THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
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Some Looks
At Books
By LOCKIE PKARKER
PORTRAIT OF MYSEU by
Margaret Bourke-White (Simon
& Sch«slex $5.95). A wise
Frenchman said long ago that if
a book gave you a lift of the
spirit, you should ask no further
—it was a good book for you.
This is that kind of book. Marga
ret Bourke-White has found joy
in so many aspects of living—the
sights and sounds of the world,
her work, her contacts with peo
ple. She has even had the grace
to be grateful for adversity be
cause it spurred her to new ef
forts and developed her strength
to endure the knocks of life. After
adjusting to the cruel disappoint
ment of hsr early marriage, she
said “nothing would ever seem
hard to me again.”
Her photography has made her
famous, but it was only when she
had to have money to finish col
lege that she took it up seriously
and made pictures of Cornell
University campus to sell to fel
low students. She succeeded.
However, it was photographs she
took with no prospect of sale just
because the subject attracted her
—^pictures of the industries along
the Cleveland water front—^that
really brought her into the big
time. She was surprised when
the head of the steel company
was glad to pay $100 each for
pictures she had coaxed him into
letting her take in the steel mill.
More important still they
brought her a telegram from New
York where Henry B. Luce was
laying his plans for Fortune, and
thus began a long association
with that magazine and Life,
which gave her unparalelled op
portunities as a photographer.
She was sent to the “Dust Bowl,”
to Russia, the Arctic, India and
two wars.
Her experience as a photog
rapher and as a person are well
told. She is generous in her ap
preciation of what others did to
help her, though she was never
one to sit down and wait for help.
Obstacles only stimulated her. As
she had never doubted that she
would get into those steel mills,
so she kept trying until she got
a Russian visa and even photo
graphed Stalin. The same quali
ties carried her through her
struggle with Parkinson’s disease,
which had so incapacitated her
that she could use neither camera
nor typewriter.
As on.’ would expect, this book
is illustrated with some fine pho
tographs, some that she looks on
a milestones in her career, and
ethers more personal, from her
baby picture to those of her
physical therapy when recover
ing from Parkinson’s disease, the
last included because she felt her
own experiences might help oth
ers similarly stricken to perse
vere in the long way back to
health and control of movement.
STORY HOUR by Sara Hen-
dszson Hay (Doubleday $2.95).
Definitely not for children. Miss
Hay’s verses in this entertaining
book suggest—sometimes gently,
sometimes sharply, always wit
tily—how thirty of our best
loved fairy tales might have been
written if they had been dealing
with real people instead of make-
believe characters. For example
one of the dwarfs recalls in what
comfortable disorder they lived
before Snow White came and
added the woman’s touch, now
“She scrubs, she sweeps, she even
dusts the ceilings;
She’s made us build a tool shed
for our stuff.
Dinner’s at eight, the table set
ting’s formal.
And if I weren’t afraid I’d hurt
her feelings
I’d move until we get her mar
ried off.
And things can gradually slip
back to normal.”
Miss Hay has won several poet
ry awards, and her work appears
frequently in The New Yorker,
Harper’s Atlantic Monthly and
other periodicals.
DR. SEUSS'S ABC (Random
House $1.95). Beginning with
Aunt Annie’s Alligator, on which
she rides elegantly gloved and
hatted, this book will disappoint
none of the great doctor’s fans.
Children should find it a painless
way to learn the alphabet, with
a bonus of much laughter as they
learn. The pictures are as gaily
fanciful as ever from the police
man in a pail to the Zizzer-
ms/
Books Added At
Loodf Library
Books added to the Southern
Pines Library collection during
August have been announced as
follows by Mrs. Stanley Lam-
bourne, librarian:
The Road to Huddersfield by
James Morris, Joy in the Morn
ing by Betty Smith, 'rtie Horse
man’s Encyclopedia by Margaret
C. Self, The Unicorn by Iris Mur
doch, The Pumpkin Eater by Pen
elope Mortimer, The Dead of
Summer by Mary Kelly, Arche
ological Techniques for Amateurs
by Philip C. Hammond, The
Mother Hunt: A Nero Wolf
Novel by Rex Stout.
