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THURSDAY, JUiNE 27, 1963 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Page FIFTEEN Some Looks lAt Books By LOCKIE PARKER FRANCIS BACON: The Tem per of a Man. By Catherine Drinker Bowen. (Little, Brown $6.00). Clifton Fadiman has said of this book that it '‘contrives to give back to us moderns, who are in a profound sense Bacon’s heirs, the veritable form of a man who has been greatly praised yet also greatly maligned. . . “He struggled amid the fierce competitive fires of Elizabethan England, where only glory count- Accurate Complete News Coverage Rrinteas in ,>6STpN" LOS>AN<kLES 1 Yeor $22 6 Months $I I 3 Months $5.50 Clip _ this^ advertisement and return it with your check or money order to: The Christion Science Monitor One Norwoy Street Boston 15, Moss. PB-16 ed; he rose at last to one of the highest offices in the land, the Lord Chancellorship and became Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans. At the peak he fell, as a consequence not alone of the flaws in his character but of the machinations of enemies. . . And then in the last five years of his life, living on his estates in lux urious exile, the true temper of his mind was revealed in his thought, his investigation, his curiosity, his vision.” The debt of modern science to Bacon is well known, for he stressed careful observation of ob jects and natural phenomena when most scholars were still de bating systems of thought, he em phasized the value of experimen tation and concentration on pro jects that would be practically useful to man. To many of us he is even better known by his bril liant, worldly wise essays. Such aphorisms as “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune,” are familiar to thous ands, some of whom could not name the source. And what sort of man was Francis Bacon? Accounts of him are contradictory. Certainly he was a complex character. He real ized this and once wrote, “Know ing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have used my life m civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind.” Catherine Bowen, whose repu tation as a biographer has been growing steadily with each suc cessive book, has studied Bacon’s career, his words, his times, and come up with a sympathetic and convincing portrait of a man of genius, of notable virtues and un deniable faults, but not as many as some detractors have attribu ted to him. As A. L. Rowse, spe cialist in Elizabethan history, has testified, “She has seen farther into this difficult and remarkable man than anyone else.” WHERE THE BONG TREE GROWS by James Ramsey UU- man (World $5.95). At the age of fifty James Ullman made a lei surely excursion to the South Seas. Out of this experience came one novel, “Fia Fia,” and this rather personal journal. It will not carry you into the keen rap tures of his mountain books. It was a different kind of country, he was older, and he seems curi ously embarrassed by the literary men who were there before him— “The ghosts of Melville and Stev enson stood beside me, eying me quizzically, as if to ask, ‘Little man, what now?’ ” Yet he saw much they never say. He saw and recorded with discernment the mingling of the old and the new. And he was very thorough, covering an. amazing number of the smell islands of the mid-Pacific, The Carolines, the Marshalls, the Gilberts, the Tonga Islands, Samoa, Tahiti and the Marquesas. He did not find it all a languid paradise, the home of happy primitive people. The last hundred years had brought changes, changes greatly acceler ated by World War II when many of these islands had been battle fields. Yet ever and again on nights at sea, on journeys into the in terior, on trips in small boats to outlying islands, Ullman felt the famous charm of the tropical seas and the coral lagoons and came to love the friendly easy-going islanders. Taking the route he did from east to west, the islands became always more like the dream, from the U. S. Trust Terri tories where he admired the ad ministration’s achievements in education and public health, through the British Crown Col ony of the Fiji Islands with its classic style and colonial know how to Tahiti and the more easy going French control. From his point of view the last was the best—” a blend of old ways and new ways, Tahitian and French. . . and they add up to a world of marvelous charm and fascina tion.” He acquired a bungalow and a native sweetheart here— life was very relaxed and delight ful. But deeply as Ullman approved I the tendency of the islanders to reject the white man’s habits of worry and work, fascinating as he found the climate, the laugh ter, the singing, he did not think it a good place for him or for most western men. “White-man- gone-to-pot in tropics,” he says, j may be a venerable cliche, but it is often a fact. In his last chap- jter he reflects on the why and wherefore of this. THE RACE OF THE TIGER by Alexander Cordell (Doiibleday $4.95). This is the story of the be ginnings of a great industrial city, Pittsburgh. It is the Pittsburgh of Andrew Carnegie a hundred years ago when the Irish immi grants were pouring into this country, fleeing from famine in Ireland. What they found in Pittsburgh makes an intriguing story that captures and holds the reader’s interest from first to last. Into this brawling, smoking steel town came the O’Haras, the pride of County Connemara, the fighting O’Haras. When they were not fighting, they were making love. Their love stories are told with refreshing reticence from the blatant detail of some recent fiction; something is left to the imagination. The O’Haras are warm and real, they love music and laugh ter, but they have a fierce Irish pride when “their blood is up.” Karen O’Hara is a vivacious jig- and-reel dancing colleen with “a double-edged tongue.” This