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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-07-18
To Act on Invitation.

In widening its clientele at home the
Red Cross will adhere strictly to its
policy of extending service to a family
only in response to an invitation from
1t. 1t is not contemplated that h Rec
Gross will of itself originate contact
with any family or go where 1t Is I'M
welcome. The same principles of serv-
ice found so successful in helping the
families of soldiers and sailors will be
applied.
Division offices and National Head
Quarters will go on helping Home Serv-
Ice Sections to develop and to maintain
a high standard of work. Accurate in
formation will be furnished by them on
all governmental activities. Advice and
guidance will be accorded with the
clear understanding, however, that the
fullest measure of local autonomy is
always necessary and desirable.
There is so much tc be done in every
community that they are especially
cautioned against duplicating activities
which other organizations are carrying
on. even though in a small way. 1t is
anticipated that Home Service Sec
tons will study the local conditions
rather thoroughly before they make
a%pnlication to extend their work.
The whole attitude of the responsible
Red Cross officials is to go slowly and
surely and to build on a solid founda-
ton Of past experience. Before any
Horne Section will be authorized to
proceed on an enlarged program they
will want to know how permanent and
genuine is its desire and how able it is
to swing the new job. A passing en-
thusiasm will not be sufficient to con-
vince them.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-07-18

Rooms and board furnished, $3.50 per day
or SIS per week. Rooms adjoin bath. Mrs.
Hart, 224 E. Burk avenue.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-07-18

thofYzed to enlarge its work it will be
given authority to use for the enlarged
Home Service any funds in the Chapter
treasury, now set aside for Home Serv-
ice, and the Chapter Executive Com
mittee may also appropriate for this
purpose any unencumbered funds
which it has.
These funds will be available for
financial assistance and any kind of
service for families and for operating
expenses of the Home Service Section.
Home Service funds will not be avail
able for building or operating hospitals,
orphanages or other institutions or for
substituting the work of other o%rganiza-
lions
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-07-18

Opportunity-French tutor from New York,
rapid conversational method, private lessons,
classes. Inquire office.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-07-18

Lost-Black bathing SUIT on Wildwood ave
nue.. Finder please return to Boyer's news
stand.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-07-18

For Sale-Bed springs, wash stands, dishes
cooking utensils, household articles OF all
kinds, bath tubs, water heater and boiler,
Kings Storage House, 16 w. SchellengeI
avenue. Open Saturday all day.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-07-18

\ the gracY6us MIS-. Edgerton.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-07-18
MORE WORK FOR
Home SERVICE
IN PEACE Time
Red Cross Department Enlarged
TO Handle Problems of
Community Life.

Red Cross Home Service is to con-
tinue and to expand. This decision
was reached by the Red Cross after a
very thorough and searching process
of stock-taking as to what Home Serv-
ice has been doing and can do and
after numerous conferences of Red
Cross officials representing all parts Of
the Red Cross organization and all
parts of the United States.
At a recent conference of Division
Directors Of Civilian Relief impressive
evidence was offered on the desire OF
Home Service Sections to extend to
any family the same kind of neighbor-
ly service and counsel as they had
been extending to soldiers and sailors
families.
There were also numerous requests
TO launch out on many other kinds of
service. This desire to go on was par
ticularly characteristic of those Home
Service Sections in places which have
no other social service agencies.
Demand for Extension.
For the first time these people a
realized what it means to rally all of
the community's forces for well-being
and to bring them into operation for
the benefit of families in difficulty, and
they see no reason why this should be
confined to the families of soldiers and
sailors. This demand from the
try at large constituted the determin-
ing factor in the decision of the Red
Cross officials to continue Home Serv-
ice.
In putting this decision into effective
practice the Red Cross officials are es-
peclally concerned to see that the serv-
ice to soldiers and sailors families
shall in no way be impaired.
The Red Cross is committed to COM
plete responsibility for the welfare of
those families; they are regarded as a
primary patriotic obligation upon its
sourc of service and of funds.
These officials are, therefore, asking
such Home Service Sections as desire
to expand their service to put their
cases before their Division Director of
Civilian Relief.
He will then pass upon their appli-
cations to make sure that each n is
meeting every reasonable expectation
with regard to its present responsible
ties and is equipped to perform -addi-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

