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EDITORTAIL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THERGEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoftice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1875 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 knoiv that. But could you 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 t In? noon hour .’ Providence puls 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 i' suit he went north lor walrus teeth, south for diamonds, east for rubies, lb? 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 Cord 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 (’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 baud of Socialist workers appeared among the Cordage workers while the latter were eating their luncheon. The Socialist workers invited the Cordage workers to throw off lheir eliaiiis and be free They also invited ’he ('ordage workers to take in their own hands “the means of product ion. 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 Trust and run it for their own profit as soon as possible. Then came 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 al 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 wont 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. Eor a long time the neighborhood was amused by the sight of 1 hi' Socialists, on the one side, yelling: “ House, ye slaves: throw off your chains and be free!" ami 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 lhe Socialist talkers for they owed to those talkers more fun than they had enjoyed in a long time. At last the i 'ordage 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 expeeled to grant lhe injunction, because he said that ora tory 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 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 I nusual is the sillmess 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 lhe Socialists for the brass band. Then the ('ordage 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 he 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 I’nited States. l ite Model Husband lie 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. Oi the ten failing's ascribed by a clever Frenchman as com mon to tlu average man. he has not one. His wife says so. and there can be no better judge. For a man who is a hero to his wfe must be a demi-god to his valet. After fifteen years the lady appli'-x to him lhe words of Goldsmith “The pink of per fect ion.' ’ Familiarity doesnot always breed contempt, but it alwavs breeds an acquaintance with the foibles and weaknesses of erring I h>-re > mi gainsaying that some wives might wearv of k living with a paragon. p 1 ;i there is a good deal to be said for contrasts A skv with never a < loud tires the eye with its sameness. In ordinary mortals a few failings such as are common to ♦tost ol us do a good deal toward cultivating charity in all of us. The Atlanta Georgian A REAL “FISH STORY.” Z-~ > The waters j round the 11 / « '. Our picture coasts of Ir k / ® shows a giant North and ’ A / 1 sturgeon Central Amer- « / S recentl y cau S ht ica have long / O in thc River been famous Fraser N ® W for the enor- £ jH Westminster, .gtjus fish to be H'Wl / Biitish Colum-_ taken there. K® /. K bia> and tarpon WIS /' ffl monster meas- fishing is a by- lalUp W s word among ’ ' M ® inches in sportsmen as a —w length, and means of pro W turns the scale viding excite -jSIIoT Hl pounds, ment. Iwfll • jIS, SHfW M w W J Vr tw -s ft tui w f i •, s il If UK \ a 11 i B ® w! % i > -to wsw Wk X ' d 'i 4 g|||S < ® fcj, ■ Bf J l ; -* Bh f' w 11&- s»ill- f A I ImOMb i Mk >jM MHk ? t jBbO yVCIsM W Sr R ® ;-st I f ’ , I WWW* i«> iPO I HAVE ninny 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 hear out this hypothesis, and strength is lent to it by the recent investigations showing that variations occur in the output of radiation from the stitt In periods of from a few days to several weeks or month's. Occasionally 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. Fanners Were Big Losers. The 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, everywlu re. It is a significant fact that the sun is now in a minimum period of spottedness, and there seems to he no question that its condition in that respect is r< fleet ed in the general character of the weather. But the phenomenon is a com plicated one. and sex. ral minor periods appear to be superposed upon one another, rendering it diffi cult to disentangle the est >ctsi 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 years, probably in conse quence 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 century are the most convincing. Three periods of cold, wet summers and an equal number of hot. dry ones have intervened, from 1806 to 1826 the summers were chilly, with frequent inunda tions. The sen fr ci 1836 to 181(1, and from 1871 to iss.l Between these periods were three other pe riods of hot summers w ith droutns, viz: from 1821 to 15.1.1, |x:»i to 1870 and 1881 to Inna. Taking tin average, it ippe.ir.- that, as far as European records go. the total length of the suing is betwi/n 3b and 35 years, and WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1912. Hie Caprices of the Sun By GAItKETT P. SERVISS each phase lasts about 17 years. 4 1 With tlie 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 maj 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 by the pictures drawn of the perfected men and women of coming centuries. But it must not be forgotten that everything de pends upon the continuance of the < irth in its present habitable and productive state, which, in its turn, depends upon tile condition of the sun. Astronomers have learned a great de il about variable stars; the heav ens are full of them. Those whose variations are extreme, like the star Mira, probably represent a state to ward which the sun is tending. He :: Two Girls :: By WILLIAM F. KIRK. 'T'HERE was a girl I used to love. a With hair as brown as Auhimn leaves. She caused sad sighs and misty eyes— None but a losing lover grives. She mocked me with her little ways— 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. \\ r two were wedded, and we loved. But I lipid oftentimes deceives There was a maid with whom I strayed. Her hair was brown as Autumn leaves. * F is not yet in a very serious condi tion of variability, but the phenom ena of stars which have gone on I 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. I 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 studios 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 D i x Writes on Emotional Complexities T: The Lesson of the Kansas Man Who Couldn’t Tell Which of Three Women He Loved Best. By DOROTHY DIX HOW expansive is the human »’> heart? Has it room in it for more 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 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 young 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 street, and whose face he sees in the curling smoke of his cigar. No. - —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 when he went 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 at her hus band's feet burning incense before him. and who would never sigh 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. How 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 attractions, would do the same thing except that two of the wom en he is enamored of settle the question for him by flaunting him. Not every man may pick and .IB 7 7' 7 • choose in the rosebud garden of 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 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 love as there are people obsessed ’'ith one Idea in business. Occa sionally. too, a man is fortunate enough to find all the qualities h* admires and desires embodied In one woman, or a woman discovers a man who fills the measure of her wants. I nfortunately, however, very few of us are lucky enough to find the one who can be all-ln-a.ll to us, and 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 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 Is no longer young nor beautiful, but has grown old and ugly In her devotion to him, and still a third because her intellect makes her a fit compan ion to him, which neither of the other two women are. It Explains. Tills 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 faiih 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 of emotion. Phis 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 s he was going off with the wife to try to lead a better life. It was shown in the case that the man loved both women, but that he vibrated between them according to his mood. In his bettor moments, he adored his wife and she had great influence over him: but when his baser self was in the ascend ant, when he wanted to drink and carouse, he turned from the good woman to the bad. If further proof were wanted that we can love more than one. it is to be found in the remar riages of widows and widow, is. who generally pick out for No. ? somebody as unlike No. 1 as possi ble. And on the v hole this is consoling thought, mat we can l<»v« not only often, but many. There's always safety in numbers..