THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1962 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Page THREE (jf Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER THE HUMANIZATION OF MAN by Ashley Montagu (World $6.00). Sociologist, anthropologist and something of a philosopher, Ashley Montagu is one of the more cheerful writers on the con dition of man. True, he says we are ridden by anxieties and inse curities, plagued by wars and the prospect of wars, mental illness, a growing juvenile crime rate, but he does not consider these ills irremediable. He has an abid ing faith in the natural goodness of man, his fundamental need to love and be loved. Only he thinks we have been led astray by such concepts as “innate depravity,’ “survival of the fittest” and Freud’s “death wish.” Dr. Monta gu dees not just make cheerful statements like this. He backs them up by the latest psychologi cal research on the behavior of infants and cites pertinent data from anthropology. “Human beings are not bom with human nature—they develop it.” The extraordinary educability of man makes the culture into which he is bom of major im portance. Even before birth there is increasing evidence to show that certain conditions affect the development of the embryo; and the first six months are, in his opinion, highly important in character formation. Coming along to our own cul ture and the special strains on people today. Dr. Montagu dis cusses some popular and errone ous ideas of freedom, racism, love marriage, the atom bomb, the beat generation and mental illness. Man is so educable that he quick- WHITE'S REAL ESTATE AGENCY ESTHER F. WHITE, Broker Phone 692-8831 Paintings EAST mthNEWDnPont IIICFEE' WALL PAINT No stirring, no priming. Dip In and start to paint! Creamy-thick—won’t drip or spatter like ordinary paint. 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But he does consider it dangerous not to face our errors, cultural as well as personal, and recognize our con flicts. For example, he points out the conflict between the Christian ethic and the much encouraged snirit of competition, a conflict that, he says, lies at the base of much mental strain and some breakdowns. Can we not empha size cooperation on training the child more than competition? Isn’t it more important to sur vival? THE USES OF INEPTITUDE OR HOW NOT TO WANT TO DO BETTER by Nicholas Sam- stag (Obolensky $3.50). In lighter vein this book travels a parallel route by a less scholarly path and and reaches some very similar conclusions. Convinced that we all try too heird to excel at too many things, whether in busi ness and professions or at sports and bridge, the author urges peo ple to relax and take time to en joy what they are doing. By so doing they will become nicer psople and easier on their family and associates. “To drift through a number of one’s waking hours is not a sin against the holy spirit, but not to do so is a sin against nature.” Like Dr. Montagu, Mr. Samstag believes that the real goodness of our natures will come out if we give it a fair chance. We may even discover unexpected abili ties if we do not try to do every thing we are urged to do. Men like Schweitzer, Einstein, Lincoln notoriously ignored social pres sures to keep up with the Joneses in minor ways and concentrated on what interested them. The book seems a bit repeti tious at times, but the author’s main thesis is well developed, and he is conscientious—perhaps, too conscientious—about leading a convinced reader step by step through reformation. PRISONER'S FRIEND by An dre Carve (Harper $3.50). This is a rare specimen of the mystery novel not only for its extreme suspense hut for an original pat tern and some vivid and appeal ing characters. In the English program of re habilitating prisoners they have Youth In Critical Condition Following August 28 Shooting, Eagle Springs 150,000 Damage "WE LIKE TO THINK ..." Dioring recent years several new industries have come to Southern Pines and, by the looks of things, more are on the way. This means more jobs for local folks, more funds circulating in local pockets, more good citizens coming here to live . . . During the past year a dozen or more drives have been held here for funds in support of better health, better education, to alleviate human need . . . During the past year more people have come here to live, attracted by what they hear or have read of the climate, the sports, the pleasant living, the charm of a friendly, attractive community . . . News of all this appears regularly in the columns of this newspaper and we like to think that The Pilot lends a hand in such good causes. Fill in and mail this coupon for regular delivery. 