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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-23
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

Paudlence that there be no I'M
toward demonstration regardless
of the race. color or creed of
the winner, spontaneous approval
sprung up within the huge,
brick abbatoir.
The behavior of Chicago's
famous south side through
which traffic had to pass going
down town, was noisy. but
respectable and typical Of the
carnival spirit.
Sixty policemen made a human
chain at the rim of the ring
after the verdict, but they were
needless and only INSTRUCTED the
view of the ringsiders of the
reaction of the victor and the
VanquiShed.
When Jim Braddock fell in
defeat, it was, as the naked eye
could gauge, Immediately in the
center of the canvas, and there
is splotch Of blood there today
to mark the spot. The count,
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incidentally, was only a formal.
ity. Jim was cold!
Braddock'S two principal
wounds were a cut over his left
eye and a cash above his lip.
Neither, however, in any way af.
fected the course of the fight.
More than a dozen champions
or former champions were intro
duced from the ring previous to
the piece de resistance. These in
cluded besides Jack Dempsey and
Gene Tunney, Jess Willard, John
Henry Lewis, Willie Richie, Jack
Dillon, Tom Sharkey and George
Gardner.
Also Sammy Mandell, Barney
Ross, Sixto cobar, Freddy
Steele. Bat Nelson, Johnny Cou-
lon, Buddy Ryan and Henry
BorbeS.
Seventy-siX commanding Off
GERS and 1000 patrolmen handled
the crowd, which was orderly and
good-natured at all times.
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Wants
Another Try
BY LEO FISCHER

CHICAGO. June % G.N.SO.
"Give me two more fights and
can knock that guys brains
QUIT"
Through the battered, bleeding
lips of Jim Braddock came these
words of defiance as he lay out
stretched on a cot in his dressing
room at Comiskey Park-a de-
throned champion whose fighting
heart was still as staunch as ever.
81 just forgot to duck-that's
all. 1 began to get tired around
the fifth rOund-and then,
we'll"
His voice trailed off as phySl-
clans and trainers continued their
repairs in the little cubicle off the
White Sox dressing room, while
half hundred newspaper men.
police and radio announcers
crowded around.
Then he paid tribute to the new
champion, Joe Louis. Speaking
painfully through a white patch
work of gauze and plaster, he con-
tinued:
I'D like to shake JOe's hand.
He's a real champion and 1
don't have any excuses. But 1
got tired and forgot to duck. 1
don't intend to quit the ring. 1
hope to get a couple more fights
and then get a chance at Louis
again. 1 know 1 can beat him
the next time"
BY this time the tiny room was
billowing with tobacco smoke,
Braddock plainly was still pretty
sick, not only from the terrific
pounding which had turned the
left side of his face to a bloody
mass, but also from the dazing
realization that he no longer was
heavyweight king.
Manager Joe Gould and
Trainer Doc Robb cleared every
one out, pleading, "give the
champ a break, boys, give him a
break"
Fifteen minutes later, newspa-
permen again we're admitted-this
time to find Braddock fully
dressed, sitting on the same cot
where less than three hours before
he had seated himself as champion
of the world to undreSS for the
defense of his title.
Jim still was far from normal.
Chairman Joe Triner of the Illinois
Boxing Board pushed his way
through the crowd. Patting the
dethroned ring monarch on the
back, he said:
"We're proud Of you, Jim. You
are still q champion"
Thanks" Braddock mumbled.
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FIGHT FRAGMENTS

