THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1960
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
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THE POLITICAL BREAK
THROUGH (Harper. $1.45), latest
book of Chester Bowles, has a
attitudes, till, on the coming of
a crisis in the affairs of the na
tion, one or the other came to
picture of the author on the cov- life, seized the initiative, broke
- - -r.. 1. ‘ _T Q ciircr<^ nf rtolifipal
er. Mr. Bowles is shown smiling,
a real grin of amusement on his
face. Is that the way this author-
congressman looks now when he
glances down at that title? Or is
his expression perhaps less serene
and carefree? It could be, for he
must recognize that, according to
at least a few political prognosti
cators of considerable wisdom,
he, Chester Bowles, may be the
one attempting the breakthrough.
This is an intensely interesting
book and a most impressive one.
Interesting in the clarity with
which it traces the history of the
two parties. Democratic and Re
publican; with which it analyzes
national problems and world is
sues; fascinatingly interesting in
its revelation of the author’s the
ory of political growth: the suc
ceeding crises through which this
nation passed, the mountain
peaks of creative effort and • at
tainment, with, in between, the
plains. Here the pace slowed as
the great achievements of the
peaks were consolidated, stabil
ized, finally becoming stagnant
iparshes where progress ceased
until the next great mountain
loomed ahead, calling once more
for men of vision and courage to
scale the heights.
Most impressive is this book in
its revelation of the author’s
character and personality.
Mr. Bowles takes som.e words
of Emerson as a starting point:
"The two parties which di
vide the state, the party of
Conservatism and that of
Innovation, are very old. Now
one, now the other wins the
day, and still the fight renews
itself as if for the first time.
It is the opposition of Past
and Future, of Memory and
Hope,"
And Bowles tells us that Emer
son believed that “the most
meaningful differences in Amer
ican life have occurred when the
advocates of a Party of Hope
clashed with those of a Party of
Memory.’’
Bowles describes the rhythm
that he feels in United States po
litical history: the plains between
the peaks, when each party ap
peared content to slide along with
its memories and its traditional
through “in a surge of political
creativity’’ to become the Party
of Hope that led America back
onto the road to greatness.
The coming election, Bowles
believes, is such a crisis and pre
sents a mighty challenge to the
Democratic Party' to break
through the apathy, the compla
cence, the inertia into which the
nation has been lulled and as
sume the leadership of the Party
of Hope.
One by one he takes up the
great questions of the day,
domestic questions and questions
of foreign policy. He describes
each one and then goes right on
to say what he thinks should be
done about it. And somehow he
manages to do it quietly yet
clearly, straight from tbs shoul
der yet with not the slightest hint
of arrogance , or superiority.
Sometimes it is almost text-book
writing, so carefully, so explicitly
are the facts marshalled and the
explanations made, then follows
a paragraph or just a sentence so
compelling that the reader is
swept by the conviction: “This
man knows what he’s talking
about.’’
This is a very American book,
this book of Representative
Bowles. He uses few words to say
what he wants to say; he,says it
with directness, with conviction;
he finishes up one subject and
then he strides on to tackle the
next one. There’s no waste mo
tion, there’s no fuzzy thinking,
there’s no shying away from the
hard ones. There’s no eloquence
either except that which inevi
tably accompanies any well-
chosen words spoken by a man of
high intelligence on a subject he
knows a lot about and cares a lot
about and uttered with a sense of
deepest urgency.
This is a book that’s very worth
reading because of what it says
and because of the man who says
it and his position in the recent
history of the nation; even more,
because of his possible position in
its future.
—KLB
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Vladimir Nabokov fled with his
family at the time of the Revo
lution. He was educated at Cam
bridge and for twenty years he
taught English at Cornell. Al
though, English is not his native
language, he writes far better
English than we are accustomed
to reading. In fact his choice of
words is sometimes so erudite
that one needs a dictionary' at
hand.
He is best known, of course,
for his best-seller, “Lolita,’’ whose
theme has shocked many. These
stories, each different from the
other, contain nothing to shock
us, simply interest and delight.
My favorite ones are the auto
biographical ones, “Mademoiselle
O’’ and “First Love.” The first is
a memorable description of the
French governess who came to
them in Russia when he was six
years old and stayed for seven
years. The second tells of a trip
from St. Petersburg to Paris by
the glamorous Nord Express and
then on to Biarritz where he
played with a little French girl
called Colette.
There are several bizarre
pieces, rather difficult to under
stand. One, perhaps the most im
portant of all, “Conversation
Piece,” is a bitter tale of a Ger-
rnan spy in New York in 1945.
Nabokov is required reading for
anyone interested in the litera
ture of today.
—JANE H. TOWNE
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about what it was like, nineteen
centuries ago. When a thing has
been a success for that length of
time, people forget that it ever
trembled on the brink of failure.
Names that have been honored for
nineteen centuries, we think must
have been held in
high honor from
the start. When
the most we know
hout a place long
1 is the names
;ome very good
.ople who lived
-here, we suppose
everybody was
cut from the same
cloth.
The plain fact
had to fight for a toe-hold in the
world in which it was bom. It was
not an irreligious world, the place
was swarming with religions. It
was not a world that felt “hungp-y
for the gospel.” It was not a world
where the “higher values” were
much sought after. In short, it was
a pretty discouraging place to
start.
Corinth, Cross-Roads Capital
This was specially true at Cor
inth. Paul started the Christian
church going in that city. He has
been known so long as an apostle
that it is easy to over-rate his
reputation at the time of his peak
years. If you had got one citizen
of Corinth, any citizen at all, by
the comer of his toga and told him
the Paul the Apostle, yes sir a real
apostle, think of that, was coming
to the city and intending to start
a Christian church, the Corinthian
citizen would have said something
like—
“Apostle—what’s that? Paul—
who’s he? Never heard of one or
the other. Oh, a religionist is he?
