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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

There is no other agency in the world
that can answer so many legitimate
questions as our free Information Bu-
reau in Washington, D. G. This highly
organized institution has been built up
and Is under the personal direction Of
Frederic ]. Haskin. BY keeping in con-
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Information Bureau. Frederic ]. HaSkin,
director, Washington, D. c.
@. How many people have been
killed by automobiles in the last Is
years in the United States?-E. A.
A. Automobile deaths in the United
282, 799. Deaths in 1880 were 2ss per
cent greater than they we're in 1916.
@. How many people can Madison
Square Garden take care OF for prize
fights and hockey games2-A. P.
A. The capacity Of Madison Square
Garden is 81 900 for prize fights. This
is reduced to about 1900 for hockey
games, as the whole floor space is used
for the rink.
q. What trees grow the largest in
the vicinity Of Washington, D. c.
T. o. D.
A. Oaks are the largest, generally
speaking. although in some areas the
tulip trees rival oaks in size.
"A
B. L.
A. Ths law requires that it be
marked Patented"
@. To what State does a strip of
land called Accomac belong? Is It in
Maryland?-A. H. B.
A. 1t belongs to Virginia; in fact, 1t
forms a county of Virginia. 1t is the
end Of q peninsula and is bounded on
the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on
the west by Chesapeake Bay.
@. Was the Golden Gate named this
because OF the discovery of gold In
California;. D.
A. 1t was named before the discov-
cry Of gold. John G.. Fremont named
it in l848, referring to the attractive
ness Of the harbor.
Q. What percentage of the popula-
ton Of New York City is Jewish?-E.
c. K.
A. Almost 30 per cent Of the popu-
lation is composed of Jews.
Q. Are Ian Hay and Ian Hay Beth
the same person?-A. r.
A, Ian Hay Is the pen name of Mai.
Ian Hay Beth.
@. Did Death Valley scotty make a
run by train from California to Chi
A. On July o, 1905, Death Valley
Scctty hired train and established the
speed record between Los Angeles and
Chicago. The rate was 44.54 miles per
hour, the fastest time ever made be-
tween these two points.
@. Upon which side of the mortar
board should the tassel be worn?-N.
M. r.
A. The intercollegiate Bureau of
Academic Costume says that the tassei
should be worn on the left side for the
doctors, masters and bachelors degrees
doctors, masters and bachelors degrees
There are several colleges that have
made local ruling, in accordance with
which the students wear the tassel on
the right side and upon the comforting
Of the degree change it to the left.
This is matter of local concern.
@. How high are the rooms on the
main floor Of the White House ?-D. N.
A. The ceiling IS % feet from the
floor.
@. wish to have garden contain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

What vanity!" exclaims to himself
the man who needing a simple shave,
must wait while predecessor in the
BARRIERS chair enjoys haircut, shampoo,
SINCE and scalp and face massage. Re-
verse the picture. why doesn't that
guy shave himself?" is the thought of
the impatient one waiting for the
identifying effects of 1.-The whole
works"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

Distance not only lends enchantment
to the view, but also assuagement Of
grieving sympathy. There is no doubt
that many Americans have been more
concerned over Babe Ruth's charley
horse" than over the homeless and en-
dangered thousands in Nicaragua.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

Commander Macmillan hopes, in a
flight from Boston to London, to solve
the mystery Of the disappearance Of the
French transatlantic flyers, Nungesser
and Coll. Since Andree and his COM
panions we're found after thirty years,
almost anything is possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

Those who hold that Constitution Hall
Is no place for q cocknght, even though
staged merely as an adjunct to the
Atrical performance, are probably right,
yet must grant that this Is one form OF
athletic competition which is absolutely
free from taxing or hippodroming.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

In Japan they have lucky" and "un-
lucky" telephone numbers. Unpopular
ones are assigned to police stations
Some in the little red books Of our own
cops that were thought lucky have
turned out. upon investigation, to be
quite the contrary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

Mayor Cermak of Chicago swore he
would clean up Chicago If elected, and
what could be nester than his flying
start? He has ordered discontinued the
private fire alarms installed in the
homes OF wealthy fire fans. That man
should 60 far.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

A notable In attendance ut the meet
ing Of the National Academy of Sciences
claims that in animals the organs
which do the most work develop the
most rapidly. Why, professor! Ladies'
vocal apparatuses are not unduly siz-
ahla
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
Where a Proverb Fails.

