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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-16
THE HUMAN EQUATION

you no doubt wonder what night
spot I frequented the evening be.
fore.
THE HUMAN EQUATION
But you mustn't blame this ma
chine on which I message you.
Being q machine it will turn out
a good story every day-all other
things being e. ual.
But all other things are not
equal every day. The human ele-
ment enters here. It is never the
same. day in and day out.
Babe Ruth didn't hit home runs
every day, yet he was in Yankee
Stadium n gam IS out Of 1874. The
Stadium remained the same, but
the human element varied.
That goes for Joe DiMaggio,
yes, and our own Cece Travis.
We enormously fall into the
bad habit Of expecting our sports
aces to always function off their
best form.
It can't be done. Exceptions
like Ruth and Dempsey and lot
Of others came near to always
achieving the thing expected OF
them, but even they could not
Standoff the human equasion.
YOU TELL EN- JOE
In his own naive way, Joe Louis
gives you the same logic.
How q man who amt
Schmeling, goin' to fight me
like Schmeling," asks Louis.
He observes that everybody who
fought Dempsey wasn't able tx
fight him as did his one nemesis
Tunney.
eff a man pitch a no-hit game
one time, that amt no sign he
goin' to pitch q no-hit game next
time, is it?"
No Joe, 1t ISN'T.
You tell emil
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-16

Robert L. Riggs, 19-year-old
Californian. won final of mems
singles in Eastern turf court
championship at Rye, N. Y, de-
feating Frank Parker, 6-3. rs,
Is.
In women's doubles final, Miss
Alice Marble, Of Los Angeles.
and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan,
of Boston, defeated Mrs. John
Van Ryn and Miss Carolin Bah
cock, Of Los Angeles, 81, 81.
Jack Cooper. Of Kansas City.
Mo-, set new speedboat record
in winning National Sweepstakes
Regatta at Red Bank, N. J.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-16
Sport Worlds Passing Show

Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis "floored" by sparring part
ner at Pompton Lakes, N. j..
training camp.
Philadelphia Athletics scored
astounding form reversal by win
ming third straight game from
champion New York Yankees,
S to 4, with Edgar Smith win
ming his first game Of the season.
Chicago White Sox moved into
third place in American League
race by beating Cleveland twice.
5 to 8 and 3 to 2, while Red SoX
dropped to fourth place by los
ing two games to Washington,
8 to 8 and 9 to 3.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-16
Temy;s Run1ored Contract
Big Sports Question
BY JACK MILEY

Chicago COpyrlght)
NEW YORK Aug 16-Has Bill Terry signed or hasn't he!
that the question All hands have scrammed for the storm
cellar around the New York Giant offices They won't talk
the District Attorney couldn't break EN- down You'd
think they'd done something they're ashamed Of or that they
buttoned up the lip lest they ncrmnae themselves Young
Horace Stoneham says will issue statement at the
time. Well is the time for all good men to come to the
aid Of the party kid When the last National Bank
an executive they don't conceal Why should ball clubs act
rass promoters paying off under the bridge at
midnioht2
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Tonight's Ring Card
At Griffith Stadium

MAIN BOUT
TEN ROUNDS-Feathe " 1 h g:
Henry Armstrong, of Los Angeles. VS..
JOHNNY Cabello. Of Puerto Rico.
SEMI.WINDUP
EIGHT ROUNDs-Light heavyweights:
Buddy Scott. of Washington, VS.. Frank
Donofrio. of Philadelphia.
PRELIMINARIES
SIX ROCNDS-Featherw eights: Baby
Manuel, of Richmond vs.. Yambo An
drates of South America.
SIN ROUNDS-Colored welterweight0:
George Henry, Of New York, w. Johnny
johnson, OF Philadelphia.
FOUR Observation-Disclosures Mike
Morton, OF Washington, VS.. Brooks
Bowen. of Richmond.
FOUR ROUNDs-Lightweigh wild
Bill Howell OF Asheville, n. C., VS.. Spike
Miller. OF Ada, Okla.
FOUR ROUNDS-Colored lightweigh hts I:
Johnny Jones, of Los Angeles. VS.. Kid
HOWE, Of Washington.
First bout S:30.
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music by my friend Bill Corum,
clever columnist OF the New York
Journal-American, who quotes Joe
as follows:
"How that man who amt
Schmeling going to fight me like
Schmeling? Ever body that
fight Dempsey shoulda fight
him like Tunney. But ever
body amt Tunney.
ever body fights me like that
Schmeling fight me that one
time and I fights ever time like
I fought him, then gonna git
knocked out ever time I fights
and pretty soon they amt no Joe
Louis fighting.
"If a man pitch a no-hit game
one time that amt no sign he
goin' to pitch a no-hit game
next time, Is 1t? If the same
man don't do the same thing
ever time, how q different man
goin' to do the same thing?"
That Is Mr.. Joe Louis speaking
as I need not remind you by now,
and it is my conviction he spoke a
"mouf full"
LOGIC OF SPORTS
In a few well chosen words,
Louis, through Mr.. Corum's ex'
cellent powers of expression has
brought us all back to a basic
T1rincfnlA If life that aDOlieS to
sports in their every phase.
It Is this:
We bipeds do not necessarily do
the same thing every time under
identical surroundings. Athletes
being bipeds, as well as humans,
are therefore not machines. I
touch these typewriter keys every
week day for you darling little
chickadeeS.
Some days write story that
holds you to its end. Other days
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-16
PLAZA AHEAD

