Evening star., 1935-10-16
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
By Frederic J. Haskin.

ION Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic J. Haskin. Director, Washing
ton, D. C. Please fpclose stamp for reply.
@. For whom Is Hickam Field, which Is
to be constructed in Hawaii, named?-
ERT.
A. 1t was named in honor of Lieut.. Col,
Horace M. Hickam, Air Corps, who was
killed in an airplane accident at Fort
Crockett, Tex, November 5, 1884 1t will
take two and half years to complete
the field, which will have an area of
more than $500 acres and cost more than
$5000,000 Aside from the aviation equip
ment, it will have quarters for about 1870
officers. ITS nom commissioned officers and
barracks for 1900 enlisted men.
O. How many ministers are there in
the United States?-E. H.
A. There are 244,20l ministers in the
United States, including priests and
rabbis.
O. Who invented the Gatling gum
MI.
A. Richard Jordan Gatling. whose
earlier inventions were chiefly connected
with agricultural machinery. The Civil
War turned his attention to firearms, and
he developed the revolving machine gun,
afterward known as the Gatling gun.
He improved this until it fired l 200 times
a minute.
@. Was Mahatma Gandhi ever law.
yer?-W. T.
A He practiced law in Bombay. Ka-
thiawar and in South Africa, where he
laoored to correct injustices against his
fellow countrymen.
@. What is the Stimson Doctrine?-
EG.
A. American non-recognition of Man.
chukuo is sometimes known as the Stim-
son Doctrine, because of Secretary Henry
L. StimSon's active leadership in oppos-
ing any acknowledgment of Japanese
pretensions to that area which violated
the pact of Paris.
@. How tall was Ann Rutledge. Abra-
ham Lincoln's early sweetheart?-D. S.
A. About feet inches.
O. Who invented the automatic C.
A. 1t was invented by Max Sielaff and
exhibited in Germany in 1896. A similar
invention appeared in Sweden about the
same time. The first restaurant of this
kind in the United States was opened
in Philadelphia in 1902.
O. In some colleges, students who do
not belong to Greek letter societies are
called barbs. Why is this?-C. F.
A. Barbs is the abbreviation for bar
barians. The allusion is to the fact that
among the Greeks. as early as the time
of Homer, those who could not speak
the Greek language were known as
barbarians.
@. Who was Deadwood Dick?-E. r.
A. His real name was Richard w.
Clarke 0845-1930) and he was FROM
tiersman of the Black Hills district.
Joining a party bound for gold digging
in that region, he became noted char
acter, taking part in the Sioux wars,
acting as express guard on stage coaches
and aiding United States marshals in
suppressing lawlessneSs His alliterative
name was popularized by dime-novel
writer's.
Q. Can tempered glass be bought
G. H. T.
A. Tempered glass can be supplied
only on special order, as after it is made
it cannot be cut to size.
@. Please give the origin of the ex-
preston, "a square meal."-A. B. H.
A. 1t has been in use in the English
language for many centuries. II occurs
in English literature as early as 1911
and was used by Beaumont and
Fletcher in 1916. While the exact origin
of the term is not known, it is believed
to be based on the thought that any.
thing square is solid or steady.
@. Is it true that no one species OF
flower will produce blossoms that are
true blue, yellow and red?-W. D. T.
A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says
that the only common flower producing
true red, yellow and blue in the same
species is the hyacinth.
O. How did the damson get its name7
A. r.
A. 1t is named for Damascus in Syria,
where the plum was cultivated in an
cient times.
@. In what play did William Crane
make his first appearance?-E. H.
A. He first appeared in opera in 1863,
but his first signal success was as
Vanalstyne, a Wall Street magnate, in
The Henrietta" written for him and
for Stuart Robson by Bronson Howard
in 1887.
O. When was the Appian Way built?
j. E. F.
A. 1t was built in 312 BIC The original
road was no doubt only graveled, but
some years later the whole was paved
with silex. The modern high road fol-
lows the line of the ancient road.
G. How are the stock averages COM
piled by the Associated Press arrived
at?-C. P. T.
A. The Associated Press says that 1t
uses a list of so stock issues in compiling
daily stock averages. These are straight
arithmetical averages. That is, the aver
age is obtained by adding together the
prices of the so stocks and dividing by
60. This average was compiled only last
January, and 1t has not yet been neceS-
Sary to adjust for stock split-ups, or
other changes in capitalization, or to
make subStitutionS. In carrying the
tabulation back to 1927, however, adj
justments were made for changes in
capitalizations. In the future, adjust.
ments will be made as the need arises.
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