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The Washington times., 1933-09-20
Sport and Wise Spending

Sport is something done for the fun Of It,
Amateurism is something of the heart and of the spirit
Courtesy, good manners, sincerity fundamentally
important in sport.
There IS code, and it is the aim Of all true sports
men and sportswomen to uphold that code.
Sport is justified by the positive virtues Of courage
thinking unsefishness; in short, sport may be
made an aid in the development of character.
The Washington Times today dedcates this Special
Fox Hunting Section to these convictions at the same
time revealing to devotees of Fox Hunting sympathetic
understanding and evidences of willingness to promote
the sport of Riding to the Hounds.
In nearby Virginia, and in Maryland probably more
than in other States, Fox Hunting has become VITAL
ECONOMIC FACTOR Many, many millions Of dollars
are invested in estates, in hunting fields, in country
homes in live stock in lands and buildings. Fox Hunt
ing employers many. Employees, necessarily, 10
times many.
The Fox Hunter helps the breeder He helps the
poyes OF the breeder He helps everybody with whom
he comes in contact, for the that HE SPENDS
HIS MONEY. He helps to help others through this
cellent habit of SPENDING MONEY.
The true sportsmen-the Fox Hunter in particular
is sincere and open-minded. He is alert and alive to
truth He is thoughtful and persistent. He is indie
constructive; purposefu; sefconfident He is poised,
discerning and thorough, accurate. Above all, he is
executive which that he not haphazard that
when he SPENDS HIS MONEY he does in execu-
tive manner, doing himself and those around him
service the meanwhile serving the large purpose Of
AIDING HIS COUNTRY.
study of the roster of fox hunting indicates
that the highest type of American follows this sport
Among the many whose service to their country
IN time OF war is distinguished Devoees of the sport
leaders of industry finance commerce. leaders of
thoughts are patrons of art and contributors to American
letters
Good sport to you Fox Hunters, and good wishesi
May you continue to uphold The Code of Sport it
should be upheld in America May your hobby continue
to grow and expand in scope! May you teach your
fellow Americans that TO SPEND IS WISE!
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
A Logical Growth

The resemblance in type Of our
very earliest American hounds to
those life-Size pictures at Badmin-
ton is striking and significant to
a degree. It means that hunting
and the love for it were no mere
chance among us. Almost as
soon as the trees were down and
grass had replaced them, hounds
were being cheered to cry. And
good hounds, at that.
It seems a long cast from these
privately-owned establishments,
small as they were, on the great
plantations of the South and the
equally small farmer-owned packs
of the North, to our modern
kennels run on a far more lavish
scale and usually supported by
club membership and subscrip-
tions. Yet the arrangements of
today are logical growth and
go a great deal farther back in
the history Of our country than
we are apt to realize.
The Gloucester Foxhunting
Club, for example, was organized
in 1766-the first regular meet
ing being held on the 29th Of
october in that year, at the Cof-
fee House, at Front and Walnut
Streets, in Philadelphia. We are
repaid for a study Of their
methods,
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
'Foxhuntins Held
Vital Economic
Factor in Life
By HARRY COSTELLO

Editor, Special For Hunting Sec
tton OF The Washington Times
Fox hunting is a vital economic
factor in community life.
Particularly is this true Of Vir-
ginia and more particularly Of the
three great hunting counties Of
Fauquier, Loudoun and Rappa-
hammock.
In the average mind it is rather
difficult to associate fox hunting,
the sport, with the economic life
Of the community. propose to
point out a few reasons why my
first statement is logical and con-
StituteS a fact.
What happens in the Scott Dis
trict (Fauquier county, is a fair
example of what happens in other
concentrated fox hunting centers
of Virginia and other States.
The Scott District has a total
acreage of 86,474 (official figures)
and a total assessment of $685.
760 (also official figures).
Fox hunting enthusiasts have
purchased in excess of $4,000
acres, which acres have an as
sessed value of more than $1,000,-
900. These figures involve 54
hunting people.
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
Survey Yields Figures

