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ae TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1919 Picking the Right Man For the Job THE USE OF MENTAL TESTS TO SELECT THE OFFICE FORCE Third of a scries of articles written especially for The Ryening World by Maz ,8. Watson, vocational expert, who devised most of the trade tests used by the War Department during the war. By Max S. Watson Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York rening World.) F some one should stop you on the street and say to you: If it is not false that the addition 2+2=6 is tmeorrect, raise your right hand, and if it is true that it is not Incorrect, raise your left hand, just what Would you do as a correct response to these directions? ‘The speed and accuracy of your redponse would, to a certain degree, be = measure of your intelligence. If, instead of one problem giving exact irections to be foHowed, there were twenty, you would have an intelli- In Memory of Baby McLean Weyneit TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1919 We Al By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Frening World), America’s Richest Boy Clothing of Thousands of Destitute Children Made The Life Work of His Sorrowing By Fay S Copyright, 1919, by The Prees Publishin W who love us fof a reason? sleep. They have a a way of becoming upon them. kindness. . Types of Married Folk No. 3—THE COUPLE WITH AN AXE TO GRIND HO hasn't met them—the couple with an axe to grind, the couplé friends they are as numerous as mosquitoes in the swamps end as troublesome as persistent flies when one is trying te, so that we find ourselves actually becoming dependen® Even though awe know why they seek our compaay wo are frequently so flattered by the many little things they do for us that we overlook the reason for thi | Know tevenson i Co, (The New York Evening World.) In every little circle or clique of little way of simply clinging to my \ 4 a very part of us, in fact so much gence test of the type known as @ “Following Directions Test.” If added to this you had a test of memory and one of concentration and mental reasoning or general information, fou would have the beginning of what is known as an intelligence, scale such as was used in the army to test the soldiers, ‘To many people it may seem a long step from being able to get a good weore on the intelligence test and be- ing a good clerk. Let us suppose that the employer says to a clerk: “File this letter for me, Then get Mr. G. ‘W. Smith's letter of Sept. 15 and then call Spring 2196.” That is a test of intelligence, The reason some clerks seem never to be able to carry out @uch instructions correctly 1s because they have vot sufficient intelligence to oid eo many facts in thelr mind at ‘one time, Every job that involves mental’ ef- | fort is a test of intelligence, although | Ahe psychological test may ecem to the layman to have little relation to the actual work which @ clerk per- forms in an office; as a matter of fact, it involves. exactly the same mental Processes. Any intelligence test to be of value must have been tried out on enough people to establish the average re- sponse. With a number of such tes’ it is possible to make a very accurate estimate of the mental ability of any person by simply comparing his results with that of the average person. An inexperienced clerk is hired on the strength of his potential abilities. Any method, therefore, which will tell to any degree of certainty what a clerk may be expected to develop into or be capable of in the future is of very material assistance to the employment man. Such tests are be~ ing used at present by many of the jargest companies in the country, es- pecially large insurance companies who employ a great number of young clerks. Tho intelligence test is also taking the place of the old fashioned entrance examination in many of our largest universities. Take the following test known as a “Number Relations Test.” This calls for ability to detect the system involved in a numerical sories, Some people have been able to fill in all the numbers correctly in two minutes, Others never seem to be able to get them. This is a real test of intelli- gence and demands considerable mental effort. Instructions: Each Tow of numbers sets up a system by which it is poasible to determine the number which should be filled in on the dotted line. Each number in the line is gotten from the number which comes before