Show FREDERIC J. J HASKIN SAYS SAiS Here Here's Heres F s 5 Your Answer I V 0 Q Is II the air sir In Inthe the tue mountains free from dust P. dust P. P T. T A. A Mou Mountains contain health resor resorts l because of ot t the e absence I of ot dust dusl and germs in the air In one resort where the climate has been studied it is calculated that a cubic centimeter of ot air contains only about particles of ot dust whereas tho the air In cities contains contain about Q When wa was wall the Bok tower at t Lake Wales Florida dedicated E. E. E L. L A. A The Tho Tower was dedicated on February 1 1929 by President Coolidge Q I Is III Henry Handel Richardson Richard Richard- son author of Ultima Thule a aman man or n n. woman woman-C. woman T-Co T C. C G. G A. A The authors author's real name Is ia Henrietta Richardson She adopted the masculine form torm of her given name and assumed Handel for tor its musical al association on t 1 Q Please giveS give some some rma inlo information tion bout about Ih BInet who devised educational educational edu edu- tests F. F F. F C. C A. A Alfred Binet 1911 1857 was wasa a French psychologist and directo director director to tor of at the laboratory of physiological logical psychology at the Sor Sor- bonne Prior to 1905 he had made numerous U investigations of ot the mental d deficiencies exhibited by children At this date he was asked by the s school hool authorities of ot Paris to undertake the study of oC children in the public school He devised a series of tests with the cooperation of ot Thomas Thoma Simon The characteristic of at F Telegram readers can get the answer to any question of ot fact by writing The Tho Suit Lake Telegram Information Bureau Frederic J. J Haskin Director W Washington D. D C. C Please three 3 cents for tor reply V h I 4 th these tests Is that th they y arc ar arranged arranged arranged ar- ar ranged in ln such a way as to determine determine determine deter deter- I mine the intellectual age of the child They have been widely used wed both here and in Europe Q Did the tho first public high schools in this country prepare students for tor college A. A. A D. D C C. A. A In 1821 Boston established the first public high nigh school In the tho United States This school patt patterned pat pat- t after the academics did not at first prepare preparo for tor college it offered rather a variety of courses of the modern non- non classical and practical type In I 1827 the M Massachusetts legislature passed a law requiring towns of ofa a certain size to to establish high schools Few of the towns acted upon this law until Mann ann became secretary of ot the state board of education but by 1850 Massachusetts Massachusetts had h d 64 public high schools schools- I. I brought themselves to the taxation taxation taxation taxa taxa- tion of ot food tood What next next next-Cleve- Cleve Cleveland land Jand News Courage Alone in a Room When Anna Pabst public health service bacteriologist tried to inject meningitis serum scrum into an animal it moved suddenly The serum squirted into her eye She died eight days later victim of the disease We Ve dont don't know what Miss Pabst was thinking about at the moment she stood over the anImal animal animal ani anI- ani- ani mal probably she was not greatly great great- ly Jy concerned over the risk she was t t- t ing And yet she of all persons knew the potentialities of the fluid she was handling Because Because Because Be Be- cause she knew her courage be becomes be- be comes something worth thinking about A psychologist might profitably try to make malee a study of ot the de degrees degrees degrees de- de grees of courage with this Incident Incident Inci mci- dent as a a. basis It seems to us us that the greatest tribute to Miss Miss' Pabst lies in ln the fact tact that no one ono would ever have noticed that she had run a risk had she not run the risk unsuccessfully It is one thing to jump into a river and try to rescue a drownIng drowning drown drown- ing lag person while others line the bank and watch But to take a risk as great or greater while whilo standing alone alono in a n laboratory room perfectly certain that no noone noone noone one Is concerned because the risk is ls being taken calls for r a certain kind of day-by-day day fortitude de that we wC think ranks highest highet t on the scale It would have been conceivable fo fog Miss Mies Pabst to have run the tho meningitis meningitis' risk for tor twenty years and for tor no one at the end to have been especially aware that she had done anything heroic Her type type of at bravery cannot expect recognition until its possessor meets disaster When people talk about heroes to us were we're going to recall Miss Pabst and the tho th five other public he health service doctors who have met her fate in similar ways in the last Decade Phila Philadelphia delphia Record Common Sense benso ense Will Prevail Although it is as difficult to argue with those who have been hipped by as it was to argue with the Green- Green backers and the Populists of ot other days it Is not to bo be forgotten forgot forgot- ten that far more than a modicum modicum modicum modi modi- cum of ot common commonsense sense resides Inthe Inthe in inthe the American people which will assert itself with increasing force now that the old oid age revolving has haa become a political issue Those congressmen and candidates for congress who to gain votes have havo been willing to play playon on the credulity of ot the Town- Town are likely to look pretty sick before election da days rolls around Lincoln's remark also attributed to P. P T. T Barnum that you cannot fool Cool all the people ill all the time still Ull holds good Hart Hart Hartford ford Courant probably more than all the ath ather states combined The rhe high liter later undertook unde to prepare for tor college and thus combined the functions functions' both of f the old Latin Latini grammar ammar schools and of the the- the ri vate academies academic In the tho country countr as a whole the high school made mad little l progress until after the Ci Civil U war j Ii Q How flow many Jews and h how hany Arabs arc there in ln lale j 4 tine C. tine C. C G. G A. A The American Hebrew says ayi i I that there are approximately i i Jews and Arabs is lai Palestine Wt i Q Should a n. woman holding theoffice the office be addressed a as 8 postmaster or postmistress A. A. A P. P 41 A. A The postoffice department t says that in its corr correspondent p with women who are servin serving u u ui postmasters it uses uses uses' the word wod postmaster rather than 1 l tress 7 t Q What In Is the form forni of th the Chinese hu language t spoken lit ill Canton Can Oui- I ton C. ton C. C C. C C. C I A. A Canton Is ii is the center of th the most Important of ot the darin language zones of louth louthi eastern China and the Cantonese dialect is spoken by people Mandarin however ii Is t the thi lingua franca of ot China Most MOlt oj t the dialects fringe the tho coastline and penetrate but buta a comparatively short way into e interior while mandarin known in China as mean meaning official language dominate dominates ap approximately proximately four-fifths four of ot th hinterland Cantonese is suppose to approximate most nearly th primitive Chinese of antiquity while Pekingese the official f fot torn fora of ot mandarin has receded far from it Q Does DOell dew from when it i in Ia cloudy and windy h when n tho the air is still C. C. C. C G. G A. A It forms most when the sky Is clear and t th thair th air is calm t |