EDITORIALS BY SUBJECT

Article Links By Subject

And Evening Chronicle
Published Week-Day Afternoons
And Sunday Mornings
by The News Publishing Company, Inc.

W. C. Dowd, Jr., President
and General Manager
J. E. Dowd, Editor
W. C. Dowd, 1865 -1927
_______

The daily edition of The Charlotte News was established in 1888. The Sunday edition was added in 1910. The Evening Chronicle, established in 1903, was purchased by and consolidated with The Charlotte News May 8, 1914.

We seek truth that we may follow it.

Articles linked from left frame will load into this frame and vice versa
Adjust size of either frame to your liking by dragging the middle bar left or right
Exit via link below or in left frame or via "Home" buttons in either frame, bottom
Links from the Quick Navigation panels in this or left frame (except the "Home" buttons) load into this frame
All Articles Under Each Section Heading Listed In Order of Date of Publication (left frame) and By Subject (this frame)
For Unascribed Editorials by Subject, Scroll Down the Page
For Other Articles, Scroll or Hit Link Buttons Below
To adjust the size of the print to fit your viewing comfort, newer versions of Internet Explorer enable uniform larger print size under the "View" menu, "Text Size"

Go Back to Home Page in Left Frame

Exit Frames to Home Page

Unascribed Editorials Listed By Subject- Scroll

Go to Quick Navigation Bar at Bottom of Page for Other Areas of Site

EDITORIALS BY SUBJECT

(Editorials within each category are arranged chronologically.)

(To see editorials of same date, scroll up or down page after jumping to link)

War in Europe and Nazis- Scroll down one frame

(More articles on the South, Race, and the War in "Book-Page" section.)

WAR IN EUROPE AND NAZIS

What Price Mussolini - Il Duce survives at home by overrunning Ethiopia

That Death Squadron - Musso's bluff to G.B. so much bluster

Death of the Peace Plan - Franco-British accord gone over G.B. popular will against Musso.

On the Lire Front - Ethiopia costly to Musso. in monetary reaction

Hitler's Germany - Jews suffer economic discrimination, relocation, and systematic starvation

The Murderer's Excuse - Okay to bomb Red Cross, says Musso; Ethiopia decap'ed two of his bomber-boys

Suiting the Words to the Deeds - Ethiopian invasion like WWI in excuses for rapine

Mark Twain On War - All unjust; war-mongers always get their way

War Without God - On whose side is He?

Italy Looks Back - Germany-Austria-Italy preparing to wage war again as one

Three Cheers for Our Oceans - War to come: Germany-Japan-Italy vs. France-G.B.-Russ.

Herr Hitler Puts a Question - Rhineland begs how France appeases both Germany and Russia

The French Attitude - But how say Hitler to neutral Belgium?

The German Attitude - Treaties acceptable if suit; paper in fire

The Other Cheek - Mein calm superior to thine; repent ye, mere passenger in mein camp

Hoping for the Worst - Ethiopia costs Musso. 3/4 gold

Leif and Christopher - Hitler says Leif discovered America; Cash says Americans

A Prelude of Bombast - Poland, Russia: Beware the Heel

A Role for Adolf - X-mas under Nazis

Chip on Adolf's Shoulder - Spain's incursion on Nazi ship misdemenor, not piracy

Nomination - Fascism no-go in France; Paris, maybe

Note for the Signor - Beware the march of cannon

The Hoss Is Already Stolen - Franco is German-Italian pawn

He'd Best Look It Up - "Reality" is superior supplies in G.B. and U.S.

Flies in the Ointment - "Employment" in Germany a chimera

From Pillar to Post - Vatican uneasy bedfellow to Germany due to fear of communism

The Eternal Optimists - G.B. and France write useless paper with Musso.

Grammar for Murderers - Japan, Musso., Heel need correct notes

Pedagogic Note - Musso-phyte needs Papa-warning, else worm-meat

The Window Is Not There - Rose gone forever in bombs

Maybe a Victory, After All - Musso stalls, as usual

Still In Character - Musso: Honor=Lying, murder, per doctoral thesis

*To Serve the Church - Franco bombs churches in Barcelona to save them from Reds; nonsensical

1914 and 1938 - Tacit alliance with G.B. not plunging us deeper toward war as Sen. Borah says;opposite

So Soon A Generation - Neville Chamberlain's "generation" of peace lasts a week

A Fast Play - Anschloss in Austria may not yet come to be as Chancellor Schusnigg orders election; Mussolini sitting tight

Ingenuous Hermann - Goering only person who only believes Nazis will win Austrian plebiscite

In the War Zones - Franco advances in Spain; China holds off Japanese

Chamberlain at Trafalgar - Falsetto indecisiveness costing Great Britain; unlike earlier Brits

Shotgun Wedding - Thomas Mann says Austria is not German and thus Anschloss improper; he is right

Gold and Armageddon - Gold flowing to U.S. from G.B. & France for sequestration & future supplies

*Poland Plays Wolf - Poland's imperialism will likely soon be repaid in kind as Nazis will invade

A Perilous Untruth - Isolationism of Sens. Hiram Johnson and Borah is dangerous; can't sit quietly

They'll Fight - The 34% who say they won't fight will; the young and lovely women will see to it

The Douhet Theory - Franco, as Hitler and other fascists, follows Douhet--bomb civilians to submission

An "Honorable" Default - Crooked Hitler won't pay interest on bonds issued on seized Austrian gold

A Man Abstracted - Is der Fuehrer quailing before the French and British in annual Nuremberg message?

