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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17

A. E. Wattenburger and son Bt1yl'
sold a truck load of honey in Pen
dleton Monday Mr.. Wattenburger
has a large apiary at his farm on
| Butter creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T.. Hinkle of Her
m. ston, stopped here Monday on their
return fro man outing in the noun
tains.
Lou Warnock, former Echo man.
has purchased the o. Davis prop
erty on Dupont street and will move
his family here about September l.
S. H. Forshaw of Pendleton, was an
Echo visitor Tuesday
Ray r. Johnson and A. e. Watten-
burger were business visitors to Walla
Walla Tuesday.
Ed Hammer of Pilot Rock is vis-
itor at the B. f. Mccullough home.
Miss Faye Spaulding returned home
the first of the week from q ten days
visit in Walla Walla.
Mrs. C. D. Connor of Stanfield, was
a business visitor in Echo Tuesday.
The majority of the Butter creek
residents below Pine City were in at
tendance at the McCarty funeral Tues
day to attest their respect and sym
pathy for the family and the late Da-
vid McCarty.
Hawley j. Bean and wife are enjoy
ing visit with Judge and Mrs. Bean
and daughter from Salem. Judge
Bean and wife are on their way to
Hidaway springs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17
ENGLAND SUFFERS BIG
LOSS FROM DISABLED

GLASGOW, Aug. 17.-'The total
sickness and disablement of the popu-
lation of Great Britain amounts to a
permanently sick or disabled army of
S04 900 persons" said Lieutenant-C Col
onel Freemantle, M. p, at the meet
ing of the British Medical Association.
"The financial loss to the treasury
through the incapacity of these peo-
pie amounts to two and half million
pounds per annum; the loss to the ma
tiona1 income from personal service
amounts to fifty million pounds per
annum the employment of 200, 900
doctors, chemists. nurses and attend
ants for home sickness costs fifty
nine million pounds per annum; in adj
dition, the indirect effects of epidem-
les on industry cost eleven million
pounds annually.
Altogether the direct material loss
to the community of England and
Wales from sickness and disability
amounts annually to one hundred and
fifty million pounds"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17
$4,000 UNION HIGH
SCHOOL AUTHORIZED
BY HELIX VOTERS

81 49,, - with but
= - H. ,'oto tho voters of Union
IIi,rl, cohool District No. voted yes
llisa 7tnoo ',+hn,iza honds 70 the am
on,ot of s5n mn towards the erection
ofa ,,iot, sotoo, in ualix
NJ Il,,1o t,av.rder who has been
,++and;ng ,orpoa1 ecbool at Cheney.
yvo,l, hos ,.o+,,,,,ad IA Molly After
bot ,,isi+ hero With her sister Mrs.
IT., r,ioho,.dso,, sba ,,,ill raturn TO
~ l,o,,,a at uid,toIe Idobo
lris, zob,o Iro1I,,,ar of waitshurpl
vvasl, is e,,,ast of ha, eister Mrs.
W., c+irnonII
NJ o,d Mrs c,1ore,oa panland and
o,,iIdron of pandIeton ware sunday
o,,,as+. ~ tho pov po,,land home
T,,o,,ty litt1a fr;ands of Adalvn Mo.
1,t,."o ioinod with bar j., calabra ting
w.. ,ai,1tb hirtbdavE,ridav Anpnst ~
~ ',e ~ ~ hnn,a of he,. narents NJ ana
r. ~ 'NrnIntyra TIVE afterroo,
-,ra,, ,,,o,,t IL nIavine aan,as ana Iata,,
noe,o.t m.en rna,ts we've served Mrs Mo
In+,.ro 1yas assisted in entertaining the
ii,i1,, - w. ~. 1Wardo AIsnacb and Kat,~
AVN - NfoTntvre
y, ,ToI.,+,,ro o,d petar NIoIr+vra
- AIhor+o baya returned to
i,a7,,o, of+or a 1,isi+ with their
-.
NJ, ava Mrs 7 a+cber Norveu snent
49, - ~ Tr,ri,, ordIa cronde
,,,> nv " aaa,,,.,eo,,;od ~, Mr. and
49, ~. niao NV, - viii ren,ain for n
E,i,i+
NJ NIrs n n Coreil1 who has been n
of haI. daughter NTrs Rov Will
sue't " et,,nod ~ 80 ~ rand1aton
w, W. ''I =, potto ,,d 1rd,,,,,nd po+s arc
,A,;tol, J., rr,,o na1,au ,rI,ev wera ac-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17
FEW BO0TLEGGERS TRIED
IN COURTS AT ATLANTA
PAGE TWO

