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Page Two THE MERCER CLUSTER January 6, 192 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, Kditor-in-Chief; Robert M. Gamble, A. B. Cochran, W. K. •Wynne, John P. Rabun, Edwin S. Davis, E.'C. Hulsey, John 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. ROUND TRIP! TECH TOMORROW Most ■ Mercer students made the round trip home and back to Mercer without, serious mishap,: for compara tively few of . them have drqpped out. Old Man H igh Dife among the friends at home- has failed to break the spell i f the Orange and Black allurements. Also, Old Man Hard-times hus been grabbed in the Whiskers and made to yell “calf rope" b>’* the i}punk and de termination of a flock of real Mercer men. 1 And many new men have heard the call of Mercer to an education and better things, and have gome pouring irg The winter term bids fair to break all records in work and achievement l>y the students. The courses of study will be entered into with a new zeal attuned to the pep- p. ry Southern winter'; the athletic program is jammed full with a fast basketball, schedule; intercollegiate debates- will soon make their debut; and all the other interesting and helpful campus, activities will take their toll of time and. enjoyment. Studies, athletics, debates, every thing, come ope, come ■ all—our . sleeves, are rolled up and our feet are shod With the preparation of de termination! Mercer, we aTe all here! Mercer’s fast - flying basketball team will' play host to the: quintet from Georgia Tech tomorrow night beginning at-8:30.. The record of four straight wins made by the Orange and Black squad on the recent road trip has aroused worlds of interest among Macon fans. • To date Mercer has won five out of six sfames played, and is anxious to keep up her winning streak by de feating the Techites Saturday night. One of the biggest crowds in the history of Macon basketball is ex pected to throng the spacious audi torium to see the first clash between college teams of the season. After the coming of Tech, Auburn, Georgia and t’lemson . will be pluyed by the Mercer team. Auburn comes to Mercer next Friday night,, and is reported to have a crack team. ‘ The manager' of the basketball 'team requests that the Mercer stu dents co operate in advertising the games. It is suggested that friends be called over the telephone, written to, and the game talked up in every way. by Leo McCall and Martha Nisbet, are pertinent and timely, while the' joke section by Martha Lowe and Joe Taylor is- especially good. , All in all we believe that no better periodical is published by any high school than the Orange and Greed. Lanier has several students who will certainly develop into first class journalists as the years of training go by. BIG FOOTBALL YEAR OUR LOSS Poignant sorrow cam,e to Mercer students , when they learned of the death of B. H. Jones, Jr., which oc curred, on Tuesday, December 20. Many Mercer, men had already . fin ished their examinations and, gone home for the holidays, but to those . still on the campus and in Macon the loss of our friend, and fellow-student came as a great shock, and our hearts united in sorrow and grief with those, of family and relatives. His was indeed one of the choice spirits of Mercer. Coming from Emory to enter the Junior class ' here, B. H. Jones soon won a large place in the hearts, of those near ■ him. Tie impressed us with his straightforward manliness, his un assuming gentlemanly bearing, and his Christian virtues. The editor of the Cluster stood examination with him on Thursday morning before he passed away TUesday; and we remember thinking of him. at that time as one of the rpen Who would develop into, a leader at Mercer,. In-.that examination he . made a grade of “A" and the high mark of scholarship is symbolical of his standing in the estimation o* the student's and faculty..-. ' ’ In the examination of life he has stood the test# and we believe that the eternal Teacher will write down his grade .as “A.” MERCER’S “TIGE” The hearts of the students and faculty*-of. Mercer,, go out to “Tige” . Stone because of the • loss of his father who was killed in a railroad . accident in Florida, on December 18. No man has more friends at Mercer than “Tige.” He is noted as a great baseball pitcher, but this • is not all; for he is known by all to be a clean? cut, ‘modest gentleman, than whom there is. no finer on the campus.' “Tige” will forgive Us, we believe, ..for repeating a 1 statement we oijce heard him make. He said; “If Lean not w in * baseball game fairly, l do not wish to win it at all.” ' ' Of such men. are the greatest ath-; letes pf today and tomorrow.' “Tige’s 1 father and mother, who have both gone to thejr final rest, have left be hind a son who faces forward to live . and to work cleanly. Mercer men extend their sympathy to- “Tige” and thank him for his loy alty to Mercer and for his attitude toward, clean sports. USE THE I’UMI* Along comes a scientist who says that the heart does not pump the blood’ through the arteries of the body, but that it is propelled by elec tricity from the brain. This new theory may hold only a semblance of truth, but it gives us ground for in teresting speculation. Is the brain a finely adjusted elec rical machined Is each, cell of gray matter a miniature storage plant for electrical energy ? Shall we in the future discover a .method by which our brain-power can be increased by artificially re-'charging our craniums with hyper-vita-electro-magnetic orgy ? If this stage of advancement is ever reached,.we will have a won lerful agfc indeed! For then we oiild endet laws compelling every ‘boob” to become a, genius! In school, and in college every dunce” and “underhea'd” could at the first sign of mental mediocrity be cornered “ and rushed through the brain-charging process. For the ‘sucker born every minute” there would be easy recourse to the mental electrifying laboratory. Suppose young man showed .alarming tenden cies toward matrimony before he was able to support-a wife—then jam his head into the meshes of the brain- cap, and turn on. the juice! Suppose a. Freshman flunked on examination —a little more current, please, Pro fessor Bustem! Suppose—but the field of conjecture is unlimited, and we desist. . - The brain is a wonderful thing, electricity is a wonderful power,-and science goes marching on! ORANGE AND GREEN This