Patient Persistence—
A Lot Of Work To Get A Book
By EUGENE FALLON
Sooner or later every citizen
of Southport wends his way tc
that stately white building which
houses the town government. Few
city halls overlook so much na
tural beauty as is here found,
Huge live oaks, looking the old
sentinels that they are, ring the
seat of civic government.
They arrive of all ages, these
citizens. Many are tax-payers anc
people intent on complaints, com
pliments, flattery, righteous an
ger. Some come as tourists.
But it is of none of these we
write. Park in the spacious yard,
Shortly after school lets out
you’ll see children arrive. These
come for other reasons than giver
above. They come eager foi
knowledge, eager for travel, ad
venture and suspense. They come
for truth. And they are never
disappointed, because up the wide
stairway is the beautiful world oi
books.
A million characters await
them: Robin Hood, Christian,
Greatheart, Hansel and Gretel
Deerslayer, Little Eva St. Clair
white whales and black beauties
the Count of Monte Cristo, Dor
Quixote astride Rosinante chal
lenging non-existent giants. Percj
Shelley rubs shoulders with Wall
Whitman, and Hemingway pats
Robert Ruark on the back, say
ing “well done.”
The librarian is always smiling
Her name is Mrs. Philip King
and she’s the best librarian ir
the Coastal Plains, maybe ir
North Carolina.
Without her, Deerslayer would
lose his trail, Don Quixote woulc
wind up swimming across thf
Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn
Robin Hood would be shooting, his
arrows in Central Park, Rip Van
Winkle would be wide awake on
the flat canyons of Chicago’s
Loop. She is indispensable, and
very, very obliging. Let me tell
I how much so.
I entered the Southport Public
Library on January 1 in search
of a book called ‘‘The Magic
Maker”. It is a fairly new book,
written by Charles Norman. It is
a biography of one of America’s
leading contemporary poets, a
man now in his middle sixties,
named E. E. Cummings. The book
had received a good press upon
publication. I said I’d like to
read it.
Mrs. King said immediately
that her library did not have a
copy. “But I’ll order it for you
right away,” she promised.
You don’t get that sort of
treatment in the Fifth Avenue
Library at New York. You don’t
get that treatment in larger li
braries scattered elsewhere in
Tarheelia, not unless you happen
to be a member of the library
board. Some librarians regard
every prospective borrower with
ill-concealed suspicion. They wave
you vaguely toward the great
shelves, the mountain of books,
. the clutter of centuries. You are
on your own, and often you wind
up at a table with a magazine.
Not so in Southport. On the
second floor of City Hall each
book-lover’s quest is a mutual
transaction. Mrs. King directs,
finds the requested book, or
makes suggestions.
But to return to my story: This
week I walked into the South
port Public Library and found
Mrs. King highly pleased. She
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IT’S HARD to imagine how
the President of the United
States could perform his
many duties without the aid
of telephones in his office.
Yet, a telephone on the desk
of the Chief Executive is relatively new. President Ruther
ford B. Hayes directed the installation of the first White
House telephone in December, 1878. Some time later, the
President’s telephone was placed in a booth near, but not
inside, his office. This arrangement lasted for more than
50 years. President Hoover, in 1929, became the first
Chief Executive to have a telephone on his desk.
WON’T BE LONG before we’ll be “folding our tents” and
moving outside again . . . ready for another pleasant sum
mer on the patio! And here’s a suggestion that’ll make
your outdoor living even more pleasant this year — an
extension telephone on your patio . . . either the portable
or the permanent type. The cost is small, the convenience
great. Why not call our business office, or ask any tele
phone serviceman, about an extension phone for your
patio . . . right away!
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NEXT WEEK, April 8-14, is National Library Week.
This marks the fifth observance of National Library Week,
sponsored by the National Book Committee in coopera
tion with the American Library Association, and dedicated
to the expansion and increased use of library facilities.
AN INTERESTING sidelight to this year’s National
Library Week is that it coincides with National Foreign
Language Week. With this in mind, a special flyer con
taining the Library Week slogan, “Read — and Watch
Your World Grow,” is being printed in 12 languages!
