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One Six-Year Term in thej
Presidency—A Foolish ’
Suggestion
Six Years Would Be Too Much for a Bad Man; Not Enough
for a Good Man.
The gentlemen who are planning to change our presidential
system, making the term six years \\ I'lll NO SE( OXI) TERM
ALLOWED—mean well, but they don't know and they haven't
thought
Those that have really thought about the question beginning
with Thomas .Jefferson, whose strong argument, written in 1805,
settles the question definitely up to the present day—realize that
the four year term. with a second term as a proper reward for good ;
service, is the right system.
The president ought to be nominated by the people—although
this doesnot always happen. A good many presidents have been
nominated and elected by money the money in the hands ot a very
few men.
With a corporation-made president in office, with only one term
permitted, and with the president realizing that lie can expect
nothing more from the people IH'W MI ( 11 GREAIER V. <>l LI)
BE THE INFLUENCE OF THE CORPOR ATION THAN THAT Ol-
THE PEOPLE!
At the end of six years the people could do nothing more for
their president except say, “Thank you. N<> matter how faithful
he might be to the people, they could not reward him -not even
with a second term.
But if the president had proved faithful to the corporation
they AT THE END OF HIS SINGLE TERM (Oil.I) REWARD
HIM IN MANY WAYS.
They could give him. for instance, a very large income from
an insurance company or a bank and make the .job seem most lion
orable.
They could take care of his relations. They could tell the next
president they owned to put their faithful ex president on tl
supreme bench
If it were possible for the people to arrange matters SO THAT
CORPORATIONS COLLD N<»l REWARD MEN FORMERLY 1
OFFICE, that would he admirable. But if the people should legi
late so that the president after one term could have nothing to ,
pect from them, yet with all of the usual rewards to expect frm,
corporations—the corporations would rule even more fully than a‘
present
There is a constant effort on the part, of special istercs's. a 1
of all those that really object to ; o , ■ • ■ • z
HAMPER AND LIMIT THE PEOPLE IN THEIR POWER
If this is to be a republic permanently, why not legislate to in
crease the people's power rallmr than io c o
Mr. Elihu Root, the ablest legal representative oi ii : ■ i ■
dishonest men in the United States, is in favor of only one te:
for the president.
Os course he is.
He knows that with only one term m office possible. the tin
candidate, once elected, would not be tempered to forget his tri 1
friends in the effort “to curry popular favor" and get a secoi
term
Thomas Jefferson, before he had time to think about it tin
bughly, was inclined to favor only one term lor the president. B;
deliberation made him see the thing more clearly, and this is wh
he wrote on January 6. 1805. to John Tyler:
“My opinion originally was that the president of the I'niti
States should have been elected for seven years, and be forever i>
eligible afterward. I have since become sensible that seven years
too long to be irremovable, ami that there should be a peaceab
way of withdrawing a man in midway who is doing wrong.
All of those who fee] that the people are really not capable
self-government, who believe that a special class ot' wise and g<"
and powerful men should rule, are constantly inventing new hobb!
to hamper ami hold the people. All the specious talk about one tei
for the president of six years and no re election is simply anotlo
set of hobbles to hold the people down.
If a man proves himself incompetent, give the people the rig!
to get rid of him at the end of four years, or. better still, to get i .
of him at once by a properly safeguarded expression ot pul .
opinion
If a president is competent and faithful, let the people eb <
him again, to prove their gratitude ami secure his valuable
ices.
If somebody will invent a law to keep .Mr. Elihu Root s I'riemh
from nominating presidents and electing them, ami renominatinti
them when that is thought advisable, the law vvill be welcome. But
new laws to limit the people's power are not needed The constitu
tion as it stands attends to that task sufficiently.
An Ode to indigestion
By PERCY SHAW.
SUMMER poets ;nu mget.
Inky spots on cheek ano finger.
Looking blankly at : • ' ■■■.
Why not cut th. "brock • nrr m.:
And the "winds like nvmphs Lit-
For some them. a • -til. m a
There are books or mspi'at mn.
•On the charms of gt.-. ,
On the heather and the 1.-a .
There are volume- on th. i.real- ’
Roaring, cairn . rd gentle w..!<ir.g
Os the much Iw i•• 11 »r ■ : s< .
