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FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 1054 =? t St THE PILOT. Southern Plnee. North Carolina Some Looks At Books BY LOCKIE PARKER THE LONG SHIPS. Saga of Ihe Viking Age. by Frans G.Benglsson (Knopf $4.50). This long book is a pleasing and impressive recon struction of life among the Vi kings around 1000 A.D., when the Vikings were going strong. The form is that of the old chronicles, so you can take it chapter by chapter with each a good story in itself while it builds up the to tal picture of a lusty, barbaric people who delighted in feasting and fighting. Raids on more settled regions were as normal as hunting parties to them, and the chances of good loot or a quick death were pleas antly stimulating. So much so that on one occasion, a leader re ports his men as complaining that “this expedition is providing splendid booty and excellent ale, but little in the way of good fighting.” The stories center around Orm, youngest son of a famous pirate. His doting mother tries to keep him from the sea, but Fate is too strong for her. He is captured from his own farmstead by acci dent when another Viking chief stops to provision his expedition from the sheepfold of Oim’s fam ily. Thence begins a great jour ney and many adventures from successful raids to Moorish cap tivity. These develop Orm’s la tent abilities, and he becomes leader of the little band who es cape and return to Norway. So much would be enough for an ordinary book but it is only the beginning of Orm’s adven- fmuD's WE A5R-COND1TION ANYWHERE. WORK GUARANTEED AT PRICES FAIR. © LOCAL TRADEMARKS. 1 Fields numiN6sHBKrm6(u PLUMBIN6-H£AtlN6-THEET METAL CONDITIONING PINEHUKST.N.C B tures which include a visit to Eng land where he accepts Christian ity in order to get a wife, a trek through Eastern Europe and down the Dnieper and a relative ly peaceful period in which he plants and reaps, and builds a house and a church. The early contacts of the Vi kings with Christian missionaries get a good deal of space in this book. No two groups could have been further apart in their ideals, and their efforts to understand each other provide a sort of dry humor to flavor the crude fight ing and fedsting. Also they give point to the whole, for Christian ity was making progress. Orm might smile at an envoy’s state ment that King Ethelred “prefer red to win the love of his, enemies rather .than destroy them and . . . was ready to give them such pres ents as would fill them all with joy.” And Orm was not above replying that “we need a lot to make us merry for we are a mel ancholy people,” but all the same these men of the church gradually gained his respect and grumbling Brother Willibald became his most trusted counselor. A background of scholarly re search and a major literary talent are joined in this author to give us a first novel whose quality is far above the average historical novel. ROMAN WALL by Bryher(Pan- theon $2.75). This is another fine reconstruction of a past era but very differently done. Here we have a profoundly imagined, even poetic glimpse into the last sum mer of the Roman frontier in Hel- vetio (modern Switzerland). The time is 298 A.D. Rome still seems to many “Eternal Rome.” True, emperors quarrel, there are divid ed counsels, the boundaries of the Empire are shrinking, but by and large Roman order is maintained, trade goes on, and there is leisure for painting pictures, growing gardens, the graces of life. Surely it will go on. There is little action in the book, but there is suspense. We are held from the first by a feel ing of imminent doom—^the Ger man tribes are coming in a few years, next summer, possibly to morrow, but coming as surely as the leaves that turn yellow in the fall. We are caught up in sympathy with two Roman aristocrats, the centurion, Valerius, in charge of a remote outpost, and his sister, Julia, living with him in a lovely, semi-ruined villa, left from the 'days when Helvetia was a rich and secure province, not a fron tier. The chorus in the tragedy is provided by the Greek trader, De metrius. He has lived * much, travelled far, is more philosophi cal. He regrets the world that is HAVE YOUR CLOTHES CLEANED passing, has compassion for those whose lives are disturbed but he remembers Heracleitus and his doctrine of flux, “The stream flowed, the willows rustled, the light breeze was master of the heavy apples; empires, like men, were mortal.” Yet underneath one feels the author’s deep protest that civilized values went down before some thing cruder and a challenge to our own age^o be alert to similar dangers. POEMS: A Selection by Leonie Adams (Funk & Wagnalls $3). Re views of poetry always seem to me the better when there is less talk and more quotations. There is a wide range to choose from in this intensely felt and exquisitely phrased selection of verses from a poet of recognized distinction. There are conventional forms, the sonnet and such simple quatrains as this: “Town is a blackened pool Hooded with sleep; And hooves are like bells With night so deep. Then there is the freer play with music and’ meaning as in these lines from 'The Summer Image (after a Persian carpet)”: “Ash and strewments, the firsft moth-wings, pale ardour of brief evenings, on the fecund wind; Or all a wing, less than wind. Breath of low herbs upfloats, petal or wing. Haunting the mfisk precincts of burial.” What it is impossible to convey in short quotations is the way the poet builds each sensitive reflec- . tion of day’s glories or night’s i mysteries into a profound experi ence with metaphysical overtones or the way she culls from’personal or natural tragedies some bitter sweet of wisdom. BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN 20:35! .! Corinthians 16:1-2; II Corinthians 8:1-9. 4 15*20**”"** ® *»'•*“*: Phllippians Growing by Giving Lesson for AngusF 22, 1954 A SLOW DRIVER The Valet D. C. JENSEN Where Cleaning and Prices Are Better! FHA-G.L and DIRECT LOANS Now is the opportune time to build or buy. Money is available. Materials and labor are plentiful and cheaper. WE HAVE HELPED OVER 500 FAMLIES TO OWN THEffi HOMES Take Advantage of Our Experience NOW Graves Mutual Insurance Agency GRAVES BLDG. SOUTHERN PINES Phone 2-2201 . •; (Continued from Page 2) with his own actions as the sole criterion; and slow drivers should be prodded with the view of les sening the number of occasions when others are tempted to com mit unsafe acts. The Law on Slow Driving The North Carolina statute on slow driving reads: “No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is neces sary for safe operation or in' compliance with law. Police' officers are hereby authorized to enforce this provision by directions to drivers, and in the event of wilful disobedi ence to this provision and re fusal to comply with the di rection of an officer in ac cordance herewith, the con tinued slow operation by a driver shall be a misdemean- ,or.” This law leaves something to be desired. The penalty provided is not for slow driving at all 'but for contumacy. Anyone who, refuses to speed up when told to do so by a police officer probably ought to have his head examined. Untouch ed by the law are the slow pokes who will move faster when so in structed but continue to block traffic the rest of the time. Why Go After Slow Drivers? Traffic enforcement should con cern itself with all driving prac tices that tend to produce acci dents. Slow-poke driving does this and, therefore, should receive its share of attention. Stopping slow drivers whenevr encountered provides an addition al opportunity for the highway patrol to establish personal con tact with drivers in the promotion of highway sa'fety. In a large measure these are probably dif ferent people from the ones reach ed in enforcing the more dramatic violations. ^ It is to be hoped also that slow- driver enforcement, augmented' by appropriate publicity, will in fluence many slow drivers to mend their ways without ever having been noticed or personally warned by a patrolman. In gen eral, motorists do just about what they think is required of them if they are to stay out of trouble. By keeping before the public the fact that slow driving is officiaRy frowned upon, a reduction in the number of chronic slow drivers can reasonably be expected. Another good reason for going after slow drivers is that it helps' to win support for the entire en forcement program. Criticism that inordinate emphasis is plac ed upon speeders is dissipated. The press, if that of North Caro lina is any criterion, will enthusi astically support slow-driver en forcement, resulting in a vast amount of additional .highway safety publicity and increased safety consciousness on the part of the public. Finally, law enforcement should be in tune with public opinion. In North Carolina public opinion strongly favors enforcement ef forts against the slow driver. It is significant that many editorials greeted the announcement of greater emphasis on slow drivers in enforcement with the comment, “It’s about time.” GREAT deal of “giving” Is not giving at all. When two relatives give each other Christmas presents, it Is more rightly called an exchange than giving. When the Red Cross or other community 'drives come along and the household er turns in his few dollars just so he will