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Vol.2 MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, C.A., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1921. FOURTEEN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES THE MERCER UNIVERSITY SYSTEM ^ MERCER OVERSEAS MEN IN CHARGE OF ARMISTICE DAY EXERCISES ALL BRANCHES ARE NOW REPRESENTED Doughboys jutd Tars -to Cele brate in University Chapel. AN INTERESTING (HATED Half Holiday Follows Speech of Morning. . Wjtli the return of Armistice Day •each November, a larger number of , tornier overseas' men are found e.n-.i rolled in the Mercer student liotly, according to an announcement made, ;i few days ago. The exact number j .if former doughboys and tai;s, who: aw service beyond the briny 'deep, r • i-nroibdl, this year at Mercer is not known, as the Overseas < lub has not been formally reorganized._ (). E. Brewer, the .first president of the Mercer Overseas Club, is not in' the university now. Bcrgcanf, Brewer, .nas gassed in France after seeing t rviec in a number .of battles. Ilis i .million, resulting from the effects i f the gas, became such that lie Sv.b. | (tilted, to leave Mereer last year jv- fnre receiving his diploma. ' ■ ' Joseph Walter Jones, a ’form r marine, who ’ served last year as presit|ent' of 'the Overseas Club, "t en nies a different position in life how, and enjoys a higher - rank than lie liehl during the World War. It was reported that .'limes was a serRean; n the war. ' He now is ii "t -npipm-’. su.inetlj-' officer, a captain ; of‘"Infan try.” It happened this wi^v: .Several weeks , hro General' Stork visited the hoiite of Mr. arid, Mrs. Jones, and now "Bir Boy," as the former marine is known at Mercer, t- the proud ranking officer of the- 'infantry;" with one future Mer- ci-riatv in the company. Mrs. Jones, a former Wesleyan student, was- Miss (ielievieve 'Broome, of Maeoii, and duriliR the. time when the new "(aptain” Jones''. served as president of the Overseas ( lull. Miss Broome Has'-club sponsor. .Linemen. Meet .Overseas then are • found in every '.talk of campus life at Mereer.: (hi one occasion this fall, Oil the football Held, one Rrid . aspirant discovered 1 Hat he. was playing in the line with • i former fellow soldier in the One Hundred and, Seventeenth Field Ar- ii'lcty, the present line being" much tliTerent from that in France, ai- (fi >ugh frequently■ declared to he just ,;.s- determined and hard-lighting.- 'll true that the line, along with the ■ st of the (cunt, is lighting now for old .MoreOr, hut the spirit seems to he. . ' he same. . ■ . . Prof. Ben Hoitzclaw, former - pro. f- sstir of philosophy anil languages ni- Mereer, and the only- faculty mem her in the Overseas. Club last year, ? now teaching Greek at Cornell and •doing- graduate Work leading to his degree" of doctor of philosophy. ■ With the reorganization of the ■ Overseas Club, and the. enrollment , of the new-overseas men on the campus, it is expected that a number of in • J cresting facts relative to their war experiences will be forthcoming from (lie ex-servjce men. The .Overseas Club.is expected-to take- Charge of chapel services, at • Mereer -Friday morning .and-to - con- dj.ct .special Armistice Day exercises following whjch ' the students and faculty will enjoy half hoiiday, as ■ President Hardihg and Gov. Thomas W, Hardwick, a former Mereer man, have declared through official proc lamation, a holiday on- the anniver- ;«a'ry of the signing of the armistice; November 11, 1918.