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IHE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
PINEBLUFF
Mothers Entertained
Troop 33 of the Girl Scouts en-
tertEiined their mothers at a spag
hetti dinner Wednesday evening
at the Home Demonstration club
house.
Guests were Mrs. Lewis Marts,
Mrs. Philip Schnell, Mrs. Hardis-
ter, Mrs. King, Mrs. Charles T.
Creel, Mrs. La Dette Boyd and
Scout Leader Mrs. Herbert Van
Boskerck.
Scouts present were Eleanor
Boyd, Nancy King, Helen Hardis-
ter, Jacquelin Van Boskerck, Doly
Creel, Carol Baker, Faith Ann
Meirts, Iris Williams emd Harriet
Schnell.
New Library Books
New books in Pinebluff library
are as follows:
Father of the Bride, Edward
Streeter; Mingo Dabney, James
Street; Let Love Come Last, Tay
lor Caldwell; Ever After, Elswyth
Thane; The Light Heart, Elswyth
Thane; The Plague and I, Betty
McDonald; Papa Was a Preacher,
Alyene Porter; The Harvey Girls,
Samuel Hopkins Adams; The
Queen Bee, Edna Lee; Cannon
Hill, Mary Deasy; Cheaper by the
Dozen, Gilbreth and Carey.
Children's Books
Honey Bunch—Her First Little
Club; Honey Bunch—^Her First
Summer on the Island; Honey
Bunch—Her First Visit to the Sea
shore, all by Louise Thorndyke;
The Happy Man and His Dump
Truck, Myryam; We Like To Do
Things, Walter Mason; Animal Al
lies, Nila Mack; Five Puppies For
Sale, Esther Brann; The Little
Trapper, K. and B. Jackson; Small
Rain, selected by Jessie O. Jones;
Three Little Pigs and The Little
Red Hen; The Secret of the Old
Sampey Place.
Library hours are Tuesday and
Friday: 3 to 5 p. m.
Polluck Dinner
The Cub Scouts entertained
their parents and a number of in
vited guests at a potluck dinner
in the Methodist church basement
Saturday evening at 6 o’clock.
Present as guests were Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Marts, Mr. and Mrs.
Granland McCaskille and daugh
ter, Nancy, Mrs. J. R. Lampley,
Mrs. Bryant, Mr .and Mrs. Manly
Wellman, Mrs. Joe Smith . and
mother, Douglas David, Mrs. Cora
Alcroft, Sergeant Geisler, Mr. and
Mrs. James Teal and daughter
Juanita, Mrs. Philip Schnell, Den
Mother, Jimmy Smith and Mac
Mills.
Cubs attending were Maurice
Pickier, Billy Marts, Andy Al
croft, Wade Wellman, Wilson
Teal, Tommy Bryant, Sterling
Carrington and Lester McCaskiU.
Revival Services
Beginning Sunday night, April
23, and continuing through April
30, a series of revival services will
be held at Ives Memorial Baptist
church each evening at 7:30. Har
vey White will deliver the mes
sage on Sunday, April 23, and the
remainder of the services will be
conducted by the pastor, the Rev.
W. Ray Gosnell. Edwin Baughn i
will lead the singing. A cordial
invitation is extended to all to
attend.
Brief Mention
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ussery
and sons, Richard and Jolu||, of
Fayetteville, were guests of*Mrs.
Ussery’s mother, Mrs. J. R. Lamp-
ley, Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Haglund and
daughter, Mary Lynn, returned to
their home in Buffalo, N. Y., on
Sunday after a two weeks’ visit
with Mrs. Haglund’s father, Louis
Vellenga, and Mrs. Vellenga.
While in Pinebluff Mr. and Mrs.
Haglund visited the azalea gar-
iens in Charleston.
Ray Padgett of Fort Bragg was
a guest Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
O. C. Adcox.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Payson and
Mrs. Ida Payson visited the moun
tains of North Carolina over the
Easter holidays.
Mr .and Mrs. W. F. Hearn at
tended funeral services for Mr.
Hearn’s mother, Mrs. J. A. Hearn,
at Albemarle Wednesday.
The Rev. and Mrs. W. Ray Gos
nell and Mrs. O. C. Blake of Aber
deen visited Mr. Blake at Char
lotte Memorial hospital, Thursday.
Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Parsons had
as their guests Sunday Mr. and
Mrs. Bobby Phillips of Bear
Creek, Mrs. Nina Ailiff of Greens
boro and Buford Goins of Sanford.
Gary Wilson of New Bruns
wick, N. J., is visiting his cousin,
Leon Wylie, and Mrs. Wylie.
Mrs. Ethel Wilson and Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Jones of Goldsboro,
Albert Willet of Durham, and M.
