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March 10,1966
Get Easter Spirit;
Buy Easter Seals
Easter can be significantly observed
by GIVING TO HELP CRIPPLED CHIL
DREN.
1. Research to develop new ways of
dealing with physical handicaps.
2. Treatment given at crippled chil
dren’s Centers in many sections of
state.
3. Training of therapists, doctors and
teachers to staff the Centers,
through scholarships. Also, equip
ment such as wheelchairs, crutches,
and braces will be bought, and
parental instruction given for nec
essary home treatments.
YOU CAN JOIN IN THE SPIRIT OF
EASTER by giving to help the crippled
children of your state. Please mail your
contribution to:
EASTER SEALS, 717 Grand Theatre
Building, Atlanta, Georgia, OR TO YOUR
LOCAL EASTER SEAL COMMITTEE.
Capital Party Habit
Squelched by Ike
We recently noticed in a daily paper
that many Democrats are hoping that the
return of their party to power will bring
an end to Eisenhower’s policy of “work
before play.” It seems the Demos are
nostalgic for the old days of Roosevelt
and Truman, when as many as five cock
tail parties a day were the first concern
of high Washington officials. They make
it appear that those were the “good old
days.”
From all we can learn of Eisenhower’s
insistence on being business-like in the
affairs of government, we can find little
fault with his principles. It seems senseless
to us for a group of government officials
to push aside the duties of their offices
for the frivolities of party life. It is un
mistakably true that every person needs
some sort of social diversion; but when
he comes to need some sort of labor to
divert him from a continual series of
social obligations, he has over-balanced
the scale of life.
Our government officials have first an
obligation to us—the electorate. We realize
that such a conviction is frequently laugh
ed upon as puritanical, but we still feel
that some of the world’s ills can be traced
to the follies of drunken diplomats and
social gad-flies.
This is not condemning one party or
commending another. Our principal pur
pose is to state our dissatisfaction with
the view that "the good old days” were
those when the liquor flowed freely. If
Eisenhower, or any other official, regard
less of political affiliation, has reversed
the downward flow of Washington moral
ity, we can do only what we feel is the
right thing to do — that is to give our
thanks for someone who is conscientious
in his obligation to his country.
The annual Easter Seal Appeal, spon
sored by the Georgia Society for Crippled
Children a s
part of a
nationwide ef
fort to aid the
h a n dicapped,
has become a
living symbol
of the true
spirit of East
er.
G e o r gia’s
1955 Seal Cam
paign is set for
March 10-Aprii
10. Contribu
tions will go
toward:
THE MERCER CLUSTER
SPEAKERS'-EYE VIEW OF CHAPEL
NANCY YATES
Faith Answers Perplexities
What sort of world are college students living in today? Certainly
it is not the same world it wa^ fifty years ago—or even ten year? ago.
Most of the time we are so caught up in the whirl of every day
experiences that we think little or nothing of the trends of the times
we live in.
Yet it seems that almost each
day a new question presents itself
to the young person—either for his
hard-sought solution or his indif
ferent dismissal . . .
Ideas . . . the old phrase “mind
over matter”—is
it valid?
, What about relig-
1 ion—can one af
ford to form his
| own, or must he
fchoose between
|||e i acceptance of the
orthodox or com
plete rejection? .
Yates Elmer Davis
brings out a new book entitled
“Two Minutes Till Midnight”—
midnight being the hour of ther
monuclear war . . . And directly
opposite from Davis’ review on
Sunday’s book page is one on Her
mann’s optimistic “Conquest By
Man” . . . Which should 1 believe? .
How much of psychology should
I accept? . . . And how am I to
know with my inadequate scope? . .
What about the segregation prob
lem ? . . . The showdown seems
near . . .
Douglas says prepare to fight
now—and another says, “Peace at
any price. Ideas will ultimately
triumph.”
The brutality of man to man . . .
the frightening threshold on which
modem science stands . . .
Looking down the newspaper
sheet: “Have YOU discovered the
world of Albert Schweitzer?” an ad
reads. “No, should I?” questions
the bewildered student . . .
Another ad attempts to sell a
book which preaches the power of
thinking affirmatively . . . every
thing will come out all right if
you only tell yourself so. Still
another advertises a well-known
movie star’s "spiritual diary” . . .
