THURSDAY, MAY 2,1957
THE PILOT—Soulhern Pinea. North Carolina
•I
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
the durable fire by
Howard Swiggell (Houghton
$4.00). This tense account of
business life on the higher levels
will not disappoint readers of
“The Strong Box” and “The
Power and the Prize.” In some
ways I think this is the best of
the lot, and I found it sufficient
ly absorbing to distract me dur
ing a fine case of poison oak.
The serious novel of business
is relatively new with us. The
first novels on this subject were
scathing and satirical as witness
“Babbitt” and “The Hucksters.”
Yet it was evident looking
around the American scene that
many business men were not
fools or tricksters. Such men
would have been incapable of or
ganizing our leading industries
and attracting and keeping good
men on their staffs. Marquand
advanced beyond the antagonis
tic or merely scoffing but he still
saw business as a field of activi
ty where the soul of man was
not at home.
ally important, he wanted to do
was Subject to its discipline. But
he had been shown clearly today
it was not the service of Mam
mon and there was a great com
pany besides himself who, hav
ing been bom men, were im-
willing to die as grocers. And
what demanded more from the
talents, aspirations and energies
of men than the relentless pur
pose still to seek and find wis
dom and beauty in spite of the
din of the marketplace?”'
Swiggett goes further. He sees
business on the higher levels as
a field in which men of charac
ter and ability can fulfill them
selves. His protagonist, Stephen
Lowry, who has spent some
years in government service
abrodd, joins the managerial
staff of the Continental Indus
tries Corporation at forty in the
expectation of making enough
money in ten years to retire and
write a book. At first things go
smoothly enough, and he finds
himself partly amused and part
ly resisting the benign paternal
ism of the president and the
chairman of the board. He and
his lovely Esthonian wife are de
termined to live the good life in
their own way and not to lose
any bit of it through anxious
climbing of the business or so
cial ladder.
SILVER SPOOH by Eldwin
Gilbert (Lippincott $4.95|). This
novel is a study of an immense
ly rich American family of to
day. The Family, a large clan,
live on a huge estate in Con
necticut and make their millions
from New York real estate com
panies and deals. The two rhief
characters are the younger son,
nonconformist of the family, and
a girl who is sent by a Life-type
magazine to do a picture story
of the Glenway estate and its
owners.
I do not share Mr. Gilbert’s
great interest in the rich and I
thought his story about them
lacked drama, but I did become
interested in his characters and
thought them remarkably be
lievable and real. The action
takes place during one summer,
and the family is revealed in all
its diversity. The photographer
and the younger son have a love
affair, a marriage breaks up,
scandal is threatened, there is a
death, and in the end the non-
conforming son comes back to
the fold, prepared to carry on his
family’s interests and traditions
This is a long, detailed, careful
piece of work that I foimd inter
esting, the more so as I got
deeper into it, but I still wished
it had been a bit more exciting
—JULIE ATTEBERRY
Then cc^e crises. Stephen is
called upon to make a painful
decision between protecting an
old friend or doing his duty by
the company. This in itself
would have made a novel of sus
pense for some authors, but
Swiggett continues with a chain
of consequences in which men’s
characters are relentlessly re
vealed and the gold separated
from the dross. It is excellent
drama, the main scenes taut, the
denouem,ents satisfying.
Stephen himself comes through
the tests by the integrity of his
character but comes through
with a new view of business,
seeing that it could not be just
a side issue with him- any more.
“Whatever else, however person-
SUNLIGHT ON THE. LAWN
by Beverly Nichols (Dutton
$3.75). Beverly Nichols writes
again of his life at Merry Hall
and in this latest book we find
many of the same neighbors. In
the house are his cats and Gas
kin, his butler. Out of doors we
find Oldfield, the old gardener
who is now eighty-two and about
to be forced to stop working. Mr.
Nichol’s project, finding and
erecting balustrades and pillars
in his water garden, and his
scheme for changing the soil in
his flower garden will be of in
terest to, real gardeners. His
tales of the feud between “Our
Rose” and “Miss Emily’ are most
entertaining.
Perhaps Mr. Nichols’ charac
ters are getting more eccentric,
but we shall not complain of
that, for he writes so pleasantly
of them. The book is charmingly
illustrated by his friend, WiUiam
MacLaren.
—JANE H. TOWNE
THE CRUEL COCKS by Gar
land Roark (Doubleday $3.75).
You might read this book for
either of two reasons, as a story
of cock fightipg or as an uncom
monly attractive picture of Ca
jun life in the bayous of Louisi
ana. As I knew nothing about
cock fighting 1 was more inter
ested in the latter.
