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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 East Alabama St , ttlanfa, Ga
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1 Only One Term For Presi-
I dent? No.
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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 bill is introduced in congress to increase the term of the
president from four to six years AND TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL
TO ELECT HIM TO A SECOXI) TERM.
At first glance, before you think about it, this seems a good
idea.
You say to yourself that the president will he in for six years.
And we shall have all this disturbing turmoil and bother only once
in six 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
cleet him after one term, he will not he influenced by public
clamor, he will not be scheming to get re-elected.
It sounds very nice, hut it is in reality very foolish.
As long as the president is permitted to think of a second
term HE IS THINKING AND WORRYING ABOUT YOU. THE
PEOPLE. WHO ALONE CAN GIVE HIM THAT SECOND
TERM
The big people pick out lhe 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 CAN’T GIVE THE SEC
OND TERM UNLESS WITH YOUR CONSENT.
Therefore, the president who is elected once and who imme
diately thinks of being elected a second time, IS OBLIGED TO
WONDER WHAT YOU. THE VOTERS. WILL THINK OF HIS
CONDUCT.
You can see perfectly clearly that if he had only one term
and couldn't get another. HE WOULDN’T HAVE TO THINK
ABOUT YOU AT ALL.
If the president could hsve 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, \VHY SHOULD HE THINK ABOUT YOU
AT ALL?
He would probably go in owing his election to the politicians
*nd to the money influences generally He would naturally think
of 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 bp
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 his 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 comes 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
went.
Your only hope is in making the president look to you for
something—and about the only thing that the president looks to
▼ou for is a SECOND term.
Therefore, hang on to that second term. It is your only hope.
Fhe Little Skirt
Ry MINNA FRYING.
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lITTLE navy hlu® skirt, I must lav you away.
. In th® drawer with the treasures of study and play
Tour buttons are gone, there are rips In your braid,
You ar® faded anil wrinkled, and mended, and frayed.
But the fane® of childhood embroider each fold
With wonderful patterns of azure and cold.
And fables of fair!®? and princess'". pert.
Little narv htu® skirt.
The Max tin l ® of playtime I - over f®r m®.
1 must do up my hair a young 'adv to be.
New joy* may b® mine in th® place of the toys,
Th® games with th® girls and th® romps with the boys
Long dresses, and dances, and dinner-, and beaus
Are now on the program of .life, T suppose
Bui I never will primp llk< the others, or Hid.
Little navy blue skirt *
Barefooted no mote can I wade in the pool.
Or go skipping the rope •> ■ri morning to school
So I’m dropping a tear on our pleating- of blue
F’er I cut nfr my freedom forever with >ou
Good-b v ®. preitv doll in th® dalnt* nmi-; <b®
’ am almost too btt nov t” rock you I gu®
Ar.cl go? 1-I 1 oh. but 'hese are the parting® that hurt:
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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.
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By TAD.
In this serifs we intend to picture the life of
the young man who continually cried that “He
never had a tdiance. '
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. That was'the nickname the boys in
the neighborhood gave him. •
Yum was a big-hearted lad. a rongh-and-
A Wonderful World Coming Into View
The Planet Jupiter Is as Rtf' as Thirteen Hundred Earths Rolled Into One
IF you will sit up a little late
one of these mid-May nights,
you will have an opportunity to
see the giant planet Jupiter make
his entry upon the star stage of the
evening sky.
He comes slowly up in the east
between 10 and 11 o’clock, and
seems to pause and stare with a
golden eye over the rim of the
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 I® the fiery red star
Antares. Rut although that star is
a sun and Jupiter only a planet,
the latter seems many times the
brighter The reason is because An
tares is about a million and a half
times farther away from the earth
than Jupiter. So. although Antares
shines independently with its own
light, and is really a greater sun
than ours, w hile Jupiter shines only
by reflected sunlight, and is a mere
speck in comparison, yet. owing to
the belittling effect of immense
distance, the sun Antares appears
fainter than the planet Jupiter
It is probable that all the mil
lions of suns constituting the uni-,
verse have their planets, but the
only p'tnets we CAN SEI', are
those belonging to our sun. and of
these Jupiter is the chief. It Would
take 1.300 earths to make one Ju
piter. Put a big jack marble,
about an inch in diameter, beside
an ordinary school globe, ten or
twelve inches In diameter, and you
will see how small the earth would
look if placed beside Jupiter.
Some Interesting Comparisons.
The surface of Jupiter >- about
l"O times as extensive as that of
the earth. If we suppose it covered
with continents and oceans of the
same shape and relative size .is
those of the earth, we can make
some interesting comparisons be
tween distant es on Jupiter and dis
tances on 'h- earth For instance,
th- A me?® continent between
New York and Sail Francisco, u
TUESDAY. MAY 21. 1912.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
about.3,ooo miles across—on Jupi
ter it would be about 33,000 miles
across. The Pacific ocean, stretch
ed to the scale of Jupiter, would be
about 120,000 miles broad, and the
swiftest ship yet built, driven con
tinually at top speed, would require
six weeks to cross it.
If the city of New York occu
pied the same relative space on
Jupiter that It does on the earth, it
w-oulfi-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.
Everything would be stretched in
similar ’ proportions—the avenues
w ould be a thousand feet wide, and
office buildings several thousand
feet high. The height of-th® 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 Brobdingna
gian scale? If they were, an ordi
nary man on Jupiter would be
about SIXTY FEET TALL. Som®
of the big Broadway policemen
might measure seventy feet in
their stockings.