ATLANTA, Ga, Aug, 17,-Q, n. So
---cnly a few bootleggers in Atlanta
are ever caught and of these few S5
per cent get off with a "small license
fee," according to "A report prepared
hye the commission on civics Of the
Christian Council Of Atlanta and sub
mkted to the Evangelical Ministers
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17

News is received in La Grande that
Raymond j. Blystone, "a, well known
resident of that town, was murdered
at Fort Worth, Texas, August 5. No
details were given. Mrs. June Harper
of Portland is a sister.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17
TAJKERS WORRIED,

LONDON, Aug. 17.-Persistent con-
versa tionalists who make pests of
themselves are becoming worried.
Albert Cooke was brought into court
charged with annoying passenger by
persistently talking to him. The court
fined Cooke So.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17

While hunting rabbits near Terre-
bone George Cox was seriously
wounded by the accidental discharge
of his gun, the ball entering his
breast and passing entirely through
his body.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17

nineteen.
Presenting those forfeiting their
bonds to be guilty, the report con-
tinucs, there was only II per cent Of
those found guilty who were punished
other than by license fees averaging
S5e.S5.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-17

Mrs. Isabelle Wheeler, who crossed
the plains to oregon i'm the early '4Os
died at Albany last Friday. aged IS
years
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

west. The tent was placed in a corn field
$50 feet from the highway, along which
automobiles and pedestrians were liable to
pass. The box was opened from the north
and the cat when free could move in any
direction except south without passing
the tent, her home course being a point
or so north of cast.
At the moment of her release she faced
home perfectly and began moving In the
right direction, but as in previous cases
she soon swerved to the north. At that
moment two men coming down the street
stopped and made a movement as IL to
approach the tent After travelling
northward for about rod the cat
stopped, cooked her ears, glanced back
at the tent, struck the home course and
began moving rapidly up the hillside. She
was following a straight line home when
last in view. She probably made homo
worry quickly, but was not seen again until
the following morning.
The last two experiments, Nos. g and
7, were undertaken mainly as a check on
the first experiment, Another expert
ment was OF an entirely different char
acter The cat was put under complete
anaesthesia by chloroform and conveyed
by motor car one and a half miles east
by north of its home site. Toward the
end Of the journey she recovered from
the anesthesia so as to be able to take
care of herself when let out Of the box.
She was set free in a field 80 feet from
the highway. She made at once for this
road in a direction opposite from that of
her home and would have gone beyond 1t
but for a gorge which blocked her path.
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varying distances beyond her known or
probable range, (2) whether under such
conditions she would orient-that is, turn
toward her home-immediately and cor
rectly, (3) whether after making the cor
rect orientaton she would strike off in a
direct line for her home and pursue that
course, or whether she would be mainly
concerned with cover and safety first,
In the first four experiments on this
cat she jumped from under the box as II
in response to an electric shock. In every
case she turned Immediately toward her
home and started to move in that direc-
ton. In one instance, No. 5, she not only
started but continued at a rapid pace to-
ward home until lost to view. II was
thus known that there was no back-track-
ing over the course that was followed by
the automobile In bringing her out,
In the first test tho cat sprang out
of the box, came to attention as 1t
were, for moment and faced In tho
direction of her home, which lay q
few points north of east, She moved
slowly for a short distance on this course,
meowing almost continually, then turned
over to the north and after going a few
rods suddenly veered and made for cover
in piece Of woods, 1t was seen that
she had turned away as a farmers boy ap-
peared on the scene with two dogs. She
outdistanced them and in q moment was
safe in tree. All the observers knew
about her subsequent movements Is that
by six o'clock next morning she was
home again with her kittens.
In the second experiment she was taken
on June 8 over course of two miles due
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Then she moved beside the road, very
nearly baek-tracking over the course that
the automobile took for several rods and
disappeared in the cover of bushes.
She returned home only after an in
terval of sixty to seventy hours, that Is
to say, that the distance which she ordi-
narily covered In the course of night
now required eight times as long. 1t ap-
pears that the anaesthetic had put the
homing mechanism of the cat out OF
action and that she found her way home
simply by wandering.
In studying Investigations by other
scientists concerning the homing powers
of the cat, Professor Herrick quotes some
statements of ]. H. Fabre, the famous
French naturalist. The French author
says that in going from Orange to Serig-
nan, u distance of four and three-eighths
miles, his oldest cat was confined in
basket, and upon arrival it was kept a
prisoner for week in the hope that 1t
would become used to its new home. This
was all to no purpose, for upon regaining
its freedom 1t returned at once to Orange.
When found at its former home the an
imal was wet to the skin and Its body
smeared with red earth, an evidence that
1t crossed the River Aygues and after
ward gathered up the dust Of the fields,
as there was no mud away from the river.
Two bridges crossed the river, one at .
point above and the other below the
course the cat must have followed, but II
used neither bridge. It's instinct directed
it home by the shortest course, and II
overcame its repugnance for water to
reach It's beloved abode.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

