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Show UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. Sally Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH THE WORLD fi4D CRASHED Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie tell a breath-takin- g story in "After World's Collide." Read this opening installment and you will not want to miss a word of this remarkable tale as it appears serially in these columns. 5fo with us." "Sardines!" Duquesne said. He patted his vast expanse of abdomen an abdomen which In his native land he had often maintained, and was frequently to assert with pride on Bronson Beta, consisted not of fat but of superior muscle. Indeed, although Duquesne was short of stature and some fifty years of age, he often demonstrated that he was possessed not only of unquenchable nervous energy, but of great physical strength and endurance. "A picnic In the summer time on Bronson Beta, children," Duquesne boomed. "And It's summer time, you know. Fortunately, but Inevitably from the nature of events, still summer. My observations of the collision check quite accurately with my calculations of what would happen; and If the deductions I made from those calculations are correct quite extraordinary things will happen. We will have a little class in astronomy." He put to use two resources the smooth vertical surface of a large stone and a smaller stone which he had picked op to scratch upon the bowlder. As Duquesne began to talk, all the members of the group gathered around the flat bowlder to watch and listen. "First" he began, "I will draw the solar system as It was." He made a small circle and shaded It in. "Here, my friends, Is the sun." He circumscribed it with another circle and said : "Mercury." Outside the orbit of Mercury he drew the orbits respectively of Venus, Earth and Mars. "So this Is what we have had. This Is where we have been. Now I draw the same thing without the Earth." Every one watched Intently while he scratched on a rock an ellipse which, on one side, came close to the orbit of Venus, and on the other approached the circle made by the planet Mars on Its Journey around the sun. "Here Is our path, closer to the sun than the Earth has been; and also farther away. The hottest portion of this new path of this new planet about the sun already has been passed when we fled here. This world had made Its closest apjwoach In rounding the sun, and It had reached the point In Its orbit which our earth had reached In April. Now we are going away from the sun, but on such a path that and under such conditions that only slowly with the days growing colder." "They will become, when we get out on that portion of our path near Mars, a man among his hearers questioned, "how cold?" Duquesne' called upon his comic knack to turn this question. He shivered so grotesquely that the audience laughed. "The most Immediately Interesting feature of our strange situation will be, my friends, the amazing character of our days. Many of you have been told of that; so I ask you. Who will answer? How long will be our days? Tou, Mr. Tony Drake. You, 1 know, have become, like so many others, a splendid student of astronomy. How long will be our days?" "Fifty hours, approximately," replied Edwin Balmer nd mm Copjrrlg-hf- Philip Wylie 1JJ4. by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wrlls. , Alons in Creation, so far as ther a men, knew, atood forty-fowoman and two children the, of the and of the Earth. Two planets had appeared, hurtling- oat of space. One they had circled some distant sun which ws on our earth could hare seen only aa a star. But million! ad millions of yeara ago occurred a celestial catastrophe; these two stranger planets were torn away from their flfty-ssv-- ur sur-Tivo- ra un. They drifted out into the darkness. . CHAPTER I ' Eliot James gat at a metal desk Inside the Space Ship whlcnvhad conveyed a few score human beings from the doomed earth to safety on the sup's new 'planet, Bronson Beta. In front of Eliot James was his already Immemorial diary, and over It he poised a fountain pen. He had written several paragraphs: "April what shall I call it? Is it the second day of April, or Is It the first? The earth Is gone smashed to fragments; and the companion of Its destroying angel, upon which our band of one hundred and three Argonauts holds so brief and hazardous s residence,, Is still without names, seasons and months. But April has vanished with the earth; and for all I know, spring, winter, summer and fall may also be absent n the new world. "I have pledged myself to write In this diary every day, as llendron asme there will be no other plank and joined Tony, Eve and Cole llendron. The leader of the expedition nodded as several of the people on the edge of the cliff turned toward the Ark. "Hendron l" they hailed him again, "llendron I Cole Hendron I" Their hysteria had not yet cleared away ; they remained In the emotional excitement of the they had escaped but witnessed, and of the Incomparable dventure of their flight "llendron I Hendron I What do you want us to do?" they demanded; for their discipline, too, yet clung to them the stern, uncompromising discipline demanded of them during the preparation of the Ship of Escape, the discipline of the League of the Last Days. Hendron stepped upon an outcrop of stone and smiled down at them. "I