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August, 1939
ALPHA DOINGS AROUND OFFICE OF THE SPHINX
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SPHINX
REAL ESTATE b INSURANCE BROKER
DROTHERS A. D. Shores and W. H. Hollins for several years felt that their group needed t h e service of a first class real estate and g e n e ral insurance business, so, a few weeks ago offices were open to render this service. Brother Shores is an Attorney at law and will serve as vice presi'dent of the company and Brother Hollins, a law student, will be the company's President.
BROTHER W. H. HOLLINS
HTOP picture — Brother Attorney Thurgood Marshall, prominent member of the N. A. A. C. P. legal staff, poses with Lewis O. Swingler, Sphinx Editor, Lieut. G. W. Lee, author and business man, and Utillus Phillips, president of the Memphis N. A. A. C. P. Branch, during a recent visit to Memphis. Behold the Light—In the bottom picture are shown four of five neophyte brothers who crossed the burning sands as members of Beta Xi Chapter, LeMoyne College. Left to right the are: Sphinxman Silas Perkins, Brothers James Barker, Joseph Westbrook, William 0. Speight, William Lewis, and Benjamin Jones.
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
YOUTH arrested last year, 53 or more than 50%, has been arrested at least one time prior to their last ari-ests; 30% of them had been in prison before; out of every 1,000 whose records were filed with the F. B. I., 515 were 30 years of age; 304 under 25 years; 174 under 21 years of age; and this last number of 17'/, of the total number of persons arrested in 1936 were under 21 years of age. These young people accounted for 11% of all murders, 27% of thievery, 24", of rapists; 39% burglars; IS' , of auto thieves, and 26'/, of robberies. This parade is certainly a pitiful self-condemning sight. To know its trend we should know its cause and study its appeal. This should be the task of Alpha Phi Alpha.
BROTHER WILLIAM BOLDEN
DROTHER William Bolden is a product of the Birmingham public schools and Alabama State Teachers College. He is to be remembered as the smiling drummer with the 'Bama S t a t e C ollegians during the days Erskine Hawkins was attending school at Alabama State. He taught science in t h e Jefferson County School System for six years. In nominating Brother Bolden for President the speaker said, "Mr Bolden is a man who does his own thinking."