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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15
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IF an elephant could sit down, take up
a pencil in the flexible tip of its trunk
and write down what it thought of us,
what it thought about things in general
and what it knew about the habits and
beliefs of the whole elephant tribe, there
is no doubt that such book would be as
eagerly read as would a volume dropped
down on this planet from Mars or any of
our sister planets.
This elephant book may seem to many
to be out of all range of possibility, but
science has come to the conclusion that it
is not impossible at all, and at least one
distinguished naturalist, DIR. William T.
Hornaday, the director of the New York
Geological Park, believes that it is en-
tirely possible.
Everyone who has ever had pet dog
or horse or cat has seen them do things
at times which seemed to prove conclu-
sively that they possess the power of rea-
soning. Until recently, however, science
has denied that any animal has the ability
to reason in the same way that man does
A number of observations carried on
Independently by various skilled observ-
ers have cast grave doubts upon this old
idea and seem strongly to indicate that
almost all animals possess a reasoning
power similar to that of man, while some
of them are SO advanced in the faculty
that they could be made to communicate
their thoughts if man could only devise
some means of communication.
But most scientists interested in the
matter have at last become convinced that
the old methods of animal observation
cannot bring about this astonishing and
desirable result.
The best results, science has decided,
can be obtained at the circus, where great
numbers of animals are gathered together,
have received high degree of prelimi-
nary training and lost their shyness and
sense of strangeness.
Here it is pointed out are neither the
>. difficulties attendant to studying them in
their native haunts nor the too complicated
and artificial tests of the laboratory. The
animals have been accustomed to man, no
longer feel fear, have taken the first step
in munication-learned their alphabet,
so to speak-and afford the greatest OPP
portunity to develop the desired means of
:. communication. As the great Ringing
Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, now at
Madison Square Garden, New York, pos
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15

and mark upon a surface adapted to his
convenience. Many an elephant has been
taught to make chalk marks on black
board.
81 can conceive how an elephant may
be taught that certain characters represent
certain ideas, and that they are capable of
intelligent combinations. The system and
Judgment and patient effort which de-
veloped an active, educated, and even re-
fined intellect in Laura Bridgman-deaf,
dumb and blind from birth-ought GER
tainly to be able to teach a clear-headed,
intelligent elephant to express at least
some of his thoughts in writing
eff an investigator like DR.. Yerkes, and
an educator like Dr. Howe, should take
1t in hand to develop the mind of the ele-
plant 10 the highest possible extent, their
results would be awaited with peculiar
interest, and It would be strange If they
did not necessitate a revision of the
theories now common among those who
concede an immortal soul to every mem
Der of the human race, even down to the
lowest, but deny it to all the animals be-
low man."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15


carried it iM his trunk, as he made his
way to the bales of hay. He ate all he
wished, and then returned, bringing the
chain back again in his trunk. Next he
took his usual place and draped the chain
about his hoof as usual. This was done
so that some. other elephant, smelling
about, would not rattle the chain and thus
give the alarm. Yes, | certainly call this
bit of deductive reasoning on 'Sammy's'
part"
Miss Mabel Stark, who is the only
woman tiger trainer in the world, will tell
scientists stories which have convinced
her that tigers think and reason and then
act accordingly Miss Stark is showing
this year a curious animal, black like
wild cat, built something like panther,
yet similar to tiger in its processes of
thought.
1--WE call him a Lger," says she, ''be-
cause we don't know what else to call
him, though to me he seems more like
panther We know his paws are too thick
and heavy for a tiger, and his body is too
small and squatly set. Besides, his Eur is
black-glossy black, and tigers are always
tawny. Still, he acts like tiger, and re-
spends to the same training as a tiger
only more readily.
each day / went to the cage where
my tigers were kept, to lead out the young
animals and start them through their
tricks. Midnight the black tiger, Mid
night, the unexplained, each day would
raise his head when ] came in and push
it against the bars of his cage where he
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15