have made too many speeches," he said. "And. this morning Is scarcely a suitable hour for further thanksgiving. It may be proper and pleasant later, to devote such a day as the Pilgrims, from one side of our earth to another, did ; but like them, it la better to wait until we feel ourselves more securely Installed. When such a time arrives, I will appoint an official day and we shall hope to observe It each year." He cast his eye over the throng and continued: "Since I know all of you so well, I feel It unnecessary to say that In the days ahead lies a necessity for a prodigious amount of work. "Your tempers and Intelligences will be tried sorely "by the new order which must exist Our first duty will be to provide ourselves with suitable homes and with a source of food and clothing. Our next duty will be to arrange for the gathering of the basic materials of the technical side of our In all your minds, I know, lies the problem of perpetuating our kind. We have, partly through accident a larger number of women than mea I wish to discontinue the use of the word morality; but what I must Insist on calling our biological continuum will be the subject of a very Important discussion. "In all your minds, too. Is a burning Interest In the nature and features of this new planet We have already observed through our telescopes that It once contained cities. To study those cities will be an early undertaking. While there Is little hope that others who attempted the flight to this planet have escaped disaster, radio listening must be maintained. Moreover, the existence of living material on this planet gives rise to a variety of possihill-ties- . Some of the flora which has sprung up may be poisonous, even dangerous, to human life. What forms it will take and what novelties It will produce, we must ascertain as soon as possible. I will set no tasks for this day It shall oe one of rest and rejoicing except that I will delegate listeners for radio messages and cooks to prepare food for us. Tomorrow, and I use an Americanism which will become our watchword, we will all 'get busy. " There was a pause, then cheering. Cole Hendron stepped down from the stone. Eve turned to Tony and took his arm. "I am glad we don't have to work today. My mind flies In a thousand different directions simultaneously, It seems. Where are those cities which, from the world our ended world, Tony our telescopes showed us here? What remains may we find of their people? Of their goods and their gods and their machines? . What, when they found themselves being torn away from their sun, did they do? . . . That monument beside the road that we found, Tony what was It? What did It mean? . . . Then I think of myself. Am I, Tony, to have children here?" Tony tightened his clasp upon her arm. Through all the terrors and triumphs, through all thtlr consternations and amazements. Instincts, he found, survived. "We will not speak of such things now." he sa?d. "We will satisfy the more Immediate needs, such as food deviled oggs and md wlches; and coffee As If we were on earth-cataclys- The light and heat from their sua must have dlmlnlahed until that sun dwindled to the appearance of a star; but lomi before that time came, there could have been no Hying being left upon either of those planets. The seas Rd at last the very atmosphere the air froie solid. The planets were la the all but absolute cold of space between the stars. At last they approached our aun; and they stumbled upon the path of another planet: Our Earth. One of these planets, hurtling out of space, was sweeping toward the earth (and the moon that accompanied the earth) on an orbit that would bring about a collision. It must destroy It utterly. This destroying planet was the larger of the two. Ita companion resembled the world in site. Its path, while carrying it close to the world, would tear It by; it would approach but not collide with the earth; and it would make Ita closest approach before Its huge comrade destroyed us. Those few human beings, driven by doom Itself, prepared their escape from the earth. tuia ii m cnromcie 01 tne nrst on the New World Bronson Beta, days men of the Earth called it, aa they named the awful destroyer planet Bronson Alpha. This is the record of the'emt-grant- s from Earth who reached the planet that replaced the World. ; . . sures WNU Service rec- ord of our adventures here until we have become well enough established to permit the compilation of a formal . history. "My companions stand there In the sunshine under the strange sky on our brown earth forty-thre- e men, flfty-sevwomen, two children. They have been singing a medley of songs which tinder other circumstances might seem Irrelevant Many of them are foreign-erand do not know the words, but they also Blng with tears streaming down their faces and a catch t their voices. They sang 'The Processional' and they sang 'Nearer, My God to Thee.' After that they sang 'HalL Hall, the Gang's All Here.' Then they sang The Marseillaise with Duquesne leadingleading and bellowing the words, and weeping. "What a spectacle I Beside it, the picture of Lelf Ericsson or Columbus reaching green shores at last Is dimmed to Insignificance. For those ancient explorers found the path to a mere continent, while this band has blazed a trail of fire through space to a new en g planet "And" the pen wavered "to what I