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The Georgian Will Support
the Democratic Nominee
Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, is the nominee
of the national Depioerat ie eon vent ion for president of the
United Stales.
The <»porjrian will support the Denioeratic nominee.
The Georgian as a progressive Democratic newspaper would,
have supported ant progressive Democrat nominated al Baltimore.
Children Look Out of the
Window-Asking Questions
Yon see a woman enter the car. In her arms she carries a small
baby. It has nothing in life to do as yet but to wriggle its arms and
legs. So she puts it on its hack on her knees that it may wriggle
comfortably.
She also has a child, a hoy or girl from throe to ten years of age.
As soon as the baby has been straightened out properly, its dress
fixed so that its legs can kick freely, its head and neck made com
fortable. THE OLDER CHILD IS SETTLED SO THAT IT CAN
look out of the window.
You would think it strange if you saw a boy or girl of seven or
eight sit quietly in a street car, keeping its eyes inside of the car.
You expect such a child to turn around, kneel on the seat and look
out. And you expect the long, constant series of questions, as the
young, eager face is turned toward the mother. Everything is in
teresting. everything arouses thought, everything must be ex
plained.
Compare yourself, the average grown man and woman, with
that child looking out of the window. We grown-up people keep
our eyes inside the ear. We are tired, bored, the world looks old to
ns, things that are happening do not interest us.
AND THAT MEANS THAT WE HAVE CEASED TO GROW
Would we suggest that grown men and women should kneel on
the seats and look out of the windows? No. But we do say that it
is had for the man or woman who ce.ases Io use eagerly and con
Btant.lv the eyes and the imagination through which alone THE
BRAIN CAN GROW.
What the moving street car is to the child, with all its excite
ments and wonders, THIS MOVING EARTH SHOULD BE TO
THE GROWN MAN OR WOMAN
Every night of our lives we move through mysterious space,
hut we have the opportunity to look.out at the wonders of the uni
verse around us We have the opportunity to ask questions, and to
have them answered by the books on astronomy and the other
sciences
How many of us look out; how many of us ask questions of
hooks or of learned men'’ NOTONE IN TEN THOUSAND AFTER
thirty Tears of age ; perhaps one in a thousand
BETWEEN TWENTY FIVE AND THIRTY; ONE IN A HUN
DEED BETWEEN TWENTY AND TWENTY-FIVE.
Opp of the best sayings we have ever read is this: " Every child
is a genius, and every genius is a child.'' That is literally true.
Genius above all things, means the power to see things AS THEA
A R E
The genius in the growifman means, of course, creative power,
hard work, concentration, but it means above all THE OPEN
MIND. THE POWER TO RECEIVE IMPRESSIONS.
The man who ceases to look out. to inquire, to ask, to imagine, is
like one who has lost his sight. He has not lost the physical sight of
the eyes, but the spiritual sight of the brain, which is infinitely more
precious.
This writer once listened to a famous inhabitant of Chicago
making his first trip up tin* Rhine He sat on a small chair, look
ing INWARD, with never a glance at the old towers, the hills and
the vineyards And as he looked inward he talked with a friend
about a slaughter house that he had seen in Paris, earnestly prov
ing that it was very rnferior even to a second rate slaughter house
in Chicago not really big enough for a decent refrigerating plant.
And that supremely intellectual conversation lasted him until he
was off the boat, ready to eat the next meal at the next hotel.
