The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 29, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 November 1934 — Page 3

THURSDAY, MOV. 8, 1934

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*Of coarse—the tides," Tony realised aloud. "Bronson Beta Is the size of the earth, Tony; Bronson Alpha Is estimated to have eleven to twelve times that mass. That sphere will pass, the first time, within the orbit of the moon. Broason Beta will raise tides many times as high; and Bronson Alpha—yon can't express It by mere multiplication, Tony. New York will be under water to the tops of its towers—a tidal wave beyond all Imagination t The seacoasts of all the world will be swept by the seas, sucked up toward the sky and washed back and forth. The waves will wash back to the Appalachians; and It will be the same In Europe and Asia. Holland. Belgium, half of France and Germany, half of India and China, will be under the wave of watei. There’ll be an earth tide, too." “Earth tide?" "Earthquakes from the pull on the crust of the earth. Some of the men writing to Father think that the earth will be torn to pieces just by the first passing of Bronson Alpha; but some of them think It will survive the strain." “What does your father think?" "He thinks the earth will survive the first stress—and , that It la possible that a fifth of the population may live through it, too. Os course that's only • guess." “A fifth," repeated Tony. “A fifth of all on the earth." Eve was watching him. Through the years of their friendship and fondness, she bad seen Tony as a normal man, to whom everything that happened was happy, felicitous and unbixarre. Hie only crises In which she observed him were emergencies on the football field, and alarms In the stock market, which in the first case represented mere sport and In the second.

•New York Will Be Under. Water te the Top of Its Towere—a Tidal Wave Beyond All Imagination! The Seacoasts of tha World Will Bo Swept By the Beas.*

money WHICH be did not properly ondersUod. because ali his life he had ] possessed money enough, and more. Mew, as she watched him. she thought that she would meet with him —and she erulted therein —the most terrific reality that man had ever faced. So far as he had yet been called upon, he had met It without attempting to trade It; his effort had been solely for more complete understanding. A contrast to some of those men—among them men who were called the greatest In the nation—whose voices roee loud again behind the closed doora Boom one—ah* could not Identify him from his rolce, which ranted In n strange, shrill rage—evidently was battling her father, shouting him down, denying what had been laid before them all. The ranting and shouting offended her; she wanted to go to her father's aid; not biting able to. she went to - Tony. “Bomebody," said Tony, "seems not ts like what he has to hear." "Who Is he, Tonyr "Somebody who Isn't very used to tearing what be doesn't like. ... Oh Bra, Ere! lly dear, my deart for the first time In my Use, Fd like to be Sl poet; I wish for words to say what I feeL . . The sodden unmuffling •f the voices warned them that a door Cross the study had opened; some one had come out. It was her father. For a few moments he stood regarding them, debating what he should say. "father," Ere said, "Tony and I— Bony and I—” Bar father nodded. "I saw yon for • few seconds before you realised I was hare. Ere—and Tony.” - Tony flushed. "We mean what you •Mr, sir," ha said. "We more than Mas It We're going to be married m seen as we can—aren't we, Ere?** , - "Oaa 'wo. Father!” Cole Hendron shook his bead. •There can’t be marrying or love for «Bhsr of you. Ho time to tell you why not; only—there cant” "Why can’t there be, sir?“ "There's going to be altogether too much else In a few Mstla you'll knew. Meanwhile, don’t spoil my plans by ek>;>?ng. And don’t_go on

doing— what 1 jnst aaw. It'll only make it harder for both of you— aa you'll tee when yon figure out what’s j before you. Tony, there's nothing per- , sonal In that I llki you, and you { know it If the world were going to remain, Td not say a word; but the world cannot possibly remain. We can talk of this later.” The study door again opened; some one called him, and he returned to the Argument In the next room. “Now," demanded Tony of Eve, "what in the world, which cannpt possibly remain, does he mean by that? That we shouldn't love and marry because we’re going to die? All the more reason for It —and quicker, too.” t "Neither of us can possibly guess , what be means. Tony; we'd be months behind him in thinking; for he’s done j nothing else, really, for half a year, but plan what we—what all the human race —will have to do. He means, 1 think, that he's put us In some scheme of things that won't let us i marry.” The argument In the room broke np and the arguers emerged. In a few minutes they all were gone; and Tony sought Cole Hendron in his big study, where the plates which had come from South Africa were spread upon ! the table. There were squares of stars, usually the same square of stars repeated over and over again. There seemed to be a score of exposures of the identical plate of close-clustered stars. "You were downtown today, Tony?” "Yea.” "Today they took it. didn't they? They took It and closed the Exchange, 1 hear; and half the businesses in town had a holiday For they’ve known for quite' some time that something has been hansrlug over them, hanging over the market. This mornlog we half told them what It U; and

