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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. • •*•****** * 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. * ***-** ■**- * 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! jpg.*-* - . s m 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.