Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-01-04

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Per Pound.
Inside the Coffin.
Moses and Wilur Wright.
The public. thanks to Senator
Borah. wyl learn al about that
dreadful Russian conspiracy to plant
the red flag on the White House.
Already part Of the horrible truth
has leaked out. A secret Service
man says that Russian Communists,
disguised as = literary society. met
In 4 hall in New York.
You don't need to be told that.
from such = meeting. Il Il only one
step to seixing . nation OF one hun
dred and ten million and planting
the bloody red flag on the White
House.
The people can never be grateful
enough to Secretary Hughes for
preventing that. .sui Revere. in
his ride: the gentleman that carried
the news from Client to AK. or the
Greek soldier who set the first Mar
athon record. must make way for
Charles Evans Hughes. who kept
the red flag off the roof Of the
White House.
King George. OF Greece. was no.
titled that Greece could do without
him and was sent from the country
taking his Queen with him. King
George will not. like Henry the Sec
ond of England. exclaim. Shame on
n beaten King" turn his face to the
wall and die. Vie will turn his face
toward Paris or Monte Carlo. excel
lent cooking and plenty Of snobs in
both places. and play King in safety.
That's better than being = real King
anywhere outside OF England now.
Things are better than they were.
even for kings. In Cromweli's and
Danton'x day their heads were cut
off. The Greek King goes away.
with 4 pension OF S?s.0oo year for
life. $4,000 cash being paid on his
leaving. The Greeks will have to
pick and dry many currants to pay
for that.
This earth has q hard core. like
. baseball. or = golf ball. II is .
gigantic sphere. bearing 4 pressure
of $4,000 pounds to the square inch.
according to reports made to the
Washington Academy Of Sciences.
While that central sphere, 1000
miles In diameter. Is probably made
OF iron. n great magnet. perhaps
some believe II may be made largely
OF gold. platinum. or both. Those
heaviest metals would work down
ward toward the centre. What des-
perate efforts men would make TO
dig down to tina, central core. II
they could be sure that the gold
and platinum were there. Men will
dig = hole through the earth some
day. using the suns power to dig.
bu, by that time gold will no longer
be money. and money will no longer
be 20 important.
Platinum. more valuable than
gold, may be worth 500 . pound.
That sounds costly. But think OF
radium. with which the marke, IL
now glutted. We had almost .
monopoly Of the precious substance
here for . while. But great depos.
It's Of radium- yielding pitch biende
found In the Belgian Congo have
upset the market and the price
dropped TO about thirty-fivs million
dollars = pound. A short time ago
Il wAs though there was not more
than half an ounce Of radium In all
the world.
II II now. believed that radium IL
the sun accounts for the enduring
power Of that star. sending out
light and heat through hundreds AZ
millions Of years. with = certainty.
Of lasting hundreds Of millions Of
years more. We had plenty Of rs.
dium here. once. II Il be true that
lead 10 rsdium that has lost its
power. II the stars are fountains
Of radioactive power. do they grow
esset like our earth and become
planets Of soms bigger sun whsa
tAsir radio active energy dies'
The golden I'D Of Tutankha mems
.0aanifsceut coffin has heen raised
showing gIorions decorations Ia bius
sad gold. With plenty Of spac. for