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THE MERCER CLUSTER
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Miks Goldwtr* * — Editor
W. T. Ashmore. Jr Managing Editor
J. W. Troromerhaussr.. Associata Editor
Jack Avery . News Editor
Prof. John D. Allen Faculty Advisor
Dr. Hugh Awtrey Faculty Advisor
STAFF WRITER8
John E. Illnter. Jr. Roy Rhodenhiser
Leon Crump Robert Bala
Don Hunter G. D. Wilson
Tom Lee Walter Thwaite
Josephine Early Cooper Etheridge
Mary Blanche Hyde
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Wm. Hermit Dekle Business Manager
Howard Overby v . Assistant
Robt. E. Ashmore Circulation
Frank Jones Circulation
Claude E Ballard Circulation
Lynn Anthony Circulation
Entered as second-class matter Sept
1924, at the poat office nt Macon,
la-., under the Act'of March 8, 1871
ARE YOU ONE ?
Mayl)e it is because some
of the students on the campus
haven’t as much sense as some
others, but there are a few
who like to listen to the chapel
speakers. This hits been im
possible this quarter because
a majority of the students at
tending chapel either think
they know more than the
speaker, belong in a different
institution (two miles out of
Milledgeville), or have never
been instructed in proper be
havior by their parents. It is
hard to believe that some of
them were born with parents.
It is a disgrace to the uni
versity for its students to con
duct themselves as they have,
and are, during chapel serv
ices. Unless this idiotic be
havior is stopped, it will be
impossible to get a decent
speaker to appear before any
Mercer assemblage. There
has been no speaker to appear
in chapel this year who was
not worthy of the respect of
the student body. 1 will ad
mit that there have been sev
eral who have not been inter
esting, but any gentleman
would endure fifteen minutes
of a boring and uninteresting
talk rather than make an ass
of.himseii. ii.you are not a
gentleman, and can’t respect
others, please see if you can
not be excused from chapel
services.
The majority of students
seem to have assumed the at
titude that any other student
who attempts to make an an
nouncement is a fool, or is try
ing to pull something over on
them. If they will stop and
try to think, they will discover
that when they stomp then
feet, and make other unneepe
sary noises they arp the fool.-
and if thev are Crazy enough
is responsible for this attitude?
Mercer certainly does act with
liberality toward the students.
Few can stand and swagger
(as some few do) that the Uni
versity never aided them fi
nancially in their college
career. Is it not generally
true that a benefactor is first
to feel the contempt of the
person receiving the assist
ance?
To accept the above expla
nation is to mire the situation
in a deep l>og, for the policy of
aiding students can hardly be
discontinued without serious
depletions in attendance. Is it
to continue that Mercer will
draw condemnation by trying
to assist students?
Before suggesting a route
out, let us examine and state
the situation. Those favored
by University help are nega
tive because of obligation.
Those not receiving help feel
a right to kick because they
are as “pore” as many of those
getting help. These may be
rather sweeping statements,
but as a caution we will admit
of exception (if you read this,
that exception is somebody
else) It seems that the atti
tude boiled down becomes:
“The University owes me
plenty, and four years gratis,
gracefully crowned at the close
with a degree, is not enough.
Beware of the attitude that
anybody owes anybody any
thing. Brother, just set your
self up in this commercial na
tion we are living in, tell the
world that you think it owes
you everything and watch re
sults. You will be surprised,
not to mention being taken
for a fool. Try to see that the
University does not want
clasped hands and bended knee
gratitude, but is primarily
after protecting your interests
by tiding you through the
tough places. If your plea for
assistance is not answered, do
not interpret such refusal as
a denial of your merit, when
lack of tnoney is a much bet
ter explanation. Above all,
when peeved at a certain spot
or person connected with the
school, never take it out at the
expense of the University.
Football Guessing
Contest
DIRT
By HOMER ZILCH
Winners last week:
Miss Ada Anthony, 19 correct.
Wit ton Burdine, 18 correct.
M.-- Jvli anor Anthony, Pat
il iidon, Robert Ashmore, J. M.
■ hen. Hal Beall, 16 correct.
. .7 11 *rs guessed 16 correct).
Mi»-' 1'oris Reynolds “Booby
rizt. correct.
tin" ■ large numbers of the stu-
etii i■ aving for the Clemson
»me, all answers must be in the
lu-ter office before 10 p. m.,
riday. Nov. 17. No answers ac-
• pted later.
T<> enter the contest, cross out
einfc • .j"u. cross out both teams
cm." i tie. Seal list of teams
"jr ! write name and ad-
itside, and drop in copy
•x aster office.
Brown v*. Harvard.
Carnag n Tech va. Georgetown.
Centenary va. S. M. U
Colgate v«. Svracuaa.
