THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1957
THE PIIiOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
ALIAS O. HENHY. a Biogra
phy of William Sidney Potlet by
Gerald Langford (Macmillan
$5.00). “There’s more poetry in a
block of New York than in
twenty daisied lanes,” \Vrote O.
Henry shortly before his death,
and there is something peculiar
ly characteristic in this challeng
ing statement from the shy, re
tiring man who was more inter
ested in people than in anything
else on earth.
Mr. Langford has given us a
fresh look at this complicated
character in a well documented
study. From other hooks and
numerous magazine articles,
from the wealth of unpublished
material in the Greensboro Pub
lic Library’s O. Henry Collection^
he has reconstructed Will Por
ter’s early years and given us a
more thoughtful appraisal of his
childhood in Greensboro and its
effect on his development than
we have yet had.
1 Along with the pranks and
practical jokes that have become
legend, we get a. toy’s embar-
rasssment over a shiftless father,
an adolescent’s yearning for es
cape from a tense and gloomy
home, the strain on a not too
sturdy youth of going to work at
fifteen with long hours and the
adult responsibility of filling pre
scriptions. Then wo ^ot that es
cape to Texas where he basked
in warmth, rest, fresh air and the
happy family life of the Halls,
where he built up not only his
constitution but his self-cbnfi-
dence.
The whole story is too long to
tell here, but Mr. Langford has
treated O. Henry’s two mar
riages, his prison term, his liter
ary ^career with the same sympa
thetic candor and thoughtful an
alysis. His opinions are nearly
always supported by quotations
from contemporary letters or
other pertinent material.
In the foreword the author
gives a brief account of the ups
and downs of O. Henry’s litera:^
reputation since his death in
1910. For a decade he remained
“the leading literary success of
the generation.” then there was
an extreme swing in the opposite
direction. Today he is being re
valued as a real artist who, des-
fects, “managed to convey gen
uine sense of the romance of
New York;”—^this is the conclu
sion of Van .Wyck Brooks.
THE SPIRAL ROAD by Jan
De Harlog (Harper $4.95). This
is a long, sprawling, murky novel
with a background that includes
the jungles of the East Indies
and the slums of Amsterdam.
Jan De Hartog does not prettify
either, and some of the scenes
would have just suited Goya.
Those looking for something
smooth and entertaining can skip
this one. Yet whatever the faults
of structure there is always meat
in De Hartog’s dishes and this
one is no exception.
As an observer of human na
ture he is shrewd, tolerant and
untiringly curious. Like Dostoev
ski he is not squeamish about
plumbing the depths if thereby
he can find out more about the
human soul, its capacities for
heroism and degradation, often
in the same individual. If his ex
plorations are not lighted by the
genius of a Dostoevski, they are
hevertheless impressive and un
sparingly honest. I found his Dr.
Brit?-Jansen as satisfying as a
rugged piece of sculpture, a man
who seemed to his young col
league to have “the vitality of a
bull, the, stamina of a camel and
a personality so grotesque. . . that
he would have made Freud and
has pupils tear up their notes and
send him to the zoo.”
The pattern of the book is sim
ple. A' young Hollander, one An
ton Zorgdrager, has had a gov
ernment scholarship in medicine
on condition of certain years’
service in the East Indies.
The book begins as he is leav
ing Holland and follows him
through his induction into col
onial circles and later into the
jungle with its Stone Age sav
ages and teeming life. Snakes,
insects, diseases threaten- map
from its unplumbed depths but
even more dangerous is the
threat to his spirit.
This is the story of people, too,
—Anton’s sweetheart, Els, and
his feUow-student, Brit of the
boyish haircut and fine eyes,
Brit whose parents Anton finds
too, of these parents, a thief and
a prostitute, who lived to be re
garded as saints, and then there
is the Sultan of Rauwatta play
ing billiards in his plague-strick
en village. But central is the
spiritual development of the
young doctor himself and his
growing appreciation of three
great people.
THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN
NORTH CAROLINA, by Doug
las LeTell Rights (John F. Blair,
Winston-Salemj). This book, to
be published tomorrow by the
vigorous new firm in Winston-
Salem that has given us several
more on the North Carolina
scene, is billed as a history of
the struggles of two civilizations,
the American and European In
dians. It is a book for all those
interested in a firsthand view of
the thoughts and decisions of
many of the men who changed
the early history of America. '
Mr. Rights, a Moravian minis
ter before he died in 1956, also
discusses Indian folklore ^d
mythology, with many of the
chapters relating to the histories
of particular Indian tribles from
those of the coast, to the Tusca-
rora and Cherokee of the Pied
mont and mountains.
The' author is no novice ht In
dian lore. He helped found the
Archeological Society of North
Carolina, was a member of the
board of editors of the North
Carolina Historical Review and
served as archivist of the South
ern Province of the Moravian
Church in America.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Background Scripture: Genesis 41:53
-50:26.
Devotional Reading: I Corinthians 13.
