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M The Mercer University System. VOL. I. M.rcer University, Macon, Ga , Thursday Nov. 11, 1920. MERCER GRADUATE ENEMY’S PRISONER LT. WEAVER REAL EXAMPLE COLLEGE pluck Conspicious in.the capture of the from our own shell fire, .we had no jnJ,t. When the shelling had ceased I walked out to look the town -over, and found on one. of the principal streets -Allie Shipp trying, to make a German machine gun repeat. We both tampered with the thing for a \yl.ile: but did ” not succeed. .' ."Alone during the morning we heard troops rushing . down the stieet and a big noise over toward the enemy lines. I looked down the town of Conay, many kilometers stl c<!t and “F Garn>an 8oldiars C0 "V ahead of the farthest outposts of the,"* at . ad Division, stuck in the head a bayonet, pierced through the with a Him bullet, • pistol torn .his side by shrapnel and a bul let lodged in his intestines, are some of the reasons Lieut.' “Wim” Weav er, Mercer graduate, all-round ath lete and Macon lawyer, had to sui render to German infantry and re main in a German ’ prison camp at Karisruhe until jtjie armistice ■'was signed. " "But I am home to stay,” Lieuten ant Weaver tells his friends. “In fafctr’f have dug in here for quite a long bil'et, and intend to hang out my shingle and be with regular folks ' -for the rest of my life.” • Lieutenant Weaver, with all the eredit of having done a -consideraible fhare of fighting and Jived his “many | years” on -carrots and beets in a I .^prison camp, is just as retiring and I unassuming as when /he used to be, I following his great.. hattery works with the Mercer team -concluded — with singles doubles and three base hha in -a close college game. In fact, this entire interview was se cured through . same company, a reporter who had covered athletic endeavors with him through college yaws. . P.np Story From Him. Lieutenant Powers, associated with ar.d getting ready for action. We 'meed our pistols at them and about hi lf of them threw up their hands, but a machine, gun started going at Us from the side of the street, one of the bullets clipping a groove in m.v epr. ' 5 Shipp and his bunch took one house with machine guns and sev eral of us another buildings One of the prisoners told us the Germans had entire division closing in on us. Tiiis we soon found to be about true. Wc shot away .there until about 3 o'clock in \he^afternoon. One af. ter the other made a di've through ths open space for freedom, and was shot down.. At last one of the men who had just been shot down called to me that it was my time to make a break. He pointed me to" a clump of bushes which he had' tried to make but could hot. . How He Wat Captured. BR. RUTIN MADE EDITOR OF QUARTERLY "1 jumped out and into a. rain of bi llets. One of them gof- me in the side and 1 thought my side was on file. The bullet I found later had lieuteifant in the glanced and was still lodged in my E. Clem Powers and ; stomach. , “Froru^hen on ! half ran, fell and craw lad to the .clump of bushes. ; “Before I reached the bushes 1 saw a Hun raise his gun ar.d aim right at me through the bushes. I in Company A, until he himself, j simply froze. I knew he was going' wounded at Hill 108, succeeded ta shoot and I just could do nothing but freeze where I stood. I stood up. with my hands up and they be- rin shboting at. me, so I dropped down again. I rose again while they wore still shooting and the German "We started out after dark,” be- Iso'die- in the bushes, a fellow not gan Lieutenant Weaver, “with a cap- j over nineteen, smiled at me and tain and-two officers in charge of a, reached for my shattered gun. When pert of the company. . -One at a time, he pulled out what remained of the we filed through barbed wire fenc- gun hi laughed. tag. We lost many men, and it is a j “That was 3 o’clock in the after- jwonder to me we did not all get nt on and they began - walking us. [ .the story out of him so that bis friends -ill Macon and over "the Stkte will know wjiat-a real hero the former Mercer captain is. Re arrived in Macon oh Sunday. knocked off. After getting through the wire en tanglements we Yharched to .the out- of the town and got so close to the enemy we could hear them cautioning, their men'In ■ low tones fcnd warning them to stop talking- We decided, to take the town, and each man crouched in position to pick off his men. We fired and I think each shot was effective. “They soon bcga-rv' to use a ma- chihe gun on us and to the right of the fellow-operating tile gun was Pont double wjth pain and so mad th it tears wore streaming down my face, one cf the members of the company- (ho mentioned the- name of {-'out Powers), canfe.up to me and folding ny l ands in his said, “Lieu tenant ain't this hell?” “When- we had reached the first aid station, which was 3 o’clock the next morning, walking all the time, wo stood in line with the German wcundeil waiting for .assistance. When I reached; the doctor he let out a long string of ‘words and I German , shooting up flales in order [ turned to one of. our prisoners, to - locate us.' I sent-three men out I wh ° was a German, to interpret what Uf get the man sending up the flares. I he w a s saying and he told me the One of: the flares . hit into .the doctor said ‘nothing doing.’ branches of a tree and fell at the* “They began to walk us-gain and feet of the German who was send- fb.v pirn r.Jng I saw-a German general Ing them up. J i “The flare had hardly shown where he was when I - heard him ■quail. In a few minuses the cor- Dr. P. S. Flippin of Mercer Uni versity, has been made the managing editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly the official bulletin of the recently combined Georgia- Histori cal Association and Georgia Histori; cal Society. Judge Andrew J, Cobb of Athens, is president of the organi zation. . Members of the editorial board to be associated with Dr. Flippin are Dr. E. M. . Coulter and Dr. R. J Brooks of Athens; Dr. Theadore H- Jack of Atlanta and Miss Cleo He- aron of Agnes Scott, Decatur, Ga. The Hon. Lawton B. Evans of Au gusta was also chosen for the board but had to tender his resignation be cause of business matters which at present prevented his activity. His place, on the board will probably be filled by a Savannah man. The board of Curators of which Judge Andrew J. Cobb is president is as follows: David Cv Barrow Athens; R. P. .Biook, Athens; T. M. Cunningham, Jr. S:.vannah; Beverly D.-Evans, Sa vannah; Lawton 5. Evans Augusta. P. S. Flippin, Macon; Henry R. Goc* gius, Columbus; W. W Gordon, Sa vannah Alexander C. King, Atlanta; H. R. Slack; Lagrange; W. E. Thom as, Valdosta; Otis Ashmore, Savan nah. Plan Outlined - The plan of .the editorial board will be to follow the American His torical Review in the arrangement of the-material to-be published in the quarterly. There will be_ articles of. historicals interest-, former un published documents, book reviews historical neiys and items of interest from other historical magazines. The new member to be appointed from Savannah is to give especial at tention to making the DeWrenn Li brary more accessible to the readers of the quarterly and those who' be in'erested in that valuable colect jon of Georgia. This library is the product of the expenditure of a large sum. The owner has expended a reat deal' of money collecting val uable „ documents and has his ovfn* home in the suburbs of Savannah. For one document he paid as much as $ 10,000. ' There are many valua btes documents of the Confederacy the original manuscript dispatches from Gen. Robert E. Lee to Jeffer son Davis being among those in cluded in the valuable collection. poral reported he had got the .flare sender, and I. replied ,it did not sound like he had “got him” where upon he. returned to “gag” him. He succeeded, for we never heard anyr thing further from him either as to flares or . squalls. Shelled by Own Artillery. ■ “By daylight we-were crowding in on the town. When, the Germans began/to rush out of the city. Lieut. Allie Shipps’ -of Macon, and Lingo, -6f. Milledgeville, with, a detachment of the 328 Infantry, opened fire. and I t ild him of the way they were treating our wourfded. Several of pur fellows were losing considerable blood and needed immediate atten tion. He got us a doctor and.all he did was to pour iodine on the wounds and send us on oUr way. “We were sent to Sedan and then transferred to Karshrule prison where we spent about six weeks, un til armistice was signed.” Little the Worie for Experience; Lieut -nant Weaver, still in the early- twenties, looks none the worse for his experience, in a German pris on camp.except that his black hair is .well streaked with gray. He said they received very little meat hut The Germans soon surrendered. We and ' baets tflree did not.know Shipp was on*the other ' ’ ‘ He says that -the-Frankfurt paper,' strictly - anti-Kaiser, gave Wilton’* ideas about peace and Foch’s terms tf aimis-tice and the American pris oners at once began, to revile both their; President and Foeh, for they <*--•« not believe the ■ Germans wotflA accept tln-m, The men were afraid they would have to. stay, in prison years and years before the Germans’ would accept the terms. Lieut. Allie Shipp, spoken of by l Lieu.tenant Weaver, was. formerly Isargeant major of the Second Geor- side of the- town of Conay, and he .did not know we were in action. : . “There'were about 300 Germans in all captured by- the detachments -of the 327th and 328t£ Infantries. L^e had hardly looked-the place over before our own artillery, not know ing Americans had captured it; be- , gan shelling the place, The Ger- . mat prisoners showed us their dug-. outs and we. remained there from 4 A’clock in the morning until 6 o'clock, when the shelling ceased. THETA OMEGA IS BADGE OF MERIT The Theta Omega Sooiety, the new Merit Society of * Bessie Tift College, complied of all Juniori and Seniors who ’have maintained an average bf not less than 90 per cent for the past two years was