Cornel] va. Dartmouth.
Fordl.ari va. Orsfon State.
Georg,, Tech va. Alabama.
Navv -a. Prlncotown.
Northwestern va. Notra Dama.
Ohio Stata va. Wisconsin.
Rice va Taut A. A M.
Tempi# va. W. A J.
fax.a va. T. C. U.
U. S. C. va. Oregon.
Georgia va. Auburn.
Iowa va. Purdue.
Michigan va. Minnesota
Pittaburgh va. Nebraaiw.
Paainaylvania va. Penn Stata.
renneaaee va. Vandarbilt.
W. A L. va. Cantre.
William# va. Amharat.
Waataen Reaerve va. Oberiia.
Vermont va. Middlebury.
Virginia va V. P. I.
Calm yourselves, boys and girts,
calm yourselves. As the result of
an error somewhere. Uncle Homer’s
column was left out last week, and
the Cluster’s circulation diminished
considerably. I can assure you
that it won’t happen again, as the
Administration is up in arms. Dr.
Dowell has informed the editor
that this column must be published
if the paper is to continue. Pag
ing Mr. Winchell, paging Mr
Winchell! !
Your correspondent is highly
pleased at the comments received
from a co-ed at the university,
who says that this column is widely
read at the Phi Mu house in Athens.
If that bunch of pretty women
read it, I feel terribly flattered . . .
Maybe she was stringing me, but
anyhow that’s been done before,
and I’m not a amateur at that
game myself . . Numerous peo
ple want to know who I was re
ferring to in last week’s Cluster
in the article concerning the
“prominent university official.”
Sorry I can’t tell you . . . The
editor informs me that the now
tiresome debate between Joseph
Edward Jaffee and Ronald Bar
rington, Jr., has come to a close.
Mr. Jaffee, you should have found
out If there was a Mr. Barrington
in school. I am informed that
there is not. Imagine a boy at
Mercer with the monicker, Ronald
Barrington, Jr. Sounds more like
Emory to me . . . Metro announces
that there will be a “cessation of
hostilities" in taking pictures for
the Cauldron until the camera has
been repaired. Jerry McQuaig
and Bob Lee went down together.
It was slightly “sprained” after
Uncle Homer had his mug photo
graphed ... If you want to see
a good caricature of Tom and
Juley, look on the bark of Tom
Porter’s jacket. Its swell! .
What upper-classman had trouble
locating the stops in Sherwood
hall last Saturday nite? That’s
one you missed, Mrs. Montague . .
Uncle Homer wishes to report that
the Alpha Tau’s have finally
crashed through. Now there is a
big rush for the apartments next
door. Spright Jr. thinks he is far
ahead in the race, but he may be
fooled . . . The co-eds surely do
pick on “Oxo” Curry. Going to
the recent weiner roast he was se
lected as a seat for Marylee McClel
lan. And was he squashed! On the
same party, a co-ed came running
into the glow of the fire, shouting,
“I’m through.” (eating, you sap.)
. . . Bowie Gray asked a girl for
a date, to which she replied: “Be
glad to have you, but if you come
with the same intentions that Red
dick did, you might as well stay at
home!” Evidently Gordon's tech
nique is not very polished, eh wot?
. . . And here's a good one. Jo
sephine Happ calls Cotton Harrison
“Grandpa.” Very appropriate, I
should think . . . Willie Smith and
Paul Ward were running “neck and
neck” for the favors of Miss Alex
ander until this week, when Paul
forged ahead by the margin of a
thermometer when he was forced
to bed with an infected leg, and
the aforesaid miss showered him
with flowen, candy, and perfumed
boudoir pillows. See if you can’t
get sick Willie . ■' . Paul also
was the recipient of a silk night
gown with lace and ruffles. Now
he is in great demand at Penn-
field . . . “General” Lee is wor
ried. He can’t figure out young
Carolina Feagta. When she gets
to twirling that chewing gum
around her finger, he becomes non
plussed. That’s just her way of
affecting sophistication, Bob . .
A] Da vino is certainly living Up
to his reputation as the “best
dressed man at Mercer.” Try to
catch Mm without that eoat and
tie, and thoee brown suado shoe*.
E. B. BALDWIN, EXPLORER
OF ARCTIC FAME.
KILLED BY AUTO
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, famous
Arctic explorer, was killed Wednes
day evening, October 26, at Wash
ington, D. C., when he stepped in
front of a fast-moving automobile
between two intersecting streets on
Connecticut Avenue of that city.