There are two sides to every ques-
ton" said the ready-made philosopher.
Yes" replied the umpire after the
game. But you can't make the crowds
in the stands believe it when the de-
cislon is against the home team"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

Royal Footprints Are Lasting.
From the Omaha world-Herald.
Republican Spain trying to obliterate
all vestiges of the monarchy, but, Of
course, there are royal footprints on the
sands of time over there that win not
rub out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

st. Louis can now quit singing Has
Anybody Here Seen Kelley" and resume
the Blues" tune with which its name
Is associated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
Importance Of Authorship.

How would you define an epigram?"
AN epigram" replied Senator
Sorghum, is usually a brief but COM
monplace remark made by somebody
who has been we'll advertised"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
A General Impression.

trace OF envy seems to lurk
Wherever human toll is known.
Each thinks the other fellows work
Is vastly easier than his own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

A famous French artist declares that
the clothes of women today have
practically no pictorial value" In
fact, some Of them might be fittingly
described by the Old phrase. "A pic
ture no artist can paint"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
One or the Other.

The man who never pauses to confess
To blunders may possess o rare ca
pacity.
And then, again, he may be more or
less
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
Addicted to form of mild mendacity

Some men," said Uncle Eben, "have
a knack of maxim trouble for other
people and then comm round an
sympathizin' wifi EN-"
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London VIII Save Enr-

LoIIuoH VIII save Fog.
From the San Antonio Evening News.
Daylight-saving time will begin IN
London soon-but who cares to save
fog?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

Stain Joke Failed to Register.
From the San Antonio Express.
Russia has expelled an American,
woman writer who told joke about
Stain. Unlike kings, dictators do not
care for testers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
Real Heroes Don't
Know They Are Heroes.

lie Matin, Paris.-They talk of heroes
and heroism. Real heroes don't know
they are heroes What we call heroes
are certain people dressed up and pre-
pared in advance, like shop windows,
for the effect they are to produce. Most
of them have as much to display, but
as little knowledge of what it is all
about as these inanimate foci Cor
"focuseS'O of popular attention. The
other kind, the real heroes, are made
in a moment, without preparation, de-
sire or anticipation. In a second OF
time they accomplish some heroic deed,
or make some glorious gesture, and
none are more astonished than them
selves when they find that they have
suddenly become famous.
There are, too, other heroeS-perSons
of a calm, even of timid demeanor,
satisfied with the doing of little things
and OF taking place in the back
ground. Then, suddenly, though dis
trustful of their own stamina and
ability, they find themselves obliged to
exert their utmost efforts. They do so,
and are at once celebrities. Fearful and
weak by nature, they must struggle with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

MPARCIAL, Montevideo.-With ref
erence to the new measures which
the government of Argentina has
adopted on immigration, q news
paper OF our neighbor republic has
published a we'll timed article which
we believe will evoke lively interest
here, in view of our similar difficulties
and problems. 1t Is beginning to be ap-
preciated that both Argentina and Uru-
| quay have thrown open their doors to
flood of exotic adventures without
| regard TO the ability of their respective
economic establishments to care for
them. The article alluded to reads, in
part:
1T is deplorahle that we have ar
rived at such extremes, but a drastic
attitude toward immigration now is not
only necessary; it is Indispensable The
capacity of this country TO absorb i'm
migrants Is limited. the same as is lin
tied the capacity of any other country
whose power is found inadequate to dis
pose Of those things which t.iey are
able to produce.
This country has lost, since the
European War, the best opportunity II
had to receive colonists and to exploit
the foreign market Now, when there
is a minimized demand for it's products
abroad and not enough employment at
home for its native labor. indifferent
TO our national stability and economic
welfare, We have continued to receive
additional idlers for our untitled fields.
Unwanted at home, where there Is no
longer employment for them. they come
here to add to our already excessive
burdens. The last state of these immi-
grants is even for themselves worse than
their first, since they are nothing ben
Gifted in thus giving up their basic
rights and opportunities for the vague
hope of immediate betterment Such
phantasies have wrecked too often not
only individuals but nations. To re-
cover before 1t Is entirely too late any
measure Of our erStwhile prosperity and
economic welfare. foreign immigration,
and especially immigration without our
visions, standards and ideals. must be
Immediately cut off or Argentinians will
become a minority in their own land.
There is no other solution to the
problem. Foreign immigration. sought
at first for our widespread, virgin ter
ritory, has now become q menace and
detriment. Our gates must be closed
until we have elevated those already
come among us to full and faithful cit
iZenship"
How truly these declarations apply
to usi The necessity Of controlling i'm
migration, even OF forbidding 1t entirely.
should now be the prime consideration
of our government. Exceptions to such
rulings could be made wherein the ma
tionality, antecedents, education, pos
sessions and character of the prospec
tive entrant gave assurance that he
would not soon become a public charge
or menace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Business once:
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England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
Seeing and Believing.

