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Evening star., 1934-12-10
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

A reader can get the ansiper to
any question of fact by iDriting The
Washington Evening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. c. Please inclose
stamp for reply.
q. In the case of West Point Mill
tary Academy, what Is done with the
gate receipts from athletic games?
Who supports the athletic program of
the school?-P. ]. A.
A. The gate receipts from athletic
games 60 to the support of inter-
collegiate athletics, and q portion Of
the receipts from the Navy game is
given to charity. intercollegiate ath-
letics are supported in their entirety
by the Army Athletic Association.
No appropriation Is received from
Congress for the support OF inter-
| collegiate athletics.
@. How large an automobile trailer
has been built?-A. @.
A. The largest Is q trailer weighing
% tons. 1t has 20 balloon tires and
each wheel assemble has q separate
set OF brakes. 1t arrived In Mason
City, Wash, loaded with two 20-ton
transformers for the power station.
| 1t was hauled by q lotion tractor.
@. How old was Swift when he wrote
"Gulliver's Travels"?-W. p.
A. The author was Sc when he wrote
| this work.
q. What is the statue in the plaza
at Rockefeller Center?-H. w.
A. 1t is Prometheus. He Is depicted
in the act OF bringing his gift of fire
10 the world The impressive bronze
ngure is the work of Paul Manship.
@. How much money did Rose Cecil
ONeill make with her creation of
Kewpie?-N. H.
A. She made about $l,400, 900, in
cluding her royalties on the production
Of Kewpie dolls.
@. How many hospitals are aided
by the United Hospital Fund Of New
YOrk?-A. s.
A. Fifty-six. 1t Is through this
! fund that the member hospitals in
New York City are enabled to carry on
their free work. The hospital fund
was established Sc years ago.
@. Has Wales q national anthem?
C. H.
A. God Save the King" is the ma
tional anthem OF the British Empire
Wales chief patriotic song is March
| OF the Men OF Harlech."
@. Is 1t safe to ground radio and
telephone wires to cold water pipes?-
H. S. W.
A. Safety requires telephone pro-
| tective devices and also electrical cir
cults to be grounded to water pipes
| when they are available, and such
grounding is now the general and ap-
proved practice.
@. What became of the herd OF
| Canadian reindeer that started from
Nome several years ago?-H. r. X.
A. Canada's herd of 1900 reindeer
that started from Nome in 1880 will
| start on the last of its trek from
Alaska to the mouth Of the Mackenzie
River as soon as Winter sets in. The
herd is now grazing on the west bank
! OF the Mackenzie awaiting the freez-
ing Of the river.
O. Please give some information
about Josephine Hutchinson, who
plays with Dick Powell In Happiness
Ahead."-T. F.
A. At 16 Josephine Hutchinson won
! q scholarship In dramatic school
She is now rs years old and has been
leading lady of Eva LIE Gallienne's s
Evening star., 1934-12-10

