THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1956
THE PILOT-—Soulhern Pines, North Carolina
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
REBEL BOAST by Manly Wade
Wellman (Henry Holt $3.^95) Take
five young North Carolinians; see
them starting off to war, to the
battlefields of Big Bethel, Seven
Pines, the Wilderness; trace,
through letters, diaries and the
formal battle reports what hap
pened to theih in their minds and
bodies, in their, spirits. Take them
the facts. As such the book is a
tremendously valuable source of
information on the Confederate
foot soldier’s life, his equipment,
treatment by his officers; what
happened -in camp, on the march,
on the battlefield. And what hap
pened when he was carried off
that field mortally wounded. Dur
ing it all, tve watch these soldiers.
right to the end: to Gettysburg, to iwe think about them, pity or ad-
Appomattox, to wounds, to death, mire them . . . we are not of them
That was the task Manly Wade
Wellman set himself. A heroic
task at which he made a heroic
endeavor. One cannot say that he
failed, for, in fact, he succeeded
down to the last detail in missing
not one of the events or, one
might say, the thoughts, that made
up these war years, these, in two
cases, final years, in the lives of
these young men. But before he
could make this a great book, the
writer had to make these real peo
ple. Given the method he chose,
a method scrupulous in its hones
ty and meticulous use of fact and
quotations, true literary greatness
must, we believe, have ever elud
ed him or any other writer who
followed his method.
The writer was, it would seem,
caught on the horns of a dilemma.
The point of this book, what gives
We are not ourselves living, with
them, those tragic years.
We wish Mr. Wellman had read
all the letters and the diaries, and
studies the photographs; then
thrown all his source material
away, and cut loose.
He has it in him to cut loose:
there is fine writing in this book:
stark, rhythmical writing that
catches you up and carries you
forward. Some day he will write
it all that way. —W.S.H.
THE HOKINSON FESTIVAL
with an appreciation by John
Mason Brown and a biographical
sketch by James Reid P^trker
(Dutton $5.00). There is little to
be said about a book of good car
toons except, “Look, look!’’, but
it is pleasant to be able to carry
it its initial impact, is the fact that; news to Helen Hoki^on’s
these five heroes were very ordi
nary young men and their tale the
story of the ordinary Confederate
soldier. This is the material of
humanity: pathetic, heroic, infi
nitely moving. Yet, because they
were very simple ordinary young
men, this account, made from
their thoughts and words, never
quite chatches fire.
And who were these men?
There is George Whitaker Wills,
a preacher’s son, who went to war
as to a picnic. Although he suffer
ed from homesickness, stomach
ache, and the whims of a caprici
ous sweetheart, he won promotion
and praise in the seemingly end
less conflict.
There is “Smiling Billy Beav-
ans,” as the girls called George’s
handsome, dashing cousin. • At
twenty-one Billy loved music,
wrote verse ,and fluttere(l female
hearts wherever the army march
ed him.
John Simmons Whitaker was
■“Old Man Sim” to his nephew
George. \At thirty-one he was the
pattern of a bachelor uncle
admirers that her publishers
have now given us a comprehen
sive collection of 450 cartoons
plus four New Yorker covers in
full color.
From 1925 until her untimely
death in 1949 Helen Hokinson
delighted readers of the New
Yorker with her affectionate por
traits of middle-aged dowagers
still young 'at heart and mentally
■immature. It is gratifying to see
that these cartoons are just as
amusing as you thought them the
first time, and “the girls” have
not dated except for their hem
lines. There is the opulent lady
who sits at the desk of a spec
tacled official of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue and says
sweetly, “If there are any of
these deductions I’m not entitled
to, please don’t hesitate to say
BO.”
And remember Miss Hokin-
■^on’s “girls” going to picnics, art
galleries, beauty parlors, pet
shops and tangling up the traf-
dam that has controlled the tri
bal energies and guided them
into useful channels is made by a
London journalist whose creed is
anything for a sensational story.
The book is a marvel of plot
structure, and the reader keeps
numerous cast of characters
I straight without effort. To
achieve this the author has made
I most of them types and sacri
ficed subtlety in character delin
eation to get 'the total effect he
wanted. ,
This sacrifice does not impair
the impact of the book as a story,
but it does weaken his thesis.
And the book has a thesis. The
island of Pharamaul off the west
coast of Africa had been under
British rule since the early years
of Victoria’s reign. “Like count
less other parts of the inhabited
globe,” says the author, “Phar
amaul Owed its entire existence
as a country to Great Britain;
otherwise. . . it would have re
mained a global nonentity, eter
nally tom by strife, weakened by
disease and indolence and con
demned to remain in the jungle
shadows for another three or
four hundred years.”
Mr. Monserrat believes this
passionately, he has intense ad
miration for the men who have
administered the British over
seas territories in many a lonely
station, and he considers much
of the current clamor for giving
immediate independence to
backward peoples is sentimental,
ill-advised and dangerous. Cur
rent troubles in the Middle East
remind us that cries of democ
racy and freedom are no guaran
ty that an illiterate people will use
the ballot intelligently, and new-
Iv enfranchised nations easily
fall under the control of dictators
or shrewd oligarchies.
It is not a problem that yields to
any easy formula.
ITS SATURDAY! by Virginia
H. Ormsby (Lippincott $2.00). For
beginning readers this book of
fers a happy experience.
