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March 3, 1922
THE MERCER CLUSTER
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FACULTY MEMBERS
GIVEN UNCE OVER
“Good-Evening Guy*’ Made His
First Dollar as Delivery Boy.
My first dollar was made as de
livery boy in a millinery store,” said
Professor J. G. Cfigney, assistant
teacher in the department of modern
languages, "but the greater part of
the money that 1 made during my
boyhood was in the newspaper busi
ness when I was agent for the At
lanta Journal.” ' -
The first nickname of Professor
Cheney in college was that of “Good
Evening Guy,”’ but the last one’‘was
that of “Heart-bustin’ Yell-leader,”
which the Wesleyan girls recently
presented to him. ,
My hobby is going to see the girls
and leading yells, while my side-line
teaching Spanish,’.’ said the pro
fessor, “but I like baseball pretty
well, as it .was my favorite pastime
in high school.”
Professor Cheney, attended high
action! in his home town, Carrollton,
C,a.. and was at Mercer during the
years ’18-22. He was ten-second
man at prep school, but could not be
persuaded to try out for the track
team at Mercer.
POETS OF MERCER
BREAKING THROUGH
BOYS GET LOST IN
PRESIDENT’S HOME
Get in New Mansion But Can’t
Get Out Again.
Verses From Cluster Reprinted
by Several Georgia Papers.
By F. H. Nalls, Jr.
The. Cluster during the last few
weeks has contained an unusually-
good brand of poetry, as is evidenced
by the fact that other papers' over
the state have quoted several of our
poems. - . ■ %
John Milton Samples, who has for
the past two years been publishing
poems- in the Cluster, is recognized
as a p6et of unusual ability. Now
one of the most prominent club wom
en of Amcricus has become very fond
of. his poetry and is reading them-at
the dubs in Americus.
Teddy .Hart also hus written many
good poems for the Cluster although
he 'has only been writing for several,
months. One of his, poems, “Lost,”
was reprinted in—a North Georgia
newspaper, the/ Hoschton News. The
people of that town seem to think
Teddy one/of the coming poets of
our.eountr,
ArmrtiVtOwriL-r is C. J. Broome
editov/ht^elwcf of the Cluster, who
has hr-et) putting several good-poems
in his^ettitorials columns. His poem
“Thevliuy That Gets My Handshake,"
was reprinted by the Piedmont Owl
K. L. Brantley is another riniester
who. in his poem, "The Flapper,’
showed signs of considerable ability
ELECTRIC CLOCKS
KEEP HOTEL TIME
Installation has just been made by
the General. Electric Company of the
Warren electric clock system in the
annex to the Plaza hotel in New
York. This represents the. first hotel
in New York in which this system of
rggulnting Clocks has been utilized
It is the second installation of the
sort. jn any hotel, the first having
l>een made last'year in - the r Kitz-
Carlton Hotel at Atlantic City, where
the docks have been thus regulated
with much success for the last seven
months.
In the Plaza installation there are
about j»0 clocks located in the main
rooms, in- the foyers, salons, drawing
rooms and dining room*- They are.
operated by small generators which
convert the direct current of . the
hotel’s lighting’ circuit j into alternat
ing ..current for the purpose of the
v|ock ‘system. The, converters, the
master clock and the control panel
arc- all located in the telephone ex
change of -the hotel,, ot» the first
Boor. -
Tiny motors,, so small that one: of
them easily, nestles in the palm of
the hand, are' geared to the dial
hands of each of the secondary
. clocks connected with the system.
These small motors, which take the
Place of the usual intricate clock
mechanism, and which are of the
•ynchronotts type, will operate the
heads of clocks of any slso.
By W. B. Cochran, Jr.
The “President’s Mansion” of Mer
cer University is the most mysteri
ous house in Macon if not in the
world. It reminds .one of the crazy
houses found in most carnivals.
Throe Mercer’students were'admir-
ng the building from the exterior a
lay or so ago, so they- decided to
take a look at the interior of Dr.
Weavers home. Upon entering the
house they were at once impressed
by its elcguncc. . The students went
through the entire house udmiring its
singular beauty and wondering ull
the time if they would not some day
also have the privilege of calling it
their .home. But upon reaching the
targe room on the second floor they
found it impossible to go farther and
t was also impossible to go hack the
way they .had- come. - The . room had
four doors which,, opened into four
mall halls and these hail more dohrs
which seemed to open buck into the
same room.