APRIL SHOWERS make you blue? Cheer yourself and
someone else ... go visiting by telephone!
lad my book.
And, dear readers, it took some
jetting! Mrs. King showed me
some cards. The first was from
the N. C. State Library at Ra
eigh. It acknowledged the re
juest, and noted that their copy
‘was missing”. The second card
lad been mailed from Wilming
ton and the library of the same
lame. It was an exact copy of
the first—“copy here, but gone”,
rhe third card came from High
Point. Same story. The last • card
tame from the Sheppard Memo
'ial Library at Greenville, and
yith it came the book.
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Mrs. King said that she had
never known an exact duplication
nf circumstances. That never had
Bha had to run a book down like
she did Norman’s.
Two things shine clearly
through these facts: Mrs. King is
i most competent and obliging
ibrarian; and secondly, E. E.
Cummings made a music which
leld all who heard it, in thrall.
Once having gotten their hands
>n “The Magic-Maker” readers ,
•efused to part with such treas- !
ire. In other words, they kept |
heir copies, guarding them as
zealously (and illegally) as a |
niser. I feel that through the ef- i
'orts of our local librarian, I have I
possession of a book well worth
he reading. Time alone will tell
if I shall break the chain, and re
turn the book.
The Facts About Easter Seals
The National Society for Crip
pled Children and Adults and its
more than 1,500 affiliates, known
as the Easter Seal societies, fight
crippling on national, state and
community levels through a co
ordinated program of direct treat
ment, research and education.
Since its founding in 1921, the
organization has spread into all
50 states, the District of Colum
bia and Puerto Rico. Today over
1,000 centers and programs give
special treatment needed by the
crippled. Substantial facilities and
services, each adapted to com
munity needs, include rehabilita
tion and treatment center^, resi
dential” centers, sheltered work
shops, resident and day camps,
itinerant, mobile and home ther
apy services; equipment pools;
and home employment programs.
Easter Seals each year provide
rehabilitation care to a quarter
of a million crippled children and
adults regardless of cause of
crippling, race, religion, national
background or economic status.
The $18 million cost of this
broad program is financed large
ly by the voluntary contributions
of 4,000,000 Americans, given dur
ing the annual Easter Seal cam
paign. Legacies and special gifts
also contribute substantially.
Enhancement of knowledge and
skill is the aim of the nation-wide
Easter Seal professional educa
tion program. Through National
Society scholarships and fellow
ships alone, more than 400 per
sons including doctors, physical,
occupational and speech thera
pists, counselors, and others have
received advanced training. Still
more persons have received such
awards from state and local
societies.
“Fashion Maid” Search Underway
The “Fashion Maid of America ’
search, to select and honor Amer
ica’s most fashionable beauty, as
the symbol of world fashion prom
inence, has staited to accept en
tries throughout the nation on
February 15.
The unique contest, open to all
school and college girls, career
girls, single and married women,
is not a bathing beauty contest.
The emphasis is on appearance
in fashions—dress, formal, street
or sports attire—poise and per
sonality in wearing of fashion,
rather than appearance in a swim
suit.
All a contestant need to do to
enter the “Fashion Maid of Amer
ica" Contest is fill out an official
entry form, attach a photo or
snapshot in any dress, street at
tire or formal, and send to con
test headquarters. Entry blanks
for this area may be found at
Leder's Department Store.
The goals of the "Fashion Maid
of America” Contest, which is
sponsored nationally by over 1,000
Department and Fashion Shops
and Daisy’s Originals of Miami,
is to enhance the prestige and im
portance of American girls in the
fashion world—and to elevate
Uncle Sam’s nieces on the World’s
fashion pedestal—for all the world
to see and admire.
America’s most fashionable
b»»uty will achieve national and
international fame and be elevat
ed to her fashion throne when
the selection of the 1962 “Fash
ion Maid of America” will be
made when all aspirants have
been evaluated after April 15,
1962—close of the quest.
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