THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1963
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page THREE
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
SAND ROOTS by Ben Dixon
MacNeill (Blair $5^5). Ben Dixon
MacNeill was for many years a
reporter with the Raleigh “News
and Observer” and had published
one book before his death in 1960.
That book, “The Hatterasman,”
a four-hundred year chronicle of
Hatteras Island won the May
flower Society Award in 1953.
MacNeill had written “Sand
Roots” before “The Hatteras
man,” but it was not until the
latter book was nearing publica
tion that he would show his pub
lisher even the outside of the
earlier manuscript, and it was
not until after his estate had been
settled that the publisher was
able to secure the rights.
“Sand Roots,” published today
is also a story of Cape Hatteras
and of a young Islander who
tries to break away from the tra
ditions of his family of sui’fmen,
yet is irresistibly drawn back
to the Outer Banks, to the sea,
• and to the Hatteras light.
The author wrote that “this
land lies under an enchantment,”
and in his novel he used his in
timate knowledge of the island
to show that there are elements
there to sustain and embrace—
or to uproot and even kill those
who come under her spell.
MacNeill retired to Buxton on
Hatteras Island in 1945, where he
lived in a very small house over
looking the sea and the sand from
which he could see the Hatteras
light. There he wrote his two
books, and there he died at the
age of 71, as much a legend as
the Islanders who had come to be
his friends.
At the time of his death, “Sand
Roots” was still an unrevised
manuscript. The publication
rights were given to St. Andrews
Presbyterian College, and the
book has been cut and edit 3d by
H. Leon Gatlin HI, a member of
the St. Andrews English depart
ment.
The jacket design is reproduc
ed here, by Claude How-all of
Wilmington, North Carolina, who
also illustrated Mr. MacNeill’s
first volume.
THING TO LOVE by Geoffrey
Household (Little, Brown $5.95).
A critic recently named Geoffrey
Household as one of the writers
who had raised the thriller to the
status of art—^see “Watcher in the
Shadows.” That was a little clas
sic of pursuit, but this is a more
ambitious novel with revolution
in a middle-sized Latin American
country as background. It is con
temporary and includes some
shrewd observations on the de
veloping of undeveloped coun
tries. There is plenty of suspense
ful narrative, too, but the sus
pense is not only in plot; I found
myself just as concerned to
know how the crisis itself would
turn out.
The novel is centered around
one major character. Miro Kuoera
is a Czech who had come to the
country in 1945, “a homeless man
with the techniques of modern
war as his only asset.” The'
shrewd and able President Vidal
who with help from North Amer
ica was busily modernizing the
civil service, building roads and
factories, gave Kucera a Division
to train and equip by the stan
dards of modern warfare. Kuoera
was grateful for work that suited
him and for much else his adopt
ed country had given him. Only
one thing did not work out as Vi
dal expected. The Fifth Division
was devoted to Kucera rather
than to the government in power.
In fact the book is mainly about
the effect of Kuoera’s devotion to
duty, as he saw it, on others.
When revolution comes, it is
viewed without alarm by the
Latin Americans who have seen
sev.3ral such explode and pass
like summer storms. But the
usual pattern is upset by the ef
ficiency of Kucera’s Fifth Divi
sion and the pressure brought by
the North Americans.
Despit.2 the timeliness of the
situation, this is essentially .a ro
mantic novel of adventure with
the peerless hero and the leading
characters, gentlemen all.
THE GIRLS OF SLENDER
MEANS by Muriel Spark (Knopf,
$3.95). The action of the new
Church Men To
Hear Dr. Holder
At Camp Monroe
The Rev. Fred C. Holder will
be the evening^ speaker for the
meeting of the Men of the
Church of Fayetteville Presby
tery Sunday, September 8, at
Camp Monroe near Laurinburg.
Mr. Holder who will speak on
“Renewal of Your Mind,” is a na
tive of Lillington and is now di
rector of Program and Service,
Division of Men’s Work for the
Board of Christian Education,
Presbyterian Church, U. S., Rich
mond, Va.
Other leaders will be The Rev.
W. B. Heyward of Raeford, Dr.
W. C. Neill of Aberdeen Dr. J.
C. V. Summerell of Fayetteville
and Dr. Julian Lake of South
ern Pines.