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 23.-In his
dressing room Joe Louis, the newly
crowned heavyweight champion,
said that he was feeling o. K,
wasn't particularly used up and
that the only time Braddock hurt
him was in the first round when
Joe half sunk to the canvas from
a stiff right uppercut.
After % years, or since Jess Will
lard defeated Jack johnson in
Havana in 1915, the second negro
champion in the history of the
division comes to the pugilistic
throne.
George Raft, the moving picture
killer" dropped 500 backing
Braddock after he reached the
ringside. Hailed by a Los Angeles
sports editor, George was asked
who he liked. He chose Braddock
and got odds of 20 to l for $500.
Big names" at the ringside in
Guided Mayor and Mrs. James
Curley, of Boston. Dave Rubinoff.
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around one huLc- .s4uAls Ia
smackerS from the gate lasS night
and there was no doubt that he
would be offered barrel Of
pounds, Shillings and sixpence to
box Tommy Farr in the enormous
White City area in London, all he
seemed to be worried about today
was getting Schmeling back into a
ring.
Champ Is Challenger
This was a singular situation
indeed for it put the champion in
the position of actually challeng-
ing the challenger, which is some
thing akin to hitching horse to
the back of a steam shovel.
But, despite all that, Louis wants
Schmaling and wants him fast.
There will be some difficulties, of
course. Once having deposited the
negro among the daisies, Schme-
ling will want a decent share Of
the dough, and decent after all Is
a relative word.
Louis, having taken the short
end in beating Braddock, will want
the heavy end, or at least his man.
ayers will, and, after all, they have
the final say. 1t may be that both
will SIX so much that a promoter
would be as dizzy as fisheye Le-
whisky on merry-go-round to try
and put the thing on.
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SthmeIing Considers
Louis the Challenger;
Will Fight Farr for Title
By DAVID P. SENTNER

LONDON, June % Q.N.SO.
Everything is very. very simple.
now that Joe Louis has knocked
James j. Braddock for row OF
kippered herringS.
That, at least, is the view Of
Max Schmeling. the German con-
tender who now plans to battle
Tommy Farr, British empire title
holder, here for the worlds heavy
weight championship"
And, what's more. if Louis ex-
poets to figure in the new pugilis-
CONTINUED on Page rs. Col 81
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NOW BRING ON THAT GUY SCHMEL |NG"-SAYS LOUIS
Champ
Anxious For
Action
BY CHESTER YOU'LL

| CHICAGO, June % (.IN.S.).
A somewhat dazed and befud.
died ex-cotton picker, Joe Louis
by name, went about town to-
day, trying to realize a lot of
things but scarcely daring to
believe that they had come to
pass.
He had knocked out Jim
Braddock in eight rounds and
become the heavyweight cham.
pion Of the world.
In doing so. he had pretty
well exploded the common idea
that he could not take a solid
punch and come back fighting.
He is the second negro in the
history of boxing to hold the
title, Jack johnson being the
only other.
He now is faced with the
prospect of making \ cool
million bucks before he quits,
if he wants to, and can clean
up a half million alone by beat
ing his sole conqueror, Max
Schmeling.
Remains in Chicago
After his smashing victory over
Braddock last night, Louis planned
to remain in town today, posing
for pictures, making newSreels,
attending to financial matters,
helping count the gate at ComiS-
key Park, considering offers and
attending a score of other ideas
that confront q new heavyweight
champion.
Joe could hardly venture into
Darktown without a disguise so
wild have the emotions of the
people run on the great South
Side black colony. He was their
idol today, and anywhere he APP
peared would have been mobbed.
Tonight Joe planned to leave
for q vacation at the country
home of his manager Julian
Black, in Stevensville, Mich. He
hopes to get back into action
shortly. In fact, the first words
he spoke in his dressing room last
night after defeating Bradddock
were:
~ ..V1,.-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-23
Has Asked No Quarter

Joe Louis has never picked his
spots and never dubbed over the
time, the place or the foe.
His one loss by l2-round knock
out to Max Schmeling year ago
this month, instead of being blot
on his record. stands in retrospect
as a bright chapter.
1t proved that he has what all
good men need-the ability 70
stage a comeback and otherwise
Use reverses as a stepping stone
to greater things. The true test
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Joe Louis Ascends
To Championship
By Hard Road

