The Stetson Reporter

Stetson Reporter Second Year—No. 22 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1937 Price ffi SPRING FOOTBALL PRACTICE BEGINS ON NEXT MONDAY Cowell Will Put Squad Through Six Weeks 1 Drill FRESHMEN PROMISING Some Candidates From Yearling Team Should Strengthen Hatters There's no rest for the weary. At least that's what Stetson's footr bailers will tell you this week as they take advantage of the last lingering days before the annual spring football practice gets under way next Monday. , Coach Brady Cowell has sche euled an intensive six week cam paign for the pigskin boys during which time he hopes to get a line on the possibilities for next season's gridiron crew. Only a comparatively few men were lost from last year's squad and this fact coupled with the coming up of some nice freshman material, should provide interesting competition for positions, in the varsity lineup. The end positions vacated by the graduation of Johnny Cudmore and Sam Barber will probably be the chief bones of contention, with Jinv my Dickson, Gus Swanson, Harold Vann, and Skeeter Cobb, the varsity men of last year attempting to hold their spots against the sparkling freshmen duo of Vincent Schaefer and Lynwood Arnold. The majority of the other positions were not harmed a great deal by graduation, but competition will be keen nevertheless. Freshmen Hugh Maxey and Fred Copeland are line candidates of bright promise. The first few, weeks of practice will probably be limited* to loosening up exercises, signal practice, and fundamental drills, with scrimmage being delayed until the final weeks. At that time if last years schedule is followed the squad will be divided into two equal teams with a view towards the game between greens and whites at the close of the spring practice session. SORORITIES LEAD Alpha Xi Delta led all Stetson sororities and fraternities scholastically the first semester with an average of 1.657, it was revealed at the registrar's office. Pi Kappa Phi led the fraternities with an average of 1.101. The, sorority averages were well above those of the fraternities with th6 lowest sorority topping the average of the highest fraternity. Pi Beta Phi had an average of 1.541, Zeta Tau Alpha, 1.319 and Delta Delta Delta, 1.207. Sigma Nu had an average of 0.973, while Delta Sigma Phi, last year's leader,. had an average of 0.975. COYLE EXPOUNDS PUBLIC PUNNING Forum Speaker Says Democracy Can Function Successfully The Stetson male quartet, which sings in Avon Park tonight in a program with the girls' double trio and Miss Sara Staff cornetist. From left to right: Harry Black, James Woodfill, Tom Parker and Norman Bennett, - WOMEN DEBATE! WILL TAKE PARI IN BIG TOURNEY Four Stetson Girls Leave Today for South Carolina Meet i DISCUSS WAGE SCALE SINGERS SET OUT ON SIX DAY TOUR Prof. Giffin and Glee Club Group Leave Tomorrow Yearbook Plans MoYe Rapidly Picture Taking Nearly Completed; "Ad" Sales Are »4 Advancing * Picture-taking for THE HATTER will have been completed by Saturday, according to.. Lloyd Pawley, business manager. The seniors, are the only group, that has not yet ■had their picture taken' and; that will be done this wiek. Members ;t»f THE STETSON REPORTER Staff had their picture taken last Friday afternoon while The American democracy may employ certain types of national planning without destroying freedom or imposing regimentation, David Cushman Coyle, engineer and, social thinker, said in his Forum address in the University auditorium Monday afternoon. The speaker, who has served as technical adviser to a, number of federal projects under the Roosevelt administration, rejected both the fascist and the communist' types of planning and insisted that democratic government is competent to plan successfully for prosperity.. The Forum speaker for next Monday will be Dr. Ethan T. Colton, an authority on Soviet Russia and communism, whose subject will be: Four Patterns of Revolution. •Introduced by Dean G. Prentice Carson, Mr. Coyle