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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga
Entered as second-class matter at pest off re a’ Atlanta, under of March 3. 18« 3
i Only One Term For Presi
. dent? No.
W *>> M
Far better TWO terms, better disturbance and mud-slinging, and
all the difficulties, than a system which would put the Pres
ident BEYOND THE PEOPLE S REACH
i
A hill is introduced in congress to increase the term of the
president from four to six years AND IO MAKE 11 ILLEGAL
TO ELECT HIM TO A SECOND TERM.
At first glance, before you think about it. this seems a good
idea.
You say to yourself that the president will be in for six years.
And we shall have all this disturbing turmoil and bother only once
in snx years instead of once in four years.
And the president, being in for six years, will have time to
carry out his noble plans. And as it will be against the law to
elect him after one term, he will not be influenced by public
clamor, he will not be scheming to get re-elected.
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Ttaonnds very nice, but it is in reality very foolish.
As long as the president is permitted to think of a second
term HE TR THINKING AND WORRYING ABOUT YOU. THE
PEOPLE. WHO ALONE CAN GIVE HIM THAT SECOND
TERM
The big people pick out. the public officials, as a rule;‘they
nominate them and they elect, them the first, time- the big people
OF MONEY, we mean, of course.
But. while organized money can give ONE term, perhaps, as
mayor, or governor, or president, IT ('AN I' GT\ h, IHE SEC
OND TERM ENTERS WITH YOUR CONSENT.
Therefore, the president who is elected once and who imme
diately thinks of being elected a second time, IS OBLIGED I’o
WONDER WHAT YOU, THE VOTERS. WILL THINK OU HIS
CONDUCT.
Yon can see perfectly clearly that if he‘had only one term
and couldn’t get another, HE WOULDN’T HAVE I’o I’ll INK
ABOUT YOU AT ALL.
If the president could have only one term, and if you could
give nothing to him after he finished that term in the way of re
ward for good service, WHY SHOULD HE THINK AFOUT YOU
AT ALL?
H? would probably go in owing his election to the politicians
and to the money influences generally. He would naturally think
es them, for he would have no especial reason to think of YOU
Now. with a second term in sight. HE MUST THINK OF
YOU WHO VOTE. He remembers that he made you promises be
fore election, and he is more or less obliged to carry them out
thinking, as he does, of that second term.
And he knows that you are watching him. and he knows that
you are making up your mind during the first four years as to
what you will do when the second voting time comes. There
fore, he tries to establish a record that will gain your approval.
And having established a record, having committed himself
to certain policies with the idea of getting your vote as bis re
ward, during his FIRST term, the president can not very well
stultify himself by repudiating those policies and changing his po
sition during the second term, Besides, he gradually conies to be
lieve what he has been saying for four years.
It is hard enough to get good service out of your public ser
vants at best. And it is only too easy for the big people that run
the country—the handful that have millions—to get what THEY
▼ent.
Your only hope is in making the president look to you for
something—and about the only thing that the president looks to
you for is a SECOND term
Therefore, hang on to that second term. It is your only hope.
The Little Skirt
By MINNA FRYING.
IITTLE navy blue skirt. T must lav you away,
In th® drawer with the treasure? of studv and play.
Your button? are eon®. there are rips in your braid.
Tou are faded and wrinkled, and mended, and frayed.
But ’he 'angles of childhood embroider each fold
With wonderful pattern? ®>f azure and gold.
And fables of fairies and prince ws pert.
Iztttie navy blu® skirt.
Th* Maytime of playtime Is over for me.
I must do up my hair a young ladv tn be.
New joy? may be mine in the place of the toy-.
Th? game? with th® girls and the romps with the boys.
!x>ng dresses, and dances, and dinners, and beaus
Are now on the program of life, I suppose.
But I never will primp ike the mil' s. oi flirt.
Little navy blue skirt
Barefooted no mote ,n I j, the pool.
Or go skipping the tope ev, ry morning tn school
So. I’m dropping a tear on ym; p’. alines of blu*.
For I put off my freedom forex r- n yt, vou
Good-bye. pretty doll, in th®
! ant almost too big non io rock y<m i j,,.
