Show L-K L ASK ME I The Telegram invites its readers to submit questions to this department Questions should be in ink or typewritten on one sid sido of the paper only Anonymous contributions will not be answered but no name will be used in the column unless it is requested Telephone replies and private interviews cannot be given Address I Ask Me Editor Salt Lake Tele Telegram Hereafter questions questions' relating to the stage and mo motion ion pictures pictures' will be answered on the dramatic dramatic page by the dramatic editor Address such questions to Dramatic I Editor Salt Lake Telegram 1 Will you please advise me mo through your column of the names names of the principal railways of South America and where their headquarters are located in this country in order that I ma may 9 get Ct t in touch with them concerning railroad work in South America Have you any idea of the scale acal cal of pay applying to railroad men in South America compared with the scale in this country also to whom 1 I should write concerning government te tel telegraph positions 2 Can y you u advise me me- of any concerns eon con on cerns in this country employing railroad rail rail- roar road men mn in this c country for won work in foreign countries 0 O. M. M V. V I 1 I. Railroad d crl offices and officials in Salt gaIt Lal Lake e have very little data on I South American railroads You can pet pet- get full full information by writing to the tho foll following wing Lamport and Holt Steamship Steam Steam- shin ship company Munson LIney NewYork New ew York W. W Yo A. A Young Youns Jr general passenger pas pasI as- as I agent Pacific Mall Mail Steamship company San Francisco 2 If you ou should desire employment employ ment in Alaska write to the Alaskan railway commission Sea Seattle Wash Va h. h 1 1 In th the eyes eyes of the la law lav when is a pirl curl of ape ane to do as she e 2 2 Is it truo that a bill has h he en I passed granting pensions of 10 0 f 0 s month to veterans of nil II United States Staten l I wars wars ars with the exception of the fe tle war war with Germany Germany- B B. W W. I 1 In Tn Utah there is II a law v that t when a girl arrives nt at het her birthday birth birth- thy day she has Ims reached what is known know birth I ns as s the age ase of or consent The Te T e mEan mean- mean mean-i In lag of of- this is that she can contract I Ia Ia Ia a a legal marriage without the consent tit I Io o of her parents She does not cease o I Ibe b be a a- minor however however- any soon Connera sooner Conner r than thana a a. young man Consequently con con- I tr tracts made b by before he reaches the age ace of 21 are I Just as they are in In the case case of f- f a ayoung young man with man with this one exception that that- the marriage contract contracted before betor 21 Is let legal leeal l and binding on her herand herand herand and not voidable as are other contracts contracts con con- tracts she he may mav mav enter into t 2 The Fuller pension bin bill was was re re- passed by bv and signed by by- bythe the president ent This bill allows p of or 50 a m month nth to veter veterans ns of all United States wars wars except the great war Is a it true that two of the greatest of the American sculptor have hav come from Western states L L. L F. F B. B Yes Zes One of the greatest e test of livIng I sculptors was horn born In Utah and anther an an- i other ther was born In Idaho The Utah sculptor is Cyrus Edwin Dahlia He w was s born in Sprin Utah studied at t the Ecole des Beaux Arts In Paris and is living at the present time In I Boston Mass He lie Is the creator of the pioneer monument and nd the angel angelon I on the I L. L D. D S. S Temple In Salt Lake i J One lOne of or his greatest pieces of work The Invocation to the Great Spirit i i j will be found at the entrance to the Boston Fine Arts museum I The other great Western Vestern sculptor Is Gutzon Borglum His parents who were Danish immigrants soon m moved ved I from Idaho to San Francisco where r Borglum spent part of or his youth He then studied In Paris and London Borglum shows strongly the influence I of Kodin in his work Amon Among his Ills principal principal prin prin- cipal works are Mares of or Diomedes I which is to be fo found nl In the Metropolitan itan museum in New York the clossal dos dos- sal head of Lincoln in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington and th thI the th I seated figure of or Lincoln at N Newark wark N N. J. J N. I-N. Are there any large de deposits sit of Of r oot i.- i. ash in southern Europe C. C R. R DI D. D I Immense dep deposits of f potash have Just been discovered in itt the tha province of Sicily Preliminary ry investigations Indicate that they are the largest In n the world Is Japan a sugar producing nati nation n MRS F. F P. P W. W Japan produces sugar but only about one half of or tHe tile amount which she for her o own n con con- The nation consequently is fostering the cultivation of sugar beets In Manchuria Where and what is F FN N. N was wa a duchy of the old kingdom of A Austria AstrIa with an area of about square squar miles It lle be between between between be- be tween Hun Hungary ary Russia Rumania in the region of or th the C Carpa j Jian an moun moun- tame Cattle and antI cereal raising are arc its principal Industries and its Us capital J is with a population of or about abolt The inhabitants are of mixed races chieflY Russians Russians Rus Rus- Rumanians Germ Germans ns and Poles Wha What Is s 's s the the estimated cost of re reI restoring restoring re- re storing the homes in the devastated regions regions- of France Franca R. R S. S D D. D I Almost half halt a a million homes in France were destroyed during the four and a half years ears of of hostilities II Cost Costor of of or them Is estimated at about I I. I i heard of an an old law in some some so ma countr country which compels newly married couples to plant a certain number of tre trees s. s Can you tell me me if there is isi f uch tI h a law aw and what country enacted I it G. G M. M t Switzerland has such h a law The i ilaw law provides that six trees must be I planted Immediately after a a. marriage j and two on the birth of or a child |