they thought they believed it Just now 1 told six men the other hair — or roost of It—and—and you heard them, Tony; they won’t have It The world won’t come to an end; It cant possibly collide with another world, •because—well, for one thing. It never bas done such a thing before, and for another, they wont have It Not when you dwell upon the details They won't have It Tomorrow there’ll be a great sUring back In feeling, Tony. The Exchange will open again; business ts going on. That’s s good thing; ••] I’m glad of It "The trouble is. men aren’t really educated up to the telescope yet as they are to the microscope. If s doctor took a Wt of cell-tissue from any one of those men who were Just here, and put It under the microscope, and said, ’Sorry, but that means you wilt die,’ there isn’t a man of them who wouldn’t promptly put his affairs In shape. "None of them would ask to look through the microscope himself; he’d know It would mean nothing to him. "But they asked for Bronson’s plates. 1 showed them; here they are, Tony. Look here. See this field of stars. All those fixed points, those round specks, every single one of them Is a star. But see here; there Is a slight—a very slight—streak, but still a streak. There, right beside It, Is another one Something has moved, Tony 1 Two points of light have moved in a star-field where nothing ought to movet A mistake, perhaps? A flaw in the coating of the plate? Bronson considered this,’ and other possibilities. He photographed the star-field again and again, night after alght; and each time, you see. Tony, the same two points of light make a bit of streak. No chance of mistake; down there, where nothing ought to be moving, two objects have moved. But all we have to show for It are two tiny streaks on a photographic plate “What do they mean? *Geotlemen. the time has come to put your house In order!’ The affairs of all ths world, the affairs of every one living in the world—. Naturally, they can’t really believe It. "Bronson himself, though he watched three planets hini clf night

after night for months, couldn’t really believe it; nor could the other men who watched. In other observatories south of the equator. “But they searched back over old plates of the same patch of the sky; and they found. In that same atarfleld, what they had missed before—those same two specks always making tiny streaks. Two objects that weren’t stars where only stars ought to be ; two strange objects that always were moving, where nothing 'ought to move. “We need only three good observations of an object to plot the course of a moving body ; and already Bronson succeeded in obtaining a score of observations of these. He worked out the result, and it was so sensatiuual, that from the very first, he swore to secrecy every one who worked with him and with whom he corresponded. They obtained, altogether, hundreds of observations; and the result always worked out the same. They all checked—- “ Eve says she has told you what that result is to be,” Oole Hendron said. “Yes," said Tony, “she told me," “And I told these men who demanded—ordered me—to explain to them everything we had. I told them that those specks showing ou the Bronson plates were moving so that they would enter our solar system, and one of them would then come Into collision with onr world. They said, all right You see. It really meant nothing to them originally. “Then 1 told them that, before the encounter, both of these moving Imdies —Bronson Atpha aiu. Bronson Beta — would first pass us close by and in use tides that would rise six hundred feel over us, from New York to San Fran cisco—and. of course, London and Paris and all seamnsta everywhere. -‘They began to oppose that, because they could understand It. I told them that the {Kissing of the Bronson bodies would cause earth quake* on a scale unrnkginable; half the inland cities woulu be shaken down, and the effect below the crust would set volcanoes into activity everywhere, and aa nevei since the world "I Told Them That th* Passing of tha Bronson Bodiaa Would Cause Earthquakes on a Scale Unimaginable; Half the Inland Cities Would Be Shaken Down.” began. I said, perhaps, a fifth of the people would survive the first passing of the Bronson bodies. I tried to point out some of the areas on the surface of the earth which would be comparatively safe. “I could not designate New York or Philadelphia or Boston ... They told me that tomorrow I must make a more reassuring statement* Cole Hendron gaxed down again at Bronson’s plates. “I suppose, after all, If doesn’t make much difference whether or not we succeed In moving a few million more people Into the safer areas. They will be safe for only eight months more. In any case. For eight months later, we meet Bronson Alpha on the other side of the son. And no one on earth will escape. "But there la a chance 2bat a few Individuals may leave the earth and live 1 am not a religious man. as you know, Tony; but as Eve said to you. it seems that it cannot be mere chance that there cornea to ua, out of space, not merely the sphere that will destroy us, but that ahead of it there spins a world like our own which some of us—some of us—may reach and be safe.” • ••*••• Tony took Dave Ransdell home with him. The South African wanted to "aee” New York. When Tony woke hia first thought was of Eve. To have held her dose to him, to have caught her against him while she clung to him, her Ups on his—and then to be forbidden her! To be finally and completely forbidden to love ho-! Her father not only forbade tbat joy; he denied its further possibility for them. Ami her father controlled her, not merely as her father, but aa a leader of this strange society, the uncanny power of which Tony Drake was just beginning to feel: The League of the Last Days! A pledged and sworn circle of men. first in science all over the world, who devoted themselves tv their purposes with a sternness and a discipline that recalled the steadfastness of the early Christiana, who submitted to any martyrdom to found the Church. They demanded and commanded a complete allegiance. To this tyrannical society Eve waa sworn. . . . Tony found Ransdell at a window of the living-room. The morning paper eras spread bear a table. "Hello," said Tony. “Kyto tells me you’ve been up awhile and have had breakfast You’ve altogether too many good habits." The South African smiled pleasant ly. "I’ll need more than t have for a starter, if Pm joining the League of the Last Days." be observed. . "Then you’ve decided to?" asked Tony. It waa one of the topics they’d discussed last night "Yea. The Sew fork chapter, tat choice,* "You're not going back to Capetown?” "Now Headquarters will bo hero or wherever Doctor Hendron la.* “That’s good.* said Tony, and took the paper to the breakfast table, where Ransdell joined him for another top of eoCea The two young men. of widely different natures and background and 1 ;•

