Evening star., 1934-01-30
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIH.

the War Of 1912 against the United
Institute for the Advancement Of
Learning for the establishment of q
university in lower Canada. 1t was
stipulated that one Of the colleges Of
the university should be known as Nc.
Gill College.
Q. What is the meaning of the prefix,
Talla, which occurs in such Indian
names as Tallahassee?-W M. T.
A. II is from root which appears in
Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw, with
slight variations, and which means
town.
@. What national flag is flown In
Germany?-R. c.
A. The German embassy says that
after Adolf Hitler became chancellor
Of the German republic the flag which
had been used since the downfall of
the empire was discarded, and in its
place, since March II, 1888 there have
been two national flags. One consists
of three horizontal stripes of equal
width with the colors of the old Ger
man imperial flag, the top black, the
center white and the bottom red. The
other flag. which contains the Nazi
the flag first mentioned, consists of a
red field with a white circle. in the
center of which is black swastika.
@. Were there any States which had
not voted for the repeal of the eigh-
teenth amendment, which automatically
became wet when the twenty-first
amendment became effective?-L. T. H.
A. Montana and Louisiana were the
only ones The other States which had
not voted, as well as maaE which had,
were still deferred by St4e regulation.
O. What is the distance between the
North Pole and the South Pole3
e. CHI.
A. The distance between the North
and South geographical Poles along the
surface of the earth is l2,430 miles.
The distance between the Poles straight
through the earth, that is, the dia-
meter, is 7,899.9S8 miles.
O. Was Father Mathews, the total
abstinence advocate, ever in this coun-
try?-S. J.
A He toured the United States.
1849-1851.
Statue Of Liberty stands made by Ma.
lN4C VI ny ". v. y.
A. Bedloes Island. on which the
Statue of Liberty stands, is a natural
formation.
Q. To what extent is the musical
scale-our seven-interval one. or the
Chinese hve-interval scale-an arbitrary
division. Is the octave related TO any
thing. for example, as the division OF
time is related to the movement OF the
celestial bodies?-H. C. A.
A. the editor of the Etude says: The
modern musical scale is determined in
arbitrary fashion on very definite
physical basis. That is. the fifth, the
fourth, the third, the second as well
as the sixth and seventh intervals and
all the flats and sharps have pre-
else number of vibrations in each oc-
tave OF the entire range Of sound.
Tuners in tuning piano for instance,
DO not measure these vibrations, but
6s it to a large extent b. aural achieve
ment. AS for any degrees Of the scale
beirg related to celestial bodies, this,
of course, harks back to the most an
cient of super stitlons. The Chinese did
believe that the tones on their five-
tone scale had a relation to celestial
bodies. but there is no physical basis
for this"
@ What is the purpose of the his
tOrlc buildings survey. S.
A. It's object is TO obtain photographs,
graphic descriptions and measurements
of as many historic buildings as posi-
bic. 1t would be impracticable to pre-
serve al buildings on sites where his
toric events took place. but it is pos
sible to have records of all which are
existing at the present time.