1950-11-09 — Page 6

There's More To The Game

Is Another World Watching Us?.. Chapter Eight

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FLYING SAUCERS

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can't expose It, then, these visitors had of circulatory,

Of course then the first wise home and had a quiet and final visitors to be more circumspecti step is to plot the patha-and nervous breakdown..

But can we think they wouldı whoever if any.. and had to have their first cells.

abandon all, happ of learning of so deduce the powers and may- views of us from a vdy con- one is inside the kiderable distance, what would drow

would 500, as curiosity

To them

powers? Not, til they a modern' him daringly closer the the purposes of the winged disc or the tube, be their first conclusion?

street our could

those can', they safely only be a picture of know or the globe. They certainly know that the first photo that surface of the planet, that they (or fluked) species.

of pro- approach a creature of uncor were low organisms, crouched

crawling Perpetual temptation The crouched,

tain intelligence (and even more are safely encapsuled in has been secured from a

or species had to have routes, vidence, a nightmare of their husk or shell and per- ed 100 miles high showed

sent up in a rocket that teach-dose on the fine run-way

continually, He would then perhaps ducts in which to creep. Did the duct,

wantonly, risking encertali, temper.sed? bo haps have to be.

close enough of the great stretch

South-

see that air-skidding creatures also have instant destruction,

And final West of the United. States.

lines, because, one though they moved very slow to follow ty they could not keep golog might suggest, they had to be But there can be little doubt ll we know more wo must ex- You could recognise the Gulf for long.

drawn along fino Mamonts that

these, the visitors, were plore every bulbility might

not this, not unnatural sup of California into which the

from point to point?

tearning. They must keep Colorado River flows. But, of

They become exhausted evi-,

Give us a wide position as to rationally cau- dently, yawned open along They course, no hint appears on

were a rarer species away from us,

tious behaviour, account fox had sides, that, the first true and actual their

discharged - the than the crawling lice or cir. barth than perhaps they

at first they would the one disaster that hog mark- thought of their digestive culation cells of the earth level have to give. But that

ed this "eaga of the skies?” large-scope map, no suggestion coitonts So we shall try to find out thint this vast stretch of land mystent closed rgain their ducts. But it was coon clear

Might it not, account for the merely negative relí-advice. their views by watching thei: has any occupants.

or vents and evident that "mouths"

they nearly always were

Kentucky tragedy? mumed if magically swift_bc-

ly fell to sleep.

moving from one stain-patch to With the best magnification haviour. And to find out their

Could they do anything post- When they

they had recovered another—yes, views we shall be on safest and the clearcat lens,

Was it not our from

kind of traffic schedule diyet Obviously. their temporary exhatas- some cities

clear that the Insect spesies ground-where all seems ter- proud

Perhaps

had some kind of energy, may marked above, the place where ribly up in the air-lt we y show on an ambiguotis stain on tion, they would suck into them between these stains.

landscape-not as striking smaller to gather what it is that they the

Certainly when you are go- ing at 18,000 miles per hour you'd have to be shut up pret ty securely If you are made of anything that we call a body, a living body."

would

again or maybe devour--some creature. After this

seem to view. Show me your 8. a. spot of a "mosaic virus" their strength came back

tastes and I'll tell

you your infection that mottles the sur- character is an old and obvious face of a loaf. molto.

What are they interested in? Arst When the discs were teen some of the most interest-

Stain-towns

Wo ourselves, "the mensure

to

them and they would bumble oft down the circulation ducts --so serving in their blind way in the much vaster organism which they lived and moved.

Tals discovery of the slow- of all things," "the crown. of news, the weakness and the ing sightings seemed to suggest creation"-as

WO have with earth-boundedness of the things that they or their directors--

modest self-awareness named that moved in the ducts of the might be in a contemplative

presence-we should

and be low

sprawling stain- ume of mind. They brooded our

prominent than a organism, would make the ob- and far quite a bit, hung above

server fairly certain that these gazed down.

As then any

visitor from micro-organisms could not he come "coreering either very strong nor intel- down," he would first sce our ligent. The stain-towns. And then, As straight lines, however fine, of

loube.

A good example of this was for up aloft a report of an event during the last week of July 1948,

citizens saw it,

Big and strange growth

have anchored itself aloft.

have narrownesS,

way of showing up

I

Open

minds

By

were on

bo

was

..

