Air Wonder Stories, July 1929 — page 89: what you’re looking at

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ATR WONDER STORIES 87 to remind them that life is as great as they wish to make it, are not given to sitting on their front porches and allowing the rest of the world to fly by. Too, she has her daughters to keep her young and ou her toes, for after Jimmy Jr. had come two more sons and two girls that are almost as pretty as their mother. * RK So ended the story as written by my ancestor. In contemporary history, I find, that not shortly after this tale was finished the secret formula of the solutions et cetera that had been evolved by the original Howard Mentor had been placed in the vaults of the Federal government. The obtaining of the secretions no longer necessitated the killing of birds, for chemists discovered that the ingre- dients could be produced synthetically. Tt took several hundreds of years to bring about the complete change, and we can safely say that the world’s five billion people are all the wings except perhaps a few isolated groups living in the jungles and mountains, who are now considered savages. And it is to that Triumvirate composed of Howard Mentor of Scotland, the Patriarch of Mentor and the Martyred President that the world can send her prayer of thanks for the power that is now hers. THE END The Bloodless War (Continued from page 57) The Ambassador left the room with the Secre- tary of State. The President sighed, “Well, that leaves Japan.” “IT do not think, that we need worry about that country,” replied the Secretary of War. ‘‘She has lost twenty thousand planes and her American ally. She realizes that we know just what she at- tempted. Her fleet was mobilizing for a cruise in the vicinity of the Philippine Islands, A great fleet of mysterious commercial vessels in the Pacfiic has disappeared. I have every reason to believe that she will cancel all action. We can watch her more closely than we did before and strengthen our Pacifie fleet. I feel that Great Britain and France should know about this attempt. They are our friends. For the time being, the danger is over, thanks to these gentlemen.” “The country will not forget them,” answered the President. John Farrol stood up, as he said. “Mr. President and gentlemen of the Cabinet. This has been a bloodless war. In this we have simply been fortunate. Next time there may be an entirely different story. The answer to the problem of future danger is simple... the United States must always be prepared. There will never be a complete surety of peace so long as men are simply animals, covered with a thin veneer of civilization. Mr, Strange and I were glad to do what we did. It was our duty as American citizens. We ask for no pay, demand no reward, but we do hope that the leaders of our nation have learned their lesson.” THE END The Ark of the Covenant (Continued from page 31) with one of the United States oil-freighters? I wanna know what prinked-up, bullion-ornamented, lime-juice-weaned sonofagun in a skin-tight u-ni- fo’m has had the sass——!” The rest was verbiage. I dissed the radio and looked at Dan and Lord Almeric, who were sitting side by side, open-mouthed. His lordship was the first to speak. “Farragut, by Jove!” he said. “Piracy plus the knowledge of the twentieth century!” (To be continued) conmicloooks.com