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Evening star., 1933-03-29
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Q. Can q drinking glass be broken
by the vibrations Of note Of a violin
or clarinet?-J. r. s.
a. The Bureau Of Standards does not
believe 1t possible to break a drtnkino
glass with the vibrations Of a note of a
violin or clarinet. The vibrations are
not sustained for q sufficient length Of
time. e'A -
Q. How did the figure of speech.
acid test" originate?-G. p.
a. II refers to the application of acid
to test the purity Of gold.
@. Please tell me how large articles
are paced IN containers that have small
openings. For example. the large shins
placed IN bottles that have small
necks-T. w.
A. They may be built inside, or thew
may be built outside and slipped in
without masts. etc, which are then nut
In place with special tools. Another
way IS 70 cut out the bottom of the
contaner and afterward fuse il on
again. oA
@. OF what nationality was Hofmann
who painted the famous Christ in the
Temple"?-L. A. 49, WIG
A. He was a German born at Darn.
stadt IN 1924. He died in 1902. His
pictures owe their popularity to his H.
illustrative talent and ideal conceptions
Of biblical events.
@. What is courtesy Of the mort .nd
10 whom Is it extended?-H. b.
"A. The courtesy of the port fs ex.
Tended to foreign diplomats, some con-
sular ofrcers, some distinguished for
elgn vlsltors and to members of .x-
ecutlve departments who have been
abroad on official business. This corr
tesy Is requested by the Department Of
state or the Treasury Department. The
Term means that the person to whom
tnls courtesy is extended is permitted
TO enter without paying duty.
9; In conversation with a clergyman.
~ correct to address him as Rev.
BroWn?-V. S. K
A. 1t Is incorrect. If he is a doctor
OF divinity, one may address him Va
Dr. Brown; otherwise as Mr. Brown
= Where is the city OF Magallanes?
A. This is the new name of Punta
arenas, the most southern citv in
oouth America and also in the world,
Q. What people first employed the
SWastlka as a symbolic. M
a. The origin Of the swastika is not
dennitely known. II was used as
symbol In China, Japan, and India
from very early periods. Its original
significance is unknown, but has been
the object Of much speculation. Some
Scholars believe it to be a solar symbol
representing the male and female
forms. BY some authorities it is said
70 nave been derived from the cross:
by others, from the circle. The swastika
appeared as early as the Bronze Age.
@. What is the early history of Sea
Island, of the coast of Georgia.
W. H. j.
A. Sea Island, formerly known a.
Long Island, was owned by John Cou-
per, who also bought the northern end
OF st. Simon's Island in 1893. Long
Island was used as a pasture for his
cattle. The island was sold in 1895 to
company which planned the erection
OF a hotel on the beach The Cloister
Hotel was subsequently built and the
island was renamed Sea Island. It is
noteworthy for the many specimens
OF shells that are found on the beach
@. How many policemen are there
in the United States?-R. K
A. Counting all types, the census
enumerated 13l,867 in 1890.
Evening star., 1933-03-29

