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B> U(M Uordoo B. Haacock for AN P
There is a Latin epitaph which
reads “Requiescat in pace” which
being interpreted means, let him
rest in peace. Well might this
epitaph be written upon the pugil
istic grave of the lamented Joe
Louis.
Joe Louis had no more business
in the ring with Rocky Marciano
than this writer had in the ring
with Joe Louis. This comeback
attempt of Joe Louis has been ,
lamentable from the very begin- j
Ding. {
His millions of admirers have
held their breath every time he
entered the ring; for they knew *
that it was just a matter of time,
and he would be blasted into
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pugilistic oblivion. The thing most;
ol us dreaded has happened and
now we can bemoan the fate of
our fallen idol.
Joe Louis will take with him
into his forced retirement the best
wishes and gratitude of the mil
lions of his friends who have
been thrilled by his prowess of
other years. I
Joe Louis was hurtled from ob
scurity into fame and fortune.
Like all humans he made his mis
takes and his errors. One could
look at the movies of Joe and
his recent fights and could easily j
»ee that Joe was a very unhappy
man.
He looked aged and tired and
aeemed but a shadow of his for
mer self. He looked pathetic in
spite the comments of sports
writers that he was returning
to form. Joe was simply pitiful
in his comeback attempt and there
are those of us who will be glad
that it’s over now.
The tragedy is that Joe’s sun
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jof glory that shone so respend
'ently through as many years will
now set in the haze and clouds
of a tragic memory. If as has
been rumored, Joe had to fight to j
get income tax money, he chose t
(a most unhappy way of meeting
his obligations. Better a thousand
times to liquidate his holding
than to have himself and his fame
liquidated in such Summary fash
ion as having the living daylights
knocked out of him by one who
in former years would never have
dared to enter the ring with Joe.!
It was bad enough for Joe to j
get knocked out but worst of all .
to get knocked about by third1,
raters and to be knocked out by
>ne.
One of the bitterest morsels that .
Jesus Christ had to swallow was
that he was twitted and gainsaid
by sinners. So it must have been 1
terrible for Joe to be knocked out '
by a man who was unworthy to/
stoop dwn and unlatch the shoes
of the Brown Bomber of years
ago.
Well the most that can be said
in the premise is that Joe had it
coming to him. If a man has not
the sense in his head he must
have it in his hide, where some
body will most surely find it. In
stead of Joe Louis riding the
crest of fame and popularity
henceforth it must be Joe Louis
(lying on the ropes of Madison!
(Square Garden.
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ITJITI IIITOBICAL fOCIBTY
The emigrants who went across
Nebraska in covered wagons a
century and more ago read guide
books and studied maps just as
avidly as the tourists who speed
across the state today. Such
sources of information, however,
were by no means as readily avail
able to the early emigrants to to
today’s tiaveler.
The first complete description
of the route to California avail-\
able to the Forty-niners was a
guide book prepared by Joseph E.1
| Ware, and published in St. Louis
(early in the year of the great i
gold rush. Ware’s book, The
Emigrants’ Guide to California,
was based not on personal experi
ence, for the author had not madei
' the journey, but was derived
largely from the reports of John1
C. Fremont, whose explorations
did so much to popularize the
Paltte Valley route to the West.
Ware gave detailed suggestions
regarding provisions needed, the
best method of organizing a camp,
and the best route to follow. Par
ticularly interesting is the medical
advice he dispensed. He urged
his readers to avoid large quan
tities of medicines, assuring them
that if they kept clean by fre
quent bathing they would do more
to ward off sickness than by tak
ing quantities of pills.
Bathing, though, was not to be
undertaken indiscriminately. The
author's instructions on this point
are as curious as they are ex
plicit.
“The best time for bathing,” he
| wrote, “is about 9 or 10 in the
! morning; you are then stronger
than at any other time in the da>
Heed not the coldness of the watei
if it is soft. After leaving the
water, instantly commence the
most active rubbing, with a coarse
towel, until a reaction takes plae
in the skin; dress rapidly, drim
a good draught of pure water, ami
commerce a smart walk until per
spiration ensues.”
Later, Ware went out over the
trail he had described, only to
meet a tragic end long before
reaching California. He was taken
sick east of Fort Laramie, and his
companions, instead of providing
him the protection he needed,
barbarously laid him by the road
side, without food or water, to
die. He was found by another
party, who took him to their camp
and nursed him. He had suffered
so much from exposure, though,
that in two days he died.
His guide book lived on after
him, however. For a number of
years Ware’s guide continued to
be used by the overland emigrants,
and generally was recognized as
one of the better ones. Then it
became so scarce as to be listed
as one of the twenty rarest books
an California, and finally in 1932
it was reprinted by Princeton
University Press with a discrimi
nating introduction by John Wal
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lbout job opportunities in a va
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