do you believe in ghosts?"
mo, subj" replied Mr.. Erastus Pink
ley. IT takes special care not TO be-
lieve in 'em, cause understands dat
SEEM is believin' and doesn' want to
see none"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

Just about the time man gets to
thinking the world owes him living
the world Is beginning to wonder
whether 1t does or not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

@. What is sabbatical year?-B. r.
A. 1t was the one year in seven
when all land Of the ancient Jews vas
supposed to lie fallow for II months.
1t is now used for a misslcnary.s fur
Tough. or year Of vacation from Q
profession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

Q. When an article is patented is it
necessary to mark 1t "Patented"?-E.
B. L.
A. The law requires that it be
marked Patented"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

keeping down governmental expendi-
lures by insisting that Congress keep
within the budget submitted to it by
the administration. Senator William
E. Borah of Idaho, Republican Progress
sive, now has appealed to the American
people to use its influence to keep down
expenditures by insisting that the
bureaucratic tendency, which Swells APP
preparations for the executive depart
mentS, be halted. The Idaho Senator
sharply resents the criticism of Con-
gresS, implied or otherwise, coming from
administration sources, and contends
that Congress has as a matter of fact
pared down many of the items in the
budget after 1t has been received on
Capitol Hill. The Government DEPART
ments, Senator Borah insists, are con-
stantly seeking to increase their ap-
preparations and are succeeding in the
effort, despite Congress. He, charges.
too, that by taxing the people beyond
the amount necessary to run the Gov
eminent economically a mistake has
been made, since it has given the
bureaus and departments chance to
increase and increase again their num-
bers OF employees and their expenditures.
"A bureaucratic government" he
says, rs the most wasteful, the most
demoralizing and the most inefficient
has yet conceived. If there is no plan,
or can be no plan. to stay its progress, it
is idle to talk about reducing govern
mental expenditures" If the American
people take the advice of both Presi-
dent Hoover and Senator Borah, and
are able to make their influence felt,
perhaps there may be a real reduction
in governmental expenditures after all
1t appears that both the executive and
the legislative branches are at fault
The executive departments are seeking
to reach out and spend more, and the
Congress. while sitting on these efforts
of the executive departments at times,
is constantly finding new ways of spend
ing money and enacting them into law.
4
Efforts by opponents of Gov Frank
lin d. Roosevelt of New York to make
1t appea: that he was subservient to
TammaoS when he dismissed charges
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

@. What is the derivation Of the
word "cat"?-J. J.
A. AS applied to the animal, It ID
derived from the Latin catus, which
was used to refer to the domestic cat
as opposed to felis, the wild cat.
Evening star., 1931-12-20
INTERNATIONAL ROAD
NEARER REALIZATION
Survey in Costa Rica Is a Part
of General
Project.

Plans for an international highway
connecting the United States and the
pan-American countries have moved a
step nearer realization as the result of
the completion of the first survey
through Costa Rica, in Central Amer
lea, according to the District of Co.
lumbia Division Of the American Auto
mobile Association.
The association pointed out that the
survey In Costa Rica is part of the
general survey Of the projected road
which some day will carry automobile
traffic with speed and comfort from
the Texas border to Panama City, via
Mexico. Guatemala, Salvador, Hon.
duras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Pan
anna. total distance Of approximately
5000 miles.
Weeks Of struggling through steam
Ing jungles in the lowlands and across
wtnd-swept areas in the mountains
were necessary for engineers of the
Bureau Of Public Roads to make the
Costa Rican survey, it was stated.
Writing from San Jose in June, after
trek from that capital southeast to
the Panama frontier and return, D.
Tucker Brown, engineer of the Bureau
Of Public Roads, In charge of the sur
vey, reported: I'VE have just COM
pleted the hardest trip that any Of
our party has ever undertaken, in
cluding one man who has made sew
eral trips to the upper Amazon. Every
night we went to bed dripping wet and
tie rain interfered so much with build
ing fires that we had scarcely any
thing to eat. Tigers came prowling
around the camp at night, but, un-
fortunately, they make poor eating;
monkeys are better and we shot
Evening star., 1931-12-20
FAIR TAXES URGED
BY AUTO CHAMBER
N. A. c. c. Warns Against
Curtai|ing Consuming
Power.

