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Page Two THE MERCER CLUSTER December 2, 1921 ‘ ' V The Mercer Cluster Published weekly by the students of the fourteen schools and colleges In the Mercer University System. George M. Sparks, Managing Editor The Cluster Staff: C. J. Broome, Editor-in-Chief; Robert M. Gamble, A. B. Cochran, W. K. Wynne, John P. Rabun, Edwin S. Davis, E. C. Hulsey, Jyhn C. Vincent, C. F. Brasington, Associate Editors; Romeo B. Morris, Circulation Mana ger, H. H. Ware, Jr., Assistant. Subscription Rates, one year, $1.50. Advertising rates on request. GEORGIA-MERCER-TECH Mercer will be compelled to de velop a football team that can whip • both Georgia and Tech. Force of cir cumstances obligates us to beat both of'them on the gridiron in the nbar future. Said circumstances consist of nothing less than an unseemly row between these two brothers arming Georgia colleges. For the row now grown chronic between Tach and Georgia is essen tially a family nicus. Tech and Geor gia are brothers among the state’s higher institutions of learning. They both have developed great football teams-. They have vied with one an other for the honors of the . State o' Georgia in football. They have been jealous rivals for the dainty hand of Miss Intersectiorial Honors. They are /too close together in the family of colleges of the state to keep peace in the family, brothers though they t Therefore, Mercer University, th third brother in this, state family, must now develop a football arm that is capable of taking these two unrul brothers in our family by the nape of the neck (pigskinisticly speaking), and spank the stuffin’ out of them. For when once Mercer licks both of them, then they will fall on each other’s neck and weep rivers of sym pathy for one another. They’ll have a third party to shoot at, The rivalry, amounting to deadly freshmanic • enmity, between T^eh and Georgia, can be alleviated only by Mercer forging into the 1 circle of Big ’Uns in Georgia state football. We must come .between them, as it were, with the stem arm of gridiron accomplishment, and dispute with them for football honors. Thus we will be.able to so diffuse the rivalry ■ that it wilt not collect • in one “pocket” and explode disastrously, periodically, chronically, eternally. Mercer has many reasons for wish ing to develop a great football team, but surely this chance to be a strong- armed ‘ peacemaker in the family of Georgia colleges is not one to be ’ passed up. ' / ; ■ In the near future we will beat both Tech and Georgia, and then they will feel it no disgrace to eat out of one another’s hand. Speed the day; Mercer,' when. you shall be called “The Peacemaker”! PREACHING PREACHERS One hundred and live people have raised their'hands in acceptance of Christ as their Savior in the street meeting held by Mercer preachers in Macon, according to those in charge of the work. Fifteen have been won by personal work. One meeting has been held at the county poorhouse where manor hands were raised in requests for prayer- At this service three professed to ac cept Christ as personal Redeemer Many became so interested in the meetings that they took an active part in the services, helping in them by singing and praying. Two hundred people assembled to hear the Mercer preachers on the corner of Cherry and Third streets Sunday, November 20. On this day a meeting was held among the negroes also, where many hands went up <for prayer when the invitation was given. Some of the colored citizens de clared that negroes in the habit of 'ambling had failed to show up at the usual “card and crap sessions, 1 showing that those who hear the young ministers arc really heeding -he gospel and leading better lives! • Wherever a crowd may gather there the preacher seizes the oppor tunity to “go” and preach the mess age of the Cross. From fifty to ieventy-five have signified .a willing ness to be used in these street meet ings, and the fellows take turn about preaching from Sunday to Sunday. COACH STRUPPER Signing of Everett Strupper, for mer Tech star, to assist Coach Cody in building a football machine next fall, means that Mercer will take no backward step in gridiron activities. Rather will the Orange and Black enter the lists in 1922 with a better prospect than ever to have a team able to win a majority of games. We have made great progress in ,one short year, but the coming of Strup per,. together with the various other plans for strengthening, the team will mpan much to our success. In the first place, the new assistant coach undoubtedly knows the game and will impart his knowledge to Mercer’s candidates with telling ef fect in'the scores to be run up by the next varsity eleven. Then, too Strupper’s coming wjll attract to Mercer many prep stars who know' and admire the former Tech scintil lator. The general effect on the stu dent body will be to assure them that the Mercer Faculty and Trustees, as' well as the people of Macon, are do ing their best to give US a winning FOOTBALL Mercer has had a . successful, sea son in football. This' does not mean that we have won a majority of ?ames or that we have yet devel- iped a world-beating team. It means