Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-02-21
SANFORD GIRL IS
FIRST IN u. SIN
HIGH SCHOOL TEST.
|Made Perfect Score IN
| Current Events
Contest
.|HOW SOME. GUESSED It
One Said Myron Herrlck
One Said Myron Herrick
Was Head of Brick
Trust

Interest has been aroused during
he past few years over the averages
n the test on current events in every
,art of the United States. The fol-
owing fro mthe New York World Will
,e interesting: |
New York City school children av-
,raged fifty-three correct answers 10
every 100 questions on current eVenos
contained in the second countrywide
Test made by the Review Of Reviews
the results of which have just been
tabulated by the Institute for Punhc
Service. The general average in all
narts of the United States was only
forty-one. $780,.
New York students made particul-
larlv good scores. in Identifying pic
t,,res of men and women prominent
in the current news and in UNDER
stadig the meaning of cartoons on
news subjects.
The questios are sent out twice a
wear to schools of all grades and kinds
to stimulate interest in teaching cur
rent events. Startling as are some
of the answers, they are not as sur
prising as the conditions revealed oy
analysis of the returns as whole
w. C. Blakley of the Institute 1oi
Public Service said yesterday.
i Out of the 19,446 papers recelvec
from all over the United States only
liz contained more than 80 per CEN
Of correct answers, while 1928 chill
dren answered less than 90 per cen
, correctly. Only one out Of the whoi'
9446 got every answer right.
The single 100 per center is Mis-
Pattye Lyles, sixteen years old, o
r Sanford, Florida.
BOYS made better scores than gifl
throughout. Normal school student
did little better than high school BOY
and girls. One normal school VIII
s 535 students averaged only 70 pc
cent of correct answers. The last IN
= cord was made by seventh graz
r class of forty three pupils in a D
h 7 ouis school. They averaged S2 pei
e cent.
# Here are some of the answers
a the question: "Give one fact abo'
It each of the following persons, snow
II ing why they are now prominent
1t current history" =,
Myron T. Herrick. Head OF u
lg brick trust.
10 Christy Mathewson. Headed an e
al pedition to the South Pole.
"a Lloyd George. King OF Englan
D. Also King of France.
William E. Borah. The Senat
u who voted against everything.
"a SHINES. Head of the Ku Klux kla
It. Volstead, The greatest killer
all spirits. am
a Charles G. Dawes, Andrew Nell
nd and WEI H. Hays were all indentih
al, as head of the American Federatl
hit of Labor, while Sameuel Gompers "
declared to be Postmaster General
,ce Fifty per cent of the children KIN
de of H. G. Wells, but nearly all lden
,in fed him as ga newspaper report'
ere instead of as the writer OF the ~
line of History"
The best known man was Gene
Pershirg and the next best Kno
Az Lloyd George. The least known
Hugo SHINES.
,ral Fifty per cent thought Wood1
'ars Wilson signed the peace treaty
ma One youngster named urbaine
lew doux ,"Mr. Zero" as chairman OF
IAN Unemployment Conference.
. In Guesses at the name OF tne
,ivic woman in congress ranged from I
onlI,aw to "Mrs. Katz"-1presumably
8 in tended for Mrs. Carrie Chapman {
ngs- More girls than boys knew
en-. name Of, the stariin the motion pic
the "Three Musbedeers." One iden'
veral him as "Mary Picldord's husband
SIT is plain" said Mr.. Bladey