Evening star., 1933-11-30
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

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@. What foot ball teams compose the
Pacific Conference.-The. D.
A. Oregon, Stanford, Southern Call
fornia, oregon State, Washington,
Washington State, California, Idaho, U.
C. L. A., Montana.
@. How many countries have recog-
nized Russia?-M. j.
A. Countries which have extended
full diplomatic recognition to the Soviet
Union are Afghanistan, Austria, China,
Denmark, EStonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ice
land, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kingdom OF
Saudi Arabia, Latvia, Lithuania. Nor
way, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey.
United States and Uruguay.
@. Isn't a 12-ounce bottle of beer less
than a pint instead of more than
pint?-R, L. P.
A. It is less than a pint. There are
16 fluid cuaces in pint.
@. How does the cost of industrial
recovery compare with the cost of the
World War?-T. w. w.
A. The United States share OF the
World War cost has been estimated at
$50 600, 900 ,0O0 On the basis of the
measures authorized for Government
aid to industrial recovery, the cost will
be about Sl5,000,000,000. The cost of
the depression in lost business has been
about sl00, ,OOO 0OO,O 900, so it is costing
more to recover from the war than 1t
cost to fight it.
@. DO fish sleep?-D. L. G.
A. They do-not At times they re-
main quiet in pools and streams.
@. Please summarize the provisions
of the Glass-Steagan act.-P. A. S.
A. 1t provides for the separation OF
security afiiates from commercial
banks, fOIbldS q bank 70 make loans 70
any of its own officers. raises the mini
mum capitalization OF national banks
from s25, 900 to $4,000, and provides
that the Federal Reserve Board may
warn officers Of member banks which u
finds engaging in unsound practices and
remove them If they persist. 1t pro-
vides for the establishment of State
wide branches in those States in which
State banks have that privilege, and
has a provision relating to guaranty OF
hank deposits,
@. For whom is Clarke Island in
Plymouth Harbor named?-S. c.
A. For the first officer OF the May
flower.
@. When were table pepper mills
first used?-H. T. MOB.
A. They were first used in the mid
die seventeenth century and are still
found on some conservative tables. Lit
tie silver pepper mills were a novelty OF
few years ago.
@. Who originated the traffic light
system?-D. <.
A. The use of lights in traffic sig
mailing undoubtedly grew out OF rail-
road practice. Their use seemed to ar
rive more or less simultaneously in the
larger cities of the country. They were
first used in the form of lanterns to
make visible at night the indications
of officer-operated semaphoreS. Later
both officers and lights were raised in
towers for the purpose of making the
indications more visible to traffic and
to give the officers better view OF traf-
fic conditions and the activities OF ofn-