What Is Greatness
Lesson for June 30, 1957
T he habitual vision of great-
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ness” has been called the
secret of the ancient Greeks, one
of the world’s most wonderful
people. Many would say that the
ancient Hebrews were even more
wonderful; and they too had their
“habitual vision of greatness.”
In our Old Testament are stories
of great men, for
whom even today
little children
are named. These
great men and
women too are of
different kinds,
you might say
only one of a
kind. Joseph was
the kind of great
man Americans
love to honor. He was an immigrant,
for one thing, a poor boy, with
nothing Iftit the clothes he wore,
when he first crossed the border of
Egypt. He was a man who rose
through all the layers of society,
against very great odds. He was
the “big executive” type, and im
mensely rich besides. Now it is not
true that such men are always
hailed and honored. Sometimes
they are no more loved thin Gen
eral Bullmoose. But when such
men do give their fellow-citizens
a lift of pride, it is because of that
something Extra which we call
greatness.
The High Soul
. Every truly great man or woman
has some qualities or gifts which
are unique in him, and are partly
brought -out by his own special
.circumstances. The greatness of an
Abraham Lincoln, for instance, is
not that of a Dwight L. Moody, and
neither, of these is quite like Helen
Keller. But there are some features
to be found in all persons who de
serve the word “great.” Joseph in
Egypt is a good example of these.
First of all is what can be called
the High Soul. His house of life is
open to the sky. He is guided by
his faith in God. To such a man,
faith is not a thing to be analyzed,
or talked about. It is something to
be lived, and lived by. Every single
important step in Joseph’s life is
connected by his biographer with
God; and Joseph himself shows
that he was conscious of God’s
guidance. Even that decisive mo
ment when he was being sold to
Midianite slave-traders,—a mo
ment which just then he would
hardly have connected with God—,
he later saw was an act of God.
• ‘It was not you who sent me here,
but God,” said he to his brothers
later. What will God think of this?
was not an afterthought with him,
but it entered into his decisions
beforehand.
The Open Mind
Great men have their prejiodices,
no doubt; what human being is
entirely free of them? But a great
man is capable of living above his
prejudices. He can revise his opin
ions. Neither the man who is for
ever changing his mind, nor the
man who can never change it, is
likely to achieve greatness. When
Joseph’s first son was born, he
called him by a name which means
“making-to-forget.” “God,” said
he, “has made me forget... all
my lather’s house.” Joseph at that
time, and for years before and
after that time, had no communi
cation with his home back in Pal
estine. To be sure, his family could
neither read nor write; but Joseph
could easily have sent a message
teUing them he was alive and do
ing very well indeed. On the con
trary, he seems to have been quite
content to be cut off from home
Very likely he thpught the less he
had to do with his rascally broth
ers, the better. But when the
famine time came, he got ac
quainted with- his brothers again;
discovered in one of them, at least,
a noble spirit; and he so far ,re
vised his attitude that he invited
the whole family into Egypt near
him.
The Wide Heart
Joseph’s treatment of his broth
ers showed more than a willing
ness to reconsider his prejudices
He had a heart willing to forget
the past, willing to return good for
evil. To men who had been as
mean to him as they could possibly
be, he was as good and generous
as he could possibly be. .Most of
us think we are mighty virtuous if
in return for a dirty deal we do
just a tiny grudging act of kind
ness. That is better than vengeance
and mean dealing in return; but
the great man is far above meas
uring what he gives by what has
been given him. True greatness
includes more than justice; it in
cludes forgiveness and mercy
Voltaire used to say about God
“He will forgive—that’s his bust
ness.”
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C. G. Priest, 11:16; Lakeview,
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Tuesday — Union 'Church
Route: W. F. Smith, 9:45; Vass
Post Office, 10; Mrs. J. McRae,
11; Edgar Oldham, 11:15; Miss
Polly Key, 11:30; Mrs. Nix, 11:45;
Albert Taylor, 12; C. E. Smith,
12:15; A. G. Bailey, 12:30; Tom
Bailey, 12:45; J. M. Briggs, 1;
A. T. Denny, 1:15; A. L. Darnell,
1:30.
Wednesday — Eagle Springs,
10; D. D. Eifort, 10:45; West End,
11; L. H. Chessom, 12:15; A. J.
Hanner, 12:30; T. L. Bronson, 1;
W. E. Munn, 1:15; Pinehurst
Community Church, 1:45.
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Samuel Francis Smith was
a student at Andover Theo
logical Seminary when he wrote
“My cpuntry, ’tis of thee.’' That
was in 1832, two years before he
was ordained a minister.
“America” never became our. na
tional anthem—probably because it is
sung to the tune of the British an
them, “God Save the King.” But it has
remained one of our greatest h3rmns,
its words familiar to almost every
American. In a simple, moving way it
seems to express both the spirit of our
nation and the faith of our churches.
And in its stirring climax, addressed
to the Author of Liberty, these be
come one.
Samuel Francis Smith, with other
great Americans, taught us to seek
our national welfare in constant re
ligious devotion. He saw no denial
of America’s freedom—but rather
its fulfilment—in the humble ac
knowledgment:
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