This writer recently completed
survey for The Washington
Times after two years of work in
the field. He found 143 land own
ers in Loudoun and Fauquier
counties with a total acreage Of
more than 100000, which acreage
is assessed at more than $780,
900. All of these land owners had
a vital interest in fox hunting
and readily admitted that, with.
out question, fox hunting actually
is the most productive industry
Of the two counties.
All well-informed people know
full-well that fox hunting has in
creased land values in Loudoun
and Fauquier. The sport gives en-
ployment to thousands, and many
thousands at that.
The Times survey indicates
that the amount paid employees an
nually by hunting people in the
two counties mentioned reaches
the enormous total of $633,940.
This sum, of course, does not in
Clude what properly may De
termed dependent occupations"
that is, occupations which are
created by virtue of the fact that
hunting people employ men and
women who in turn employ others.
This writer is now engaged in
verifying for a third time figures
pertaining to the annual, fully
used spending proclivities of the
143 land owners of Loudoun, Eau.
uuier and Rappahannock counties
mentioned. The first figures
compiled, verified by the second,
reach an enormous total, and in
dicate such overwhelming proof
of the Importance Of fox hunting
as an economic factor that this
writer is reluctant to offend other
CONTINUED on Page 2s, Col. -
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
Pay Over Half of Taxes

An investigation establishes that
these 54 people own less than one
fourth the total acres, yet pay
more than one-half the total
taxes!
This condition is univ ersal
throughout hunt countries,
whether those countries are in
Massachusetts, or in Maryland, In
Virginia or in Pennsylvania.
The Scott district of Virginia Is
a hunting area; the Marshall dis
trict is not. In the latter, acreage
totals 98,988 (official figures) and
total assessment is $1,795,510 (of-
ficial figureS).
If the Scott valuation rate were
set up as an assessment basis in
Marshall, the latter's assessment
valuation would be in excess Of
$5,000,000!
This shows in no indefinite
manner what happens to land
values when hunting enthusiasts
make purchases and improve so
called farm land" It is more
than passingly significant that
hunting people spend more for
improvements of estates purchased
than they expend in making the
purchases.
It is fact that the value Of
improvements, made upon their
estates by hunting people, far ex-
ceeds the general value of the
farm land" in other districts
where farming rather than hunt
ing people, far exceeds the gen.
eral value of the farm land" in
other districts where farming
rather than hunting establishes
tax values,
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
A Chance for All

To begin with, they seemed to
realize early in the game that
money makes a hound go as well
as a mare, for they agreed that
each member should promptly
subscribe five pounds-no scant
sum in those days. And in the
second place, they determined
upon a set of rules so that their
hunting might go forward in an
orderly and proper manner with
a fair chance of sport for all.
There was no M. F. H., affairs
being conducted by a board of
managers. five in number. They
arranged at once to meet twice
a week throughout the season
with bye-days at the call of the
board. Fixture cards of some sort
seem to have been in use early.
The board acted as a hunt COM
m1ttee and had full supervision
OF the kennels as well as of the
clubhouse which was run by them
"aS a well-conducted tavern" for
the pleasure and comfort of oil
concerned.
II preSent-day Field Masters
feel overworked, they should cast
an eye at the records of the
Gloucester, for in addition to
their other jobs, members of the
Board all served as M. F. H., in
turn, and kept their friends in
Continued on PGss 26, Col. y
The Washington times., 1933-09-20

almost the precise prototype
even to color-that I have seen
on the walls at Badminton in
seventeenth century portraits Of
hounds, a place where the Dukes
of Beaufort have carried on
hound strains for generations.
This would seem to show that
our earliest packs (trencher-fed
though they undoubtedly were,
entered at all sorts of game,
usually undisciplined and often
ignorant of horn or rate) had
flowing in their veins the blood
that England had given centuries
to perfect-a blood that can be
traced all the way through the
trencher-fed packs of Britain to
the Old Southern hound and the
West Country harrier, lemon and
hare-pyed so often, back through
the Talbot of the North and the
Border staghound and on through
these to the st. Hubert and the
White Hound of France, a royal
breed even in the days of the
First Crusade.
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
Virginia s Honor

Packs Of hounds, as we know
them today, were not in use, Of
course, for they could not be, but
here and there a few couple were
kennelled in the clearings that
grew before long into plantations
Of size as the forest yielded to the
ak and acre by acre our grass
and tlllage grew.
Virginia properly may boast the
earliest private packs, although
Pennsylvania has in the Glouces-
ter Foxhunting Club the earliest
organized public pack, carried on
by dues and subscriptions. just
when hounds as packs camc to the
great plantations of the South we
do not know for sure, but it was
undoubtedly early in the Eight
eenth Century. Well before the
Revolution, a pack was maintained
at Mt. Vernon and was hunted by
the washington family.
At Gunston Hall, on the Poto-
mac, the Mason place, early rec
ords speak of the deer park lying
between the river and the house
and of harboring there before
hounds came on to draw. This
sounds like Devonshire itself. I
have in my possession to this day
a very old head, mounted gerera-
tions ago, of a Virginia deer, har-
bored at GunSton and killed, so
tradition says, by the Mt. Vernon
hounds. This would seem to prove
that the versatile packs of our an
cestors were open-minded enough
to have 60 at game-aS game
ran, for it is matter of record
that these hounds usually hunted
fox.
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
Loudoun Famous
As Center Of
Fox-Huntins

