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- ( . Edvrh IK Philip li.f. , I. St, by Edwin. Bslmer Alone In Creation, so far as they . n.riew, stood forty-tour man,, fifty , Kftvwn women and two children the survivor of the end of the barth. Two , planets had appeared, hurtling; out of apace. One they- had circled, some " distant sun which we on our earth could have seen only as a star. But .- millions and millions of years ago , occurred - a celestial catastrophe; -these two stranger planets wars .lorn away from their sun. They drifted out Into the dark- . nees. The light and heat from their . sun must have diminished until that 1 sun dwindled to the - appaaranca of ) a star; but Ions , bef or that time " came there oould have been no Uv . .' Ing being left, upon either of' those - planets. The seas nd at last the .-, very atmosphere -the ,j , air frosa olid. The planets war In the all .f but absolute cold of snane between tna stara At' last they . approached our sun: and they stumbled 'unon r tha path ' of smother,; plaaett Our ; r On of these planets, hurtlln but ' f space, was sweeping toward the aartn (and .the moon that ascent inira me sarin; on an ormt mat : would bring; about a eolllslon. It . must destroy tba moon and then the earth: destroy It utterly. This de stroying planet -w the larger of the two. Its companion resembled , tne world In sis. Its path, whH carrying it close to tha world, would bear It by: It would approach but ot collide with tha earth; and' It "in maka its closest approach ba ; "s huge comrade destroyed ua ome human beings, driven by Itself, prepared their escape tne earth,, and how they ao I. iipllshed It, is a story by Itself. This Is the chronicle of tha Ural riva on the New World Bronson Beta, :,: men 01 tne luartn called It. as they i named the awful destroyer, planet Bronson Alpha. This Is the record ,of the emigrants from Earth who h reached tha . nlanet that replaced '' , . ) . CHAPTER i;,V- ELIOT JAMES gat at a metal desk : Inside the. Space Ship which had conveyed 'a few' More ,i homaii beings - from th doomed ', earlh to safety on the son's new planet, Bronson Beta. In front of Eliot James waa bis already Ini '' memorial diary, and over It he poised a fountain pen. He , had . written several . para graphs: , , '. "April what shall I call It! Is 'It the second day of April.' or u It the flrstr The earth Is gone : smashed to fragments; and the companion of Its destroying angel, upon which our, band, of one hnn dred and three Argonaota holds so brief and hazardous a residence, -Is still without ' names, " seasons and months. But April has vanished v.wlth the earth; and for all I know, .Jgprlng, winter, summer and fall may also be absent In the new i world.' t a ti' i i 'I have pledged myself to write In tills diary jevery. day, as Hendron assures me there will be no other record of, our adventures here un til we have become well enough established to permit the .compila tion of a formal history. , "lly companions stand there In the sunshine under the strange sky on our brown earth forty-three ' men, fifty-seven women, two chil dren. They have been singing a medley of songs which nnder other circumstances might seem Irrele vant. Many ot them are foreign ers and do not know the words, but they also 5 slngwlth tears streaming down their faces and a catch In their voices. They gang The Processional anil they sang . arer.Ky God to Thee,' After that tvy gang 'Hail, Hull, the Gang's All Here. Thru they Bang The J .;rsp!'':i'"i' v lih run-'- -"-e lead Is : Katl'i sr and t lluMrj the words, I'lt ,' '. "What a f -..- ,.I Ti-'Je It, the j " lure of I f 1 ' -n or CoSnm l 9 r- !f'!' if it" o. (-9 at 1; f '! d'. i- i""J to ! 1 iince. I-ir .3 Bti , t - s foiiud t: e to ,a r c t, while , ) ill 1 a I 1 cf f re ' IP I H I t I '. ' t. ; 1 1 Vai , i ."to ' " -. , !f tell V tftr-'J ;5 ; '." I!; i ills c?c?.:?z f c-J ?om iri3 net 1 1 t.'.jai.. :::.zMtUiltas rTV Bslmr ) WylU and Philip Wjrlla WHO Service what I Imagine whimsically as the new future readers of jmy notes, I make an apology. This Is our first day on Bronson Beta. My Impa tlence has - exhausted my , eon- science, ' I must lay down my pen, leave the remarkable' ship wherein I write and go oat upon the face of this ' earth untrod by . man. ean restrain myself no longer."! Eliot James walked : down -.the gangplanks and Joined, Tony4 Eve and Cole Hendron. a .