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The New York herald., 1922-12-08
How to Become a Birdman.
Uncle Sans Requirements Of His
FLYING Cadets.
Fror, ,he Aeronnutfcoi DIGEST.

Fror, the Aeronnntfcoi Digest.
In reply to many inquiries as to the
general requirements for eligibility for
appointment as flying cadet and other
information pertinent thereto ~ 'he
United states Air Service the following
is submitted. Eligible for appointment
as flying cadet:
Enlisted men of tho Regular Army
Civilians.
Candidates must be. at time OF oppli-
cation:
Unmarried male citizens Of the United
States.
Between the ages of 90 and 81 years.
High school graduates, or possess the
equivalent OF high school education.
OF excellent character.
or sound physique and In excellent
health.
Examinations will be held the second
Tuesday in January and July. Tho edp-
cationai examination may BE- omitted IL
the applicant presents documentary evil
dence OF his graduation from a high
school within two years Immediately
preceding date of this examination or OF
his attendance at a recognized college
or university within that time IL such
evidence cannot be furnished the board
the educational examination viii Nbe
given. The general scope of which may
be secured upon application to the Chief
of Air Service. Washington. ID. C..
Glasses are scheduled 10 commence in
September. 1923.
The base pay of flying cadets is s75
per month"; which includes extra pay
for flying risk. The ration allowance
will not exceed 81 per day; the other
allowances. such as clothing equipment.
&C., are those ora private first class,
Air Service. Applicants from civil life
will be required to pay all expenses In
cident to their appearance before the
examining board for examination and
no claim for reimbursement OF the ex-
penses incurred prior to enlistment will
be considered
Application blanks may he secured
from the Chief Of Air Service. Washing
ton. ID. c., and must be submitted in
triplicate. accompanied by three letters
of recommendation. signed by persons OF
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Skill Bests Luck in Yes and No Test
Yale Professor Explains Objective Examination as
Adopted in Some Colleges.

The score is the number OF CORRECT re.
sponses
"A. Multiple choice form A : state
nent is printed followed by number
of alternative words, usually four, which
complete the statement. The correct
word is TO be underlined For instance
The kilowatt Is used in measuring rain
fall. wind power, electricity, water
power This is scored on the number
of correct responses.
The advantages of the new type cx-
animation can, be summarized briefly,
First. 1t Is objective. The scoring Ia
independent OF the personal equation o.
the instructor. Two different instruc-
tors will score the same test in the
same way. Secondly, it covers the ma
terial of the course thoroughly In a
brief time. A student may answer a
hundred items in thirty minutes cover
ing every phase of the work, whereas
In the customary form of examination
he will answer but three questions
"The disadvantages or the new type
are: First. stresses recognition rather
than recall; that Is. The student Is not
required to reproduce the material he
has learned. but Is simply required to
attach the name or Characterization
to 1t with the material before him. This
throws the emphasis upon hts ability
to criticize what is presented rather
than his ability to organize. In certain
courses this is an advantage: In others
a serious disadvantage.
Secondly. it Stresses information
rather than ability to think in terms
of the subject. The examination is ex-
cellent for those courses in which a
great deal of information is presented
and not of great value in those in whicn
the individual is trained n the ability
to do. For instance. such an examine
tion is of value in science. where con-
siderable body of information is neces-
sary. but of little value in English COM
position.
Though the objective examination is
a valuable supplement to the old type
exarpination. / do not believe that II
will. or should ever. completely sup
plant it."
Yale freshmen underwent a hard
mental test this afternoon when ques-
tion after question was shot at them.
Here are two samples Of queries:
"Grasshoppers and crickets and bees
all make a buzzing sound. Beetles and
spiders make no sound. Grasshoppers
and spiders do not fly. Butterflies and
gnats and horseflies all fly. Which of
one of these sits on the ground and
buzzes?"
"Grace Is older than Dorothy, but
looks younger. Janet is older than
Grace, but looks older Mary is younger
than Dorothy, but looks 1elder. Helen is
older than Mary. but looks younger.
Which looks youngest and which is
youngest?'
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Irish Senators.

