Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-30

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@. What questions must person be
prepared to answer about his car when
taking it into Canada on vacation
tours. p.
A. The following information is re-
quired of tourists going to Canada
from the United States: Name of man.
ufacturer of car: manufacturers serial
and engine number: style and value OF
car; license number; number OF extra
tires; signature and street address OF
owner, city or town, and State in which
owner is resident.
@. How many children are lost and
found in New York City in year?-
w. w. L.
A. The police department of the
City of New York states that during
the year 1929 there were 5.627 lost
children in the custody of that de-
partment.
c. Where is Frances big air school
to be located?-U. A.
A. Frances air university Is to be
at Meudon. It is said that every phase
Of aviation. from psychology to weather
is to be taught. For the first year the
classes will be held in private avia-
ton school, but by October, 1881, the
university will be housed in the first
of its own buildings. which will COM
prise eventually laboratories. library
and museum.
@. Why do forsythia and redbud
bushes bloom so early in the Spring?
%. G.
A. They develop their blossom buds
during the previous Summer.
@. What is the name of the town in
Michigan restored by Henry Ford?
What buildings besides the little school
house were restored?-A. L.
A. Greenfield is the historic village
near Dearborn which has been recon
structed by Mr.. Ford. Among the
memorabilia preserved are: The town
and community hall, the Edison Insti-
tute group, including the original Menlc
Park Laboratory, where the first mean
descent lamp was conceived and de-
F, veloped; Clinton Inn; a famous stage
coach stop; typical country store; the
| Chapel of Martha-Mary, constructed OF
brick taken from the girlhood home OF
| Mrs Ford, and the train which brough:
President Hoover and Thomas A. Ed
ison to the Golden Jubilee last year
The engine of this train is a brother OF
the Civil War locomotive, The General
and the baggage car is facsimile Of
the one from which young Edison and
his chemicals we're elected after one
of his experiments ended In flre.
@. Does it interfere with boy!
| scholarship for him to work his way
through college?-T. II. M.
A. A survey recently completed b!
Datus G. Smith, jr., director of studen
employment at Princeton, shows thai
undergraduates working their way
| through that university win more thar
| their proportionate share of Phi Beta
Kappa memberships. While one-fiftf
| of the members of the junior and senior
classes are actively engaged in re-
munerative work, one-fourth of thOs'
elected this year to Phi Beta Kapps
were registered with the student EN-
ployment section Twenty-Five per cen
of the ho1ors awarded for excellen