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Show ARTIFICIAL GOLD IS NOT GRAVE DANGER WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. It la foolish fool-ish for the world to worry over artificial arti-ficial gold or its effect utron the economic econ-omic situation. This Is tbe balm of the United States geological survey t. soothe the uni-versal uni-versal disturbance in the minds of economists aroused by lie if i-n! announcement an-nouncement that a new method of alchemy had been discovered. The feat ennnot be termed impossible, impos-sible, hut It Is too costly, tho survey states. The process would be far more ootpi nslve than the natural method. Th.- discovery by modern chemistry, the survey states, thai many of the supposed elemental substances are in fact compounds, has revived the age-old age-old hope of alchemy, whjjch has drawn men Into its luring grasp for centuries. There is no danger, however, according ac-cording to the government scientists, that artificial gold. If it can be made, will ever be anything hut a curiosity of tho chemical laboratory. A great outburst of sunspots is a,s: a. rule coincident with the occur-' rerjee of brilliant auroral displays. |