Ce im o ¥ The Dallas rr ESTABLISHED 1889 TELEPHONE DALLAS 300 A LIBERAL, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING AT THE DALLAS POST PLANT LEHMAN AVENUE, DALLAS, PA. hy of ; BY THE DALLAS POST, INC. HOWARD RISITIY Rd si i a iE i ra Lain si we General Manager FE HOWELL I BRIEES oh star hana ety va Sansa Managing Editor 3 TRUMAN STEWART ies ans titanate ol etanials bse sm Mechanical Superintendent 3 The Dallas Post is on sale at the Tock news stands. Subscription price by mail $2.00 payable in advance. Single copies five cents each. Entered as second-class matter at the Dallas Post Office, ~ Members American Press ‘Association; Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association; Circulation Audit Bureau; Wilkes-Barre- -Wyoming Valley Cham- bey of Commerce. : THE DALLAS POST is a youthful weekly rural-suburban newspaper, owned, edited and operated by young men interested in the development of the great rural-suburban region of Luzerne County and in the attainment of the ‘highest ideals of journalism. THE POST is truly “more than a newspaper, it a community institution.” ae Congress shall make no law * * abridging the freedom of speech, or of Press.— —From the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Subscription, $2.00 Per Year (Payable in Advance). ‘Subscribers ‘who send us changes of address are requested to include both ‘new and old addresses when they submit their notice of change. nu THE DALLAS POST PROGRAM “THE DALLAS POST will end its support and offers the use of ite tumns to all projects which will help this community and the great rurai- suburban territory which it serves to attain the following major improve- ‘ments: . Construction of more sidewalks for the protection of pedestrians in Kingston township and Dallas. ‘ 2. A free library located in the Dallas reaion. 8. Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown, nbrook and Dallas. 4 Sanitary sewage disposal system for Dallas. 34 8, Closer ¢o- -operation between Dallas borough and surrounding townships. 6. Consolidated high schools and better co- -operation between those that now exist. 7. Adequate water supply for fire protection. 8, The formatien of a Back Mountain Club made up of business men and ‘home owners interested in the development of a community consciousness in Dallas, Trucksville, Shavertown and Fernbrook. °° © 9. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connecting the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock. 10. The elimination of petty poiitics from all School Boards in the region overs by THE DALLAS POST. T ~The State Legislature at Hrrishurs, is considering two pieces of legislation whieh vitally affect the railroads of this State and may force them into bankruptcy TWO seriously hampering their usefulness. PIECES OF Their defeat is important to every citizen LEGISLATION in this State. The first bill, No. 311, the train limit bill, which has passed the House, will cost the railroads in Pennsylvania, 1 in round figures, $55,500,000. ~The second bill, No. 304, known as the full crew bill, which likewise passed the House, will cost the railroads of this State approximately $7,500, 000 in addition to the cost of the train limit bill.. ~ These bills favorably affect but 10% of the total em- ployes on the railroads; i. e., principally conductors and trainmer. : Railrcad employes were given 214% wage restoration on July 1, 1934: another 214% on January 1, 1935, and a fur- ther 5% will be given them on April 1st, which will Yestore, them to their peak wage rates. ~~ The 10% of empleyes to be benefitted by this proposed) legislation, when the 5% is restared on April 1st, will re-| ceive wage rates higher than the peak war-time rates. It 1s important to know that none at present employed | on the railroads will benefit by this legislation, but every person now employed will have to pay for it. There has been considerable capital investment in en- gineering designing for the sole purpose of low cost trans- portation through large train units. - The train limit bill would be obsolete, so far as capacity is concerned, present steam locomotives as they would be entirely too large for their work. These bills would entirely defeat the ability of the raii- roads to provide low cost freight and passenger service to meet competition from other forms of transportation. ~The House would not grant the railroads a hearing on these bills. Justice deinands that the Senate should grant a hearing to the carriers. Conzerning similar legislation, proposed on a national | : scale, Federal Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman said to the . leaders of the railroad employes’ organizations: “It seems Porfonny clear to me that it is no time to add ; “Take Paislation Tike the full-crew bill or the train-| length bill. Perhaps they can be sustained on the ground of | safety, aithough I think you will agree that this is, at least, | debatable. But as mere ‘make-work’ measures, what will they do to the railroads in their competition with the trucks ~ and boats and all the other competitive agencies? Has rail- way labor anything to gain by putting such a handicap on their own form of transportation? Sn “I do not believe that any industry in such a situation £ can go forward if it is prevented from operating in the most economical and efficient