The names and political history
OF the Irish Senators named by Pres
ident CosGRAvE indicate strongly the
determined effort that is to- be made
by the Free State to bring Ulster
into the fold and create a united
Ireland. The list OF men who will
sit In the upper house of the Irish
Parliament includes many whose
opinions and. interests have run
counter to the movement which re-
suited in the elevation of Ireland to
a State. They have been named,
evidently, because the Sim Fein
leaders wish to show their good
faith, to wipe out suspicion of dis
elimination and TO comply exactly
with that clause of the new Consti-
tuition which provides that the Sen
ate shall be composed of citizens
who have done honor to the nation
by reason OF useful public service, or
who because OF special qualifications
or attainments represent important
aspects OF the nations life"
IL must make the Ulster die hards
gasp TO see Sim Fein leaders nomi-
nate for the Senate half dozen
peers who are Protestants and great
landholders. Lord CARSON used 20
tell his followers that England was
abandoning them to the "merciless
cruelty OF southern fanatics" but
those supposed fanatics have pro-
ceeded to appoint Earls and Mar
quises, Unionists and Conservatives,
TO the Senate. sMr. CosoRAvE and his
advisers seem wisely to have forgot
ten the past and to have sought only
to combine the elements that will
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
BRUCE TO ASK REPEAL
OF THE VOLSTEAD LAW
New Senator From Maryland
Says Statute Is Failure.

Special Dispatch TO TINS NEW YORK 1Irmafp.
BALTIMORE. Dec. William Cabell
Bruce. United States Senator-eiect
from Maryland. has come out squarely
for rt hcal- of the volstead law. He
will stand with the new Senators from
New York and New Jersey. He said
to-day:
The Volstead law is n technical ana
an artificial statute. II has no root In
II misses. fire; 1t will not work II Is
that demoraiizing and mischietous thing,
q law without moral sanction. In
Congress | shall try. with the aid OF
Representative Hill and my other COLI
leagues. " secure repeal of the volstead
sct and give every state the right to
determine prohibition for itself"
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Beware the Stock Swindler.

War savings stamps to the amount
of six hundred and twenty-five mil
lions of dollars will come due on the
first of the year. The owners Of
these Government obligations of
small denomination will need to be
on their guard to see that after hold
ing them for five years the redemp-
tion proceeds do not slip through
their fingers.
There are more ways than one In
which the small savings stamp lend
ers and their ready money may be-
come parted on and after New Years.
The owners of these securities can,
in the language of the day. blow this
money. They can put it into things
that will not be exactly waste yet
will not be entirely worth while.
They can give it over to the tender
mercies Of some stock jobbing
sharper wAo, as they cash in their
saving stamps, will be lying In wait
for them with an alluring tale Of
a get rich quick investment in gayly
colored shares of stocks of no value
That will be the worst Of all.
The millions of wage earners who
lent their small contributions to the
Government to help win the war and
who went on adding their bit to the
Government savings stamp loans
after war good service for
their country and GOOD business for
the elves continue their
he'll ment in its re-
financing turing loans and
can do Themselves another good turn
by exchanging their maturing stamps
through the banks and post offices for
new United States Treasury Saving
certificates in which their money,
still earning. interest from the ma
tional Government, will be in the
safest investment in the world.
That will be the best of all.
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Inhumanity to Dogs.
Abandoned From an Automobile
at q Ferry.

