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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. j ! ; i ! j j ; j ! 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. /jL 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. 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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, * v 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.