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MERCER CLUSTER OCT. SI, Im “Oplmdui In the gram.” Pert and pretty Lynn KkkHfthtar takas'■ braak from mid-terms. Lynn, from Sarasota, Florida, is an ADFi plsdjs and a msmber of the Cauldron Staff. Harris Speaks.. v (Ouarthmod from Pags 1) awarded by Item to the Juris Doctor <J. D.) daftiae bs rtfsirod to ths Education Oommittos of trastoss tor noodudcuW! aptfaa Raeavationa and alterations wars a»ih to 25 buildings ths post year at a cost of 0299,817. The now Hash M. WiQst Science Center was com* plated at a cost of $1.75 million. Dr. Harris reported that ahnnal giving to the university increaeed during the post year, and that 17 percent of ths alumni contributed through ths Annual Alumni Fund. Tha Infirmary Building Fuad, a sssjnr preject this year sf the Dopartassnt sf Divelepmmt, to nearing Mo goal with MUM pledged by Mercer medical shaunL Plano am for uunatmotlan to atari early in 1969. Cluster - Dulcimer Elections Monday - Qualifications 10-2 p.m. Publications Board, 3 p.m. $1 Fee & Written Application Thursday - Election In CSC Lobby <£LUB & CAMPUS FASHIONS By CHIP TOLBERT ESQUIRE'S FASHION EDITOR FL0CCIPAUCINIHILIP1LIFICATI0N —try that on your Punk A Wagnalls! Actually, it haa nothing whatsoever to do with this col- MM...I just wanted g classy opener. Now then, about fashion. I can hardly remember a Fall when there’s been such a wide seleo* Hen of good looking men's wear. New styles, new colors and fabrics ...there’s something for everyone, with plenty of room for Indi viduality. First off, Ut’s consider color. Currant and choice for FaR are the new... HARVEST COLORS —warm browns, sunlit groans, livelier bitten and golden wheat These are not single, specific colors; rathar, a group of warm autumnal tones—each made more vibrant by aa underlying “sunlit” cast Greens are dearer, bearing no rolstkto* ship to the olive range; blues are seen in brighter, lntormodhfin tanas; browns range from rich bronze to russet; and golden wheat throne up tha beige/tan shades. Look for theee Harvest Colors hi al types of tailored apparel, including... THE COUNTRY SUIT, Whiekeomm to. with n POWI Bold, colorful plaids a* aver- plaidg gmphnalno the casual gipent of thoct nsw suits, while the smoother finish of ths worateA cheviot er saxony fabrics aUrwi for mom float* hllity in whan they can bo warn. AvaflttMtt to either two or «urao-b«ttoa modah, tide gall makes unmistsksbla impact parttmflMfri worn with i THE POWER OF PUUi tattoo amain Aon- tarn of nathantie du Utto— to niitM—r. Stocks, shirts, ti so, jackets—alwifl bo bearing too stamp at MacDonald. Monro, loyal Stow* art Try tho elarki with n aoMd wlrr Mimr Or • rod tartan jMtot...jnl the thfigff tar ymr Charlie Wood Inc. h fntamky A 749-6441 Four Honorary Degrees Awarded At Science Dedication Doctor of Lawe dogmas were conferred upon Dr. Chattel Hard Townee, professor at ths University of California, and Dr. Felix Comp ton Robb, .director of ths Southern Association of Colleges and 0-1 1- oCPOOlM. Doctor of Divinity degrees were contorted upon Dr. Allen Bern Cornish, pastor of Waldrop Memor ial Baptist Church. Columbus, and Dr. Henry Lewis Batts, Binsritur Curry Professor of Religious Edu cation at Mercer. Dr. Townes, who was awarded ths Nobel Prise for physics in 1964, mad# tha convocation addiem at tha dedication of Mm center and Dr. Batts gave the dedication prayer. Dr. Robb was the speak er for tho luncheon which fol lowed the convocation and Dr. Oomtoh gave the invocation at tha Dr. Allan B. Comtofa Dr. Henry L. Batin luncheon. Dr. Townes to an internationally known scientist who received ths Nobel Prise for his role in the in vention of the maser and laser. As a membsr of tbs tochntoal staff of Ball Telephone Laboratories from 1999 to 1947, ha worked extensively during World War H designing ra dar bombing systems and holds a number of patents in related tech nology. After his appointment to ths fa culty of Columbia University in 1948, Dr. Townes continued re search begun at Beil in microwave physics. In 1961 be conceived the idee of the maser and seven years later, working with professor A. L Schawlow now of Stanford Univer sity, showed that maarn could be mads to operate in tha infrared re gion. This work resulted in their joint patent on lasers (light ampli fication by stimulated emission of radiation). Dr. Townes has served as direc tor of the Institute for Defense An alyses in Washington Ho to a form er chairman of the Strategic Weap ons Panel of tho Department of Defence and is chairman of