FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1954
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By LOCKIE PARKER Social Security
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A STILLNESS AT APPOMAT
TOX by Bruce Calton (Doubleday
$5). This begins with a ball given
on Washington’s Birthday, 1864,
at th? Rapidan camp of the Army
iful, sad, hard, and seemed to us
altogether too bad.”
KISS ME. KATE, A Musical
Play. Book by Samuel and Bella
Spewack, Lyrics by Cole Porter.
of the Potomac, a last gayety be- (Knopf $2.75). It is amazing that
fore the spring campaign, which
would start another year of war.
You get a close-up /iew of the of
ficers, the varied personalities,
their moods, their plans, their am
bitions. Then comes a review of
a musical play can be read so en-
joyably as a book. The reason is
that Shakespeare, the Spewacks
and Cole Porter are all congenial
and that, while most lyrics in
musical comedies are written just
the men in the ranks, the grim as songs, these advance and help
veterans whose three-year terms
were running out, the new men—
a few volunteers, some draftees
and the "bounty” men, the last
pretty hopeless material for mak
ing soldiers. Cattton writes un
commonly well and has you pro
foundly interested in both officers
and men before you finish the
first chapter.
His book is extensively docu
mented but most of the quotes
. are from personal letters—some
unpublished—and from company
histories. He. seems to have been
primarily concerned to know
what the battles of the Wilder
ness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg
looked like to the men who were
fighting them rather than to ar
gue military tactics or rehash of
ficial versions. He succeeds in
making very real to the reader
those long, grueling months from
May 5 when the army crossed the
Rapidan imder Grant’s leadership
until the end of the war, eleven
months during which ‘there was
marching and fighting every day
and very often both tojether.”
Catton points out plenty of
bungling in high places Dut is not
especially bitter about it seeming
to regard tljis as usual in war.
He gives Grant credit foithe grim
wUl to drive on and enc the war
and has ungrudging almiration
'for Robert E. Lee’s miliary abil
ity. The latter’s develo)ment of
trench warfare upset tte plans of
more than one general until the
Yankee army took to t, too, with
equal enthusiasm, (he officer
described his men diging in a|;
the end of a day’s mrch with
out any instructions ad conclu
ded that they “though'a rifle pit
a good thing to have inny family
with small children.”
Such touches of sober humor
lighten this stirring nd vivid
chronicle, but Patton Ever once
minimizes the completi grimness
of the ordeal right up 1 the last
forced mairch through lud and
dust when these tired len pur
sued the Army of Nonem Vir
ginia until Lee surrended at Ap
pomattox. ’Then as oj soldier
wrote, there was nofrenzied
cheering, the tired men t on the
ground and looked ffoss at
“those courageous Soutirn men
who had fought for fouiong and
the story. The introduction itself
is worth the price of the book, for
it is an extremely amusing ac
count of the way in which the
idea of using Shakespeare 'came
to the Spewacks and their efforts
to persuade Mr. Porter to under
take the lyrics. The new light
thrown by the introduction makes
reading the play just as charming
as seeing the performance. Thene
hcis probably never been a more
successful collaboration than that
of these four people, as the play
has drawn audiences of nvore
than four million and still lives on
in summer and winter stock, tents
and arena productions.
—JANE H. TOWNE
RING ROUND THE MOON, A
Play by Jean Anouilh, Translated
by Christopher Fry. (Methuen
$1.50). This play is called a char
ade with music because the au
thor “conceives his plays as bal
lets” and it must be taken as an
amusing interlude such as one
finds in music. It is beautifully
translated by Christopher Fry.
The French title, L’invitation au
Chateau, seems to me a better
title than the one used in England.
The play itself is charming* but it
is so light and ephemeral that it
did not prove good material for
Broadway. Even with understand
ing actors, it was not as success
ful as in Paris and London.
—JANE H. TOWNE
THE UNTIDY PILGRIM by Eu
gene Walter (Lippincott $3.50).
This is a Southern novel you can
really enjoy because the author
likes it here, especially Mobile,
Alabama—a sonorous name that
he rolls over his tongue with rel
ish. Mr. Walter says that he had
“for some time been bored slap
dash to death by the Sad Cypress
school of Southern writing,” so
he tries to steer a course between
the somber violence of some mod
ern writers and the sentimental,
romantic school of white columns
and magnolias.
For my money, he succeeds—
don’t be misled by the jacket.
The book is very alive, very mod
ern but full of the color and fra
grance of Southern seasons and a
deep admiration for some indiv
idual aristocrats who are products
of the Old South. Miss Fifty,
“with sweet anarchy in her soul,”
Now Meeling Public
At Town Hall; Other
Services There Listed
E. M. Mote, Federal Social Se
curity field representative for the
Southern Pines area, who has
been visiting the post office here
periodically, changed his office
this week from the post office to
the second floor of the town hall
where he has been assigned a
room. He will be there to discuss
all Social Security matters with
the public on the second and
fourth Wednesday of each month, >
from 10 a. m. to noon. !