/ Civic Repertory Co. for some time.
| playing in THE Cradle Song"
''Hedda Gabler," The Cherry Or
chard," "Alice In Wonderland and
| many other roles. Her next picture
performances will be in Max Rein
hardt's Midsummer Nights Dream"
and in The Right to Live with
George Brent.
@. What numbers appear most fire.
quently in the Bible2-C. C.
A. The number one appears most
often, and seven seems to be second.
Odd numbers are used much more
| frequently than even numbers.
@. What shape is . falling rain
drop?-G. H. H.
A. The Weather Bureau says that
small drops are practically spherical.
Large ones are somewhat turnip-
shaped, and oscillate to some extent
as they fall.
q. Please give q short biography Of
Edmond Hoyle.-H. T.
A. The English writer on games
was born in 1872 and died at Lon
don In 1869. II Is said that he was
educated for the law, but nothing
| definite is known Of his career except
that he was for many years in Lon
don q writer on and instructor in
games. His Short Treatise on Whist"
sold largely, and has been the basis
for all subsequent manuals of the kind.
| So generally has his authority been
accepted In the game that according
to Hoyle" has attained proverbial
significance.
@. Where Is the code Of Hamurahi
| kept?-M. D.
A. 1t was discovered by French
archaeological expedition In Persia
and is preserved in the Louvre in
Paris.
@. To what time in French history
does "ancien regime" apply?-W. D.
A. To the state of government be-
fore the revolution.
@. What Is poetry called which has
q rhyme in the middle of the line?
Il. s.
A. Leonine verse-from Leonius q
/ Il
twelfth century.
@. Who is the Negro who composed
the symphony which was played by
the Philadelphia Orchestra?-R. z. L.
A. William L. Dawson, a music in
structor at Tuskegee Institute, is the
composer Of Negro Folk Symphony"
which is in three movements: The
Bond Of Africa. Hope in the Light and
0, Lem-me Shine. He is IS years old.
Q. What is the meaning of Excali-
bur?-E. F. H.
A. This was the sword Of King Ar
thur, which, according To one tradi-
tion, he drew from q cleft stone, or
which, according to another, was
given to him by the Lady Of the Lake.
@. Who wrote Beautiful hands are
those that do work that is earnest,
brave and true"?-H. r.
A. Ellen p Allerton. The lines are
from Beautiful Things"
@. How high is the Pitt Cathedral
Of Learning?-E. B.
A. The Cathedral Of Learning at
the University Of Pittsburgh is 38
stories, 500 feet high.
@. Is the indigo plant grown in this
country?-J. j. C.
A. 1t was formerly grown in the
South. but at present it is not grown
to any commercial extent. as 1t cam
not compete with the numerous coal.
tar products.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
As Others See Us.

ITO see ourselves as others see u.s.
Wouldn't that be something sad.
Vanity will never free us
From delusions great and glad.
We are merry, still believing
We're such fascinating elves.
Others may, by fond deceiving,
See lis as We see ourselves.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Intellectual Athletics,

'How do you like being a leader OF
the people?"
First rate" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. "Only it keeps me on the
mental jump to see which route the
popular procession will take next SC
that I can keep ahead and continue to
look like drum ma jor."
Evening star., 1934-12-10

The number of unemployed Is
astounding and magnifies Harry Hop
kins in public importance by the
process of popular imagination, which
always relies on the respectful as
sumption that an official is necessarily
as big as his job.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

Jud Tunkins says We may arrive
at perfect government, same as we
managed to cultivate seedless oranges,
although he don't see how there can
ever be such thing as politicianless
politics.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

The Russian ballet has attained 50
much influential prominence that it
may yet assume to call attention to
its consequence as typifying the leg
OF nations.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

The Gridiron Club is. thanks TO the
hospitality of the First Lady OF the
Land, compelled to meet comparison
with the highly polished feminine
saucepan.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

Names will continue to make news
but Senators should be cautioned tO
employ formal titles and leave out
the epithets.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

For once, White House cleverness
has eMded radio. There Is no way
Of putting masquerade across
through the microphone.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

The discovery of Oil in Manchou-
kuo puts a new twist in the plan to
keep finance out OF international
politics.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Insecurities.

| From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
People who used to speak Of the re-
pository of their securities as a port
folio now frankly call it q waste
basket.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Ammunition.
From the Raanoke Tins

From the Roanoke Times.
An Illinois man bumped his head
/ on a desk and has been unable to talk
since. Why not give the little woman
q desk for q Christmas present?
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Pennsylvania Jobs.

From the ToSska Daily Capital.
Pennsylvania reports an increase In
employment-and the Democrats still
have to get their jobs In January.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Worry Proof.

From the Los Angeles Times.
An optimist is person who thinks
he has nothing to worry about ee-
cause he has nothing to worry with.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
In Siam.

From the Boston TranscrIpt.
The royal prerogatives of King
Prajadhipok have been curtailed. Per-
haps the day Is coming when q Siamese
cat won't be able to look ct q king.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
The Great Army of Explainers.
From the 4

from the Austin CTex) American.
You can tell the educated. More
but the ignorant have q satisfactory
explanation Of everything.
Evening star., 1934-12-10
Telling.

'Do you believe in fortune telling?"
"No," answered Miss Cayenne. II
inherited q fortune sufficiently large
to make me dislike to tell it SO that
the tax collector might hear it,"
Evening star., 1934-12-10
As Prices Rise.

