The Charlotte News

Wednesday, December 22, 1937

SIX EDITORIALS

Site Ed. Note: Again we add the previously omitted couple of pieces to the column of this date. Upon further consideration in light of our subsequent reading in the nine years since that original upload of the other four pieces, we can assert that the first piece might well be that of Cash's hand, even if it uses that alternative word "colored" a couple of times. But, because of it, we cannot be certain.

Likewise, we are fairly sure now that our previously asterisked piece, "Tribute to an Egg", done because of its topic rather than its style, does not deserve one, that is an asterisk.

And, since from that perhaps flowed the piece on Mr. Yoke and Senator Holt, added now below, ditto.

But then again...

Now, where's that Poe piece, again? And that on those by Mr. Carroll?

And, we might say to B. B. Schacht, just be patient, just be a little patient, as all things come to pass in good time. The word, however, B. B., using proper orthography, is hari-kiri, though the Japanese preferred for its nomenclature that designation derived from the Chinese, you see.

Haroo, seppuku, the enemy nearly slew ye, fer yer fête jetty's curd, with guns and drums, and drums and guns--ye met yer Gettysburg.

As to Monsieur Fourier, had he only waited so long to live instead to be 195, rather than a mere 144, he might have seen some his program installed within a part of the populace of both his native land and elsewhere, perhaps.

The Least of These*

It's a sort of second table, this Empty Stocking Fund for Negro Children that The News is starting today, but it's a tremendously appealing thing, and tremendously needed. We oughtn't to have let Christmas get so near upon us before realizing that colored children, too, look forward to the visit of Santa Claus, and are fully as disappointed as white children, though perhaps with a more stoic front, when he does not appear.

So, having neglected to give the community an ample opportunity to provide a Christmas of sorts for extremely poor colored children, it is up to The News to take full advantage of the two or three days that remain, and up to the good people of the city and county to come forward immediately, and not a second later, with their contributions of clothes, toys that need no repairing, and money--especially money. Details will be found elsewhere in the paper. The purpose of this piece is only to supplement the announcement of an Empty Stocking Fund for Negro Children, to urge promptness, and to remark that when Christ said, "Inasmuch as he had done it unto the least of these," He drew no distinction as to race.

Serves Him Right*

Mr. F. Roy Yoke is probably not going to be internal revenue collector for West Virginia. And he is not going to get that nice, fat job because Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia has a personal grudge against him, and stands flatly on his privilege as a Senator. Which, you might be inclined to suspect, makes Senator Holt out to the a pretty shabby person, and leaves the matter of merit in appointments in a bad way.

Well, Senator Holt is not exactly one of our favorite persons. We wouldn't mind particularly, for that matter, if that adjective, shabby, were hung squarely around his neck. But still, we find our heart rather going along with the Senator in his treatment of Mr. Yoke. For the admitted basis of Mr. Yoke's obnoxiousness to him is that that gentleman told a crowded school room back in 1917 that Senator Holt's father "should be lined up against a wall and shot" for opposing the entry of the United States into the World War. And if Mr. Yoke made that speech, he's probably getting now just what was coming to him. So much so, indeed, that for once we can view with cheerful equanimity the spectacle of a Senator acting on his personal feelings and setting the question of capacity for the job wholly aside.

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