The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-27
BY H. c. WELLS,
Copyright, 1914. by H. c. Wells.

ed. Everything is broken down
 And on that sentence, with an unsx- pected artistry, Barnet abruptly ende his story.
 From the first the new governments handled affatEs with a certain great ness of spirit. Indeed, 1t was 1nevitas ble that they should act greatly From the first they had to see the round globe as one proDIem; it was 1mpessibIa any longer to deal with 1t piece by spiece They had to secure 1t unfYer- sally from any fresh outbreak of atomic destruction and they had b ia-t sure a permanent and universal pact heation. On this capacity to grasp aud wield the whole round globe thetr eZ- istence depended. There was no scope for any inferior performance.
 So soon as the seizure of the eEistine supplies of atomic ammunition and tho apparatus for synthesIzing carolfnuTn was assured, the disbanding of social utilization of the various masses ot troops still under arms had to be ar ranged, the salvation of the years haryests and the feeding, housing and employment of the drifting millions of homeless people. In Canada, 1E South America and Asfatfe RaasIa there were vast accumulaticns of pro- vision that was immovabIe only be- cause of the breakdown of the mon etary and credit systems. These had to be brought into the famine diatE1etS very speedily if entire depopulafion was to be avoided, and their 1raaspor- tation and the revival Of eommanica- tions generally absorbed a certain pro portion of the soldiery and more able
 
 sunaed gigantic dimensions, and From building camps the housing eoEnn1fttee of the council speedily passed to cen structions of more permanent type. They found far less friction than might have been expected in turning the lOCga population on their hands tc th
 things People were extraOrdinaEllsT tBmed by that year Of suffering ana death; they were disillusioned Of theiE traditions, bereft of once obstinate pre- judiees; they felt foreign ia q sttans
 world and ready to follow any con Adsnt leadership. The orders 0f the new government come with the best of all credentials, rations. The people ev- ecywhere were as easy to control, enc of the old labor experts who had saF- yived until the new time Wftnessel, Gas gangs of emigrant workers iu
 new land.
 And now it was that the soeia1 pos stbilfties of the atomic energy began to appear. The new machinery that had come into existence before gae last wars increased and multiplied, and the council found itself not only with millions of hands at it's disposal, but with power and apparatus that m9ae its first conceptions of the work it n3t
 to do seem pttifully tinld. The ca1Ap2 that were planned in 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- lions of foodstuffs that were to have supplied emergency rations. were presently, with synthesizers, fertilizers. actinic light and scientific direction ln excess of every human need.
 The government had begun with the idea of temporarily reconsttutine the
 social and economic system that had
 prevailed before the first coming of the atomic engine, because 1t was Co this system that the ideas and habits
 of the great mass of the worlds dis
 possessed population was adopted
 Subsequent rearFangeme it had hop ed to leave to its successors vehoe eF they might Le. But this. it became more and more manifest, was anso- lUtely i:7aposss bse As we'll might tho
 council ave prcnosed a revival OE slavery. .ahe eaai-alistic system had already been smashed beyond repair by the onset Of l1nitless gold and en- ergy. It fell to pieces at the first endeavof to stand it up again. Already
 before the war half Of the industrial class had been out oI 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 10 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 were absence Of occupation for SO great a multitude of people every V here be-
 came an evident social danger. and the l government was obliged to resort to
 speh devices as simple decorative work l in wood and stone, the manufacture of hand woven textiles, frslit growing
 flower growing and landscape garden l ing on grand scale to keep the less l adaptable out of mischief and of pay
 ing wages to the younger adults foe l attendance at schools that would equir
 them to use the new atomic ma.
 chinery. So quite insensfbly the coun- 1 Gil drifted into complete reorganization of urban and industrial life ana in-
 deed of the entire social system.
 tTo Be ContInued1