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The Mercq^ University - System. VOL. L SAILOR BOY GIVEN BAPTIST PLAN CONVENTION SEATjcAMPING GROUND F0RB.Y.P.U. AND NOMINATES Mercer was agreeably surprised at one of her young sons; Wm. G. Me- Ray, of Rockmart, who proved him* ■elf ■ real orator when' he rose to sec ond the nomination of Thomas E. Watson for the U. S. iSenate at • the recent state Democratic convention. Rising in. his sailor uniform before the large body of delegates who had just yelled Major McGreggor down in their impatience to hear Mr. Watr son, McRay could scarcely be heard at first. Soon his clear voice rang above the din and his magnetic pres ence quelled the noise.. “The newspapers in the various ’ parts' of the state have endeavored in the past few months,!’ he said; “to. have, the people to believe that the boys who fought in the late war have forgotten the principles pf true Americanism. They have pictured them as having turned their . backs on the principles of Washington, Jef ferson, Madison and Monroe. But they should, by this time have come to the conclusion that w§ are still true Americans, despite the fact that we were uifder the subordinate juris diction of a great many during the war who were not Americans, in deeds, But in citiaenahip papers o ri- State, it was announced > r\. {/ 1 ! Fourteen Schoob and Colleges. . A GThursday, Nov. 4, 1920 NO. V. BESSIE UTS GRADUATES ABE EVERYWHERE AUDITORIUM FORALLCOLUGE AHD“Y” : Georgia Baptists are planning the establishment of a permanent Bap tist encampment somewhere in the Mercer law student whose H. Leavell,. State field secretary of the B. Y. P. U. -“Mr. Leavell said that several cities had offered sites for the encamp ment, among them Greenville, Toc- coa, Brunswick, Savannah and Blue Ridge. One city has offered to give for. the purpose fifty acres of land, I to .build the necessary dormitories '■arta to furnish light and water. The purpose of the encampment ground is to provide a place where Georgia Baptists can gather each year for- all their meetings. During the summer of each year an encamp ment isJt^TcTXwhich lasts about ten days/_vln July of this year, there ere one thousand Baptists present. On account of the limited -accom modations in the city where the en- . campment was held, it was necessa— , J ^ t _ e 0 "I ry to limit the B. Y. P; U. societies quenceMtaed Georgia State Derno- to one represenUtive each> y hereMf there are several times this number cratic Convention _when he lauded student recor<^ of new United States Senator. Fight . Abgrst of applause greeted this statement and soon the audience was cheering: loudly everything the speak er said. He continued by describing the recent fight and telling how it was won." He picture Mr. Watson as a man of -unquestioned ability who would be a real statesman to repre sent Georgia in the national councils. ■•IMM by quoting: CARD AND INDEX 25000 CHURCHES CONVENTNPLAN To make an accurate card index record of what each of the 25,000 lo cal Baptist churches-of the South is doing, and what its needs are is one of the tasks that has been commit ted to Dr. E. F. Alldredge, recently of Little Rock, Ark., by the ti* |radar * graat hears, trap faith ed in ehargg of the new departmeat of statistics, survey and general de- “Men whom the lust of office does nominational information, and. will not kill;. ^ help Southern Baptists to know them “¥*n whom : the spoils of office*! selves completely, their weakness as Cannot buy;.-, iwell a^^eir strength. “Men' who possess opinion and a Un ^ Dr . AJldrtd^'e supe<vis- WUI, ion surveys of all the resources and “Men who have Honor, men who work of Southern Baptists will be will not lie. ■*. conducted. The infornyation com piled thereby will be placed at the “And while the -rabble with their : thumb-worn creeds, “Their large professions and their little deeds,-. • - . " “Mingle in 'selfish strife, Lo! Freedom weeps, “Wrong rules-the land'and waiting justice sleeps. ’/• -v" “GOD GIEVE US MEN! disposal of every . denominational agency so that all of the people may become fully informed on every pHhse of the. work being done by the denomination. At the same time a survey at the territory of the Sou thern Baptist Convention will be made with a view to ascertaining the Men who serve- not.. for selfish edu< . ation#1> goc ' ial ar)d religious needs of the people in order that tie Baptist responsibility for. sup plying those needs may be readily de- who would have been In attendance M if they could have>been accommo dated. - - - . Open for Offer*. . The -committee which has charge Of-the selection of a site is composed of Dr. William Russell Owen, chair man; Professor JYank H. Leavell, Mr. James W. Merritt. Gainesville; Dr. Aquilla Cham