There was nothing exceptional about this man—others like him
ar? in New York, Paris. London, everywhere in the world HE
HAD SIMPLY LOST THE FACULTY OF THE DESIRE To
LOOK OUT Ob' THE WINDOW 11 is easy to understand t hat real
growth for him had censed Very likely lie might, with lime, be
come a very much abler ami more energetic slaughter house pro
prietor. He might become more and more A USEEUL MAN. since
if is useful to give work to other men
He might in fact become a tlioroiighlvadmirable citizen by dis
tributing good meat and providing for human hunger. Rut. as a
human mind, a human soul, he was a blind man. his growth had
Stopped
A good many of us wonder what is the matter with us. why we
do not grow The answer nine limes out of ten would be. WE
HAVE STOPPED SEEING We have stopped feeding our minds;
we have stopped looking out <>f the window We have gathered
together our little supply of information and our little supply of
impressions We have our little foolish stories that we tel) over and
over We have arranged our system of dressing ourselves; we have
decided what we like for breakfast and for dinner We have read
a few booksand we talk about those. AND VVE READ VERY FEW
NEW ONES. We go occasionally to some foolish play, and think
we have a sense of humor if we laugh, or believe ourselves sensitive
and sympathetic if we weep
BI TWE ARE NOT GROWING TH AT CHILDISH EAGER
NESS FOR KNOWLEDGE. WHH II MARKS THE LITTLE BOY
AND THE GREAT GENII S NEARLY ALL MEN LOSE EARLY
And after that they become valuable dummies, little wheels in the
great machine, useful buyers, or sellers, or workers.
But they yre not really MEN any longer Lucky for the human
race that death was invented; lucky that Death, with his scythe,
comes along and cuts us off by the millions, making room FOR THE
CHILDREN THAT WILL LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOWS; MAK
ING ROOM EOR THE FRESHER MINDS THAT WILL RECEIVE
• AND USE NEW TRUTHS AND NEW IMPRESSIONS
The man with his eyr* in the cm tin man wlm does no! even
see the story, the tragedy, the inspirations, the brotherhood in the
far, on the opposite seat, might as well |>e back in the ground
For there is more earth than man about him
The Atlanta Georgian
HAPPY DAYS
By HAL COFFMAN.
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DOROTHY~DiX WRITES
OF
Wives Forced to Contend With Helpmeets to Whom
Home Is a Prison
TT THAT would you do if you
\/\/ were a woman and had a
husband who camp tn you
and told you that he was tired of
you and the baby, and bored to j
death with domesticity and wanted '
you to let him go?
Would you hang on to his coat ,
tails with all your strength or j
would you open the door and shoo
him out?
That's the question that one of
my correspondents asked me to help
her decide. She says that her hus
band is a good man. who has al
ways been a kind husband and fa
ther and that she loves him dear
ly Hui, somehow or other, mat
rimony has palled upon his palate
and she no longer interests him
and he yearns irresistibly for his
old bachelor joy s, and he says thai
if she will only give him bark hi
freedom that he will provide am
ply for her and th* child.
And the poor, bew ddered wife, to
whom this strange proposition has
been made, doesn’t know what to
do.
If it were I I should speed the
parting guest and facilitate his de
parture. And I’d do it so eherful
ly that I would keep him guessing
sot the next six months. I should
say to such a husband. "Take your
clothes and go. and go quickly."
And I would do this for three good
reasons
First. because there is no other
position in the world so humiliat
ing as for a wife to know that she
is holding her husband by a legal
bond and not by a tie of affection;
that he feels that his home is a
prison that h» leaves with joy of a
morning and < nines back to with
loathing of an evening, and that the
marriage tie to him Is nothing but
a fetter that chafes him every min
ute of his life
Distressing for
Wife to Find
I can conceive of nothing elst <<»
terrible for a wife tn have to en
dure as to f* el that hm companion
ship is an affliction to het husband;
to observe that he looks at her with
half-concealed hatred ami to kn<»«
that Ills om* idea of happiness is
to yet a wav from her Bitter must
l»< th- bread she • its ami wet with
n a»s her pillow
Women .sometimes have enough
< out ag* otiH h\pocti«y to k« rp tip
the prvtetisf of loving htisbaml* of
\v horn t li» ' ha vet" rd ami »f
whom the* would gl.idlx h< rid.
but no man take* th* tmub> to
to deceive his wife -tlioni his
•« <4 ’ fe<lins* toward h. If in is
fifed of* he* he yawn* »n her feu*
If hi ha •*a -* d to htv< her he
openh rm<h «t* h» • iml if he •on
WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1912.
