Evening star., 1939-02-25
Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HuSkt7,.

LHy oLW IHJOTWGLlOn bureau, FTeC.
eric j. HGskin, director, Washington,
d. c. Please incloSe stamp for reply.
Q. Is there military post in the Bel
gian Congo where elephants are trained
as beasts Of burden?-P. FIN.
A. The Belgian Embassy says: "The
Belgian government maintains two sta
tions in the Belgian Congo for domes-
ticating and training elephants The
principal station is at Api, the subsidiary
station is at Gangala Ma Bodio Both
are in the northeastern section of the
colony The training of elephants was
first introduced in the Belgian Congo by
order of H. M. King Leopold II, about
1S99-19O0. The present method of cap
turing the animals is to stampede a herd
of elephants and to lasso and rope the
one selected-preferably a young ele-
phant II to Is years of age and meas
uring at least or 5la feet at the shoul-
der. The captive is then placed between
two older trained elephants Called
"monitorsD and led back to camp.
Many months are spent in "gentling' the
elephants, after which they are taught
to bear burdens, to ploW, to pull stumps,
to pick up and carry timber etc. Ac-
cording to the latest information avail
able, the monitors" and the student
elephants cat the two training stations
number something over 100.
O. Who Is the youngest president Of
State university?-A. D. H.
A. DR.. Herman B. Wells, SO years old,
president of the University of Indiana,
has the distinction of being the youngest
head of State university in the United
States.
@. Is liquor sold all day Sunday in
New York City?-M. S. H.
A. New York's liquor laws do not al
low the serving of alcoholic beverages
until pm. on Sundays.
@. With what kind of gun was Jesse
James shot in the motion picture?-G K.
A. The gun used in the film was the
actual gun that was used in killing Jesse
James. 1t is an antiquated Winchester
percussion cap frearm, and was lent to
the producers by members of Bob Fords
family located in the little town of Pine
vile, in the Missouri Ozarks, where Jesse
and his brother Frank f1ourished and
where the motion picture was filmed.
@. In what year was the Galveston
flood?-A. M.
A. The Galveston CTex) flood oc-
CURED on September 8, 1900.
@. What Governor commuted Thomas
j. MONEYS sentence to life imprison-
ment?-J. WI
| A. Gov. William Stephens commuted
| the sentence of Thomas j. Mooney to
| life imprisonment on November %, 1918
@. Are there many plastic surgeons?
e. S. H.
A. Plastic surgery is so difficult and
| delicate an art that there are only
| hundred first-rate practitioners of 1t in
| the world. OF these, 40 are in the United
States.
the International Flower Show.-T. j. S.
| A. The international Flower Show will
| be held the entire week of March 13, in
| Grand Central Palace, New York City.
@. What is the largest printing plant
| in the world?-W M. M.
A. 1t is the Government Printing Of
| flee at Washington, D. C.
@. What did Mussolini say to the ef-
| feet that Europe would not set herself on
fire to cook Prague's rotten egg?-M. H. j.
A. In an address at Verona on Sep
| tember 26. 1898, Mussolini said: II still
| believe that Europe will refuse to ravage
| herself with fire and sword. I still be-
| leve Europe will refuse to set herself afire
in order to cook Prague's rotten egg
certainly the least urgent of all is that
of increasing the number of war ceme-
teries that rise at such frequent inter-
walls around the frontiers of states"
@. BY what authority may the Presi-
dent of the United States call an extra
session of Congress?-L r. NJ.
A. The Constitution provides for this
Article II. section 8, says: "' he
may, on extraordinary occasions, con-
vene both Houses, or either of them ="
@. Please give some information about
the Benedict Monument to Music
F. L. S.
A. The Benedict Monument to Music
is beautiful marble structure in the
classic Greek style, on the shores of
South Lake in Roger Williams Park,
Providence, r. I. William Curtis Bene-
dict, who died in 1915, left bequest
from which something more than s100
600 was realized toward the erection of
this memorial building, intended to
illustrate and commemorate the art OF
music as we'll as to instruct and adorn.
More than 100000 was added to the
Benedict bequest and the memorial is
one of the most notable structures In the
United States.
@. How early was coal used?-D. w. P.
A. The earliest historical record of coal
is that of Theophrastus, 300 BIC, who
says in his book on stones that coal is
used by blacksmiths in Greece and Italy.
The earliest mention of coal in England
was that made by the Bishop of Durham,
1190 AID. Coal was mined in Belgium