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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY 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. * 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 • » » The Atlanta Georgian HE NEVER. HAD A CHANCE That Is What Nine Men Out of Ten Who Are Failures Say. Look Out That You Don’t Say It Yourself, - . r 1' . pB =— --=■ - ~ ~ , A -====—- . _.. _ J lINT CHA Gr. ifj ~ _ xGTwvid'yb - /fte 5, I 1 k ‘ THS' i Ow tw m < algSgi ga no -cm not goin to V SrallZMSa ' llSSL4ffl . (Ir SCHOOL TDOAv AmO ' ■ il - t>osr ym. rei_L ruE 'JagJlJqgjl fl 4. L, -—■ TtACHEW. TWAT -/QU _____ ■ jawme E.<THew— \ nA . ■ 'L - ■ h IL' > ‘ '-1 "kkIALNwII' w 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 * - - ■ ' - - < 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.