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THURSDAY. MAY 10, 1956
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
THE PILOT—Soulhern Pines, North Carolina
the fallen angel and
Other Stories by William T. Polk
(Chapel Hill $3.00. The best word
for these stories is one coined by
the author himself, “savigorous.”
He invented it to describe Uncle
Hal who used to ride ‘“lickety-
split” down Main Street at the
head of his pack of hounds
“hounds baying, horns blowing.
. . his bald head red as a lobster,
his little blue eyes snapping, his
big ears flapping in the wind, and
his black beard floating over his
shoulder like a muffler. Some
times he’d ride in the barroom
and order drinks for everybody,
sometimes he’d ride through the
courthouse and shoot a few holes
in the ceiling and then again he’d
just go through town like a bat
out of hell.”
Uncle Hal appears more than
once in these stories, but he is
only one of many robust char
acters who enlivened the streets
of a srtlall Southern town a gen
eration or two ago. They are
wonderful stories and told by a
man who relished words and
knew the rich resources of the
English language. Several deal
with cases that came to a coun
try lawyer and, since Mr. Polk
practiced law for some years and
his father before him, one sus
pects that these are founded on
fact if only because human na
ture can develop more absurd sit
uations than imagination can cre
ate—witness “Church Cleaning at
Lickskillet.”
But it is not all qomedy. There
runs underneath a deep apprecia
tion of these people who in a less
standardized age achieved an in
dependence of character that is
rare today, and with it a toler
ance of their neighbors’ oddities,
and a liking for them as “charac
ters,” that seems to be getting
rather scarce, too. Even the ava
ricious, tough old money-lender
is treated with understanding
and that by one of his victims,
an old colored woman. So black
and white, sinners and saints,
scholars and the illiterate mingle
in these fascinating pages.
The selection of stories was
William Polk’s own and deliver
ed to the press at Chapel Hill a
few weeks before he died on Oc
tober 16, 1955. He was well
known in North Carolina for his
editorials in the Greensboro
Daily News, and thousands of
people all over the country en
joyed his recent book, “Southern
Accent.”
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AMERICAN IN ITALY by
Herbert Kubly (Simon & Schus
ter $4.50). Herbert Kubly won
the National Book Award for
1955 with this book, and it is not
surprising, for it is both interest
ing and rewarding. It reads like
a novel full of interesting char
acters, not like a scholarly trea
tise although Professor Kubly
wrote it on a Fulbright Scholar
ship to Italy
We find that Professor Kubly
is an extrovert with a talent for
making friends. He is also an au
thority on art and music, but it is
not only the beauty of Italy’s
opera and its fabulous pictures
that interest him but the life of
the ordinary, everyday person
whom, he encounters. Because of
his warmth of feeling anji friend
liness he was able to go into the
homes of the Italians and really
know and understand them. But
most important of all he gave
those he met a better understand
ing of America and the American
people.
One of the most interesting
chapters is that on the home es
tablished by the Franciscan
priest. Father Borelli, which is
modeled on our Boys’ Town. It is
for the homeless children of the
streets, the “Scugnizzi,” and
there they are cared for with in
telligent attention to both physi
cal and spiritual needs and train
ed for jobs. However the tragedy
is that in Italy there are not
enough jobs for them. Let us
hope that eventually they can
emigrate to some country that
needs these workers.
The Americans that appear in
Sterilizations
In Moore Third
Highest In State
For the year ending June 30,
1955, Moore County reported eu
genic sterilizations at a rate of
36 persons per 100,000 popula
tion—the third highest rate
among the 100 counties of the
state.
The figures on eugenic sterili-
zatio'ns in Moore and other coun
ties were made public this week
(by 'the Human'Bietterment League
of North Carolina. The semi
annual meeting of the board of
directors of the League was held
at Winston-Salem Saturday.
At the meeting, it was report
ed that 295 sterilizations were
performed in North Carolina dur
ing the fiscal year ending June
30-—a rate of *!.2 per 100,000 pop
ulation for the state as a whole.
Highest rate in the state was
45 per 100,000 in Anson County.
Next highest was Transylvania
with 39. Moore was in third place
with 36. A rate of zero was re
corded for 23 counties where no
such operations were performed
in the period covered by the re
port.
With the approval of the State
Board of Eugenics, a eugenic ster-
iliaztion operation can be done at
state or county expense, if it is
desired by a patient with a men
tal defect. There is no change
that the. patient can detect except
the desired one that children are
not produced.
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BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
^1 Background Scripture: Acts v9;32^
Devotional Reading: Acts 10:34-43.
