The Stetson Weekly Collegiate

STETSON FIRST LAST AND ALL THE TIME ®tjr -Hrtamt Utoklg (Unlbgiat?. WE BOOST THE UNIVERSnY YOU BOOST THE COLLEGIATE VOL" XXX PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY. DOCUMENTS LOOKING TOWARD PEACE DELAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1917 NUMBER 5 HI. The German Reply. THE WAR NAGGERS. ^.By 'Plie New York World.) Twenty-four hours after Lord Xortheliffe made his sensational attack on the British Government THE KENT CLUB. The first number of the Kent Club program was a? speech by R- R. Roebuck, which was prefaced with the following remarks: Herr Cardinal: Vour Eminence has been good enough, together with your letter of August 2. to transmit to the Kaiser and King, my most gracious master, the note of his Holiness the Pope, in which his Holiness, filled with grief at the devastations of the world war. makes an emphatic peace appeal to the heads of the belligerent peoples. The Kaiser-King has deigned to acquaint me with your Eminence's letter and to intrust the reply to me. His Majesty has been following for a considerable time with high respect and sincere gratitude his Holiness's efforts, in a spirit of true impartiality, to alleviate as far as possible the sufferings of the war and to hasten the end of hostilities. The Kaiser sees in the latest step of Ens Holiness fresh proof of his noble and humane feelings, and cherishes a lively desire that, for the benefit of the entire world, the Papal appeal ma}" meet with success. The effort of Pope Benedict is to pave the way to an understand- i ing among all peoples, and might ] more surely reckon on a sympathetic reception and the wholehearted support from his Majesty, seeing that the Kaiser since taking ovpr the Government has regarded it as his principal and most sacred task to preserve the blessings of peace for the German people and the world. En his first speech from the throne at the opening of the German Reichstag on June 25, 1888. the Kaiser promised that Ms love of the German Army and his position toward it should never lead him into temptation to cut short the benefits of peace unless war were a necessity, forced upon us l_S an attack on the empire or its allies, The German Army should safeguard peace for us, and should peace, nevertheless, be broken, it would be in a position to win it with honor. The Kaiser has. by his acts, fulfilled the promise- he then made in twenty-six years of happy rule, despite provocations and temptations. In the crisis which led to the present world conflagration his Majesty's efforts were up to the last moment flireeted toward settling die <____fl_f_. by peaceful _3DE_ After the war had broken out. against his wish and desire, the Kaiser, in conjunction with his high allies, m irst solemnly clare his readiness to enter into peace negotiations. The German peo: »_rt his Majesty as keen d : peace. Germany sought within her na- . frontier the free develop- piritual and material Li-i 1 outside the im- i ternton- unhindered <3_a__pfc lition with n. t__ equal esteem. The n the world in n , with *_teo of th A disastrous eoncaienaiion _ n die __m Mffli a&ffld i stormed ffi»- lioodv hai:le. uena. | and declared that "unless there is While in Arcadia this summer I iprovement in our methods j here the United States will rightly take into its own hands the entire .management of a great part of , the war," Theodore Roosevelt made | an address at Princeton in which ! he berated the United States Gov- j ernment for the inadequate manner hi which it has conducted offensive measures since the war began. "As a matter of fact." said Mr. Roosevelt, "we have done called on my first cpusin there, who was at that time the manager of the electric light and ice plant of that little city. One of the first things he told me was that he expected a man even- day to take his place with the Company. I immediately inquired as to what the trouble might be, and he told me that he was going to a certain officers training camp in about two weeks. STETSON LITERARY SOCIETY less than Portugal." Furthermore: I "What," I asked, "have you been j drafted?" He replied "that he had By beginning to act with energy on Feb. 1. the day after the German note arrived, we could have had hundreds of thousands of efficient fighting men at the front in August. In such an event it might well have been that Russia would have taken heart and would now be organized for orderly, self-respecting liberty and victory. And Italy (especially if we had done our clear duty by declaring