BY r. T. CORBELL
(TtDice President OF the Tide.
aDater For Hunters Association
and for Str Years Secretary
OF the Virginia For
Hunters ASSociation.)
To every devotee Of the an
cient and honorable pastime of
hunting the fox the name Of
Loudoun county, lying at the
foothills of the stately Blue
Ridge in Piedmont Virginia, is
synonymous with good sport and
fellowship. Cavaliers, coming up
from the Tidewater regions,
found the county good one in
which to ride to hounds, its
fields far flung, its valleys broad
and its coverts harboring red
foxes fleet Of foot. George Wash
ington, who kept at Mount Yer.
non a famous pack and regu-
larly rode to hounds, described
it as a country fashioned for the
bold and animated sport.
Fox hunting has flourished in
Loudoun since the formation Of
the county in 1857. In the early
days it was carried on by gentle.
men who settled on their estates,
held under grants from the Eng.
liSh crown, or from Lord Fairfax,
who inherited a vast tract of land
in Northern Virginia from Lord
Carlisle.
ORGANIZED IN 1904
It was not until 1904, however,
that the county was formally or.
ganized. In that year the Lou
doun Hunt assumed control of
the excellent hunting country ad-
jacent to Leesburg, the picturesque
county seat. Active in organizing |
the club were A. M. Chichester,
e. B. White, Henry Fairfax, Will
liam c. Eustis, David B. Tenant,
William c. Hefflin, Henry Har.
rison, T. M. Fendall and W. A.
Metzger.
The club was organized with
Mr.. Chichester as president and
Mr.. Metzger as secretary. Hounds
Confined on Page 2S, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
Fine Blood Line

In some Of the very early prints
from Virginia and also in a con.
temporary Pennsylvania print of
the Gloucester huntsman, Jonas
Catell, and a couple of his hounds
in the seventeenth century, a
most interesting comparison may
be made of hound types. The
resemblance to a modern Ameri-
can foxhound Of the better sort
is marked, Of course, in these
prints. And the similarity to a
present-day English hound Of the
Peterborough type Is slight, in
deed, yet the American foxhound
ut the pre-ReVolutionary period iS
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
AHuntins Widows So|i|oquy
nu ANN Annfs
By ANN Adds
Of Perkiomem Valley Hunt Club

OIOV
He blinked an eye-"oh Dear!!!!! again today?"
IT'S dark-not quite the dawn
He stretched little-raiSed his head
Did I wake you, Sweet"-a tired yawn.
IT'S damp and drizzly, cold and drear,
The covers are warm and snug,
But the call of the chase IS in his veins
He has the fox-huntin' "bug."
She hears him sniff and stifle sneeze,
"Please stay right home in bed,
You've an awful cold-forget the hounds,
When you're dead. you're long time dead"
You've heard it said, "Just talk to the wind
Pleading is all in vain
What's cold when scent might be right9
Who cares for mist or rain?
Many time as the day wears on,
Hark for hunting horn.
The sky grows dark, the mist turns rain.
What day! So drear, forlorn.
When four o'clock chimes ring out the hour,
And prompt thought Of tea.
Out Of the stiffness breaks cry,
yeah there Dancer. In your pack-Whoopee!
A dash to the window, just in time
To view them passing by.
A twnge of pity, wave Of the hand,
A smile, holloa-a thankful sigh.
The picture against that sombre sky
Only the hunter knows;
Those dropping SternS, those Steaming flanks
And wet, besodden clothes.
A layman painting that picture
Would see but sorry sight,
A CORY pad-a lollng tongue,
"ThoSe dogs are really fright"
But hunting artist could see the gleam
That shines in the huntsman'S eyes;
The goal was reached, battle won
Such hounds, each one prize!!!"
Peace now the day is ended,
Joy and the hunter home at last;
bedraggled brush hangs at his side,
Along with the pads and mask.
The Washington times., 1933-09-20
American Love for Chase
Is Heritage From Days
or Earliest Settlers
By LIEUT.. COL. CLIFTON Isle