Registration will begin at 3
p. m. and the meeting will con
clude at 7:45. All Presbyterian
Men of Fayetteville Presbytery
are urged to be present for this
program of worship and fellow
ship.
novel by the author of ‘The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” takes
place in London between V-E
Day and V-J Day at a hotel for
“the Protection of Ladies of
Slender Means below the age of
Thirty Years, who are obliged to
reside apart from their Families
in order to follow an Occupation
in London.”
The , hotel, called the May of
Teck Club (founded and named
for Queen Mary) is not unlike
a college dorm and life is lived
there by the girls of slender
means as if they still were col
lege students. The club has man
aged to survive the blitz and
even has an unexploded bomb in
its garden. But not even this fact,
or the war, shortages or rationing
has dampened the spirits of the
diversified group of young jadies
who call the club home. And a
peculiar lot they are. There are
three older women left over from
the pre-war days who act as
chaperones of a sort, a rector’s
daughter who gives elocution les
sons to her friends at the club,
an amorous beauty who is the
proud possessor of a Schiaparelli
dress that she lends to tbs others
on special occaion, a secretary to
an unethical publisher, a wealthy
niece of one of the club’s spon
sors, a reserved young lady who
Legal Notice
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF MOORE
The undersigned having duly
qualified as the Administrator of
the Estate of Glenn Baldwin, late
of the above named County and
State, all persons, firms or cro-
porations having claims of what
soever nature against the said
Glenn Baldwin, Deceased, are
hereby notified to exhibit the said
claim or claims to the undersign
ed on or before the 15th day of
February, 1964, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their re
covery. All persons, firms or cor
porations indebted to the said
Glenn Baldwin, Deceased, are
hereby requested to pay the said
indebtedness to the undersigned
1963.
William O. Baldwin,
Administrator
W. Lamont Brown
Attorney
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nightly dines with a famous
movie star, and quite a lot of
young ex-service girls.
Several years after the war,
the death of a religious mission
ary in Haiti recalls the memories
of the war days and the May of
Teck Club to several of its for
mer residents.
How the girls live out their
lives against the background of
war and the final and ironic de
struction of the club make this
a moving and poignant story.
—A.M.S.
IF YOU COULD CHOOSE THE SLOT WHERE YOUR TAX MONEY GOES...
you would probably pick defense, or space ex
ploration, or some other vital government job.
It isn’t likely that you’d pick a job for which
there is no need to spend your tax money.
Yet some people keep urging the federal
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into federally-owned electric power plants
and lines, where 5^/^ billion dollars have al
ready gone.
There’s no! the ? ! for
Kin
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Needless spending of your tax money would
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR
Having qualified as Adminis
trator of the estate of Anna E.
Block, deceased, late of Moore
County, North Carolina, notice is
hereby given to all persons hav
ing claims against said estate, to
present them, duly verified, to the
undersigned on or before Febru
ary 22, 1964, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es
tate will please make prompt set
tlement with the undersigned.
This 21st day of August 1963.
Charles Block, Administrator
Estate of Aima E. Block, de
ceased, Southern Pines,
North Carolina
Rowe and Rowe, Attorneys
Southern Pines, North Carolina
A22,29,S5,12c
BY DR.. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
God Knows Why
Lesson for September 8, 1963
Dr. Foreman
Next Sunday
METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
A. L. Thompson. Minister
Church School 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service 11:00 a.m.
Youth Fellowship C:16 p.m.
WSCS meets each third Monday at 8:00
p.m.
Bible Haterialt Genesla 37 through
60.
DeTottonal Readiof: Psalm 37:l-n.
\^HEN we wonder why some-
thing should happen we think
ought not to happen; when a bur
den long borne becomes daily
harder to bear; when a good man
goes down in defeat or a bad man
prospers, in short, when it looks
almost as if the
devil and not God
were in charge
here; when we
wonder why, we
are indirectly ex
pressing our faith
in God. All Chris
tians, and some
also who have
never taken that
name, do believe
in a God who is bo& good and
almighty. If He were only good
but not almighty, or only almighty
and not good, we would not won
der at all. It is only those who be
lieve in the true God who wonder
why.
