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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Earth's Gold Supply Single Tax Comfort Science Never Stops Some Russian Shooting United States geological survey sees no prospect of any more big gold finds in the United States "The earth has been thoroughly searched for gold." Russia and Canada may possibly hold immense im-mense new deposits. However, gold, because of its high specific gravity, tends to sink deeper and deeper into the earth, and resists the action of water that would bring it down from mountain tops, directing men toward to-ward the Mother Lode. The amount of gold hitherto developed de-veloped is probably as nothing compared with earth's real supply. If science could find a way to recover re-cover all the gold floating around in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, gold would be cheaper than silver, and when some future Rockefeller invests the necessary thirty or forty million dollars to dig a hole; toward the earth's center, tapping the inexhaustible heat and power, that enterprise may bring fresh knowledge about gold prospects. New York City has a big taxation taxa-tion problem. It should comfort single taxers to know that real estate es-tate pays more than 72 per cent of the city's expenses, which rea estate owners consider a fairly good imitation of the single tax. They demand a reduction of three billions in assessments on their property. Personal property which include es tens of billions of stocks and bonds and other possessions of rich individuals pays only 2 per cent of the total cost. The explanation explan-ation is that you can hide, conceal con-ceal or evade taxation on personal property. You can't conceal a skyscraper sky-scraper or a tenement house. Science goes on steadily, no matter what happens to stocks, taxes, elections, etc. Thirty-six years ago, Roentgen discovered his "X-rays" and physicians used them to look through the flesh into in-to human and animal bodies. Sunday Sun-day supplements printed interesting, interest-ing, hazy pictures showing skeletons skele-tons of rats inside the rats and skeletons of ladies and gentlemen inside the living bodies. To make u dim X-ray picture of a human hand required twenty minutes. Now in New York's Cornell Cor-nell Medical Center X-ray snapshots snap-shots will be taken at the rate of 120 per second, or 151,200 times as fast as the early pictures. Americans have been assured that Russia has no respect for women, their rights, or the sacred marriage tie, but certain young Russian hoodlums have not found it so. Following mistreatment of a young girl, four of them have been shot, eight sent to jail for long terms, and no protests or weeping could save them. Robert L. Conroy, accused murderer mur-derer and counterfeiter, "badger game" worker, wanted in many cities, is wanted no longer. He killed himself in New York after killing a woman. Police called her "a young, platinum blonde," whe-had whe-had helped him in his crimes, including in-cluding the badger game. In that game, the woman accomplice ac-complice persuades men with money to make fools of themselves. themselv-es. The male criminal breaks in the door, declares that his honor is outraged, threatens to shoot, accepts cash balm, or he takes photographs and later sells them to the fool. In this badger lair the police found counterfeiting machinery, and many "badger" photographs. Some crops fail, but the fool crop never. Belgium proposes, to "protect" her eastern frontier, against Germany Ger-many presumably, as France has protected her eastern frontier in Alsace and Lorraine and all the wav down. A chain of sunken batteries bat-teries and dugouts, near enough will command all the international internation-al highway. And some especiauy suroim iui will be built and a great deal of money will be spent. Tf another great war comes Bel num and France will discover that there will be no infantry regiments re-giments marching over international interna-tional highways. Within a few hours after war is declared airplanes will oe mow-ping mow-ping poison gas and bombs on en-emv en-emv cities, the country attacked returning the compliment. French and Belgian engineers planning to protect their country with holes in the ground and guns, are as foolish as the old English king who kept encouraging encourag-ing the manufacture of bows and ariows after powder and bullets came in. Former King Manuel, kicked out of Portugal by subjects tired of monarchy, goes back to be buried there, earned on a ship with the Portuguese flag at half mast Nc country objects to the presence of a When Napoleon's body was brought from St. Helena to be buried under the gilt dome of Les Cahdes on the edge of the Seme, enthusiasm was so great you might have thought he was a Frenchman instead of an Italian from Corsica. It was said, "If he had returned to life he would ; have slept in the Tuilerles that night." Chicago's Jude Trude, by implication, im-plication, approves birth coir.nl, j , and is first with a judicial deci- sion to that effect. He made a husband pay his wife separate ; maintenance. She did not want : any more children and the judg-3 i agreed with her that the existing J number, five, was too many. I |