The Stetson Reporter

"?<»--.?*' j*-v . !«.-"•* "S'.S**""' 'V May Your Holiday Season Be A Happy One The Stetson Reporter ^ Fifth Year—No. 14. DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13, 1939 Z103 Price Five Cents *&*** Advertising the SoHtMand Nell Mires Poses With Orange Trees to Sell Florida to North By Sara Ellen Mobley If you can tear your eyes away from the bit of feminine beauty, Nell Mires, long enough to cast a glance at the box en' casing the roots of the orange tree, you will get an idea of how one of Honda's finest specimens (still talking about the tree) is boxed for its ultimate journey from DeLand to the New York World's Fair. Forty of these trees have been taken from nurseries in central Florida and boxed, and these same trees have their "winter quarters" in the slat'houses on Adelle and Howry avenue in DeLand where they are chemically treated to withstand the rigors of the change in location from sunny Florida to what was formerly known as Flushing Meadows. The trees have to be kept in these boxes while at the fair and are still in contact with Florida soil, for the Plusing Mealows territory were formerly used as a city dump before Grover Whalen waved his magic wand. The welfare of the trees is just one of the responsibilities of Earl W. Brown, former mayor of DeLand and former secretary- manager of the DeLand Chamber of Commerce, who is manager of the entire exhibit, and guided the much-talked of achievement to success. The headquarters of the exhibit is located at the rear of the Putnam Hotel in DeLand. 5,000 Shipped According to Mr. Brown, over (Continued on Page Five) Debate Squad to Have Rest Before Spring Program Gordon Kipp Wins First Place in Oratory- Contest at Rollins After a week which saw hectic activity crowded into two successive days, the Stetson debate squad will enjoy an extended vacation until the spring program gets under way. Debating the question of U S. isolation, nine members of the ssuad, with their director, Professor C. A. Hickman, attended an invitational meet with Rollins College in Winter Park Friday. The proposition used is the national Pi Kappa Delta ques- (Continued on Page Five) First Open Forum Lecture Will be i 'Held January 9 i I Harvard Professor to I Discuss European i Politics of Today ' A discussion of European ' politics is to be the timely sub- I ject for the opening lecture of i the 1940 Forum series, Tuesday, January 9th. Carl J. Fried- | rich, prof^sor of government at Harvard University, will address the assembly of students and townspeople who frequent the Lecture Hall. Originally donated to University by the late Dr- Robert Phailer -Iolmes, the series is now in its 10th year through the generosity of Mrs. Holmes, who has notified the president's of- fice that the Forum series will be continued this year. "I express the deepest appreciation to the late Dr. Holmes and to Mrs. Holmes for this marvelous gift," Dr. Allen said. '"The Forum series is by far one of the finest offerings of the University." Following Dr. Friedrich's discussion January 9 will be one lecture a week for a period of nine weeks to be held in the auditorium in Elizabeth Hall. The program is so arranged that opportunity for questions from the floor is provided for the audience. The program for the rest of the series will include such speakers a^: January 16—Dr. Ethan Col- ton, Authoi and Lecturer. Topic: ''Raw Material for Revolution in America." January 23—Albert Viton, Foreign correspondent in Europe and near East, 1934-1939. Topic: "What is happening in the Holy Land" January 30—Dr- Henry Smith I^eiper, American Secretary of the World Council of Churches. Topic: "The Rising Religions of Nationalism and Human Fre8- dom." February 6—Robert C. Dexter, Director Department of Foreign Relations, American Unitarian Association. Topic: "America's Responsibility in the (Continued on Page 5) Women Are Playin In Literature, Smith Women are taking a more' prominent place today in litera- <ure than ever before, Charles G- Smith, dean of the University, declared Wednesday in a talk to the Eustis Womans Club. Calling attention to Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickenson, Ellen Glasgow and other leading contemporary writers, Dtan Smith said that women are the leaders of all literary artists today. "Beginning with the 19th century women have come out of biding and taken a real initiative in the world of letters," he said. "Up until that time there g Greater Part Declares had been women who encouraged literary activity and some who dabbled in it, but there had been no really commending figure." Chief attention was given in his lecture to the background in the development of American literature. Pie explained the pare played by English romanticism and classicism. At