The Stetson Reporter

% The Stetson Reports Third Year—No. 24 Z 103 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1938 COE INITIATED TO PAD. By HARMON HARPER Clarence Darrow dies in reality, and William Jennings Bryan lives in memories. Spring winds have carried the ashes of Clarence Harrow to rest in the city park. The noted aflorney, champion, of the under-dog and professed agnostic, slipped into the silent hall of Death at the age of eighty. Building a great legal career upon his defense of the accused criminal, Darrow became one of the greatest criminal lawyers of the nation. Probably the outstanding case of his defense was the Leobe- Leopole case. These two youths, confessed kidnappers and tortue slayers of little Bobby Franks, were saved from the death penalty by the insanity pleas introduced by Darrow. Today, one is dead, the victim of fellow-prisoners, while the other still serves his ninety-nine year sentence. Sprng winds, scattering the dust of Clarence Darrow, also played upon the grave of William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongued orator of the South whose birlhdate, Saturday, stimulated memories. With a soft, mellow voice and a flair for the common, Bryan soon became ft leader. He served, probably most brilliantly, as Secretary cf St-.ite under Wilson, in which post he made some thirty treaties to aid in preserving peace. Living politically his great philosophy, "He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered wth eternal God for power. . ." when he could no longer work with the Democratic administration, he resigned, and returned to private life. Most of us, however, will remember him for his great role in the '"'evolution" case of Tennessee, where he opposed Darrow on the paramount questions of the truth of the Bible and the ancestry of man. Darrow, believing that there was no here-after and that this world was the fulfillment, was unable to control himself in the face of Bryan's calm, "I believe." Bryan, on the other hand, was led into making statements that caused him to wilt beneath his opposition. A few days after the trial, Bryan slipped away into his Eternity. Now, thirteen years later, the soul of Clarence Darrow, believing in no Beyond, took its flight into the same Un known. STETSON DEBATERS TO ATTEND SPEECH MEET WATLAHTA Clark, Clarson, Taft and Theurer to Debate At Meet STOVER TO SPEAK Dr. Irvingj C. Stover Will Also Preside at Discussion Miss Veronica Davis, head of the Public School Music Department, who will attend music conferences in Tampa and St. Louis, Missouri. ISS DAVIS GOES T IC CONFERE! Music Instructor Goes to National Conference In Missouri- _' Miss Veronica Davis, Instructor of Public-School Music, will attend the meetng in Tampa Friday of the Florida Education Association, and then will journey to the Music Educators National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, March 27 to April i- -■' '.■.'";. The Conference, of which Miss :D;avis ; is, secretary, will/celebrate the centeririiaT oj Music-! teaching in the, schools of Amerca. The meeting, will include general sessions, section group meeting, and music clinics. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Golsch- mann, and the St. Louis public schools^ which contribute special festival events to the meeting. Miss Davis will be accompanied by. Mrs. L. R. Davis, formerly Ohse Ericksen, Stetson alumna, now teaching music in Umatilla, and by Miss Cleva Carson, music teacher at the P. K. Yqnge School in Gaines ville.. Soneone has said that "war is contagion." So it seems. Hitler, beginning the great European game of "Steal a Country" by taking Austria last .week, saw his neighbors follow suit. Poland, with alL the aspects of a child imitating- a Frankenstein, pressed her claims on infant Lithuania. Since Poland is seven times as large, with eighteen times as many people as Lthuania, her demands for a Polish Vilna and the resumption of diplomatic rela- tons carry weight. The city of Vilna, ceded to Lithuania in 1920 by the Russians at the close of the Red war, and seized by Poland a few months later, was given to Poland by the League of Nations, but the Lithuanians refused to recognize this situation. Now, after a skirmish on the Polish- (Continued on Page 8) Stetson Day Held At Orlando Gturch Representing Stetson at the Southern Speech Tournament will be Jane Taft, Lydia Theurer, Sarah Elizabeth Clark and Dorothea Clarson. The tournament will begin next Monday in Atlanta "with ..representatives,, present from schools all over the.South. Dr. Irving C. Stover will accompany the girls and take part in the meeting of the Southern Association of Teachers of Speech. On March 31 Dr. Stover will speak to the -general meeting on "Sp'eech Hygiene'' The next day, there will be a round table discussion of the College Theatre over, which Dr. Stover will, preside. The subject for debate at the tournament will be "Resolved: that the system of unicameral legislation should be adopted by the several states." . All four representatives } from Stetson will take part in the debate' tournament Miss Taft will enter the extemporaneous -ispeakihg contest.,. -•• -Miss, Theurer will enter fhe* extemporaneous and after, dinner speaking contests, .-" . , - On Friday there will be a luncheon at which there will be a representative, from each state. Each person, will be given an excerp from "Gone With The Wind" to read. Sarah Elizabeth Clark will enter this contest,^ representing all of Florida. The Tournament will last for a week^ with headquarters at the Henry Grady Hotel in Atlanta. Harmon Harper, Harvey Olli phant, Harold Clark, and Dick Bald win will go to Winthrop College in Rock Hill, South Carolina for the Grand Eastern Forensic Tournament on April 7, 8, and 9. 