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I You Live on a Wheel With
a Pneumatic fire
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Did That Ever Occur to You?
Did you ever notice how we take the big things for granted
—and make a great fuss over the little, freakish things?
Men studied ECLTPRES of the sun and moon IjONG BE
FORE THEY BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT THE DAILY RIS
ING AND SETTING OF THE SUN.
They took for granted the marvellous truths of the universe
and worried over the little eccentricities of natural phenomena.
If they had studied the sun’s apparent movements as they stu
died the eclipses, they might have discovered much earlier that
the earth is round. 'THEY might have dared to go outside
Gibraltar’s Stnrfta, or '*The Pillars of Hercules,” with no fear of
sassing off the earth's edge, and they might have discovered
America earlier and wound up the trust phase of life centuries
back
We have all marvelled at the ingenious pneumatic tire which
upholds us on our 'bicycle or runs over us on some one else’s auto
mobile. The ball-bearing axle and ths tire of air make us think
and scratch our heads and say, ‘‘How wonderful is man!”
What about the Mg ball of earth you live on!
Did it ever occur to you that, the earth runs on an air tire
also, turning round and round on its spiral spin through ever
lasting space with the ether for ball bearings?
HOW is the air a pneumatic tire for the earth, do you ask?
It IS that, absolutely. And, besides keeping- us alive, that
tire of air saves ns and our planet many millions of humps that
would make life here impossible.
Have you any idea how many hundreds of millions of me
teors have struck this earth?
Do you know that we are bombarded by meteors every day,
as the tire of a flying automobile is bombarded with pebbles? Do
you know that the tail of a comet hit us and swiped us, at least
once ?
The meteors—firing masses of rock, iron, copper and other
metals vary in size from small pebble-sized dust to stone pro
jectiles the size of a house.
Once in a great while a big one comes through the air with
out being entirely melted and hits.
Without our pneumatic tire, THE AIR. these meteors would
smash down on our earth’s surface constantly, slaughtering us.
wiping out nations at certain times of year when we pass through
millions of meteors in our journey around the sun.
But the dangerous meteor, flying with speed incredible,
comes tn contact with our atmosphere AND IS MELTED. In
spite of the tenuity of our atmospheric air, the friction at such
speed suffices to melt the projectiles that bombard us. so that
they fall to the earth in harmless, disintegrated dust—and do us
no hiwm.
Constantly the dust of disintegrated meteors falls upon the
surface of the earth; every- year it raises the bottom of the ocean
just so much. And if we last long enough, it will fill up the
ocean so that, like the Martians, we shall have to dig canals to
hodd the ocean’s waters and prevent their covering the earth
two miles deep all over and driving us to death or a houseboat
cfvffizstion.
Does ft interest yon to think of these things -out of which
not a cent can be made? Do you like the notion that we little
human creatures simply live inside of a pneumatic tire, breath
ing the air in the tire, and traveling through the immensities of
apace shielded by that fir* from the rough spots in our celestial
journey, and digging our food out of the rhn of the wheel on
which we travel?
It Is funny to think of ns little creatures adrift in the ocean
of space. We set up our little machines on this great driving
wheel that carries us. Wc struggle with one another, have our
comic fights for newspaper supremacy, political supremacy, finan
cial supremacy. We kill one another in quarrels as to the nature
of the Power that rules us. and we row loudly when we achieve
some tririal little success.
There are miscrobes in the dusty air inside the tire of a big
automobile.
If we could hear their talk they would seem to us as funny
as we seem to the big spirits that look into the earth's big air
tn-'- to watch our struggles and listen to our boasting.
Alimony and High Cost of
Living
Xot only has the price of food risen to such a degree that the
poor housekeeper is complaining from one end of the land to the
other, bin also the price of wife desertion has gone up.
In <’hi< .go and in Baltimore many easeshave been presented to
■ eeur's h\ wi\<s who have felt the pressure of the high cost of
’ n or I,ore liberal allowances, and in nearly all of them
an ,i jurists have agreed
P
mi •in- husbands content to remain at home.
The Atlanta Georgian
I The Great Political Show
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There was an Old Man who said, “How
Shall I flee from this horrible Cow?
I will sit on this stile and continue* to smile,
( Which may soften the heart of that Cow.”
—From Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense.
BASEBALL -AS A HOME PACIFIER
A WOMAN—the woman who
owns th* 4 St. Louis Cardinals
—has a new cure for the di
vorce evil. It is for women to talk
baseball to their husbands of an
evening instead of telling them
about how much meat has gone up,
and how bud the children have
been, and that the cook is going to
leave. t
She says that the recipe for a
happy home is for the wife to be
come a fan. and that no man would
desire to wander away from his
own tireside if his wife would hold
him in sweet discourse about ma
jor leagues and minor leagues, and
hatting averages, and other thrill
ing dope of the diamond."
