—/ THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1957 THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina «) Some Looks At Books By LOCKIjE PARKER TURKEY IN MY TIME by faith. Ahmed Emin Yalman (Universi- In due course the boy finished ly of Oklahoma Press $4.00). This school and worked on a newspa book is a piece of masterly writing from the pen of an expe- rianced journalist. It is written as an autobiography, but in read ing one is not conscious of the ego of the author but rather feels as though one were a Turk liv ing the thoughts and emotions of a Turk as the events of history sweep along. The author refers to his country as “the sick man of the world” at the beginning of the twentieth century and now thinks Turkey is a remarkably well man in a sick world. j Yalman, the author, recalls his childhood in Saloniki where he had opportunity to observe dif ferences in custom right in his home; his uncle was old-fashion ed in thought and dress, and his father was progressive to the point of being revolutionary. There was spring water in their courtyard and, as water was very ^carce, the rich who had it open ed their gates for the poor to help themselves, and there was a daily stream of people of many origins to be seen by the child. In school he was obliged to say every day with the others, “Long live the Sultan!” But one day a boy whispered, "Down with the Sultan!” FVighiened Ahmed told his father who cautioned him never to repeat that. But it start ed the boy thinking along new lines, and he saw hypocrisy i Turkey, where he had had unquestioning' Yalman per. In 1911 he won a scholarship in journalism at Columbia Uni versity and spent three years in America absorbing western cus toms and ideas. He returned home, zealous to spread the ideas of democracy but arrived at the outbreak of World War I. To his horror Turkey was going to fight with Germany against an old friend, England; but he soon realized that it was because Tur key must fight against her per ennial enemy, Russia. All through the war he worked as a reporter and came to know Mus- tapha Kemal. Kemal, the officer command ing when the British were de feated at the Dardanelles, came out of the war not Only as the na tion’s great hero but as the far sighted man who recognized that Turkey was not to be free as promised at Versailles. Yalman saw and sometimes travelled with Kemal as the latter went through the interior, educating and training the peasants and working people to form a fight ing force and a Republic. From there on Kemal is shown as the genius of the hour, establishing the capital at Ankara to avoid the corruption of the old guard at Istanbul, abolishing the sul tanate and later the caliphate, and making the world respect was offered govern- Pruning - Cabling - Bracing - Feeding Cavity Work a Specialty WRITE OR CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES SOUTHEASTERN TREE SERVICE LLOYD HALL Phone Aberdeen Windsor 4-7335—or Phone 8712 • Burgaw, N. C. • Box 564 JAMES A. SMITH. 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After Kemal’s death there was fear that Turke^ could not stand without the force of the great personality, but it has stood and the author believes it will so con tinue. More heartening still' is the fact that in the development of democratic processes, Turkey has gone beyond Kemal. In the last decade they have developed a real two-party system and con siderably extended freedom of speech and the press. Were I planning a course in the study of the Near East, I should put this book at the top of a list of required reading. —MARY E. DAVIDSON THE VOICE AT THE BACK DOOR by Elizabeth St>encer (Mc- Graw, Hill $3.95i). As one can guess by the title, this is a novel of race relations, but it is a great deal more than that. It is a well- written, factual account of both races in a small Southern town. Long after finishing the book one remembers the two problems of Duncan Harper who is running for sheriff. One was upholding the law in a dry county, the other was furthering justice for the Ne gro. There were also the emo tional problems of his appealing wife. Tinker, and of his intimate friends. All of the characters are well drawn. The setting is the Mississippi Delta country that Faulkner and Eudora Welty have made fa miliar. Miss Spencer seems to strike a happy medium between these two,—her characters are less depraved than Faulkner’s and perhaps a bit more so than Miss Deity’s. It is