Thirteen-year-old David Boutte
had, had a Scotch-Irish mother
but when the book begins his
sole parent is the gay and irre
sponsible Jean, never ‘able to
hold on to his money or a steady
job but beloved up and down.,
the bayous for his kind heart
and ready tongue. On an excur
sion across the bay to witness
a cock fight where his father
loses heavily, David is attracted
to one of the losing cocks who
has been thrown aside as finish
ed. He picks it up, takes it home,
nurses it back to health and
soon finds that he has acquired
a game cock of parts. Of course,
Father Jean is just the one who
would know how to make the
most of this.
I found my credulity strained
by how far and how fast they
went in a few months, but the
story has comedy, tragedy and
some excellent minor characters.
NOTICE
North Carolina
Moor* County
The undersigned, having quali
fied as Executrix of the Estate of
Gordon H. Clark, deceased, late
of Moore Coimty, North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against ^d estate to
present them to the undersigned
on pr before the 25th day of
April, 1958, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
AU persons indebted to said
est5te,^ill please make immedi
ate payment to the undersigned.
This the 24th day of April,
1957.
RUTH ANNE CLARKE,
Executrix of the Estate
of Gordon H. Clark,
deceased.
Pollock & FuUenwider,
Attorneys for Estate.
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BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
28*^*'“"“* ®*“*‘"®* Genesis 1:27-
DeTotionslllesdlac Fsalm 90:1-U,
Resourceful God
Lesson for May 5, 1957
Page THREE
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
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'The undersigned, having duly
qualified as the executrix of the
Estate of John Hichnor Yoimg,
deceased, late of the above named
County and State, aU persons
having claims of whatsoever na
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Young, deceased, are hereby noti
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claims to the undersigned on or
before the 28th day of March,
1958, or this notice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to the said John
Hichnor Young, deceased, are
hereby requested to pay the said
indebtedness to the undersigned
immediately.
This the 28th day of March,
1958,
GERTRUDE B. YOUNG,
m28a4,ll,18,25m2c Executrix
'T'HE BIBLE has a plot, take it
as a whole, as much as any
thriller you ever read. In fact the
Bible is more thrilling, because it
directly concerns each one of the
human race. It is the stixy of age
long conflict between Good and
Evil, portrayed as a personal con
flict between God and Satan, a
struggle for the
control of the
earth and of man.
The story begins
in a sunny, hope
ful way. God
makes a world,
an unfinished
world but never
theless beautiful,
and he calls into
existence Man Foreman
and Woman, to live on this ehrfii,
to beautify and C4|nplete it further.
They are to be God’s friends and
fellow-workers. But before the
reader quite knows how it hap
pens, the Serpent appears on, the
scene and persuades man that God
ife not his friend but his enemy.
So the man rebels against his
Maker, is faithless to his divine
Friend. Philosophers and theolo
gians have other ways of telling it;
but from the simple picture-stories
of Genesis shines the same double
truth and tragedy: Man is made
for fellowship with God and other
human beings, but he has broken
the fellowship, he has turned
aga^st his truest Friend.
Qod Planning
Mysteries darken our knowledge
here. But of some things we can
be sure. One is that God does not
deal with his world and his crea
tures haphazard. He is a planning
God. Another thing that seems
clear is that mac has freedom to
obey God or to disobey; to flt in
with the Plan or to reject,, it and
the Planner. God could, no dopbt,
have made a race of beings who
could not possibly do anything but
right, a race of perfect robots; but
for some reason God chose to
make man free. One suspects that
Rotarians Play
“WRat’s My Line?”
With Three Guests
Those four panelists on the
“What s My Line?” television
program are pretty smart, after
all, members of the Southern
Pines Rotary Club learned at
their regular meeting Friday.
Foiu: of the Rotarians, Dr. Le-
land Daniels, Arch Coleman, Roy
Council and Garland Pierce,
were appointed as a panel to try
and guess their guests’ occupa
tions. They failed in each case,
but provided one of the most
amusing programs at the club
this year.
The guests were Everette Al
len, Harrisburg, Pa.; Floyd ChU-
ton, Akron, O.; and O. V. Van-
dervoort, Hancock, N. Y.
Ocupations? Still unknown.
Earl Hubbard, incidentally,
served as moderator.
Other guests were Dr. Eugene
Grace and Don Madigan, both of:
Southern Pines. i
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the rea.son is that God would rath
er be loved by persons who would
love him freely, than to be loved
by creatures “wound up,’’ so to
speak—bound to love him wheth
er or not. (Would that be real
love?) Another thing that stands
out is that God is resourceful; in
one sense his Plan can be broken,
when men go contrary to his will.