More Appeasement - London Times stand of giving up Sudeten has good rationale, poor judgment

A Fateful Speech - Germany's "invincibility" is its disregard of consequences: ruin

Sauce for the Gander - Sudeten goose; so why not garnish Bolzano-marsh Germans under Musso thumb?

The Sale Takes Form - Bumble sells Czechs down river as with Italy in Spain

Freeman's Choice - Franco's cruel war: axe or yoke?

Headaches for Franco - Fascism not big with people, military, Carlists

Toward Real Appeasement - British call Franco's hand

Subdivision of Czechs - Hitler divides it in two

The Last Czech - Washington Embassy stands despite Hitler's demands

Gold and a Voyage - Risky seas

Appeasement's Chickens - Russia, Poland, Rumania distrust Bumble; Munich isolation

Vest-Pocket Munich - France seeks to trade Syria's soil for Turk's support

Ominous Moves Here and Abroad - Troop concentrations at Danzig; U.S. Fleet moves to Pacific

Megalomania in War - S.S. butchery training will reap surprise in real warfare

Men of Property - By Holy Roman rights, painter owns half Italy and Musso., half Germany

Fair Enough - Plebiscites around

Progress - Women and children now fight, also

Going Home - Musso's land troops removed from Spain, but of no moment

Lady's Spirit - Brit upper class still stiff upper lip

Pirate's Boast - Germany, Italy sinking British merchant ships for Franco

A Smart Stroke - Eden, Churchill welcome additions to British cabinet; Hitler threatens all of Poland

Cat and Mouse - Hungary now slave to Hitler; slaves make poor allies if war comes

War Prospect - War likely; millions on millions of lives will be lost

A Fanatic Menaces Civilization - Nazis invade Poland; won't stop until vanquished and hung or . . .

Three Little Ships - Hitler sinks pulp, though not contraband

Quandary - Russia coy, no real ally of Hitler

Strange Cries - Nazi outrage over British commandeering of Altmark strange, from murderous nation

For the Record - Altmark outrage by Norway against Britain is merely self-preservation game

Carol's Turn - Hitler promises goodies for Rumania while seeking to vanquish--as with Czechs

At A Tomb - "The rat-like man leaning on the balustrade" at the Tomb of Napoleon may be in fear. . .

Nay-sayer - One Frenchman stands up to Hitler

Cat's Paw - Spain attempts to spread Nazi-Fascist dogma in cutting off Chile

Peace Game - Hitler appears hesitant to attack England just now

Moral Ire - Nazis warn British "snipers" defending homes; butcher thousands

Straw Man - Adolf, not Fifth Columns, funneling food from conquered; Red Cross caught in dilemma

Free Election - Bear swallows Latvia by standing on hind legs

Italy Hedges - More meatless days ordered; Brits safe for now

Next Victim - Swiss next to be swallowed

Cock and Bull - France short on gas, but not gas-dependent

Sea Fight - (Nominated for Pulitzer) -The men of the Jervis Bay, a breed apart, protected rear from Nazi

High Price - Greece and Libya about to fall to Nazi, but heavy toll for few gains will demoralize Germans

Drift Policy - Spain may join Axis; U.S. policy may cause fall of G.B., leaving us alone to face the Nazi

Old Battle - Xerxes, an early Hitler, outnumbered, but Leonidas and Spartan band fought to death

Alternative - Xerxes was defeated; so will be Hitler, not if, but when; most favor convoy, so get on with it

Half Convoy - Convoy to mid-Atlantic silly--ineffectual risk; time for full convoy, shooting back to defend

A Prophecy - Escape of Von Werra, admitted to bail, no surprise; Nazi murderers forfeit legal rights

Scant Aid - U.S. Atlantic patrol helpful, but ineffective gesture of war; w/o more, Britain will fall in 1941

They Cheered - Ovation from Nazis for Lindbergh's "Britain will fall"; proves their and C.A.L's hopes

Tank Line - Tank production at Chrysler going strong--finally; will soon eclipse German production

Grim Words - Churchill grim, but strong, correct; Hitler is incarnation of wish and will of German nation

Pretty Thin - Darlan trying to get French angry at British to make Vichy full Axis partner; in vain

Narcotic - Hess desertion does not herald Nazi collapse; narcotization of U.S. and G.B. best Nazi hope

More Light - French traitor and Communist Doriot is pro-Nazi; like other Communists, is only for himself

Dubious Act - Neutrality Act may prevent incidents--but hastens fall of G.B, divides U.S. for Nazi good

Peril Spots - If Spain to join Axis, we should seize Canaries, Azores, Cape Verdes, and Dakar; stop airbases

Hess Puzzle - Hess--original Nazi interested in German "Master Class", not peace; Britain won't accept

Bogey Man - Darlan sells out Vichy to Hitler in hopes of intimidating U.S. to stay out; will backfire

*Twelve Men - The young Canadian men sunk by the Nazi barbarian were worth millions of appeasers

WAR IN THE PACIFIC

Go to Book-Page Editorials and Reviews By Subject

Chinese Poison - Japan's Empire dream suffocates itself

Britannia Rules Against It - G.B. could stop Japan in China but too costly, distracting

Two Faces East - Japanese military acts unilaterally; thus Panay incident one face, as govt. apologizes

Closing Door - Japan may nominally re-recognize Open Door in China, but to no beneficial end for U.S.

