Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-22
THE REFEREE
(By Albert Apple)

Gold
Would o pound up and pulver-
ize a ton of quartz, the rock so
hard that it .dulls a chisel, to get
$9.16? We agree. Money is not
that hard to make.
And yet the ore milled in the
great gold mines of northern
Ontario, Canada, during 1922 yielded
| only 1915 of gold for each ton of
rock. Despite this, the average man
yearns to join the boomers when
yer he reads of a new gold stam-
pede. Modern machinery a make
| a profit under favorable conditions,
from gold ore assaying only $9.l6
to the ton. But modern ma
J chinery'' means that it's a corpora
ton game, not a one-man job as in
the old days.
Platinum
Offer the average man his choice
between a pound of gold n a
pound of platinum. He'd take the
| gold. You probably would, too, n
less you have recently bought
| platinum jewelry. Platinum comes
from the far OF the earth
Russia, Turkey and so on. In 1922,
says a meteorological report, the
United States imported only 94,602
| ounces of platinum at an average OF
( sos an ounce.
| That's more than twice as valu-
| able as gold. Platinum is not as
much a symbol of wealth a $ gold,
because it hasn't had as much ad-
%vertising and cumulative supersti-
ton during the ages. The value of
| gold, and our confidence in it, are
largely matters of imagination.
Bottle
T1 n Cofa daNosif how in n hank
in East Orange, N. J., a bottle of
champaign has been placed by 200
veterans of a light field battery.
The last survivor will drink it,
toasting his departed comrades.
By that time prohibition will be
so effective that the liquor will
either kill the drinker Or make him
sick for a week. Immunization
against alcoholic poisoning dies out
in the individual, as every old soak
who has fallen off the water wagon
has noticed. 1t will similarly die
out in the nation. A hundred years
from now, when America gets
alcohol out of it's system, they'll be-
rushing for the doctor when some
one gets the whiskey bottle by mis-
take.
Moonshine
A dope f1end gradually increases
his daily shot" until he can take
enough morphine to kill five normal
people. The immunization could be
made hereditary-like mountaineer
children who drink moonshine out
of a tin cup because moonshine was
part of their ancestors diet. I'M
m%unization is born in their bodily
cells.
Humanity has been drinking for
thousands of years, so long that it
may be the average body doesn't
generate enough alcohol - grown
lazy, it has become accustomed to
getting alcohol a%rtiicially in the
pure state. Itll take time to undo
the inherited biological craving to
liquor. So prohibition is hard to
enforce, naturally.
Eighty-four separate earthquakes,
strong enough TO be felt by peoples
senses without instrumental aid, oc-
Cured in our country in 1922. So
report Uncle Sans scientists.
This earth we're living on IS not
yet through its growing pains
Like life, it's uncertain. We carry
on our affairs only e. few miles
above a constant and hazardous IN
certainty. EO5loIF an IntlllFs
knowledge Of this constant danger
is what makes humanity 80 rest
less and apprehenslve.
Cabins
Williams, who used to be az good
a cowboy as he is an artist at draw
ing "Out Our Way" furnishes this
thought: For centuries men
struggled to get away from the log
cabin and wilderness existence. Now
that we're safely away, there's a
reaction, people want to get back
to nature Do We run in circles ?"
-, Yes, Williams, we do.