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THE MERCER CLUSTER
January 27, 1922
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The Mercer Cluster
Published weekly by the students of
the fourteen schools and colleges in
the Mercer University Systerm
George M. Sparks, Managing Editor
The dusted Staff:
C. i. Broome, Editor-in-Chief; Robt.
M. Garnbfe; A. B. Cochran, W. K.
Wynne,.' John P. Rabun, Edwin S.
Davis, E, C. Hulsey, John C. Vincent,
('. K. Brazington, Associate Editors;
Basil Morris, Circulation Manager;
J. P. Leggett, Assistant Circulation
Manager. ■ *
Subscription Rates,, one year, $1.50.
Advertising rates on request.
MERCER SPIRIT
We exported 4,587,000 bales.
Our leadng exports in the order of
their importance are cotton, Iron and
steel, meat, what and comf petro
leum, copper, wood products and
leather products. • ;
Of cotton, corn, petroleum' and
copper products the United States
produces more of each than all other
nations combined.
Many- other interesting facts too
numerous to mention are given.
When it is remembered that these are
only isolated facts from a great sea
of information found in the course, it
will be realized how beneficial is the
work in ■ the Department of Eco
nomics.
MEN WANTED—
WITH BRAINS
The question has ' been asked,
“Whence comes the Mercer Spirit?”
Does the Mercer. Spirit come from
the gloridus traditions that cluster
about Mercer’s progressive history,
inspiring our hearts with noble emo
tions ? V
Does the Mercer,Spirit come from
the richness of the lives and charac
ters of the galaxy • of great men,
statesmen, jurists, doctors, preachers,
lawyers, Christian citizens, who have
gone out front Mercer in the past to
be a motive benediction to the land?
Does the Mercer Spirit have its
source far up in the• rugged hill of
Yesterday in the fountain, golden
hearts of, Adiel Sherwood, Jesse Mer
cer and others, who gave from their
Godly .spirits the first impulse to
Mercer’s crystal stream? C
Does the Mercer Spirit come from
the loyal multitudes .of Georgia
Baptists who by the unselfish gifts, of
their money, time and prayers make
Mercer’s progress possible?
Does the Mercer Spirit spring from
the hearts of her noble teachers
past and present, who have labored
in her hallowed halls to teach the
truths that make men free ?
Does the Mercer Spirit rise from
the unified soul and high ideals of
her present incomparable student
body? .
Yes, yes, to all of these questions
yes.
The Mercer Spirit comes from the
collective power and flower of all
these. The Mercer Spirit is cumula
tive in impulse and effect. Its sources
are primary and varied, but all are
now blended in - one harmonious
whole.
Let the Mercer Spirit, a supreme
concept of a Christian college, ever
grow and t;ver radiate until stream
and gleam of truth and light meet
stream and gleam in the four quar
ters of the God-loved world!
ECONOMIC FACTS
Courses in Economics offered at
Mercer give the students an insight
into some of. the most fundamental
problems of the times, according to
those taking work in this”'depart
ment.
The main benefit of these courses
is said to be the gaining of a general
and comprehensive -knowledge of the
laws arid processes of present’ day
economic and trade movements- To
this more general knowledge is added
a multitudinous number of concrete
facts concerning- tariffs, trade, com
merce, labor and capital, and other
important factors in economics.
A glance through the pages of
single text-book used in the Econom
ics department under Prof. Railey
reveals some .striking figures on. the
foreign trade of the United States.
The foreign trade of the United
States in 1!>16 amounted to $6,500,
000,000, including both exports and
imports.
The total value of all manufactured
articles in this country in 1914 was
estimated to be $40,000,000,000.
The export trade of the United
. .States grew ’ from $835,000,000
. 188Q to $5,920,000,000 in 1918. >.
, The output of' manufactured arti
cles doubled from 1900 to 1914.
Our fpreign trade has increased at
: twice as great a ratio as our popu
lation..
More than twice as much cotton
used by the world than wool and all
other textiles.
The use of cotton, has increased
forty-fold in the past century.
I " The United States supplies three
fourths of the cotton production
the wqyld. | '
Our home consumption of. cotton
To the college man of today there
a great field of opportunity in .the
field being waged to eradicate dis
ease. The lines of buttle arc being
drawn, ami Medicine, Chemistry and
Physics are. allying themselves to
gether in an effort to win the day for
humanity. ’’ ., ■
Appealing is the task held out to
the youth of imagination and desire
to serve. Chance for achievement is
not greater in any other realm than
in that of the sciences which must be
depended upon for progress 1 in pre
venting and curing disease. Thip held
includes medicine,, chemistry, physics,
biology and their allied sciences.
No, longer does the student ip One
realm of science work independently
of the others. The man of medicine
brings to his aid the biologist, the
pathologist, bacteriologist, ; pharma
cologist, chemist or physicist to as
sist him in charting the sea of dis
ease and health. All these together
or in their. several capacities study
minutely and thoroughly those physi
cal and chemical questions, a correct
knowledge of which is absolutely es
sential to the alleviation of human
suffering.
The demand for men trained in the
sciences is greater than the supply
Problems yet unsolved await the skill
and patience of those who enter this
Held.. Phenomenal gains are being
made, but wider fields are yet to be
conquered. For the three greatest
distroyers of human life, tubercu
losis, pneumonia and cancer, no spe
cific treatment . has been found.
Scores Of specifics for other diseases
can be improved immeasurably.
Mercer men would do well to con
sider well these great fields ’ of. en
deavor, and be ready to lend their
assistance to the ever-active cam
paign to destroy disease.
