Evening star., 1939-06-12
Huskin's Answers
To Readers Questions
By Frederic J. Hasktn,

ETC y. HdSktn, drectOr, washington,
d. c. Please inclose stamp for reply.
@. In "what year was the largest
amount of money spent for relief?-T.
]. D.
A. According to the American Asso-
clatlon OF Social Workers, public relief
IN the United States reached an ALL
tune high in November, 1888. when
S326,OOO,OO0 was spent from public funds
Tor relief and wages to about %, 900 900
persons in more than 100000 families.
About So per cent Of this was in W.P.A,
wages.
y. Hs" s&.y people in and around
Salem, Mass, were executed for witch-
craft?-N. F. C.
A. According to E. C. Nevins' "Witch-
craft In Salem Village" there were II
actual executions for witchcraft in Salem
ana nearby New England, including
Giles Corey, the last victim of the de-
luslon, who was pressed to death be-
tween stones on his refusal to plead
guilty or not guilty.
q. Who is head of the Newspaper Lii
prarlans Association?-L w. H.
A. Paul P. Foster of the Philadelphia
Inquirer is chairman of the newsnaner
group OF the Special Libraries Associa-
ton.
q. What did Gladstone say in praise
Oh the constitution of the United States?
j. L. w.
A. In Kin Beyond the Sea-" North
American Review, September, 1879
GLADSTONE is quoted as saying: "As the
British Constitution is the most suh-
tile organism which has proceeded from
the womb in the long CESSATION of pro-
gresslVe history, so the American Con.
stltutlon is, so far as can see. the most
wonderful work ever struck off at
given time by the brain and purpose of
man."
~ Please give some information
ABOUT Samuel Plimsoll-G. P. w.
"A. Samuel Plimsoll was known as "the
sailors friend" Through his occuna-
uon as coal dealer he became inter-
ested in the condition of sailors and
tne dangers to which they were exposed
by unscrupulous overlooking of heavily
insured vessels. This induced him IN
enter Parliament in 1868 as member
from Derby. In 1873 he published "Our
Seamen," which succeeded in its MIR.
pose OF arouslng public attention. and in
1876 the Merchant Shipping Act, en-
oodylng many of his demands was
passed. Among its provisions was the
loao hne known as "Plmsolls line"
winch has since been marked on all
ships.
q. Who was the first person in the
United States to be granted a patent on
animated cartoons?-J. H. G.
A. On August II, 1914, John Ran.
dolph Bray received a patent on ami
mated cartoons for motion pictures,
O. How many bottles of milk are de.
Hvered every day?-C. IS.
A. 1t is estimated that 10000 900 bot
ties OF milk are delivered to American
homes daily.
Q. Is Little Sir Echo an old sonpp
"A. H. N.
A. Little Sir Echo" came out in 1917
O. Does paprika have any food value?-
L. G. H.
A. Paprika Is rich in vitamin c.
Q. How many of our Presidents have
been Masons?-D. K.
A. According to William Boyden. Ii
brarian OF the Scottish Rite Temple in
washington D. c., the following Presi
dents have been members of the Masonic
Oroer: Buchanan, Garfield, Harding,
Jackson, Jefferson, johnson, Mckinley,
Madison, Monroe, Polk, Theodore Roose-
welt, Taft, Washington and Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
@. Where is Audubon, the naturalist,
buried?-K B. F.
A. He is buried in Trinity Cemetery.
New York.
q Is 1t true that most of the wars In
which the United States has fought have
begun in April?-J. B.
A. OF the six major wars in which
the United States has been engaged,
five began in April.
Q. Who was the first English slave
trader?-C. c. B.
A. Sir John Hawkins was the frst
Engllshman to engage in the slave trade.
He came of seafaring family and evil
dently as maritime adventure robbed
the Portuguese slavers and then snug
gled the slaves he had stolen into the
Spanish settlements of the New World.
His first successful voyage was in
1562-63
Q. How much candy does the average
person eat?-L. G. w.
A. The per capita consumption In 1888
was 16 pounds.
@. Which Of Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing's poems are considered the fnest?-
T. J. H.
A. "Halleck's English Literature" SAYS:
"Her best work, 'Sonnets From the
Portuguese, written after Browning had
won her affection, Is a series of love
lyrics, strong, tender, unaffected, true,
from the depth of a woman's heart.
Sympathetic readers, who know the
story of her early life and love, are every
year realizing that there is nothing else
in English literature that could exactly
fill their place. Browning called them
sthA hDaef sopnofe foy, ~ apv