- CONSIDERATION While Mereer men. are celebrating Armistice Day, don’t forget to think nf the many loyal Mercer men who died for world-peace. PANTS PSYCHOLOGY NOW NEW COURSE Wear and Tear Together With All Rips Are Noticed. HE ADVISES MORE (ARE Careful Study College Clothes Reveals Much. "Captain" Joseph. Walter Jones, ; who reel-lit ly, wu.» aut-omat'i' u! ly eom-.- missioH'.-il . captain of "infantry” by the' visit of General. Stork, . reports that he. discin et ed during 'his. si-rviee . in I - ranee- as .a iliariijt- and'tailor that I'.e Joiiltl almost n-iu) 'a-..mail's iniiid through tilt- scat- of - Id's ' trousers.- 1 aptain ' Ji nes i' no\y, t haulit-uriiig llir Meuer Laundry and- Pressing i luh and reports that hj- ex peril in c' -at Mercer -in "pants psychtdogy" has ••-■'-en akin to the -experiences, over seas-.''' lie writes; . : fill Joseph Walter Jones, Across tht foam-tleeketl. (‘rests of tip- waves of the At-lantie. apt) on be -Jond tli,. old .baUlelVHds-.tif. Flanders the. writer" ifwt-s hack in iminory to the "spring Vif .191l>. It was with, the Army, of Occupation at 'Uhinchrbl oil' • the Rhine, twenty miles below Upb- h-nz. that fho work was Start id whielj e.ill- no hath in memory for some of tin- malt,rial tm the present article. Similar Earmarks Bark on the .lit-hls of action every man -was his own tailor, hut in tier •many I was appointed company tailor. Of course, the .clothes of the soldiers were, different,, from the ' clothes of Mereer students and other ei-Ht-Ri- , men, hut t he. Wear and tear revealed certain characteristics rii ''in- life of the -individual, similar to earmarks present on Mt-rcVr campus. I don’t mean -that everything that -was iamipibn.- (property I to tile sol diirs in, tlti- American Expeditionary Forces is common at Mereer. or, is ■ present at" all. I tin say, hovveWr, .that a careful stud;- of "man's' clothes reveals much.. • ... A- large portion of my Work.'as a tailor in Germany- I rati '-to do With •.mi ndinge'knees. of hred Iil-s.- 1- or *lw enlightenment ' of college, men who i who know nothing .of such' thing- t ’■( 1 Will -a\" that thejwcar at fills, par, tit ular-j)ho •. was eaus'ed by tin . o in stant . manifestation of int• r«, - ' in, "gitfldping tjomi-not and , posititiii m "read 'em anti, wi on the knees. . . . •’ .!, . FreiiuentJ.y I hud ' to, v pa j w of ii linn In (Wee ii the -f,'ii, the (iVi-rsi'U.- lilt'll • .|. t)n .an not worry, j. I;i tint i \ jVth.;. _ i: ' rioniymni. j Mueh l uriosit > I. T Oiuing hats from, -ftp my ' re i-j.tr-w ■ ; k ' --tf. -1.' t' sent to. e .V. ' ' "i pit •' . . ! T-W i-aii -; a. lot .'ntert * c LIEUTENANT COOPER D. WINN LieutenantColonel -Cooper I). Winn, MerVer alumnus, commander of 151st Machine (iun Battalion, ‘'Rainbow Division,"' prohuhiv the most'famous of the. National -Guard outfits in the resent world war. During .Col, Winn's liuu- at Mereer University he. was a quarlerhark tin the foltbpll team. lie. is now an officer/in the Guaranty Trust torn puny of New York fits, the largest banking institution ia. the .world, lie has a half brother, Stew art, Ik M inn, a- member of the present Mereer l aw School. t.-U’rday ntc.elofho., .. -i-tub ha’s jyhl t,s 'A' day ‘ \viUv l f-seati d. ,i-'j ailed -foi - - lUgil I did - - I- W- iud if In- wu.i:d-, i«.- wpar. . -u'"' OVERSEAS LEADER SICK IN HOSPITAL Sergeant Oscar. E. Brewer First I’resident of Club, mah answered the bugle’s call’ in tin' spring tif 1917,'enlisting ip'the tegu lar army as a privuti . instead of at- prejiared' Ins law lessons winch, met every night at*-ti o'clock. Eveiyt.htng 'went wejl until tlie til '- ui it’ w;a: f. i tending some officers’ training iump. spring .if lii-liO when I After his enlistment he was sent to to li-uye sehtutl and go to a.lio-pital a camp in Texas on the Mexican bor- tor an operation-eausedVfroiii the ef-. th-r.