scientists now believe that the monkeys
nearest to man, the chimpanzee, the gor-
lila and the orang outang, are far beneath
the scale of intelligence of the elephant
and can probably never be developd into
anything but laborers. This, they point
out, is because the monkeys have appar-
emily no power of concentration or of per-
sistence. They skip from one thing to
another. Their attention is constantly
wavering. Their tricks are entirely imita-
tive with little if any reason behind them.
Their memories are faulty
The elephant, on the other hand, has
great powers of concentration, patience
and stick-at-it-iveness. What he learns,
ne retains and adds to by his own will.
One of the most intelligent elephants
at the Ringing Circus is Sammy"
George Denman, his keeper, will tell the
visiting scientists many stories to prove
his reasoning powers, and among them
this:
"ln his private hours Sammy al
ways is scheming to get as much as posi-
bic over his ordinary allotment of hay.
In our Winter quarters, at Bridgeport,
RrifaI nf0bkn
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Connecticut, Sammy
Aad developed a bad
habit of roaming at
night, so ! tethered
his left foot to q stake
in the roor of his
w inter apartment,
and fastened the chain
with 4 curly little iron
pin, very hard to re-
move except by def
human fingers.
"The first night
Sammy felt uncom-
Portable at not being
able to go into the
next room, as had
been his wont, or MIN
bly, to open the door
and help himself to a
bale of hay stored
here for the ele-
plants use. So he
experimental. Now,
Sammy could very
easily have wrenched
the chain from its
stake, But had he
done that ne would
have had to drag it
over the wood floor so
that the c | a n king
would have awakened
the echoes till | heard
and came running. So
IS a m m y therefore
used his brains to get
his hay.
"He p.atie ntly
w k e d over the
clinky iron pin till he
had extracted it from
between the two links
of the chain through
which it went. Then
no lifted the chain and
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the troupes of trained animals, they will
concentrate their greatest efforts upon the
elephant, since the elephant is not only
the most intelligent of beasts, but pos
sesses in the sensitive and flexible tip of
it's trunk, a mechanism comparable to the
human hand.
The elephant with the tip of it's trunk
can do anything which the forefnger and
thumb of the human hand are able to &C.
eOmplish.
DIR. Hornaday believes that if communi-
cation between the animal world and hu-
manity is ever established, the elephant
will be the pioneer in the work. In his
remal ..ably interesting book, minds and
Manners of Wild Animals" he says:
while it is generally fruitless and un-
satisfactory to enter the field of specula-
ton, cannot resist the temptation to
assert my belief that an elephant can be
taught to read written characters, and
also to express some of his own thoughts
or states of feeling in writing, 1t would
be perfectly simple matter to prepare
suitable appliances by which the sagacious
animal could hold crayon in his trunk
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sesses the greatest num-
Der of various kinds and
most highly trained ami
mails, several scientific
bodies have decided to
send experts to travel
with it and to make
minute observations and
tests to determine, once
and for all, whether ami
mails do reason; and if
they find incontroverti-
BILE proof that they do,
then to try to devise
some method of begin
ming real interchange of
thoughts and ideas be-
tween them and man.
kind.
The plans which are
maturing call for posi-.
bly, half a dozen dis
tinguished naturalists
who will spend perhaps
a year or more travel
ling with the circus.
While they will study
the lions, tigers, bears
and other members of
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o n e some
what surpris-
ing thing de-
veloped in re-
cent expert
ments is that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-03
Cascade Plunge and Pavi1ion--Opens Thursday!
provided for the women. Each com partment has steel lockerE

provided for the women. Each com pertinent has steel lockers.
 The water in the swimming pool can never become stagnant Every
 inch of 1t Is constantly in motion. due to the action of the filtration plant and centrifugal pumping system, which will pump out and purify through the same process used in the city filtration plant, 100000 gallons of water hourly. The water in the pool is completely changed every 10 hours.
 The largest stream of water pours into the pool from the cascade, which Is situated just In front of tho dining pavilion. The cascade Is a large concrete structure, the water tumb- ling over tiers of masonry. The back ground of the cascade Is a bank of shrubs and potted pla.nts, giving a natural scenic effect of rare artistry.
 Patrons of the Cascade Plunge will find everything arranged for their comfort and convenience. Experience obtained in the management of plants at Nashville. Knoxville and other southern cities has enabled the Whittle Brothers to work out a sys- tematic method of handling crowds which obviates congestion anywhere no matter what the size of the gath |ering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-03
CASCADE WILL OPEN SEASON ON THURSDAY;
 W0RkMEN ARE BUSY
Million Gallons Of Water To Be Turned Into Big Pool
 At Resort

