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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-02
LARRY Finn HAS
BOUGHT HIM TWO
JUMPING HORSES
For Practicing Them, He Has
Built Barriers on Grounds
of the Old Country Club

Larry Finn, who lives in the
Glen at the east edge of the vii
lage. is building series of
jumps for his horses on the knoll
back of the old Strowd place,
where the country club used to
stand.
There are four types of Jumps
that Mr.. Finn is putting up with
the aid of negro helper. The
fence jump is made on the order
of the ordinary pasture fence
Just a pair of posts with rails
running parallel to the ground.
The wing jump resembles the
uprlghtS and cross piece used in
the high Jump at a track meet,
with the addition of two sections
of fence that extend some eight
feet on either side to keep the
horse from turning away instead
of going over. The chicken coop
Jump looks like a truncated pyra-
mid. With its board cross pieces.
an imaginative person might
llken If to A wooden chicken coon
viewed from the end. The stone
wall jump, as its name implies,
is Just stone wall of the ordi-
nary garden variety,
Mr. Finn has two perfectly
matched hunters that he keeps
in the stables once used by the
Fisher Riding Club. He made
special trip through Virginia
early in the summer for the pur-
pose of buying a pair. He looked
at more than five hundred horses
on his trip and finally selected
Cherub and Cherubim.
After the purchase of the
horses trailer was obtained for
their transportation. This trail
er, which has been painted a
vigorous shade of blue to match
the Finn automobile, has a car
pet floor, a rail partition so that
each horse will have an indivi-
dual section, and a feed bin that
contains about 800 pounds of
hay; yet it is remarkably COM
pact and can be drawn with safe
ty at a speed Of fifty miles an
hour. The owner plans to use
it when he goes to fox hunts at
Pinehurst and Southern Pines
and to horse shows.
An enthusiastic horseman, Mr..
Finn wants to introduce fox
hunting, or its variation, drag
hunting, as a sport here. Fox
hunting consists in turning loose
the fox, letting the hounds pick
up the scent, and then following
on horseback. There are regions
for the sport in certain
parts of this state and in Vir-
ginia and Maryland; but down
around Pinehurst - and this
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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-02
HeIlish Weather

Charlotte was the only North
Carolina city reporting maxi
mum temperature under 100
day before yesterday. In
Greensboro the mercury went to
105 and in Durham to 104. Dur
hams record, 105, was made
Tuesday. Wednesdays maxi
mum was 1882 in Raleigh, 102
in Winston-Salem, and 102 in
Salisbury.
In this last week North Caro-
lima and Virginia seem to have
made a better effort to rival
hell's climate than any other
part of the country. When rec
ords were being set here day be-
fore yesterday the official report
from Washington showed only
one city outside of this state
Richmond, Va.-with a temper
ature above 100. Some of the
figures were: New York 80,
Atlanta 88, Miami 88, Ell Paso
92, Kansas City 76, Key West
88, Tampa 80, San Antonio 84
For North Carolina and Virgil
MIA to be hotter than Florida,
Georgia, and Texas-this is a
record of shame.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-02
Book Shop Takes Old Name

The Bulls Head Book Shop,
when it moved from Murphey
hall to the Y. M. c. A. building,
changed it's name to the Book
Market. Now the name has been
changed back to the Bulls Head,
and the head of a bull painted
by George Horner will again be
put up over the door.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-02
a 1rdnScOntlnentdl
Journey

An automobile loaded with five
Greens. a Figgatt, several bags
and boxes, a crib. and equipment
for preparing baby food, pulled
out of Chapel Hill bound for
California, early Tuesday morn
ing. This journey, which will
take eight or ten days. is the re-
suit of a telephone call from
Paul Green in Hollywood. I've
rented a house." he told his wife,
80 come on"
How Mrs. Green. the four
children, and the Buick sedan
were to be transferred across
the continent presented a diff
ticult problem. 1t would have
been simple enough if only the
travellers had been concerned,
for they could have gone on a
Pullman but the family was
going to need the car in Holly
wood. Mrs. Green had an idea !:
she would go by rail with the
two younger children, Lucy Me
Allister and Janet, and she
would ask the Greens good
friend, William Figgatt, to take
the car with Paul, Jr., and Nancy
Byrd. Mr. Figgatt, a graduate
of the University, is a teacher in
Roanoke, Va.
In the first moment of enthu-
siasm over the trip Mr.. Figgatt
agreed; but the plan collapsed
the next day when Mrs. Green
opened a telegram from Roam
oke and read these words: "Will
be glad to go with the children
if YOU go along too" Evidently,
sober reflections upon the re-
sponsibility of taking care of
two children from here to the
Pacific Coast had dampened Mr..
Figgatt's zeal. There is sus-
picion here that perhaps he re-
ceived some advice from his
mother on this point.
Anyw way. his ultimatum
scotched the plan to divide the
pilgrimage into two parts.
In her final communication to
Mr.. Figgatt, before he came to
Chapel Hill, Mrs. Green asked
him to go to a store in Roanoke
and get a portable crib for Janet.
The people in the store, assum-
ing that. he was the father, spoke
of crib 'for your child" and
this caused him some embar-
rassment. But he knew what he
wanted. Mrs. Green had told
him the length-30 inches-and
he got just the right kind of
crib and brought it here with
him.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-02
Cookers to Sail Next Week