A more intelligent selection Of stu.
dents. it is expected. will be tho big
result Of the new experiment. A stu.
dent might fail Of his entrance exani.
nations because of the grouping Of a,
certain list of questions on which he
might fall down." whereas in his gen.
eral high school work and previous
scholastic record he might be fitted all
the time to enter upon a broader field
OF education. In the old days a stu.
dent might maintain a fair average
on his daily %recitations throughout a
term and yet fail on the list of. oues.
tons propounded in the final examina.
ton that was to decide his fitness TO-
promotion. Apropos OF the psyche.
logical tests, the Engineering News
Record says: 1T is to be expected that
engineering colleges all over the coun.
try will follow in the adoption of tests
Of the new type in order to determine
those qualities Of general .intelligence
and maturity Of mind which in thu
last analysis make a given students
career in college valuable both to him.
self and for the future OF his profes.
sion."
Whether or not we agree with the
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

This old sold.=i wouldn't scale
above low ordinary in the brain sps.
cialtst's examination.
"Alertness Of mind, education, count
for much, but clear thinking counts
for more.
This does not mean there is no
worth in the test Major Yerkes be-
lieves in. but it does mean that It Is
not a safe or accurate gauge"
The psychological test also has been
proposed as a medium for testing the
young man about to m%atriculate at a
college. Indeed. Columbia, IN New
York. proposes to initiate this system
at the beginning of the new college
year this fall. 1t is proposed to elimi.
nate the old entrance examination sys.
tenn and substitute instead the psy.
Geological tests patterned after those
used In connection with the students
army training corps. but designed def.
nitely to test the applicants fitness
for continuing academic work. Dean
Hawkes. says. I'VE expect these tests
to show us whether 1t will be worth
u while to try to educate the stu.
dent and whether it will be worth
his while tON have us try"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

THE soldier who, in thejudgment Of
many impartial military students. was
The greatest general in our Civil War,
had difficulty in writing his name or in
reading the printed word. He would
have been classed deficient by Major
Yerkes's test.
one of the ablest reporter. New
YORK ever has had rarely wrote a story.
lie got all tangled up when he took
pencil in hand, or set forninst a type-
writer, yet he would go out on a story
get every essential fact and Telephone
the>details so well and I n suchfperfect
order that his worth was greater than
that OF a gifted writer. He would have
funked II subjected to the MajoTf's test.
New College Tests.
Lieutenant George r. jackson de.
clares that tho most capable soldier
he came in contact with in France was
a sergeant. He also says he told this
sergeant he. the sergeant, should rank
above him and that he was qualified to
command a regiment, far better quail.
fled than various commanders jackson
had seen.
The sergeant, who had been in the
service long, said hs preferred to re
main as he was. Il make 'em and I
break EN- he said. referring to the
officers above him. AS for myself. I
prefer to remain a SARGE
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

