Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-16
THE REFEREE
Wealth
(By Albert AppIe)

In New York the other day a bank
moved 202 million dollars through
the streets. Under guard of machine
guns, this gigantic sum was trans
ported on only Ia trucks. The trans
fer took place when a hold-up would
be most difficult-in rush hour, when
streets were packed with traffic.
The 202 million dollars were in
the form of negotiable securities.
Multiply the value by 45 and you'd
have all the monetary gold in the
world. In a rough way this gives
the average person a concrete idea
of the more or less Intangible
goal toward which he is subcon-
sciously working.
How many people out of every 10
would have committed murder or
stoned their mothers to get that 202
millions?
Gold
The worlds total holdings of
monetary gold (for money purposes)
now total nine billion dollars. An
other 10 billion dollars of this pre-
cious metal is tied up in jewelry, etc.
In other words, there's only about
p4O VI SOlu III lIC WOIlQ lOT cNtIX
man woman and child. And yet we
confidingly concentrate in this $40
system our whole scheme of values
and measures of value. That re-
quires a lot of self-hypotism-of
scarcity.
Seeds, including ones from King
Tut's tomb, r being forced" by
super-scientifc methods at Thomp-
son institute for Plant Research
Powerful electric lights are furnish
ing artificial sunshine at night to
see If the plant growth can be kept
UP continuously.
Maybe this is an inkling of what
future farming will be like. But it's
unnatural. Nature has some wise
reason for taking her light away
from plant life during night, pos
sibly to allow it to rest and re-
cuperate the same as people in
sleep. So-called science frequently
is IN attempt to burst the unbreak-
able chains with which nature has
imprisoned us in three dimensions.
Squirrels in a revolving cage.
Edison
Edison's discoveries now have over
15 billion dollars of capital invested
in them industrially. Putting 1t an
other way, that much money Is being
employed keeping his ideas at work.
applying them for the good Of
Americans. Further big investment
in other countries.
In view of this, how much money
should Edison have as reward? It's
rather a poser" for the mar who
believes that a million dollars is too
much for any n AS is true with
all of us, however, Edison's ideas
are not really his, they come from
somewhere out in the invisible, he's
merely the radio receiver, also the
ampliher and loud speaker.
Pussyfoot
Pussyfoot johnson hits the trail
again. He'll carry the prohibition
fight into South Africa, Egypt, Tur-
key. Arabia and India. He claims
that the Mohammedans, who are
forbidden by their religion to drink
liquor, nip quite a bit on the sly.
Pussyfoot has 100000, 900 people
in this new territory he's working.
he won't i've TO see 1t, n neither
will we. but eventually the whole
world will have prohibition. After
occasional relapses. A nation is like
an individual. Maybe you've had ex-
perience, know how difficult it is to
get an old soak cured of the thirst.
Marriage
Two or three weeks plenty of time
for courtship, observes George L.
Sherman, who is best man when
ever a sailor gets spliced at the
C~harlestown navy yard.
Having observed hundreds Of
matrimonial ventures, he claims that
most sailors marriages are happy
because they and their wives get a
vacation from each other once In a
while. That's what many civilians
need, instead of divorce.