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Show This Week hj ARTHUR Brisbanh What Is Worth While? News About Our Earth Metal 1,800 Miles Down Wnr Costs Money Intellectual young ladies iu New York are asking "What is really worth while in this life?" and answering In various ways. To that question, when woman is concerned, there is only one answer. The thing worth while in Hie Is to get unu-ried, raise a family of children that will repay all your affection when you are old and feel that you have done your share in contributing to the intelligent population of the globe. Everything else, for intelligent young women, is mere waste of time, unless one happens to be a genius like a Bronte sister or a Sarah Bernhardt. And even then sheought to raise a family. In all the wide universe, and all the "island universe," millions of light years distant, this tiny planet, called earth, is the one thing that interests s, the only thing really ours. v Therefore It Is a pleasure to learn from a deep Japanese scientist. Dr. Akitsune Imamura that the inside of our earth is marvellously solid, not at all the fluid "earth core," in which we have been taught to believe. Studying the passage of horizontal earthquakes, through the earth revealed re-vealed the truth to Doctor Imamura, who Is probably the greatest living seismologist. The earth's core, it3 round center on which the continents slowly slip around, like a piece of butter on a hot plate, is not only solid, but two and a half times harder than steel. We know that, steel is made of atoms and electrons, as far apart, in proportion to diameter as the earth and the sun, and not at all "solid." But it is a comfort to know that our earth rests on a core that we call "solids." Twice and a half as hard as steel is solid enough for us. It Is probably made of iron, and some day men may go down thorugh the earth's crust of soft rock eighteen hundred miles deep and mine pure iron in the earth's core. Nothing impossible im-possible about that. What men can imagine, they can do. Limitless power, as free as air or water, taken from the sun or the tides, might supply an electric torch, as big as the mouth of Vesuvius, well able to dig the hole. A million years will reveal greater wonders, wond-ers, and we have a hundred million years ahead of us. Men have only started. This depression de-pression is not the end of their efforts. ef-forts. Rear Admiral Sims calls the Spanish-American War pension system "a steal of the nastiest kind and an outrage out-rage on the American taxpayer." He says the war lasted 114 days, fewer than 400 were killed, fewer than 5,000 died of wounds and disease. More than 227,000 of the 280,000 in United States forces are drawing pensions pen-sions now, amounting this year to 1119,000,000. War is expensive, especially when you pay the bills that follow it. In New York the business partner of an influential politician is indicted for theft. He accepted ?4,000, agreeing agree-ing to get a burglar out of prison, did not get the man out, kept the money. The burglar, to have been released, had been arrested twenty-one times. This may enlighten those who ask how it happens that crime is so safe, for the criminal, in this country. It has always been said that any politician politi-cian who did not have a judge on his string amounted to little. Now, the criminal who has nq politician on his string amounts to very little. The government complains, with tears, that Russia selling goods here, notably asbestos, uses "unfair practice." prac-tice." The Russians come here and sell asbestos for whatever they can get. The asbestos people say so. This "richest, most powerful country coun-try in the world," refusing to recognize recog-nize the Russian government and then crying about its trade methods, seems rather ridiculous, especially as we have been "dumping" our surplus of manufactured articles all over the world at prices much lower than our home prices. Scientists were all excited when a mammoth was found frozen .n Eorth-ern Eorth-ern ice. The huge creature of elephant type, with enormous tusks, hair and flesh was perfect, except that wolves had eaten some of the flesh. More interesting is the discovery by Danish scientists In Greenland of Vikings buried and perfectly preserved preserv-ed In the frozen ground of the island, fully dressed in tight breeches, double-breasted double-breasted coats of homespun cloth, no coffins. Frozen bodies of northerners that went to Greenland 600 years ago are even more interesting than the frozen mammoth. In Italy, according to Mr. Knickerbocker, Knicker-bocker, who has been talking with Mussolini and learning a lot, workers are not allowed to strike and wages already low, are cut 30 per cent but there are few out of work, and there are compensations. For instance, the workers arranging arrang-ing a festival, have good wines for 10 cents a full quart, the best wine for 15 cents. Workers of Rome can see Greta Garbo, 3 cents admission for adults, 2 cents for children. You can't do that here and you can't get good wine for 10 cents a full quart. (,1932. bv King Fcaruroj Sra.itcatf lac) |