THURSDAY, JULY 17. 1958 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina © # a Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY by John Kenneth Galbraith (Houghton Mifflin $4.00). Here is something as bracing as a fresh wind on a muggy day, a ringing challenge to the basic tenets of our economic thinking. In plain English—no technical jargon— with dry humor, shrewd apprais al of human motivation and pic turesque analogies. Professor Galbraith of Harvard points out how many of our underlying ideas on economics no longer fit the case. Once they did fit. Most of us who have been brought up to respect production of goods as the sign of progress and the measure of health in the nation, have felt confused by a world in which you paid farmers not to produce and in which advertis ing men and salesmen are more important and better paid than the people who produce what they sell. This author clears the air by giving us a candid history of our ideas on economics—^man- made not divinely revealed. They stem from three economists who did pioneer work in making economics a respectable branch of learning a hundred years ago —Adam Smith, Ricardo and Malthus. In that day the mass of workers were still hard pressed to find adequate food, clothes and shelter. As these men who formulated the principles of economics saw it this would al ways be true. As production in creased, population would also increase until there was just enough food to keep workers working, or, if and when there was a temporary surplus, this would inevitably go to landlords, bankers and bosses. Now Galbraith’s point is that in the United States—and to a considerable extent in Western Europe,—this is just not so. You have only to look around you at the distribution of cars, televi sion, electric appliances, to see it does not fit the facts. Yet econo mic theory has not changed its basic tenets. This is oversimpli fying, of course, and not fair to a closely reasoned case. He ad mits to minor adjustments, but he cites passage after passage to prove the persistence of the in fluence of this “traditional wis dom” in the thinking of econ omists, business men, politicians, editorial writers, labor leaders. I So what next? Well, Mr. Gal Jbraith has built up so dramatic a case in explaining the actual state of our economics and the in consistency of some of our atti tudes about it, that it would “spoil the story” to give his con clusions without the build-up. Read it yourself and see. You will find this a stimulating book whether you agree with his con clusions or not. Carthage Woman Joins County’s Welfare Staff Mrs. Grace Bunting of Carth age has been employed by the Moore County Welfare Depart ment as an assistant case worker, according to Mrs. Walter B. Cole, superintendent. Adding Mrs. Bunting to the staff was niade possible, Mrs. Cole said, by an increased appro priation for the welfare depart ment in the current budget. She has already begun her duties, consisting for the most part of calling on new cases and helping with investigations of old ones. Page THREE JntcriMtiooal Uwlonq Sunday School Lawom BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Bible Material: erbs 8:20-23; Leriticus 19:32; Prov- 10:2-16; Ilphes- MOUNTAIN ROAD by Theo dore H. While (Mexrow $3.95). Mr. White’s highly successful book on postwar Europe, “Fire in the Ashes,” owed much of its popularity to the vivid account he gave of the life and fortunes of one individual in each country, thus making concrete for us his general statements. In the present novel he does a similar thing on a larger scale for China in its day of disaster but with much deeper probing and more concern with emotional values. In the break-up of the Chinese army, the flight of the Chinese refugees, the loss of law and order, discipline and morale, the savagery of the desperate, you have a universal comment on the fruits of war. We see this chiefly through the eyes of Rog er Baldwin, an American engin eer who happens temporarily to be in charge of a demolition team whose function it is to blow up bridges, roads, ammunition dumps as the Chinese retreat and the Japanese advance. But we see it also through the eyes of a Chinese woman with an Ameri can education who from her place between two cultures can sometimes interpret one to the other. Beside this and more import ant to the status of the work as a novel, we have the hero’s per sonal strains and development. Never before has he been faced with the command of individual men. As a desk engineer both be fore and during the war, he had analyzed and reported, but oth ers had made decisions. Now he is faced day by day with prob lems of destruction that not only doom hordes of Chinese to death or, at the best, a more painful struggle to survive, but that en danger the lives of the eight men under him. He is also faced with the need to drive these men on when they are tired of the whole business. They know as he does that his orders had been to blow up one airfield and other object ives “at your discretion.” Mr. White makes responsibility— its challenges, its terrors, its satis factions—the main theme of his novel. ians 5:21—6:4; I Timothy 6:8. Derotioiial Beadinx: MalacU 2:13-16. It Begins at Home Lesson for July *0, 1858 IT'S SO EASY TO LOOK GOOD! DRY CLEANING KEEPS CLOTHES "IN THE TRIM" Valet The MRS. D. C. JENSEN Where Cleaning and Prices Are Better! THE GINGER MAN by J. P. Donleavy (McDowell, Obolensky $3.95). The war over, Sebastian Dangerfield decides to take ad vantage of the G. I. Bill and study law in Dublin. Having set tled his well-bred English wife and their daughter into an un bearably filthy shack, the red- bearded Ginger Man goes sup posedly each day to attend class es at Trinity. But Dangerfield is above all a knave and rogue, and he consequently whiles away his days in drunken debauchery. A climax of sorts is reached when Marion finally realizes her position is hopeless and with the baby leaves for good. Danger- field, however, is