lee, Hawkinsville; Hon. A.. W. Evans. Sa»dtnvfll«; Dr. J. E. Hampton, Moultrie; Rev. Homer Grice, Washington';''-Rev. J. E. Sammons, Griffin; Dr. Arch C. Cree. Atlanta; W. H. Major, Atlanta. “The committee is open for offers, ind will welcome them. We hope to be able to obtain a site at the sea shore or in the mountains, but will consider all offers,” said Professor Leavell yesterday. - Throe thsn—d Baptiste will •at——MP—<a darim year, away of whom will spend their entire vacation there. FUNDS DESIGNATED FDR ALL PURPOSES COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHEST PROVIDES FOR ACTIVITIES. booty, “But real men, who flinch not at duty! . - “Men of dependable, character, tePmiVted and met men of sterling worth, “Then wrong will be redes«ed and right will rule the earth. 1 ’ A burst of applause shook the au- ■ , , •a- . , _ . , « ■ strength and activities of other da- ditonum as he finished the eulogy, . .. , The new dawn of Mercers progress has been-in evidence on every hand the last months but it was left for the present student body to dem onstrate to an enlarged degree evi dence of this new progressiveness. T-he chapel hour of the 29th day of October in the yeaT 1920, gave birth to an expression from the stu dents whose far-reaching results are unquestioned. This expression was given in regard to a movement des ignated as the Community Chest Statistics upon the Baptists of the [Fund. The individuality of Mercer ,world will likewise be compiled, along ■with general information upon the and he concluded by saying: Watson at Mirctr. - , “Just such a man is the honorable Thomas E. Watson of McDuffie coun ty, who as a student of Mercer Uni versity made a record unexcelled in the history of the institution. As an ex-service man whose loyalty and Devotion to this country has never been questioned; and. as a delegate from Polk county,-Georgia; and as a representative of a. great people who gavethe two “Toms" an-overwhelm ing victory, I consider-it .» vrtst pleasure as well as a solemn duty to second the nomination of Mr. Thom as E. Watson for the Cnited States Senate, from the state of Georgia.” _* The house, fairly roared with ap plause-as the speaker finished and he was taken on - the shoulders of sev eral delegates and lifted on the stage. He was greeted and heartily - commended by Governor-elect Hard wick and other important persons on the stage. It seemed to be the con census of opinion that he had made the best speech of the :occasion. The two daily papers of the city conceded that his Was the most oratorical ad dress of the meeting, even though ‘there were some of the noted ora tors of the state making addresses. -• Soon after the war was declared McRay joined the navy nd after go ring to the radio school at'Cambridge, Mass., he was/put aboard a ship as radio electrician and made several trips to Europe. For a considerable time his ship operated in European lominations, w.h especial> attention teing given to those denominations operating in the South. BIG TOURNAMENT FOR BESSIE TIFT students is all that can be desired of any selective .group -of men but that individuality as expressed from time to time in recent days in a glorious and unified manner is rapidly tending to the solidification of ! a something that will soon be known far and wide as the Mercer personality. It will soon be impossible to think of Mercer except as a^select group of individuals which goes, to make up a distinct Mercer personality. If there was ever any doubts in . the Bessie Tift tennis tournament minds^-of anyone about the loyalty is in progress and- finals will be n f each student to every phase .of played in the next few days.. The college activity those . doubts Were winner of this, tournament will be jjuelled when the groat outburst presented with a silver lovng cup. from the student body pledged them- Next week basketball practices be-- selves to definite support of each gin. This will be followed by inter- phase of student'interest orfHOct. 29. class games. There will be much When the plan was proposed by rivalry among the different clubs and j jf, Teresi as chairman or commit- aS the college has much good has- t e6| to the student body after a mag 5 "' ketball material a successful season nificent remark of clarification- of expected. NEW FALL MILLINERY. 'all the items by'Dr. Weaver, stirring ! speeches in support of the plan were made by D.