THURSDAY MARCH 7, 1963
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
THE GREAT DECEPTION:
The Inside Story of How the
Kremlin look over Cuba by
James Monahan and Kenneth 0>
Gilmore (Farrar $3.95). We have
had quantities of information
about Cuba from radio, press,
books and television, but this
book does offer something spe
cial.. It is made up chiefly Of
statements from people “who
were there,” associates of Fidel
Castro in the early days of the
Republic, a few who were with
him in the guerrilla fighting or
knew him as a student.
The Reader’s Digest editors
collected the stories of hundreds
of Cubans, some in exile, some
still in Cuba where the inter
views were tape recorded. Then
they selected, evaluated and put
together the account of events
from the flight of Batista on Jan
uary 1st, 1959 to Christmas week
1962 when the 1113 prisoners
from the Bay of Pigs invasion
were released.
Many of these stories are tra
gic. Nearly all tell of the people’s
joy at the end of the corrupt,
cruel rule of Batista and their
high hopes of a new truly demo
cratic government. Most of those
quoted shared the general en
thusiasm for Castro, the hero of
the Revolution, though a few
harder heads were doubtful of
his ability to govern. Then we
learn in their own words of grad
ual disillusionment. Castro had
said their Revolution was green
not red. But Guevarra, Raoul
Castro and other d-stermined
Communists took over step by
step land reform, the labor move
ment, communications, schools,
industry. Resistance was often
heroic, but with experienced stra
tegists from Russia guiding them.
Communist miorities, backed by
threats from headquarters, al
ways ended by getting control.
Aside from the effectiveness of
the firsthand reports, the point of
the book seems to be that, as the
economy deteriorated and hunger
appeared, as the regime encount-
tered increasing resentment and
opposition, Castro turn.ed more
and more to Russia for support
and advice. After the visit of Mi-
koyan in February, 1960, conunu-
nisation went faster. So did emi
gration from Cuba.
There is an account of the in
vasion at the Bay of Pigs, again
by men who were there or else
waiting at their posts in Cuba
for the orders to coordinate un
derground forces with the invad
ers, orders that never came.
There is also a resume of the
events of last autumn when hard
proof was presented of missile
bases in Cuba. Finally there are
some interesting speculations on
present relations between Cuba
and the U. S. S. R. and between
Cuba and China.
THE EXILES by Albert J. Gue-
rard (Macmillan $4.95). This novel
seemed fantastic until I had read
■“The Great Deception.” It is the
story of a dilletante American
journalist who became involved
in the affairs of a group of exiles
from Santa Isabella, a fictional
island in the '(Vest Indies where
a dictator had gained power with
promises of land reform and free
democratic government.
The outstanding creation of the
author is the comic character of
Andrada, devoted servant of the
Dictator, at once ridiculous and
convincingly frightening as evi
dence of the power of the Dicta
tor on the minds of simple peo
ple. Against him is set the exile,
Villamayor, a poet. A humanist, a
man of broad culture, who had
briefly been Minister of Educa
tion in the early days of the re
gime. Villamayor has had enough.
Secretly kidnapped from his of
fice in the Bureau of Education,
subjected to cruel torture, he i
eventually escaped to Mexico.
But there were soon new pres
sures on him to head a rebellion,
and he deliberately disappeared
again.
Other characters who figure in
the dramatic developments of
this interesting book are the rich
American woman who makes a
hobby of promoting revolutions,
a military man yearning to lead
any military invasion, and other
odd balls with their individual
drives that attract them to a des
perate enterprise. Villamayor. so
phisticated and disillusioned, sees
them all only too clearly, but he
is also a man of compassion—he
cannot resist them.
The final confrontation between
him and the absurd but fanatic
Andrade is an appealing scene
that shakes each of them but
leaves each unchanged in essen
tials.
MARTHA IN PARIS by Mar
gery Sharp (Little, Brown $3.95).
This is a neat bit of comedy writ
ten in that inimitable manner, so
tart, so refreshing, so very Mar
gery-Sharp. Martha is an artist.
Even as a child she cared more
about lines, shapes, designs than
people. Brought up by an aunt,
she was fortunate in having no
frustrated parents around to
brood over her lack of affection
for them. She was even luckier in
finding early in life a patron who
recognized her unique talent and
understood her.
When she was eighteen, this
patron sent Martha to Paris. She
had been unenthusiastic at the
prospect, but she liked it. They
took painting seriously there. Sin
gle-minded though she remained,
in Paris even Martha discovered
sex. The other party was a thor
oughly “nice” young Englishman.
This led to misunderstandings, be
cause Martha liked sex as she
liked food and hot baths, she did
not propose to let it change her
direction. How she managed
makes the story.
