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Page Two THE MfiftCBR CLUSTER January 19, IS The Mercer Cluster Published weekly by the student* of the fourteen schools end colleges th the Mercer University System. MORGAN BLAKE'S TRIBUTE APPRECIATION FROM EDITOR' George M. Sparks .Managing Editor, Rabun L. Brantley Editor-in-Chief , - Associate Editors: John L. Hackney Milton K; Wallace Frank R. Nalls Julian P. Leggett Giddens Wilkes Circulation Julian P. Leggett ...Manager Benton Evans Hugh Awtry Advertising .....T, E. Sheppard NINETY YEARS OF GLORY Ninety years have passed. Ninety years of glory and gradual triumph have .ejapsed since the beginning of Mercer University at Penfield, Geor gia. Years that have been filled with trials and disappointments. Years that have also viewed the turning wheels of progress toward the great institution that now stands as a mon ument reaching gloriously toward the sky, in commemoration of the dark days of yesterday. Billington M. Sanders,.Mercer Uni versity’s first president, said as he retired from office: “This institution has been established upon the. faith of that divine principle of truth, ‘that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it'.’’ AH who know the past activities of Mercer believe that she has lived up to a principle of truth, and with a co operative, earnest and generous spirit of support from the Baptists of the State and South the institution has steadily gone forward. The next ten years will mark the close of the first century of Mercer University’s existence. These will be the ten years of Mercer’s career that will witness the institution’s most rapid growth. Growth in financial standing and growth in the size of the student body. Millions of dollars will be expended for new equipment and buildings. It is for individual lovers of Mercer to help carry on the work that previous generations have begun; and raise the institution’s scope of usefulness to still greater heights.- In speaking before the large num ber of people in attendance at the banquet held in celebration of the nineth anniversary of the founding of Mercer University, Morgan Blake, sporting editor of the Atlanta Jour nal, paid a high tribute to the great basketball team that represents Mer cer and to the fine caliber of ath letes that represent Mercer in all her athletics. “Men like Bob Gamble, Carl Lan caster, “Red" aBrron, and Oscar Da vis are the type of athletes that will elevate college athletics in the eyes of the public,” declared Mr. Blake. Blake’s tribute came at a fitting place and time. All the lovers of Mercer were proud to hear, on the ninetieth anniversary of their college, such: a sincere tribute to the manhood and sportsmanship of the men com posing her athletic teams: It will take athletes like Blake de scribed to keep forever on high the standards, that real college athletics should measure up to. ' It will take the praise of fair-minded, Christian men like Morgan Blake to keep these men encouraged to always play the game fair and square. THE DIFFERENCE? If you were told by someone that a horrible Crime had occurred and that the criminal had escaped, you would at once become indignant and even help in the search for the miscreant. If you were to witness a murder where one man shoots down another in. cold blood, you would no doubt be come, horrified at the barbarity and boldness of the act'. It is against the law to commit murder. If you chaijice .to see a man so full of some fiery drink that he knows no direction and . staggers about the streets among - sober-minded and harmless people, a curse to the world and a disgrace to a’civilized country; often this lawbreaker passes the height of your criticising'powers with a probable “Afi let him go; he’s just taking a little Christmas.” The very looseness of y.our criticism makes of you also a bad citizen. The man who drinks his whiskey is a criminal same as the man who mur ders one of his fellows. The laws of our land have decreed against both these acts and one is to be abided by as closely as another. Why obey one law and break another? Whp have si law and not abide by it? Why send back to office a gang of legislators who make laws and fail to keep them themselves ? “We must have prohi bition,*’ they say, but who knows but what some of these law-makers were drunk when they voted on the Vol stead act? Let these aaea start to obey their own decrees, then it will be easier to control a liqttor-sstumted populace. Public opinion, after all, is to be the salvation of. the world from the death-dealing affects of whiskey. Pub lic opinion Will never progress against whiskey until law-atakers, newspa pers, and every power that is in the limelight, offer their semises to the Mr. George M. Sparks, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. • My dear George: I want to con gratulate you and your associates in the fine work that you are doing with the Mercer Cluster. I have greatly enjoyed this week’s issue, which I regard as one of the best I have ever seen. Keep this good work up, for you are greatly serving the college. Cordially, WELCOME ADDRESS By Miss Eloise Hammock, of Bessie Tift. ' Mercer and Bessie . Tift Student Body, Faculty and Others Visitors We have, come together to-day for the purpose of - celebrating Founders' Day and for the purpose of intensi fying the . co-operative and friendly spirit existing between the two .col leges. I like to