For All Men
Lesson for May 13, 1956
this book are perhaps a little too
unpleasant, as are some of his
descriptions of the seamy side of
Italian life, but it is a book that
should help us to understand and
sympathize with a world that
needs our help.
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THE THREE LEGIONS by
Gregory Solon (Random $3.75).
A soldier of the last war writes
a book about the men of the Ro
man Legions in the time of Au
gustus Caesar. This is not a great
novel but the young author has
succeeded in making these sol
diers of 9 A. D. come alive to an
uncommdn degree, and the read
er gets emotionally involved in
their struggles, desires nad frus
trations.
Much of the novel is concerned
with relations between men—a
young recruit, seasoned veterans,
petty officers and the “big brass,”
competent and incompetent. One
suspects that more of the materi-1
al for this was gained in World'
War II than in the author’s re
search at the Sorbonne, but that
is fair enough as human nature
changes little through the cen
turies. Less convincing is the
leading lady, but she is unimpor
tant except for her effect on the
men.
Mr. Solon chose for his story a
dramatic moment in Roman his
tory when the Empire had reach
ed its widest extent, the Legions
were considered invincible and
the aged Emperor Augustus
every day looked complacently at
a marble map of the known
world all dominated by Rome.
Yet he still dream,ed of extending
the Empire into those unknown
lands beyond the Rhine.
The Proconsul Varus, whose
military reputation was consider
able, was there even now with
three picked legions. What Au
gustus did not know was that
Varus was not the man he had
been nor did he or anyone in
Rome know the strength of those
barbaric tribes.
Then a young leader arose
among the Germans, a brave
man and a clever one, educated
in Rome. The intrigue and the
mistakes that led to the final
debacle are vividly ,presented,
also the battle in the forest, that
turning point of Roman history,
and finally the pathetic cry of the
aging Emperor, “Varus, Varus,
•give me back my Legions.”
CTRANGE as it seems, one of the
hardest things for Christians to
get through their heads and into
their hearts,, is *that the Gospel is
for all men.' Some people have ac
tually believed that God has two
lists, and everybody’s name is on
one or the other; one list is of the
people whom God
intends to save,
and the other is
the list of those
whom He has no
intention of sav
ing. This notion is
out of line with
the New Testa
ment, especially
such a clear state
ment as I Timo- Dr Foreman
thy 2:4: “God our Savior, who de
sires all men to be saved.” Others,
as we all know, somewhere back
in their minds are very slow to
believe that the Gospel is really
for aU men.
“The Believers Were Amazed”
Prejudice is not new in the
world, not new in the church. The
very first Christians had their prej
udices and some of them never re
covered from them. We are told
that the Roman army officer Cor
nelius, and his whole household
—presumably servants as well as
family — were converted, the be
lievers who came from Jerusalem
with Simon Peter were amazed,
‘because the gift of the Holy
Spirit had been poured out even on
Gentiles.” These Jerusalem be
lievers were all Jews, and Corne
lius and his household were all
Romans—or some other race, per
haps Egyptian or Greek—and Jews
had long supposed that being the
“chosen people” meant that God
would have dealings with them,
and with them alone, of all the
races in the world. The “Gospel”
was for God’s people; and the Ro
mans weren’t God’s people—as
those first believers saw it. So
when it was obvious that some
Romans had accepted God, and
God accepted thenx
Prejudice, Modern Style
Is the Gospel for all men? No,
some would seem to be saying.
Only for white people. If it is for
anybody else, let It be somewhere
else but where white people wor
ship. The gospel can’t be preached
to any ears but white ears in the
white man’s church. A preacher in
a large aU-white congregation re
ports having received grateful tel
ephone calls from members of an
other race—men and women who
don’t get very much out of the ser
mons in the only churches where
they are admitted; so they have
stopped going to church and have
to “make do” with the radio. Is
the Gospel for all men? No, a
great many American church
members seem to be saying when
the offering plates are passed.
These members may spend gen
erously for their own congregation.
They will put out big money to
build an educational plant, or an
entire new church. They will buy
the preacher a new car. But
money for missions? Not a cent
from some of these people.
May 14-18
Tuesday—Routh’s service sta
tion, Hy. One, 1:45 p.m.; Sam
Taylor and Ralph Biennett homes,
2; Lewis Marion’s, 2:30; Cameron:
2:40 to 3:30; Wade Collins home,
i3:30; Gilchrist and McDonald
homes, 3:45; Paul Thomas station
4.T5 to 4:30.
