Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ] HAsKIN.

Many readers send In questions signed
only with initials, asking that the an
swers appear in the newspaper. The
space Is limited and would not accom-
modate q traction Of such requests. The
answers puhlished are ones that may
interest many readers, rather than the
one who asks the question only, All
questions should be accompanied by the
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question to The Evening star, mforma-
ton Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin,
director, washington, d. @.
q. Are there laws regulating the use
of advertising signs along highways in
the United Statesf-M. A. d.
A. All but seven States have statutory
provisions for the regulation Of adj
vertising Signs along public highways.
O. When did Buffalo Bin organize
his Wild West SHOWN. p.
A. It was organized In 1888.
Q. what proportion Of the meat
produced In this country Is subject to
Federal tnspection?-G. 3. +.
A. About two-thirds Of II has Federal
inspection. A part Of the rest Is In
spected by State or city agencies and
some by private inspectors. Only pack
ing houses doing Interstate business are
required BY law to maintain Federal
inspection.
@. What Is q radio tube?-H. D.
A. The LOorais Radio College says q
radio tube Is an evacuated glass lamp
bulb inelesing special type Of lamp
fllament which may be lighted from
either storage batteries or lamp lighting
power line, and added parts which are
used to make it perform as q valve in
the circuit Of one Of the elements,
known as the plate. The other element
Is called q grid.
@. How old Is Harry LAuderP-w. D.
A. Sir Harry Lauder was born in
1870. He Is therefore in his sixty-first
year.
@. Please tell something of Chaliapins
early successes.--R. T.
A. Fyodor Ivanovich ChAliapin, Rus
sian bass singer, was born at Ka1an
on February IS, 1879. His early career
was varied and adventurous one. BY
turns he was porter, shoemaker, hunter
and street sweeper. He received bis first
musical training as o choir boy at
Kazan, but his serious studies N q
singer were made under OussAtov ut
Tifiis, where he made his first appear
ance in opera IA 1892 in "a Life for
the Tsar." Later he sang at tina Sum-
mer Theater, st. Petersburg (Leningrad)
and at the Imperial Opera House. It
was In 1918, during the Russian opera
season organized by Sir Thomas
Beeeham at Drury Lane, London. that
he appeared In Boris Godunov," Ivan
the Terrible" ana ia Kovantehma,
taking his audiences by storm with his
remarkable dramatic powers.
Q. When was the dorsas Laboratory
| dedicated?-C. N.
A. The Gorgas Laboratory Of Tropi-
cal Research was dedicated on April 2
| 1929, in the city of Panama. The cost
| of maintenance Is to be borne for five
years by the United States within a
limit Of $4,000 per annum.
q. For what purpose was the gro
scope invented?-P. D.
A. When first invented, the gyro-
scope, then called rotascope, was used
as a scientific toy to illustrate the dy-
narnics Of rotating bodies, the compost
| ton Of rotations, etc. A delicately
mounted form Of the above apparatus
| invented by NJ. Foncault, Is used u
render visible the rotation of the earth
on account Of the tendency Of the 70.
tating wheel to preserve . constant
plane Of rotation, Independent of thu
earth's motion. This same principle
Is made use Of In an instrument In
vented by DR. H. AuSchutz-Kampfe, de-
signed to replace the mariners com