Plaza Wine and Liquor
trounced the Silver Spring Post o.
flee team yesterday at Montgom-
ery-Blair High School, IA to S.
Barcarola was the winning pitcher.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-16
THEATER NINE WINS

Columbia Theater defeat tie d
washington Terminal yesterday,
8 to 2, in a six-inning game. Moony
hit Q homer for the winners.
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Kirk Miller
SPORTS EDITOR
Says:---
Bv KIRK MILLER
BV KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

Times Sports EdItoT
"Pon my word" as
England's champion,
Tommy Farr, might
say, this fellow Joe
Louis has turned out
to be a philosopher.
He ups and pulls out Of his
system the perfect answer to
the advice which so many gave
Jim Braddock some two
months ago, and which so
many are giving Tommy Farr
these very days, in view OF
Fairs fight next week with
the Brown Billikin.
That counsel, as you will recall,
was to fight Joe Louis as Max
Schmeling fought him.
LOUIS PHILOSOPHY
Well, Louis has concocted the
air tight, copper riveted, duplex
answer to that advice and think
you should lend an ear.
The words are by Louis and the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-16
Major League
Standings

*Games behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
WASHINGTON, 50; Boston,
3-3.
Philadelphia, S; New York, 4.
st. Louis, 9; Detroit, Z.
Chicago, SIS; Cleveland, S-Ss
TOday's Games
No games scheduled.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

"Games behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
Cincinnati, 13-9; Chicago, 6-Ss
New York, 5; Philadelphia, 3.
Pittsburgh, Sd; st. Louis, 90
Brooklyn, IL; Boston, 5-S.
TOday's Games
No games scheduled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-16

IT WAS PLAY at third base in the opening game Of the
Grif Boston Red sox doubleheader Buddy Myer, Gr1f
thrown third in the sixth inning when
attempted steal the bag Umpire Carl Hubbard ruled
the but Myer thought otherwise and threw dust
the let They also let fly pop bottles and the
picture below shows Bng Miller Red sox thrdbase coach
games S and o3 to take fifth place in the standings Hg
gins third baseman above international News Photos
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-13
WHAT REAL FARMERS THINK OF 1T

Senator Ellison D. Smiths idea of going to the
people who grow crops and finding out what they
think about the administrations proposed crop
control legislation sounds like good one. 1t is
one of the best and most sensible suggestions yet
put forth in connection with this sort of legislative
effort.
Senator Smith is chairman of the senate agrcul-
tural committee. This committee has in its hands
the proposed crop legislation which the president is
asking for.
He doesn't think it is what the people want but
he says pressure is being put upon him to report
il out and help get it passed right away.
He wants to put it over to the next session, and
during the recess go out about the country and
hold hearings where the dirt farmers may tell the
committee what they think about it and what they
think ought to be done.
He wants to find out what the real farmers think
about all this business of crop control by the gov
eminent He wouldn't even admit a white collar
man to one of these hearings, he has an idea
that heretofore they have been doing most of the
talking.
And we have an idea ne is right about that.
Senator Smith and his committee will likely re-
ceive some surprises when they find out what the
dirt farmers think about the matter.-Rock Hill
Is. c. Herald.
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THE HOUSING BILL