Using this same office at town
haU is D. A Clark, driver’s li- i
cense examiner \ls?ho is in South- ■
ern Pines each Friday from 8:30
to 5:30 p. m.
Also meeting the public at the
town hall is Mrs. Smith, repre
sentative of the North Carolina
Employment Security Commission
who works out of the Sanford of
fice, handling unemployment in
surance payments and other em
ployment matters. She is at town
hall the second and fourth Thurs
day mornings of each month. Her
office is reached by the rear en
trance of the town hall building.
The public is reminded by the
police department, with offices on
the second floor cf the town hall,
that there is no State Highway
Patrol office in Southern Pines
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BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Scripture: John 4:1^2.
Devotional Reading: Romans 1:8-16.
Grossing Barriers
Lesson for January 24, 1954
■^rOT all walls are made of brick
-*■ ^ and stone. Some walls are not
to be seen at all. but they are
there. Have you ever been a shy
young girl, a stranger perhaps,
at a party where everybody
seemed to be having a wonderful
time? To your mind it almost
seemed as if there were a sort of
conspiracy against you. Everybody
seemed to see the point of jokes
you could not see
at all. Everybody
else felt at ease
but you did not in
the least. It seemed
as if you could
feel the wall that
shut you in. Or
consider another
kind of party, a
dinner in a home
of some wealth.
The guests at ta- Dr. Foreman
ble are friendly and frank, they
talk about matters that perhaps
concern the servants who are
waiting on the table; but there is
a wall (here no one can see. The
„ ... , servant would not for the world in-
Persons with cars to be inspected,, terrupt, because she is not sup
Dosed to hear. The guests talk as
by patrolmen should communi-1
cate with Col. M. S. Parvin at the
Patrol office in the courthouse at j
Carthage. Highway Patrolman E. ■
G. Shomaker, telephone 2-4145, is |
a resident of Southern Pines and I
may also be contacted. Patrolmen j
may occasionallv be reached
through the Southern Pines or!
Aberdeen police stations, but
they do not have regular hours at I
these stations and the public is
advised to' contact them directly
except in emergencies.
if she were not there.
young people in the book and j
give them a reason for living with
personal integrity instead of by'
mass standards, 'The story is told
in the first person by a country
boy who came to Mobile He says
that it could all have been sum
marized in one line, “How I com
menced to be me.”
dreary years all so stublimly, so j and Uncle Acis, living as he liked
bravely and so well. . . tyas piti- | at Bayou Clair, outshine the
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PINEHURST. N. C.
David D. Grissom
Dies; Funeral Is
Condueted Friday
David Dixon Grissom, 72, prom
inent fammer of Carthage, Route 2,
died Tuesday Jan. 12, at St. Jos
eph’s Hospital after a short ill
ness.
Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon at Red
Branch Baptist church, conducted
by Rev. Bennie O. Maness of Rob
bins, pastor, followed by burial
in the family plot in Mt. Hope
cemetery here.
Mr. Grissom was born at Mt.
Gilead January 25, 1881, the son
of Benjamin and Nancy Grissom.
He moved from Montgomery to
Moore county in 1936. He was a
member of Red Branch Baptist
church.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Bessie Baldwin of Montgom
ery county; four daughters, Mrs.
Roy Melton, Robbins; Mrs. Ed
Boggs and Mrs. Ed Boggin, both
of Broadway, and Mrs. Junior We-
hunt, of Gainesville, Ga., five sons
Melton H. and James R., Carthage
Route 2; Bobby, Of Sanford; Har
old, of Flint, Mich., and L. D., liv
ing in Mexico; one sister, Mrs.
Minnie Hoover, of Mt. Gilead, and
22 grandchildreq.
’■Tnn-Made Barriers
is these invisible walls that
use -more trouble in the world
an most of those that can be
'it wifi' the hand. In some coun-
iries they are more numerous than
in America, but we have them
00. The wall between the edu-
ated and t le uneducated: between
;hose who go to church and those
who never do; the wall between
the sexes, another between races;
walls between old and young, be
tween city people and country peo
ple; between management and la
bor, and so on. Such barriers are
not always intentional, they arise
naturally in certain situations. If a
person Has acted in some mean
way against his community—if he
has committed theft or adultery,
and it is known—he finds himself
shut out from decent men’s com
pany even if they do not put him
behind the walls of some prison.
He may find these invisible walls
so hard and high that he can no
longer live in the town where he
was bom, but must go to live
among strangers. Other walls too,
less tragic in consequences, rise
without any one’s planning them,
such as the wall between teacher
and students, between the boss and
the workman, the customer and
the merchant.
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.Some Walls Are Good
Some walls are actually good.
One of these is the wall of Privacy.
The lady that runs the “Ding Dong
School” on TV was saying only
last summer that even little chil
dren need privacy. Mothers make
a mistake when they insist—some
times right on into the teens—on
seeing every scrap of mail the
child writes, on knowing every
minute of the day what the child
is doing. Virginia Woolf wrote a
book called “A Room of Her Own.”
