Evening star., 1924-12-04
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN

Q. How can any one reach the
Animal Rescue Farm?-O. p.
A. The Humane Education Society.
which maintains the Animal Rescue
Farm, gives the following directions
for persons desiring to go there: 1t
is best to go to the Congressional
Country Club by way of Bradley
lane and Wisconsin avenue, and
when this point is reached make a
sharp turn to the right. go to the
village of Potomac and continue on
this road for two and one-half miles.
The farm Is located on the right
hand side of River road. There is
a sign over the gate.
Q. How should the name of Gen.
Lejeune be pronounced?-A. ].
a. The popular pronunciation in
this country is Luh zhoon.
Q. What is the name Of the Saint
Gaudens statue in Rock Creek
Cemetery?-E. F. G.
A. 1t Is correctly called the
adams Memorial" Saint Gaudens had
no intention of symbolizing "grief'
in designing the figure. He said
that to him II represented the soul
face to face with the greatest of
life's questions-"If a man die shall
he live again."
Q. Does the Bureau of Fisheries
stock the Potomac with bass?-W
L. s.
a. The Bureau OF Fisheries says
that the bureau stocks the Potomac
River yearly with bass from Cumber-
land to Mount Vernon.
Q. Where did President Harding
speak on the transportation problem
on his last trip Vests. D. B.
A. The speech was made at Kansas
City, Mo-, on June %. 1928.
Q. Have you any figures on the
growth Of the radio business?-
B. r. F.
A One Of the large radio com.
panies in ifS annual report shows
gross sales OF radio equipment for the
last three calendar years as follows
1921. $l,46S,919; 1922, slI,2S6, ,4Se; 1923,
$22,465,Oso.
@. Are many ships now being run
by motors?-B. NJ V.
A. 1t is stated by Lloyds tina.
motor-ship construction now repre-.
sents about one-third of the entire
ship building of the world. with some
100000 tons now being built. The
SHiLcu Ctdlco mas % HIOtOT SnlpS OF
over 1000 tons.
Q. Have wolves ever been used as
sled teams instead of dogs?-D. l. S
A. An Ontario trapper, Joe La
Flame, is reported to have a team OF
timber wolves which he has broke
and trained to draw sled.
Q. What investigations are con-
Quoted by the Census Bureau?-w
". r
A. The director of the census lists
the major inquiries made by his
bureau under three heads, social, in
dustrial and fiscal. Social: PopuIa-
tion-number, distribution, compost
ton and characteristics: occupations
the blind and deaf; institutional popu-
lation-dependent, defective and de-
linquent classes: births: deaths: mar
riage and divorce. religious bodies
Industrial: Manufactures; agriculture
! mines; quarries and oil and gas
wells: electrical industries-light and
power stations, electric railways, tel
ephones and telegraphs; fisheries;
transportation by water. Fiscal;
Wealth, public indebtedness and tax
alton: financial statistics of States
and cities. In addition periodic in
Quiries are made, including: Survey
Of current business; production, con-
sumption and stocks of cotton; num-
Der and activity of cotton spinners
cottonseed and cottonseed products
stocks of leaf tobacco; animal and
vegetable fats and oils; wool con-
sumption and stocks; activity of
wool machinery.
Q. How many jails are there in
the country?-C. T. J.
A. There are 3,6e3 county and city
jails and workhouses in the United
States.
=. Is there such a thing as q
practical motor cycle with one
| wheel?-C. W.