FRIDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1953
By LOOCIE PARKER
THE PILOT—Soutliern Pine*. Norlh Carolina
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Some Looks At Books
AN AUTUMN IN ITALY by
Seaa O’Faolain (Devin-Adair
$3.50). This is the book
bock of a traveller who is also a
thinker, who uses the stimulation
of travel to deepen his under
standing of history, other people,
himself. The keynote is sounded
when he describes a foreigner
watching a ball game and saying
to himself, “I might have been one
of you," and wondering, ‘ “How
different could I be?”
In Naples he passes over light
ly the magnificent views of the
bay, the fine hotels and restau
rants and takes us with him into
the swariring, colorful, narrow
streets behind “the golden fac
ade." He gives an unforgettable
account of mingling with the
crowd that gathers to witness__a
miracle, an annual occasion, when
the dried blood of a fourth cen
tury martyr is liquified. He is
swept along on the emotions of
these souls “intent on self-explo
sion, on blowing themselves out
cf their mortal frame and dancing
in wild-fire among the clouds.”
Then he goes south of Naples
into a strange, bitter land, prob
ably less known to the tourist
than any part of Europe, a land
that is Mediterranean more than
European. Once it was Magna
Graecia, the richest colonies of
Greece, and even today there are
said to be villages where a Greek
dialect is spoken. Later came the
Carthaginians, the Romans, Nor
mans, Arabs, Spaniards. ‘Tn the
pavements are patterns from the
Levant, contrasting with the fig
ures of Arthur and Roland. The
■Orient and Occident meet here.
O’Faolain has much to say
about the architecture of castles
and ^ churches, but is even more
profoundly interested in people.
He notes the poverty of the pea
sant under a land system “polite
ly called feudal,” sees thousands
living in caves in Matera and re
calls that remarkable book by
Carlo Levi, “Christ Stopped at
Eboli.” He is hourly teased and
enchanted by the mysteries of
this strange people and takes to
reading histories cf South Italy.
Sometimes he turns from the
crowds to the silences of this an
cient land and in the end, these
made the strongest impression—
the silence in a ruined Greek
temple, or a little Renaissance
chapel or on some bare Calabrian
hill. Finally he achieves what he
sought, some feeling of identifi
cation with this odd corner of
Europe, some illumination of his
own country. “The strange has be
come more familiar, a life that I
have always known has deepened
and become more strange.” So he
keeps alive the faculty of wonder
and is a good traveller whether
at home or abroad.
PERIOD PIECE by Gwen Rav-
erat (Norton $3.75). There are
many chuckles here for those who
like a gentle social comedy. The
time is the end of the Victorian
era and the place, the ancient uni
versity town of Cambridge, Eng
land. The author of these child
hood reminiscences is a grand
daughter cf Charles Darwin. Her
mother was an American, and
the opening chapter quotes large
ly from the letters this young
lady wrote to her family in Phil
adelphia on the occasion of that
visit to Cambridge when she was
courted by several young men
whose legs and beards are fully
described. It ended, of course, by
her marrying Charles Darwin
whose legs were quite straight.
The author was the eldest
child of this marriage, a trying
position because, as she says, “the
full force of my mother’s theories
about education were brought to
bear upon me, and it fell to me
to blaze a path to freedom for my
juniors, through the forest of her
good intentions.” For example,
the children’s moral fibre was to
be strengthened by . having no
fires in the bedrooms and season
ing the breakfast porridge with
salt instead of sugar. However,
Mrs. Raverat is not harsh in judg
ing her parents, for she has ob
served in the course of a lifetime,
that whatever method one may
follow, “the parent is always
wrong.”
Despite this grim conclusion,
the author’s memories of child
hood are warm and gay. The
uncles, the aunts, the distinguish
ed visitors, the struggles with pro
tocol at Cambridge dinner parties
are described with affection as
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well as humor. Chapters on
Clothes, Sport, Religion, Propri
ety, Ghosts and Horrors will give
you an idea of the range. As the
author suggests, it does not much
matter which chapter you read
first. You can have a good time
anywhere. In th6 right company,
it would be an excellent book to
read aloud. Then you wiU w^mt to
pass the book around for its
wittty black and white drawings.
Don’t miss page 120, the scene in
the Ruskin and Morris drawing
room where Uncle Richard is be
ing sent to bed.
JOURNEY CAKE, HOI by Ruth
Sawyer, Illustrated by Robert Mc-
Closkey (Viking $2.50). This is a
folk tale retold by a past master
of that art. The build-up is per
fect for a young child who can
sit by you as you turn the pages
and read about life qn T ipTop
Mountain—the old man, the old
woman, the bound-out boy and
the chickens, the cow, the pig, the
sheep and the crow.