explained the inadequacy of enginers to Solve political problems by thefhselves. He pointed out that the science of government, dealing as,it does with human nature, is far more perplexing than any puzzle involving exact principles and mathematical formulas. - Mr. Coyle recommended a broad program of national public works as useful in a period of depression for lowering the unemployment figures and maintaining public purchasing power. A planned federal budget, he said, offers an excellent instrument for taking the peaks out of boom times and leveling out the low places in times of general economic distress; "In a period of 4§p§8Slon>\ he asserted, "thS ie&ifal budget should jtiot bt fealanewt', and this is true all© In thft.es of general prosperity. When money is plentiful, the national treasury should' build up a surplus... In hard years* the govern- -. ment should spend more than it takes from the people." , The leetUfS? lallgd Forty members of the Glee Clubs under the direction of Prof. Harold M. Giffin, will leave tomorrow for a six-day tour that will include performances in Arcadia, Bradentori, Lakeland, and St. Petersburg. The first engagement is in Arcadia tomorrow night at fhe Baptist church. On Friday night they sing in Bradenton at the High School. They perform in Lakeland Saturday night, and Sunday morning, before going to Sr. Petersburg for appearances Sunday night and Monday night. The program to be .presented on the trip is of classical and light compositions. The combined boys and girls clubs sing together and then give separate numbers. Selections by the male quartet and the girls double trio add to the entertainment. Soloists for the program are Professor Giffin, Miss Sara Staff, James Woodfill, and Miss Roberta Orcutt. Miss Jane McCarty is accompanist. Appreciative audiences of Titus* ville and New Smyrna praised Stetson's Glee Club for the entertain- mnt given to them in appearances there during the past , week-end. These were the first out of town engagements of the year. The male quartet composed of Harry Black, JameQ Woodfill, Thomas Parker, and Norman Bennett; and the girls double trio of Henrietta Bryant, Eleanor Varn- um, Roberta Orcutt, Rhoda Wfei- mert, Ruth Bartlett, and Sadie Rae Gardner along with Miss Staff, • cornetist, are giving a presentation in Avon Park today. FLOANNA BURROWS IS CHOSEN QUEEN New Smyrna Girl Elected To Head May Day Festival Floanna Burrows, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burrows of New Smyrna, was unanimously elected to be Stetson's May Queen, at a meeting of the Student body last Thursday. Miss Burrows, a senior, has been outstanding in ^11 that she has undertaken. She is a member of the band, and the orchestra, and was initiated into the Zeta Tau Alphas in 1935, She is quiet and considerably reserved. "I am very happy," Miss Burrows said, "to have been elected May Queen, and I Only hope that you will be as proud of my representing you as I am to be your represent tative." The May Day festival, has-been one of the outstanding events of the school year and promises to be colorful this term. Meanwhile, Men's Group Engages Worthy Opponent at Sanford The Stetson debate team is leaving, this morning for Rock Hill, South Carolina where they will enter the South Atlantic Debate Tournament to be held March 4, 5, and 6. They will be accompanied on the trip by Dean Robert Cotner, debate coach. The team will be composed of all girls. This is the first time that an all girl combination has represented Stetson. Those nominated for the trip are: Lydia Theurer, Sara Elizabeth Clark June Krauss, and Mary Elizabeth Simpson. There will be about twenty-five or thirty schools represented at the tournament with some 130 to 140 debaters. The minimum wage scale will be the subject of debate. Stetson debaters will engage the University of South Carolina in a contest tonight at 8 o'clock in the auditorium, A Youth Extolled In Chapel Talks Miifister and University Head Stress Opportunities Of the Age Singers, Players In Music Recital big business"-'7' . others were taken earlier in the j a "dis8'a&i*.V Capitalism "§: properly j m*S*' ,__ ' basest Upon private enterprises of„ The Stetson A Varied program of v&eal aad instru'mental seliCtiawS Was pres- * ented last night i» Elizabeth Hall juditoriu-rt fev Stetson students of (jay. - I bssm. tipon private enterprises Pawley „ addgd tfeit.'