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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,- (Continued on Page Five) 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- (Continued on Page Five) 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.” Morehouse Celebrates 81st Anniversary, Feb. 18th