Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-11
PROVERb BOARD
HAS TWO WEEKS
HARD WORK AHEAD
Forty-six Correct Answers Best
So Far Found in STARS
Great Contest.


EVENING STARS great proverb con-
test long ago caught the swing OF the
work and is going through the pre-
liminary wedding out process with the
thoroughness and dispatch of deli
cateiy-adjusted machine, so tremendous
is the task before them that two weeks
must elapse before the winners are
announced.
It was impossible to appreciate the
magnitude of the task which confronted
the examiners until the work was
actually under way. The avalanche of
answers which descended upon this
office after the official date of the clos.
ing of the contest was found to have
been made up of over twenty thousand
separate sets of answers. AS each set
contained a minimum of fifty answers
to pictured questions. and great many
OF them the maximum $50 answers,
which II was necessary to examine sep
arately and in turn, an idea of the scope
of the work may be suggested.
To those who are following this ex-
tremely delicate work Of winnowing the
answers for the possible contest win
ners, with the same interest and en-
thusiasm they expended upon the con-
test while the illustrated proverbs were
still running-and what contestant who
has any faith in his or her chances is
not--a few facts which have already
been CLEANED my be worth while.
Already the examiners have gone
through nearly third part of the
mountain of answers. OF the thousands
of packages they have examined they
have found but spare handful which
contained forty-six correct answers to
the fifty proverb tips. A number of
sets containing forty-flve correct an
swers have been found; great many
more containing forty-four and from
that figure down the number of correct
answers has increased by leaps and
bounds. But every one of the fifty i'm
piled questions In the pictures have
been answered correctly scores of
times. Those who were fortunate
enough so far to crack the hard nuts
slipped up on the easy ones and vice
versa
Peculiarly enough the most timely oi
all the fifty tips drew the largest num-
Der Of widely varying answers. ThaS
was the phrase, Rockefeller $500, 900, ,00C
Foundation" When that phrase was
| used in the course of the contest It was
not dreamed that it would admit of sc
many different answers which might
be legitimately suggested by 1t. Sc
wide was the scope of this entry thai
the answers might be roughly divided
into those which approved of and those
which criticised the benefaction. This
proverb has been answered correctly
many times in the packages which have
| already been examined, but the number
of correct answers is proportionately sc
small that il an otherwise perfect
bunch of answers Is found 1t will af.
ford no surprise to the examiners te
find that the Rockefeller proverb an.
swer was wrong.
At this stage of the game 1t would
seem that any contestant who has a
perfect set of answers will easily wir
the first prize without shade of com
petition. That is, 1t seems" remem-
Der. Those things can never be def
nitely guessed In advance. From @
stray hundred answers yet to be ex-
| amined dozen correct sets might be
taken.
But whether or not a correct set oil
answers Is found some one will be sc
nearly right that he or she will wir
the capital prize offered in the STARS
great proverb contest, and a graduated
list of other fortunate contestants will
get all the other prizes. They are well
worth waiting for, and the end is in
sight.