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In the Public Domain/^CCASIONSfor humor on the bench arc '-'infrequent, but the ability to make the most of them must be accounted one of the glories of a Judiciary sometimes oppressively weighted with gravity,Federal Judge John M, Woolsey is the instigator and recipient of this laudation. It was he who enlivened with sharpened phrases and philosophic salt the opinion admittirttriJames Joyce** “Ulysses!* to the bookshelves of the country*s Main streets. More recently he has permitted the subject of beards to trickle lightly through the fll-tors of hir jqdlal insight. , x r ‘ 3 $-r “Jw*tiin8 immemorial/1 nj’ ftoncludes in an opinion on an Injunction plea to protect the House of David baseball team from imitators, “beards have been 111 the public domain. In respect of matters within that domain all men have rights in common, Any man, therefore, if so minded, may— without being subject to challenge, legal or equitable—-not only grow such beard as ho can but may purposely imitate another’s facial shrubbery—even to the extent of following such topiary modification thereof as may have caught his fancy.'*The House,of David got the injunction it wanted despite Judgo Woolsey’s epochal decision. It happens that the promoter who has been sending out a rival team of bearded players gilded the lily by supplying uniforms With “House of David stitched thereon, besides giving away his intentions by keeping always one or two jumps ahead of the original House of David outfit. Hard times must have been flinty indeed when a promoter could find athletes so improver-ished they would grow beards to go barnstorming among the country’s sandlots. For all that beards now are legally in the pub* lie domain, they still are in the way,
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Sat, May 26, 1934
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