well protected by his patron saint and is always able to ease himself out of any monetary, physical, or legal dif ficulties. The author, like, the Ginger Man, is an American who studied in Dublin and then moved on to richer London. And somewhere along the way he lost any under standing of things American that he might have once possessed. It is surprising that this first novel was received with much favor by both the Birtish critics and public. The reader is too saturated with Dangerfield’s virile feats and a conglomeration of obscene words and phrases to really be iable to see the work as a whole and thus understand and be in a position to agree or disagree with Mr. Donleavy’s point. Even the so-called comic situations in which Dangerfield entangles himself do little to give a lift to the story and make it any more readable. The only saving factor is the author’s ability to occa sionally write a truly beautiful and poetic sentence. -^ANE LA MARCHE HOW TO BE A LIVE WIRE . . . Keep tvell informed on the happenings and person alities of your community. Men and women of Moore County read The Pilot for what they need to know to enable them to play their part in the life of the com munity. The Pilot gives you the facts in its news col umns and, through editorials, special articles and telling comments culled from the nation’s press, you’ll know the thoughts and hopes that lie behind the news. Order The Pilot delivered to you by mail. Send us this coupon. North Carolina textile mills paid out about $675,000,000 in wages in 1956, nearly half the entire manufacturing payroll of the state. The Pilot, Inc. Southern Pines, N. C. Enclosed find check or money order to start my sub scription at once. Please send it to the name and ad dress shown below for the period checked. ( ) 1 yr. $4 ( ) 6 mo. $2 ( ) 3 mo. $1 Name Address City State EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of James S. Warman, deceased, late of Moore County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons to present their bills or evidence of debt, or claims against the said estate to the un dersigned at the Mayfair Apart ments, in Southern Pines, N. C., on or before July 7, 1959, or this notice win be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This July 1, 1958. MARGARET M. WARMAN, jl 3-a7inc. Executrix NORTH CAROLINA MOORE COUNTY NOTICE The undersigned, having quali fied as Executrix of the Estate of William S. Harrington, deceased, late of Moore County, North Cm- olina, this is to notify all persons having claims against said Estate to present them to the undersign ed on or before the 20th day of June, 1959, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Es tate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This 17th day of June, 1958. FLORA McNEILL, Executrix of the Estate of William S. Harrington, deceased. Pollock & FuUenwider, Attorneys jl9-jly24inc JUSTICE, like charity, begins at •J home. People vriho don’t practice it there are not likely to practice it anywhere. A home is often call ed a retreat, a place where one can get away. But the home is no place to get away from the hu man race, no place to get away from God, no hide-away from duty. In one sense the home is the easiest place to live. When some one wants to express the idea of a de- ^ Ughtful situation he will say it is like "one big Forouan happy family." On the other hand the home is a very difficult place to live, just because those who make it up are so very different. Anywhere else in the worid, for Instance, a man has other meii he can team up with; but in the home father is the only man. He has only a woman and children for com pany. They love him and he loves them; but they are all so different that they are hard to tmderstand. Siteial Jastiea ia the Hoaa It is hard to comprehend the meaning of "social justice" in so ciety at large. The whole thing is so complex wd enormous that we seldom feel' certain of the an swers. But when we look at a single home, the problem is in some ways clearer. For example; The home makes it plain that “Jus tice” is not the same thing as treating every one precisely alike. A good diet for mother may be a poor one for father, and what both of them eat may be poison for the baby. Father, mother and child have different parts to play in the home, they have different contributions to make, they need from the home different benefits. The Bible at many points deals with the home, and if what is said soimds too simple and common- sense for inspired Scripture, we must recall that the home itself, which we take for granted, is it self a product of the religion of the Bible. One thing the Bible makes plain is of the essence, of justice: rights and responsibilities go together. The father and the mother between them furnish the, support, they commaiui and teach. Tb« Teadiing Motbar No one wiU try to make fight of a mother’s willing sacrifice in bringing a chiM into Ute world. But if an a woman does for her children is to give them birth she is not the Bible’s idea of a good mother. A woman, who has a child who, because of her ne^ect, is , only a future thief or killer, mlgffit better not have had the dfild at an. The BlUe (as in Proverbs) often brings out directly or in directly the importance of a good mother in a child's life. And the thing often mentkmed is her serv ice as teacher. She is the principal teacher—or she can be, it she gives her time and mind to it— of her child for his first six years. What has aU this to do with “^istlce”? TWs modi, at least: One important feature of justice, in society or in the famfiy, is giv ing each person an opportunity to render all the service of which he is capable. Hence if moUiers are gcfing to be good teachers, we must see how important the edu cation of girls is. "Educate a boy and jmu educate a future rr«m- Educate a girt and you educate a future family." If mothets ace to be teachers, fiber, justice requires that everyone, husband «««