Scroll for 1935-36 Editorials

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BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK-PAGE EDITORIALS

1935-1941
(Listed Chronologically)

(Note that Cash's contributions to the Book-Page of The News were quite often broader editorials, having little or nothing to do with books per se or literature in general; it was here that he could write his by-lined editorials and expound more fully on a topic often started more cursorily in the regular editorial column of the paper.)

(*) = Articles added February, 1999 (**) = March, 1999 (A) = April, 1999
(M) = May, 1999 (JY-'01) = July, 2001

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

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

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

• 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

• WHY WE'UNS DIDN'T WRITE - January 12, 1936 (*) - The South felt, didn't analyze

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

• Book Review: SANTAYANA'S FIRST NOVEL A MASTERPIECE -2/2/'36 (*)

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

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

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

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

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

• Book Review: GRAND STORY OF THE IRISH SCHOOL - 3/22/'36

• Book Review: SOPHISTICATION MARKS NOVEL ABOUT A GENIUS - 3/22/'36 (*)

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

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

• 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(*)

• Book Review: LIBERTY LEAGUE CASTS THE FIRST STONE - May 3, 1936 - Economic despotism threat

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

• CRITICISM OF CRITICISM - July 5, 1936 (**) - Speak truth regardless of objurgations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Book Review: THE SPIRIT OF THE BRITISH - September 6, 1936 (**)

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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"

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

• THESE WRITERS WOULD MOURN 9/26/'37 (Oct.-07) - Gone, the scenes to make Cash jump, yell.

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• THIS LADY BELITTLED US - July 10, 1938 (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

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

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

• 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

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

• 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.

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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?

• 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

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

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

• 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

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

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

• Book Review: 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

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

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

• 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

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

• Mr. Cash Gloats As Mr. Markham Capably Answers Mrs. Lindbergh - April 3, 1941 (JY-'01)

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

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

SPECIAL ARTICLES AND EDITORIALS

*Denotes articles which did not appear in The Charlotte News

• *POSSIBILITIES - May 5, 1922 - Old Gold and Black (Wake Forest newspaper) - Flat earth?

• *NORTH CAROLINA FACES THE FACTS - Baltimore Evening Sun - 8/29/'35 - Re: Lynching

• WHILE MAFLO PIDDLES - October 22, 1937 - Charlotte gets petty as murder runs rampant (Dec.-'07)

• ABOUT THE WAR IN SPAIN - December 12, 1937 - Hitler, Musso. seek puppet in Franco (Dec-'07)

• AWAY IN A MANGER - December 24, 1937