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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 post off’< .<t Atlanta, under art of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price —Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. r - ---------- - - - - 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 —— _ ■ Worlds in the Making * By Garrett P. Serviss NEW STARS FLY OFF LIKE SPARKS FROM A FLINT WHEN DEAD SUNS COLLIDE IN OUTER SPACE f . our eyes as, in rotating on their .ii , axis thev turned first their dark y , - L-J- , ■ sides toward us and then the sides ■ 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 L_ **- ._ ~~ . ~ = - m ( Ire— - ■ ,i - .*•■ r ' 1 ' \ ..r ./ ", '■ ■’ »• z• •xsyv-x. r ■-' ? V cv T. f ■ I IB - t ■' L—_— : . - J Ip7. 7 v .M-i ™ S’"’"' ' ' -A' zt A- * --fcv. NWrn "Wv* ~..s t" Y !.■ -"‘A ■' : ■ ' ' ' ... ...:■? 'I My* 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 I / J. ...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."