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LOS ANGELES, CAL., April 29.—
Twenty years old, keen-eyed and
a r e l L° Ptimistic Ch8rIes W.
d dock, didder of the ’ Pad
^ world’s champion
i 100 -meter dash, and the
fey 5n hr k k h ° ? 6XISting * C ° llege Worid meet ' at recorda Berki '
for for 220 yards, a 8
at 20 4-5 seconds, is not
> .” his y instructor , a , good athlete, but, according to
Paddock 8 , he is a good student.
is 8 senior, majoring in
. English, ’ n the school of arte and
_ .
ciences at the , University of Southern
alifornia; member of the Delta Sig¬
ma Rho, the national debating society;
possessor of a medal for winning the
Southern California inter-scholastic
championship in debating and a schol¬
arship member of the Phi Beta Kap¬
pa fraternity. v
When not training with his coach
on the athletic field, he is in the uni¬
versity library writing imaginative
descriptions of that fair phantom
and West of the Hesperides,” which
members of the writing cult have
from a ges past sought to perpetuate
, beautiful
in letters.
With him, he says, racing is “good
exercise, but it is not an ultimate
goal.
“I run,” declares young Paddock,
i 'because it
seems, and always has
seemed, perfectly natural for me. My
father, when he was younger, did a
little sprinting for Michigan, and I
can’t remember when I wasn’t trying
to beat my school boy friends to the
third telephone pole’ or the corner
store.”
In the grammar schools of James
ville, Tex., where Paddock was born,
the only son of a middle-aged couple,
it was thought he was going to be a
‘delicate boy.” He was thin and
frail in appearance, but realizing that
staying indoors reading his father’s
fascinating stock of books would not
“help matters,” Paddock says he
adopted running s a hobby primarily
as a means of keeping himself part
of the time out in the sunshine, busy
at some “good exercise.”
During his racing days, Paddock
has run 160 major races entailing
championships of greater or less de¬
gree, and of this number has won 152,
taking second place in five and third
in three. He won the championship
of the United States at Boston in the
220-yard event in 1920 and & WPP
after this race, at Brooklyn, broke the
world’s record for the 100 meter dash
on grass, in 10 3-5 seconds. At the
Olympian games, he won the 100 me¬
ter race, in an event for which 350
runners from all parte of the world
entered, the eliminations resulting in
only six participating in the finals.
Paddock has an eight foot racing
stride and uses a sixteen foot leap to
touch the tape. He weighs 160
pounds, and his training, he says,
consists chief ly in obeying his train¬
er, Dean Cromwell, of the University
of Southern California.
Paddock denies the “sports corn
tnent” that he is superstitious or that
is why, before a race, he raises hfs
arms aloft three times.
“I do this,’ he says, “not because
I’m superstitious, but to fill my lungs
with fresh air. I don’t raise my arms
for luck—I tap on wood. Sprinting
is an uncertain game; it is so short
a business that anything may hap¬
pen. Before a race, I invariably tap
on wood—chiefly for the psychology
of the thing. It keeps me from get¬
ting overconfident ,and I go in feel¬
ing squarely up against my oppon
ent.’
Paddock’s athletic record stands
behind him. But with his artistic
work, he admits there is a difference.
With that so far, he confesses, he has
practically got no further than wear¬
ing his hat on the back of his head
and putting his feet on his desk in
the editorial rooms of a Pasadena
daily paper and trying, ineffectually,
to look "literary” when the boys in¬
sist on calling him “Charlie.”
People who try to figure out exact¬
ly how Paddock wins says that in a
dash of 100 yards he makes a frac¬
tion more than thirty-five eight foot
Strides in addition to the great six¬
teen-foot leap, which is a feature of
his final spurt to the tape.
E. W. (Dad) Moulton,, veteran
trainer of Stanford University ath¬
letes, recently described Paddock’s
running form as a very peculiar “a
sort of a bound or climbing-the-rope
motion.”