subject has been to seek to lessen the
chance Of such accidents by more
rigid control Of the personnel, the
maintenance Of the highest standard
Of competence and the avoidance OF
needless risks In low flying in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of occupied areas
More effective control over the use OF
airports, whether in interstate or cross
State services, Is evidently required.
Without question aviation is estab-
lished as factor in transport. It's ad-
vance has been rapid and it will con-
tinue. The problem OF today is to
effect the greatest possible protection
for groundlings with the least restraint
upon the air services. to provide the
safest possible airports with the surest
means Of safeguarding those who must
OF necessity reside near them.
The Star has been engaged for many
years-indeed since long before the COM
ing OF the airplane even as a scientific
experiment-in an effort to lessen the
dangers to the public security from rail-
road trains at grade crossings and from
motor cars. Great numbers of grade
crossings have been abolished, by the
establishment Of overpass and under
pass intersections of highway and rail
lines. Many remain to be thus elm
mated, and the fight to eradicate this
evil will continue. Determined efforts
will likewise continue to be made to
abate the tragic peril Of life and limb
in the streets of cities and the highways
incident to incompetent and reckless
driving of motor cars.
The airplane industry is the newest
of transport enterprises. It may be
made the safest, if the lessons taught
by accidents, whether due to mechanical
or human faults, are applied in correc-
ton. For those who are striving in the
industry to this end The Star has en-
tire sympathy. and for their enterprise
and their regard for the sanctity of hu-
man life it expresses unqualified ad-
miration and praise.
Evening star., 1933-03-29
Man Unafraid and
The Nations Needs
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor Of The Star:
Wat Is necessary for an existence
this or any other day? Sufficient cloth
ing to be comfortably dressed. Sum-
cient food for sustenance. A comfort
able bed on which to sleep and rest
Necessary medical attention.
We don't have anything when we
come to this world and we don't take
ANYTHING with us to the next.
Tnere are q great many people In the
Nation today who want to help the un-
employed and the needy, but II they
couldn't draw what they call q good
salary for handing out charity to the
unfortunate, supplied by donations from
tnose who can afford to give charity,
their interest In the unemployed and
needy would vanish.
During the entire period Of this de-
preston there have been untold num-
Ders OF public men and officials who
were perhaps honest in their desire to
help our unfortunate citizens, those out
OF work; they have advanced numerous
plans Tor such help, but the fear of
individual loss or the diSpleasure of
their constituents caused their failure
70 suggest any plan with foundation
that could be built upon and supported
by the majority Of thinking people Of
the Nation.
Our President is the only man in
private or public with the courage
TO lay down a concrete plan for the
benefit of the down-trodden citizen, re-
gardless of public opinion.
his plan may not be perfect, but 1t
Will cure a multitude of sins that have
peen perpetrated on the Nation as q
whole. 1t not only gives the unem-
pioyed, destitute and needy a chance
ior existence and respect, but aids the
taxpayer who will eventually join the
ranks OF the unemployed If government
Is permitted to drift in the future as it
has IN the past decade.
Had Chairman Connery Of the House
LABOR Committee, together with Mr..
Green OF the American Federation OF
Labor, been without employment during
the last six months of the depression
they would no doubt be among the first
TO apply for work in a reforestation
camp and rejoice to jingle a coin of
their own. These men scorn the word
wage, they demand and must have a
salary lar beyond their capacity to
enjoy.
In my opinion the members Of Con-
gress and union labor as q whole re-
celve too great a salary for the ability
they show and the benefit they render
the people. Their time and ours is
wasted in much talk and no accomplish
ment in these days, when action and
service Is needed.
What citizen of today who is work
Ing for a meager salary or wage would
not exchange his lot cheerfully for the
guaranteed necessities of life and a dol
lar day to call his own?
Now when We have an able, vigorous
leader-a real man, unafraid-Who
holds the welfare of our people sacred
and acts the modern father" of our
Nation. why not accept and follow with
assurance his good advice.
THOMAS G. DALEY,
Evening star., 1933-03-29