From his own experiments Professor
Herrick concludes: G) That the homing
power of a cat is Independent of the
senses of vision, hearing and smell; (2)
that the cat did not return, as a dog
would, over the course taken on the way
out; (S) that under the conditions de-
scribed the cat was able to arrive home
at night, and probably does so by prefer
ence; (4) that its power to return is not
. affected by turning it around or by any
ordinary treatment, barring possibly
anaesthetiZation.
1t is, of course, established that other
animals have the homing ability, and that
this is carried to an extraordinary dcvel-
opment in the birds. Professors Watson
and Lashley have shown that terms, when
taken from their nests on Bird Key, Tor
tugas, Florida, made home upward of 500
miles away. The scientists found that
they could not have made their way by
any land marks visible to the uman eye
and that they had no special mechanism
in the nose which could assist them, but
they thought that the birds might "pos-
sess on certain parts of the body (eye-
lids, ear covering or oral cavityG Sensi-
tive tactual and thermal mechanisms
which may assist them In reacting to
slight differences in pressure, tempera-
ture and humidity of air columns"
could not have found it's way home by
sense of smell because it did not follow
the track by which it was taken out.
Moreover, it does not possess remark
ably acute sense of smell. 1t did not find
its way back by sight, because it travelled
preferably by night, when 1t could see
scarcely anything even allowing for the
superior vision Of the cat in the dark.
There Is no reason to believe that there
were any sounds which could have guided
it at distance of three or four miles
from home.
By the process Of exclusion, Professor
Herrick says he is inclined to believe that
the secret of the cats remarkable homing
power lies in the "kinesthetic sense"
which is older by far than either seeing,
smelling or hearing, and by which COM
pensstory movements of the body can be
made and maintained. In other words,
the power lies back Of the ordinary sound
organs and is In some way bound up with
the primitive muscle sense which expert
ment has already shown to be of far
greater delicacy in many animals than
any man.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

city and suburban streets, across the
grading of a belt line railroad, probably
by a bridge, and ascended a series Of
terraces to a height of 400 feet. This
cat would never repeat this performance
in the day time, and while the professor
was trying to make IL do so it went away
and was not seen again.
The professor then secured another cat,
which he considered even more suitable
for experimental purposes. She was
female with kittens which were not wean-
ed and had, therefore, the strongest rea-
sons for finding her way home. She was
a large and powerful animal and there
fore able to make long journey. Her
home was in the immediate. vicinity of
the professors house,
She had become such an inveterate
hunter of birds and chickens that her
owner wished to get rid of her,
Seven times this cat made her way
home from points varying from one to
three miles away. She was secured In
a sack, which completely blindfolded her,
car and placed under a wooden box, which
was weighted with stones. The box was
raised at the moment of release by a cord
pulled from the green observation tent 10
TO 100 feet away.
She was given her freedom every time
about the same hour in the evening and
the box was opened toward the north In
every experiment except No. 4, In which
the opening was to the east.
The professor wished to ascertain; az
Whether the cat would continue TO return
to her home and kittens when taken to
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