Also: American Negro Poetry
by Arna W. Bontemps, A Call
from Austria by Martha Albrand,
Guess Whose Hair I’m Wearing
by Hildegarde Dolson, Clandara
by Evelyn Anthony, Does It
Make into a Bed by Lorna Novak,
Double Exposure by Donald Mc
Kenzie, ’The Collector by John
Fowles, The Last Love by Thomas
B. Costain, Moore County Oper
ational Survival Plan published
by N. C. Civil Defense Agency.
Zazzer-Zuzz, whom you must see
to believe. For those interested in
pursuing their alphabet studies
further, we recommend Dr.
Seuss’s “On Beyond Zebra.”
MR. TWITMEYER AND THE
POODLE by Adelson & Moore
(Random House $1,951). Another
happy story about Mr. Twitmeyer
and his training school for dogs
will rejoice slightly older chil
dren about seven to ten. Mr.
Twitmeyer had a way with dogs.
He had improved the manners
of some of the most troublesome
canines in West Brook. But he
was almost baffled by Noodle,
the mischievous black poodle
whom he first saw chasing a
monkey around the pet shop.
Noodle looked a darling. One
owner after another took her hap
pily home, only to return her in
a day or two, outraged by her
pranks. But Mr. Twitmeyer be
lieved there was a right some
one for every dog and kept on
until he found a surprising an
swer for Noodle. Lots of fun and
pictures go with a good story.
WINSTON CHURCHILL by
Quention Reynolds (Landmark
$195). Quentin Reynolds has
provided both a lively story and
a well-balanced biographical
sketch of Churchill for a new
generation of youngsters who
have no m..emories of Churchill’s
The group meets every second
ANYONE CAN JOIN
Great Books Club
To Open Sessions
Monday Evening
The Great Books Club will hold
its first meeting of the season on
Monday at 8 p.m. at the Southern
Pines Library. Interested people
Eire invited to attend. The group
will discuss Mark Twain’s Huckle
berry Finn from an adult’s point
of view, taking into account its
deeper implications, a member of
the club said.
David Drexel will continue as
leader of the group assisted by
Alec Strong. For the past two
years, William Bonsai III was al
ternate leader but has elected to
step down so that he may enter
into the discussion. As leader he
was only permitted to ask ques
tions that would stimulate dis
cussion among the other partici
pants.
and fourth Monday of each month
at the library at 8 p.m. for two
hours, to talk about the great
books. Everyone reads the same
selections. There are no lectures.
There are no educational re
quirements and no fees. Purchase
of a seat of paperbound books is
optional. Anyone with a willing
ness to read and desire to talk
with others on fundamental issues
may join.
Selections to be discussed this
year also include:
The Book of Job, Aeschylus:
The Oresteia, Thucydides: History
of the Peloponnesian War (selec
tions), Plato: Symposium, Aris
totle: Politics (selections), St.
Thomas Aquinas: Treatise on
Law, Rabelais: Gargantua and
Pantagruel, Calvin: Institutes,
Shakespeare: King Lear, Francis
Bacon: Novum Organum, Locke:
Of Civil Government, Voltaire:
Candide, Rousseau: 'The social
Contact, Gibbon: Decine and Fall
(chs. 15, 16),' Dostoyevsky: ’The
Brothers Karamazoy, Freud: The
Origin & Development of Psy
choanalysis.
great days as a war leader.
And what material the author
had for his story! The cadet at
Sandhurst, the young soldier in
India, the newspaper correspon
dent of the Boer War who was
captured and made a lone escape
—these were all colorful char
acters, and Quentin Reynolds has
done justice to them. But he does
not let them overshadow the
young Churchill building a ca
reer in the political arena, nor his
em.ergence in the Second World
War as a leader who heartened
his own people in dark days and
inspired their allies.
