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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1956
THE PILOT—Soulhern Pines, North Carolina
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
MODERN ART U.S.A.. Men,
Rebellion, Conquest, 1900-56 by
Rudi Blesh (Knopf $5.00). This is
an exhilarating book for anyone
who likes to read about a battle
. against odds, and Rudi Blesh has
succeeded admirably in conveying
the tensions and triumphs of the
pioneering days, in giving us vivid
portraits of the dauntless cham
pions of the new art, even as he
pays tribute to the artists them
selves who painted according to
their convictions despite poverty,
public neglect and scorn.
One pioneer collector of “Mod
ern Art,” a Chicago bLVsiness man,
wrote a book in 1914 on “Cubists
and Post-Impressionism” and said
that art movements “thrive on
controversy like every human en
deavor. The fiercer the contro
versy, the surer, the sounder, the
saner, the outcome.”
A sardonic artist added a foot
note on the public’s attitude to
ward the new movements: “FEAR
(any change)—SNEER (when it
comes)—CHEER (when it’s here
to stay).” Most of us, if we are
honest, will recognize some of our
own attitudes in this description.
At most, it is usually a question
of degree and we pride ourselves
on having accepted new art forms
sooner than some people we know.
Actually a good part of the pub
lic has just about gotten around to
Wolmanized
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whole-heartedly accepting Ce
zanne. Van Gogh, Gauguin, but
these men, the forerunners of
Contemporary Art, belong to the
end of the nineteenth century, and
a lot has happened since. If you
want to know what, read this
book. Still, it is wholesome to re
member that when Alfred Stieg-
litz gave the first American show
ing of Cezanne in 1911 at his tiny
gallery at “291”, people shudder
ed and when he exhibited Picasso
pictures a few months later, the
critics shrieked, “gibberings of a
lunatic.”
The change in the ratings of
these artists from 1911 to 1956 in
terms of money alone is astound
ing. Pictures that sold for a few
dollars then are worth tens of
thousands today, some going as
high as $100,000. Interestingly
enough it was American business
men, not dealers or museum di
rectors, who first recognized pow
er in these paintings and invested
—Chrysler, Guggenheim, Harri-
man, Lewisohn, the Rockefellers,
John Hay Whitney, Albert C.
Barnes, to mention a few of the
most familiar names.
But winning acceptance for
these early giants of modern
painting after most of them were
dead was only the beginning of
the struggle. There were (and
are) artists still alive and needing
to eat, needing to work, there
were artists producing amazing
pictures right here in America.
Who were they? Who fought for
them? What became of them?
What is happening today in this
field?
Rudi Blesh tells the story, and
there is never a dull moment. The
book is illustrated with photo
graphs of some outstanding par-
ticipahts in the struggle and some
of the more controversial works of
art.
NEVER TOO LATE by Angela
ThirkeU (Knopf $3.95). When Mrs.
Thirkell writes a new novel, her
many admirers need to be told no
more than that. But the publish
ers have sent us a rhymed review
of this one that is so truly in the
Thirkell spirit that we must quote
it:
“Oh, gentle readers, hasten with
delight,
To lovely Barsetshire where ro-
Page THREE
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effect this week in this area, it
has been announced by D. A.
Clark, examiner.
As of noT^r the schedule will
run:
Aberdeen—Monday and Tues
day from 8:30 to 5:30 at the Town
Hall.
Southern Pines — Wednesday
and Friday at the police station
from 8:30 to 5:30.
Pinehurst—^Thursday, 8:30 to
5:30 at the fire station.
mance dwells.
Let Mrs. Thirkell, urbane mistress
of the plight.
Enrapture you, as artfully she tells
How Cupid comes once more to
Pomfret Towers
When the Vicar, of all people,
falls in love,
While babbling brooks, the scent
of garden flowers.
And cooing doves repel the clouds
above.
Too late for such a man to go a-
wooing?
Too late for one old girl to slay
her hex?
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been doing
Things like that since Eve discov
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Drama of Understanding by Har
ry and- Bonaro Overstreet (Nor
ton $3.95) These authors have a
very persuasive way of setting
forth the advantages of being
good, especially being good to
each other. In this case they are
concerned with the value of try
ing to understand other people,
other points of view as contrasted
with angrily opposing them or
shutting yourself off from any
thing that might change your
own opinions. With a thorough
knowledge of modern psychology
and a wide experience of hiunan
beings, they state the case well
First, they give homely exam
pies from everyday life in the
family and on the job, then they
extend their thesis to include rela
tions between groups, political
parties and nations. Certainly
this is a timely book because the
conflicts of society are such these
days that it is dangerous to live
by rigid stereotypes.
This book should stimulate any
reader to a critical appraisal of
his own mental furniture. It is
also refreshingly sensible and free
from the technical terms of psy
chology.
THE AMAZING VACATION by
Dan Wickenden (Harcourf $2.95)
Joanna and Rickey had no idea
when they went to spend the sum
mer with a nearly unknown uncle
and aunt in Vermont that this
uncle was something of a magi
cian and that the house had
mysterious window, one of those
“. . . magic casements, opening
on the foam
Of perilous seas, in fairy lands
forlorn.”
How and why Joanna and
Ricky went through that window
and the adventures they had on
the other side make a marvelous
tale for children from 10 up. But
do not give it to one who is liter
al minded. It has something of
the quality of dream in the way
even the most fantastic pictures
are related to the' familiar as
Queen Mathildagarde with her
golden crown but a black skirt
and white shirtwaist, strongly re
sembling the lady principal of Jo
anna’s school.
This book has humor, excite
ment, memorable characters and
a real climax.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Background Scripture: Genesis 1:1—
2:3
Devotional Beading: Psalm 104:24-33.