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. County ( ) 1 yr. $4.00 ( ) 6 mo. $2.00 ( ) 3 mo. $1.00 Outside County ( ) 1 yr. $5.00 ( ) 6 mo. $2.50 ( ) 3 mo, $1.23 Name Address : City State A 15-year-old Negro, William'^' E. Cole, is in critical condition at Moore Memorial hospital with a pistol wound in the stomach, and Albert Lee Little, 45, is in I/’o Moore County jail charged with ijUIl a IXCU T S» shooting him August 28. The shooting took place at a Negro night spot recently opened on NC 211 a mile west of Eagle Springs, close to the Montgomery County line, said Deputy Sheriff I. D. Marley. On being alerted by the hos pital late Sunday night, Marley went to Little’s home about a mile from the scene Of the shoot ing, meeting Little just as he drove up “in a drurdeen condi tion,” the deputy sheriff said. No weapon was found on him, nor has one been found since. Though Little denied the shooting, the of ficer arrested him and placed him in jail, where no bond was im mediately set pending the youth’s condition, and further investiga tion of the case. Deputy Sheriff J. A. Lawrence is working with Marley in the in vestigation. Also being investigated, Mar ley said, is the cutting of a white man, Charles Carter of Biscoe, near the same place Sunday night. The two incidents are be lieved to have been unrelated to each other. Carter was taken to Montgomery General hospital at Troy for emergency treatment. He told the deputy that a car containing four men whom he did not know stopped him in the vicinity and that the men cut him on the neck and face. enlisted some citizen volunteers who visit prisons regularly and make friends with them. Robert Ashe, a veterinary surgeon, is one of these. At the time the story begins, he has become particular ly interested in Jerry, a young tough, who is just finishing a term for robbery with assault. He finds Jerry a job at a garage in his own neighborhood, and then several things happen—including murder—which given Ashe agon izing doubts as to the rightness of his judgment. Don’t start this one until you have time to finish it, for your emotions as well as your curiosity get involved and you just must know the answers. SPARROW LAKE by Carol Beach York (Cowardi-McCann $3.00). Few junior novels have the sensitive and poetic quality of this story of a young girl’s first winter in the country and the strange excitement of first love. Liddie was a shy little girl, liv ing with a rather abstracted aunt who painted pictures. She had spent many summers at Sparrow Lake but, when Aunt Alice de cided to spend a winter there, it was a lovely thrill. The deserted lak.2 in its ice and snow lived up to her expectations. What she had not foreseen was the experience of going to the village high school, where she felt a bit odd among youngsters who had grown up together. She drifted into a friendship with her locker-mate, Marilyn, who was a new type to Liddie with her vivid make-up and assurance with boys. That was how she met Johnny Hunter. The unexpected and almost inarticulate attraction between swaggering Johnny and the shy Liddie and its repercus sions on Liddie’s life are expect- ly and convincingly handled. Local Defendants A local man who loaned his car to his 19-year-old son, who then allegedly let a 16-year-old friend drive it, is a defendant along with both teen-aged youths in a $50,000 damage suit. Plaintiff in the suit filed in Moore superior court at Carthage last week is David McRae, 15, suing through his mother Alzada McRae as next friend. Defendants are J. B. Short, Leonard Short and Harry Gay. 'The plaintiff states he was visiting Harry Gay the evening of April 6 when Leonard Short ar rived, driving his father’s car, and invited them for a ride. They went to visit plaintiff’s sister at Eastwood, then were driving home on US 15-501 with Harry Gay at the wheel when, the plain tiff alleges, the car ran off the road and overturned, pinning him beneath it and injuring him sev erely. Plaintiff claims that, notwith standing it was a rainy night, young Gay drove at a “high, un lawful and reckless speed,” and that the accident was caused by his negligence. In addition to the $50,000 dam age, plaintiff seeks payment of hospital and medical bills, alleg ed to have totaled $985.40 up to now, with more still to be paid. Bookmobile Schedule CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our thanks to our minister, the Rev. Carl Wallace, and to our many friends ami neighbors for their great kindness to us during our recent illnesses. Mr. and Mrs. John Love joy September 10-13 Monday, Sept. 10, Doubs Chap el route: John Willard, 9:35-9:40; Frank Cox, 9:45-9:55; F. L. Sut- phin, 10-10-10; John Thompson, 10:15-10:25; Clyde Auman, 10:30- 10:40; L. M. Hartsell, 10:45-10:50; W. E. Jackson, 10:55-11; R. L. Blake, 11:05-11:10; Arnold Thomas, 11:15-11:30; Mrs. Joyce Haywood, 11:35-11:45; S. E. Han non, 12:20-12:25; Mrs. Herbert Harris, 12:35-12:40; Coy Richard son, 12:45-12:55; V. L. Wilson, 1- 1:20. Tuesday, Sept. 11, Murdocks- ville route: R. F. Clapp, 9:35- 9:40; Edwin Black, 9:50-9:55; Mrs. Finney Black, 10-10:10; W. R. Dunlop, 10:15-10:30; Dan Lewis, 10:35-10:45; Miss Margaret McKenzie, 10:50-10:55; Earl Mon roe, 11-11:05; Mrs. Helen Neff, 11:10-11:20; Harold Black, 12:05- 12:15; J. V. 