Evening star., 1936-02-18
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
BY Frederic J. Ha.kin.

ny FFedeTtc j. HG3kin,
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question OF fact by Driting The Euentno
Star Information Bureau, Frederic y.
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@. Are there any Negro women who
are licensed airplane pilots?-J. &c.
A. There are six Negro women who
are licensed pilots. The first Negro to
be licensed was woman. There are
now 81 Negroes who are licensed pilots.
@. Has the automobile boom been
accompanied by cash sales or install.
ment flnancing?-W. w.
A. Official figures indicate the INSTALL
ment financing system has been largely
employed In 1885 automobile financing
was 26 per cent higher than in 1884 and
81 per cent higher than in 1893.
@. How many kinds of canned foods
are sold?-G. r.
A. A survey conducted recently found
that there were 300 kinds of canned
foods available.
@. How many centenarians are there
In the United States?-J. 3.
A. In 1880 there were 1884 persons
who claim to have passed 100 years.
@. What newspaper in the United
States is most correct?-F. C.
A. The first place for Typographical
excellence among 1,539 daily newspapers
entered in the N. w. Aver exhibition in
Philadelphia was awarded to the New
York Times, April II, 1885, First hon
orable mention among the 1876 news
papers of $4,000 or more circulation went
to the New York Times also. Second
place in this division went to the New
York Herald Tribune, and third to The
Evening Star, Washington, D. c.
@. How old is the game of cribbage?
j. H S.
A. 1t is believed to be an improved
form Of an older game called noddy.
John Aubreys Brief Lives" says that
cribbage was invented by Sir John
Sucking, who lived from 1909 until l642.
@. How many Indian children in the
United States are of school age?-C. j.
$4,000.
@. Has the United States a national
tree?-E. G.
A. AS the result of a poll conducted In
1885 by the National Life Conservation
Society, the sequoia was voted the ma
tional tree.
O. Wasn't "The japanese Sandman"
one of the best sellers of the popular
songs of a few years ago?-T. G.
A. More than three and half mil
lion copies of The Japanese Sandman"
were sold, but it dates back more than
a few years-to 1920 in fact.
@. How does Robert Browning COM
pare with Shakespeare?-T. r. S.
A. DR.. William j. Long in English
Literature says: Though Browning Is
often compared with Shakespeare, the
reader will understand that he has very
little of Shakespeare's dramatic talent.
He cannot bring group Of people to-
gether and let the actions and words
of his characters show us the comedy
and tragedy of human life Neither can
the author be diSinterested,, satisfied, as
Shakespeare was with life itself without
drawing any moral conclusions. Brown.
ing has always moral ready, and in
sists upon giving us his own views OF
life, which Shakespeare never does. His
dramatic power lies in depicting what
he calls the mystery of the soul. Some
times, as in ParacelSus, he endeavors to
trace the progress of the human spirit.
More often, he takes some dramatic
moment in life, some crisis in the Strug-
gle between good and evil, and describes
with wonderful insight the heros own
thoughts and feelings; but he almost
| invariably tells us how, at such and such
| a point, the good or the evil in his hero
| must inevitably have triumphed. 1t Is
in this range of sympathy with many
| different types of life that constitutes
Browning's chief likeness to Shake
speare, though otherwise there is no
comparison between the two men,"
O. What is meant by the moons
upper and lower transit?-C. S. w.
A. Transit, in astronomy, means the
passage of a heavenly body over the
meridian of a place. Upper transit Is
transit across that part of the me-
ridian that is above ION the zenith side
| of the polar axis. Lower transit is
transit across that part OF the meridian
which is below the pole.
@. In what circumstances was Gen.
| Obregon of Mexico assaSsinated?-K. r.
A. Gen. Alvaro Obregon was assassi-
mated on July II, 1928, at dinner in
his honor at San Angel near Mexico
| City. The assassin, Jose de Leon Torol,
artist and religious fanatic, was executed
by a firing squad on February 9, 1929.
@. Who was the worlds greatest
horSeman?-M. S.
A. Varying opinions advance different
candidates in different ages, but experts
are pretty much agreed that Friedrich
wilhelm Seydlitz was the greatest for
the dual reason of his personal horse
manship and his ability to handle van
numbers of cavalry in the field. KN
served the King of Prussia in the eigh-
teenth century. One of his personal ex-
ploits was to ride at a windmill in mo-
ton and dash between the sails without
touching. He became a lieutenant gen.
eral when still under 40. 1t was said
he could handle 10000 cavalrymen with
the same ease he handled his own
mount,