Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-17
EDLSON,S QUESTIONS CREATE
WORE COMMENT HANTREATY.
By ROBERT G. BENCHLEY
Associate Editor of "Life"

LEASED Wire Service to The Journal)
Copyright, 3921.)
NEW YORK, May 1.-THE list OF
hestions put by Thomas A. Edison
applicants for jobs in his electrical
orkS have caused more talk during
q past week than Germany ac-
ptance of the treaty terms. Three
urthS of the population OF the coun-
y has become incensed at finding
t how little it knows.
81 Families have been broken up over
q question or where our laundry
&achines come from, and hot words
i've been passed between friends in
*guments as to who was emperor OF
&eXico when Cortes l2nGS" one
S omitted to make funny COM
nation crack about the inventor of
e cotton gin and prohibition.
And yet, after ALL young man
Drking for Mr.. Edison who could
&Swer all these questions would be
distinct addition to the personnel of
lie shop. Not only could he tell Mr..
bison himself what the answers are,
1t he would be invaluable to send
1t as a representative of the COM
Sny on repair jobs and the like.
Supposing, for instance. a tele-
some call came, as they must often
me, to the Office of the Edison COM
my, in which the following service
rs asked for:
A'Hello, Edison company? Well, this
H. K. Rasher, of 1845 Merrybell
8enue. Our dining room buzzer is
1t of order. Can you send a man
ght around to fix it, one who knows
here Spitzbergen is, if possible? If
|u haven't a man who knows where
hitzbergen is, send one who can tell
b from what part of the north At
ntic we get Goldfish"
$50 the young man who answered
! the questions correctly is sent to
IS Merrybell avenue. He is greet
by Mrs. Rasher, who asks him If
is the man who came to fix the
Zzer.
fYes, madam" he replies, "and, in
fentally, .et me TELL you that Scion
s an Athenian law-giver."
Mrs. Rasher comedies this and
lows the young man to the dining
pm.
'Could I borrow an axe?" he in
Tres. Not that 1 need one to nix
q buzzer, but in order to get the
hversation around to axe handles
Id give me a chance to tell you that
fkory is an excellent wood for max
b them"
Fl heard different" says Mrs Rash
81 heard it was ash"
'We'll let that pass" replies the
lung man, land compromise on
freeing that the shellac On your
or was derived from a resinous
distance exunded from an East In
N scale insect. Am I right?"
Right is no name for it," says
IS. Rasher. Now fix the buzzer,
base"
So the successful contestant crawls
Sder the table and puts his finger
the defunct button.
FITS a funny thing" he calls out,
ut James J. Hill was often called
lie Father of American Railways,
d here I am fixing a buzzer. And
the way. I'll bet if some one told
h to go to the store and buy a
kchine for cutting facets on dia-
binds, you wouldn't know what to
x for. Well, 1 would"
fYou fix that buzzer first" Mrs.
sher might reply.
$There seems to be something
Fong with it," says the expert, cit
int ring when you press it. 1 never
It so little response in anything be-
Re. And, speaking of felt, what do
IL suppose felt hats are made Of?
ree gueses, now, Mrs. Rasher, and
you guess right I'll tell you what
lsical instrument 1 play and not