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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 En'ered as second-class matter at postofllce at Atlanta, under act of March 3,187 S. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week Uy mall, 15 00 a year Payable in advance You Live on a Wheel With a Pneumatic Fire r 9. r Did That Ever Occur to You? » » . -a - - . _ - - ———new -I IW » I ■ aw- awt 1 1■ I tea i 1 —w— Did you ever n itic* 1 iio-v we take the big things for granted —and make a great fuss over th** little, freakish things? Men studied ECLIPSES ■>;’ tin buii and moon LONG BE FORE THEY BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT THE DAILY RIS ING AND SETTING OE THE Sl’','. They took for granted the marvellous truths of the universe and worried over the little eccentricities of natural phenomena. If th".*’ I id studied the sun’s apparent movements as they stu died ’h« eojipses. hey might have discovered much earlier lhat thr is round- THEY might have dared to go outside Gil raJtar s Straits, or “The Pillar- of Hercules." with no fear of falling oft’ the earth's edge, anil they might have discovered America earlier and wound up the trust phase of life centuries hack. Wc 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 hall bearing axle and the tire of air make us think and scratch our heads and say. “How wonderful is man!” What about the big hall of earth you live on? Did if ever occur to you that the earth runs on an air tire also, turning round and round on its spiral spin through ever lasting spare with the ether for ball bearings.’ HOW is the air a pneumatic lire for the earth, do you ask? It IS that, absolutely. And. besides keeping us alive, that tire of air saves us and our planet many millions of bumps that would make life here impossible. Have yon ain idea how many hundreds of millions of me teors have struck this earth? Do you know that we are bombarded by meteors every dav, as the lire nf 4i flying automobile is bombarded with pebbles? Do you know that the tail of a eonu t hit us and swiped us. at least once Ihe meteors flying masses of rock. iron, copper and other metals vary in size from small pebble sized dust to stone pro jectiles Ihe 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 < ■ our earth's surface constantly, slaughtering ns. 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. Hying with speed incredible, comes in contact with our atmosphere AND IS MELTED. In spite of the tenuity of our atmospheric air. the friction at sinh speed suffices io melt the projectiles lhat bombard us. so that they fall to tb.e earth in harmless, disintegrated dust and do ns no harm. Constantly the lust 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 till up the ocean so that, like the Martians, we shall have to dig canals to hold the ocean’s waters and prevent their covering the earth two miles deep all over and driving us to death or a houseboat civilization. Does it interest yon to think of these things out of which not a cent can be made? Do yon like the notion that we little human creatures simply live inside of a pneumatic tire, breath ing Ihe air in the tire, and traveling through the immensities of space shielded by lhat tire from the rough spots in our celestial journey, and digging our food out of the rim of the wheel on which we travel? II is funny Io think of us little creatures adrft in the ocean of space. We set up onr little machines on this great driving wheel that carries ns. We struggle with one another, have our comic tights for newspaper supremacy, political supremacy. tinan ei.ii supremacy. We kill one another in ipiarrels as to the nature of the I’ower that rules us. and we row londl,\ when we achieve some trivial Utile success There are miserobes in the dusty air ins de 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 ear'h's big air tire to watch our struggles and listen to our boasting. Alimony and High Cost of Living Not only has the price of food risen to such a degree that the poor housekeeper is complaining from <>i nd of the land to the other, but also the price ot wife desertion las gone up in< hicago and in Baltimore many cases have been presented to the courts by wives who have felt the pressure of the high cost of k living asking 'or more libera] allowances, and in nearh all of them F harmd jurist s have agreed So perhaps, (he high cost of living mat accomplish some good : 11 • 1,1 ■ aki ni! hi is band* eon tint to remain a' liotm The Atlanta Georgian Gr < xX \~ i i ’''Lei- * G' ll" x - s w<“ ' *A\whl /--££• 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 PACIELER \ WOMAN —the woman who owns the St. Louis Cardinals has a new cure for the di vorce exit. Ft is for women to talk baseball to their hustyinds of an evening instead of telling them about how much meat has gone up, and how bad the children have been and that the cook is going to leave. * 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 tineside if his wife would hold him in sweet discourse about ma jor leagues and minor leagues, and batting 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 and wives are harmonious in , rlv years of their married ife. 