SEVEN-DAY MAGIC by Ed
ward Eager (Harcourt $3.25). In
these days when so many books
are devoted to dosing the child
ren with information in one form
or another, it is good to have a
man of Edward Eager’s literary
talents devoting these to tne de-
March 15 Deadline
Set On Releasing
Cotton Acreage
March 15, will be the final date
for releasing cotton acreage to re
tain history credit for the farm
and county, points out Walter I.
Fields, manager of the Moore
County ASCS office at Carthage.
Each farmer with a cotton al
lotment should decide if his cot
ton will be planted for 1963 and
if it will not he should come by
the county office and release it.
By releasing acreage that will not
be planted, farmers are helping
Moore County to retain “history
credit” which will keep the allot
ment for the county growers. It
will also make the acreage re
leased available for farmers who
want to plant additional acreage
1963.
Last week only 259 acres had
been released for 1963. In 1962
farmers released over 800 acres
and after release there were ap
proximately 450 acres not released
or planted. This acreage which
was not released or planted
caused Moore County to lose al
lotment for 1963, Mr. Fields ex
plained.
lights of the imagination. His ear
lier books from ’’Half Magic” on
have won him a faithful follow
ing.
In this one, five children go to
the library to get books. It was
Susan who picked out the fat lit
tle red book because she liked the
shape and the title had come off
the back. When the children star
ted to read it, they found it was
about themselves, everything
they had said and done that day.
That was the first part; the rest
was shut tight.
Then Fredericka wished the
next chapter would be an adven
ture with wizards and witches.
Promptly a green-eyed dragon
flew low and scooped up Freder
icka, and the second chapter was
begun. It was too scary. Next
time the children were more care
ful, but not too careful. Several
amazing things happened before
the day came to take the book
back to the library—it was a sev
en-day book.
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“BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Service Is A Life
Lesson for March 10, 1963
Blbl« MftterlAl: Mark 10.
Devotional Readlnf: Philipplans
4:4-9.
Service must be a tired word.
It is worn thin by being over
used on less than &st-rate occa
sions. For example, a hotel adver
tises “Service with a Smile.”
What they mean is that the bell
boys will do just what you want
done and ask no
questions. Service
there means that
your whims will
be attended to.
Again, “service”
iO used by manu
facturers and
salesmen all over
the place, mean
ing simply that
Dr. Foreman when the tiling
you bought breaks down they’ll
send help to get it started again;
they will make right what should
have been right in the first place
Strvieo ean bo hcrole
One of the more astonishing
facts about Jesus was that He
could take an old word and give
it a new meaning which it has
never entirely lost. One of these
is this word “Service.” For one
thing. He made it a term of honor.
He told His friends that the way
to greatness is the way of service.
He who be greatest of aU, let Him
be servant of all. He Himself
consciously fulfilled the prophe
cies of the “servant songs” in the
latter half of our book of Isaiah,
in which the “Servant of the Lord”
is described in moving and tragic
words. He told His disciples in one
of their last hours together: “I
am among you as he that serv-
eth.”
Service, as Jesus saw it and
performed It, was no trifle, no
humdrum job. It became a mark
of honor. Not only that, it rose at
times to the heroic. 'When James
and John came asking to sit on
thrones beside His (for it was long
before they got it through their
heads that Jesus was not aiming
for the traditional crown-and-
scepter business) — .Jesus asked
them first if they could be bap
tized with His baptism. They said
yes very easily; but only because
they did not realize what He
meant. It was baptism in blood
He was talking about. The aim of
His life. He had already said, was
•‘not to be served but to serve,
and to give His life.” Service and
sacrifice, service and heroism,
service and honor: Jesus linked
these together once and for all.
Serving the whole man
Some people spend their lives
(and make money) by iooking
after sick cats and dogs. Others
spend their working hours sweep
ing and mopping; and some peo
ple are garbage tippers. Now
there is no work so humble that
it cannot be undertaken in a spirit
of Christ-like service. But there
is something in this world more
important than cats or floors or
garbage: namely people. Jesus
was a carpenter for many years;
but the time came when He could
leave benches and ox-yokes to
others. He would go out to mend
something more fragile than ox-
yokes, more enduring than
benches: human beings. Any one
who is capable of “servicing” hu
man beings, in the way Jesus did,
is wasting his talent on any lesser
material. What would we think of
a Savior of men who ran a cat
shop? Jesus put men together as
He formerly put wood together.
He treated men as whold men, or
He treated them as whole men, or
if they were not. He set out to
make them so. Jesus was healer,
teacher and preacher.
