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~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. |
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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.)
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and that if they reach
Bodies
and Beta not unlike the
Its once solid atmos- 3
about it filled with
Po