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THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1957 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Page THREE w Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER ENGUSH SCOTTISH BAL LADS, Edited by Robert Graves (Macmillan $2.00). Lovers of old English verse will find this book a treasure. The editor’s distin guished reputation as poet, nove list and scholar is too well known to need comment. He has selected for us here some thirty- eight ballads, covering a wide range of types and times—one was composed as late as the nineteenth cntury. A brilliant in troductory essay enlarges on the theme that “The world of folk congs and ballads is a savage and mysterious one.” He shows how many elements go back to pre-Christian times, even when these have been part ly disguised. “Our Lady,” for example, did not necessarily mean the Virgin Mary. Records of Scottish witch trials of the sixteenth century prove that thfe female leader of a witch coven was often called '"Our Lady” or “The Maid.” Particularly rich in associa tions with the old Celtic religion were the ballads of Robin Hood, “a yeoman of Wakefield in York shire, born about 1285, and out lawed for joining the rebellion of the Earl of Lancaster.” More than fifty ballads with innum erable variants commemorate his deeds. “On May Day, Mid- .summer Day and Lammas the whole Northern countryside gave itself up to festivities in his hon or.” Bishop Latimer once com plained that when passing through that country he thought to preach in a certain town on a holy day, he found that he had no audience as all the people had gone to the fields to celebrate Robin Hood’s Day. Keystone CustoiianFunis Covering aU cLusej of «ecuritie«, eaclt Ftmil witli a jpectfic mveatment purpose For RESERVES, INCOME or pouiUe GROWTH THOMAS DARST & CO. McKenzie Bldg. Southern Pines, N. C. Fleaie laid me Proepectmei describing the ibaice of joor ten fiude. ffamt /4AArtat Mr. Graves describes the part of the wandering minstrals who sang the ballads in hall and cas tle or later to more vulgar au diences down to the time of the broadsides. He points out that both to a degree performed the function of the popular newspa per today and were fond of the same subjects, love, death and horrid crimes. Some ballads are as familiar as that of Robin Hood, and others were quite new to me as “The Gaberlunzie Man.” The text has been scrutinised by the scholar to remove later corruptions, but also tuned to the poet’s ear, so that we get verse that is pleasing as well as the full force of the original connota tions. An appendix has illumina ting notes on the individual poems. POTTER ON AMERICA by Stephen ‘Potter (Random House $3.00). This English author whose earliest works dealt with strictly literary subjects for a limited audience, came out a few years ago with a light-hearted satirical book on sports called “Gamesmanship.” This gave him a much larger following both at home and abroad. The zany ideas proposed as advice in sports were carried on into other branches of living in a second book called “Lifemanship,” and his he understood himself. She dom inates the book and is such a pos itive character that even the reader is not always sure what is real and what is fancy. Cal vin’s struggle to escape from her loved dominance gives tension to the story. A first novel that is not entire ly successful. A HOUSEFUL OF LOVE by Marjbrie Hous^ian (Random House $3.50). Hailed by Bennett Cerf as being “another T Rem ember Mama’ ”, “A Houseful of Love” is the frolicsome story of an Armenian family (including slightly related “cousins” and their adjustment to America— the land of sandwiches and ketchup. The narrator is a ten-yesir-old girl whose qgndid observations on everyday life stem from the author’s own experiences as a member of Manhattan’s Little Armenia. Affectionately, Mar jorie Housepian has woven be witching sketches of' these immi grants into her first book—a po tential best seller. What plot there is hinges on the adventures of Levon Dai, a prosperous and leading citizen of Council Bluffs, Iowa. With the New York cousins and his aged foster-mother, Marta-mama, the Americanized