Author of Hunting Hi" "Hobnails and Heather eng
Ish Kennels" "Hunting the West Country" etc.
At what period hunting the fox began America and where
began moot points, but it is clear to everyone from
what instructive love for the chase has been drawn
The earliest settlers the Atlantic seaboard brought with
them from Britain knowledge of we'll love for hounds
and hunting and wish carry such sport fashion to
which they had been accustomed the hres and provinces
at home
The Washington times., 1933-09-20

Delaware and Pennsylvania; but,
in spite OF such handicaps, it
seems beyond question that
hounds were used to track the
white-tailed deer through the
woodlands and soon entered to
native fox-this even before the
mid-Atlantic Colonies were prop
erly cleared or rideable at all.
The Washington times., 1933-09-20

Very naturally this was impos-
sible at first in the forests and
Swamps of tidewater Virginia and
the Carolinas; the wooded, I'm.
cleared hill countries of Maryland,
Evening star., 1933-11-28
SEEK COMPROMISE
IN CHICAGO STRIKE
N. R. A. Labor Board viii
Confer With Union and
Stcckyard Officials.
By The Associated Press.

CHICAGO. November 2a-The Chi
cago Regional Labor Board of the
N. r. A. took the initiative today in
en- attempt to end the strike of ap-
proXimately 5000 workmen that has
resulted in virtual tie-up OF opera
tions at the Union S.ocIyGrds. Aside
from half dozen sluggings the strike
has been marked by no violence.
The board, headed by Robert May
nard Hutchins president of the Uni
versity of Chicago. issued invitations
to officials of the three striking unions,
and executives of the Union Stock
Yards & Transit Co. to meet with it
this afternoon.
Present at today's meeting the board
said would be James Mullenbach, Spe-
Cial mediator for the National Labor
Board, as conciliator
Meanwhile, the paralyZed condition
of the yards yesterday was temporarily
relieveds by a 20-hour armistice from
noon until o'clock this morning, dur
ing which the strikers agreed not to
anterfere with the movement of live
stock
At one time during the day yesterday
it was officially reported that 10000
hogs. 10000 cattle and $1,000 sheep
were standing around while commits
sion house employees and office workers
attempted to replace the 800 members
of the Live Stock Handlers Union, the
first group to go on strike.
When the armistice was signed Off
cials of the yards agreed to commu-
nicate with producers at once and ad-
wise them of the situation. Meanwhile
the pickets established Sunday when
the strike was voted remained on duty
Strikers early set forth their demands
as return to the 1929 wage schedule
John German. president of Local SIT
of the Stock Handlers Union, said the
men were now receiving from 35 to rs
cents an hour and want from 60 to 50
cents.
German said that unless an early
settlement was effected the strike will
spread to other unions as 'sympa-
thetic" action and eventually paralyze
the entire meat packing industry In
Chicago
Evening star., 1933-11-28
N. R. A. TRADE POLICE
BODY FORMED HERE
Retail Council Meets Today to Elect
Officers and Plan Firyt Code
Actions.

The Washington Retail Trade Coun-
cil-charged with policing and inter
preting the application of the N. r. A.
code for retail busines here-has com
pleted its organization and was to begin
functioning with election of officers
today.
The council has been formed under
the sponsorship of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association and the
Washington Better But iness Bureau. and
is to be the local affiliate of the Ma
tional Retail Trade Council, set up by
the National Recovery Administration.
The interpretative work of the coun-
Gil falls to the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association, while policing
and enforcement problems come under
the Better Business Bureau, which re-
Gently expanded to take care Of the
additional duties.
Members of the council and the re-
Evening star., 1933-11-28

tail trade groups they represent are:
Mems wear, Gerald Grosner; Signey
Reizenstein, alternate; women's wear,
Joseph r. Harris, John K. Althaus,
alternate; furniture, Harry T. Roche,
E. L. Geasey, alternate; musical in
struments, Francis Regan; shoes. Edwin
Hahn, Herbert Rich, alternate; hard
ware. Tracy Campbell, Lawrence Maus,
alternate; department stores, Ralph
Goldsmith, B. B. Burgunder, alternates,
and limited price variety stores. H. D.
Ormsby, j. L. Sheads, alternate.
The group is to elect officers from
among its members. Representatives OF
the two trade bodies to serve on the
council also are to be chosen at today's
meeting.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Argo Lodge to Hold Meeting,