'shot, and it is only to be sup
posed this is forthcoming, as
Louis has never evaded an issue,
and this is unlikely the time he
will rechart his course.
Whoever Of "Chappie" Black
burne, John RoXborough and
Julian Black, his managerial
trinity. have placed in his path,
he has walked up to in the ring
and started punching away.
Thus. in the new world
heavyweight titlist, we have a
fighting champion. He assured
joStled group that he admitted
to his dressing room last night
that this will be his policy.
Fighting Champion
That is all any one can ask
and I should not be surprised
if he fights again before the
leaves flutter, either right ere
in Chicago or possibly London
town. There is talk today of
both cities; either Schmeling
Continued on Page Fl, Col. p
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MRS. JOSEPH BRAD
DOCK, mother of the ex-
champion, is ill at her home
in North Bergen, N. j., as
a result of her sons defeat.
international News Photo.
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Continued from Page u
and defeated all except one Of
their number.
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laSC one dying Edwin C. Hill
in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. If
I remember Audubon correctly,
they were stronger, faster filters
than our trained racers Of today,
"darkening the sky at MONDAY
like an eclipse" as the great
naturalist put it, in 1918, record
ing the passage of millions Of
birds.
And now, while the sport Of
pigeonracing is growing in inter
est, we use the pigeons to help us
kill each other. Moscow has en-
ployed some of its greatest scien-
lists to train pigeons for war flying
at night. The great psychologist,
the late Ivan Pavloff. was inter
ested in this. BY changing the
birds sleeping hours, and in other
ways conditioning it to darkness,
they have developed pigeons which
can find their way unerringly to
their goal in the blacklist night.
HIGHLY TRAINED
Since the days Of the Greeks,
carrier pigeons have been used in
warfare. The airplane threatened
to end their usefulness. A fast
plane has no trouble riding them
down and dropping them with a
spray Of bird shot. The night
flying pigeon is the answer to that.
What next?
There were $4,000 highly trained
carrier pigeons behind the allied
lines in the World War, carrying
messages through shell-riddled
skies. Many of them were killed.
Others were war heroes, living 10
to IL years after the war, with
monuments and military burials
when they died.
The French had developed
pigeons to a high state of eff
cheney in their war intelligence
service, although the American
Expeditionary Force also had
trained many flocks and sent them
over with our troops. The French
had discovered the use of pigeons
in the Franco-PruSsian war.
Besieged Paris had 1863 birds
which gave it effective communica'
ton with the outside world for
many months. BY microscopic
writing, enlarged with a lantern
protector by the receiver, they
could freight long military mes
sage on a pigeons leg.
The Germans met this by squad
ronS of hawks, swooping down on
the pigeons, killing them or driv
ing them from their course. The
French Communicated their fore
most scholars to search call the
pigeon lore OF history for means Of
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Seventy-TWO Hour Week

A THIS time when the city is preoccupied with the
"A prospect of general increase in local taxes it would
nopportune to think about legislation which
is likely to raise the expenses of the local government
Nevertheless, there is group of servants of the city
which is being shabbiy treated and which deserves con-
sderation even at this time.
We refer to the city firemen and the overlong hours
which they are now required to work.
Every fireman now puts in a work-week of at least
seventy-two hours.
Contrast those hours with the hours which an advanc-
ing private industry works its employees and with the
hours which the Federal Government works its employees
Even in the District service there probably no group
working the hours required of the firemen.
What the city should have, and eventually will have,
is three platoon system under which fremen will work
only eight-hour shifts.
Pending the accomplishment of that reform, how
ever Congress might we'll give consideration to the
pending bill to establish work-wee for firemen of
seventy hours for night duty and fifty hours for day
duty, average of fifty hours.
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BOrah VS.. Monopoly
RuJ. T. Williams, Jr.