Wednesday — Doubs Chapel
route with first stop at Lloyd
Chriscoe’s, 1:30; Highway 73 with
home stops, 3:30 to 4:30.
Thursday — Carthage Library,
12:45 p.m.; Westmoore school,
1:3(); Nall home near Dover
church, 2:15; Baldwin’s store,
2:30; Jugtown road, 3; Frye, Diggs
and Hicks homes near Calvary
church, around 4.
Friday ^ Murdocksville route
^starting at Eugene McKenzie’s
at 2:15; Cleaver mailbox (neigh
borhood stop), 3:30; Eastwood,
4:10; McGuirt and Ira Garrison
homes, 4:30.
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It was not only the first believers
who were “amazed” that Romans
could become Christians. Believers
today are shocked from time to
time in the same way. The fliers
in the great war who were shot
down over jungles, expecting
death, only to find in those rain
forests people singing Christian
hymns; the prisoner in a Japanese
concentration camp who found
that one of his guards knew Jesus;
the traveler in Russia who finds
that there are real Russian Chris
tians even today; these have been
amazed too. But such surprises
occur not only across the seas;
they can happen across the tracks.
Many persons show that they don’t
expect the Gospel to do any good
except to some one kind of people.
For example, everybody knew Bil
ly Graham could reach the masses
of Englishmen, the ordinary kind
that will flock to a sports arena to
see any kind of sensation. But
when Billy Graham proposed to
visit Cambridge University, many
people advised him not to go.
You’U never get anywhere with
imiversity students, he was told.
It’s the old story, the Gospel is for
some people, not for aU. Some
times it’s the other way around.
People well-polished with educa
tion and filled with culture to the
eyeglasses, don’t want certain
“other kinds” of people in tlieir
church; it might “lower the tone!”
No—God loves aU sorts; and if we
profess to be his people, we had
better learn to love other sorts
than our own.
(Based on outlines eoprrlthted by ibe
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Connell ot the Churches of Christ
In the U. S. A. Released hy Community
Press Service.)
THE CHURCH POINTS THE WAY
Thousands of columns hsve been published in American
newspapers about Juvenile Delinquency. .Investigations hsvs
been held in scores of cities, and many witnesses have been
called in an effort to find the cause and the cure.
In all this sudden excitement little has been said about the
lack of religion in the homes and hearts of these thousands of
unfortunate youths. Par too much emphasis has been placed
on inadequate play facilitiea, too little discipline, too few
policemen, etc. t
Juvenile Delinquency is primarily a moral and religious
problem. Neither isil nor playground, as necessary as they are,
will do much to foater love, goodwill, aelf-reapect and charity
in the heart of a peraon. The development of love and charity
in the life of a youth needs constant day by day cultivation.
But how can a parent properly train e Child if that parent has
had no religious or spiritual training or background and livea
a telfish and faithleaa life? How can a parent teach a youth
the fundamental spiritual values it that parent does not even
attempt to live an exemplary life and does not admit his or her
dependence upon God. our creator?
* Down through the age* the Church has been the bulwark
against crime, shi and evil. Those who would solve the problem
of delinquency in young or old should seek the way of the
Church, for those who need spiritual heeling should seek
spiritual treatment. The Church stands ready to help parent
and youth alike.
the chuhch for au . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest fa-
for the bu!u.' oi
character and good citizenship,
values.
Without a strong Church, neither
.u?v°v:“''!rher ar'r'‘°"
reasons whyTverrpert" .^uid"
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Chapter
46
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbvlerian)
Cheves K. Ligon, Minisler
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 al
7 o’<;lock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
7:15 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Are.
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 and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a. m. (First
Sundays, 11 a.m.)
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Morning Prayer and Sermon, 11
a. m.
Guild meetings—first and third
Mondays: St. Mary’s, 3 p. m.; St.
Anne’s, 8 p. m.
. . Book
Sunday
Monday P.alma
Tu.aday p,alma
Wednesd'y Luke
Pr'lH"''*’' Epheaiana
Friday Ephesian,
Saturday H Timothy
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 n m,
Women of the Church meeting.
8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at
8 p.m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Asha
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship
11 a.m. Training Unioni 7 p.m.
Evening Worship, 8 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7'30
p.m.; mid-week worship. Wednes-
^y 7:30 choir practice
Wednesday 8;15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and f^ily suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 pjn.
• ST. AN'mONY'S (CathoUc)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denajw
Sunday masses 8 and ia-30 a m ■
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 am.;
weekelay mass at 8 a.m. Conlfes-
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
Robert L. Bame. Minister
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club. Ashe Strert)
Church School, 9:45 am
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
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