Arizona republican., 1921-03-09
QUESTIONS AND
 ANSWERS

c. Does congress, have to appreve the appointmeht of ambassadors? D. Nj. J.
 A. The president has the power to select ambassadors to foreign couR- tries. but the appointments have to he ratified by the United States senate. e. Please give me some information about the damaging winds that blow over Texas every spring. H. H. E. A. The winds to which you un- doubtedly refer are the strong cold winds which occasionally blow south ward along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. They are called -Northers' and are frequently pre- ceded by southeriy winds. moderate | in temperature or even uncomfortably warm, and the change to the cold northerly current may sometimes be so abrupt as to give the sensation Of passing suddenly from summer into winter weather. These winds are not confined to the spring season. nor to western Texas, though they are perhaps 1 best known in Texas and most pro pounced during March. They may be accompanied by rain, sleef. or snow. or by dust.
 o. Which was the first country thaS was republic? D. U. E.
 l A Many of the ancient towns had a republican form of government, nots ably Tyre and Sidon. Carthage, Athens. and Rome. Most authorities seem to agree. however, that the earliest re- l public in the accepted sense of fh- l term was that at Athens.
 Q. When was starch first made? R. E. M.
 1 A. The first making of starch is not iof record, but it is spoken of by Plimy l in the first century A. D. as being made from wheat on the Island of Chios. It i;e, f,aas hu lat or 4 iuntil the time of Queen Elizabeth, 18th lcentury, when its use became neces- sity for stiffening the enormous ruffs worn by the queen and her court o. How did tanks" happen to be called that? A. H. c. ..
 A. Tanks got their name from the fact that when they were first being lconstructed, great secrecy was desired,
 the parts were made. in different places, and they were always referred
 to officially as "the new drinking water icontainers for Mesopotamia-"
 0. What is meant by Gothic archi-
 lecture? s. K. Il A. The name is applied to the styles
 that were developed by the ecclesias- :
 tical builders of the middle ages be-
 tween 115e and 1900 A. D. The name is a misnomer. for the Goths as a nation had disappeared long before the be- ginnings of this architecture The obvious common characteristics of this lstyle are the pointed arch, the traceried
 window. the flying buttress, spires and
 pinnacies, and internally the ribbed groined vault.
 O. How many peanut seeds are re-
 quired to plant an acre2 N. O.
 A. The department of agriculture says that from g to 4S pounds of Spanish peanuts in the shell will plant
 an acre. the amount depending upon planting distances. With shelled seed,
 il will require from ~23 to 34 pounds of seed.
 O. l am often puzzled as to which
 word to use--farther or further. Will
 you please illustrate? w. A. O. sl A. Farther implies distance and fur ther implies addition. For illustration: 'I cannot go farther with you" 'He
 wishes to further his own interests c. Do male parrots learn more , readily than females? 1. M. c. } A. The bureau of biological survey
 says that male parrots as rule re- : spond better to teaching than females.