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THE MERCER CLUSTER
February 10, 1922
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. Bioome, Editor-in-Chief; Robt.
■M. Gamble, A: B. Cochran, .F. R.
Nalls, Jr., -John P. Rabun, Edwin S.
Davis, John C. Vincent, C. F. Braz-
ington, Associate Editors; Basil Mor
ris, Circulation Manager; J. P. Leg
gett, Assistant. Circulation Manager.
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PLAY BALL!
As the baseball season approaches,
every man at Mercer who can.play
baseball at all should dig down into
his truhk pr closet and get out an
old pair.'of Lizard Lbpe.High School
baseball breeches or any other kind
■available, and go, out to make our
team. ■ .
Soon the horsehide will.be zipping
up to meet: the well-known willow.
The smacking kiss of the bat and
ball, the tantalizing zig-zag hop of
the hard-hit grounder, ■ the comet
plunge of the line-drive, the graceful
•float of the outfield fly, the‘vanish
ing glide of the pitcher’s curve and
the thud of the catcher’s mitt, ail
these will : follow the familiar "Play
ba-awl!” '
The men who expect, to make Mer
cer’s team must go' out for practice
in the first workouts. Fifty or more
men should be cavorting on the first
day. But you cannot make the team
in one day, hor in a week, nor per
haps in a month, You’ve got to show
your goods - and your grit- by sticking!
Don’t wait till the baseball season
opens or go out for'a few days and
qu.it,.and - expect to beat out some
fellow who has been plugging along
for weeks at the job, •.
It’s going to take a lot of practice,
to put you in shape to make the
varsity. .Every day’s - workout •yvill
make you that much more a finished
ball player. Hard , work, patience,
attention to the details of the game,
observing these conscientiously will
make you a hard man to keep, off
the team. Go to it!'
ACHIEVEMENT GROWS
Men now at MerceV have been fold
repeatedly, that they should strive to
uphold the traditions of our Univer
sity, that thl-y should maintain the
records in all lines - of achievement
made in the past. But it is our be
lief that Mercer men "of today should
and can attain to greater accom
plishment than , any . generation of
students gone before.
In,all lines of endeavor the attain
ments of yesterday enable the men
of today to' build for still wider suc
cess.' Yesterday achieves; and her
achievements fling to us the voice of
challenge. Standards of today be
come the guage- of minimum work
for tomorrow. The deeds of today
will become tomorrow's stepping-
stones to: more lofty attainments.
And so up through' the days and
years .society, a nation or a college
mounts upon the accomplishments of
successive generations. Ideals once
attained become vantage ground for
yet broader vision.
All this is to say that Mercer men
this year mdst make a greater record
than in any year in the. past. The
man who puts, not his shoulder .to
the wheel to add to' the record of
even - the most successful year in the
past i» a eeojnd-rater, The leave-rag*
of yesterday's deeds leaves' no excuse
for "him who will not move things
today. Mercer men, behold the past!
It is within your poorer, it is your
duty and privilege to. achieve greater
things than have ever been achieved
in the • history of the institution.
Dr. Courtenay C. We’eks,' president
of the 'World Student Federation
Against Alcoholism, addressed the
British Medical Association and the
Royal Sanitary' Institute in 1921.
Dr. Courtenay is recognized in' Eng
land as an authority on alcohol and
the human mechanism, as well as a
very - popular speaker on general
phases of alcoholism. During 160
days of 1921 he addressed 260 au
diences, .many of . which were medi
cal associations, teachers’ societies,
and organisations of students.
TIPS AND TAPS
'By; Bob Gamble
Is Life Worth Living? ,
.One day last week we chanced to
be running around loose und decided
to’take in a movie. “Is Life Worth
Living?”- was the name of the show
ut the Captiol, and being uncertain
in our mind as to whether or not the
sojourn on this terrestrial plane jus
tified all the perspiration and disap
pointment necessary in the. adven
ture, we decided to drop into the
show'and see what the other fellow
thought aboutt-jt. Eugene O'Brien
was the so-callc<P"other fellow,” and
was operating, in the role of leading
man, plnying opposite Winifred
We?tover, a petite damsel of fasci
nating smile and winning way. . The
leading rnan had been unjustly ac
cused (of having poor eyesight in
that he could not distinguish' his own
money from that of his employer.