Exhaustive economies in Government
expenditures and further limitation of
world armaments were recently recon-
mended by the Nations motor manu-
facturerS in declaration OF taxation
policies adopted by the directors of the
National Automobile Chamber of Com
merce in New York City.
Order of Special Committee.
This expression of the industry's stand
was drafted by Special Taxation Com
mittee appointed by the chamber di-
rectorate to consider the status of Fed
eral taxation in relation to motor car
manufacture and use
Roy D. Chaplin Is chairman Of the
chamber committee. Other members
include Walter P. Chrysler, A. r. Frs
kline. c. w. Nash, Robert P. Page and
Alfred p Sloan.
Declaring that care must be taken
not to curtail the consuming power lest
unemployment be increased and the
task Of raising public funds be rendered
more difficult" the declaration coun-
seled the elimination of every expendi-
ture not essential to the public inter-
est. Reduction in world armaments
was specifically recommended.
Because every one benefits from the
work OF the Government, If additional
taxes are found unavoidable they should
be distributed over all income-individ-
ual, industrial and otherwise, the au-
tomobile manufacturers held.
Stagnation Inevitable.
They warned that unbalance con-
sumption and business stagnation would
be inevitable should taxation discrimi-
mating against single industry be en-
acted
While affirming that they would SUD-
port any proposal for new taxes If these
were found necessary-based on Justice
and equity-the motor makers declared
that they would join the owners of 26.-
100000 motor vehicles in opposing M tax
measures discriminatory against high
way users
Special motor vehicle taxes collected
by State and local governments now
exceed $1,000, 100000 annually, it was
related. This amount does not include
personal property and income taxes
paid by motor factories, wholesale and
retail dealers, garages, filing and serv-
ice stations and other branches of the
industry. Federal taxes on cars and
trucks, it was charged, would jeopardize
necessary highway projects sponsored
by the States, counties and cities.
ArJlnclal barriers to conSlmption
which could not be overcome by MANI
featuring economies must be expected
to result from any unfair levies upon
production, the industry warned.
Consideration Asked.
The manufacturers asked consider.
alton for the 100000 wage earners
supported directly or indirectly bv the
automobile industry, who would suffer
If measures retarding buying, and re-
acting directly against employment.
were enacted.
Besides the members of the Soecia1
Taxation Committee other directors of
the chamber who approved the decla-
ration are A. j. Brosseau, E. L, Cord
Robert c. Graham, Charles D. Hastings
+. J. Haynes, Alvan Macauley, William
E. Metzger, L. A. Miller, Alfred II
Swayne and Robert W. Woodruff.
Evening star., 1931-12-20
CHROMIUM PLATING BRINGING: =.
NEW BRILLIANCY TO BODY HUES
Blues Put End to Reign of Black, Thus
Typifying Demise of Dark
Industrial Days.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DETROIT, December l9-Just as free
wheeling has brought a new silence of
operation to the motor cars of 1882, so
has chromium plating brought new
brlll1ancy to the body hues.
In the fact that blue has definitely
run black out Of the present color favor.
those who observe psychological aspects
OF the automobile trend discern hope
for the business future.
Ascendency of Blue.
The ascendency of blue, according to
the belief, portends not more gloom,
but dawn and the glimmering Of new
cay. The blue that will come up for
the 1882 models, however, is a different
KIND from what we have seen in past
seasons. 1t will have vivid metallic
tlnee TO make 1t harmonic with
chrome plating, with which virtually
all cars are now embellished.
Like great many Improvements that
VIII be apparent in the new jobs, it is a
laboratory product. 1t is the result of
research and the new kick" that it
gives to the appearance of a car will
apply not to blue alone, but to the
greens and grays which are to vie with
the cerulean hue for public favor at
the national shows during January.
AS the color ranking stands now.
with the blues In the top spot, the
greens are second, black third and the
browns, grays and maroon shades fol-
lowing In order. The new kind of bril-
liancy OF sheen that has been achieved
IN all these hues is a joint scientific
development worked out by the color
specialists and the stylists who collabo-
rate with them In predetermining the
seasons motor car vogue.
Nitro-C -CelluIoee Finishes.
Nitro-cellulose finishes pre-dated
chromium plating in usage for motor
cars. Since the quick drying lacouers
displaced the old-fashioned and slower
methods OF applying paint to automobile
bodies, modern science has gone far in
celebrating the range and the intensity
OF the colors used now.
1t Is estimated that the modern BODY
designer in making original sketches as
the first stage Of model that NAV be
called for by the makers has the choice
OF more than 10000 shades with which
ne can work. His associates in the
laboratory have expanded the primary
colors Of the spectrum to that number
from the half dozen or less that used to
be regarded as basic and to which the
builders Of years ago were limited.
Up to now this line Of endeavor has
represented one of the big ends of