Again The Index-Journal reminds of the housing
bill of Senator Wagner, of New York, calling for
a Federal obligation Of billion dollars to build
homes.
This bill has Southern Democrat tackled on to
it as the sponsor in the House of Representatives,
but this member, Congressman Steagal, of Ala
bama, is believed to be hardly lukewarm in his
support He went in as loyal Administration man
but he has evidently seen the true outcome of the
bill.
Why should the Federal government undertake
to "clear out the Sums of New York and other
cities?
Why should this vast sum be added to the al
ready vast debt of the Federal government?
We allow farmers and farm tenants to live in
the house they feel they have to live in because
they are not financially able to buy and build bet
ter and have city residents in New York and other
large cities living in houses built by the Federal
government at an enormous cost but rented at low
figures to the favored few?
This scheme is wholly unfair and unjust to the
rural residents of the country Indeed it is unfair
and unjust to all citizens who taxed to put any
such scheme into reality.-Greenwood (S c. In
dex-Joprnal.
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WASHINGTON. - The Sugar
w Trust" lobbyists cry out that
The President and his cabinet
members seek to dictate TO
Congress. Administration eX-
oerts cry back that the sugar
.obby is debating to Congress and
controls more members than the
administration.
The one sure thing about this
sugar battles outcome, whether
:. d. r. takes another licking or
not, is that the consumer will con-
sinue to pay through the nose, as
usual. The consumer is the house
wife who buys sugar at so much
pound. Usually she doesn't
know that she and commercial
users paid $350,00o,0OO or more
last year to protect an industry
officially said to be worth $780,
100000.
THE fight has been over the
question whether imports of
refined sugar from Puerto Rico
and Hawaii shall be kept down
and the Cuban quota shall be re-
duced, both as to refined and raw.
Refiners. backed by beet and some
cane sugar producers, demand
these restrictions and their lobby
lists have jammed them through
the House. Roosevelt, backed by
i've cabinet secretaries, holding
that Hawaii and Puerto Rico are
parts of the United States and
taking the position that Cuba is
part Of our economic-political sys-
tenn and must be kept from chaos
promises to veto any bill contain
ing such provisions.
Eastern sugar refiners, to whom
congressman Hope refers as 80
sugar trust organized in 1887 and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-13
SUIT THREAT
IS WITHDRAWN
Joan Crawford Dorothy
Rogers Incident Ends
Amicably

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 10. (UP).
The threat of $4,000 damage
suit against Joan Crawford,
screen actress, was withdrawn
last night by counsel for Dorothy
Rogers, Detroit stenographer,
who charged Miss Crawford had
caused her to lose her job at a
film studio.
Miss Rogers, who insisted she
had been on friendly" terms
with Miss Crawford until last
May 9th, when the actress sud
denly became "cool," conferred
with District Attorney Buron
Fits. and later it was announced
the matter Settled to the salts
faction of all concerned" ,
Miss Crawford previously had
denied any Friendship with
Miss Rogers, insisting the girl was
a fan whom she had "tried to be
nice to-"
Cyril Moss, the girls attorney,
said the trouble was adjusted al
ter conference at Miss Craw-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-13
HENRY AND WPA

Henry" said Colonel Spots
wood to colored man who had
been doing his odd jobs for Is
years, "can you come over and
whitewash my chicken house,"
"Ah guess So" answered Hen
ny, "but Ah'll haftah charge yo'
mo- dan All did befo'."
When informed what the charge
would be, Colonel Spottswood
calculated Great Scott! That is
as much as an expert painter
would charge me-
"Yassah," admitted Henry COM
fortbaly; "but yo' see All is wuck-
in fo' de WPA, an dey tells me
All kin git off fo' as long as 90
days eff All kin git wuck at mo-
dan dey is Givin' me-"
"ln that case suppose you
wouldn't take any kind of job for
more than 90 days, would you?"
inquired Colonel Spottswood.
"No sah," said Henry.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
,FDR WINNING CONTROL