certainly one of the best novels of the year and should be on the best seller list. —JANE H. TOWNE THE GUARDIANS, A Novel by J. L. M- Stewart (Norton $1.35). This is a witty and light hearted comedy of manners. It is also a pleasing sample of the new movement among publishers to bring down the high cost of books by publishing new novels in paper covers at a reasonale price. These are distinguished from the 25c reprints by good paper, type that is easy on the eye and individual design. They are indeed a boon to the discrim inating reader who likes to have his own book but does not care to pay four or five dollars for a novel whose quality he cannot judge until he has read it. “The Guardians” is civilized entertainment, full of chuckles and skillfnlly plotted. The scene is contemporary Oxford. The journals of one Arthur Fontenay, a mid-Victorian literary figure, are by the terms of his will about to be released, and there is ten sion in literary circles over the manner of their disposal. The de cision rests with his daughters, two ageing maiden ladies. We see the situation through the eyes of Willard Quail, a rich American of worldwide business interests and a former Rhodes scholar. Quail, now in his fifties, had once written a scholarly book on Fontenay’s early work. He comes back to Oxford to find that he is distinctly remeiribered by older members of the academ ic circle as a promising young scholar but that they are uni formly vague as to what he has been doing since he left Oxford. Quail wants Fontenay’s papers for an American university but finds that he will have opposi tion. The moves and counter moves are fascinating, the por trayal of shades of character and conflicting personalities is mas terly, and there is some of the best conversation we have met in many a day. Suspense is just what we should expect from this author who is also known as Michael Innes, writer of some of the most literate and lively mys- teiy stories of our time. BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Background Scripture: Matthew 3-4. Devotional Reading: Hebrews 3:1-14. Tempted We Are Lesson for January 13, 1957 Bookmobile Schedule FOR RESULTS USB THE PI- LOrS CLASSIFIED COLUMN. Page THREE SCRATCH PADS, all sizes. The Pilot. U'VERYBODY is a sinner yet not everybody is tempted to the same sins. But being tempted is not a sign of sin. The church be lieves that the same Jesus who “in every respect has been tempted as ve are” (Hebrews 4:15) neverthe less was tempted without sinning. It would be a mistake to suppose that in order to be tempted as we are, Jesus would have to have been tempted to Tuesday—Union Chturch route: W. F. Smith, 9:45; Vass School,! 10:15; Vass Post Office, 11:15;' Jo^ McRae, 11:30; Edgar Old-' ham, 12; Miss Polly Key, 12:15;' W. E. Smith, 12:45; A. C. Bailey, 1; Tom Bailey, 1:15; J. M. Briggs, 1:45; A. T. Danley, 2; O. L. Dar nell, 2:30. Wednesday—West End School, 10:15; Eagle Springs, 11:45; Eagle' Springs School, 12:15; D. D. Ei- jfort, 1; West End, 1:15; L. H. ' Chessom, 2:15; A. J. Hanner, 2:30; T. L. Bronson, 2:45; W. E. Munn, 3. Fridajj — West Southern Pines School, 9:45; Niagara Post Office, | 11; C. G. Priest, 11:45; Lakeview, 12. ,Nearly one-fourth of the farm' wives in the United States were in the labor force in 1955, report economists with the U. S. De-: partment of Agriculture. I ANTIQUES BOUGHT FOR CASH FURNITURE, BOOKS, PAINTINGS, GLASS, CHINA, SILVER, GUNS, STAMPS, COINS, JEWELRY, etc. JOSEPH GARNIER Midland Road PINEHURST Phone 3055 cmmmY Bennett & Penna. Ave. Telephone 2-3211 all the sins there are. What this means is simply that the way he was tempted is the way we are tempted. Dr. Foreman At Highest Moments One thing we can learn from Christ’s temptations is that it is not possible in this life to be guar anteed freedom for temptation. In the first place, it can be said that only serious-minded h 1 g h-princi- pled people know what real temp tation is. Weak, flabby, frivolous persons fell no pull or push; they drop into sin like a stone into water. You can’t feel temptation without resisting. Low-minded peo ple do what they feel like doing without thinking. They aren’t even aware they have sinned. They are like dirty little boys who can’t see the sense in washing — they Ceel clean enough! It is the cleanly per son who is conscious of dirt on his hands or clothes. So only the per-' son with real convictions and ideals can feel the tug of tempta tion. It is only people with con sciences who can be tempted to go against their conscience. Now high-minded people, people who really want to please God, often wish they could reach a stage in life where they wouldn’t have to struggle to be good and to do right. 