'ouo speaking telephones, 1o4 in mum.
per- located all over the snip. From
three different transmitting ..~ta+,on,
Tue ousle calls Or other instruction..
can be sent to all or any n q, A..
different groups Of these Telephones.
The electrical equipment q, +ho ~,
dreadnousht includes: Two Lain r.,.
orators. $4,000 horsepower: io,r ma.
tors for propelling, $4,000: sir av,..
mos 5000; SIX air compres.or.. 4oo.
Two ~ pumps. eighty: twenty
motor generator sets totalin, .,u...
.oo' lo4r boat crane motors. 2ao.
TWO anchor motors. ESQ: four winch
n.o.ofs totaling 200: twenty TURF,
.notors' 1900; ten ammunit,on ha,...
. .,vi. 1--we refrigerator motors, rorty:
sA. motors in kitchen. nfteen -,
poeatoes. mix dough ana M. -.
w.sn dishes. cut butter, mai. sss
etean' meat grinder. ali hr..s u.
n.n... baked electrically,; six in -.
ssas shop. twenty: ten in ~.
.nop. 'nirty; six in laundry nv e
sa..les use electric heatl. tsn. ~
,o,,rts.a IN print shop totalin. y.
.Sur.esn pumps water. 10. az;
Sa. pumps. eight; nifty eiec,,,. Tour
.oo thirty; twelve sssreh,s.. -
h,a ~ addition there are 100 f.,.
blowers. SIX electric $500. lam sixty
VIC percolator. fifteen e,.a. one sisc
.v1 oud speaking telephons. ifoas.
service telephones, l7o - a7s'shiD
sslephones. two Spsrrv .1aa control
scopic compasses. seven nss. syes.
sl.e.s,e ., .o,s I've electric Flu. Dot.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

her close to 10000, 900 miles, or a dis.
lance equal to eighty times to tho
moon. But a s2.ooo.ton battieship does
not equal the mileage CT q hivver, for
it weighs as much as 10000 Of those
vehicles, and must pillow through the
water. displacins her own weight
Of water each time she runs ner own
length, ga feet. Tho cost of fuel 1,
more important on shipboard than on
land. and this is emphasized by the
fact that on a 2000-mils trial trip alone
she will displace moro than o 900
tons Of water.
II the New Mexico wishes to throw
a smoke screen the men in the fre.
room merely turn q few tiny hano
valves in q duarterinch pipe and,
presto! inky blackness will vomit from
the single smokestack and blacxen vast
sen areas This Is a very nice study
OF how different mechanical mixtures
Of oil and air will bring about different
chemical combinations between oil and
oxygen. One of these combinations
eliminates smoke by ~etfectins almost
perfect combustion; while the other
creates . heavy black smoke which
will practically blindfold the enemy.
And threa little quarterinch pipes in
each boiler are all that are needed to
do this,
It Is said that no other 3s.0oo.ton
battieship has AZ few ~ nine beliefs.
There are three boiler rooms. each in
= separate compartment. and each
room contains three large boilers.
Each OF these nine boilers can deliver
over 1000 horse power and contains
tisrsss miles Of tvo.inch seamless pipes.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

concerns were changing hands to
meet some phase or the wars de.
mands., From making one product
that had been their hobby for years
many a concern turned to making
some war product. :,
High wages were the lure. too, that
, attracted many a man who before
the war had been a success in some
other trade or profession. A story to
the point concerns a workman who
applied to a master millwright for q
Job as a helper. Millwr1ghts and as
ststants were in great demand. So
with little inquiry the man was put
to work. Within five minutes it was
evident that he was not fitted for the
job, but on being reproached for his
false representations he coolly re-
Piled that he had come for the Job
because the scale Of wages offered had
attracted him. And he held on to the
job until he had learned the business
because there was a scarcity of mill.
wrlghts and assistants and the fore
man had to have men.
Labor Turnover in War
It is said tens Of millions of dol
lars were lost by the government last
year due to the waste Of labor and
material, and due primarily to the
i~ncorapetency Of unframed employees.
The one great object was to win the
war, and to that end all resources,
We're trained, even though it meant
that thousands of men had to be
broken in on new jobs and paid fabu-
lous wages in order to keep them on
the joo. In the case Of the great
Hog island shipyard it has been held
that the yard cost many millions
more than it would have cost in pre-.
war or postwar days. But Hog
Island was a vital factor in winning
the war because Of the stimulus It
gave the whole war program. and.
better yet, because of the advan.
tageous position it gave America to
take a commanding place in the poSt.
war s%hipbuilding program now at
hand and the maintenance of America
In the worlds merchant marine leader.
ship.
But now that the war is over the
wedding out process is at hand. The
unskilled mechanic or laborer who
earned the highest wage he had ever
drawn In his pay envelope must now
prove his competence. Business.
taking a u from the government.
proposes to apply the same measures
for the development Of competency as
the army and navy employed during
the war. The psychological tests for
rating army men according to their
natural ability and inherent talent are
suggested to captains Of industry and
big business men as q logical instru.,
ment for the elimination OF the men.
tally unit, and It Is held on this score
that the utilization Of such methods
. veritabls survival OF the fittest.s
would save time and money.
Army tests developed the astouisb.
ing fact that Of those examined.
nearly As per cent fell below the
average Intelligence Srads. Major
aarE 49,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08
Uncle Sans First 100 Per Cent Electrical Warshin

