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Show PSYCHOLOGY TEST FOR SOLDIERS Tests In psychology for all men In the army are proposed by officers t Fort Dix. where such tests are now being applied to determine the fitness of soldiers in special situations. situa-tions. And Just when it seemed that enlisting In the army might be the only way to escape those things! One of the questions Is: "You are driving an auto at night While driving you meet another auto which will not dim its lights, regardless of your signals. What would you doT" The question becomes particularly Important if the gent In the other car happens to be a general. Another reads: "You are walking along a muddy road carrying a stone In one hand when an auto passes and splashes mud over you. Would you throw the stone? Answer yes or no." There's only one answer for a soldier to that one: "No. But don't depend on it" Professor Elmer Twitchcll, this department's eminent psychologist. has prepared the following tests ror volunteers and draft prospects: 1. You are driving a limousine to the front There are four young ladles with you. On the way you encounter two majors going to the front on foot. They both give you the thumb In the orthodox hitch-biker hitch-biker manner. You explain that, as you have four girls with you, there is no sense taking them aboard unless un-less they can dig up another major. Go on with the story from there, e 2. You have answered the draft summons and presented yourself for gm im i XT" physical examl- RlWf 1 nation- You are I vi? t fect sPecimen. but t 4p lb the examiner is SIX 1 Ii callcd to 1116 ifA I Jl Phone' and ln O l kX U stumDlin8 over a chair drops his papers and gets them mixed up. He returns to you and says: "Let's see; you're the one with defective eyesight and deafness in both ears, aren't you?" Which of the three answers would you make: (a) Right you are. (b) No, sir. (c) Yes, and my arches are all gone, too. 3. You are assigned to guard duty at night on a desolate post you so you sit U 'jPQt down and use a TfoJU portable radio. 'sSTa, While you are ndTAv!cS listening to the vgiS4 Pot of Gold pro- jfr gram a superior J .TJjSji officer comes along. Which would you think the best remark to make under the circumstances: cir-cumstances: (a) How do you suppose this radio ra-dio ever got here? (b) Sorry, captain. I forgot where I was. (e) Let's both go home so we can win this dough in case our phones ring. see ELECTION RESULTS An office-seeker, if defeated. Finds his stock of friends depleted. An office-seeker, if elected. Has friends he'd not before suspected. sus-pected. Richard Armour. e e e It seems good to see America off the scold standard after election, elec-tion, thinks E. B. Jay. see A dictator is something that goes In one era and out the next e e Our idea of the complete football fan is the fellow who witnesses the game, listens to his portable radio description of it and then buys a paper to see what happened. e e e BORDER INCIDENT The statesmen of (fill in the blank) Took just a little nap, And when they woke they couldn't find Their country on the map. Richard Armour, e e e CAN YOU REMEMBER Away back when babies were exempt ex-empt as legitimate war targets? e When speed laws were as low as 40 miles an hour? e When wars could be stopped by ultimatums? e DRAFT REACTIONS Drawings are a thing I hate I drew number One-Five-Eight! e e Lotteries they make me blue Now I'm known as One-Nine-Two! Never say my luck is fine I'm Eight Thousand-Six-Two-Nine! e e Number 158 in the First district. New York, was a Chinese. If by any chance he gets Secretary Stim-son's Stim-son's laundrv |