The Winslow mail., 1914-10-24

ness OF spirit. Indeed, it was inevitA-
bic that they should act greatly. FROM
the first they had to see the round
globe as one problem; it was impossible
any longer to deal with it piece by
piece, They had to secure it univer-
sally from any fresh outbreak OF
atomic destruction aud they had to in
sure permanent and universal pacI-
hcation. On this capacity to grasp and
WELD the whole round globe their ex-
istence depended. There was no scope
Tor any inferior performance
So soon as the seizure of the existing
lysuppies of atomic ammunition and the
apparatus for synthesizing carolinum
was assured, the disbanding of social
utilization of the various masses of
troops still under arms had to be ar
ranged, the salvation of the years
harVeStS and the feeding, housing and
employment of the drifting millions
Of homeless people. In Canada. in
South America and Asiatic Russia
there were vast denominations of pro-
vision that was immovabe only be-
cause of the breakdown of the mon
etary and credit systems. These had
to- be brought into the famine districts
very speedily if entire depopulation
was to be avoided, and their transport
tatiOn and the revival of cOmmunica-
tiOns generally absorbed a certain pro-
portion of the sodiery and more able
unemployed. The task of housing as
sumed gigantic dimensions, and from
building camps the housing committee
Of the council speedily passed to con
structions of more permanent type,
They found far less friction than might
have been expected in turning the loose
population on their hands to these
things. People were extraordinarily
tanned by that year of suffering and
death; they were disillusioned of their
traditions, bereft of once obstinate pre-
judices; they felt foreign in strange
world and ready to follow any con
fident leadership. The orders of the
new government come with the best of
all credentials, rations. The people ev-
eryWhere were as easy to control. one
of the old labor experts who had sur
! vived until the new time witnesses,
"as gangs of emigrant workers in
new land"
And now it was that the social pos
sibilities of the atomic energy began
to appear. The new machinery that
had come into existence before the
last wars increased and multiplied, ana
the council found itself not only with
millions Of hands at its disposal, but
with power and apparatus that made
it's first conceptions OF the work it had
/ to do seem pitifully timid. The camps
/ that were planned i'll iron and deal
were built in stone and brass; the
roads that were to have been mere iron
tracks became spacious ways that in
sisted upon architecture; the cultiva-
! tions of foodstuffs that were to have
supplied emergency rations, were
presently, with synthesizers, fertilizers,
actinic light and scientific direction, In
excess of every human need.
The government had begun with the
idea of temporarily reconstituting the
social and economic system that had
prevailed before the first coming of
the atomic engine, because it was to
this system that the ideas and habits
of the great mass of the worlds dis
possessed population was adapted
| Subsequent Encouragement it had hop
ed to leave to its SUCCESSORS whoever
they might be- But this, it became
more and more manifest, was absO
! utely impossible AS well might the
council have proposed revival of
slavery. The capitalistic system had
already been smashed beyond repair
by the onset of limitless gold and en-
ergy 1t fell to pieces at the first
| endeavor to stand it up again. Already
before the war half of the industrial
class had been out of work. The at
tempt to put them back into wages
employment on the old lines was futile
from the outset-the absolute shatter
ing of the currency system alone
would have been sufficient to prevent
! that-and it was necessary therefore
to take over the housing, feeding and
clothing of this worldwide multitude
without exacting any return in labor
whatever In a little while the mere
| dDSeuCH Ol OCCIpdtlOu IOl SO SACdC q
multitude of people everywhere be
came an evident social danger, and the
government was obliged to resort to
Such devices as simple decorative WORK
in wood and stone, the manufacture
of hand woven textiles fruit growing
flower growing and landscape garden
ing on a grand scale to keep the less
adaptable out of mischief and Of pay
ing wages to the younger adults TOR
attendance at schools that would equip
them to use the new atomic ma
chinery So quite insensibly the coun
Gil drifted into complete reorganization
of urban and industrial life, and in
deed Of the entire social system.
CHAPTER XIV.
A New Common Social Order.
rDEAS that are unhampered by po