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Show Not the earth was uninhabitable or that its inhabitants were too stupid held up because they believed they had other protection. only moonshine stills, gambling dens, vicious rooming houses and to know what was going on about them in the universe. The imagination can suggest many possibilities. Why should other dives have paid for promised protection, but a number of road we conjecture' 100,000 years as the number of years ago the Martians houses have flourished under the protection of the sheriffs ring. . A road house is now operating on Highland drive and has stopped signaling? Why not conjecture 1,000,000 or 10, 000, 000 years? been since the election with the full knowledge of the sheriff and In Uinta county t they are digging up the bones of dinosaurs; that are card games and were among the earliest pioneers of Utah and the scientists estimate his boss. Among the entertaining-TeatureAfrican golf .which is not in any way. related to the outdoor sport that these primitive settlers became extinct a matter of 6,000,000 rt of similar name, . yars. before the pioneers trecked hitherward from the MisNow: thatvSheriff ' Emery is about .to take charge of the sheriffs souri river.' 7 i office it would. be well for him to see to it that all he receives If we must suppose the Martians to be so intelligent why must isMnventoried and 'receipted for. There are sure to be investigawe not suppose that instead of spending many of their days and tions later and he should have set down in black and white just .nights signaling they would stroll over to the earth and examine it. what he takes over from the old regime. If they are so much more intelligent than we may we not conjecture .. Here are. some questions that should be asked the outgoing that long since they discovered the secret of passing from planet j . s ! '' ox-ca- -- . sheriff: Was Raleigh authorized to hold up the bootleggers for a case of whiskey on each load brought into Salt Lake county? .Was anyone authorized to collect blackmail from gambling dens, insisting that a part of all winnings be paid for protection? Who was receiving compensation for the protection of the Highland drive den? How much is left of the contents of the 7 5 or 80 cases of whiskey in the county jail at election time ? Has this whiskey been disposed of and, if so, who sold it. V .What has become of the many stills confiscated? What, has become of the automobiles confiscated while carrying -- ; ; If you become chief of police will Jake Raleigh continue to , dominate you? Would you close any saloons? Any gambling dens? Any dens where drugs and all manner of vice are indulged in? Would you allow the bunko gang to return and operate in this city? v. : The citizen of moderate opinion are trying to ward off threatened blue laws, but if ring is permitted to operate unhindered, the blue laws cannot be escaped. . - the-vic- ...... 7- - -- v- m . , , T . mj c, - .SIFTING STARDUST -- - e . t t D ; C :r If youre waking, call me early, call me early, mother dear ; For Im to be a vamp in the movies throughout the glad new year. ' . e v to planet ? If the Martians have not arrived in our midst it either is because there are no Martians or because they are not of an intelligence greatly surpassing our own or because it is impossible for material it beings to pass from one star to another. if Give the human being a few more thousand years and he is P very apt to discover the open sesame that will transport him safely J to Mars or even to some of the near neighbors of Alpha Orionis. L The old theologians held to the view that the planets were un- n inhabited and that all the stars were set in heaven merely to impress si L upon man the majesty of the Creator. True, our scientists assure zl us that most of the stars are uninhabitable and they cannot prove that any one of them is inhabited, but why should the Creator make a universe of such sublimity for a purpose seemingly so inadequate? R It is imaginable that the light of a star formed before man was created B may not reach the earth until the human race has become extinct. A That particular star, therefore, could not impress mankind. It might have a significance for the Martians, but not for man. ( time. Between two eternities man is on earth but a moment of Pi Hardly has he touched the earth before he is gone. Not by passing :a through the portals of the stars will he solve the secrets of the pi h universe, but by passing through the gates of death after balancing a moment on a speck of stardust. be , Every once' in a while the scientists dazzle us with distances. And when we ponder on these distances we hypnotize ourselves as does (One looking at a bright point. As we look the distance fades to nothingness and becomes meaningless. ' We are supposed to be astounded when a scientist announces that, with his new device he has discovered that Alpha Orionis has a diameter of 300,000,000 miles, but the distance is so great that we lose its. significance and ask. .ourselves what difference it makes three hundred million or three billion miles across this whether or any other sun. .True, that. is 300 times the diameter of our own sun and the volume of Alpha Orionis is 27,000,000 as great as the volume of our sun, and the earth, compared with this imperial planet, seems to be hardly a speck of stardust. ' The distance from the earth to its sun is 93,100,000 apd, there-fprthe diameter of Alpha Orionis would take up several times that it-i- . . - booze ' . - Ji awakes to find that a new member has been added to his official family. Every morning the president-elec- t ri ii j ji. The barbaric massacres of European civilization. by-th- e ji Japanese in Korea are reminiscent 3e Ti L.E When the Republicans get through the s cost-plu- s system will he .n o' t e, space: If we suppose that an aviator could fly around the earth in years to fly twenty days it a would take a relay of aviators sixty-si- x the distance across the diameter of Alpha Orionis and more than 200 years .to, fly. around the circumference. Science has not so startled us since- Marconi conjectured a year or more ago, that certain disturbances of the wireless instruments might7 indicate that the Martians were trying to signal the earth. .. .We expressed the opinion at the time that the Martians, if farther advanced in intelligence .than we, probably had tried to signal us 100,000 or more year ago and had given it up as futile. 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