Then, when we are all very
well acquainted, the action be
gins. Disaster strikes, the prob
lem of eating gets serious, a little
boy starts down the road alone
with his bundle on his back. But
happy things can happen as un
reasonably as bad ones, and the
Journey Cake saves the day. The
strong pictures in two colors, the
lively action and the gay rhymes
give you a flavorsome, charming
book for four to eigh^.
School Property
Of Moore Insured
For $3,439,500
Forty-seven buildings of the
Moore County school system are
insured for a total of $3,057j 450.
Contents of the buildings are in
sured for an additional $382,050,
to make the total insured value
of the county’s school property
$3,439,500.
The figures are taken from a
tabulation in the 1953-1954 edition
of the Moore County Public
Schools Handbook, an annual
mimeographed publication that
contains more information about
the county schools this year than
in any previous edition of the
handbook. The listing does not
include school property at South
ern Pines or Pinehurst.
Insured values of buildings
range from a low of $450 on the
pump house at the Huey Davis
elementary schbol near Robbins
to a top cf $279,000 on the Vass-
Lakeview school’s main building.
Where gymnasiums, auditori
ums, agriculture buildings and
other structures are separate from
school buildings, they are insured
separately.
Second highest buildings valu
ation is at Aberdeen where the
elementary school is insured for
$215,100. Contents of this building
and the contents of the Vass-
Lakeview building are valued at
$30,000 each.
The list of insured buildings
shows that the county maintains
three homes for principals or
teachers—for the principal at
Aberdeen and at Farm Life and
for teachers at Farm Life. 'The
county owns the home of the jan
itor at Vass-Lakeview School.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE; Proverbs 23:29-35; 31:
4-5; Isaiah 5:11-14; Matthew 18:6; Luke
19: 1-10; Romans 13:11-14; James 4:17.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Isaiah 26:
1-6.
No Liquor Defense
Lesson for October 25, 1953
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NEED VITAMIN 'A’
Corn kept under good storage
conditions is an excellent source
of protein and energy in animal
feed, but it should be supplement
ed with some other source of
Vitamin A, according to E. H.
Garrison, Moore County farm
agent.
Recent tests show that stored
com is not a dependable source
of important Vitamin A, so essen
tial in maintaining the health of
livestock. Green forage is one of
the best sources of Vitamin A, ac
cording to Mr. Garrison, but when
it is net available, alfalfa leaf
meal, or any leafy hay, especially
alfalfa hay, can be substituted.
Grass or corn silage is also a
good source of Vitamin A.
Drs. Neal and McLean
VETERINARIANS
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^N THE SOUTH side of a large
sign in front of a Methodist
church on a main highway are the
words: LIQUOR HAS NO DE
FENSE. The church did not invent
that expression; it is a quotation
from Abraham Lincoln. On the op
posite side of the sign, drivers
coming the other way see this:
rink
I rive
eath
Even the companies that make
money out of drunkenness (the
more liquor, the - more profits)
know that the north side of the
sign is true, and will say so in
large paid advertisements. Liquor
certainly has no defense as a drink
for drivers. But some of the other
defenses put up for alcholic liquor
as a beverage that “belongs,” that
is part of the. social scene, do not
soimd so good when they are
taken down and looked at with a
cold and sober eye.
• * •
Alcohol Is A Drug
The one thing that defenders of
alcoholic beverages invariably keep
quiet about, is the
simple fact that
alcohol is a drug,
a harmful drug, a
habit - forming
drug. No amount
of advertising can
talk that fact out
of existence.
That it is a fact,
can be witnessed ,
to by anybody—he
does not have to Foreman
be a preacher!—^who has had to
deal with the wretched people at
the bottom of the slide that was
lubricated with liquor. Alcoholics
are sick people; that is a recog
nized fact; but alcoholism differs
from all the other diseases in the
book in this one vital thing: No
one can say to himself, I refuse to
have tuberculosis, I will never
have cancer. He may come down
with those diseases in spite of his
best intentions. But any one may
say to himself: I will never be an
alcoholic. And he can make that
resolution stick, simply by staying
away from alcohol. On the other
hand, no man or woman who
mixes alcohol in his system can
ever be quite sure he will not be
an alcoholic. No alcoholic ever
meant to be one.
* « #
Drugs Have No Brakes
Now the trade in alcoholic liquor
is legal; trade in other c^rugs such
as heroin, cocaine and similar
drugs, is strictly illegal except for
medicinal purposes through regu
lar pharmacists, and on doctors’
prescriptions. StUl there are a
great many people who in spite of
the difficulties do manage to buy
and use these forbidden drugs, and
of course there are always the con
scienceless people who sell the
stuff to the addicts.
But let us suppose we listened
to the defenses of ordinary liquor,
if applied to other drug habits.
How ridiculous they would sound!