- R. Hodges, R. M. j Gamble, and T. J. Tribble. This | community, chest in the form of should have an ■sid Dr. M. A. Clark, the executive commit- University, in address- body of Mercer Wed- ng st chapel. it should be sure ’that he has f love for his calling, that he shou^l have some fitness for it, and shouft strive to make the best possible preparation for that work,” declared the speaker. “What ever walk pf life one chooses,., he should not'be satisfied with the best fie can do'talt the best that can be done,” he addjdd. “The physician should be educated, receiving the best education possible before going to a medical Athool. dy medicine, ^oung your chief aim is to beebme rich/!! he insisted. -The av erage American, the speaker pointed out, will say that his chief aim life is to makp money; that the ten dency of todaj is to incline too much to the commercial side. * Hn Ctlliif. - “I consider i medicine second only to the ministry,-” said Dr. Clark. “It is marvelous what a Christian physician can accomplish in the sick room,” he added. Cheerfulness is the prime requite of a physician. It is interesting tip note the poise, char acter and earnestness of the physi- cian. “The chief life of every in dividual shoal# tie to glerify God, ‘ l. i j. i ~ sea-. • not ritlemen. he coacl ode&,l s ''Whadevar. sion one chooishushooid fes Hurt the Great Phyd)eian can say fie bins, Well done th2a good and faftMM servant.’” fj? . . Graduates of Bessie Tift College are now doing constructive work of every nature all over the world. The graduates have not confined their activities to Georgia and other Sou thern states, but gone in nearly ev ery nook and conier : of the globe. Some of those now most successful ly and known best by the present student body are as follows: Miss Bessie Noles, class of '1906, is teaching . Domestic Science at Guilford College, N. C., Mias Noles was a classmate of Mrs. Westbrook, who during the past mouth died of cholera in Shanghai, China. Misses Augusta and Stella Center taught at Bessie Tift College for sev eral. years after graduation. Later they attended Columbia University, where they took their degrees. They were bo the recognized as teachers of unusual ability* in New York. Miss Stella is still teaching and writing in the Amercian metropolis. For some time Miss Augusta was engag ed to go from schoo 1 to school teaching method/ o finterpretation. She is now filling most acceptably the chair of English at Bessie Tift. Miss Martha Jenkins holdd- a re sponsible position at the Fourth Na tional Bank in Atlanta. She has had some flattering offers to return to the classroom, but has become en amored of the business life and the salary attached thereto. Miss Evie Campbell has made her influence felt in Georgia and else where for many yean. Hundreds of (Ms date their inspiration. back to the days whan Miss Campbell was Lady Principal at Bessie Tift Col lege. In 19W Wes Cqmpbel elected*Secretary ef UfoasMrti in Georgia and remained ifi sition until 1917, when ah elected Dean of Women wt College in Texas. At The equipment of the new city auditorium which is now under way for the use of the basketball team during the coming winter is-one of the outstanding features of the rapidly developing basketball sea son. A movement is on foot to have the Mercer and Macon Y M. C. A. teams equip'the floor and use it togetk-r. It will assure the team the use-'of one'of the best floor spaces in the city, the seaiting capacity will be 1,000 reserve seats and 2,000 in the bleachers. All the big games heretofore have been played w* h the' space for visi tors limited and' no large advertis ing could be carried on. With the r jntempla’ed change there will be % place for all the basketball fans in Maeon with ample room for the Mercyr rooters. It is expected that in the games where there is-a large amount of spirit between the teams, there will be a, space left for the rooters for each team: For instance in the games between Mercer and the University of Georgia there will likely be a large number of Georgia supporters in the city and they would likely want to be together. In case some such plan is worked out it is expected that there will be some of the most spirited games between the-two schools that has ever been witnessed. Get Ob Map. Coach Cody is elated over the new arraageme$ and says that Mercur will reilly get on the basketball may this time. If any of the large North ern Universities come ij3outh dur ing the leases they will have a chance to try .thmr mettle on the ■scmuitl GIVES CLOSE UP I VIEW OF EUROPE By DR. J. B. GA1 (President Southern Vention and former , of Mercer.) as fas- Marcer will ba l. pone will he too large Black After a most informing toar af Scandinavia, of which Dr. Mnffins has written, the measengws ft the Southern Baptist ContmUm ed to London for mail and to plan » tour of the British Isles, fjgr vW> tation began with Ireland, uv hn with the worst kind of internal stritilk One section of the island is i Catholic and the other just tensely Protestant. There is « Im^ standing, deep seated, and anemia^ irreconcilable feud; between the two. The Catholics are beat oa * separation from Ehgland. The testants" are