, 1935-07-25

A reader a get the answer to
any question Of fact by writing The
Brownsville Herald Information Blu
reau. Frederic j. Haskin, Director.
washington. ID. G. Please enclose
three 90 cents for reply.
q. How does the number Of words
in n play compare with the number
in a movie? T. w.
A. Five thousand words Is the lin
1t Of a screen play. while an average
play for the stage Is about 10000.
q. who assists the Prince Of
Wales In preparing his speeches?
8. w.
A. They are prepared with the as
sistance Of advisers. chief Of whom
Is Sir Godfrey Thomas. who has
been his private secretary since
1921.
q. What language does the En-
peror OF AbySsinia speakA q. It.
A. He speaks Amharic. which Is
the Semitic language used by the
ruling caste.
q. Did Sir Walter Raleigh ever
come 10 this country? j. A. III.
A. He never came TO North Am
erica. He made two journeys 70
South America - one in 1895 and
the other in 1917.
q. Did a woman attempt TO as
sassinate Muas0lini several years
ago? Nj X.
A. On April 7. 1926. as he was
leaving the capitol. where he had
inaugurated a surgical congress. an
lrishwoman. the Hon. Violet Gibson,
fired at him with a revolver. slight
" wounding him In the nose His
assailant appeared to be demented.
q. What Is meant BY the word.
crapulous? w. J.
A. The word means inclined 70
be grossly Incorporate In drinking
or eating or suffering from illness
following such indulgence.
q. How II the money obtained TO
carry on DIR. GrenfeIrs mission nj
Labrador? IT. y. G..
"A. The International Grenfell As
ISOLATION has an annual budget Of
SOC. 900. about half OF which Is COW
cred by endowment. Most OF the
work. however, Is done by volun-
teers.
q. How many newspapers are
there in Germany? X. l.. M.
A. At the end of 1884 there were
1928 newspapers registered with a
total paid circulation Of 1908. 400.
q. Why Is Oklahoma called the
Sooner state? L. G..
A. Those settlers who entered on
April p, 1889, with the rush, found
much Of the best land taken up
by those who had evaded the guards
and entered the territory in ad-
vance Of the official opening, These
persons who evaded the regulations
and thus secured the best land were
known as Sooners.
q. what are the call letters OF
the Eiffel Tower radio station? X. II.
A. The call letters are FILE. The
tranSmissions are on two waves ST.
multaneously 1910 kilOcycleS
(32m) and 1000 ~kilOcycles C75m.)
q. Is relief work less damaging TO
the morale Of the recipient than
home relief? II. NJ.
A. Relief and Mental Health says:
"All experienced workers agree that
work relief is less damaging to the
personality than home relief, espe-
cially for new applicants. II fore
stalls a feeling OF surrender. which
Is hard TO overcome. Work relief
should. therefore. be given prefer
ence where possible. When there Is
resistance to work relief on the part
OF clients It can usually be over
come by reasonable practices and
regulations. Reinstatement I o
home relief should be made simple.
Sc that people will not be afraid TO
take jobs Of uncertain duration.
The rearplication and new inveSti-
cation should be Invested OF need
leSsly humiliating procedures which
undo the value OF work relief. The
client who has been on work relief
may have believed that he was well
on the way TO independence. or had
air " arrived. The return 10 home
relief may be trying"
q. What prizes I'm England cOr-
respond 10 our Pulitzer Prizes?
q. III.
A. The James TAFT Black Prize is
for the best English novel Of the
year. The Hawthornden Prize is
awarded annually to the best work
Of imaginative literature by an Eng
lish author under forty-one years
of age.
O. From what height did the six
Russian women leap from planes?
III. III.
A. At Khimki, near Moscow, the
six girls. without oxygen apparatus,
leaped from q height Of $4,000 feet.
q. Who said, let reverence Of
the law become the political relig-
ion Of the nation?" r. A. vi.
A. It is attributed to Abraham
Lincoln.
q. DO any American newspapers
use carrier pigeons for transport
ing news Or photographs? w. A.
A. The New York Journal raised
some pigeons on its premises and
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