We’ve more than enough of that
kind here. I hope he’s not from the
east? He is? From Jemsalem?—
Oh—a Jew . . . Well, outside of
being a superstitious lot, those
people are rioters by nature. Mark
my words, there’ll be rioting in the
synagogue before that man’s been
here long. You can have him.”
'that wouldn’t exaggerate a bit
the scornful reception Paul might
expect in Corinth—and he knew it.
He wrote some years afterward
that he came to Corinth in weak
ness (probably ill health), and in
much fear and trembling—in mod
em slang, he was all shook up.
Paal the Daanticss
Nevertheless Paul was deter
mined to start a Christian church
going in that big booming indiffer
ent city of Corinth. Not only were
there all the difficulties of making
a dent on a large commercial city,
but Paul himself had good reason
for not feeling at his best. He had
just come from Atkens, where (to
be blimt about it) he bad been a
fiop. Indeed he had been chased out
of more cities than he had been
invited back to. He had not stayed
anywhere long, he had to battle for
the chance to be heard. Would he
do £uiy better at Corinth? No
Corinthians would bet on it.
As a matter of fact, in spite of
the riot that did occur, just as you
might have expected, in spite of
being ignored, slandered, opiiosed,
threatened, ridiculed, he stuck to
it . . . and won. When he left that
city he left behind him a Christian
church which for all its faults had
enough Christians to keep the
church on its way all their lifetime.
In Spite of Everything
What kept Paul sticking to it?
It W£i3 partly his own stubborn
temperament, partly having friends
who believed in him. But the main
reason was that be was convinced
he was doing God’s work. People
who get discouraged about the
church ought to read about Paul
again. In spite of ill health, active
and bitter opposition, riots and
threats of riots, in spite of the
great difficulty he found in getting
members from the “better class,”
in spite of the coarse materialism
of a city like Corinth, the poverty
of the church and its many prob
lems, Paul did what he believed
the Lord wanted him to do—stay
with it till the job was done.
God surely wants his church to
succeed, today as at any time in
the past. But it is likely to suc
ceed, in city or in country, wher
ever it is, only if the people who
are responsible for it share, as Paul
did, had something of the persist
ence of God.
(Based on outlines copyritrlited by
the Division of Christian Bdncation,
National Connell of the Churches' of
Christ in the 17. S. A. Beleased by
Community Press Service.)
Dr. J. F. Davis, 75,
Former Moore Co.
Resident, Dies
Dr. Joseph Franklin Davis, 75,
died at a Greensboro hospital
Monday. He had been seriously ill
one month.
A native of Moor.a County, he
had lived at Greensboro since
1941.
He had practiced in Robbins
and Highfalls before moving to
Greensboro and was a former
member of the Moore County
Board of Education.
Dr. Davis is survived by his
wife; one brother, Charles D. Da
vis of Carthag.3; and six sisters,
Mrs. D. M. Phillips and Mrs. F. H.
Underwood, both of Carthage,
Mrs. O. T. Parks Sr. of Parkwood,
Mrs. C. R. Butler of Lynchburg,
Va., Mrs. M. F. Sutts of Seagrove
and Mrs. Zeb V. Fowler of Boga-;
lusa. La.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 3 p. m. 'Wednesday at the
Cool Springs Methodist Church.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at Soath Asha 8t«
Maynard Mangram* Ministar
Bible School. 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m.
Training Union, 6:30 p.m. Evening Wor
ship. 7 :30 p.m.
Youth Fellowship, 8:30 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30 p.m.;
mid-week worship, Wednesday 7 ;S0 p.m.;
choir practice Wednesday 8:16 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and third Tues
days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers,
second Thursday, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Avenue
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Building open
Wednesday, 2-4 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Malcolm Anderton. Pastor
Sunday School 9:46 a.m. Worship Serv
ice 11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tues. Mid-week service on
Wednesday, 7:30 p-m* Choir Rehearsal,
Wednesday. 8:16 p.m. Men of the Church
meeting, 8 p.m. fourth Wednesday.
METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
Robert C. Mooney, Jr., Minister
Church School 9:45 A. M.
Worship Service 11:00 A. M.
Youth Fellowship 6:30 P. M.
Junior Fellowship 6:30 P. M.
WSCS meets each third Monday at 8
P. M.
Methodist Men meet each third Thurs
day at 6:30 P. M.
Choir Rehearsal each Wednesday at
7:30 P. M.
ST. ANTHONY’S CATHOLIC
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Sunday Masses: 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Dafly
Mass 8:10 a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 ft 9
a.m.; Confessions, Saturday, 5:00 to 6:30
p.m.; 7 :30 to 8 p.m.
.Men’s Club Meetings: Ist ft 3rd Fridays
8’p m.
Women’s Club meetings: 1st Monday,
8 p.m.
Boy Scout Troop No. 878, Tuesday eve
ning 7:30 p.m.
Girl Scout Troop No. 118, Monday, 8
p.m.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOWSHIP
(Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Carl E. Wallace, Minister
Sunday School, 9:46 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6 :S0 p.m.. Pilgrim Fellowship
(Young People).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Bfinister
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship serv
ice, 11 a.m. Women of the Church meet
ing, 8 p.m. Monday following third Sun>iay.
llie Youth Fellowships meet at 7 o’clock
each Sunday evening. »
Mid-week service, Wednesday, 7:16 p.in.
EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal)
East Massachnsetts Ave.
Martin CaldwelU 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 p.m.
Holy Communion, Wednesdays and Holy
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