- The leader of the expedition nod ded as several of the people on' the edge of the cliff turned toward the Ark." 5 .,'' V ," ' - "Hendron I ' Hendron I What do you want as to do?" they demand ed; for their discipline: yet clang1 to them the stern, ' nncompromls- lof- discipline demanded of " them during the preparation of the. Ship of Escape,' the discipline' of the League of th.e Last Days. V Hendron stepped upon an outcrop of stone, and smiled down at them, "I have made too many speeches," be said." "And this morning Is scarcely a suitable boor for further thanksgiving.- it may be proper and pleasant; later, to devote such a day as the Pilgrims, from one side of our earth to another, did; but like them, it la better to wait un til we feel ourselves more securely Installed.. When such a time ar rives I will appoint an official day and we shall ' hope to" observe It each year."- ,;, , r He 'cast his eye over the throng and continued : "Since-1 know all of you so well, I feel It unnecessary to say that In the days ahead lies a necessity for a prodigious amount of work, 1 -. t , . . . Tour tempers and . Intelligences will be tried, sorely by the new or der which must exist- - Our' first duty will be to provide ourselves with, suitable homes, ana . with a source of food and clothing.. Our next duty will be to arrange for the .gathering of the; basic mate rials of the technical side of our clvtllzatlon-to-be. In all your minds, I know, lies the problem ot perpetu ating our kind.:-!. We have, partly through accident, a larger-number of women than men,: -1 wjsb to dis continue the use -of the word mor ality ; but what I must Insist - on calling ' our biological continuum will be the subject of a very . Im portant discussion, ,-i .' ' "In all your minds, too, is a -burn ing Interest in the nature and fea tures of this new planet We have already observed through - our tel escopes that It once contained cit ies. To study those cities will be an early undertaking..' -While there is little hope that others who at tempted the flight - to this planet have escaped disaster, radio lis tening must be maintained. .More over, the -existence of living mate rial on this planet gives rise to a variety of possibilities, Some of the flora which has sprung up may be poisonous, even , dangerous, : to human life. " What forms it will take and what novelties It Will pro duce, vre must ascertain as goon as possible. I will set bo tasks for this day It- shall be one of rest and rejoicing except-, that I will. delegate - listeners for radio . mes sages and cooks to prepare food for us. ; Tomorrow, and I use an Amer icanism which will - .become our watchword, we will all 'get busy.' " There was a pause, then cheer ing. Cole Hendron, stepped down from the stone. Eve turned to Tony and took his arm. "I am glad we don't have to work today. My mind flies in a, thousand different directions simultaneously, it seems. Where are those cities which, from the world Ut nded world, Tony our telescopes showed us here? What rem.".'ng may we find of their people? . .Cf -their, goods and their 3 aiid t" 'r ninclilnest , . . What, When they found themselves r.-.-er cf c- ci. lotion, lr ! c r-ped .Lcf pkrri. IT ia a J thu ncccc:.r cf Lu-dsij it acsrs sermUy in that being torn 1 away from their sun, did they doT : .. 'i, That monument beside -the ' road that 'we found. Tony what was Itt What did it meant , . , Then I think of myself. Am I, Tony, to .have children herer ; ,, , v' .'A " Tony tightened his elasp upon her amv Through all the terrors .and triumphs, through all- their conster nations and amazements, Instincts, he found, survived, ;, "We will not speak of such things now," he said. "We will satisfy the more immedi ate neeas, sucn as rood deviled eggs and sandwiches; and coffee! As If we were on earth. Eve; - for once more , we are on earththis strange, strange earth. ; Cut we have brought our Identical bodies with us." ' -; - "Sardines I" Duquesne said, "Sar dines 1". Ho rolled bis eyes at half a dozen women standing near him. He took, another,, bite of the, sand wich in his hand. , , .' "A picnic in the summer time on Bronson Beta, children,' Duqueane boomed.