Cascade Plunge and Pavilion will open Thursday. Progress of construc- ton work insures completion of the plant early in the week. Hundreds of workmen have been busy night and day for two weeks past putting the finishing touches on the new pleasure resort, which is expected to prove Bir- mingham's chief summer center for amusement and diversion.
 One million gallons of water will be turned into tho big swimming g basin early In the week. This pool is 22o feet long by 30 feet in width, ranging In depth from about 2h feet at the end near the dining pavilion to 10 feet at the deep end. which abuts the entrance lobby and pa vilion. The pool is concrete. sur rounded by bathing beach and spec tators' seats. and Is equipped with diving towers. rafts and other amuse- ment deviceA
 Individual compartm ents, each of which has its own private shower bath with hot and cold water, are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-03

Groups of poor students in the twelfth century were given aid fer slight services, first at the University of Paris. then at the English uni versailles, and each body, usually about 20 students. was called a
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-16

tain at the precinct that there was a
burglar down stairs, and before the
night prowler got ready to douse his
electric spotlight and fade away. the
house would be surrounded by de-
tachment OF police rushed to the place
in gasoline automobiles that run fast
because OF electric ignition. And to
make capture certain our heroine. Viz
ginia Ruffles. would be found pushing
the electric buttons that would ring
through the house so that at the very
moment the electric headlights showed
up on the police cars there would be
an electrical illumination OF the whole
house that would have looked to Do
genes or the Wise Girls OF ancient
days as though the golden sun had
galloped the zodiac in his glistening
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-16

coach TO help the cops save trouble foi
Virginia. to whom the uses OF electric.
ity are as familiar as clothes-wringer.
and rolling pins were to her grand
mother.
Having electrically saved Virginia
Ruffles from the villain who tried to
steal the family jewels. our Washing
ton newspaper men who write up such
whimsical events, were not at all star
tied the other night when a man skill
ed in tanning chained lightning held
in his hand before their gaze a piece
OF what looked like an ordinary cam
era film. which he told them was the
photograph OF a human voice. He ex-
planned that 1t is now possible to pho
tograph objects and voices. or other
noises, on the same film. With his
machines he demonstrated that talking
moving-pictures have arrived. The
voice and the picture are in perfect
relation to one another because they
are produced together on the same
mystic sensitized substance Why not
expect that in time the correspondence
now handled by stenography and type
writing will be replaced by exchang-
ing films of the human voice. or that
scratch phonograph records and end
less cranking of music boxes will
give way TO these smoothe-running
photographs Among a thousand 9TH
er possible applications is the use of
these films for broadcasting choice
radio programs.
On another occasion these same
newspaper men OF the Capital saw
made. and then they
watched the whirl of lenses before
powerful electric rays. and they fol-
lowed the demonstration to the place
where the second machine was at
work. and there they saw pictures
completed by radio. The inventor
told them that they would live to see
a page of a newspaper set up in
and the photograph trans
mitted by wireless to San Francisco,
where plates for printing would be
made from the Photographic produc-
ton, and ready for the California
presses an hour after the Washing
ION release was put on the wireless.
The Growth of Electrical Science
Humanity swears oftencr about cleo
richly street cars than it marvels at
his transportation wonder that ar
lived first at Richmond in 1888. And
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-16