A..d gccd-by« m i-,.,: these ar® taittr.g-s tii-ai
* Little nj-vy blue »kuu
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The Atlanta Georgian
HE NEVER. HAD A CHANCE
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By TAD.
In this sories wi l intond to picture the life of
the yotiufr man who continually cried that “He
never had a chance."
The first of the series is printed above. It is
no particular lad there are thousands of them.
I know some, you know some, the family up
stairs know some. We will call this particular
youth Yum. I’hat was the nickname the hoys in
the neighborhood gave him.
Yum was a big-hearted lad. a rough-and-
A Wonderful World Coming Into V iew
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77/c Fla net Jupiter Is as Hig as Thirteen Hundred Earths Rn/led Into One
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
I- F you will sit up a little late
one of these mid-May nights,
you will have an opportunity to
see the giant planet Jup[ter mak«
his entry upon the bar stage of th- 1
evening sky.
He comes slowly up in the east
between 10 and 11 o’clock, and
seeing to pause and stare with a
golden eye l over the rim of th®
horizon. As he rises higher you
might, perhaps, think that he was
a bright lamp carried by some
night- wandering aviator He Is
now In the constellation Scorpio,
.and near him is the fiery red star
Antarcs. But although that star is
a sun and Jupiter only a planet,
the latter seems many times the
brighter. The reason i- because An
tares Is about a million and a half
times farthei away from the earth
than J’witer So, although Antares
shines independently with its own
light, and >■ rcallt a greater sun
than our? . w hil® Jupiter shines only
In reflected sunlight, .and i a mere
speck in comparison, yet. owing to
the belittling effect of immense
distance, tiie sun Antares appear?
fainter titan th< planet Jupiter.
It is probable that all the mil
lions of sun constituting the uni
verse have ttwir planet:-, but the
unit planets we CAN SEE are
those belonging to our sun. and of
these Jupiter is the chief It would
take 1.300 earths to make one Ju
piter, Ihit a big jack marble,
about an inch in diametei, beside
an ordinary school globe, ten or
twelvt inches in diameter, and you
will see bow small the earth would
look if placed beside Jupitm.
Some Interesting Comparisons.
The surface of .lupitei 'is about
120 times as extensive as that of
the earth. If we suppose it covered
with continents and oceans of the
same shape and relative size as
those of the earth, we can make
some inters .--ting comparisons be
lw®en c . ’ar. ”<■ on Jupiter and di---
!!n « on th ®aith lor 'n t.in.rf.
lb- . op'm-nt between
New York and can FrancUco, i-
IT ESDAY. MAY 21. 1912.
about 3,000 mile: across on Jupi
ter it would be about 33,000 miles
across. The Pacific ocean, stretch
ed to the scale of Jupiter, would be4>
about 120,000 miles broad, and the
swiftest ship yet built, driven con
tinually at tpi> speed, would require
six weeks to cro-.. it.
If the city of New York occu
pied th® same relative space on
Jupiter that it does on the earth, it
would be ONE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY-FIVE MILES LONG,
from the Battery to the Yonkers
line, equal to the actual distance
between New York and Baltimore.
Every thing would, be stretched tn
similar proportions—the avenues
would be a thousand feet wide, and
office buildings several thou: and
feet high. The height of the Met
ropolitan tower would be nearly a
mile and a half.
One naturally thinks of the in
habitants -would they be con
structed on the same Rrobdingna
gian scale'.’ If they were, an ordi
nal' man on Jupiter would be
about SIXTY FEET TALL. Some
of the big Broadway policemen
might measure seventy feet tn
their stockings.
But a man seventy feet tall
would, mi the earth, weigh at least
280.0011 pounds, while on Jupiter,
where the force of gravity is more
than two ami a half times as' great
as on the earth (2.tDI, hir weight
would be 689,000 pounds!