'T'HE battleship New Mexico is the
pride Of the United States navy,
and her electric drive is the pride Of
the New Mexico. This S.,test leviathan
weighs $4,000 tons and requires 3d.
600 horsepower or me horsepower
per tols If represented In a bar Of
iron weighing one pound to the foot,
it would form a band Of iron. from
the North to the South Pole with
enough in addition to reach from
Maine almost to the borders of Flor
ida. She is so huge tkat Il requires
ten tugs to push lier from her pier
IN Brooklyn Navy Yard out into the
East River. From the platform called
the Crows nest" at the top Of the
mast down to the level Of the water
is 100 feet. o equal ia height to :
ten.story building.
Like everything else that 10 cleo.
trical, he New Mexico Is the cleansst
institution Of her kind. There are no
engines or turbines connected with the
propeller shafts-only motors. There
are no CRATES under the boilsrs-foF-
merly oil burners. There n not = coal
or ash shovel on the ahip, nor IRE
there any cinders. smoke. dust, Of soot.
The New Mexico Goals" through i
sixinch hose. that IL because she burns
only OIL Tor her power. The total oil,
capacity OF the dozen or more cam.
p%artrnents II $500 tons q S.soo.1oe
pounds. or nearly q million ssllons, If
the New Mexico wsrs IN a~utosnotiis
With . mileage Of twenty inilss pr
gallon. this anaount d on would drtvs
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

Put end to end the pipes in all min.
boilers would make a seamless tuh.
twenty'seven miles long. The Pennsv,.
vania has twelve boilers and tn. Obi.
homa has twelve. although it's tonna ..
is only 27,5oo.
The history of the steam ena,,.
shows that its inventor James Watt
throughout his entire life opposed n
steam pressure higher than Ave to ran
pounds per square inch. The N.-,
aaexicos boilers supply steam At go
pounds per square inch.
James Watt opposed high ,,..m
pressures practically $50 year. 49,
In about 1896, only twenty-threa va
ago. Rudyard Kipling, in his book
The Seven Seas" spoke of:
THE old fleet engineer
Who started a boiler whelp
When steam and he were ,ow-
Ten pounds was all the pressure th.r
En-, en-, a'man could drive:
And here our working gauges sho~
A hundred fifty-hve,
We're creeping on with each No.,
Less weight and larger power
ThereM be the loco boiler net.
And thirty knots an hour"
And sure enough Kiplins was rich.
he was correct. not only In pred,ct,r.
higher steam pressure. but also IN -.
dictinsl less weight ana larger 49,
The New Mexico 10 vrtuallv ~.
only 100 per cent electric boat. :
VIZ . seen by slancins over. or better
". csIe1uliy reading. the following
,tap1s showing her electrical sauin.
msnt.
fartasalar attention n called "a -.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

Il is held by man Industrial ex.
perts that the war was in an impor.
tart measure. responsible for the In.
crease In industrial incompetency
that developed during the period Of
the war, that the conditions growing
nut Of the war called for the intro
duction Of incompetency in many
1elds. The exigencies Of a state Of
unprcparedness. the taking Of many
gfhousands .of men out Of Industrial
No and their naobilization IN huge
Armies. virtually placed q premium OF
hcumpcteDcs 81 that thousands (.
nen were directed Into new chaI,z.e4
slkSy had never negotiated bets,e
serywhers Tiers was = need Of Insy
wu,nen 70 Ait the places nlads
eaaeps III draft and e~nlistnents.
manv smxr business
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