Mrs. \. J. Cleson gave a birthday
party Tor her ten year old daughter
Saturday. Games were enjoyed and
delicious refreshments were served.
Mrs. Geo Millincr has returned
from Washington where she has been
visiting her daughter Mrs. VIM linus.
Milo Convey aud family lcii Mon
day TO California.
Born Sept :. to Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas Caliihan. a daughter
Mrs. A. b. Knot. OF Homcdale. is
staying with her daughter Mrs. Chas.
Callhan.
{. T.. Bales went TO Boise Wedncs-
day
Mr.. Maxwell Morrow aud Miss
Lucreiia Morrow OF Boise. visited
over Sunday with their Uncle and
Aunt. ]. +. Morrow.
Mrs. Finley Mcdonald is visiting
at Brogan Oregon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Brown were
SUNDAY dinner guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas Paynier
Mrs. Lizzc Vaughn in company
with Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Vaughn
OF Middleton and Mr. and Mrs Arthur
Oleson OF Caldwell spent Sunday at
Arrow Rock.
Mr.. and Mrs n W. Gordon enter
aimed al dinner Monday evening.
Misses Edith Ollie. Alice Mason. Ma
omi Hood and Dee Morrow and L.
w Williams.
The Good Cheer Club was enter
tanned at The Oregon Trail commun-
iy hall last Thursday. The hostesses
we're Madames Simeon Crosier. +. r.
Baird. J. X. Mullen and Alva Crosier
The Franklin club as guests. The
next meeting will be held al the
nome OF Mrs. Nick Maysonholder.
{. +. Bales attended a smoker
given by the Nampa Elk lodge Thurs
lay. The entire Caldwell lodge were
yueSts.
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the plaintiff will take Judgment again
st you as prayed in said complaint.
This action il brought TO obtain a
decree OF the above entitled Court
forever quieting plaintiffs title to tho
following described lands in Canyon
County, Idaho, to-wit:
The Lots One %, Two (2) and Three
(3) OF Block Eighteen (1S) of wash
ington Heights. Steunenberg and
Hands Addition to tho City OF Cald-
we'll, Idaho as the same appear upon
the Plat thereof filed In tho office OF
the recorder OF Canyon county. Idaho.
on August 16. 1906. and recorded in
Book Two CD OF Plats on Pare Twenty
(20)
and against all claims by any or either
OF you. That by said decree II be nd-
judged that you and each OF you have
no estate. right. title. or interest what
ever In or TO said lands and promises.
or any part thereof: and that you and
each of you be forever enjoinsd and
debarrsd from asserting any claim
whatever In or to said lands or prem
is, , or any part thereof adverse to
Witness. My hand and the seal OF
said District Court this 22nd day Of
September. 1923.
(SEAL)
]. A. Dunbar. Clerk
Scatterday & Stone. Attorneys for
Plaintiff. Residing at Caldwell, Idaho.
1920 si.
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the faults of the telephone are never
half told, though Alexander Graham
Bell startled the world with the in
vention at the Centennial in Philadel-
phia less than fifty years ago. How
disgusted we became with the me
chaniSm OF electric lights when a fuse
blows out. and blame Edison for not
having known better when he exhibit
ed his ineandescent lamp at Menlo
Park in December. 1879 Then. there
is radio. newer than all its kinSmen.
so full OF static disturbances at times
that it becomes positively tiresome"
but we are not yet intolerant on this
score. because it Is a science still in
the romper-stage. Human patience
remains steady for short spells. Elec-
trio dynamos were first exhibited in
1870. and strangely enough they have
grown in size and productivity so
rapidly that this kind OF machinery
has always kept in the good graces
of the public Electrical science has
certainly gone some" since the time
when the contemporaries OF Ben
Franklin poked fun at him by telling
that at a picnic Franklin killed a
turkey by the electric spark, and roast
ed it by an electric jack before a fire
Sindled by the electric bottle"
A Ounce Was
The master achievements in electri-
al developments are being performed
~ living human beings still in 'the
morn and liquid dew OF youth" as the
newspaper writer who &C
epted the suggestion of Gerard Swope
PRESIDENT of the General Electric. to
'isit Schenectady, will testify. about
fifteen years ago / was surprised to
otice that some OF the firemen and
olicemen were younger than | was.
aid the Washington writer, but |
cit like the old man OF the Catskills.
rho spent years in slumbering. when
saw scientists and discoveries OF the
OF electricity in the General
.lestric laboratories who were usually
len between thirty and forty years i
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Notice is hereby given that James
October 20. 1880, made Homestead En-
try Act, June II. 1909. No. oz5.4ss for
Farm Unit "B" or the Lots 3, 4 and 5.
West. Boise Meridian. has filed notice
of intention to make . year proof, to
establish claim to the land above de-
States commissioner at his ofrics. At
Caldwell. Idaho. on the 3ist day of
October. 1924.
aiiIranI nab ntes
Hatch, and Ralph Horworth. all of Par
ma. Idaho.
Bartlett Sinclair. Register.
s0s1 so 6-86-67-ss
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Truth Stranger than Lies