This is evidently- more than flesh
and blood could bear. and. accord
ingly. it has generally been as
sumed that the inhabitants es im
mense worlds like Jupiter iif there
be any i must be smaller instead of
larger than those of the earth, for
otherwise they could-not even stand
erect, if we suppose the proportion
of size to be inverse to that of the
force of attraction, or the gravity,
t'-.vii an \ < tage inhabitant of Jupi
ter ought to be but little more than
two feet tall.
Th' • ’on 'derations, however,
do not affect the area of the- geo
graphical fea’ure s of the planet,
bu' on 'he epn'rai; they make it
p-itiible to calculate for Jupiter an
ready kid. always on the lookout for a morsel
of pleasure. School had no charms For him. He
played hookey whenever he could get away with
it. He would rather toss pennies for a line, and
no hoy dared tell the teacher where Yum was
or what he was doing. He wrote his own ex
cuses and felt tickled when he fooled the teacher.
He knew that school was no help to a feller
because lots of the hoys in the town had gone
as high as the first grade, and then the best they
could do was to drive a butcher wagon.
almost incredible population. If
Jupiter.had continents of the same
relative size as ours, containing the
same number of inhabitants per
unit area, it could hold, w ithout be
ing any more crowded than the
earth, a hundred and eighty thou
sand million inhabitants. But if
the inhabitants were mere dwarfs
the number might be increased to
a thousand thousand millions with
out straining the productive ener
gies of the planet to maintain them.
These calculations have been
given merely in order to make the
size of Jupiter as compared with
the earth more strikingly apparent,
and not because there is any reason
to think that Jupiter actually has
any continents or oceans, or any
inhabitants resembling men and
women. The fact is that Jupiter
appears to be a globe which has not
yet solidified. It is. as 1 have said,
1,300 times larger than th® earth,
but it is only 316 times heavier,
which shows that its mean density
is only about a quarter of that of
the earth. As far as the tejesebpe
•shows, Jupiter is an enormous
glob® of clouds, without anything
solid about it. There may be a
solid nucleus, but if so it can. not
be seen.
Peering Behind the Scenes.
Jupiter is a nlanet that is cooling
off and contracting, and getting
ready tn solidify and to receive the
gifts that are bestowed, in due time,
upon all new -born worlds which are
intended to support inhabitants. To
watch it with a telescope, to see Its
vast clouds boil and* gyrate and
change their hues, and its four
moons run rapidly around it. as in
play , throwing their shadows on its
broad surface, and darting into and
nut of the mighty cone of invisible
darkness that it projc-ctsiinto space
behind it moons w hose motions
will be studied with all the eager
n-ss of a new -felt thirst for knowl
edge when Jupiter shall have be
come the abode of intellectual life—
th - .'n pee>- behind th® scenes of
i reation and to diS'.oter 'he true
plae of th>- t irth in the ■evolution
of a orlds.
THE HOME PAPER
Dorothy Dix
Writes
” F ‘”
The Married Man
and the Girl '
Ag a > n
—AND—
A Few Letters
From the ,
Girls
By DOROTHY DIX
A FEW days ago I wrote an ar
ticle for this column in which
I tried to show girls not only
how wrong, but how silly, they
were to indulge in love affairs with
married men.
1 tried to prove to them that,
aside from all questions of moral
ity and of the cruel wrong they did
in robbing a wife of her husband’s
'love and children of their father,
and breaking up a home, they
made a losing bargain for them
selves.
I pointed out that they compro
mised themselves and ruined their
good names for nothing; that they
wasted their youth and the fresh
ness of their hearts on men who
could not marry them; that they
jeopardized their chances of ever
having husbands and homes of
their own. as few men care to mar
ry a woman who has been through
such an experience, and that the
end must be disappointment and
disillusionment, either the tragedy
of the dragging on through years
of a hopeless passion, or else the
grimmer tragedy of a woman for
saken w'hen her youth and beauty
are gone for a fairer and younger
face.
In response to this article I have
received more than thirty letter,
from young women who are indulg
ing in this peculiar form of idiotic
sentimental folly. They defend
themselves with warmth and elo
quence on the ground that they
can't help loving au they do. and
that the man is tired of his wife,
anyway.
