Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-30
ELEPHANT WILL
MAKE FARE WELL
TOUR Of NAT ION
"oId John" Veteran With
Ringing Brothers Circus,
VIII Go on Pension List
Next November.
(By The Associated PressD

Chicago, July 20 (by the AS
sociated Press) Having trooped
more than 100000 miles, visited
every state in the union, and de-
svoured peanuts from Australia TO
England, "Old john" veteran Oh
the Ringing Brothers and Bar
mum and Bailey's so elephants
is about to enter upon the last
half of his farewell tour. For
following the shows return to It's
bridgeport, Conn, winter quar-,
tiers next November, John Will
be placed on the pension list.
The veterans full name Is
John L. Sullivan"--a title at
tached to him when the famous
pugilist was in his heydey and
when the elephant donned the
feathers and boxed with the ola
Forepaugh show. 1t was WIN
this circus that John toured the
antipodes. Subsequently he went
TO Europe under the tutelase OF
George Denman, the famous ele-
phant trainer and finally came
into the hands of the Ringlings'
For the last ten years John has
been "merely a working ele-
phant,' other and moro agile
pachyderms having taken his
place in the rings.
His farewell tour will be the
most extensive he has yet made.
1t has already covered $4,000
miles. Upon the shows depar-
ture from Chicago this week,
John and his hig-eared pals VIII
travel through the Canadian
northwest, down the Pacific coast,
troop through the entire south
west and following a 10000 mile
.finish," bring his touring record
to better than a million and a
quarter miles. During Johns SER
vice with the circus 1t is estimat-
ed that he has had enough water
carried to him by the small boys
of America to supply a city OF
average size for a day, and con-
sumed fully a hundred tons OF
COOLERS.
A substantial looking stranger
entered the employment division
offices OF a large industrial plant
located In one of the satellite
towns which adjoin Chicago. He
did not look like a, seeker of EN-
ployment and was accompanied
by one of the plant executives,
whom he was chatting with on
easy terms. Nevertheless, as the
executive busted himself about
other matters, the stranger con-
fronted one of the young women
who acted as interviewers of en-
ployment seekers, according to
her story. and asked permission
TO take the intelligence test.
When he had written the answers
TO the questions on the examina-
ton form he stuffed it in his
pocket. Don't you want me to
score your tests?" asked the young
woman.
ooh, no, I Just wanted to see
what the test was like" he re-
piled with an air of assurance
and walked off.
II wouldn't have let him go
without scoring him." said an
pther interviewer, who had OBJ
served the unusual proceedings.
Later it developed that the stran-
ger was Whiting williams, indus
trial investigator and author Of
"Whats on the Workers Mind"
"The result of the tests is
sometimes a revelation" said the
Interviewer who had given Mr..
Williams an intelligence test, but
had missed the chance of actu-
ally rating his mentality. For
example, a simpering young thing
of shallow appearance comes in.
poses, powders her. nose and then
answers questions correctly in
record time. A sober, steady
looking applicant, on the other