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Show I Chamberlin and Levine Fly to Germany A'HWW.V a s ' i'r Vf f a V - K ''Auvrvyjy ftC Claroace D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine standing befo the Wrlght-Bellanc- a ' their start on the successful nonstop flight from New York to Elsleben, Germany. plane Columbia Just before Cutter Meets a Terror of the Sea It Is reported that Icebergs are more numerous this tion experts are of the opinion that Nungesser and Coll of the sea are little feared by the United States Cutter huge berg. In reality It Is safely behind It This year than they have been for many a year past Navigamay have hit one of these bergs. But these white terrors Modoc which appears as though it Is prepared to ram ths photograph was taken from one of the Modocs 'gigs. Why the Burglar FLIES TO GERMANY Didnt Win The burglar picked the wrong one when he tackled Mrs. Anna Heller of Brooklyn. She knocked him down and called the police. SCOTT WATSON. T DIDNT do Mr. Average American much good to find out what was a three-lette- r word 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 undreamed-of proportions in his efforts to solve the cross-wor- d puzzle than along came this Ask Me croze to torment his mind Another with Its Impudent demand for a type of Information which he had never been called upon to furnish before and to make him realize Just how little he did know and how uncertain he was about what he thought he knew. Of course, he still Is working cross-worpuzzles buj he Is not doing It so feverishly as he once did. Just now be Is pretty much occupied with Whats the anWhadd.va know? Now Ill ask one, swer? Quiz, Ask Me Another," "What do YOU know? and Questions." Since the questions and answers game Is the fad of the hour it is appropriate enough to ask a question or two about the fad Itself. How did It start? When will It end? Why do they do It? What Is Its value? Although there are probably as many answers to these questions as there are persons who would attempt to answer them, as good a guess as any Is that this whole business of Interrogation started when psychology gave to the world the Intelligence test and out of that product of the scientific laboratory developed this popular and By ELMO I d the Machine age. Man is merely inventing ways to exercise his mind," says another. The craze is perfectly natural and as old as the oldest It Is not games," says still a third. a higher but a. broader form of mental puzzle. activity than -- the cross-wor- d The pursuit factor the desire of the hunter to achieve a certain end la 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 at As for the value of the game, here It are the opinions of the experts: will not harm anybody nor do anybody much good. It la Interesting but It Is unimportant psychologically. a new outlet for the mental energy of man wh?n 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 why, he makes use of the newest pet word of the psychologists empathy. Sympathy 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 bet ter 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. . As a matter of fact this questions and answers business is old stuff." They used to do It away back In the nation-wid- e Middle ages. But how different the But the commercializing of It did not of those days are front the come about until two graduates of quizzes shown by the followones of todayTs Amherst college, Luclen Esty and examples from a list complied by Justin Spafford, began asking each ing some of the learned men of the while other another as a time-kille- r Twelfth to the Fourteenth 'century: In New were around York, loafing they out of a Job. They were the first to Why did God not will that man see the commercial possibilities of a should be hungry only once a week? Answer: Hunger is one of the punlsh-ment- s hook of questions and answers and brought on man by the ein of how good their guess was Is shown Adam. What makes beasts go mad? . by the fact that they have already Looking at a certain star received royalties on nearly,! wo hun- In Answer: the east on the twenty-firs- t day of dred thousand copies of their book. the March moon. When will It end?" There is Just and mother mr father had never If one answer to that "Ask Me An- existed, how should I have been born? The number of living beings Answer other. was foreseen from all eternity; conseSince the quently If your father and mother had Why do they do it? psychologists started this thing, let not been born, you would have been them answer that question. It results born from another man and woman. The men who conduct questions and from the fag and fatigue of modern answers departments In newspapers life. It Is simply a new form of stimulation, says one. It Is a product of for the