The Stetson Reporter

Stetson B. STETSO! rvEasiTY K», FJXIK1U. Wafc/ung The World By HARMON HARPER Within a few days Stetson will have an official suggestion, from the appointed committee, on the newly proposed "Honor System" of student government. It is very doubtful if the system will be put into operation here but if it is, its success depends upon the same law that success in all systems of government depend. That law that makes success in any form of organization is honesty. This means active honesty not passiveness. This means the honesty of the administrators and since the administrators are the individual students it means the individual honesty of each student. It means honesty in regard to oneself by not cheating. But this is by far the least important. Above all it means honesty in curbing the dishonesty of those that do not observe the common law. One must be honest enough to society and to the University to tell a fellow student to stop cheating and to report him to the seat of justice if he does not stop. The principle reason for the present conditions in our democracy is that honesty is passive. Active honesty is the law of success in any system. One must write of Italy's fiery poet, Gabrieie D'Annunzio, the one- eyed soldier poet who was determined to die on an ice floe at the North Pole or to dissolve himself in a chemical solution when he felt death approaching. But despite his desire to die on a desert of ice or in some other lonely, morbid manner the Black Angel of Death caught him at his desk and he slipped into the Unknown from a brain hemorrhage. An ardent Facist and also a fiery lover the former soldier died at his poetry desk. Italy sees today on display the royal crown and imperial sceptre of Emperor Haile Selassie. Formally it was presented to Mussolini who ordered it placed on exhibition in Rome's public museum. All Italy can see what 1,732 Italian lives bought. Jn a militaristic dictatorship life is cheap. It is used to buy trinkets of jewels or lands or power. As winter lays her blanket of snow over the ancient land of China the agressive hordes of Japan continue to seek the peace and friendship of their yellow neighbors by pushing ruthlessly into the interior of new provinces. China's snow is red from the blood of her people as they are forced to retreat before the mechanized forces of the Nipponese. Behind them they leave some 50,000 lifeless defenders of home huddled on the fields waiting for God given snow to cover their shattered remains and the effacing hand of time to return them to the ancient soil which they died to save from the aggressors' gulp. In Czechoslovakia crowds cheer as their prime minister tells Hitler that to the last breath will they defend their land. Equally they will talk with de Ferhuer about his 3, 50O.CO0 children which live in the lands of the Czechs but nothing like Austria will be tolerated in this war born state. The sister state of California lies today with 30,000 square miles of (Continued on Page 8) PLANS COMPLETE FOR DEBATE TRI Atlanta And Rock Hill Meets Included In Itinerary Plans for the spring debate season were male public at a special meeting of the Debate Club called on Monday afternoon. Dr. Irving C. Stover, who is faculty advisor for the Debate Club during Dean Cotner's illness, disclosed that two trips will be made' during March and April. Two wo- j men's teams will go to Atlanta to i the convention of the Southern Teachers of Speech Association from March 29th to 30th. Tryouts for this tournament will be held next Monday and Tuesda afternoos. At the same time, the four boys will be chosen to go to the Grand Rock Hill. South Carolina, April 7, (Continued on Page 5) OPERA! PO FO Jiv.£j.ix*iLi, mAiim "Gondolier" To Be Given Friday And Saturday Evenings HOLMES SERIES ENDS WITH SIMONS EUROPEAN SPEECH Attack On Hitler Marks The Conclusion Of Season __ Photo by Blank-Stoller, Ina, DR. ROBERT SHAJXOH HOLMES : STETSON DELEGATES AT F. E. A. MEETING The Gondoliers, comic opera by ■ Gilbert and Sullivan, will be presented Friday and Saturday nights „__ _. .. . ~ .„ , . ., Ci _. ... u Stetson University will be web .by the Stetson combined choruses I , ,,.,,,, l I *u r ■+,., ti, ^ I represented at the 52nd Annual I at the Little Theatre. ,. . „ , ,-, ., A „• , iU . 'Meeting of the Florida Education pt-.a-L.c A comic opera of the type repre- . . . ^naiies sented by last year's production, "Pirates of Penzance," the Gondoliers promises to be an even bigger A.D. TO INITIATE UNOWNED WRITE! success than the former. Under the direction of Prof. Harold M. Giffin and Miss Roberta Orcutt, the choruses have been practicing for several weeks, and will be letter (and note) perfect when the curtain parts ^Friday night. ' Dr. Irving C. Stover and Mrs. Association to be held in Tampa on March 24, 25, and 26. Dr. B. F. Ezell, Mr. Robert Sever- ence, Miss Lucy Ann Neblett, and Miss Maude Emma King plan to at- Francis Coe Will Join Dsvid J. Brewer Chapter Charles Francis Coe, nationally "Hitler rules by sympathy and i' terror" said Hans Simons, a "vol- , t untary" exile from Germany, yes- i tcrduy, in an address that closed the Stetson University Forum series 'for 1938. 1 Tho only means of preventing another world war is to halt the increasing predominance of Germany . in Europe, Mr. Simons, who was an of'fcial of the German Republic , created after the World War, told the forum assembly. Mr. Simons fu.-ther remarked that sympathy ' with the Hitler regime is a result 1 of the severe terms 'of the Versail- !■ : «..:'.•.•, ill reparations and dis- jr n -—it ;.