FRIDAY. APRIL 15. 1955 THE PILOT—Souihern Pines. North Carolina PAGE T^EB J By locks PARKER Some Looks At Books THE SCOTSWOMAN by Inglis Fletcher (Bobbs. Merrill, $3.95). This book successfully revives a chapter of history lost to many Americans. Its central character is Flora MacDonald, the Scottish heroine known as the savior of Bonnie Prince Charles Stuart whose forces suffered complete rout at the battle of CuUoden and on whose head the British king placed a price of thirty thousand pounds. Not only did this fateful day end the hope of the House of Stuart for regaining the British throne, but it ended also the Clan system which had existed in Scot land for centuries. From a land of agriculture under the Clan Chief, it became a land of herds men, with consequent disappear ance of the tacksmen and crofters. Unemployment was so wide spread, it was necessary for many to seek a' livelihood elsewhere. Thousands of these Scots looked with great hope to the valley of the Cape Fear. Among these were Allan MacDonald, tacksman of Kingsburgh, and his wife, Flora. The Hebridean Isle of Skye is the locale of the’ first chapters. The life, culture, customs and Clan loyalty of the Highlanders are here depicted as could be done only by one who knew the Isle and had traveled through its high lands. Related are the prepara tions for departure, the sorrow of leaving kinsfolk, friends, and their loved Cuillins, the glens and ihoors. And then there is the grand farewell gatherings of the MacDonalds at Flodigarry, ending with the dance to the skirling of the pipes. The atmosphere here is vividly described for the reader. The voyage follows, during which there is an encounter with pirates, a storm at sea, life aboard a sailing ship of that time. Here, too, are duelling, intrigues and the beginnings of romances to follow. After landing at the mouth of the Cape Fear, Flora and her party are carried to Newberh where the Royal Governor entertains at the Mansion. At Cross Creek an en thusiastic welcome is given by the Scots who had preceded their heroine. In due time, land was purchased and a home established. This was in the Autumn of 1774. Instead of the peace and tranquil ity sought, political unrest^^ abounded on all sides. The Gov ernor of the Frovince and his Council were in disagreement. The Governor’s influence was on the wane and his delegated au thority ignored. There was the same unrest in Massachusetts, with Lexington not many months away. Rebellion was in the air. Lines were being drawn. Were you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Flora’s sentiment was for neu trality. Had they not come to America to regain their fortunes, to create an estate for themselves and their children? They were newcomers and this was not their fight Allan, accustomed to wars, stood for the crown and a fight if necessary. Governor Martin of fered him a commission and plac ed upon him responsibility of re- jcruitment. Troops were raised ‘ and marching orders given to join I General Gates at Wilmington. At ; Moore’s Creek Bridge, the Loyal ists were intercepted by the Whigs and decisively, defeated. Allan was among the captured, carried away to prison, never to see North Car olina again. Flora remained a short time at her home, Killegray, until it was confiscated, before go ing to Glendale to be with her daughter, Anne. Later she re turned to Scotland. The book deals honestly with a struggle between loyalties, the soul-searching fight of Flora to re main loyal to her husband, the harsh and at times barbaric treat ment of the Tories by the victori ous Whigs. Her characters are so portrayed you live with them. You sorrow with Flora in her disap pointments and you grieve with Moira at the sad going of Dougald. This story should be of great in terest to Moore County people. Some of us had ancestors at Moore’s Creek. Some are familiar with the locations of Glendale and Kenneth Black’s, near-by, and Mt. Pleasant and Killegray, not far away. “The Scotswoman’’ will probably prove to be Mrs. Fletch er’s greatest achievement. —E. T. McKEITHEN. THE BRIDE OF INISFALLEN by Eudora Weliy (Harcourt $3.00). Those of us who admire Eudora Welty’s work may be disappoint ed in this collection of stories— not in the writing; for no one in America today writes more beau tifully than she, nor can anyone write better descriptions of per sons and places. V^at is lacking in this book is the warmth and love of the people of whom she wrote in “A Curtain of Green’’ and in “The Ponder Heart.’’ In her earlier books the setting was the Mississippi Delta, and perhaps that is what we miss in this book. Only two of these stories are in that familiar setting and, clever as all her stories are, these are the most appealing. Nevertheless, anything Miss Welty writes is worth reading, and this book is no exception. —JANE H. TOWNE. THE BOY WHO HAD NO HEART by Maud and Miska Pe tersham (Macmillan $2.75). A new picture book by the Petershams is always a pleasure to the eye with its sound but not too literal draw ings and its glowing colors. Amer ican history and animals have been favorite subjects in their The Equitable Lite Aasurance Society of the United States MYHA SCOTT BOES, SPECIAL AQENT Box 381 SouthMTU Pines Pkens 3-7193 « al,39inc “That New Look” Let ns give your Venetian Blinds tkat “new look” for siwing. Cleaning and Repainting Now Tapes — Now Cords Froo Estimatos Box 42S SOUTHERN PINES Tol. 2-4263 HAVE YOUR CLOnSSS CLEAl^ The Valet D. C. JENSEN Where Cleaning and Prices Are Better! SALES — RENTALS — BUILDING GEORGE H. LEONAREs, Jr., President Harj Building Southern Pines Phone 2-2152 For WEDDINGS — BANQUETS Call Pinehurst 3963 PARTIES NAPOLI RESTAURANT 1 to 125 Persons Fine Italian - American Food. Follow Hwy. 211 two blocks past Carolina Hotel, right on Murdocksville Road, miles on right. Phone Pinehurst 3963 or 3961 dlOtf Youth Services Scheduled Here ’The Rev. Joe Flora, minister to youth at the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, will con duct a series of services for yoimg people at Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church, from 7 to 9 p.m., April 25-29, it was an nounced this week. All young peoplq.in the seventh through 12th grades are invited to attend the services which wUl be sponsored by all local Protestant churches. Further details will be an nounced. FERTILIZING COTTON Cotton needs fertilizer early in the season to thrive, the National Cotton Council advises cotton farmers. The cotton plant absorbs the greater part of its nutrients during the first half of its grow ing period, a Cotton Council spokesman pointed out. He said fertilizers should be applied be fore planting and often during the early growing season. A side dressing with nitrogen is highly beneficial when plants are about six to 10 inches tall or during the first cultivation after chopping especially in light sandy or sandy loam soils. earlier conversations with chil dren. I use the last term because there is always the effect of per sonal and sympathetic communi cation in their books. The present one is a story with a moral. It was supposed for a time that children did not approve of these, but let an old'storyteller assure you that when honestly done there are few things that give them as much satisfaction. This story will be particularly reassuring to the six- and eight-year olds for Whom it is intended, for in it the problem of a cocky little boy at odds with his comrades is convincingly worked out, and peace and happiness reign again. Legal Notkes STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF MOORE NOTICE The undersigned having duly qualified as the Administratrix, C. T. A. of the Estate of Mary Eva Thwing, deceased, ^ late of the above named county and state all persons having claims cJ whatsoever nature against the said Mary Eva Thwing, deceased, are hereby notified to exhibit the said claim or claims to the under signed on or before the 16th day of March, 1956, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov ery. All persons indebted to the said Mary Eva Thwing, deceased, are hereby requested to pay the said indebtedness to the under signed immediately. ’This the 16th day of March, 1955. GRACE E. THWING, Adminis GRACE E. THWING Administratrix, C. T. A. a8,15,22,29,m6,13c CONCRETE SUBFLOORS Make a Setter House Whether you build of con crete masonry, brick or frame, your house will be better tyith strong, firesafe concrete subfloors. Rigid and'shakeproof, they stay level—thus preventing sag ging wklls and doors and creaking floors. Concrete subfloors retard the upward spread of flames too. Since half of all home fires start in the basement, that means added safety for your loved ones. With concrete subfloors you can choose any floor covering because they make a perfect base for linoleum, wood, tile or terrazzo. Experienced North Caro linians choose concrete for greater safely and econo my. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Slah PIcmhn Bank BMg., Rldinwnd IV A ndioMl orianizttion to Impnvt and oxtond th« usn ef Portland camant and tonerata ^:: thraufh adantllie raturck and anginttrini Bald work. CONCRETE SUBFIOORS CAN'T SAG, CREAK OR BURN IntaiTMtionAl Uniform Sunday School Lessons BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Sorlptore: II Chronicles 10—13; I Kings 12. Devotional Beading: Proverbs 2:1-10. No Greater Fool Lesson for April 17, 1955 Dr. Foreman T T WAS the day of • the great mass-meeting. The new admin istration was meeting the voters face to face. At least, the man who hoped and expected to be the administration was facing the peo ple he hoped to rule. The right word is “rule,” for this was in the days when kings were kings and not mere signers of other men’s J documents. And ,i this particular king was none other than the son. the one and only son, of the famous King Solomon. His name was Rehoboam, and if ever a greater fool lived on this earth, history has lost record. As a matter of fact, he could not be king auto matically. The nation had not been a kingdom very long; there had been only three kings in all, Saul, David and Solomon. And in every case, the king had been elected by vote of the people. It was what we would call techni cally an elective monarchy, not yet a hereditary one. So Reho boam had to persuade the people that he was worthing electing. He could not be king of any tribe if that tribe did not vote for him. A Rayal FmI Rehoboam now proceeded to do everything