I propose, without a not m:
Os a fee. that t>r< - emo' .m
In a more persuasive lore;
Try an ode on ind
There is food in th -..semen
Never fully tried before.
Ah. 1 ><>e your fancy gleaming
Wrh . fitful - burst of dreaming.
As you think of apple pie.
X - pc ' >:r. snort -cake, ven
’; • studded with strawberry,
T , attract the greed) eye.
■ - is not a full prescripitlon.
iim a -iieek'v made description
Meant to help you as you write:
\\ : • • midnight •■n>m is glowing
T . I. >,. ur ve'.so should issue flowing
With .an una Hoy cd delight.
'live r.s.• s you feel them.
| M.i .. no , tf.i. t to . one. al them.
tnd the last result will be.
|l' - « ' ' ,’W y"ur indigestion,
id ind without question
s ng worth our while to see.
The Atlanta Georgian
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Worlds in the Making * By Garrett P. Serviss
NEW STARS FLY OFF LIKE SPARKS FROM A FLINT WHEN DEAD SUNS COLLIDE IN OUTER SPACE
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. our eyes as, in rotating on their
.ii , axis thev turned first their dark
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sides toward us and then the sides
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I ,hat ha '. ! brPn set aflame by the
, ' 'elision As long at the heat pro-
Adm ed by th“ eollision ■ "ntinued to
' - produce a glow upon them thev
would appear as variable stars.
ySSSNIw- Not Mere Fancy -
■’ The reader may ask. "Is not all
’. this surely fanciful?" Xo. it is not
• ' SMsilwSrltal fanciful, for many new stars have
;A k L. suddenly made their appearance in
.'Y't'’ • the heaven- where nothing was vis-
"sSlSsaw ible before, and not only does their
appearance correspond with the
I ’I tv that they have been caused
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op Picture). —Two approaching dark stars, distorted and about to graze;
Center Picture). —The two stars passing out of impact and formation
of a new world or body, (Bottom Picture). —The two stars
passing on. leaving the new star behind them.
I' X the pictures which accom-
J p.-inv this article three steps
in the- creation of a now star
shown. In the first are seen
vo great "dead suns" -which may
larger than our sun but which
ive faded and gone out in eonse
nce of the cooling caused by ex
-ive age -and these huge black
asses ire rushing togethei with a
ombined speed of a hundred miles
. r second.
But before they crash together a
range thing happens You will
userve that each of them is be
lling to glow with light on that
of its surface which is turned
icetly toward the other and also
al both of them an a lutle drawn
o' in form, or elongated, like two
ogs tugging nt tile a am-' bone.
And. in fact, these two dead stars
• pulling tgainst ar- inother, and
■ ‘th the kindling light and the dis
ortion of Sb tpe arc due to the
rain of that 11 env-n lotipull.
mg (turn theii mutual atlra -
ion. This seems ope of the stran
gest conclusions of science, nut it
I is perfectly easy to understand. If
a dark body of immense mass
should approach the earth, the lat
ter would not only be torn from its
| orbit by the attraction. but its
globular form would be altered,
and it would swell out into an el
lipsodial figure, with its longest
diameter in the line of atr a, tion.
Tim mighty ribs of the globe w ou.d
give way under tin strain the solid
rocks would melt, molten fir- would
gush out and in a little while the
round earth would be pulled Into
the shape of a football and the
pointed ends would biaS.e with in-
■ onceivabli heat.
Just What Occurs.
That is what happens when two
extinguish-d -uns an about p- col
lide in op t n space But they ate
bundrr i- thousands of time' jar
! ger and mor- massive than ‘the
•-art", and th, effects et their at-
MONDAY. MAY 27. 1912
traction upon each other are pro
portionately great. Even if they
should not actually meet they'
would set each other afire through
the enormous force of their at
traction. Then, if they came very
close, without striking, they would
swell out, like stretched bladders,
and immense masses would be
flung off from them.
If they met head on they would
swallow- one another up in a cloud
of flaming gas and vapor, or lie
turned into a gigantic w billing neb
ula This would result from the
sudejen transformation of the en
ergy of motion, i the mechanical
energy involved in theii swift flight
through space, into the energy of
heat, which would suffice to vapor
ize them almost in an instant.
