THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1956
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
FIVE A. M. by Jean Dulourd
(Simon 8c Schuster $3.00). Not
without justice has Jean. Dutourd
been called one of the most gift
ed of the young French writers.
“A Dog’s Head” and ‘‘The Best
Butter” were brilliantly execu
ted satires in the tradition of
Swift and Voltaire, and, despite
the bite of their criticism, were
irresistibly funny wjth moments
of broad farce.
This book is less funny but a
remarkable literary feat. The
whole volume concerns just one
hour in a man’s life and that an
hour when he is lying more or
less quietly on his bed,—from 5
a. m. to 6 a. m. Moreover it is
not a flashback with a dramatic
narrative of Fernand Doucin’s
past but an attempt to reproduce
‘‘the unbroken stream of feelings,
emotion's, motives” that pass
I The milieu of which he writes
I is ‘‘a street where boarding
houses sheltered the empty, hun
gry, searching, bewildered lives
within—drifters, schemers. Plan
et Planners, tinhorn gamblers;
the ever defeated; the ever hope
ful. . . who were eternally, in
j their phrase, ‘an hour late and a
i dollar short.’ ”
I The hero of the story is a mag-
^nificent specirhen from these
ranks.
Count Casimir Poliatoff-
Moreover, as Dutourd points'sky, bom in Guatemala of a Po-
out, you will find little that isjbsh father and a Mayan mother,
particularly modern in this man’s a tall, lithe man of cool courage
«T .Li._ in a crisis, of deep pride and con-
SP
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Backfround Scripture: Revelation 21.
Devotional Readinf: Revelation
7:9-17.
reveries.' ‘‘Living in the age of
Oppenheimer, he thinks and ex
presses his thoughts much as
men did in the time of Coperni
cus of Archimedes.”
Obviously this is less amusing
than the autlior’s earlier books,
partly because one is bound to
siderable moral force, widely
read in poetry and the weirder
philosophies, a bit of a mechani
cal genius, an ex-showman, a
seaman—in short, a brilliant
drifter.
The story begins when he
All Things New
Lesson for December 30, 1956
recognize too much of one’s self meets Hilda Moreau who is beau-
in it and partly because of theitiful, vital and determined to at-
discursive style inherent in the tain a place of security and pres-
nature of the project. Yet the tige in the world. They fall deep-
total effect is impressive, and ly in love and then the conflict
this commonplace clerk will re-1 begins. Each wants to share the
main in your mind when more dreams of the other, each tries in
colorful characters of fiction
have long been forgotten.
an effort that goes on for years.
The author has avoided the
exploitation of sex and depravity
COUNT ROLLER SKATES by which he might easily have used
Thomas Sancton (Doubleday in such a setting and written a
$3.95). 'This novel about New'first-rate novel based on charac-
through his mind at that hour [ Orleans is somewhat off the ter and whose developments
" beaten path, too, but for differ- grow out of the characters them-
when he habitually wakes and
fights insomnia.
Coming from the pen of M.
Dutourd it is hardly necesssuy to
state that the account is threaded
with irony. While the body of the
book is written in the first per
son, purporting to be the note
book of this thirty-year-old bank
clerk, M. Dutourd introduces
Fernand Doucin and in this in
troduction he gives us an idea of
what he is about. He wants to
portray without alleviation or
apology the mind of the average
man when his guard is down—
one can hardly be a poseur at 5
a. m.
ent reasons. The style is straight
forward narrative and conversa
tion skillfully done, but the pro
tagonist is a bizarre chEuracter
who could not have been madg
real by a mediocre writer.
Thomas Sancton is not that. In
the early forties he made a repu
tation for his brilliant essays and
short stories. In 1949 he left the
staff of LIFE and returned to his
home town. New Orleans, and a
job on the New Orleans Itemi
This book shows a wide know
ledge of his home city from flow
ering msnrtles to river wharves
and political bosses.
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ing and informative view of life
in the world around us, from the
Paramecium^ up through the in
sect world, mammals and man.
Here is speculation and variety
enough to challenge armchair
philosophers and outdoor adven-|
turers alike. • 1
Anyone who has ever wonder
ed about say: I
(1) Darwin’s apparently order
ed theory of evolution. |
(2) Whether animals have emo
tions, and the extreme complex
ity of many of them, including
some who seem to reverse the
process of evolution; or |
(3) Man’s place in the whole |
scheme of things, and whether he
is machine, God or animal, will
find in this book stimulating ob
servations and conclusions to ar
gue about or uphold.
The book is studded with en
chanting digressions. There is
Mr. Krutch watching squirrels at
play; his , description of the
change from caterpillar to but
terfly; and, for contrast, the
lights of the Rocky Mountain
bighorns, all providing a fresh
slant on the otherwise familiar.
There are twelve decorative
headings by Paul Landacre.
Joseph 'Wood Krutch now lives
in Tucson, Arizona. He has been
a New York dramatic critic, pro
fessor of drama criticism at Col
umbia, essayist and biographer of
Samuel Jolmson and Thoreau. He
is perhaps best and most recent
ly known as one of our most dis
tinguished nature writers. THE
DESERT YEAR won for him the
John Burroughs Medal for Nature
Writing in 1954, and THE MEA
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in 1954.
