Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-09-01
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

CURED in Chicago May 4. 1886. In .
square in Randolph street, where an
anarchist meeting was In progress.
The attempt to disperse the gathering
resulted in the killing of seven police
men and the wounding of 81 others,
by bomb, thrown by an unidentified
member of the mob, supposed to have
been one Schnaubelt. The actual
bomb thrower was never caught.
@. Was Beautiful joe" by Mar
garet Marshall Saunders, a successful
book?-G. F.
A. Beautiful Joe" $3.50, gained
the prize of the American Humane
Educational Society, reached q circu-
lation of over 100000 copies and was
translated into a number Of Ian
guageS.
@. Was the Colossus Of Rhodes as
tall as the Statue Of Lberty2-M.
B. r.
A. Pliny and Strabo place the
height of the Colossus Of Rhodes at
10 cubitS, or los feet. Later writers
estimate 1t at nearly 80 cubits. The
Statue of Liberty is ISL feet high,
placed on a pedestal of 155 feet.
@. What does the ball suspended in
the National Academy of Sciences
prove?-D. z. r.
| A. The suspended ball Is a Foucault
pendulum. The action of this pendu-
lum depends upon the fact that ac-
| cording to the laws of motion a free
|
ly to move in the same plane. The
experiment proves that the earth ro-
tates eastward, and the rate of dcvia-
ton of the pendulum proves that the
relative motion Of the earth with re-
spect to the stars is due entirely to its
rotation and not to the motion Of the
stars around 1t.
@. Who were the Three Judges Of
Hades?-E. B. K.
A. According to Greey mythology
the Three Judges of Hades were as
follows: Minos, who inspected those
arriving and determined their place
of abode; Rhadamanthus, who presid-
ed over TartaruS, the abode of the
wicked, and Aeacus, who presided over
ElySium, the abode Of the blessed.
@. How long does a children's quar-.
rel usually last?-E. s.
A. A study made at the University
of Minnesota shows that quarrels Of
children under school age last, on the
average, only % seconds.
@. Why are State police maintained
in many States?-W. D.
A. There are 81 States which police
their highways for enforcement Of
motor vehicle laws or regulation Of
automobile traffic. The need for this
highway police is indicated by the fact
that there are more fatal traffic acct
dents in villages and hamletS and the
open country than there are in the
cities of 10000 and over Statistics each
year point out the growth of rural ac-
cidents. The fact that State which
has established a highway patrol has
never seriously considered disbanding
the organization is cited as the best Of
proof that State police are needed and
have made a permanent place for
themselves.
@. Did Comdr. Dyott's relief party
find the expedition for which 1t was
searching?-C. B.
A. An English explorer, Col. p. w.
Fawcett, left Cuyaba to explore the
xinguT apaJos region of Brazil and
after some months news ceased to
come through. The party was believed
lost. In 1928 Comdr. Dyott sailed from
New York with q relief party, retraced
Fawcett's route for some distance and
reported that he found evidence that
the party mad been killed by Indians.
! However, rlimors have persisted that
| Fawcett Is still alive, but to date no
trace of the party has been found.