The Stetson Reporter

< * *> j«3*!S«KBH' jutt^)>sbi^<AMiUJ>jMit^iJ^^^^^^^^^ Fifth Year—No. 26 DELAND FLA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1940 2103 Price Five Cents DYSON ELECTED PRESIDENT COLLEGE PRESS GROUP AT CONFAB IN TAMPA Horace Bills Made Vice President, Johnny Cicero, Secretary-Treasurer of Student Body Association Three distinct honors were carried off by the Stetson delegation to the Press and Student Government Convention in Tampa last week. James H. Dyson '41L succeded John Hamilton, University of Florida, as president of the Florida Intercollegiate Press Association and Horace Bills '41 sue ceeded Lydia Theurer as vice- president representing Stetson in National Library Figure ihe Florida Student Government jjefe pof jvjeetmg association. Johnny Cicero '41L is to take over the duties of Secretary-' Treasurer of the joint organiza- rioons, succeeding Dyson, who brought the secretaryship back to Stetson from last year's University of Florida convention. Thomas Hillbish, Miami University, follows Ed Rood, Florida, as president of the student government group. Other officers elected for the government association were Byrne Liaschgi, alternate president, William Emerson, St. Petersburg vice-president, and Zeno Stalnaker, vice- president for Tampa University. In the Press group, Lucy Lee Marsh was elected alternate president, while John Jamison, University of Florida, will represent his institution as vice- president from there. Claude Corrigan, Miami University, and Betty Ray, St. Petersburg, complete the list of vice-presidents. Outstanding among the features of the convention program was the discussion held by the Student Government group Saturday on the problems of an Honor System. Bills, Cicero, Hal Dekle, and Mary Lou Davis outlined' the history and approaching consideration of the Honor Code at Stetson, and Dick Tench discussed the University of Florida system. Bond Giles, Jr., University_ of Tampa, w a s the convention ■chairman in charge of the program which brought speakers such as President Sherman of the University, and Dr. Kenneth X. Berry, Professor of Philosophy at Tampa. Delegates to the Press meeting found much of value in the round table discussions on college newspaper problems. They •express gratification over the fact that the Stetson Reporter is the only college paper in the state favored with its own printing plant, a convenience which saves the Reporter staff many ■of the problems found in other institutions. The Stetson delegation includ- (Continued on Page 5) One of the outstanding visiting speakers on the program of the annual Florida Library Association convention will be Essae M. Culver, of Baton Rouge, presidentelect of the American Library Association. Library Association Will Convene Here ] College Library Problems Will Be Discussed April 4-6 The Florida Library Association will hold its convention here on April 4-6, featuring the discussion of the problems facing the college libraries of Florida. According to Professor Robert W. Severance, librarian of Stetson and president of the association, representatives from all of the College libraries of State have been invited to attend this meeting. Miss Louise Richardson, librarian at the Florida State College for Women, Tal lahassee, and Mr. Walter B. Hill, librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville, will deliver papers on subjects related (Continued On Page 8) New Honor Code To Be Considered At Student Meeting Tomorrow Great Interest Shown in New System Which May Be Voted on Thursday . • The second forward surge in Stetson's march of progress toward the adoption of an'Honor Code marked last Thursdays specially convened student body meeting. Outstanding hilling of tomorrow's regular meeting will be the further consideration and expected approval of the revised Honor Code presented to the students last week by the committe appointed to that project. "The reading of the revised document last week was bv way of prparing the student body for tomorrow's final consideration," Lydia- Theurer, chairman of the committee, states. "Every Stetson student should read the Honor Code in this week's Reporter, and attend the meeting (Continued on Page 5) Law School Day Saturday PJLD/s To Celebrate Twenty Fifth Year On Law School Day Many Returning Members Will Include Leading Barristers of State Twenty-five years of success will be the key-note of the anniversary celebration of David J. Brewer Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. Festivities in recognition of their notable achievement are to take place Saturday, April 6, in conjunction with the program for the second annual Law School Day. Supreme Justice of the Phi Alpha Delta, J. Harry LeBrun, Philadelpria, Penna., will be the special guest of the fraternity and prncipal speaker for the day. Returning to the. campus will be many P. A. D. members, according to the encouraging replies that have been received to the invitations mailed several weeks ago. The chapter indicates that the Stetson lawyers organized on April 3rd of that year. At 10, Saturday morning, several prominent members of the Florida Bar will be initiated to honorary membership of the law society.. The ceremonies are to take, place in the P. A. D. room in thc law school building. Highlight and climax of the morning's celebration is the luncheon to be held at the University Commons, south wing, at 12 noon. Speakers, in addition to Mr. LeBrun, are E. Harris Drew, Hon. Millard D. Smith, John D. Harris, and Erskine W. Landis, all Stetson graduates. Special