be counted, just to keep from being thought a tight-wad, that is not giving, it is a form of tax. When some higher court (say a Presbytery) Dr. Foreman or a Board or a Bishop lays upon a congregation an assessment, or in some church campaign for funds a certain amount is “al lotted” to a congregation or an individual member, that still is not giving, but more like a tax. You can rightly call it “giving” only when it is freely done, out of sheer good-Will, without desire of return. Investing Personality • When a church invites you to give to one of the causes it sup ports, it is doing a great deal more, something quite diflererit, than just asking you to shell out some cash. You are being invited to share and invest your person ality, no less. There is a hymn which says, “If you cannot cross the ocean and the heathen lands explore, You may find the heathen nearer, you may find them at your door.” Well, you cannot cross the ocean, perhaps. You may be much too old to learn Korean or Portu guese. But your money can cross for you. Your money, given to “missions,” represents your own work, your own energy and earn ing-power, put into portable form. In that portable form it becomes part (for instance) of the salary of a young man and his wife who are missionaries in Korea or some other country. They may be evan gelistic missionaries, preaching sermons you could never preach. They may be medical mission aries, performing operations you could never do. Whatever they are, they are where they are, doing what they do, because of the gifts you and others have given through the church. Your personality, with out those gifts, would be tied down to your little Main Street; your personality through those gifts goes out to the far corners of the world. Adding to Yourself In true giving, you not only in vest your personality but your per sonality itself grows. Paul in writ ing to the Corinthian Christians whom he knew so well, gives them a high rating for their faith, for their ability to express their faith in words, for knowledge, enthu siasm and love for him. Now you would think that persons who had aU those good qualities so that even an apostle, not too easily pleased, was delighted with them, would need no further improve ment, they were good enough. But Paul thinks of one thing more. “Could you not add generosity to your virtues?” he asks. (Phillips translation.) The minute you read that you can see the point. A per son without generosity is not so big a person as the same person with generosity added. Long after a man’s body has ceased to grow, ,his soul can grow by his increase in the “grace of giving.” The Stingy Are Stunted On the other hand, the stingy are stunted. They are stunted because their eyesight is poor,— the eye sight of their mind, that is. All they can see is themselves, maybe their families. But they cannot see the needs of other people at all; on the contrary they never see people as they are, but only as sources of income for themselves They are stunted because they tend to shrink more and more intr themselves. Stinginess if left alont will cover up a man’s soul as with a thick layer of cobwebs till thi soul can scarcely breathe. Th. stingy man ends by being stingj even with himself. He becomes a miser. Money comes to be the only thing in the world for him. He began by not feeling the needs of others, he ends by not feeling even his own. He will go without much that he needs because even spending money (to say nothing of giving) hurts him to the bone. He is stunted because he finally loses resemblance to a regular human being and becomes no more than a slightly animated piggy-bank. You can put money into him but you can’t shake it out. You would hard ly guess that this poor shriveled soul had once been made in the image of God. PAGE THREE .WITHTHE Armed Forces Cpl. J. C. Atkins, whose wife, Mrs. Polly Atkins, lives in West End, is serving with the 7th In fantry Division in Korea. Men of the “Bayonet” division are undergoing intensive training to maintain the peak combat effi ciency displayed by the unit from Pusan to the Yalu river. A jeep driver in the 31st Regi ment’s Company E, arrived over seas 13 months ago. He entered the Army in January, 1953. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Atkins, live in Aberdeen. Fresh water is pumped into ships at the rate of 1,000 gaUons per minute at the North Carolina State Ports. Drs. Neal and McLean VETERINARIANS Southern Pines, N. C. DRIVE CAREFULLY — SAVE A LIFE I NAPOLI RESTAURANT Fine Italian Food and Pizza Pie OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND Murdocksville Road off Route 211 Phone 3963 Pinehurst. N. C. Phone 2-5804 GEORGE W. TYNER PAINTING & WALLPAPERING 205 Midland Road SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. L. V. O’CALLAGHAN PLUMBING & HEATING SHEET METAL WORK Telephone 2-4341 Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday THE GREATEST WEAPON AGAINST COMMUNISM ^ A victim of an Iron Curtain Country Mcaped and found refuge in the United »ates. In America he worked where he liked. - He went to and from town, or crossed state lines as he wished. Never was he ' stopped and asked for “papers.” Never were his belongings searched or con-,- fiscated. Never, when he went to bed ^ at night, was he haunted by the fear of . being torn ruthlessly from home and loved ones to be sent away forever. _Yet these things are happening ri^ht now in his native country. ‘Abroad, there is terror in many hearts,” said this refugee, “that you Americans cannot understand be-' cause yoy have never experienced it ... . and God forbid you ever , shall. “This above all you must re member : The greatest weapon you have against Communism is : your Bible and your Religion.” In other words, American Citi zen, “Go to the church of your ■ choice this Sunday—and every ! Sunday. Keep Christianity thriving. It’s your mightiest weapon against the dark de vices of Communism.” a ft* FORTY FAVORITE CHAPTERS IN YOUR BIBLE The foUo-wing forty Uvorite chapters from the Bible have been eom- M V American Bible Society. 450 Park Avenue. New York result of an exhaustive poll conducted over the entire United States, and of course reflect personal preferences. 1st day Genesis 1 15th day Micah 6 29th 2nd Exodus 20 16th »» Matthew 5 30th 3rd ** Deut. 6 17th •» »• 6 31st 4th '* psalms 1 18th »* »• 7 32nd 5th ** 23 19th •» >» 25 33rd 6th •* 27 20th Mark 15 34th 7th ** •* 46 21st •* Luke 2 35th 8th ** 91 22nd »t •» 10 36th 9th ** 103 23rd »* •* 15 37th 10th ** ** 421 24th »• »• 24 38th llth Isaiah 35 25th John 1 39th 12th 40 26th •• •• 3 40th 13th ** •» 53 27th »» 14 J4th ,»» . • 55 28th u e» 15 Acts Romans I Cor. Phil. Hebrews James 1 John Rev. THE CHURCH FOR AU. . . . AU FOB THE CHURCH The Church is \he grecrtest fac tor on earth for the building of character and good citizenship. It 18 a storehouse of spiritual valueSd. Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civilization con survive. There are four sound reasons why every person should attend services regularly and sup port the Church. They are: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children's sake. (3) For the sake of his community and notion. (4) For the sake of the Church itself, which needs his moral ond ma terial support. Plan to go to church regularly ond read your Bible daily. Book Sunday.... Psalms Monday ..Psalms Tuesday .. Matthew Wednesd'y Luke Thursday.. Luke Friday John Saturday.. .Galatians Chapter Verses 34 1-10 34 11-22 6 19-24 4 16-21 21 1-4 12 1-8 6 1-ip e^g>e.T-( Cprrislit 1864, K.Utw Mr. Swriw, Strutmnt. V*.. 4 (Based on outlines copyrifhted by the Division of Christian Education, Na* Uonal Council of the Ch«-oh<'s of Chrlsl n the V. S. A. Released by Communil) Press Service.) BHOWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (Presbyletian) 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. 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. EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal) Charles V. CovelL Rector (Lay Readers during August, in absence of Rector.) Morning Prayer Service, with Children’s Program, 10 a.m. THE CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOWSHIP (Congregational) Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire ■Wofford C. Timmons, Minister. William H. Hill, Interim Minister June 27-Aug. 29 Combined Church and Sunday School services during August, 10 a.m. Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel lowship (Young people). Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH New York Ave. at South Ashe David Hoke Coon, Minister Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.m. Evening Worship, 8 p.m. Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30 p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednes day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice Wednesday 8:15 p.m. Missionary meeting, first and third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church 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. SOUTHERN PINES METHODIST CHURCH E. E. Whitley, Minister (Services held temporarily Community building on May St.) Combined Church and Sunday School services, 10 a.m. at ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic) Vermont Ave. at Ashe Father Peter M. 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