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15
EDISON CROSSES .
"DOPE" IN JOB QUIZ
Applicants Who "Crammed" on
Publlshod Questionnaire Meet
Brand New Sot of Questions
VIBRATIONS OF RED LIGHT?
Uy ihe Associated rress
rM Oraiwe. N. J.. May 12 Ap.
nllcints for positions In tho plant of
Thomas A. Edis "crc' Bnm0 of w,1,,m
t,., "crammed" on n Hot of several
L,r qiiMtJom tni wide publicity ax
nrf of a test conducted by tlio In
Tfntor. yesterday met with a new net
nflOrt questions.
Orawqncntly. when they enmc fortl--,j
t0 give the definition of copro.
Snd the State of West VlrKln.a tell
h cieonntrn wns and bow una died,
hlch were included In the original llrt.
,U were disappointed to see nil those
emitted and new ones submitted.
Some of the new questions, as Ktvcn
br nn applicant. Include: What num
i,;r of vibrations per second do red rays
of light pive? Violet? Whnt country
owns MndaKavnr? Bound Idaho. Name
...i. in ftin Pnnnmn Canal. In
hnt country do ornnR outnnK9 11 c?
Salw (he highest quniuy oi nunrw
,,1 ii.ed fir steamships and what dls
rtr it c..mes from? What country has
bl greatest percentage of gypsies?
Whnt is fogo?
Mora History and Science
What is rnmmi "- ":: , ;
Whnt Is TNT? Who was Knbre?
There are nvo nn-".i;n.. ; .V
Name them In order, by starting nt the
foiithwnnwut ono. Where Is the thyroid
Xvl? What is the difference between
linen and cotton? Name tho Ingredients
The fact that so many who sought
Jor to the original quia list caused
Mr. Edison to announce his belief that
"college tnen are nmazlngly Ignorant. "
Tho questions were designed to test the
central knowledge of the candidate for
manufacturing development . work"
under .Mr. Edison's direction. Thcw
nro a few of the things the applicant
was asked nooiit:
Who discovered how to vulcanlza rub-
bcr?
How About rnines
What do we get shellac from?
Who Invented printing?
Where do we get otir prunes?
Who Invented the cotton gin?
Who wns the most famous violin
maker?
Who wrote "Don Quixote?"
Who was Plznrro?
AVho was. 8lmon Uollvar?
Who wns Kolon?
Where is Labrador?
Where is Spltzbcrgcn?
What Is tho highest mountain in the
world7
What is the longest river In the
world?
What Is the greatest rise of tldo in
feet found along the North American
coast?
Where was Napoleon born?
Wlio wns Francis Marlon?
Of whnt arc violin strings made?
Who wrote "Home. Sweet Home?"
Of whnt Is porcelain made?
What substances are used In tho man
ufacture of sulphuric acid?
LITTLE
BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
By Lcc Papo
I was wawklng home from tcbool to
day, being kind of raonotonlss, and T
thawt, O, I think 111 wnwk backwerds
for n chnng.
Wlch I started to do, wawklng 20
Kteps backwerds and then looking er-
round to see how strato 1 wnH wnwktng
and then unwklng 20 more t-tepn, and
1 kepp on doing Hint till all of n middln
I bumped Into something and I quick
terncd mound nnd It wns some man,
being a kind of a fat man with thin
legs.
IsniKO me, I sed.
Ixciisc my eye, wy the mlschlff dont
you wnwk fruntwenln like n regular
human being Instead of wnwkihg back
wrs and tramping Into people feet jn
tills manner? sed tho fat man.
Ixcuse me, I sed nnd keep on wnwk
Ing fruntwerds ns quick as possible, nnd
down at the corner I looked erround and
the fnt man wns still brushing off his
shoes with his tunkcrchlff, and wen I
got In the next block I started wawklng
backwerds agon, nnd prltty oon J
bumped Into something elte, Ming a
thin lady with n natural mad uprcfl
slon look even madder on account of be
ing bumped in to.