book on the beginnings of the steel industry in Pittsburgh is a hearty yarn based on some of the more ruthless and unpleas ant aspects of men in the grip of the Industrial Revolution. It tells how the wealthy Iron Barons ex ploited the desperate need of the Welsh, Polish, German and Irish immigrants and ignored their ap- palingly low wages, the absence of safety measures, the effects on women and children of work ing under indecent conditions. The main character is unfor gettable young Jess O’Hara who fights his way up to the manage ment of a steel mill. The story is complicated by what he discov ers about a certain rich young man. Alexander Cordell is an Eng lishman by birth, who has lived in Wales for twenty years, but he writes as if the Irish were his own people. —-R. NEIL TOTAL PERFORMANCE: #1 FORD GALAXIE 500/XL SPORTS HARDTOP IF YOU KNEW WHAT THIS KILLEr KNOWS.o.YOU’D BE DRIVING A SOLID, SILENT SUPER TORQUE FORD This steel-edged pothole is probably the world's toughest test of a car's suspension. We drive into this car killer at 30 mph, locking our brakes as we go so the wheels can't roll through the hole as they normally would. The car slams against the far edge of the hole with such impact that it literally bounds out. If you added up the cumulative effect of all the jars and jolts your car's suspension system experiences in years of normal driving, it wouldn't match the impact of one trip through the hole. Yet—a Ford must run this test three times to prove its strength. How can a Ford take it? Because Ford's front suspension has extra beef in spindles, springs, suspension arms—in fact, it's about 20 pounds heavier than the front suspension of our principal competitor's car. We don't expect you to abuse your car the way we do our test cars. But, however you drive, you'll welcome the extra strength of a total performance Ford. Ford strength is tested in a thousand ways in Ford's laboratories and proving grounds—and in open competition in the world's toughest rallies and stock car events. Look at Ford's astounding record in open competition this year in the grueling Daytona, Riverside, and Atlanta 500's, the World 600 at Charlotte, N.C., and in the demanding Pure Oil Performance Trials. Only a car with total performance—the best combination of strength, balance, precision control and road- clinging suspension—could roll up so many wins. Before you buy any new car, test-drive the solid, silent Super Torque Ford. If you haven't driven one lately, you can't really know what a new Ford is like. Make this important discovery; if it's built by Ford, ifs built for performance...total performance. FARM BUREAU DIRECTORS MEET Farmers Urged Claim Refunds Of State Gas Tax; By-Laws Approved BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Praise The Lord Lesson for June 30, 1963 “j YEARS THE SYMBOL OF DEPENDABLE PRODUCTS MOTOR COMPANY solid, silent SUPER TORQUE Drive The Cars With TOTAL Performance At Your Ford Dealer’s Today ! Bible Material: I Chronlclca IS; Pealma 146; 147; 150. Devotional Reading; Psalm 14S;1.6a, ' I 'HERE used to be a children’s game, that went like this; the first cMd would say, “I love my love with an A because she’s At tractive,” and the next would say, “1 love my love with a B because she’s Beautiful’f . . . and so on i down the alpha-! bet. Grown people can play at the same game. But it becomes seri ous when you are grown up. There’s a curious thing about love, though; at the moment you feel Dr. Foreman most enthusiastic and grateful about one you love,' you aren’t thinking up reasons. If j you are reaUy in love, you don’t need reasons. Yet there are rea sons, or ought to be. To love with out thinking of reasons is good; to love against all reason and common sense, is bad. Praise the Lord, because • •. It is so in religion. When you are in the mood to praise God, you are not figuring out reasons for doing so. You just praise Him out of a full and overflowing heart. But there are the best of reasons for praising the God we love. The unknown poet who wrote the 146th Psalm does not put in the word “because” anywhere. He begins the psalm with “Praise the Ixird!” and he' ends it in the same words. [“Hallelujah” means literally “Praise the Lord.”] Between these two shouts of praise, how ever, he says a number of things about God, and they aU add up to reasons why we ought to do tliis. V/e should never praise him from a feeling of duty. That would be like a man who would kiss his wife every morning at 7; 30 sharp because his memorandum book had in it the line; 7:30 P.M. Kiss Wife. But praise is not senseless, it is emotional but emotion-with- a-reason. In the high moments of worship we are not doping out reasons why; but in quiet mo ments when we have time to think, we can think of reasons in plenty, and we know we were not carried away by mere sheer emo tion when we sang our Halle lujahs. The source of all good God is the source of all good: this is the belief of aU Christians and Jews, and certainly is the teaching of the Bible. (Why this is so, the reader may figure out for himself.) This means that God does not simply discover good.