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THE MERCER CLUSTER
The Mercer Cluster
Published weekly by the students of
the fourteen schools end colleges In
the Mercer .University System.
George M. Sparks ...Managing Editor
' kubun ■ L. Brantley Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editors:
John L..Hackney '. Milton K. Wallace
Frank K. Nalls Julian P. Leggett
'Guldens Wilkes .
Circulation
Julian P. Leggett Manager
Benton Evans Hugh Awtry
Advertising T. E. Sheppard
THE HIGHER TYPE
To college men, clean, wholesome
moving pictures invariably present a
stio'ng appeal. A good movie may be
judged to some, extent by its popu
larity among college students, for
• search its you may, you huvc only a
small chance of finding a more criti
cal group,. It is well that collegians
are critical, because the silent drama
plays u large Or small' part in the
lives of nearly every colege man.
The recent death of Wallace, Reid,
a martyr to the cause* of (lope sup
pression, marks the pussing of one of
the, cleanest and most upright screen
stars that the moving picture World
has, known. Aside front being highly
entertaining, his pictures never car
ried with them the degenerating
scenes of promiscuous love, nor did
limy uphold vice, in any. form. Al
though Reid died front the effects of
dope, he died a clean and reformed
man. For two years he had been a
drug addict, but recently resolved .to
make his fight against this evil. Hd
Wpn hi.s light and deserves a world of
praise. Heath was the price he paid.
The deuth of Wallace Reid presents
to college men a two-fold task—that
of continuing the fight for a higher
type of moving picture and that of
commencing a fight against one of
the world’s greatest curses—dope. It
is said that the United .States con
sumes more drugs and dope than the
entire Chinese race, Who" have always
been notorius as dopsters. Is not that
a. problem to be solved? Who is to
take the initiative? Why not men in
college
PEI* AND RELIGION
I’ep is the essential . force behind
any progressive movement. All prog
ress is either directly or indirectly
brought about by pep. I’ep is that
characteristic of a man that, causes
him to delve into the more compli
cated problems of the future and de
velops one .to be- a leader among men.
I’ep enables one .to master present.-
day situations and helps-one plan a
.method of attack for the future. Pep,
when functioning properly, lends self
confidence to one, which is necessary
to sound and proper action.
Why not have pep in religion?
Surely there is no scriptural teaching
against it. If pep really accom
plishes the aforesaid problems, then
■pep is what we need in religion. Not
pep to the point of sacrilege or hi
larity, but pep in'its true sense—vim
vigor, punch, ami a happy smile. To
make out of religion, not a far
fetched, ethereal something, but a
reality, so we can live it and asso
c.iate with the good features coming
as,a result of having lived it.
This is not to say that a person
carrying a long face. and a pious
counterfSme. is destitute of Christian
ity. It is to say, 'however, that this
person is missing something.' He is
missing, one of-the principles of Chris
tianity—the opportunity to make
otHSers happy with a happy “Good
njorhihg” and a cheerful smile.'
MERCER MINISTERIAL
CONFERENCE
At the last meeting of the Mercer
Ministerial Conference Monday morn,
ing, January 22,- new officers were
elected for the winter term of 1923,
The following’ were eleetd: Rev. War
ren M. Marshall, president; Rev. Geo,
W. Hulme, vice-president; Rev. Ma
rion K, Fuqua,’ seeretary-treasureT
Rev. Durwaird" Cason, Index reporter:
Miss 'Louise Foreman, traveling
secretary'of the Inter-Board Commis
sion pf the Southern Baptist Conven
tion, addressed the. conference, treat
ing,.her subject on “Power.” , ■
Marion K. Fuqua, Sec,
SLAVES TO CONVENTION
Two thousand years, ago King
Herod drove his slaves. Today, King
convention has a far greater numbed
of slaves than Herod had and is a
more relentless driver. • We are all
more or less slaves to convention.
Let a woman hang a door-knop on
her ear to hide a mole on her neck
and by morning we are a nation of
people with knobless doors. If some
wealthy scion who uses his head for
the sole purpose of keeping his hat
olf his neck bursts forth with a roos
ter feather adorning his mahogany
then'by noon Main Street looks like
an avenue in Sitting Bull’s camp.
Freak clothes and unnecessary
manners are both the children of con
ventional minds. We do absurd and
unnatural things' because other peo
ple do them and we are afraid to step
out of the rut of custom for fear that
we may. be laughed at.
M. K. W
BOY, PAGE DOC SOLOMON
Ye chauffeur of Squirrel Food is
again'in need of advice. We tried be
ing nice and she said we were too
slow; we tried some caveman stuff,
and she said we were a rough-neck;
then we tried 1 being persistent, and
she Called our father-iq-law. Then
we’ve been trying to And. a comfort
able position ever-since.
Our friend R. K. Womack said that
in order to make a hit with the ladies
one must be both ugly and crazy.
Womack is ^o^bly a success.
THE MEN WHO MAKE GOOD
Written by Editor, Wm. L. Hurrin,
student of Mercer University 1919.
1 hpmas A. .Edison, in a recent in
terview, disapproves ■ of thp present-
day college graduate. Among other
,hings, he says that a college gradu-
ite objects to work, especially if' it is
iirty; that he lacks imagination; is
not fertile with suggestions which
night lead to improvement, and 'usu
ally expects to be appointed foreman
at about the end of the sixth week
„f his employment.
Mr: Edison's experience as an em
ployer of college-bred men seems to
nave been a disappointing one; but,
may it- not be possible that a portion
of the blame can he attributed to the
raw material with which the colleges
have, to work.
