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I education week
I E<luciit?ion Week brings home to
I i n , e ricans the astonishing fact that
I ; hi ' country ranks highest amongst
I lightened nations in percentage of
I literacy. The Better Schools League
I 'mIN timely attention to this amazing
I an d gives these figures in proof:
I percentage of illiterates (persons
I ten years of age or over unable to
I ffjte in any language, not necessa-
I T iiv English) in the United States,
I j; Germany, two-tenths of 1 per
I C ent; Denmark, two-tenths; Switzer
land,' five-tenths; England,.'! and
| eight-tenths; France, neasest to the
I United States in this discreditable
I showing, stands only 4 and nine-
I tenths per cent. Illiteracy is not
I confined to any one section of our
I country but it is heavier in rural
I communities than in the larger cities.
I Nor is it to be attributed to the for-
I tign- born for there are twice as
many native born illiterates as those
of alien birth.
There are two major reasons for
this condition. First, failure of too
many communities to realize the im
portance of education and to subor
dinate their support for lesser civic
enterprises. Next, the lack of ac
cessibility to schools in sparsely set
tled communities. The Better
Schools League is working in co-op
eration with rather than in competi
tion with the other existing national
organizations*; in its efforts to make
attainable improvement in individual
situations. Thus aid in organizing
the best means for financing, equip
ping and conducting schools is given;
a clearing house for the school ac
tivities of the nation is provided;
and an agency familiar with the ,
problems bith of city and country
schools is at hand.
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One of the obstacles depriving the
young of a fair educational start in
life is inadequacy of school funds. It
seems strange, says the Better School
League, that at a time when we are
beginning to estimate the real worth
of things any community should be
so indifferent in the support of its
schools. Only a failure to realise
what education means can explain
such indifference. It seems so obvi
ous that our schools are the instru
ments with which we build American
ism and bleed better Americans;
that they are our first line of de
fense against ignorance and anarchy;
‘that they bring to our youth the e
quipment and training for greater
ability and usefulness.
Our educational system, nationally,
fine. Communities, however which i
ho not measure up to our national
standard and intellectually starve :
heir young are contributing to edu- ;
national delinquency. Our public
schools are a common interest; they
benefit all, Therefore, to make them
easily accessible is a duty for which
:\’ery man and woman is responsible.
The means to develop better minds j
■ n( ! healthier bodies should be no - 1
i!- er denied nor fatmled. Cominuni-
in education should either
,)e ar oused or kept keenly alive.
Schools must not be put on starvation
lations. No tax -money can be more
usefully spent than for education,
■'ueh communities as find the local
burden too great have a remedy i
t-ifislative measures to equalize
f !iool revenues. Leaders in every
should realize that make
■'ift schools are a crime; insanitVry
'bools, a menace; poor equipment,
waste.
Toe country school is probably the
] f i) f° r improvement. The
b>‘nsus shows one state with
'■ ’ oo ° 60,000 of whom
rfe ! n the rural districts. Is it any
,r oer that country boys and girls
rf lured to the cities where their
J* ' n£? or better education can be
- atified? Country school districts
bhe stream -lowing to
by supplyisg modern educa
- ! and counsel of those experi
■ -1° school administration those
6fe to be had.
School Note
The problem of school improve
ment is purely a local out. If there
is insufficient provision it is the fault
of the community. We are living in
a period of higher costs, but incomes
*r e larger too. The community should
, adjust itself to the new order of
things. Education is the cheapest
thing it can buy. Education Week
is a good tinse to take stock of local
conditions and outline policies of
improvement.
—Better Schools League
Better Schools League
education speaks
IAM EDUCATION. I bear the
torch that enlightens the world,
fires the imagination of man, feeds
the flames of genius. I give wings to
di earns and might to hand and brain,
brom out the deep shadows of the
past I come, wearing the scars of
struggle and the stripes of toil, but
bearing in triumph the wisdom of il
ages. Man,because of me, holds do
minion over earth, air and sea; it is
for him I leash the lightning, plumb
the deep and shackle the ether.
I am the parent of progress .■*
tor of culture, molder of destiny.