given public recognition during the past week. f The thirteen charter members were seated on the ; platform. Dr. Foster made a short talk oh the purpose of society, stating that it was a per manent merit 'system organisation that woul take the place of the med- COLLEGE SPIRIT HRI .PS WIN IN CORPORAL JACK PEAVY Corporal Peavy was. the first and CONTESTS ON WAY Class spirit is mounting high since the announcement that the- inter class basketball contests will begin about November JO. The athletic managers of the several classes are putting their teams through daily scrimmages, preparing them for the truggles that are to ettme within the next few weeks. •,- - The freshmen, 150 strong, have promised to turn out a quintet that will make the going hard for the the other contenders. It.will be At hard matter to select five men from their large number but with so much material on hand, the. first-year men ibay'be expected to turn out a cred- tabie team. There is one -verdant Freshman whose head is sparated from his feet by se'enty-six inches of the genus -homo. This man may oe counted on to pull in the tail ones and to reach down for the tipp-pff before the opposing center gets un wound. Veteran Players, A strong quintet is promised the sophmore class as there are a num ber of last year players on hand, supplemented by a good line of new- material, The Sophs will bend every effort toward handing the freshmen another, defeat. If they succeed, additional punishment will be inflicted on the firsCyear men. It is predicted that if the freshmen lest", they will -not he allowed to speak in the dining hall nor to use brilLiantine on their Hours. GIRL'S TECHNICAL SCREEN OF SMOKE BESSIE TIFT ASTRONOMICAL ORATOR DRIVES ALL BACK. als which have fomerty been given I younKe8t 80,dier wcunded in the by the college! to those who have! 16l8t Machine Gun Battalion, Rain- excelled in various department of | bow DiviaioT1 - Jack was a member scholastic work; Then Mr. Newsome last > ear of the Mercer School of! professor of history and a member : Commerce. j the Phi Beta $appa, talked for a j few minutes about the honor of be ing a member (tf such a society. He compared the three hind of societies in any school }he literary societies to which all belong; the selective social societies In which membership depends on fritaidship and the merit societies in which -all can gain a place which ia pot to be purchased by money and j which no one can take away. It • the greatest honor which a school ^an bestow on a stu dent to give hini membership in such an organization IM the'last but an honor which ther student really earns for himself. Both Preside] t, Foster and Prof Newsome comm inded the, girls very highly on havta) obtained the heifor of being a mem ter of such a socie ty and expreasi 1 the hope that it it would be an icemtive to the new students to waft hard that they might some dayebecome members of that society. M] ■ Frances McMath, the president of the club then spoke urging the stud] its to aspiFe to be come members SQm though the road be. a hard one. STUDENTS TO OBSERVE ARMISTICE ANNIVERSARY Every school and college in the Mercer University System during the Great Wprld War did all pos sible for American victory, sav ing, conserving, working at any and everything to make the boys at the front realize a united sup port was theirs at home was the task accomplished by all the students in the system. 'Not only did each and every school offer 'everything ■ to the government for active . service- but the thousands of former grad uates fought their way to glory ’h*ile their sister students nursed and clothed and fed, sacrificing everything for American ideals. This week, with the rest of the world, the Students of the Mer cer University System are cele brating that great Armistice Day. The Cluster for this week has several stories of a patriotic na ture. hers will be admitted the require ments for admission are that the Not least of the many acts that have made the Class of 1920 pleas antly remembered about the college is their parting gift of a handsome sun-dial for the campus of Bessie Tift. ' - Supported on its graceful fluted stone, the . hand-engraved bronze dial now stands in the circle directly in front of Central Hall in .the place previously occupied by the “rockery.” Already it has become a favorite trysting place, and one can - hardly pass it without being drawn by its charm of classic cul ture. Even the “town girls” are held a moment in their mad the close of work. All read the trite and timely^mot* toes ou its face (somehow each ends COLLEGE PROFESSOR APPRECIATES ERROR ASKS FOOTBALL COACH TO AS. ASIST IN ASSIGNMENT. exit at ilyiaw** At the enff orltth year new; menr Iff a reference to Tarrr!) inSffly-read the card temporarily attached: “Please don’t disturb; this dial' is student has been in Bessie Tift for j not permanently set”; incidentally, two years; has made an average in i a few note the time of day; while that time of not less than 90 per j the