war on Austria) would not have met with disaster. It would be flattering to describe this as nonsense; but the casual reader can take Northcliffe and Roosevelt in any way he pleases. If H_5 hat^ IJoyd Georp* and likes Wilson the thing to do is to applaud Northcliffe and deplore Roosevelt. If he likes Lloyd George and hates Wilson it then becomes essential to assail Northcliffe and commend Roosevelt. But if he desires without prejudice to find a just valuation upon the war measures and war activities of Great Britain and the United States he will throw aside both Northcliffe and Roosevelt as prejudiced, unreliable witnesses whose testimony is wholly biased by their political ambitions and grievances. Regardless of Lord Northcliffe, the achievements of the British Government during this war have never been equalled in the history of the race. In three years it has obtained a military efficiency greater than Germany obtained after forty years of intensive preparation. As for the United States. the Roosevelt criticism is no less silly than malicious. Tlie war accomplishments of this unwariike country dining the last eight months have been magnificent. A year ago nobody would have believed that such a record was financially, industrially economically or administratively possible. At the same time Great Britain and :he I anted Siaie. nade innumerable mistakes and have (.hindered gravely. Thev wdi iinue to make mistakes and to blunder. But criticism that is not intelligent, thai & not truthful. is not scrupulously honest, and patriotism to induce men to sub- not, so I proceeded to ask him how he managed to get his consent to give up his position until the government deemed it necessary. "Well," he said, ft am "still unmarried; I am within the draft age and am positive that I will pass the examination, therefore I consider myself in a. very serious dilemna; all of my alternatives are conclusively against my relations with the Company. Now this week I observed the following notice, and a number of similar ones, on the bulletin boards in the two law recitation rooms: "Make an engagement for yourself with the Kent Club," and last Friday night I had occasion to realize that the Club actually had authority to make engagements for its members, so G deemed that notice fair warning; m other word- it occurred to me that I might be in a dilemna. I immediately thought of my cousin's situation. and after a short period of deliberation decided that I would try his plan of solving the problem, so T looked up the attorney and volunteered to speak tonight. lit most cases volunteers are given certain privileges: and personally I believe in voluntary activity for still another reason, namely, because a voluntary act is usually construed as an act which manifests character and in this connection character means whatever lies behind an act in the way of desire and deliberation. As a volunteer tonight I have avoided the possible ordeal of making an extemporaneous speech and have even been allowed the privilege of choosing my own subject. f will speak to you for just a few minutes about the "Importance of common sense and a knowledge of human nature in advocacy, or in the practice of law." Mr. Roebuck':-; consideration of the above subject will appear in a later issue of The Collegiate. m Last Friday evening much enthusiasm was shown by the Stetson "Litiets" as the tryout debate for the choosing of the debaters with the Public School w-as held at that meeting. Prof. Barrell had selected two other members of the faculty to be the judges and so Dean Carson and Dean Rasco were present for the meeting. The program manager had proposed a method of choosing the debaters for the tryout and it had been followed out by the members. Every member who did not take the opportunity and be on the debate missed a fine chance of being chosen for other debates. i-ccording to the method of tryout even- member was permissible to be on it and if they had some real Stetson interest they should have shown it then. More had been expected to be on the debate, so only the following short program was given: Stetson Star—Dorothy Peters. Current Events—Theo. Hon. Reading—Viola Powell. Debate—Resolved that the United States Crovernment should own and control all the railroads of the United States. Affirmative. Ada Stallings. Kath- ryn Leisher and Edna Ace. Negative—There were no names handed in for the negative side. Tlie judges will give their report next Friday evening. The nomination of officers took place, after