Fort Knix, which seems, tol have been in the centre of this episode... is, as was

re

no the

topped-over, perhaps more than higher protein-

diet, that gave them the force gold

ILD.

greatest accumulation of

was over deposited by

It has been guarded us

to get up if only into the lower though national safety depended

thicker air-while all the rest of the living creatures either had to crawl along ducts, Or larger-just

GERALDobiliend as did the

HEARD

Maybe

blindly

big stain-organisms,

Бе

So the next step would

were these

to ind out what

sources of power.

on it

Oddest dump

The

oddest dump on the

whole surface of this planet.

Cum wo doubt that any How could surveyors seeking to know

Even our

powers

Unmolested

and power re-

1

out

the onlookers do that? human advance has in the last sources, our ores, minerals, decade suggested a way, per- and ratvmaterials would not

sooner or later haps the way.

strike: Chol radiation, or gravitational dis-' irst story, afterwards careful- ly vouched for, came from the amazing

they were a kind of fly that was thus cross-fertilis-

In the last few years there placement of this huge dump. peaceful, out-of-the-way towi wonderful

Perhaps has been increasing use of the of Alice, Texas. Five reputable from great distances, then he Crouched on the earth. abte rig the lichen-stains?

for orcs,

But Ita existence and its on they flew from one to another plane for surveying would see the arterial roads to proceed and then only

care mineral deposits, oiled po treasured

would awake leading to these stains,

all-fours-only

these to collect its policu, along

further epeculation further Certainly above the stain- sibilities. such crea- Anyone aware of

ducis, surely .plant the

could generally be

puzzlement, Why do we keep would suspect that tures would have no interest organisms

that Junk? Do we circulate it7 No. Do we eat it? No. What Way the big and here they were presented with save in what came straight in seen a kind of dust that might of their down-bent well be a discharge of fine re- strange thing was the time it some sort of low lichen, but front

productive spores on which

Instead of stumbling across stayed on view? seemed to one that spread a fine fia- nosei,

the insects might live. In ex the rough terrain trying with Can it be used as a 'secret ment-system of roots over the They have luminous ces change they would

heavy Instruments to locate form of power generator? That surface

of the ground to feed with which they see their way serve the purposes of the radiation coming from For nearly two days it chose its centre.

the must bel So they would at night, but these eyes are great main plant-organisms by ground, trying with such super- make their readings to be on view. Spherical, anti

To understand this one form turned almost always on" to mixing the pollen of one dis- balances as the Etvos machine. giving off very little light, the of rather fil-ordered and ob- the earth. But then have tant plant with the pollen of attempting with pavimetric observd's came to the conciu viously rudimentary living or decided that this was the one another

It must be radio-active, blend which the sion that it was some 6,000 ganiam he, the explorer, would spectes

methods, to gauga what masses Perhaps 0:0 with which a visitor plant-organisms on their own of coal, etc., may be under our found

creatures have feet up in the air.

.watch with care these rootlets.

some method to Ko would have to deal, the new- could never hope to achievo.

fcott has been found that power, propulsive power, At last planes were sent over

comer would suddenly discovar

So the first thing to do, when instruments can be carried in of it. there But by then,

another species this important discovery investigate.

Was planes that, riding in the air kind of rudimentary dying or made, was, above all, to study over such districts, give most perhaps not unnaturally, patient watcher of the

If they did not grow air-skidding insect.

the routes of these air-skid fo- useful readings to suggest what is more, there And, what gave up his vigil.

enough for that growth

secta. As we have seen this is hidden in the earth below. somo evidence that why did he to be

led to some accidents- seen, you might detect seemed We may ask

kind of circulation of this insect did take an interest nearly

though that may be going too Let

that us suggest wait so long? And we may add some

point- fluid going to and fro in these in things above it. another question, moo

"brooder" that hung for the

Was it possible that it oboerver edly, would he now be let ride veins,

La Buch perfect control of days unmolested us, the cautious far- been rewarded. noticed quietly on the sky?

Minute objects did slowly distance-keeping visitors? such perfect craft these riders Texas, was such an observer. to that The answer

latter percolate up and down these

Hardly possible for such a of the upper sky may not have Maybe, he was making sound- fine channels.

zudimentary animal! question is, of course, No.