To TINE NEW YORK HERALD: On Mon
day afternoon at about 3 80 an auto
mobile boarded the Fort Lee ferryboat
at Edgewater When the boat docked
at the New York side of the Hudson
the door OF the car was opened and
two half grown dogs were thrown out.
The car then speeded up and disaps
peared in the traffic. while the dogs.
dazed and uncertain. stood waiting ap-
parently for their owners return.
When the traffic for the next trip
across began to board the boat the dogs
became frantic with fright and ran pitt
fully from car to car. seeking refuge.
and were roughly driven Off of one run
ming board after another. Their help
lessness and stricken, bewildered eyes
were so pathetic that one of the pas
,sengers. young girl, tried to gain their
confidence and comfort them. but the
noise and confusion of the ferryboat had
such an effect on the poor animals that
she could not hold their attention.
Knowing that when the boat landed
again tho dogs in all probability would
be driven off. and knowing also the mis-
cradle fate In store for them. the ysung
lady with her eyes full of tears per-
sisted in her effor.a and with the help
Of sympathetic passenger who. was
driving a car the dogs were finally
rounded up and taken to a shelter in
New Jersey.
l am writing this to your paper and
am hoping that you viii publish 1t, be-
cause feel that a man who would do a
thing like this should be held up to pub
lie condemnation but more especially
to urge II In future he has any more
poor little dogs to abandon that he will
donate fifteen or twenty minutes of his
precious time and drive them to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Apimals' dog shelter at Twenty-third
street and Avenue A provided for such
cases 1t will not cost him a cent to
get rid Of them there. A SUBSCRIBER.
MoRsEMERE, N. j.. December Z.
The New York herald., 1922-12-08

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. Dec. 7.--Becaus'
OF an erroneous impression concerine
the objective. or "yes and no" examina'
tions adopted in several departments
at Yale. Prof. John Il. Anderson Of the
university's department of psychology
to-day said:
"The objective examination Is de-
vice that came into being because of a
widespread distrust OF the old examina'
tion methods.
Before considering their advantages
and disadvantages it would be well tc
consider briefly the different forms OF
questions. shall use simple illustra-
tions not taken from any course exam.
ination used.
Il. The true-false or no-yes form.
This consists of number OF statements
which are true or false. or a number OF
questions which can be answered by
yes or no, such as The human being
is a mammal?' True. :. Il. False. Cyrus
was a famous Roman General?' True
-. False. Is scrooge a character in
Vanity Fair% Yes. No.
ITO eliminate the error in grading due
to guessing this form of test Is scored
on right minus wrong basis. that is.
the number of wrong answers is subs
tracted from the number of right an.
swers. II man without any knowledge
OF the subject simply underlined an
swers in hit or miss fashion, he would
get approximately. in a test say of 40
items, 20 right and 20 wrong. His
score would be 1920, or zero. A man
who knew 20 answers perfectly and
guessed on the remaining 20 would have
20 plus 10 right and 10 wrong or S0-10.
giving a score of 20. This method Of
scoring has given rise to the reports tina.
a man may get a minus score. which IL
possibility but not probability.
"2. The complete form. This consists
OF series OF passages with blank spaces
substituted for certain key words. The
student is supposed to supply the miss.
ing words. For instance: Day by
- in every -. l am getting ---
and IS This form Of test Is scored
either by the number Of hlanks which
are correctly filled or the number OF
sentences which are correct
"3. The one word answer form. This
is special form of the completion ex-
animation, in which a deflniation or
statement is printed with single word
omitted, usually the term for the object
or process defined. For instance The
member of the crew who steers the shell
and direct the stroke Is called a -
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Remembrance.

1t seems we walked here once--the very
air
Gives hint Of vapor tasted. felt before.
These young trees blowing in the sun.
l swear,
Were lifting leaves like these a day
Of yore;
This light and shadow playing at our
feet
Played at our feet a moment long
since gone,
And these shy words you whisper, ten
der. sweet,
Lit all my heart with flame another
dawn.
/ do not know II once before we two
In other lives have lived this hour of
gG bliss, e 3 81
Or II 1t only Is: I always knew
That when love came to me it would
Ibe this,
And planned 1t; so that when these
things | see
An old dream stirs and seems reality.
HELEN FRAzEE-BowER.
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Passing Of Real sport.