Creation
Lesson for October 7, 1956
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TT IS one of the tragedies of Chris-
tian history that the first book
of the Bible, as well as the last,
has been fought over, bitterly,
from generation to generation. In
spite of all the quarrels, however
(and there seems to be no hope of
all Christians
agree here), there
are certain great
truths in this
magnificent
prose-poem with
which the Bible
begins, which are
agreed on by all
, Christians. Let us
pick out three of
these. Dr. Foreman
“In the Beginning, God—”
The first truth is that this vast
universe did not merely happen.
It was intended. It Is intended.
God (so to speak) invented it. Why
should anything be? is a thought
that has occurred to countless peo
ple. Why is there something in
stead of nothing, anything at all
instead of nothing? Is it just a
happen-so? Did the universe make
itself, as it were, like a dust-storm
building up in the desert or an
icicle dripping itself longer day by
day? Was there some blind Neces
sity at the beginning of aU things?
Or maybe did the earth and all
the universe exist forever without
any beginning? Not at all. That
the universe is here at all is be
cause of God who planned it and
brought it into being. How long
ago this started, or how many
changes have taken place since the
first instant of time, makes no dif
ference with the main point: name
ly that the universe does not ex
plain itself, did not cause itself,
but is what it is and as it is be
cause God willed it. Furthermore,
if God created it, including our
selves, he had a reason. We can
not conceive of God working blind
ly or at random or for no reason.
Order and Law
The more men study the uni
verse, whether the great and im
measurable universe around us, in
which our sun is no more than a
mediocre star nowhere near the
center of things, or the marvelous
tiny universe discovered by the
miscroscope—the more men study
all this the more they discover
that it is a universe of law. If the
sun rises at all tomorrow, astrono
mers know precisely when it will
rise. They can know it years be
forehand. Men used to be surprised
by eclipses. Now we can calculate
the time of every eclipse that will
take place, or that has taken place
since before the time of man. Even
that most unpredictable of things,
the wind, can be forecast better
than once it could. Men once had
to take hurricanes as they came.
Now they can be warned of them
and their tracks are mostly known.
Man in discovering such things is
simply “thinking God’s thoughts
after him.” As one astronomer re
marked, the universe seems more
like a great Thought than a great
Machine. In these universal laws,
in their regularity and dependa
bility, we can read the wiU of God.
This does not mean that we under
stand everything—far from it. Mys
tery surrounds us still. But no
science at all would be possible if
we could not count on a world that
“makes sense” from the smallest
atom to the mightiest star.
God Created No Evil
The story-poem of Creation in
Genesis ends with the joyful note
—God saw all he had made, and it
was very good. If anything God
has created seems bad, it is either
because we do not know how to
use it, or we have barged in where
we do not belong, or because we
ourselves have made it bad. St.
Thomas Aquinas once compared
this world to a tool-shop full of
well-sharpened tools. It is not safe
to turn a child or lunatic loose in
there; but a master-workman will
not get hurt. So as men are learn
ing about the universe they are
finding out how to use the mate
rials that the Creator has set at
our disposal. But much that, is evil
in the world is of our own making.
Most dust storms, for example, are
made by man’s greed and'stupid
ity to begin with, in digging up soil
that was never meant for cultiva
tion. The whole race of man now
stands in terror of death, for
though we have discovered how to
harness the power in the atom—
power our fathers knew was there
but had no idea how to reach—we
have put more effective thought
into using it for- destruction than
for man’s help. But all man’s mis
uses of God’s creation must not
make us forget that when God first
looked it over, he saw that it was
good.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Bdncation, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
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A
He probably doesn’t look much like the man
next door. He does his arithmetic with the aid of
a centuries-old gadget called the abacus, and he
writes the results in characters that would be
quite undecipherable to you .,. yet you probably
have far more in common with him than you’d
ever dream.
Like you, he wants peace. Like you, he wants
a good future for his children, and he wants them
to have more than he has ha(l. Like you, he has
experienced happiness and sorrow, love and dis
illusionment. Like you, he prays.
On World Wide Communion Sunday, he will
be going to Church and, though this may seem a
bit odd to you, he will be praying for you. Yes
. . . for you, and for everyone else in the world,
friend or enemy.
Why not join him? Why not, on World Wide
Communion Sunday, go to your own church and
include him ... him and everyone else ... in your
prayers.
Pray for peace, too. Remember, the power of
prayer is a wonderful thing ... especially when it
is given many voices.
the church for AU ...
AU FOR THE CHURCH
greatest lac
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Chapter Veraea
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Day • Book
Sunday Luke .,.5
Monday.... John 13
^eiday... .1 Corinthians 11
Wednesd’y I Corinthians 12
Thursday.. .1 Corinthians 1J
Friday. ...II Timothy 4
Saturday... I John 3
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CHURCH (Piesbylerian)
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
day following third Sunday.
■The Youth Fellowships meet al
7 o’clock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
7:15 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Ave.
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 p.m.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP (Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 ajn.
Worship Service, 11 ajn.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector
■ Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First
Sundays and Holy Days, 8 a.m.
and 11 a.m.)
Family Service, 9:30 a.m.
Church School, 10 a.m.
Morning Service, 11 a.m.
Young Peoples’ Service League,
6:30 p.m.
Holy Communion, Wednesdays
and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and Fri
day, 9 a.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a.in.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3r6
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.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship
11 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.m.
Evening Worship, 8 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednes
day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8:15 pjn.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 pjn. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 am.
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.in.;
weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confes
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
at
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Robert L. Bame, Minister
(Services held temporarily
Civic Club, Ashe Street)
Church School, 9:45 am.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
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