Evening star., 1934-09-28

A reader can get the answer to
any question of fact by tDriting The
Washington Epening Star Information
Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, d. c. Please inclose
stamp for reply.
@. How many families have been
saved from foreclosure of their homes
through the new Federal financing
machinery?-M. B.
A. Up to the middle Of August 432,-
900 families had been assisted and
the cases of 100000 additional fam
lilies are now pending.
@. Why is the automobile door that
locks on the outside on the right
hand side, when the driver usually
carries the keys?-L. A.
A. 1t Is so arranged because 1t Is
dangerous to enter or leave q car on
a busy street on the left side.
@. What is Miss Grace Abbott,
former chief of the Children's Bu-
reau, doing now?-A. F.
A. Miss Abbott resigned her post
to become professor of public welfare
in the School of Social Service at the
University Of Chicago and also to
edit the Social Service Review.
@. What are sondermarks?-S. T.
A. A new type of German cur
rency for special use in foreign trade
under the Anglo-German trade agree
ment. They will not enter into gen.
eral circulation.
@. What is the famous cattle ranch
in Argentina, owned by woman, at
which the Prince of Wales was en-
tertained?-J. P. H.
A. The Argentine Embassy says
that one Of the largest and by far the
most famous cattle ranch in the Ar
gentine Republic is that known as
''Huetel." 1t belongs to very
wealthy woman, the Sonora Unzue de
Casares, and is situated in Is de
Mayo Partido County, of Buenos
Aires Province. The house of the
Huetel Rancho is a palace and many
important visitors to the Argentine
have been entertained there, includ-
ing the Prince of Wales. The cattle
of the Sonora de Casares are among
the very finest which are raised in
Argentina.
@. Did Gen. Sherman give Gen.
Grant any individual or material as
sistance in obtaining for Grant the
command of the Federal Army?-
P. F. B.
A. Edward Robinson In his book,
William Tecumseh Sherman" says:
Gen. Grant on March 4, 1864, an
nounced in letter to Gen. Sherman
that he had been nominated to fill
the revived grade of lieutenant gen.
eral of the Army and, generously
thanking Sherman for previous as
siStance and cooperation, said: What
I want is to express my thanks to you
and Mcpherson as the men to whom,
above all others, I feel indebted for
whatever have Of success
@. When did Queen Marie of Ru-
mania visit Washington?-M. H.
A. She visited in Washington In
October. 1928.
VIM "AObC tLIC W N11lCIl
THE Lost Chord" was set?-A. S.
A. The best known arrangement
for the poem by Adelaide Proctor was
written by the celebrated composer,
Sir Arthur Sullivan. 1t appeared in
1877.
G. How far east of the Atlantic end
of the Panama Canal is the Pa
cific end?-T. H.
A. About 81 miles.
Q. What was the organization
which in the early 1900's advocated
short skirts for women?-M. S.
A. The Rainy Day Club. in 1904,
was organized for the purpose of Civ
ing moral support to women who had
begun to wear the rainy day skirt,
which. in its shortest form, reached
the shoe tops. The club was ad-
dressed by Charles r. Lamb. vice
president of the National Sculptors
Society, who urged the wearing of the
skirt not only on rainy days. but on
any and every occasion. THE short