Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-27
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BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

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| ton, D. @.
@. When was "Alexander's Ragtime
Band" first sung?--W. G..
A. 1t was written in 1910 and pub
| lished in 1911. 1t was first sung by Mr..
Berlin in the 1911 Friar's Frolic.
Q. Which borough in Greater New
YORK has the largest population
A. Brooklyn Borough leads with a
| population, according to the 1880 CEN
| Sus, of $500, 401: Manhattan is sec
| ond with 1.867,312; Bronx is third with
1,265, 258; Queens Is fourth with 1,079.-
129, and Richmond, fifth, with a popu-
lation of 158,346.
w. 3 +. Why Is graham -four 50 o'lled'-
A. 1t bears the name of DR.. Sylvester
Graham, who lectured in this country
extensively from 1880 to 1940 He rec
commended using entire meal. calling
attention to the benefits derived from
so doing.
O. Will the United States Govern
| ment postmark the letters carried to the
North Pole IN tho Nontii,,eo z n n
| A. The Post Office Department says
that the carrying of mail on the Maui
titus, Sir Hubert wilkins ship. is not
| sponsored by the Post Office Depart
ment. The mail will not be postmarked
! Officially by the Government. The ex-
petition is, however. undertaking to
carry letters to the Pole and mail them
to their owners upon its return.
@. Are there regulations making it
| necessary to announce the fact when
records are played over the radio?-
w. w.
A. General Order No. 1877 of the
Federal Radio Commission provides as
follows: IAN broadcasting stations
shall announce clearly and distinctly
the character of all mechanical re-
productions broadcast by them. the
announcement to Immediately precede
the broadcasting of each record. In
such announcements each phono-
graph record used should be
described by the use of the exact words,
This is talking machine record or
This Is a monograph record"
@. What is meant by the power trust
| as the expression is now used in the
newspapers?-N. E. ].
A. 1t refers to Al corporations owned
and controlled by dominant COM
panies-the General Electric Co. of
Schenectady, N. Y, and its subsidiaries:
| the Doheny, Morgan and Ryan inter-
ests Of New York, and the insult inter-
ests Of Chicago.
O. What Is the doctrine of material
| ism?-C. p. A.
A. Materialistic theories vary, but the
| most widely accepted form regards all
| species Of sentient and mental life as
products of the organism and the uni
verse itself as receivable into terms of
physical elements and their motions.
Q. Where are the Hen-and- Chickens
Islands?-F. M
A. There are two groups with this
name. They are widely separated, one
being OF the coast of Labrador in the
Northern Hemisphere and one of The
coast of New Zealand in the Southern
Hemisphere.