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WHAT DO THESE VISITORS FROM MARS LOOK LIKE?

THE

TWELFTH INSTALMENT OF GERALD HEARD'S AMAZING STORY OF THE FLYING SAUCERS WHAT THEY ARE LIKE- LY TO BE AND HOW THEY ARE PROPELLED-

-F people of a superior der ("stop-up") into service had kindled in any direction tough. We are so much soft glant planet'e mase hold us to

tissue wrapped round slight its breast. mind and station had able amounts the small electric you needed.

discharge which has been found

rada mado of lime. The Inscot

A Martian of any kind, of watched

In the to be released every time, that 18

We may learn a lot about keeps the soft

which poate Roman epoch and, yes, plates of a certain structure are metallurgy alono when we are makes its interior, shut up in human mammal, or indeed any build but an Insect, would be our leisure and

curved

mado of the

carth NO wo right down to 120 years bent (the shifting of the atoms let examine

cur with a competent guide-wo strange, wonderfully tough much on this

would be on Jupiter. But ago, they would have said, on the surfaces mako a

will hope its pllot-a dise at material we call chitin, rent).

ho or it were an insect he or "What pathetically and ad-

rest.

will, it wo

would havo the intense So in spite of all'attempts to This carapace armour mirably industrious little This, no doubt, is a first step

show gauge their size we cannot say toward a now and violence But, of coures, the best Bee wo know, considering its light strength which insecta

what it is for sure. If they are creatures they are but, low way of producing, build paint, in this case for their ness, stand extraordinary pres horo.

then the cures. Just possibly the how slow and helpless they ing up the parts and the gear being Lords of Mars and

роя Their flight, alone, their wing of a dull texture why

release of ah maybe the smaller--which: are in really tackling their we need for quite original de- masters of space ships, lies in session of this kind of frame power, is the

which .OR elephant the outer and has been christen- so might permit a Martian insect energy environment. It is far too partures in the plan and de- the. queer mystery which

puzzled. Commander sign of new power plant.

Mac to emerge onto this our world. might envy and a tiger retreat ed Delmos may be ten miles

tho big and

(called inner Lough for such punics."

Laughlin-the riddle of the

Phobos) may be trife bigges "Gs."

four-wing "vortex

We may soon be growing our Instead of forging cut engines

them.

So we need not bring their physical, weakness against a

Then came steam and then oll, and now, "bulldozers" out roads that gangs of slaves could never have done in hun- dreds of times the same time; and, dynamite, like a magle Thor with his hammer, bursts tot of super-boes, provided their (and,

in the rock that knowledge has,

Baconian phrase, been turned by them into power.

the and shattera stands in our way.

Real skill means that force is

Look at what even we havo discovered about that essential the tempering power-proceSA,

of steel, so as to givo us our super cutting tools.

before.

Their

But that measurement a these

Certainly, if the Martians are of any form like nil the

tho on taking for granted that rest of us (a soft body wound light" is real flight, not Hard to resist round a skeleton of light struc- clumsy skidding and flapping objects are chunks of globular on the air which is all the rock-moons cast off out of the ture), then they could never birds can do, and he maintained, hope to get foot on this world. bombat more clumsily iml- supposed to have been cast off

which we Martian earth, as our moon Granted, aB

cruise - about in that the discs are "manned" They could even 1? thero were their discs. old double about the 2-diameter

saucers, there can be little

on the But, na wo doubt about the "manning" of would have to wear all-over the big ones 100ft. across), armour (there to protect our-

sign-

of to re-

but

Gravitation

tpic.

moon Natural flight would say then that these two-

for

the air.

of

their same

to mako a

B.S

wero

n

For the flash they give-by which their site is gauged

out of us ta theory which in any case has many critics today).

This old-fashioned theory midget "moons" would be of the

shado Indeed, that fact, of

their mother exerted without explosion. Wonderful stuff and these large ones make the relves from the lack of air, and

may Mara-carth. wonderful natural flight, same amazing acceleration at night from .the appalling have been what first turned

But, of course, if theso tw

of then no creature larger than a cold, at day from the blasting the rulers of that red. Insect satellites

made There is a rumour that we

that heat), so the Martians -here large Insect could stand

artifelal brightertiam parth they would

substance than ordin may have some tile proof on

punch or kick.

would have to wear closely world to think

flight, as we know birds' fight ary. this very one point, That mys-

locked cont-of-mail, terious dispute as to the "alag" This fact, when we combine the reason that we have too made man have an envious lu- be much smaller. Once, tempering much steel on Maury Island beach about it with the new evidence which much air, at least

at ground spiration to follow them into was a scene out of the Inferno. which I wrote earlier in this wo have just reviewed (the level,

But, furnace, story?

will be said, if the red could come more brightly from! The

blaze of the

evidence that even our bees

to a far smaller body, if that body have now attained to

insects were getting ready scorching any flesh left bare,

庭 gleaming not have were for instance visit us, might we that to eyes giving cataract

There is a rumour that it speech and the

detected the first signs that they globe or disc. dared to look into it. The

was not volcanie. That

one maps) makes it di

were preparing

Anyhow, though the astronu- hammering on glant anvils

when plece did not,

tested, sist the conclusion that Mars is The sheer weight of that w

descent? Has not Mars, been mers of pre-air-war were not. with burals of sparks. The sud- show that it was any ore yet ruled by insects (we recall blanket of atmosphere exerts watched as none other of our prepared to speculate or even te" den explosive "quenchings" 05

is said to have had that astronomem have said that

Afteen pounds of fellow planets?

