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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St , ttlanfa, Ga Entered a? second-class matter at po: toffive at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1073. 1 Only One Term For Presi- I dent? No. 9 » K 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. —— 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: ■BHhe Little l-aty blue ehll u 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. - j—.® ® . i. ■ ■ ' —A * c' - " " Jjj .n - ..II ._ -a?TA>NT cha g.ot*/Y==z' I a _ nsScHoot ’ ■ ® ~ - ■“.illlfi'. ilij I'lil'jiilii' .Hr.Lli —' ' L «tM|^ — zCTrBzPfI I ! I - - GlSiilOl JUS? BMSMKy 7 1 .£-£?£ .NO I M NOT GOI w rn>J 'tWkwMl MES ■ ■V"— SCHOO' rno*V ’ i —~~ Ooeryou reuu ruE 1 affifSSMgjn j® - -J? * *.Wk- i.,' L ■ - ’FACHE’t TWAT I A/* ‘1 wIHeSF Ttrn —— Aaw me e itmev. T .a - -- T” — ’ - " . O Ww.J - T" >-.O’ x v jjViWHxV' - r A 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 ..0k... JjgBTOML The Married Man 1 and the Girl ' Again —AXD— 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? f»>\ 1 l'i> I 1 i,TUT S, -fpj ~. WAY LIES DEi.’TRUCTION <