it and the number to be filled in has a certain relation to the last number in the line, In the first example the numbers are in- creased by 1 each time, so the num- ber coming after 5 would be 6, In the second example the number is divided by 2 each time to get the next number so the number coming after 4 would be 2. Start with line 2 end fill tn the numbers on the dottea lines as quickly as you can. Take your exact time after you start with L ine s " ae . I > 7 vig & 8. O65 OOM, Ow Ree NUMBER RELATIONS TEST, - 1% 3% 5 2 4 8 12, 2-4, 8 32, 30, 37, 4%, 27 B 21, 6— 21, 18, 19, m2 % 5 4 38 13, 9-135, 45, 45, 10— 30, 34, 40, w- 2 3% 5 we 4 2% 6 mw 7% 1, 17, we 4% 7% 4, %— 10, 12, 6, tw 8 % 4 vw 3% 4 St 6 19— 34, 20— 1, with ‘Try it of the office force and see not check up with the ability ve reasoning which they nin their work. tx have shown that the t of language is closely re- ‘ F all memorials the’most tender of all benefactions in the name | of @ little child—the most hu- —— man and sympa- teat is of this nature, It should be of! thetiomis the work value for testing stenographers, Instructions—The word which written im capital letters at the be- ginning of cach line is an adjective |which is more often used to describe lone of the five words which follow it than jt Js to describe any of the other four words in that line. under the one of the five words which is most often described by the first |word, In the first exampio a “dog” is called “FAITHFUL” more often than la “oat” or a “pig” or a “snake” or a |“patiit,” therefore the Ine would be drawn under the word “dog.” Examp! FAITHFUL cat, dog, p bit. snake, rab- TESTS. 1--PRECOCIOUS—1. fox—2, child— 3. donkey—4. rat—6, elephant. 2—PROPITIOUB—1. example—z2. ele- ment—8, regard—4, moment— 6, act. 3—CASUAL— inspector—2, at |. soldier—4. seribe— 6. observer, 4-TITINDRANT—1. grocer—%, pas- senger—8, tradesman—4. owner —4. watchman, 5—TRANSIENT—1. host—2. guest— 3. visitor—4, tourist—6. soldier. 6—-FELONIOUS—1, thumb—2, check —3. assault—4, divorce—s. be- Nef, I—CIVIL—1. happiness—2. bellef—3, disrespect—4. pleasure—6. con- duct, 8—PRICELDSS—1. rags—2. |ron—3. money—4. gem—5, monument. 9—MOSAIC—1, picture—2, building —8, design—4, image—5. writ~ ing. 10—FPRUSTRATED—1, hen—2. at- tempt—3, women—4. pursuit—s. thief, 1—EXALTHD—1, monarch—2. slave —8, tenant—4. farmer—5, gen- eral. dog—4, horse—5, monkey 14—CAUSTIC—1, remark—2, laughter —8. error—4, design—5. sorrow. 15—FISQAL—1. combat—2, day—3. stream—4, year—6. dispute, 16—PSYOHIC—1, ryrup—2, phenome- non—8, bird—4, picture—s. view, ‘The next is 4 test of visual percep- tion and of. learning ability, In the drawing below are all the numbers from 11 to 69. Begin with number 11, which ig in the upper left-hand cor- ner, and see how long it will take you to point to all the numbers in their} proper order, If you are able to find| them all in three minutes your time; is very good, Take the exact time for} your first trial and then study the lo- cation of the numbers for three min- utes, trying to remember the location of as many as you can and then seo how long it takes you to find the num- bers the second time. By repeating ‘this process a number of times you can obtain a very good idea of your learn- ing capacity, Hold the drawing one toot from your eyes when pointing to the numbers, TEST. All of these tests can be used to select both boys and girls for the office force No attempt ts made to offer a careful standardization, A falrly ac- curate standard can be obtained by trying them on @ number of people of known ability, thereby giving a basis for estimating the results on people of unknown wbllity, Intelligence tests cannot be expected to give results which will determine the exact posi- tion for which a person is best fitted. ‘The ability to do almost any job well depends more upon the desire of the individual to make good and his is) Draw a i , by which a sorrow- ing woman hopes to keep alive for Am- erican childhood the memory of her lit- tle, greatly loved grandson, the late Vinson Walsh Me. Lean, known for the years of his brief existence ‘the Hundred Million Dollar Baby “Nor marble nor the gild ments of princes" has been 4 monu- hosen by Nate, to be a tribute to the best pro- tected boy in the United States, who. nevertheless was killed by an automo bile last May in front of his own home, Old gilk stockings are to serve as the cornerstone in the philan- thropic structure of