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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 m second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1875 ButMe.lptKA. -Tice—Delivered by earl ier, 10 cents a Meek. Ey ir,-11, $5 00 ». voar. Payable in advance. ISays the Judge: “It Might* Mean Loss of Dollars” ! The Socialists Will Probably Reply, “Loss of Dollars Is No | More Important Than Loss of Ideas.” | Providence works mysteriously—and perforins wonders. You know that. But could yon believe that the mysterious workings of Provi dence could actually compel such an institution as the ( ordage Trust to provide brass bands and turkey trot music for its employ ees at Ihe noon hour .’ Providence puts the venomous tooth in the serpent—which probably caused primitive man Io make a pair of shoes. The pair of shoes made him a good walker, and so he spread over the mirth. Providence made man a vain, monkey-like creature, and as a result he went north for walrus teeth, south for diamonds, east for rubies. He dug into every hillside for gold, and went down to the sea’s bottom for pearls. Vanity put man in all of the earth. The latest news is that Socialism has actually helped the I'ord age Trust to display a touching interest in the welfare of its em ployees while the latter are eating lunch out of tin buckets or news paper packages at noon. Originally the I'ordage Trust cared as little about the noon hours of its employees as about the fourth dimension or the sweet influences of Pleiades. Suddenly a hand of Socialist workers appeared among Ilie Cordage workers while the latter wore eating their luncheon. The Socialist workers invited the Cordage workers to throw off I their chains and be free They also invited the Cordage workers to take in their own hands “the means of production.” This meant, in plain English, thatdhe Socialists were urging the Cordage workers to strike for more money right away, and vole to lake the ('ordage Trust anil run it for I heir own profit as soon as possible. Then c.ame the wonderful change in the heart of the ( ordage Trust. It decided that the Socialists must not have a monopoly in the amusing of working men and women at the noon hour. The Cordage Trust actually hired brass bands to delight its ’ workers at noon and to drown the voices of the Socialist orators. The trust even went so far as to provide turkey trot and other pro fane music and to encourage its employees Io dance for the sal cos their digestion-—from twelve to one. But the Socialists went right on. offering arguments queerer and more fascinating than any step in the turkey trot qr the bunny i hug. They sent friends of man. tried and true, that could talk • I louder than a brass band. For a long time the neighborhood was amused by the sight ol the Socialists, on the one side, yelling: “Rouse, ye slaves; throw off your chains and be free!” and the ('ordage Trust, on the other side, yelling; “Come, now. be good employees, and dance the tur key trot at our expense, and don't listen to the Socialists'' The workers of the trust, rather intelligently, persisted in en couraging the Socialist talkers for they owed to those talkers more fun than they had enjoyed in a long time. At last the Cordage Trust dragged the Socialists into court, de manding an injunction to keep the Socialists from talking to the workmen at noon The action of court, when it comes, will be interesting. The judge is expected to grant the injunction, because he said that ora tore in a commercial district blocking the streets “might mean a loss of thousands of dollars.’’ The Socialists, of course, will reply that shutting them up might mean a loss of thousands of ideas, that the noon hour is the hour for ideas anyhow, and that the founders of this count ry seemed t.o consider ideas at least as important as dollars, since I hex adopted a constitution that forbids interference with free speech Smug prosperity has often shown itself silly in dealing with its problems. I’nusual is the silliness that financial prosperity shows in dealing with the Socialism that it apparently dreads so much. Socialist orators arrive on the scene, and the trust that hates Socialism hires a brass band Io drown it. Naturally, the workmen thank the Socialists for the brass band. Then the Cordage Trust goes to court and tries to find a judge that will forbid workmen to talk to other workmen in their own noon hour of leisure—-of course, workmen