Levon is the main topic of conversation at their numerous gatherings. For years Marta-mama has put off dying as one after another important event looms in the future. Her last event is for Levon to come East to marry a nice Armenian girl. The 200-pound Hadji, who has the tattoos to prove she has been to Jerusalem, reads her cards whenever anything signifi cant, is pending. Hadji’s husband, Tjncie Pousant, perfumes the air HE BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Backgrronnd Scripture: Numbers 13; 14:1-10, 24, 30, 38; Joshua 14:6-15; 15:13- 19; Judges 1:14.15. Devotional Reading: Isaiah 40:27-31. Rugged Faith Lesson for July 21, 1957 grew, so that he was asked to restaurant with wonderful co'me to America and lecture. Here we have the account of Armenian dishes he delicately prepares for the undernourished and unappreciative Americans. Father is doctor to the commu- , ^ , , , nity and various adopted mem less straightforward record taken Mother entertains fmm nic Hmlv nm-rv s5r» ■* .. usually for months, relatives his travels in this country. It is not so full of fancy and foolery as the other books but a more or from his daily diary. So many foreign lecturers have been snooty about their audiences here and the state of our culture that it is refreshing to find one who frankly had a good time and was ^an eager sightseer. This is not a comprehensive appraisal of the state of the na tion but a distinctly personal ac count of the things that struck one traveling Englishman with plenty of Potter sparkle for sea soning. SWEET NOTHING, A Novel about An Illusive Woman, by Roland Pease. (Doubleday $3.95). This is a romantic story about a sensitive young man and the women in his life. Calyin Brace had taken ^ the wrong turning both in his marriage and his choice of a career. When things became uribearable, he takes ref uge in fantasy, and the fantasy is mainly about Nedda, the beau tiful and sophisticated woman who understood him better than Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co. Members New York Stock Exchange 105 East Pennsylvania Avenue Southern Pines, N, C. Telephone: Southern Pines 2-3731 and 2-3781 Complete Investment and Brokerage Facilities Direct Wire to our Main Office in New York ' A. E. RHINEHART Resident Manager Consultations by appointment on Satiudays A profitable place to ... 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Get Belter Sleep TER MATreESS Let us make your old mattress over like new! Any size, any type made to order. * 1 DAY SERVICE MRS. D. C. THOMAS Southern Pinas Lee Bedding and Manufacturing Co. LAUREL HILL, M. C. Makers of “LAUREL QUEEN” BEDDING A MAN who at the age of 40 was not afraid to give a minority report even in the face of a threat ened lynching; a man who at 85 was stiU asking for the hardest job and the most dangerous job in the country; such a man is worth more ■han a glance. Such a man was ^aleb, a much younger contem- oorary of Moses. We first hear of ‘.his sturdy man when he and Joshua stood out alone against the over whelming pessimism of the majority “Re port on Pros pects.” Twelve tribal leaders Foreman had been chosen to go into Pales tine and see what things looked like. Ten of these leaders brought back the word (and archaeology shows it was true): The country is full of well-built, well-fortified cities. We shall not take it without 1 fight. But then they went on to lay: We shall lose the fight. Forget 11 about the conquest of Canaan; t can’t be done. We are no better ban grasshoppers! ^od-Conscious On the facts, Caleb and Joshua agreed. A beautiful land, well-de fended cities, plenty of fighting certain. But on the recommenda tions they had something different to say. “Do not fear,” they said. “The Lord is with us.” But no one believed them unless it was Moses. The people were so far from be lieving them that they threatened them with death by stoning. The difference between Caleb and Josh ua, on the one side, and the masses of the people on the other, was the faith of these men. The ma jority thought only, “We can do nothing.” This tiny minority thought; “We can do a great deal —if God is with us.” The majority looked at the situation and found it