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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane How to Find Gold. Earth Quakes From Holes. In Old New York. New Blood Pressure Idea, Two gold items. First, to find gold in these days, select some giant "batholith" and hunt arcund its base. A "batholith" "batho-lith" is a mass of granite, protruding pro-truding from the earth, with a jagged top showing the effects of intense and reaching, sometimes, hundreds of miles down into the earth. Millions of years ago these "batholiths" forced their way up through rock lying about them, volcanic heat helping the process, and the gold came up with them. It is not in the granite, says the learned Professor Emmons of the University of Minnesota, "but nearby, usually in the rocks through which the molten granite pushed, rich deposits of gold are ueiiueiiwy 1UU11U wn.11111 a. lew miles of the granite outcrops. Gold item number two. The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Engin-eers, in New York, is told that dentists bury every year $9,000,-000 $9,000,-000 worth of gold in the teeth of their patients. Little of that ever ev-er gets back into circulaion, and. in about twelve hundred years, dentists could use as much gold as there is now, for money, in all the world. However, there is gold everywhere, including endless end-less billions of dollars worth in the oceans' waters. We may never nev-er learn to extract that, although nothing is impossible. The United States Navy submar ine S-48 discovers in the Caribbean Carib-bean Sea a hole almost five miles deep that proves to have been the center cf the earthquake area in the recent Santiago earthquake disaster. In other words, the banks, or sides, of that great hole, caving in, probably caused the trembling of surrounding earth masses that we call "earthquake." It is known that such deep "sea holes," with very steep sides, exist ex-ist near the coast of Japan, causing caus-ing frequent earthquakes in that country. It is encouraging news, for it means that iu iiges to come men will provide against earthquakes, as they now provide against landslides .in mountain passes. They are doing that now, in the Blue Cut of tho Cajon Pass. Giant Gi-ant submarines, strong enough to bear the water's weight, scouting on the sea floor, will level off the steepest, most dangerous gorges in the ocean depths. Foolish doubters will say it can never be done. They also said men would never fly, iron steamboats steam-boats would not float, and one congressman was turned out by his constituents "because he was fool enough to believe in telegraphy tele-graphy and vote money to try it." In New York where this is written everybody is busy except those not at work, and they are busy worrying. The real estate tax rate has been increased for 1932 which means that banks, insurance companies and others that lend on mortgages will increase their real estate holdings. Max D. Steuer, a man not pleasant pleas-ant when opposed to you, is trying try-ing to convince a grand jury that bankers that close up, cause depositors de-positors to lose millions, and can't show a good excuse, should go to jail. An optomist is one who tries to jail anybody here for stealing on a really big scale. Such gentlemen gentle-men usually go, not to jail, but to Europe. ' Jnteresting news for those get ting old, working too hard or worrying too much. La Joie, of Los Angeles, announces the use. at the hospital De La Pitie in Paris, of an instrument that "detects "de-tects nigh blood pressure in lime." Dr. La Joie says the late Senator Sena-tor Dwight W. Morrow suffered from a kind of blood pressure that he calls "silent hypertension," hyperten-sion," a trouble not revealed by old methods for detecting blood pressure. American doctors will be interested inter-ested in testing the value of the new idea. The cowardly brutality of pigeon pig-eon shooting has been abolished and. the country gets along very well without pigeon's blood. It can get along also without the brutality cf prize fighting and the shedding of blood that smears the faces of boxers and boxing gloves and makes profit for politicians poli-ticians and promoters. Fencing is not brutal. It requires re-quires magnificent training, and is a better physical exercise than boxing ever could be, and it is an exercise that could prepare men for the use of the bayonet, since the bayonet must be used. A push from a soft boxing glove does not train a man to face cold steel. Nationall State and fcity governments gov-ernments are discharging unnecessary unnec-essary employes, or talking about it. Chicago plans to drop 2,500 workers, Los Angeles more than 800; other cities in proportion. It is true that public employes, appointed by politicians to paj' political debts, tend to increase iike barnacles on a ship. It is not just that taxpayers carry, as they do, tens of thousands of un- necessary salaries, but fairness de mands that men and women trained to only one kind of work, and not responsible for the waste should have a reasonable time in which to readjust their lives, at least, a few months of salary continued, con-tinued, or a longer period on half pay. Texas lines up solidly for Speaker John N. Garner as Dem-acratic Dem-acratic presidential nominee. His ! boom, rapidly growing, may interfere inter-fere with Democratic plans that were carefully made, leaving nun cut. I |