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JTHE DAN IELSVILLE MONITOR
C. B. Ayer*, Publisher
Fntcrcd as second class matter at the
Post-office at Danielsville
Official Organ of Madiion County
Subscription Rates:
One Year, $1.50
Six Months, 75 Cents.
Entered at the Danielsville Postoffice
as Second Class Mail Matter under
the Act of Congress Mch. 8, 18711.
MERCER ALUMNI WAR
MEMORIAL
Three cities in the Eighth Con
gressional District, Washington, El
berton ami Hartwell, will be reached
by Mercer University Alumni speak
ers in the state-wide tour to begin
Oct. 14, it is announced. Dr. Rufus
W. Weaver, president of Mercer
University and George H. Carswell,
president of the state senate, will be
the speakers for this districe, coming
to Washington at noon, Tuesday,
Oct. 14, to Elberton that night, and
to Hartwell Wednesday noon, Oct.
3 5.
Wm. A. Wray of Elberton and W.
R. Morris of Hartwell are congres
sional district directors in the Mercer
Alumni War Memorial program and
will arrange the details of the speak
ing tour.
The speaking tour is for the pur 7
pose of conference concerning the
big movement of Mercer men to erect
a building on the Mercer campus in
honor of the Alumni who fell in the
world war. Mercer Alumni in coun
ties surrounding the speaking points
are expected to attend in large num
bers to plan for the forward move
ment of their organization.
It is the purpose of the Mercer
Alumni Association to organize Mer
cer men in each county for the na 7
tional program. George H. Carswell,
president of tht state senate, is na
tional director, and Governor Clif
ford Walker and other prominent
men have voiced an interest in the
work. •
The building to be erected at Mer
cer by the Alumni of the institution
will be a combined auditorium, class
room and gymnasium structure, and
will till the need for building expan
sion at Mercer, and at the same time
honor the Mercer Alumni who gave
their lives in the recent war.
The sneaking tour for the program
is state-wide and other speakers of
prominence will addre .s Mercer A
lumni gatherings in various parts of
Georgia on the same date on which
meetings are held in this district.
METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOLS
OBSERVE CHILDREN’S WEEK.
Methodist Sunday Schools through
out the state are planning for the
annual observance of Children’s
week, Oct. 19-26. A continent-wide
campaign for the observance of
Children’s week was launched four
years ago by social and religious
agencies for the purpose of bringing
to the attention of the adult the pos
sibilities and paramount needs of
childhood.
The program has three interesting
features: home visitation, parents’
meeting, and a forward stop.
The campaign in the North Geor
gia Conference is being promoted
by Miss Corinne Little of Atlanta,
superinteddent of Sunday
School work, assisted by the follow
ing district superintendents: Mrs.
.1. L Massey, Hartwell; Mrs. ,J. .7.
Prater. Athens; Miss Johnnie Gais
fsert. Sparta; Mrs. J. D. Hemming,
Atlanta; Mrs. H. C. Houston, Atlan
ta; Mrs. J. W. L Brown, Carters
ville; Mrs. Sam Dawson. Woodstock;
Mrs. Myrick Clements, Bullochville;
M hiss lone Ellis. Montieello.
According to M : ss Little, unusual
interest is being nianifestet in Chil
dren’-; Week observance this year,
more than a hundred schools in the
North Georgia Conference alone
having already indicated their in
tention of observing the Week. In
formation concerning the Week can
bo had by addressing the Methodist
Sunday School tL. !, 407 Wesley
Memorial Building, Hlaiita.
Jhis Week
By Arthur Brisbane
FOR PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.
AND THOSE THAT PAY.
2,000 FIGHTING PLANES.
FOR ONE DREADNAUGHT.
President Coolidge recalled
Secretary Wilbur, of the Navy, to
Washington to discuss with him
“the relative value of battleships
and flying machines in war.”
This means, of course, that the
President will LISTEN to others,
and TAKE COUNSEL with him
self. Jt means that, with all his
work, he has found time for the
serious problems of air defense,
and does not intend to keep this
country among the backward na
tions, as regards real preparation.
Facts alone will influence the
President, and they are not lack
ing. For instance:
One battleship of dreadnaugbt
class cost forty-five million dol
lars. For that sum the nation
could build and mobolize TWO
THOUSAND FIGHTING AIR
PLANES. Does the President or
any other sane man ask what
chance a battleship would have
against. 2,000 fighting air machines
dropping TNT from the clouds?
The French have come through
a real war, with invasion to the
very gates of Paris, millions killed,
other millions wounded. THEY
know something about fighting.
What has France done to prepare
against danger across her border?
France has a first lirv? of air
defense, consisting of two thou
sand fighting air machines, with
a reserve of two thousand more.
And that fighting French air
fleet is what makes England, with
all her lumbering battleships,
cruisers. etc.,*“the world’s great
est battle fleet.” so pitifully polite
to France. She. will continue to
he polite until she can dominate
in the air, as she used to dominate
tne sea.
The two thousand first line
u.'.'Wg pianos mat spell secur
ity fc? France, cost, in Europe,
less than half the cost of one first
class dieadnaught here. No won
der France insists that Germany
shall build no fighting planes.
We continue spending millions
on big guns and ammunition for
practice. They also will soon be
classed among museum curiosi
ties, used to make a loud noise in
the Presidential .salute, or tickle
the vanity of come admiral return
ing to his ship.
A sixteen-inch gun costs as
much as two fighting airships. It
lasts only long enough to fire one
hundred and twenty shots. Then
it is burnt-out scrap iron. The
life of a fighting plane, costing
half as much as a single big gun,
is equal to that of an ordinary
forty-five million dreadnought.