From the Van Bpren County (drls.) Democrat.
IL the present rage for fur continues Il
won't be many years until the present ten
dency 70 go In for strawberry raising. chicken
farming. &C.. viii be superseded by rush
TO start skunk. possum and coon ranches
Fur bearing animals viii be raised in great
numbers and they viii not be molested un-
u their fur IL right, that the quality OF tho
peits might be improved But the pictur-
esqueness and adventure OF tho business will
be gone forever. A good coon dog that will
sell these days for enough TO buy good
second hand flivvcr will yclp homeless ana
owne@ss down the road with a can tied
TO his tail. We might name several Clinton
citizens who then most probably would be
forced TO spend their evenings at the good
ola game of tiddlewinks or else play check
ers Mt Jim Pate's barber shop.
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Tho Real STUFF.

AT digging up old folios
No bibIiophile was ever better;
He never tires as he goes
To hunting veIlum and black letter.
For first editions much he pays;
Long hours he gives to grangerizIng
And when tall copies meet his gaze
He acts In manner most surprising
He strives to fill those shelves OF his
with all the treasures Of book lovers
But now unfortunate II is
He never looks between the covers.
Detective stories .by the score.
Tho stock reports and tho sport chat.
Ter.
And his wifes bills that on him pour
Are what make up he reading matter
NATHAN M. LEVY.
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Changes in New York's Flats.

In spite of statement made when
they were sold recently, the buildings
on Fifty-ninth street facing Central
Park and known as the Spanish
flats" were not the first apartment
buildings erected in New York city.
That distinction is sought for nearly
as many structures as there were
cities contending for the honor of
being the birthplace of HOMER The
apartments opposite the park were
typical enough of earlier fiat houses
in New York, however, to mark the
contrast between the homes of this
kind in demand to-day and those that
were formerly designed by architects.
So great has been thefincrease in
the value of New York city real es-
tate, which in the last instance is
decisive of many changes in NUM-
cipal living conditions, that the
apartment of the day is constructed
on an altogether different model from
that of few years ago. Only in
the structures in which the highest
rents are charged can large rooms,
high ceilings, long Railways be found.
These features are not desired by
some tenants at any price.
At first the style or flats, as they
soon came to be called, within the
reach Of tenants Of moderate incomes
comprised a stretch Of rooms with
the drawing room at one end, the
dining room and kitchen at the other
and a long hall with bedchambers
opening on II to connect the two.
Rooms were not large. but for a long
time ceilings were high. Then there
came house which caused a rebel
lion against this standardized form.
A building of no special preten-
sions was erected on an East Side
avenue less than score of years
ago. Rooms were smaller than they
had been In It's predecessors. The
halls were as small as was practi-
cable. Ceilings were low. Although
IL offered no recognizable superiority
in comfort over other designs. this
plan. because of its economy Of space,
was at once a commercial success
The fats in the building we're always
filed. The owners had no loss from
unoccupied apartments. This had a
lasting effect on the construction of
fats in New York
Architects Immediately set to work
to design multiple dwellings, with
apartments OF three and four rooms,
a kitchenette and practically no halls,
in which every inch of space was
made to yield it's value. This is the
prevailing plan OF flathouse construc-
tion to-day. The long hall. indeed
any kind OF hall, is seldom seen in
modern buildings. Such luxuries are
reserved for the high price fiat, which
also offers almost everything that
appertains 90 former IDEALS of gran
deur except the lofty ceiling.
Steel construction helped to change
the manner Of laying out the fiat,
rendering thick walls and floors un-
necessary. High ceilings were done
away with as extravagances.
There was, however. degree Of
comfort for the tenant Of the new
style OF apartment which the occu-
pant OF even the most expensive
Of the earlier type could not have
boasted Electricity brought luxu-
ries which no money could have
furnished in the past. Probably an
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Petiing the GOelet Cow.