Look out for a season of cruel di^>
aster,
When this exponent of jazz becomes
ruling master;
She’s sowing wild oats, a' harvest
she’ll reap,
Then nations will bleed and govern
ments weep.
Let the “flapper” perish; let girlies
not roam.
From the hearth and true love of that
dear place called home, >.
For when there, she’s so gentle, and
modest, and square,'
And too, while with mother," there’s
no bobbing of hair.
Self-respect is her fortune; then,
there let her shine,
And' possess habits of culture, while
yet in her priirg.
We’re praying and hoping, our good
Lord above
Will-make her a queen in that king
dom of love.
SKYSCRAPERS
John Milton Samples
Like listening sentinels they rise
Up from the land below,
Piercing the depths of the arching
skies
By day, at night aglow
With flaming lamps that fling afar
Into the face of night
Radiance like the far-off star
Flooding the'world with light;
Swept by the storm and hurricane,
Smiting with wrath the land.
Devastating the fruitful plain.
Yet unafraid they stand,
Guarding the wealth of the city’B
gold,
Shielding its store of life,
Grim Skyscrapers, tall and bold,
Heroes amid the strife.
Mercer Men
Should suport men that sup
port Merger. %
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
666 Cherry St. Macon, Ga.
CHAS. A. H1LBUN
OPTOMETRIST
and. Manufacturing Optician
Phone 671?’ 620 Cherry. St,
Macon, Ga.
R. H. Small in gs Sons
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
AND BUILDERS
Phones 1102-J'and 4092-J
Macon, Ga.
THANKS—
To OUR Advertisers!
You are backing Mercer by
using The Cluster as a trade
pulling medium. You are mak
ing it possible for us to get out
one of the best college weeklies
in the United States.
RAH FOR ADVERTISERS!
BEST COOKING iff MACON
Rice’s Cafeteria, 367 Cherry
Street, opposite J. P. Allen t
Company.
DR. A. P. MONTAGUE
THE FLAPPER
Apologies to Langston
Princely Southern gentleman of chi-
valric mould,
In whom Christian virtues regal
sway doth hold;
Grace and gentleness from heart to
heart instilled
By manner courteous and words with
wisdom Ailed.
His noble life is wedded to the task
of today,
His heart a treasury of the best
along the way;
Virginian and Georgian, and Mercer
man at last.
He brings to us Chivalry of the glo
rious past.
By R. L. Brantley
She has pulled off the corset and un
done the stitches,
She has raised her skirt high, and put
on the breeches.
She has left her poof mother at home
cooking dinner, '*
While she struvs with her Collie-
does this feminine sinner.
Yea, the “flapper’’ has come, “like the
wolf on the fold,”
And she rants, and she swaggers,
with sarcastic scold,
Leaves m&ttbrs religious to mother
to keep,
While the ways of her daughter
causes mother to weep.
And man—poor devil—is afraid of
this fool,
Who smokeB cigarettes and. shoots
excellent pool;
She vamps in the courts, and makes
fools of the jury,
And she swears on the’ streets—does
this feminine fury.
She stands on the corners, she teases
the men, ^
She speeds jn her, roadster and'thinks
it .no sin -
To go to the lock-up, and be hit with
'* a billy, •’ •
She’s a menace to peace—is this
feminine silly, i •
IT’S A PLEASURE
TO SERVE
MERCER MEN
We want you to feel at home,
fellows, in our store.
Drop around any old time,
whether you trade or not,
Tattnall Square
Pharmacy
l < 7< of our gross receipts go to
promoting Mereer athletics.-
Phones 2661 and 2226-' -*-i
JMUM0MUM
She is boss at her home, she wrecks
good~feeling, . * • -,
She bankrupts her father, and has
himsquealing
“I’m broke; I’m ruined; and can’!
send you to school,”
Pray, what does she care—does this
exceeds 6,000,000 bales, while in )9181 feminine fool. , .
BOB SAYS—
“Fellows, Mercer boys have
always hunted me up, for I give
them all the scores, and my
famous Wienera and (sold butter
milk furnishes a ^si^ack’ that’s
hard to beat. You’ll And me at
City Ding Store, corner of
Broadway and Cherry, where
you catch the cars for any place.
I’ll appreciate seeing yon any
time fojr anything.—With yjou
right on, ia right.”—BOB. . |
City Drug StoTe
SCHELLING & SON SHOE SHOP
DOUBLEWEAR SOLES j
Work Sent For and Delivered. Complete New BotUyns a Specialty.
First-Class Workmen and Factory Machinery.
Telephone 756 , ■ 119 Cotton Ave.
W. W. HARTNESS
PRACTICAL PAINTER
21? Cotton Avenue
Macon, Georgia |
LIBERTY BARBER SHOP
Haircuts, Shaves, Manicure Service, Shoe Shines
Clothes Pressed While You. Wait. Suits Sent For and Delivered.
Phone 1181. 658 Mulberry Street.
SOUTHERN SHOE AND UMBRELLA REPAIR SHOP
Work Called For and Delivered
We don’t fix shoes—we build them. All.work first class.
W, D. MORRIS, Proprietor 538 Cotton Avenue
We are soliciting your account on the basis
of SERVICE that has builded the largest
National Bank in Central Georgia.
NJV
Fourth National Bank
MACON, GA. -
Arcadia Hotel and Dining Room
On Mulberry Street, next to Grand Theater
' * v. i ' ■ I" 1 '- “ 1 ■' "v .•
SPECIAL STUDENT RATES
Straight board ...............:..f26.00
2 persons, room and board.. .$37.50 each
3 persons, .room and board......:,............;...:..;..;.$86.00 each
4 persons, room and board..............$32.60 each
Rooms have steam heat, hot, and cold running water
PHONE 280