and Germans Of Jewish faith. 6ecre-
tary Hull Indicated that all his advices
foreshadowed q cessation of these out
RACES and that the German government
had taken steps to prevent their re-
currence.
The heartless decision to embargo
every form of Jewish public activity Is
q cynical commentary on these assur-
ances. The anti-Semitic boycott Is to
extend even to children and youths.
It Is proposed to limit the number Of
the former who may be enrolled In
schools and to impose the hated
"numerus clausus" (closed number)
upon young men seeking to enter the
universities, whereby the eligible total
will not outstrip the proportion which
the Jewish community bears to the
entire German population-about one
per cent.
It is oficially stated that the ban on
Jewry has the "toleration," though not
the support" of Chancellor Hitler ana
his cabinet. This, Of course, clothes It
with all necessary sanction from the
Na1 higher-ups. They have accordingly
allowed to be promulgated without pro-
test series of systematized regulations
for giving effect to the boycott. This is
to be carried out under the formal aus
pices of the National Socialist party
high command at Munich. Local de-
tachments of Brown Shirt storm troop
ers, Hitlers private army, will conduct
a hamlet-by- hamlet, city-by-city, street.
by-street campaign to see that Jews are
driven from business, from the law.
from the practice of medicine, from the
universities and from every other
branch of activity which they have
hitherto, like other law-abiding Ger
mans, been at liberty to pursue.
With what callous disregard Of for
eign opinion these merciless plans are
to be executed is revealed by the state
ment that they are ordained as repri-
sal for the waves of protest which
welled up abroad against the excesses
committed by hot-headed 4Iitlerites in
celebration of their conquest OF power.
The people Of the United States, re-
gardless of creed, joined in these pro-
tests. Men and women Of every faith
raised their voices against inhumanities
which recalled the racial and religious
prosecutions Of the middle ages. Exag-
gerated accounts no doubt reached the
outside world, and our own Govern
ment was right in refraining from pre-
cipitate action In advance Of definite
ascertained facts.
But with today's incontrovertible eU-
dence Of German official completely in
the cruel program to devastate Jewish
economic life, it will not be surprising
If governments everywhere, provided
they cherish the humanitarian tradi-
tions of the American Government,
abandon passive and reserved attitude
and cause Berlin to know that civilized
mankind revolts at the spectacle it is
now afforded.
American opinion toward Germany
and the German people is no longer
tainted by the rancors and recollections
of the World War II Herr Hitler con-
siders the retention of American good
will worth while he and his Jew-baiting
cohorts are going about it the wrong
way.
Evening star., 1933-03-29
The Truth About the
Original ''Casey JONES'
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
In the words of the song Casey
Jones'" the song writer has pictured
him as brave engineer running past
Reno Hill into Frisco. Many persons
know differently. The original and
colorful Casey Jones whose heroic deeds
inspired the song writer was a faith
full and efficient engineer on the South
ern division of the Illinois Central Rail-
road with his run usually from Memphis
south to Canton or Macomb City, Miss.
He was extremely popular with railroad
men and the public, with a sense OF
humor and kindness Of heart we'll re-
membered by the people who came in
contact with him.
happen to be in possession of some
facts concerning the original Casey
Jones. picked up some years ago when
| was field examiner Of the United
States Pension Bureau operating in
Mississippi. He will live long in story
and in song along the line of the Il
linois Central Railroad in the South.
Wallace Sanders, colored laborer
N the railroad yards at Canton, Miss,
is the first person known to have
chanted the song Casey Jones. San
ders had a melodious voice, and was
well known in local musical circles. As
the engineer came down the track past
Sanders and his colored cohorts, who
would be pitching railroad iron from a
handcar. they would commence to hum:
There goes Casey Jones
A riding in his engine.
There goes Casey Jones,
Don't you hear me sing;
There goes Casey Jones
riding in his engine,
Coming down the track
Like railroad king.
The song spread up and down the
railroad line. and became very popular.
The similarity OF the tune to the pub
lished song Casey Jones" seems to
leave no doubt as to the origin of the
latter.
Casey Jones met his death in a wreck
near Winona, Miss, while carrying out
misleading orders of the chief train
dispatcher. He was born at Cayce Sta
ton, KY. and derived his name in that
way, the name becoming changed to
Casey later. The aged widow, who
lived alone near the railroad tracks at
Durant. knew Jones well as he dashed
past her house with smile on his face
and waving his cap, his fireman never
failing to roll of large lump of coal
in front of the home of the widow.
And the school children at Water VAL
ley, or Hollow Springs, who strewed his
engine with flowers as he pulled into
the station after some heroic deed, the
exact nature of which I cannot recall,
will never forget Casey Jones.
The song was published, it is believed,
to meet the exigencies of a moving pic
ture, the song writer probably living at
Los Angeles or HOLLYWOOD, and that was
the cause Of his placing the scene of
Casey Jones exploits as in that section
of the country. It is believed, as I have
stated, that the Casey Jones of the
I. c. Railroad lines is the engineer
whose history inspired the song.
w. H. STOVALL.
Evening star., 1933-03-29
Airplane Hazards.

The Stars comment upon the Cali
fornia air tragedy Of a few days ago,
when plane flying at high speed
crashed in a storm into dwelling and
caused the death of thirteen people, has
brought a protest from representative
of an air transport company, whose
letter appears on this page today. The
facts regarding this deplorable happen
ing are such as to evoke vigorous
criticism of the methods employed in
some cases in flying over closely in
habited areas and reasonable considera-
ton Of the chances Of mishaps which
may be regarded as inescapable in the
pre-cat state of the flying art. The Stars
cole pught in its observation on the
Evening star., 1933-03-29
Hitlerism Runs Amok.

Today's announcement from Germany
that the National Socialist party on
April l will enforce a rigid boycott
against Jewish business and profess
sional men will shock the conscience of
the world. It comes as a disagreeable
surprise to this country, following on
the heels Of the State Departments
decision not to press the inquiry insti-
tuted last week by the American
embassy and consular authorities int
acts of Nazi violence against Americans
Evening star., 1933-03-29
Tax and Taxes.

From the Dayton Daily News.
The postmaster at Pittsfleld, Mass,
has asked for bids on one package Of
plain carpet tacks. When It comes to
economy, this IS getting down even
lowsr than hrass tad
Evening star., 1933-03-29
Always on the Job.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Much Of the wooden money recently
put in circulation in q PENNSYLVANIA
community has disappeared, proving
that the collector Is never at q loss, no
matter how unprecedented the situa-
ton. -.
Evening star., 1933-03-29
A Frozen Asset.

