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THE DALLAS POST will tend its support and offers the use of its
oolumns to all projects which will help this community and the great ruras-
suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve-
ments:
1. Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in
Kingston township and Dallas.
2. A free library located in the Dallas region.
3. Better and adequate street lighting in
Fernbrook and Dallas.
4. Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas.
5. Closer co-operation between Dallas borough and surrounding townships.
6. Consolidated high schools and better co-operation betwen those that
now exist.
7. Adequate waten supply for fire protection.
Trucksville. Shavertown,
American business will move ahead vigorously in 1935.
This is the consensus of leaders of trade and industry based
upon successful experience in operating during the year and
a half that have passed since President Roosevelt approved
the Recovery Act in June 1933.
Business optimism concerning 1935 is based upon con-
crete results in the year just closed.
In attempting to forecast the future of business in 1935
BUSINESS
AND THE
NEW YEAR
lions of men, the shortening of work-
weeks, the raising of minimum wages, the
addition of billions of dollars to the na-
tional income, the elimination of child labor, the wiping out
of suicidal competitive practices—these are truisms that ns RRL
will stand repeating.
Of great importance at this time in estimating the trend
of business in the New Year is a survey recently conducted
among business publications. The volume of business done
in the first quarter of 1935 will be larger in most lines, in|
the opinion of editors of leading industrial publications, as
revealed in this survey by Associated Business Papers, Inc.,
according to the Associated Press.
Generally, better earnings were seen as a likely accom-|
paniment of the rising activity, by editors of 125 publica-
tions which are members of the Association of Business
Papers. In some cases, it was felt, profits may not increase |
in proportion to the greater gross because of advanced oper-|
ating costs through higher wage and material bills and price
instability.
Here is a summary of some of the predictions made by |
editors in touch with special lines of business.
Department-store sales are expected to continue their
recent gains into the first quarter of 1935; hardware and
shoe buying for the spring is already progressing in increas-
it is well to recount a few of the achieve-|
ments of 1934. The reemployment of mil-|
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ed volume; production of shoes, which in 1934 was only 10,- |
000,000 pairs behind 1929, is expected to duplicate the 1934 |
performance in early 1935.
Automotive trade papers predict a material pick-up in
their industry in the first quarter of 1935 as compared with |
last year. The steel outlook is encouraging, according to
the heads of publications in that industry. Editors following
the machine-tool trade consider the prospects for the com-
ing quarter bright in respect both to volume and profits.
Wholesalers of electrical apparatus, after a rise in business
in 1934 estimated at 35 percent, are expected to show a still
further improvement in coming months.
Building-trade editors see some confusion in the first
quarter as the industry awaits clarification of public-works
plans, and the passage of needed mortgage legislation in
many States. For the full year, however, it is felt that resi-
dial building might even triple the 1934 totals, while re-
modeling may be twice as active as in 1934.
* * *
Pennsylvania’s monthly toll of deaths from automobile
accidents at railroad crossings is consistently a tragic fi-
gure. A sharp increase in reported deaths in November
compared to October, according to a com-
pilation just completed by the Safety Re-
search Bureau, makes last month’s record
particularly ghastly. This bitter story of
sudden death continues despite improved
braking and vision for motorists.
Why then, should fatalities increase? The answer is ap-
parent at nearly every grade crossing. Inadequate protec-
tion—protection which is really only a travesty—protection
which leans too much on the frailty of human senses. A
warning is not necessarily ‘a protection. There must be
found some REAL protection for rail-highway crossings.
American inventive genius must be able to supply this
need. The time undoubtedly will come when some device or
plan will be evolved which actually PREVENTS accidents
without regard for the will of the motorist.
HERE'S A
RELIEF
PROJECT
Until that time comes accidents will continue to in-|
crease. As the speed of trains is stepped up and the num-
ber of crossings multiplied, the spectre of sudden death will
hover where rails and highway meet.
Safety education is not enough. The federal govern-
ment, the state and the municipality must act. Pennsylvania
and other states with an increasing number of reported
crossing deaths may well give serious thought to this safe-
ty issue.
Be
| power.
Edwin Balmer
and 4
Philip W Aue
Gyright By Edwin Baber &PhilipWylie 57
WNU Service.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1935.