effort, ingenuity and genuine helpfulness which Mrs. Walsh intends to rear for the benefit of cold and needy fittle boys and girls all over America, In New York the other duy she told of how the remarkable work she be- gan as a war charity will be broad- ened and extended as a permanent Peace philanthropy, all inthe name of Vinson Walsh McLean. In a sentence, this work consists of the fashioning of all sorts of garments for destitute children out of discarded and other- wise wasted silk stockings, gloves, shirts, undergarments. While she talked Mrs. Walsh's hotel sitting room was heaped with samples of the warm and charming articles of clothing evolved from the debris of adult wardrobes. ‘There were miniature sweaters, dainty shirts and slips, even knickerbockers and dresses, brightly bued, carefully cut, sure to delight the heart of a . child as well as protect it against 12—AGGREGATE—1, stone—2. whirl-| winter winds—and all made from pool—3. mass—4, clay—5./ “old clothes,” stream, “As long as I live,” sald Mrs. Walsh, 13—FRACTIOUS—1, cow—2, leg—3./ “my home at D 2020 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, shall be used for this purpose, in the name of my little grandson who was killed. ‘The laun- dry is used as a dyeing establishment to color old underwear, which we use to line garments. Our children love bright colors. Vinson's mother's mother, Mrs. | Thomas F, Walsh of Washington, | widow of the Colorado copper mag. THE THOS-F. HOME, WASH. Dc. CLR EONS hrs trimming for the silk jerseys, off shirts—among them those of Vice- President Marshall—are remodel! into charming dresses for little girls. The tucked bosoms of the white ones | are all ready for the fronts of best | trocks, and the shirts with a small stripe or figure make equally attrac- tive garments Mary Roberts Rinebart points out| that passe pajamas make excellent tags for cleaning the silver, but Mrs. | Walsh declares they can be revamped | into blouse and knickerbockers for a growing youngster. Blankets may be shaped ‘nto spten- did warm coats, and the patchwork »ak furnishes the material for cozy, bright hued hoods, “Secretary Daniels," says Mrs, Walsh, “lets us use the Navy SO Son our letterheads, but with us instead of ‘save our souls,’ it means ‘send old stockings,’ ‘send old skirt nd old suits’ and ‘send on shirts,’ Stockings started the work, but we now make uge of many other things, 1 wanted to do something that the Red Cross and organizations like that would be) too busy to do; and I thought of the| millions of old stockings that are dis- carded because women don't know whi to do with them except to turn them into dusters, I laid half a dozen pairs of stockings on the table and Cast- For instance, there is the couple who are If you want » send your outworn silk lt was during the war that Mrs,| studied them, and I saw that they VINSON WALSH MCLEAN Walsh experimented with the re-| had infinite possibilities,” So SrINGOINeD markable possibilities lying dormant| Little Vinson Walsh McLean dia| 22m? of “Baby McLean. fh discarded clothing and she has| not live to enjoy his fillions, But| ‘° D°!P be sent thousands of useful and delight- ful little garments to French, Belgian and Koumanian children, Ever; friend of hers who went to the other side took along trunkfuls among her personal baggage and many trunks went home with’ Mme, Jusserand, wife of the French Ambassador, Now the war js over, but many American boys and girls need cloth- ing as much as plaintive refugees, ro in the home which one day wouid have belonged to America’s richest child the work of making life easier for other children incompletely shel- tered and protected will go on. The name of the “poor little rich boy" will live in tho hearts of rich little poor boys and girls—rich, at least, in life and its hopes, Vinson McLean's — grandmother herself cuts out and designs the gar- ments, arranging the colors harmoni- ously and coonomizing on every scrap of material. A dozen sewing women are at work all the time in the Mas- sachusetts Avenue home, with sew- ing machines run by electricity. A jersey for a two-year-old child may be made from one pair of silk stockings. ‘The front and back of the garments are cut from the stock- ing tops, the sleeves from the ankles and the Mttle skirt froth the deep, garter-reinforced hem. The colors are as varied ag the rainbow hues of my lady’s hosiery, the garment is lined with a contrast- ing hue which shows