Should the House pass the Black-Connery wage
and-hour bill, it would aid tremendously 10 the
power of control committed into the hands Oh the
president.
And vast would be the powers invested IN MN
by this legislation, which would place virtual con-
troll of American industry, large and small, IN the
hands OF fve-man board appointed by the presi-
dent and therefore subject in large measure to MS
will and wishes.
More and more the president is winning control,
through congressional action. His defeat on the
Supreme Court issue was the notable and outstand-
ing exception.
Crop control appears in the offing-either con-
gress must pledge itself to give him that control.
or ne VIII not grant loans on cotton and wheat
according to'the late reports from Washington.
Let's see. Already President Roosevelt has con-
troll OF l,500,000,000 of relief money and $780,
100000 Of public works money; 100000 900 or
so for flood CONTROL $50e,O0O, 900 for farmers in
one form or another; $4,000, 900 for housing-to
start with; control of regular executive spending
by more than 100 agencies; control of trade and
advertising practices, and many other important
powers, and now it is proposed to give him control
Of industry through the Labor Standards board.
II is pointed out that it isn't necessary for him
TO capture Immediately control of the 5000 county
committeeman who in turn would be expected to
harvest the farm vote for the New Deal Early
next spring will do for that Meantime a lot of
cash is available to be spread out for erosion con-
troll and crop selectivity.
In fact, some Of those close to Secretary Wal
lace are said to take the view that the ever-nor-
nal granary and crop-control legislation would
prove just as effective probably bore So if it came
along just before the primaries next spring instead
of this fall-just the administration is given
surance now that it will be Forthcoming in due
time Crop loans would do for this fall.-Char-
lotte Observer. '' '' '..
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THE NEW DEAL
IN WASHIN GTON
RODNEY DuTcHER-
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

in continual conflict Win the
courts ever since ano whose
Sugar Institute was held by the
Supreme Court to be engaged in
monopolistic practices on 70 sep
arate counts, would be chic bene-
ficiarieS of the House bill. They
have provided the backbone of
the biggest sugar lobby operating
here.
THE pure consumer VIEWPOINT
has been urged only by Con-
gresham H. Jerry VoorhiS, So
year-old Californian. A Yale ghd-
uate born in Kansas, VoorhiS has
been a Phi Beta Kappa man, dfi-
cial Y. M. c. A. goodwill tou'ist
in Germany, a Wyoming cowby,
Ifreight-handler, automobile pint
worker, headmaster Of a bds'
school and an Episcopal ChuSh
lay reader
Voorhis wants sugar productin
transferred from high cost-pn-
duction areas TO low cost areS
under the quota system so that b
time l30,000,000 or more sugar.
eaters won't have to pay $3.50.
100000 a year for the privilege d
keeping up sugar prices. Eacl
year, under his proposed amendl
ment for which he will continue
to fight, a certain amount of high
cost-production tonnage quota
would be reallocated to lowest
cost areas. High-cost producer.
would be compensated for quota
reductions with proceeds Of an in.
crease of the sugar bills proposed
tax of from so to rs cents pei
hundred pounds, which Secretary
Wallace says wouldn't mean re-
tail price increase. ~ s@- -
! iCopSrlght. 1880 NfsA Service. Inc,
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MURRAY

These three prevented census for two and a
half years. But administration opposition Is
down. We are to have one. 1t is to cost between
100000 and s5,OOo,000 and to be complete oy
April-whch proves that it is to be sef-reglstra-
ton and not doorbell futility.
Should this column gloat on the survival OF us
baby?
1t should not. Essential direction is to be IN the
hands of a committee on which Uncle Danny Mud
dom Perkins and Harry Hopkins run the show,
That's lust like putting Little Goodie Two Shoes
in the hands of committee composed of the
Three Bears Rumpelstiltskin and the Big Bad Wolf.
when they get through it will be cOnclusivey es-
tabli,bed either that self-resistration won't work
or that there are no unauthorized Aliens that in
stead of 100000 unemployed the number is real
" 15 600 900, and that Mr.. Hopkins should imme-
S;s,elv he put in exclusive charge of the Treasury
With WPA attached as new Treasury bureau for
the complete evacuation of all public funds.-Gen.
Hugh Johnson in Charlotte News.
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SREMEMeER

harbor, snufing out 267 lives SO
years ago, still reverberates
through the pages OF American
history. Here was major naval
disaster that has defied satisfac-
tory explanation.
ordered, early in 1898, to pro-
tect the lives of American citizens
in Cuba, which was then en-
broiled in a civil war with Spain,
the Maine was anchored at Buoy
No. 4, Havana. Suddenly, at $40
O'Clock on the night of Feb. IS,
the great ship lurched high into
the air, tossed sidewise and set
tied back into the water, aflame.
Only AZ were saved uninjured.
The next morning American
newspapers streamered the story
from coast to coast and the nation
took up the cry Remember the
Maine" Actually, the Spanish
American War was launched on
that date, although technically,
President Mckinley did not SEND
his war message to Congress I'M
til April II. On April 20, war was
formally declared.
But today the sinking Of the
Maine remains a major mystery.
Whether the explosion was a de-
liberate act of the Spanish, was an
accident or an act of Cuban in
surrecto, eager to embroil Spain
in war with the United States, has
never been determined. A rev.
enue stamp issued in 1898 pictures
the Maine.
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THIS is ECONOMY: Thomas

