Arizona republican., 1920-07-16
QUESTIONS AND
 ANSWERS
o. What states in the Union have Blue Sky Laws? M. K D.

o. What states in the Union have Blue Sky Laws? M. K. D.
 A States in the Union having Blue Sky Laws are Georgia, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virg mia, North Caro- lima, Vermont, Tennessee, Ohio, Lou isiana, Mississippi. Illinois. Alabama. Maine. Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Iowa, California, Minnesota, Oregon, West Virginia, Nebraska, North Dakota. Montana, Utah, Arizona and South Dakota.
 0. Is the Flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the "Star SPangIed Banner" still in existence? R. A. c.
 A. The Flag which was flying over Fort McHenry on September 13, 1914, and which inspired Francis Scott Key to write the star Spangled Banner is now in the old National Museum at Washington, D. c.
 0. Who said, Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at aIl''? A. M o.
 A. This was said by former Presi- dent Roosevelt shortly before his death.
 o. Is it true that the fur seal fish ing off the PribIoff Islands paid the United States government more than the cost of Alaska? R. R.
 A. Alaska was ceded to the United States by Russia in 1867 for $7,200.000 in gold and it's name changed from Russian America. Following the GUS tom of Russia. the fur-seal industry was leased for period of 20 years 1850-1S90-and during this time paid to the government in rentals and royalties s350.000. The import duty on dressed sealslxins brought back from London for use in the United States was more than $12,000, 900 making the total $13,000 900, nearly twice the cost of Alaska The industry was leased for the following 20 years, but the herd had decreased and although the price of sealskins had risen, the income was less than half the former amount.
 c. Is there any magnetic sub stance through which a magnet will not exert it's force, but will arrest the force of the magnet? w. T. N.
 A. The Bureau of Standards states that there is no known substance which is an insulator for magnetism.
 O. Why isn't the moon always
 A A former answer confused an eclipse with phases of the moon. When the earths shadow falls on the moon it causes a partial or total eclipse. The moon is a dark, opaque body. The half turned toward the sun is always bright; the other half is unillumined, and therefore usually invisible. While the moon is going once completely round the earth, different regions of this illuminated half are turned to-
 
 o. Who was the left handed judge of Israel? L. w. K.
 A. This refers to 'Ehud, the son of Geva, the Benjamite, man left handed"
 0. Why are the Dead Sea and the Red Sea SO called? C. ..
 A. The Dead Sea is SO called be- cause no living thing can exist in it. on account of the extreme salinity of it's waters. The Red Sea was origin ally named the Sea of "Edon," Edon meaning red" or muddy
 c. How fast should the pulse beat? R. U. K.
 A. The pulse gradually slows down through life. A new born infant has pulse of 130 to 40 beats per minute. An adults pulse ranges from TO to 75 in health, while in old age the rate is from so to 75.
 o. What was the "8onfire of Vani- ties"? V. I. M.
 A. In 1497 at Florence, Italy, Savon arola, an Italian monk and martyr, celebrated a carnival at which he or dered burned indecent books, pictures, masks, and other things pertaining to frivolity. A Venetian merchant of fered 22,000 gold florins for the doomed vanities, but his offer was rejected and his portrait added to the pile. There is no proof that any book or painting of value sacrificed Savonarola had great respect for both art and learning and when the Medici library was offered for sale to pay the family's debts, he saved the colIec- tion with money from the convent purse.
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 FERGUSON QUITS CONVENTION TEMPLE, Texas, July 1<-Former Governor James F. Ferguson, head of the American party of Texas and can didate for the presidency on that ticket, has quit the third party conven- ton in Chicago and is returning home, according to telegram received by the party's headquarters today. It was Ar S.s v-i.~D reTrr