L. Carpenter and Claude Adams
of Raleigh were guests Sunday of
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Carpenter, Sr.
Charles G. Tiedge returned to
his home in Richmond, Va., Tues
day after spending the past two
weeks in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles T. Creel.
Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Dyer of Gor
ham, N. H., spent a few days last
week in the A. G. Wallace home.
Perkins Letters Give Sidelights On
Some Outstanding Literary Careers
Scribners Editor
Was Close Friend
of Boyds and Burls
A new book, “Editor to Author,”
published by Charles Scribners
Sons, is of unusual interest to
Southern Pines. Subtitled “The
Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins,” it
is a collection edited by John Hall
Wheelock of letters of one of the
most unusual literary figures of
our times.
Maxwell E. Perkins worked be
hind the scenes at the publishing
xiouse to discover new talent and
help it shape itself to editorial re
quirements. Known principally as
the man who launched Tom
vVolfe, he also had a hand in other
brilliant literary lives, among
them those of Southern Pines au
thors James Boyd and Struthers
jurt. Letters to both are included
in this volume, also to young Jim
Boyd containing an “ol^ hand’s”
advice to a young man ihterested ^sver
:n writing.
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to Better Electrical Living
In the bedroom you will require sufficient electrical outlets
for bed and dresser lamps, electric blanket, clock and
radio. Provide also tor a vacuum cleaner outlet.
Adequate wiring and plenty of well
placed outlets is the most important thing
to the full enjoyment o,f the modern elec
trical way in any home. Without proper
wiring the appliances cannot operate ef
ficiently and without convenient outlets
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you will be bothered with ugly extension
cords and endless inconvenience. Have a
competent electrician inspect your house
wiring and if necessary bring it up-to-date
for your full enjoyment of your electric
appliances.
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was that you asked my help, that
you wanted it. And it is my im
pression too that changes wfere
not forced on you (you’re not very
forceable, Tom, nor I very force
ful), but were argued over, often
fox' hours. But I agree with you
about this too, fully, and unless
you want help it will certainly not
be thrust upon you. It would be
better if you could fight it out
alone—better for your work in the
snd, certainly; and, what’s more,
I believe you are now in a posi
tion to publish with less regard to
^ny conventions of bookmaking,
'^ay a certain number of pages al
most, whether or not it had what
in a novel is regarded as an end
ing, or anything else that is com
monly expected in a novel. I be-
'ieve the writer, anyway, should
■■Iways be the final judge.
And again: "1 know your memr
Dry is a miracle, but it seems as if
It was Perkins who first saw in
F. Scott Fitzgerald a stirring
painter of his times. It was Per
kins who actually thought out the
idea of Mrs. Rawlings’ “The Year-
.ng,” which won the Pulitzer'
Prize, and then nursed it to com-'
pletion. Yet he held to the indi-1
viduality of the author. “Editors-
aren’t much, and can’t be,” he!
wrote. “They can only help a
writer realize himself, and they^
can ruin him if he’s pliable, as;
Tom was not.” And on another'
occasion- “It is my conviction that!
an editor should be even more
obscure than a child, who should
be seen.” He was in the tradition
of William Dean Howells, though
unlike Howells he was not a
writer himself. Perhaps he was
the last of the great publishers’
editors. Certainly there is none
like him today.
The Struthers Burts and the
James Boyds were great friends
of his. After a week’s visit with
them, he wrote. “My only objec
tion to Southern Pines was that
the warmth, and the perfumed air
and all, put me in a kind of som
nolent condition, where I could
Friday, April 21. 1950
SPEAKING
Robert R. (Our Bob) Reynolds, candidate for
United States Senate in the Democratic Pri
mary on May 27th, 1950, will speak in the
Moore County Courthouse at Carthage, N. C.
on Saturday, April 22nd, at 8 p. m. He will
talk on the subjects of
• STATES' RIGHTS, COMMUNISM
and IMMIGRATION
Come and Hear the Senator discuss these
vital issues
you must have forgotten how we ^ot even converse. It seemed t
His letters are revealing not
omy of himself but of the times
and talents with which he worked,
ciiU me unaerstanaing relation
ship which can help such talent to
;.iuition.
He was a close friend of the
noyas and the Burts, visited them
xn their homes here, and his
death in the summer of 1947
was a personal loss to them.
His book has been ordered fo:
the Southern Pines library.
i.it,xxaru. v*aiser, assistant pro
fessor of English at State college,
Raleigh, reviewed “Editor to Au-
Ciior ' as follows in last Sunday’s
xNews and Observer:
In a textbook of American lit
erature which this reviewer teach
es m his classes at State college,
one may read this statement:
“Wolfe provided the vigor, the
verbiage, the color; his editors
(Maxwell Perkins and Edward C.