equally de‘ remain with England. The internal war With much to dd both sides. We entered South Ireland eag ne ver reached North Ireland at ah m account of the disorders la that section. South Ireland is CatheUe and North Ireland is PnrteajMat The eye never rested oa a levliar lead meadows are ever greag. ' Two re- relays of lean cattle can grass times- selves fet here in a year's than. Lit tle labor is required. We have vie* ited no mors beautiful nor at Meat! > a nor prosperous country. What eat. tie! What pigs! No one need pity Ireland except for har strifae. Irish Bepristo Btiemssk Type. We stoppedjtart at Wstsrfmd. a very old town. There stuada heas a tower htiQt by the Dapea.ia ttM. ft is well preserved. The Beptift church hern was luii sift if la IBS*. Dr. MulBas gave the dun* Lord’s Day whBa l, au*d by! Union, Gilmore of WHY TIHT ClIOOSE TO JOIN FOLLOWERS OF CICERO. Varying from the highest flights of orafory , to the most amusing jokes, the Ciceroneans have listened for the last. two meetings to rea sons why the new men joined the followers of Cjccro. All new men were required to come forward and say "something even if it was nothing other than “howdy.” Some of the new men were surprises in their ability to speak and the Ciceroneans are ex pecting to develop some good speak ers. There is especial ^avalry be tween the two societies t! members on the freshman-soph debate. A resolution was passed asking the debating council to let ihe reg ular fall term debate count for the tryout for the-inter collegiate de bates. This only applies to the members who are on it and the try out will be held -in the night follow ing the debate for the other speakers not on the debate. • Much interest is centering around the debates with the other schools. Four are already scheduled with other colleges and will necessitate eight speakers. Each society is urg ing its members to prepare them selves to enter the tryout. fund is to be distributed to the dif T ferent objects by the Student Advis ory Council through its Treasurer Dr. C. L. McGinty. This is indeed one of the greatest forward move ments that has been inaugurated on the campus in some time and with the unanimous support of the stu dent body its success is assured. Dr. Clara Sargent, of the class, is engaged in Mission work in Nanking, China. Miss Frances Fulghum, class of 1911, is teaching in our Mission school at /Tokio, Japan. Miss Claire Snead, of the 1919- 20- class, vis teaching at Baijin, N. C. On the first Sunday after the open ing of school the other teachers came to Miss Snead’s room and said, “Get on your hiking clothes and join us.” She replied, “I al ways go to church, on Sunday. Come and go with me." - The hiking clothes were discarded for Sunday clothes amd the church folks were surprised to see the teachers out at ch. Campbell, who so ef ficiently liTm*^^nosition as profes sor of Househol^^^ft&pmics at Bes sie Tift, is now a m^^ftL.of ‘the faculty at Georgia. Miss Pe£rl Todd taught school two years after graduation. She was fen elected to a position as Assist ant Secretary of the Woman’s Work in Georgia. For the past three years she has been Secretary of the Woman’s Missionary Union of Kk- lahoma. letic Club. Other big games are be- ng arranged but nothing definite is fixed as to time. However he is planning for one of the hardest schedules that Mercer has ever at tempted. The equipment of the auditorium will, be in the hands of Dr. W. G. Lee, w.ho with Geo. Sparks will rep resent the alumni. - Lumber will be procured at once and the work will be started. The only other expense will be* the lights and minor equip ment. The prospects for a good team his year are especially bright as several members of last years team are back and several stars from high chool terns as well as experienced layers. Some of the former Mer cer stars have returned and. are iure to be in the lineup. Coach Cody expects to start the-class teams at once in order to arouse the in terest of the entire‘sudent body. ORCHESTRA AND BAND mestic arts department of Bessie Tift, will soon display their fall I work. .. I An attractive poster announces ( budK**t. will tiake care of all college that the millinery class °'. the do-| activ it ies ff)rstered by the stu dehts. ! The items that are taken care of by the budget are; Ahletics $17000;i Y. M. C. A.,-B. Y. P. U. $150; Caul-] —* *-■' ' ■—t’ -- ' /iron 500; Literary societies $200; waters in the war zone.'' Cluster $1000; College debates At the beginning of the 'present $450; Bonbvolence $.300; College term he entered the junior law-spirit $400; Glee Club $300, making class. Since coming to Mi-r.vr he-a grand total of $5000. This; is to has joined the Ciceroneao lit, ra.ry lie raised by a $5.00 fee at the begin- society and la^t Monday night .was-nitig ef ear-h term, pXaid by the stu— ejected as one of the fall term de- dents and $1500 coming from the haters. ./faculty and the university. This DR. FOSTER’S NIECE SAVES THREE WOMEN Miss Sadie Foster, daughter of Judge H. B Foster of Tuscaloosa, Ala-, and niece of President Fos ter, left on Sunday to go to Tus caloosa and thence to Mobile, Ala. where -she is to christen the new boat, “The City of Tuscaloosa.” ^ Many readers will recall the sinking of the Alston zoat in the^ Black Warrior river some' months ago. A number of lives were lost. Miss Foster was on the boat and she saved the lives of three young women. She was so weak when slip brought in the last one that she could not. hold • the head of the young woman above water. After a day at the hospital this one died. One of the much needed additions o the college activities that is being pushed forward with much vigor at present is an orchestra. At a meet : ing held a few days ago by the pros pective members of the orchestra, Paul Perry was elected director. Those attending the meeting were T. E. Smith, H. V. Smith, "M. S. Leach, Paul Perry, L. W. Hardy, John Lawrence, E. B. Brown, Josiah Crudup, Harvey Wells, O. Webb, jw. W. Jones, L. M. Collins and prob ably others, whose names were not tained. All of these seem enthusiastic over the .prospect of having a good orchestra. Other members are ex pected and since the budget system has been accepted it is believed that a good band will be on the campus in short while. Task, PHI DELTAS ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR Devoting the entire time to busi ness last Monday evening the Phi Deltas postponed their program un til the next regular_meeting. The election of officers was held with the following results: J. W. Jones, president. L. F. Smith, vice-president. H. J. Johnson, critic. J. F. Barton, treasurer. G. W. Hulme, chaplin. Gower Latimer, censor. A resolution was passed asking-the debating council to accept all the challenges which have been received fot~ inter-collegiate debates, tith ^ understood to mean the ones with Davidson and Wake Forest. It was stated thj£4£e secretary had the au thority 'to accept the challenges as soon^as the resolution was passed by both societies. outwardly but circles. Thu ,iH«nr COLLEGE FACULTY PICNICS AT OLD THURMOND’S MILL A Nature Lesson. “Do nuts grow on trees, father?” . “They do, my son.” “Then what tree does the dought- nut grow on.” # “The pantry, my son.” 1 A merry crowd of the Bessie Tift faculty enjoyed a picnic last Sat urday evening. Mr. and Mrs. En sign and Mr. and Mrs. Wellborn car rying in their cars to Thurmonds Mill Misses Marguerite Robertson, Agnes Haddock, Irene Hardy, Elisa beth Storr, Allene Baker and Dora Brinson. Baptists of Cork and, Ireland, are at the atanchost sad most heroic type. No Baptists in tho world h»*c a mope diftcult field nd yak they are gakrtag slowly with the yeaia. They never fHaeh; they aao- er compromise; they most gait. A friend drove us out to Castle. It is that is, the ruins are I threw a Has to the Blarney Stone bttt do sat tan that it stuck. TSe place 4 moat la te resting in many waya. The Cork Baptist church is S70 years old. B* I must hasten to Dublin, a dty af several hundred thouksaa aouss, ffea seat of Irish governamrt, the seat af learning, also of commercial life and much that is distinctly Irish, the Baptists fnaetion. Their is here. There is real strength aawag the saints of Dublin. . It was a sa cred joy to meet the grand ch&dran of the great Baptist, Alexaadar Car- son. They are leaden among the Irish Baptists now. -i own man to Dr. Carson then anyone else for the views I now hold. What our brethren of the Emer ald Isle need and want moat ip » strong evangelical evangelist paign to go through all thoir es and along with this eolpoetaga mission work. No Baptists in the world have harder fighting and none more reserve help from their breth ren than these of Ireland. What wa • put iln on a single association some times would be tremendous in Ire land. Wales a Baptist Streaghsld. From Dublin wo made an all- night run. with many changes, to Abertillory, Wales, where we spoke to an enthusiastic audience at night. These Welsh Baptists are our sort They are a delight and they inherit the earth or a good part of it ia Wales. They allow no ice to form in their churches. And sing? Tfca only people in their class are the Southern negroes. They are strict and staunch. One of their nastora said .the stricter Baptists ale tift stronger they are. Our next visit was to where the elect afrsnnd. One has aid that yt* might andoae LlanneL ly and cover it ovat for a Baptism- church. That is a little strong hut Baptists swarm them and how gen ial *nd responsive they are. The Sit \m Continued on page 4 -— MMHIi ' in