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BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Life of Faith
Lesson for September 29, 1963
Bible Material: Genesis; Psalm 105:
1<24; Galatians 3; Hebrews 11:1>22.
Devotional Reading: Psalm 105:1>11*
ttU'AITH” is despised by peo-
^ pie who don’t have it and
don’t understand it. Faith is cari
catured as an attitude of ignor
ance. It is compared to taking a
chance or going on an errrand
that is bound to fail. Faith is said
(by people who
have none) to be
like a man buy
ing medicines and
swallowing them
with outlooking at
the labels or read
ing the directions.
Faith has been
compared to a
blind man going
Dr. Foreman down into the cel
lar at midnight, without a light,
looking for a black cat that isn’t
there.
Faith’s uncertainties
Nobody who has long lived the
life of faith is bothered by such
misunderstandings. For one thing,
he knows very well that the man
who teUs you he believes only
what he can test with his own five
senses does not really mean it,
because if you believe only what
you can personally test, you will
have an unhappy time of it. Sup
pose you try eating breakfast
without faith some morning. The
label on the cereal box says it has
riboJavin and vitamin B and a lot
of other things. Do you know that
none of these is poisonous? Do
you know they’re all tliere? You
know nothing of the sort; you be
lieve it. You go to the hospital for
an operation; do you know the
surgeon’s hand won’t slip? No,
but you trust yourself to him all
the same. There can’t be any
more certainty than the certainty
of faith, in most circumstances of
life.
The men whose lives have been
briefly before us in these past few
weeks, Abraham, Jacob and Jo
seph, knew what the uncertainties
of faith can be. Abraham went
“not knowing whither he went.”
Jacob had no assurance that his
God would prosper him. He hoped
so, to be sure; but to the end of
bis days there were question
marks in liis future. So with Jo
seph; for long years, though the
word is not written large in the
stories of him, the fact of his faith
is there. If Joseph had yielded to
the tyranny of the obvious, he
would have stayed a slave. He
lived by what he did not see.
Th« certainties of faith
Did you ever fly, as a passen
ger, in a little plane just big
enough for two? Just for a joke,
while you were fastening your
seat belt, you may have sung a
verse or two of “Dig my grave
with a silver spade.” But you
buclded that belt and up you rose
into the scary sky. Now you be
lieved in a lot of things. You be
lieved the engine would not “conk
out,” you believed the wings were
fastened with something stronger
than glue, you believed the tail
assembly would hang together,
that the direction-finder and the
altimeter and the dozen or so
other gadgets on the instrument
board were accurate, you believed
in all the radio control towers
and beacons you overflew; but
when you come right down to it,
what you really put faith in was
not a what, it was a who. Ton
trusted the pilot. You (not being
a pilot, and not used to flying per
haps) could not predict what he
would do next. If you never stud
ied aerodynamics, the chances
are that you didn’t even ^ow ex
actly how the plane stays aloft.
You certainly could not read the
Inside of the pilot’s mind. But
you trusted him all the same.
Qod Is the pitot
You see there are a lot of things
to trust in even a small airplane.
But you don’t really trust the
things, but the pilot, a person.
You trust him (among other
things) to check everything about
the plane, you put your faith in
his knowledge and in his skills.
If you couldn’t trust him, you
couldn’t very well trust the plane.
The Ufe of faith in God is like
that. 'There are many things we
have to believe in, on our flight
through this life. But essentiaUy.
religious faith is faith in a person,
our Father in heaven. We can’t
see what He is doing, we can’t
understand all He does even when
we see Him do it, we don’t know
why this or that happens. There’s
a great deal more &at we don’t
know than we do know. But we
trust Him. The great difference
between God and any airline pilot
is that even the boldest and most
skilful pilots know there are kinds
of clouds they dare not enter,
weather conditions they cannot
control. The best of them can be
groimded. But the true God is
never grounded, for no cloud is
too dark and storm-swept for Him.
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