I'm told of figures vast that trace
The measurements of distant space.
It Is o matter very slight
To calculate q mountain height.
Yet there are problems that involve
Small calculations hard to solve.
Who has the mathematic skill
That can foretell his grocery bill?
"De greatest danger bout q mistake"
said Uncle Eben, "is de temptation TO
bluff it through and try to make
people believe it was good job"
Evening star., 1934-12-10

Experience, said Hi Ho, the sage Of
Chinatown, "has taught me nothing
that I could not have learned by an
intelligent reading of the right books. !"
Evening star., 1934-12-10

Book reviewers are speculating
whether Herbert Hoover bankers to
come back. The past few months
have witnessed succession of sig
nificant publications. First came the
former Presidents own Challenge to
Evening star., 1934-12-10

@. To what time in French history
does "ancien regime" apply?-W D.
A. To the state of government be-
fore the revolution.
Evening star., 1934-12-10

@. Please give some information
about Josephine Hutchinson, who
plays with Dick Powell in Happiness
Ahead."-T. F.
A. At 16 Josephine Hutchinson won
q scholarship In dramatic school.
She is now IS years old and has been
leading lady of Eva LIE Galliennes
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ney and his assistants begin a
most pleasing presentation OF The
Rhythm of the Raindrops." This
is the closing number and uses
the entire company, the Britton
comedy band, Miss Ruth Ford, a
character coincidence and dancer,
a finely trained and we'll appear
ing dancing ensemble. Mr..
Downey also sings Three Little
Pigs" and Did You Ever See A
Dream Walking?"
Mr.. Downey has great energy
and is in excellent voice. Here is
one of those fine, clean revues
which is a compliment to the
American variety stage.
The Britton<band is a comedy
hokum organization. The MEM
bers break violins over their
heads, throw several gallons Of
water over themselves and finally
tear down all the scenery.
There are many laughs while
this band is tearing up the stage.
1t is something entirely different
in the way of stage bands.
Miss Ford gives a number of
comedy character impressions,
such as Rosie going to the movies
and the girl who thought she had
a grand opera voice.
The dancing ensemble wears
beautiful costumes and is splen-
didly trained.
The act has been staged in
splendid taste from beginning to
end.
The movie is The Show Off"
with Spencer Tracy and Madge
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

