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The Mercq^ University
- System.
VOL. L
SAILOR BOY GIVEN BAPTIST PLAN
CONVENTION SEATjcAMPING GROUND
F0RB.Y.P.U.
AND NOMINATES
Mercer was agreeably surprised at
one of her young sons; Wm. G. Me-
Ray, of Rockmart, who proved him*
■elf ■ real orator when' he rose to sec
ond the nomination of Thomas E.
Watson for the U. S. iSenate at • the
recent state Democratic convention.
Rising in. his sailor uniform before
the large body of delegates who had
just yelled Major McGreggor down
in their impatience to hear Mr. Watr
son, McRay could scarcely be heard
at first. Soon his clear voice rang
above the din and his magnetic pres
ence quelled the noise..
“The newspapers in the various
’ parts' of the state have endeavored
in the past few months,!’ he said; “to.
have, the people to believe that the
boys who fought in the late war have
forgotten the principles pf true
Americanism. They have pictured
them as having turned their . backs
on the principles of Washington, Jef
ferson, Madison and Monroe. But
they should, by this time have come
to the conclusion that w§ are still
true Americans, despite the fact that
we were uifder the subordinate juris
diction of a great many during the
war who were not Americans, in
deeds, But in citiaenahip papers o ri-
State, it was announced
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Fourteen Schoob and
Colleges.
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GThursday, Nov. 4, 1920
NO. V.
BESSIE UTS
GRADUATES ABE
EVERYWHERE
AUDITORIUM
FORALLCOLUGE
AHD“Y”
: Georgia Baptists are planning the
establishment of a permanent Bap
tist encampment somewhere in the
Mercer law student whose
H. Leavell,. State field secretary of
the B. Y. P. U.
-“Mr. Leavell said that several cities
had offered sites for the encamp
ment, among them Greenville, Toc-
coa, Brunswick, Savannah and Blue
Ridge. One city has offered to give
for. the purpose fifty acres of land,
I to .build the necessary dormitories
'■arta to furnish light and water.
The purpose of the encampment
ground is to provide a place where
Georgia Baptists can gather each
year for- all their meetings. During
the summer of each year an encamp
ment isJt^TcTXwhich lasts about ten
days/_vln July of this year, there
ere one thousand Baptists present.
On account of the limited -accom
modations in the city where the en-
. campment was held, it was necessa—
, J ^ t _ e 0 "I ry to limit the B. Y. P; U. societies
quenceMtaed Georgia State Derno- to one represenUtive each> y hereMf
there are several times this number
cratic Convention _when he lauded
student recor<^ of new United States
Senator.
Fight .
Abgrst of applause greeted this
statement and soon the audience was
cheering: loudly everything the speak
er said. He continued by describing
the recent fight and telling how it
was won." He picture Mr. Watson as
a man of -unquestioned ability who
would be a real statesman to repre
sent Georgia in the national councils.
■•IMM by quoting:
CARD AND INDEX
25000 CHURCHES
CONVENTNPLAN
To make an accurate card index
record of what each of the 25,000 lo
cal Baptist churches-of the South is
doing, and what its needs are is one
of the tasks that has been commit
ted to Dr. E. F. Alldredge, recently
of Little Rock, Ark., by the
ti* |radar *
graat hears, trap faith
ed in ehargg of the new departmeat
of statistics, survey and general de-
“Men whom the lust of office does nominational information, and. will
not kill;. ^ help Southern Baptists to know them
“¥*n whom : the spoils of office*! selves completely, their weakness as
Cannot buy;.-, iwell a^^eir strength.
“Men' who possess opinion and a Un ^ Dr . AJldrtd^'e supe<vis-
WUI, ion surveys of all the resources and
“Men who have Honor, men who work of Southern Baptists will be
will not lie. ■*. conducted. The infornyation com
piled thereby will be placed at the
“And while the -rabble with their :
thumb-worn creeds,
“Their large professions and their
little deeds,-. • - . "
“Mingle in 'selfish strife, Lo!