But, probably, in most eases,
tin s- immense bodies do not meet
head on A grazing • ollision is far
more likely to oietir, and w hat then
happens is shown in the second pic
ture. A portion of ■ aeh of the
mealing mas M-s has been scraped,
or torn off at the point of impact,
as the iceberg tore out a part of
the bottom of the Titanic, and the
flaming substance thus thrown into
space between the two colliding
mas-es becomes an independent
body, ablaze w ith heat and whirling
swiftly upon its own axis, until, in
the course of time, it turns into a
star This new-created st ir may
be carried off in the wake of me
or the other of the original bodies,
and may. is it cools, contimje to
revolve round it as a planet re
volves around our sun.
Or. in certain circumstances, il
lustrated by the third picture, the
flying bodies which were in partial
collision may r.a-s on. leaving the
smaller -tar. which their impact
us brought into existence, behind
th' m X"t onlv one. but a large
numb, : of small stars might thus
!■“ cr-ated by- the grazing collision
of twe immense, dark bodies. The
latter would £■' their way alter
nately brightening and fading to
i:. the violent collision ,f great
dark masses, but some of them
have actually been seen to turn into
nebulae (that is. clouds of glowing
«
ga: i. and al! th- phenomena which
they' present accord with the hy
pothesis tii.it they are the result of
, the sudden transformation of the
motion of flying masses into heat —
heat so intense that at least a part
of the meeting masses has been
vaporized.
More than that, by the aid of the
spectroscope —an instrument which
enables astronomers tn detect the
substances of which the stars are
composed, and also to measure the
velocity with which they are mov
ing—the speed of the colliding bod
ies in such cases has been meas
ured, and the presence of two, and
sometimes three or more, bodies
has been demonstrated. Occasion
ally the spectroscope shows that
one of these bodies is moving
earthward, a hundred miles or more
, per second, while another is going
in the opposite direction. They are
not separately visible because they
are thousands of billions of miles
away, but yet the magic spectro
scope proves their existence by the
shifting of the spectral lines in the
light by w-hich they shine. If they
are approaching the lines are shift
ed one way. and if they are retreat
ing they arc shifted the other way.
the amount of shifting determines
tlte speed.
It is also known to astronomers
that there are many dark bodies,
or extinguished suns, in space, for
many have been found revolving
.around other suns, which, like ours,
are still brightly shining. It is an'
intei esting question how these
suns, which have dark companions,
fell into tliei- gloomy company,
and a s itisfactory answer has not
yet geen found But every star,
whether it is dark and invisible,
or brilliant, is known to be in swift
motion, and those motions of the
stars are in all conceivable direc
tion'-. so that me-tings could eas
ily occur. Our own sun. carrying
the earth and other planets along
with it. is moving in a northerly'
directly with a speed but little
short of a millions miles per day.
It is no stretch of the imagina
tion then to say that the time may
come w hen this beautiful solar sys
tem in which we dwell may become
the victim of a gigantic collision
between our sun and some huge
wandering body in .-pace. But the
. nance of such a collision is very
small. and if it were going to hap
pen astronomers would probably
become aware of it s-mte time in
advance, through the effects of the
attraction of the appt"aching body
up- n the sun and the outer plan
ets.
THE HOME PAPER
Dorothy Dix
rites
— ot? —
A Woman vVho
Wants to
Marry i
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...AND— J /
Some Ways to I |
C atc h a *
Man
By DOROTHY DIX
A CHARMING and attractive
unmarried woman who has
reached the place of the old
maid's home falling across her
path, frankly admits that she would
like to marry and have a home and
husband of her own. More; She
has her eye on the particular man
that she would like to eee sitting
across the table from her.
Unfortunately for her, this wom
an is not one of the women that
attract men. and, wors still, the
individual man whom she would
■ like for a husband evinces no de
sire to bave her for a wife, and so
this bachelor maid asks for some
rule for husband-catching, with
specific directions about how to
proceed in the case of this especial
man.
Alas, there is no formula for the
proceedings that one may offer her
with any certainty it. will work out.
The women who are the most suc
cessful fishers of men are a selfish
lot, and never tell what sort of bait
they use. Perhaps they don't know
themselves. Probably they use less
conscious effort to please men than
the women do who never succeed
in pleasing them at all.
