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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1965
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
PILOT ADVERTISING PAYS
IN A FEW HANDS: Monopoly
Powor in America by Estes Ke-
liauTer (Pantheon $4.95). This
book is written for the citizen
and consumer. It tells you much
about prices^—^why things cost
what they do and who sets the
price. From 1957 to 1962, Sena
tor Kef auver as chairman of the
Senate Subcommittee on Anti
trust and Monopoly investigated
several industries with such
thoroughness that the record of
the hearings fills twenty-nine
volumes. A colleague described
his method of conducting the in
vestigation as combiningg “the
gracious manner of a Victorian
gentleman with the relentlessness
of an Apache.”
This book tells in shorter space
how he found definite evidence of
price control within industries but
by methods that did not infringe
our present laws. He also found
this control extending into other
areas of our economic life, affect
ing the number of jobs available,
the existence of small businesses
and the taxes we pay. And the
remedy? “In the long run the re
sponse of our industrial system to
the public welfare must depend
upon an informed electorate.” So
he set himself to write this book,
which was nearly finished at the
time of his death and has been
completed by an editor who
worked with him.
Best publicized of the investi
gations of the Senate Subcom
mittee was that on drugs where it
was disclosed that one of the
widely used antibiotics, sold to
druggists under five different
brand names by the five firms
producing it at a uniform cost of
30 cents a capsule, cost less than
2 cents to produce. The United
States Military Medical Supply
Agency which was allowed to get
bids also from foreign sources,
bought the same thing at 2 cents
to 8 cents a capsule.
The analysis of this situation
from the thinking of the drug
company executives (quoted
from their testimony), the part
played by advertising brand
names, by the American Medi
cal Association and the local doc
tor, down to the individual who
pays for the drug, is most reveal
ing. One immediate lesson is not
to be dazzled by the claims of
brand names. Every drug on the
market is subject to the same in
spection under the Food and
Drugs Act. True, the print is
small. Under a new regulation,
manufacturers are now required
in their advertisements to use the
generic name of the drug in let
ters at least half the size of the
brand name.
Other chapters in this illumi
nating book deal with the auto
mobile industry where four com
panies now produce 99 per cent
of the cars as compared to
eighty-eight actively competing
firms in 1921; with the steel in
dustry and the effect of its pol
icies on our whole economy and
especially the number of jobs
available; and with the whole
sale bread industry and its effect
on small businesses.
The book ends with a challenge
to all of us. Senator Kefauver
says, “It is difficult to believe
that this country will, for long,
tolerate an industrial organiza
tion in which control over basic
economic policy is lodged in the
hands of officials of a few private
corporations. Our traditions of a
free, democratic society are too
deep-rooted.”
THE TRAIN FROM KATAN
GA by Wilbur Smith (Viking
$4.95). This is a hair-raising story
of adventure in modern Africa by
a young man from Northern
Rhodesia. That country, as you
may recall, is neighbor to what
was once the Belgian Congo, so
we may suppose that the author
is directly familiar with the sit
uations he describes in this tale
of four white men, mercenaries
hired by the Katanga Army
when it was resisting the central
BcM>kmobile
Schedule
February 15-18
Monday, West End, Jackson
Springs Route: Miss Grace Don
aldson, 9:45-10; HaroldMarkham,
10:20-10:25, W. E. Graham,
10:05-10:15; Terrell Graham,
10:35-10:45 Mrs. Betty Stubbs,
10:50-11:05; Miss Ethel Mc
Kenzie, 11:10-1^1:20; Paul Cole,
11:25-11:35; Walter Mclnnis,
12:20-12:40; Carl Tucker, 12:45-1;
Mrs. Margaret Smith, 1:05-1:15;
Miss Adele McDonald, 1:20-1:25;
Phillip Boroughs, 1:30-2; J. W.
Blake, 2:05-2:30; A. J. Hanner,
2:35-2:45; the Rev. J. D. Aycock,
2:50-3.
Tuesday, Robbins Route: J. R.
Maness, 9:35-9:40; J. P. Maness,
9:45-9:55; F. E. Wallace, 10-10:15;
David Williams, 10:25-10:40; Ray
mond Williams, 10:50l-ll:l(l;
James Callicutt, 11:15-11:30; Paul
Williams, 11:35-11:45; D. R. Nall
Jr., 11:50-12:05; Junior Burns,
12:45-12:55; Marvin Williams, 1-
1:10; James Allen, 1:15-1:25; Talc
Mine, 1:30-1:40; Miss Mamie Mc
Neill, 1:50-2.
Wednesday, Vass, Little River
Route: Vass Town Hall, 9i30-
9:40; Mrs. O. C. Blackbrenn,
9:45-9:55; Watson Blue, 10:05-
10:40; James McKay, 10:45-10:55;
J. R. Blue, 11-11:10 John Baker,
11:15-11:20; Geqrge Cameron,
11:25-11:35; Malcolm Blue, 11:40-
12:10 Mrs. Eva Womack, 1:05-
1:15; James Riggsbee, 1:20-1:30;
Mrs. Will Hart, 1:35-1:50; W. F.