3ut the story of Jesus shows that his is a false hope. Jesus had just 'Gen baptized when his g-eat amptntions came. If ever there 'as a consecrated, holy person, onscious of God’s approval, it was Jesus at that time. If ever there was a person filled with the Holy Spirit, it was he. Yet Mat thew tells us that Jesus was led by the Spirit to be tempted! In life’s highest and holiest moments one is tempted to say. Now I am safe. But that may be the very moment the great struggle begins. Tempted to Do Good ■ Again, the story of Jesus shows that sin may not always be some thing evil in itself. The three temptations of Jesus illustrate three levels of temptation, three levels of sin. Falling down and worshiping Satan is obviously the sin of sins. Jumping off a temple ‘ roof isn’t so much wicked as it is foolish; but playing the fool is still sin. (If the President of the United States rolled his Secretary of State down Pennsylvania Ave nue in a wheel-barrel, it might not be wicked, but for him it would be very wrong indeed.) But turn ing stones into bread —? That would be a helpful thing in a coun try full of poor people. Nothing was said about Jesus using the bread for himself alone. And if he could turn stones into bread he could turn them into medicine, into meat, mansions . . . Not wicked, not foolish. But still wrong; be cause Jesus was commissioned to do something more profound, more radical than supplying people with bread. He came to change men from the inside, to feed their souls. So we, like the Master, are some times tempted to do what is good, when what is better is possible. “To choose a lesser good,” said Prof. W. M. Urban, “in the pres ence of a greater, is the essence of wrong.” Sword of the Spirit Another way in which the Chris tian can learn from Christ’s temp tations is by observing how he met them. He did not play around with them. He did npt say, “Well, there is something in what you say.” He did not debate what for him was not debatable. And he met each temptation with a word from God’s Word. Each of the quo tations he makes, (“It is written”) came from the same book of the Old Testament, Deuteronomy. If Jesus could find help, in time of temptation, in his Bible, surely the Christian of today is cutting him self off from a major source of strength if when temptation comes the best he can think of is, “I am sure there is a verse in the Bible about this somewhere, but I can’t think what it Is.” The best way to have the Bible ready for daily help is not to have it on a shelf, but to have it as a treasure in the mind. (lias<*d on ontiine copyrighted by the . Division of Christian Education, Na> | ior.al Council of the Chxirches of Christ !) th U. S! A. Released by Community rcss Service.) Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday pip® ' .'2.> ' I The Bennetts live here. That’s Grandmother Ben nett’s Bible on the window sill, and the whole family goes to the church across the snow covered field. John Bennett works in the local bank. Martha, his wife, is president of the PTA, and they have three lovely children. Grandmother Bennett has been living with them for the past couple of years, since she broke her hip. She can’t always get to church in wintertime and that’s why she calls this Aer window. When she can’t be in church, it helps to be able to see it. To her, the church steeple represents a great many things, and brings back many memories. Her son was married in that church. Her husband was buried from it. Her grandchildren were christened in it. The Church has helped her to bear grief, in hours of sorrow; and it has seemed to put a benediction upon her happiness, in times of joy. Most important of all, whatever the occasion, whatever the crisis . . . the Church has always been there. To Grandmother Bennett, the most comforting thing in the world is knowing that it always wiJ/ be there. THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . . ALL FOR THE CHURCH 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 civilization can survive. There are four sound reasons why every person should attend services regularly and sup port the Church. They ore- (1) For h.s own sake. (2) For his children s sake. (3) For the sake nis community an