Born at Springfield, Mo., July
22, 1862, where he taught school,
Mr. Baldwin devoted many years
in an effort to reach the North
Pole. His first venture was with
Robert E. Peary in the capacity of
meteorologist in the 1893 Expedi
tion. Peary failed in his attempt
the previous year, but trekked far
across the Greenland Ice Cap where
he found what he termed the
“royal road” direct to the Pole.
The 1893 Expedition was planned
to follow that road by way of
Independence Bay. Learning on
arriving at Independence Bay that
the “royal road” to the Pole led
to a drifting pack ice away from
his objective, that expedition also
failed.
Mr. Baldwin suggested to Ad
miral Peary the feasibility of at
tempting passage to the Pole
through Kane Basin and Kennedy
Channel and along the northern
coast of Grlnnell Land. Peary de
cided, however, that it was inadvis
able to undertake a different route
then, but several years later fol
lowed Baldwin's suggested route
and succeeded in reaching the Pole.
In July, 1897, Baldwin just
missed sharing the tragic fate of
the Andree Balloon Expedition
with which he had signed up as a
member to take off at Spitsbergen.
Andree decided to take advantage
of favorable weather and set off a
day ahead of Baldwin’s arrival.
The next year Mr. Baldwin
joined the Wellman Expedition as
second in command. This expedi
tion, though inadequately equipped,
reached a latitude of 81 30.” The
trip to the Pole was abandoned,
but Baldwin, with several other
members of the expedition, went
toward (town Prince Rudolph
Land in survh of new land. Suc
cessful in his search, he named
his discovery Graham Bell Land.
His supreme effort to reach the
Pole was in 1901, when he or
ganized and was in command of
the Baldwin-Ziegler Expedition.
Though he failed in his ambi
tion to reach the Pole, he accumu
lated much valuable Arctic data
which was used to advantage by
Admirals Peary and Byrd in their
respective successful ventures to
the North and South Poles.
After the World War Mr. Bald
win was employed first in the U.
S. Shipping Board and later in the
Navy Department as a record clerk.
His ambition in late years was to
be made a Captain in the Navy
and retired, or in lieu of such, a
federal appointment so that he
might be so financially situated as
to compile and publish data bear
ing upon his Arctic explorations
and his many other contributions to
science and the nation's welfare.
LAW SCHOOL NOTES
w#n-
-Strilto Ma Pink
Free advertising, A1 . . . Did you
know that a Mercer prof still sticks
to the old-fashioned nightgown and
nightcap? (Not a drink, you dope)
But its not the one who says:
“Now when I was a young freckle
faced boy on the plains of Mis-
somj, etc., etc., far, far into the
night . . . Jerry McQuaig is that
way about Little Peggy Popper.
Uncle Homer would still like to
know why these rugged football
players persist in going in for tho
high school girls. Evidently they
are still at that hero-worshipping
age . . . The other night a car
came by Penfleld at about two
a. m. and someone shot a pistol a
couple of times. Joe Popeko
jumped up out of bed and hol
lered to Swede: “Help me, Olleon,
that’s her husband after me!” . . .
And will someone please toll me
why John Callaway always looks
so droopy? . , Say folks, how
do you like the cartoon at the
head of the column. Pretty nifty,
eh? Here's looking at pots.
HOMER.
Subocribo for Tho Cluster.
A theology student and a law
student Were arguing about the
respective morality of the two
sexes. The Theology student
claimed that woman’s mind is al
ways clean, and the cynical law
student replied: “Yes, a woman’s
mind Is always clean because they
change it so often. (Even your re
porter laughed In making that
up.)
Aa Ounce of Prevention le
Worth A Pound of Cnro
Pat King in the course In Equity
has recited on every case, every
day, for the past two weeks. The
other day a rumor was circulated
around that Pat was going to cut
the class. Immediately there was
a wild scramble to secure “Cold
notes” by the rest of the class, and
as is usual in such a case one stu
dent had cornered the market on
all the available cold notes. Now
a regular committee has been ap
pointed by his classmates—and
said committee calls on Pat’s fra
ternity house each morning and
forcibly brings Pat to daaa.
Tha Old Grey Mara Ain’t
What Sba Used To Ba
At the moot court trial Attorney
Stanley had Mr. Yarborough on
the stand as one of his witnesses.
Mr. Yarborough rather confused,
was testifying to the advantage
of the opposite side. Mr. Stanley
thought aloud that his witness
bribed and a mistrial was declared.
After the court session Mr. Yar
borough exclaimed “you can't
trust Coca-Colas anymore.”
Button, Button, Who
Has Tho Button?