Robert. M. ,Yerkes. chief Of the Divl
sion Of Psychology, Medical Depart
ment, U. s. A., recently submitted
to the members Of the American In.
stitute of Mining Engineers the fol
lowing table summing up the ratings
and proportions of the men examined
in the army's unique tests:
Very Superior Neutrality-suspicious. to
s per cent of a quota, comprising men
Of marked Intellectually.
Superior lntelligence-Eight to 10
per cent. the men comprising many of
the commissioned officer type and a
large amount Of noncommissioned
officer material.
High Average Neutrality-suspicious.
to Is per cent.
Average NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Is nor
cent, Offering excellent private mate
rial and some noncommissioned officer
material.
Low Average Intelligence-About 20
per cent these men usually making,
good privates and proving satisfactory
in routine work.
Inferior Intelligence-About is per
cent, men likely to prove fair soldiers
but slow in learning and rarely rising
above the rank Of private. Many Tilt.
crate or foreign.born.
Very Inferior Intelligence-The ma.
jortty Of these are below ten years in
mental age.
Among the army professions the en-.
gineer and medical officers rank at the
top in mental a~lertness, while of men
OF other vocations t~elegraphers took a
high standing. Army chaplains also
proved highly intelligent, receiving
high percentages in the language tests
especially. Major Yerkes pointed out
h possibility by use Of the govern.
ment tests in industry, and especially
In mining. of quickly discovering men
whose superior intelligence suggests
their fitness for advancement and Of
men whose low-grade mentality make.
them either a burden or a menace to
industry.
Measuring the Brain
Measuring the brain" was a method
employed in these army tests. 1t was
held that this expedient offered .
means of gauging a mans ability. mo
up-to-date business man." says q writer
on the subject, Should be. without this
great sdjunct to settling definitely the
caliber Of q person about whom you
are doubtful. Is he capable? Time
might demonstrate to your satisfaction
that he a or was not. But why
wxste time or take chances? Send him
in to the professor and have his brain
measured"
To which Commerce and Finance, q
prominent business publication, takes
exception editoriaiiy In the following
terse language:
With all due respect TO Major
Yerkes, we doubt the virtue Of the
bra;n.measuring business. We have
known persons who would score pretty
close to 100 to ,sihom We would not
trust Confederate money, and q fair
number Of slow pokes we might men.
ton have more real senss and ability
than the majority Of asileamindsd men.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-08

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-07
FOR SALE-H0USES.
Continued.

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Park place Sc; two sqs. from
Pa. ave-; practically new semi
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must sell at once. Terms, ST. zoo
cash. Address Box 222-D, Star
office.
EIGHT ROOMS AND BATH; SERVANTS
f is's and Oak =: e Ss"'' s;::; $500:
846 Woodward building.
K ST. Ne: 9 ROOMS AND BATH: H.-w-H.;
p:ia for: bet. 81 and sts, Price; 3, 500 Z
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and go ss or ,o wsa n, sai
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needs paperng; lot l7laxloo IT:
L. 2O7l. NEW SON lilo H ne
PRICE. s.. $50: NEAR SOLDIERS HOME:
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cash; 80 per month;
L. 2o71. NEW SON ITO ne
BRICK Two-FAMILY APARTMENT HOUSE:
64sH ard ct. ne; 1920: easy terms. Apply
OWNER. 1918 9th st. NV.
ONTARIO ROAD. NORTH OF COLUMBIA
road; 10 rooms. bath: parquet floors; built
hall rack and china closet; 2 porches; cement
cellar; laundry tubs. ETC.; vapor heat; cleo
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Near 18th and q SITS. NV; rooms, bath !;
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Brookland: semi-detached frame; porches:
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cars: possession in 90 days; monthly tenant:
price. &, 900: 81 500 cash
Little poultry or truck farm (no buildings) /:
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Apply to OWNER. after pm. 171S Willard
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