Nowadays, under better standards
of living and greater incomes, every
fond. parent dreams of a college edu
cation for his boy. And, as every
mother’s son is “perfect,” no denial
or sacrifice is loo great to make to
send-the boy to college, regardless of
whether or not college traihing may
prove an asset or. a liability for that
particular boy.
Back in the old days, it was the
exceptional youth who was fortunate
enough to get a college education. He
had to show that he wanted it, would
make good use of it after he got it
und was worthy in every way to re
el ve.it. This applied to the sons of
parents who were able to afford col
lege for their children. There were
others whose parents were not so for
tunately situated, whose desire for
knowledge and determination to have
it was so great that if there was no
other way to get it they worked and
paid' their- way through by he per
formance of menial asks.
Times have changed, however, and
while there are still those, whose am
bitions are .fired, by the prospect of
going to college to round out an edu
cation and are willing to pay the
price to get it, the greater bulk is
c«»m posed of those sent to college by
ambitious parents. This, of course,
includes the fit and the . unfit, the
workers and the drones, the willing
and the unwilling.
AUt'' of this mixed mast she' college
is expected to grind supermen. And
it does, once in a while. But these
supermen are the men who brought
something to college With them—am
bition, energy, determination, vision,
To such men a college education sim
ply means a mentality trained in the
processes, of logical . and orderly
thinking.as well as the acquisition of
knowledge essential to- that pursuit in
life in Which they elect to engage.
These kind of men would succeed
without a college education, but the
achievement would’ be more laborious
and would t^ke longer time '• and
greater energy. ,,
There is a breeding that should pre
cede college breeding. And the world
is' coming to realize more and more
every day that human breeding i« of
far greater importance in an economic
way thin the breeding of cattle and
sheep. Given a sound body free from
disease strains, the right . kind of
home training through the crucial pe
riods of youth and i normal men
tality, build a college education upon
this kind of a foundation and you
have a man who will make good, in
the employ of Mr. Edison or anybody
else..
SQUIRREL FOOD
By Milton K. Wallace
THE CEDAR THICKET
The. sombre night and the pearly stars
And a bullfrog’s blatant bellow;
And quivering ftnnel beside the path,
With blossoms of bittery yellow.
A breath of air from the cedar
thicket,
Moist with dew of the night,"
And the sorrowful song of a whip-*
poor-will
As he sings on his ebon fight.
A sorrowful thought of the cedar
thicket, k
And the cold gray stone so bare;
A sigh of remorse from out of my
heart,
For my happiness lies buried there.
Most of the more or less fair dam
sels'of to-day are like a cooking stove
in one respect; they both need a little
oven to keep ’em going. The little
dears have pulled down their skirts
and are how hanging bricks and beer
bottles on their ears. We must have x
awful funny ideas of beauty.
ONE LESS OYSTER FOR YOU,
HERSCHEL!
1st Rat: “What did she say when
you met her ?”
2nd Rat: “Said she didn’t know
before that Rodolph Valentino . had
curly, hair.” '
Dr. Harrison: “Mr. Gilmore, speak
ing of the uses of nQuns, can one
properly say ‘The Jewish race—’ ’’ ■
Gilmore: “Yessir, that is if they
were after a nfikel.”
FRESHMEN, TAKE NOTICE
Rat: “Mrsi Garner——” ‘
Miss Garner: “Mrs. Garner! Young
man, I’ll have you to understand that
I’ve been an old maid all .my life, am
still an old maid and . will be one
when I die.”
Whereupon the ' Rat was presented
with a beautiful* round goose-egg.
IT’S A PLEASURE
TO SERVE
MERCER MEN
We want you to feel at hohie,
fellows, in our store.
. Drop around any old time,
whether you trade pr not.
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Pharmacy
Mercer’s Drug Storte
on campus
1% of our gross receipts go to.
promoting- Mercer athletics.
Phones 2M1 and BN
and *114
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The Best Place
.. for
Soda, Lunches, Cigars
Cigarettes, “Hot Dog’* and
- Good Old Barbecue
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The Outstanding Feature of the Drug Business in Macon is
“YOU CAN BUY IT FOR LESS AT PERSONS”
‘The way of an Eagle in the air”
Century after century men broke their necks
trying to fly. They had not troubled todiscover what
Solomon called “the way of an eagle in the air.”
Irt 18oi came Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution, He wanted facts.
His first step was to whirl flat surfaces in the air,
to measure the air pressures required to sustain
these surfaces in motion and to study the twirls
and currents of the air itself. Finally, in 1896, he
built a small steam-driven model which flew three-
quarters of a mile.
With a Congressional appropriation of $5<vooo
Langley built a large man-carrying machine. Be
cause it was improperly launched, it dropped into
the Potomac River. Years later, Glenn Curtiss flew
it at Hammondsport, New York.
Congress regarded Langley’s attempt not as a
scientific experiment but as a sad fiasco and refused
to encourage him further. He died a disappointed
man. •
Langley’s scientific study which ultimately gave
the airplane seemed unimportant ia 1896. Whole
us
ratio of silver to gold.
“Sixteen-to-one” is dead politically.
of airplanes cleave die air—airplanes built with
the knowledge that Langley acquired.
In this work the Laboratories of the General
Electric Company played dicir part. They aided
in developing the “supercharger," whereby an
engine may be supplied with the air that it needs
far combustion at altitudes of four milee and more.
Getting die fsete first, the Langley method, made
dm achievement possible.
- What is expedient or important today may he
fbrgcMten tomorrow. The spirit of adentiflci
and its achievements endure.
GeneralAEledtric
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