Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-18

experimenting the work Of the routine
reporters by embroidering the news.
@. Who composed the COMMITTEES
Of Ten that selected the 500 books for
the White House?-O. b. w.
A. The Committee Of Ten, appointed
for that purpose by the American Book
sellers Association, Is composed of:
Frederic Melcher of New York, chair
man; Gilbert Grosvenor Of the National
Geographic Society, Ruth B. Pratt.
member of Congress from New York;
Addison Hubbard of the University of
North Carolina, John Howell Of San
Francisco, Alice Roosevelt Longworth
of Washington. Nathan Van Patten of
the Stanford University Library, 0eorve
B. Utley of the Newberry Library, Chi
cago; Douglas s. Watson of San Fran
cisco, and John c. Eckel, the widely
known Dickens authority Of Philadelphia.
Q. Do both ears record sounds with
equal clearness?-C. o. M.
A. In a Washington Government
test of the hearing Of 1880 children It
was found that the left ear was the
superior.
@. Are there Jews in the Quebec
Legislature?-C. E. D.
A. Mr.. Peter Bercovitch is the FIRST
Jew to sit in this legislative body.
Q. Has the dome Of st. Paurs
Cathedral in london ever been re-
paired?-C. H.
A. After II Years of work the dome
has been strengthened. by means OF
piers and st. Paul's will be reopened
with impressive ceremonies on June as.
Flexible tubes, extending from a cement
mixing machine on the floor, we're In
serted through openings cut in the piers
Through these tubes a mixture of sand
cement and water was injected by COM
pressed air.. Rods OF rustless steel were
inserted at the same time so that as the
mixture filled up the cavities the whole
mass hardened into a solid reinforced
monolith. Openings were made at in
tervals of about every feet all the
way to the top of each pier so that
the whole interior, from the floor of
the crypt to the base of the arch, has
been consolidated. The chain which
Sir Christopher Wren himself fitted
about the dome has corroded so that It
has now been reinforced by one of rust ,
less steel concerted into the stonework
g; What is an endemic disease?--
A. An endemic disease is one which
Is constantly present to a greater or less
degree in any place. as distinguished
from an epidemic disease, which pre-
walls widely at some one time, or pc
riodically, and from a sporadic disease,
Of which few instances occur now and
then.
Q. Is It true that the American
Legion Poppy was not sold in WASH
ington this year?-N. r. G.
A. Since the American Legion be-
came afflliated with the Community
Chest of this city last year, the Amari-
can Legion Poppy has not been sold
here making two Memorial day oc-
casions when the Buddy Poppy Of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars was the only
one sold on the street corners Of Wash
ington.
O. What Is the name of the post
humous Victor Herbert operetta?-C.
e. B.
A. 1t Is called 1.-The First Lady"
c. Is there a correspondence course
in tree Surgery?-H. G.
A. Popular demand for a corre-
| spondence course in tree surgery has
led the Van Yahres School of Tree
Surgery, WeStbury, Long Island, to pre-.
pare an eight-week course covering the
main aspects Of the subject and to offer
to those students satisfactorily COM
plotting the course some practical work
at the school.