Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-29
CAREFUL STUDY
SUREST WAY To
WIN STAR PRIZES
Veteran of Many Guessing Con-
tests Gives Advice Re-
garding Proverbs.
GET AFTER PROBLEMS
LIKE BASEBALL FAN
Sport in Solving Puzzles and
Sport for Someone After
Auto Is Won.

mo man ever pushed himself for
ward by patting himself on thS back!
This sapient saying was originally
voiced by Fra Elbertus, the Sage OF
East Aurora. But a Newarker, with a
disconcerting disregard for plagiarism,
propounded it to an Evening STAR re-
porter today as they stood on the corner
of Market and Broad, discussing 'he
$4,000 Proverb Contest.
"I'll tell you what I think" the
speaker went on. 1.-The whole thing in
this Proverb Contest is not patting
ones self on the back in too much of
hurry. I know how 1t is with me.
look the picture over and say: We'll,
that's a mighty easy one they've got In
tonight Why, l can see through 1t
right away In the other contests
used to write 1t down and let 1t go at
that. Then patted myself on the back
at my shrewdness and waited for the
prize. I was modest, anyway, and
aspired only TO one of the first ten. But
the prizes didn't materialize. That's
why now merely make note of the
proverb when I'm certain I've got the
right one and start all over again.
I've rarely failed to find a guess that
goes my first one better.
Sometimes I'm equally certain I've
found the winner four or five times"
Veteran in Contests.
In the way Of puzzle contests. this
man appeared to be a war-scarred vet
eran. He was as enthusiastic as ever,
but he had learned trick or two by
dint Of much practise. The key to the
successful probing of picture problem.
he said, was the word PERSISTENCY
spelled with a capital and under
scored.
IF you get the puzzle solvers' bee in
your bonnet" he explained, you've got
to get after the thing like a real fan
] mean you've got to make up good
list of the probable answers and then
narrow them down. You've got to ac-
cept suggestions from everyone, get
your friends interested, find out what
they think about difficult picture.
Often a single word will put one right
on the hardest sort of>a proposition.
1t takes sharp wits and quite bit of
digging, I'll admit but then-it's the
best sport going"
He took from leather folder the
three pictures that had already been
issued in the STAR contest.
There they are" he said, patting
them softly.
The reporter suggested that he would
not be adverse to learning what the
correct answer was to Thursdays pic
ture.
Refused to Tell Answer.
''Neyer." was the quick answer. I'm
quite willing to tell you how to go
about finding your own answers, but
when I figure out my own-trust mel
they're going to remain my own until
that Jackson car is mine!"
Thereupon he made a dash for the
Paterson car.
But his point about persistency,
about getting into the contest
early and hanging on until the
end, about letting nothing get past
one in the way of hints from friends or
ideas suggested by discussing the
proverbs with whomever happens to
be interested, is sound advice. It is as
true, if not as spectacular, as the
famous orphic he so unblushingly ap-
propriated.
The big Jackson machine and the
Ford runabout, the piano players, the
pianos. the gems, the furniture and the
gold pieces, loom so large on the
horizon just now, that the contest is
bound to be battle royal of wits. Get
in the contest early and have the paper
sent to your home regularly, so that
you will have the proverb pictures each
day as they appear.