Ity DOROTHY I) LX.
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DOROTHY DIX.
tells her of it in a thousand ways
that are like so many dagg. r
thrusts through her heart.
Therefore the woman whose hus
band wants to go is wise to let him
go She is a thousand times hap
pier without hint than she is with
him. To hold on to a man's body
because the law has given y u the
right to. after his soul is gone, is
like bolding on to a corpse after
life has tied. Better bury it and
plant fresh interest above it.
In tlie second place. I would let
a husband that wanted to leave me
go because he has already gone,
anyway. Love is the champion
jtll-breaket of the universe No
fetters have ever been woven that
i an bind it. no handcuffs made that
It could not slip, no lock construct
ed that it can not pick
There is this strange tiling about
low that th< more desperately we
hold on to it. the more slippery it
becomes and the tnoie <-.tge>- to g< i
away from us Moremei. observa
tion allows that the best lot cd
wives are not the ont o w Ito a n
most detoted and faithful to their
husbands, but the women who ate
• ite ■ss and indifferent Th wiles
whose husban'ts stay levels to th'
end nt' invariably those 'pl-lik,
ladies ( >f whom their Johns ar.
tn-vr certain, ami who h»V» to In
tw"i>i iuallt wooed to keep th. in at
hom< and gv t> from Reno
No man going io fall in
j or., .gain .m, t,t. . t) .
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she keeps him nailed to his hearth
stone against his will. Her only
chance to hold him is to let him go
. -so willingly that she will pique his
self-love and arouse his jealousy
by the thought that if she hadn’t
I been as tired of him as he was of
her and perhaps had her eye on
somebody else, she would have put
up more objection to his departure.
Men always want the women who
don't want them, which is a little
fact in natural history that wives
may do w ell to ponder.
Would Tell Him “Go,"
Then He'd Come Back
In the third place, if I were mar
ried to a man who had wearied of
me and matrimony. I should say,
"Go, and luck go with you.” be
cause I should know that the surest
wjay to get him back woufd be to
expedite his departure.
To every married person, male
and female, with a drop of red
blood in theii veins, there comes
times of revolt against matrimony,
when they can see in it nothing
but prison, and hear nothing bul
the jingle of the chains that unite
to those whom at the minute they
hate and loathe with all their souls.
They can see in the party of the
other part nothing but faults. They
can perceive in marriage nothing
but a bondage cruder than death.
At such a crisis a man contrasts
his dull, monotonous domestic life
with that of his bachelor friends,
and he is filled with a mad longing
for freedom. It seems to him that
it would be Paradise itself to be
free of wife, and children. and
home, and to be able to come and
go as he pleased, without anybody
sitting up for him of a night and
reading the riot act to him when
he got in late. -
The only remedy for this state of
mind is to try freedom, and so
when a wife discovers that matri
mony has gotten on to her hus
band's ne r ves she should not only
let him go. but hurry him off into
the pastures that he thinks look so
inviting For he will discover lo
bis surprise that matrimony unfits
a man for being single. He will
discover that he can't drink as
much as he used to without having
a head next morning. Hutt his
game of poker has fallen off. and
that he has fallen into the slipper,
and papet ami pipe habit of an
evening without his knowing it
He Will Find Home
Best Place on Earth
Thi'n th* xvif*- he wan tied of
will begin lo get int'•! iiiK axaiii.
the hom* that vh« ♦ ••ago will
look th* 3 moil Inviting place on
earth and th* Kind hand from a
group of rounder* won't h* In it
•Ith th*- thought of hie baby cry
of om* and th* f*»el of lltll*'
• m a»ound hi* n< < K
Knd th'n lt‘>,tcn to om- ip ill
K*»t up and. Ilk* th* prodigal of
•>bl, go h •’k horn*, ami flav thrr<«
’ THE HOME PAPER
Tremendous Pull of
Jupiter Upon Earth
/
E j Planet Now a Bright
» Object m Evening
Sky; Power of Sun
Offsets Its Great
'**^ x Force.