There are lively pictures on
every page from the first spread
where the children wake up on
a fine morning, through pan
cakes for breakfast, feeding the
pets, building a tree-house and
all the fun that can be crowded
into a good Saturday with its
many hours of playtime. 'The
text is simple and uses large
type on a pleasant open page.
Every page has pictures in two
colors.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Backgrround Scripture: Micah 4; 6.
Devotional Beading: Isaiah 1:11-17.
This ts It
Lesson for November 11, 1956
Bearded like a minor prophet, he •
’Those who never saw them
was patient and kindly.
Johnny Beavans, eighteen, may have a treat coming.
have been overshadowed by his
romantic brother, Billy, but he
was a brave and fine man, undis
mayed by wounds, privations, or
overwhelming odds.
Cary Whitaker, Sim’s younger
brother, was twenty-nine when he
was sworn into service as a second
lieutenant. Intelligent, reliable,
and cool-headed, Cary enjoyed
life, too.
THE TRIBE THAT LOST ITS
HEAD by Nicholas Monsaxxat
(Sloane $4.95). It is not surpris
ing to find that the author of
“The Cruel Sea” has written an
other powerful narrative. Here
again we see civilized men pit
ting their intelligence, their
character against the onslaught
Probably the very honesty of elemental forces. Only this
the writer and his determination t™e it is more complicate , or
to quote, persistently, the trite, force that threatens is nu-
simple remarks of those simple man, too, the force of a savage
men, got in his way. We get just tribe, and the first chink in the
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'^HREE questions are asked
A over and over again by people
who take life seriously but are stiU
groping for the answers. First,
VtTiat is Good? Is it altogether a
matter of taste? Is there anything
that is never good and anything
that is always
good, no matter
what? Se.cond,
What does God
want of us? What
does it take to
please him? Is
there any simple
ordinary way of
knowing what
God wants?
Third, Why Dr. Foreman '
doesn’t God speak to us as he used
to do to the prophets of old? Why
doesn’t God, who knows all the
answers, share his knowledge with
us?
Country Preacher
Long ago a country preacher had
these questions thrown up at him.
His name was Micah. He was not a
preacher in the regular sense, for
he had no church, and in fact he
had no connection with the regular
official religion of his country. But
he did speak and preach,—so far
as we know, only to his fellow-
villagers; but what he said was
remembered. We have extracts
from his sermons in what we call
the Book of Micah, among the
minor (that is, shorter) prophets of'
the Old Testament. Maybe he
never preached a full-length formal
sermon. Maybe he just stood or sat
around in the market-place, and
talked to any who wguld listen. At
any rate it is plain that he was
asked much the same questions as
those three just now mentioned.
The country of Judah, in which
Micah’s small town of Moreshah
was located, was either in a very
prosperous condition or was run
ning down,—depending on where
you lived. In the capital city of
Jerusalem everything seemed to
be booming. But in the farmlands
;nd in the little villages it was a
different story. Even in the cities
there were some who suspected
the boom would not last. There
was a kind of revival of interest
in religion going on, but it was
confused. People had an idea they
ought to be better, but what was
“good”? They felt sure they ought
to obey God more carefully; but
what did God want, really? Why
didn’t God come right out and tell
people what they would have to do
to “get right” with him?
This Is It
If the answers to such questions
as these were written on gold
plates in a strange language and
kept on top of a seven-mile moun
tain guarded by seven wise arch
angels, the roads to that mountain
would be jammed, and people
would pay the archangels big
money to translate the mystic
words of wisdom. But a country
preacher talking in the simple
words anybody ten years old can
understand—? Yes; the people of.
that village already had the an
swers only they didn’t realize it.
Why doesn’t God speak? He has
already spoken. Why don’t we
have prophets? We do have proph
ets, right there in your Bible. Yes,
but they are hard to understand!
Well, Micah says, it’s not so hard
to understand. What does the Lord
require of you but to do justice,
and to love kindness, and to walk
humbly with your God? Oh, some
body in the crowd might say,—
old stuff! Yes, exactly. Amos the
prophet spoke of Justice, and
Hosea spoke of Love and Kind
ness, and Isaiah spoke of humility
before God Most High. This is it,
you don’t need to write away to
find out, this is it right here. What
is Good, what God wants of us,
God has already spoken. He does
not change his mind.
Simple and Final
Looked at in one way, these
three great requirements of God
are not simple. Justice—how easy
to say, how hard to make sure
what is really the just and fair
thing in every action! Kindness—
yes, but who knows what is the
kind thing to do every time? Isn’t
what is just in one case perhaps
unjust in another? Yes, to be sure:
No commandment of God is going
to save us from having to think.
This is not so simple as to be auto
matic. Nevertheless this is simple
in the main. We can see the lines
along which the good life must be
built. We always know: if it is not
just, if it is not kind, then it is out
of line with Gold’s will. And all this
is final, too; again not in the sense
of saving us any further thought.
But final in the sense that this is
God’s word. \7e can’t now or ever
get beyond or above,—we can’t
graduate from,—justice and kind
ness and humble reverence before
God.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
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realization! Nations and individuals have usually
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by a common enemy has ever brought them to
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Today, the challenge for harmony and brother
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the very existence of civilization depends upon
a peaceful world.
Our greatest hope is the Church, which through
out the ages, has unceasingly taught the need
for moving together toward a common goal.
And only the Church has pointed the Way toward
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Join forces with the multitudes in every land
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