Freedom weeps,
“Wrong rules-the land'and waiting
justice sleeps. ’/• -v"
“GOD GIEVE US MEN!
disposal of every . denominational
agency so that all of the people may
become fully informed on every
pHhse of the. work being done by the
denomination. At the same time a
survey at the territory of the Sou
thern Baptist Convention will be
made with a view to ascertaining the
Men who serve- not.. for selfish edu< . ation#1> goc ' ial ar)d religious
needs of the people in order that
tie Baptist responsibility for. sup
plying those needs may be readily de-
who would have been In attendance
M if they could have>been accommo
dated. - - -
. Open for Offer*. .
The -committee which has charge
Of-the selection of a site is composed
of Dr. William Russell Owen, chair
man; Professor JYank H. Leavell,
Mr. James W. Merritt. Gainesville;
Dr. Aquilla Cham lee, Hawkinsville;
Hon. A.. W. Evans. Sa»dtnvfll«;
Dr. J. E. Hampton, Moultrie; Rev.
Homer Grice, Washington';''-Rev. J.
E. Sammons, Griffin; Dr. Arch C.
Cree. Atlanta; W. H. Major, Atlanta.
“The committee is open for offers,
ind will welcome them. We hope to
be able to obtain a site at the sea
shore or in the mountains, but will
consider all offers,” said Professor
Leavell yesterday. -
Throe thsn—d Baptiste will
•at——MP—<a darim
year, away of whom will spend their
entire vacation there.
FUNDS DESIGNATED
FDR ALL PURPOSES
COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHEST
PROVIDES FOR ACTIVITIES.
booty,
“But real men, who flinch not at
duty! . -
“Men of dependable, character, tePmiVted and met
men of sterling worth,
“Then wrong will be redes«ed and
right will rule the earth. 1 ’
A burst of applause shook the au- ■ , ,
•a- . , _ . , « ■ strength and activities of other da-
ditonum as he finished the eulogy, . .. ,
The new dawn of Mercers progress
has been-in evidence on every hand
the last months but it was left
for the present student body to dem
onstrate to an enlarged degree evi
dence of this new progressiveness.
T-he chapel hour of the 29th day
of October in the yeaT 1920, gave
birth to an expression from the stu
dents whose far-reaching results are
unquestioned. This expression was
given in regard to a movement des
ignated as the Community Chest
Statistics upon the Baptists of the [Fund. The individuality of Mercer
,world will likewise be compiled, along
■with general information upon the
and he concluded by saying:
Watson at Mirctr.
- , “Just such a man is the honorable
Thomas E. Watson of McDuffie coun
ty, who as a student of Mercer Uni
versity made a record unexcelled in
the history of the institution. As an
ex-service man whose loyalty and
Devotion to this country has never
been questioned; and. as a delegate
from Polk county,-Georgia; and as a
representative of a. great people who
gavethe two “Toms" an-overwhelm
ing victory, I consider-it .» vrtst
pleasure as well as a solemn duty to
second the nomination of Mr. Thom
as E. Watson for the Cnited States
Senate, from the state of Georgia.”
_* The house, fairly roared with ap
plause-as the speaker finished and he
was taken on - the shoulders of sev
eral delegates and lifted on the
stage. He was greeted and heartily
- commended by Governor-elect Hard
wick and other important persons on
the stage. It seemed to be the con
census of opinion that he had made
the best speech of the :occasion. The
two daily papers of the city conceded
that his Was the most oratorical ad
dress of the meeting, even though
‘there were some of the noted ora
tors of the state making addresses.
-• Soon after the war was declared
McRay joined the navy nd after go
ring to the radio school at'Cambridge,
Mass., he was/put aboard a ship as
radio electrician and made several
trips to Europe. For a considerable
time his ship operated in European
lominations, w.h especial> attention
teing given to those denominations
operating in the South.