Philosophy, science and art are tlw
works of my hand. I banish igno
rance, discourage vice, disarm an
archy.
Thus have I become freedom’s cit
adel, the arm of democracy, the hope
of youth, the pride of adolescence,
the joy of agle. Fortunate tbe na
tions and happy the homes that wel
come me.
The school is my workshop; here
I stir ambitions, stimulate ideals,
forge the keys that open the door to
opportunity. I am the source in
spiration; the aid of aspiration,
t AM IRRESISTABLE POWER.
—Better Schools League
NOTICE OF ELECTION FOR
CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS
Georgia, Madison County.
A petition from more than one
fourth of the qualified voters of Du
luth School District having been
filed with me, asking for an election
to be held in said Duluth School Dis
trict upon the question of CONSOL
IDATION of Duluth School District
with Danielsville School District.
By virtue of the authority vested in
me as Superintendent of Schools of
said county, —It is hereby ordered
that on the 12th day of December,
1924, an election to be held in the
school house of Duluth School Dis
trict on the question of consolidation
of said Duluth School District with
Danielsyille School District, said e
lection to be held under the same
rules and regulations as general e
lections .
Those favoring CONSOLIDATION
of said Duluth School District with
Danielsville School District, shall
have written or printed on the'r brl
iocs, “For Coviaoiiuat.on oi Duluth
School with Danielsville School."
Those opposed shall have written or
printed on their bailots, “Against
Consolidation of Duluth School with
Danielsville School.” All persons
qualified to vote in general elections
and who have resided in said Duluth
School District six (6) months prior
to this election, shall be qualified to
vote in this election.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature, this the 10th day of Novem
ber, 1924. N -
R. C. DAVID, Supt.,
Madison County Schools.
FOR SALE
Pedigreed Seed. Appier and ru
ghum Oat*.
RALPH COLLIER,
N 10-24, 2t. Rt. 1, Comer, Ca.
10-16, 4t.
FOR SALE —Three shares of
of stock in Comer Bank.
Also 1 Large Iron Safe.
A T. Sims, Agt.
the UANIELSVIU t monitor. DANIELSVILLE, GA.
This Week
By Arthur Brisbane
CONSIDER JOE, CHIMPANZEE.
EDUCATE THE EDUCATOR.
THE SINS OF THE CHILDREN.
MEAT EATERS RULE.
Joe. aged chimpanzee, alleged
member of u triiie whence sprang
the Caucasian race, has known a
moment of exaltation. His keeper,
as usual, entered the cage to clean
it. Joe, just for a change, swung
hLs knotty black hand around and
knocked the keeper senseless with
ease, went out the open door aud
walked in the park, lie stopped
to exchange courtesies with his
friend, John Rurrett, eighty thro©-
year-old park employe. Soon ho
was on iiis way hack to the cage.
Learn that when you admire a
prizefighter, you admire only a poor
Imitation of a chimpanzee, and a
worse imitation of a gorilla, that
could beat any twenty prizefighters
in forty seconds.
Learn also from Joe, the chim
panzee, that freedom depends not
on how hard you can IIIT, but how
well you can THINK. Joe, the
chimpanzee rose, knocked down his
k' per, and walked out of the cage,
lut he didn’t know what to DO
next. “There’s the rub.”
An “educator’’ of Minnesota is
accused of punishing boys in a high
school by causing them to sit in an
“electric chair,” causing severe
burns.
In New York State, lyiother “ed
ucator” of tbe same gorilla type
confessed that lie had beaten a lit
tle negro girl with a rubber hose.
It might cure the man with the
rubber hose to let him spend half
ail hour in a closed room with
Wills, the negro fighter, the latter
also equipped with a piece of rub
ber hose.
The Minnesota educator could be
enlightened by a brief stay in a
real electric chair, but that would
be too drastic, even for that kind
of stupid brutality.
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The Government, which found so
many billions for the v.v.rs of oijtcv
people in Europe, ought to And a
few dollars for building the canals
that this country needs. One canal
would unite the Lakes and the Mis
sissippi Valley with the-Gulf and
the Pacific via Panama. Another
canal for ships unite the Lake
country with the Atlantic. “Every
tig American city a seaport” should
be our motto.
