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SOUTHERN AREA “Y” CONFAB — Student delegates to the Southern Area Student Council which recently convened at More
house take time out from their conference activities to engage in a collegiate “bull session." Representing colleges and
universities YMCA’s and SCA’s in the ten Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia), the youthful collegians have the responsibility for policy forma
tion, program promotion, area conference and other projects, and financial support for Student YMCA work in the South.
Pictured, left to right, are Ernest Wagner, Morehouse; Loring Ensign, University of Florida; Joe Gillespie, Mississippi; Allan
Collette, Louisiana State University; Monroe Yearby, Southern University; Pete Brock, University of Florida; John Robin and
James Owen, V. P. I.; and William Bennett, Morehouse. (Photo by William Bowens.)
Vol. 49, No. 3 MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GA.
January, 1948
Langston Hughes Voted Biggest
News Story By Editorial Staff
By ROBERT E. JOHNSON
Langston Hughes, poet, lecturer and author, polled first place honors
in the selection of the 10 outstanding news stories in the university sys
tem, as picked by the editorial staff of the Maroon Tiger. Langston Hughes,
the staffmen agreed, while serving as guest professor, received more pic-
toral and column inches last year than any other one person.
The other news items follow as ranked:
(2) “A Day at the House,” a pictoral story of student life.
(3) Maroon and White Day celebration (including pep rally, game,
receptions and dances).
(4) Maroon Tiger photographer, Griffith Davis, ’47, joins EBONY
magazine as Roving Editor.
(5) A tribute to Mrs. Hodge, clerk at Yates and Milton drug store.
(6) Dr. Mays spearheads Founder’s Day activities.
(7) Dr. Ira DeA. Reid returns to faculty of Atlanta University.
(8) Henry A Wallace addresses overflowing audience in Sale Hall
Chapel,
(9) Prof. Willis Laurence James begins 15th year as band director.
(10) John A. Cooper, Morehouse grad, scores excellent record as
accountant with the United Nations.
Selections were made by the editorial writers because they concurred
that news stories were of interest to the students of Morehouse, of in
terest to the community and national reading public and of interest to
the staff as of newspaper value.
National Student Association Gains
Favor Of M’house Student Leaders
BY J. PRESTON COCHRAN
Can the National Student Association do any good for
Morehouse College students? This timely and pertinent question
should be food for thought by the students of this institution.
One of the most glaring questions raised by students the
country over is: “What can the individual student expect to gain
through his school’s having membership in the USNSA?” This
seems to be the key point for us to wrangle with in determining
Whether or not we can and will join the USNSA,
Morehouse College, being a pro
gressive institution, was represent
ed at the Constitutional Convention
of the United States National Stu
dent Association (USNSA), which
convened on the campus of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin from August 30
to September 7, 1947 by Clement
Hodges, a sophomore, who hails from
Buffalo, N. Y. It was at this meet
ing that the organization was
launched which was to give the
American college student unprece
dented representation in the educa
tional world. Seven hundred and fifty
delegates attended, representing 1,-
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Atlanta Daily World
Aids Students In
Journalism Career
Believing that experience in col
lege publication work should be
enough to make one able to go out
and handle capably jobs on city dai
lies, Mr. C. A. Scott, editor and pub
lisher of the Atlanta Daily World,
is giving employment to student? of
Morehouse who are interested in
making journalism a life-time pro
fession.
Listed on his payroll are Walter
CHARLES V. WILLIE
Charles Willie
Addresses Alpha
Phi Alpha Confab
More than four hundred delegates
heard Charles V. Willie, vice-presi
dent of the Morehouse College stu
dent body, deliver the “Convention
Address” of the Thirty-Third Gen
eral Convention of the Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity which met in Tul
sa, Okla., December 27-31, 1947.
Willie, former editor of the Ma
roon Tiger, was also elected to a
position on the National Executive
Council of the fraternity. The vic
tory came as a result of rolling up
a majority of ballots over the two
other nominees.
Although a guest of the conven
tion, he also represented Alpha Rho
Chapter as one of its delegates,
along with Noah Wills, the chapter
president. “Alpha Man, of the Year”
for Alpha Rho Chapter, Willie cap
tured second place in the national
rating of “Alpha Man of the Year”
which is determined on the basis of
one’s extra-curricular activities and
academic record.
Lumpkins, junior, of Shorter, Ala.,
and Claude Chamlee, sophomore, of
College Park, Ga., type compositors;
and James Herndon, senior, of Bir
mingham, Ala., linotype operator.
Robert E. Johnson, Maroon Tiger
editor, doubles as proofreader and
sports reporter.
“Y” Delegates Vote
Group Integration
Southern Delegates Poll Majority
Votes To Abolish Bi-Racial Pattern
In a historic decision on the practice of holding bi-racial YMCA
conferences, the legislative assembly of the Southern Student
YMCA voted to sponsor an inter-racial student conference and
continue with the regional work on the basis of full integration.