BIG TOURNAMENT
FOR BESSIE TIFT
students is all that can be desired of
any selective .group -of men but that
individuality as expressed from time
to time in recent days in a glorious
and unified manner is rapidly tending
to the solidification of ! a something
that will soon be known far and wide
as the Mercer personality.
It will soon be impossible to think
of Mercer except as a^select group
of individuals which goes, to make
up a distinct Mercer personality. If
there was ever any doubts in . the
Bessie Tift tennis tournament minds^-of anyone about the loyalty
is in progress and- finals will be n f each student to every phase .of
played in the next few days.. The college activity those . doubts Were
winner of this, tournament will be jjuelled when the groat outburst
presented with a silver lovng cup. from the student body pledged them-
Next week basketball practices be-- selves to definite support of each
gin. This will be followed by inter- phase of student'interest orfHOct. 29.
class games. There will be much When the plan was proposed by
rivalry among the different clubs and j jf, Teresi as chairman or commit-
aS the college has much good has- t e6| to the student body after a mag 5 "'
ketball material a successful season nificent remark of clarification- of
expected.
NEW FALL MILLINERY.
'all the items by'Dr. Weaver, stirring
! speeches in support of the plan
were made by D.- R. Hodges, R. M.
j Gamble, and T. J. Tribble. This
| community, chest in the form of
should have an
■sid Dr. M. A. Clark,
the executive commit-
University, in address-
body of Mercer Wed-
ng st chapel.
it should be sure
’that he has f love for his calling,
that he shou^l have some fitness for
it, and shouft strive to make the
best possible preparation for that
work,” declared the speaker. “What
ever walk pf life one chooses,., he
should not'be satisfied with the best
fie can do'talt the best that can be
done,” he addjdd. “The physician
should be educated, receiving the
best education possible before going
to a medical Athool.
dy medicine, ^oung
your chief aim is to
beebme rich/!! he insisted. -The av
erage American, the speaker pointed
out, will say that his chief aim
life is to makp money; that the ten
dency of todaj is to incline too much
to the commercial side.
* Hn Ctlliif. -
“I consider i medicine second only
to the ministry,-” said Dr. Clark.
“It is marvelous what a Christian
physician can accomplish in the sick
room,” he added. Cheerfulness is
the prime requite of a physician. It
is interesting tip note the poise, char
acter and earnestness of the physi-
cian.
“The chief life of every in
dividual shoal# tie to glerify God, ‘
l. i j. i ~ sea-. •
not
ritlemen.
he coacl ode&,l s ''Whadevar.
sion one chooishushooid fes Hurt
the Great Phyd)eian can say fie bins,
Well done th2a good and faftMM
servant.’” fj? .
. Graduates of Bessie Tift College
are now doing constructive work of
every nature all over the world. The
graduates have not confined their
activities to Georgia and other Sou
thern states, but gone in nearly ev
ery nook and conier : of the globe.
Some of those now most successful
ly and known best by the present
student body are as follows:
Miss Bessie Noles, class of '1906,
is teaching . Domestic Science at
Guilford College, N. C., Mias Noles
was a classmate of Mrs. Westbrook,
who during the past mouth died of
cholera in Shanghai, China.
Misses Augusta and Stella Center
taught at Bessie Tift College for sev
eral. years after graduation. Later
they attended Columbia University,
where they took their degrees. They
were bo the recognized as teachers of
unusual ability* in New York. Miss
Stella is still teaching and writing
in the Amercian metropolis. For
some time Miss Augusta was engag
ed to go from schoo 1 to school
teaching method/ o finterpretation.
She is now filling most acceptably
the chair of English at Bessie Tift.
Miss Martha Jenkins holdd- a re
sponsible position at the Fourth Na
tional Bank in Atlanta. She has had
some flattering offers to return to
the classroom, but has become en
amored of the business life and the
salary attached thereto.
