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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 postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. IST* Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail. $5.00 a year. Payable In advance. Says the Judge: “It Might Mean Loss of Dollars” M « M The Socialists Will Probably Reply, ‘ Loss of Dollars Is No More Important Than Loss of Ideas.” Providence works mysteriously—and performs wonders. You know that. But could you believe ihal 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 the noon hour? Providence puts the venomous tooth in the serpent which probably caused primitive man to make a pair of shoes. The pair of shoes made him a good walker, and so he spread over the earth. 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 (lord 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 Cordage Trust cared as little about the noon hours of its employees as about the fourth dimension or the sweet influences of Pleiades. Suddenly a band of Socialist workers appeared among the Cordage workers while the latter were eating their luncheon. The Socialist workers invited the Cordage workers to throw oft' their chains and be free. They also invited the Cordage workers to taka in their own hands ‘‘the means of production.” This meant, in plain English, that the Socialists were urging the Cordage workers to strike for more money right away, and vote to take the Cordage Trost and run it for their own profit as soon as possible. Then came the wonderful change in the heart of the Cordage Trost. 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 to dance—for the sake of 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 or the bunny hug. They sent friends of man, tried and true, that could talk louder than a brass band For a long time the neighborhood was amused by the sight of the Socialists, on the one side, yelling: “Rouse, ye slaves: throw off your chains and be free!” and the Cordage 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 oourt was interesting. The judge granted the injunction, because he said that oratory in a commercial dis ti4ot blocking the streets ‘‘might mean a loss of thousands of doll are. ” The Socialists, of course, replied 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 country seemed to consider ideas at least as important as dollars, since they adopted a constitution that forbids interference with free speech Smug prosperity has often shown itself silly in dealing with its problems. Unusual 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 to drown it. Naturally, the workmen thank the Socialists for the brass band. Then the Cordage Trost 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 trebly thankful. They are advertised industriously by almost every pros perous idiot, in the United States. she Model Husband He does not smoke, drink, gamble, swear, play cards. He is brave, generous, intelligent. Who is he" The husband of a Cin cinnati wife the perfect man. the pride of Ohio. Os the leu failings ascribed by a clever Frenchman as com mon to the average man. he has not one His wife says so. and there can be no better judge For a man who b a hero to his wife must be a demi-god to his valet. After fifteen years the lady applies to him the words of Goldsmith -‘ The pink of per fect ion." Familiarity does not always br< < d contempt, hut it alwavs breeds an acquaintance with the foibles and weaknesses of erring man. There is no gainsaying that some wives might weary of Jiving with a paragon. ■k Alter all there is a good deal to be said for contrasts. A >kv never a cloud tires tin eye with its samem-sx In ordinary mortals a few failing h as are common to jnost oi us do a good deal towaid cultivating charily in all of us. The Atlanta Georgian A REAL “FISH STORY.” .... ~.7. / round the S / .' ft . Our P icture coasts of 1 ’W. % shows a giant North and SF*’ / fll I sturgeon Central Amer- *lOl i recently caught ica have long / .|T in the River been famous .» / Fraser at New for the enor- /, Westminster, mous fish to be / ; ||| British Colum- taken there. uhr /, b’ a - and tarpon lOWi / monster meas- fishing is a by- ured 13 feet word among yftW 'SH M 6 inches in sportsmen as a ’ WaSllr ft length, and means of pro ftMlk ■ft turns the scale viding excite- IWU w at pounds, ment. IlWfe . lOa ft V-w iftifrfe ft It f f w W MEif I r\ ;O‘ i ~ \ 1 ftl MHHk \ < tiL wo fcij IB JI mL jr-‘i l A Jrßlßik? h * j Sop J t w ; njar J. ■ Will B ® ; I ■■ ———— ■ ' • —— (HAVE many times insisted upon the fact that the chief cause of the variability of the weather in successive seasons is to be. sought, not upon the earth, but in the sun. The meteorological vaga ries of the past few years seem clearly to bear out this hypothesis, and strength u» lent to it by the recent investigations showing that variations occur in the output of radiation from the in periods of from a feu days to several weeks or months. OccasionaJly the difference amounts to as much as five or six or even ten degrees. At times the sun seems to experi ence a kind of fainting tit, and the earth, depending upon the sun for its supply of surface heat, feels the consequences. Farmers Were Big Losers, I'he past summer, beginning ear ly with a burst of unseasonable heat, changed suddenly in charac ter. became cool and rainy, and enormous losses were experienced by farmers, mote in Europe per haps than in America, although the defect of solar radiation seems to have been noticed, more or less, everywhere. It 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 disentangle the effects. A very interesting table has recently been published in Europe by Pro fessor Bruckner which seems to show that the seasons undergo no table variations in a period of from 30 to 35 teats, probably iti conse quenee of changes which repeat themselves In the sun Records extending back over sev eral centuries reveal this peculiar ity but those beginning with the nineteenth tentury are the most convincing Three periods of cold, wet summers and an equal number of hot, dry ones have intervened. From 1 sot; to 1826 the summers were chilly, with frequent inunda tions Tile same ftam. 18:16 to 1850, and from IXTi to 1885. Between these periods wa re three other pe riods of hot summers with drouths, viz from s.'l to !535. 