— that is, goodness, beauty and truth in any of their manifold forms—God does not “latch on” to what He discovers and claim the credit Himself. He is the Or iginator, the Planner, the Crea tor, the Rewarder, of what is good. Consider the matters for which the Psalmist wishes God fe- be remembered and thanked. First of aU is Creation itself; then he mentions God’s faithfulness, and His justice, and His providen tial care for the “forgotten man,” the hungry and the oppressed. When a prisoner is set free; when the blind are enabled,to see; when the mourner is comforted; when a man becomes a righteous char acter; when the helpless are cared for (widows, orphans and traveling strangers were the most forlorn people in the world of that day); when a wicked man like Hitler for example is brought to rum; this calls for prajse to the Lord who reigns forever. Two quesiioRS The skeptic has a question to ask at this point,—two in fact. One is this: Hasn’t the Psalmi.st let his imagination run away with him? If he knew what kind of world this is, he would realize that widows and orphans are not al ways helped, justice is not always done, most blind people stay blind. And as for the world, the skies, earth and seas “and all that is in them,” are we to believe that God created disease germs and parasites, are we obliged to believe that G^ personally makes volcanoes kill thousands of help less people? If God is the source of aU good, must He not also take the blame for aU the evil? . These questions can be an swered together, though this calls for much discussion. To be sure, the Christian will say, as his Jewish brother will: to be sure, it is seldom—some would say never, that God directly does these things. In virtually all cases. He works through persons. And that is the answer to the first question; if good is not done, it is not that God has forgotten. It is we who have failed to let Him work through us for good. (Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Edaeatlon/ National Connell of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Servlee.) At the June 21 meeting of Moore County Farm Bureau board of directors, approval was given to a new set of by-laws for the organization, which will be presented to the membership for adoption or revision at the Fall General meeting. The Board seemed pleased with the accom plishment of the By-Laws Com mittee, composed of S. R. Rans- dell, Jr., Fleet Allen and J. D. Shields. The Agricultural Building Committee was instructed to con tinue study of promoting interest in the erection of this county fa cility. An executive committee for or ganizing an effective membership drive for early Fall was named. President J. A. Smith expressed conviction that with improved services offered to members through an office open five and a half days per week and other in- ;creased tangible benefits, 1964 would continue to bring in new memberships. The board voted unanimously to continue the group policy in surance covering farmer family members in accidental death by tractor or other motorized farm equipment, at no cost above membership. President Smith expressed special concern at the failure of Moore County farmers to claim thousands of dollars due them as refunds on gasoline tax paid on fuel used for non-road purposes. As this tax refund is something the Farm Bureau worked hard to get authorized, the board is es pecially anxious that members avail themselves of the free serv ices of the office secretary in fil ing their refund claims during July, August, and September for the 10 cents per gallon used the past year to June 30 . Regret was expressed at the loss of former office secretary Mrs. Louise Alford, who recently moved with her husband to Troy. However, the board was pleased at having secured the services of Miss Kathy Kiser of Route 3, Car thage, a recent commercial grad uate of Farm Life High School. Kathy will continue free services to members. 5 From Moore Allend Wingale Summer School The first session of Wingate College Summer School at Win gate has a record summer enroll ment of 351. Enrolled in the first session Of summer school from Moore Coun ty are; Kenny Wayne Bedding- field, son of Mr. and Mrs. John McKenzie, Pinehurst; Edwin Hoyt Caddell, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Caddell, Vass; Ronald Wayne Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Carter, Jackson Springs, William Floyd Dunn, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Dunn, Aber deen: and James Edward 'liiomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Thom as, Route 1, Cameron. The s.ession will end July 13. Young adolescents (12 to 16) appear to be the best pedestrians. Their dangerous actions as walk ers are relatively small, but they pay a heavy toll as bike riders. FOR A COOL DEAL CONDITIONER FROM VASS TV & RADIO Next Sunday METHODIST CHURCH Midland Road Robert S. Mooney, Jr., Minister Church School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Youth Fellowship 6 :15 p.m. WSCS meets each third Monday at 8:00 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH New Hampshire Avenue Sunday Service, 11 a.m. Sunday School, 11 a.m. Wednesday Service, 8 p.m. Reading Room in Church Building 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 SiSC- p.m.; 7:30 to 8 p.m. Men’s Club Meeting, 8r6 Monday each month. Women’s Club meetings: 1st Monday 8 p.m. Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Wednesday 7 :30 p.m. Girl stout 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 8t. Jack Deal, Pastor Worship Service, 11 a.m, Sunday School, 9:46 a.m. 1 U.L.C.W. meets first Monday 8 p.m. 1 Choir practice Thursday 8 p.m. ‘ j 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 9:45 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, 7:80 THE UNITED CHURCH OP 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, 6:00 p.m.. Youth Fellowship Women’s Fellowship meets 4th Thursday at 12:30 p.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH i New York Ave. at South Ashe St. Maynard Mangnm, Minister Bible School, 9:45 a.m.. Worship Service 11 a.m., Training Union 6:30 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 Tae»* days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers, second Thursday, 7 p.m. —This Space Donated in the Interest of the Churches by— SANDHILL DRUG CO. SHAW PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. A & P TEA CO. ' JACKSON MOTORS, Inc. Ill gon FORD Dealer CLARK & BRADSHAW PERKINSON'S, Inc. 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