Sacrificial Offering - Recalling of Mitsunami from China command indicates military in jam over Panay

First Hand Testimony - Japanese navy in a jam over Panay as no room for not noticing American ship

Rambunctious Rowboat - Puny Panay, with Fleet in Pearl, hurled at Japanese host--so say Japanese

Out-Faced - Japanese lose face again to British over demands for handing over Chinese

Kidnaped--Or Caught? - Are Jesuit priests, "kidnaped" by Chinese, prisoners of war--legitimately?

*Gunner's Quality -Japanese navy larger and newer than ours, but quality of U.S. gunners far superior

*The Ships We Scrapped - Current shipbuilding, to which Japan objects, is 1/3 of ships scrapped in '21

Country in a Hurry - Chinese operation costing Japan more than it can continue--military budget huge

Cloud in the East - Japan led by fascists

The Sun's Spots - Unusual activity interferes with radio

A Difference - Tientsin is Brit. property; fight likely with Japan

Away Beyond Oblivion - Russians and Japanese battle in strange, wild place, Lake Bor

Pearl Harbor - Training exercises? Signal to Japanese to stay home?

Green Light - Dem. plank gives Japan go-ahead to East Indies

Crisis? - What will U.S. do if Japan moves for East Indies? Platforms say do nothing

Squirrel Cage - Fleet at Pearl is only hedge against Japan moving south; but California supplies oil

Blueprint - Listen to what Japan says: Strike without notice; desires to share world with Germany and Italy

A Definition - "Aggression" to Japanese defined as anything which blocks its policy of Pacific aggression

Clarified - Tokyo learned meaning of "aggression" from partner, Hitler; U.S. "aggression" is blockade

Oil for Foe - Cal. oil to Japan of great concern; will fuel Japanese ships when likely fight in Pacific comes

RACE AND LYNCHING

Go to Book-Page Editorials and Reviews By Subject

*Call This Witness - N.J. should call 15 year old black rape victim at extradition hearing of rapist

Fight Films - Banning of them had racist origins; silly

High Costs - Sanatorium needs better facilities

Excessive Costs - Sanatorium costing too much

A Distinction - Lynchings by mob distinguished from murder

War In A Thimble - South need not be defensive over slavery; no moral defense, move on

*Over Polite - Chief leads KKK; need more than polite request from him to them to stop parade; enforce

*Case Report - Maryland prevents lynching of two innocent black women by vigilante mob

Itchy Fingers - Detective kills fleeing thief; wrong punishment

Pot and Kettle - Bund + Ku Ku in N.J. = Barbarism out of same cloth

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Go to Book-Page Editorials and Reviews By Subject

Cavalcade - King Geo. V, Kipling both to be missed

Those Vexing War Debts - Borah's shibboleth

Exit Sir Basil - Arms dealer played both sides

Soviet Sacrifices - Barbaric states execute prominents on national anniversaries; Soviets alike

After Kellogg - Death of Kellogg when Kellogg-Briand abject failure, but new Allied force may be future

Zog Finds A Wife - King Zog of Albania marries; problematic, as being Musso. stooge leads to death

Money in Gaul - As the franc's "temporary" instability goes, so goes France--always

Italian Hand - The Vindicator apologizes for Nazis; links Liberals to Reds; where's Robert Rice?

Colonel House - We should have listened at Versailles; House said can't be conqueror and then co-exist

A Little Lavish - Policy of buying silver at higher than market now clear; propping Mexico with gifts

Hiram Looks at Guam - CA. isolationist expands west

Paul Makes A Loan - Loan to Brazil by Govt.; let business do same

Hot Tip for Mr. Dies - Reynolds' Vindicator defends Bund, Hitler; assails Communists

Was It Hesitation--Or Guile? - Economic pressure on Hitler most effective

A Statistic Blushes - R. R. Reynolds Campaigned on Six Times Aliens on Relief

Case for Caution - Cotton for rubber and tin, caveat dumpster

The Nazi Way - Kuhn suit, Putnam kidnapping--warnings: lay off Nazis

Bolivian Threat - Busch leans fascist; so may go Peru, Chile, Ecuador

Uses of the Heat - Isolationists will save us, defeat Hull, no matter majority

Strictly Partisan - Neutrality Bill amendment slap to FDR

Less Than Moving - Congress well-paid; finish business

Italian Hand - The Vindicator apologizes for Nazis; links Liberals to Reds; where's Robert Rice?

Paradox - Robert Rice Reynolds willing to fight G.B. over search of ships; but won't face Germany

Gamble - Roosevelt right; planks wrong

Theme Song - Wheeler whistles; people realize need for draft

A Top Spins - R.R. Reynolds speaks Monrovian defense, but let's not fight too fast for islands over there

Long Memory - Nazi remembers specie tale by Broun

The Falklands - Argentina bellies up in Nazified demands; portends problem with Latin-America, ABC's

Monkey Wrench - Nazis seek to wreck Havana meet

Scapegoats - Pups, Laval and Flandin, shocked, shocked at involvement and defeat; Daladier usual suspect

Hull Wins - Havana meet successful on Pan-Am union against Hitler on French and British possessions

Hopeful Signs - Heel's promise of goods to Latin America stymied; must replace with U.S.-bought goods

Non-Sequitur - Wheeler says draft=militarism; history says otherwise

Monkey Wrench - Argentina, with Euro-trade, manipulated by Heel, wants Falklands; B, C may follow

Latins Balk - Congress dispirits L. America; Argen., Colum., Venez., Uruguay, Mex. balk in resolve

Bale Fire - Complacency that Britain will defeat Hitler alone, Congressional wish-thinking

War Aim - Wheeler gang seeks scot-free Germany, but punishment of Nazis must be exacted in kind

Poison Seller - Tobey's charges that U.S. involved in convoy foundless, hysterical--no right to divide us

A Complaint - Gerald Nye slams FDR for egging small countries to oppose Hitler; give up? face alone?

