Evening star., 1935-10-20

I'VE have been fellow students these three
years."
"Yes yes, but tell me-"
1T is your daughter, Sir Catherine She
says that you cannot possibly send anyone's
child but your own."
Il might have known"
"You see, Sir -"
Il see My daughter. Funny that never
thought of her as anything but little girl -.
My Catherine"
"She is eighteen"
"A ripe age I'm little e-taken by
surprise. And you two havethought it all out"
Its so plain, Sir"
Eyes, it's plain It's just. It is exactly as
things ought to be. Exactly. All these other
thousands will have to wait their turn. Sit
down here. Tell me how first you came to
know my Catherine?"
Ever since we began to work together It
seemed so natural, Sir. She's so straight and
simple. 80"
Close up of Cabal, half an hour later. He is
no longer in his bureau. He is standing in a
dark recess against gracefully patterned
wall. A small clear sound is heard and he
attends to the telephone disc on his gauntlet.
"Yes. Who is it? .. Raymond Passworthy.
-. Certainly -"
He waits for half second. us that Ray
mond Passworthy? Yes. have been talking
to your son for half an hour. Yes. He is a
splendid youngster :. You want to talk to
me2 At your service :. am going to see my
daughter at the Athletic Club. He is meeting
her there. Would you care to walk with ME
through the City Ways and out through the
weather. III be with you. :"
Scene changes to view of one of the high
flung City Ways in the brghtly-lit, cavemous
Everytown of 2O54.
Here for the first time one sees the ordinary
social types of the year 2O54 at close hand,
their costume and their bearing. No one is
ragged and only one man is wearing any sort
of working costume. He is a gardener and he
is spraying some of the flowers. The general
type of costume is reminiscent of mans COS
tune in Tudor days, varying very widely be-
tween simplicity and ornateness. Some of the
young women are very lightly and simply
clad, but others are more consciously "cos-
TUNED" One sees also the very bold and deco
rative architecture of this semi-subterranean
city, and the use of running water and novel
and beautiful plants and Towering shrubs in
decoration. In the sustained bright light and
conditioned air of the new Everytown and in
the hands of sl1ilful gardeners. vegetation has
taken on a new vigor and loveliness. People
pass. People gather in knots and look down
on the great spaces below.
The figures of Cabal and Passworthy come
walking across the foreground. Passworthy is
a finer, filter version u leaner cleaner and
trimmer his ancestor, the Passworthy of
the first part of the story. He walks, talking
with Cabal, for some PAGES; then the two come
to stop. leaning against parapet, looking
down on the city and talking earnestly.
Passworthy:" II grant you the reality of the
progress the world has made since the Airmen
took control. 1t has been Century of Mar
vels. But cannot we have too much of
progressl Here agree, is lovely world in
which we are living. A little artificial - but
admirable at last. The triumph of human
invention and human will. Comfort, beauty,
security. Our light is brighter than the SUM-
shine outside and never before has mankind
breathed so sweet an air. We have got the
better of nature. Why should we still drive on
so wgently2"