The Charlotte News

Thursday, October 1, 1942

FOUR EDITORIALS

Site Ed. Note: The front page, ripped though it is, reports further on the suffering of Stalingrad, enduring, said Red Star, the attacks of a fresh panzer division and two new infantry divisions, plus six hundred to a thousand planeloads of bombs each day, yet still holding firm.

That latter estimate of planes appears likely more than a trifle exaggerated. The cost of such regularly transacted missions would have quickly bankrupted Germany. More probably, the figures were 60 to 100 planes per day. As reported the previous week, Germany only had 1,500 planes remaining to put into the fight. It is unlikely that they would have risked at any one time nearly half to two-thirds of the complement on a single raid. Yet, with Hitler calling the shots from Berlin, who knows?

Another dispatch tells of the quick advance by Australian troops down the south slope of the Owen Stanley Mountains in New Guinea in pursuit of as quickly retreating Japanese troops, now falling back ten more miles from their previous day’s attempt to stand at Nauro, making it eighteen miles of retreat in just two days.

And, at the end of the first inning of the second game of the World Series, we are informed, it is 2-0 in favor of the Cardinals. Thus the Series is now standing at 1-0-1 in favor of the Cards in first inning results. Stay tuned for more exciting action. It makes us dizzy just thinking about it. The Yankees, incidentally, won the first game, 7 to 4, the Cards scoring all four of their runs in the bottom of the ninth, leaving the bases loaded as Stan Musial grounded out. Red Ruffing for the Yanks had a no-hitter going until the eighth. The Yanks scored a run in each of the 4th and 5th, three in the 8th, and two in the 9th. Stay right here at The News for inning by inning tallies as they occur. You can get your Cracker Jack at the stand outside--next to the sign which says, "No Comm-mmm-unists Allowed During Games".

"Weasel Word" on the editorial page tells more of the story ripped away from the front page, that the Senate had met the President’s deadline and passed legislation to provide him authority to "stabilize" wages, prices, and salaries. The editorial quibbles with the use of the term, suggesting it as a hedge to enable nothing short of the inflation which, in theory, the bill sought to prevent, concludes that in the Senate Labor won over the Farm, at the beck of the President. Now, it would be the turn of the House to belabor further the issue.

In answer to the rhetorical question of the Lutheran missionary, Dr. Cooper: Because, unlike the Japanese corporal whose psychosis Dr. Cooper accurately penetrates, most of us are not sado-masochistically insane.

And as for the little filler suggesting that the name of the island in the Solomons was tendentious of conveying exasperation at having sprung from a long weekend, one cannot trust that ascribed reduplicative eponymity. If you do not understand the reason for its doubtful authenticity, ask your mama or papa Diplodocus to take you surfing now.

Returning a moment to that chart of the day before the previous day, we have to wonder whether it wouldn’t have been more exacting to have the refrigerator, rather than to a dozen automatic carbines, equate to one part of an Herculean flying boat, either that or part of a jeep.

Anyway, the rockets had gantries, too.

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