that we have come so far from last year, that ,we have shown such won derful improvement ovpr last year’s performances that the season can be regarded as imminently successful. We began the season by holding Georgia to four scores. Then with opr team crippled we held Varidy to six. Next we held Florida to‘ one touchdown' and Florida had a much strongei team on the field than the one that beat us forty-two points last year. We won from three coir leges by good scores, and only failed to beat Oglethorpe by a bad turn in the “break” of the game—one-sev enth of. u touchdown and goal. We reversed. Chattanooga by 38 points and won. We have every reason to be proud of the team that upheld our cblors on the gridiron this fall.. Our football team is more than a hundred percent, improvement over the one, of last year. What we must do is to keep on developing a stronger and strong ?rtaem. Every man at Mercer must go home next spring with the determi nation to help to bring good players to Mercer. It can be done if the students will give some thought and time to it. All together for the greatest team next fall that ever wore the Orange and Black colors! . EMORY ATHLETICS Emory students went to the South Georgia Methodist Conference wear-r ing badges indicating that they de sired to have intercollegiate athletics in 1922. The students were present at the meeting in an attempt .to per tuade the. conference to allow them to engage in college athletics. Emory does not seem to be making much headway for athletics aaginst the opposition of Bishop Candler and others. But from all indications majority of the trustees, faculty and students of Emory are in favor of intercollegiate spoVts. . The students of the great Methodist university may be denied their wish temporarily but the time is coming when Emory will be a full-fledged member of the S. I..A. A.—so we predict. BASKETBALL : .';1 Let the students and Alumni how do their part in 'bringing good ma' terial (for the team to Mercer nth fall, for then will Cody arid Strupper amid an eleven on the field in 1922 that will wrest victory from some of the beet machines in the .South. ■■'I' The prospect for a real winner in basketball at. Mercer is bright and good. We have come /to the poirit where we can go out into any line of athletics and give all comers a hot battle. Especially has this beep true for several years in basketball. This year shopld be a bnntaer year for Mercer in the five-man game. Georgia, Auburn, and Tech will cer tainly have a hard time winning a single grime from the team Coach Cody will send on the ‘floor by Christmas, . , And we will be heard, from in the 8. I. A, A. tournament—whpt say to the championship f. TIPS AND TAPS By ^ob Gamble Didja ever have the toothache? We did, too. Didja ever have a lady dentist work on you? - . Well, we did. ' It {happened like this: One day we discovered, that our molars, bicuspids and lots of other funny names that mean teeth but don’t sound like you’d eat with ’em, weren’t hitting on all four cylinders, so to speak, but in stead, they were functioning about like Ike Cowart would work a spher ical trigonometry ^ problem after a Thanksgiving meal, which means not worth a durn. Well, when we made this affaire de Christobal Columbo, which is French and Italian for dis covery, we put on our hat, thereby packing our trunk, and balled the jack down to title dentist. „ • We found him, and also found that he had about the nicest assistant that we know, and somehow, we thought maybe toothology wouldn’t be-so bad if the fair assistant would work on the subject instead of letting the he- man toothologist do it. And further more, we wondered lots of*ether nice things about dentistry and assistants and everything, and we got so thrilled thinking along these lines that the dentist, the real toothologist himself, had relieved us of one of our best friends since our youth, and you know, we didn’t know anything about what he was doing; it was that pain less when he pulled the tooth: Of course we were thinking about the nice lady assistant all the time and kjnd of got our mind off.the tooth ologist; and of course he put some “Noah’s cane” or something that sounds like that, in our gum <*. keep the jaw from raising cane, but we forgot about' that when we began to think of the assistant. Qf course, we never were partial to .the ladies and always have been shy when among 'em, but somehow—well, you’ve heard the old sayso about “misery, loves company,” so maybe that explains bur participation /in the. bicuspid complicity. Well, to make a long story abbre viated, we found out one day that the toothologist was going to be away frbm his office for a few hours and we thought maybe that was our chance, so we developed the best toothache you .ever heard of, kind of made-to-order, and with bur jaw poking out like “when a feller needs a friend,” we limped into the dentist's office, kind of thinking that maybe the dentist was therfc, and, sorter hoping that he wasn’t. Well, he wasn’t, but when the assistant said she would relieve us of our suffering, why we condescended, just like it wasn’t any more premeditated than anything. And you know, ever since then we