THE NARRATIVE
CHAPTER 1.—David Ransdell, approach-
Ing New York on the liner Europa, re-
oeives a succession of radiograms offer-
ing him $1,000, finally $20,000, for an ex-
elusive newspaper interview divulging the
mission that brings him from South
Africa. Ransdel), noted aviator, has been
secretly commissioned at Capetown by
Lord Rhondin and Professor Bronson, the
astronomer, to fly across the Mediter-
ranean to the fast liner, with a large
traveling case containing photographic
plates. His instructions are to deliver
them to Dr. Cole Hendron, in New York.
Tony Drake calls at the Hendrons’ apart-
ment. Ransdell arrives and Eve Hen-
dron, with whom Tony is deeply in love,
Introduces Tony to Ransdell.
CHAPTER Il.—New York newspapers
publish a statement made by Hendron
and concurred in by sixty of the world’s
8reatest scientists. The prepared state-
| ment says that Professor Bronson has
discovered two planets, which must have
broken away from another star or sun
and traveled through interstellar space
for an incalculable time, until they came
| to a region of the heavens which brought
them at last under the attraction of the |
sun. The statement ends: ‘“Their previ-
ous course, consequently, has been modi- |
fled by the sun, and as a result, they are
now approaching wus.” ‘he result of the
inevitable collision must be the end of
the earth. The approaching bodies are
referred to as Bronson Alpha and Bron-
son Beta, the latter being the smaller—
about the sizes of the earth.
CHAPTER
doomsday,
Eve. “No,
Dawn after doomsday,” she
She explains that the first time the
Bronson Bodies approach the earth they
II1.—“It’s
isn’t it?”
going , to be
will not hit it, but the second time, one, |
Bronson Beta, will pass, and the other
devise means of transferring to Bronson
Beta, so much like the earth, is what
is occupying the minds of the members
of the League of the Last Days.
CHAPTER IV.—Hendron tells Tony he
is to be a member of the selected crew
of the projected Space Ship which Hen-
dron plans to build, with the idea ‘of
landing on Bronson Beta, and the scien-
tist advises him to gain a knowledge of
agriculture and proficiency in manual
arts and elementary mechanics. Tony
rounds up suitable men and women to
build the ship at a cantonment Hendron
established in northern Michigan. [..
CHAPTER V.—Hendron has not-beén
able to find a metal or an alloy which
will withstand the heat and pressure of
atomic energy to be used in propelling
the Space Ship. The night before Hen-
dron and his immediate party are to fly
to Michigan the tides rush through the
streets of New York.
CHAPTER VI
The first black clouds which Tony
had observed marked the beginning of
an electrical storm. The tremor he
felt presaged a steady crescendo of
earth-shakings. He left his hilltop
soon and found that the population of
the colony which, an hour before, had
retired for the night, was again awake.
He met Hendron and several scientists
making a last tour of inspection, and
| he joined them.
‘The dormitories,” Hendron said,
“are presumably quake-proof. I don’t
think any force could knock over the
buttresses we have put around the
projectile.”
Even as he spoke, the wind in-
creased, lightning stabbed the sky, the
radiance of the Bronson Bodies was
permanently extinguished, and the
gusty wind was transformed to a
steady tempest. As shock followed
shock, people began to ‘pour into the
outdoors.
Tony tried to locate Eve, but was
unable to do so in the gathering throng,
It was difficult to walk on the wide
cleared area between the various build-
ings, for the ground underfoot fre-
quently forced itself up like the floor
of a rapidly decelerated elevator. The
lightning came nearer. The thunder
was continual. Tt was hard to hear
the voice of one’s nearest neighbor.
Tony, with half a dozen others, rushed
into the brightly illuminated women’s
dormitory and hurriedly brought from
it into the tumult and rain those who
had remained there,
By ten o'clock the violence of the
quakes was great enough so that it
was difficult to stand. The people hud-
dled like sheep in a storm in the lee of
the buildings. Lightning hammered in-
cessantly on the tall steel tower which
surrounded the space-fiyer. Tony
moved through the assembled people
shouting words of encouragement he
did not feel.
Shortly after eleven an extraordi-
narily violent shock lifted one end of
the men’s building so that bricks and
cement cascaded from its wall. Tony
had the floodlights thrown on the land-
ing field, and every one migrated
thither.