-Where he stayed until sept over- feels of gas received during the. war. Although having been prevented from u-turning to Mercer for sonic time. Prof.: “What is ivory used for?” Freshman: “Ttk make sogp:”—Mist sissippian, seas as a member of the Rainbow I Division. It "’as in the service of ” rs - .' r thisdivision, that he' fought-for his hc-agitin-entered at the first of school *|n i-elebratifig Armistice' Day ibis ! country aptiT.he was .gasse'd and hud in' -19211 only "ti stay about'the kanic year the Mereer Overseas Chib, will I to be taken.from the front lino. - ’ length of- tijne- us before, for Ke was miss'the presence of out' of its most | Those w ho were present at’ the Ar- again forced to leave-the low eliniate important- if not. the Tnest, outstanib j m rstiye Dny exercises just' year reca’d of , Georgia - and go . to the high al.ti- ing members- in the peTsym ‘of -Ser- what interesting ami heroic experi . tutie of South Carolina- • ieant Ost-ur E. Brewer, of Edison, 1 cnees Mr, Brewa'i* 1 went through with It. is ,in the army -hospital aCGreen- the first Mereer st nient to' enlist' in ' as' told in his talk in behalf (if the ville that' Mr. ’ lire er is, confined, at the ranks of “Unde Sam’s” army and American "doughboy.” Having had the present time, suffering." front a also jtaving the distinction of being.! much exp rience as a “doughboy”-ho touch of ..tuberculosis caused from the the first president of.' the MetN'otfl upheld’ thtir position as fighters as *“ ' Oyerseas Club. Mr. Brewer is con- well as giving some of the . many fined in an arniy hospital at, Green-. hardships endured. ville, S. Cv, and cannot be present atf .The full terni of 1919 found Mr. the’ eetebration Friday. | Brewer at -Mereer onee more regis-‘|’ sonally that he will soon recover and • It was after one- of the famous! tered up for law, He secured work if possible return tp Mereer and com- "nightshirt” parades that this yeuiig in Macon xluring the day as well as plote. hi? college course gas. The latest ■ reports front • Mr. Brewer, are encouraging and it .is the earnest wish of. the students, and especially those. w ho know him’.per il pair .if - tr-iU.M-i I I did the j-»b..and | tip in, I told him Iku ./; I out .wish to .lie- rii-pifs, j g‘ive hi,in tHy. .j<• l>" grat.1. i tt-11' an- hew ,ln r. riiiagk ! tilt- seilt "of Ills' Ui'U-a-.-s Vi- m . ' ,t *'.• waist line. • , -y." IK- aid he ..I utn.lt -know, but wi, >. saw h:m .in cla-s 'later m - ,' I i.- that hi a.iiaist.eoiliplftely : :vehnt'd his i tiait*. My -uliscrvatmir be- ; :i t.hat ’ jimst' collt-ge- men., Uenig allow’t . ' t<i sit as they please, "ih p" -\v;i i;i the ihaiy, whe.reas, if. the;.' would Sit erectly. I believe they- Would- pr.oli. - .. more 'from, the'lectures. . . ... Did you know thirt we- ha'v, not en tirely passed fn’im the eavi'-inan stage.'.''. When reiiue.-jte.il reiel.tivi to repair a coat split lictw t-en.flii' s.lVoul-. ders, I asked, if the owner, wanted it let out and he replied', "No; if any thing I. want it'made smaller.” He said -- he had .i',o*. notict-il It . being, rippgd until after a domestic visit.in the city. . - ' From the -ridiculous to the sublime!: Mereer men, lie careful. Be sure al ways to brush-the powder from your coat-sleeves and. to remove all foreign hicsutieal matter of a .lengthYurihy.- coniing to your coat-sleeve! I; per sonally, can keep your secrets well, but I’m not alone in the/work at the. Mercer Laundry and- Pressing Club.