Imagine man making a synthetic the hot bar was plunged into in it clements that are known if there is mobile life on Mars we know water or oil..

know this is true. We have satellite to circle this our earth, pressure on each aquaro on earth-titanium and calcium it would be insect in form).

of our bodies, while on Mara seen no other star has raised the they were puzzled and hard put this among them. But, and

The super-sky fleet that has it is generally agreed that the signdicant

high

them was the odd and

or made

flush 50 "moons." They were surely very suggestion, the calcium was in now hung fat up above us for pressure on bodies there is the hemperature of astronomers so to it to explain these anomalous.

holly. The whole surface of the odd. some three years has also shown 2lb. such amounts that, though It Much, if not all of that, has made

planet has been mapped with by its manoeuvring that it could a wonderfully heat-

Another factor which would wonderful care. only be "manned” by crewa been altered; for much

make a manling from Mars pering can be done with ab-

we have yet manged to forge sures which un Insect

Phobos, the mer-which in- solute quiet, with no sense that

ad the gravitation pull,

no one discover the pre-

Bashes the more. it is going on, by putting the It would bo a wonderful tesses.

liminary plans for the larger eldentally bar between powerful magnets. stuff, for instance, for the noz-

Here, he, à creature evolved venture? This descent could not brightly-is so near the surface zles of super jets-for that

to stand up against the drag have been planned in a moment. of the planet that it has to go

to at an immense pace to kee of a mass which is only some We should have been able

ralsing

Magnets

known.

inch

It will be asked why, when Immense pace

tem- resisting alloy, it was not one that had the resistance to pres- helpless on our earth would be the canals were being detected,

It was the rearrangement of nozzle business is always

а

FDR-

Insect body

the atoms that gave the steel headache to all power-designers For we must remember that 4,200 miles in diameter, would delect the first tentative push- from crashing (speed, by

it is not only smaliness which have on this earth to endure ingsidn't wer

The magnet its new temper. will do that more exactly and with perfect quiet. Skill does away with force,

0

As a matter of fact, today we are experimenting with new type of engine, a power- producer, a "dynamo" of sorts which could, produce and ren-

now.

For long we have been able to make flames, generate heats that were very high. The prob. lem has been to find anything that would hold

your

our centrifugal force, allowing out, the launching stations.

to counteract against the of a sphere Why

centripetal drag of gives an insect its immunity the down-drag

The

gravitation). the crushing

answer, strange to may, force nearly 8,000 miles thick.

It rushes round so fast that it against

seems to lie in the fact that we

its mother- right round exerted on a body when it is

On Jupiter, could we ever didn't know what to look for; so guts gravita- accelerated (in any

reach it and make a landing, that when wo found it we didn't planet in one-third of a Martian (diurnal rotation). tional field).

and night them,

we should have to crawl flat, know what to make of it.

To rellove the monotony of duct that wouldn't melt, yes, The strength of an. insect To raise ourselves on our el- For quite carly we did dis- burn like a candle, once you body is much greater than oura, bows might well be beyond cover something about Mars that the whole heavenly host rising. tried to lead the flame

structure you It

amazingly our powers so close would the was harder to explain than the in the East and setting in the

any

18

SOVIET FARM PRODUCTION

T

STILL AT 1941 LEVEL

THIS year's harvest on Soviet farms has now

been completed. Once again

By W. KLATT

day

canals. For the strangest thing West, this small intimate "moon" about Planet Four is not some- entertains lookers-on by rising. thing on it but, literally, some- in the West and setting in the

East thing about it.

It gets round Mars twice while Mars goes round itself ence.

Globular rock

On the other hand, the other

Or, to be exact, we should say midget moon behaves in a some things, two things about if oppositely odd way. For Delmos, In August 1877 Mars made which is some distance out one of its "nearest to the earth" further from the Martian sur- approaches. Every 15 to 17 face, seems as tardy as Phoboɑ- production and productivity years and best of all in August is hasty.

peasant reduced,

resistance --MATS crushed

and without mercy, millions of people lod into death by starvation.

nearest.

Odd companions

Deimos' period is only mix, days greater than the Martinn day. So, to those looking up at It, It appears to go so slow that it takes two days between rising

such

and setting!