The r. E. Cokers will sail next
Wednesday, the 7th, from Bal
timore on the steamship "City
of Norfolk" and will spend most
of the next year in France. They
are now in Washington and will
not return to Chapel Hill before
sailing.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-02
The Wilson's Departure

Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Wilson and
their daughters left Tuesday for
their new home in Chicago.
Their address is 5611 Kenwood
Avenue: Mr.. Wilson'S Office ad-
dress is the Graduate Library
School, University Of Chicago.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1932-09-02
Cold Wave Strikes Village

The eclipse of the sun We'd
nesday afternoon brought a cold
wave to the village: the tempera-
ture went down from 1O2 to SO.
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
The New Police Chief
Major Brown In Delicate Job

Friends of Major Ernest W. Brown will for some time
in doubt whether congratulate him condoe with him
upon his appointment major and superintendent Of police
Major Brown takes office at difficult time.
Both within department and outside conditions exist
which highest qualifications if his administration
is to be successful
As chief upon his duties he finds Washington
amazed at facility with which big crimes being
mitted
The depredations against banks have brought to the
cia type of crime of which has been comparatively free
except in recent months
Holdup and robbers fOurshng with each night
bringing reports of than of thefts.
In general the crime increase has been blamed upon the
depression. t..,.
This may o but the condition calls for alert determined
and intelligent policing.
There another dsquetng angle to the job of being
police superintendent in Washington this winter.
That is the prospect of repetition of the marches upon
the National Capital which developed last spring.
These Incidents many of which already threatened for
the coming months will require careful planning and decacv
of action they not to develop into serious menaces
TO these problems of increased criminal tendencies and
threatening mobs Major Brown equipped with police de-
parment the morale Of which is naturally disturbed at the
treatment which accorded Gen. Pelham Glassford
The chief has been member that department for SO
years.
During that time he been intimately associated with the
veteran officers who surround him in his post.
The knowledge which he has of these his general
understanding of the psychology on the beat"
should be particularly valuable to him in his post
Major Brown should know that what the public of Washing
wants police force tightly organized intellectually
capable and seriously devoted the task of suppressing the
criminal element .,.
The public does not want its police force frnp awav its
time minor voators of unessentia regulations
Gus criminals their way, unchecked and unpunished
The city hopefuas it hopeful at the beginning of each
OF the frequent police administrations Major Brown
will give it the type of department it wants and should
At the same time it is impossible to look over the records Of
the short enures Of other chiefs without misgvng
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
BIGGER THAN BARNUM'S JUMBO BIGGEST EVER
ST.. KNOWN IN CAPTIVITY

This picture of the biggest elephant held in captivity
will interest your little boy YOU Also perhaps for all the
world loves 1.-The biggest of its kind"
The biggest mountain interests ALL and the biggest pea
nut if we could find it, would interest also,
It. is said that of small circus whose dwarf
died took ordinary dressed him in fancy clothes
and called him ''the biggest dwarf on record
This giant usker elephant whose size you estimate by
looking the mahout sitting just back of his head is the
property of who recently died, His Highness the
Maharajah of Rewah
Bigger elephants may have lived capves, in the past
Marco Polo the Italian who travelled in the East than
hundred years ago. describes the great platform
mounted the backs of four gigantic elephants upon which
the Grand Khan went Those elephants may have
been bigger than this one. And in Africa in Asia s
unges there may be elephants taller than this monster
But there probably with usks as long even in
the Jungle In wild state in fights with Others other
wise such long would be broken But the Maharaah
took good of these tusks just the mandarns of
China protect their ludicrousy long ngernas by
putting metal tips the ends of them.
Ask your little boy when you show him this picture to tell
you what he thinks about it, and then encourage MIN to
mediate upon this fact
The biggest elephant in the world obey without question
the orders of tiny little his back and that's because
the man has better THINKING MACHINE than the ele
phant has Therefore, develop your thinking machine
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
Shows Treason
Toward America