In another sense men do not break
his Plan, for God appears in
Genesis like a wise general who
has more than one plan of strate
gy—all pointing to victory.
God Rejected
Man is not free unless he is free
to do wrong as well as to do right.
And if he is free to do wrong,
which is a short way of saying
free to go against the will and plan
of God, then he is free to destroy
himself. For the Plan of God for
man, bom as it is infinite Wisdom
and infinite Love, is always for
man’s best. For man to resist God,
to ignore him, scorn him, live by
man-m^de plans, is to choose the
way of death. Genesis shows dra
matically how the sin of Ttian
grows worse as a snowball grows
larger—the farther it goes the
more rapidly it grows. Adam’s sin
seemed a rather sli^t thing—then
his son is a murderer, and his
descendants so bad ttiat God could
scarcely find one good family
ambng them. The story in Genesis
is the story of mankind; men pre
fer their own way to God’s way—
the way of hate and conflict rather
than the way of fellowship and
love; and they suffer the judgment
of God; namely that tiiose who
take their own way must accept
the 'inevitable disaster.
God Undefeated
Many religions know of just and
righteous gods who have been re
jected by wicked or careless or
ignorant men. But the God re
vealed in the Bible does not act
as the “gods of the gentiles” are
said to act. For man’s sin, other
gods may have resentment, venge
ance, punishment. But these thifigs
leave man as he was, aii enemy—
a conquered enemy perhaps, but
with rebellion stiU smoldering in
his soul. Other religions provide
elaborate methods by which men
may pay for their sins—going long
pilgrimages, undergoing self-im
posed tortures. But the true God
is quite different from the gods
whom men imagine—a god unde
feated, infinitely resourceful. He
never gives up his Plan for a peo
ple in fellowship with him. Men
are changed, saved, made fit to
be God’s friends, only by stead
fast undiscouraged love.
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Yes, we all have our dreams.
^ Perhaps sometimes, they are mere pro
jections of our selfishness . .. hopes unfair
. to others . . . ambitions dangerous to our
selves.
But often, they are healthy, honest as
pirations . , . opportunities which zeal de
serves .. . victories which justice demands.
Is it wrong to dream such dreams? Does
God frown on honest hope and love?
Of course not! Rather, God has given
us minds able to dream, and souls coura
geous enough to seek the difficult—even
the impossible.
But the Divine Architect helps man to
model his castles in the air, and provides
the tools for their building. With faith
and the guidance of the Church a man may
realize hopes and aims which a cynical
world calls futile. ^
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CHURCH (Presbyterian)
Cheres K. Ligon. NBnisler
Sunday School 9:45 aan. Wor-
, . tip service, 11 a.m. Women' of
the Church meeting, 8 pju. Mon
day following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, 'Wednesday,
7:15 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Ave.
Sunday Service, 11 ajn.
Sunday School, 11 aun.
Wednesday S«-vice, 8 p.m.
ReadingRoom in Chur&Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 pun.
iriE churc:h of wide
FELLOWSHIP (Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshira
Wofford C. Timmons. Minister
Sunday School. 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Pilfflim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday. 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHUROl
(Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 am. (First
Sundays and Holy Days, 8 am
and 11 am.)
Family Service, 9:30 am.
Church School, 10 am.
Morning Service, 11 am.
Young Peoples’ Service League,
6 p. m.
Holy Communion, Wednesdays
and Holy Days, 10'am. and Fri
day, 9:30.
Saturday—6 p. m. Penance.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Asha
David Hoka Coon. Minister
Bible School. 9:45 a.ip. Worship
1 a.m. Joining Union, 7 p.m.
Ivenmg Worship, 8 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
pm.; mid-week worship, Wednes-
^ j® ’ ®koir ta’actice
Wednesday 8:15 pm.
meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and f^ily suppers, secimd Thurs
days, 7 pm.
MANLY PRESBYTEBiAS
CHURCH '
Grover C. Currie,
Sunday Sdiool 10 a,mi,
Worship Service, 2nd and 3it|
Sunday evenings, 7:30. FousA
Sunday morning, 11 a.HL
^ Women of the Chur<4i
8 p.m., second Tuesd^.
Mid-week service Tfasusday at
8 pm.
ST. ANTHONY’S (CattioUrt
Vermont Ave.
Father Peter M. Dengee
TT masses 8 and 1030 a-m>
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 «i»»«
weekday mass at 8 am. CaaSaH-
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 pmT^
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
MQdland Rood
Robert L. Same, Ministar
Church School, 9:45 »
Worship Srtvice, 11 a. m,;
W. S. C. S. meets eai^ Akd
Monday at 8 p. m.
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