From the Detroit News.
Chicago had to import Wisconsin
snow for ski exhibitions. It must be
that pleas to the local banks for use
of their assets for q day met with re-
buffs.
Evening star., 1933-03-29

Hitler is in the position Of the man
who, having seized the reins of power,
cannot be certain of preventing a run
away.
Evening star., 1933-03-29

Solicitude for the working man is
regarded as best shown in devising
methods that will provide remunera-
ton to keep him at work.
Evening star., 1933-03-29
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Eternal Reduplication.
There was old Mother Hubbard,
Who went to the cupboard
And sorrowed to see it was bare.
Now she looks in her stocking
And says it is shocking
To find no more gold hidden there.
And young Mr.. Horner,
Who sat in the corner,
Again heaves a comforted sigh
As with method exacting
His thumbs are extracting
The plums from political pie.
We try to be clever
In life's great endeavor,
But whether We laugh or complain
We're stopping or starting
And smiling or smarting
All over and over again.
Evening star., 1933-03-29

California sets a fine example to the
world. Even an earthquake does not
matter very seriously If you know what
to do about 1t.
Evening star., 1933-03-29

Discreet Assertion.
"You are showing signs Of becoming
obstructive" said the friend.
"Only mildly so," answered Senator
Sorghum. But I've got to do a little
something now and then to show my
constituents that I am taking an in
telligent interest in what's going on"
Jud Tunkins says the farmer amt as
happy as he was when he and family
were supposed to find all the relief they
needed in patent medicine almanac.
Golden Rabbits
The Great Taxpayer meets the condi-
That calls him, with emphasis fiat,
To appear as the tireless magician
Pulling rabbits anew from his hat.
Society and Society.
"Are you fond of society,"" asked the
friend:
which kind?" answered Miss Cay
enne.
Are there two kinds?"
"Oh, yes; the kind where you 70 to
meet friends and the kind you crash to
defy your enemies"
Quest.
The dreams we dreamed, the schemes
we schemed,
At last are a misfit.
We get what once so splendid seemed
And find that isn't IT.
"Our ancestors have not been alto
gether successful" said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown, when they leave us foes
to fear instead Of friends to aid U.s."
Mutual Interest.
II you were tight-rope performer, my
friend,
And had me up there ON your back,
Your pace I should never be seeking to
mend
Nor show you Of kindness q lack.
At least I'd be prudent and try to pre-
serve
Each other for joys that will come,
And not do thing that might weaken
your nerve
And spoil our Equilibrium.
"A man dat never made mistake, !"
said Uncle Eben. "is very u'ble to be
de came gemman dat never made any
serious effort whatsoever.E
Evening star., 1933-03-29
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Golden Rabbits.
The Great Taxpayer meets the condi-
ton
That calls him, with emphasis fiat,
To appear as the tireless magician
Pulling rabbits anew from his hat.
Evening star., 1933-03-29

"A man dat never made q mistake, !"
said Uncle Eben. ''is very u'ble to be
de came gemman dat never made any
serious effort whatsoever.H
Evening star., 1933-03-29

Jud Tunkins says the farmer amt as
happy as he was when he and family
were supposed to find all the relief they
needed in a patent medicine almanac
Evening star., 1933-08-17
ORPHANS DELIGHT
IN OUTDOOR POOL
St. Vincent's Achievement, Result
Of Initiative of W. N. Carri-
gan of Catholic U.

After years Of hoping, the children
Of st. Vincents Orphanage are able
now to splash about In fine outdoor
swimming pool on sweltering days, but
it is doubtful whether they get any
more pleasure than that Of the young
seminarian who made 1t possible.
Back of the story Of this swimming
pool is william M. Carrigan Of Cath
olic University, whose sympathies with
the desires Of the 140 boys and girls
at st. Vincent's found a way to fulfill
their hopes.
For several years Carrigan had been
trying to raise money to build a pool
for the children Finally he decided
to take things into his own hands.
He borrowed Reilly, the orphanage
work horse, and began to excavate a
wading pool. the best he could do with
the resources at his command.
A neighborhood contractor saw him
plowing up the ground and admired
the young seminarian's determination
He loaned a truck and shovel. Others
became interested and volunteered
their services. They furnished mate
rlal labor and personal services and
soon half dozen contractors joinec
In and rushed the swimming pool to
completion within a few weeks. It
Evening star., 1933-08-17

which bullets were poured into q car
driven by, oficers transporting Ralph
to the penitentiary to serve a 25-year
sentence for robbery.
Canto's counsel, in opening argu-
ments, also conceded that Canto was in
the automobile which pursued the PEN
itentiary-bound car from Charleston.
Not Aware Of Intentions.
They argued, however, that the
youthful defendant was not aware Of
his companions intentions when he
entered the car with Harper and Leo
Frazier, also under indictment in the
double staying. The defense also con-
tended Canto should be excused from
prosecution because he testified for the
State ut Harper's trial.
J. Blackburn Watts, prosecuting at
torney Of KanaWha County, in both
cases denied defense contentious that
circumstances should be considered in
mitigation Of guilt. He argued that
all occupants of the automobile were
equally guilty, regardless Of who fred
the shots which killed Shamblin.