To THE New York HERALD: I went
to New York in the Centennial year,
1873. and well recall the house at the
northeast corner of Broadway and Nine
teenth street. where / saw Peter Goeiet's
COW grazing within the high iron fence
along the Broadway side Once I en-
ticed the COW to come up to the fence
on the Broadway side and smell of an
orange l held through tho palings.
The house was nearly square and sat
back from Nin1eenth street. with bay
window opening on the lawn.
WILLIAM II. SWAN.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, December 8.
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
FRIDAY, DECEMBER s. 1922.
Illinois Hears the Truth.

The patriotic meeting in Chicago
on Wednesday was a refreshing dem
onstration. 1t must have shown the
whole country, ard particularly Illi-
nois, the adherence in which off,
Gals like Governor SMALL are held.
1t must have suggested to Illinois the
depths to which she has sunk in hav-
ing as her Chief Executive a fellow
who refused to act in the Herrin
massacre and who has since crowned
his shame by pardoning the seditious
millionaire WILLIAM BRoss LLOYD, "the
reddest of the Reds
There will be persons timid enough
TO say that the General of the armies
of the< United States should keep
strictly out Of politics and not con-
Germ himself with political affairs
But such politics as General PERsHING
talked at Chicago is the politics upon
which the life of a nation depends
No man, no matter what his position,
need or should sit silent while there
are Lloyds and Len Smalls. So long
as there are creatures who conspire
10 subvert the Government, so long
as there are high officials who make
a mockery of law and justice, 80 long
shoNld the voice of every good Amer
ican protest. And the more distin-
guished he is the greater power he
will be for the righting of wrong.
Meetings like the great Chicago
gathering are particularly necessary
because, as 1t was admitted by one
of the speakers there. Governor
SMALL is so firmly intrenched in
party politics that he cannot now
be impeached. II that is true it is
all the more reason why he and his
gang and the criminal beneficiary of
his pardon should be exposed to the
denunciation Of public opinion. The
time will come when an aroused pub
lie will throw out men like SMALL
and replace chem with officials who
respect law and order. But the pub
lie is slow to waken. Men and
women who realize the situation
must arouse the public
,This country is not communistic
or socialistic. But the Russian
trained crew operating in the United
States is using the weapons of con-
spiracy and violence. 1t is trying to
make trade unions its tool. 1t incites
strikes. That grain is rotting in the
fields of the West, that the coal bins
OF the East are empty. that twenty
two men were butchered in the
southern Illinois mining field-these
things are due largely to the teaching
and example Of men like DEBs and
LLOYD. Yet DEBs and LLOYD are freei
General DAWES reminded the Chi
cago meeting that there are towards
and demagogues in Congress and
that much OF the evil OF to-day is
due to their cowardice and their
greed for votes. They must be put
out, just as the Len Smalls must be
put out. The people will put them
out as soon as they realize how dan
gerous they are. And the people will
soon realize it II fearless men like
PERsHING and DAWES keep up the
fight against the lawless, Sinking
bunch OF conspirators.
The New York herald., 1922-12-08
Norway's Mail Subsidy.
1t Is Paid to Steamers on Routes
Along the Norwegian Coast.

To THE New York HERALD: Argu-
ments used by advocates of ship sub
ssidy in America who point to Norway
as an example of successful subsidizing
are misleading. The 25,000,000 kroner
appropriated last year and the 15,OO0,1
900 kroner in the budget this year are
for the use exclusively Of mall carrying
steamship routes along the extensive
Norwegian coast.
OF the 25,00o,000 kroner granted last
year to shipowners only 255,oo0 kroner
were for Norwegian steamships In for
eigu trade. and even that amount was
appropriated simply for the purpose Of
carrying The mail. ARNE kILpAL,
Official Norwegian press representative.
NEW YORK. December Z.