Show I Perhaps Mars Doesn't t tWant Want to Talk t to Us I Dr Frederick h has s stopped listening for tor signals from Mars dismantled dismantled dis dis- mantled the receiving antennae which h hI covered twenty five square miles and I announced that Mars Mare did not send wireless wireless' waves to the earth in the pe period period pe- pe nod in which he was alert to hear them C nl will treat this as evidence that there are ho b beings on Mars lau com corn parable rable to human beings and that it If reas reasoning ning creatures s live JIve there they have not reached that plane of ot accomplishment accomplishment accomplishment which we o of the earth have attained Those who like to believe that Mars 1 Marsis is inhabited by a a. arace race of super engi however will not be ne frightened I ft from om their theory theory theory-by by the failure of ot this I attempt to ring up the red planet They The will say that Martians may I have been t too o busy to send us signals at i the he moment when Dr l was was in the listening that the t l Martian Martian Mar Mar- r- r tian wireless operators may haVe been on strike that the the Martian electrical generators may alay may have hav br broken ken down that eth ethereal real conditions may have been such that the Impulses could n not t get I through that malicious interference i by jealous jealous' planets riot not in invited to the I conversation tion may mav have made mad communication I Impossible Obviously the fact that because the Martians were not riot calling at the time Dr Pr l w was s re does not prove that there ther are rho ho no Martians any anymore anymore anymore more more than it proves prove's that th there le is no po Dr Moreover there ls l's another aspect of this this attempted attempted linking up of Mars Mais and the earth How do we know that the Martians are not definitely set against in t having any traffic with us us- us It is conc conceivable conceivable con con- I c that Mars l has observed the conduct of this world for the last six I years with constantly gr growing I I lj and rind ha has finally decided that I we are not fit associates its for people i iA A dignified Marti 1 Martian rt ri statesman m ma mab may y b ti anty i l. hi hi- hi followers are ale a a. rough sav savage say say- age brawling ling lot who manifestly cannot cannot cannot can can- 81 not teach m us anything and from association association asso asso- elation with whom J P we should derive I asso-I n. n mi benefit of any nv kind 10 D Do l not t respond to o their Nr advances t s Pay Jay no attention to tot i iJ J t f i their signals Ignore them themas e as you ignore an undesirable If It they hey w want to have traffic let them go out and get a re te This is a humiliating which all good men will wi wine about Yet let we we must face j 11 If the Martians i dont don't want t cordially there there is no in In league lea to force them to a an ways The The rhe Sun and New Y aid find |