Isn’t that what we all need? Many
a family has broken to pieces just
because the house where they
.lived was a bit too small. There
was no place where any one of the
family could get away from every
one else for a rest. We all natur
ally dislike busybodies, asking
questions they have no business
to ask.
December Bond
Sales Increase
The combined sales of Series E
and H United States Savings
Bonds in Moore County for the
month of December totalled $55,-
450.25, according to a sales an
nouncement made today by Coun
ty Savings Bonds Chairman
Stevens.
The combined sales of Series E
and H Bonds for North Carolina’s
100 counties for the month of De
cember totalled $4,047,714.75.
In commenting on the county
and state sales figures, the chair
man stated that December, 1953,!
sales of E and H Savings Bonds!
in North Carolina were 25 per
cent higher than during Decem
ber a year ago. The nation as a
whole achieved a 14 per cent in
crease for the same periods.
DRIVE CAREFULLY — SAVE A LIFE!
L. V. O’CALLAGHAN
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Telephone 2-4341
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L. T. "Judge" Avery, Special Agent
Box 1278 SOUTHERN PINES E. Indiana Ave.
The acreage seeded to rye for
the 1954 crop in North Carolina
for all purposes was the same as
the 1953 crop—123,000 acres.
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How fo Cross Barriers
On the other hand, many man
made barriers are bad in their
effects. They act as prison walls,
behind them men and w’omen sink
into dark and poisonous air, wilt
ing without the sunshine that
comes to those living beyond the
wall. Such a wall, in ancient times,
was erected between the Samari
tans and the regular Jews. It was
an invisible wall; but it had no
doors and no one crossed it. Yet
one day Jesus walked right
through that barrier and several
other walls all at the same time,
to talk to a Samaritan woman.
Between were the walls of sex-
gentlemen did not speak in public
to women; of morality—she was
beneath even “ordinary” respecta
bility; of , nationality and race—
he was of pure blood, she of a de
cidedly mixed breed of intelli
gence—she must have had a pret
ty low I.Q. But Jesus talked with
her—not small talk, which she
would have preferred, but some
thing far more serious and search
ing. Jesus was always doing this
kind of thing. How did he man
age it? By the. simplest way in the
world: he would go right through
these man-made barriers as if
they were not there, because he
knew that walls which man’s mind
has made, man’s good-will can
make to disappear.
(Based on out'inos copvrii-hted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Conncil of the Churches of Christ
in the y. S. A. Released by Communitv
Press Service.)
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It takes a lot of energy to wield a rattle.
It takes even more to crawl across the room.
A fellow just has to take a time-out once in a while
That’s an important lesson for all of us to
learn. It is nothing short of suicide to let one’s
work and recreation rob his body of the natural
opportunity to replenish its resources in rest.
Our souls also need a frequent time-out. Life
depletes our spiritual resources. Man needs
regular times for worship, for prayer, and
for religious inspiration.
The Church is meeting this need in the lives
of many of your neighbors and friends. Are
you—and your whole family—taking advantage
of the time-out for spiritual replenishment
which the Church offers? We invite
you to attend the church of your choice
next Sunday!
UJE CHOHCH FOB AU. .
FOR THE CHURcai
Church is
on earth for i lac
character and
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democracy ®®dher
survive. There *f“**°" pp"
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attend services should
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
C-HURCH
(Presbyterian)
Cheves ^K. Ligon, Minister
Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Wor
ship service, 11 a. m. Women of
the Church meeting, 8 p. m. Mon-
'lay following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday.
7:15 p. m.
HRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
‘ew Hampshire Ave., So. Pines
Sunday Service, 11 a. m.
Sunday School, 11 a. m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p. m.
Reading Room in Church Build-
ng open Wednesday 3-5 p. m.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP
(Congregational)
I!or. Bennett and N. Hampshire
tev. Oswald W. S. McCall, D.D.,
Litt.D.
Interim Pastor
Sunday Worship, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p. m., The Forum.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York avenue at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Worship
11 a. m. Training Union 6:30 p. m.
Evening worship, 7:30 p. m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
p. m.; midweek worship, Wednes
day 7:30 p. m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8:15 p. m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p. m. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p. m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHiraCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3rd
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 a. m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m. second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at 8
p.m.
Wedn Sd y., Acts
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EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Holy Communion, 8 a. m. (ex
cept first Sunday).
Church School, 9:45 a. m., with
Adult Class at 10 a. m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a. m. (Holy
Communion, first Sunday).
Wednesdays: Holy Communion
10 a. m.
ST. ANTHONY'S
(Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denget
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.
m.; Holy Day masses f and 9 a.
m.; weekday mass at 8 a. m. Con
fessions heard on Saturday be
tween 5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p. m.
OUR LADY OF VICTORY
West Pennsylvania at Hardin
' Fr. Donald Fear on, C. SS. R.,
Sunday Mass, 10 a. m.; Holy
Day Mass, 9 a. m. Confessions are
heard before Mass.
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