There is no language
strong enough with which to
characterize this brutal, anti
American and reasonable at
titude toward our form of
government.
This type of campaign is
known to Herbert Hoover
and has his approval; and it
represents perfectly his atti-
tude toward workingmen all
his life.
No man with any respect
for democratic institutions
would tolerate such a con-
temptuous attitude toward
the working masses; and if
the time ever comes when
that sort of brutality re-
ceives the sanction of public
opinion it will mean nothing
less than the disfranchise-
ment of every man who earns
his bread by toll. And that
will mean the end of popular
government in America.
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
WISE WORDS

Rich from the very want of
wealth,
In heavens best treasures,
peace and health-Gray.
These two hated with a hate
found only on the stage
Byron.
A fool always finds a greater
fool to admire him.
Friends in distress make trou-
BILE less.
Even a dog we'll bred makes
hosts of friends.
He'll Is full of the ungrateful.
Never trouble trouble
Till trouble troubles you.
Better stretch your hand than
your neck.
Fortune and misfortune are
two buckets in the we'll.
Birds with bright plumage do
not always make good pie.
He who quarrels with a
drunken man injuries one who
is absent. .E.
The Washington times., 1932-10-24

on American workingmen
has never since been so open
and brutal-until within the
last 10 days.
| have before me letters
from parties in Chicago tell
ing me what their employers
are doing to blackjack them,
and my advice to them has
been to smile sweetly and re-
member that they vote Sc
cretly. It is none of their
employers business how
they vote.
Now comes Henry Ford's
attempt to treat his men as
though they were Chinese
coolies imported into South
Africa and put in stockades;
and along with it the an
nouncement from Chairman
Farley Of the Democratic
committee naming other cor
porations in Ohio who are re-
sorting to this desperate, des-
picable and un American
blackjack method.
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
Blackjack Used
To Coerce Voters

There is brutal coercion
in this trick. "'Your chill
dren hungry, ehi All right,
come over to the studio and
read what we write about
Mr.. Hoover's tender solici-
tude for you and such as
you, and wen give you a
ten spot. "
That's the sort of stuff
you are hearing over the
radio-and the reason.
But that is not the "direct
method. Terrorists of all
political persuasions are par
tial to the direct method.
And time is short; and the
polls continue to indicate a
landslide for Roosevelt. The
strategy of the Hoover man.
ayers now is to blackjack
workingmen who still have
jobs into "holding on to
Hoover" until they sink
This means going back to
the brazen, brutal methods
of 1896, when employers
openly threatened their en-
ployes with dismissal until
they acted upon the theory
that American workingmen,
in selling their labor, sci!
their citizenship with it to
the employer.
That treason to American
institutions so shocked the
nations sense of decency
that the use Of the blackjack
The Washington times., 1932-10-24

What chance have I ever
had? The same old drudgery,
day after day. Doing things I
hate to do. Tied down like a
slave. Always seeing the same
old faces. Gosh, I'm sick of it!
And it isn't fair! 1t isn't fair
that things should be so easy
for him and so hard for me-"
An EnviOus Wish
If only you could be in the
other fellows shoes. How many
times has that angry, envious
wish crossed your mind?
And yet, suppose you could?
HOW LONG WOULD YOU
BE WILLING TO WEAR
THEM?
AND HOW GREAT A PRICE
WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO
PAY?
I'm thinking of Dorothy. Doro-
thy's %, bright, pretty, restless,
ambitious. She hopes to be a
writer some day. Once she had
little article accepted. On the
strength of that, she fixed up
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
Penitentiary Place
For Such Tactics

