The Charlotte News
Saturday, June 27, 1942
FOUR EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: While on the subject of rustlers, we refer you back to our note associated with December 15, 1941, in which we provided a segment of the novel from our friend in the Caribbean, written in fall, 1991.
Burke Davis, in a by-lined piece on today's page, surveys the various adjustments in le cuisine bourgeois being made by diners and restaurateurs alike in light of sugar and gas rationing: fewer sweets, fewer drives home for lunch, fewer in-town dinners after work.
A letter writer favors a bare-leg policy for employers vis à vis female employees forced to wear cotton or lisle stockings in the heat of summer or adopt the liquid stocking. Nylon or silk were in considerable shortage, the latter having been for a year since the government cut off trade with Japan; were therefore pricey, costing $1.75 to $2.25 a pair, good for a month of wear. Well, one learns much from reading The News.
Reports Paul Mallon, Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles proclaims to Congress that America is off the gold standard, that if all the gold in Fort Knox, the bulk of the world's supply at the time, were carted away in wheel barrows by thieves, the country would be no worse for the theft, the thieves none the better. The value of the dollar was essentially based on what the price-fixer, Leon Henderson, said it was in the marketplace. That'll be $1.75 a pair, sir.
We refer you back to the piece by Hugh Johnson of April 3, 1938 in which he reflected on the "second depression" of that year. We also refer you to "The Flesh Cries Out", August 4, 1939, for incidental remarks on the malady of government spending on credit, with an incidental bonus provided of a mention of Chester Nixon in "The Seventh Day", re the Blue Laws then on Charlotte's books; Mr. Nixon's name appears in Dick Young's piece of this day. Apparently he was the Charlotte City Manager or some such functionary.
Raymond Clapper echoes the previous day's front page by giving caution that the presence of Dwight Eisenhower in England did not, of itself, harbinge an immediate invasion of the Continent, far from it.
"Next Nazi Stop: England" takes up the cudgels of veteran foreign correspondent Demaree Bess, arguing that Hitler's motive in making the summer strike on Tobruk and in continuing the Russian offensive, the forces engaged in which were now peopled by the elder troops of the Reich while the best had been sent back home, was primarily one of distraction while preparations were being made for invasion of England. Evidence was the presence of 28,000 gliders sitting idle, awaiting launch over the Channel. Appearances and the past performance notwithstanding, it was not to be, though a canny prediction it was.
And then there was the quote today from Ecclesiastes...
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