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Evening star., 1934-02-10
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN,

Stop q minute and think about this
fact. You can ask our Information
Bureau any question Of fact and get
the answer back in a personal letter.
It Is q great educational idea intro
duced into the lives Of the most in
telligent people in the world-Amer-
ican newspaper readers. It is a part
Of that best purpose Of q newspaper
Service. There is no charge except
coin or stamps for return postage.
Do not use post cards. Get the habit
of asking questions. Address your
letter to The Evening Star Informa-
ton Bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin, Di-
rector, Washington, D. c.
@. Please give some facts about
the new conservatory at the Botanic
Gardens-M. H.
corner stone Of the new conservatory,
November IL, 1881. The dome of the
new building is 81 feet high. The
building required 300 tons Of struc-
tural steel for the framework and 81
tons of structural aluminium for the
dome, doors, bolts, etc. Eighty-Seven
thousand cubic feet of glass was
necessary. 1t contains many tropical
plants and trees. Many tropical fish
and birds will be included. Botanists
and scientists from all over the world
visit these gardens, as well as hun
dreds of visitors to the National Cap
ital.
@. How old is the oldest will in
existence?-L. w.
A The oldest will which has been
found is that of Uah, Amenemhat ",
of Egypt. 1t was executed in 2548 B.
c. 1t Is written On papyrus, un-
earthed at Kahun, Egypt, by DR.. Film
ders Petrie, and is part of the ARCH
geological collection attached to Lon
don University.
@. How long has Coalport china
been made?-W. F. w.
A. The Coalport factory situated in
the Severn Valley was founded by
John Rose & Co., between 1780 and
1870. This factory absorbed the
Caughley factory in 1899, the Swan
sea factory in 1920, the Nantgarw
factory in 1929 Productions vary
from highly finished, carefully deco
rated specimens in the manner of the
Sevres to rather poor limitations of
Dresden at the time encrusted flowers
were the fashion.
@. How should coral beads be
cleaned?-E. G.
A. Dissolve a teaspoonful of borax
in a pint of warm water. Dip the
coral in and when clean put through
tepid water.
@. What is the largest peninsula
in the world?-E. K.
A. The largest peninsula in the
! world is the continent of Europe
which projects into the Atlantic
| Ocean from the mainland Of Asia and
separates the North Sea from the
Mediterranean. 1t has an area OF
! 3,750 900 square miles.
@. What is an Indian word for
snow?-F. L.
| A. 1t depends upon the tribe. In
Dakota the word is va; in Cheyenne
it is istas.
@. What is the hot Ice MADE oy
DR.. Percy w. Bridgman?-W S.
A. 1t is ice under sufficient pres
sure, about 100000 pounds per square
inch. which melts at about 165 degrees
Fahrenheit.
@. Is there a mother Of a Civil Wal
soldier on the Government pension
roll?-E. r.
A. On June 80, 1898. Samantha R
| Button was receiving $50 a month
/ Her sen, Clinton D. Rorer, enlisted
February %, 1864, at the age of II
and died June 4. 1864 His mother
| is l03 years old, if still living.
@. What is the name given to
prism branching candle
labra?-B. T. c.
A. They are known as girandoles
Evening star., 1934-02-10

