Evening star., 1926-10-29
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
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secretary at Harvard.
Q. What can horse chestnuts be
used for Nv. A NJ.
A. The Department of Agriculture
says that the only use Of which they
have record for the horse chestnut
was during the war. In England the
horse chestnut was ground in the
form Of a meal and used In the
manufacture Of dynamite. Before
that time corn meal had been used,
but because Of its possibilities as a
foodstuff they stopped using corn
meal and used the ground horse
chestnuts instead. Now that the
war Is over there Is no further need
for substituting horse chestnuts for
use Of the horse chestnut In the man.
ufacture Of dynamite profitable, 1t
would require a far larger produc-
ton than exists at present.
Q. Does an oil.burning furnace &C.
tually burn Oils. B.
A. An oil burner is simply q gas
making machine for the conversion
Of fluid oil to gas that will burn
properly when mixed with air. Vart-
GUS makes Of oil burners accomplish
this result in different ways.
@. When should fence hedges be
planted. Spring or Fall. and must
they have roots?-G. w. F.
A. Practically all hedge materials
can be transplanted either in the Fall
or Spring. Whether or not they
would live II planted without roots
It Is true that the California privet
hedge can be propagated without
roots under certain desirable condi-
tions.
@. Please give Billy Sundays itin-
erary for this Winter.-E. Il.
A. The Rev. William Sunday hat
the following engagements: NoveInbeG
z, Yakima. Wash. land six weeks fol!
lowing); January Q, Mobile, Ala. siy
weeks; February Is. Tampa Fla. si,,,
weeks; April /, Aurora, Ill, six wselxs;
May Is, Butte, Mont. six weeks.
Q. Where was the chariot race pho.
tographed for Ben-Hur-L. r.
A. The chariot race in the Circus
Maximus was filmed In California The
galley scenes were taken At Leghorn,
Italy.
@. Why is carbon monoxide such a
deadly gas?-J. F.
A. Because It destroys the ability of
the blood corpuscles to take up oxygen.
@. Why are Buda and Pest some
times written separately and some
times hyphenated?-W. K. w.
A. These two cities are on opposite
sides of the river. Sometimes one IL
speaking Of one city particularly, and
sometimes Of the hyphenated entirety.
9: What was the Malthu.ian
A. Thomas Robert Malthus. born
1855, was an English economist in
terested in social problems and study
Of population. In 1898 he published
a book Essay on the Principles Of
Population as 1t Affects the Future
Improvement Of Society,"" This book
demonstrated the theory that in all
time population has tended to outrun
subsistence. leading to the decay Of
the nation. He enlarged this theory
in 1903 to demonstrate the impossi-
bility Of evading poverty and suffering
among the mass Of the people II un-
restricted increase in population con-
tinued.
@. How many permanent substitute
mail carriers does a city the size Of
Washington, D. c., have?-K. w. B.
A. Washington has So.
O. Is there a college especially de-
voted to the labor movement?-W. C.
A Brookwood, at Katonah, N. Y, Is
the first educational enterprise for res
ident students from the organized la
bor movement. 1t was established in
1921. The studies undertaken are of
college grade and cover a course of
two years.
Q. Who introduced the bill in the
Senate creating the Department of
Commerce and Labor?-N. E.
A. 1t was introduced by Senator
Knute Nelson Of Minnesota.
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