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Evening star., 1932-06-18

kept In the banks tn certify as To the
number OF checks tnat came in. The
bank placed a requisition for a supply
OF these bank checks and paid in ad-
vance the price of the tax. individuals
who used the checks were then required
to pay for the book or for each in
dividual check when used. The charge
was two cents for each check.
@. What per cent of the trade Of
the United States is foreign when times
are good and when times are bad?-
w. w. H.
A. The foreign trade of the United
States is approximately 10 per cent of
the total trade. This holds fairly true
regardless Of prosperity or depression.
@. When was the crossbow used in
England?-C A. v.
A. 1t was used chiefly in the twelfth
century, but was not unknown in the
tenth and eleventh centuries.
@. Did the United States actually
pay to Spain $5,000,000 as a purchase
price for Florida?-V. W.
A. The s5,000,000 which the United
States paid for Florida instead of being
paid directly to Spain was paid to citi-
zens OF the United States in discharg-
ing claims for damages to American
commerce permitted by Spanish author
tiles during the War of 1872.
Q. How many stamps has the Gov
ernment Philatelic Agency sold in the
past five years?-P. H K.
A. The Post Office Department SAYS
that during the last five years approx
imately 1000, 900 stamps have been sold
by the Government Philatelic Agency.
@. When was Flag day first cele-
brated In a public school?-W. McA.
A. Philadelphia was the first to OBJ
serve the day in the schools-June IA,
1893.
Q. What are the Pillars Of Hercules?
N. T.
A. The Pillars of Hercules are two
hills on opposite sides of the Strait Of
Gibraltar. so called because OF the myth
that they had been torn asunder By
Hercules to admit the flow Of the
ocean into the Mediterranean
O. Please give the names Of the win
ners OF the Indianapolis classic-L,
l.. NJ
A. 1t was won this year by Fred
Frame driving Mlller-Hartz special.
ne averaged 1Ut 4ff IlIieS per IOul.
Howard Wilcox. in a Lion Head special.
won second prize; Cliff Bergere, in q
Studebaker, won third; Bob Carey in
a Meyer special, won fourth: Russell
Snowberger. in Hupp Comet, won
fifth prize.
O. Why do people live longer now
than formerly?-E. T.
A There are many factors which
contribute to prolong the span Of human
life. Among the more important are
improved living conditions. pure food,
cleaner milk, pure drinking water,
proper disposal Of refuse and specific
action Of the public health service to-
ward various diseases
G. When were handicapped stands
and table popular?"-L. c.
A. They were at the height Of their
popularity in the 1905.
@. When did Kipling live in the
United States?-A. V.
A. He visited the United States and
married in 1892 the daughter OF H. W.
Balestier OF New York and lived Tor
several years in Vermont.
@ What is meant by the practice Of
"Fletcherism"?-A.L L. R.
A. "Fletcherism' is theory advo-
Gated by Horace Fletcher that perfect
health requires and is maintained by
complete mastication or chewing OF
the food into pulp.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Victory in Defeat.

