November 24, 1931
"The geraniums are still blooming out doors, also violets and plenty of dandelions. No one seems to remember such a prolonged warm spell.
I have killed just one rabbit. So many hunters in the bottoms this year near town. I go with the dogs in the evening not often seeing a sign of game. Little Ritz is learning to hunt. He likes it so well that he will run and bark when there is no sign of game just to get the other dogs excited. He has an exasperating habit of running after Sam Butler in the fields and barking at him continuously.
I had Ritz and Rowdy with me Sunday in a walk to Haight. Rowdy jumped one rabbit on the hillside and ran it along the railroad bank and lost it. Ritz found it and they ran for a merry chase away up the hillside. We had a similar chase over in the hollow. These dogs are precious to me and I love and fondle them as I would children and I fear for them when they go into the streets for the death-dealing Frankenstein auto takes its toll of our pets every day. Just last night, Brownie was killed, poor little bit of life. But people must drive fast - oh yes! They are such wonderful people!
People are crazy about jobless poor people these days. A good part of the "jobless" are bums who have always been "jobless". Think of good earnest workers giving up their jobs or having to now share them with such damned trash. If we keep on they will pull us all down and then who will there be to help pull them up? It is the same as a kind father allowing his children to spend all he makes and his credit too. This seems harsh but my work brings me in contact with these men and their families twice a day and I know their happy-go-lucky lazy ways.
Some fine Musky's have been caught here this fall."
November 24, 1931
D.C. Richard's Journal
Kurt,
You are so fortunate to have these letters. I wish I had some ties like that. Happy thanksgiving to you and your family
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Happy Thanksgiving, Ray. I discover these right along with you, transcribing them on the day of the year they were written.
Kurt
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And as the fourth paragraph reads, history repeats itself 80 years later!
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Isn't it amazing how the times cycle?
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