After ’’addock broke the world’s
record at Berkley by running the 220
yard dash in 20 4-5 seconds, he went
to Stanford and smashed the existing
official record again by running the
distance in 21 seconds flat. Moulton
said he never had seen a man run so
fast before.
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COSY CORNER STORIES *
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(By Allen M. Sumner.)
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Bobbie Shoots a Bear.
Bobbie took his new rifle into the
woods with him. His mother had
told him that he must not shoot at
birds with it, but that if he was care
ful he might shoot at targets. So he
trudged along through the woods
whistling a tune and hoping that the
birds would not fly too near because
he might be tempted to shoot them.
The sun was warm and the ait
soft, and soon Bobbie lay down under
a tree to rest. The little birds came
and piped a song just over his head;
but he felt no desire to shoot them be¬
cause they sang such a soothing lit¬
tle lullaby. His head dropped ^nd
his eyes almost closed, and within a
few moments he was fast asleep.
And now a strange thing happened.
Bobbie suddenly found himself trudg¬
ing along riie woodland path and yet,
as he looked back, he could see him¬
self asleep under the tree, 'There
must be two of me," said Bobbie to
himself. But such things often hap¬
pen in dreams so it didn’t worry him.
A fat little bird flew over his head
and alighted on a low bough. Bobbie,
forgetting what he had been told,
took aim and fired. The poor little
bird fell over backwards and Bobbie
hurried forward to examine the
corpse. He nearly fell over himself
when he discovered that the bird, far
from being dead, had fallen over
backwards because he was laughing
so hard he couldn’t hold himself up!
Before Bobbie had time to explain the
mystery to himself, he heard a rustle
in the grass am} saw a little rabbit
sitting on its hind legs, staring at
him. Bobbie again aimed his rifle
and fired, and the rabbit tumbled
backwards. Bobbie hurried over to it
and found that the rabbit like the
bird, had tumbled over because he
was laughing so hard. Poor Bobbie
didn’t know whether he, too, should
laugh or cry.
At that moment both the bird and
the rabbit stopped laughing and star¬
ed into the woods just back of the
spot where Bobbie was .standing.
Turning, Bobbie saw a big brown bear
sitting up with its funny paws held
out in front of him. Bobbie aimed
his rifle and fired, not once, but many
times. He was determined to trill the
bear because he was afraid of it.
But the bear, like the bird and the
rabbit, simply fell over on its side
and laughed as hard as he could. He
held his fat sides with his paws, and
he' shook all over with laughter. The
more shots Bobbie fired the harder
the bear laughed. The tears rolled
down his hairy cheeks and he laughed
until the woods rang with the noise.
Poor Bobbie sat down, half angry
at all these laughing animals. Hun¬
dreds come into the little clearing to
find out what all the laughter was
about. They sat in a circle and
stared while the bear and the rabbit
and the bird writhed and squirmed
aitd shrieked and roared. Finally an
old cow ambled up from a nearby
field and stood chewing her cud and
looking with scorn at the laughing
crew. Bobbie aimed his rifle and shot
the placid cow; and in a moment she,
too, rolled over and shook with
laughter. But she could not chew
her cud and laugh at the same time;
so the poor old cow began to choke.
The other animals stopped laughing
and looked at the gasping cow, won
dering what they could do for her.
They slapped her broad back and they
rolled her from one side to the other,
but still she choked and gasped and
gagged and rolled her eyes. The big
brown bear helped her to her feet
and she stood there trembling and
shaking and trying not to laugh. By
and by she recovered her breath and
her cud and trotted back to her field,
and as she went gave a loud “Moo”
to indicate her satisfaction. At the
sound of that “Moo” Bobbie sat up
and rubbed his eyes. In front of him
stood the cow, chewing her cud as
quietly as though she had never chok¬
ed with laughter. Bobbie picked up
his rifle and started for home. He
thought of the cow and how funny
she had looked when she lay on the
ground gasping and choking with
laughter, and the bear, holding his
stomach, and the little bird laughing
little chirpy laughs, and the bunny
laughing with no sound whatever, and
at the thought of them all Bobbie
himself laughed all the way home.