What was anyone to make

The

and ourselves are

Famous Authority On Agriculture

The last very good time was· 41. The next very good time official Soviet accounts - For many years Jasny has statement, of course, refers to

will then be about 50 (though speak of a large crop collected and sifted the

there will be a fairly good date vast the "biological crep" on post- -

It is little wonder

that 10 in 52 when the 200-inch tele on Soviet war Soviet territory. Stripped gathered from an acreage amount of material

start of this scope hopes to try for some agriculture made available, of statistical exaggeration and years after the which is supposed to have through Soviet and other reduced to the internationally tragic experiment, at the war hohen In August 17 Mars had

the

of increased in one year by 15 sources. Although book recognised harvest unit of "bara break of the Second World War,

form production and come close, Asaph Hall, of the containing the results of these crop." this year's

harvest is Soviet

Washington

moon anomalies? million acres or by about studies is a big volume, which unlikely to amount to more food consumption were hardly Naval Observatory,

,of (D.C.),

trained the 26-inch tele astronomers pre-rocket days any better than in 1927/28 when author describes four percent of the area un- the

as than 85 to 80 million tons, or the 18th Party Congress of the scope on it. On August 11 he suggested that there'edd "com-- ponderous, he has avoided caro- little. more than the prewar der arable crops.

fully any unnecessary repetition.harvest of

Soviet Union decided to begin made his first great discovery. Panlons might not be specks of the same territory, the offensive against "eulaks," There was a minute surface of cruntivo Martian matter that

the planet once spewed out (as), Little can be found in the book while

time 12 at the same

functionaries, Mars-Mars had a body racing we were supposedly to have This scema an impressive

on the

long political struggle, million more people have to be and achievement,, but when related underlying the Soviet expert fed. to the increasing population of

ment on collectivisation which Soviet Hussia, the present

has often been described in the -standards of farm

production, part. and food consumption are no higher than before the last war, they had only when in tırma reached the levels maintained before the First World War, under the Tsarist regime,

Life Of Farmer

Tho farming

moon.

party "dizzy-with success, were only round above, the satellite,

voided the moon). Then what? too eager to diafigure the face

On the 17th he had found Well, they might be captured

Asteroids of the oldest social class in a

another and it was even closer

Wo have already in this book matter of months.

Chained To Soil

AS

to the Martian ground. The two

were amazingly small. Indeed, mentioned the Asteroid belt 1. they

can't

be properly seen at ing out beyond Mars on the way all. We see them as we see to Jupiter. It may have a very motes in sunlight, things too serious part to play in this story. small to be seen in themselves (World Copyright Reserved--Londom

Express Service}, but, noticeable by the flash that

(MORE TOMORROW)

A crop of this order cannot provide

rather more than a meagre standard of living, par ticularly if one beara in mind that increasing quantities of fodder grain are required by econotnic aspects of the livestock hords.. which

a result the peasant, who invasion and the life of the during the German These ara the conclusions farmer in Soviet Russia are the were greatly depleted and are after the Stolypin reform lost the sunbeam strikes off as

of his bonds, is today touches them. which one is forced to reach subjects with which this book now being built up to prewar some

to tho soil and after reading the most serious is concerned. The mass of numbers. Any export of grain chained study of Soviet agriculture conflicting material

tho could only be made at the ex-dominated by the masters of the which has appeared since L E. economics of socialised agricui, pense of the Soviet citizen and soll more than his grandfather Hubbard's prewar book on "The ture has been analysed most his animals. This conclusion is was before the emancipation of

Agricul-

by Jasny's Economies of Saviet

carefully and is presented in a borne out fully

the serfs 00 years ago. scholarly manner. It is to the unalysis of the inter-war period

Jaany's book does not cover author's credit that before

the the agrarian hlatory of lication he submitted his book of collectivisailen.

Long, Sad Tale postwar years, but latest reports tell of renowed peasant remstance. Through the forma

and Since the end of the period tion of "work brigdes"

ture."

Postwar Study

+

da

to the critical review of his colleague, Dr. Timoshenko, the

The postwar study has been other expert on Soviet agricul undertaken under the ausplees ture

working at the Food

it

:

So much travet luxury

ROUND

at so

little

cost!

of the Food Research Institute Research Institute at Stanford of the New Economic Policy, the concentration of small Into at Stanford, California, which

kalkhory, the Soviet has on its staff two of the most prominent.cxperta

How easy it is to fall a victim during which Russian peasants giant

are re-

on Soviet to Soviet mirepresentation of were invited to enrich them Government once again attempts Affairs. It has been published theta is shown by Jammy's selves," to this day when record to force the Russian peasant into under the title "The Socialised analysis of official Soviet statis: Agures of production

accepting socialised agriculture, Agriculture of the US.S.R." and ties, of which he has made! 1ts author is Naum Jasky, an several detailed studies for the ported, the Soviet experiment of but the history of 20 yours of Associa collectivisation provides a long, collectivimation, as told by eminent agricultural economist American Statistical

suggests that tho who has gained agricultural ex- tion and the American Review, sad file of wasted human effort Ja perience in three continents and of Economico and Statistics.

of unspeakable human economic experiment has proved has made a name for himself by

misery. Jam describes how, A failure and that his standard works on the com- Recently Soviet sources have after the opening of the "clas petition among grains and on indicated that this year's grain war in the villages," peasants Peasantry may prove unsuited

their livestock the use of tractors in agricul- crop will be close to the target and

were to be absorbed completely into million to „This liquidated, resources turo.

wasted, regimented Soviet society; of 127

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