- -"And It's .summer -time, you know,- Fortunately, but Inev itably from the nature of events. still summer, My observations of the collision- check quite accurately with my calculations of what would happen ; ; and If the deductions I made from those calculations are correct, quite extraordinary things will happen. We wW have a little class in astronomy, ' He put to use two resources the smooth ver tical surface of a large stone and a smaller stone which he had picked . op ' to ''scratch upon :. the bowlder. '.", 1 " - 1 As Duqueane began; to talk all the members of the group gathered The Earth We Do Not Have. I 8t Down Next the Present Posi tion of This World on Which Ws 8tand Bronson Beta. around the flat bowlder' to watch and listen, v-; v , - "First," he began. Twill draw the solar system as It was." s He made a small circle and shaded It In. "Here, my friends, Is the sun.' He circumscribed It with another circle and said i "Mercury," Out side the orbit of Mercury he drew the.' orbits respectively of Venus, Earth and Mara. "So this is what we have had. .. This Is where we have been. . Now I draw the same thing without the Earth." ' ' He repeated the . diagram this time with : three concentric circles instead ot four. v. A broad gap 'was left- where "the earth's orbit had been, , H stepped away from the diagram and looked at It proudly. So Mercury we have; Venus we ha ve ; and . Mars we have. The Earth we do not have. 1 1 set down next - the present; position of this world on -which we stand Bronson Beta.,, f 1 . ,4 t . H js Here' is our path,- closer to the sun than the Earth has been; and also farther away. . Tbe hottest por tion of this new path of this new planet about the sun already bad been passed when we . fled here. This world had made Its closest approach' In rounding the sun, and It bad reached the point Jn Its or bit which oar earth had reached la April ' Now we are going away from the sun, but on such a path that and under ' such -conditions that only slowly with the days growing colder," "- . "They will become, when we get out on that portion of our path near Mars," a man among his hearers- questioned, "how coldl" Duquesne called upon his comic knack to turn this question. He shivered so grotesquely that the au- - ) xvcrld vr! " 1 law, a new, a.- tion.' 5Jer(; ; O want to X' ' '-v? a9 columns. ':, " Ur , ( , . , t i dlence laughed. . "Thar, most Imme diately Interesting fedture of out strange situation will be, ' my friends,, .the amazing - character of our days- .Many of you have been told of that; o I ask you. Who will ; answerT How , long will be our days I Ton, Mr. Tony Drake. Too,, I know, have become, like so many others, splendid student of astronomy.;. How long 11I be our daysltt'swtn f, --... ) , .; "Fifty hours, approximately," re plied Tony. i ,; "Excellent l' For what determines the length of tbe 4ay J ' Of course, It Is the time which the planet takes to turn upon Its own axis. It has nothing whatever to do with the sun; or the path .about the sun ; It Is a peculiarity of the planet It self.: and Inherent ; In It from the forces which created it at its birth. Bronson Beta happens to be rotat ing on IU axla approximately fifty hours'; so -our days and our nights -r-wlU be a tiiffe more than twice as long 4a those to -which we have become accustomed. Now, how long will our year beT Let one of the ladies speak, this' time 1" '. "Four hundred i and; twenty-eight days!" a - girl's .voice said. Her name was Mildred Pope. ' "Correct," ; ; applauded Duquesne, "If you speak Id terms of the days of our perished planet. It will take tour hundred and twenty-eight of our' old , days for Bronson Beta" -Duquesne; not without , some sat isfaction, stamped upon it "to cir cle the sun ; but of the longer days with which we are now endowed, the circuit will consume only two hundred and five and a fraction. So We will rotate In some fifty hours and swing in toward Venus and out toward Mars, in our great ellipti cal orbit, making a circuit of the sun In -four hundred1 and twenty eight Pf our old days which will live, now only in our memories or two. hundred and, live of our new daya,' Around, and' abdut. In 'and out, we will go let us hope, for ever." His - audience was silent. Du quesne let them atudy bis sketches on his natural blackboard before he observed: "A few obvious con sequences will at once occur to you." , Biggins, who - had dropped his plants while he listened, gave his Impromptu answer: "Of coarse; our summers will be very hot and our winters win be very cold and very Jong." , . - . ' Duquesne J nodded. "Quite so. But there Is one fortunately favor able feature.