Wire Them! - N.C. Sen. Reynolds should not head Military Affairs Committee; ignorant, hates Britain

*A Committee -Reynolds will hamstring U.S. foreign policy; Steering Committee has power to block

Mere Tools - Sailor-saboteurs, pawns; thugs in Italian and German "embassies" gave orders, should pay

Expert Talks - Maj. Seversky in Mercury knows more than Lindbergh; says G.B. will win in air war--key

A Formula for Unity - Lindbergh proposes we commit suicide by abandoning Britain to Nazis

Sad Show - Gerald Nye makes America ineffectual; so too does FDR with patrols which are all but war

*Pay Off - Support of Robert Rice Reynolds promotion to Military Affairs chair by seniority intolerable

Accurate Term - F.D.R. properly calls Lindbergh "Copperhead", i.e. appeaser; too many ties to fascism

Fair Enough - Lindbergh no quisling, but desire of "negotiated peace" with Nazi leaves Britain slave

Double Talk - While appeasing appeasers with "neutrality", we are at war by patrolling whole Atlantic

NATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Go to Book-Page Editorials and Reviews By Subject

Candidate - The word too often belies the toga's adorner

A Flaw in Frank - New Republican policy man vast improvement; liberal in true sense, but too general

*Process of Elimination - Senate and House passed none of President's target bills for year

*Senator Berry Writes - Senator Norris, FDR ally, joins senators wanting Senate to investigate T.V.A.

*Distinguished Visitor - Colonel Frank Knox comes to Charlotte, is best moderacy of Republican Party

*Bauer's Swap - Farmers in South vote on cotton and tobacco quotas in 1938; do as they will

Getting Mr. Gannett - Though Gannett rabid anti-New Dealer, still has rights to freedom of speech

*Add: Senator Bailey - He is in danger of being blinded by anti-FDR feeling; reorganization good

A Sensible Veto - N.Y. Gov. wise to veto bill stopping "Red" employment; front for hurting unpopular

*Mr. Gannett Objects - Always against FDR, but reorganization merely eliminates spoils system

Playing With Fire - Hague's suppression of free speech, involving Catholic Veterans to do it, unwise

*Third Party Barrier - Third party will never work because has no patronage to give locally

*Free Speech--Limited - Republican Frank may be wrong, but has right; for who determines "truth"?

*A Politician Gets His - Tammany boss convicted

A Senator Behind Time - Congress hasn't reorganized; can't

The Wrong Scapegoat - Uproar on failure to deport Bridges

Proposals By An Officer - Free speech turns to sedition

Just Like That - Tax not up, slightly

The Grand Illusion - Stuffed-shirt pol has trouble relaxing

Comic, But-- - It can happen here

The Cotton Mills' Case - Cotton down

Not Proved - Sabotage of ship or human, mechanical error?

That's Different - FDR spends; Congress must bend

A Man's Due - McNinch serves FCC well

Dubious Choice - Dem. nominee: Garner or McNutt?

Prankster - Third term?

Whirligig - Hull's reciprocal trade agreements mainly do not hurt farmers--no bananas; but facts needed

Reporter Mr. Gannett Forgets a Prime Rule - Republican nomination seeker says New Deal out

Dose - Wallace reluctantly accepted as V.P.

Medical Note - Fat cats get sick when time to go to jail

Exit Jim - Jim Farley--job well done

Walk to Texas - Garner walks away from nation

*Gander Sauce - Unions can't flout contracts

Handicap - Willkie's fat cat finance chairman hampers business-as-fair image

A Dismissal - Hard to understand replacement for Asst. Sec. of War

Who's Calling? - Willkie paints FDR with machine-pols, but Wendell has his own, too

Blind Spot - Willkie nomination foreshadowed, not seen

Wrong Man - Martin Dies should not be allowed to transfer his "revelations" to the Senate from Texas

STATE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Go to Book-Page Editorials and Reviews By Subject

*A Governor's Bravery - South Carolina Governor shows courage in prison stand-off

*Tribute to An Egg - Jersey City Mayor Hague may exceed Hitler, Mussolini, and Japanese warlords

*The Hague's Immunity - Mayor Hague creates own state by force

Gene and the Record - Governor Talmadge of Georgia has replaced old machine with newer one

*See No Evil - Censorship in South Carolina so silly in cinema: "A flagon of double-strength root beer"?

Dixie Recognized! - Benevolent Uncle provides for Rebels' widows

St. Nick Is Safe - Answer on appropriation self-evident

Back Up, General! - Feds getting at gangs protected by "States' Rights" okay

Assignment - Morrison still party man, but what does he really think?