When the higher serves the lower
In the ordinary use of the word
“Service,” people think of the one
w'ho serves as on a lower level,
a lower grade than the one who
gives the orders. Jesus’ idea of it
was quite different from that. To
Jesus’ mind (and who is ever
nearer the truth than He?) it is
the mark of the superior person
to be a servant. His very superi
ority lays an obligation on Him to
help others. There was once a
brilliant scholar who was also an
able doctor, and a great musician
on top of that. This man “buried
himself” in the forests of Africa,
to be a missionary doctor to the
backward people in a backwash
of the world. His friends tried to
keep him from going. You are a
superior man, they argued. Stay
where you will have recognition
and honors! But the young doctoi
went on out to his jungle; and to
day the world honors him, Albert
Schweitzer, far more than they
would have, if he had not devoted
his superiority, in Christ’s name,
for those who were in need of all
things.
(Based on ontlines oopyriirhted by
the Division of Christian Education,
National Council of the Churches of
Christ In the 17. S. A. Released hf
Community Press Service.)
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CHARLES A. PITTS
Pitts To Speak
At 2nd Methodist
Lenten Service
Charles A. Pitts, Presbyterian
layman tvhose home is at Manly,
will be the speaker for the second
of the series of Sunday evening
Lenten services at the Southern
Pines Methodist Church, March
10, at 7:30 p.m..
Mr. Pitts came to Southern
Pines from Toronto, where he
founded the C. A. Pitts Contrac
tors, Ltd., a company that parti
cipated in many outstanding con
struction projects in Canada. In
Toronto , he established the M-P
Foundation which is engaged
solely in religious work. He is a
director on Billy Graham’s board
and is a member of his executive
(committee; a director of the pub
lication “Christianity Today,” and
a director of Fuller Seminary.
Mr. Pitts now devotes 80 per
cent of his time to evangelism.
The public is invited.
The Senior Glee Club of the
East Southern Pines High School
will be heard as they present the
special music of the evening un
der the direction of Bill Mc
Adams. A nursery will be provid
ed for pre-school children.
COLONIAL PLAY
In its 1963 season the Parkway
Playhouse in western North Caro
lina will produce the first play
ever written in colonial America,
completed in North Carolina by
Thomas Godfrey in 1759. An Eliz
abethan drama, “The Prince of
Parthia,” is similar to Shakes
pearean drama with its classic
hero’s rivaled love interest and
family complications.
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METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
Robert S. Mooney» Jr.V Minister
Church School 9:46 a.m.
Worship Service 11:00 a.m.
Youth Fellowship 6:15 p.m,
WSCS meets each third Monday at 8:00
p.m.
Next Sunday
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Avenue
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in CLurcb Buildins; open
Wednesday, 2-4 p.m. ^
ST. ANTHONY»S CATHOLIC
Vermont Ave. at Ashe St.
Father Francis M. Smith
Sunday Masses: 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Daily
Mass 8:10 a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 and 8
a.m. ; Confessions, Saturday, 5:00 to 6:30
p.m.; 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Men’s Club Meeting, 3rd Monday each
month.
Women’s Club meetings: 1st Monday
8 p.m.
Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Wednesday
7 :30 p.m.
Girl Scout Troop No. 118, Monday, 8 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10 a.m., Worship service
11 a.m. and 7 :30 p.m. PYF 6 p.m.; Women
of the Church meeting 8 p.m. second
Tuesday. Mid-week service Thursday 7:30
p.m., choir rehearsal 8:30 p.m.
OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH
Civic Club Building
Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and Ashe St.
Jack Deal, Pastor
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
U.L.C.W. meets first Monday 8 p.m.
Choir practice Thursday 8 p.m.
EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Ave.
Martin Caldwell, Rector
Holy Communion, 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. 4 p.m.
Holy Communion, Wednesday and Holy
Days, 10 a.m. and Friday, 9:30 a.m.
Saturday 4 p.m.. Penance.
BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
Dr. Julian Lake, Minister
May St. at Ind. Ave.
Sunday School 9:46 a.m.. Worship Service
11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m Monday following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at 7 o’clock
each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
(Church of Wide Fellowship)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Carl E. Wallace, Minister
Sunday School, 9:46 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6 ;30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fellowfaip
(Young People).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Ashe St.
Maynard Mangum, Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m.. Worship Service
11 a.m.. Training Union 6:80 p.m.. Eve
ning Worship 7:30 p.m.
Youth Fellowship 8:30 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday 7 :30 p.m.
Mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.;
choir practice Wednesday 8:16 p.m.
Missionary meeting first and third Tues
days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers,
second Thursday, 7 p.m.
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