have been just as partial to assistants, and somehow we sorter hope that the toothologist will be out of town again sometime when one of those far-back ivory pegs in our jawbone tries to emulate the Charge of the j Light Brigade, or something. Didja ever have a lady dentist work on you? We did, and O boy, ain't it a grand and glorious feeling? EDITOR’S 0-0 The Southern, of Southern College, Florida, is asking the students of that institution to hand in jokes to the editor. Says the Southern, “They all blame the Joke Editor for not having more jokes of a humorous nature in his column.” We will watch with interest future issues of ^the Southern to see if it contains piore jokes “of a humorous nature.” > An alumni of Southern College by the name of Page has married Miss Virginia West. Will their progeny belong to the' Fourth Estate of the Staff of Life? Anyway, we hope their little pages will not suffer for Wheat biscuit. Two students of Mississippi Uni versity “after eating about seventy- five cents’ worth of sandwiches, cheese, etc.,” at a cafe, were held up and robbed of their money and valu ables while finding their Way back to the campus, according to the Missis- s-ippian. The hold-up men told the students to “highball it” and then “they heard the pistol snap twice, but .the third time the little gun didn’t snap; it went off, and so did Garner anil Barrett. They had no fear that the bullet would catch up with them, but it was a chilly autumn night— an excellent night for track work," and so they moved and had their be ing elsewhere shortly. Georgia Maid Syrup is used by Mer cer University and other leading edu cational institutions throughout the South. This is a high tribute for the quality of our ayrup. Every Drop Filtered— Made by Burnt Syrup Co. .Macon Georgia The Wild Cat, official organ of Louisiana Baptist College, speaking of that institution’s plans for student AI government, says, “Self-government should be the goal toward which we all are working in our lives, both out side college and in it. A man should certainly desire to become master of himself.” ■ " The United Statements, of Baylor College, Texas, tells of a revival meeting held at that institution by Dr. G. L. Yates, formerly pastor of the First Baptist church, Maconi Ex ceedingly high praise is accorded Dr. Yates by the paper for his work in the revival. The meeting is referred to as the best held at the college in several years. The best part of the Rollins Srind- spur, of Rollins College, Florida, is its weekly joke section. It is very | appropriate that the jokes of the Sandspur should have point to them —speaking from our “brief but thor ough” experience with sandspurs. Something New lay New and Attractive gifts for all the family are being added to our stock. Greeting Cards and Book lets will be more popular this year than ever. We carry the largest assort ment in the South. Quality Goods Only Trade With Us J. W. Burke Co. ,406 Cherry Street Macon, Ga. ■ She. Wasn’t Hungry Skid a delicate girl from Silver Lake To the waiter, “I really can’t take A full meal, so instead. Bring me coffee and bread, Buckwheat cakes, ham arid eggs and a steak.” —Purloined. ^aid a hungry young Fresh in the dorm, “Any feed port is good in a storm." So he drew up his chair, N With an appetite rare, But ate nothing! Was this true to form? K. R. S. ‘in the Southern is respons ible for this lovely limerick: ' I “There was n young lady named Glenn, In'figure she was extremely thin; i Whenever she essayed » . To drink lemonade, She slipped through the straw an fell in." +rHdtcfctri I IT S A PLEASURE TO SERVE MERCER MEN We want yqu to feel at home, fellows, in our store. Drop around any old time, “A bachelor’s degree is more easily obtained where there are no co-eds.” ^ -Exchange. We feel relieved about | Aether you trade or not. the bachelor end of it, but what’s to become • of the “arts” without the painting, posing and co-eds? composing Our Married . Friend Says A woman has the right to be in consistent if she is pretty. You don’t know a woman until you haye had a letter from her. People marry whom they must— they love whom they please. Instead of sonnets to her eyebrow, the modern maiden prefers theater tickets and boxes of sweets. A new dressmaker is a new era in a woman’s ' life, and every woman loves n new. era. However objectionable 'your own relations are, the Ones you marry are bound to be worse. He: “I love a girl like you." She: "Who is abet."—Southern. More Than a Florist’s Shop A FLOWER SERVICE A complete, fresh stock of the flowers in season Nutting 6c Carswell FLORISTS Phone 17.76 414 Second Street Macon, Ga. Tattnall Square Pharmacy 1 Vi of our gross receipts go to prompting Mercer athletics. to, Phones 2691 and 2226 viUWM0MUMtlMUMUMUI0MtA)M0M0f. l-i^ THANKS- To OUR Advertisers! You are backing Mercer by using The Cluster as. a trade- puHing medium: Yoti are mak ing it possible fpr us to get out one of the best college weeklies in the United States. RAH FOR ADVERTISERS! PONGEE SHIRTS Men’s Fins Pongee Shirts with ,, collars attache#, a specialty, Writs Box 172, Forsyth, Ga. A Good Placp to Eat NEW YORK CAFE Best Coffee iri the City 814 Second St.