GARRETT P. SERVISS
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
THE most conspicuous object in
tiie evening sky at present is
the planet Jupiter, the great
est w orld in the solar system. About
10 o’clock at night you will see it
directly in the south. It is above
the reddish star Antares in the con
stellation Scorpio, but it is bright
er than any fixeu star. With a
powerful held glass you can see one
or two of its maans. like little
specks of light beside it. Jupiter
is equal in size to about 1,300
earths. It is now about 400.000,000
miles away from us.
But what I wish particularly to
call your attention to is the fact,
seldom thought of, that Jupiter is
pulling upon the earth witli a force
which, when translated into ordi
nary language, appears inconceiv
able. That force, due to the at
traction of gravitation, is equiva
lent to about 198.000.000,000,000
tons! The earth bows a little to
this forc>. but yet goes serenely
on its way. held safely the still
more gigantic power of the sun,
which curbs it with a force
amounting to 3,600,000,000,000,000
tons.
One can not grasp the meaning of
such a force expressed in figures.
Let us. then, try to illustrate what
it means. It can be shown that a
bar of solid steel one foot square
would sustain a pull of about 8,640
tons. If the bar were one mile
square it would sustain.a pull of
more than 240,000.000,000 tons. Now
it would take 15.000,000 such bars
to resist the pull of the sun upon
earth. Or. to put it in another way,
if the force of attraction between
the sun and the earth were de
stroyed, and we had to substitute
for it a steel bar, to enable the sun
to hold the earth in check, and pre
vent it from running away, that bar
■would have to be about 3,875 miles
thick!
The earth, which weighs about
six sextillions of tons, is flying in
its orbit with a speed of 18 1-2
miles per second, and it would go
straight away into space if the sun
did not restrain it, and hold it to
its duty, with a force equal to the
strength of a steel bar nearly 4,000
miles thick, or the united strength
of 15,000,000 such bars, each one
mile thick!
Forces of a like nature are acting
upon the earth from all possible
directions. Every planet and ev
ery star is pulling upon It with a
force depending upon its distance
and its mass. The moon joins in the
sport. The moon would run away
from the earth, if the latter, in its
turn, did not restrain it with a
force amounting to about 21.000.-
000.000.000.000 tons, which is equiv
alent to the strength of 87,500 bars
of steel, each one mile thick.
I’he nearest star in the sky pulls I
upon the earth with a force of 90,-
000,000 tons, while the force exert
ed between that same star and the
sun amounts to 5,000.000,000,000 -
tons. All the other stars, at least
a hundred millions in number, pull
The Man Who Is Kept
Dangling
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
IT sometimes happens that a girl
accepts a man w'hen he pro
poses with the undefined and
unexpressed determination not to
marry him.
She wants the joy of an engage
ment. She wants to be adored, to
be entertained, to be loved. She
likes no one better than this man,
but doesn't like him as much as
she likes the freedom of girlhood.
Then again it happens that a girl
refuses a man. but does it in such
away that he has hopes of event
ually winning her.
Perhaps she intends to accept
him eventually Perhaps she thinks
to keep a hold on him till she finds
a man who suits her better.
Not a kind thing to say of a girl,
but. admitting all their sweetness
and attractiveness, there are girls
<>f whom the truth is not kind.
■'Despondent,” who writes the fol
lowing letter, seems to be in a class
of min whom we will call “Dan
glers.” The girl keeps him dang
ling around her; what her final in
tentions are regarding him no one
knows.
