IGNORANT AMERICANS.
Dry Agents to be “Fired.” FAILURE TO PASS INTELLIGENCE TESTS. WASHINGTON, January 14. Prohibition Commissioner Doran has announced that of the 2000 dry agents, only 500 were able to pass intelligence tests, and the other fifteen hundred are likely to lose their jobs. Commissioner Doran has appealed to the Civil Service Commission for a re-examination of the men. A sample question was: “If you as a revenue agent, came upon a truck load of barrels of whiskey, which were - deserted on a lonely road, many miles from the nearest source of Leip, what would you do”I The majority of the men failed to answer thia.
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Grey River Argus, 16 January 1928, Page 5
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