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reservoirs
for water. Their convenient location near the Poles has provided ideal facilities for the
preservation of an adequate supply of water.
The construction of Mars' gigantic Canal system, planetary in its extent, might seem to
your Earth people an impossible task. And it might prove so to your Earth dwellers
should you undertake a similar project in the ages to come when your seas dry up, though
it must be remembered that gravity on Mars, compared with your Earth, is as 38 to 100.
Excavations of large waterways then becomes a comparatively easy task. We have no
high mountains on Mars; in fact, none exceeding 3,000 feet in altitude. Owing to the
difference in gravity the angle of repose on Mars is nearly acute as against 45 degrees on
your Earth, which permits of almost perpendicular walls to the canals and lessens the
danger of landslides and cave-ins. But above all, the biggest advantage enjoyed by us in
the construction of large public enterprises, such as are embraced by our Canal system, is
the solidarity and unity of purpose on the part of the Martian people. As Love rules our
planet no internal dissension or public misunderstanding exists among its people to retard
any undertaking that is necessary for the good of all. It is lamentable that the dwellers on
your Earth are divided against one another. Not only are your false ideals of racial,
sociological and religious distinctions a bar to your Spiritual and material progress, but
your political and economic falsities are as millstones around your necks, which will
ultimately lead you to destruction unless you, as a people, retrace your steps and go back
to the pathway pointed out by Christ the Master 2,000 years ago, when He came to your
Earth with a message from the Most High. The pathway is LOVE which leads to a true
understanding of God and the Kingdom referred to by Christ.
The Martian canals, as telescopic observation will prove in almost all cases, follow
straight lines. When necessary, mountains have been cut through down to a proper level.
Where the canals cross depressions or old sea-bottoms, immense aqueducts have been
constructed of solid stone and concrete in such a manner that the water, in most cases,
flows to its destination by gravity.
That this has been a stupendous task may be more readily imagined when it is known that
the width of the main canals averages from one to twenty miles. This announcement
might seem to many unreasonable, but it must be remembered that the volume of water
distributed over 212,000,000 square miles of territory is immense. You might ask where
this large volume of water comes from.

The POLAR CAPS! During the Martian winter these extend down nearly to the equator,
and cover about five-sevenths of the planet's surface when at maximum; and as the
snowfall averages from six inches at the edge of the caps to 50 feet at and near the actual
Poles, some idea may be gained of the amount of moisture taken care of by these
artificial waterways. Ten feet of snow will make 12 inches of water, so there exists on
Mars an ample supply for all purposes.
(NOTE--The question as to why many of the canals germinate has been a perplexing one
to our astronomers. Lowell observed that many of the main canals germinated a short
time after the commencement of the Martian summer, and for a time it was thought that
the phenomena might be an optical illusion, and the latter theory was considered
seriously by some observers until the double canals were actually photographed at the
Flagstaff observatory, but the cause of the doubling was never solved until the receipt of
these revelations.)

CHAPTER IV.
PLANETARY ECONOMY
Economy is a virtue long cultivated on the Planet Mars. On your Earth you waste more
than you use, not only in food but in the fruits of the Earth. You are using up your
resources at a tremendous rate, and some day you must pay the penalty. Witness the
wanton destruction of your beautiful forests, the depletion of your coal beds and crude oil
deposits. All this waste is the result of lack of Spiritual guidance; a gross materialism: an
inordinate selfish greed. Instead of laying up Spiritual treasures you are worshiping at the
altar of Mamon. Ultimately you will find your hoardings nothing but tarnished brass--an
illusion leading you on to Spiritual destruction.
With the Martians the incentive to live is to express life and be in harmony with the
Creator, to develop spiritually and build for Eternity. On Mars each one strives to live for
his brother to the end that all may inherit the promised Kingdom when yet as a physical
being. Commercialism with us is unknown, for no