The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-04
MRS. SCHUYLER
S A Y S
CAN WE TAKE TT?

Van WE IahE II
Many explanations have been
given to try to explain the defeat
of Joe Louis. Some folks in Har-
lem say he was doped on the way
to the ring. But those who saw the
fight say it was the Fourth Round
that got him that way.
Another theory is that the fight
was sold" and the tale goes that
certain gamblers were in on the
know" and cleaned up. A friend
assures us that a Mesopotamian
gambler told him mot to be a
sap" and put up all he could rake
and scrape on the German. He put
up five and won forty-five. Another
less hard-boiled brother was given
tip at four o'clock on the day
of the Fight. "Hock your car" he
was told, your clothes and your
watch and put the dough on Schm-
cling, the fight is in the bag" To
his later regret, he refused to be-
lieve it. 1t is his explanation that
! Louis didn't know he was to be
thrown but that his trainers knew
| it and didn't train him for the
Germans style. Now, these various
tales probably soothe the vanity
of those who identified the race"
with Louis and feel that his loss is
theirs. But it is doubtful If they
are really anything but escapes"
from the idea that Achilles could
be slain.
Another friend, who knows
Louis's camp well, says the actual
explanation lies where it much
more logically would. Louis, he
says, got to thinking he was too
good. He neglected his training.
He didn't do much of anything but
his roadwork, he didn't punch the
bag enough to harden his hands;
he shirked. In other words, he act
! ed just like all the other big
fighters have just as soon as they
had the adulation Of the crowd.
They sat down on their laurels and
neglected the things that put
them where they were. Schmeling,
on the contrary, trained as never
before. 1t was just another case Of
the tortoise and the hare.
The defeat of Louis and the
Ethiopian War are both good ex-
amples of too much Identification
Of the individual Aframerican with
whatever is in the news. The tri-
umph of Louis was an inspiration
to the young but it did not prove a
thing. His defeat should be a
warning never to be too confident,
but it still proves nothing for the
race" Intelligent people know
that all groups produce both great
ness and stupidity. To quote
Hooten, "Anthropologists have
found as yet no relationship be-
tween any physical criterion OF
race and mental capacity whether
in individuals or groups"
The tuberculosis rate among
Aframericans is much higher than
1t is among the Euroamericans. 1t
is higher still among Porto Ricans.
At one time they tried to prove
that weak lungs somehow were a
negroid characteristic. This was
exploded when it was found that
the disease was non-existnt among
~ fiUn Afrinong nf tho m arl a mr.
White Canadians, unfortunately
for the theory, too, proved to have
the highest rate of all. So tuber-
culosis is now known to be a die
deficiency disease, due to a lack o.
Vitamihs A and d. The best source:
OF these vitamins is butter, milk
liver, heart, cod liver oil and sun
shine.
Relief and Health
Mr.. Schuyler and l figured on
the other night how the three o
us could keep healty were WI
limited to a relief budget of fifty
cents a day for food. Three days 6
week we would have: a fifteer
cent lamb heart, two cents Of bee
fat, Slice and broil heart lightly
then chop six cents of onions and
stew with fat; when done add
one can of seven cent tomato Juice
A fifteen cents quart of milk and
five cents of bananas for desert
The other four days we would have
spinach 10c, butter 10c, pluck zoe
canned milk &c and potatoes &c
We would take sun baths which
cost nothing and get our cod liver
oil from the city, and we wouldn'
contract any Of the deadly
! diseases.