acquainted with the dis honest record of the Cordage Trust and the undesirable character of its birth and breeding will be particularly eager to hear the things that such a trust wants suppressed .Many a man and many a cause have had reason to be thankful for their enemies The Socialists ought to be doubly and treblv thankful. They are advertised industriously by almost every pros perous idiot in the I’nited States, ' The Model Hiisband He does not smoke, drink, gamble, swear, pint card-- lie is brave, generous, intelligent. Who s he’ The husband of a Cin einnati wife the perfect man. tin pride of Ohio Os the ten failing' ascribed by a elever Frenchman as com- I mon to the average man. he has not one His wife savs so. and there c. H |>e no better judge For a man who is a hero to his w.'o i! usl be a 1< aii a.Hi to nis valet. \tjer title n years the applies io him the word' of Coldsin th “The pink of per feel ion I-anp; arjt \ does'not always breed contempt, lint it always breeds an e.-qim niam-e with the foibh ' and weaknesses of erring { man. There s no gainsaying ’that some wives might weary of i living with a paragon Alnrall there sa good deal to be 'aid for A sky with never a cloud tiro ih, , y t . with iis 'i-iu t;. " In ordinary mortals a lew fail ngs 'iteli n» .-i > - .million i > most ot us do a good deal toward cultivating charity in all of u>. The Atlanta Georgian ■ A REAL “FISH STORY.” Z - _ 7 , .. ■ The waters !« ■' round the ® PiCtUr ® coasts of . \ k shows a ant North and ' / / Q > sturgeon Central Amer- ■ recently caught ica ha ve long | 7 J *** Ver been famous Z1 Fraser at New lor the enor- Westminster, fish to be ’f 'y: ; ' British Colvm- taken there, . 4. V>.. bia- ne and tarpon 'll monster meas- fishing is a by- “ ur3d 13 feet word among 1 ® inches in sportsmen as a ■ 0 length, and means of pro > W -W turns the scale viding excite- sss& w at 905 pounds. """■ ®i S' jsKb I vB W MB J I V-- A* N f . 1 .K J I I Bl x ’ ■ 1 % S HW •> fcJi ilk^ >l| - A ■ w fl aMkli - gpgK -Ck •/ a. z I The Capi 'ices of the Sun By GARRETT P. SERVTSS IHAVE many tilths insisted upon th<> fact that the chief cause of Hie varialrility of the weather in successive seasons is to he sought, not upon the earth, but in the sun. Th. meteorological x.iga ries of the past few years seem < learly to bear out this hypothesis, and strength is lent to it by the recent investigations showing that variations occur in the output of radiation from tin sun in periods of from a few days to several weeks or months, tier isionally the difference anmunjs to as much as five or six o<- even ten degrees. At times thr 1 stm seems to experi ence a kind of fainting lit. and the earth, depending upon the snn for its supply of surface heat, feels the consequences. Farmers Were Big Losers. The past summer, beginning ear ly with a lmr-t of unseasonable heat, changed suddenly in charac ter, became cool and rainy, and enormous losses wire expei i.-need by farmers more in Europe per haps than In America, although the detect of solai 'adiation seems to have b» en notic' d, more or less, everywhere. I( is a significant fact that the sun is now in a minimum period of spottedness, and there seems to be no question that its condition in that respect is reflect ed in the general character of the weather. But the phenomenon is a com plicated one. and several minor periods appear to be superposed upon one another, rendering it diffi cult to di'cntangle the effects. A very interesting table has recently been published in Europe by Pro fessor Bruckner whi< h seems to show that the seasons undergo no table xariatioli' in a period of from 30 to yeats. probably in conse quence of changes which repeat themselves in the sun. It. ( ord.' extending back ox er 'W ■ tai centuries reveal tlii' p.a ulia’ itv, but those biginning with the nan te< nth i entury ar the most eonx ill. mg., Thre< period' of cold. number of not. dry it . - have intervened l-ron ism; to lx .'** the summers Were .hilly, with frequent inunda tion.' Th sum- fr.m IX3G to 1' 0. and Hom IX7I to ts.V. Betwaen Hit', period' Were thl..' other pe riods of hot summers with drouths, viz from ts.'l to IS:l.’