--jv'sicns, and the eco- jn t-'c woe that befell Germany immediately after the war. He as- , seited that Hitler's terrorism is a thing of staggering actuality that lias crushed strong men and forced their obedience. | This address concluded the most • access ful and best attended series -)f lectures held at Stetson University. The program is donated by Dr. Robert Shailor Holmes of Daytona Beach, a Stetson'trustee. Dr. Holmes, author, educator, and traveler has been active in forum work since his retirement in 1910. In 1914, Dr. Holmes organized the Florida Forum Assembly at Daytona Beach. He has served as ;ts president, as well as being president of the Forum Speaker's Bu- "eau; secretary of the National tend. Miss King and Dr. Ezell will known author> lecturer' and crimi" take part in the program. Rologst of New York and Palm Robert M. Hutchins, President of Beach' is to be at Stetson Malch the University of Chicago, will be 19' at which tlme he wil1 be one of the principle speakers of the lnitiated int0 Phi AIPha Delta> le8al assembly. Carleton Washburne, in- fraternity. According to Paul Ivirpini* Piffln h... !,«.« nnnM, ternationally -known educator and ¥ ""■»■»"■* ■» rdL» wouB.e Virginia Giffin have been coach-1 ' wjnnetka Plan o» In Justice of the local David J- Brew i ing the dramatic portions of the autllor ot tne w,nnetka Plan o, In- _,.___ „ „ . ^ .. „ operetta. , struction, will group. Racquet Removes Pests From Feminine Fearfuls Wongrey, er also address the chaPte,r of R A" D < Mr- Coe has recently passed the Florida Bar examinations and has opened a law office in Palm Beach. At the dinner to be given in the University Com- , mons March 19, it is expected that • many well-known alumni of Phi Alpha Delta will be present to hear ,' him as principal speaker. His sub- Perhaps it would have been better ject js t0 bs on the role of the if Margaret had gone on in her room hwyer in modern civilization_ Judge T. W.. Conelv, of Okeecho- Clark Cops Chaudion Championship In Bruising Battle Of Bats with a scream. BY THEDA JOHNSON Residents of Chaudoin Hall ceased man-chasing for about two hours] The bats, incidentally were in a far in ignorance, because when nex seen she was standing in the mid die of the ironing room, screaming, _n.tiat_on csremonies wlth Mr. Coe. for someone to come to her re-cue., Jud„ Conely has served in the . , „.. . . A . , ,Thebats' lncidentall>' were in £l f'lri Florida legislature and is now judge last Friday night and went in for .distant hall causing terror in other. 0 "bat-chasing" in a big way. 'feminine hearts i • ■_, »,,,.., ™ " itimmiK. u^ius. I wce-presidtmt of the Florida Bar Nomination for the bravest coed I Frances Coe was perhaps the most As^.-nt'iu. on the campus goes to Hallman! humorous sight in the dormitory as The Honorable Homer S. Cum- Clark who very gallantly slew the J she stood in the middle of a room mings.attorney-general of the Uni- invaders with a tennis raquet. Judg-Jwith her mouth full of toothpaste, ted States, has been invited to at- ing from the form dsplayed in her unable to utter a word. The bats, tend the annual Phi Alpha Delta battle with the bats, its hard to say thoughtlessly interrupted her as she dinner which is to be held at the whether Hallman has ever had ajwas in the process of brushing her Commons building on the evening lesson in tennis in her life. But les- teeth. j of March 19th_ Cummings, who sons or no lessons—that girl really] The sound of slamming doors,'was a member of Phi Alpha Delta swings a wicked raquet! running feet, and screams of fright at Yale University, is spending a The intruders were first seen by filled the halls. Finally some ad- two weeks vacation in Florida. Amy Massey and Margaret Phillips venturous men took their lives in The invitation was tendered to as the bats were soaring along the their hands and proceeded boldly the Roosevelt cabinet member by ceiling of the downstairs parlors, up the center stairs, only to be Dean Tribble of the Law College. Margaret, being a city girl, immed- greeted by Hallman, the liberator, Tribble is a charter member of the Open Forum Council, and founder of the Forum Lecture and Reading Courses for adults. The series opened January 11th with a lecture on India by Fritz Kunj. Jerome Davis, Rabbi B. Brickner, Edgar J. Fisher, and Ch'ao-Ting Chi were among the later speakers. Sherwood Eddy, returning to Stetson to speak on "Can Youth Build a New World?" and Representative Hamilton Fish of New York with the topic "Our Foreign Policy," both commanded capacity audiences for their inspiring speeches. Popular opinion gave Vincente Villanfin, Filipino lawyer, iecono- mist and writer first place for his lecture on the relationship of the United States to the Philippine Is- Mr. Simon's address provided a fitting conclusion for the forum series in that he skillfully outlined e Okaechohee district and is ajthe precarious equilibrium which exists in Europe today. These forces were represented as: 1. Italy's interest in Austrian political independence which keeps the Italian and German powers at odds. 2. British and French cooperation which is too strong to allow German recovery of Alsace-Lorraine. 3. The economic cooperation of the weaker Eastern European nations, which prevents their assimilation by Germany. President Allen, at the conclusion of the Forum yesterday, sum- . , ......__. „. ...„ rned up the popular praise and com- »S..ela" a! TL.theffy tenn* raquet. in...hand' Proudly locaI chW of the national legal j ment of the series when he said, u .___,... ...... ... [organization ' (Continued on Page 8) 'birds", but Amy enlightened her standing over her kill.