Before midnight some caprice of the
seismic disturbance snapped off the
At one o’clock in the morn-
ing a truck from the kitchen of the
dining halls floundered through the
mud with sandwiches and coffee. At
two o'clock the temperature of the
wind dropped, and the wet multitude
shivered and chattered with cold. Hail
fell in place of rain,
Half an hour later the wind stopped
abruptly; it puffed, veered, and came
back from the southwest. It blew
fifty miles an hour, a hundred, and
then rose from that velocity to an
| murk.
Tony Drake asks |
Tony—more than doomsday. |
tells him. |
To |
| back to the field.
immeasurable degree. Every man and
woman was compelled to lie face down
on the muddy earth, the ndulations
of which increased.
They lay for an hour or more, shiv-
ering, gasping for breath, hiding their
faces. Then a particularly violent
shock suddenly separated the landing
field into two parts, one of which rose
eight or nine feet above the other,
leaving a sharp diminutive precipice
across the middle of the field.
There was no dawn, no daylight,
only a diffused inadequate grayness.
The people lay on the ground, each
man wrapped in the terrors of his own
soul, with fingers clutching the grass
or buried in the earth. And so the day
began. The air grew perpetually more
warm. An augmented fury of the
gale brought a faint odor of sulphur.
Midday held no respite. It was im-
possible to bring up food against the
gale, impossible even to stand. The
sulphurous odors and the heat in-
creased. The driven rain seemed hot.
Toward what would have been after-
noon, and in the absolute darkness,
there was a sudden abatement: and
the wind, while it still blew strong, al-
lowed the shaken populace to rise and
to stare through the impenetrable
Fifty or more of the men made
a rush for the dining halls. They
found them, and were surprised that
they had not collapsed. The low hills
around had furnished them with pro-
tection. There was no time to prepare
fcod. Snatching what they could, and
loading themselves with containers of
drinking water, they fought their way
There, like animals,
the people drank and ate, finishing in
time only to throw themselves once
again on the bare ground under the
renewed fury of the storm.
Night came again. The sulphur in
the air, the fumes and gases, the heat
and smoke and dust, the hot rain, al-
most extinguished their frantically de-
fended lives. The dust and rain com-
bined with the wind to make a diagonal
downfall of foetid mud which blistered
them and covered the earth.
The respite brought by the second
morning was comparative rather than
real. The wind abated; the torrential
rain became intermittent; and the visi-
bility returned, though no one could
have told whether it was early morn-
ing or twilight.
Tony rose to his feet the instant the
wind slacked. Through all the long
and terrible ‘hours he had been absent
from Eve. It would have been utterly
unthinkable to attempt to locate her in
the midst of that sound and fury. He
found, however, that there was no
use in looking for her immediately. So
heavy had been the downpour of rain
and ashes from the sky, that it not |
only reduced the field to a quagmire,
but it covered the human beings who
had lain there with a thick chocolate-
colored coating, so that as one by one
the people arose to sitting and stand-
ing postures, he found it difficult even
to distinguish man from woman.
He was compelled to put Eve from
his mind. It was necessary to think
of all and not one. Many of those
who had been in the field were unable
to rise. Several had been injured. Of
the older men a number were suffering
perhaps fatally from exposure.
Tony found that his limbs would
scarcely support him, but after he had
staggered for some distance through
the murk, his numbed circulation was
restored, and his muscles responded.
Out of the subsiding maelstrom he
collected some thirty or forty persons,
most of them men.
“Any of you men working on the
power plant?’ he shouted. . . . “Right.
You two come over here. Now who
else here was in the machine shop?
Good. You fellows get to work on
starting up the lights. They'll be the
first thing. Now I want half of you
to get beds in shape in the woman's
hall.” He counted the number he re
quired. “If they don’t look safe,” he
shouted after the disappearing men,
“find a place that is safe, and put the
beds there. We’ll have to have a hos-
pital.”
With the remnant of his men he
went to the dining halls. One of these
buildings was a complete wreck, but
the other still stood. They entered the
kitchen. Its floor was knee-deep in
mud. He recognized among those still
with him Taylor, the student of light,
whom he had sent to Hendron from
Cornell. “Take charge in here, will
you Taylor? I'll leave you half these
men. The rest of us are going to round
up the doctors and get medical sup-
plies ready. They'll want coffee out
there, and any kind of food that they
can eat immediately.” He saw Tay-
lor’s mouth smile in assent, and heard
Taylor begin to issue instructions for
the lighting of a fire in one of the big
stoves,
Once again he went outdoors. It was
a little lighter. His anxious gaze
traveled to the tower that housed the
Ark, and from its silhouette he de-
| cough.
duced that it was at least juperficial-
| ly intact,
| had already rendered him tyarse, for |
The shouting he had done |
the air was still sulphurous It irri-
tated the nose and throat, gnd pro-
duced in every one a dry frequent
Besides the irritating vapors
in the air, there was heat, pot the
heat expected any day in July, but
such heat as surrounds a hast fur.
nace—a sullen withering helat which
blanched the skin, parched the lips
and was unrelieved by the rivulets of
perspiration that covered the body.