Miss Evie Campbell has made her
influence felt in Georgia and else
where for many yean. Hundreds of
(Ms date their inspiration. back to
the days whan Miss Campbell was
Lady Principal at Bessie Tift Col
lege. In 19W Wes Cqmpbel
elected*Secretary ef UfoasMrti
in Georgia and remained ifi
sition until 1917, when ah
elected Dean of Women wt
College in Texas. At
The equipment of the new city
auditorium which is now under way
for the use of the basketball team
during the coming winter is-one of
the outstanding features of the
rapidly developing basketball sea
son.
A movement is on foot to have the
Mercer and Macon Y M. C. A. teams
equip'the floor and use it togetk-r.
It will assure the team the use-'of
one'of the best floor spaces in the
city, the seaiting capacity will be
1,000 reserve seats and 2,000 in the
bleachers.
All the big games heretofore have
been played w* h the' space for visi
tors limited and' no large advertis
ing could be carried on. With the
r jntempla’ed change there will be
% place for all the basketball fans in
Maeon with ample room for the
Mercyr rooters. It is expected that
in the games where there is-a large
amount of spirit between the teams,
there will be a, space left for the
rooters for each team: For instance
in the games between Mercer and
the University of Georgia there will
likely be a large number of Georgia
supporters in the city and they would
likely want to be together. In case
some such plan is worked out it is
expected that there will be some of
the most spirited games between
the-two schools that has ever been
witnessed.
Get Ob Map.
Coach Cody is elated over the new
arraageme$ and says that Mercur
will reilly get on the basketball may
this time. If any of the large North
ern Universities come ij3outh dur
ing the leases they will have a
chance to try .thmr mettle on the
■scmuitl
GIVES CLOSE UP
I VIEW OF EUROPE
By DR. J. B. GA1
(President Southern
Vention and former
, of Mercer.)
as fas-
Marcer
will ba
l. pone will he too large
Black
After a most informing toar af
Scandinavia, of which Dr. Mnffins
has written, the measengws ft the
Southern Baptist ContmUm
ed to London for mail and to plan »
tour of the British Isles, fjgr vW>
tation began with Ireland, uv hn
with the worst kind of internal stritilk
One section of the island is i
Catholic and the other just
tensely Protestant. There is « Im^
standing, deep seated, and anemia^
irreconcilable feud; between the
two. The Catholics are beat oa *
separation from Ehgland. The
testants" are equally de‘
remain with England. The
internal war With much to dd
both sides.
We entered South Ireland eag ne
ver reached North Ireland at ah m
account of the disorders la that
section. South Ireland is CatheUe
and North Ireland is PnrteajMat The
eye never rested oa a levliar lead
meadows are ever greag. ' Two re-
relays of lean cattle can grass times-
selves fet here in a year's than. Lit
tle labor is required. We have vie*
ited no mors beautiful nor at Meat! > a
nor prosperous country. What eat.
tie! What pigs! No one need pity
Ireland except for har strifae.
Irish Bepristo Btiemssk Type.
We stoppedjtart at Wstsrfmd. a
very old town. There stuada heas a
tower htiQt by the Dapea.ia ttM. ft
is well preserved. The Beptift
church hern was luii sift if la IBS*.
Dr. MulBas gave the dun*
Lord’s Day whBa l, au*d by!
Union,
Gilmore of
WHY TIHT ClIOOSE TO JOIN
FOLLOWERS OF CICERO.
Varying from the highest flights
of orafory , to the most amusing
jokes, the Ciceroneans have listened
for the last. two meetings to rea
sons why the new men joined the
followers of Cjccro.
All new men were required to
come forward and say "something
even if it was nothing other than
“howdy.” Some of the new men
were surprises in their ability to
speak and the Ciceroneans are ex
pecting to develop some good speak
ers. There is especial ^avalry be
tween the two societies t!
members on the freshman-soph
debate.
A resolution was passed asking
the debating council to let ihe reg
ular fall term debate count for the
tryout for the-inter collegiate de
bates. This only applies to the
members who are on it and the try
out will be held -in the night follow
ing the debate for the other speakers
not on the debate. •
Much interest is centering around
the debates with the other schools.