SPECIAL NOTICE!
Beginning May 1, 1921, nine hours
shall constitute a day’s work for
Union Bricklayers and Plasterers of
Griffin, Ga., at a rate of 80 cents per
hour. By order of Bricklayers Mid
Plasters Union No. 20, of Georgia.
W. N. Reynolds, Deputy; A. B. Coh
ron, President; A. C. Childs, Secre¬
tary, phone 794-W, 423 East Solomon
street.
NOTICE, W. O. W.
All members of Griffin Camp No. ;
370 are njght, requested April 29. to Business be, present Fri- im-1 [
of
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j c HUDDLESTON, Clerk, 26-d4 j
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TO WAR SERVICE
BELIEVED GERMAN WAR PRIS¬
ONERS IN ENGLAND FORMED
ORGANIZATION, WITH MORE
THAN 10,000 MEMBERS, AFTER
RETURN TO GERMANY.
PHILADELPHIA, April 28.—Con¬
scientious objectors to war service in
Germany have formed a union with
more than 10,000 members, each of
whom has signed a pledge that they
will neither take up arms, produce
war material, give money nor aid in
any way in what they characterise as
the “organised murder of subjects of
other countries or of our own coun
trymen.”
This information comes from How¬
ard H. Brinton, a member of the So¬
ciety pf Friends from West Chester,
Pa., who recently attended a public
meeting in Berlin held under the aus
pices of the “German Union of Ob¬
jectors to War Service.”
“I expected to find a dozen or so
long-haired persons sitting about a
table, and instead found a hall, jamm¬
ed to the doors with about 800 people,
the air tense with suppressed enthu¬
siasm,” said Mr. Brinton.
One of the speakers said the organ
ization was formed by German war
in England after they were
permitted to return to Germany.
A student who was a speaker at
the meeting, declared that there was
great need in the universities for a
awakening, since the old
military party was still strong there
and demanded revenge on the enemy.
Another speaker said that the
Germans who had permitted them¬
selves to be driven into this war had
brains that were nothing but soup
poured into their heads by others.
u Militarism mammonism, egoism and
all that goes with the Wilhelm idea
must disappear,” he said.
Dr. Helene Stoecker, of the Wom¬
en’s International League for Peace
and Freedom, said that the education
supplied by the German state is drill,
not education. “Instead of bringing
hidden qualities to the surface, it
hammers lies into the brain,” he said.
■’’If the ‘educated’ are taught only how
to exploit humanity, it were better
that mankind remain as ignorant as
the Russian peasant. 99
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Thieves recently plundered the
Weimar museum in Germany, taking
Rembrandt’s portrait of himself and
othpr pictures by famous Dutch
painters, valued at millions of
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firm heretofore existing under the
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Some FACTS About
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Here are authentic figures from the Ford factory at Detroit. They show you
just how many Ford cars and trucks have been built each month since January 1,
1921 and how many have been sold to retail customers, in the United Statee.
Produced Delivered to
Retail Customers
JANUARY 29,883 57,208
FEBRUARY 35,305 63,603
MARCH 61,886 ----- 87,221
Total Production .127,074 Total Retail Sake 208,082
showing that actual sales for the first three months of 1021 exceeded production by
80,958 Ford cars and trucks!
April requisitions already specify 107,719 additional cars and trucks and the
estimated April output of the factory and assembly plants combined calls for 90,000!
These facts clearly show that the demand for Ford products is growing much
faster than manufacturing facilities to produce and were it not for the dealers’ limited
stocks, which are now being rapidly depleted, many more customers would have been
compelled to wait for their care. It will be only a matter of weeka, therefore, until
a big surplus of orders will prevent anything like prompt deliveries.
If you would b« sura of having yonr Ford car or truck when ypu want it, you
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we are giving
20 Per Cent Discount
on Silverware and Ivory.
10 Per Cent Discount
on Jewelry, Watches and other lines
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in return the highest quality of Drugs on the market; com
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