Those who may feel inclined at
times to think this column . bit
ahead Of the season Cor even some
what looney) for writing about flowers
when the snow lies on the ground,
really do not understand the perpetual
interest home owners have In their
gardens.
No matter how blustery the day,
somebody, somewhere in our great
National Capital, is writing us some
such letter as the following, from
which we omit the name, for obvious
reasons:
Dear sir: For years I have read
and enjoyed your column, This and
That in The Evening Star of Wash
iEgton, and now I am writing to ask
your help In regard to our proposed
new garden.
1T seems to me one so we'll versed
in garden lore and lily pond wisdom
must be diplomat as well, SO want
to ask how we may have a nice flower
garden, and lily and fish pond, when
SO many dogs, owned by our very
lovely neighbors, come into the yards
all day long, and the children also
come in and express themselves.
I'VE like children, and dogs as well,
but when the boys play in lily ponds,
and carry off the fish, and dogs use
the pool for swimming, and both dogs
and children run through the garden
what can we do to prevent this tres
passing without offending our very
nice neighbOrS and incurrinp the en-
nifty of the children?
X X
IT have more than one friend who
is unable to keep her fine specimens Of
fish because the boys dip them out
and carry them of.
Our garden is only started, and
the pond is only a dream as yet, but
l have been quite discouraged on &C
count Of the experience of others.
Some have a wire netting over the
pond, do you think that would de-
tract from it's beauty and service?
1--WE have wanted garden for years,
and now that we have space, it just
seems terrible that anything should
interfere with our flowers Thank
you for your advice. Yours truly, etc "
X X X
One must be diplomat, indeed, to
have the garden of dreams.
What is more, one probably will
have to be a fighter as we'll
But if a thing is worth having, it
is worth fighting for.
This pleasant land sometimes not
so pleasant warfare of the everyday
is not all a manifestation of physical
energy.
War demands strategy. Strategy is
tactics.
Now tactics may be Of the minor
major or grand varieties.
The gardener who wants q nice
garden had much better resort to the
several sorts Of tactics. rather than
indulge in brawls, wordy and other
wise.
Open diplomacy, in such cases, sell
dom works
The kind that is effective is sub
rosa, done with smile.
For the benefit of all gardener war
riors We print the following battle
lineup:
1. ITdIlQ UdctlCS-a renee.
2. Major tactics-prickly vines and
shrubs.
3. Minor tactics-bribing the kids
Except by the grace Of God. there
can be no real gardening without a
fence.
1t Is the first and last essential OF
good gardening. satisfactory garden
ing, really pleasant gardening.
A fence, even in this age, says
plainly to all: This is private prop
erty. Keep out"
Dogs can't read and boys won't
listen?
True enough. that is why the fence
must be unclimbable
There are such fences on the mar
Evening star., 1934-02-10

Of the oldest Of games. It Is up to
them to lessen the risks by admoni-
ton to the youngsters against hook
ing on behind, sliding on frequented
streets and especially against using
busy thoroughfares for this sport.
The casualty record on this score this
Winter Is already sufficient In itself
to serve as q warning.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
High Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers Of Other Lands

the environment Of some Of the mar
kets into veritable stables. which very
clearly constitutes a distinct danger
to the health and comfort Of the COM
munity
Heavy fines will be assessed in the
future from those who fail to keep
their animals at a proper distance
from the market places and in the
areas Of shelters arranged for them.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Stock Exchange Control.

President Roosevelt struck yester-
day at stock gambling in special
message to Congress. The immediate
answer was the introduction of bill
by Senator Fletcher Of Florida to
regulate stock exchanges. A similar
bill will be offered in the House by
Representative Rayburn Of Texas,
and these will be followed by bills to
regulate commodity exchanges. While
the Fletcher bill has not yet had the
blessing of the President, according
to a statement from the White House,
it is believed that many features of
the measure will be enacted into law,
and many of them should. The coun-
try has stood aghast at the revelations
before the Senate Banking and Cur
rency Committee in its inquiry into
stock exchange conditions and trans
actions and practices, showing that
to very great extent the exchanges
have been used merely as super
gambling houses, with the game rigged
generally against the public.
The many provisions of the Fletcher
bill include compulsory registration of
all stock exchanges with the Federal
Trade Commission, a marginal limit
of sixty per cent of the market value
of the stock or permission to the
trader to cover marginal purchase
with credit up to eighty per cent of
the lowest price Of the stock traded
in over period Of three years; au-
thority for the Trade Commission to
regulate short sales and stop-loss or
ders, prohibition against fictitious
sales, wash sales and pool opera
tions; penalties ranging up to $4,000
fines and Imprisonment up to ten
years for individuals violating the law
and fines up to S500,000 when the
guilty party is an exchange. The
measure is the most drastic ever pro-
posed for the regulation of exchanges
The measure will lead to much dis
cussion in and out of Congress. From
New York already comes the skeptical
criticism of Wall Street that it is no
more possible to prohibit the gam
bling instincts of the human being
the New Workers call it the specu-
lative instinct-than it was to pro-
hibit the taking of a drink They
consider the President and Senator
Fletcher most unkind in what they
have to say about speculation, ma
ked" or otherwise. Further, they pre-
dict that if such q measure as that
offered by Senator Fletcher becomes
law it will be ruinous to trade and
to recovery. But that kind of criti-
cism is to be expected from the men
who have a tremendous interest in
the development of greater volume
of stock sales. Admittedly, the
Fletcher bill will result in a very
considerably smaller total of sales on
the exchanges. But that of itself is
not necessarily an evil
If the regulation of the stock ex-
changes by the Government can pre-
vent the manipulation Of the market
by the few-as it has been manipu-
lated-a great deal will have been ac-
complished toward the sterilization
of industry. 1t is the violent fluctua-
tions on the security markets that
have played havoc so often with the
industrial world. While the curtail-
ment Of gambling" by both those
who can afford and those who cannot
afford to gamble, proposed by the
President, is an estimable end, the
greatest good will grow from the pro-
lection of industry.
Evening star., 1934-02-10