Four are already scheduled with
other colleges and will necessitate
eight speakers. Each society is urg
ing its members to prepare them
selves to enter the tryout.
fund is to be distributed to the dif T
ferent objects by the Student Advis
ory Council through its Treasurer
Dr. C. L. McGinty. This is indeed
one of the greatest forward move
ments that has been inaugurated on
the campus in some time and with
the unanimous support of the stu
dent body its success is assured.
Dr. Clara Sargent, of the
class, is engaged in Mission work in
Nanking, China.
Miss Frances Fulghum, class of
1911, is teaching in our Mission
school at /Tokio, Japan.
Miss Claire Snead, of the 1919-
20- class, vis teaching at Baijin, N. C.
On the first Sunday after the open
ing of school the other teachers
came to Miss Snead’s room and
said, “Get on your hiking clothes
and join us.” She replied, “I al
ways go to church, on Sunday. Come
and go with me." - The hiking
clothes were discarded for Sunday
clothes amd the church folks were
surprised to see the teachers out at
ch.
Campbell, who so ef
ficiently liTm*^^nosition as profes
sor of Househol^^^ft&pmics at Bes
sie Tift, is now a m^^ftL.of ‘the
faculty at Georgia.
Miss Pe£rl Todd taught school
two years after graduation. She was
fen elected to a position as Assist
ant Secretary of the Woman’s Work
in Georgia. For the past three
years she has been Secretary of the
Woman’s Missionary Union of Kk-
lahoma.
letic Club. Other big games are be-
ng arranged but nothing definite is
fixed as to time. However he is
planning for one of the hardest
schedules that Mercer has ever at
tempted.
The equipment of the auditorium
will, be in the hands of Dr. W. G.
Lee, w.ho with Geo. Sparks will rep
resent the alumni. - Lumber will be
procured at once and the work will
be started. The only other expense
will be* the lights and minor equip
ment.
The prospects for a good team
his year are especially bright as
several members of last years team
are back and several stars from high
chool terns as well as experienced
layers. Some of the former Mer
cer stars have returned and. are
iure to be in the lineup. Coach
Cody expects to start the-class teams
at once in order to arouse the in
terest of the entire‘sudent body.
ORCHESTRA AND
BAND
mestic arts department of Bessie
Tift, will soon display their fall I
work. .. I
An attractive poster announces ( budK**t. will tiake care of all college
that the millinery class °'. the do-| activ it ies ff)rstered by the stu dehts. !
The items that are taken care of by
the budget are; Ahletics $17000;i
Y. M. C. A.,-B. Y. P. U. $150; Caul-]
—* *-■' ' ■—t’ -- ' /iron 500; Literary societies $200;
waters in the war zone.'' Cluster $1000; College debates
At the beginning of the 'present $450; Bonbvolence $.300; College
term he entered the junior law-spirit $400; Glee Club $300, making
class. Since coming to Mi-r.vr he-a grand total of $5000. This; is to
has joined the Ciceroneao lit, ra.ry lie raised by a $5.00 fee at the begin-
society and la^t Monday night .was-nitig ef ear-h term, pXaid by the stu—
ejected as one of the fall term de- dents and $1500 coming from the
haters. ./faculty and the university. This
DR. FOSTER’S NIECE
SAVES THREE WOMEN
Miss Sadie Foster, daughter of
Judge H. B Foster of Tuscaloosa,
Ala-, and niece of President Fos
ter, left on Sunday to go to Tus
caloosa and thence to Mobile, Ala.
where -she is to christen the new
boat, “The City of Tuscaloosa.”
^ Many readers will recall the
sinking of the Alston zoat in the^
Black Warrior river some' months
ago. A number of lives were lost.
Miss Foster was on the boat and
she saved the lives of three young
women. She was so weak when
slip brought in the last one that
she could not. hold • the head of
the young woman above water.
After a day at the hospital this
one died.
One of the much needed additions
o the college activities that is being
pushed forward with much vigor at
present is an orchestra. At a meet :
ing held a few days ago by the pros
pective members of the orchestra,
Paul Perry was elected director.
