The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-28
NelUest Cabinet Member
Is Typical Family Mar,

first time a Autograph Of next years
deluxe sedan.
| And in the 18 years of their mar
rled life, though Mrs. Chaplin has
been devoted and attentive mother
10 their children, she still has had
tlme-taken time-to be the most in
innate and most sympathetic coun-
sellor to her husband.
She and Roy. Jr., II, with a group
OF intimate friends, were at the sta
ton when the new secretary of COM
merce came home. There was no
reception committee. no bands; but a
neighborly. cordial welcome.
! X X X
The Chapins will regret leaving
their magnificent home at Crosse
Point Farms, exclusive Detroit SUBJ
urb. 1t is Georgian palace that
stands far back from the lake shore
road, overlooking the blue waters of
Lake st. Clair.
Their home was styled after the
great plantation homes of Georgia
where Mrs. Chaplin was born and
reared. She lived in Savannah and
has innumerable friends and rela-
tives there. Frequently the Chapins
go to Savannah for long visits. It
is almost another home for all of
them.
! Mrs. Chaplin is not a clubwoman.
| She is member of very few COM
mittees and very few movements"
Her whole life centers around her
home, her husband and her family.
But within the circle of her very
| animated existence, there are many
exceptional people and many note
worthy events.
Her group includes such names as
Mrs. Edsel Ford and Mrs. Ford's sis
ter, Mrs. Ernest Kanzler. Their &C
tivities constitute the most exclusive
sphere of Detroits social life.
In their home, the Chapins have
entertained many visiting notables.
No attempt is made to maintain a
social ritual. There is no artificial
atmosphere. Interesting people seek
out the Chapins because they them
selves are interesting. Mrs. Chaplin
still has the buoyancy and charm of
youths, and the rarest of all social
graces-complete simplicity.
AS she goes to the capital and its |
round of brilliant social events no
one will gather from her manner !
that she lays claim to social prestige. |
She is spontaneous, sympathetic.
responsive and well poised. She is
tYov h,,c hut al 1oc
time for a worthy enterprise.
Chaplin, 50, whose life's job has
been one of selling, now becomes
general of that vast army selling
American goods in all corners of the
world. His rise has been associated
closely with the growth Of the auto
motive industry.
That Lansing, Mich. was his birth
place was circumstance that had
great bearing on his career. For
it was during his boyhood there that
Ransom E. Odds was chugging about
Lansing's streets in his experimental
automobile.
Young Chaplin was fascinated by
the sight of the horseless carriage,
its coughing motor and the trail of
fumes it left behind. And when he
visited the Olds Motor Works in De-
troit and rode about the city, once
reaching the dizzy speed Of Is miles
an hour. his career was decided!
His rise from demonstration re-
pairman, machinist in the Odds conf
pany to the presidency Of the Hud-
son Motor Car company before he
was 30 is one of the countrys FAM
iliar success Stories Since 1923 he
has been chairman of the board.
He has been active In highway inl-
provement organizations, headed the
highway transport committee of the
Council of National Defense during
the World War as dollar a year
man." and was president of the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber OF Com
merce in 1929 when his acuuain-
lance with President Hoover ripened.
X \ X
Chaplin is a genius at organization.
His record speaks for his business
He radiates force, is quick
and smiling. but can say no with
firmness when occasion demands.
He is an enthusiastic amateur
photographer, hobby dating back
to pin-hole camera days. Color
photography has captured his inter-
est. And he has made a complete
record Of his children's life with his
own motion picture camera.
Business and economics require
most of his reading time. but he
likes Mark Twain, especially Tom
Sawyer; Julian Streets books; Roose-
velt's biographies, and books on
travel.
OF all the successes that stud his
business career, the greatest, he will
relate, was his safe arrival in New
York in 1901 after seven-day trip
from Detroit in an Odds car of the
'handle-bar' type. It was the firol
Detroit-New York trip ever made by
automobile. The driver. was COM
PEELED. practically, to rebuild the car
from spare parts carried along.
Frame bolts had to be replaced
daily. tn engine faltered frequently
and toward the end Of the moment