Show S by ELMO SCOTT WATSON teall 1 T do mr average IT merlan merl cn much good to find ajl H aut what was a three letter alb worl meaning A species of ox found in central asia or another three letter word meaning an arctic divine bird now extinct because no sooner had he enlarged his vocabulary to undreamed of proportions in efforts to solve the cross word than along came this ask me another craze to torment his mind its impudent demand for a type atte information which he had never called upon to furnish before and to make him realize just how little he ld know and how uncertain he wai bont what he thought he knew of conw he still Is working cross word I 1 puzzles but he la not doing it so iB erMily as he once did just now Is pretty much occupied with know the an now ill ask one quiz i ale another what do YOU avy and questions since the questions and answers tb Is the fad of the hour it Is B enough to ask a question flintro nebout the fad itself how did joyt start when will it end why they do it hat Is its value there are probably na many itty Wi to these questions as there bibb tre persons who would attempt to tte them as good a guess as any daiy that this whole business of anter started when psychology gave ftc the world the intelligence test and E I 1 talat of th scientific ID developed this popular and uon alde indoor and outdoor sport commercializing commercial izing of it did not ane about until two graduates of 1 W eclen esty and 0 spafford began asking each another as a time killer while py re loafing around in new york 9 of a ja they were the arst to wa the commercial possibilities of a san of arl answers anil iw their buesa was Is shown fact that they have already sr d roy aules on nearly two nun Pi pa ot their book will it end there Is just K answer to that mask me AD hy do they do it 7 since tha a E started this thing let 9 m er that question it results BL e fag and fatigue of modern Is simply a new form of n says one it Is a product of the machine age man Is merely in ways to exercise his mind says another the craze Is perfectly natural and as old as the oldest games says still a third it Is not a higher but a broader form 0 mental activity than the cross word puzzle the pursuit factor the desire of the hunter to achieve a certain end Is perhaps not so strong but many of the books help to supply this by giving the rating of some celebrity as a mark for us to shoot af As for the value of the game here are the opinions of the experts it will not harm anybody nor do anybody much good it Is interesting but unimportant psychologically it Is a new outlet for the mental energy of man when he Is denied an outlet for his physical energy one psychiatrist a psychiatrist you know Is a practical psychologist sees in the fad a certain value in helping us overcome the inferiority complex and in explaining pla ining why he makes use of the newest pet word of the psychologists empathy sympathy gym pathy Is feeling for a thing but empathy Is feeling into a thing to such an extent that you become part of that thing yourself so mr average american gets a lot of empathy out of this popular diversion when he sees that some prominent citizen has made a grade of 70 or 80 per cent in one of these quizzes and then goes ahead and makes as good a grade or even a better one he feels that he Is just as smart as the prominent citizen and Is therefore one of the best minds and a great thinker aa a matter of fact this questions ind answers business Is old stuff they used to do it away back in the middle ages but how different the quizzes of those days are from the ones of today Is shown by the following examples from a list compiled by some of the learned men of the twelfth to the fourteenth century why did god not will that man should be hungry only once a weeke answer hunger hung er la one of the punish merits broucht on nan n an by the sin ot adam what makes beasts KO badt answer at a certain star in the east on the twenty first day of the march moon it my father and mother had never existed how should I 1 have been bornt answer the number of was foreseen from all eternity consequently if your father and mother had not been born you would have been born from another man and woman tho men who conduct questions and answers departments in newspapers for the purpose of readers d sired information will tell you also that all of this Is old stuff for them and if you compiled a book of questions from the inquiries that come to them and apply a test from it to the wisest men in the world it would probably result in a grade ot minus zero here Is what one of them haa been called upon to answer what Is the beat thins I 1 can do when X want to do and don t know what it Is I 1 have a radio but it abunda spooky what ahall I 1 dot why are we in america instead of europe why doean doesn t president answer ray last three letter how can I 1 apply to the carnee le benevolences for an act of heroism so numerous have the questions and answers books become that the latest development Is to burlesque them perhaps the inspiration for this was the published by IP P A the famous newspaper columnist in his conning tower in the new york world in which the answers were supplied by lorelei of gentlemen prefer blondes tame who started off by answering what was the diet alt worms with the information that it was weeds grass and dirt nt another newspaper humorist has contributed his share to the business of not taking these quizzes too seriously with a foolish question book biere are some of his questions and answers Q what famous tenner president of the united states Is burled in the unit ed states supreme courte A william howard tatt Q do you know what the artist saad when be looked at the newly completed skyscraper and movie A yes harry thaw shot the wron architect Q for what are the ruins of ancient roma noted A fallen arches Q what Is the name of the japanese skirt designer whose influence Is most reflected in present styles A kan U see Q what Is an emir A doe an elan A animals bred exclusively for cross word puzzles Q why did rip van winkle so to the catskill mountains to sleep twenty years A there were no movies in those days Q what was it michelangelo said when he first saw the venus dl milo A give this little girl a band Q what are archives A archives Q what Is necessary in roost states of america to acet a divorce A about 1000 Q what are the six most ing words in the language A what number did you call please Q what Is a FUST A that Is often found in a lute Q what kind of milk Is obtained from contented cows A cows |