Those attending the meeting were
T. E. Smith, H. V. Smith, "M. S.
Leach, Paul Perry, L. W. Hardy,
John Lawrence, E. B. Brown, Josiah
Crudup, Harvey Wells, O. Webb,
jw. W. Jones, L. M. Collins and prob
ably others, whose names were not
tained.
All of these seem enthusiastic
over the .prospect of having a good
orchestra. Other members are ex
pected and since the budget system
has been accepted it is believed that
a good band will be on the campus in
short while.
Task,
PHI DELTAS ELECT
OFFICERS FOR YEAR
Devoting the entire time to busi
ness last Monday evening the Phi
Deltas postponed their program un
til the next regular_meeting.
The election of officers was held
with the following results:
J. W. Jones, president.
L. F. Smith, vice-president.
H. J. Johnson, critic.
J. F. Barton, treasurer.
G. W. Hulme, chaplin.
Gower Latimer, censor.
A resolution was passed asking-the
debating council to accept all the
challenges which have been received
fot~ inter-collegiate debates, tith
^ understood to mean the ones with
Davidson and Wake Forest. It was
stated thj£4£e secretary had the au
thority 'to accept the challenges as
soon^as the resolution was passed by
both societies.
outwardly
but
circles. Thu
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COLLEGE FACULTY PICNICS
AT OLD THURMOND’S MILL
A Nature Lesson.
“Do nuts grow on trees, father?”
. “They do, my son.”
“Then what tree does the dought-
nut grow on.” #
“The pantry, my son.” 1
A merry crowd of the Bessie Tift
faculty enjoyed a picnic last Sat
urday evening. Mr. and Mrs. En
sign and Mr. and Mrs. Wellborn car
rying in their cars to Thurmonds
Mill Misses Marguerite Robertson,
Agnes Haddock, Irene Hardy, Elisa
beth Storr, Allene Baker and Dora
Brinson.
Baptists of Cork and,
Ireland, are at the atanchost sad
most heroic type. No Baptists in tho
world h»*c a mope diftcult field nd
yak they are gakrtag slowly with the
yeaia. They never fHaeh; they aao-
er compromise; they most gait.
A friend drove us out to
Castle. It is
that is, the ruins are I threw a Has
to the Blarney Stone bttt do sat tan
that it stuck. TSe place 4 moat la
te resting in many waya. The Cork
Baptist church is S70 years old. B*
I must hasten to Dublin, a dty af
several hundred thouksaa aouss, ffea
seat of Irish governamrt, the seat af
learning, also of commercial life and
much that is distinctly Irish,
the Baptists fnaetion. Their
is here. There is real strength aawag
the saints of Dublin. . It was a sa
cred joy to meet the grand ch&dran
of the great Baptist, Alexaadar Car-
son. They are leaden among the
Irish Baptists now. -i own man to
Dr. Carson then anyone else for
the views I now hold.
What our brethren of the Emer
ald Isle need and want moat ip »
strong evangelical evangelist
paign to go through all thoir
es and along with this eolpoetaga
mission work. No Baptists in the
world have harder fighting and none
more reserve help from their breth
ren than these of Ireland. What wa •
put iln on a single association some
times would be tremendous in Ire
land.
Wales a Baptist Streaghsld.
From Dublin wo made an all-
night run. with many changes, to
Abertillory, Wales, where we spoke
to an enthusiastic audience at night.
These Welsh Baptists are our sort
They are a delight and they inherit
the earth or a good part of it ia
Wales. They allow no ice to form
in their churches. And sing? Tfca
only people in their class are the
Southern negroes. They are strict
and staunch. One of their nastora
said .the stricter Baptists ale tift
stronger they are.
Our next visit was to
where the elect afrsnnd. One has
aid that yt* might andoae LlanneL
ly and cover it ovat for a Baptism-
church. That is a little strong hut
Baptists swarm them and how gen
ial *nd responsive they are. The
Sit
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