-fever had become almost worshippers
of this intruder from the East. In fact, the period
of trials and tribulations was past, and he knew
deep within himself that for eleven years he had
much to do with guiding the good ship Omega
through these storms.
William Edward Baugh, educator, humanitarian, brother, we salute you. The lessons of
acrificial service, loyalty and integrity gleaned
from twelve years of fraternal affiliation comes
as a challenge which we accept. The four cardinal principles which you so nobly exemplified we
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"When we say our last goodbye,
We'll love Omega Psi Phi."
GRAND BASILEUS
(Continued from. page 7)
Because of the outstanding work being done
by the N.A.A.C.P. in fields in which all Omega
men are intensely interested, and because of the
apparent unanimous desire to aid the movement
which this organization represents, your Grand
Basileus recommends to the proper committee
an examination into the advisability of Omega
enrolling as a life member, providing for the
liquidation of the cost of such over a period of
years in amounts properly related to the budgets of such periods.
When I accepted the office of Grand Basileus
last year it was, to me, just another job. But I
must admit that for the limited amount of time
I had to give, it has been one of the most pleasurable assignments I have ever undertaken.
My
contact with various Omega men and chapters
here and there has been most gratifying and
pleasing.
I found to be brothers some men
whom I had known for years without knowing
of our mutual fraternity connection. If I may
rely on newspaper reports of Omega activities,
I am assured that our fraternity still sails the
sea of accomplishments with flying pennants.
I also want to state that cooperation between
the Grand Basileus and Supreme Council has
been most gratifying and congenial, and I thank
each and every brother for the honor and privilege of serving you for the year 1938.
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S e'e Co
ciy
State
s-,
• Weiseger,
1266 Columbia
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A-Kensas
City, Kans.
. L H. C~ ren, 233 Freeman Ave.
EGA-Lynchburg,
Va.
ubert W. Patrick, 130 I 16th St.
MEGA-Ettricks,
Va.
&~ G. B. Singleton, Va. State College
o ,EGA-Oranqeburg,
S. C.
V. E. Sheffield, S. C. State College
o {EGA-Cleveland,
Ohio
83.s... N. B. Bowen, 2218 E. 10Ist St.
KRS. Howard Gresham, 2118 E. 46th St.
EGA-Atlanta,
Ga.
Bas.., M. R. Austelle, 53 Chestnut
St ••
S.W.
· M. J. Beavers, 788 Greensferry
Ave.
E"'A OMEGA-Louisville,
Ky.
Dr. C. L. Thomas, 719 W. Walnut
S.
· J. E. Hawkins, 609 W. Walnut St.
MEGA-Tuskegee,
AlII.
Dr. Geo. C. Branche, Veterans
.05prtal
· R. B. Collins, Tuskegee Institute
:::>A OMEGA-Harrisburg,
Pa.
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John Snow, 915 N. 6th St.
S. Dr. H. J. Reynolds, 915 N. 6t~ St.
OMEGA-Norfolk,
Va.
r, A. B. Green, 1024 E. Liberty St.
S. T. H. Shields, Jr., 933 Oeklawn
Ave.
EGA-Philadelohia,
Pa.
.• Carl Tucker .
as, R. D. Baskervill, 526 S. 16th St.
EGA-Defroit,
Mich.
:: s.., D. W. T. Love, 325 Warren Ave.
S. T. R. Fortson, 228 E. Canfield Ave.
EGA-Tulsa,
Okla.
RS. E.. H. Hunter, 1162 N. Greenwood
EGA-Baltimore,
Md.
BaS., C. R. Alexander,
1300 Madison
Ave.
KRS. James H. Carter, Morgan College
,..
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OMEGA-Chicago,
III.
s., G. T. Perry, 147 N. Western Ave.
KRS. Percy Ash, 1654 Waseca Place
OMEGA-Greensboro,
N. C.
Bas •• W. J. Gibbs, A. & T. College
I ON OMEGA-St.
Louis, Mo.
Bas •• S. H. Dreer, 4335 Cote Brilliante
K S. F. E..Anthony, II N. Jefferson Ave.
.OMEGA-Buffalo,
N. Y.
RS. Theodore Shaw, 25 Ada Place
Fla.
C .1 OMEGA-Tallahassee,
BaS., G. T. Wiggins, Florida A. & M.
College
KRS. B. F. Holmes, Florida A. & M.
College
EGA-Augusta,
Ga.
Bes; Dr. J. E. Carter, 1141 Twelfth St.
RS. B. L. Dent, 826 Ninth St.
PHI-Birmingham,
Ala.
Erskine Hayes
S. James W. Holloway, 1820 19th St.,
- ey
~Topeka,
Kans.
. W. B. Scott, 406 Kansas Ave.
BETA P
Bas.•
KRS.
GAMMA
Bas.,
St.
KRS.
,:; a
. C.
J. W. Goodloe, Box 20 I
A. H. Turner, Box 1875
PHI-Nashville,
Tenn.
Dr. J. B. Singleton, 1208'12 Cedar
J. W. Beasley,
1112 Jackson
St.
ZETA PH I-Indianapolis.
Ind.
Bas., Carey D. Jacobs
KRS. Raymond Maxberry, 828 N. Cellfornia St .
ETA PHI-Cambridge,
Mass.
Bas., C. Coates, 85 Inman St.
KRS. G. M. Soloman, 85 Inman St.