efforts has been expended by the committees to secure the attendance of the charter members of the local chap- (Continued On Page 8) STETSON DEBATERS RANK NEAR TOP IN KNOXVILLE MEET Lawton, Graham and Lewis Return to Campus; French and Amory Meet U. of Vt. Debaters from Stetson ranked in the upper tenth division at the Pi Kappa Delta national debate tournament in Knoxville the last week in AJarch. Gadi Lawton '41, Vance Graham '41, and John Lewis '43 carried the Stetson banner in this large meeting where about 160 schools were represented. After going successfully through six of the eight rounds, the Stetson forensic artists were eliminated in the seventh. Lawton and Graham debated the affirmative, and Graham and Lewis upheld the negative side of the PKD question of economic and military isolation. Lawton and Lewis saw snow for the first time on this trip and enjoyed makng snowballs. All the boys expressed themselves as (Continued On Page 8) Federal and State Legal Greats Will Attend Second Annual Event Address By Wage-Hour Expert And Senior Law Club Arguments < Will Feature Day's Events Hon George A, McNulty, at present General Counsel of the Wage Hour Division of the Federal Department of Labor, is to be the principal speaker at the second annual law school day. He will speak at 3:30 P. M. Saturday in the Stover Theatre on the subject of "Administrative Process Under the Fair Labor Standards Act," to be followed by a discussion panel in which Hon. Counts Johnson, General Colin- sel, Florida Citrus Exchange, Tampa, Florida, and Hon. M. L. Fleischel, President, Putnam Lumber Company and Past President, Southern Pine Association, will participate. Immediately preceeding the address by Mr. McNulty the third-year Jaw cjlub arguments will be heard by Florida Supreme Court Justices sitting as judges pro tempore of the Supreme Court of Stetson University. Further information as to this event will be found in another column of the REPORTER. Following the business meeting of the Volusia County Bar Association, the barristers will journey to the University Commons for a bonquet and program. Here Justices R. H. Chap- (Continued on Page 4) Three Prize Winning Essays From Stetson Preston, Carter, and Ruiz Win National Spanish Frat Prizes Three Stetson students walked off with the highest honors in the Sigma Delta Phi, National Spanish Fraternity, contest for 1940. Lillian Preston, Louise Carter, and Pat Ruiz took three highest honors. Lillian Preston, '40 of Orlando took the $25.00 first prize with an essay entitled, "Some Pages from a Journal by a Traveler in Peru." Miss Louise Carter, also a senior, of Sanford received the $10.00 second prize with, "The (Continued On Page 8) Double Casts And Glee Club Will Appear In Bohemian Girl Professor Giffin Will Direct Opera On April 5-6 Climaxing several weeks of preparation and hard work, the Sctetson Glee Club will present the opera, "The Bohemian Girl" by Balfe, under the direction of Prof. Harold M. Giffin, Thursday and Friday nights, April 4 and 5, at 8 o'clock in the Stover Little Theater. Two groups of principal characters have been trained for the production—one group singing Thursday night and the second group Friday. Devils-hoof, chief of the gypses, a bass, will be played by James Albritton in the first production and by Alvis Herring in thc second; Count Arnhcim, governor of Fresburg, a baritone, bv Frank Smith and Clifford Wynns. Chris Napoli, tenor, will sing the role of Thaddeus both nights; Arline, daughter of the Count who is only a child in the first act will be played by six- year-old Nancy Stoudenmire. Later, grown to maturity, Arline, a soprano, is played by Barbara Peden and Helene Golding. Rhoda Weimert and Frances Arkley, contraltos, will share honors as the queen of the gypsies. William Carry will be Florestein, nephew of the count, and Alma Kelley, Brida, an attendant to the queen. A chorus of 30 voices chosen from the Glee Club will appear in both productions. Dramatic directors are Mrs. Virginia E. Griffin and Dr. Irving C. Stover. Miss Roberta Orcutt is stage manager and Howard Bateson in charge of dancing. Opera Has European Setting By GRAFTON PYNE, Jr. There seems to be a strange mystery connected with the efforts of putting over a Grand Opera in English with regards to its success. This tale is not new if judged by the history of the opera being presented by the School of Music this year. The much talked about but seldom heard Grand Opera in English "The Bohemian Girl" by Michael William Balfe has enjoyed an interesting if not strange History. The action of the story which is based on the theme of a ballad of French origin "La Gypsy" is in reality not Bohemian at all, however the author having not been able to find a better title called it "The Bohemian Girl." The scene of the opera -is laid in Presburg, a town in Austria- Hungary, on the estate of Count Arnhein, the governor of Presburg. The count, with his daughter, Arline, and his nephew,, Flornstein, depart on a journey when Thaddius, a Polish exile, appears in flight from the Austrian soldiers. At this point /Flornstein and a group of hunters appear on the scene in search of Arline who has been attacked by a stag, but has been saved by Thaddius. The Count, learning of the bravery of Thaddius, invites him to be his guest at a banquet. He is seized by the guests when Devilshoof, the leader of a gypsy tribe, makes good his escape with the infant Arline. Twelve years pass during which time the Count has given up his daughter as lost. She has (Continued On Page 8)