The National tribune., 1908-12-17
ANSWERS 70
CORRESPONDENTS.

| lAHSAA WIG army O4u ho
the war or at Tampa. Fla, while ms
regiment was I'm camp there awaiung
orders to go to the frontY
| Mr.. Bryan was given command Oh
the Sd Neb. on June 8, 1888, which reg
iment was recruited during May. In
accordance With ilis orders his regiment
was assigned, to- Gen. Fftzhugh Lees
Corps. and Il left Omaha on July 1S,
\ 1898. The services Of the regiment
were not required in Cuba, and conse-
Quently 1t did not leave this country.
According to the newspapers OF that
time, Mr.. Bryan became tired OF camp
life in the latter part OF September, and
left for home on sick leave. In De-
cember he resigned his command. ana
was honorabiy discharged on Dec. IA,
1898.
IT. M. H., Garnett, Kan, asks: What
is the pay proper for Captain of cav
airy and Of infantry; also of First and
Second Leutenants both in the cavalry
and infantry?
There is no distinction In the Army
| pay tables issued in accordance with
the act Of May II, 1908. between the
officers Of cavalry and infantry. The
First Lieutenant, $4,000, and of Sec
ond Lieutenant. $1,700, to which is
| added 10 per cent on the yearly pay of
the grade for each term of five years
service, not to exceed 40 per cent in all.
Furthermore, all officers serving out
side of the United States, except in
Porto Rico and Hawaii, receive 10
per cent increase in pay. Any officer
below the rank of Major required to be
mounted shall receive $3.50 a year addi-
| tional IL he provide. one suitable mount
at his own expense, and 5000 if he pro-
vide two mounts.
A. L. B., Mount Vision, New York,
writes: Some time ago there was a
law passed that smbalmers and under
takers should serve three years appren-
| ticeship after having received their di-
plomas and licenses from a medical
college before they could enter business
for themselves. Has that law lately
been declared unconstitutional?
There is a law in the State Of New
| York which requires embalmers to be
competent for their work, which must
be certified to by an examination, the
| details Of which can be obtained by
writing to William ]. Phillips. Secre-
tary State Board of Embalming Exam
liners, 214 South Pearl street, Albany,
N. Y.
w. s. K, Reading, Pa, asks: 1. Can
a deserter of the civil war or the present
army testify as witness in a Common
Pleas Court? 2. Has a deserter of the
civil war or Regular Army right to
vote in the United States?
1. We know of no reason why the
testimony of a deserter should not be
accepted in q court. 2. A deserter OF
the civil war or from the Regular Army,
as a statutory consequence of such de-
sertion, loses his citizenship in the OPP
Grafton of Sections 1896 and 1898 OF
the U. s. Revised Statutes.
l.. D. c., Fair Oaks, Cal, asks: 1.
Did not Eugene ". Debs use to be an
Anarchist? q. Lid not he participate
in some way at that Anarchist riot they
had in Chicago some years ago? 3. Did
he not make speech at the unvailine
of the monument that was erected to
the memory of those Anarchists who
twere hung IN Chicago? 4. How long
has it been since he became Socialist
S. Are not the Anarchists and Socialists
very much the same in their principles
6. They use the same flag, the red, and
what does 1t mean?
Mr.. Debs first came into conspicuous
notoriety when sae President of the
American RAILWAY Union he success
fully carried out the large strike on the
Great Northern Railway. In 1894 he
had charge of the great railway strike
in July of that year. which has been de.
scribed as the "most important effort
ever made by organized labor in the
United States" 1t began by the EN-.
ployes Of the Pullman Company strik.
ling for higher wages, which President
Pullman declined to grant, in conse.
quence of which Chief Debs, of the
American Railway Union, ordered &
strike Of all its members thruout the
. West, and 1t was estimated that nearly
40,000 men went out. Debs and some
of his associates were charged with
conspiracy to block the progress Of the
United States mails, and he was ac.
quilted on trial. but subsequently, ht
was charged with the violation of az
injunction, and was sent to jail for 81,
months for contempt of court. 1t was
during this strike that the Regular
troops were sent to Chicago under Gen
. Miles, and Chief Debs said: "The frs
shot fired by the Regular soldiers viii
be the signal for civil war;" 1t Is
probably this incident that yeu have
market Monument. In 1897 Debs be
came the Chairman of the Nationa
, Council, Social Democracy, and has sinct
been the candidate for the Presidency
of the United States Of the Socialis
Party. In Everybody's Magazine fol
October Of this year there is an appre
, ciative article on Mr.. DebS, where ht
, says, referring to the definition of So.
cIalism: "You know the old stock defini.
ton, the cooperative control and the
democratic management of the mean:
of production Pll try another: Social
ism Is the next natural stage in tht
:, evolution Of all men into an ordered
, cooperative Commonwealth, in which
. they work together, consciously, for &
! common purpose; the good of all, mo-
of the few, not of the fma jority, but Of
ALL" Theoretically the principles OF
Anarchism and Socialism are the direct
antipodes of each other. Since 1S48 the
term "red," as being the color of blood
has been applied by their opponents tc
the radical parties, especially in France
, hence we have the common term "ReG
!, Republican" The red flag has beer
adopted as the emblem of their creed
,, by the Social Democrats the world
over, and also by the Anarchist Party
In fact, 1t is the banner Of revolution.
aries everywhere.
T. D. A., Detroit, Mich, asks: What
5 Is a light-year, some kind of measure.
( ment used by astronomers?
, This unit. as used in astronomy, sig.
nifies the distance traversed by q ray
2 of light in a year. In this connection /,
/ may be added that the nearest star Il
: one in the constellation Centaur, and II
lis known to astronomers as Alpha Cen.
tauri. It's distance from the earth 1.
four and a half light-years. The aver.
: age star of the ninth magnitude is sup.
, posed to be about $50 light-years. we
: | are now seeing the stars. not as they
are at present, but as they were years
and in some cases centuries ago.