@. Did Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt
inherit her fortune from her husband
or from her father?-D. w. M.
A. Part of 1t was inherited from her
husband, who was railroad execu-
tive, and part from her father and
was derived from Pennsylvania mines
and real estate.
@. What are the names of the
banks in England known as the big
five. How many branches have
they?-A. NJ c.
A. Barclays, with 2.070 branches;
Lloyds, 1900; Midland, Ltd, 2.l90:
National Provincial, Ltd, 1870; West
minister, 1,071. The Post Office Saw
ings Bank and the Bank of England
are gigantic institutions with branches
in practically all towns and cities.
@. How large is the Mississippi
drainage area?-M T.
A. 1t comprises 1,250,000 square
miles About 100000 people live in
this area.
@. Did Stephen Foster live long in
the South?-E. M.
A. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa,
and lived there most of his life. He
spent two years in Cincinnati, and in
1852, at the age Of 26, took steam
boat trip to New Orleans. He re-
turned to Pittsburgh and went on to
New York, where he died in 1854.
my Old Kentucky Home was copy
righted shortly after the trip down
the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Q. Why were the three balls chosen
as an emblem for pawn shops?--M, r.
A. The pawn brokers' sign is de-
rived from the arms of the Medici
family. which was prominent in Italy
money.
O. Has the city of Rosario. in the
Philippines, been rebuilt?-C. o. w.
A. 1t was destroyed during the last
insurrection by the insurgents. 1t has
been somewhat rebuilt and now has q
population Of 10000.
O. In visiting family after a death
has occurred, should the caller men,
ton the bereavement?-A. M. l..
A. The caller should wait until
member of the family has introduced
the subject.
O. In contract bridge, If the play is
stopped when one side has a game
toward rubber, is it counted?-
w. S. A.
A. The side which has game adds
a 300-point bonus to its score and this
total is counted as the score Of the
rubber.
! O. How large an elephant tusk has
been recorded?-L- S.
( A. Travel says that the largest
known tusk is one in the Natural His
tory Museum in South Kensington. 1t
weighs 226l2 pounds and is 10 feet
q. inches in length.
@. Where can this quotation be
found: There is nothing either good
or bad but thinking makes it so'?-
( S. L. NJ.
A. In Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2.
| @. When did the postal letter rate
increase to three cents?-H. P.
I A. The Post Office Department says
/ that the letter rate of postage in
creased from two cents to three cents
July 6, 1892. The local letter rate was
reduced to two cents July l, 1888.
@. Did Gilbert Stuart. who painted
1 the portraits of Washington and
other distinguished men of the period,
spend part OF his youth in England?
L. B.
/ A Stuart was born in Middletown,
r. l.. in 1855. He lived and worked
/ in London with Benjamin West from
I 1878 to 1882 and soon became FASH
ionable portrait painter. He returned
| to America in 1892
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Diplomacy.

How did you get that colored man
to 60 through those Arctic hardships
with you?"
IT had to prevaricate q little" re-
piled the explorer, regretfully. II told
him that the North Pole was chicken
roost."
Evening star., 1934-02-10
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Diverse Pursuits.