Versatile Man - Shrewd Pappy passes pension bill back signed but unpaid

Oasis Dries Up - Liquor trade regulated

*Resilient - Despite losses, corrupt Pendergast machine in K.C. will re-emerge like the other machines

*Gambler - Mayor of New Orleans has loaded dice on oil deal under Earl Long's administration

*Poor Excuse - LaGuardia's polling proper of NYC police for membership in fascist organizations

90 or 87? - County does not need to raise tax

*Still Young - N.C. procreative

*Tribunal - Coroner decides too many cases

Venial Sin - Earl Long greased but not caught--yet

In This Ring - Clowns and braying whirlwinds=Texas, nay American, pols; Pappy and his hillbilly band

P. T. Amended - O Pappy, where art thou?

GENERAL

Go to Book-Page Editorials and Reviews By Subject

Darrow Laughs - No justice--in or out of court

On the Button! - Wake Forest dons say no to Baptists re sole dancing

A Humorist Reformer - Apropos: Adultery scapegoat abolished by humorist

Lord Rutherford - Atoms

*Dangerous Weapon - The ice-pick should be outlawed or changed so it won't pierce vitals

Note On Our Heritage - As with old Col. Wilson of Ark., South's concept of honor included violence

Sister Mary Benedicta - Eulogy for a nun we didn't know who did a lot for the depressed

*Study in Contradictions - Vicious prisoner has curious turn of mind to take blame for fellows

*Rendezvous with Spring - South looks bad in the national press; must do something. But, it's spring ...

*Cops and Sanctity - Effort to enforce Blue Laws makes little sense; baseball, golf, tennis prohibited?

Soliloquy - Groundhog Day, me and you, my shadow--and editors with their pens looking at the weather

*An American in Decline - Horse-trader and his caveat emptor vanishing; replaced by fair trade

*A Whale of a Difference - Baseball and pottery--different forms of Sunday mischief

*Add--Their Manners - Morality of dime cabs in Charlotte deserves hearing; but must drive better

*J.P. Practice Expose - Justices of the Peace and their fine traps for hire

*Tit for Tat - A look at taxes on filing day; need to ask IRS some questions

A Slander Retracted - No evidence to show disloyalty of Du Ponts in WWI; mere sensational smear

Chortles in Valhalla - Can mercury be turned to gold? . . . And other curious questions

Vernal Equinox - The same the world over, as sun enters the Ram; winds to howl, rains will fall, lightning

Needed: Some Corns - Easier life leaves more time to worry of things elsewhere--Hitler, Mussolini

*Forest of Figures - Finding out much from Government's "Statistical Abstract of United States"

*Claims and Facts - Drunk driving statistics and the WCTU--true or false?

No Monkeying - Monkey law holds fast to tree

*A Frog Plays Ox - Judge jails newspaper men

This Holy Day - Easter

'Ware New Words - Snyder's Mule, etc.

Proposition - Rich poetry, no doubt

Introducing Rad - He rad the dictionary

Old Belcherbub - Ivory Tower journalists

*From the Life - The world on a corner

Record - Criminal past slow to catch up

Silly Time - World o' nutsies

*Small World - Bali horn blowers

*Suicide Surge - Suicides double since 1920; but S.C. lowest

*Hot Death - Summer murders; but hotter places than Charlotte

Heat Reaction - Can't change what ye can't change--30-30-3

Arise, Men! - Newsmen bare arms

Born Too Late - Anachronistic individualists

It's An Art - "What'll you have, cold plate or hot roast beef sandwich?"

Fabulous Man - Fired machinist defies authority, sails Ark from Seattle to Juneau; re-employed

Dr. Barrett - Good doctor

In Ecstasy--Hymn Done In Imitation of the Dithyrambic Manner - Football or battle? UNC vs. Duke

BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK-PAGE EDITORIALS
(Listed by Subject)

On the War - Scroll down one screen

ON THE WAR

WAR AND PEACE: NOTE ON PACIFISM - 5/10/'36 - Quest for matériel by Germany, Italy, Japan = war

Book Review: TIME OF THE SCORN - May 31, 1936- House-painter plays God; novel shows SA boot-terror

Book Reviews: BEHIND THE FACE OF JAPAN - June 7, 1936 - Close says likely U.S. will fight Japan to block hegemony aim

DICTATOR'S FATE - August 9, 1936 (**) -Dictators in Italy get bad end

SPANISH BLOOD - August 23, 1936 (**) Spain to be Fascist or Communist?

FASCISM vs. COMMUNISM - September 13, 1936(**)-Both systems idiotic

BLESSING AND BLOOD - 9/20/'36 (**) -Pope blesses Spanish rebels; wrong-headed

Book Review: WELLS SEES A SAD WORLD, BUT DECLINES TO DESPAIR - 9/27/'36 (**) - Utopia still possible if man takes charge of destiny

SUICIDE IN THE WEST - 10/4/'36( **) - Western World committing suicide

LION DOWN THE RIVER -12/27/'36 (**)-British weakness why Musso., Hitler thrive

PROVERBS FOR PRINCES - 1/10/'37(**) - Destroy defeated enemy or do not punish

Book Review: THE CAUSES OF WAR - 3/7/37 (**) - U.S. can't afford neutrality

THE GANGSTER NATIONS - March 21, 1937 (A) - Italian purges in Ethiopia, German-Italian troops in Spain; portends war; isolationism will not work or last

FUEHRER AND DUCE STUMPED - April 25, 1937 (**) - Franco to fail in Spain

WHY WE WENT TO WAR - May 2, 1937 (**) British must be saved again

THE ARROGANT FRITZ - 6/6/'37 (**) - Nazis equate paper with reality

Book Review: STUDY OF MAN - 7/4/'37 (A) - Book says no racial superiority; sensible; housepainter wrong