Within twenty-four hours, a girl
of fourteen, scolded by her father
shot herself to death. An eighteen
year-old boy, beaten by his father,
killed himself by turning on the
gaH.
Strange that man, said to de
scend from the “higher apes” or
some animal like them, should treat
his own children with a brutality of
which no gorilla, orange outang or
chimpanzee was ever guilty.
A man that would not allow any
body to, beat his young horse or
dog for fear of “breaking its spirit”
will break the sensitive spirit of his
own child. %
Modern crime turns an ancient
tefct upside down. In Exodus, 20th
chapter r h verse, you are told
<•!•t rV dquity of the fathers Is
visited up on the children ‘‘unto the
third and fourth generation.”
Now the crime of the child is
visited upon the father. Albert
Loeb, whose son killed the Franks
boy, is dead, killed by sorrow and
disgrace. That should satisfy the
bloodthirsty that demanded “some
body hanged.”
That unfortunate father died a
thousand deaths to atone for Ills
son’s hideous crime.
Have you noticed bow little men
seem to think about their souls
while they are alive, and bow much
they think about what will happen
to their bodies after they are dead?
A corpse left behind Is no more Im
portant than a pair of vvomout
shoes thrown aside. Yet men of
power, from the Pharaoh that built
the first pyramid to millionaire
Cone with bis concrete grave, have
worried about their bodies.
The question interest lug to one
thinking of death should be.
‘ Where do I go from here?” not
"Vvlio is going to steal my body?”
George Bernard Shaw, self-ap
pointed Vice-Regent of Omnlpo*
tence, thinks little of meat eaters.
He’s wrong. He says: “Armies fed
on barley have conquered half the
wi rid ” Perhaps so, but men that
/;,ut RTTLE THE ENTIRE
WORLD. Don’t forget that.
DEAR SIR:—
We want to announce
have bought out Mr. R. H. Graham,
the same place. We expect to lmn
Feed Stuffs, staple Dry'
prices will be in keeping with the
We will be glad to buy your
Hides, etc. We will pay the market
good merchandise as cheap as you
Ciome in to see us. We want
We can handle 200 pounds of
Red and Black Pressing Club
Ci>r. Broad and Lumpkin Streets
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Dry Cleaning, Steem Pressing
Hats Cleaned and Blocked
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GUARANTEE V*s a gallon oat of any you buy, and if not per
fectly Manufactory the remainder can be returned without'payment
being made for the one gallon meed. , ,
rORUALEBT
GHOLSTON BROS.
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IN the letter of the law cash money belongs
TO THE MAN WHO HAS IT IN HIS POSSESSION. EVEN IF HE
STOLE A 31 CO BILL FROM YOU THE COURT WOULD MAKE
YOU PROVE THAT THE PARTICULAR SIOO BILL WAS YOURS
AND THAT IT WAS STOLEN.
NOT SO WITH A CHECK ON YOUR BANK. THE NAME
OF TJrMG RIGHTFUL OWNER OF A CHECK IS PARTICULAR
LY DESIGNATED. FOUND OR STOLEN, IT IS NOT THE PROP
ERTY OF THE FINDER OR THE THEIF—IT IS THE PROPERTY
OF THE PAYEE, AND A WRONGFUL POSSESSOR MUST SHOW
A GOOD AND SUFFICIENT REA SON WHY HE HAS IT.
ALWAYS TRANSACT YOUR BUSINESS W ITH BANK
CHECKS OR DRAFTS. %
THE COMER BANK
Deposit** Insured
COMER, GEORGIA.
DA NIELS VILLE, GA., Nov. 15, ’25,
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to our friends and customers that we
and will continue the business at
idle a good line of Fancy and Family
Goods, Notions, Hdwe, etc., and eur
times. >
Rutter. Eggs, Chickens, Corn, Peas,
price for all produce and sell you
can buy the same goods anywhere,
your business.
Butter every week.
Respectfully,
. . J. T. BAKER & SON.