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training, sipped their ddffee and glanced at each other across the table. “Well,” questioned Tony at last, "want to tell me bow you really feel?” “Funny.” confessed the South African. “1 bring up the final proof that the world’s going to end; and on the trip find the dear old footstool a pleasanter place for me than I ever figured before It might be. . . . “To mention the minor matters first," Ransdell continued In his engagingly frank and outright way, “I’ve never lived like this even for a day. . I’ve never been valeted before." Tony smiled. “That reminds me; wonder If they’ll let Kyto Into the League?” “Not as our valet. I’m afraid,” the South African said. T hope you per“inlt me the ‘our’ for the duration of my stay. I do fancy living like this, I must admit. I’ll also tell you that 1 appreciate very much just being around where Miss Hendron Is. I didn’t know there really was a girl like her anywhere in the world." "Which is going to end, we must remember," Tony warned him. "Will you permit me, then, a particularly personal remark?” inquired the South African. “Shoot,” said Tony. “It is—that If I were you In your place, 1 wouldn’t particularly care what happened.” “My place, you mean, with —” "With Miss Hendrou. In other words, I heartily congratulate you.” "You don’t know what you’re talking about,” said Tony—too brusquely, and realized it “I beg your pardon. 1 mean, I thank you . . . The Stock Exchange. I s£e. Is going to be open today. Id fact it undoubtedly is open now; and I am not ... I ought to have said to you, Ransdell, I'm glad you’re staying on. Stay’on right here with me, if you like. “There’s no sense in my going to the office. There’s no sense In anything en the world, now. hut preparing and perfecting the Space Ship which —be sides watching the stars —has been the business of the best brains in the League of the Last Days." Tony went downtown; he visited his office. Habit held him, as It was holding most of the hundreds of millions of humans in the world this day. Habit—and reaction. What was threatened, could not be! If Cole Hendron and his brother scien tists refused, there were plenty of oth er people to put out reassuring statements; and the dwellers on the rim of the world regained much of their as surance. The President of the United States pointed out that, at worst, the sixty scientists had merely suggested disturbances of importance; and he predicted that if they occurred, they would be less than was now feared. Professor Copley, known to Tony as a friend of Cole Hendron’s. called at the office. •Tve some things to sell.” he said, and laid down upon Tony’s desk an envelope full of stock certificates. "I’m Just back from Peru," he explained cheerfully, "where 1 have been watching the progress of the Bronson bodies. Hendron tells me that you .know the whole truth about them.” . “it Is the truth, thenl" asked Tony. "Exactly what do you think will hap pen to us?” “What will happen,” retorted Professor Copley, cheerfully enough, "If you toss a walnut in front of an eight-een-inch gun at the Instant the shell comes out? So, I say. sell my stocks. My family, and my personal responsibilities, consist of only my wife and myself; there are many things we have desired to do which we have sacrificed in exchange for a certain security in the future. There being no future, why not start doing what we want Immediately?—lf now is the day to sell." “Your guess on that." said Tony, "will be as good as mine, liow do you find that people are taking it?" “Superficially, today they deny ; but they have had a terrible shock. Shock —that’s the first effect Bound to be. Afterward —they’ll behave according to their separate natures. But now they react In denials, because they cannot bear the shock. “All over the world! Some are standing In the Place de I’Opera in Paris, hour after hour, I hear, silent for the most part Incredulous, numb. . These are the few that are too intelligent merely to deny and reject too stunned to substitute a sudden end of everything for the prospect of years ahead for which they scrimped and saved. “In Berlin there are simitar groups. And imagine the reaction In Red square, my friend! Imagine the Uusaiana trying to realize that their revolution, their savage effort to remodel themselves and their inner nature, has gone for nothing. All wasted! Imagine being Stalin tonight, my friend. What horror! What humor I What merciless depths of tragedy! “Imagine the haughty Mussolini, when be finds that the secret he could not extort from his iron-sonled men of learning is the secret of Fascism's vanity. Vanity of vanities! All, in the end, la vanity! Dust! “Imagine our President trying to decry, now, this ! Ah, I could weep. But 1 do not Instead— l laugh. I laugh because few men—but some —some, my friend — even In the face of this colossal ignominy of fate, go on and ou through the night burning out their brains yet in the endeavor to guide their own destinies. What a gesture ! But today—what appalling shock! And afterward — what a scene! When the world—the fifteen hundred millions of human beings realize, all of them, that nothing can save them, and they can not poexibly aave themselves. What a scene! I hope to be spared for It. Meanwhile, sell my stocks for the heat prices you can obtain, please ; for my wife end I—we have saved for a long time, and denied ourselves too much." la a taxi later in the day, Tony found the street suddenly blocked by a delirious group of men with locked arms, who charged out of a door, singing—drunk, senseless. Tony was on hia way to the Newark airport, avhere a certain pilot, for whom he wax to inquire, would fly him to the estate in the Adirondacks which had hems turned over to Cole Hendron. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Silence is golden. So is the fruit of the still.