Turn the page and read about
five simple steps to H-Bomb sur
vival . . . Next week’s issue asks
the question: “Can UN prevent
World War III?”
The meaning of history? . . . The
purpose of it all ? . . . The purpose
of me, one student in a world of
masses of people, in a universe
wider than the heavens, infinite
and inconceivable ...
Progressive education . . . the
state of business . . . the giant prob
lems of crime and morality seem
little compared to all this . . .
And then after all maybe this
whole business of speculation is
futile. . .
The strains of “One Scotch—bop-
hob, One Bourbon, and One Beer”
literally burst out of the radio as
you dream of the future . . .
This seems to be the world in
which students live today. Perhaps
the key to the future can be found
in the seemingly lost ideals and
standards of the past (if they real
ly existed).
From these confused wanderings
of the mind, the perplexity of
modern American youth is easily
understood. The need of the world
is still what it was two thousand
years ago. What we need is an
anchor, something in which to put
what men of old called by that
simple word, “faith”.—remember?
Mtrttt Cluster
MACON. GEORGIA
MARCH 10. 1966
VOLUME 66. NUMBER 16
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C. C. LYNCH
Are You Unique?
It’s not easy these days for a young person
to decide what is the right way in which to turn
his life. From every tide comes offers and
temptations to follow someone. All ldnds of occu
pations and hobbies lend themselves readily t6
the confused homo espies.
Even in college we are torn between ■ dosen
roads to destinies, and most of us are too con
founded to know which way
to turn. We study philosophy,
in which we are concerned
with "What is Good?” We
read the poets and prose
writers, who tell us that an
“original experience with
nature is what ie good for
us.” Yet we stand at the
crossroads helplessly revolv
ing our cranium, looking for
Lynch ( somebody to lead us out.
The greatest purpose of college, 1 understand,
is to teach a person to think for himself. I wonder
how many of us wake up in our second and third
years to find out that we still have not learned
the great principle. In our organisations we
accept the practices we disapprove of, simply
because the leaders want it that way. In student
government functions we refuse to vote because
somebody may find out how wa cast the ballot
and dislike us for it. Wa are afraid to speak out
for what we think is right because we know
somebody will get mad, and it may be the man
"with the pull.” It has happened that way, but
1 doubt that the victim was seriously damaged.
I remember some Sunday school lessons of
days gone by entitled “Dare to Be a Daniel,”
or “Dare to Be Different." Maybe that sounds
idealistic and revolutionary, but I do not know
anyone who essentially wishes to be a duplicate
of somebody else. Somewhere about your “hero”
you will find a trait that is not so appealing.
Back to the campus scene, it ie so easy to be
swallowed up in organizations and movemanto of
all sorts that the person loses his identity and
puts his all into a flat, useless whole. It matters
not what the goal, if a mass of people move to
it with no individualistic thought, forever yield
ing to the orders of the leader, surrendering
opinion, letting another mind rule theirs, the
goal is not worthy of the efforts.
I hope that every student will decide now to
be himself first. And after that to join groups—
but be sure the group is a fellowship of common
minds, not a massing of weak minds into a pre
determined pattern as dictated by another mind
with somewhat the same weaknesses. America is
founded on Democracy; I hope we learn before
we get out of here what that means.
Pas de Deux
By Mak Owen Flowers
I
Superimposed on endless, frozen blue,
(As if some southern sea had winter touched
Congealing turquoise light and water through)
And etched in with its barren fellows, pushed
A branched part of the world, its parent etem
Forming the basis for its airy perch
And mother earth, their birth-bed, all of them.
Gives nourishment; and through her spring must
Search
I, too, am of the earth and so I see
That I and branch are each a part of all
And all innate in us: celestial see,
Dark evergreen, white-veined birch, leaves small.
Within me buds the Answer that will bring
Forth blossom at the Question of spring.
II
Not etched, but rather blended now; the scene
Has been transformed into the softness, the
Transparency of dainty, new-born green;
Above it now a melting, shallow sea.
The yearning of the tmiverse has ones
Again been answered by eternal spring.
I, too, revive, and rising from the months
Of dormant death I blend my voice to ting
With all creation, voices golden, free,
The greatest Hallelujah: that ef Ufa.
Spring posed the queeUon; “And what la the plan,
The hope eternal of the whole ef life?”
I answer: “Though long the song of death I sing
I know there’ll always be another spring.”