One ian only turn to his ow n
know ledge of women and guess,
"1 have been keeping I’ompanv
for some time with a girl I dearh
love but site tells me she doesn't
want to think of marriage. She
keep, > orreitpondlltg with nte in the
most friendly terms ami the last
time I was Invited to call on her I
again extii>»aad mv Im e But she
gain 111 he wouldn't think of
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in a similar way, each according to
its inherent strength and its dis
tance.
It Is amazing to think of ths
cobweb of forces in the midst of •
which we live. You see a spider
suspended in his web. held up by
the strain of hundreds of minut“
threads, each pulling its own way.
Those threads are so arranged
that they act together, and keep
the spider virtually motionless in
the center of bis web. But lhe
earth is not at rest. It circles
around the sun, and the strain of
the infinite forcest acting upon it
is continually changing in direc
tion and in amount. The sun itself
is in motion, flying twelve miles a
second toward the north, and car
rying the earth and the other plan
ets with it. They pull one an
other; the stars pull them.
In books on astronomy the orbits
of the earth and planets are repre
sented as regular curves. They do
maintain a certain regularity, at
least sufficient to keep them from
falling into hopeless disorder, but.
they are not really regular. The
planets all stagger about, more or
less. The path of the earth is
constantly changing a little, now
on one side and now on another.
Jupiter makes it bend a little one
Saturn another, Venus an
other. But the sun is so much
more powerful than any of them
that he keeps the earth, upon the
whole, obedient to him.
It is well to think of these things
whennve look out on a. starry nighl.
It gives a new zest to existence. It
show's us that the universe is not a
mere tinsel display of glittering
specks. It is alive with wonderful
forces, which never sleep. No star
can be so fan away that its influ
ence is not felt, acting upon all its
fellows. Astrology asserts that
the heavenly bodies exercise mys
terious influences. Astronomy
knows nothing of that. Astronomy
finds nothing mysterious in them.
It only finds that they all obey the
mathematical laws of force. It is
true that gravitation is mysterious
in the sense that w r e do not know
what makes it act as it does. But,
on the other hand, it Is as familiar
to us as anything could be. We
see it in action all the time. It is
no more, mysterious than we our
selves are. When Jupiter pulls
upon the earth he does exactly
what the earth does when it causes
an apple to fall from a tree or a
cannon ball to conte down to the
ground after ft has sped away j
• few miles. No matter how fast the
ball may go under the impulse of
the powder, it will fall sixteen feel
toward the ground In the first sec
ond of its flight, ami 48 feet farther
in the second second, and no pow
er known to man can prevent it
from doing so.
Whether in motion or at rest, it
is. tike the earth and all other
things, involved in the universal
web of forces, w'hich never let go
their grip. If man can not explain
the inmost nature of these forces,
he may, at least, pat hitnself on the
back for having contrived to find
out how they act and to calculate
their amount.
such a thing, but wanted me for a
good friend.
“For some time I have persist
ently pushed my case, thinking that
eventually I would succeed, but am
tiow losing hopes of winning her.
I earn $35 per week, and have real
estate and a house. I have no bad
habits, and am considered quite a
looker. The house w'as bought
from my own savings, and without
any outside help. The girl knows
all this.
"What I don't understand is that
she writes such nice letters to me
professing friendship. If she real
ly doesn't care for me at all I
think It would be better to let me
alone entirely."
And that is what she should do
He would then stand a bette'
hance of forgetting her. and could
no longer be classed among those
unhappy, tormented men who are
known as "Danglers."
''Despondent” should make the
girl one more proposal, and tell her
when he makes it that it will be
the last.
If rhe refuses. I hope he will be a
man of his word, ami see that it is
Ute last. A rejection should etWI
their acquaintance, for so long a*
he dangles around her, though
merely as a friend, so long will that
most persistent ami most tenacious
of all growths of love. HOPE, <on
tlntie to plague him
fnle . a proposal of tnerriag*
means the beginning of a new life
with her. Jet It mark the end of the
old on*.