Imagine whimsically as the new future readers of my notes, I make an apology. This Is our first day on Bronson Beta. My Impatience has exhausted my conscience. I must lay down my pen, leave the remarkable ship wherein I write and go out upoa the face of this earth untrod by man. I can restrain myself no longer." LHf't James walked down the gang e. 1 be very very cold and very long." so. But Duquesne nodded. "Quite there is one fortunately favorable feature. What chiefly determined the seasons on the old earth," he reminded, "was the lueliDation of the earth upon lts axis. If Bronson Beta had a similar or a greater Inclination In reference to the plaue of Its orbit around the sun. all effects would be exagIngerated. But we find actually less Bronon The here. equinoxes clination son Beta will not march back and forth on the northern and southern hemispheres with such great changes In temperatures. Instead, as we round the sun at Its focus," he pointed with his chubby finger, "there wlU be many, many long hot days. Perhaps our equator at that time will not be habitable. And later, as we round the Imaginary focus out here In space so near to the orbit of Mars, It may be very cold Indeed, and perhaps then only the equator will be comfortable. So we may migrate four times a year. From the Paris of our new world to Its Nice I mean to say, from the New York city to Its Miami. Does one think of anything else?" A silence was broken by a question from Dodson : "How close wl" we come to Venus and Mars?" Duquesne shrugged. Eve turned to Dodson and said: "If my figures are right it will be three million miles at periods many, many years apart Three million miles from Mars and at the most favorable occasion about four from Venus." Dodson's eyebrows lifted. "Is that dangerous?" Eve shook her head. "The perturbs tlons of all three planets will, of course, be great But as far as dan ger of collision Is concerned, there Is none." The group was thoughtful Eve took Tony's arm. "I want to go over and look at the ocean." "Let's go back and look at that road In daylight" he suggested. Eve started. "We've left It all this time! Did you tell Father about It?' "Nor yet" They went over to Cole Hendron "Lust night," Tony said. "Eve and I mTWfmi , STOCKY MAN Have you ever stopped to think how own very little yoa notice about your body when you are feeling well? Beyond brushing your gums, do you ever pay much attention to your mouth when your teeth aren't aching? Do von ever consider j0W your gtomach kli la artin? when It isn't upset over I 4'Aa "The Earth We Do Not Have. I Set Down Next the Present Position of This World on Which we Stand Bronson Beta." layman, but tne meaicai iruirsiuu as a whole has never paid any real attention to our bodies when they are welL There have been libraries and libraries written on disease, but the books written on what is normal health are virtually The whole effort has been to study disease and then to cure it It has been a good way and has accomplished a very great deal It has In fact Increased the span of our life expectancy so that It now stands at approximately sixty years. But now that we are reaching this ripe age, a number of the medical profession are saying: "Instead of waiting for a disease to manifest Itself, let's see If we can't prevent It Let's see If we can't keep people so healthy that they won't ever be laid up with long spells of sickness. We have cut down enormously the death rate from such contagious diseases as diphtheria, smallpox, rabies and measles. We have made progress with diabetes and pernicious anemia. Now let's see If we can't prevent the degenerative diseases that break down the proper func tioning of the organs of the body, or at least keep them flaring up until a person is well along In years." Obviously the first step In this ob jective Is to make a study of normally healthy individuals so that we can learn how a healthy body reacts to certain stimuli. In the hospital con nected with the University of Illinois Medical school, we had recently for a continuous period of 450 days two men, one thin and the other stocky. They were both healthy and twenty-fiv- e years of age. We made many tests. We drew blood from each every other day, and sometimes twice daily. Stomach an alysis was done at frequent Intervals. All urine specimens were saved and analyzed. Bastal metabolism was done daily. Ten different skin tests were made twice each week. me stocKy, diockv type proved a stable sort of fellow. He did not vary irom day to day. When put into a hot room or into a cold room he was not uncomfortable. He showed little If any metabolic change as a result of these climatic environments. His urine was acid In reaction. He semed to have little use for the alkalines in his food. We gave him certain foods to determine Just how stable he could maintain his equilibrium of chemical reactions. He can be summed up as a vegetable organism. He was a diges tive creature. He gained 20 pounds. He never did any type of work but stayed in bed all the time. To eat and sleep were his major functions in life. He would read little beyond the daily paper and he napped between turning the pages. He was happy and con excitable and uneasy; his temperature went up. His stomach stopped secreting acid and his urine became concentrated. He lost weight the day following and did not get back to