^ FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1953 THE PILOT—Southern Plnea. North Carolina I ^ By LOCKIE PARKER Some Looks At Books FABULOUS CHICAGO by Em mett Dedmon (Random: $5). This book is written with an exuber ance worthy of the subject. Some of Mr. Dedmon’s stories could hardly be bettered in a book of tall tales, from the first wedding in Chicago with printed invita tions when Thomas Watkins mar ried the daughter of an Indian chief and the Episcopal^ service was punctuated with whoops from the dancing redskins out side, to the amazing empire of Samuel Insull who furnished Chi cago with gas and electricity, ran the elevated system and the sub urban railways, was president of eleven companies, chairman of the board Of sixty-five and a di rector of twenty more, whose credit at one time was better than that of the city of Chicago and who died obscurely in a Paris sub way. Anything could happen in a city which grew in less than a hundred years fromi a muddy vil lage surrounded by Indians to a modern city of millions, and most things did. One could cull dozens of good anecdotes from the text but there is also social history made vivid. There was the surge of young men westward, young men on the make. Twenty of Chi cago’s first thirty-two mayors were New Englanders. But those who made their mark in business were still more famous—Potter Pcilmer, George Bullman, Thomas P. Armour, Marshall Field. There was the valiant effort of their wives to spend the money they piled up. The magnificence of their jewels and parties impress ed even New York and London. There was building of canals, railways, telegraph lines. There were great political battles, not the least of which was that be tween Stephen Douglas and Abra ham' Lincoln. All this is told in a direct and lively style and illustrated with a hundred photographs cuUed from the files of museums and newspapers. They carry the same note of ebullient energy as the text, from the block of buildings on State Street being raised out of the mud by 6,000 jackscrews in jl857 to the view of the exposition jof 1933 built on 400 acres of arti ficially created land on the lake- shore. I THE HOUSE THAT NINO I BUILT by Gio vanni Guareschi '(Farrar $3). This is a charming I story about the author and his I family—the wife, Margherita, the 'son Alberto, age eleven, and the I eight-year-old daughter, the Duchess. The author lets us find out for ourselves why she is spok en of as the Duchess all through the bock. She and her cat remind one of Bemelman’s daughter, Barbara, and her poodle, “Little Bit,” as> they hold the center of the stage whenever they appear. The entire Guareschi family is gifted, and their adventures are always amusing. Guareschi does not give us any serious overtones as he did in the Don Camillo bocks. This is pure enjoyment and can be recommended as a gift for anyone who appreciates the sim ple pleasures of family life with out major problems. The transla tion is excellent and the illustra tions clever. —Jane H. Towne THE TRAIN IN THE MEAD OW by Robert Nathan (Knopf $2.75). Here again we find Robert Nathan’s gift for fantasy. It is an allegory but one does not have to keep this in mind in order to enjoy the book. The setting and the trains meeting and passing in isolated meadows are pure fan tasy, but the characters are real people, and we should like to know what becomes of the ref ugee couple, the priest, the sales man, but most of all we should like to be sure that the young couple, almost children, find hap piness, one in the after life, and the other in her new earthly ex perience. Robert Natham’s outlook on life is a truly spiritual one, so that one cannot help feeling up lifted after reading one of his books. —Jane H. Towne THE SLEEPING BEAUTY by Elizabeth Taylor (Viking $3). “The Sleeping Beauty” is not a princess in this book but an un- When it comes to Protection .. it pays to have the BEST Bookmobile Schedule Schedule of the Moore County bookmobile for the week Decem ber 1-4 has tfeen announced as follows: Tuesday — Aberdeen Elemen tary School, 10:15 a. m.; Mur- docksville, 2:30 to 3:45; Pinehurst at Community church, 4 to 4:30. Wednesday—West End School, 10:30 a. m.; M. C. Hartsell home, 2:45 p. m.; W. E. Brown, Jr.’s, 3; H. M. Kirk home (community stop), 3:15 to 3:35; C. S. Galyean’s, 3:45; Frye’s service station on Hy. 15-501, 4; Taylortown, 4:15 to 4:40. Thursday — Carthage Library, 11:30 to 12:30; Carthage star route, 2 to 3:30; Highfalls, 3:30 to 4; Will Inman home, 4:15. ■ Friday — Davis service station I on Carthage-Sanfoi'd Highway, 11:30 p. m.; Wlesley ’Thomas’s serv- lice station, 1:45; Lamm’s Grove I neighborhood, 2 to 2:30; White iHill, 2:30 to 3; across on “plank I road” to Highway One, 3 to 3:15, ]with stop at Mrs. M. D. Mclver’s home; CaroUna Pines tourist camp, 3:30; home stops on High way One south to Southern Pines. IT'S IN THE BOOK! I have beard that it is un lawful to park a oar and fail to pull up the hand brake. Is this true? Yes, Motor Vehicle Manual reg ulations, in describing the correct procedure for parking a motor ve hicle, say you must first stop the engine and then “effectively” set the brakes. Under the same regu lation the law says you must turn the front wheels toward the curb when parking on a grade. Life rafts can be very handy at times—but there’s no chance to get another if the one you have fails to float. Depenc^able insurance is like that, too. It’s one thing you can’t get when you need it most. After an accident or loss has occurred, it’s too late to buy better insurance if the policy you have proves unsatisfactory. So don’t gamble with "cheap” insurance. Buy only the BEST—and buy it today. JOHN S. RUGGLES PAUL T. BARNUM, Inc. Phone 2-5151 Southern Pines, North Carolina Fields Plumbing & Heating Co. PHONE 5952 PINEHURST. N. C. All Types of Plumbing, Healing (G. E. Oil Burners) and Sheet Metal Work THE TELEVISION That Gives You Everything SYLVANIA TV • HaloLight... “kinder to your eyes” • Studio-Clear Sound System • Powerful Performance • Beautiful Cabinets • All-Channel Reception 1954 Models .. . Large Stock On Hand FREE INSTALLATION We Service What We Sell CURTIS