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Show 1 I h v andHerrick at. Lindbergh List J ' i Le BorgeFAirdrome r t r l' lie 4ii THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER. UTAH T w rc& , TT1"" ? ,5 I yi 1 I 1 VA- - VI the b A ' tef ' just rcceivod from Vrl. hImws liuuriet DirJnmie hy Col. Toll ' l S I C.tmn Undlwgli with Ambaalor Ilcrn,k ih(ilo5r;'.i'!i, M;u-elnt;- otlioer. Md- "- hoi g08 es. Fast Cruiser Memphis Brings Lindbergh Horns cts irons: f0 last ffler IWmfkmli WMWffi wn IN i turn ii M V 7 weed sumi lierri li M A Si. J n ft." I Answer Quiz z or rKirss: I n ZZZ7 alj X catioS 11 ;J l 1 eber, it CN9X Answer 1 be ity at ' A rm? iv-;. i-- J hlch thi Guess p. IP A hum 4 ;t!oi -- K V x eke: that it I L.r.r j- ght iliotosraph of the U. S. S. Memphis, ;e of Its Sliced. pai!j that vlP Arf&& Of .. dmr dirt Ii WfttX,-;.:-. 7 fc.'W JS. - . hmi IM the Machine age. Man Is merely inventing ways to exercise his mind," says another. "The craze Is perfectly sired Information will tell you als natural and ns old as the oldest that nil of this Is "old stuff" for them games," says still a third. "It is not and If you compiled a book of quesa higher but a broader form of mental tions from the Inquiries that come to them and apply n test from it to tlttf puzzle. activity than the cross-worThe pursuit factor the desire of the wisest UU'll In the world It would hunter to achieve a certain end is probably renult In a grade of minus perhaps not so strong, but many of zero. Here Is what one of them has the books help to supply this by giving been called upon to answer: the rating of some celebrity ns a What la the best thing 1 can d when I want to do something and don't mark for us to shoot at." As for the value of the game, here know what It Is? I have a radio but It sounds spooky. are the opinions of the experts: "It What shall I do? will not harm anybody nor do nnybAdy Why are we, In America Instead of much good." "It Is Interesting but Europe? Why doesn't President Coolldge anunimportant psychologically." "It Is swer my last three letters? a new outlet for the mental energy of How can I apply to the Carnegie man when he Is denied an outlet for benevolences for an act of heroism? his physical energy." One psychiatrist So numerous have the questions and a psychiatrist, you know, Is a prac- answers books become that the latest tical psychologist sees In the fad a development Is to burlesque them. certain value In helping us overcome Ferhaps the Inspiration for this was the Inferiority complex and, in ex- the questionnaire published by F. V. plaining why, he makes use of the A., the famous newspaper columnist newest pet word of the psychologists In his "Conning Tower" In the New Sympathy is feeling for York World in which the answers empathy. a thing, but empathy Is feeling Into were supplied by Lorelei of "Gentlea thing to such an extent that you men Prefer iSlondes" fame, who started become part of that thing yourself. off by answering "What was the Diet So Mr. Average American gets a lot gf Worms" with the Information that of empathy out of this popular diver- it was "Weeds, grass and dirt" "HI" sion. When he sees that some promPhillips, another newspaper humorist inent citizen has made a grade of has contributed Tils share to the busi70 or 80 per cent In one of these ness of not taking these quizzes too quizzes and then goes ahead and seriously with a "Foolish Question makes ns good a grade or even a bet- liook." Here are some of his quester one, he feels that he Is just as tions and answers: smart as the prominent citizen and Q. What famous former President of Is therefore one of the "best minds" the United States Is burled In the UnitA- ed States Supreme court? Wiland a "great thinker." Howard Taft. As a matter of fact this questions liam Do you know what the Q. and answers business Is "old stuff." said when he looked at the newly artist comThey used to do It away back In the pleted skyscraper and movie palace? nation-wid- e A. Yes. Thaw shot the wrong But the commercializing of It did not Middle ages. liut how different the architect.""Harry of those are from the quizzes days Q. For what are the ruins of ancient come about untir two graduates of Amherst college, Luclen Ksty and ones of today Is shown by the follow- Rome noted? A. Fallen arches. Q. What Is the name of the JapaJustin Spafford, began asking each ing examples from a list compiled by nese skirt designer whose Influence r other another as a while some of the learned men of the Is most reflected in present styles? A. to the Twelfth Fourteenth Osal Kan In century: New York, they were loafing around Q. What Is an emir? A doe? An out of a Job. They were the first to Why dirt Ood not will that man elan? A. Animals bred for exclusively be should once a commercial see the week? hungry only possibilities of a cross word puzzles. Answer: Hunger Is one of the punish book of questions and answers and Why did Rtp Van Winkle go tn monts brought on man by the aln of theQ. Oatsklll mountains to sleep twenty how good their guess was Is shown Adam. years? A. There were no movies In What makes beasts go mad? by the fact that they have already days. Answer: Looking at