THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1956
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By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
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Page THREE
CALEB, MY SON, by Lucy
Daniels (Lippincott $2.75). A lack
of understanding—a failure of
communication between white
persons and Negrpes—is frequent
ly cited as one of the chief factors
in today’s muddled racial relation
ships. How can the two races
work out their joint problems if
their inner lives, their real convic
tions, are hidden from each other?
There is much evidence that the
races see each other in caricature
—an attitude that is always fatal
to deep or significant understand
ing.
Fiction leads the way in break
ing through the racial curtain. For
one person who reads “An Amer
ican Dilemma,” that massive and
coolly documented sociological
study of the Negro in the United
States, thousands read “Native
Son” or, breaking through from
the opposite side of the curtain,
“Strange Fruit.”
Now comes Miss Lucy Daniels,
22-year-old daughter of Jonathan
Daniels of Raleigh, to engross us,
in a neatly tailored little novel,
with the outer and inner lives of a
Negro family in today’s South.
The only white persons in the
book arei shadowy fighres, perhaps
designedly so to make the Negroes
stand out clearly as the living,
breathing, and above all suffering
human beings that they are.
For Miss Daniels has produced
a tragedy of classic mold—that is,
a simple story of basic emotions, a
story whose terrible climax is in
herent in the human flaws of the
protagonists. “It needn’t have
been like this at all,” the reader
says at the end. Yet it was. And
the reader is convinced that, given
the characters as they were, it
could not have been otherwise.
Caught up in the lives of Asa
and Effie Blake and their rebel
lious son, Caleb, the reader sees
their ultimate tragedy not simply
as a racial matter, but as a univer
sal conflict of mores and genera
tions, yet the racial significance is
never lost.
After pity and terror have play
ed their part, we may wonder if
Miss Daniels, like many another
young writer, has not strained too
hard to set her situation up for a
smashing denouement. Could not
the violent clash between father.
and_ son have been engineered
without having to involve the son
in a liaison with a white woman?
This relationship, though it dis
gusts him, the son flaunts before
his impressionable friends as a
sign of his leadership in a propos
ed Negco rebellion against the
status quo—a rebellion, inciden
tally, that seems fantastically
naive, even lor ignorant semi
hoodlums to espouse. Somehow,
all this does not ring true.
Do there really exist, as depict-'
ed' in “Caleb, My Son,” organized
groups of young Negroes who
were contemplating, in the year
of the 1954 Supreme Court school
segregation decision, personal and
violent action to see that the de
cision was enforced in the schools
of their city that very year when
the schools opened, and who talk
ed, at least among themselves, of
making real their fancied general
release from the bonds of segre
gation by shooting up theatres
and restaurants where they might
be denied admission?
This incredible group of young
Negroes is represented as doing
nothing, day after day and week
after week, in the summer of 1954,
but sitting around drinking beer,
existing on bofrowed money and
planning how they personally
would enforce desegregation. It
is a picture that would be resent
ed, we would think, by Negroes,
though it is defensible in a novel
as a symbol, a distillation of the
racial bitterness that sets father
against son in a manner that must
be characteristic of many Negro
homes today. And the essence of
Miss Daniels’ tragedy is entirely
credible, no matter how irritated
we may become with some of the
supporting details.
So often in these times, Negroes
are portrayed by white sources as
united in an attack on the sup
posed privileges or way of life of
the white man. “Caleb, My Son”
shows that their intra-racial con
flict poses for them at least as an
guished a problem as the inter
racial one.
This novel gains power, al
though not “social significance,”
by not trying to point out a solu
tion. It is a slice of life skillfully
cut and served up hot and smok
ing. It is not and does not pre
tend to be the whole story on the
Negro today, nor on segregation.
But it is story enough to make any
white reader view thereafter any
Negro with both more intelligent
ly critical and more compassionate
eyes. ' —C.B.
BILLY GRAHAM, the Personal
Story of the Man, His Message
and His Mission, by Stanley High
(McGraw-Hill $3.95). No North
Carolinian in this decade has be
come so widely known both in his
own country and abroad as Billy
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about this young evangelist that
has drawn so many millions to his
meetings, more millions to listen
to his radio programs and that has
produced converts that are esti
mated at more than a million?
Does he just give the crowd a
show and a thrill or does he get
permanent resluts?
Stanley High, journalist of con
siderable repute and an editor of
the “Reader’s Digest,” gives his
answers in this book. He has heard
dozens of ^^lly Graham’s ser
mons, visited his home and head
quarters, talked with counsel
ors and converts, and checked re
sults with local churches a year or
more after the revivals. His con
clusion is. that this evangelism is
no “fly-by-night extravaganza but
a sober, constructive, church-cen
tered ministry” and that Graham
is “no hell-fire-and-brimstone ran
ter but an evangelist whose per
sonal dedication and integrity
merit comparison with the great
evangelists of the past.” He fre
quently compares, him to Moody,
Wesley and the Apostle Paul.
Mr. High builds up a careful
case to convince those dubious of
mass methods of conversion and
skeptical of the man’s sincerity.
He gives us thei boy growing up,
the student, the evangelist of in
creasing influence and fabulous
success who still remains humble
and whose humility is symbolized
by the hymn sung at every Cru
sade meeting, “To God be the
Glory, Great Things He Hath
Done.” Mr. High analyses the fi
nances of these meetings which
are always audited by accredited
accountants. He outlines the or
ganization involved in a “Cru
sade” with the prehminary prayer
meetings and the follow-up to
make sure there will be a connec
tion for the new convert with a
church—any Protestant church.
