Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13

sweetheart, Carol Gould, and haoleye hunt
has just perfected Radley projects on to q
gsuze curtain the beginning Of q murder
ing with their natural voices; Radley.s
dinner given for 3 movie, aetress who was +
expiainins his Invention. there IS a COM
motien in the hall; the Japanese val valet opens
kS" WHIT WIZ he '1 is.' but g he salls phyIlis By
ssxanser VAN sia'WHhir nfle. o and the foll %sSss'' day
WITH the. same group present he projects
studio.
Continued from Yesterdays Starr
INSTALLMENT VII.
~ rs the explanation of all that
; . men have called ghosts" went
on Radley, blowing smoke at the
white ceiling. Events live in
the ether Just as they do in
mans memory. No detail, no mat
ter how fleeting, is ever lost. Men
said they had seen old deeds of vio-
lence reacted, haunting their original
localities-and nobody believed the
ghoStly stories. Their stories were true.
Men have seen what. they. thought to
be the figures OF the dead return APP
parently alive, and nobody believed
their descriptions-until now. Under
the right conditions, past action does
return. / have learned how to create
the right conditions, that's ALL"
He paused and looked at them with
Phyllis last night. 1t fired her resent
ment again instantly. But she Quelled
the impulse to speak.
"But-but," cried Miss Brainard
eagerly. "you say these things, these
events, these records-are-remain in
the locality where the event occurred.
How do you get them here?"
Il didn't say they remain where they
occurred. I said they are recorded
where they occur. I have learned to
transport them"
I'm those little bomb things you
showed us?" asked Carol. =
I'm those little bomb things-some-
times. To be as brief as I can about
it, I began by specializing that, If radio
sound can be made more perfectly
audible by simplifying devices, things of
low visibility could be forced up into
highly visible degrees by ONE means
of concentration. The theory of vi
bration. more or less popularity under
stood, suggested first that there must
be a method of reproducing events
recorded in the ether by"
Getting down to their wave lengths!"
supplied Carol irrepressibly.
Very WE'LL" said Brainard. IT be-
lieve that If I could find the means
to capture the etheric record of an
porting 1t. But the primary capture
was the thing. First catch your
eventr I spent two or three years
experimenting and then suddenly
stumbled upon the thing 1 wanted. It
was condensation I needed, conden-
sation of the ether, with only a sec
ondary use Of vibrations. Sol con-
| densed."
CONDENSED WHAT" asked Mr.. Nor
man, almost sharply.
II condensed the air" said Brainard.
"You will say at once that people have
been condensing air since the first days
of power drilling. and discovered Moth
ing they caught but air. And you
doubtless know that there is such q
thing as liquid air, air compressed
| fed and frozen by sudden expansion
into vacuum-protected vessels"
"Of course we know what liquid air
Is, Rad. said John. But liquid air
isn't liquid ether"
quite so. But liquid air, by some
law / do not pretend to explain, or
| even to state, contains what the ether
is said to perpetuate. II 1t does not
contain liquid ether IL contains the
liquid event that occurred in the ether
at the point Of condensation and was
retained at that point, no matter how
much the mere air may have moved
about"
Liquid events! Liquid events!"
cried Coral. "Oh, Radley, this Is the
greatest press stuff ever! A gorgeous
| story to fll q Sunday science section!
But don't ask us to believe It'll"
II have no notion OF asking you to,
my child" Brainard replied. 'You are
merely trying not to believe 1t now"
But, Rad" exclaimed John. do
you mean to say that you can-liquid-
ize-produce-reproduce anything that
has happened-anywhere?"
How do YOU get 1t here?" demanded
Miss Brainard.
But If it's frozen, how do you show
1t. exhibit 1t, run 1t for us?" asked
Carol.
Perhaps If I just go on with my
Brainard told them. without discuss
| ing the why's and wherefores, which I
am frank to admit I can't make clear
to myself, I have found out that liquid
| air, condensed from q given locality,
invariably contains a record Of ONE
event that has occurred In that locality.
In frozen state the liquid air car be
transported. BY evaporating under car
tain conditions and to just the right
density, the liquid event. as you call it,
becomes visible in the escaping gases
and not only visible, but audible, too,
as you have reason to know!'
But. Radley," Phyllis found herself
saying. drawn into speech In spite OF
herself, why aren't events confused?
There must have been hundreds Of
localities!"
Exactly" he returned. "But there
are t~housands-or at least very many
broadcast messages in our atmosphere
all the time, yet your radio receiving
set picks out n That's where I use
the law OF vibration. I do control the
selection Of the event I want by setting
UP vibrations of the wave lengths Of
or tuned to-that event."
"That requires a long stretch Of the
imagination, boy" Mr.. Norman COM
mented.
"You haven't begun to stretch your
imagination yet, sir" smiled Brainard.
Wait till you really begin to think
! what all this means"
Then" cried Coral. "you condensed
the air on the beach out here last
night, and froze Rip in it! Was that
what we saw?"
you saw q scene that occurred on
the beach out here last night, as 1t
was recorded in the ether. caught in
liquid air that wa condensed under
vibrations timed to get that scene"
explained Radley carefully. IF I talk
all day I won't be able to make It
much clearer to you without telling
you just how I set UP the vibrations
ans how I combine condensation with
timing. Those are my secrets"
did you know you were being con-
densed, Rip?" asked Carol, turning sud-
denly to the gentleman In the loung-
ing robe.
HE wasn't. interrupted Brainard.
"T voodn the conference.-the +hsn wsn.,s