normal weight for ten days. His whole .water metabolism was upset. On the other hand, he tared very well In the cold room. Changes in diet produced con siderable changes In his metabolism. His was a skin and nervous organism, and he was completely different from the stocky man. He was always up and about and looking for something to do. He never slept during the day. He washed glassware, helped in the labora tory, and became a real laboratory assistant In the year and a half he was under observation. were out walking and we found road." Ten minutes later every one vas gathered around the highway. It vas made of a metal-liksubstance. It m . T1 to the bluff along the sea and then men we made a study of a hay turned south. Except for that ngle fever, migraine headache and hive curve a graded curve, which sug group of patients, normal in other regested that the vehicles that once tra spects. These we found belong to the eled the road moved very swiftly unsiaDie types. there was no other turn. Its surface Their various reactions charted was very smooth. Way wa mndo upon Bagsley, the paleontologist He bent paper look like a profile of the Rocky over and looked up with a curious mountains. They change more during the course of a day than the stable smile. That Isn't a Job for me." His eyes ijpe change after having been given the same stimulating medicine, Thev were tastenea on the insrrlntinn metal slab bore. "You see, this Is such are put together in a different manner and react differently to a thing as might be found In the fut things around them. They show more changes In of our earth but not In the nast ancient civilization in our world could their blood chemistry from day to day maue a road such as this, or use metal than one would expect to find in sick people. But they are normal, that is. so sKiuruiiy." n so far as their fluctuating, vaccllat-ln- g Duquesne was talking again. "Who and spasmodic type of ever lived here had a lancunra tn controlling . . and eyes to read It They had roads marhlnprv . oiiuuw .iluenI l0 De nor III III, to travel ana vehicles to go upon them. We began these studies to gain a so tney nad nlaces to t better of come from. The cities we saw. understanding or ple. Much to OUT Blirnr! normal peothought we saw, must have been real the normal range of variations to My friends, great as our adventures be .uer man we had have been, there lie ahead adventures -- ",u previously supposed. We have still much to learn. Infinitely more astounding." e TO BE COHTlNUiD. m,L, (L II aren't hungry? i tented, The tall man showed great variations In his body functions from day to His metabolism was unstable. day. His urine was always alkaline. He was uncomfortable in the hot room ; he was Tony. "Excellent! For what determines the length of the day? Of course. It Is the time which the planet takes to turn upon its own axis. It has nothing whatever to do with the sun, or the path about the sun ; It Is a peculiarity of the planet Itself and Inherent In It from the forces which created It at Its birth. Bronson Beta 'lappens to be rotating on Its axis approximately fifty hours; so our days and our nights will be a trifle more than twice as long as those to which we have become accustomed. Now, how long will our year be? Let one of the ladies speak, this time!" "Four hundred and twenty eight days!" a girl's voice said. Her name was Mildred Pope. "Correct" applauded Duquesne, "If you speak In terms of the days of our perished planet It will take four bun dred and twenty-eigh- t of our old days for Bronson Beta" Duquesne, not without some satisfaction, stamped upon It "to circle the sun ; but of the longer days with which we are now endowed, the circuit will consume only two hundred and five and a fraction. So we will rotate In some fifty hours and swing In toward Venus and out toward Mars, In our great elliptical orbit making a circuit of the sun in four hundred and twenty-eigh- t of our old days which will live now only In our memories or two hundred and five of our new days. Around and about In and out we will go let us hope, forever. His audience was silent Duquesne let them study his sketches on his natural blackboard before he observed: "A few obvious consequences will at once occur to you." Hleelns, who had dropped his plants while he listened, gave his Impromptu THE THIN MAN AND THE f like a grade boy in a classearth. Eve. For once more we are on answer "Of course; our summers will room: earth this strange, strange earth. But hot and our winters will b we have brought our Identical bodies BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD PrccaiiC Profwsor of Btcitriolotr otadlilinoi Medicine. L'nierr Collect of Medicine. . .. had escaped Only a handful of men and women, the flower of earth's civilization, world without law, by fleeing in a great space ship to another planet. Here, in a confronted by new perils, they faced the necessity of building a new civilization. Se z B. wetrn Newipapr Union I.'. . sains . "VK Mawboer week I'm net atkinc oa PATRONIZE HOME I t. IXDlgTM Uident U Gattc At 400 Utah Oil ea elia Refining Service Stations in Utah tnd Uii pi Hue RIDE IN AIR-COOL- 1 ED loM COMFORT 2 TJ?3"r?Or ! decora TO r taMMUMtWIlii- mmm - TO in Hi mm ii, I This bargain one way fare is in effect from Salt Lake City tad Ogden. 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