Argo Lodge. independent Order OF
Thanksgiving meeting tomorrow night
at the Jewish Community Center, with
specia1 entertainment. to include box
ing, music by Phil Lampkin, director
of the Fox Orchestra, and skits by
Sammy Cohen, vaudeville performer.
Evening star., 1933-11-28

presses the belief that such an inquiry
could be done within current appro-
priations.
Mr.. Babcock urges that the Secretary
act without delay. so that remedial leg
islation, based upon the boards find-
ings, might be presented to the coming
Congress. II inequalities exist in the
commissioned personnel Of the Navy.
says Mr.. Babcock. there are far graver
inequalities existing In the civilian field
service
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Methodist Pastors
Told to Buy Horses
For Circuit Riding
Ry.the Associated Press.

; Blythe Associated PreSs.
DURHAM, N. c., November %.
The North Carolina Methodist
Conference closed its annual seS-
sion here yesterday after hear
ing Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon ad-
vocate that circuit riders scrap
their automobiles and buy horses.
The bishop said too many min
listers were living tco extravaganza
ly and suggested the riders buy
horses because members of the
respective congregations will feed
the horses, thus eliminating the
serious items of expense of gaso-
line. oil, licenses and malnte-
nance"
Evening star., 1933-11-28

with Diesel electric motor car at
Savannah, Ga, 1t was learned last night
ct the Offices Of the receivers In Norfolk.
A car has been equipped with Diesel
engine, using oil as q fuel less costly
than gasoline, it was said, and the en-
gine is being experimentally operated
at Savannah. Cost reduction rather
than high speed was said to be the
primary aim.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
ASKS BOARD TO STUDY
NAVY INEQUALITIES
Babcock Also Urges Swanson for
Recommendation for Remedial
Legislation.

Appointment Of board to study in
equalities in the field service Of the Navy
Department and recommend remedial
legislation was urged today upon Sec
retary Swanson by E. Claude Babcock,
president of the American Federation Of
Government Employees.
Babcock noted that the secretary has
recently named board to study in
equalties existing In pay among COM
missioned personnel. The Government
workers official advocates that a similar
board be named for the civilian field
employees of the Navy. Mr.. Babcock
pledges the assistance of his organiza-
ton in the study of any board that the
naval Secretary might appoint and ex-
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Adas Israel to Install Officers.

Officers Of Adas Israel Congregation,
Sixth and ! streets, will be installed at
a dinner Sunday night in the synagogue
vestry rooms. Joseph /. Wilmer Is the
new president, and among the promi-
nent speakers who will address the con-
gregation are Simon E. Sobeloff, United
States attorney for Maryland; Judge
Nathan Cayton Of Municipal Court and
Rabbi Edward L. Israel OF Baltimore.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
RAILWAY TO CUT COSTS
Sea board Air Line Experimenting

With Electric Motor Car.
NORFOLK. w., November 2s CP.-
In an effort to reduce operating costs
in connection with train movements,
the Seaboard Air Line Is experimenting
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24
PIANO AND DANCE
 RECITAL NOV. 3

In the course of educating and civilizing the average young of the species, the piano looms as . dire obstacle. There are few of us who cannot recall the many hours of scales and the tedious skipping from note to note as we arpeg- gioed up and down the key board. To few of us was 1t vouchsafed to produce sounds even remotely allied to melody. And when, after a few years, we stopped with re lief-to ourselves and our fam- iiies-we wondered what all the shooting was about.
 Gifted Deborah Elton ranks as, one of those favorites of the Muses whose diligence at the piano is rewarded by the joy they can give to others and to themselves. Starting at the age of eight with Miss Fannie Mccormack, Miss Elton has worked steadily to attain her present perfection--through school, continuing with Miss Kate Chittenden at vassar college, and after graduation studying at the Yale School of Music, from which she received her degree of Bach elor of Music in 1882. Even her summers were devoted to music, being spent under the instruction of Bruce Simonds at the Playhouse in the Hills at Cummington, Mass.
 And now she Is ready to delight Waterburians, as she has radio list eners. On Friday evening. Nov ., she will accompany her sister, Charlotte, as well as playing many solo selections, in a piano and dance recital at the Waterbury Women's club which the two girls are arranging as part of the money raising campaign conducted by the Junior league to pay the salary of the Visiting Nurses nutritionist.