a certain atar those received royalties on nearly two hunQ. What was It Michelangelo said In the east on the twenty-flrs- t of day when he first saw the Venus dl Milo dred thousand copies of their book. the March moon. A. Give this little girl a hand.' "When will it end?" There is just If my father and mother had never Q. What are archives? A. Archives. how one answer to that. "Ask Me Anshould I have been born? existed, Q. What Is necessary In most states The Answer: number of living being's of America to other." get a divorce? A. About was foreseen from all eternity; y l,fl00. "Why do they do It?" Since the If your father and mother had Q. What are the six most exasperatpsychologists started this thing, let not been born, you would have been ing words In the Knglish language? A. them answer that question. ;'It results born from another man and woman. "What number dirt ynu call, Q. What Is a IUff? A. Something that The men who conduct questions and from the fag and fatigue of modern answers .departments In newspapers Is Q.often found In a lute. life. It Is simply a nw form of stimuWhat kind of milk Is obtained lation," says one. "It Is a product of for the purpose of giving readers de from contented cows? A. Cow's. SCOTT WATSON. T DIDN'T do Mr. Average American much good to find out what was a three-lette- r wrord meaning "A species of ox found In Central Asia" word or another three-lette- r meaning "An Arctic diving bird, now extinct," because no sooner had he enlarged his vocabulary to proportions In his efforts to solve the cross-worpuzzle than along came this "Ask Me Another" craze to torment his mind with Its Impudent demand for a type of Information which he had never been called upon to furnish before and to make hlra realize just how little he did know and how uncertain be was about what he thought he knew. Of course, he still Is working cross-wor- d puzzles but he Is not doing It so feverishly as he once did. Just now he Is pretty much occupied with "Whaddya know?" "What's the answer?" "Now I'll ask one," "Quiz," "Ask Me Another," "What do YOU know?" and "Questions." Since the questions and answers Above Is a sketch of the distinguished Is the fad of the hour it Is game flying cross, new American decoration, appropriate enough to ask a question awarded to Captain Lindbergh. He or two about the fad Itself. How did gets the first one of these crosses It start? When will It end? Why made. The medal la of bronze sus- do they do It? What Is Its value? napended from a silk ribbon of the there are probably as many Although tional colors. It Is a simple cross on answers to these questions as there d a which Is superimposed are persons who would attempt to airplane propeller projecting slightly answer them, as good a guess as any beyond the ends of tne cross. In the Is that this whole business of Interangles of the cross are sun rays, rogation started when psychology gave forming a square typifying the splen- to the world the Intelligence test and dor and glory of the deed for which out of that product of the scientific the cross Is awarded. laboratory developed this popular and By HIS FLYING CROSS cf Triumph M home was selected 'to bring Cait. Charles Lindbergh ' Lindbe rgh's Smile 31 b a light cruiser ..I. ELMO I d d PI if ' tier l ier Sol ' w 4 four-blade- TO BE DRY CZAR pi fT"1 time-Kille- U-s- it - waj '""'"Kl'i'llll I h fait. "e - t y-- t. M B ( (.,,,! (M,nrl,o I In.lKnrch liprn Of tlie nOHStop flight to his boyki, 8llliie that wreathed his face nt the completion of (,f i Wearing Legion K umiTmr'SnTr'- of Honor Medal ""wi cr 'if - i ' A 1 V """'T n conse-fluentl- First Idea of Reaper The first practical reaping machine was Invented by T!ev. Patrick P.ell, of Carmyllle, Forfarshire, Scotland, In 1iS2f, five years before Cyrus II. .4 HonU-- u'IIk "fii-- i' I. ii... , ,,.. "'""'i', Mm f.i..... !. ....i,i..r i,,! mi bis breast. 01...110 i..wn .N nf conited i : Hit medal of S.ntiiolir Lowumn. former nut governor of New York, who .8 of the treasury l 0 Habitant secretary to succeed In cliiir;:c of prohlbiilon, Lincoln '. Andrews, August I. brought forth bis notable device. Fell was a farmer's son. and though he bended for the ministry early, he continued his Interest in the farmers' problems and at odd times worked on bis device In the hope that be might take off the fanners' shoul- - ders the tabor of harvesting praln by a primitive process. His reaper operated a series of scissors fastened on the knife board, and while It was successful In a measure, McCormlck's reaper was so mucTi more einctent the pastor's device never won much prominence. Detroit News. Sheep Growers' Handicap In Australia conditions for sheep raising are so Ideal that shrinkage !' Ilthf. The Ohio re-IIn this country produces as good wool as Is grown on anywhere. The sheep growers In the western range slaves have hardships to overcome in the way of climatV conditions that handicap them Find Coolness in 1 unne!x The people of Azz'zla, a desert Vila gc In Tripoli, north Africa, 'nr forced to live In underground dwell-ingsreached by tunnels through the rocks, In order to withstand the t of l.'Jfi decrees Fi:hriid.-..lt'ays the Dearborn Independent. , ( |