ONCE the outbreak of amebic dysentery. from
- source in two Chicago hotels. the whole country
has become aware of this disorder. which formerly
was considered a tropical disease
Instead Of being caused by an ordinary germ, this
condition is caused by a large type OF organism
known as the entameba hiStolytica. This organism
gets into the large bowel and once there sets up
symptoms that are exceedingly serious.
Moreover. the organism may spread to the liver,
particularly or to other organs of the body and
there set up secondary places of infection which also
are 4 menace to health and life.
Although this condition formerly was unheard of
in the northern portions Of the United States more
recent evidence indicates that from TO 10 per cent
of all the people in this country are infected.
TINE organism which causes this disease multi
i plies in the bowel and gives of daughter cysts.
These cysts are passed out of the body with the
cretions and if they reach food drink are Swal-
lowed in the natural way.
They pass through the stomach and small intes-
tines and then get into the upper portions OF the
organisms which invade the walls Of the bowels.
Ordinarily the entameba hstolytica which nfects
mankind comes in food drink that has been con-
taminated, in the manner suggested.
a FrER person has had the disease and recov-
N cred, he may carry the organisms in his bowel
for long periods OF time, and. as a carrier OF the
disease constantly is able transmit it to other per-
sons These carriers who apparently are healthy or
who have mild symptoms of the infection, the
ones most concerned in transmitting the disease
Occasionally however the disease is transmitted by
impure water supply.
It was thought in The past that these methods Of
transmission OF comparatively little Importance
in this country except in the rural districts where
persons deposit their excretions on the SOIL and
There wells and springs the chief sources of the
water supply.
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Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE chances are that it is impossible for any
L youngster born since the World war 70 visualize
a world without automobiles. Yet the coming of
the motor lies within the memory Of the present
generation and most Of the pioneers Of the develop
ment still among the living.
reaching Importance was ever difused With such
rapidity or 50 quickly exerted influences that ramed
through the national culture, transforming even
habits of thought and language" wrote the Hoover
research committee on social trends in discussing
the automobile.
The General Motors Corporation has Just cele-
brated the twenty-fth anniversary Of its founding
and in honor Of that avent, Arthur Pound has
written history Of the corporation under the title
of The Turning Wheel" Doubleday, Doran & Co.
publish the book at s35a 1t is illustrated with
drawings by William Heyer, many of considerable
historical interest.
CHILD Of science the automobile is still guided
and nourished by science. Attention is called
to this fact in chapter Of The Turning Wheel"
entitled Research: The March Of the Open Road"
When the history Of America Is written
turtles hence it will be noted that in the first quarter
Of the twentieth century. business began to sub
sidize scientific research" Mr. Pound writes
General Motors, Mr. Pound tells US, made
first toward the creation OF research labora-
tory in 1911
In 1920, General Motors increased its research
activities by taking over the Dayton Engineering
Laboratories Company and making it the basis for
the organization Of the General Motors Research
Corporation.
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old and his methods the same;
Walter Byron as the not SO de-
sirable doctor, and Mary Car
Isle as a nurse who is more in
terested in vigorous young doctors
than she is in ailing patients.
The dialogue could be more
human and natural than it often
is, especially some of the things
Miss Wray has to say.
There is a lot of suspense in
this movie when the doctors per-
form one important surgical OPP
Grafton after another. Extreme
melodrama is injected when poi
son is left in handy reach Of a pa
tent who does not want to live.
That's the Hollywood touch which
grasses all realism.
The story indicates that once in
the life of every woman she falls
in love with worthless man, but
losses him over and finally lands
a good and worthy one. That's
the experience Miss Wray has in
this story.
The, other movie, "She Made
her Bed" has the services of
Richard Arlen as a patent med
icine man, Sally Eilers as the wife
of an auto camp owner and Rob-
ert Armstrong as her philander-
ing and worthless hubby. His
hobby is to tame lions.
Melodrama is piled upon melo-
drama. The story just doesn't
make sense. There is one ire
mendous object lesson in this
movie. If a lion gets in your home
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Morton Do1Uney Tiuphs OOn WeStaged Revue at PaIdc
Lyric Offers Pitts and Slim SummerUIe in LOUe Birds

wrapped up in his feathered
friends.
The picture is one of the best
that these two comedians have
made and the story is a great deal
better than the usual vehicle pro-
vided for such antics. There is a
lot of hokum and slap-stick and
the manneriSms of each of these
two clowns go to make the picture
a hilarious one.
1t is comedy week at the Lyric
this week.
Now at the Lyric. CBy the OBJ
serVer.)
II It II
WILL ROGERS in David
w Harum" is in its third week
at the Apollo 1t has been re-
viewed in this department.
The Circle is presenting Fredric
March in Death Takes Holt
day." which has been discussed
here.
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last number exceptionally well.
Burt and Hickey pull some fast
ones as they jabber furiously
through their scene, not always
keeping their humor too clean.
The Alexander and Santos COM
pany has nice variety and skill in
their work. One girl plays the
piano and saXophone, two others
sing and dance, and the two men
put on some of the funniest dane
ing seen in recent years. In the
first part of the act, one OF the
men, dressed in girls ballet
skirt and mans formal coat and
shirt, does a ballet dance with
his partner which is a scream.
His toe-dancing is exceptionally
we'll done. In the last scene of
the act the two men do nice
acrobatic dance routine, one girl
sings, one plays a clarinet and
the other the piano, blending into
an unusually pleasing effect.
The Tom Lomas troupe, which
closes the stage show, is a fair
band Of acrobats. The climax of
their stunt is when they all strut
forth on the stage attired in large
grotesque masks and walking on
stills, varying in height, from five
to almost fifteen feet.
The picture on view this week is
a side-splitting comedy featuring
Zasu Pitts and Slim Summerville,
and called Love Birds"
1t concerns the activities of
a school teacher who yearns for
peace and quiet and a chicken
fancier whose whole life is
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G.. o. p. En,itS BOOS