But then been taking the slightest risk. Ings in the earth 5,000 feet be

maybe another those who come on new facts If our grandparents or great low him and Can we ask ourselves what Coming close to study this, maust, above all, keep open grandparents saw us "waving" 1,000 feet into the crust. it is that these visitors want to the first sign of life on an minds. Nothing must be ruled along in our cars on the densely find out? Obviously they are otherwise

apparently dead out, in an unknown situation, trafficked streets,

Texas is one of the richest seeking information.

world, the watcher would next however improbable, however pelting stream

often surging mineral sites In the world. the nature of these ludicrous it must appear to a brightly along at 30 miles There is no sign that they perceive

Already it has given us much hour, they would have gone They crawling protoplasms or germis creature of common sense are planning Invasion.

oil. There may be ores In have lot much of the advan-

that great district, orea which tage of their

to position slip

we are yet too backward away. The element of surprise

know of their power possibili- has been permitted to evapu-

ties. rate for two years and more.

to

Sign of

"the

skies"

Even quickly

Let us then deduce what we' can know about them from their machines and then troru

And

would have

life

was

for.

had

the

wholm

Give me men of prejudice

that try to construc their CCT HAVE manoeuvres.

I cherished the way

-COLLIN BROOKS

other colourful sorterers I like in certain siner intent to the always

..

over

$0

the two-

After all, one must neye

atrangers. Fethop underrate

after all, on one or two point

Ja one of the species quite advanced.

real

Alice. Fantastic story

seen our ap

Buch

lod the

resentment* investigation

give

But still the gold refused t up its secret, sifll it re mained stubbornly inexplicabl —of no use, none whatsoever completely inexplicable to any intelligent creature that did no know the

tragic, bewildered fantastic story of man's illu slons and mistakes.

That these visitors: - may va well be plumbing and testin our power, resources, we hav at least more than a couple o strands of deduction

suggestion

And this possiɔk knowledge has come through our Intest instrument of test

(World Copyright--London Ezyretai Service)

(MORE TOMORROW)

The

visiter may then have to been making his soundings answer the question: How are Gibbon, and a glorious host of ty for arousing intense dislike the earth-creatures at least ing what we can't pee-radar.

winged species-powered; Are they at all like us? Yes,

the men of prejudice even something in the voice, in the what is their food or fuel? they are, and in some wonder- of some American who said, when I am prejudiced against poiss and pose, in the firmness fully reassuring ways. Maybe, "The art of writing is the their prejudices.

with which opinions are - utter- As we have after all, it is good that we art of applying the seat of

ed rather than the opinions can't see them, for we can the the pants to the seat of a of thrift.

CLUBS: Clubs are my form themselves: it is Doctor

Fal-parent If I did not sm. better judge them (in the in-

One сап do. nothing quiet terval) by their acts,

chair. Many young authors possess to many I would have about it. I don't know that For their acts are those ollose, interest, zest, or Inven- to entertain in great places of one wants to do anything one says it advisedly - very tion through

entertainment,...Visit about it. the sheer public circumspect,

log such Intelligent

places

frequently tedium, to them, of the sit- would mean that each day I OPINION: The greatest schock- gentleman.

ting down."

should pay two shillings for or writer wasn't Wilko Col- The writer is Collin Brooks the privilege of putting my hat lins, or Edgar Wallage. It was

versatile author, journalist, and coat in.

the writer or syndicate-call- and editor of Truth who in My vlands and wines would ed Shakespeare. Compared his book "Tavern Talk" shows cost me more, and I would with Shakespeare, Patch Chey- daring ab tedium or lack of rest in then pay around 10 percent, on ney is but

a rather harvesting his opinions, top of my bill in tips. By hay curate writing for a

He has pithy, it sometimes ing a diversity of clubs I save magazine. prejudiced, things to say:

this....

DRINK. Eronelly' · speaking.

totailers

very

Hard to doubt!

There is everything to sup pott such reassuring verdiet and nothing to tell against,

Of their intelligence, that i is day-bright, of the highest standard, of the most penetra- ting insight and understanding, It is hard to doubt.

All that we long and strain to do in the very height of mechanical and dynamical pe search seems in their hands,

But to this is added à con. siderateness that soems equal to their power.

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Except for the sad accident in the Mantell affair (and then the great ship was in headlong dight from its midget pursuer), these visitors have always, not enly tried but, succeeded giving right of way' and get- iling off anyone cleo's tracks. They have behaved with deportment which shows not tacrely savoir-faire, but real considerateness.

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PREJUDICE: I admit the

sent."

drink for 'the' stimultip' of' al- cohol. They do not. They drink LORD BEAVERBROOK: One for the stimulus of talk and theoretical superiority, as a of the most surprising and at the songcas of companion-

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de ing in a kind of aphorima....

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tached, objec. He has a trick of halting and in talk is generally mart forth- In his walk to flash out right, but he can on occasion Edminister dattery most subtly that, if not n

an whan, years ago. “ho epigrammatic

man, but

prefer the

live, and just for

old, men bald to me: "Ministries aren't

men of preju-

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