The boys tried first one door and
then the nt-xi, hut they seemed to
each -bring thenv back to -the same
place. Each one of the three boys
tried his hand ut conducting the
party back to .the fresh air, but they
Were all unsuccessful and thf-y at last
gathered ih the’ center of the large-
room for a conference.
The house, it seemed to them, did
not .consist of anything other than
doors, hails, and ihis one room. Af
ter a consultation the students de
eide'd.to put themselves in the hands
of fate and take the consequences
They lined up in single file and after
tuking bold of each other’s coat they
closed their eyes and started walk
ing. They did not open their eyes
jntil they came on c floor that re
fused to open’ an<J when they did they
saw that it was the door for which
they had been seeking. After giving
.hanks for their deliverance they at
>nec gave the house the name, “The
House With a Million Doors.”
nah; Jacob, Joseph, Isaac, Abraham,
Hagar and a hundred others. They
abound in the New Testament. And
taken together they constitute about'
ajl that we know definitely of the-
daily life of our remote ancestry.
As illustrating - the revealing
strength of suich stories, two only are
here referred -to—Tobit and Susan
nah in the Apocrypha, or doubtful
section of the Bible. They are stories
that have been preserved solely be
cause of their beauty and historical
value. In the first named are found
vivid pictures of its era and every
emotion of the human heart. It is
an historical novelette in two parts,
and strongly resembles the modern
historical novel. The latter, short
it is, -reveals the nobility of a
virtuous woman, her. fdith iiy God,
and records her triumph over her
enemies. But it also-carries evidence
that there were peripatetic courts for
the trial of causes then as-now.. It
also gives us the first instance of the
severance of witnesses in court trials
and , introduces to the world the
young Daniel to whom Shakespeare
efejrs in his Merchant of Venice.
The subject is fascinating but de
mands . more space than these col
umns afford. What I have written is
preliminary to the statement that the
writer who deals honestly with his
own environment and age, may «|°
his generation and his country a last
ing service if he or she cares for
lasting fame here in -the shortest
surest path. The history of the South
in its daily life has been and is. being
told by story writers. That- which
reflects this life faithfully will live
in our literature. The false will be
forgotten. Art is longer than life
and the perfection of art is the short
story that people canqot forget.
He: “If I married a widow named
Elizabeth, with two . children, what
would I get?” .
She: “Give up.”
He: “A second-hand lizzie ami-two
runabouts.’’^— Exchange.
Georgia Maid Syrup is used by Mer
cer University and other leading-edu
cational institutions throughout ’ the
South. This, is a high tribute for the
quality of our ayrup.
HARRY S. EDWARDS
IN RED AND BLACK
Former Mercer Man Contributes
Article on the Short Story.
Harry Stillwell Edwards, a former
MerCt-r .man and now a famous
short-story writer, has recently by
request written an article for the
Bed ami Block, University of Geor
gia’weekly/ The article is given be
low in - full.
THE SHORT STORY
Iiy Harry Stillwell 1 Edwards
The chronicles carry the history of
nations and their leaders, but the life
>f the people is embalmed in fictional
'itcrature—chiefly the- short story
Paradoxically as it may appear, fic
tion is, therefore, the most interest
ing of the world’s histories, for we
arc at last more concerned with the
details of' private than with public
life.. —
The Bible begins with- a short
story, a story that ends with the ex
pulsion of our first parents froni the
Garden of Eden. It carries the
greatest plot in all literature. In va
ried form this plot may be found in
nrobably a hundred thousand stories,
for therein originated the eternal tri
angle-—man, woman and the tempter.
It is the cornerstone of most screen
stories. ’
Following this, story in the Bible
are- scores of others .that, reveal the
life, loves, romances, self sacrifices
hopes, jealousies, despair, tragedies
and- triumphs of the individual man
and yeoman and from, which we read
that human nature and the problems
of daily life have not essentially
chapged since the. days of Adam.
.These stories, the sum of humaji
experiences in the home, need not be
named, They are what , the average
Bible reader remembers of the scrip
tural writings- They are woven
around Ruth, Naomi, Tobit, Susan-
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