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THE verge of New Year’s
Eve, our thoughts go forward
to the New Year. But what will be
new about it? We shall mostly have
to “make do” with what we have,
rather than find much that is
brand-new. We shall be the same
people. Sleeping between Dec. 31
and Jan. 1 is not going to change
us a great deal. We shall live in the
same house,
have the same
neighbors, the
same prob
lems, tempta
tions, brains,
bodies, bank ac
count (if any),
tax bills, dis
eases and pros
pects. What we
can have that is Dr. Foreman
new, is a new attitude to some of
these things. But that is another
story. What we have to think about
here is another of the great chap
ters of the Bible, the one in which
come the thrilling words, “Behold,
I make aU things new.” What will
life be like in that “new heaven
and new earth” which is described
here in shining pictures in the very
last chapter of the Bible?
Death Behind U$
In that life wherein all things
are made new, not by clumsy man
but by the power of God, what
will be especially new—if you like,
shockingly new, so new we shaU
not perhaps easily become used to
it? First we can see a complete
contrast with this present life, in
that death will be always in the
past, never in the future. The one
thing that is certain about life on
earth is that we shall all die. Death
is the one certain prediction that
can be made about every one who
reads these lines. (Or, it Christ
should come in your lifetime, you
would undergo a radical change,
just as radical as death itself, in
any case.) But in that world where
all is made new, death is behind
!very one, not in front; a memory
lot a hope or a fear. The one ex-
Terience which unites all men in
his world is one which they have
not yet had. But in that world of
the redeemed, the experience of
death is one they all shall have
had. We cannot even imagine this,
just how it wUl be. But think how
much activity in this world is de
voted to one object alone—to stave
off death. All that will vanish with
death itself.
Evil No More
Another absolutely and unimag
inably new thing wiU be the com
plete riddance of aU forms of evU,
especiaUy suffering and sin. (Ig
norance and ugUness too no doubj
will be done away with, but they
do not weigh^upon us here quite so'
painfully as the other two). No
matter what your idea may be
about sin and suffering,* what they
are and where they came from,
you have to admit that human life
is woven of these threads. At this
very moment every reader’s life
would be radically different if he
himself had never signed, and as
for our neighbors’ sins, and the
sins of our ancestors, the world we
have inherited is a world fashioned
and controlled by sinners. It is only
by the mercy of God that it is not
worse than it is. Try to think what
life would be if there were no
form of evil affecting it whatever.
You can’t really think it; but that
goes to show what an amazingly
new state of things the “new
heavpns and earth” must be.
At Home With God
Most wonderful, and least imag
inable, of all the new features of
that life to come, is the presence
of God. It is true, God is every
where. But it is also true that God
is in some places and situations
and occasions more than others.
■What is said in Revelation about
God’s coming to dwell with men
leads us to think of God’s presence
in the tnUy New World as being
far more direct and less veUed
than for us at our present stage of
existence.
Indeed, as God 4s real^to us in
prayer far more (as a rule) than
when we are feeding the hogs or
getting a haircut, so the presence
of God in the all-new World may be
as far beyond our highest aware
ness of him here, as the prayer is
more spiritual than the haircut or
the hogs. All we know is that in
this world we seldom do feel quite
at ease in God’s presence, and may
even be seldom certain that he is
near. But “over yonder,” we shall
be at home with God as we never
been in this life. Foretastes'of the
New Life we may enjoy here: in
freedom from fear of death, in a
life growing more purified by the
Spirit, in the “practice of the Pres
ence of God”; but the fullness of
glory we cannot, imagine, only
trust God that these things shall
be.
(based on outlines copyrigrbled by tbe
Division of Christian Education, Na*
.oral Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U- S .\. Released by Community
Tross Service.)
Page THREE
Hobbs Inducted As
Kiwanis President
James D. Hobbs of Southern ^
Pines was inducted into office as :
the 36th president of the Sandhills i
Kiwanis Club at a recent meeting, |
succeeding John L. Ponzer, also of 1
Southern Pines.
Other officers, all taking their
oath from Glenn 'Webb of Laurin-
burg, lieutenant governor of this
division of the Carolinas district
of Kiwanis Internationtd, wer^ I
Lawrence Johnson of Aberdeen,'
vice-president; J. Vance Rowe, Jr.,
Southern Pines, secretary-treasur
er; and directors L. B. Creath,
Pinehurst; Dr. Bruce 'Warlick,
William T. Huntley, Jr., Joe Mon-
tesanti, Jr., Major Edward Kitch-
in. Dr. Harold Johnson and Thom
as T. Hayes, all of Southern Pines.
At the meeting Sheriff Charles
J. McDonald was presented with
a Legion of Honor certificate from
Kiwanis International for 30 years
of active membership in the club.
Paul Dana of Pinehurst made the
presentation.
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, There may be folks who dream of a new year with no clouds over
the horizon. But life has taught most of us that there is never a day
free of uncertainty. ^
Some like to rejoice in the calm of today and give no thought to
the clouds of tomorrow. Theirs is a contentment without strength a
happiness empty of hope.
But stronger souls see both the calm and the clouds. And they
look beyond the clouds to the Light whose rays bathe the horizon.
These are the souls who face the new year with faith in their God.
Ihey know the days will not be without shadow. The ripples may
sometimes become angry breakers. But they follow the gleam across
another year . . . the Gleam from beyond the clouds.
The Church is for those who would look ahead . .
Light.
ever toward the
the church for all . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
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