Diverse Pursuits.
She rides and shoots and swims and
plays
At golf or tennis with great skill.
She also paints and turns a phrase
OF graceful poesy at will.
She sings the songs of classic style
And modern theme does not dis
dain,
And with a gentle. witching smile
Her suffrage right will oft explain.
She gave her hand unto a youth
OF quiet and substantial mind.
His fine accomplishments In sooth
Are very slight and hard to find.
And yet when Duty calls he's there
Some helpful talent to disclose.
He reads the cook book through with
care
And tries to mend the children's s
hose.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Airmail Contract Cancellation


While revelations before the Senate
committee investigating the grant of
airmail contracts have produced
plenty of statements and charges from
which all sorts of inferences may be
drawn, there has not been, of course,
any proof of fraud in the granting of
these contracts. 1t has been shown
celed out" to airplane concerns, the
existence of which depended on air.
mail subsidies, but it is also a fact
that the Watrous airmail act, under
which the Postmaster General acted,
gave him an extraordinary degree of
authority which could be exercised
solely on his own Judgment, and the
Postmaster General who granted most
OF the contracts involved has not been
heard from.
With this in mind, it is obvious
that the President and Postmaster
General Farley, in their cancellation
Of all contracts for carrying domestic
airmail-to take effect ten days hence
must have acted on the strength of
evidence which is not known by the
general public. A great deal more
remains to be told than has been told.
AS sudden and as dramatic as was
the step of cancelling the contracts,
It Is of less importance than the con-
sequences, and what these will be re-
mains to be seen
No step of this kind would be war
ranted without due consideration of
what is to follow. The expedient of
assigning to the Army the task of
carrying the mails is, Of course,
temporary. Without mail-carrying con-
tracts, few companies have found it
possible to carry passengers and the
Army has not yet been given the job
Of transporting passengers. In scrap
ping the existing domestic airmail
contracts, the whole set-up of COM
mercial aviation has likewise been
scrapped, and the substitute remains
TO be discovered-or announced.
It Is manifest from a few state
nents already made by officials of
some of the airmail carriers that
they do not intend to take the cancel
lation Of their contracts lying down,
Their resort, Of course, will be the
courts, where the whole business will
be more thoroughly aired than has
been possible in the Surcharged at
ynosphere Of . Senate investigating
committee.
There is special significance in the
fact that Government has made the
contract cancellation apply to all air
mail carriers, thus indicating pre-
sumption of guilt by anybody who
carries the mails. There will be many
who wonder, naturally, why this
method was chosen instead Of the
Immediately more difficult and lengthy
process of revising those contracts
which are shown to be unsatisfac-
tory or tainted, and sending those
guilty Of tainting them to jail, where
they belong. That would have pre-
served the efficient service that is now
represented in the companies which
carry the mails, or provided the op-
portunity of finding substitutes. One
OF the important tasks confronting
the administration now is to DEM
onstrate that its colorful and sensa-
tional cancellation of all airmail con-
tracts is not in the nature of cutting
of the nose TO spite the face.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Murmur of a Misanthrope,

Cant you get the telephone to
answer?"
NO" replied Mr.. Growcher. 1.-THE
operator is one woman I'd like to
meet. She doesn't show the slightest
disposition to talk back"
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Curl PAPERS.

Prom the Nashville Banner.
A hairdressers' association hears
that curl papers have returned with
the depression. Curl papers were An
aid to feminine pulchritude In the
Victorian age, and also a beautv
tester, II viewed across the breakfast
table.
Evening star., 1934-02-10

The price Of oil is under relentless
examination, but matters have not
grown so exigent as to arouse fear
that the reason John D. Rockefeller
is not going to Florida this Winter is
that he feels he cannot afford it.
Evening star., 1934-02-10

There may have been graft in con-
the faithful and eminently competent
letter carrier can place his hand over
his heart and solemnly affirm that he
never got a cent OF it.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Congressional Ditty.

The birds will warble on the hill,
The flowers sweetly bloom in turn,
But the same Investigations will
Be under way when they adjourn.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
The Personal View.

do you think there are any canals
on Mars?"
II don't care" replied the New Or
leans man. "If there are, their OPEN
ings were celebrated long ago."
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Proficiency Recoxnized.

The German music teacher was en-
deavoring to be polite yet truthful.
"Of course" he said, "your daugh-
ter doesn't yet read notes very good
and she strikes der wrong keys occa-
sionally. But he added with en-
thusiasm, "she plays der rests fine"
Evening star., 1934-02-10

Even the war on starlings" con-
stitutes q reminder that the results
of armed strife, even on so small 8
scale, do not justify the expense.
Evening star., 1934-02-10

Superficial ideas of finance are re-
garding gold as some sort of ground
hog which forecasts fair weather by
keeping out of sight.
Evening star., 1934-02-10

There Is one thing to be said in
favor of some of the men charged
with unlawfully acquiring very large
sums of money. They did not resort
to the use of machine guns.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Revenge.