wrong. The people asked him the perennial question: What about taxes? Solomon’s reign had been magnificent—if you lived in the palace. If you lived out in the villages or on a farm it looked different. The royal officers were everywhere, bleeding the people for aU the taxes and all the forced labor that the royal magnificence required for its upkeep. The peo ple told Rehoboam that Solomon’s yoke was grievous; they begged him to make it lighter. Rehoboam asks for time to think. He spends that time asking advice. The older counsellors, his father’s trusted wise men, tell him to go light on the people. In fact they give him the whole theory of good govern ment in a nutshell; “If you will be a servant unto this people , . . then they will be your servants for ever.” Then Rehoboam asks the younger men, his own con temporaries, what he shall do. They give him the completely foolish advice to bear down on the people, treat ’em rough, teU them nothing good. So the feckless Rehoboam goes out and says in effect, “You took a beating in my father’s time—^but you haven't seen anything yet. If he beat you with whips, I’ll beat you with scorpions.” liaa Nggflnfl ggi Niitty-IlM ttfbtfcfs Of course Rehoboam lost the election. Only one tribe stood by him. The rest went off and elect ed another king of their own. A kingdom that David bad won by courage and Solomon had held by wisdom, was kicked away by Rehoboam out of' sheer foolish ness. What made Rehoboam such a fool? It was not his youth. At the time of this episode be was forty years old, and if a man has no sense by the time he is forty, it is too late to hope. Part of the trouble may have been his 999 stepmothers. Solomon was mar ried a thousand times, but we have no record of any children except this man Rehoboam. Con sidering what harem intrigues are like in the Orient, and con sidering the fact that most if not all of Solomon’s immense harem were heathen women, it would not be surprising if Rehoboam’s mother (who herself was a heath en from Ammon) was over-sup plied with bad advice from Re- hoboam’s nosy stepmothers. Some fools are born, some are made. They are home-made, many of them. One of the best ways to produce a fool in your family is to listen to all the stupid advice the neighbors can give you. The Voice of Inexperience Another thing was wrong with Rehoboam, and for this we can not blame his mother nor his con gregation of stepmothers. It was his own fault that he preferred to listen to the men his own age, men who like himself had grown up in the luxury of the court, men vho knew nothing of practical af- airs, preferred to listen to them, he voices of inexperience, rath- r than to the older men whose advice Solomon had tried and pre sumably found good. Rehoboam being himself without experience could not tell, of course, before hand, whether the older or young er men were right. (Based on outlines copFrichted by the Division of Christian Education, Na tional Council of the Churches of Christ in the U- S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) Bookmobile Schedule Schedule of the Moore County bookmobile for the week April 18-22 has been announced as fol: lows: Monday—^Through Niagara to Union church with stops at Kelly Darnell and Briggs homes, 2:15 to 3:15; paved road to Vass with home stops, 3:15 to 4:15; W. F Smith and K. W. Henning homes, 4:30. Tuesday—^Doubs Chapel route 1:30 to 4:30 p. m. ■Wednesday — Jackson Springs: W. E. Graham’s, 2:20; postoffice, 2:35; West End, 3:15 to 4:30; Branson home near power station. 4:40. Thursday — Carthage Library, 11:30 to 12:30; Glendon route with stops at Joe Pressley, L. W. Ed wards, Carl Oldham and Nichol son homes, 1:45 to 3:30. Friday — Eagle Springs school, 10:30 a. m:.; Vineland school, 11:15 a. m. DRIVE CAREFULLY--'SAVE A LIFE! PILOT ADVERTISING PAYS MM Pines Glub SOUTHERN PINES. N. C. Where Golf and Hospitality are Traditional MANAGED BY the Cosgroves JULIUS BOROS, Professional Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday .V IV I f sA,\n\yA\ Naturally, they’re pleased about it—it’s their first bankbook. This is something they’ve managed together. They’ve saved for the things they want, and also for that “rainy day.” It’s wise to save for a rainy day. But it’s also wise to remember that drought can be just as devastating as rain ... particularly spiritual drought. Faith is the balance you’ll find in your spiritual bankbook. It is something that you can renew, something that you can add to, and something that will pay you immeasurable dividends. Where else can such faith be renewed and developed than in the House of the Lord—your Church? THE CHURCH FOR AU . . . AU FOR THE CHURCH* Th. Church Is ih, graat„, fa-. •urvivg. ^her« *^***®**®*‘ can Taoions whv sounci port lha Church ^ For hi, ovn Tak. ehildran’i Mica •erial »upport. church raoulorly ** Bible daily Book Sunday... •Paalm, Tuesday. .Luke Wednesd’yLuke Thursday. J„ha Friday.. .Romans Saturday . t your .Chapter Veraea 2S l-io 90 12-17 4 1-8 5 16-21 16 25-33 IZ M-2J 24 l-lj % CAnwalvKa tORR V^t * Copyrlcbt 1955, Kebtcr Adv. Service. Strasburc.■“ , A BROWNSON MNMORIAL (RniBCH (pNiMMiHi) Chiovw K. I WlwiMer Siuiday School 9:45 aun. Wor ship service, 11 a.m. Women of ttie €fi