EPSILON PHI-Memphis,
Tenn.
KRS. B. Lewis, 1175 Cannon St.
THETA PHI-Jackso~ville,
Fla.
Bas., Dr. Leroy C. Ervin, 103 E. Union St.
KRS. Wm. S. Robinson, 610 W. Duval St.
IOTA PHI-Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Bas., Frank W. Clark, 2621 Center Ave.
KAPPA PHI-P"ducah,
Ky.
Bas., J. A. Walker, 1233 Madison St.
LAMBDA PHI-Fort
Valley, Ga.
Bas., L.R. Bywaters, F.V.N.&1. School
MU PHI-Savannah;
Ga.
KRS. R. Gadsden, 608 W. 36th St.
NU PHI-Houston,
Texas
Bas., J. O. Bowles, 2708 Anita Ave.
KRS. Wm. Moore, 1614 Carr St.
XI PHI":"'Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bas., E. B. Weatherless, 405 Carlton Ave .
KRS. Philip Jones, 327 HlIlsey St.
OMICRON
PHI-Columbia,
S. C.
Bas., J. W. Martin, Mather Academy
KRS. C. A. Johnson, Mather Academy
PI PH!-Charlotte,
N. C.
KRS. L. Alexander, 517 S. Caldwell St.
RHO PHI-New
Orleans, La.
Bas., George Longe, 1625 Milton St.
KRS. Cecil Carter, 2107 Dryades St.
SIGMA PHI-Montgomery,
Ala.
Bas., Dr. R. T. Adair, 208'12 Monroe St.
KRS. H, L. Van Dyke, State Teachers
College
TAU PHI-Little
Rock, Ark.
Bas., Elza H. Hunter, 1912 E. 6th St.
KRS. L. R. Gravelly
UPSILON PHI-Newark,
N. J.
Bas., George E. Bell, 71 Elm St.
KRS. R. M. Yancy, 45 Clinton St.
PHI PHI-Richmond,
Va.
Bas., Henry J. McGuinn, Va. Union University
KRS. W. T. White, 1244 DuBois Ave.
CHI
PHI-Denver,
Colo.
Bas., W. H. Pinkett, 2650 Gilpin St.
KRS. F. S. Brickler, 1218 E. 23rd Ave.
PSI PHI-Winston-Salem,
N. C.
Bas., A. I. Terrell
---KRS. G. L. Johnson, Teachers College
ALPHA ALPHA-Hampton,
Va.
KRS. John W. Lee, 27 Libby St., Phoebus, Va.
BETA ALPHA-Alcorn,
Miss.
Bas., Levi Patton, Alcorn College
GAMMA ALPHA-Roanoke,
Va.
Bas., L. A. Sydnor, 810 7th St.
KRS. W. Dillard, 330 Gilmer Ave., N.W.
DELTA ALPHA-Dayton,
Ohio
KRS. Milton F. Jenkins, 5th St. Y.M.C.A.
EPSILON ALPHA-Fort
Worth, Texas
Bas., K. W. McMillan,
1327 Missouri
Ave.
KRS. C. O. Wallis, 1053 Humboldt St •
ZETA ALPHA-Warrenton,
N. C.
Bas., R. M. Harris, Box 311
ETA ALPHA-Jefferson
City, Mo.
Bas., H. M. Purnell, 301 N. 5th St.
KRS. Dr. A. A. Kildare, Lincoln Univ.
THETA ALPHA-Dallas,
Texas
Bas., Dr. E. H. Browne, 3305 Thomas Ave.
KRS. Homer Hamilton, 2700 Flora St.
IOTA ALPHA-Knoxville,
Tenn .
Bes., Jack Stokes
KRS. S. M. Clarke~ Jr., 1317 College St .
KAPPA ALPHA-Gaffney,
S. C.
- KRS. A. L. Stanback, 320 W. Meadow
St.
LAMBDA ALPHA-Scotlandville,
La.
KRS. J. O. Mosley, Southern Univ.
MU ALPHA-Charledon,
S. C.
Bas., J. I. Hoffman, 43 Cannon St.
KRS. J. T. Massey, 436 King Street
N U ALPHA-Wilson, N. C.
Bes., Dr. Boisey Barnes, 525'12 E.._,Nash
St.
XI ALPHA-Charleston,
Vv. Va.
Bas., Lorenzo R. Carter, 418 Jacob St.
KRS. Wm. H. Lewis, 906 Washington St.
OMICRON
ALPHA-Wilmington,
N. C.
Bas., Dr. S. R. Rosemond, 409 N. 7th St.
KRS. L. A. Shelton, "15 N. Fifth Ave.
PI ALPHA-Princess
Anne, Md.
Bas., Fletcher M. Morton, Princess Anne
Academy.
KRS. J. A. Spencer, St. Michaels, Md.
RHO ALPHA-Mobile,
Ala.
KRS. A. J. Cooper, 354 Cuba St.
ALPHA SIGMA-Atlanta,
Ga.
Bas., oW. H. Collins, Morris Brown Univ.
KRS. D. A. Talbot, Morris Brown Univ.
BETA SIGMA-Scotlandville,
La.
Bas., James
B. Jones,
Southern
University
KRS. James R. Magee, Southern University
GAMMA SiGMA-Montgomery,
Ala.
Bas., Charles
Wright,
State Teachers
College
KRS. Arthur O. Glass, State Teachers
College
DELTA SIGMA-Louisville,
Ky.
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