IN Gfle manner OF lQeU acceptance Ol
the defeat Of the bonus bill, admin
istered with such decisive finality by a
heavy coalition majority Of the Senate
yesterday, the veterans who beseiged the
Capitol in a dramatic show of strength
won a great victory. Their victory was
one that results from good discipline
and good discipline is only possible
among good soldiers. There was a deep
murmur that grew as it spread through
the ranks after announcement Of the
vote from the steps of the Capitol But
a moment later heads were barred and
the soldiers sang America" Within a
few minutes the struggling columns
were moving from the Capitol grounds,
back to camp across the river. Nothing
quite like it has ever happened in
America. These men wrote new chap
ter on patriotism of which their coun-
trynlen may well be proud.
But now, what? Will these men con-
solidate the gains they have made, reap
the full benefit Of their splendid and
disnified conduct in battle under fire
that has been more calling, more trying
to the nerves, more heartrending than
q sudden burst of shot and shell?
Their leaders now, those within their
ranks whom they have chosen and those
in Congress who fought for their cause,
bear heavy responsibility. They should
strive together to turn these men toward
the homes they left to come here.
While there is time and while the op-
portunity yet remains to turn a moral
victory to best account cool heads
should take control of the situation and
bring about the only appropriate con-
clusion OF this remarkable demonstra-
ton. That conclusion would be an
exodus from the city as orderly and as
dramatic as the gathering of the army
In the beginning.
II they go now, every hand will b.
turned to help them. Their return
Will be lkened to the return of an army
from a battle. where honor has been
won. Their march on Washington has
won many friends from erstwhile foes.
No demonstration could have more
strongly emphasized the tragic error
that would have been made in pay
ment OF the bonus. No demonstration
could more clearly have pointed out
the fact that in dealing with the dis
treSs and suffering of this period no
class can be singled out for special
favor. For every one of these men
who have assembled in Washington
there are tens of thousands of other
men at home whose condition is no
better than theirs. For every one Of
the veterans, clamoring for the dollars
that would be paid through the bonus,
there are tens of thousands of others
whose need is as great. To have sur
rendered to the claim of these misled
men would have been to deny to their
comrades at home the promise of what
relief now may be given through one
or more OF the measures sure to be
enacted before the adjournment of
Congress.
But the most significant demonstra-
tion Of all has been that while these
men may be ex-soldiers, while they may
feel that they have an extraordinary
claim for aid upon the Government
for which they offered their lives, they
are first Of all Americans. They have
made a fine record here, and they
should preserve it for history, unstained.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

What looks better In q lawn thar
some clover?
Yet many home owners profess to de-
test 1t.
Perhaps they are the same people
who claim to like the dark meat OF
turkey better than the white.
Nothing so sets of the true grasses
In a lawn as patches Of some small
clover, such as the So-called Dutch,
with its dark green leaves.
Even the blossoms, rightly viewed. are
aids, not detriments.
Too much clover Of course, with the
white blossoms permitted to remain on
their stalks until faded, would not par
ticularly beautify a yard.
The weekly cutting with the mower
however, will remove most Of the stalks
and flower heads, and these may be
raked up. The flowers are soon gone,
but the leaves linger on.
II r
Seedsmen, as we'll as home owners,
differ in their liking for clover In a
lawn grass mixture.
Some use it, some do not.
The claims made against it are main
ly two-fold, that 1t is unsightly, and
that 1t tends to die out at the wrong
time Of the year.
In its favor it is said that it helps
make a mat of roots, preventing lawn
surfaces from washing out particularly
on terraces; that its beneficial action
on the sell is very large; and that II
keeps places green which otherwise
might be bare in the height OF Summer
So take your choice.
We happen to be a cloverite, and are
always glad to see it listed In the COM
ponent seeds of any grass mixture. II
necessary, we go to the extent OF pur-
chasing a pound or so to sow on bare
spots.
There is not pound Of anything,
not even butter, which the householder
may purchase more advantageously
than a sack Of Dutch white clover,
Trifolium repens.
1t will not be a large sack-these
small, round seeds are very heavy.
They will go long way, however. A
pound will be enough.
A few dropped into bare spots, at al
most any time of. the year, will grow
readily into sturdy, fiat clover plants.
The browning of the blossoms, after
ALL is very small matter.
The big thing to keep in mind Is the
authorization of the soil.
It is not for nothing that modern
agriculture, with its rotation Of crops
is built solidly around clover and its ac-
ton IN the earth.
Nitrogen-bearing bacteria on its roots
do what man, unaided, scarce can do.
This cooperation Of bacteria and
certain plants. chiefly the Legumi-
nosae (peas. beans. clovers, etc. results
in the restoration Of nitrogen to the
soil.
And nitrogen is the one element
which the growing things In the earth
must have.
Various cultures may be secured, to
put upon legume seeds, in order that
their growth may be the greater, owing
ing nitrogen.
Who Is there so unfortunate as not
to remember some field of red clover
through which he wandered as youth?
The scent was delightful, even to
childish nostrils Then there was large
form Of white clover which grew thick
and delicious
Some of the more cultivated forms OF
red clover long ago esc-ped to home
lawns. There were few yards in the
small towns OF America which did not
have at least few clumps of red clover
growing in them.
There is something utterly clean about
the smell Of clover; few other plants
can equal it in this respect. There is
nothing cloying about it, although 1t is
strong enough.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HdSKIN.

