ve the private
system of medical treatment. Have we not noted the laboring husband
bending at his toil for eight or ten hours to pay the physician who
calls for a few minutes? In some cases this program is continued for
weeks, until the honest toiler finds himself confronted with a doctor's
bill and medicine bill to haunt him until the debt is either forgiven or
paid at great sacrifice.

On the world of Swift and in the vast majority of civilized worlds in
space, the community or government furnishes a salaried physician within
reasonable reach of every home. The doctors of Swift are not expected to
work night and day. They have shifts to divide the toil equally.

In architecture this distant planet excels us by far. I improved the
opportunity and went to witness a magnificent temple of worship which
has been in process of erection for over two hundred years. Any conceit
that I previously had on account of the large structures of my own world
quickly vanished at the sight of this imposing edifice. During my visit
the winged workers were laboring on the upper stories and I watched them
with great wonderment as they descended from the clouds to carry
materials to the higher stories. Can you imagine the picture of workmen
flying in all directions with tools, each one busily employed? It is
promised that the present generation of employees will live to see the
completion of this notable structure.

This vast building is the national religious center of the Swiftites.
Each government has such a central station, and from it all temples of
worship are controlled. Here the church and the state are yet married,
and the state maintains its religious departments with careful scrutiny.
The chief ambition of each government has always been to outshine the
others in the glory and magnificence of its central temple which, of
course, is fire proof and almost time proof.

One may wonder as he gazes upon this extensive structure why there are
seventy thousand sleeping rooms and dining halls built after such
extensive plans as to entertain, at one time, twenty-five thousand
guests. All this is to accommodate the vast throngs that take their
sacred pilgrimage once in a year under an arrangement by which one tenth
of the able-bodied go each thirty-nine days, which corresponds to our
month.

The most notable feature of this central temple is the main service
room, built at fabulous cost and capable of accommodating one hundred
thousand