Smith, 2:15-2:25; Mrs. Nellie Gar
ner, 2:30-2:35.
Ttiursday, Eagle Springs
Route: Robert Duguay, 9:30-9:40;
Mrs. Mamie Boone, 9:50-10; Ray
Nall, 10:05-10:10; John Nall,
10:15-10:25; James Moore, 10:35-
10:45; E. H. McDuffie, 11:55-
12:05; E. C. Kellis, 12:10-12:20;
Walter Monroe, 12:25-12:35; the
Rev. H. A. McBath, 12:45-1:10;
Mrs. Edith Falls, 1:20-1:30; Mel
vin Bean, 1:45-1:55.
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The four men were all there
because of disastrous personal
experiences in other places—it
was not good form to ask more in
Katanga. They were sent in
charge of native troops to rescue
the people in a mining town cut
off by Baluba tribesmen. You get
action, violence, rape and blood
shed, also a flavoring of romance.
Each of the four white men finds
his destiny whether in death or a
new start in life.
FACING THE BIG CATS; My
World of Lions and Tigers by
Clyde Beatty with Edward An
thony (Doubleday $5.95). Clyde
Beatty tells many a good story
of his thirty-five years and thir
ty thousand performances with
lions and tigers, but some of the
best performances were not in
the circus ring. He likes his big
cats, respects their intelligence
and has a relation of mutual con
fidence most of the time, but he
never allows himself to forget for
a minute that if anything alarms
them they may swiftly revert to
savagery.
His stories range from how
sweetly Rajah, a six hundred
pound tiger, can purr to hair-rais
ing experiences with big cats
that got loose. One tiger was
roaming a Shrine Temple whose
upper floors were used as a ho
tel and got to the top floor with
out waking anyone; three others,
startled when arrangements for
their exit from th earena got
mixed up, were running loose in
the circus tent while audience
and circus hands fled the scene.
Beatty attributes his success in
handling his charges to being
“one thought ahead all the way.”
The tale of a tiger who gnawed
her way out of a cage but always
stopped gnawing when the night
watchman approached shows that
this could be difficult.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Tradition Ys. Duty
Lesson for February 14, 1965
A CELLARFUL OF NOISE by
Brian Epstein (Doubleday $2.95)
That modem phenomenon, the
popularity of the Beatles, has
been discussed from many an^
gles. This is the straightforward
and modest story of their first
and only manager who discover
ed them playing in a cellar res
taurant in Liverpool where they
were earning so little that he
thought something should be
done about it.
Brian Epstein was young him
self and had never managed any
one or anything except the rec
ord department in his family’s
furniture store. It was when
someone asked him for a Beatle
record made in Germany that he
got curious, found that the group
was performing right there in
Liverpool and went to see. He
found them “not very tidy” but
giving a singularly captivating
show.
His first effort was to break
into the British record companies
with their songs, and only stub
born faith and determination saw
him through. However once start
ed—the first disc was made in
September 1962—it is common
knowledge how the Beatle pop
ularity exploded into something
that often verged on hysteria.
Epstein talks good-humoredly of
the problem raised by this euid
pays tribute to the behavior of
the Beatles under these extraor
dinary circumstances.
Attend The Church of Your Choice
Next Sunday
Baekrround Serlptnrc: Matthew 14
and 15.
Devotional Reading: Matthew 5:14-20.
W HICH IS MORE important,
character or custom? This
is not a rocking-chair question.
It meets serious minded Chris
tians more often than you might
expect. Some of the time there’s
no problem. Eating with a fork
and telling the
truth can be both
done at the same
time. One is cus
tom, one is char
acter. Custom is
what everybody
does without
thinking much
about it. Charac-
Dr. Foreman ter can’t be seen
with the naked eye as custom can.
Customs are observed by people
in droves and swarms. Doing what
“everybody else” does calls for
no special inner strength; being
different from the crowd, refusing
to conform, sometimes takes a
hard head and a stout heart. The
crowd is often right; but right or
wrong, sometimes only a brave
man can go against it. Character
includes willingness to be differ
ent when “different” means right.
Breaking custom
A custom-breaker is looked
down on more than a lawbreaker.
Indeed it is easier to break a law,
and more popular too, than to
break a custom. Look at any
highway, some busy time of day.
Half the people out there are
driving faster than the law allows.
Nobody writes in to complain
about that. But if some driver
decides to stick with the speed
limit signs, the other drivers, all
law-breakers, will honk at the
man mightily. The highway pub
lic doesn’t like law-observance
when it interferes with their cus
tom of breaking the speed laws.
To take another example, in the
old south there was no need of
a law to keep white people and
Negroes from eating together.
But they always ate separately.
Even if a man ran a restaurant,
ho would serve white and colored
in different rooms though the
stew may have been made in the
same pot. When white people be
gan to eat with Negroes, — even
one white person with one Negro
— the white person and the col
ored one no less would be looked
on with ridicule if nothing worse.
So all through life, from the small
boy who wouldn’t be caught dead
in some kind of clothes that none
of the other fellows wear, down
to the old man who requests a
funeral just like everybody else’s,
“custom doth make cowards of
us all.”
