OCR Text |
Show ( THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE To rosolvo attention every question must bear tha name and address of tha person sending It, Thla doea not neeaaasrlly mean tha tha name will be published when the queetien la answered j only tho Initials will be used h tho ajuoetionor deairee. Na a Mention will be paid to queries ta whloh tha name and addraaa of tho sender are net appended. A New York. N. Y.: Charlea Kegel. Washington. D. C. ; Charlea TX Norton, New York. N. Y.: Brekman Winthrop. Washington, D. C. The chairman of the contra! committee la ox-Prealdent Tatt. Friend of the People: How old must a man be to be eligible to the office of president? SCHOLAR. Answer By the constitution of the United Btataa no person la eligible to tha office of president under tha age of II years, and ait of tha presidents nave considerably axoeeded that age. Only aix preeldenta were leaa than M yeara of ago when they took office: James K. Polk. 4 yeara: Franklin Pierce. 4; U. 8. Urant, ; James A. Oarfleld. ; Grover Clevelond, 47; Theodore Roosevelt. Roose-velt. 4t. Five were paat (0 yeara of age: John Adama, at; Andrew Jackson. Jack-son. l: William H. Herrteon, ; Zachary Taylor, 4; James Buchanan, Bu-chanan, f I. Friend of tha People: Who was AstraeaT PUPIL. Answer In Greek mythology As-traea. As-traea. daughter of Zeus and Themta. waa the goddeea of Justice. Khe Is represented with a pair of balanrea tn her hand and a crown of stare. She waa the last of all the goddeeaes who left the earth when the golden age had passed away and men began lo forge weapona and eotnmlt acta of I violence. I Friend nf tha People : Friend of tha People: Pleaet quota what Henry T Btlmeon, former secretary of war, aald concerning concern-ing the volunteer ayatam. A newer Ha aald: "From tha standpoint stand-point of our military history there la . nn mora clearly established fact than tha fallare of tha volunteer system. The I nlted Ftatea have not yet warred with a first claaa power free to devote Ita entire attention to them. Neve rt bale ba-le ae, in our ware tho eystem haa regit. , larly broken down. Tho leading at alee of Msssachusetta and Virginia were forced to resort to tba draft In 1T7T. or only two yeara after tho opening of tho Revolution. During tho course of that war, In spits of such spo radio ef-forta ef-forta by different states, tha patriot armies shrunk tn number from ft.toO tn 171 to M.000 In 1711. and our oauso waa only saved from failure by the timely Intervention of tho French fleet and amy. In lilt tht volunteer system sys-tem broke down In so many and varied wars aa to make that war tho moat conspicuous example la our history of how not to carry on military operations. opera-tions. During tba Civil war both aldea were forced to use tha draft the flouth within a yeer and tho North shortly thereafter. FTven in our little war with ftpaln tha full quota of volunteers called for by the president waa never obtained. Tha failure laat summer of recruits to appear when called for by . k. .... . . , - ..tlm.l AMMMW name from Its Inventor, Colonel James Bowla (pronounced Boo-e). a pioneer and aoldler of Georgia. Ho had a knife made from a rasp file which ha ueed so effectively In a certain hand to hand fight as to make It famous. Colonel Bowie waa killed at the battle of the Alamo, In Texas, tn 111. Friend of tha People: Pleaas tell something about the Red Cross In tho United Btstes SUBSCRIBER. Answer Tha American National Had Croaa aoelety waa chartered by congress con-gress In ItOI "to furnish volunteer aid to tha alck and wounded of armlee In time of war and to carry on a aye-tem aye-tem of national and International relief la time of peace and to apply the same In mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods and other great national oalamlttea' Its officers are: President. Woodrow Wllaon; vice president. Hubert W. de Fbreet; treasurer. treas-urer. John Hkelton WilUama; coun-eelor. coun-eelor. William Marshall Bullitt; national na-tional director, fcrneet P. Blcknell; secretary, Charlea U Mag-re; central committee. Major General Oeorio W. lax via, chalman; John Baaaett Moore, to repreaent the department of atate; John rtkelton W II llama, to repreaent Ihe department of tho treasury ; Brigadier General Oeorge H. Torney, to .represent .repre-sent tha war department; Hear Ad- gen cy, although over 1,000.900 eltlaena were parading and shouting themeelrts hoarse for prepared rveee, ta merely tha latest Incident of what haa been a practically unbroken record la our history. his-tory. Friend of the Peoples r Where did the boerlo knife get its . aamoT ' Answer The bowla knife gets Its mlral Charlea r. rltokeo, to represent tha navy department; J. W. Davis, to repreaent the department of Justice; Mtss Mabel T. Heardman. Waahing-ton. Waahing-ton. D. C; Robert W. Do Forest, New York. N. Y.: Colonel A. V. Kaufman. Charleston. R C; Judge W. W. Morrow. Mor-row. Ban Francisco. Cat: H. Klrke Porter. Pittsburg, Pa.: Jamea Tanner. Washington. D. C; Brigadier General Charlea Bird; William W. Farnam. New Haven. Conn : John M Glenn. Waa rihakeepeare a "Macbeth' token from real life? CURIOUS. Answer: The nsmes of some of the leading characters in tbe play of "Macbeth" "Mac-beth" were borne by real persons who figured In ftcotch history, but the charactera themselves and the events nf the play are Imaginary. Macbeth waa a Scottish king and Macduff waa a Scottish nobleman nf the middle agea. History atatea that Macbeth slew Dun-ran Dun-ran In 101 because he hsd usurped the throne tn which Macbeth had the boiler claim. But the- clrcurostancea of the slaying were entirely different from those described by Shakespeare with large poetic license. Banquo haa a Scotch sound, but no person of that name flgureo In Scotch history and Shakespeare aeems to have created blm mainly tn order to name a ghost. In the play he la killed by order of Macbeth Mac-beth and in one of tho most powerful acenee nf the play hia ghost appears at a banquet, visible only to Macbeth, and terrifying him while unseen py the other banqueters. Friend of the People: HI ease locate and quota a paeeage by Tennyson In which he esims to predict pre-dict commerce and warfare by alrahlpa, , O. A. Answer Tho following la from "Locksley Hall": "For I dipt Into the future, far aa Daman Da-man aye could aea. Saw the vision of tha world and all tba wonder that would be: Saw tho bearana fill with commerce, argoalea of magic aaila. Pilots of tho purple twilight dropping .down with costly balea. Heard tha heavens ml with shouting, then there rained a ghostly dew. From tha natton'a airy navtea, grappling grap-pling la tba central blue." |