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 h< r husband's trousers to help him pav for a partnership In a little business, or to buy their first home, you never hear of her thinking that she is misunderstood and not ap . r .'hired. nor does he discover that she isn't Ills 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 in 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 sit ting on on. side of the house and the women herded on the other. Men and women have few inter ne's In common, anti after the mate hunting season with both is past, each sex segregates to itself. Exit pt with the very young and the perennially flirtatious, men pre fer to talk to men, ami women to women and mixed conversation Is m v< t so animated or so Interesting as the heart-to-heart talks that women carry on at their hen par ties and men indulge In nt their clubs This 'a. k of a mutual interest Is even mou noth cable in the family circle th. n It l» tn society. Only too often the husband Ilves one life and th" wife another and the Ilf. The Great Political Show TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1912. Bv HERSH El ELD. By DOROTHY DIX. ’of each is a terra incognito that the other does not even try to ex- I plore. The husband is absorbed in j his business. He thinks in the terms of business and speaks the language of commerce. ,f he were to try to talk to his wife about DOROTHY DIX puts, and calls, and bull, and bear markets, and the technicalities of bls 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 wax. and the woman goes hers, each chiefly interested tn something the other cares nothing for, ami 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 tile children or the bills. H.'iiei the Introduction f base bull or any other mutual Interest tp o th> ilmmsft. arena would be a godsend and II would indeed g *f happy hour in which hubby took ’he same joy in rushing home to describe one of Matty's curves to wifey as he does in standing with one foot on the brass rail and tell ing it ail Io 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 tile mar riage tie would be strengthened if ; husband ami 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 xvii-n every woman will be a rooter for the na tional game. Hut why should women always be told to interest themselves in the subjects that interest their Ims- I bands, while nobody ever advises a man to try to take any real heart interest in the subjects that in terest his wifi'? 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? . Why Should She? Why should a woman discuss baseball with her hutband rather than be discuss the new' fall styles with her? Surely what :s 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 about, but who ever heard of a husband who v oitld take tlie trouble to try to find out the latest news from Paris, or who '>v< r thought of devoting, in hoqr 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 wont to deride the feminine opin ion on the ground of its being ig norant. yet nothing surpasses the 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 with out ever knowing whether it is or not. There should be reciprocity in these matters, ami if women were to interest themselves in sports in or der to be abb' to entertain their husbands, men should brush up < little on the topic.- that l:*ten good to their wives. Turn about is fair play THE HOME PAPER Hearst’s Congratulations v**> Sent to Sulzer and Glynn New York Now in the Lead Mr. Hearst Predicts That Wilson Will Carry I wo-1 birds ot All the States and That Sulzer ar.d Glynn Will Hut New York at Head of Democratic States. The following cable messages were receivt 1 from W. R. Hearst, who Is in London, William Sulzt-r and Mariin <jlynn: “Yom- Progressive Priiu-i-des Have Endured fruin the Beginning. ’’ Tn William Sulzer. New Y .i 1 -': 1 am delighted beyond r.ieoure .it your nomination. I shall place eyprv force I control at your disposal and s ial: labor with heartfelt enthusiasni fur your election. Your long record of wise and loyal service deserves the fullest recog nition from the people, and, furf'.ter-nore. ins,lies to "the people an able. .- ficient and progressive s'tate administration. You and Mr. Glynn should be elected by the unanimous indorsement of the progn ssive voters of New York for your progressive principles h;m endured from the b. ginning-, have of'qn been tested and have always pruv- d genuine. WILLJAM RANDOLPH HEARST. “I Am Hastening Home to Wmk for Wilson and Aiar hall, Sulzer and Glynn. ’’ To Martin Glynn, Albany: Your nomination gives me not: only the gri itest personal pleasure, hut the highest civic satisfaction. Your splendid as comptroller was a delight to your friends,-a credit to your id" ami a vindication of the policies of the Into pendence-League and of true Demociacy. I have long looked forward to th-’ day when tb.e Democracy of New York would lead the nation in the adoption of pNsr< . uve principles and the nomination of progi-sstve caniildati s. That da-.' is now at hand, and I am hastening home to work for Wilson and Marshall and Sulze> and Glynn. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. I Garrett P. Seryiss Writes on The Bird Man ’ s Highest Flight Garros in His Aeroplane Mounted Higher Than the Loftiest Mountain in Europe. By GARRETT P. SERVLSS. ON the Sth of September, flic - ros, tlie French aviator, in his Bleriot monoplane, soar ed to tin elei 1,900 n that is, about 16.072 feet, or 396 feet higher than the summit of Munt Blanc, the giant of the Alp.-. This is 232 feet more than three miles straight above sea level. Long before he had reached his high. s. point he had disappeared cornpb tely f’om view of those watching from below, like a bird swallowed from sight in the blue immensity. He avers that he could i;i-ily bave gone higher but for a failure of his motor. A Long Plunge, In ascending curves he wound upward, Piking one hour and five minutes to attain the vast eleva tion that marked th? summit of his fb 'lit. His retu: a was almost a plunge earthwa d. occupying only fifteen minutes. His vertical de scent must have been made at the rate of more than I.OOu feet a min ute. but the actual speed was far greater than that, since, as in as cending. he wound downward in curves and long ■w ■ ps. Yet. he landed without a- -ie- nt. If he had fall'-n from a height of 16,000 feet he would, neglecting the retarding effect of the air, have leached the eartii in about .01 sec onds. and would have struck it with a velocity a trilli abose 1,000 feet per second. Yet. hit ’esci-nt resefnhled a fall to the eyes of the startled specta tors. But at no time did lie lose control of his apparatus, or of his nerves. The highrst previous ascent of an aeroplane was achieved by the Ac. : "ian, ’ 'la.- elite, in 1911. \\ iio attained .hi •'evation <>f Lil'bi me ters, or about 1:1.972 feet HARRY ING A P'.SSENGER. It I’appensf that I ■ v-' is e-u st .■x. i i't ‘ / the height of Pike's Peak. At ~m ■ - ai!■ m 'f mil’ s above sea level th<ya tnc sphe. e be comes relatively very thin. The pressure sinks to about one-half, and tile prop, rtinn of oxygen is no tieeably diminished so that breath ing beeom's more difficult. Garros avoided all trouble fioni th s source by car ying "it!’ biin a. . . atus for siipp’.. g oxygen, as : mm fre quently done by the climbers of high mountains A Useful Feat. t <if cou’-s. performance- like those vs G.-iri g and Bli.sehtc are lip’ • f.-its but th ■ at- useful as showing the i-ire of the u-roptan. to attain heights « :ach Mr ■'*' w* iB -A? Shsi •* j *■* "ation. On** have said that the mere diminu tion of the weight of the air wouM havt prevented'the effective opera tion of ’lie driving apparatus, espf rfially since tile ability of these ma chines m soar depends upon support which they derive from ■ air. The secret is in speed. A skater can shoot safely over mi i it"' that vvo'uld break beneath him if ile went slowly. -Man Inis-now shown that, by me chanical means, without 'he aid f the asoensi<m:il force of hydrogen gas ineiosto in a ba’lloon, iie can far surpass tl.e loftiest flight of the birds. No eagle ventures so high, and perhaps no other feather'd creature, with the possible excep tion of the great condor of the An dos. ever .-it'nins an eleva'ion f three miler, I’on.ider how rapidly tiiis power of human flight has been attained. It seemed nut yes-, terday when the Wright brotrnrs wei e astonishing thousands of trifled spectators by •heir eir< tlkT flights a few yards above tile - ’ii. and now mon sail securely aw ax up in th' b.ue. beyond the utmost reach of watching eyes, surpass ing the summits of mountains ""it seem to support the don: ■ of :he heavens on their broad b.i'l-.-'' Serves to Give Confidence. Xnoiher effect of th<*so lofty flying is that they tv :o give confidence to those who have no ambition to mount so achievements of i> Napoleon in-pi;' 1 many a genera! who is that ho possesses none of the - llius of tlie great conqueror, ami the inimitable wink of Slink' lireallies something of its p"” ■ ' into the mind of the humb' r writer It has always been so in oxw human advance. I’irst come daring spirits which disregard obstacles and laugh nt all d.tn-' "■ and after them follow those xvh" ■ •> pand the novel powers that in" ■on given to man on a more < n monly useful level. The adm'r’- tioh and wonder that Caries ■ excited will result in drawing i’ tlie field of aviation many r who, without seeking to riva’ feat, w ill perhaps more usefully velop the new art of flying " w hi' b Lord Kelx in. the si lentitic authority living at ’ glnnihg of the twentieth c-nri"'- • declared to be beyond hum achievement Would that h" have lived a few years lone', read in bis morning pope" man had flown, with min" 1 wing", higb.-r than Mont Hum' ■