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October 9, 1964
Tin Mercer fWw Section B
MeAceA GLutesi FEATURES • SPORTS • SOCIETY • THE ARTS
LYNDON JOHNSON makes last minute changes in speech deliver -
at Mercer as candidate for Vice President during the 1960 presiden-
race.
ON THE CONTRARY
The Fruit of His Years
By JOHN WEATHERLY
On November 22 of last ycur a number of Mercer students were
fuddled around a young "Peuce Marcher" holding his own in jpirited
ebute while some of his fellow marchers were detained in a local
ail while enroute to Cuba.
Needless to say his left-of-center ideas were rather alien to the
(outh Georgia mind. Emotion-laden abstractions were flying about so
hickly and heavily that no one noticed—at first that—someone else
(ad burst into the room just as excited.
‘Kennedy's been shot," he panted, "I'm not kidding! It's on the
adio, he’s been shot—probably fatally."
No one in that stunned audience was more incredulous than the
loung liberal. He threw his hand to his head in unbelieving despair,
puttering, “My God, Lyndon Johnson president!"
This Man Johnson
His gesture illustrates well, 1 believe, that Goldwater people are
^ohnnies-come-lately" to the hate Johnson campaign. Liberals have
en unhappy with him for years.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, at this writing, enjoys tre
mendous popular support, if the major public opinion polls are correct,
pr. Goldwater has, in fact, indicated that Republican -polls have point-
to the same conclusion, adding hopefully that it might be a “differ
ed horse race” at the finish.
What sort of man is this who is president and may well remain
He is the first Southerner to occupy the White House since
Andrew Johnson, who went into office under similar circum
stances.
It has been said that the executive branch of our government has
en the North’s contihufng reVehge for the Civil War;—a national
ejudice standing in the way of an able Southerner’s ascension to
>t position.
On the other hand, the Senate has been described as “the South’s
ending revenge upon the North for Gettysburg."
For contrary to a seemly widespread notion of the "far right", or
actionary, both North and South who seem to see a commie in every
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A WORD FROM THE TRUTH SQUAD
|ln Pursuit of Weatherly
By BERNARD LINDSEY
I TOR’S NOTE: We had hoped to see more articles defending Sena-
r Goldwater in this week's Cluster, however this was the only Repub-
an column submitted. We hope that the Senator s supporters will give
| more material in the future.
Since the official position of the Cluster in the 1964 election
npaign is neutrality, and since the rest of this issue is bathed in a
wave of pro-Johnson sentiment. Editor Dayton contacted me in
lianic early this week and asked me to write a column delending
Goldwater from the angry sea of liberalism. However, hardly
_ the idea of encountering frowns from the pro Johnson faculty
the grade one tends to associate with faculty frowns), I decided
sd to set out in hot persuit of that renowned sensation-seeker of a
nnist, John Weaflberly, and to give the student body a lesson in how
ation-seeking columnists gt> about their work. (A more critical
thorough analysis can be found in a book which describes aJl of
itherty's views—fallacy. the Counterfeit of Argument.)
One good method of smearing your opposition is called guilt by
«tion. Weatherly illustrates this technique well, with his atate-
“Goldwater people are johnies-come-lately to the hate Johnson
.sign.” This is very effective in getting across the idea that
dwater people are both hatemongerers and behind the times.
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H.M.S. Pinafore' Among
Fine Arts Productions Set
By Peggy Malott
Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” is included in the Student Activities Board’s
1964-’65 Fine Arte Series. The musical and dramatic series will also feature the Norman
Luboff Choir, the New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Con
temporary Dancers, and Edward Kilenyi, pianist.
On Wednesday, October 21, at
9:30 p.m.. Mr Luboff will be con
ducting bis famous recording choir
□f twenty-eight voices. This is the
second coast to coast tour of this
group, whose records have Hold
over 2,. r >00,000 copies.
The Stratford Festival cast of
“H.M.S. Pinafore", will be on hand
for a gala performance of this fast-
paced comedy on Tuesday, Decem
ber 8, at 8:30 p.m.,
Louis Applebaum will undertake
the musical direction of the Strat
ford Festival Company of 28, and
a pit orchestra of 16. Brian Jackson
‘Uliwn’ Named
Fall Quarter Play
New play director and drama
professor. Miss Linda Shuler, has
chosen Ferenc Molnar’s "Liliom”
as the first theatrical production
for this year.
According to Shuler, the musi
cal "Carousel” was based on
“Liliom." the story o (the carnival
broker who loves hut mistreats his
wife and child, dies, and is permit
ted to return for a short while to
attempt to do something beautiful.
There are several male parts yet
to be filled, according to Miss
Shuler The final tryouts will be
held at 7:30 p m. in the Greenroom,
beneath Willingham chapel on
Monday, Oct. 12.
The |>arts. Miss Shuler said, are
"robustly masculine" and need
men who can play or would like to
try playing rugged male role*.
Archaeology Lecture
Slated For Wed.
Professor Harry Rutledge of the
University of Georgia will present
the annual archaelogy lecture this
year, sponsored by the Mercer
Classics department.
Dr. Doris Raymond, head of the
Classics department, announced
that Professor Rutledge will lec
ture on “Rome from Augustus to
Berini" at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
October 14. The lecture will be il
lustrated with slides |>hotographed
by Rutledge during his succeasive
stays in Rome.
All interested persons, faculty
and students, are cordially invited
to attend.
will recreate his original settings
ami costumes.