Tony went back alone to the flying
field. It was a little lighter. Mist mo-
tions were visible in the sky, and
threads of vapor were flung over the
Stygian landscape by the wind. Peo-
ple were returning from what had been
the flying field to the partial wreck
at the camps, in twos and threes,
many of them limping, some of them
being carried. He found Eve at last,
Just as he reached the edge of the
flying field. She was helping two other
girls, who were trying to carry a third.
She recognized him and called to him.
“Are you all right, Eve?” His soul
was in his rasping voice. He came
close to her. He looked into her eyes.
She nodded, first to him and then
toward the unconscious girl. She put
her lips close to his ear, for she could
speak only in a whisper: “Give us a
hand, Tony. This girl fainted.”
He picked up the girl, and they fol-
lowed him through the slough to the
main hall of the women’s dormitory.
Beds were being carried there, and
many of them were already filled.
Some one had found candles and stuck
them in window sills so that the room
was lighted. Already two men who
were doctors were examining the ar-
rivals. Tony recognized one of the
men as Dodson when he heard the
boom of his voice: “Get hot water
here, lots of it, boiling water. Don’t
anybody touch those bandages. Every-
thing has to be sterilized. See if you
can find anybody who knows anything
about nursing. Get the rest of the
doctors.”
Somehow Dodson had already man-
aged to wash, and his heavy-jowled
face radiated power and confidence.
Tony went outdoors again. A gong
boomed in the kitchen, and he remem- |
bered his thirst and hunger. Around
a caldron of coffee and a heap of sand-
wiches, which were replenished as fast
as they disappeared, were grouped at
least two hundred people. Tony stood
in the line which passed the caldron.
and was handed a cup of coffee and -a
sandwich. The coffee tasted muddy.
tion’s attitude
will be influenced, it is likely,
Tea
PCSTSCRIPTS
(Continued from Page 1.)
Just to prove that we've got a warnt
spot for the local men who have no
easy task operating the Dallas Water
Co. we saved for them a sentence which
appeared in the report a State Engineer
made after he had inspected the local
system. 3
dn pumping equipment and
motors” said the engineer “appear to
be well ynaintained.”
Consiagring that the engineer 1S age
expert apd certainly could find faults
if there ware any we count that a pret,-
ty tribute §o0 Whoever is responsible for
the good coypdition of that equipment.
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INFORMATION: Yoo
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the Literary 8 of the cowstry it
boll of $200,000 on Post-
savOming velley civie
a gealone . . . a®Guble, one :nember re-
club is having t ey wordn't sing the
signed because tf ner and then when
Star Spangled Bal o¢ their program a,
they made it a part A] Smith smokes
pacifist resigned . . . to 20 cigars a
(or chews at) from T8kes come at 30
day and the kind he lsuch as the boys
cents each ... rodeos, haier farm at
down on the Stegn¥e for, are now
Trucksville are preparirthe fastest fel-
barred in England . . + } was probably
low who ever ran a mil put he was
amazing his grandstandis an hour, a
doing less than 15 mil¢raffic even on
speed that would block ‘ter how broil-
Main Street . . . no malggeoye umpires
ing hot the sun, major Ryve their blue
are not permitted to remy
serge coats.
Water Stor
(Continued from PX
GENERAL
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ing that if
ers’ Association, at the healing winter
costs of making repairs dur
We may he
weather are high such Work agssocia-
postponed until Spring. The ement
toward Dpostpoly the
utility’s action on the proposed rat!
crease.
The sandwiches had a flavor not un
like the noxious odor in the air. Tony’s
craving was for water, but he realized
that for the time being all liquids]
would have to be boiled, With his
first sip of coffee he realized that
brandy had been added to it. He wet
his burning throat and swallowed his
sandwich in three mouthfuls, ang
joined the line again.
(Continued Next Week.)
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