The story of Joseph
The story of Joseph in the Old
Testament hasn’t a miracle in it.
Joseph never performed one, He
never saw any one else do it. Yet
the story of Joseph gives us some
of the most important clues to
the way God takes care of His
own, and brings His purposes to
pass even with the help of those
who are reckless and wicked. It
helps us when we wonder “Why?”
to read again this famous story
and to think about it.
Joseph’s brothers were a bad
lot, there is no doubt about that.
You cannot blame Jacob for play
ing favorites when he picked out
Joseph for special favors. Joseph
was the son of the only wife Jacob
ever loved; and besides, he was
not only better, he was smarter
than tlie rest of the family. Any
body who is smarter than the peo
ple around him doesn’t help mat
ters by bragging, and Joseph did
brag. Even in his dreams he was
the kingpin and he let everybody
know it. His brothers might have
been expected to resent this and
to pick on Joseph, maybe e\vn
beat him. But they did worse than
that, they thought beating was o.o
good for him, and plotted to mur
der him. Brothers don’t come any
lower down than that.
“You meant evil”
These men without a conscience
did not murder their brother after
all. But that was not because they
thought better of it. If anything.
What they did was worse than
killing: they sold him for a slave.
Instead of a swift death, their
brother would have a long linger
ing dcath-in-life, the miserable ex
istence of a slave in those days
when a slave’s life was worth but
little. The only reason they didn’t
kill Joseph was that they could
make a little money (about two
dollars each) by selling him. The
lie they told their father about it,
or rather the lie they acted out,
was all of a piece with the rest of
it. There wasn’t a shred of good
in the intentions of those ruflSans.
Furthermore, there was no good
in the Midianite slave traders,
and there was no good in the slave
trade. When Potiphar bought Jo
seph, he didn’t do so from mo
tives of charity. It was purely a
business transaction. Years and
years after this, Joseph said to
his aging brothers, speaking of
these same events, “You meant
evil against me.” (Gen. 50:20)
But God meant it for good
In the same sentence, hardly
stopping for breath, the boy Jo
seph now a middle-age3 experi
enced man, went on to say, “but
God meant it for good.” At the
time of that wicked sale of Joseph
to the wandering traders, it would
have been no wonder if Joseph
had been “wondering why . .
Why didn’t God stop this terrible
thing? We can Imagine that on
the way to Egypt (some days’
journey at best) a bright 17-year-
old like Joseph might have plotted
an escape; and if he had tried it
(maybe he did, at that) you would
have surely been hoping he could
manage the break-away. But no,
it was not to be. The whole future
of the nation of Israel depended
on Joseph’s being sold into Egypt.
Indeed one may say that aU his
tory depended on it. If he had
broken away, and gone home,
there would have been nowhere
to go when the big famine struck.
The Israelites would never have
found stored-up grain in Egypt,
they never woidd have found pro
tection there, there would never
have been an Exodus, a Moses,
a David . . . Never a Mary and
never the other Joseph. Never a
babe in the manger at Bethlehem,
never a Cross, a Resurrection, a
Good News. What would have
happened to the world? It is too
dark to think about; but try to
imagine what this world would
be if there never had been a
Christ nor any Christians. Surely
“God meant it for good.”
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Dtyttloa ChrlstUn Edveatlon*
National Connoll of the Chnrchoo of
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire ATenuo
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.in.
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 6:86>
p.m.; 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Men's Club Meeting, Srd 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 8:80 p.m.
OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH
Civic Clnb Bnilding
Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and Ashe 8t«
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 Massachasetts Avs.
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. Jnlian Lake, Minister
May St. at Ind. Are.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.. Worship Seryioo
11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m Monday following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at 7 o’cloek
each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday, 7:80 pJM.
THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
(Church of Wide Fellowship)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Carl E. Wallace, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 ajn.
Sunday, 6:00 p.m., Youth Fellowship
Women's Fellowship meets 4th Thursday
at 12:30 p.m.
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 6:30 p.m., Ev^
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. i
choir practice Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting first and third Taea-
days, 8 p.m. Church and family sappers,
second Thursday, 7 pjn.
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