Any reader of this newspaper Is well
come to make use at any time o: the
free information service Of this de-
partment. Address your inquiry to
The Evening Star Information Blu
reau, Frederic j. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. c., and you will re-
ceive a personal letter in reply. Inclose
cents for return postage. Be sure
to state your question clearly and to
write your name and address plainly.
@. Do steel strings on a tennis
racket wear a ball quicker than gut
strings?-D. B.
A. No information is available on
this point However, the great wear
on q tennis ball Is due not so much
to contact with the racket as to the
abrasion which takes place in contact
with the ground.
@. How does the amount Of money
spent by the United States Govern
ment for veterans relief compare with
a like expenditure in other coun-
trieS?-B. M.
A. The appropriations Of our Gov
eminent exceed those of all other coun-
tries combined. The men modified in
this country totaled 4,355 900, while the
armies Of Germany, France, Great
Britain, Italy and Canada totaled
34,244, ,636.
@. Is there to be another Byrd ex-
pedition to the South Pole?-O. S.
A. Rear Admiral Byrd Is planning
second trip to the Antarctic in Sep
tember, 1882.
@. If all the gold money in the
world were melted into one block, how
large would the block be?-E. D. N.
A. The monetary gold in the world
cast in one solid block would form a
cube 81 feet in each dimension.
@. How many miles Of the Trans
siberian Railway are double-tracked?-
F. w. H.
A. 1t is double-tracked from Omsk
to Vladivostok, distance of 1866
miles.
@. What Is the pomato?-T. M L.
A. 1t is plant produced by the
late Luther Burbank, obtained by cleft
grating tomato scions onto potato
roots. These two vegetables are closely
related, being two different species of
the same genus (Solanum), and Mr.
Burbank succeeded in producing both
tomatoes and potatoes on the same
plant. The pomato has never had any
commercial importance, but is interest
ing as an example of plant breeding.
Both the fruit and the tubers are edi-
Bile, but such a plant could hardly be
made to produce both tomatoes and
potatoes of good flavor, nor in COM
mercial quantity.
@. What force patrols the Mexican
border IN Texas?-E. S.
A. The State of Texas maintains
small body of mounted military
police, called rangers. or the Texas
Rangers. whose principal duties con-
slSt IN enforcing the State laws along
the Mexican border.
@. Did the real Alice Of Alice in
Wonderland" marry?-A. S. D.
A. She married and became the
mother of three sons. Two were lost
in the World War.
@. Is the postmistress at Wakefield
Va, related to George Washington
F. w K
A. Miss Julia L. Washington, post
mistress at Washington's birthplace, is
descended from George Washington's
half-brother Augustine.
O. How was the tax on bank checks
collected in 1887. w. r.
A. The Bureau Of Internal Revenue
says that the tax on bank checks was
passed July l, 1898, and repealed July
/. 1901. The tax was an imprinted
stamp on blank checks that were made
by certain companies. Employees were
Evening star., 1932-06-18

flashlight photographs were taken, the
mayor beamed in acknowledgment Of
the check and handed the deed to the
site to the Federal officials. The Incl
dent was closed. No explanation has
yet been vouchsafed as to why the
mayor kept the United States waiting
for two hours to pay the city about
two and half million dollars. New
York got the money. the United States
got its deed, and it was all in the days
work. What is time to a mayor, any
way?
Evening star., 1932-06-18
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Truth.

Truth.
My Uncle Jim, he says, says he
The Good Books never wrong;
In it the simple truth we'll see
In phrases clear and strong.
The Truth as Golden Apples stand
With Silver Pictures Framing"
This statement in far ancient lands
Our faith anew Is claiming.
The sounding brass, the base alloy,
Will make showing brave,
But are not what we must employ
In a transaction grave.
And in our business, small or great,
In friendship or in quarrels,
Relations we must regulate
With bimetallic morals.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

II restoration of the brewery as a
raiser of public revenue should by any
means prove a success some reminis-
cent economist is pretty sure to recall
the old custom Of lotteries to help the
State financially. Even the old Louisi-
ana lottery was never accused Of being
as precarious as some of the stock ex-
change speculations.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

