Show I i I i I Doctor Classifies I Puzzle Fiends working workIng working work work- Dont let anybody see you ing Cross Word Vord Puzzles or trying to to answer the ques questions ons in Ask Me 1 Another If you OU are caught at it its you you will be put down as a moron or at least as one who is Is' Is trying to get out of the moron class warns warn Dr Charles Gray Shaw professor of or Philosophy at New York University The liThe person perSall who was addicted to the old Cross Word Vord Puzzle and who has switched to the Ask Me Ie Another Another el er is one who wishes to show sho that he is not in the class of morons This intelligence test Self imposed is something left over from the war When men nten were assembled In camps it was doubtless necessary io to o know how much gray matter was per capita so that there had bad to be bea bEa a measure for the mind as well as drill for the body But Hut there thero I Is no longer that need The Intelligence craze craz is only an all old age-old curiosity and ancestral egotism showing itself in ill the forma form of up psychology Dr Shaw informs Men used to consult consult consult con con- sult the stars to find rInd out how stow the they affected the individuals individual's destiny They looked to prophets with the same confidence that one now puts puliS In la lawyers They went to fortunetellers fortune fortunetellers tellers clairvoyants min readers mind rEaders palmists numerologists and they are still going Ever Everybody body is curious about himself himself him him- self and und what is going on in hl his brain If H It wore not for such such egoistic curiosity the photographers I would starve for tor it is the tho desire to toI 1 seo see how one looks that makes s one I sit for Cor ones one's picture Tho Ask Me Another fad Cad is only a species of or I I mental photography whereby one can see how his bJ brain aln looks The J Continued on page eight I Doctor Classifies Puzzle Fiends Continued from page one question book is only a camera for his mind s Dr Shaw explains that the people who devote their time and energy to tinkering with puzzles and questions questions questions ques ques- have become aware of the fact that there is such a thing as In Intelligence Intelligence Intelligence intelligent quotients i and morons These people have become alarmed at the moronic wave which seems to be sweeping the land and desire to save themselves themselves them them- them them-I selves from it Such people take I i personal pride in being smart bu but t for all that they are evidently I Ion on the defensive and andish wish ish to show I themselves if no one else that they are not mentally inferior It I would show Itself better continues Dr Shaw by having people know hat the news is about not merely what the paper says sars in its current issue issue The well disciplined mind is like a hall through which one passes not an attic cluttered up with odds and ends of miscellaneous ous information Intelligence really I Is something creative and expresses 3 itself through imagination Such imagination he goes on to say figures out a certain certain situation and then looks for tor the facts to corroborate corroborate corroborate orate what it has fancied Professor Sha Shaws Shaw's s 's own test of a persons person's intelligence is expressed in ina a short list of practical question follows Do you ou frequent night clubs Do you rou believe half haIr of what the papers say about Mexico I Did or do you rou you play Mali Mah Jong 1 I Did you you read enough of the Browning case to know who Peaches' Peaches was was vas t DO Vo you ever of or your own freewill free freewill will rem remain ln within earshot of a Do you 1 0 admire the Charley Chaplin Chaplin Chap Chap- lin films Do you ou believe the moon arce affects ts tho eather Do you rou read or look at Tabloids Do you 1 0 I wear wear spats If any person gives assent to the majority of f such questions question's it matters matters mat mat- tel's not l ow high his rating mat mat-I Inthe in inthe inthe the nominal Intelligence test of asking another question Dr Shaw infers that his practical mentality I. I Is decidedly low It Is so low lIe he concludes that mere more rote mem ory which is all the Ask Me Another Another An An- J other lather requires requires cannot redeem him bIm j |