"Why do you take such f1endish
delight in flddling while Rome burns?"
Cant you see?" responded Nero
During my performance n - !.
ing the music crlticc."
Evening star., 1934-02-10

Doumergue is another of the emf
nent men of the world who find that
the older they grow the harder they
have to work
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Insanitary Market
Conditions Fought.

La Noticia, Managua.-The inspec-
ton general of hygiene and santa
ton will strictly regulate hereafter
the distribution of various sorts OF
live stock in the vicinity Of the pub
lie markets. Heretofore, the purvey-
ors of these animals and. in many
cases, their own beasts of burden in
cluded, have cared for nothing except
their own convenience when it came
to the matter Of providing space for
i.lem. The result has been to convert
Evening star., 1934-02-10
In Disagreement,

HI DISdXreemenC.
Can you remember when you were
happy, barefoot boy?"
mo. And my idea Of happy boy
is one who wear shoes and doesn't
get stone bruises"
Evening star., 1934-02-10
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

buSInbSS O1llOt.
11th st. and Pennsylvania Ave:
New York ONCE. 110 East 42nd 81.
Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building.
European once IA Regent ST.. London,
England
Evening star., 1934-02-10

The Associated Press is exclusively en-
Titled to the use for republication of all
news dispatches credited to it or not other
wise credited in this paper and also the
local news published herein All rights of
publication Of special dispatches herein
are also reserved
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Routes of German
StorkS Are Traced.

La Vanguardia, Barcelona.-Ihat
the famous herons which in Germany
are traditionally presumed to bring In
their bills the new progeny OF a house
hold spend their Winters In Africa
has long been an archaeological pos
tulate. This conviction was particu-
larly strong in Spain, where eacn
Autumn vast conveys of these large
birds, like swiftly moving clouds OF
snow or fleece, bore southwark from
the boundaries of France over the
central provinces. It has been ascer-
tanned by the German government,
however, that only part of the Relchs
storks traverse this route. All the
storks, old and young, which take up
their Summer residences east OF the
River Elbe fly south via the Balkan
countries and Yugoslavia, and spend
the Winter in the easterly parts OF
Northern Africa, while their breth-
rem from Western Germany pass the
season in Tunis, Algeria and Morocco.
and the environs to the South ana
west. Marking on numerous birds
attest that they travel their same
respective routes when returning In
the Summer.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
Y s. S. r. ECONOMIC Bull
LET1N, Moscow.-After the
recent test automobile run
- from Moscow to Kara.

. lTOIIl MOSCOW 10 nara,
thence to Kun and from
that destination back to Moscow, a
special technical commission exam
ined carefully the 19 machines. All.
OF Soviet manufacture. were found to
be still roadworthy and operating sat-
isfactorily in every respect. Every type
of vehicle was represented in this run.
from 2l2 2-ton motor lorries and triple
axle trucks down to the lightest of
roadsters. The commission arrived at
the following deductions:
THE standard machines Of the Mo-
lotov Automobile Works at Cork and
COW can be employed anywhere over
the entire territory Of the Soviet Re
publics under all conditions of road
and weather. When serving in the
sandy regions of Kazakatan, Middle
Asia and the Ukraine, however, all
engines should be equipped with air
blowers. The experimental triple-axle
vehicles rendered particularly encOur-
aging results. and mass production is
now authorized on trucks and paSSen-
ger cars of this variety. The synthetic
rubber tires with which about half the
conveyances were equipped were found
to give results equal, if not superior,
to the natural rubber. Synthetic tires
of the balloon type were found espe-
cjally effective in the sands of the
Kara Kun Desert sector of the route.
They fioated, as it were, on the sur
face of the sand. while foreign tires
on vehicles of equal weight were sub
merged to the depth of 6 inches.
Evening star., 1934-02-10
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Evening star., 1934-02-10
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Evening star., 1934-02-10

THE STORY BOOK OF THINGS WE
USE. Written and illustrated by
Maud and Miska Petersham. Phila-
delphia: The John C. Winston Co.
This is q very attractive juvenile
book for young children. by the popu-
lar Petershams. From the child's
point Of view It tells about clothes,
food, houses and transportation. The