//. Walton Heegstra, 

 Director 



Chairman, Year Book 

 and Membership 

 Committee 



sation finds here another illustration of its continued reign. 

 The saddle horse gets even with the automobile. 



A decade ago, the proud owner of a car regarded the 

 fellow on a saddle horse with an air of disdainful supe- 

 riority. Now the tables are turned. And from his lofty 

 eminence the rider of a saddle horse regards the occupant 

 of even the most opulent motor with a sublime smile of 

 impeccable hauteur. But the popularity of the saddle 

 horse depends upon a much more solid, and a great deal 

 broader foundation, than the mere whim of fashion, or 

 the constantly shifting currents of social prestige. The 

 saddle horse of today must be regarded as both a utility 

 and a minister to one's pleasure. 



While it is undoubtedly true that the nature of the utili- 

 tarian purposes, to which saddle horses are devoted, have 

 undergone a radical change during the last decade, the 

 change has by no means obviated the fact. 



It is true that people no longer use saddle horses for 

 the purposes of making journeys, in the sense in which our 

 forefathers used them, in the pioneer days, for coming 

 from Virginia into the western vastnesses of the then miex- 

 plored Blue Grass region of Kentucky. But it is not less 

 true that we do use saddle horses for other purposes of 

 an entirely different but equally important nature. To 

 illustrate: modern industrial and social life is conducted 

 at a very high pressure, and with a consequent result of 

 a constantly increasing depletion of vital and nervous 

 energy. The modern business man, and the modem soci- 

 ety woman, both live under an extreme tension, and every- 

 thing proceeds at an extraordinarily rapid pace. The auto- 

 mobile itself has been a minister, and an instrument, 

 contributing to this very result. The machine has brought 

 the country to the city limits, and one of its most potent 

 results has been to add measurably to the hours of our 

 never-ceasing and restless activities. 



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