The Law school association
elected their aet of officers: The
Senior Class, the Junior Class, and
the first year men of the law
school elected their officers. With
the small enrollment at the law
school, every student found him
self possessed of many elected of'
flees, and what complicates matters
further is that many are part first
year men and part second year
men, some part second year men
and part third year men, and others
are classified with a combination
of all three classes. If the law
school association, the senior class,
junior class, and the first year men
were all to call meetings at the
same time, the class officers would
need a “Solomon” to tell them
which office has priority and who’s
who. Some of the officers have
been elected to so many offices
that they are hopelessly confused
as to which positions they hold, and
in desperation they have asked
your reporter to settle the matter
for them. Your reporter, with
what little sanity he possetaee,
doesn’t want to lose it all in the
hopeless mix-up. %
Forward And Onward—A
Little Child Shell Load Thom ,
In the course in Public Utilitiea
the subject of discussion veered
to livery stable keepers, and one
student remarked: “When livery
stable keepers enlist in the army
they make cooks out of them.”
Mr. Mosely innocently wanted to
know if it was because livery stable
keepers mix the feed.
Tha Torch of Knowledge Shall
Evar Flu. Bright!?
Scene: The law school class
rooms on the morning of the big
Mercer parade and the Mercer-
Geo rgia football gam*.
Profeasor: “I will now call the
roll.*
Jaffee and Clmperman: “W# art
here La Fayette."
Note: Mr. Clmperman told Mr.
Jaffee confidentially that he for
got that it was the day for the big
celebration.
Now that a young woman has
succeeded In swimming ashore
from that penal island off Cali
fornia, no doubt M. G. Gaily wttee
he had brought his bathing trunks
alone,
Scientists say they are going to
try to capture that sea serpent seen
several time* near Seattle. No
doubt they win find it a hoax Mho
aB ma serpents turn out te be.
COMMENDATION
We had predicted before the
game that it would bo a good
one—that the Bull Dogs would
meet the very best line they had
faced, but that Mercer couldn’t
win. Part of the prediction eras
true. The Mercer line was Jute
as good as we thought but the
latter part about Mercer not
being able to win was Just so
much bosh. The score did not
altogether give a true picture of
that free for all battle at Macon
under Friday’s biasing sun.
Mercer was the better team on
that day and they should have
won. In fact, ax we see it,
Mercer did win—ehe won the
most inspiring moral victory
imaginable.—J. B. PoihiU, Jr.,
in The Newa and Farmer.
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION
CORPS TO IMPROVE
HISTORICAL LANDMARKS
The President’s conservation
program includes a project to
greatly improve the historical land
marks of the United State*. Ac
cording to a statement by Robert
Fechner, Director of Emergency
Conservation Corps, about 8,600
men enrolled in the Civilian Con
servation Corps are to rehabilitate
several of the most famous battle
fields in our country. Four camps
are established at Yorktown, Va.,
where thy American troops, under
the leadership of Georgia Washing
ton, won the final battle of the
Revolution in 1781. Two are at
Morristown, N. J., an area used by
the American Armies every winter
during the crucial years from 1776
to 1781. About 400 men are
at work in the Gettysburg Na
tional Military Park in Pennsyl
vania, where Abraham Lincoln de-
liverde his Immortal address in
1863, and another 800 are located
at the Chicksmauga and Chatta
nooga National Military Park in
Georgia and Tennessee, which com
memorates the scene of some of the
most brill last maneuvers of ths
Civil War. A camp located at
Shiloh, Tenn., marks the site of a
memorable battle fought by the
soldiers of the Southwest in the
same conflict Another group of
400 are working on a project to
preserve and develop the area in
which the .siege and defense of
Vicksburg, Miss., was carried on.
In Virginia, scene of continuous
military operations throughout the
Civil War, 400 men are busy at the
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania!
County Battlefields Memorial es
tablished to commemorate the en
gagementa of Fredericksburg, Spot
sylvania Court House, the WOdei
ness and Chancellonville
some of tho fiercest fighting
the conflict occurred. A si mil
number of men are at work in tl
Petersburg National Military
which was created to preserve
breastworks and other defenses
shelters used in the siege and de-l
fense of Petersburg. Another ea-|
campment is busy at the Fort Ha
rison battlefield, a sta
created to preserve the
of fortifications occupied by bol
Confederate and Federal troop* ii
the fighting around Richmond.
The work of the men la not
mere clean-up project to enabl
visitors to walk with greater «
through a historic region mark
with stone tablets telling a fi
mentary story, Mr. Fschner sta'
Each project has been planned b;
the historical advisers of the Of
fice of National Parks, Buildini
and Reservations of tho Depai
men! of the Interior which hi
jurisdiction over these arena,
that when the project is flatted
will play Its special part In telli
the great historical story that
area was esabllshed te comm*
rate.
In a traffic jam It la mean
a cop to tell a woman to mao
noodle after rite has polk
pushed everything in the car
order to get It started.
The hardest job for the i
maa In the world M to find i