seems to be a banner year on the; gridiron the country over. The interest manifested hj football in the Southeast this fall has been espe cially keen. In the North the largest crowds in the history of the game have attended the early and mid- seasdn matches. The West Point- Yale game of October 22 was viewed by 70,000 persons, while on the same day 41,000 people .witnessed the con test at Ann Arbor, Mich., between the University of Michigan and Ohio State,' breaking ' the attendance rec ord for the Western universities. The- South is producing excellent teams this year, as is also the West. Public interest is becoming more aroused in football in every section, nationalizing the game more and more, just as its methods are be coming more and more standardized. More teams are playing it, and bet ter; it is probable that more profes sional coaches are employed than heretofore. America cannot help but profit by the new and lufrger interest being taken in. the aport. Training both body and min<K the game is'one that develops courage, coolness and self- reliance; and/if America is to have the rugged /national character that Roosevelt insisted she must have, the youth of' today must undergo, just such, character training as is af forded on the football field to sup ply the foundations of national strength. When the young man leaves col lege and ventures out into the life of the business world, he needs to be obedient to authority and at the same time possess an unconquerable morale. Both of these can be learned from the game that teaches loyalty and the value Of team-work and co operation. "ANo little gratification is being felt from, the fact that Mercer has unusually splendid team this year. It is .'to be sincerely hoped that the University will have not only one good team but as large a number of lesser teams as can be organized and whipped into fairly good shape. —From Macon Telegraph Lanier’s monthly magazine, the Grange and Green, is an exception ally good periodical for a high school publication. It is written and published by Lanier students, and would do credit in some respects to a college monthly. • One of the best articles ih the November issue of ,the Orange and Green is a short story, “The Lady in Black,” by Eleanor Carr. This story is well conceived, cleverly written and has a surprising and heart stirring climax. Another article of merit is a stirring incident• of the World War graphically told by Leo McCall. “Girls Will Be Girls,” by Louise Deadwyler, shows good char acterization, and has a quaintly hu morous and wholesome climax. * An editorial on “The Lanier Li brary” by Robert Aids is written in a straightforward, earnest and schol arly Style. The editor commends the librarian, Miss Dickey'and is proud of thq “not pretentious” library, but concludes by Baying, “If the people of Macon knew how anxious we weife to possess a good library and how essential, one was to the school, books would, come in each day by stacks.” Clever and newsy “locals” by Arina Weaver arid Charles McCord form a pleasing feature of the Orange and Green. The locals haVe as their heading a smile-provoking cut of Sherlock With his. microscope out “deteckativing.” The Commercial and Music departments have* well edited articles, while athletics are ably handled by Rufris Smith and Louise Stubbs. Comments on the exchanges, IT’S A PLEASURE TO SERVE MERGER MEN We want you to feel at home, fellows, in our. store. Drop itround any old .time,' whether you trade ,br not. Mercer Men Should suport men that sup port Mercer. “ R. S. THORPE & SONS are supporting Mercer until the last -whistle blows. Help your school by helping yourself in buying from. R. S. Thorpe & Sons A. S. JOHNSON Mercer Representative Your Printing will receive prompt atten tion when your orders are placed with us. Good Printing Conservative Prices American Printing Company Reliable Printers 660 Cherry St. Macon, Ga. I SCHELLING & SON SHOE SHOP * doublewear soles Work"Sent^For and Delivered. Complete New Bottoms a Specialty. First-Class .Workmen and Factory Machinery. Telephone 756 119 Cotton Ave. 3nr W. W HARTNES5 PRACTICAL PAINTER 213 Cotton Avenue Macon, Georgia :'3iNWC 30IMr‘ < 3NME' 'Srv Tattnall Square Pharmacy ;% of our gross receipts go to promoting Mercer athletics! Phones 2691' aad 2226 “ 4 BOB SAYS-- ; ./‘Fellows, Mercer boys have always hunted me up, for I give them all the scores, and my famous wieners and cold butter r milk furnishes a ‘snack’ that’s hard to beat •" You’ll find me A City Drug Store; corner of Broadway and Cherry, where yon catch the cars for any place. I’ll appreciate seeing you Any time . for anything;—With you right on, if right”—BOB. rug LIBERTY BARBER SHOP Haircuts, Shaves, Manicure Service,, Shoe Shines Clothes Pressed Vvhile You Wait. Suits Sent For and Delivered?/ Phone 1181. - 558 Mulberry Street. ' SOUTHERN SHOE AND UMBRELLA REPAIR SHOP Work Called For and Delivered , We don’t fix shoes-^wc-build them. All work first class. W. D. MORRIS, Proprietor 538 Cotton Avenue What Is a Vacuum Furnace? F J an ordinary furnace materials bum or combine with the oxygen of the air. Melt zinc, cadmium, or lead in an ordinary furnace and a scum of “dross” appears, an im purity formed by the oxygen. You see it in the lead pots that plumbers use. In a vacuum furnace, on the contrary, the air is pumped out si that the heated object cannot combine with oxygen. Therefore in the vacuum furnace impurities are not formed. Clearly, the chemical processes that take place in the two types are different, and the difference is important. Copper, for instance, if impure, loses in electrical conduc tivity. Vacuum-furnace copper is pure. So the vacuum furnace has opened up a whole new world of chemical investigation. The Research-Labora tories of the General Electric Company have been exploring this new world solely to find out the possibilities under a new series of conditions. Yet there have, followed practical results highly im portant to industry. The absence of oxidation, for instance, has enabled chemists to combine metals to form new alloys heretofore impossible. Indeed, the vacuum furnace has stimulatecLthe study of metallurgical processes and has of metals in quantities. ^ . And this is the result of scientific research. Discover new facts, add to the sum total of human knowledge, and sooner or later, in many unexpected ways, practical results will follow.