- What chiefly deter mined the seasons on the. old earth," he reminded, "was the Inclination of the earth upon its axis, i If Bron son Beta had a similar or a greater inclination In reference to the plane of its orbit -around the sun, all ef fects would be exaggerated. But we find actually less Inclination here. ' The equlnoxea 'on Bron son Beta- win not march hack and forth on the" northern and south ern .hemispheres . with such great changes In temperatures. Instead, as we round the, sun at its focus" he pointed with his chubby finger "there will be many, manylong hot days, v Perhaps our: equator at that time will not be habitable. And later, as we round the Imaginary focus out here In space so. near to the orbit of Mars, it may be very cold Indeed, and perhaps then only the equator will be comfortable. So we may migrate four times a year. From the Paris of our new world to Its Nice-r-I mean to say,-from the New York city to Its Miami. Does one think of anything elsefy A silence was broken by a ques tion from Dodson: "How close will we come to, Venus and Marat"' Duquesne shrugged. Eva turned to Dodson and said: "If my figures are right, It will be three (million miles at periods many, many years apart ,' Three million miles from Mars and at the most favorable oc casion about four from TEenus." . Dodson's1 : eyebrows lifted.. .. "Is that dangerous?"! , Eve shook' her bead. "The per- turbatlons of all three plants will, of course, be great But as far as danger of collision is concerned, there is none." . H , , ,. Tbe group was thoughtful. - , -Eve took Tony's arm. ,1 want to , go over and look at the ocean.' "Let's go back and look at that road la daylight," be suggested, - Eve' started. "We've left It all this time I Did you tell Father' about ltr ' " 11 i , , , , , "Not yet" 1,. "-y ft They went over to Cole Hendron, "Last night" Tony said, "Eve end ; were out walking and we found road." (To si aommoxD. . ,ii jl Meets "Erain Duster" ' , By WILLIAM A UTLEY TEOBABIiI s no two persons I 'ever agreed upon Just what the senator from North Caro lina : actually said to the senator from South Carolina. Perhaps none of the thousands of physics exam ination papers- turned in by stu dents has ever settled Indisputably Just what happens when the Irre sistible force meets the immovable body, , But. with two great meetings of scientists recently come to a close, we now' have some light on What happens when -a Brain Trust er meets a Brain Duster-nand a host of other Information new about us and what goes on around us. - The two meetings were at' Chi cago and Pittsburgh. The Chicago meeting, a gathering of the member-scientists of twelve . : learned bodies, was a conclave of Brain Dusters of economics and- sociology ''outside, the - pale-, of governmental affairs who met principally , to dis cuss the' antics, and the eventual destinations of their brother profes sors at tbe nation's helm in Wash ington.;. The Pittsburgh affair, the convention of the 'American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Sci ence was more concerned with the lighter things. which are not quite so noticeable in the American lime light as the moment, such as Ein stein's ' equation . for tnter-conver-slon of mass and energy, the true secrets of cosmic rays, and wheth er or, not-figh. have hip-bones. But even this meeting eventually got around to talking about the Brain Trust and tbe New Deal, so maybe everybody's doing it . Prof. Walter J. Shepard of Ohio State- university, president of the American Political Science asso ciation, 'burned the brightest torch of the -Chicago meeting. In typical professional rhetoric he declared: "The Ideology of the New Deal Is Left: The Van do Oraaf Generator. Right: Manipulating the 8olar Heat Collector. Illogical, Inconsistent and turbid." For Improvement he advocated a progressive centralization of gov ernment with . the desirable ele ments of Fascism. Of the New Deal he said : "Its program is a mass of undigested and contradictory experiments. It veers first to the right and then to the left It embodies In Its personnel men of tbe -'most diver gent views. And yet at the polls It receives unprecedented major ities. But the support is not all enthusiastic. If there is ahy lead ership in the New Deal, It is the leadership of mounting