Rut a man seventy feet tall
would, on the earth, weigh at least
260.000 pounds, while on Jupiter,
where the force of gravity is more
than two and a half times as great
as on the earth (2.651. Ills weight,
would be 689,000 pounds!
This is evidently more than flesh
and blood could bear. and. accord
ingly, it hast generally been as
sumed that the inhabitants of im
mense worlds like Jupiter tis there
be any) must be smaller instead of
larger than those of the earth, for
otherwise they eould not even stand
erect. If we suppose the proportion
of size to be inverse to that of the
force of attraction, or the gravity,
then an average inhabitant of Jupi
ter ought to be- but little more than
two feet tall.
These considerations, however,
do not affe- t the area of the ge»l
- features of the planet,
but on the jutrar.’ the l mak® -t
possible to calculate for Jupiter an
ipady kill, 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 boy 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 boys 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. It
Jupiter had continents of the same
relative size as ours, containing the
same number of inhabitants per
unit area, it could hold, without be
ing any more crowded than the
e*krth, a hundred and eighty thou
sand million inhabitants But if
th® 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,xnaintain 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 I have said,
1,300 times larger than th® earth,
but It is only 316 times heavier,
which shotvs that its mean density
is only about a quarter of that of
the earth. As far as the telescope
shqws. Jupiter Is an enormous
globe 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 to solidify and to receive the
gifts that are bestow ed, tn due time,
upon al! new-born worlds w hich are
intended to support inhabitants.. To
watch it with a telescope, to see its
vast clouds boil and gyrate and
hang® their hues, and its four
moons run rapidly around it. as in
play, throwing their shadows on its
broad surface, and darting into and
out of the mighty cone of invisible
darkness that it projects into space
behind it - moons whose motions
will be studied with all the eager
ness of a new -felt thirst sot knowl
edge when Jupiter shall have be
come the abode of intellectual life—
this is to peer behind the scenes of
t reatton, and to discover the true
place of th® earth tn the evolution
of w orlds.
THE HOME PAPER
Dorothy Di x
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The Married Man 1
and the Girl '
Again
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A Few Letters
I • rom the .
Girls 7
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 witn
married men.
I 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 ruot 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 « ho has been through
such an experience, and that lhe
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 foi
saken when her youth and beauty
are gone for a fairer and younger
face
In response to this article I have
received mor® than thirty letters
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 the.'
can’t help loving as they do, and
that the man is tired of his wife,
anyway.
In one of these letters a girl who
says she is 21 ytar-s cdd. 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 eould weep over the unso
phistication of this simple little
girl, n ho thinks she knows so much
of the world, and who really knows
nothing whatever of it. who 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 goose, 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 her
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 to put
aside all thoughts of ever ha\ ing a
husband and home of her own. and
to ecT.upy an equivocal position in
society.
This young woman is very sure
that she is going to find perfect
happiness and contentment in the
mode oflife sh® has mapped out for
herself, hut she will not.
She will find nothing but misery.
Human nature, and espeelall.'. the
heart of woman, would have tn be
made over again before any woman
could rest satisfied, knowing that
th® man sh® loved belong'd by
right to another woman; that his,
interest was eenteierl in a home in
which she had no pait: that an
other woman boie his name ind his
children; that the most of his time,
the most of his mono' , th® most of
himself went tn this other woman.
Don’t Do It.
Soon jealousy will •at out her
very soul, and that will lie h* r pun
ishment lor the wiong that she has
done another woman
Rut these letteis from weak and
self-deluded girls, yielding tn their
ow n impulses and seeking to justify
them, are only part of the replies to
the question I raised. There have
been others, written in th® clear,
cold light of experience, that have
told how such folly must . nd.
On® comes from a little girl who
says sh® is 22 and feels as though
she were 92, so old is she in sorrow.
She als'o fell in love with a married
man and lived for a few months in
a romantic drfe.am of bliss
Now the man is tired of It • and
she spends hi l ’ da\s running aft»r
him, haunting th® places where she
is likely Io see him. calling him up
on tlm telephone, humbling h®r
pride to beg for ev®n ? xisit from
.him and knowing that h® is weary
of her and wishes that she would
l®t him alone.
That’s th® common ®nd of the ro
mance with th® marii'd man. for
the man wlio has been faithless to
one woman is . > idom loyal to an
other.
Then her® is another l®tt°r writ
ten by a mother:
"Seventeen years ago nv- daugh
ter became acquainted with a mar
ried man. I entreated h°r not to re
ceive his attention', hut sh® was so
infatuated with him that she re
fused to listen to m®. 'She said she
loved him so much she could not *’
give him up.
"The affair has continued all of
three years, during which the, have
waited fm the man's wife to di®, *
and now sh® is in h®tt®r health than
she has ever been. Jli daughter ~
was 24 when thi,- affair began She
is now past 41. H®’ sisters are all
married and have happy homes and
children of their own. Rut this
daughtci has sac rificed her chances
of being established as they are.
She can onlj look forward to a
lonely old age. during which she
must depend on her own labor for
support. I know she sighs in vain
now for the years she has fooled
away, th® '’hanecs 'he has thrown
away for one of the most selfish
ami 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 T have quoted
are all genuine, bona fid® ones.
They are little hits ®f actual expe
rience. Is there anything In them
to show aught but th® supreme fol
ly. and th® certain wretchedness
that is sure to < ome of a girl per
mitting herself to tall m love w ith a
married man?
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