When a governmental re-
glme so completely fails to
make headway in the arena
of debate and is forced to
take advantage of the bru-
tality of purse-proud traitors
to American institutions to
blackjack working men, its
cause is not worth saving.
The use of clubs is a dan
gerous practice; there are so
many clubs lying around the
commons; and these traitors
to A meric an institutions
have no monopoly on the
clubs. Incidentally, men SC
stupid never have had niue,
sense.
This brutal and despioabI.
attempt to black jack Amen,
cans throws a white light on
the character of the regime
In Washington and its cyni-
cal assumption that Ameri-
can working men are on
par with imported Chinese
coolies.
If our institutions are to
be preserved, the time will
speedily come when any such
traitor to American institu-
tions will be speeded to the
penitentiary - where he be-
longs.
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

a studio" at home and began
to spend mysterious periods
therein.
But nothing ever came of it.
Something always happened to
prevent Dorothy from starting
upon her career. Mabel would
phone, or Jack would blow his
horn outside the window, or
there'd be a wonderful sale
down at the Elite, or a new
show at the MajestiC-and. of
course, you simply can't pass
up things like that!
But Dorothy still wants to
be writer, and every time she
visits me she is frankly con-
sumed with envy. How she'd
love a job like mine! What fun
it would be! She knows she
could do it. She has talent.
Why should I have such a gor-
geous opportunity, when she
hasn't any?
All these thoughts I see
jostling behind Dorothy's lovely,
diScontented eyes as she
watches me hammer out an
article.
The Whole Story
One day I tried to answer
them. I told her what being
a writer" really means; how it
isn't fun at all. for it means
much more than HAVING tai
ent. 1t means USING that
talent. HAVING a talent is a
lot of fun. but USING it is gen.
orally pain-in-the-neck.
Using a talent means endless
boredom. discipline and sacri-
flee. Sitting still, year after
year. Writing on schedule, to
meet a dead line" Never, do
ing the silly. lazy things you'd
like to do. Passing up friendli-
ness and fun.
All of this I told to Dorothy;
but not one word of it did
Dorothy believe:
"Aw, you don't understand"
she cried. tits easy for you to
do those things, for that's the
way you are; but I simply
couldn't endure to live like that.
And Dorothy'S' answer was
only human, for none of us who
wish we were in the other fel-
lows shoes" ever do believe that
the other fellow has a hard time
earning or wearing those shoes.
We don't want to believe it.
Excuse for Laziness
We want to believe that every
thing was made easy for him
and hard for us, because that
excuses our own laziness and
reStleSsnesS.
We want to believe he had
all the breaks because that
gives us such lovely opportu-
nifty for self-pity.
And if we see him working
while we're loafing, sacrificing
while we're indulging ourselves.
we want to say: "Oh, that isn't
hard for him. He's made that
way. If were made that way,
could have his luck, too. But
I'm different. I could never
stick to things like that. I'm
too high strung. 1t would drive
me crazy"
The other fellows shoes-how
brightly. they shine; how soft
thew SEEM
BUT HOW LONG WOULD
YOU BE WILLING TO WEAR
THEM? HOW REAT A.
PRICE WOULD YOU RE WILL.
INC TO PAY FOR THEM?
Copyright, 1892. King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
Your FavOrite Pastime

Your FavOrite PaStime
Aren't you surprised at times
by the effort you must exert
to control your desire to engage
in your favorite pastime?
You make resolutions not to
indulge m it for a certain
length of time.
But when the time comes
when you usually participate
in it, you find your resolutions
weakening, in fact it becomes
most difficult to overcome the
urge.
You have been in the habit
of self denial all your life, but
this new interest in middle life
has an irresistible pull above
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
ONCE-OVERS

anything you have ever expert
enCed.
Perhaps you blame your
young people for the time they
spend in sports.
You lecture them on having
a sensible goal in life and
working toward it, irrespective
of any calls that pleasure may
exert.
Yet you, at mature age, ad-
NIT that it takes all the will
power you possess to restrain
yourself from over-indulgence
in your favorite amusement.
You an willing to work early
and late in the day to make
time for it.
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
Smile Sweetly-
Vote in Secret

The plan of Mr.. Hoover
now is that the men who
have jobs at greatly reduced
wages shall divide their
jobs and wages with the un-
employed; which will re-
duce all the working classes
to a mere existence and not
add one penny to the pur-
chasing power Of labor for
the benefit of merchants.
This would prevent abso-
Lutte starvation and permit
the Hoover administration
to hold on to the policies that
war with economics.
And the plan is to black
jack the men with jobs into
the acceptance of that pro
gram.
Our, advice to these men
is to smile sweetly-for the
man who takes advantage
Of their necessities and the
necessities Of their children
to reduce their citizenship
to a mockery is not entitled
to the respect of any de-
cent citizen-so let them
smile Sweetly and remember
that they vote secretly.
The Washington times., 1932-10-24