The progressive ruling was made on the campus of Morehouse
College during the Southern Regional YMCA and SCA conference
when more than 150 delegates—students, faculty and staff—from
50 college and university associations in the ten Southern states
met here December 20-22, 1947, to consider questions of policy
governing Student YMCA work in the Southern Area.
The meeting was called by the
Executive Committee of the South
ern Area Student Council because of
Alpha Kappa
Delta Offers
Annual Award
Alpha Kappa Delta, national hon
orary sociology society, announces
the AKD Award for 1948.
According to John D. Reid, sec
retary-treasurer of the Atlanta Uni
versity chapter, an award of $10 will
be made to the undergraduate stu
dent of the Atlanta University sys-
tepi who writes the best sociological
paper.
Materials used in the paper may
include research, analytical thinking
on social theories, current social
trends and their significance.
All manuscripts must be typewrit
ten and submitted to Alpha Kappa
Delta, Atlanta University, Atlanta,
Ga., on or before April 15, 1948.
Judges for the contest will consist of
departmental heads of sociology in
the Atlanta University system.
College Enrollment Up
College enrollment for the 1947-48
school year reached the record total
of 2,338,226, almost a million more
than the prewar peak of 1940 and
260,131 more than a year ago, the
Federal Security Agency has an
nounced. Included are 1,122,738 World
War II veterans, of whom 24,091 are
women.
frequent out-cropping of certain un
resolved problems which continually
complicate and confuse the work of
the Student YMCA. Among these
were such issues as the relation of
the Student YMCA to the Student
YWCA; the relation of the Southern
Area Student work to the National
Student Council YMCA; the relation
of student work to the general YMCA
movement in the South; and the Blue
Ridge summer conference for white
students sponsored by the Southern
Area Student YMCA.
The outcome of this meeting—the
first fully representative legislative
assembly in the history of the Stu
dent YMCA in the South—constitutes
essentially a step in the development
toward racial integration in the
YMCA. The first step was taken in
the early 1930’s, when YMCA work
in the Negro colleges was trans
ferred from the Colored Work De
partment of the YMCA to the Na
tional Student Division. In the South,
however, student work continued to
follow the bi-racial pattern with the
King’s Mountain Council and the
Blue Ridge Council related to asso
ciations in the Negro and white col
leges respectively. After much col
laboration these two councils decid
ed to sponsor jointly an interracial
student conference, the first of which
was held in June, 1936, at Shaw
University, Raleigh, N. C. Also in
1936, the two separate councils
were merged to form one interracial
body called the Southeastern Field
Council, which carried responsibility
for all student association work in
the ten Southern states. Still anoth-
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Dr. Homer Jack Urges Revitalized
Organizations To Fight Jim Crow
The South, without aid and comfort from the North, can affect
tremendous changes toward new patterns of racial democracy, but
revitalized organizations are needed which will give white and
Negro liberals alike new machinery to break down the jim crow
in their midst, Dr. Homer A. Jack, executive secretary of the
Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, told
a forum audience at Morehouse College recently.
Stating that significant postwar
trends in race relations are not yet
discernible except the stark fact
that the democracy so many fought
for in World War II is as elusive as
Apology To
Our Readers
The Maroon Tiger staff apol
ogizes to its many readers for
its late appearance. The staff
met its deadline but was unable
to go to press because of a mis
understanding with the business
office. Payment for the last is
sue of the school organ was
mailed by Bursar G. S. Alexan
der to the Morris Brown Busi
ness office rather than the Mor
ris Brown College Press, hence
the printer had no knowledge of
payment of the bill and could
not accept the copy until the
matter was cleared. When the
account was checked, we imme
diately went to press, but oth
er jobs had come before us.
Maroon Tiger Staff
the flying discs, Dr. Jack, however,
mentioned as significant signs of re
cent progress “the opening of pro
fessional baseball to Negroes, the act
of the U. S. government and certain
national religious organiz a t i o n s
against racial restrictive housing
covenants, and the unsegregated
public meetings in the South.” He
noted as signs of recent defeat “rais
ing the bars against Negroes in the
hotels and taxis of Atlanta more to
day than in previous years, the for
feiture of U. S. leadership in the
United Nations in behalf of racial
minorities, and continual violence
against Negroes both in the South
and in the North."
According to Dr. Jack, there is
some definite progress, however
small, toward the democratic goal of
complete equality. Today, for the
first time we have the reports of
the President’s Committee on Civil
Rights and the President’s Commis
sion on Higher Education. Here, he
said, are “fighting, specific recom
mendations, even if too controversial
and political to be incorporated as
the historic documents on the Free
dom Train. No doubt the U. S. Con
stitution would have been too hot to
handle when it was proposed more
than 150 years ago.”
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