purpose of giving readers de-rt First Idea of Reaper ' The first practical reaping machine was invented by Rev. Patrick Bell, of Cr.nnyllle, Forfarshire, Scotland, In 1820, five years before Cyrus H. McCormick brought forth bis notable device. Bell was a farmer's son. and though be headed for the ministry early, lie continued his Interes n the farmers problems and at odd limes worked on his device In the hope that he might take off the farmers shoul ders the labor of harvesting grain by a primitive process. His reaper op-- , era ted a series of scissors fastened on the knife board, and while it was successful In a measure, McCormicks reaper was so much more efficient the pastors device never won much prominence. Detroit News. 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 of minus zero. Here Is what one of them has been called upon to answer: Wht la tha beat thing I can do when I want to do something and dont know what It la? I have a radio but It sounds spooky. What shall I do? Why are wa In America Instead of Europe? Why doesnt President Coolldg answer my last three letters? How can I apply to ths Carnsgis 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 Clarence D. Chamberlin, pilot of the the questionnaire published by F. P. A the famous newspaper columnist Beilanca monoplane Columbia, in In his Conning 'Tower" In the New vhlcU he made the flight from New York World In which the answers fork to Elsleben, Germany. were supplied by Lorelei of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" fame, who started GETS EPAULETTES off by answering What was the Diet Of Worms" with the Information that It was Weeds, grass and dirt" "HI" Phillips, another newspaper humorist, has contributed his share to the business of not taking these quizzes too seriously with a Foolish Question Book. Here are some of bis questions and answers: Q. What famous former President of the United States Is burled In the UnitA. Wiled States Supreme court? a v liam Howard Taft . Q. Do you know what the artist said when hs looked at the newly completed skyscraper and movie palace? V A. Yea. Harry Thaw shot ths wrong -- r 7 vy ';.- - "'V Wishing Chamberlin Bon Voyage i y architect" Q. For what are the ruins of ancient Rome noted? A. Fallen arches. Q. What Is ths name of the Japanese y friend shaking hands with Clarence D. Chamberlin (in cockpit) Just as the aviator, with Charles A. Levine, started on their nonstop flight from New York to Elsleben, Germany. A skirt designer whose lnfiuenoe Is most refleoted In present styles? A. Osal Kan s. A dos? Q. What Is an emir? An elan? A. Animals bred exclusively for BRINGS LINDBERGH cross word puzzles. Q. Why did Rip Van Wlnkls go to ths Catsklll mountains to sleep twenty years? A. There were no movies In those days. Q. What was It Michelangelo said when he first saw ths Venus dl Milo? A. Give this little girl a hand. Ensign Fred LItty of Kansas City, Q. What are archives? A. Archives. Mo., one of the 525 cadets to graduate Q. What Is necessary in most states of America to geta divorce? A. About from the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, receiving hls epau11,100. lettes from his sweetheart, Doris De-tel- l, Q. What are the six most exasperating words In the English language? A. of Baltimore, Md. "What number did you call, please?" Is RUT? A. a Q. What Something that Is often found In a lute. Unfortunate City Q, What kind of milk Is obtained The city of Hankow has nearly alfrom contented cows? A. Cow's. ways suffered severely at times of Internal disorders In China, owing to anywhere. The sheep growers In ths Its strategical location at the Juncwestern range states have hardships tion of the Han river and the Yangtze to overcome In the way of climatic Klang. During the revolution of 1911 conditions that handicap them some- more than s of the city was . what destroyed by fire, as a result of WON BALLOON RACE v, 'i ' two-third- bom-mrdme- Find Coolness in Tunnels The people of Azzizla, a desert vll lage In Tripoli, north Africa, ar forced to live In underground dwellSheep Grower s? Handicap In Australia conditions for sheep ings, reached by tunnels through the raising are so Ideal that shrinkage Is rocks. In order to withstand the temlight The Ohio region In this country perature of 138 degrees Fahrenheit, produces as good wool as Is grown says the Dearborn Independent Poet Changed Birthday Janies Hogg, the famous poet shepherd of Ettrlck, was bora in the month of November and changed his birthday to that of Robert Burns, Jan 25. - y Capt. II. E. Lackey, commander of the U. S. S. Memphis, the cruiser which brought Capt. Charles Lindbergh home from France. The Goodyear balloon which won the elimination race from a Held of 15 contestants. It flew from Akron, Ohio, to a point In Maine 727 mile away. |