AFRICA. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Ferverda spent Tuesday evening with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Shock. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Angel of Kimmel spent Friday with Sally Lewallen and daughter Hazel. Mrs. Fred Kline spent Friday with Mrs. Merle Gawthrop. Mrs. Frederic Kuhn spent Thursday with her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Shock. Eli Shock and family spent the week end in Elkhart with their daughter, Mrs. Lee Dye and family. - Jonas Cripe and Elizabeth Shock were Sunday dinner guests in the Frank Brown home at Indian Village. Elmo Shock and family were Sunday dinner guests in the Clarence Lewallen home. Sunday evening callers in the "ISlmo Shock home were Mr. and Mrs. John Baker and two daughters of Goshen and Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Kuhn. ZION. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith and family. Mrs. Marie LeCount, Mrs. DeweyCoy and George Strieby were Goshen shoppers Friday. Joseph Smith and son Donald called on Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy Thursday morning. Mr. and Mrs. I. Gexade and daughter Ramona of Michigan spent Sunday night and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Miller. The Zion Ladies W. M. AV met in the Guy school house Thursday for their regular meeting. The day was spent in quilting. Mrs. Emory Guy attended the Ladies Aid of the Church of the Brethren in Syracuse Thursday, it being guest day’. A delicious dinner was served at the noon hours There were more than 100 which ate dinner there. Russell Miller has been on the sick list with tonsilitis. Rev. and Mrs. Emerson Fredericks and daughter spent a few days last week with the latter’s sister. Mrs. Marie LeCount and Geroge Strieby entertained guests from Indianapolis, Saturday. DISMAL Mrs. Pearl Drain of Ligonier was calling in the Dismal last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bitner and Howard and Herschel Bitner visited in South' Bend Sunday, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brownbridge and family. Grandma Clingerman of Indian Village is at the home of her son Dora for a few days. Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, Mrs. Katherine Beck, Roy Wilkinson and wife, Calvin Beck and family and Wilbur W’ilkinson were dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Chas Hinderer and daughter Lucije of Ligonier. Mrs. Arthur Hively visited her sister, Mrs. Virgil Bobeck one afternoon recently. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilkinson and two daughters spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Gross of Churubusco. Dora Clingerman and wife and Grandma Clingerman spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Manda Pollock of Goshen. FOUR CORNERS. Messrs and Mesdames Bushong and three sons and Clemmens of Syracuse', Snyder and Darr assisted Mr. and Mrs. Geyer at apple pealing Monday evening. f Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr entertained at supper Friday evening the Messrs and Mesdames Geyer, Snyder Jeftson and Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Darr and two children of near Goshen, were also callers. Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr called at the home of Mrs. Myers Sunday afternoon. f Mr. and Mrs. Deithrick and two children and Mr. and Mrs. Darr and two children of near Goshen called at the Geyer home Sunday. Sir- and Mrs. LaTone Jenson entertained to Sunday dinner the Messrs and Mesdamets Bender and Blue of Cromwell. Mary Ulery spent from Wednesday until Sunday at the Dwight Berkey home of South of Milford. Donna Jean Darr spent from Wednesday until Friday with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. LaTone Jenson were Goshen shoppers Saturidlay afternoon. jj Mrs. Crist Darr spent Wednesday j at the home of Earl Darr and fain- | ily of near Goshen. CONCORD Samuel Drake and son < Melvin spent Friday with the former’s sister, Mrs. Sadie Case of Syracuse. Rez. Alonzo' Nicodemus and wife of Atwood were callers at the Ernest Mathews home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Coy and son Harold and Mr., and Mrs. Everett Darr and family were guests at the Dewey Coy home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stiflfler. Rev. Frederick and family spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart. Cay Fisher and family spent Sun-