through the transparent clockings on the eleeves. Seven pairs of silk stockings make a skirt for a half-grown girl. A coat for @ little girl of ten is constructed of discarded tops of silk gloves of elbow length. . Mrs, Walsh finds the scourings of| She from worn socks, using the wes as aval- i trimming at the bottom, Neckties of @ too ancient mares Wee anaes hey + Gee meee : » men's wardrobes most useful. makes jerseys and sweaters loped collars or and frequently. millions—not of dollars but of children —tmay enjoy life because of the kindly work his grandmother is doing in the stockings or oth home with 2020 Massachusetts Avenue, r garments to th empty nursery, No Wash- the ington, D. Cc. Dorado, but perhaps not many of us know, just what the term means. Of course the popular under- standing 1s fortune in some form, and the name has been most often applied to discoveries of mines or treasure trove, But the real Dorado was reputed to have been an Inca Kin: the term being of Spanish origin, sig nifying “gilded man.” As we look back in the light of mod- ern knowl the state of mind which fired so mapy adventurers of the early days in| America with the hope of finding| great treasures, ‘The Spaniards did achieve remarkable things in uncover- ing the hoards of the South American Indians, Sir Walter Raleigh, Drake, in daring expeditions, always beck- oned on by the lure of treasure, ‘To all of them El Dorado was their final| aim. The name commonly was un- derstood to be that of a city, but in- city, According to the fanciful stories of that age, this E had hunself smeared with oll and} rolled in gold dust, So that when we| go in quest of E] Dorado we in reality seek that “gilded man,” Kureka is another term which| the way it came into the language, it crown’ ments, during ureka has an entertaining history. bath, exclaiming ‘Heureka, the world ‘sound, The Romance of Words By James C. Young How Everyday Expressions Had Their Origin E,‘ben man hopes to find his El|/Greek word meaning “I have found We are indebted to no less cele- brated a personage than the great Archimedes for our frequent usage of the term, Archimedes, ancient history will remember, known as the master philosopher and mathematician of old Syracuse. seems that Hiero, then ruler of the city, delivered a quantity of gold to Ja certain goldsmith with instructions dge it is hard to conceive |that it be made into a votive crown. When this man's handiwork was com- pleted Hiero became suspicious of the of was as every reader It weight and instructed Archimedes to determine whether the gold had been mixed with alloy, but to not mar the crown in his experi- That was an undertaking of Cortez and @ hundred more engaged | almost insurmountable difficulty, con- sidering the the time. self to the task, laBorator But Archimedes set him- displace He An ancient facilities of It is related that his cogitations he ordered a bath made ready, and found the tub vestigation of sixteenth century an-| filled to the brim, pals shows that the real Kl Dorado|the philosopher noted that the water was the reputed ruler of a golden | ran over the sides, On the instant Archimedes discov- Dorado frequently ered one of the great principles of science, namely, that any object gn- mersed in water must own bulk, this possibility, mise correct. many of us use with little (nought of jsoribos his emotions as follows? “When the idea flashed across his | mind, the philosopher jumped out of the Stepping inside,|dress ran home to try the experi-| street, its immediately tested and found his sur- writer do- Phvensoy a habit of phoning us and inviting us of an about decline again on the ground engagement and they ask Tuesday evening. Still we hold that we ave a dance or a reception to at tend. Then how about Wednesda And we give in, well knowing that we can't have engagements for the of our lives, 80 we make it) Weilnesday and we go and thereby fall into the spider's web, for before we know it, while sampling a de- lcious morsel of Welsh rabbit mad by the dainty hands of our hostess we mention the fact, without mean ing to, that we are holding a little informal dance on the following Wed- nesday evening and, oh, well—we see {the anxious look in our host's and 8 eyes and we have to invite And know it wel them as refular rest | before on our list we ends, All the time they are entertaining us we are perfectly aware that it ts} because Mr. Axe-to-Grind would like a certain