The accusation- let! to a trial and
Hthough the accused was acquitted,
he was a branded man in 'the public
•yei While perambulating around
peddling, typewriter ribbons (.which
reminds' us that we wish the boss
would donate a new ribbon for our
jim-dandy. moulder of public opinion),
he decided that life wasn’t Worth
living and hocked . his . bankroll to
gether with his salesman's grip for
i six-shooter, preparing to use it on
himself and end it all. About this
time the petite .damsel above re
ferred to, came into the. life of the
■x-typewriter-ribbon salesman and
soon convinced hine that life was
worth living, but NOT alone, where-
lpon the leading man gave up his
suicidal notions, meandered with the
letite damsel to an apple orchard
where said p. d. played orr her banjo-
nandolin some love song about apple
blossom-time, which struck a re
sponsive chord in the bosom of the
leading man. Pretty’soon, he began
to stroke her lily-white hand and in
less time than it takes Josh Cody to
eat an oyster cracker, she was locked
n his embrace, their lip's doing a
full ' reel of .mutual osculation the
while, " . , - '
Naturally, -they lived happily ever
after, and we can’t say that we
blame . the leading man for reaching
the decision that life was worth liv
ing with the p. d. as his soul mate>
But what we'started out to say
was this. 1 Miss Winifred Westover,
the petite damself in the above yarn,
s now Mrs; William S. ("Big Bill")
Hart, having married , since she
played opposite Eugene O’Brien in
"Is Life Worth Liyihg?” We can!t
help, but wonder what "Bill” Hart
thought and said if he-saw , that pic
ture since he married the leading lady
therein. We may be different and all
that, but somehowrother, we don’t
fancy we would like to see a picture
in which our soul mate became the
bpide of another Adamite, 1 even "just
playlike,” for the movie camera re
corded that the outward affection was.
genuine! *
Have a Hart, Bill!
Romance Au Gratin
Can you beat it!
This handsome Manly McWilliams,
he of the stunning look and wicked
line,of sweet nothings, has certainly
cooked our goose. -Being so .hand
some and all that, this McWilliams
person naturally is what Emmett
Pope would term a “knockout” with
the women. Why, they follow him
•round (mentally and by letter) i.
the same manner as a carpet tack is
attracted by a high-powered magnet.
Why, this McWilliams has such a
winning way . among the women that
he is' the whole cheese regardless of
whether there be two or twenty other
Mercerians in the, crowd coveting- a
bit of damselled attention;
Well, this lady-killing specimen of
the genu's homo, in his clever manner
inveigled some Wesleyan girls into
inviting three members of the Merecr
basketball team to take dinner at
Wesleyan next' Sunday, the trio, in
cluding. “Beau BrummeT’ McWilliams
himself, "Cohsuellb” Smith, who, by
the way, is no slouch among the
ladies;, and the colyum .chaperon,
whom we are which.. Now, isn’t that
a great trio? ' (Pardon our .modesty.)
. We can just picture that crew in
Wesleyan’s dining room among some
460 Georgia “peaches.” . Why, this
McWilliams will have to employ- a
body-guard to keep from being ■'liter
ally vpmped'to death, he is that hand
some. Smith will get along pretty
well, if Me .doesn’t want all the girls,
but as for us—
Gee whiz! We’ll have to borrow
-.- .'y_ C -. ^ ' - ■ «. /"•
the good looks of Wallace Reid, the
symmetry of Apollo, the George
Sparks smile and a volume of Percy
B. Shelley’s love poems before we
will even rote u knife and fork! But
we won’t Cat soup with our fork if
we get one, and if they have soup.
Mr. McWilliams accepted the invi
tation with the proviso that Mercer
trims Georgia in basketball Satur
day. One of life ambitions if the col
umnist was to be on a team to de
feat Georgia in Athens, which' was
realized January 27 by . a score of
27-18; Another of life’s ambitions
has been to eat dinner at Wesleyan
during the college year—but we’re
not dead yet. However, Me has ac
cepted the invitation and there’s
nothing for us but to go, nervous and
gun-shy among the “chickens” tho’
we - be.
CAN you beat it!
THE LAW OF LIFE
John Milton Samples
The law of life js Change,
And what we term decay
Is but ■ transition strange,
. The order of -G°d’s way.