TT is, of course, a cruel thing to take a
cat out and try to lose it. Bot every
one who has ever tried to do 1t knows
just about how nearly impossible it is In
most cases the cat gets back long before
the irritated owner. At any rate, it is
bound to turn up sooner or later.
This curious faculty of the cat in And
ing its way back home over miles of un-
familiar country has even been embalmed
in one of the most famous popular songs,
one of whose choruses is quoted on this
page.
The problem of why "the cat comes
back" has been taken up at last by
science. Professor Francis H. Herrick,
of the Western Reserve University, is
one of those greatly impressed by the
cats peculiar ability; and as he found no
adequate scientific explanation for it in
text books he determined to throw what
light he could on the subject by personal
experiment.
As a result of series of such expert
ments, Professor Herrick has come to the
conclusion that neither seeing, smelling
nor hearing enables the cat Ito come
back"
inevitable return to its home is due to a
strange and mysterious power of memory
in its muscles. Professor Herrick calls
this "kinesthetic sense e''-that is, sense
of muscular movement which man does
, not now possess, but which probably also
explains the homing power of pigeons and
the tiger. The tiger of course, belongs
to the same family as the cat
Through this "kinesthetic sense cat,
yben II is carried awav from it's home
records involuntarily in all its muscles
every twist and turn of its journey in re-
lation to the direction in which its home
lies
Put very simply, it is as though within
the muscles of the cat there is a compass
whose needle steadily points homeward
no matter how many twists and turns the
animal undergoes in its journey away.
Or, as Professor Herrick puts it, it is as
though the cat had rubber strings of un-
limited elasticity stretching out from its
muscles and attaching 1t to its home. The
further away the cat is carried the harder
the invisible strings pull, and as soon as
the animal Is released II follows the pull
of the strings in a straight line until 1t
reaches home, when, of course, the pull
ceases
With such an invisible elastic link Of
unlimited stretchsbility, It will be seen
that it makes no difference to the cat
whether 1t is put in q bag. and carried
around By devious routes miles and miles
release Immediately pull It's head In the
direction of home, keep II there, and back
comes the cat,
Professor Herrick's interesting expert
ments are described by him In the Scien-
tifc Monthly.
The hrst cat experimental upon had
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

house and gave
its usual signal
to be admitted,
In order to
reach home the
cat had trav-
erSed a n un-
known country
consisting O {
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

IL was an even CndnCe
whether they guessed
right or wrong, The
tomcat kept his bear
ings better than any of
them.
Hodge was inclined to
believe that the cats
sense of direction was
due to its ability to de-
tect sounds on the shore
which were too faint for
the human ear, but this
has not been supported
by subsequent investiga-
ton.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

Professor G. +. Hodge relates that he
and his friends took a large tomcat with
them In boat on a lake at Madison, Wis.
The cat became restless and anxious to go
home. He would climb out on one end
of the boat and stretching his head to-
ward home meowed almost continuously.
Hodge and his friends then amused
themselves by turning the boat slowly
round and round, first one way and then
another, to see II they could throw the
cat of its bearings, but without doing so.
Whether right side, left side, bow or
stern" says Hodge, tom was always on
the part of the boat nearest home and
straining as far as he could in that direc-
ton. Fully a mile from any shore, how
could it tell which shore was which,"
A few lights were visible on the shore
and none of the party was able to dis
tinguish their own cottages. They then
wrapped the cat in a woolen blanket and
held it on the lap first and then on the bot
tom of the boat, while it was turned
round and round as before. Whenever
released the cat started with never a mis-
take and without the slightest hesitation
toward the end of the boat nearestthome.
Whether the boat was turned by p single
stroke as on a pivot, or rowed slowly
around in a circle, the result was always
the same.
Members of the party were blindfolded
and were required to guess whether the
boat was turned or allowed to stand still,
or was going in a straight line or circle.
The Washington times., 1922-10-01

been born in a barn on
the professors homestead,
and it learned as kitten to
enter the house through a glass
door. II became a favorite house ~
cat, but at the age of fifteen months
it proved such bird hunter that the
professors family decided to get rid of it,
and he made the experiments on it as a
way of losing it.
In the first experiment the cat was
carried in gunny sack over a rocky
course, mainly by electric car, down
series of hills to a point on the Unver-
sity Campus in Cleveland, 4.6 measured
miles from its home in Cleveland Heights.
There it was given dish of milk and
the liberty of two rooms, in one of which
the window was slightly lowered at the
top. That was on a Monday morning,
and at o'clock in the evening it was
still in its new quarters. Wednesday morn
ing, about forty hours later, the cat sud
denly appeared on the back ~
norrh of the nrofesSor's ..s2sSSSz 49,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-19

