Atlanta Daily World

Kappa Polemarch Wilkins
Addresses Morehouse Students

On Wednesday, November 24, Pi Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity gave its annual Thanksgiving program in Sale Hall Chapel at Morehouse College. The address was delivered by J. Ernest Wilkins, prominent Chicago attorney and national head of the fraternity who was in Atlanta attending the Southeastern regional meeting of the fraternity.
In his address, Mr. Wilkins paid tribute to the women of the race, declaring that "as we respect our women, so shall we be respected." He also paid tribute to his former law partner, William H. Haynes, an alumnus of Morehouse who died several years ago. Mr. Wilkins stressed the importance of gratitude to those who made our education so as to lift the masses from the whom they came. "As the individual rises, the race rises," he said, but only in proportion as the individual uses his advantages to raise the level of his own people."

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Touching the subject of civil rights, the eminent legal authority declared that he believed that President Truman's motives in pressing civil rights were inspired by the position of world leadership into which our country has been placed. The President realizes, he said, that no world leadership can be assumed or maintained by a nation that doles out half citizenship to a large segment of its citizens.
In conclusion Kappa's Grand Polemarch exhorted college fraternities to "gird their loins in a united front, to assume places of leadership in the country so that they will be recognized as a force for good . . . to shun snobbishness and not set themselves up apart from the masses."
Presiding on this program was C. Roliand Gosha of Savannah, Ga., a Morehouse senior and Polemarch of Pi Chapter, who introduced the speaker of the occasion. A musical selection was presented by the Pi Chapter Quartet, which sang "The Last Old Oak" by Loder-Charley.
As is customary of Pi Chapter each year, a sum of money was presented by Bertram Sears to Mrs. Jeannette B. Stewart, College hostess, to be used for a worthy charity to bring Thanksgiving cheer to the needy. Mrs. Stewart announced that the money would be used to provide Thanksgiving dinners for two deserving families, one of which being a family that lost two children in a recent fire while the mother was shopping for food in a grocery store.