hopeless,' because they found it godless. Caleb looked at the same situation with hope and confidence, because he saw God as the most important part of it. The reason why faith is strong is that faith is God-conscious. On God’s Sfde Merely being aware of God is not the whole of faith,—not the whole of the rugged faith of Caleb. It is quite clear from what Caleb said, that he wanted to be, and believed he was, on God’s side, and carrying out God’s purposes. Faith not only sees God in hard situations, faith lines up with God, so far as God’s will can be seen. ‘There is a great deal of difference, for example, between faith as we find it in Luther and as we find it in Hitler. Both of them were men of strong faith. They believed themselves to be men of destiny. But then why were toey so dif ferent? The difference was in this: Luther wished nothing higher than to follow the will of God wherever it might lead him; Hitler if he be lieved in God at all, expected God to support his own ambitions. A Hitler cracks up at the last; but a Luther does not. So Caleb outlived his entire generation, for his hope and his faith were planted in God, not in himself. Without Fear, Without Pride Faith in God like all good things can be turned into a sort of mock ery of itself, a cheap or grotesque imitation of reality. Faith can be a cover-up for fear. It can be used as a retreat to get out of attempt ing hard things. Once a young man was pleading in a great gathering of Christian leaders, for men to go out as Christian missionaries,— this in a day when missionaries were very few. An older minister rose and told the young man to sit down: “When God is ready to convert the heathen, he will do it without your help!” That minister was using his faith to conceal his own unwillingness to risk the dan gers of being a missionary. Some parents are so much afraid of vac cination that they will refuse to let their children be vaccinated—we believe in God, they say. True faith Is a rugged thing, as Caleb’s was. It asks for the hardest tasks, it is not afraid of work or danger. Then faith can be twisted into oride; Hitler is an example of that, 50 was Napoleon. So was the Grand Inquisitor; so have been any num ber of tyrants in the church and out of it. True faith creates con fidence, but not conceit. When a man of faith begins to confuse him self with God, rugged faith has changed to brittle arrogance. (B^sed on •B«itlin«9 r.opyrlfhlod by Division of Christian Education. Na- i rlonal ronyif^U of th« Churches of Christ in the IT. S. A. Released by Community Press Sffrvloo.) Bookmobile Schedule Tueslay—J. D. Lewis, ID; A. A. McCaskill, 10:15; Paul Green, 10:30; Ben Blue, 10:45; John Blue, 11; C. F. Wicker, 11:15; H. A. Blue, 11:30; Miss Flora Blue, 12; Raymond Wicker, 12:15; Ed Love, 12:30; E. B. Cook, 1; Lewis Short, 1:15; R. E. Lea, 1:30. Wednesday—W. E. Graham, 10; Jackson Springs Post OHice, 10:45; J. C. Blue, 11:15; James Hicks, ir:30; George Ross, 11:45; Carl Tucker, 12; Mrs. Margaret Smith, 12:15; J. W. Blake, 12:30; Miss Adele McDonald, 12:45; George Hunt, 1; Ed Smith, 1:15; Taylortown, 1:30. Thursday — Miss Sara Inman, 10; Highfalls, 10:30; Mrs. Helen Maness, 11:30; Glendon, 12; Miss Alma Edwards, 12:15; R. F. WiU- cox, 12:30; Miss Irene Nicholson, 1; Carthage 2. Welcome lo CHURCH OF CHRIST E. Main St. Aberdeen Sunday School 10:00 Morning Worship 11:00 Evening Worship 7:30 Peach Crop Up 56% Over 1956 Based on reports from grow ers as of July 1, production of peaches in North Carolina is forecast at 1,500 000 bushels by the North Carolina Crop Report ing Service. A crop of this size would be 58 per cent above 1956 production of 950,000 bushels and compares with the 1946-55 average produc tion of 1,35(1,000 bushels. U. S. peach production is fore cast at 67,347,000 bushels. This is about 4 percent below 1956 production of 69,859,000 bushels. The value of cotton textile products manufactured in North Carolina amounts to about two and a half billion dollars annual ly, making the Tar Heel state the leading textile producer in the nation with 25 per cent of all spindles in place in the country. Visit Us This Summer —at- Blowing Rock JUNE 20lh SEPTEMBER 1st coimv&Y seossaop Telephone 2-3211 Bennett & Pennsylvania DRIVE CAREFULLY — SAVE A LIFE! Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday CAH you lAUOH atduckun&s? J tvi;rnY<; She remembers Betty can laugh Juck g^^^ that classic of the UgW a stately swan. understands the Betty laughs people, like dqck- stW 3tmeo- who is SBerenU ling^, often religious train- But she knows, too, person must face the scorn of others ^ primary aim of already she has ^fe for the better . . • rStrinaWiS be different so the world can be different. ducklings. Some Not everyone can being folks take quite are men and women different. For ^nt who would like to. u,ho don’t about breaking away They *^„ce which they think is expected from an of thom. lo, Ih, hoMtJ-'’®- .'S tCl. ««»• fe hesitant to atteno one to worship with you. THE CHURCH FOR AU . . . AU 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 volues Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civilization can survive. There are four sound reasons' why every person should attrad'services regulorly and sup port the Church. They are! (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children's sake. (3) For the sake of his community and nation. (4) For the sake of the Church itself, which heeds his moral and ma terial support. Plan to go to church regularly and read your Bible daily. Book Chapter Verses Sunday. . .Psalms St 16-17 Monday.. .Isaiah 55 6-13 Tuesday Matthew 5 1-12 Wednesd^Mathhew 23 29-39 Tlmosday. Ephesians 2 l-io Friday ...James 1 12-18 Saturday, .Revelation 2 8-11 ’ Copynfht 1957, Keiater Adv. Service, Strubure, Va. •nr" , jyf f • ' BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (Piesbyterian) Cheves K. Ligon, Minislw Sunday, School 9:45 a.m. Wor ship service, 11 a.m. Women of the>Church meeting, ? pjn. Mon day following mird Sunday. The Youth Fellowships meet at 7 o’clock each Sunday evening. Mid-week service. Wednesday, 7:15 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH New Hampshire Ava. 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 pjn. iriE 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) East Massachusetts Ave. Martin Caldwell, Rector Holy Commiuiion, 8 a.m. (First Sundays and Holy Days, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.) Family Service, 9:30 a.m. Church School, 10 a.m. Morning Service, 11 a.m. Young Peoples’ Service League, 6 p. m. Holy Ccanmunion, Wednesdays and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and Fri day, 9:30. Saturday—6 p. m. Penance. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH New York Ave. at South Ashe David Hoke Coon, Minister Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.m. Evening Worship, 8 p.m. Scout Troop 224, Monday. 7:30 p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednes day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice Wednesday 8:15 pjn. Missionary meeting, first and third Tuesdays, 8 p.tn. Church and family suppers, second 'Thurs days, 7 pm. MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Gvover C. Currie. Minister Sunday School 10 a.m. Worship Service, 2nd and 3rA Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth Sunday morning, 11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting, 8 p.m., second Tuesday. Mid-week service Thursday at 8 n m. ST. ANTHONY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH Vermont and Ashe Father Francis A. McCarthy Sunday Masses: 8-10:30 a.m.; Daily Mass: 8 a.m. Holy Day Mass: 7 and 9 a.m. Confessions Saturday: 4:30-5:30 7:30-8:30. St. Anthony’s Altar Guild: 1st Tuesday 2 p.m. SOUTHERN PINES METHODIST CHURCH Midland Road Robert L. Bame. Minister Church School, 9:49 ajn. Worship Service, 11 a. m.; W. S. C. S. meets each third Monday at 8 p. m. -This Space Doiuied In the Interest of the Churches by— GRAVES MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. CITIZENS BANK 8e TRUST CO. CLARK & BRADSHAW SANDHILL DRUG CO. SHAW PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. MODERN MARKET W. E. Blue JACK'S GRILL fc RESTAURANT UNITED TELEPHONE CO. JACKSON MOTORS, Inc. Your FORD Dealer McNEILL'S SERVICE STATION Giilf Sezvica PERKINSON'S, Inc. Jewalae A A P TEA CO.
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