believe, however, that higher motive prompted this joint celebration: that the ties of a com mon aim and of an inseparable desti ny are drawing oru two colleges to gether. If cordial friendship, if warm affection can- ever exist be tween two institutions, it should exist between Mercer and Sessie Tift. Both are under the same head, moved by the same purpose. Both are alike in the circumstances of their origin; both were founded by men eager to lift .the torch of education and let its beam penetrate the obscurest corners of Georgia and other States. A backward glimpse at the histo- its of the two colleges will prove iiotn interesting and instructive. In 1833 Mercer was founded. This marked the beginning of higher edu- ation in Georgia under the guidance of the Baptist denomination. There is probably no more important date in the history of Southern education. In 1843 there w;ta graduated from Mercer a most remarkable educator, named W. C, Wilkes. It was this most extraordinary character who later became president of Monroe College and laid the foundation for the present institution which now welcomes you into its halls. He was succeeded by Dr. S. G. Hillyer, a Mer cer professor some years before he came to Forsyth. In 1898 the Georgia Baptist Con vention assumed the control of Bessie Tift, and in 1999 Dr. C. H. S. Jack- another Mercer graduate, be came president and remained in of fice until 191,4. Our own present beloved leader Dr. Aquila Chamlee, claims Mercer as his old alma mater. In addition to these, many other Mercer graduates have served as pro fessors on the Bessie Tift faculty. Thus we see that Mercer has played no small part , in the development of Bessie Tift. ^ Statesboro, aG.—J. A. Brannen, who died here Saturday, was a Mer cer man of the class of 1878. He was probably the biggest man in this sec tion. He was first mayor of States boro, senator from this district, leg islator, and. the oldest lawyer in the county, mepiber of State Democratic executive committee. Brannen was also the man that they had some six or seven hundred ballots on as to who was to be Con gressman from the First district in 1908. Brannen and Cheppard, judge of the Atlantic circuit, tied up in county unit votes with Brannen hav ing the majority in popular votes. In addition to this he was one of the most charitable in the county. Despite the fact that Mercer has never sought a Bessie Tift' graduate for its faculty; it has sometimes gone further and done worse. If there be one single lesson we have learned from this wonderful and varie&fchistory, it is that Mercer and Bessie 1 Tift are and should be indis pensable to each other. A new era stretches out before us. The dawn of a greater flessie Tift- Mercer spirit is now at hand. Bp not only on account of what Mercer has already done for Bessie Tift, hot also because of what H will continue to do for Bessie Tift, I now wish to extend a most cordial welcome to Re student body, faculty and other visi- to tar eeBsge Louie Newton, EJditor Christian Index. January 18th, 1923. * MERCER MAN DIES KAPPA DELTA DEBATE The Kappa Delta Society held its regular Saturday night meeting in Bessie Tift chapel January 13. Mary Harrison, dressed in the fash ion of fifty years ago with the old- fashioned curl over her shoulder, rep resented the old-fashioned girl, and gave a reading, “The Old-Fashioned Girl.” Louise Wells, dressed in modern fashion, read “The Girl of ’23.” A debate followed, “Resolved, That the girl of fifty years ago is superior to the girl of today.” The affrmative was sponsored by Charlye Watson and- Bettie Gunn, and the negative by Lucy Rushin and Ellen Ballard. The decision of the judges resulted in favor of the affirmative. IT’S A PLEASURE TO SERVE MERCER MEN We want you to feel, at horns, fellows, in our store. Drop around any old time, whether you trade or not. Tattnall Square Pharmacy Mercer’s Drug Store ' on campus 1% of our gross receipts go to promoting Mercer a thistles, Phones MSI and 3SM and 9114 jiumuiumomumumumomumomumomJ Smitty’s Place The Best Place for Soda, Lunches, Cigars Cigarettes, “Hot Dog” and Good Old Barbecue TRY US ffptel Lanier <Qtoioioioioio40ioiBioioioioi89oigio4oiei9i6i»»eieieieiei9teiei8iBi8iBiBiBieieiei( WATCH “MERCER” WIN Style Headquarters For “Mercer” Men EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES NETTLETON Ik FLORSHEIM SHOES DOBBS A MALLORY HATS R. S. THORPE & SONS “MERCER” HEADQUARTERS ^dOIOIOlOIOICdOIOIOtOIOtDIOIOtCdCdOIOIOIOIOIOIOtOtOIOIOIOiOlQIOIOIOIOIOIOIOtOIOIOIOlQIOIOtOIOIdlOIClilJI $1,010.01 TRAVEL ACCIDENT INSURANCE POLICY For Only 75c a Year Provided you are a regular subscriber to THe Macon Daily Telegraph ‘Ask for Full Particulars” >aoioiaet3Moioiotq(*agoioioic^^ BESSIE TIFT FOLKS WE ARE READY FOR SPRING Beautiful New Suits, Dresses, Silks, Ribbons, Pumps,. Hose, Stationery, Toilet Articles, Etc. We are always glad to see you at our place. Make it your headquarters while uptown. If you can’t come, Phone .20. LUNTZ & BANKS FORSYTH’S BEST STORE” Macon Shoe Shop FIRST CLASS SHOE REPAIRING “Work That Suits” Mercer Representative—J, R. Dontsler All work called for and delivered Phone 166 . 668 Broadway ooMQiototcioioioioioioioiaotoB^^ Forsyth Theatre Forsyth, Georgia THE BEST IN MOTION PICTURES WklnsnsM- Nutting Floral Go. >To5 Phone im Night Phans 9M4-J. for 414 AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT ‘ for every make ear A. 8. HATCHES GO. 468 Second Street * - mi