The Charlotte News

Wednesday, January 7, 1942

FIVE EDITORIALS

Site Ed. Note: Today again offers little news other than redundancy, only a nice note, "Heroic Average", to the heroism of the crew of a seaplane effecting amid rough seas a daring rescue of men adrift after a bomber crash.

And the front page tells of the Japanese landing troops in the Dutch East Indies, at Davao Bay, and probably in north Borneo.

War was now pervasive in the society that no day was deemed worthy to pass without a bold headline re war. Such were the times.

The only substantial non-war piece we can recall which had managed the front page since December 8 to interrupt this flow ocuured this day, concerning the North Carolina Supreme Court's unfortunate upholding of the constitutionality of the justice of the peace system, in operation at the time, against a charge that the fees to be paid directly to the jaypees in case of conviction warranted an assumption of bias, that such a practice violated Due Process and Equal Protection. Eventually, the corruption inherent in the system would lead the Legislature to abandon it, after some jaypees were convicted for taking bribes.

Here, incidentally, are the remainder of the front pages and continuation pages we did not have in December, December 17 through December 22: December 17 front page and continuation page, December 18, December 19, December 20, and December 22. We take our leave that you may read those.