tha Sci ence and Technology Advisory Committee for Manned Specs Flight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He to vice- chairman of ths Prsaid ant's Science Advisory Committee Dr. Robb, an author and speaker, long has bean involved in educa tional, civic and raligios activities In 1966 ha initiated for ths govern ment a program of educational and technical aadstanca in tin Republic of Korea which contributed signifi cantly to ths strengthening of that nation aa a vital fores for freedom in the Far East His interest in in ternational understandings has tak en him to Europe, Asia, and the Orient on mi—iron He to chairman of the Southeast Regional Manpower Advisory Com mittee and to a member of Phi Bet te Kappa, ODK, the American Council on Education’s Joint Com mittee on Bneinms and Education and the U. & Department of Lah ore’ Committe on Specialised Per sonnel. Dr. Robb to an exponent of the New South and an outspokan ad vocate of education's responsibility to maintain and expand freedom. Hie career began as a public school teacher in his native state of Ala bama. Later ha was a collage in structor. Subsequently, he held a variety of academic administrative posts before being named president of Peabody Collage in I960. The Reverend Dr. Oomtoh is a second-generation minister — hie father was a pioneer Louisiana Baptist preacher — who hss active ly served The Baptist Faith. He presently to chairman of the Exe cutive Committee of the Georgia Baptist Convention and serves aa a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sunday School Board. He has served as chairman of the Education Commission of ths Georgia Baptist Convention. Articles by Dr. Cornish have ap peared in several denominational publications. He has authored tracts and promotional Sunday School materials. Ths Reverend Dr. Batts, former Dr. Felix C. Robb chairman of the Department Christianity at Mercer, to rw nixed for hie many years of aer to Christian education. From 1919 to 1994 he was 1 cutive secretary of the Bap Young People’s Union of Geoi He was appointed instructor "1 ligious education and English Mercer in 1994. Later ha was rector of education in a Rochet N. Y. Church, and was directa an inter-church student prof at Kelemesoo, Mich. Dr. Batts returned to Merest 1946 as professor of religious I cation. By the time of hie ret mint in 1969 he had served as d of the chapel for four yean end chairman of the Department Christianity from 1968. RENEWING THE SURTAX by Gton Ifttf dOf Chief KewiMiito Nat. Am. of Ifa—flactram The 10 par cant earcharge on corporate and individual income taxes, imposed on us by a law passed last June, k scheduled to terminate June 90, 1669. Tha aast Congrem will, of comae, be free to pass additional lagtolatton ex tending its life beyond that petal More aad more, the aiMmfttiae to will probably de so. Thto prospect stfaa tiona. The surcharge Is properly viewed as an act of fiscal rotpeu- atoffity. No one wank to bo aa ■in nali of toed hafttaWlh and that to what might he involved in an interest of fiscal responsibility. Yon can argue that its affect to to re- ffaff, by flu fiiwii^ mlUcttad, tbt —p—ifttnotd in nb* Wa suspect, how ever, that in the long run it simply gives diet much more leeway for inersmm to federal apsttdtog, with the r multieg deficits no smaller than they would have bean without tha setaaifon of ths tax. Ths haaeedtote aoaattan for dr ttoaa. First, the What hind of general fiscal stem* as msssarad by the fodaaal deficit or ampins, sriQ ha appropriate to ■oak the economic conditions of that ported? Second, the • staMBty. It m ssaanfial to H weadhtt ot llflr il mfEH federal deficit eabstee- W—1 at bM b ly. The toghtatom* ariton was low enough, we Can 1st the sa nasd to oat the Artaftt fame dte as aahadolad and *■>«»< Mfltoa to fiscal 1966 to ahaot (Cootfcmod on Pttfa 3 96 billion in fiscal 1969. Bet andtac. an inflation a alow and painful prop me Tb.* no likelihood that, at any during tha next year, anyone i bo able to say “ths inflation hi under control and we can thiol tetma of a vary different Cecal tore for the country.” The I optimistic are unwilling to pit that the present 4 par cant a j inflation will, to 1969, ha sis dawn to mm T Aim t bettor tha 2H par cat or 9 par amt i which to still a tot of inflation Thu sound wffl requite that tho Ohjoctiw soars time should hu to koap I era! deficits down to the nafckl hood of tha 98 bate thto fbaol year. In cnucrive of anyi would malm H dsrimhto to to the 698 Mlkai deficit of . - ■. . ' ii-' ■ v. PH—iitahk— • hi'- -