members of the astronomy class cent and is a Junior or Senior A. , imprss the uninitiated with a leam- B. studen.t j ed disclosure that runs about like The charter .members are:- Fran-; this: “Ycr-see, sundials in some form ces McMath, Faustine Lasseter, ! have been in use from time imme- Ruth Green, Eurene Brown, Nellie I morial; but since in ; the. earlier ones Wbelchel, Annie Fulghum, Ardis : the post, or gnomon, stood vertical- Lancaster, Christine Godwin, Willie Maude McClain, Mary Grande, Lu- cile Wilson, Ina Ledford, and Mary McKoy. HEARN STUDENTS ORGANIZE B s Y. P. U. AND ELECT OFFICERS Since the state field worker, Mr. Bats, taught the B. Y. P. U. man- sou th plane. ly. their indications except at noon varied so widely from true suntime that they were of little value till some “wise guy”—an astronomy student, of course—discovered that the gnomon should lie parallel to the -earth’s axis, an(J, hence at an angu lar elevation above the horizontal plate of the dial equal to the local latitude, and in a true north ^nd ual, the students of the Hearn Academy and other young people of the town have organized a B. Y. P. U. Two interesting and attractive programs, have been given and all in dications point to a year of -success ful Union work. The officers of the Union are Miss Marie Sewell, president; Prof. B. D. Finch, vice president; Leonard Mc- Brayer, recording scretary; Miss Mary Rincher, corresponding secre tary; Miss Maud Wheeler, treasur er; Clifford Pendley, librarian; Miss Mattie 'Griffith, pianist; Miss Maud Miller, quiz leader; Weldon Griffith, Ohed Griffith, Es£ie Durrence and Audrey Terry, group leaders. who was the star of the freshman team last year. J. M. Bunch, Hpw- ard^Thrower and Basil Morris all members of. last year’s team will on hand, however, to fight for the continued success of the-soph- mores. Many Team*. It has not been definitely decided what teams will enter the league but it is probable that the quintets will represent Freshmen, Sophmores, Juniors, Seniors,’ Pre-Mtd, Com merce, School of Christianity, and the new.ly established' “School of Home Economics.” - The college gymnasium has been "Even then under the best of con ditions, though it gives accurate sun time, there will be a veritable errpt from standard clocks, known as “equation of time,” never over 17 minutes and becoming zero four times a .year named, April 15th, June 15th, September 1st and De cember 24th. This is due to the va riable orbital velocity of the earth and the inclination of its equatorial plans to its orbit. "Furthermore, there is a constant error due to an oversight of some high-brows back in 1884 in not put ting the standard time meridian through Bessie Tift College, but-- some 6 degrees, .4.4 minutes to the west of it, as a result of which the mean sun passes o'er our heads here-24 mjuites, 18 seconds before our watch^- say ‘noon..’ This error is constant and needs -only, to be added algebraically to the equa tion of time. The date. October 28, the total coiTecUdn to be subtracted from sun-dialyTime is 40 minutes, 21 seconds and i? increasing, reach ing the year’s maximum November 2. “Our astronomy teacher is con structing a c hart to be-posted on the bulletin board, which will giye at a glance the proper correction to be made for each day in the year, and then'—” but her. audience has mod estly, backed slowly away and van ished into th: i air before this unex pected technical onslaughter, while the atronomical orator gradually put in condition for the games. The semi-pompa-1 0 ] ( j j ce _bound showers- have been given a n.cwr coat of iting and other | disappears behind a smoke screen of technical phrases. 1 he prospective punishment for jeonveniences have been fitted up for the new men in addition to usual the comfort of the players. Every class - rivalry . between the under-t student in the university will be on classes, assures a battle royal- when I hand'at the games and the number hi- two quintets tie up to settle the will be reinforced by a large dele- •The men were all just about ddad gi a and for his part in the fighting question of class supremacy. The gation of Macon fans, who always for sleep and with .the exception of was decorated with a Distinguished , second-j ear men will greatly, miss | turn out en maae to witness the the flpw hours in the, dugouts, hiding Service Cross. . . j the services of Manley- McWilliams, class contests. . • Judge—How old are you, ma dam? Fair One—I'm around 30. Judge—So I perceive. Now, how many years is it since you got around it? (By Robert M. Gambia) Sewing-is to be taught at Mercer! In keeping with the ideal of Mer cer University to turn out all-: men, announcement' is made courses are to be given commence ing with the whiter term, 192L A School cf Home Economics has been established.. Prof amor Ban C. Holtxclaw, Jr., who turmoil bald the chair of phifoeophy at Merear, has been appointed dean «f the no# school and hah mapped ant all thy new louraea. Dean Hohsclaw have aaociatad with Um