Because he has proved himself
through the years to be the arch
enemy of monopoly, whatever
Senator Borah says on that sub
ject always commands national
attention.
To the plea of the Attorney Gen
eral of the United States that ex-
isting Antitrust Laws are too
weak for the Department of JUS
tice to do more than it has done
to protect the people from the
evils of monopoly, Senator Borah
offers the following rejoinder:
ut may be that some amend
ments to the law are desirable,
but 1 think there is a vast
amount Of power in the law
which has never been used. The
trouble has not been the want
of law but the want Of purpose"
And Mr.. Borah is sustained In
his position by the author of THE
Masquerade of Monopoly" DR..
Frank A. Fetter, emeritus profess
sor of political economy at Prince
ton University and past president
of the American Economic Asso-
citation. This eminent authority
declares that the goodwill of the
judicial branch of the Govern
ment Ito suppress monopoly in
every form is as far above suS-
picion as is its integrity" He be-
lieves that judicial Interpretation
of existing law would prove ade-
quate to meet national needs "if
the Department Of Justice made
use Of competent economic advice
(Which it has never made the
slightest pretense of doing)."
ECONOMIC ASPECTS
DR.. Fetter goes further in de-
Tense of the position taken by
Senator BOrah and declares
that "the fault lies at its door
1.-THE door Of the Department Of
Justice) for not better present
ing to the Court the economic
aspects Of merger cases."
In defense of the Judicial Branch
Of the Government in general and
Of the Supreme Court of the
United States in particular, the
author of 1.-THE Masquerade Of
Monopoly" speaking not only for
himself but for some of his most
distinguished Princeton colleagues,
has this to say in discussing the
remedies at hand for dealing with
monopoly:
"The personal integrity Of our
Supreme Court and its tradition
and settled purpose to maintain
the industrial freedom of the
citizen are great national as
sets. It has been miSIed in its
economic analysis, but never in
tentiOnally has it betrayed its
lofty office.
'"The Federal Courts would
have to reverse their earlier de-
ciSiOns little If any in principle
to alter profoundly the practical
trend Of the law in this field.
Wherever they could see an ex-
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plicit agreement to raise prices,
they have been ready to con-
denim it, but they have failed
to detect some of the plain signs
Of tacit collision. What is 60
ing to happen when the Court
comes to a full appreciation Of
the nature and effects of dis
criminatOry prices?
"After all is said, grant that
in certain cases under partici.
ular conditions, mergers may re-
suit in some real economies,
and some part may be passed
on to the public. Would that
justify a sacrifice of the policy
of commercial liberty? Public
policy is determined by the re-
Sultant of many influences. II
seeks the greatest good to the
greatest number. The system Of
industrial liberty has virtues
political, social, ethicaI-nOt
measurable by the mere dollar
yardstick. 1t is not to be lightly
cast aside or sold for q mess
Of pOttage.
"The truly positive and con.
structive sort Of service that
can be performed by such .
public authority as the federal
Trade Commission is the fOS-
tering and creating of open
markets where traders in each
line of products could and
would meet to buy and sell
goods fairly in free cOmpeti.
ton. Such a plan is not gov.
ernmentaI price-fixing.
COMPETITION
"The individual Tor corpora
tom should be left complete
freedom in the choice as to the
price to post, and where he shall
post it subject only to the
condition that the price wher.
ever posted shall be open alike
to all buyers There is no
need to fix industrial prices by
law, but there is need to make
possible the fixing of prices by
the impersOnal economic forces
Of competition and in accord
with our system of private prop
erty."
This opinion would appear to
have the sanction of high author
ity, for, as DR.. Fetter says, the Su
preme Court with unanimity once
declared regarding Federal ano
State statutes against combina
tons:
According to them, competi.
ton, not combination, should be
the law of trade. If there il
evil in this, it should be accepted
as less than that which may re.
suit from the unificatiOn of in.
tereStS, and the power such uni.
ficatiOn gives"
Theodore Roosevelt was Presi
dent when this opinion was hand
ed down in 1904 by 1.-THE Great
Tribunal" in the case of the Ne
tional Cotton Oil Company against
the State of Texas.
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the instance when the deficiency
subcommittee was delving into
the Tennessee Valley Authority.
David Lilienthal, IVA director,
was on the stand. The discussion
turned to livestock. Representa-
tive John Taber asked:
Have the livestock operations
been quite extensive in the last
year?"
mo" Mr.. LiIienthal replied.
"The only instance 1 know Of is
the supply of milk for the town
of Norris"
DO you not use a lot Of
mules around your construction
work." Representative Clifton
A. WOOdrum inquired.
eyes. I thought Mr.. Taber
was looking for bulls" Mr..
LiIienthal answered with q
chuckle.
81 was wondering" Repre-
sentative Taber shot back. you
had a very fancy jackasS for
breeding purposes"
"The bull you are interested
in is now deceased" Mr.. Lilien-
thai persisted.
"That is the way you got him
off the rOll?" Representative
Taber continued.
HE died just before election"
ventured Mr.. Lilienthal.
He must have been reading
the Literary Digest" Repre-
sentative WOOdrum interjected.
"He lived up to election time"
Mr.. Lilienthal stated again.
But r ep sentative Taber
wanted to talk about jackaSseS and
not bulls, so he continued to state
that the jackaSs he had in mind
had been bought in New Mexico
or Mexico, and he wanted to know
how much it cost and what hap.
pened to it.
Mr.. Lilienthal stepped forward
with:
"Are there any other jackasses
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Rocks must be worth while.
A tree must be worth while.
Aeons, also, to turn slime
Into white birches,
Sycamore, pine.
All that work to make trees,
All that skill to preserve
The difference in trees,
Trees must be worth while.
A bird must be worth while.
Think how birds came
From web-legged lizard
To bright, winged song
OF blue bird, and wood thrush,
And kildee and lark,
All that work to make birds,
All that skill to preserve
A bird must be worth while.
The difference in birds
Then is a man, alone,
Not worth while?
It has taken as long to develop
The individuality of men,
AS to develop the individuality
OF trees and rocks and birds
But are these lesser forms
To be saved,
And a mans personality
Obliterated?
Will Life work fifty million years
To preserve the pattern
OF a gnat's wing,
And discard the pattern
OF mans spirit
After fifty?
But trees and gnats and birds,
"Are Species" you say
"Only species persist"
Yet, marvelously,
Each man Is also a species,
A separate development,
AS different from all other men,
AS elms are different from oaks,
Or hawks from wrenS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-30
It Is a Local Job