>. ISM tn 1 x,"«» ano tsxs to llitltl Taking th- ax. rag., it appear' WLDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1912. ' each phase lasts about 17 y< at s. With tile year 1900 a new period of cold and wet summers began, with an occasional interruption, as last year, which does not arrest the general tendency. .According to these figures, those of us who were born near the middle of the last century can not expect to see a renewal of the genial seasons to which we were accustomed in our youth before 1916 or 1917. The philosophic mind loves to look toward tlm future, however re mote it Unix be. All th' hopes of hnmani.y are mux cone ntrated up on th" future development of Hie rh o. We talk of the marvelous • fl> < t that the scii nee of eng. nice —i. e.. of human improvement—is to product as Hie fruit of scientific res. arch, and the imagination is stirred by the pictures drawn of the perfected men ami women of coming centuries. But it must not b. i .rgotten that everything de pends upon the continuance of the earth in its present habitable and productive state which, in its turn, depends upon Hie condition of the sun Astronomers have learned a great dealabout variable stars; theheav ells ar.- full ot' them. Those xx hose variations are extreme. like the star Mira, probably r. pr sent a state to waid which the sun is tending, ih :: Two Girls :: By WILLIAM F KIRK vv;is :i oi|-] | used to love. * \\ iilt hair as brown as Autumn leaves. She caused sad sigdis ami misty eyes— None hut a losing' lover grives. ''he mocked me with her little ways- She spurned me. flouted inc. and tied. “What s love to ine.'“ I whispered then, I'ecatise I said my love was dead. There was a girl 1 learned to love. A girl w ith hair like sun-kissed wheat. A girl with wealth and youth and health. With twinkling eyes and twinkling feet. We I u o were wedded, and we loved. But t upid oftentimes deceives. I hem ng' a maid with w hom I stray ed, lb i‘ hair was Iq-own as Autumn |ea\ es. •r is not yet in a very serious condi tion of variability, but the phenom ena of stars which have gone on much further than he has done in the process of decay’ show clearly to what he is approaching. The Period of Universal Death. The time will come when the so lar radiation will be reduced one half. and then three-quarters, and finally be completely extinguished. In the meanwhile there will be vio lent changes, like those of a dying fire; sudden uptlaniings. with in tense. bul brief, outpours of heat and light, followed immediately by a rapid loss of energy. The end will be the entire extinction of the sun. 1 and then the earth will be buried in cold and darkness, the atmos phere will be solidified and descend upon the surface of the whole globe like a blanket of snow, and univer sal death will reign over this now beautiful planet. Fortunately for us, these changes are slow—at least, we have reason to think they are slow. But. in reality, we know little about them, and they may unexpectedly reach eritcal stages, when rapid develop ments will take place. This is the reason wlty the studies of the sun, which are now being pursued by astronomers with a diligence never before shown, are of such universal •j« interest. THE HOME PAPER Dorothy D i x Writes on Emotional Complexities W7 The Lesson of the Kansas Man i - Who Couldn’t ' Tell Which ol Three Women x i He Loved Best. / HOW expan.-ive is the human heart? Has it room in it for moie than one occupant at a time? How many can we love at the same moment? A Kansas man who was in love with three women at tlye same time has committed suicide because he was unable to tell which of the thr e he loved best. This is going the poet, who said that he could be happy with either dear charmer were t’other dear charmer away, one better in the matter of ability to love, but it does not come any nearer settling the problem, and leaves the ques tion of the number and variety of heart throbs to which a man may be simultaneously subject still up in the air. No Cause to Scoff. There is no cause to scoff at the predicament of this poor Kansas martyr’s susceptibility to feminine charm. Any man who is what the old English novelists used to call, "a man of sentiment,” must have been in pretty much the same quandary, and spent many a sleep less night while he contrasted Maude, and Gwendolyn, and Jane, the girl who came up to his ideal with the girl who fired his fancy, and the girl that it would be good bard horse sense to marry, and tried to decide which one of them made his heart go most pit-a-pat. The reports of the Kansas trag edy do not state what manner of 5 oung* women the three graces were between whom the Western lover found it impossible to decide, but it does not take much