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Telephone: Southern Pines OX 5-7311 Complete Investment and Brokerage Facilities Direct Wire to our Main Office in New York A. E. RHINEHART Resident Manager Cmi.sultattons bv appointment on Saturdavs OPEN ALL DAY — 9 A.M. to 5:30 PJid. beginning Sept. 4th Read and enjoy THE BLUE NILE Alan Moorehead IN-LAWS 8e outlaws C. Northcote Parkinson FANNY AND THE REGENT OF SIAM ^ ^ H- J. Minney COlfHinaT 9O0SSBOP 180 W. Penna. Ave. OX 2-3211 Intemetlenal Unliorm %ind«y School lessons mmssMMEM Bihie Material: Haggai; Zecharlah 4:G"1.0: 8:18-22; Ezra 3; 4:24; 3:8-11 Oevotional Readlnir; Psalm 98:1-6 Start and Finish l esson for September 9, 19S2 "pHS TWO parts or stages ol * any job, or of any enterprise, which are the hardest, are starting and finishing. It is more difficult to se^ a great liner on her w'ay. harder to bring it through the har bor traffic at the end of the voyage, than to handle the ship on open wa ter in mid-voy age. It is harder for a student to get himself or- ganized and get Dr. Foreman to work, than it is to keep going once he has started. And it is harder to bring that term paper together as it ought to be finished up, than it was to write on and on. What were the critical moments in the historic space flight of Col. John Glenn? Getting off the pad and into orbit, and re-entering the atmosphere and being picked up by a ship, were much trickier and dangerous than roaring through space at 17,000 miles an hour. The Blueprint’s Getting Yellow Once there was a church that decided to build a new sanctuary They employed an architect, w'iio drew up plans, and had blueprints made. Then the church officers began to be afraid they didn’t have quite enough money, so they put off starting . . . and kept on putting it off for years. Nobody had a bad conscience about it, because they had started, hadn’t they? But finally it dawned on a new preacher there that the blue prints were actually lost. And when after quite a search he found them, they had begun to look yellow. Not only that, but the town had changed so much that the old blueprints were out of date. Some thing like that happened in Jeru salem long ago when the second Temple was started. It was 20 years between the time the foun dations were finished, and the final work on the building. Indeed if it had not been for those persis tent prophets, Haggai and Zecha riah, who knows when ...f. i emplc would have been finished? These prophets were an in teresting contrast. Zechariah was a dreamer of dreams, a seer of visions; much of his prophecy is obscure to this day. Haggai was no mystic, every word of his prophecy can be plainly under stood. But prosaic as Haggai was, and fanciful as Zechariah was, they united on one point: The Temple must be FINISHED. Starting is not enough. Things Don’t Finish Themselves A mistake that lazy people make is to think that by some kind of magic, things will finish themselves. Who has not known the amateur gardener who in springtime was fuU of enthusiasm, but whose garden by midsummer looked like the prize weed-bed that it was? Every school knows about the teen-age ‘drop-outs,” the boys and girls who can’t take the time or the trouble to finish high school and so aU their lives are under the handicap of not having even a high school diploma. Many a woman has a bureau drawer Med with things she started but didn’t finish—pieces of sewing, maybe a pile of unfinished letters, photo graphs she meant to put in her al bum but stuck in here till they’re aU curled and mixed up. Teachers of language know too well the stu dent who starts easily enough, and expects the going to be easier and easier once he has passed the first week’s lessons . . . and when it doesn’t timi out that way, he gives up and gives out. A Thing Unfinished A thing unfinished is that way either because it couldn’t possibly be finished no matter what, or be cause although it could have been finished not a soul was willing to work hard enough to get the job done. If a thing stays unfinished because it couldn’t be helped, maybe it is a sign of lack of fore sight on somebody’s part. There is such a thing as starting too soon. Jesus told a parable about a man who started a house when he did not have and could not get money to finish it. One such house stood in a village for years, known for a generation as “So-and-so’s Folly.” Or maybe the thing is un finished because no one has the ambition or the gumption to do what it takes to do it right. A contractor once said that he ban ished the word “practically” from his organization. A thing “prac tically” done is done all but the most difficult part! A thing un finished may as weU not have been begun.