1851 to I 8 70 ami ISx . to I Mo" I a kin g th* a v erag• , it <pp,- ar’ that, as fat ns Hump. . n tc ords K" th, tot.i length of tin .vitr.g is between in and .1. years, and WEDNESDAY, ()(TOBER 2. 1912. Hie Caprices of the Sun By GABRtITT P. SERVISS each phase lasts about 17 years. \\ ith the 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 the future, however re mote it may be. All the hopes of humanity are now concentrated up on the future development of the race. We talk of the marvelous effects that the science of eugenics i. e.. of human improvement—is to produce as the fruit of scientific research, and the imagination is stirred b\ the pictures drawn of the perfected men and women of coming centuries. Rut it must not be forgotten that everything de pends upon the continuance of the earth in its present habitable and productive state, which, in its turn, depends upon the condition of the sun Astronomers have learned a great deal about variable stars; the heav ens ate full ~f thorn. Those whose variations are extreme, like the star Mira, probably r< present ;i state to ward which the sun is tending. He :: Two Girls :: By WILLIAM F KIRK 'T'HERE was a girl 1 used to love. i With hair as brown as Autumn leaves. She caused sad sighs and misty eyes— None but a losing lover grives. She mocked me with her little way s She spurned me. flouted me. and tied. "What s love to me ! I whispered then. Because I said my love was dead. There was a girl I learned to love. A girl with hair like sun-kissed wheat. A girl with wealth and youth and health. With twinkling eyes and twinkling feet. \\ c two were wedded, and we loved. But ( upid oftentimes deceives. There was a maid with whom I strayed. Her hair was brown as Xiitiiiiin leaves. • 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 upflamings, with in tense. but brief, outpours of heat and light, followed immediately by a rapid loss of energy . The end will be the entire extinction of the sun, 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 critcal stages, when rapid develop ments will take place. This is the reason why the studies of the sun. which are now being pursued by astronomers with a diligence never before shown, are of such universal • interest. THE HOME PAPER Dorothy Dix Writes on Emotional Complexities Tt The Lesson of the Kansas Man Who Couldn’t Tell Which of Three Women He Loved Best. HOW expansive is the human heart? Has it room in it for mote 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 the same time has committed suicide because he was unable to tell which of the three 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 farfey, and the girl that it would be good hard 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 rvhat manner of ' oung women the three graces' weie 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. Tims: No. I—A peach. Tall and wil lowy, with a lissome figure, golden hair, starry eyes, milk and ro-es shin—the kind of a woman that every man turns to look at on the street, and whose face he sees in the curling smoke of his cigar. No. 2—No beauty, but pleasant and wholesome looking. Blight, 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 tvhen he tvent off to enjoy himself. No. 3 —A household angel. A pretty, demure little creature, with sleekly-banded hair and dovelike eyes, who could be safely counted on to spend her life al he hus band's feet burning incense before him. and yvho would never sign for any amusement more exciting than darning stockings and rocking ba bies to sleep. The kind of a woman that a man pictures in his vision of home, and who is irresistibly ap pealing because she is the very spirit and essence of femininity. Hoty Is any man to choose be tween these three? No wonder the Kansas love committed suicide as the easiest way out. Many another man. so torn between conflicting all-action’, would do the same thing except that iso of the nom en he is enamored of settle the question sot him by flaunting him. Not every man may pick and 1 ■ / >3wSK$ / f V k . c r >* >‘^ 9 ■’ Jb By DOROTHY DIX ’?• choose in the rosebud garden of girls, and thereby many have the , question of which one they shall i 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 we 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 people of one Idea In ote as there are people obsessed ".‘th onp idea In business. Occa sionally. too. a man is fortunate enough to find all the qualities he a mires and desires embodied tn one woman, or a woman discover’ a man who fills the measure of her wants. Unfortunately, however, very few Os us are lucky enough to find the one who can be all-ln-an to w , this is what makes it possible, and even common, for us to love two or more people at the same time and for entirely different reasons woman may love one man cause he Is good to her. and an. other because of his brilliance, and still another because of his irre pressible gayet.v that makes him l.ke an eternal splrft of her. -an wII] love one woman for her radiant young beauty, and an other because she is no longer •voting nor beautiful, but has grown old and ugly i n her dPVot , on him. and still a thlnJ because her intellect makes her a fit compan ion to him. which neither of the other two women are. It Explains. - - I his 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 th* heart is a Jekyll and Hyde affair that requires a different phases of 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 as he was going off with the wife to try to lead a better life. It was shown in the ease that the man loved 4 both women, but that he vibrated between them according lo his mood. In his better moments, he adored his wife and she had great influence over him: hut when his baser self was in the ascemi ant. when lie wanted to drink and carouse, he turned from the good woman to the bad. If further proof were want'd that we can love more than one. it is to be found in the remar riages of wi4jj»v.« and widow < «. who generally nick out for No. 2 somebody as unlike No, i as pee- • hie. And on the «hob this 4 a consoling thought, tn.it «« ran love ■ not fully often, but many There s I always safety in numbers.