1t Is reported that Chicago night
clubs and dance. halls were disappoint-
ed by the scant patronage by conven-
ton delegates. They were all previous
" informed about the perils OF a me-
tropolis. The most remote hamlet now
has its motion picture theater.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

Objection to any interference with
Hawaiis present political system was
expressed in the Republican platform.
This averts another incidental topic
calculated to interfere with discus
sion Of debts and collections in lucid
terminology.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

A race with results as securely pre-
dicted as the recent one in Chicago
may go a long way in reform by dis
couraging gambling. There were few
speakeasies, but no handbookmakers.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

There were many decorative toy bal
looms in the big convention hall, but
none Of them attracted as much atten-
ton as former Senator Frances ora
torical parachute which failed to open.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

Good judgment would lead Chinese
and japanese to suspend any warlike
demonstrations during a presidential
campaign which would prevent the
American public from paying much at
tention to anything else.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Am Other States and CANADA.
Member Of the Associated Press.

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TO the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited to 1t or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights OF publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

A number of weeks Of campaigning
must intervene before the radio can go
back to George Washingtons Bicen-
tennial.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Tonic Specialist.

Tonic Specialist.
When in his youth he misbehaved
Gambrinus went to college.
In grim seclusion there he slaved
To gain superior knowledge.
When economic pains arise
And symptoms new entwine us,
Some of us think it might we wise
To send for Doc Gambrinus.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Cairo Writer Sees
Dangers for Irish.

Egyptian Gazette, Cairo-Eamon de
Valera has been called the world
champion hair-splitter, but there is
nothing finicky about the policy he
has advocated for some years past and
now intends to try to put into
operation. He believes in three things:
Cd Turning the English out of
CD The union Of Ireland into one
whole.
90 The reputation Of Irelands
debt under the land act.
Turning the English out of Ire
land" means, now, nothing more nor
less than abolishing the oath of al
legiance, for the English have long
left Ireland in the sense of having
ceased to interfere in any way in her
internal affairs
We have the late Tim Healys word
for it during the time he was governor
general there was never the slightest
suspicion of an English wish to in
terfere or give advice. If Mr.. de
Valera persists in his intentions about
the oath and has a majority of the
Irish people with him, the oath will
certainly go, for England has not the
slightest intention of going to war
with Ireland about the question, nor
even OF using any sort of coercive
measures.
The results to Ireland of abolish
ing the oath will be the results purely
Of her own action. She will, for the
time being, become a country with
no international status, will cease to
be a member of the British Common
wealth of Nations and, now that
Britain is a protectionist country will
risk losing favored treatment in the
market which buys 80 per cent Of her
exports. Further, the large number OF
Irish citizens officially employed in
various parts Of the British Empire will
have to choose between resignation and
naturalization.
Mr.. de Valera's hope for a United
Ireland Is shared by the British govern
ment and during the last few years
some of the old bitter feeling between
the Free State and Ulster has
evaporated. But the time is still fa1
Evening star., 1932-06-18

A moratorium Is often considered de-
sirable in affording time to develop
polite excuses for no payment at all.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Pests.

From the San Antonio Express.
The most destructive insect pest OF
1881 was the grasshopper, reports the
Federal Bureau of Entomology, but the
hahitual gloom-spreader was . close
second.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Predicters.

From the Toronto tontario) Daily Star.
They now employ machine to pre-
dict earthquakes, although plenty Of
men would be glad to accept the job at
at fair salary. ~,
Evening star., 1932-06-18

DE best music to my ear" said Uncle
Eben, SIS de plitical jazz dat kin make
three cheers harmonic wit de dinner
bell" -
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Puzzling.

From the Roanoke Times.
The problem which every bank must
work out for itself Is how to keep solid
by staying liquid.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Lofty Observation.