THIS is ECONOMY: Thomas
+. Thrower, last heard Of in Or
lando realty circles, sends a note
from Milwaukee, where he says
he is cconomizing on the trans
portation costs of that cOmmod-
ity which made Milwaukee fam
Gus, and moved here to save the
freight" Lots Of 'em must be do.
ing likewise in that great city Of
100000 people. Mr.. Thrower was
impressed with the harvest festi-
val folk dances, held on various
nights to accommodate 500 per-
sons in the caSt-"30 national
tiles. all in costume Would
like to see my little friend, Mill
dred (mcaning Milliccnt) Living
ston put it on at Hendersonville."
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ANOTHER BOOM ECHO: And
hprp conpS another reminder of

ford'S home, and that Miss Rog-
crS would return to her job in
the advertising deparartmet at
at RK0 studios.
"Miss Crawford is being held
blamcless for the misunderstand-
ing at the studio" Moss said.
The studio said that Miss Craw-
ford, who is under contract at
Neutrality-suspicious. studio, had
nothing to do" with Miss Rogers
dismissal, B.. =
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BIBLE THOUGHT
"PREAcH THE WORD!
RED TAPE AND RUIN IN
- CENTRALIZED RULE
lBy BRUCE CATION

lBy BkOSE OAllONJ
People who consider the value OF highiy-
centralized governments on the German
Italian or Russian models usually base
their thought on high principles Of one kind
or another. rr '. -"E.
Too seldom do they think of the most
valid objection of all-the difficulty, the
almost sheer impossibility of running the
economic life of great country through
a central bureaucracy. ..
Fortunately, at no direct expense to our
selves, we can study some fine object les
sons in these matters by looking overseas,
where the experiments are being carried
on with human guinea-pigS or natlonalitles
other than our own.
For instance, Germany:
Here is the story of single deal involv-
ing purchase of 10000 pounds of wool. In
the first place, it wasn't a straight simple
deal. Toys had to be exported first to bal
ance the import of wool. Then to complete
the deal, $50 forms had to be filled in, and
it took just 10 months to steer the transac-
ton through the Sargasso Sea Of red tape
with which 1t was surrounded.
Smaller businesses are no better off. A
southwest German Chamber of Commerce
inquiry found that among small plants
with 100 to 200 employees, up to IS per
cent of the clerical work Of the company
was devoted to filling out control forms,
and that the average number of forms to
be filed out in single transaction is now
l40. D.. ,-r. ...r &C.. r....
II is no better under the Russian form
of centralized control. Since the epidemic
of shootings Of hundreds of business ex-
ecutives who happened to differ with the
prevailing theology, and the summary fir
ing and blacklisting as ''saboteurs" of hun
dreds of administrators and workers who
didn't produce as much or as high-stand-
ard goods as somebody. in authority at
Moscow thought they ought to. initiative
has worn hobbies. .'..
Every executive or administrator who
plans new step is found to be writing to
Moscow first to see whether the step would
get the approval of the powers-that-be. He
is afraid to act on his own responsibility
for fear that his act will be misconstrued
or fail or 60 wrong somewhere. And then
he faces either the firing-squad or a politi-
cal blacklist which prevents his earning a
decent living in the future.
Thus the objection to the European die
tatorships is not only on principle, and on
the loss of freedom. 1t is also practical.
For there is good reason to believe that
any system, trying to- run the entire eco
nomic machinery of a country in detail
from a central control-room is doomed to
die certain and inglorioas death in sea
ofTred taper
That is the lesson. Certain of the cur
rent developments in our own country sug-
gest that now is the time to learn it from
example before it is taught us by the more
expensive method of experience. .....r
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alimony, but in
a case like the
foregoing if !
were the judge |
would slap on
the alimony so
thick that the
other w o m q n
would have slim
pickingS.
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ON THE PLANET EARTH
Rv WJCKES WAMBOLDT

A pathetic picture is the woman
of middle age who has given the
best years of her life to some
man only to have him taken away
from her by some other woman.
Ordinarily | do not believe in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-13
SYPHILIS CLINICS

LENOIR, Aug. 10. (UP)-Di-
rector w. D. Carter has announc-
ed that regular weekly syphilis
clinics will be conducted in Cald-
we'll county through the newly
organized county health unit.