imagination to supply the missing details and get a. living picture of them. Thus: No. I—A peach. Tall and wil lowy, with a lissome figure, golden hair, starry eyes, milk and roses skin —the kind of a woman that every man turns to look at on the stieet. and whose face he sees in the curling smoke of his cigar. No. 2—No beauty, but pleasant and wholesome looking. Bright, entertaining, a good-fellow girl, who plays golf and fishes, and rides, and reads, and makes a cheery, en tertaining companion of whom one would never tire. Would make the sort of a wife a man wouldn't want to leave at home when he went off to enjoy himself. No. 3—A household angel. A pretty, demure little creature, with sleekly-banded hair and dovelike e.v es, who could be safely counted on to spend her life at her hus band's feet burning incense before him. and who would never sigh foi any amusement more exciting than darning stockings and rocking ba bies to sleep. The kind of a woman that a man picture.' in liis vision of home, and who is irresistiblx ap pealing because she is the very spirit and essence of femininity. How is any man to choose be tween these three? No wonder the Kansas low committed suicide as the easiest way out. Many another man. so torn between conflicting attractions, would do the same thing except that two of th ff wom en he is enamored of settle th” question tor him hx flaunting him. Not every man max pick and By DOROTHY DIX •p choose in the rosebud garden >f girls, and thereby’ many have th question of which one they shall pluck decided for them. The Old Idea. Os course, to the ultra-romantic the idea of a man loving in bunches, so to speak, is sacrilege. They are strong for the theory that in real love there must be an ONLY ONE. the ONE man or woman In the whole wide world for that particular lover. Also xxe all subscribe to this theory as regards the feeling that another of the op posite sex entertains for us. No doubt sometimes this Is true. There are penpie of one idea in love as there are people obsessed with one Idea 1n business. Occa sionally, too, a man is fortunate enough to find all the qualities h e admires and desires embodied In one woman, or a woman discovers a man who tills the measure of her wants. I nfortunately. however, verx- few Os us are lucky enough to find the one who can be all-in-all to us. and this Is what makes ft possible, and even common, for „„ t 0 love twn or more people at the same time, and for entirely different reasons A woman may love one man be cause he Is good to her. and an other because of his brilliance, and still another because of his Irre pressible gayety that makes him like an eternal spirit of joy about her. A man will love one woman for her radiant young beauty, and an other because she 1s no longer mung nor beautiful, but has grown old and ugly In her devotion to hint, and still a third because her intellect makes her a fl t compan ion to him, which neither of the other two women are. It Explains. This does not excuse, but It ex plains. the fact that many men who lead the double life display the greatest devotion In their care of their wives and their generosity to them. Women intuitively sense this strange phenomenon of life, and It Is what makes It possible for many a wife to forgive her faith less husband because she knows that In spite of his vagaries he loves her still. Indeed, it is hardly too much to say’ that with many people the heart is a Jekyll and Hyde affair that requires a different phases "t emotion. This view of the cast was most startlingly brought out in the testimony in a celebrated murder case in this city a few years ago. A man married to a beautiful and noble woman of high ideals was shot and killed by a squalid little girl of the gutters just is he was going off with the wife to try to lead a better life. It was shoxyn in the case that the man loved both women, but that be vibrated between them according to his mood. In his better inu.i ev’-" he adored hi.® wife and sin- I gii-at infiuenee over him: but wh* . his basset self -va - in th.- as. - .. - ant. when he wanted to drink and carouse, lie turned from the good woman to the bad. If further proof were wanted that we can love more then or’ it is to be found in the remar riages of widows and widowers. «ho generally pic k out for - as unlike No. 1 ns pos' • bio. And on the whole this is ' eon.-oling thought, that wo ■ .in ’ not only often, but many There s always safety in numbers.