%U the class Sft&derate size, he said. Too gt$\ pictures except "thai *5f the seni'ftrl size and streat'th in a corpor&iWh is have, already, jjoftt to the pr'iSteis. ■tie also said Vfth approval', Wat all the organftilfans who- intended reserving- Sssace for'-'pictBres - have al- ready '-done so. y - ! •A'botit one-third 'of f4he space, re-' "served for "ads" %& already beeA 'sold and saleB;arV*p¥ogressing hidte- 4y. ' - ,, ■-.' ■ , ■■" dangerottSs,, for it permits,sftS management \o purchase Ititslators. Tfi;% vast potehtiaj&tes, of. the fedferal income tax Wfere emphasized by the lecture:?. He, expressed the belief that a S*und old age pension scheme mist eventually be based upon re'fenues drawn -.- from income taxes. "" male quartet afld Katherine Martin supplied the vocal arrangements ©f the p«graffl. The accompanists we-rfe Ruth Murphy and Ftoa&na BufrSwS. ; Instrumentalists W%re: Elizabeth Jalftpson (org*®), Verna Baeri (violifi),, Arthur iiurrows (violin!-, Josephine ;(i>sb*rfne (organ)., *R*th M&rphy <{pm£®), Barbara 4tevis fviolin-K [siA Harry Parker and Ba-r-ty Wafer (trombone)-. Two distinguished ! guests who praised youth and its glorious opportunities were speakers at the Friday assembly hour at Stetson University. . Dr. Austin T. Kempton, pastor of the Broadway Baptist church, Cambridge, Mass., told the student body that each member was a "millionaire." He showed how they possessed infinite treasures in their physical equipment, mental powers and spiritual endowment. The great opportunities which face the young men and young women of today were emphasized by Dr. B. E., Guer, president of Furman University, Greenville, S. C. Asserting that grave problems and acute crises are known in every age and constitute challenging opportunities, he quoted with approval Wordsworth's famous lines— "BUss was it in that dawn to be alive, "But to bS young was very hfeavfen!" SPEECH STUDENTS IN RADIO DRAM Dr. Stover's Pupils Present "Cyrano" for Air Audience , ©ft. STOVER TO SI?-MK, "Dr. Irving C. Sto'veft, director of ■dramatics at Stetson 1W11 be guest speaker at the QWimMl banquet of the Daytona B-es&h Tourist Club to be held next Fwda'y night at 6:00 o'clock, at fee 'Community M.E. Church, A dramatic sketch of "Cyrano de Bergerac" was presented through WDBO, Orlando, Monday night by the speech department of Stetson. Broadcast from the Little Theatre, the play was the thirteenth in a series of Stetson radio programs to be sent out from that station. Dr. Irving C. Stover, head of the dramatics department, was in charge of the radio adaptation. The Little Theatre Orchestra played in the background while a chorus from the Glee Club sang Ave Marie during scenes. The players were rj. follows: Cyrano (Carl Weeks), La Brete (Paul McEntire), Ligniere (Malcolm Day) Roxanne (Alice McLaughlin), Captain (Robert Powe), 1st Cadet (M. J., Bouterse, Jr.), Christian (Lawrence Haddock), de Guiche (Malcolm Day). ,,,: TELEVISION AT DREKA'S An educational demonstration of television is being offered the public at the G. A. Dreka department store under direction of Earle Caperon, advertising manager. The demonstration which will be concluded to night allows two person to converse over telephones and see the party at the other end of the line reproduced on a small plate, Tim photo transmission is very distinct and shows clearly the slight- test change in facial expressions, TOUCH FOOTBALL SCORES Stetson Hall defeated Conrad Hall yesterday 42^9 in touch football. Othfer scores of the pust week are Delia Sigs 52, Sigma Nus, 25;' Conrad Hall,, 22, Ministers, 4; Sigma N«® 13, Stetson Hall 9.