when nobody jumped out of
skyscraper windows, and shoot
ing your husband was MOST
unusual"
Prosperity" as it was laugh
ingly called, made no hit with
ME! The SIMPLE LIFE is so
much easier on your nerves!
And 5-and-10 jewelry doesn't
keep you awake nights, listen
ing for burglars-like that from
Fifth Avenue.
Copyright. 1882. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1932-10-24

eggs, Shampooed her own hair
and wore lisle-thread stockings,
at three pairs for a dollar. And
if she paid five dollars a pair
for her shoes, she was "snob-
bish."
You could rent a whole big
house, in the swankiest neigh
borhood for $75 month-and
if you paid your cook $12 a
month she was "overpaid."
If your "best beau" wanted
to show you a swell evening,
he took you to the theater,
paid three or four dollars a
pair for orchestra seats and
treated you to a Supper" of
oysters and mineral water. And
if he took you in a hansom-
cab. he was "a prince of spend
ers"! No kisses required as
indemnity or luxury tax.
If he sent you a box of dou-
BILE violets tied in purple satin
ribbon, at Christmas, it meant
that he was getting serious.
And, if there was an orchid in
the middle of the bunch, he
meant business. If he gave you
a link bracelet, you were prac-
tically engaged. And if he Of
fered you a pair of jewelled
garter-buckles, you were mot
a nice girl".
If you wore a smart tailored
suit, white kid gloves, patent
The Washington times., 1932-10-24

so pow e r.
fully. in his
e a y, hand
some shoes"
you're filled
with envy.
If 1 only
h a d hi S
breaks!" you
say to your
self. 1T must
be wonderful
to live like
that; to do
the thing he
does! But he
has all the
luck, and I
The Washington times., 1932-10-24

TlNDlNG IL lmposSlDle "
l. meet the issues and
made desperate by the over
whelming trend toward
Roosevelt, the Hoover CAM
paign board, with his affili-
ates, is now counting on
just two things:
On their theory that most
business men are ignorant;
And on their hope that the
use of the blackjack on la
Dor will coerce it into "hold-
ing on to Hoover. >"
Mr.. Hoover's managers
are not thinking so much
of the workingman as of the
average business man when
they count on Ignorance. "
The story Of how Mr..
Hoover, solitary and alone,
in the solemn watches OF
the night, saved the gold
standard that never was en-
dangered, is food for the
morons. Even Mr.. Hoover
does not expect them to take
that story of his on Wall
Street-where they know
better.
That cock-and-bull story,
manufactured out Of the
cloth, in a conference of
desperate politicians, did
serious damage to the coun-
try. Mr.. Hoover was re-
buked by his own followers
in financial and newspaper
circles.
But this Hoover attack
on confidence in the dollar
in Europe and in our fl
nancial structure in Amer
lea is to be continued by
the underlings Of the Ad-
ministration, like Secretary
Stimson, who parrots a
statement he knows utterly
to be bunk.
To students Of popular
government there is an in
terest in the reactions to the
Hoover campaign with its
novelties. There are, among
the cynical, many who be-
lieve it as easy to sell a
political gold brick as one
in stocks. This may be Of
interest to many who find
their favorite radio pro-
grams shunted aside for
Hoover speakers, who tell
them that we owe our pres
ent happy state to Mr..
Hoover's wisdom. A humor-
Gus skit, and yet not what
they want. In Chicago, and
probably elsewhere, unem-
ployed men in desperate
need of money to feed their
families are being paid ten
dollars by the Hoover man.
agement to be interviewed
on the Importance Of "hold-
ing on to Hoover. The
interviews are written by
the Hoover managers, and
these poor devils, in desper-
ate need, read aloud over the
radio words that must al
most choke them; and cer-
tainly, must do damage. to
their self-respect.
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
If You Were in the Other
Fellows Shoes

The "other fellows shoes
how surprised you'd be if you
could stand in them for just
one day!
Seeing the other fellow sit
ting so proudly, or striding by
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
What is Normally?

Everybody is predicting that,
at the present rate, we'll "get
back to normal" in 1933-or
1934-or by Christmas"-or
by spring"
All right, choose your own pet
date. But, what IS normal?
I'm burning to know!
Things were perfectly NOR
NAL" back in the Gay Nineties.
when Mother was a girl, and
paid twenty cents a dozen for
The Washington times., 1932-10-24
The CHASTITY Treason of
Blackjacking Workers
Bv Claude G.. BOUers

Author Of Party Jackson PERIOD The Struggle
jefferson and Hamilton" The
Tragic Era" "Beveridge and the Progressive Era"