Mind, Matter, Force, and Soul '
' Forever keep the same,
Yet while the cycles, loll
They-play a wondrous, game.
O’er ,all Creation's vast
And varied, unique plan,
From first unto the last,
Her crowning work is Man. .
All matter waits on mind
To be transformed to worth.
Refashioned and refined,
Man's master-task in earth.
The atom thrill? with life,
Likewise the molecule,
And in this realm of strife
The law of. change holds rule.
We battle with the tide,
We cavil, fume, and fret,
Yet nothing may abide,
, We learn, and then forget.
Is there, for us no hope
Who -toil and suffer pain?
Who mid earth-darkness grope,
, Is there no good to gain?
No sacrifice is lost
Where escort is sincere,
No matter what the cost,
- O mortal, persevere!
The law of life is Change,.
The lily springs from sod;
The scales of being range
From insect unto God..
AMEN, DOCTOR!
Dr. Weaver (speaking in behalf of
Mercer at faculty meeting): “Breth
ren, this school has got to walk.”
Prof. - Railey: “Amen, doctor! Let
her -walk’.”
Dr. Weaver:. “Brethren, this school
has got to run.”
Dr. Flippin: . “Amen, doctor! Let
her run."
Dr. Weaver:. “Brethren, this school
has got to fly." '
Prof. Jacobs: “Amen, doctor! Let
her fly.”
Dr. ■ Weaver: “Brethren, it will
take money to, make this Bchool fly.”
Dr. Ragsdale: “Let her walk, doc,-
tor, let us walk.”
In its successful campaign for a
new stadium, the University of Cali
fornia put itself in the situation not
of asking for donations but of sell
ing seats in the stadium for the
next ten years. The unit of payment
to the stadium - fund was $100, each
cash payment purchasing 1 $100 in
scrip, redeemable -in stadium tickets
at the rate of $10.00 for the next
ten years.
Students of today take more in
terest in the affairs of the general
community and are more useful as
citizens even though younger in av
erage age than those of ten or
twenty years ago, according to the
annual report of Henry A. Yeomans,
dean'of Harvard College.
Restriction of college attendance by
some form of selection is finding
many advocates now.- Some presi
dents - suggest personnel tests for
Freshmen, some advise a strict weed
ing put of students during all four
years, and! soipe ask for admission
only of students who have main 1 -
tained A certain atandihg in .'high
school. :
LINES
By T. M. H*rt
Do you yearn for olden romance.
And the days of long ago?
Days that we must think romantic,
Since the minstrels tell us so.
Do you pine for knighthood’s flower,
Arthur and the Table Round?
When with chivalry and valour
. Knights went forth to seek a crown ?
Think you on the ancient Spartans,
Fighting at Thermopylae?
Or the Roman Bacchanales
Loving, feasting, all the day?
Or the days of Revolution.-
Washington and Lafayette.?
Washington who gave.-us freedom
, Then disdained a coronet.
Many charms have long past ages,
Romance always haunts the past;
So ’twill be till time is ended,
yTill tfye “First shall be the las£.”
Leave these - thoughts, and in ! the
present
Put your mind, yoqr heart, your
soul,
Greater far in Charm apd beauty
Is today than ages old.
PIEDMONT INSTITUTE
The Piedmont basketball quintet
went to Brunswick last Saturday,
where they were treated royally but
defeated by a score of 25 to 11. The
boys left Wednesday morning for a
three days’ ’ trip, playing Tiftop on
Wednesday; Albany high school on
Thursday evening and Albany “Y”
Juniors Friday evening.
Our B. Y. P. U. is still booming.
Group No. 2, under direction of Miss
Lois McCool, put on a 100 per cent
program Tuesday evening. ’ No less
can be said of the program rendered
by Group No. 3, under the direction
of Roy Bethune. There is quite a
decided improvement in the interest
taken in the Bible readers' course.
We hope the interest will continue.
No quarterlies were used in either
of the three last meetings. Here’s
hoping that the next three will be
likewise.
Miss Inez Brown, Expression
teacher, 'is directing a fantasy
“Garden Seed” at the Quarterman
Street School. Ninety-two children
are included in the cast, most of
them being under ton years of age
It will be staged at the Central high
school auditorium.
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