To a degree the lady baseball
magnate Is right. Nothing holds
people so much as a mutual in
terest. This is why so many hus
bands nnd wives are harmonious in
the early years of their married
life, while they are struggling and
saving, and toiling together to get
a start in the world, but who drift
apart as soon as they get married,
and are no longer absorbed in a
common aim
As long as a woman is doing the
cooking and washing, and patching
her husband's trousers to help him
pay for a partnership In a little
business, or to buy their first home,
von never hear of her thinking that
she is misunderstood and not ap
preciated, nor does he discover that
she isn’t his real soul mate They
are interested in each other be
cause they have a mutual Interest.
Why We Lead.
Undoubtedly one of the reasons
why America leads the world tn
divorce Is because men and women
in this country touch life at so
few points together in reality, we
are still provincial, and tend to
ward the Quaker meeting house
state of society, with the men slt
• ting on one side of the house and
the women herded on the other.
Men and women have few inter
ests in common, and after the
mate hunting season with both is
past each sex segregates to Itself.
Except with the very young and
the perennially flirtatious, men pre
fer to talk to men, and women to
worm n. and mixed conversation is
never so animated or so interesting
as the heart-to-heart talks that
women carry on at their hen par
ties. and men indulge in at their
clubs
This la. k of a mutual interest Is
even more noticeable in the family
circle than it is In society. Only
too often the hmib.'m! 111, sone life,
and tin Wlft .umti.l. -nd the life
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX.
.J. of each is a terra incognito that
the other does not even try to ex
plore. The husband is absorbed in
his business. He thinks in the
terms of business and speaks the
language of commerce. > r f he were
to try to talk to his wife about
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Will
DOROTHY DIX
puts, and calls, and bull, and bear
markets-, and the technicalities of
his business, she would not under
stand.
The wife, on her part, is absorbed
in fashion and society, subjects
which bore her husband stiff, and
if she were to try to talk to him
about the topics uppermost in her
mind she would be speaking Greek
to him.
So the man goes his way. and
the woman goes hers, each chiefly
Interested in something the other
cares nothing for, and this is why
most husbands and wives yawn in
each other's faces, for they have
literally nothing to talk about un
less they quarrel over the children
or the bills.
Hence th- introduction of base
ball t .mi other mutual Interest
in'o th<- done stle arena would be a
i nd, Hilo it w-'Uld iud' i d bv a
** happy hour in which hubby took
the same joy in rushing home to
describe one of Matty’s curves to
wife.x as he does in standing with
one foot on the brass rail and tell
ing it all to the barkeep. It is also
pleasant to think of wifey holding
husband spellbound of an evening
while she recounts to him the va
rious plays of the game she saw,
and that he couldn’t get off to see.
Nobody will deny that the mar
riage tie would be strengthened if
husband and wife had a mutual
fad, and took their pleasures to
gether instead of singly. Nor is
there any arguing the question that
the deadly dull conversation that
prevails in the home would be en
livened by having a topic in which
both husband and wife were inter
ested, and if baseball will do this,
heaven speed the day when every
woman will be a rooter for the na
tional game.
But why should women always
be told to Interest themselves in the
subjects that interest their hus
bands, w hile nobody ever advises a
| man to try to take any real heart
interest in the subjects that in
terest his wife? Isn't it just as
much up to a man to try to enter
tain his wife as It is to her to try
to make herself agreeable to him?
Wliy Should She?
Why should a woman discuss
baseball with her husband rather
than be discuss the new fall styles
with her? Surely what is sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gan
der. As a general thing wives do
try to read up and post up on any
subject they think their husbands
like to talk aJbout, but who ever
heard of a husband who would take
the trouble to try to find out the
latest news from Paris, or who ever
thought of devoting an hour to a
discussion with his wife of whether
panniers are really coming In. and
! the short sleeves going out?
In business and sport men are
i wont to deride the feminine opin
ion on the ground of its being ig
norant, yet nothing surpasses tlig
colossal ignorance of a man on the
topics dear to a woman, and who
can have his wife ask him for forty
years If her hat is on straight w ith
out ever knowing whether It is or
not.
There should be reciprocity In
these matters, and if women were to
interest themselves in sports in or
der to be able to entertain their
husbands, men should brush up a
little on the topics that list, n good
to their wives. Turn about is fair
play.
THE HOME PAPER
Hearst’s Congratulations
Sent to Sulzer and Glynn
•?•••!• v«-j-
New York Now in the Lead
Mr. Hearst Predicts That Wilson Will Carry
Two-Thirds of All the States and That Sulzer
and Glynn Will Put New York at
Head of Democratic States.
The following cable messages were received from W. R. Hearst, who Is
in London, by William Sulzer and Martin Glynn:
“Your Progressive Principles Have Endured from
the Beginning.”
To William Sulzer, New York:
I am delighted beyond measure at your nomination. I shall place every
force I control at your disposal and shall labor with heartfelt enthusiasm for
your election.
Your long record of wise and loyal service deserves the' fullest recog
nition from the people, and, furthermore, insures to the people an able, r.
flcient and progressive state administration.
Yoi; and Mr. Glynn should be elected by the unanimous indorsement of
the progressive voters of New York, for your progressive principles have
endured from the beginning, have often been tested and have always proved
genuine. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
“I Am Hastening Home to Work for Wilson and
Marshall, Sulzer and Glynn.”