The 80-piece New Orleans Phil
harmonic Symphony Orchestra will
appear in a program of serious
orchestral music, conducted by
Weiner Torkanowsky. This orches
tra is rated one of the top ten in
the United States, and will be at
1 Drama Prof 1
(Pens Novel |
$ "An Angel Blushed" is the;*
•*title of a new book by Miss Au-i*
x’d rey Needles, assistant profes--:-:
■*«>r of s|ieech and drama here. g
:|i; The book is written in the;*
garea of fantasy-satire, ami will*:
She published this fall by Wake-;*
gBrook House of Coral Gables,-*
*:Fla Pre-publication orders are;*
gbeing accepted for a limited;*
*jfirst edition in which each copy:*
gwill be numbered and signed by*:
gthe author
i* Miss Needles is well- known
gfor her direction of productions*;
gby The Mercer Players since;
gl953. She currently is on a leave;
:*of absence from Mercer to study:
gfor her doctorate at the Univer*
*sity of Minnesota.
Meroer University, February 17,
at 8 30 p.m.
On Monday evening. March 22,
ten brilliant dance artists, all mem
bers of the San Francisco Ballet,
will appear under the direction of
J. Marks. This will be an electri
fying program of dance dramas
The contemporary group will foa
ture such numbers as “The Miracu
lous Mandarin". "Rashmon", and
"Intermezzo”.
The last program of the Con
cert Series, on Sunday. April 4. at
4:00 pm., will be a concert by
Edward Kilanyi, world-famous
pianist and recording artist. He will
play a varied program of Bee
thoven. Chopin. Liszt and con
temporary composers.
Dr. A. L. Rich, chairman for the
concert series, said: “This is the
best series of musical events pre
sented here in the last fifteen years.
There is something for every musi
cal taste, from contemporary to
serious symphonic music.”
All of the programs will be held
at Willingham Chapel. Mercer
students will be admitted without
charge upon presentation of their
identification cards. “We are de
pending on all the students to come
to these events." Rich said. “If the
students show interest in this type
of entertainment, we will continue
to present excellent programs in
the future.”
’Best Man’ At Little Theater
The Beat Man’ by Core Vidal
will open the season for the Macon
Little Theatre at 4220 Foreyth
Road on Monday. Oct. 19.
The play will be presented each
night Monday through Saturday at
8:30 p.m with a matinee on Sat
urday at 2:30 p.m.
The production will bo the first
of the theatre's new director^Park
er Rushing. ’The Best Man' is
political and was presenter) first on
Broadway four years ago with
Melvyn Douglas, a Macor Native,
playing the lead. The show pre
sents tvko politicians, both of whom
hope to become their iiarty’s can
didate with the action taking place
at the conventions
The cast of the play includes
several persons who have played
leads in other plays locally, hut
also there are a number of new
comers to the Macon stage.
Thomas D. Clark Picked
For Lamar Lectures Here
Dr. Thomas D. Clark, professor of history at the Univer
sity of Kentucky, has been selected to deliver the eighth
Engenia Dorothy Blount Lamar Lecture Series here Oct. 27-28.
An outstanding authority on recent Southern history. Dr.
Clark will speak on “Three Southern Crusades and Their
Implications to the Modem South.”
He will speak in Mercer’s Will
ingham Cha|>el on Tuesday, Oct.
27, at 10 a.m and 8 p.m.. and on
Wednesday, Oct. 28. at 4 p m and
8:30 p.m The public is invited to
attend the lectures
Titles of the individual lectures,
in the order in which they will be
delivered, are “The South in
Change,” "The Crusade for Uni
versal Education.” “The Crusade
for Agrarian Change," and "The
Crusade for Conservation of South
ern Resources and Its Implica
tions."
Mercer’s 8th Lamar Lecturer is
a native of Louisville. Miss., who
received his undergraduate degree
it the University of Mississippi and
his graduate degrees from the Uni
versity of Kentucky and Duke Uni
versity. In 1931 he began his teacb-
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Where fo Go
^SATURDAY. OCT. 17
g Macon Community Concertg
gSeries—The Ruduga Dancers of*
*Russia |
gMONDAY, OCT. 19
g Macon Little Theatre—"The;*
gBest Man" (through Oct. 24) |
*WEDNESDAY. OCT. 21 |
Willingham Chapel—Normang
gLuboff Choir. 7*
The candidates, Russell and
Cantwell will be |x>rtrayed by
James H. Brenner and Jim Elrod,
both of whom are well-konwn to
Little Theatre patrons. Mrs. Rus
sell and Mrs. Cantwell will be play
ed by Mrs. Joan Fluker and Miss
Arden Evans, respectively.
Mrs. Gammage. a woman party
worker will he played by Mrs. Viola
Hughes with Bob Steele cast as
porters will be played by John
Sheldon Marcus, the informer
be portrayed by Roland Drozeski
Nick Camerio. Jr. and Bill
Waters will play the campaign
managers for the candidates, re
IKirters wil be played by John
Richards. Richard Cowan and Mrs
Frances Thornton with Mrs. Ann
Pritchard as a secretary.
The membership of the theatre is
limited to 2400 and is rapidly doe
ing out with less than 300 mem
herships still available. Persons
wishings to enroll may apply to the
members of the theatre’s board of
governors or to Mrs. Eugent Cor
nelius. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Bayme.
Mrs. Frances Thornton. Mrs. Viola
Hughes. Mrs. Hazel Adams, Mrs
C. G. Golf. Mrs Roger Ma risen
Mr and Mrs. Pelavo Riera. Mrs
Rosalind Harris Fried, Mrs Jack
Byer, or Mrs. A! Hurvity.
The box office will open Friday
Oct. 16. Saturday Oct 17 and each
day during the run of the play from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m for members to
make reservations. for the night
they are to attend
Pamphlet Available
Several copies of the pamphlet
"How To Get the Moat Out of
Your Textbooks" are available to
interested upperclassmen in the of
fice of Student Personnel
Swans sing before they die;
twere no bad thing should aoane
people die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