Why be different?
There’s no point in being differ
ent just for the fun of it. There
should be some reason for it. The
Bible helps us here. The Hebrews
were God’s own people, and the
I prophets drummed it into them
— or tried to — that if they were
really the people of God they
would have to act and think and
worship and work and play dif
ferently from their heathen
neighbors. The New Testament
tells how Jesus was rebuked for
eating with “untouchables” and
because his friends did not al
ways observe all the ancient tra
ditions. All down the ages it has
been the same story. The early
Christians seemed like cranks to
the Romans because they would
jjot burn a pinch of incense on a
little altar. Everybody else did it;
fifty million Romans couldn’t be
wrong; what ails these peevish
people?
Our current crisis
One problem that is rocking
America as these lines are being
written, is the race question. It is
a painful problem, and specially
for the Christian. Are you, read
ing these lines, a white person?
Then take time this week to ask
yourself, what is the way God
wants me to treat Negroes? How
would Jesus treat them if he
were here? Or are you, reading
this column, a Negro? Then give;
some thought to the question: Is'
what I think about white people,
the way a Christian should think
about them? Do I dare go out and
put my Christian ideas to work
in my relations with white peo
ple? White man and Negro, if we
are honest with ourselves we have:
to admit that when custom con
flicts with conscience or with
Christian character, it’s hard to
do the very thing we know is
right. But is It Christlike to be
“sons and daughters of the Most
High” only when it is easy?
(Based on ontUnei eopyritlifed hr the
Division of Christian Edueatlon* National
Council of the Churches of Christ in the
U. S.-A» Boleased by Community Presa
Service.)
MBTBODIBT CEUBCB
Midland Road
A. L. thompoon, Minlator
Church School 9:46 a.]a.
Worahip Service 11:00 a.Bk.
Youth Fellowship 6:15 p.ra.
WSCS meets each third Monday at 8266
p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampahiro Avenno
Sunday Service. 11 a.m.
Sunday School. 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service. 8 p.m.
Keadinv Room in Chnreb Baildlnc
Wednesday. 2-4 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY'S CATHOLIC
Vermont Avo. at Aahe Si.
Father John J. Harper
Sunday Masses 8. 9:16 and 10:80 aJB*
Daily Mass. 7 a.m. (except Prtdayc
11:16 a.m.); Holy Day Masses. 7 aJM*
and 6:36 p.nu: Confessions. Satnrday*
4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7:80 to 8:80 pjB.
Men’s Club m^ing: 8rd Mryoday eaaS
month.
Women’s Club meeting, lat Menday«
6 p.m.
Boy Scout Troop No. 878. Wednesday*
7 tSO p.m.
Girl Scout Troop No. 118. Monday* f
p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10 a.m.. Worship aorytoa
11 a.m. and 7:80 p.m. PYF 6 p.m.; WoaMB
of the Church meeting 8 p.m. aeoond
Tuesday. Hid*w«^ serviea Thursday T:S6
p.m.. choir rehearsal 8:80 p.m«
OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH
U.S. 1 South
Jack DeaL Paatov
Worship Service, 11 ajn.
Sunday School, 9:46 aJn.
L.C.Ww meets first Monday 8 pjs,
Cbdr practice Thursday 8 p.m.
( EMMANUEL CHURCH (Bpiacopol)
Bast Massacliasetta Aro«
Martin Caldwell, Raetor
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First Sudsy*
«nd Holy Days, 8 a.m. and 11 ajn.)
Family Service, 9:80 aJB.
Church School, 10: a.m.
Morning Service, 11 a.m.
Young Peoples' Serviea Leagao. 4 pjB*
Holy Communion, Wednesday ud Holy
Days, 10 a.m. and Friday, 8:80 ajs.
Saturday 4 pjn.. Penaneo.
ST.JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH
(Missouri Synod)
983 W. New Hampshire Avt.
•Tohn P. Kellogg. Pastor
Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.
Worship Service. 7:00 p.m.
BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
(Preabyterlu)
Dr. Julian Lake, lOnMat
May St. at Ind. Av*.
Sunday School 9:46 a.m.. Worship
11 a.m. Women of the Church
8 p.m Monday fcllowhig third 8uday«
The Youth Fellowships meet at 7 0*1 *
each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday, 7:80
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at Sauth Asha St.
John Dawson Stone. Minister
Bible School, 9:46 a.m.. Worship .
11 a.m.. Training Union 8:80 pja., Xv**
ning Worship 7:80 p.m.
Youth Fellowship 8:80 pA.
Scout Troop 224, Monday 7:80 pA.
Mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:80 pA.t
choir practice Wednesday 8:18 pA,
Missionary meeting tint and third Thp>
days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppon^
second Thursday, 7 pA.
THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
(ChsTch of Wide FellowMdp)
Cor. Bonnett and Now HampMrtf*
Carl B. Wallaco, Mlalatai
Sunday School, 9:46 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 SA.
Sunday, 6:00 T>.m., Youth FollowsUp
Women's Fellowship maeU 4th Thurad*#
at 12:80 pA.
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