In one of these letters a girl who
says she is 21 years old, but “with
a world-wide experience”—God
help her—writes that I am mis
taken, in thinking that all married
men are selfish who win the hearts
of young girls. She says that the
married man with whom she has
had a love affair for the past three
years is the noblest, the most hon
orable and the most unselfish
knight in the world, and as a proof
of his unselfishness he-often says to
her, "If the right single fellow
comes along. I shall be perfectly
willing to see you married to him.
but till then you have my watch
fulness over you.”
A Simple Little Girl
One could weep over the unso
phlstication of this .simple little
girl, who thinks she know’s so much
of the world, and who really knows
nothing whatever of it. w ho doesn't
understand that such is the watch
fulness of the wolf over the lamb.
He tells her that he will be “wil
ling” to see her marry the right
man when he comes along, and she
gurgles with gratitude at his gen
erosity.
Poor little goese. not to realize
that her kind protector has estab
lished a quarantine that will effec
tually keep any desirable man from
ever coming along.
Another girl writes that the mar
ried man that she fell in love with
did. at first, honorably advise h®r
for her own good, but she refused
to listen to his wise counsel, and
with her eyes open embarked upon
her career of folly.
She says that she does not ex
pect or ask anything for herself
but just the mere knowledge that
this man loves her and an occa
sional scrap of time that he can
give her.
For this she is willing tn put
aside ail thoughts of ever having a
husband and home of her own, and
to occupy an equivocal position in
society. _ -
This young woman is very sure
that she is going to find perfect
happiness and contentment in the
mode of life she has mapped out for
herself, but she will not.
She will find nothing but misery.
Human nature, and especially the
of woman, would have tn he
made over again before any woman
could rest satisfied, knowing that
the man she loved belonged by
right to another woman: that his
interest was centered in a home in
which she had no part; that an
other woman bore his name and his
children: that the most of hi- time,
the most of his money the most of
himself went to Ibis other woman.
Don’t Do It.
Soon jealousy will eat out her
very soul, and that will be her pun
ishment for the wrong that she has
done another woman.
Rut these letters from weak and
self-'l’ lud'<l girls, yielding to their
own impulse.- ami seeking to justify
them, are only part of the replies to
the question I raised. There have
been others, written in the clear,
_ cold light of experience, that have
told how such folly must end.
One conies from a little girl who
rays she is 22 ami feels as thous'i
she were 92, so old is she in sorrow.
She also fell in love with a married
man and lived for a few month? in
a romantic dream of bliss.
Now the man is tirfd of her and
she spends her days running after
him. haunting the-places w h i I'o .'io
is likely.to see him. calling him up
on the telephone, humblirg her
pride to beg for even a visit from
him and knowing that he i weary
of her and wishes that she would
let him alone.
Thai’s the common end of the ro
mance with the married man. fnr
the man who has been faithless to
on® woman is seldom loyal to an
Then. h c r® is another letter writ
ten by a mother:
"Seventeen years ago my daugh
ter became acquainted with a mar
ried man I entreated h°r not to re
ceive his attentions, but she was so
infatuated with him that she re
fused to listen to me. She mid she
loved him so much she could not
give him up.
“Th® affair has continued al! of
these years, during w hich they have
waited for the man's wife to die,
and now she is in better health than
she has ever been. My daughter
was 24 when this affair began. She
is novj past 11. Her sisters are all
married anrl have happy hom°.- and
children of their own.. But this
daughter has sacrificed her chances
of being established as th=y are.
She can only look forward to a
lonely old age, during which she
depend on her own labor for
support. I know she sighs in vain
now for the years she has fobUd
away, the chances she has thrown
away for one of the most selfish
and meanest of men. I do not
blame him any more than I do her.
She deliberately did wrong, and
now she must pay the penalty.”
Jealousy Her Punishment..
.These letters that I have quoted
are all genuine, bona fide ones.
They are little bits of actual expe
rience. Is there anything in them
to show aught but the supreme fol
ly. and the certain wretchedness
that is sure to come of a girt per
mitting hersMf to tall in love with a
married man”
D‘?N l I.” > tr GIRI.'- t.m.,..;
W AY LIES DESTRUCTION.