every one's horse and dashing off in every di rection at once." Trend to Centralization. The definite and increasing trend of centralization ' of governmental authority and responsibility dem onstrates the country's Fasclstlc -tendencies, said Professor Shep ard.. He indicated that "the Presi dent must retain his authority and responsibility, but an advisory staff agency must become a central fea ture In governmental reorganiza tion." '':. As an evil phase of Fascism. Pro fessor Shepard -cited Louisiana, re ferring unmistakably to Huey Long, although hot speaking the senator's name, and declaring that "there the people have surrendered themselves completely to a political adven ture." .;-..; Going further, he said: "In Louis iana we see a frank denial of democratic Ideology and democrat ic Institutions. Dictatorship stalks across the state naked and un ashamed." v He pooh-poohed the possibility of national dictatorship so long as the people kept their wits about them. "We need not fear dictatorship as long as we , preserve the guaran tees of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of as sociation, and as long as we make education,' untrammeled by propa ganda and unfettered by subservi ence to any end or purpose, the central - goal,: the supreme value of our civilization." 0, '; - - America's outstanding, character istics are individualism,-, democ racy and . hnmanltarlanlam, and there are for that reason no les sons for ns to gain from the ex periences - of other countries, ac cording to Prof. Ernest W. Burgess of the University of Chicago, pres- m i raster ldent of the American Sociological society. , , , r - r "Far more Important than the rising tide 1 ot .- public criticism against: alleged waste and misman agement of . relief administration Is the - fact the- relief giving, as more than an emergency program, run counter to the basic concepts of lndivlduallBm and democracy. A solution Is demanded that provides opportunity for work and for free dom from Investigation and from regimentation," said Professor Bur gess. "The program of the Tennessee Valley authority 'may be taken as a crucial case in long time social planning. :: Its success or7 failure may exert a profound Influence on the future course of social planning In the United States, . "It Is only too. apparent that If the customs, attitudes and reactions of the people of . the valley are not as funy studied as the geographic and economic situation, the project Is likely to be a partial, if not a complete, failure." " '. w, , Tbe United States must soive Its problem alone, Professor Burgess said. It must forget about what hag happened to other countries In, the search for true recovery. He' de clared the current German, Italian and Soviet experiments are not and cannot be understood by Ameri cans, adding that any proposals for collective or controlled society at any time In the near future are completely hopeless. New Deal Policies. Others of the scientists at Chica go were vexed at the New Deal policies. Frederick Cecil Mills of Columbia, president of the Ameri can Statistical association, called it "a form of social suicide." James Waterhouse Angell, another Columbia economist, said: "The rising public debt and governmental IPf lnflatlon, which the process of pump-priming almost invariably car ries with It are precisely the fac tors best calculated to destroy pub lic confidence and to discourage private business recovery1." John Rogers Commons of the University of Wisconsin refused to become ruffled over the New Deal at all because most of the New Deal leg islation "will be declared unconsti tutional In the next few months, anyway." The Brain Trusters took a neat flaying about the ears In the sec ond exhibition bout with the Brain Dusters, this one at Pittsburgh Administration leaders sparred from the speakers' platform in an at tempt to Jab the charted and graphed defense of the convened scientists with charges that new Dr. E. W. Burgsss. - " conditions and new psychology war ranted the New Deal methods but the veterans were undismayed. ' Prot Edward S. Mason of Har vard gave the New Deal a stinging right Just above the heart "It Is said that the NBA Is on the tobog gan and I might add that It Is too bad that the slope is not steep enough."' ,' He Teferred specifically ' to the fixing of prices, which he described as appearing In : some .700 -codes, and, called the v codes themselves neglected and Inadequately en forced. He- said that If . control were to be evaluated In terms of .1 j cry, n.ve nau,u;4 -to te used. . j "I don't see how, the adm: tlon can. get ont," said Pro. Mason.. "There Is too much p teal prestige involved.1 Each c authority constitutes a large powerful bureaucracy.":. ?: :; : Economic security was dlscu. by Edwin. TL White, a member the National Committee on Econom ic Security; "Economic recovery," he said, "must continue as the mala objective of government." ' ,; ' The . essential ' ' legislation . t achieve security he outlines J mothers' pension extensions ; nation- , wide health service to cut the cost of medical care; vocational train ing for the physically handicapped, and further specialized training tor , the unemployed youth''- I "There are nearly 8,000,000 peo ple over sixty-five -who., an s ,dc.j, Prof. Albert E. Einstein. pendent 700,000 of them on federal relief," he said. . "By I960 we will have twice that many over sixty five, facing a burden that cannot be escaped, regardless of legislation. . Unemployment Insurance is only a first line of defense. There is some danger that it will be launched with too high hopes. It will do nothing for those now un employed." Einstein Expounds. However, aa far as the meeting of the Association for the Advance ment of Science was concerned, of far more Importance than the dis cussion of New Deal policies was the visit of the distinguished Prof. Albert E. Einstein to furnish ele mentary mathematical proof that matter Is Just a form of energy. then pass the whole thing off as too, Impractical to be of any use to man In his search for power, anyway. Herr Professor said that energy. although It is the basis of every thing, even life, is locked away In the infinitesimal nucleus of. the atom, and trying to get it out is an almost hopeless task. "It is like hunting birds in a cuuuiijr nuuo uwru arts very lew birds, and In pitch darkness," he said. Demonstrated at the Pitts burgh conference was a model of the 10,000,000-volt Van de Graalt generator, with which scientific marksmen hope to bombard the atom. The generator releases bul lets of electricity at a speed 100,000 times as fast as a rifle bullet Some 1,200 papers, totaling more than 1,500,000 words, were read and discussed at the meeting, their rev elations Including sundry startling, informative tit-bits .ranging from the fact that snowshoes and skis originated in prehistoric Asia to the undeniable actuality that fish blush and that doesn't mean the "poor fish" who Is made the goat of the party, either but there, the animal life is getting all mixed up. Of more than passing Interest to all economical housewives and hus bands who-' pay the bills was the "sun cooker" demonstrated to the ' S.dOO scientists by, Charles Greeley: Abbott of the Smithsonian Insti tute, a great authority on the rays of the sun. The present Abbott cooker will absorb enough solar rays to reach a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit A former one, upon which Dr. and Mrs. 'Abbott cooked all their meals for three months, heated up to 365 degrees. One of Mae West's ancestors In the days of the dim, shady, prehls- -torlc past may have been a mermaid, for all Mae or science knows, ac cording to information presented by Prof. William King Gregory of Columbia university ; he showed that even fish have hips. ' This was discovered when he traced the evolution of the pelvis from fish to man. The hip-bones are little rods attached to the backbone, but help ing to support the rear fins, , It was . the development of the pelvis through the ages which made am phibians capable of crawling, ani mals to walk on all fours, and finally man to crawL . : -, v Many of the findings of the Pitts burgh meeting were of the most hu man nature, close to oar daily lives. For Instance, Prof. A. L- Winsor and E. L. Strongln of Cornell uni versity came forth with the scien tific proof that the best time to en Joy a smoke of tobacco Is the most popular time of alt Just after a couple of caps of black coffee. They -' have opposite effects on the human - soothing the effect of the cigarette. "0 The two together do much to avoid, , hands and quickening of tbe pulse ' which follow ordinary smoking. , ' ' ',' Q. Western Mswspassr Union... f
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