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Page Two 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. Subscription Rates, one year,’$1.50 Advertising rates on request. 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. Loh’s Cafe Exclusive Dining- Room For Club Dinners Welcome, Mercer Men! Phone 122 514 Mulberry Mercer Men Should suport men that sup port Mercer. ' R. S. THORPE A 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 THANKS— ^ > To OUR Advertisers! " You are backing Mercer ty 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! 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