HOUSEPAINTER LOOKS AT ART - July 25, 1937 (**) - Hitler uses "common sense" to define "art"

WHO SHOULDERS THESE CRIMES? - 8/29/'37 (A) - U.S., Britain allow Japanese attack on Shanghai

EUROPE'S KU KLUCKERS 9/5/'37 (**) - Hitler corrupts Nietzsche; Musso. uses Machiavelli

DAWN FOR DICTATORS - 2/27/'38 (A) - Spengler true; cycle=barbarism - feudalism - civilization and then from complexities come dictators and barbarism

FANATIC FUEHRER - 3/20/'38 (A) -Mein Kampf reveals Heel's plans candidly

POET AND SUPERMAN - 3/27/38 (A) - Nietzsche is poet, not philospher

Book Review: DOG EAT DOG IN EUROPE - June 26, 1938 (A) - France, England not pristine, but not barbaric as Germany; book saying U.S. has little in common interesting

BLOCKADE IN BOSTON - July 24, 1938 (A) - Barring film on Spanish war dangerous

HEEBIE-JEEBIES FOR THE FRENCH - August 21, 1938 (M) - German offensive on Czechs, Italian aid to Franco, Britain's inaction, keys to war; France holding the bag.

BRITISH RULING CLASS - October 23, 1938 (M) - Britain better off if Bumble goes

Book Review: NAZI SPIES IN AMERICA - 1/29/'39 (**) - "Ghosted" FBI book intriguing; but spy "cattle" in U.S. no real worry; Mexico greater problem

DER FUEHRER CALLS HIMSELF ART CRITIC - 3/26/'39 (M) Hates "mongrelized" impressionism; but is he not impressionist by definition of the form?

Book Review: DOROTHY THOMPSON HITS NAIL - 8/27/'39 (M) - Her predictions on Hitler's intentions were uncannily accurate

WAR BOOK DELUGE - 10/8/'39 (M) - Contemporaneous books will be bad; those on scene so far just Nazi and Communist propaganda from biased U.S. journalists

Book Review: BEARD URGES ISOLATION FOR U.S. - 10/15/'39 (M) - Beard wrong; it does matter if Hitler wins in Europe; eventual threat to U.S.

Book Review: BARBUSSE PORTRAYS WAR HORROR - 10/22/'39 (M) - Book on WWI best revelation of truth of brutality of modern warfare; not for the squeamish

TIME SHOWS CONRAD KNEW REAL GERMANY - 11/5/'39 - (M) Poles know best of unfitness of Germany to administer colonies

Book Review: GERMANY REAL LOSER IN POGROMS - 11/19/'39 (M) - Benet story shows horror of being Jew in Europe at present

Mr. Cash Gloats As Mr. Markham Capably Answers Mrs. Lindbergh - April 3, 1941

Book Review: HELL-BENT FOR WAR - April 16, 1941

ON SOUTHERN LITERATURE

Go Back to Unsigned Editorials by Subject

REALISTS ARE HAUNTED BY PERSONAL DEVILS - 11/17/'35(**) - On the Southern "realist" writers

NOTES ON A SUBJECT FOR A SOUTHERN NOVEL - 11/24/'35 - (**) Re: Class

Book Review: TWO PROFESSORS WRITE PENETRATING SOCIAL HISTORY - 12/8/'35 (**) - Re: South

WOLFE: GENIUS OR NOT? - 12/15/'35(**) Re: Thomas Wolfe critics

SOUTHLAND TURNS TO BOOKS WITH FULL VIGOR - 2/ 9/'36

THAT FOR TATE: CLASSICS AND SOIL - March 29, 1936 (*)Agrarians

AN EPITHET; OH, SO SAD - April 5, 1936(*) Re: Faulkner; ideas in novels

WHY WE'UNS DIDN'T WRITE - May 24, 1936 (*) - The South felt, didn't analyze

PSEUDOPODIA - July 19, 1936 (**) - Southern literary magazine has merit

LITERATURE OF THE NEGRO - July 26, 1936 (**) - Stereotypes gone

REALISM AND ROMANCE: SOUTHERN VIEW - October 18, 1936

Book Review: BASSO'S COURTHOUSE SQUARE ACCURATE - October 25, 1936 (**) - Small-town South, darkness and gentility, depicted

NOT LIKE AN ANGEL - Nov. 8, 1936 (**) - Faulkner best of young novelists

THE NEGRO AND HIS POETRY - April 11, 1937 (**) - New poetry original, fine

MILLION DOLLAR BABY - May 16, 1937 (**) - Mitchell's GWTW not good, not bad

Book Review: THE REUNION ROAD - 6/13/'37 (A) - Book too gentle on South

JURGEN IN THE SOUTH - June 20, 1937 (A) - South won't read Cabell; "subversive"

Book Review: PEDAGOGUE BARKS AT POE- 6/27/'37 (A) - Prof. dislikes shabby bum genius; Cash defends

BRIGHT PENS IN GEORGIA - August 8,1937 (**) - More kudos for Smith, Snelling

MIRROR TO THE SOUTH - 8/22/'37 (**) - Southerners did not think; felt

ICONOCLAST OF CHARM - 10/24/'37 (A) - Evelyn Scott none too gentle on South

UNC & UVA: TWO SOUTHERN SCHOOLS - 11/21/'37 (A) - UNC reveres mind; UVA reveres honor, gentility, tradition; Duke strives but falls short

