Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-09
Mr.. Edison S Second Sbh,n.

| IA R. EDISON is cat it, again. The
| MI papers burst upon a contented world
with one hundred and fifty more
| questions from the wizard of Orange anu
now for the next few weeks children and
friends will be storming us with annoying in
quiries in regard to the life of Genghis Khan,
| the location of the Great Wyoming Valley,
and the uses of rawhide and oakum.
Can nothing stop this man? 1t seems but
yesterday when the country was in such a
| turmoil as not even the Dempsey Carpenter
| fight or the Stillman divorce case caused, and
all because Mr.. Edison asserted that the col
lege graduate was more or less of nlncom-
poop, and sought to prove it by stump1ng
him with query in regard to the compost
sition of shellac. For time we pitied the poor
olege graduate, especially those who must
apply for job at the Edison laboratories
and be greeted with the inquisitive remark,
do you know what baking powder is made
of?' And then the object OIL our pity shifted
nearer home. The edison QUESTIONABLE
began to be reprinted more widely than quo
tations from main Street." Annoying peo-
pie approac d us with lengthy clippings al :
shouted il our ears, What country owns the
Mauritius IsIanus?" When we confessed to
ignorance ard sought to wave them away in
the direction of the encyclopedia, they were
not satisfied, but sought from us information
concerning the elements of ammonia. The
thing grew unbearable, for Mr. Edlso- imme
dlately had his imitators, who sought t. go
him one better by drawing up QUESTIONABLE
even more unanswerable than his own. Life
at this stage, seemed either choice of
hermitage or a course at the University Sum-
mer School, INTERPRETATION over short
skirts started, the Legislature net, America
won golf tournament or something or other
happened which caused the Edison question
naire to disappear quickly from sight and al
lowed the poor intellectually unemployed to
go meekly and thankfully on his way.
pJ1f met h0O n
hope that he would have no more mental
worries than the first of the month generally
brings about, Mr.. Edison again manifests
savage curiosit. In the words of the New
York Herald she has dug up an entirely
fresh set of weird queries to test the intel
lectuals of our college youth. In a renewed
effort to demonstrate lis assumption that
college boys don't know enough to come in
out of the rain he invites Stephen Sap to
solve anothe one hundred and fifty problems
of human eXperience-history, current events,
dash of science, a Whit of geogra-
ply. A former Princeton student,
with three years experience at Old Nassau,
batted against the latest Edison question
and whiffed-struck out completely. Out of
the full set Of one hundred and fifty handed
to him with the dctum that there could be
only one session and that no longer than
forty-five seconds could be INDUCED in per
question, he solved, or thinks he solved,
ninety. The rest he knows he muffed. That
would give MIN an average OIL .oU, WHICH is
pretty low ranking by Mr.. Edison's stand
ards. He carried way one hun
dred and twenty-one of the little puzzlers
partly . memory and partly by jotting down
memorandum "
The Heral4 reproduces the one hundred
and twenty-one, but thei gentle reader need
have no fear that all of them will be printed
here. For a sample we snatch few at ram
dom from the list:
"What is the hardest substance known?
Bound Finland.
"Who was Mollie Pitcher?
"Why does the shape Of the moon vary at
different times Of the month?
who was Liebeg?
'In going from east to west do you set
your watch forward or back?
Name four birds which migrate from the
Arctic to South America seasonally.
where does camphor come from?
"Who was the wife of Napoleon Third?
"Wherc is the Liberial desert?
What is ginseng and where does it come
from?
where is the Cow desert?
What ,e Humboldt sinks and why are
they called 'sinks?'
what is chewing gum made from?
"Why can't egg, be boiled on top of Pixies
Peak?
Name four tribes Of Indians living Oh the
Mexican border in the United States.
Estimate the cost of shipping a carload
of oranges from California to Chicago?
Where is Wrangel Land?
"Who was ThemistOcles?
what is an atol?
"Why does the eyetall contract and ex-
pand?
What is chalk?
what is meant when"
But truly, this is enough! In some of his
questions Mr.. Edison is truly fiendish in his
lmplicity-simplicity which cannot be an
swered. The few given here are by no
means the hardest. But we shall stop with
them. Soon enough, fears, the entire
one hundr and fifty will be going the
rounds and again the serious consideration
of leading hermit's life will loom on the
mind of the average citizen. In the latter S
behalf let us petition Mr.. Edison to call a
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