To Martin Glynn. Albany:
Your nomination gives me not only the greatest personal pleasure, but
the highest civic satisfaction. Your splendid record as comptroller was a
delight to your friends, a credit to yourself and a vindication of the policies
of the Independence League and of true Democracy.
I have long looked forward to the day when the Democracy of N v
York would lead the nation in the adoption of progressive principles and
the nomination of progressive candidates. That day is now it hand, and I
am hastening home to work for Wilson and Marshall and Sulzer and Glynn.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
Garrett P. S lerviss
Writes on
The Bird Man’s
Highest Flight
Garros in His Aeroplane Mounted
Higher Than the Loftiest
Mountain in Europe
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
. the Sth of September, Gar-
I I ros, the French aviator, in
his Bleriot monoplarre’.'-soar
ed to an elevation of 4.900 meters,
that is, about 16.072 feet, or 396
feet higher than the summit of
Mont Blanc, the giant of the Alps.
This is 232 feet more than three
miles straight above sea level.
Long before he had reached his
highest point he had disappeared
completely fiom view of those
watching from below, like a bird
swallowed from sight in the blue
immensity. He avers that he could
easily have gone higher but for a
failure of his moror.
A Long Plunge.
In ascending curves he wound
upward, taking one hour and five
minutes to attain the vast eleva
tion that marked the summit of his
flight. His return was alrtiost a
plunge earthward, occupying only
fifteen minutes. His vertical de
scent must have been made at the
rate of more than 1,000 feet a min
ute, hut the actual speed was far
greater than that, since, as in as
cending, he wound downward in
curves and long sweeps. Yet, he
landed without accident.
If he had fallen from a height of
16,000 feet he would, neglecting the
retarding effect of the air, have
reached the earth in about 31 sec
onds. and would have struck it with
a velocity a trifle above 1,000 feet
per second.
Yet, hiu descent resembled a fall
to the eyes of the startled specta
tors. But at no time did he lose
control of his apparatus, or of his
nerves.
The highest previous ascent of
an aeroplane was achieved by the
Austrian. Blaschte, in 1911, who
attained an elevation of 4.260 me
ters. or about 13.972 feet, CARRY
ING A PASSENGER. It happens
that this is almost exactly the
height of Pike's Peak
At an elevation of three miles
above sea level the atmosphere be
comes relatively very thin. The
pressure sinks to about one-half,
and the proportion of oxygen is no
ticeably diminished so that breath
ing becomes more difficult. Garros
avoided all trouble from :hls source
bv carrying with him apparatus for
supplying oxygen, as is now fre
quently done by the climbers of
high mountains.
A Useful Feat.
Os course, performances like
those of Garros and Blaschte are
mere feats, but they are useful as
showing the power of the aeroplane
to attain heights which w«”>d have
been deemed impossib a but lite
;ip
3». ’
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•• actual demons: tition. One wonld
have said that, the mere diminu
tion of the weight of the air won' I
have prevented the effective opera
tion of the driving apparatus, •
eially since the ability'of the- : m -
chines to soar depends upon tha
support which they derive from the
air. The secret is in speed. A
skater can shoot safely over t' ir
ice that would break beneath him it
he went slowly.
Man has now shown that, by me
chanical means, without the aid of
the ascensional force of hydrogen
gas inclosed in a balloon, he can far
surpass the loftiest flight of the
birds. No eagle ventures so high,
and perhaps no other feathrn <1
creature, with the possible excep
tion of the great condor of the An
des, ever .attains tin elevation of
three miles. Consider how rapidly
this power of human flight his
been attained. It seemed but yes
terday when the Wright brot! rs
were astonishing thousands of eh ,
trifled spectators by their circular
flights a few yards above the soil,
and now men sail securely away ip
in the blue, beyond the utmost
reach of watching eyes, surpris -
ing the summits of mountains that
seem to support the dome of the
heavens on their broad backs’
Serves to Give Confidence.
Another effect of these feats of
lofty flying is that they serve to
give confidence to those who have
no ambition to mount so high. T 1 •
achievements of a Napoleon tnspir
many a general who is conscioic
that he possesses none of the g«
nius of the great conqueror, :
the illimitable work of Shak< - )•• zi
breathes something of its power
into the mind of the humbler
writer.
It has always been so In eveti
human advance. Eirst come ' ■
daring spirits which disregard
obstacles and laugh at all dang’
and after them follow those who ex
pand the novel powers that ha'
been given to man on a more co’ -
monly useful level. The admira
tion and wonder that Garr, s I
excited will result in drawing ii.
the field of aviation many rec i
who, without seeking to rival
feat, will perhaps more usefullr
velop the new art of flying —an art
which Lord Kelvin, the big
scientific authority living at th' -
[ ginning of the twentieth cen’ut
declared to be beyond hum
achievement. Would that In
have lived a few veals longer,
read in his morning paper tl' ' 1
man had flown, with man- ">•
| wing.-, higher than Mont Blum I