Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

a t a rOUBTXKN SCHOOLS AND COLLHOKS Vol. 2 MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1922 No. 17 GIRLS’ ’TRAIN FOR MERCER Fair Ones of Bessie Tift to Ar rive on Society Day. SOCIETY DAY PRECEDENT A trainload of Bessie Tift ((iris will come .to. Mercer next Wednesday for Society Day, according to an an nouncement by Dr. Rufus W. Weaver. The special train bearing the Bessie Tift beauties will stop at Ash street where the young ladies will be greet-. c,| by the whole Mercer student body. I am anxious -that Society Day should actually have a social- fea ture," , said Dr. Weaver. “Therefore W e have asked the Bessie Tift girls to celebrate the day with us, It is important that Mercer and Bessie Tift have very, cordial and close re lations. The .young women will come down in the morning and stay' until we tell tne dispatcher to let the train depart: for Forsyth. It re my desire that you young men should see to it that the young ladies do not get lone some while at Mercer.” According to the plans - the Bessie Tift girls will stay until after the reception, which begins at 9 o’clock Wednesday night. It is said that the oming of the young women Will add greatly to the interest and enjoy ment of Society Day at Mercer. The precedent' set by their coming will probably be followed each year here after, and the day will gain in pres tige and importance with the student body. Last year Society Day was con sidered a big success, but the plans now under way bids fair to make this year eclipse all former celebrations of this kind. Many Alumni and friends of Mercer are expected to be here at that date also. MERCER LAWYERS CONTROL THE BAR Judge, Clerk, Opposing Counsel and Litigants Once Students. MERCER SCHEDULES DEBATE, ORATIONS AND A RECEPTION DEBATES FOR YEAR MARK SOCIETY DAY Mississippi, Howard, Emory and Furman on List. BREN All AND BESSIE TIFT SHIRLEY WILL PRESIDE Debaters: Mathews, Marshall, Williams, Shirley, McRae, Green, Bootle, Broome. Three Ciceronians and Three Phi Deltas Act As Marshals. By F. R. Nalls, Jr. Where do Mercer men go after they finish college ? This question was partially answered Tuesday morning when it was found that in the 'municipal court of the city of Macon all the lawyers except one were Mercer graduates, and that this one has two brothers who have grad uated from Mercer. . . The judge, Hugh Chambers, was a Mercer alumnus; so was the clerk W. H. Spillers. Over half the jury were graduates Of that institution among them being? Prof. Geo. Sparks, *>( the Mercer School of Journalism. Some of the lawyers in the court room who attended the Mercer Law School were Baldwin Martin, B. S. Denver, Sid Hatcher, Will Turpin, McKibben Lane, Judge John P. Ross, Douglas Carlisle, Grady Gillon, Allen Elements, Sam Hunter, J. C. Estes, Judge Cunningham, and Jim -Clem ents, former all southern catcher for Mercer, also Baxter Jones, Daisy fhurehwell. . Even . the litigants were Mercer men. Four intercollegiate debates .be tween M.ereer and other colleges have been definitely scheduled and the de baters for these contests chosen, acc ording to an announcement by Dr. A. P. Montague, chairman of ‘Mercer University Debate Council. Mercer will- enter the arena of argumenta tion aguinst Mississippi, Howard, Emory and. Furman. The triangular debate withMissis- sippi and Howard, which. will take place -on Thursday night, March 9, Will come first oh the debating sched ule. The subject for this contest is, Resolved that the modern tendency in' government' toward direct action >y the people is not advisable. L. B. ' Matthews and Warren (“Red”) Marshall will, uphold the iffirmative . of the subject against (.he Mississippi negative team at VIercer. Rabun Brantley is their al ternate. William G. McRae and Rob •rt Green, with Mike Terrell as alter- iate,. will journey, over to Birming- lam to champion the negative of the (uestion against Howard on . the mme night. Mercer will meet Emory Univer ity in debate at Forsyth in the Bes- <ie Tift auditorium during the last veek in April. The subject„for this Contest is, Resolved that Japanese immigrants should be admitted to he United States on the same terms re Europeans. J. K. Williams, and H. H. Shirley will uphold the nega tivef for Mercer, with J. A. Ruffin as alternate. Mercer and -Furman represent* tives will meet in debate at the Bre nau . auditorium in Gainesville about .he last of April. On this contest vV. A. Bootle and C. J. Broome for VIercer will champion the negative >f the subject, Resolved that the sev eral States should enact minimum wage laws providing for the. estab- ishment of a minimum wage in workshops and factories. Guy Atkin son is Mercer’s alternate. Mercer debating teams in the past have made good records, and it is aid that the teams this yeai are re garded as futly capable of adding to the laurels already acquired. Dr, Montague states that Mercer is espe cially fortunate this year in having such a strong array of alternates T,heae; he said, will he expected to take a large part in the preparation I MERCER FRESHMEN DEFEAT THE B.A.C. Victory Is Achieved Bartlesville. in for the debates, since they must be nrepared to speak at a moment’s notice in the place of either member of their respective teams turned victors by a score of 39-33., The teams were about equally matched in. the first half, the score being 18-18 at that- point of the game. After