position or expects a cer- | tain favor from the man of our house, We know this and still they | are so gracious and love us so that | we are flattered. Then again we find that they are looking for our social benefit, that they only seek us because we know Mr. and Mrs. Newly Rich, Mr. and | Mrs. Rocks and Miss Fastidious, who gives such exquisite receptions and knows the best of folk. We know ail this, but what can we ¢ >»? It 18 jer to accept their invitations NIRS “THOS F WALSH Skirts or Harleys Just When We Get a Flash From Paris That Winter Skirts | Are to Be a Foot Above the Instep, Along Comes the | “Harley,” Which Only Leaves the Footstep— One Will Win in a Walk—Neal 0’ Hara Bets on the Skirt. By Neal R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) \ | QQ ERT fane (male) tips us| objection to harleys for the business | | there's been a split, in the/women 1s, it gives 'm a better chance woman's party. Conservatives| to kick, When they get into trouser- want a skirt with reservations and| ettes they can kick over ¥ s or the radicals don't want a skirt at all.|poss's head—or anything je they | ads want harleys, Rads also claim) have a mind to. they've got the me ing ‘em, which the 8 party suppor’ Harleys will make it easier for the have—both ways.| gals to get into a car but harder to Looks like the harleys will go through| get into a seat, Can't expect without amendments or patches.| tired workingman to give up his se Hereafter, every trousseau'll have its|/¢o @ pair of harleys any more than a trousers, tired working woman would kawtow Conservatives are all ruffled up.|to a pair of kilts, What's fare for Say the harley has no defense. Rads| one is fare for another—especially in claim it needs no defense—it takes| @ street car. Antis say It ain't got Rads claim it's} ‘em by storm, Harleys have got us a bit confused, to stond on, |though. We admit nothing can stop got two legs, Antis assert it ain't/tem, but what's gonna hold ‘em up? fit to wear, Rads insist it ain't Are suspenders gonna be an appro- priate gift to a gal this season? And what kind of stockings do they wear with harleys—or do they wear ‘em at 4 question of fit. And there you are, Women now divided on party lines, Pro-skirt party claims the skirt shows the best lines, Pro-harley party Aes iS all? And then there's the question of ose eee te question at tines, farters! My goodness, girls! Har- play—that it ain't a question of lines 1ey9 are causing a revolution! They're but of action, Say harleys permit freer locomotion, Antis claim they don’t, When harleys appeared on the avenue, there wasn't any locomotion. Traffic experts called it congestion. | Crowds did what the harleys are made making the men turn round more than once, One thing the harley-queens have gotta look out for, They don't want to strike any masculine poses. In- en showldn’t put their ventor says we of—serge, Inventor of harleys says all busi-|hénds in trouger pockets, and every ness women should wear ‘em. Down|husband agrees with that, Also in our office it might be a good|Claims women shouldn't smoke thing for the business women, but it | Cisarettes. would be terrible for business.} Only shortcoming of the harley Stenogs already wear their hair in/idea is that skirts are coming short, two parts, and now they want 'em|Advance styles from Ps state this to wear skirts that way. Gtenogs| fall’s skirt will be cut to the knees have always split their infinitives—| We were getting all primed up for the now they want to split definite|autumn ankle show when along articles. comes the harley, Harley covers not Upper half of the new invention is|only the ankle but also the instep, what they call a smock, some|Covers everything except the foot- . : ste stenogs don't object toa smack; feW) iF’ it comes to a choice between of ‘em would object to a smock, Only} hart and knee-high skirts the SS ———=|skirts are going to win in a walk And it'll make no difference whether Heureka,’ and without waiting to the walk is on Fifth Avenue or 14th ment.”