FRIDAY, MAY 28. 1954
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
PAGE THREE
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By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
WHITEY TAKES A TRIP by
Glen Rounds (Holiday House
$2.00). Glen Rounds who is cur
rently spending his time in the
exploration of a swamp down
Pinebluff way, has given his
young readers something to cheer
about. Whitey rides again! And
this is a longer and more substan
tial story than we have had about
this young cowboy for several
years.
As those familiar with them
know, Whitey and Uncle Torwal
keep house together on Rattle
snake Ranch, and Whitey, al
though considerably short of be
ing full grown, takes an active
part in ranch affairs, doing, in
his own opinion “pretty much a
man’s work.”
The present story begins with
a situation that offers a real chal
lenge to the boy. A team of horses
has been sold to a rancher, who
lives two days journey away. The
ranch hand who was to deliver
them breaks a leg. With roundup
time upon them, the other ranch
hands have their hands full, and
Whitey volunteers. Uncle Torwal
is dubious, and the two discuss the
matter. The conversation between
them is one of those typical
Rounds bits that caused a child
psychologist to say that he wished
parents would read these books.
The talk is conducted on a basis
of complete mutual respect, and
the youngster’s views are given
full consideration. In fact, this
time he wins the argument.
Whitey starts off on his two-day
trip through “open range country
so that he’d probably not see a
soul all the way.”
Of course, there is trouble. S(ime
of it occurs through Whitey’s own
carelessness and some from quite
extraneous causes. In either case,
Whitey is not one to turn back
or to sit down and cry. He feels
it is up to him to figure a way
out, for hadn’t he said he was
about as good as a man? He does
his best to play a man’s part and
make no fuss about it.
The language in which Glen
Rounds writes hfs Western stories
is convincingly local and flavor-
some. He makes the country of
the great plains real to us both in
words and drawings. These excel
lent line drawings are so integral
a part of the story itself that one
turns back and looks a second
time before one realizes how much
they have added to atmosphere
and characterization.
THE NEGRO AND THE
SCHOOLS by Hairy Ashmore
(University of N. C. Press $2.75).
This study has appeared at the
precise moment when it is most
needed. The material for it was
gathered by a staff of 45 scholars.
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and the editing was done by
Harry S. Ashmore, editor of the
Arkansas Gazette, formerly an
editor of The Charlotte News.
The publishing of the care
fully assembled facts, and the im
partial conclusions drawn from
them come at the time when the
Supreme Court has just handed
down its decision outlawing seg
regation in the public schools of
this country. Of that decision,
James Reston of the New York
Times wrote, “The court’s deci
sion reads more like an expert
paper on sociology than a Su
preme Sourt opinion.” He was re
ferring to such sentences as the
following: “To separate them (Ne
gro children) from others of simi
lar age and qualifications solely
because of their race, generates
a feeling of inferiority as to their
status in the community that may
affect their hearts and minds in a
way unlikely ever to be undone.”
Now, when the newspapers are
full of the reactions of the Amer
ican people to this decision, we
have this splendid and sober book
that gives us the history of this
movement to help the minority
group to equal opportunities. It
began over a hundred years ago.
The first half of the book traces
the course of this struggle, and
the last part is made up of charts,
giving factual information on the
problem. The book should be re
quired reading for all educators
having to meet this problem, and
we hope it will be widely read by
parents and everyone interested
in education.
The concluding paragraph of
Part I says that accepting the pre
vailing standards of the nation at
large lor its relationship with the
minority race would redefine the
goal of the Southern people as to
democratic relations between
white and Negro.
—JANE H. TOWNE
LONDON AFTER DARK by
Robert Fabian (British Book
Centre $3:50). This is the second
book by this author, a retired su
perintendent of Scotland Yard.
The first was “Fabian of the
Yard.” In that he omitted his ex
periences as head of the Vice
Squad. In this one, he tells of that
strange and sinister night life of
London with its gambling houses,
confidence games, and what we
call in this country “rackets.”
Fabian knew about all of them
and the men at the head of them.
These respected him and some
times helped him find criminals
with whom they happened to
have no sympathy.
The book is in four parts, the
last being made up of stories of
crimes taken from his case book.
He tells them in a simple way
with none of the suspense to
which v/e have been accustomed
in the more, artfully contrived
“who-dun-it’s”, but they make in
teresting reading.
The most important cases are
those of the young drug addicts,
often started on this terrible habit
by hardened criminals who give
them dope of different kinds,
often without the victims knowing
what they are taking. The pub
lishers say on the jacket that
“every parent, teacher and social
agent should study this book, for
they can only ignore its warning
at the peril of all young people
and society.”
Lovers of detective fiction will
enjoy the book for its accoimts
of real Scotland Yard cases and
the new light it throws on the
ramifications of the criminal
world. —JANE H. TOWNE
Drs. Neal and McLean
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BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Scripture: II Kings 4:8-37; 6:8-23.
Devotional Reading: Psalm 125.
Power Unseen
Lesson for May 30, 1934
W HY does a President of the
United States go to church?
He may have many good reasons
which are not the principal one.
He ipay do it because it has been
a tradition since the time of
George Washington. He may go be
cause he likes the minister; or be
cause he feels he should set a good
example; or be-.
cause he knows
that churches help
make good citi
zens and he wants
to encourage
churches just as
he encourages
schools, boy scout
troops and the
Red Ci'oss. But a
much better rea- Dr. Foreman
son why Presidents and the rest
of us go to church or read the
Bible or pray, is that we feel the
need of strength.
* * •
Foxhole Religion
A man who has been more or
less independent all his life, not
feeling any special need of God,
will wake up to his need of some
thing more than he has, when he
finally gets into some trouble,
some situation where he can’t
figure out the answers and where
he knows he is not equal to the
demands the circumstances make
on him. We have seen in our
time a President who has hard
ly taken office before he is bap
tized and joins a Christian church.