~OLONEL LINDBERGH certainly seems sore.
" The President rushed over to shake his hand
and give him a big smile. but the colonel just
dropped his mtt into the Presidents hand like
cold poultice No life in it, Then he sort of scowled
and turned away.
I'm beginning to hear few boos around the
arena just now. They seem to come from over in
the Republican section, way back there in the
steerage The Republican national committee is
sitting there in a body, my friends, and the boolng
seems to be coming from back there.
There's some booing coming up from the ring
side rows, too. The forgotten man is booing few
booS for himself. I can't make cut whom he is
booing-but it isn't President Roosevelt don't like
to believe he is booing Colonel Lindbergh, but he is
booing just the same, and he isn't boong the Presl-
dent
The forgotten has just hoped up, my
friends and hoped up the steps into the Presl-
dents corner He Shoves jim Farley aside, Big Jim
Farley the Presidents chief second-the forgotten
man showed him aside and grabbed the Presidents
right hand and shook it hard he nearly yanked his
arm out by the roots.
And the crowd is going wild with excitement.
General johnson is up in the Presidents corner,
too. The general grabs water bottle and he reaches
down, he reaches down and bam Oh boy, the
general just reached down with the Presidents
water bottle and crashed it on somebody's head. I
can't see just whose head he busted that water
bottle on, but it somebody that was booing the
President. I think it a steel manufacturer. No.
it was an automobile man. No, wait minute. Yes,
it a big aviation company promoter Not a
flier but stock promoter. General Johnson GER
tainy socked him pip, my friends. They are
carrying the promoter out through the crowd. The
crowd is cheering and the Republican national COM
mittee is booing again.
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when they we're joined by
stranger, who explained the Scrip
lures to them, and told them
great deal about God, so that they
wondered at his knowledge. AS the
night was fast coming on when
they reached the village, they
asked this stranger to stay with
them, which he consented to do.
When they all three sat down to
supper, he took some bread, and
blessed it, and broke it, as Christ
had done at the Last Supper.
Looking on him in wonder, they
found that his face was changed
before them, and that it was
Christ himself; and as they looked
on him, he disappeared.
They instantly rose up, and re-
turned to Jerusalem, and finding
the disciples sitting together,
told them what they had seen.
While they we're speaking, Jesus
suddenly stood in the midst of
all the company, and said Peace
be unto vel" Seeing that they
were greatly frightened, he
showed them his hands and feet;
and invited them to touch Him;
and, to encourage them and give
them time to recover themselves,
he ate a piece of broiled fish and
a piece of honeycomb before
them all.
But Thomas, one of the Twelve
Apostles, was not there, at that
time; and when the rest said to
him afterwards, 1--WE have seen
the Lord!" he answered Except
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And the Battles On

TOLONEL LINDBERGHS manager is whispering
~ III his ear. His manager a nigh priced
corporation lawyer. He is whispering away as they
wait for the bell. The Colonel is certainly cross
about something. He just mods his head and scowls
He has lot of seconds behind him, all wealthy
looking men in high hats, from the big aviation
companies.
wish I could give you picture of the working
press at this great titanic conflict of the out
Louie Howe, the Presidents secretary, writing as
fast he can on his typewriter for syndicate.
Then see Mrs Roosevelt there. She is writing
away, too, describing it from the Wonan's angle.
Then l see Mrs Dali the Presidents daughter, and
she is writing away fast she And the
Roosevelt children, Sistie and Buzzie, covering
the contest from the childrens angle. They are
doing their writing in spelling blocks Siste is eat
ing an ice cream cone and getting it all her
There's some more booing. That's from delega-
ton of unemployed writer's. They at Uncle
Louie and the Roosevelt family for muscng in on
the writing business But, wait They are not booing
any General Johnson and Jim Farley jump
down off the ring and sign them all up for govern
ment jobs secretaries and the unemployed writer's
now cheering.
Now they're in the center Of the ring for their
instructions. The President is smiling and Colonel
Lndbergh still is froWning Lindbergh has a big
wad of paper in his bathrope pocket It looks like
aviation stock from here, but I can't quite make out
Now the referee is In Inc ring, and wowi WOW!
WOW! WoW Who do you think the referee is in this
titanic struggle between the mastadonic American
heroes?
It's the common man, my friends. The common
common man is refereeng.
Bell
There they go!
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