age graveiy nfsnacing, l was think
ing OF the pressing demands OF the
welfare OF the whole people. / be-
lieved the sacrifice brought to men
involved could be amply compen-
sated for by the carriers In various
waya Tho proposal was rejected by
the carriers. Though the rejection
did not end all negotiation. II left
the government only one course--to
call the striking workmon to return
TO work, TO call the carriers to as
sign them to work, and leave the
dispute about seniority TO the labor
board for decision.
ITO this call. majority OF the
carriers responded favorahly. pro-
posing TO re-employ all strikers ex-
cept those guilty OF violence against
workmen or property. to restore the
striking workmen to their old posi-
tions where vacant or to like posi-
tions where vacancies are not filled;
questions OF seniority which cannot
be settled between the employer and
employees to go to the labor board for
decision. The minority OF the car
rlers proposed to assign Jobs 90
workers on strike /only whore the
positions were vacant. Neither pro-
Impair Interstate Commerce.
Thus the narrative brings us TO
the present moment, but II has not
Included the developments which
have heightened the government s
concern. Sympathetic strikes nave
developed here and there, seriously
impairing interstate commerce. De.
serted transcontinental trains in the
desert regions of the southwest have
revealed the cruelty and contempt
for law on the part OF some railway
employees, who have conspired to
paralyze transportation and lawless-
ness and violence in hundred
places have revealed the failure of
tho striking unions 10 hold their
forces TO law observance. Men who
refused to strike and who have
braved insult and assault and rislked
their lives TO serve a public need
have been cruelty attacked and
wounded and Killed. Men seeking
works and guards attempting to pro-
tee. Hires and prore:ty, even off.c sTs
OF the federal government have been
assaulted. humiliated and hindered
In their duties. Strikers have armed
themselves and gathered in mobs
about railroad shops to offer armed
violence to any man attempting TO
go to work. There Is a state OF law
lessness shocking to every concep-
ton OF American law and order and
violating the guarantees OF American
freedom. At no time has the federal
government been unready or unwill-
ing TO give its support to maintain
law and order and restrain violence,
hut in no case has state authority
confessed its inability to cope with
the situation and asked for federal
assistance,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-19

"U-der these conditions Of hind
rance and intimidation, there has
been such n lack OF care OF motive
power that the deterioration OF To-
comotiYes and the noncompliance
with tho safety requirements OF the
law are threatening the breakdown
OF transportation. This very seri-
Ous menace is magnifled by the mil
lions OF losses to fruit growers and
other producers OF perishable food
stuffs, aud comparable losses to
farmers who depend on transpor-
tation OF their grains at harvest
time. Even worse, II ls hindcring
the transportation Of available coal
whom industry is on the verge OF
paralysis because Of coal shortage
and life and healtf-rnre mennced
by coal famine in the great ccntcrs
OF population.
surely the threatening condi-
tlons must impress tho congress and
tho country that no body OF men
whether limited in numbers and re-
sponsibles for railway management
or powerful In numbers and the
necessary force In railroad opera
tions shall be permitted to choose
course which so imperils public
employers nor working mems un-
ions may escape responsibility II
Is fundamental TO all freedom that
all men have unquostioucd rights
Ia lawful pursuits To work and to
live and choose their own lawful
ways to happiness. In these strikes,
the rights have been denied by as
sault and violence, by armed law
lesness. In many communities the
municipal authorities have winked
at these vlolenccs until liberty is
a mockery and the law a matter OF
community contempt, 10 is fair to
say that the great mass OF organ
lied workers do not approve, but
they seem helpless TO hinder. These
conditions cannot remain in free
America II free men can not toll
according to their own lawful
choosing, all our constitutional
guarantees born OF democracy are
surrendered to mobocracy and the
freedom OF hundred million Is
surrendered to the email minority
which would have no law.
Asks No Action.
1T IN not my thought 10 ask
congress to deal with these prob
lens at this time. No hastv action
would contribute to the solution OF
thel present critical situation, There
is existing law by which to settle
the prevailing disputes, There are
statutes torbiddlng conspiracy TO
hinder interstate commerce. There
are laws 10 assure the highest pos
sible safety in railway service. II
Ia my purpose 10 invoke these laws
civil and criminal, against all Of
tenders alike.
"One specific thing must ask at