way.” * * * ; What i is it that gives prophecies of evil such popularity? ‘Hope springs eternal in the human breast, but it is equal y| certain that man likes to be frightened and relishes the] thrill of menace around him. Else, the interest with which he reads cies of world dest with which fore wars are swallowed, why the weight economic upheaval and cata elysm 7 The most reasonable answer to tl man likes such prophecies Bocuse of ti from their failure. He is secretly confident whatever besets him, and, by that token, he likes to be trick- | ed into believing that the peril from which he will escape is | of the direst. | | Yi Se WwW 7hy DIRE ‘PROPHECIES 1 iction, way A Af depen Py OL escape 1X 4 mission that brings him from South Pig¥ohe Qpyrig By Edwin Balmer &PhilipWykis, ~ WNU Bervice. THE NARRATIVE CHAPTER 1.—David Ransdell, approach- ‘mg New York on the liner Buropa, re- esives a succession of radlograms offer- ing him $1,000, finally $20,000, for an ex- elusive newspaper interview divulging the Africa. Ransdell, 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 in ctions 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, ftroauces Tony to Ramsden, CHAPTER Il.—New York newspapers publish a statement made by Hendron and concurred in by sixty of the world's greatest 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 apace for an inealculable 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 us.” ‘:he result of the inevitable collision must be the end ot the earth. The approaching bodies are referred to as Bronson Alpha and Bron- son Beta, the latter being the smaller— about the size of the earth. CHAPTER III.—-“It’'s going te be doomsday, isn’t it?” Tony Drake asks | Eve. ‘No, Tony—more than doomsday. Dawn after doomsday,” she tells him. She explains that the first time the Bronson Bodies approach the earth they will not hit it, but the second time, one, Bronson Beta, will pass, and the other will hit the earth and demolish it. To 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 I[V.—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 been | 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 tides sweep back to the Appalachians on the east and to the mountains on the Pacific side, and quakes change the entire surface of the earth. The Washington government moves as many millions as possible to the great Mississippi valley. The Hen- dron settlement survives unprecedented aarthquakes. CHAPTER VI1.—Bronson Alpha col- lides with the moon and wipes it out. Ransdell and Eliot James, an English poet whom Hendron has invited to join the colony, leave on an aerial recon- noissance, as the Hendron colony is in ignorance of conditions elsewhere. They return safely, reporting almost universal destruction throughout the country. CHAPTER VIIL.—Three weeks later, Ransdell, with Peter Vanderbilt, promi- nent New Yorker, selected by Hendron as a member of the party on the Space Ship, and James, fly over a large section of the devastated country. They are at- | tacked by a crazed mob and each mem- | ber of the 'party wounded, but they re- | turn alive, and Ransdell has found the | metal Hendron needs for the Space Ship. CHAPTER IX Suddenly Tony recognized the man. He was staggered. Before him stood Nathaniel Borgan, fourth richest man in America, friend of all tycoons of the land, friend indeed of Hendron | himself. Tony had last seen Borgan | in Hendron’s house in New York, when | Borgan had been immaculate, power- ful, self-assured, and barely approach- ing middle age. He now looked senile, degenerate and slovenly. “Aren’t you Drake?’ the crackling voice repeated. Tony nodded mechani- cally. “Yes,” he said; “come with me.” Hendron did not recognize Borgan until Tony had pronounced his name; Then upon his face there appeared briefly a look of consternation, and Borgan in his shrill, grating voice be- gan to talk excitedly. “Of course I knew what you were doing, Hendron, knew all about it. Meant to offer you financial assistance, but got tangled up taking care of my affairs in the last few weeks. 1 haven’t been able to come here hefore, for a variety of reasons. But now I'm here. You'll take me with you when you go, of course.” He banged his fist on the table in a bizarre hurlesque of his former g “You'll take me all d I'll tell you v and his hea “It’s full of bill hundred-dolla an bills, ten-thousand-do bills—stacked with them, bales of | | them, bundles of them—millions, Hen- | dron, millions! That’s ‘the price I’m | offering you for my life.” Hendron and Tony looked at this | man in whose hands the destiny of colossal American industries had once been go firmly held; and they knew that he was mad. They sent Borgan away with his pilot and his plane full of money; and the last words of the financier were pronounced in a voice intended to be threatening as he leaned out of the cabjn door: “I'll get an injunctian against you from the President. him- self. I'll have the Supreme court be- hind me within twenty-four hours.” Nearly three weeks after the attack a census was retaken. There were two hundred and nine uninjured wom- en, one hundred and eighty-two unin- jured men. ' There were about eighty ‘men and women who were expected wholly to recover, There were more than a hundred who would suffer some disability. Four hundred and ninety- three people had been killed