Lofty Observation.
Where do you stand on prohlbl-
tion?" asked the lady with notebook
I'm not sure" answered Senator
Sorghum, "that I'm standing at all.
"Yet you are inevitably prominent in
the discussion"
Prominent, but powerless. 1t has
gotten me so much in the air that ]
feel like a pole-sitter."
Evening star., 1932-06-18

read much about the question
of foreign cheese. How far
should We go in permitting importa-
tions, and what more drastic regula-
ton should be enforced to see that
neither the government nor Swiss in
dustry Is defrauded of its just returns
from these commodities? 1t is a very
illogical thing that in country whose
chief product, in an agricultural sense,
at least, is fine cheese, should be
injured in that very particular. No
similar product of any nation is any
better, and in our own country it
should be cheap. so cheap that there
would be no market here for inferior
grades imported from the "outland" !"
1t has become increasingly evident,
however. that these importations are
not intrinsically for local consumption,
but are rather designed to promote a
new commercial exploitation of our
country by foreign merchants, who re-
label and repack ordinary Italian
gorgonzola, or French roquefort and
ship it to America or to some other
country with a vitiated taste, as
genuine Swiss cheese. Even after they
have paid the duty into Switzerland.
they can still undersell real Swiss
cheese in the foreign markets and
make handsome profit besides. Such
is the situation confronting the
Schweizerische kueseupion Guild OF
Swiss cheese Makers and it has
already revived an agitation for stricter
vigilance and control on the part of
the government. Every deputy and
member of the council is to be made
fully cognizant of the threat to so
important an INDUSTRY.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Recipe.

What do you think of the sugges-
tions regarding the eighteenth amend
ment?"
Some of them," responded Uncle Bill
Bottletop, remind me of an old-fash-
ioned mint julep-a measured amount
of alcohol, along with ice water, with
discretion; vegetation to encourage the
farmer, and political sweetenin' accord
ing to taste"
"A philosopher with a great idea, "
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, lis
like my ancestor who invented gun
powder, but had no conception of the
possibilities of its practical application.
So he was satisfied to amuse himself
with the explosion and made firecrack-
ers Of it."
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Unworn.

From the Columbus Ohio State Journal.
1t may be said of some men that
their morals are in excellent condition.
having been used so seldom.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
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Evening star., 1932-06-18

Jud Tunkins says it's fine feeling to
be having your own way, but you're lost
if you pick the wrong direction.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

Some Solace.
From the Florence (Ala) Herald.
Anyway, 1t will cost our creditors a
cent more for each bill they send us.
Evening star., 1932-06-18
Renaissance Acclaimed.

The orator great heights would reach
His effort had punch.
It was no after-dinner speech,
But just about free lunch.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

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Editor
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

Business OmCe.
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@. Is there to be another Byrd ex-
pedition to the South Pole?-O. S.
A. Rear Admiral Byrd Is planning
a second trip to the Antarctic in Sep
tember, 1882.
Evening star., 1932-06-18

O. If all the gold money In the
world were melted into one block, how
large would the block be?-E. D. N.
A. The monetary gold in the world
cast in one solid block would form a
cube 81 feet in each dimension,
Evening star., 1932-06-18

CApCllCliSS.
X
Not all the "life" of the United States
is to be found in the cities. Albert
Stuff" a University of Chicago study,
takes a typical small community, Mine
vile, surmised by some critics to be in
Montana. and describes the industrial,
domestic and social life. The popula-
tion of Mineville is about 1900; that
of the county in which it is located
about 5000. Its industries are silver,
lead, zinc and manganese ore mining
and stock raising The average income
of family Is less than $4,000 a year,
but on this families live very well, and
in times of depression the town takes
care of its own unemployed without
asking outside help. There are no mil
lionaireS in residence. The "outstand-
ing economic successes are middle class
people with incomes which usually
range from $4,000 to $4,000 year"
The townspeople love the town and feel
that when fellow goes away he gets
lonesome because he don't know soul. y
Social activities are as continuous as In
large city, if the social circle is more
restricted, and they are REQUIRED and
not optional" Seven leading families
constitute the ''four hundred" On a
smaller scale, Mineville has all the ad-
vantages of a large city, including
speakeasies and bootleggers.
X x
Anne Parrish wrote one good novel
"The Perennial Bachelor" and since its
appearance has written several not Sc
good, which have perhaps sold because
readers have been hoping for a worthy
companion to the Bachelor" Her
most recent novel, Loads Of Love-" Is
the story of Bessie, approaching middle
age, who carries about loads OF love-
for every one, when, unfortunately, nc
one wants her love- Even while feeling
sorry for her, we know that We should
not want it ourselves. She is good, but
uninteresting.