Aswell), the form.” It is a no
tion which is widely held—by va
rious scholars, even by those read
ers who love Wolfe; and it is ve
hemently upheld by those readers
who do not. Wolfe himself gave
credence to the legend, particu-
Isrly in that glowing dedication to
Perkins in “Of Time and the Riv
er.” By that time Wolfe’s loud-
spoken devotion to his editor had
provided such momentum that
literary critics, and his friends as
well, began to believe he could
write nothing without Perkins’
help. Then in a fit of establishing
his integrity and independence,
Wo-lfe changed from Scribner’s to
Harper. It was one of the most
startling reversals in publishing
history, for Scribner’s had foster
ed and nurtured this exuberant
giant. It was Perkins who first
recognized his genius.
Now, once and for all, the true
story is told. And the legend is
not true. In these letters of a great
editor (amiong others he launched
Hemingway, James Boyd, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, and Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings on their literary
careers), almost the full account
of Wolfe’s connections with Scrib
ner’s is explained.
It begins in October, 1928, after
an agent had left the manuscript
of “Look Homeward, Angel” with
Perkins, who wrote Wolfe that it
was “a very remarkable thing- and
that no editor could read it with
out being excited by it and filled
with admiration by many pas
sages in it and sections of it.” It
follows the editor-author relation
ship through those harrowing
months after “Look Homeward,
Angel,” when Asheville shocked
Wolfe with its resentment and
when Perkins attempted to as
suage Wolfe’s depression by re
minding him that he was “a, born
writer if ever there was one.” It
tells of the years of work on “Of
Time and the River,” years of
strenuous labor for both of them,
when Perkins said of Wolfe that
he “seems to feel a certain shame
~t the idea of turning out a book
of reasonable dimensions.”
Perkins wrote Mrs. Rawlings in
1934 that he was “struggling with
Tom Wolfe for a couple of hours!
every night now, and he is going!
to get his book done for the fall.'
But it is the most difficult work
I WeS ever engaged in.” Finally
‘Of Time and the River” was pub
lished. It was an instantaneous
success.
And then came the days when
Wolfe seemed to blame Perkins
for the heln he had been given.
Perkins replied to Wolfe’s charges
that the tremendous manuscript
had been cut: “But there are lim
itations of time, of space, and of
human laws which cannot be
treated as if they did not exist. I
think that a writer should, of
course, be the one to make his
hook what he wants it to be, and*
that if, because of the laws' of
sngee, it must be cut, he should
he the one to cut it: and. esnecial-
Iv with you, I think the labour
=nd discioline that would come
from, doing that without help or
interference would further the
nretty terrible task of mastering
the material. But my impression
worked and argued. You were
overruled. Do you think
you are clay to be moulded! I
never saw anyone less malleable.”
But Wolfe was not satisfied,
and the break came. The, shift to
Harper was to show the world
what he already knew, and what
Perliins knew, that he was
.his own judge, his own mas
ter, as every genius must be. But
his great devotion to Perkins re
mained steadfast. Wofe appointed
Perkins his literary executor and,
in the last words he ever wrote,
just before he died, sent Per
kins that letter which is one of
the most, moving.
me inconceivable that anybody
could do any work at all in that
climate, but that if one had none
to do, there was no climate so
pleasant to be in. The atmosphere
even suppressed a New England
conscience which makes it always
seem incumbent on one to be
busy.”
John D. Currie Rites
Held At Pinehurst
Funeral services for John Dun
can Currie, 57, who died at his
. . home in Pinehurst Friday after a
magnificent g^ort illness; were held Sunday at
ity church, with burial following
in Bethel cemetery near Raeford.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Leonard Year by and Mrs.
Tommy Currie of Pinehurst; two
sons, Horace and Eldon Currie,
Pinehurst; one sister, Mrs. T. F.
documents of all times, beginning,; 2 p. m. at the Pinehurst Commun-
“I’m sneaking this against orders
—but ‘I’ve got a hunch’—and I
wanted to write these words to
you. I’ve made a long voyage and
been to a strange country, and
I’ve seen the dark man very close;
and I don’t think I was too much |
afraid of him. . ’’ Perkins had Raeford; one brother, A.
oreviously written to Tom that Raeford, and four
the plain truth is that working
on your writings, however it has|^
turned out, for good or bad, lias
been the greatest pleasure, for all
its pain, and the most interesting
episode of my editorial life.”
So many of these letters are
*ither to Wolfe or about him that
Perkins’ connections with other
writers fade in proportion. Of
Hemingway, he wrote, “Nobody
ever edited Hemingway ,beyond
excising a line or two for fear
of libel or other legal dangers.”
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