BABEL IN THE SOUTH - 12/12/'37 (A) - Southerners have several languages

BACKYARD, SOUTH VIEW- 12/26/'37 (A) - Southerners need to look at "backyard"

Book Review: LINCOLN'S BROKEN PROMISES 3/13/'38 (A) - Book by Henry on Reconstruction good read

ON CAROLINA'S PAST - 5/8/'38 (A) - Paul Green right in saying N.C. has no literary past, but definitely has historic past; people varied widely

Book Review: SOCIOLOGY'S HISTORIC FROG - 5/15/'38 (A) - "Facts" misleading in book; South was far behind North

THIS LADY BELITTLED US - July 10, 1037 (A) - Antebellum actress Kemble exaggerated but has much to say to us of how Old South really was circa 1863

ROOSEVELT LOOKS TO ODUM - July 17,1938 (A) - South must face its growing economic backwardness

THE SOUTH HIDES ITS EYES - October 2, 1938

PERSPECTIVES OF THE SOUTH - 10/9/'38 (M) - Bitter critique was necessary --now softening; was reaction to sentimental inculcation in youth

ON LIVING FOREVER - October 16, 1938 (M) - Wolfe will live on--yet not forever

O. HENRY PASSES THE TEST - April 16, 1939 (M) - Is read after death

CALDWELL, FAULKNER ROMANTIC - 11/26/'39 (M) - With Steinbeck, they are neither romantics nor realists, but good reporters of realistic but two-dimensional characters

Book Review: JONATHAN DANIELS DISCOVERS NEW ENGLAND-5/19/'40 (**) - Well-written book, but, being by Southerner, cannot penetrate beyond New England's surface

Book Review: LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE - May 10, 1941

ON WRITING, READING, AND THE STATE OF LITERATURE/ART

WRITER'S TITLE FALLS ON ODD SHOULDERS - 12/22/'35(**) Who is a writer?

OBSEQUIES FOR NOVEL ABSURD - 1/5/'36(*) - Novels, poetry will survive

GOOD TASTE SPRINGS FROM DESPISED REPRINT PAGES - 2/16/'36(*)

HANG THE TEACHERS! - March 8, 1936 - Teachers of literature who don't love it

WHY WRITE? AH, HELEN KNOWS WHY - March 15, 1936(*)

WHAT IS A READER? - June 28, 1936 - Answer is not he who reads most books, pussycat

CRITICISM OF CRITICISM - JULY 5, 1936 (**) Speak truth; regadless of objurgations

THESE GENIUSES - August 2, 1936 (**) - "Genius" over-used

OLD MAIDS AND SATYRS - August 16, 1936 (**) What is a dirty book?

READING FOR SUB-DEBS-11/15/'36(**)-Candy and books okay for children

COLLEGE-BRED BALLOONS - 12/6/'36(**) - College graduates most ignorant

A DEFINITION OF ART - 12/13/'36 (**) - Tolstoy said it best: that which infects

NATHANAL ANTHEM - 2/7/'37 (**) - Geo. Jean Nathan writes play; has to work

THIS SENTIMENTAL CULT - March 28, 1937 (A) - Such a clean mind as we pretend never existed anywhere

IT'S UNWISE TO BE TOO WISE - April 4, 1937 (A) - Wm. Hazlitt said it best

THEY WOULDN'T WRITE - 5/9,/'37 (**) -Much talent laid to waste. Why?

CENSOR'S LEWD EYE SCANS GYPSY ROSE LEE-5/23/'37 (**) - Obscene? Worse things.

A PECULIARITY CALLED STYLE - July 11,1937 - (A) Style=peculiar vision, e.g. Cabell, Hemingway

Book Review: CONTEMPORARY POETS - 7/18/'37 (A) - "Marxian" poets not really; for oppressed--art must express surroundings to be art

BEGGARS LIBEL HELEN OF THE FAIR HAIR - 8/15/37 (**) - Critics off

SOURCES OF GENIUS - October 17, 1937 (A) - Great writing came from without

FROM ZOLA--TO SWING! - 10/31/'37 (A)-We are a "superficial civilization"

Book Review: BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS - 11/7/'37 (A)- 11th ed. by Morley

OF TIME AND THE WRITER - 11/14/'37 (A) - Morley says good books take years

PRIVATE LITERARY LIVES - 11/28/'37 (A) - Writers interesting egoistic fakers

THE PROFESSOR'S PRIZE - 12/19/'37 (A) - Mayflower Cup to wrong type of book

SINCLAIR vs. TRIBUNE 1/23/'38 (A) - Herald-Tribune should not cut Upton Sinclair

FROM SPARTACUS TO JAMES BRANCH CABELL - 2/6/'38 (A) - Cash utters blasphemy: Old heroic sentiment sparks all Amercian writers from Cabell to Hemingway

BONFIRES FOR TOO MANY BOOKS - 2/13/'38 (A) - Shipp & Cash say throw out read books

FOOTNOTE TO FANTASY - June 5, 1938 (A) - American writers cannot do fantasy

RUM, ROMANISM, AND REBELLION; OR, RIDE FOR A LEARNED MAN - 6/12/'38

THOSE INFERNAL FOOTNOTES - 7/31/'38 (A) - Footnotes = incompetent writer

ARTISTS AIN'T GENTS - 10/30/'38 (M) - Wolfe wrote his truth, as an artist must

WHAT AMERICA READS - 1/22/'39(M) - Mostly books made movies, says Gallup

COUNTRY BOYS WRITE BETTER BOOKS - 4/2/'39 (M) - City too confusing; farm too isolated; small town provides microcosm of humanity, warts and wens--best fodder

HALF A CENT FOR BOOKS - 6/25/'39 (M) - Library will close in Charlotte unless half-cent tax passed

PUBLISHERS EXPLORING FOR TALENT - 10/29/'39 (M) - Easy to get published in 1939, but once upon a time...

