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j>v , 0 f interest to the schools of
ji-e county. All articles submitted
l v pupils must be approved by teach
; a „d should be fairly correct, as
fspelling, punctuation, K*tjc. We
~/jl n ot be able to handle long ar
ticles as it is our wish for all the
of the counties to be repre-
Jntetl as often as possible. As has
i.een our custom in the past we will
’ , u i a copy of the paper to the prin
. pal of school contributing to this
column, to be used in the school.
EDUCATIONAL progress
SINCE 1899
J] i South’s public schools were
n , t o nlv shamefully poor and shame
fully short, but there was no very
cvnhatic general realization that we
even needed better or longer schools,
•The common laborer needs no edu
cation; educate him and you spoil
Inn.” was a common saying. I re
member one of my own schoolmates
sr: ying to me one day, “Well, lam
uet going to school any more; I
have decided to be a farmer and it’s
no use going any more.” The feeling
that a farmer didn’t need education
was rather general. To any plea for
local taxation for schools came the
answer, “We are too poor to pay any
more taxes for education,” from men
who failed to realize that ignorance
jc the surest breeder of poverty.
As for compulsory education, the
idea was regarded as a dangerous
i; vasion of the prerogatives of par
ents. Politicians and demagogues
declaimed against the state’s inter
fering with the ‘sacred rights of fa
thers and mothers to control their
own children.” The “sacred right”
of the child to have a decent chance
to develop its own God-given facul
ties—that seemed to be of no impor 7
tance.
Today it is almost safe to say that
the poorest country schools are bet
tor than were the best in 1899. To
d?.y for a grown young man to “make
his mark” is becoming a rare occur
rence instead of the common thing
ii was in 1899. Today the one
teacher school is everywhere regard
ed as a passing evil rather than the
natural and logical thing it was then
supposed to be. Today every state
makes the sacred right of the child
to an education paramount to a par
<■’t’s right to exploit the labor of his
children. And today in practically
eery progressive county, a whole
t ie county superintendent of schools
; s regarded as much a necessity as
“ s her;tf or clerk of the court. —Clar-
o ee Pee, in The Progressive Farmer.;
WHAT is your chance
FOR SUCCESS?
hear Boys and Girls: —
i wonder how many of you have
ever thought seriously of what you
v.’ll have accomplished and what will
I '■ your condition when you reach
tKe of 65?
hor most of you, this age seems
t°° far off to be of much concern,
if perhaps all of you hope to reach
1 And when you do, you will want
GEORGIA REUSES IN BEAUTY BALLET
TO FEATURE AT THIS YEAR’S FAIR
Atlanta, Ga.—Every city, town ami
i m Georgia is invited by the
Southeastern Fair Association to so
-1 ''t a representative to attend the fair
atd become a candidate tor the title
Li Miss Georgia.’’
" ith the title and honor, other re
8° to the winner, and it is ex
i- ‘■ t- ft that every town in the State
*' tai e steps to send its prettiest
*^ ri to take part in the contest. No
J ry f es are required, and nomina
*on3 may be made by individuals,
' ut)S| civic and fraternal bodies,
Vour Home Papers.
School Notes*
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to have lived a happy and useful life.
That will be the real test of your
success.
Let s a, k ourselves, therefore,
what is the pligl t of the average
man in this country at 65? Statistics
based op experience show, if we take
100 average men strating out at the
of 25, then in forty years, or at the
age of 65, the 100 will be divided
into these groups:—
1 will be rich,
4 wiil have incomes,
5 will have earning, power,
36 Will be dead, and—
-54 will be dependent on someone
else.
To which of these five classes do
you want to belong at the age of 65?
This is a question over which you can
have more influence than any other
human being.
1 am sure you do not want to be
included in that 54 per cent who will
be dependent upon someone else for
their support. Consequently, I am
going to make a suggestion which 1
believe will practically insure you a
gainst belonging to this class. This
suggestion is that you begin right
now to make plans to get a college
education. Statistics show that the
boy or girl with a college education
has a much greater opportunity of
making a success of life and render
ing distinguished service to his fel
low men than the boy or girl who
does not have such an education.
—Jno. R. Hutcheson, in The Pro
gressive Farmer.
BEING EDUCATED—or
“EXPOSED TO AN EDUCATION”
The most important need of most
rural schools is further consolidation.
Certainly we can never hope to get
effective teaching in schools where
one teacher handles (or tries to han
dle) everybody from the first to the
seventh grades. Such a teacher is
just as badly overcropped as one
man would be if he tried to cultivate
eighty acres of cotton without any
other person, young or old to help
him. He might give a few acres “a
lick and a promise” hut he could not
keep down the grass nor save the
crop from general failure. Neither
can a teacher save a crop of boys
and girls from failure when earh
class only gets “a lick and a promise”
In the old days when a man’s
speed was limited to that of a horse’s
legs, school consolidation could not
wisely go far. The coming of the
“school tract,” however, has changed
ail that. And now when one teacher
can give all her time and thought to
helping children in one grade (in
stead of dividing h.er time and at
tention among seven grades), chil
dren are really making progress and
getting somewhere. They are really
getting educated instead of being
merely “exposed to an education”—
which is about the best that could be
claime-d for the old-fashioned one
teacher school. The children were
“exposed to an education”—but in
most cases it “didn’t take!”—The
Progressive Farmer.
lodges, newspapers, manufacturers
and merchants.
Every pretty girl, age fifteen to thir
ty married or single, should be con
sul red an eligible, and someone in
the old home town should see that
she is put in the race.
The selection of “Mies Geocgia will
be made the last night of the fair. Oc
tober 11. and. whether she come to
the fair as Miss Macon. Miss Augusta,
Miss Albany, Miss Athens or Miss
Some Other Town, great will be the
honor to the young lady and the home
town sending her.
.THE ©ANIELSVILLE MONITOR. uAN*c.LSV ILLft, GA.
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459 L. Cleyton St.
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The Winner
r V IL*
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f§|j:
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Ruth Malcolmson, of Philadel
phia, 18, voilet eyes, long golden
curls and using no cosmetics, was
the winner of the annual National
Beauty contest at Atlantic City.
ATLANTA, OCTOBER 4 TO t a
!9 2 4
GREATEST AMUSEMENT PROGRAM AND UN
RIVALLED EDUCATIONAL FEATURES
fflOl —
THE ATLANTA PABBENO REVUE
Featuring the Famous All Georgia Beauty Cailet
every night In front of the Grandstand
CHAMPIONSHIP AUTO RACES OCT. 4 AND I I
Two days of Auto Racing In which the contestants
will include some of the most fearless Drivers of Inter
national fame
HARNESS RACES OCT. 6 P 7,8, 9 and 10
Five days of great racing participated In by many
of the finest Pacers and Trotters ever appearing on
Southern tracks
FIREWORKS, MIDWAY AND CARNIVAL BHOW3
Every night a grand Fireworks Display, the cele
brated Rubin Sc Cherry Shows perform each day of the
fair, and the Lakewood Midway open dally
THE NATIONAL HOG AND CATTLE SHOW
Officially a part of the fair, bringing together the
largest and finest assemblage of Pure Bred Live Stock
to be seen in the South 9
AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DIBPLAY
Surpassing In magnitude and Interest all former
attempts. Boys' and Girls' Club Work will feature in
the various departments
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