ia wint Miss Garnett Cleoptra Elrod, two Mercer upperclassmen who have shown ability with the nee dle. When asked if they liked the work, Professor Collins and Profes sor Elrod replied, “You tell ’em pin tray ycu always see the point” Coach Josh Cody will also be as sociated with Dean Hpltzclaw and will give special courses in picot dge Work. Fifteen Clear Units Requirements for admission to the new schooL will be the same as Entrance requirements governing other departments in the university Every candidate must present fif teen clear units. Those wno have tak cn courses in home economics in sec ondary schools, will be givet^ ad vance standing. Arrangements have been made with the principal of La nier High Schooj of Macon, for prospective students to work off con ditions in the domesic -art depart ment of the school. .Dr. Rufus W. Weaver Mercer pres i.dent when interviewed yesterday said -“Mercer is bending every ef-- fort toward developing the allround man. We are endeavoring to meet every situation that faces us and to prepare our graduates to Ijp able to. take care of themselves where- ever they may be located. “This nation is now facing a big problem. The nineteenth amend ment which gives women the right io vote means that our women will end much of their time, at the 11s ahd.the remaining houra each ay in gossiping about the candidate The dujies of the home will tall up- in the 'men, who will have to pre pare’ the meals teach the childre# their daily school lessons, and prac tice the art of making the wearing apparel of the little ones less holy than righteous. New Course Open To cope with the problem and- in keeping with our ideal, we have de cided. to embody in-the curriculum of the institution, course# in home economics. We are extremely fortu nate in having as a member of the faculty a man who is fitted for the deanship of the New School of'home Economics. Professor Ben C. Holt- zclaw Jr. at present professor of philosophy will be the dean as he has the natural qualifications and acquired characteristics which equip him for the office. “Having no family ties no eloth- it g but his own to mend Professor Holtzclaw will be able to devote prac tically all his time to his new dutiea Continued on back page. Concerning eoUeg* «bMa, pion debates and the tkm i cer University s end John Temple 235,000 salaried Hearst publication wrote In tim le nineties that the body was a revelation to all < Himself a University < graduate he had aa his for the article in tution the displny off. John Roach Stratoo and prablt moral auppsct; off. Upshaw. , ‘ rij The article !■ ty years ago dent body men the affairs of the It was found in I tty Dr. A. W. Van" of Shorter, follows: The article by John' In all my years ration I [ remakabla. it than that University in the j . It seamed to* personal iaeue student body resen tatives adSo- to come were helped by the and royally helped by their fella oa. One student Willie Upshaw, a asan without any physical be ethane ex cept that furnished by a plaster off Paris jacket, but with a moral haft bone aa rigid aa a brake beam and a heart aa big as the aea— s dsost. leas cripple and invalid wuftlnf Ua way through college hie own heroic exertions put his hand into Mr. brave pocket anl laid 9100 aj emergency to bring Mereor to Ianta. • Noble and Talented. John Roach Stratan been a constant inspiration to Mer cer students since he entered the college. No one nihn in the sftdent life-of the state has dona so asaeh to lead, inspire and uplift the sen timent of hia college as this gallant young erator and debater, noble as he is talented, and with the student body a loyal unit behind - him, he has invariably bettered Ms ideals and led it always to laarfts that endure. Around centers like theae the Mercer spirit crystaliiad for the .oc casion, and the Mercer men fame. They came in two handsome Special cars. They came with colon flying everywhere wreathing and wrapping the coaches in yellow and black, flaunting in flags, waving, in rib bons and' bright with badges. They cam's with boandleaa aathnsa—. They came, too, with perfect organ isation. Every man had hia part assigned in the business of the day and evening, and every man did it to perfection. They came with a shout and the sound of a trumpet. And they came—all of them. No other college in Georgia, at any time, or on any occasion, has ever . given such a superb support to it* chosen chsmpicns in a noble field’.off endeavor, . In this age of predominant and shadowing athletics, it simply thrill ed me like a west wind to see these 160 Mercer men roll into Atlanta one incarnate wave of enthusiasm for brains and oratory. As an exhibition of college spirit it was 'simply magnificent. Temper is Admirable. But the temper of the Mercer boat was as admirable as its spirit was commendable. With overflowing enthusiasm for their college and their champions, there was everywhere evident good will, good humor and generosity amounting to magnanicity for their Continued on back page A