Book Review: REALISM CALLED IMMORAL - 12/10/'39 (M) - Studs Lonigan series shows immorality of characters but portrays also moral of tale

*PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR - 1/7/'40 (M) - Graph tells all

COMMENTS ON NON-SOUTHERN AUTHORS

SAID FILES ON PARADE--MEMORIES OF A PARLOR - 1/26/'36 - Homage to Kipling

DR. CASH HOLDS FINAL RITES FOR HEMINGWAY - 4/12/'36

ON LIBERTY: REQUIRED READING - April 19, 1936(*)

BAD MR. LEWIS: HE WRITES OF HOTELS - April 26, 1936(*)

NOTE ON CHARM: IN THREE BOOKS - May 17, 1936 (*) - On Pepys, Montaigne, Chaucer

PAPA FRANZ BOAS - JULY 12, 1936 (**) - "Race", says Boas, does not exist; correct.

FALLACIES IN WISDOM.- 10/11/'36 (**) - Bentham said past generations less wise

WHY EUGENE O'NEILL? - 12/20/'36 (**) - Does not deserve Nobel

A LIBEL ON THE MIDWEST - 1/17/'37 (A) - Midwestern writers not inept as Southern journal, pawn of Agrarians, claims

OLD KARL'S IDEALISM - Feb. 14, 1937 - Marx not really worth the worry

JUSTICE TO TOM PAINE - Feb.21, 1937 (A) - He is true "Father of Country"

THERE'S ALWAYS MICAWBER - 5/30/'37 (**)-Dickens not always sentimental

HENRY IS LOOSE AGAIN - August 1, 1937 (**) - Mencken proposes sterilization

THE STRANGE STORY OF CONRAD - 10/3/'37 (A) Conrad's life at sea intriguing; so is his adoption "by" English language

DEATH WITH HONOR - 4/3/'38 (A) - Joseph Conrad believed in one thing--honor

IBSEN IS STILL LIVELY - July 3, 1938 (M) - Peer Gynt scene shows Ibsen not outmoded

WHY WE ARE NOT HUMAN - 8/7/'38 (M) - Cram article on "real humans" enslaving the bestial masses pro bono publico must be comfortable philosophy for crammers

NOBEL PRIZE TO PEARL BUCK - 11/13/'38 (M) - Deserved, but for one book?

MISCELLANEOUS BOOK REVIEWS

Go Back to Unsigned Editorials

JAFFE REVEALS FAR OUTPOSTS OF SCIENCE - 12/1/'35 (**)

SANTAYANA'S FIRST NOVEL A MASTERPIECE -2/2/'36 (*)

MR. HILAIRE BELLOC ARGUES GRANDLY ATHWART MODERN RELIGIOUS PATTERN - 3/8/'36

GRAND STORY OF THE IRISH SCHOOL - 3/22/'36

SOPHISTICATION MARKS NOVEL ABOUT A GENIUS - 3/22/'36 (*)

LIBERTY LEAGUE CASTS THE FIRST STONE - May 3, 1936 - Economic despotism threat

FANTASTIC TALE CARRIES READER INTO YEAR 1985 - May 17, 1936 - Not 1984, but...

OPPOSITION TO GENIUS - June 14, 1936(*) - Genius always heretical, book shows

THE SPIRIT OF THE BRITISH - September 6, 1936 (**) Resilience always

DEATHLESS LADY - 1/24/'37 (**) - If Winter Comes was excellent novel from early '20's

The Ultimate Power - Feb. 28, 1937 (A) - Should Supreme Court's "usurped" power to overrule Congress, President be diluted, restrained?

CHRIS MORLEY'S GREEKS - 12/5/'37 (A) - Modern Troilus & Cressida

AND THEY SOUGHT TO HANG JEFFERSON - 5/22/'38 (**) - "Trickle down" or strong central government

PRIMER POLITICAL GUIDE- 8/14/'38 (M) - Dorothy Thompson's articles on "isms" mix of brilliance and vagueness

WHITE BLASTS LEGEND - 11/12/'39 (M) - The West was settled by mainly pious Protestants unfettered by traditional burdens of East, i.e., slavery, plutocracy

WORK PAINS PAYNE - 12/3/'39 (M) - Half-loaf thesis good, but disappointing, for wish by Cash is for full loaf

GENERAL BOOK-PAGE EDITORIALS

Go Back to Unsigned Editorials By Subject

McCANN MEETS THE TEST - August 30, 1936 (**) - Irishman survives mine disaster; right stuff

IDEALS AND TRAITORS - Nov. 1, 1936 (**) - "Americanism", free speech

PSYCHOQUACKERY - 1/3/'37 (**) - Psychoanalysis filled with quacks

COUNTRY GENTLEMEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE - 1/2/'38 (A) - Jackson and Roosevelt compared; does FDR want bigger budget like book?

NOW, WHAT IS A LIBERAL? - November 6, 1938

Unsigned--Chron

Unsigned--Subject

Book-Page-Chron

Book-Page--Subj.

Special Articles

Go Home

Mercury

Menus

Mind

Audio

Photos

Red Clay

Re: Death