Is this a sudden conversion? Prob
ably not. Brought up in a devout
Christian home, this man has al
ways been aware of religion, hfe
never denied God. But now, with
a burden of responsibility and
leadership which he never had
before, he becomes not merely
aware but acutely aware that
by himself, even with all the hu
man help he can get, by himself
he is not enough. It has been
said that there are no atheists in
foxholes; and fox-hole religion
has been low-rated as the re
ligion of the scared-to-death. Nev
ertheless many a man whose re
ligion began in a fox-hole did not
end there.
* * *
A Dark Doorway to God
The Bible stories for this week
describe several of the darker
doorways to God. This is not quite
the right way to put it, for God is
not like a closed room. Rather,
we are in closed rooms of our
own, and the doors of our cells
open out to the ever-present sun
shine of God. Some of the door
ways of life are somber enough,
yet it is through some of 'the
most forbidding of these that men
and women have come through to
a living faith in the true God. For
example, the story of the woman
of Shunem who had everything
she wanted except a child. It was
in her longing for a child of her
own that her faith came to a
burning-point. Then when the child
was born and grew into boyhood
and lay at the gate of death, again
her faith blazed up. She did not
usually seek the prophet Elisha
except on stated days (she is not
alone in this), but this time she
went on the day of her distress.
It was so with the king oL IsraeL
His eyes were adjusted to the
ordinary lights of this world; but
on one memorable occasion God let
him see the army of light sur
rounding his prophet.
« * «
Resources of the Spirit
Why is it that some people can
endure what crushes others? To
say it is faith that upholds the
weak, is only part of the truth.
The hymn says, “How firm a
foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His ex
cellent Word!” The foundation is
not faith; faith rests on the foun
dation, namely God and his prom
ises. Faith alone is a poor sup
port. It is God who is the true up
holder of the weak. How shall
the unseeing have their eyes
opened? How shall those who
never feel the nearness of God
come to know him as ever pres
ent, our hope and our help? It is
today as it was in the far-off days
of Elisha; those who know God
must make him known to others.
If it, had not been for Elisha, com
fort and faith might never have
come to the woman of Shunem. If
it had not been for Elisha’s pray
er, the eyes of the young fright
ened king might never have been
opened and he would have col
lapsed in panic. Faith, if you have
it, is not something to be kept to
yourself. It is something to share.
Faith, if you do not have it, is
something you may be helped to
acquire, all the better, if you
make friends with one who has
faith.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
division of Christian Education, Na-
ional Council of the Churches of Christ
n the U. S. A. Released by Community
ress Service.)
Schedule of the Moore County
bookmobile for the week May 31-
June 4 has been announced as
follows:
Monday—^Lakeview (Bob Gul-
ledge home), 4 to 4:20; Dunrovin
cafe on Highway One, 4:40.
Tuesday—Red Hill church route
out from Cameron in afternoon.
Wednesday—Highway 27 be
tween Robbins and Biscoe with
various home stops and around
talc mine, 1:30 to 4:30.
Thursday — Carthage Library,
11:30 to 12:30; Eureka route, 2 to
4.
Friday — Lee Comer’s, 1:45;
Wesley Thomas home, 2; Lamm’s
Grove neighborhood, 2:15 to 2:40;
White Hill community, 2:45 to
3:30; across “plank road” to High
way One and back to Southern
Pines, 3:40 to 4:45.
Bookmobile
Schedule
ENGRAVED Informals.
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Telephone 2-4341
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Al. Cole, R.Ph. Graham Culbreth, R.Ph.
tf Night Phone 2-7094—Night Phone 2-4181
Attend the Church of Your Choice Next Sunday
THE THRESHOLD!
Tfie Baccalaureate speaker was right. This was
the threshold of life. Beyond today, spanning the
years, were many paths each leading to a different
goal. Someone in Bob Adams’ position need only
to choose his path.
Bob wasn’t frightened. The choice would not be
difficult. In fact, it had already been made.
Not that anyone had told Bob which profession
to follow . . . which opportunity would be most
rewarding. No! Those decisions were not yet
final. . . .
But one decision was final. He had made it some
years before—on the day he had become a member
of the Church.
Bob had decided to build his life on faith . .
on the principles the Church had instilled in his
conscience ... on the truth and the power and
the love of JESUS CHRIST. Bob Adams had
chosen HIS Path!
THE CHURCH FOB ALL . . .
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Minister
Sunday school 9:45 a. ro. 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 CHIHICH
New Hampshire Ave.. So. Pinea
Sunday Service, II 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 and N. Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
Sunday Worship, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p. m.. The Forum.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York avenue al South Ashe
David Hoke Coon. Minister
Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Worship
11 a. m. Training Union 7 p. in.
Evening worship, 8 p. m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
p. m.; midweek worship, Wetoes-
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
CHUBCH
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 'Diursday at 8
p.m.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
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CLARK & BRADSHAW
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Charles V. Covell. Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a. m. (ex
cept first Sunday).
Church School, 9:45 a. m., with
Adult Class at 10 a. m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a. m. (Holy
Communion, first Sunday).
Wednesdays: Holy (Communion
10 a. m.
ST. ANTHONY'S *
(Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.
m.; Holy Day m^ses 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 Feazon, C. SS. R»
Sunday Mass, 10 a. m.; Holy
Day Mass, 9 a. m. Confessions are
heard before Mass.
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JACK'S GRILL 8c RESTAURANT
CAROLINA POWER 8c LIGHT CO.
CITIZENS BANK 8c TRUST CO.
UNITED TELEPHONE CO.
JACKSON MOTORS. Inc.
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