Ixcuse me, I sed. and she sed, III
glvo you n smack in the face, that
wat III do, have you got the eenta you
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were born with, wawklns like n clown the next blook I thawt, yelI III try It
in a circus? once more and If I bump Into one more
No mam, I meen yes mam, ixcuse thing mats tne inni -in no u.
t .i . i !.. nM titfitrtif inir i ivinn uniifni iiiirin v pniririi imi'ii
fruntwerds agen as if that was the ony wen I bumped Into fometbing cits, bo-
way 1 ever wnwueu. nnu wen i koi miing n im- uu kiiiiii i-h un... -
frarse bump mi the hd I could feel ft
lump where it. hit, nnd wen I got home
I gave inn the lump to feel and she
started to get xltnpathetic but bh noon M
I told her how It happened she stopped
nnd started to get mad Insted.
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Pnbllihad oeculonal) to acquaint
the public with th. writer and the
illustrator who roV CotmepolU
tin "Amtrlea'i Craatait Manulne."
The Memory of the
World
Men once lived who saw
Confudus, Alexander the
Great, Paul the Apostle, and
Charles First.
Martin Luther was discussed
as we now discuss Lloyd
Georce; there were those who
actually saw, and walked with,
and talked with Socrates. Real
children played in the fields of
Domrtrny with little Jean
D'Arc.
The exploits of exceptional
people; the press of extraordi
nary events; the ebb and flow
of political expedience are as
old as the story of the race
and as new as this morning's
paper.
But men pass away; causes
and results merge into a mist
we call the past; only that
which is inscribed survives the
exigencies of Time.
That is why the arts can
never perish.
They are the memory of the
world.
All But One
Neglected wives of wayward
hubbies will leam a new and
effective method of reform in
"Buster the Catspaw," Harris
Dickson's Old Reliable yarn
in May Cosmopolitan.
Buster Manny, negro dray
man of large size, had every
nigger in town bluffed to a
standstill except his small
wife.
Mrs. Bu9ter had a way of
wielding a hand at poker that
was never learned at the card
table.
Read it and weep!
MASSACRE!
Far off on the frozen
plains of Russia, tho vil
IngoofVodniiBlept peace
fully under its blanket of
enow. Then suddenly, as
if by some terrible magic
the galloping Cossacks!
If you would live through
one of those nights, the
flash of bayoneta around
you flame screams
pillage outrage in all
its vivid nnd frightful
reality, read Fannio
Hurst's remarkable story
"Roulette" in May Cos
mopolitan. Get Your Copy Todny
A Comedy of
Terrors
A very amusing incident is
related by Mary Roberts Rlne
hart in May Cosmopolitan. It
occurred at Walpi, a pic
turesque ullage of cliff dwellers
in the Arizona desert.
It seems that a short time
before Mrs. Rinehart visited
the place, a famous motion
picture star came there to stage
a picture with the town as a
background.
Then he went back to his
studio and made a miniature
Walpi which he proceeded to
destroy. Thus, in the picture,
Walpi shakes, totters and
disappears.
Later the star went back to
the village and showed It to the
Indians in the schoolhouse.
They watched the film stoi
cally enough until -horror of
horrors! they saw their own
village destroyed! At this
juncture the whole audience
rushed to the windows and
looked out.
Great was their relief to dis
cover that Walpi their own
Walpi was safe and whole
against the starlit sky.
Read Mrs. Rinehart's dr
lightjul article in May Cosmopolitan.
William J. Burns, Famous Detective
"Shadows" the Lone Wolf
Great Sleuth Says Pursuit of Master
Criminal Interesting Experience
In a letter to the publisher of Cosmopolitan
Magazine, tho eminent international detective
says, he is deeply interested in "Alias the Lone
Wolf," a mystery story by Louis Joseph Vance
now appearing in that magazine.
That tho Lone Wolf works alone, without con
fidants Of anV kind. WAS n nknoa nf fVin ainY-,,
particularly appealing to Mr. Burns.
"It reminded me," he says in his letter, "of a
famous forger I had to deal with a few years ago,
who used a hundred nlinina ey.i tnrnr.i,.n
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years ne naa Dainea detection, although constantly
encaged in "lavintr down"! Th! W! th wir.,i ..,.
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APPEAItS ON THI3 PAGE
Do You Look Like
Harding?
Probably not but if you
did, and evoryono you met
told you so, do you think it
would havo an effect on your
Hfe7 Wouldn't you instinc
tively adopt some of tho
mannerisms, nnd possibly
something of tho ambition
and power of a great leader?