RADIO SERVICE Telephone 2466 VASS, N. C happy woman under the domina tion of an older sister. Her rescu er, too, is not a prince but an everyday young man under the same kind of domination by his mother. How they finally escape from these spells makes an inter esting story, but best of all is the literary style of Elizabeth Taylor who can cast her magic over the simplest kind of story and en chant us —Jane H. Towne FREEDOM AND PLENTY, Ours to . Save by Wilfrid S. Bronson (Haroourl $2.95). Like all of Mr. Bronson’s books this is a mine of information expertly presented to hold the attention of children with text and pictures closely related. The theme this time is conservation of our nat ural resources, and it is forcefully and practically developed. Let a youngster around your house read it, and you will probably soon have him checking you on your wasteful ways. The author begins historically with the first settlers coming to virgin land and primeval forests to show how we acquired our wasteful ways. He tells of the harm done and the efforts being made today to reclaim waste land and use waste materials. Then he comes right down to cases in a chapter, “How You Can Help to Save Am.erica.” Children will approve of this because action appeals to them and such projects as saving ma terials for the junk man or es tablishing miniature “wildlife ref uges” by feeding birds in back yard or on city roof are quite within their range. Finally he makes it very clear that what each one does, positively or nega tively counts in the final result of a nation of plenty and freedom or one despoiled and distressed. Taxes levied on United States farm real estate in 1952 were 5.2 per cent higher than in 1951. GREETINGS & GIFTS «re brought to you from Friendly Neighbors ft Civio ft Social Welfare Leaders dirough WELCOME WAGON On th» occasion oft The Birth of a Baby Engagement Announcement! Change of residence Arrivals of Newcomers to SOUTHERN PINES Phone 2-6531 (Ko soil or sbUtsHsof V-.' SPi BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Scripture: Deuteronomy 24:14-15, 19- 21; Amos 5:10-15, 24; Matthew 19:16-22; II Thiissalonians 3:7-10; James 5;l-5; I John 3:17-18. Devotional Reading: Isaiah 58:1-9, Chance For All Lesson for November 29, 1953 AN INTELLIGENT traveler in Spain writes to an American friend in 1953: “We have just re- tm-ned from a six-day trip to Franco’s paradise. Madrid is a modern city of beautiful parks, squares and circles with fountains playing, a modern university campus and splendid buildings. Alongside these modern structures one finds people living in caves dug back into clay banks; some times a wooden door has been fit ted into the mouth of the cave and a pane of glass put in the door for light. The more elegant of these residences have the door white washed. As soon as the fields begin at the city’s edge one sees men reaping wheat and barley with hand reap-hooks such as U*"- Foreman used in the days of Ruth and Boaz . . . We were told thdt there is nothing worth while outside Ma drid. Nothing but 20 million peo ple living in ignorance and eco nomic slavery!” One has to see such a country to appreciate how in America we enjoy what is a heritage and a teaching of true Christianity. * • * Men Are Not Equal, But— 'The crushing of the poor by the rich is one of the sins specially set down In the Bible as hated by God. (See the Scripture for the' week.) The crushing of the weak by the strong is a problem always with us; but in our country we do at least try to keep the doors of opportunity open for every one. Our Declaration of Independence says that all men are created equal; which is not a fact, we feel. It is our belief, however—and let it be (remembered, a belief taught by the Bible—that every child born within our borders shall have a fair chance to develop every gift and capacity he has, to go as far as he can go and to do as much as he can do for his family and community. “Democracy” is a word of many good meanings; and the basic meaning is equality of opportunity. For one thing, we try, at least in part, to see that no child shall be penalized in his education for being bom where he was and not somewhere else. As a matter, of fact, of course, not all schools are equally good. Some states have such poor schools, or such poor school laws, that children from there are handicapped in competi tion with children from states with better schools. But even where this is true, it is widely felt that this ought not to be. Educational leaders are not complacent about this state of things. Further, many states have equalized their school funds so that children born in re mote sections will have just as wen - equipped and well - staffed schools within reach, as children in the larger cities. « ♦ * Fair Chance At Jobs Another angle of equality of op portunity is a fair chance at jobs. Some one is sure to ask: What has religion got to do with this? Well, look at the Bible. Paul said that a man who will not work shall not eat—that was his rule. We aU know the commandment, “Six days shalt thou labor,” and we aU have observed how important it is for the development of personality that a man or woman ^haU have work that suits his capacity and gives him a chance to be a pro ducing member of society. So if men are cut off from the chance to work, or not allowed to com pete for the kind of work for which they are fitted, religion says: 'This is wrong, whenever one of God’s children is barred from a God- given right. « * ♦ Fair Chance At Religion There is another kind of equality of opportunity even more impor tant than what has been men tioned. That is equality of oppor tunity in religion. “Freedom of Worship,” as it is often called, is not just the legal right to wor ship under any church roof one pleases. It is the right to be faced with the choice God offers us in Christ and to share in his fellow ship everywhere. It is not enough that your community has (as it does, no doubt) a variety of churches. The question is: Is every one in your community equally welcome in all these churches? Are there persons in your com munity who never come to church, because they have never been asked?