or had died after the conflict, Work of course was redistributed. More than five months lay ahead of them. The Space Ship could be com- pleted, even with this reduced group, in three weeks. On one of the unseasonably warm afternoons in December Tony re- ceived what he considered afterward the greatest compliment ever paid to him in his life. He was making one of his regular tours of the stockyards when Ransdell overtook him. [n all their recent ‘encounters Ransdell had not spoken a hundred words to Tony; but now said almost gruffly, “I'd like to speak to you.” Tony turned and smiled. The South African hesitated, and almost blushed. “I'm not talkative,” he said bluntly, “but I've been trying to find you alone for weeks.” Again he hesi- tated. “Yes?” 80, who, if we effect our landing upon Bronson Beta and find it habitable, will be fit to propagate there the hu- man race, “On the night of the attack, we all of us—and some who since have died —crammed into the Space Ship. We all realize that no such crowding will be possible on the voyage through space; we all realize that much car- other than humanity, must be stowed on the ship if there is to be any point and purpose in our safe landing upon another planet. One hundred persons remains my estimate of the probable crew and passenger list of the ship which saved us all cn that night, “But I have come to the conclusion that, by dint of tremendous effort and co-operation, and largely because of the ‘success of the experiments which we have made with Ransdell’s metal, it will be possible within the remain- ing months of time to construct a sec- ond and larger vessel which will be capable of removing the entire resid- ual personnel of this camp.” Hendron sat down. No cheer was lifted. As if they had seen the Gor- gon’s Head, the audience was turned to stone. The sentence imposed by the death lottery had been lifted. Every man and woman who sat there was free. Every one of them had a chance to live, to fight and to make a new career elsewhere in the star- lit firmament. They sat silently, many with bowed heads, as if they were engaged in prayer. Then sound came: A man’s racking sob, the low hysterical laugh- ter of a woman; after that, like the rising of a great wind, the cheers. * * * * * * * Although in Eliot James’ diaries the days appeared to be crammed with events, to the dwellers in Hendron's colony the weeks passed in what seemed like a steady routine. and James had been so busy that he was unable to write voluminously: “Dec. 4: Today what we call the keel of the second Space Ship was laid. The first has been popularly named ‘Noah’s Ark,’ and we have offered a prize of five thousand dol- lars in absolutely worthless bank notes for anybody who ‘will contrive a name for the second. “Dec. 7: Kyto, the Japanese serv. ant whom Tony Drake had had for some years in New York, and of whom he was inordinately fond, walked peacefully into. camp, The inscru- table little Jap walked up to Tony, whose back was turned. was like a smiling fully appreciating situation, he said ‘With exceeding Kyto’s face Buddha’s; and the drama of the in his odd voice: humbleness request return to former em- When Tony spun around possibilities of ployment.’ “You'll Take Me With You When You Go, of Course.” He Banged His Fist on the Table in a Bizarre Burlesque of His Former Gestures. “That took a huge pocket knife from his flannel shirt and commenced to open and shut its blade nervously. “That was®* a d—n’ fine piece of work, low.” “What was yours?” Tony heartily. Ransdell held out his hand. They gripped, and in that hands of lesser men would have been broken. From that time on those ri- vals in leve were as blood brothers. Another general meeting was held in the dining hall. Hendron again | took charge. *The matter which I have to dis- cuss with you,” he began, “iS one which will come, I am sure, as a dis- tinet surprise. It is the result of my earnest thought and of careful calcu- lations. From the standpoint of real- ism—and I have learned that all of you are courageous enough to face truths—I am forced to add that my decision has been made possible by the diminution of our numbers. “All of you know that I founded this village of ours for the purpose of transferring to the planet that will take the place of the earth a company grip the | fight you put up—" Ransdell | fel- replied, of about one hundred people, with the | hope that they might perpetuate our | doomed race. It seemed to me that a | ship large enough to accommodate | be fa one 1 number might unched by the who were origi such a and la housand sembled ath w awn spoken. “My friends, we are. five hundred in number. ‘e iS not one man or woman left among us who bears such disability as will prevent him from surviving, if any one may, the trip | through space; there iS not one but ated | i lar { thought he was going to faint. Im mediately afterward he began thump- ing Kyto’s back so hard that 1 per- sonally feared for the Japs life. But he seems to be wiry; in fact, he must have the constitution of a steel spring, for he has traveled overland more than eight hundred miles in the past two months, and his story, which I am getting out of him piecemeal, is one of fabulous adventure. “Dee. 19: I discovered only today that Hendron has used for insulation. between the double walls of the now completed