Simmons replaced Sam mons at center the "Rate” gradually forged ahead- ■ Ellison, Bennett, and Simmons played the best for the Freshmen while Kemp, O. Duma* and P. ,Du mas starred for the Athletic fclub. Coach Eyler, of Gordon Institute, refereed the game... RF L.F. C. RG LG Ciceronian and . Phi Delta So cieties Furnish Speakers. An ihter-society debate, four ora tions and a reception will feature the. annual Society Day program which will be h id next Wednesday at Mer cer. The holiday as usual will be given over to the activities of the two literary societies. February 22 was established last year as Society Day at Mercer. As this is Washington^ birthday, it was decided to combine the observance of this day with' the special day for- the literary. societies. The day is given over to the societies with the idea of giving every possible encouragement to their activities, and to promote greater interest in literary work and public speaking. The - committee arranging for So- ciety Day state that an exception ally good program has been planned. The activities for 'the day begin with debate at 2:30 in the afternoon Vtween representatives of the tw» societies. The subject for the inter-society debate is. Resolved (hat the several states should enact minimum wage laws providing for the establishment of a -minimum wage in workshops and factories, const tutionality waiv ed. For the Ciceronians, Andrew Car- raker and W. M. Marshall will up hold the affirmative, while W. A. Bootle and John C. Polhill will cham pion the negative for the Phi Deltas. The speakers are regarded as well able to produe'e a stiff contest, and the two societies will be on hand in full force to back and encourage their respective representatives.. Orations by four speakers from the societies will be delivered at 8 o’clock. L. E. Smith, of Grayson, a Phi Delta, will speak on the subject “Religion.” E. R. Welch, of Thom- asville, a Ciceronian, will come next on the program with an oration on “The Challenge of the Impossible.” The-second-Phi Delta orator will be W. F. Hines ley, of Carrollton, who will have as his subject “Dreams.” “The Present Crisis ,in American De mocracy” will be the subject of W. H. Odum, of Valdosta, a Ciceronian, who will be the last speaker of the day.. A joint reception by the two socie ties at 9 o’clock. will close the pro gram for the day. The library build ing will be the scene of the recep tion. Music and refreshments will be provided and nothing; will be left -un done to make the affair one of the most successful of the’ college year, according to the committee in charge The marshals for Society Day are Talley Kirklan, S. H. Dyer and Mike Herndon, Ciceronians; R. E. Brant ley, E. B. Everett and L. L. Lovett, Phi Deltas. H. H. Shirley will pre side, with M. C. Lasseter as secre- tary.. FRESHMAN SCRIBE INTERVIEWS COMEDIENNE, LOUISE FAZENDA Finds the Celebrity Ignorant of One Subject But Anyhow “Nice and Pretty.” Howard E. Littlefield After supper one night last week my roommate, Milton K, Wallace, of fered to carry me to the Capitol Theatre, where Louise fazenda,- the famous movie comedienne, was ap pearing in person, if I would con scientiously promise to refrain from horse-laughing.”. This expression was used to re f er to my occasional mirthful outbursts which-occur when I see good movie comedies. I prom ised, with my fingers crossed behind my back, so quickly that it made his head swim. In a few minutes we had flagged down an auto and were on our way' to town. Being put out right at the Capitol we entered and were soon spellbound in a love story (Sicture. When the final clinch had faded away we saw a comedy in which Miss Fazenda starred. 1 laughed very much and Wallace sev eral times reminded me of my agree ment and showed, me “that I had nearly kicked a brass bar down upon the audience—we were in the bal-. cony. . . ' Pig Ttails and All Then Miss Fazenda appeared -on the . stage. She was dressed in her film make-ups b'roques, gingham dress, striped stockings, and pigtail curls. She entertained us for quite a bit, keeping the house roaring with laughter. Wallace had been so tickled that he chewed up and swallowed two or three pages 'from- his note-bdok; We recovered what Was left and I noticed our journalism assignment, suggested that we interview a promi nent personage as soon as possible. “Let’s interview Louise!" 1 ex claimed. ‘ Wallace began to argue that he needed a shave, shoe-shine-, hair-cut. mahicuring and many other applica tions of methods of transforming or dinary people into Adonises. I told him that she ' wasn’t looking for a husband, so it didn’t mUc-h matter. After many excuses Wallace agreed to go with me and take notes if I woiild do all the talking. To this I agreed, having vague plans o f asking about Charlie Chaplin, Grace “Cunard and Ben Turpin. I knew that she. had probably been pestered with re porters everywhere and knew what to say in an interview. By J. P. Leggett Mercer’s Freshman basketball team Journeyed to Bartlesville to do battle the Athletic Club there last'Matt. | Thursday night. The Freshmen re- Fouls, Bennett 7, Kemp 7. Rats(9) Ellison! 16) Bennett! 15) Sammons Cecil(4) Roberts * Substitutions: Mercer, Simmons (4); for Sammons; B.'A.-C., Pate for B.A.O.I33) Kemp! 15) O.Dumas! 