7 STUDENTS ENTER FRAT C. F. Coe, Famed Author, Principle Speaker At Banquet WONGREY PRESI D E D Paul Wongrey, Justice of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, who presided at the initiation TE TOR President W. S. Allen spoke at the evening service of Miller Memorial Baptist Church; in Orlando, last Sunday. Dr. Allen's speech came as a climax to j an all-day at the church arranged! by Fayette Hall, pastor and Stetson student. Dr. Allen's theme fojr the talk was "Stetson University: j An Example of Christian Education." In bringing out the ideals of any institution such as" Stetson'[whose; principal objective is a high standard of Christian education, Dr. Allen outlined the various stejps that have been taken in Stetsonjs progress in that direction. j The all-day series j of meetings at the Miller Memorial Church was designated as ."Stetson Day," and all messages and teachings were under the sponsorship] of members of the Stetson Ministerial., Association. Finley Edge and! John G. Mc- Call conducted the moirnng and afternoon services, with Iseveral other MACHEN REPORTS WORK ON ANNUAL The engravers for the Hatter reports, iffhat the pjctuifes for this year's annual are some of the best they have ever worked with, Myra Machen, editor, told a reporter this week. . Admitting that the book will be a good one, Miss Machen added that the book will have about 224 pages, and approximately 700 copies will be printed. Several large pictures of the campus will be used,- and the snapshot section is very clever, she further reported. Miss Machen reiterated her warning made earlier in the year to late students and faculty members who have paid their activity fees for only one semester. If these persons desire a Hatter they must see Jack Gore at once, she states. Stetson students condoctiiig Sunday School classes and B. Y. P. ,U. meetings. Concerts Given in Cocoa, St. Pete, Lakeland and Mt. Dora The Stetson Glee Club gave the initial concert in this year's series of annual tours at the New Smyrna High School at 8 o'cloik last Fri day evening. Second on the Glee Club's proposed itinerary for this season is Lakeland where the club presented a recital at the First Baptist ShurM-- i-Sundayrk- night. .Monday night the clubkgave a recital at the First Baptist Church, St. Petersburg. Tuesday the group sang at the Mount Dora Tourist Club, and tomorrow evening the club will appear at the Kiwanis Club in Cocoa. Other trips will.be made toPanama 'City,.. Daytona Beach, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Gainesville1 and West Palm Beach. , About 36 members of the Glee Club go on the shorter trips, which are usually made by auto through the arrangement of Professor Harold M. Giffin, Glee Club director. The trips to more distant points are made by an average of 50 singers a trip, and are made by bus. Soloists on this year's tours include Helene Goulding, Kay Martin, Rhoda Weimert, Jimmy Wood- fill, Helen Walker, Henrietta Bryant, Sadie Rae Gardner, Roberta Orcutt, Virginia Skaggs, Lyle Sherman, Edward Furlong, Tommy Parker, Norman. Bennett, Robert Wood, and Woodrow Wall. Directors of the individual choruses are Carl Hulbert and Jane McCarty. "Are you still engaged?" "No." "Ah,good. When I knew you last you were engaged to that awful Smith girl. By the way, what ever became of her ?" "I married her." There will be an important meeting of the REPORTER staff this afternoon at 3:30. All members of the staff and any others interested in working on the REPORTER are urged to be present. The Editor State Attorney-General, C. B. Landis, Present At Gathering Charles Francis Coe, an outstanding penologist, crim- inologist, lecturer, and writer of many special articles on crime, told the potential law ycrs at Stetson University last Saturday evening that "the law is not, and never can be, an exact science". Coe, a world known figure, presented a colorful and stirring address on the topic "The Role of Lawyer in Present Day Civilization" before a distinguished banquet gathering at the university Commons. The occasion marked the celebration of the initiation of Coe, Judge Thomas Conely, .gj»md seven Stetson law s|tu-"" dents into membership of David J. Brewer chapter o£ Phi Alpha Delta, national honorary legal fraternity, lasE Saturday afternoon. Seated at the tables with Coe and Conely were active members of the Stetson and the University of Florida chapters of Phi Alpha Delta, State Attorney General Cary D. Landis, Federal Collector of internal Revenue Edwin .1. Larson, State Senator A. O. Kanner, Dean Lewis H. Tribble of the Stetson Law College, Dr. Leonard j. Curtis, member of the law faculty of the University of Arizona, Dr. Paul Raymond, member of the Stetson law faculty, and many other prominent attorneys of statewide reputation. Attorney General Landis, who is an alumnus of the Stetson chapter, drove down from Tallahassee for the event. He acted as toastmas- ter at the banquet. Paul Wongrey, president of the Stetson chapter, presided over the special initiation ceremonies during the afternoon and also at the banquet during the evening. Students initiated along with the famous author and Jud^c Conely arc: John Cherry, Center Hill; John Emmett Clonts, Oakland; Ward Hunter, Jasper; Harris Lowery, Stuart; Neil MacMillan, De- Land; Roy Raidle, Lake Worth; and Wilton Rowe, Orlando. Deviating slightly from his in- tenden speech, Coe took occasion tended speech, Coe took occasion rence for war and the warlords of Europe. "I hate war and its proponents," shouted Coe, "and I'll kill the very first man that attempts to place a war gun over the shoulder of my (Continued on Page 5) (TEXT OF COE'S SPEECH ON PAGE 5) '■"^^K-^