All in all it is an amazing story
and the climax is the Greater Lon
don Crusade of 1954. Mr. High
holds no brief for BiUy Graham as
a theologian or even a great
preacher who is producing mem
orable sermons. He is convinced
that he offers a simple message,
“the good news of Christ,” with
unusual fervor and “authority” to
a generation thirsting for just that.
THE TROUBLE HUNTERS, by
Montgomery M. Atwater (Random
$2,95). A boy, a dog, an'd a horse
are the heroes of this fast-moving
story for teen agers. Eighteen-
year-old Duncan Buckley knew he
was headed for adventure when
he got an official notice from the
National Forest Service that he
had been accepted as a packer; for
he knew that he had never ap
plied. The appointment could only
have been arranged by his friends,
Hank Winton and Jim Dade, and
he knew them of old as “trouble
hunters.” There follows a thrill
ing wilderness journey, Duncan’s
induction into the camp life of the
Forest Service and—more violent
ly—his introduction to the pack
mules. But packing is only the os
tensible reason for his summons to
this camp, Hank aiid Jim want his
lelp in solving the mystery of the
ost platinum. There follows a
battle of wits and endurance, nar
row escapes from traps laid by a
ruthless but unknown enemy and
an unexpected solution. The book
is noteworthy also for a fine view
of the Forest Service at work and
the spirit of the men in this serv
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Background Scripture: Luke 22:31-
34, 54-62; James 3-4.
Devotional Readings: Psalm 34:13-22.
Why Men Fight
Lesson for September 9, 1956
TF SOME angel who had never
heard of this earth, or some
man from outer space living on
some planet never invaded by sin,
should get acquainted with the hu
man race for the first time, prob
ably the thing that would astonish
them most would be the human
hankering for a
fight. Here we
are, clinging to
the surface of a
tiny planet, with
every reason to
hang together;
and yet to us who
are born here and
live here, fights
are so common
they seem quite Foreman
natural. People quarrel at home,
they get into arguments on the
street, congressmen have to be re
strained from fist-fights, business
men are always at one another’s
throats, labor and management
are on opposite sides, and there is
even talk about the “battle of the
sexes.” As for nations, a man the
other day refused flatly to pay a
cent of income tax, on the ground
that he did not believe in war and
he knew that most of his tax would
be spent for war, past or prospec
tive. Nobody wants the next war,
but who really thinks it will not
come?
The Tongue Is a Fire
Why do men fight? Let us admit
that there may be times when it
is good to give battle. There have
been evils, and there still are evUs,
which are not going to fold up and
go away without' a fight. But all
the same, everybody with sense
admits that a vast amount of the
fighting ‘we do, whether in our
homes or in politics or business
or in the mighty struggles between
nations, simply gets nobody any
where. Most fights are a sheer
waste of energy no matter who
wins; and many fights (like our
present and future wars) are such
that nobody wins. What starts all
this mess? One reason is, people
talk too much. James, the salty
saint who wrote the letter in the
New Testament which bears his
name, put his finger right on it.
The tongue, he says, is a little
thing, but it’s wild. Nobody has
ever quite tamed it. The tongue is
a fire, it can set the world on fire.
It is a flame from hell. Of course
James does not mean that that all
talk is wrong. He recognizes hap
pily the good the tongue can do.
But the tongue does start fights.
How many family quarrels would
have died a-bornlng if only he and
she had done one single simple
thing: shut up! How many quar
rels had started, and how many
made worse, just by people who
can’t keep their mouths shut!
When Hitler was about to set the
world on fire, he started by talk
ing, long before his armies took
the field.
Wanting Too Much
Plain-spoken Admiral Sims once
told a feminine audience in Boston
that they were the chief cause of
war. You have no limits to your
wantg, he said. Your husbands
have to keep working harder to
satisfy ybu, manufacturers have to
keep looking farther and farther
for the raw materials to make the
things you want, and presently we
get into quarrels with other na
tions ■ that either want the same
things or don’t want us to have
them; and then you have the mak
ings of a war. Admiral Sims might
have been reading the letter of
James. Wanting what we don’t
have, wanting what we actually
don’t need, he says is a major rea
son for quarrels and fights among
men. Even among Christians, be
cause he is writing to Christians.
Was the Admiral right? The reader
who feels like arguing with him
will have to argue with the 'writer
James no less.
Cure for Quarrels
James no doubt knew as weU as
the Apostle Paul did that it is not
always possible to live at peace
with all men. But it is possible to
cut down the quarrels. The secret
is to see things as God sees them.
Let no one say this is impossible.
We not only can, but if we are to
survive we must have what James
calls “wisdom from above.” What
he means is nothing weird, out-of-
this-world, impractical. “The wis
dom from above is first pure, then
peaceable, forbearing, conciliato
ry, full of mercy and wholesome
fruit, unambiguous, straightfor
ward.” (Moffatt’s translation.) If
Ciiristians would begin by setting
the example, both in our ^homes
and in our nations, of clamping
down on our quarrelsome tongues
and typewriters, and living by
God’s wisdom, the reign of peace
would be at least much nearer.
{Based on outlines oopyrlshted by the
Division of Christian Bducation, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
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The Church is the greatest fac
tor on earth for the building of
character and good citizenship. It
is a storehouse of spiritual values.
Without a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilizatiqn can
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
childrei.'s sake. (3) For the
of hi# community and natio)
For the sake of the Church
which needs his moral am
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Vermont Ave. at Ashe
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