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EDITOR! AU 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 8, 1878. Subscription Price —Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, 8500 a year. Payable in advance. I You Live on a Wheel With a Pneumatic fire MM* 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 Bv IIERSIIFIELD. Taw rT 1 1 Ari'. X N >- Z j a\ Si 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 f ■H-Mar ..... I r j. JWRisL 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». ’ - •• 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