10) Wootenti), P.Dumas(6) Matt . Five hundred thousand dollars for a club house for foreign students has been given by John D. Rockefeller*, Jr., to the Intercollegiate Cosmopoli tan Club of New York, Plans call for the building on Riverside Drive opposti Grant’s tomb. '-It will ac commodate fiCe hundred students. Th's club, the largest of its kind, has 620 members from 65 countries, at tending 411 colleges and universities in New; York C.ty. The Chinese . Students Christian Association in North America has about 1,500 members. The student Y. M. C. A. in China has 174 asso ciations and 19,000 members. Expected Harm We went dpwn and asked for the manager. He was taking up tickets at the time for the regular ticket catcher, who had'stepped out . to .get a .wienie. I approached him with fal tering footsteps and told him that 1 was a -reporter from the- Mercer School of Journalism- and that I wanted to interview Miss' Fazenda. I kept my eyes on.'his hands as I spoke, ready to flee on an instaht’s notice, if he decided to do me bodily hrfrm on account of our having “rushed” the Capitol a week or so before. But he harbored, no such' in tentions and asked me to wait a few moments. I stepped aside and talked to Wallace , in an undertone, endeaw oring. to give the- manager -the im pression that I was an old and ex perienced hapd at meeting big guns andxhat. I was probably talking.of the time when I had' to refuse an in vitation to dine with Woodrow. Wil son. -1 just had time to stop Wallace from shining his shoes with the fringe of one -of the entrance cur tains when the manager Was relieved by the regular I ticket ’ catcher, and asked us. to follow him. T caught Wallace sneaking out the door when iny. back was turned. He mumbled something about going to- get a hair cut and bath and promised an early return. But I looped my little finger in his button hqle and made him promise ' to follow me. We' then trotted down the aisle and went be hind the stage with the manager. Really Pretty He knocked at a door and Miss Louise Fazepda appeared, with . a smile on her face. She still had on her stage costume but it didn’t take me but a very few seconds to realize, that she is really very pretty; (I’m hot saying this merely because I’ve promised to send her a clipping - of this and if you doubt me and have an hour to spare, just ask Wallace about it!) I introduced myself and Wallace and began to try to remem ber some of the questions .1 had been intending to ask her, which, funny to say, had floi^h from my mind, She came to my rescue, and offered to tell us ‘ anything about her career. We were surprised to learn that she is a graduate of Stanford University apd was a journalism student. “Then, of course,” I asked, “you have heard of Mercer through' our reputation in journalism?” Upon her saying that she hadn’t I gave, her an ■ incredible stare and gasped: . ,. '., ' Hold Miss Garner . “What! Haven’t heard of Mercer in the journalism world?! My word! How strange!” She seemed terribly ashamed of her ignorance about Mercer and was very glad to have me explain to her that we had one of the higest courses in journalism in the world. She told us how she had got into ' the movies: by being acquainted with a family that were actors, and by acting a little to get some Christmas money. She first acted minor parts ivith Grace Cunard. She knew Eddie ' Polo and most all of the actors of lx>s' Angeles and .New York. She said . that Ben Turpin was really cross-eyed and that, she received - extra checks when she had to- kiss him. She told us quite a bit .about the movie game, but advised anyone to “keep out.”: When we asked her if she received an enormous salary, she replied that she had no cause to. complain and that it was better than laundry work. She Said that she had written' quite a bit for some of the film magazines and that writing was her hobby. She knew several '.big editors and told us something about them. \ After asking her about everything from comedies; to spiritualism, we forced ourselves to leave, as she was writing her answer , to Johnny Spen cer’s- letter to her when we first dis turbed her. She gave us her New York address and insisted that we call around to see. her the next time we happened to be in the city. Wal lace heartily promised to do so pretty soon and she told him that she would introduce him to- all of her friends when he did• und show him around the large hamlet. Wallace, whd. had manicured ■ his finger-nails .with a stray shingle'-nail, seemed to make a hit with her and it was with the ut most diffieuly that 1 could persuade him to leave.' Even then he kept talking- to her, until he was ,nearly out of the theater, walking into , a column with a force that shook the whole -building. Best of Managers We thanked the manager for his kindness, who, by the w-ay, hasn’t a single. -Criterion characteristic, and thanked' him' for the way in which he had.received the Mercer rush.. He laUghed and -remarked that he had been glad to have us. I just want to tell you fellows-that he’s a friend to Mercer and deserves our support. I was then forced by Wallace, to trudge down to the depot. and lug four or five hundred train bulletins, giving routes to New York, hack out to our room. We piled them all .over the beds and desks, but I managed to cfawl between my sheets and after tying a pillow-slip over my head to shut out the light—for YfYalJace was studying the bulletins—I finally man aged to drift off ’into sleep, dreaming .' that a cross-eyed movie elephant was sitting on my chest watching a billy- goat chase' Mias Fazenda all over New York. ■