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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Ry THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga.. Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 187? Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail. $5 00 a year. Taj able in advance. 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. « , , ' Va/HATa 1 CARH \ I I OON’T GOTTa \ .. y ' ■ I <5-0 To SCHOOL _-U Coe * oo \ 'Til SEPTEMBER- jppl|;|==— _ 1 ' =^ a:!x ~T~ —— 11 '■ I" 14 WSb ■■' r If I ''Hi' ' wW 'Vf% ■ I II * • Mt P/a t ' ' KIP V ■ 'WSr" ~~~ '■ il|i|& 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. Wlllr lEo v4iBc.?HMkK) 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) . « 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 « 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*.