tThe Wise Virgins OF today concern
emselves with lighted candles TO
Friday cakes and holiday decora
Sns. and on all other occasions oul
b-to-date Misses use modern ma.
Emery to keep bold. bad men in their
bper places. Imagine Virginia
3ffles going TO sleep with greasy.
)oky candles polluting the night air.
bw archaic in these days when she
y reach forth her dainty right hand
the push button and flood a hun
81 or more candle power OF cleo
tity into her boudoir. Or in a tight
)e Virginia Ruffles would noiseless-
|uise the receiver off the telephone
ok. whisper Main fou thousand"
70 the mouthpiece, and tell the Cap
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old. There az Schenectady was the
great unfolded book OF electrical
knowledge. was fortunate in meet
ing the man who knows exactly what
electricity is-and he told me. and !
understood. But like a Ounce l forgot.
Luckily. had read somewhere that
Charles =. Steinmetz said that in
vention is ahead of commerce. He
explained that it is always easier to
devise some useful thing than it is TO
convince human beings that it is OF
any use He had written that 'inven-
ton is moving along rapidly toward
the complete domination OF electric
ity.' At Schenectady where he
catches and cages lightning. and does
other impossible things | found that
there was no question but what he
was right. | found there an army OF
inventors and scientists. perhaps five
hundred in all. working painstakingly
and Systematically, in the great labora-
tories. Electricity has performed
many remarkable feats. but the COM
mercial wisdom that has provided
like this is the browning
hope in electrical development. be-
cause in this place human brains are
at work solving new mysteries that
will continue to send civilization for
ward by leaps and bounds. Human
,lemants are moving steadily forward.
the miracles that we call
electricity. No science since the dawn
IF the Universe was ever so rich in
he possession OF brains as the cleo
rical industry. No wonder it produces
10 many kicks and thrills under the
timulus OF such team work" ,
The Hottest and the Coolest Building
Tungsten is a rare element OF the I
hromium group required for hlaments
4 electric lamps 1t ments at over a
900 degrees fahrenheit. That's fifty |.
ines hotter than Washington in Au-
ust. and its about the same as sun
eat. But it is easy to stand the sun !
ince it is more than oS.000.000 miles a
way. At the General Electric works +
l Schenectady there are furnaces in
which this fifty times hotter than G
is pulled off daily. !.
Then you go down fight of stairs
nd you come upon a liquid air plant. V
he man in charge draws out glass \
it and you nearly freeze your fin Q
ers when you touch it. He takes an
rdinary rubber tube and puts il into a,
lie liquid air. 1t is Immediately
oxen so hard that II cracks up into 4
rittle pieces when struck with ham u
Ter. He runs out some mercury into
lie liquid air and it freezes into !,
lid mass. This liquid air is 500 de- A
-ees below zero" With il vacuums u
c created in such understandable
Iings as electric light bulbs. One /,
nds the experiments with this sort OF 4
irora borealis stuff no less interest
x than that had at the mouth OF the II
Irnaces which are reminders of sad "
,reafter. This building is the coldes, g
I'd hottest place on the American al
For all that, it furnishes a
lily minor side-light on the great -
fence of manufacturing electrical OF
ings. to
IT.
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Crabs Shift Shells Annually.
Crabs change their shells annually.