Certainly it is not beauty alone
that attracts man to a woman, as
witness the homely married ladies
all about us. Nor is it intelligence,
which is ever a handicap instead of
a help to a woman seeking a hus
band. Wit in a woman is an
athema to a man. talent he abhors,
and domesticity he praises *nd
urges h is friend to marry.
Women Still Guessing About
Qualities Men Like.
It is a bromide that the better
fitted a woman is to make a good
wife the less chance she has of be
coming one, and so, when all is
said and done, women are still left
guessing as to what qualities men
admire in women and what line of
conduct'to pursue in order to make
a hit with them.
Doubtless, the old Scotchman
sized up the situation when he
said that it wasn't things that wom
en did. or failed to do. that cap
tured men. but it was the "come
hither look" in a woman's eye that
did the business. And this look is
a gift of nature.
Os course, other things help
along. For instance, the woman
who wishes to marry should show
• herself willing, hut not too willing.
Husband-hunting is not an occupa
tion to be carried on in the open.
It must still be done under cover,
and woe betide the woman who is
clumsy enough to let a man per
ceive that she is on his track and
chasing him down.
On the other hand, it is equally
fatal for her to be too difficult or
too retiring. It's very well for a
woman to give the impression that
she is a timid dove, or a shrink
ing violet, but it is likewise well to
remember that the bird that flut
ters around handy is the most like
!\ to get caught, and the only vio
lets a man ever sees are those
that are so directly under his feet
that he stumbles over them.
Undoubtedly the best weapons
to use in husband-hunting are tact
and the jolly. If pi 'perlv primed
and loaded these seldom fail to do
the deadly work, but if they misfire
a woman had as well take her
empty bag and go home.
Men don’t like blunt women, nor
plain-speakipg women, nor women
who tell them the truth, or who
argue with them, and you will gen
erally find that every old maid
has one or the other of these char
acteristics. No man expects any
other man to flatter him and tell
him that he's the wisest, and
handsomest, and most wonderful
thing in the world, but he is con
vinced that woman’s mission in
life is to appreciate what a supe
rior creature he is, and burn in
cense before him. and the lady who
can do this most discreetly, most
naturally, and with the most real
istic air. as if she meant it. is the
boss head hunter of the husband
tribe. .
But there is no hard and fast
rule for capturing a husband. No J
woman can run fast enough to I
overtake the man who is running
from her. No woman can flatter
or cajole a man into loving her ll
she has no attraction for him. In
the end the thing that draws a
man to a woman is a matter of
personal magnetism, and that is a
gift that the gods bestow or with
hold as their pleasure.
If a woman has done what she
can in a ladylike way to win a
man’s heart, and he is still indif
ferent to her, she may well con
sole herself with the thought that
it is a thousand times better to be
an independent spinster than it la
to be an unloved wife. Indeed, the
lot of the old maid in these days
is not one that calls for pity, but
provokes envy.
Statietieians who have studied
the marriage and the divorce prob
lems declare that there are proba
bly five marriages but of a hundred
that are really happy. That there
are ten marriages out of a hundred
that are endurable, and that, the
balance are a purgatory on earth
for both. One’s own observation
confirms this statement, and, this
being the eas.-, it is difficult to un
derstand wh* any sensible woman
should embark in the dange"OU<
sport of husband-hunting. .'
if love comes her way, well and
good. If the l_ ;t man asks
to marry him. take him if she
wants him. bur. for her own safety,
let her forbear from trying to cap-)
ture some unwilling victim that she
will have to hobble to keep at home,
and whom she can never thor
oughly domesticate nor tame so
that he will eat out of her hand.
Don't Realize That Love
Is Only an Episode.
And that's the only kind of a.
husband there's any real comfort
in.
The trouble with women is that
they put too much stress on love,
and feel that they are bound to
be unhappy unless they are mar
ried, when the truth is that love
is only a small episode in life and
that marriage brings misery often
er than happiness. When women
realize that they will cease to*
bother their he ,q s about husband
bunting. but will fill their days with
other interests than sentimental
one ano', as the old fairy tales
us‘-d to >.v, "live happily ever aft
erward."