The broad ax., 1926-03-13


Il throw my warlike shield; lay on
MacDuff;
And damn'd be him that first cries
Hold, enough"
The weaker exemplars of the great
white press have been in the throes Of
printers collie ever since the Georgia
Deacon and the Pittsburgh windmill
respectively, known as Mr.. Tiger
Flowers and Mr.. Harry Greb, joined
gloved hands in Madison Square Gar
den last week, with the result that
after the Doxology was sung the
Georgian was saying it with Flow
ers," Harry grabbed" the losers end
of the spoils of the prize ring. Among
the first dispensers of sour grapes
comes the Washington Times Gun
doubtedly an ardent sympathizer of the
lodging Dempsey whom the New
York Boxing Commission has just or
dered to fight or quit officially with
long discourse upon the brutality of
prizehghts. eve have never known
the Washington Times to write a
double-column upon the brutality of
lynching).
The mighty Washington Times,
which usually headlines murders, arson
and robbery, has at last turned to re-
form. 1t philosophers upon the bru-
tality of man-to-man encounters; en-
phasizes the barbarism Of the prize
fight ring; points out the calamity of a
black pugilist annihilating a white one
and, after exhibiting the most pro-
nounced example of the sour grapes
fever we have ever seen, proceeds to
admonish the feeting public to reform,
using, in its reform zest. violations to
l1iC CONSTITUTION VI tHC OHltCu OtdtCo,
as references Ut is silent upon vari-
Gus Constitutional amendments and
upon the fact that not infrequently a
hundred or so whites hang or burn a
single black, without Constitutional
protection or a scintilla of Christian
lied justice). Says the Times: "The
lowest class Of the white race will hate
the thought that powerful Negro
should beat a white champion; "the
more ignorant class of the black race
are e1ated, to their own detriment and
danger, by the black mans victory" ;
and ITO have black Harry Wills beat
white Jack Dempsey would destroy
Dempsey's value"
We are quite in agreement with the
Washington Times that prize-6ghting
is brutal; and we believed that when
Sullivan, Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Dixon,
Jeffries, Willard and Johnson were in
their heydays. (And we regret that
the Washington Times did not sing
DER and Ger again its reform philoso-
plies when white champions were con-
slant winners, through evasion and
avoidance and other types of cowar-
dice, of go per cent of the ARRAYS OF
brutal Thanksgiving for sordid cash.
We are convinced, however, that
so long as the absorbing public and
the press with the exception Of the
Washington Times and some of its
prototypes) insist upon the delectable
entertainment afforded by pugilistic
champions, prize-ring virtuoso may
as we'll be champion of all the people,
white and black, and not limited in the
racial areas which he may seek for the
embarrassing of his brutal proclivities.
Furthermore, we ardently wish the
Times would join with US in making
war upon other and more harmful
forms Of brutality, such as are fire.
quently practiced by the dominant
race in this country against the weaker.
Then, we would indeed know that the
heart of the Times was RIGHT. AS
it is, its editorial of March looks
more like a case of sour grapes than a
repentant defamation of reform.
Wantedl A College President
With the expectant passing Of DR..
J. Stanley Rurkee, President of
Howard University, again comes the
absorbing question Of finding a new
leader for the Nations greatest Negro
university: and again comes the dual
query, together with the agitation, as
to whether or not the new President
of Howard shall be white or black
One group, which believes that Negro
institutions should be operated and
supervised by Negroes, will advocate
the appointment of Negro as presi-
dent; another group, which, unfortun-
ately and mistakenly believes that col
ored people are incompetent to direct
r~aa% concentrations will advarafa n