October 1940
Pago TwgIvo
BOOKS ON PARADE
So Red The Rose—Young
Sarah Morgan Parmer
Out of the many, many books
written about the Civil War, this
is one of the moat intorectlngc.lt
tells of the fine, rich life be
fore the war. The stor;/ is built
around happenings at Portobello ^md
Montrose, homes of the Bedfords aid
McGehhea, who are cousins, Both
families sent a son off th war, bub
only Buncan Bedford returned. Dur
ing the time that Shermoa was camp
ed at Natchez, he visited the Mc
Ghees, since he had once taught
their son, Edward, A few ’ tleelr.s
later his negro soldiers burned the
house,
”So Red The Rose" can easily
compete with the best of novel s
of the Civil War, Exciting and
entertaining it does not .once
grow dull. Unlike moat Civil 'ifer
stories, the English is clean and
simple throxoghout the book,
The Virginian Wester
Hildred Ruffin
A very unusual and yet a
very lively and likable charactor
is he, the Virginian, He is not
highly educated but experience
teaches him much, and he is al-
v;ays ready to learn more. Maybe
this is why he studies reading
and writing at the age of twenty-
eight. To be able to hang a por-
sai that you love as a friend,
even though ho has turned to
cattle thieving, takes more
than will powor. This the Vir
ginian does, but never forgets.
His idea of fun is probably a
little different from ours,Would
yoa think of mixing the babies of
the community sx> that thoir. moth
ers would go hom.e only to find
that they had someono else's ciiiLd?
Preferring, at times, his ovm
com-oanianship to that of another,
ho rides his horse, Monte, up in
to the mountain where he often
BOOKS AS PRIEI'nos
Esther Finch
Have _ you ever thought of
books as friends or in what ways
they may be our friends?
Books are just as informative
as the radio. Through books we
learn new facts and reawaken in cur
memory old facts. Had books not
boon kept wo vrould not Imow v/hat
happonod hundreds or oven thousand
of years agOc
Books arc educational. Not
only arc textbooks educational bit
books of fiction as well. Some
books picture life in the back
woods, others in the cities, and
still others in the remote cornors
of tho world, Agtdn, books are
educational in that they lay ex
cellent examples to follow. For
inst^mce, tako the "Life of Abra
ham Lincoln," This book shows
that in every case, honesty IS
the best policy.
Books are another way because
of the pleasant pastimes they cre
ate, 'ATn.at is bettor on a cold ,
rainy afternoon than taking an
interesting book, an apple to mund^
and curling tip in a chair before a
huge, crackling fire, all set for
pleasant trip.^ through books.
In that books are friends, wo
shouldn't treat our best frlond
this Y/ay, neither should we so treat
our book friends.
Lot us tako a new attitude
toward books, not that they aro
just something to lug around, but
f riends-r-inf orma tive, educational
and pleasant.
spends the night alone, making his
camp, fishing, and dreaming dreams,
having no idea that they are to
come truo. Maybe you will consider
the Virginian only a forman on
Judge Henry's rach, but to mo ho
is a.man nov^r to bo forgotten,And
oh how wonderful it would be to
have qualities like his I