We are told that the habit of
drinking liquor is a long-estab
lished American way of life. Well,
the taking of cocaine is long-es
tablished too. People will buy
liquor—^legally or illegally; they
will buy heroin too in spite of all
the laws. People will steal cars,
and forge checks—it’s been done
a long time. But that doesn’t make
it right.
Or again, consider the pleasure
people get out of liquor. Why, of
course. They get an even keener
pleasure out of shots of other drugs
than alcohol. Every time you put
a drug addict into a sanitarium you
deprive him of his greatest pleas
ure in life. But that does not make
his habit any better. But, it will be
said, self-control is the answer; a
drug used in moderation is not so
harmful as when used to excess.
True; but the trouble is, no drug
has brakes, and drugs of the kind
that alcohol and heroin are, actual
ly weaken self-control instead of
making it stronger.
« « •
Stuff And Nonsense
The reader can amuse (or hor
rify) himself by thinking of other
antique arguments used to bolster
the cause of those who use, or who
profit by other men’s use of, alco
holic liquors. How do they sound
when used in defense of other drug
habits? “The illegal drug business
gives employment to thousands.”
“To interfere with this traffic is
to interfere with free enterprise,
tho right of every man to make
his living as he sees fit.” “To in
terfere with this traffic is to inter
fere with men’s personal liberty.
Even if a man ruins himself with
cocaine, it’s his own business.”
(Based en outlines eopyrlfhted bf the
Division of Christian Education. Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Cemmunitjr
Press Service.)
Schedule of the Moore County
bookmobile lor the week October
26-30 has been announced as fol
lows:
Monday — Through Niagara
with stops at Martin, Kelly, Dar
nell and Briggs homes, 2 to 2:45;
Union church to Vass, 2:45 to 4;
Vass, 4 to 4:30; W. F. Smith home,
4:40.
Tuesday — Mt. Carmel church
route including Harris crossroads
community.
Wednesday — Eagle Springs,
1:45 to 2; Jackson Springs: W. E.
Graham home, 2:15; Postoffice,
2:30 to 3; West End, 3:30 to 4:30.
Thursday — Carthage Library,
11:30 to 5.. *
Friday—Robbins Library, 11:30
to 4.
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A10OK INTO THE FUTURE
Meet John and Mary Smith—and their child.
See the pride and hope, the faith and love
that shine like soft lights from the little girl’s
face? See the look of the future in her eyes?
Nothing in all the world could "tause that
reflection of happiness and contentment but a
well-behaved child. Perhaps she has just
spoken a piece. Perhaps she was singing a
song. Perhaps she is playing with her small
brother and sister.
But whatever she is doing, you will agree it
is the result of wise and loving guidance. And
you can be certain there is another member of
the family not shown in the picture—God, the
guide and Father of all of them.
Where parents and the Church work together
for God, you will find true happiness.
the chuhch for au . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
fac-
lor on earth for the buildino of
citizenship, it
WHhoMt values.
Without a strong Church, neither
reolo?' *oimcl
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Minister
Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Wor
ship service, 11 a. m. Women of
the Church meeting, 8 p. m. 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., So. Pines
Sunday Service. 11 a. m.
Sunday School, 11 a. m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p. m.
Reading Room in Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 p. m,
THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP
(Congregational)
Cor. Bennett & New Hampshire.
Sunday School. 9:30 a.m. in Ed
ucational building. Sunday morn
ing service, 11 a.m. in sanctuary.
Twilight Hour, 5 p.m., each Sun.
Pilgrim Fellowship, 6:30 p.m. each
Sunday. The Forum, 8 p.m. each
Sunday. Ail in new Educational
building.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York avenue at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Worship
11 a. m. Training Union 7:00 p.m.
Evening worship, 8:00 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
p. m.; midweek worship, Wednes
day 7:30 p. m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8:15 p. m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p. m. Ghurch
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p. m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Worship Service, 2nd and .3rd
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 a. m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m. second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at 8
p.m.
Book Chapter Verses
Sunday I Kings 3 , ,,
Monday Psalms* nj Jg*
Tuesday Psalms |
Wedn’sd’y Matthew ij
Thursday Luke -i?
Saturday Hebrews 13
\\VI ,
Copyright 1953, Kei^r A_dv. Service, Strsiburg, V*. [
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Holy Communion, 8 a. m, (ex
cept first Sunday).
Church School and Family
Service, 9:45 a. m., with Adult
Class at 10 a. m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a. m. (Holy
Communion, first Sunday).
ST. ANTHONYS
(Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.
m.; Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.
m.; weekday mass at 8 a. m. Con
fessions heard on Saturday be
tween 5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p. m.
OUR LADY OF VICTORY
West Pennsylvania at Hardin
Fr. Donald Fearon. C. SS. R»
Sunday Mass, 10 a. m.; Holy
Day Mass, 9 a. m. Confessions are
heard before Mass.
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