Mr. W. J. Davis, of San Diego,
earnest advocate of air defense,
says truly, ‘‘The nation foremost
ir. the air will win the next war
at the drop of the bomb, and be
fore the world wakes up the next
morning amid the fumes of phos
phorus or of bombs of some of her
kind, if it does wake up at all, the
war will have been won.”
Battleships, besides being obso
lete, are frightfully expensive,
soon out of date, worthless in
peace. Flying machines, enough
of them to make this nation safe
against attack by sea or land,
could be built without burdensome
taxation, kept up with slight ex
pense, and they would pay their
way in peace, tyvice over, in the
mail service, and in spying out
forest fires.
Before this country faces a
new war—it won’t come, while
they are all borrowing front us—
the range of fliers and submarines
will be as great as that of any
floating vessel. The submarines
will go as fast as any cruiser and
the fliers, of course, twenty times
as fast as any fighting ship afloat.
These suggestions are submitted
to the President, who will decide
what shall be done, and to the
people of this country. They will
pay the bilb in money, which is
not important, and in blood, which
is important, if a fatal mistake be
made in our plans of defense.
\Yhpt you read here is printed
in several hundred daily news
papers, including the Herald of
Washington, D. (’., where those in
office may see it, and in several
thousand weekly newspapers, read
in millions of country homes.
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR. DANIELSVILLE. GA.
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* MT ZION LOCALS *
By “ Clipper”
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bates of Athens
were guests of the former’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bates.
Mr and Mrs. Oscar Burgess were
spend the day guests of Mr. and Mrs
Gilbert Patten Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Esty Bond of Dan
ielsville spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Joe BonsJ.
Mrs. Jesse Patten visited Mrs.
Leek Mann of DanielsviiTe Tuesday
last.
Mr,, and Mrs. Neals Barnett of
Gholston Stand and Mr. Guy Mc-
Connell were guests of Mr. and Mrs
Hope Carithers Sundajj.
Mr. and Mrs Joe Patten and M'ss
Jane Burroughs spent. Sunday with
relatives near Colbert.
News is scarce this week as every
body is busy taking advantage of
the beautiful weather to gather the
crops in.
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* JUST FROM ILA *
Mr . Lovic Westbrook is home from
Emory University on the sick list
hut is improving.
The cotton gin is running early
and late the last few days.
Dr. Banister motored to Athens
Saturday afternoon to attend the
foot ball game.
\
Mr. J. D. Hopkins was in town
on Fridav.
Mrs;. S. W. Crawford visited her
aunts, Miss Prudence Burroughs, ans
Mrs. David Chatham on Sunday af
ternoon .
Mr. !*. J O’Kelley of Oakland
was in town Monday on a business
trip.
Mr. Carl Moore is at home ill
with a bad cold.
Mrs. Bonnie Gulley Simpson of
* TUST FROM ILA . . . . *
Toccoa, Ga. is visiting home folks.
Crawford Ayers is the agent for
the Sunday Constitution. See him for
a copy or a regular subscription.
M*. A. S. Westbrook bought
himself a farm at the land sale in
Danielsville on Tuesday.
Uncle 10-hnl
I motored out to Easyville a
day or two ago. ... I’d
hoard some tales about ’em that
I didn’t think was so. I used to
live at Easyville—she half-way
mothered me, —so, when they
told me she was dead, sez I, “I’ll
go an’ see.”
She didn’t have no fever, and
her pulse was runnin’ low
. . . Her symptoms was about
the same as thirty years ago.
She weren’t enjoyin’ more of pep
than what the law required,—
an’ she wouldn’t seem much
deader if she really had expired!
No flowers was bloomin’ on
the lawns —and, nary house was
painted. If she had heard of
“civic pride” they hadn’t got ac
quainted! The alleys needed
cleanin’ up—the weeds was
growin’ high—e ac h family
owned a spotted pup that
howled as wo went by.
The winupen looked slab
sideu, an’ the men was whisk
ered rank. ... A veteran
with a wooden face was settin’
in the bank. ... I may be
wrong about it. but I’ve got this
much to say: I could ‘t s.and re
hearsin’ for a funeral everyday!
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EDWARD A RENOS
FINMAKEUS
The Show with A Million Friends
Coming; To
Danielsville Ga.
ONE WEEK STARTING, MONDAY OCT.IJth,
Good clean up to date Vaudeville
and Movies. Singing—Danceing
—Comedy—Plays—Magic—lllus
ions—Circus Acts and Good Mov
ies. Everyone be out on ouro
pening night and start a week of
fun. On our opening night one
lady will be admitted free with
each paid admission, Come out
and get acquainted. Show starts
at 8:15 doors open at 7:30. Admis
sion. Children 10c Adults 25c.
A Solitaire
ALWAYS APDS TO THE BEAUTY OF A WOMAN’S HAND. WE
CARRY THEM IN A GREAT MANY SETTINGS, ALONG WITH
A GREAT VARIETY OF OTH ER STONES AND JEWELRY. WE
SHALL BE GLAD TO SHOW YOU OUR ASSORTMENT.
M- F- FICKETT JEWELRY CO
, i e wt;/e rs—O pro m e* 1 ris t s
268 CLAYTON ST.* ATHENS* GA*
Mules &e Horses
if You Want To Buy
Or Swap
SSES
Westbrook & Scarborough
Ila, Georgia.
Football!
University of Florida
Georgia Tech,
Atlanta Ga,, Oct. llth, 1924.
Fare and one-half for round trp.
Ask SEABOARD Ticket Agent for
further information, or write
Fred Geissler,
Asst. Pass’r Traffic Mgr. SAk
Atlanta, Ga.