the meeting Orian Osburn '43 entertained the club with two piano selections, while Mildred Wade '41, accompanied by Rosemary Clark '40, offered two violin selections. PLAYERS TO PAINT FAMILY PORTRAIT TONIGHT AT 8:45 IN LITTLE THEATRE Sarah Elizabeth Clark Will Lead Dramatists in Biblical Play By Emmett Peter Taking their brushes and palettes in hand tonight and tomorrow night, a cast of 33 Sretson dramatists will paint a Family Portrait- Under the direction of Dr. Irving C. Stover, professor <->f speech and Mrs. Willie Dee MacEntire of the speech dc partment, the players have retouched their roles, and are pre^ ;>ared to present the simple yet forceful play which held sophisticated Broadway audiences breathless, for two years. The part of Mary, mother of Jpvh. will be handled In Sarah Elizabeth Clark '40, w" h i 1 e Jo-cph, son of Mary, is played by Edward Dail '42, a transfer student from Pennsylvania. Because of prayer-meetings tonight, the curtain-call has been delayed until 8:45. Tomorrow, however, the play will begin promptly at 8. Winning acclaim from almost every Broadway critic, Family Portrait gained the approval of large New York audiences who hailed it because of its charming picturization cf small-town Biblical life. v "In Family Portrait," Rosamond Colder wrote in Theatre Arts Monthly, "Lonore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen have brought no less a figure than Mary, the mother of Jesus—and by implication Jesus himself — onto the stage to express a redeeming hope, to reaffirm {Continued on Page 5) Sarui Euzaisktr Ciark Playing the part of Mary, mother of Christ, Sarah Elizabeth Clark '40 will lead a cast of 33 dramatists in the presentation tonight and tomorrow night of Family Portrait. Curtain call is 8:45 tonight and 8 tomorrow night. Convention Date Set for Press, Government Groups Annual Confab to Be Held at Tampa March 8 and 9 Convention date in 1940 for the Florida Intercollegiate Press and Student Government Associations will be March 8 and 9 at the University of Tampa, it was decided here Saturday by a delegation from six Florida colleges and Universities. Presided over by Jimmy Dyson '41L, secretary-treasurer of both groups, and meeting jointly in the Com- (Continued On Page 8) Students Discard Studies, Leave For Christmas Vacation Friday In spite of the weather and the strain of a Beauty Contest, something of a Christmas spirit is beginning to creep on' to the campus. Beginning with presentation of the Messiah on Sunday 'and continuing through the rest of the week with the Little Theatre productions on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, students are being constantly re- " minded that it is Christmas season arid that vacation begins Friday. Proving that students are becoming Christmas conscious, two freshman were overheard earnestly about whether or not there is a Santa Claus. Northern students are beginning to get out their red flannels and top loats in preparation for the pilgrimage into the icy wastes of their home land, and piactically everyone is racking his brain for a suitable excuse to ease the explanation of that letter from the Dean. Although Saturday classes Beafifv hv ESa£Sot Honor's Contest Closes Today Pulchritude produces pennies for the poor! The contest sponsored by the Honor, women's leadership organization, to choose the ten f5$st beautiful co-eds on the campus will reach a climax today—the deadline for casting votes. At the close of Monday's voting, Betty Ann Fairish '42, member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, topped the list of those in the running with a total of Z4-5 votes, while Emmaline will be held on the 16th, DeLand will begin to lake on the appearance of a ghost city once the exodus begins on Friday. \ccording to Librarian R. W. Severance, books which were checked from the library previous to Dec. 9 will be due by Thursday Dec. 14, while books checked out after Monday December 11 will not be due until Thursday January 4, 1940. The Cafeteria will serve its last meals at noon Saturday December '16, and its first of the new year at noon Tuesday, January 2. Betty Ann Parrish 255 Erin Mercer 255 Julia Pennington 254 Florence Green 250 Emmaline Hand/ey...210 Edith Raffo 158 Dot Jennings 150 Mildred Brown 143 Polly Pasteur 127 Lillian Williamson ... 64 Handley '40, Alpha Xi Delta, was second with 175 votes. In third place with 155 wras Erin Mercer '411, Tri Delt. Helen Plooks '40, chairman of the contest, expressed approval with both the number of ballots and the way votes are being cast. "I am greatly pleased with the contest," she said. "The proceeds will aid a worthy cause as well as institute a new method of selecting Stetson's prettiest co-ed. The Honor will not benefit fron- the contest financially."