Ark, two thick layers of as- bestos, and between them, books. The books make reasonably good insulat- ing material, and when we arrive at our future home, if we do not arrive with too hard a blow, we will be pro- vided with an enormous and complete library. Amazing fellow, Hendron. “Dec. 31: We had our Christmas dinner last Thursday, and except for the absence of turkey, it was com- plete, even to plum pudding. The weather continues to be warm, and the gardens which we replanted have flourished under this new sub-tropical climate, so that already we are reap- ing huge harvests which are being stored in the Space Ships. “Jan. 18: A flight was made to the ‘mi * from which Ransdell’s metals | & have been taken, and in the course of | St. Paul 7 the mobs in for the most it .the plane | ment ¢ should vas dancing in the the wun 1en’s dormitory and so far overcame his al- most shyness that he danced twice w ith Eve, Thesrivalry between Ransdell and Tony “is the most popu- subject of among the discussion <4 | and | girls and women, but such a bond has grown between the two men that I know whoever is defeated in the contest, if there is victory or defeat, | will take his medicine honorably and i generously. ‘1 am wondering, how- ever, about that business of victory or defeat. The women here slightly outnumber the men. It will be neces- sary for them to bear children on the new planet. Variation of our new race will be desirable. will resort in the main to polyandry, and abolish, because of biological ne- cessity, all marriage. There are a good many very real love affairs ex- istent already. That is to be expect- ed, when the very flower of young womanhood and the best men of all | ages are segregated in the wilderness. I myself doubtless reflect the mental attitude of most of the men here. There are a hundred women, I shall: say two hundred, and one who I would . be proud to have as my wife, i Mh HW ~tle 2 “He Must Have the Constitution of a Steel Spring, for He Has Trav- eled Overland More Than Eight Hundred Miles in the Past Two Months, . . . His Story Is One of Fabulous Adventure, Y ““Feb. 17: ture. As that solemn hour approaches all of us tend to think back into our lives, rather than forward toward our new lives. Hendron has not hesitated to make ‘it clear that our relatively short jump through space will be dan- gerous indeed. The ships may not | have been contrived properly to with- stand what are, at best merely theo- retical conditions. The cold of outer Perhaps we .- In a little more than: a. i month it will be time for our depar- space may overwhelm us. The rays which ‘travel through ‘ the ‘empty = reaches when we thrust ourselves among them clad in the thin cylinders ik of our Ark may assert a different po- tency from that experienced under the = layer of earth’s atmosphere. Either or both of our two projectiles may col- lide with a wandering asteroid, in which case the consequences will be similar to those anticipated from the collision of earth with Bronson Alpha, Hendron assures ships will fly, the atmosphere of Bronson Beta, it will be possible te land them. “Feb. 22: The Bronson have reappeared in the sky with vis- ible discs. Alpha once more looks like a coin, head of a large pin. Observations through our modest telescope show clearly that Bronson Beta, warmed by the sun, has a surface now com- pletely thawed. phere is drifting clouds, and through those clouds we are able to glimpse patches of dark and patches of brilliance, which indi- cate continents and oceans. At the first approach, an excellent spectro- scopic analysis was made of the planet’s composition. = The analysis denoted its fitness to support human- lifé, but we stand in such awe of it that we say to ourselves only: ‘Per- haps we shall be able to live if we ever disembark there’; but we cannot know, There may be things upon its mysterious. surface, elemental condi- tions undreamed of by man. How- ever, there is some mysterious com- fort, a sort of superstitious courage, afforded to many of our numbers by the fact that as our doom approaches a future home is also waxing brightly in the dark sky. “Feb. 28: Tremendous effort is be- ing expended upon the second Ark. The task of accumulating ‘metal for: its construction was tremendous. The hangar which had protected the first ship was coufiscated. Two steel bridges across what used to be a river near by have furnished us with much of the extra material required, but we are now engaged in smelting every object for which we shall have no fu- ture use. Women are doing tasks that women have never done before, and we are all working rz on a sixteen-hour- schedule, - Hendronville looks 3 a little Bins burgh—its furnaces its roads rutted by and its foundries h a continual roar of ma- » construction of the sec- such a record time would I had it not been Hendron’s So0- of ( aration, Power t we h unlimited quan- and hour of de- I ounced. In or- d t the Bronson Body at its most adv: eous point, we shall leave the earth on the 27th of this month at 1:45 a. m, precisely.’ It is ° estimated that the journey will re- = quire 90 hours, although it could be © made much more auicklv. (Continued Next Week.) us only that the i and that if they reach Bodies and Beta not unlike the Its once solid atmos- 3 about it filled with Po
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