* a 1t is further set forth that Ar- WHAT HE WISHED, chimedes took the crown made for IRE (during iW John, the se My dear don't harbor Hiero, with another of exactly the | same weight in gold, and placed first | one, then another, in a tub of water, As the crown in question actually the idea that I am had silver mixed with the gold, and ignorant, I know as silver is of greater bulk than gold, a good deal more it displaced more water than the pure of some things than T care to t a Hub—d wish, my dear, that you'd fill up with that sort of knowledge,—Boston crown, From these incidents we thus obtained a valuable scientific | and an expression used every day always inviting us to dine, to the theatre, to go motor ing or to do something that we do not want to do but find we have not the courage of our convictions to say no. It we have an engagement they invite us for Monday night dinner, We | | little | clever jokes just out, and before go- They have for a certain Sunday night luncheon, than it is to keep dodgyag them and invent reasons why it is impossilg@ us to accept Couples with an axe to grind ere always very entertaining peop They usually have some talent, either musical or artistic. Some one thing that makes them a little more entertaining than most people. The actor, actress or professional mual« n always takes it as a great of- fense if you ask them to exhibit thet talents, While the axe-to-grind people are only too anxious to oblige. I know of one couple who kept @ Joke book filled with all ¢he ng out looked themselves The result made a big for the evening they always over this book to rehearse % for the night’s events. & was that they always t. Perhaps the axe- to-grind couple are pot very dine im their motives; that is, their desire ds* to gain something from their friend- ships either financially or socially; but they have one advantage ower many couples and that is they make themsel interesting. And that a more than many couples do, The couple with an axe to grind are ays good dressers, good caters and) > good spenders, Do not confuse them ‘ with the spongers, who are sort of second cousin to them, for they hav entirely different methods. The ax¢ to-grind couple are willing to po | anything from time to money if they, can only reach their desired goal, ge the position they want or meet the people they desire to know, . 4 Usually you can divide these couples into two distinct classes, very wealthy or very poor, When they “put it over” and actually meet the business men and attain the social position they are striving for they become wealthy in a short time, but when they fail to get their wedge in and fail to sharpen their axe the way they had hoped, we find them poor and disconte with life, Perhaps they can tell some of the good stories that they used as entry, perhaps they ean F still exhibit certain polished ways and bilities to charm; but they have not been able to put their desires through; the axe has never been ground and they realize it never will be. One of the most charming couples I ever met in my life belonged to the axe-grinding type, They had pushed their way from one position to an- other and risen from one round of the ladder to the very top, -‘The husband Was a man of no particular ability or talent, but he had the gift of making friends and using them, His wife was blessed with beauty and brains, They played bridge, knew the latest dances, the words of all the popular songs and were Well posted in current events and recent novels, Soolally they were one couple in @ thousand, ‘The husband with his ability to make friends and fhe wife, with her grm« cious mannéf, made a delighful com bination which won favor among the people they desired to meet at ones, “It is strange how every one likes those climbers, that couple with the axe to grind,” a friend once remarked, “Every one knows why they have suc ceeded in life and that they make @ business of their friendships.” I was forced to admit that that part of them was contemptible, but ut the same time I couldn't help wishing that a few more couples would assume the axe-to-grind mans ner and at least TRY to be interest ing. ‘The axe-grinders are not stupid and they are not insipid Sessa IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE, aware, 8 his latives and friends are Not long ago Mr. Pepper was about to entertain some distinguished guests whom he delighted lo honor, i Hig first m in the direction of their entertainment was to procure and send to the house some particu- larly choice Havana cigars, whieh “set him back" to the tune of 50 cents each, But it seems the cigars ar rived before it was made known at home that the guests were expected, That evening Mrs. her husband, cigars came for you to-day: tly a gift from some one, Knowing you didn’t smoke, I gave them to men who were ing in the house.” Popper said ‘to