This interestinc oucstion is
handled with great insight
and charm by Ben Ames
Williams inMay Cosmopolitan.
Be sure and read. "The Man
Who Looked Like Edison."
Hunting De Luxe
Great hunters travel with
all the pomp and splendor
of Oriental princes. In fact,
if you were to run across
one of their remarkable
camnsin the heartof dark
est Africa, you would be
amazed. A retinue of ser
vants that would put a
Fifth 'Avenue mansion to
shame electriclights tea
and shower bath at four a
complete change of cloth
ing after each hunt an ex
cellent four-coursedinncr-a
pipe and a "nightcap"- -and
then the Inevitable
five grains of quinine at
the end of the day . . .
Don't fail to read George
Agnew Chamberlaln'sfas
cinating "Ku-Ha-Va
Days" in May
(Ssrjiopolitan
The Death of
Marie Toro
Robert W. Service, author
of "The Shooting of Dan Mc
Grew," "The Spell of The
Yukon," and a hundred other
swinging, virile poems of the
Great Northwest, is one of the
most popular of living poets.
There was never a better
story-teller; and to the fascin
ation of plot he adds the
glorious ballad-music of his
verse.
Cowboys, scholars, soldiers,
school girls, statesmen, sailors
all sorts and conditions of
people read Service.
Don't fall to read "The
Death of Marie Toro" his
latest poem In May Cosmo
politan. It was written in
Paris, where Service now lives.
and is full of the color and
tragedy of the world's gayest
city.
his forged paper. In fact, he
wa9another''Lone Wolf" with
out friends or acquaintances
with no nsrmanpnt linm
working absolutely alone.
I have always claimed that
every criminal leaves a track
and there are no exceptions, so
that this celebrated forger
while taking the utmost care
and using the most cunning
methods to elude capture was
making his track, not realizing
that constantly using the same
method of approaching bank
tellers would eventually lead
to his down-fall.
We were able to send to the
25,000 members of the Ameri
can Bankers' Association a
circular giving a most complete
and perfect explanation as to
how this forger would approach
the bank teller. In addition
to this we enve a mint nrrnmto
description of his person and
dress and various characteris
ticsalso a specimen of his
handwriting.
The first and second circu
lars did not produce results
and finally we conceived the
idea of Drintlnu the nrincin.il
portions of the warning circu
lars in rca type.
This had thr rieslwi rfffrt
as one day a stranger entered a
bank in a Southern City and
the teller glancing up from his
work saw him approach and
at once made a mental note
that this man answered the
description given in the Burns'
circular,
Sure enough the forger's
method wascxacUyasdescnbed
in the circular. The teller at
once caused the forger's arrest
and notified us. The forger
was given a long term in
prison and died there a short
time ago.
I have just ai much fun
reading detective stories is the
layman has -just as much as
the late Colonel Roosevelt is
said to have had and as I
understand Ex-President Wil
son has.
I suppose that even if I
thought I could, it would be a
breach of social, if not pro
fessional ethics, to tip off the
man who stole the Montalais
jewels. It might spoil the
succeeding installments of a
story which I think starts ic
markably well and which ought
to capture a lot of new readers
for you."
Going
to Rex Beach?
Famous neoole are fn
quently amused to discover
now limited fame really is.
In fart, n wplt.bnnu'n mnflnn
picture producer, who issues
news films, recently said that
there are only about ten peoe
in the world (excepting actors)
that everv slnplo mnvi fnn
In America knows and is inter
ested in. He named President
Harding, Wilson, Lloyd George
Lenine and Trotskv. Marcha!
Koch, and three nr fnnr
others.
Which reminds us of the
young lady who asked her
gentleman friend if Rex Beach
was a Summer resortl " '
Twelve Good Men j
and True
George Ade, like a lot of
other successful folks, would
rather play golf and manage
his beautiful estate in Indiana,
than increase his fame or bank
account.
But Cosmopolitan's editor
has finally induced the great
humorist tn writ a nnhiurn
editorial each month.
Oratorv" in Mnv Cntmn.
ttolitan is nriW.ruriVrf tint i
author of "Fables in Slang."
ana i ne ioiiege Widow," has
lost none of his nlrl.timn
sparkle and wallop.
In this editorial he tells
how the old-time spell-binder
used to hypnotize the jury.
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