Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-05
BY ROBERT ID. POTTER,

THOUSANDS Of times day you can hear
the phrase She's a Cat over the tea
tables 20 describe some SLY. behind-the-
back gossiping gal
The term may be apt for some women but
It's Islander on a lot Of cats
Some cats are sly, no doubt, but lot Of
them are friendly, open-faced individuals, &C
cording to science
II you must say shes a Cat" add the
phrase And So is He" for all Of Us are lot
like cats in the way we behave or said the
other way around cats have host Of human
like traits besides slyness
So says Or Charles Wnslow Of Brooklyn
College in a report 20 The American Psyche
logical Association meeting az Northwestern
University.
Or winsow finds that II you put Homo
Sapiens and Fes Catus on the same spot say
make them hungry they are a lot alike.
Faced with the dilemma Of getting food one
Of the most basic OF all drives in the animal
kngdom-man and cats differ mainly because
one has fur and the other hasn't.
The timid. but desperate father who steals
food for his babies. the weak man who fights
a bully for something 10 eat the woman who
excels men in hunting or fishing just TO get
food all find their countcrparts among cats,
according 10 the researches OF Or. Winsow
Suppose you were placed IN cage and
your worst enemy was placed in another cage
ten feet away. For day or so your keeper
lets you both starve And then, one day, the
keeper comes in with bowl Of food Whlch-he-
-f7taCUs carefully MIDWAY bcJWeen the cages
Finally nc tel you both that on signal you
can turn the door knob and come out and
the winner" can get the food.
What would you do?
If you were hungry, really hungry, the
bets would be that you would be out Of that
cage in a flash grab the food and gobble
it down If your enemy grabbed at the food,
you would fight That's what DR. Winslow
found happened with his cats
But Or. Winslow found, too that some
cats were friendly. and while they rushed out
Of their cages and grabbed the food they gave
part away instead OF hogging it.
Here again Is another human trait; the
sharing OF food with friends
To show how closely feline reactions re-
semble those of human beings Or Wnslow
has created in his laboratory community Of
cats. some fifteen OF them in all sizes and
shades and ranging in age from four months
70 t'e0 ycar-s7
Bhese cats lived the life OF Riley (and still
do for the researches are not yet fnished)
except when they are used for the expert
ments At that time they miss feeding or
two and go back 20 the half-hu,gry state
that they used TO live
DR. Wnslow's cats owen m what might be
called apartment houses, three or four IN
group. but each day they are taken from their
cages and put into a central playground area
like bunch Of school children released in the
school yard at recess.
And just like bunch Of children they are.
Some make friends. Others influence friends.
Some have fights and win Others have fights
and get licked
Just as If he had taken fifteen different
persons and made them live together, DR. Win
slow found among his cats, just about fifteen
different kinds of feline personalities.
Some Of the cats establish dominance over
other cats Others become submissive. Some
are the leaders and some the followers just
as in life with human beings.
Gradually the cat community settles down
into a stable feline society with every cat