yTNHE imminent decision of the Board of Public We'll
i fare on the appointment of a Superintendent
of Penal Institutions again brings to the fore the matter
of the appointment of residents of the District to Dis
trct jobs
The board is reported to be deadocked the pend
ing appointment Of its members supporting local
candidates for the position while others want to import
an outsider to take over the superintendency.
short time ago when it was proposed to abolish the
various Independent boards of citizens within the Dis
trct government or at least make them subject to the
direct control of the District Commissioners, the prin
cpal argument made in behalf of the boards that
they afforded local residents some slight say in their
own government.
If that argument is at all sound and is to remain effec
tive against efforts which be expected in the future
to curta the power Of such boards that of Public
Welfare there only position for the board to take
in regard to the appointment before it,
AND THAT IS TO APPOINT LOCAL MAN TO
THE VACANCY CREATED BY THE RETIREMENT
OF CAPT. M. M BARNARD.
To give this appointment to local man will in
way lower the standard of control of the local penal
institutions.
There are men in this city fully as capable Of direct
ing these institutions any of the it is pro-
posed to bring here.
Within the present service Of the District and directly
connected for years with the penal institutions
qualified by experience training and ability to take
the job.
Everyone wants an efficient administration of the
penal institutions
Given two candidates of equal ability for the superin-
tendency from another part of the country and
from the District the job should in all be given
to the local man.
Unless this course is followed the Board of Public Wei
fare and its administrators will find themselves sub
iected to merted criticism by those who believe that
this community should hire and promote its own resi-
dents within its own service.
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COURTEOUS

The overwhelming courtesy Of
Senator Henry F. AShurst of Ari-
iona and his reputation for in
consistency creepS out even in his
letter writing.
Recently he sent a communica-
ton to Solicitor General Stanley
Reed in which he requested the
attorney to clear up some matters
pertaining to the Presidents SUI
preme Court plan. He closed his
letter with this paragraph:
Pardon my presumption, al
most effrOntery, in asking you
for an explanation Of inCOn-
sistency, if any, but / do desire
this information"
Senator Ashurst is now known
affectionately as the Prince of
inconsistency"
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At Last, An American Opera

THE troubled path Of American opera is Uttered with
= the bleached scripts turned out by American COM
posers and brettsts who sought material outside their
native land.
To be truly American, opera must be about Amer
leans. That goes without saying.
Dr. Walter Damrosch has taken one of the cherished
fables of American folk ore-"The Man Without a
Country by Edward Everett Hale-and made an
opera of it.
This spring will witness its first performance.
Such story, put to music, starts with much in its
favor. Perhaps, at last an American opera has been
written which will rank in popular esteem with the
greatest efforts of German and Italian composers