which the meeting THE CAMPUS ORACLE HARRY KATZ Last Sunday Dr. Hulley fliv- vered over to Sanford. where he delivered two addresses. In the morning he spoke to a crowded house on "The Best Equipment of a Soldier." and in the evening he spoke before a much larger audience, the house being jammed, on the subject. "Over the Top." Much credit is due our college President for the deep interest uath which he works and the work he has and is still accomplishing for our country in this great time of need. During the entire fall term his talks at Vespers have all been on the subject of our present war. Some of the places at which Dr. Hulley has lectured during the week nights are New Smyrna. Daytona, Ormond, Lake Helen. Orange City, Osteen. Pier- son, Eustis, Sanford. Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and Birmingham, Ala. President Hulley is taking an active part in all war duties and activities, among which are selling Liberty Bonds, urging food consenation and the big Y". M. C. A. drive. He is constantly writing letters to our bovs at the front. Lieutenant Commander L. W. Strum was a visitor to the University last Wednesday as a personal guest of Dr. Hulley. Lieut. Commander Strum and his wife left the following day for the Samoan Islands, where Robert Louis Stevenson spent his lat and . MILITARY. Although most of the fellows like the drill and want it, very few, if any of them are sorry that they now have to drill three times a week instead of five. This new arrangement gives more time for necessan- outside activities, more Mr. Herman _______ has returned to DeLand to resume his studies at Stetson. Mohr says you can't keep a good man down. That's common sense. We are all glad to see Delta Haynes back at her studies. That's time for the library, and makes the proper spirit. Delta. our program in even way more convenient. A very interesting feature has been introduced lately into our drills—calisthenics. These exer Mr. Rudolph D. Peterson, possessor of an _______ B. degree from Stetson, was on the campus last week, .greeting some pf his former us_ school mates. "Big Pete" would clesthando the ordinal drill andi have ******& ** LL-B" deSrce will do us good in more wavs than!this SP™g wem * a0t for dle tact one. H_ is an inspiration " to seejthat our country has been plunged or Lowe go through these iata war ^ «&!____« Lome exercises; we will have to go some to put the same ____________ of pep and vim into them as he does. Tlie Major is a living example of the great benefit that can be gotten from military training. His quick, eye and correct carriage is something to work for. 0 TTn? STETSON "_£" Mr. Childers was at his home at Ft. Meade last week-end tor the [impose of attcnui-. some - ,'SS. again. Pete. Some smiling faces of Chaudoin will be missing this week-end. Tlie Trr-Delts" will spend a happy Thanksgiving week-end at the home of Mrs. Rutherford. "Good-bye, Good luck, God bless you all. but "Don't forget to come back home." iCcratlmied from pass ttoee.) ward wholly paln i is worse than no critic; ''■ tor it mis- ;.d to weaken national /•ration. War is \TorT: ;id Ron.- -iools of criticism have bloomed into ■full (lower in Russia, where ,-ountn- is given over _rchy .because there was not enough ordinate their minor differences to a vital common pm~- criticism is directed award overcoming definite weakness and deti- -..[■. o _______ government more effective as a war measure, it plavs directly into the hands of the enemy. Germany will _ be beaten down by British ______ American naggers, but onl-- doers iters. Miss Myrtle Barbe and Miss Valkenberg spent the last week-end at their homes on Daytona. Miss Ethel Sholtz spent the weekend at _____ home in Daytona. be. took Helen with her. of com*: The "S" has always been held in great honor and esteem at Stetson. Tt has been an rmwritten law in the University that only- such persons who have earned their "S" in ________ to wear it. Among die men. there is an"S" Club and the Girls Basket Ball team has always held privilege of bestowing this honored The students' old slogan, "loo svmbol on -Etch as meet the re- much grits and | ' seems quirement in their sport. The Bfi dying out. One of greater rris: champion also has the privilege import and meaning has taken _u_ng our school emblem. its place: "Open the doors of Q the Carnegie Library for a couple ______ Stenwail ■vsited TStusville (Jf hours '^ter &m lasr week for die purpose of attending the Christian Endeavor convention. Miss Newton spent the weekend ;e Helen.