day with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart. Mrs. LaVica Bticher spent Monday with Mrs.’ Anna Mr. and Mrs. Baisol Walters of Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Wyland were guests at the Wm. Wyland home Sunday. SOUTHSHORE Mr. and Mrs. : Roy Hartman of Goshen spent Surjday afternoon with her father, John, Swank. She also visited Leland Biker and family. Dwight Mock { and family spent Saturday evening in Goshen. Roy Niles and family spent Sunday with Mr. anjd Mrs. Bert Searfoss. L ' , Mrs. Martha Jordan has been sick xvith a c/t>ld the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Searfoss spent Sunday eyening iwith Frank Ritter and family. Hubert of South Bend spent Sunday at his cottage near Waco, Lester Mock anld family spent urday evening ini Goshen. Charles Inwood of Chicago has spent the past week with Frank Kelly. NEW SALEM Mrs. Gerald Bjushong and sons and Evelyn Mock called on Waneta Mock and Mrs. George Auer Tuesday afternoon. ! Ted Godschalk j. and HUnry Godschalk and familiei called at the Joe Godschalk home afternoon. Walter Harman and family of near Etna Greefi were guests of Howard Mock and wife, Sunday. George Auer land family spent Sunday with John Roberts and family. John Auer and family of Syracuse called on the George Auer family Sunday evening. Emory Guy and wife spent Sunday with Joe Smith and family. Donald Smith, James Pinkerton and Dale Mock cslled at the George Auer home Wednesday evening. James Pinkerton and Donald Smith called onl Guy Method and family Friday Evening of near Packerton. WEST END Those who were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orfc a Weybright were Mr. and Mrs. John Shively of Nappanee and daughter, and Miss Mandy Culler of Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mishler of New Paris were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Weybright. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Eisenhour were Sunday guests o:f Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gall. ■ \ > Rev. Harvy Haytsough and wife of North Manchester were called iast Monday to the bedside of his mother, fljrs. Joe Hartsough, who is at the point of death at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eisenhour. Mrs. Crate Beard spent the week end in Wisconsin with friends. Mrs. Gladys Troup of Mishawaka spent a few days last week with her parents, Mn and,. Mrs. C. Beard. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Arnold qf South Bend spent Sunday with Mrs. John Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. Urbans Huber and son of Wakarusa were, Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Rowdabaugh. | I Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Sheffield were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sheffield, f Mrs. Charles ©berlinj and son, . Mr. and Mrs. D. |V. Irish of Peru,

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Mr.~ and Mrs. Donald Arnold of So. Bend attended Church at Bethany Sunday evening? Mrs. Susana Weybright spent a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Eisenhour. She also visited with her sister, Mrs. Joe Hartsough, who is very ill the past three weeks. Mrs. Ray Meek and daughter of South Bend are • spending the week with her -sister, Mrs. Dorotha Vorhis. Mr. Vorhis, who underwent an operation in Goshen a week ago* is much improved. Mr. and Mrs. E. Vorhis of Goshen, and Miss Dorotha Yoder were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Linderman. Mrs. Ida Treesh of Elkhart is spending a few weeks in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rensberger, who are in ill health. Mrs. Emma Baker spent Saturday in Topeka on business.

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