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Alcoholic'Story Well Told Authority Says INCIDENTALLY THE NEWS AND OBSERVER RALEIGH SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 13 MO --IIIL3-4- Story of Tom Wol te 11 Mother 1 Alfred Viilliams Co I A 1 MAWS WIFE THOMAS Norwood's story answers that wish1 WOLFE' MOTHER By Hayden Nor- wood harles Scribner lf 's Sons New It IS Mrs Woe's one lady York 75 who "could talk the hinges off a barn 1 0 The Asheville readers of Torn door" and the book introduces a Volfe's "Look Homeward Angel" witty and original woman with esented the picture the gifted au- humor inflexible determination a 0 11 toi lom tror made of his mother called prodigious memory and a stupend- Gant and other citizens of ous gift of mirth and love of busi- Ix I at I es tv Pt 1 a rtilcit A021 hek-i thrnuya li qhf vir I i 04 I MARBLE MAWS WIFE THOMAS WOLFE MOTHER By Hayden Norwood Charles Scribner a Sons New York 75 The Asheville readers of Torn Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel" resented the picture the gifted autlfor made of his mother called Eliza Gant and other citizens of Asheville He he Norwood's story answers that wish It Is Mrs Wolfe's one lady who "could talk the hinges off a barn door" and the book introduces a witty and original woman with humor inflexible determination a prodigious memory and a stupendous gift of mirth and love of business deals The book throws light 0 coLumN By NELL BATTLE LEWIS Watch This Column Weekly For All New And Popular never thought was writing the true story of her life though he did magnify some of his mother's qualities not such as to win approval This fictional picture whetted the appetite of Wolfe's many readers and Hayden tion for self-sufficiency with a feeling of inadequacy and this frustration breaks out in a rash of undisciplined emotions and eventually into the disease of alcoholism Most alcoholics are in rebellion against the god of cant and dry pastures against the childhood god of injunction against the Terror preached by frightened fools Perhaps if someone had told Mr Maine what I was told after years of hosptals it might have helped When I objected to "God" in AA (I still childishly cringe at the word and go out of my way to say Providence and often spell it with an a gentle doctor asked me "Do you believe in God?" "No" I said "Do you?" "No But I can afford not to Maybe" And the same nighta man in AA told me "Never forget that never again will you be alone" I hope that is not finger-pointing The important thing is that Maine is all right now And the man can write JAMES STREET sign I don't and he didn't The agnostic zealot is I suggest as intoleriant as the Christian zealot and bigotry is no respector of creeds philosophies or races Then when somebody in Alcoholics Anonymous gave those who wished an opportunity to murmur the Lord's Prayer Mr Maine got sick (I wonder what Mr Maine does when he hears Charles Thomas sing the Lord's Prayer) Nope Mr Maine never gave AA a chance or rather himself a chance through AA He made a project a Normandy invasion of his recovery instead of winning the little skirmishes one by one and thereby the battle But he won Actually he used many of the therapies of AA As a boy Mr Maine "shot" God So what? That will shock some I know an alcoholic who still spits on churches and I used to go into a field and thumb my nose at God It proves only that egomania often is born in childhood that some persons can't balance the determina Farm Research 180-011s7 3 oil on the marble Wolfe-1 who in his youth went from Gettys-I burg Pa to Raleigh where he had a marble yard and married Miss Allen daughter of Colonel Allen' and later moved to Asheville where he married Julia Eliza Gant in her eon's book Of her husband Mrs Wolfe said: "Mr Wolfe went to Raleigh in the Reconstruction days the South was bitter against the North and the North against the South He was a Yankee I expect they called him a damn Yankee He married a Raleigh girl and they separated She came from the society crowd They had trouble right away He was brought up in Pennsylvania where they had big feet and he didn't: know how to dance apd he married 11 this she went to dances four nights out of every week "He couldn't dance and didn't go and some of her old boy friends came' and took her to those dances 011' course that didn't last long They separated and she went back hone He got a divorce There was the bitterness A Yankee had come down there and it was a disgrace be divorced The whole town and neighborhood howled about it He was in business there and it hin-1 dered him THE OSCAR-LOADED "BEST YEARS" "The Best Years of Our the movie that won the Academy Award in 1946 and that showed in Raleigh last week at the Colony Theatre is loaded with Oscars: one for its producer Samuel Goldwyn one for its director William Wyler one for its script-writer Robert Sherwood and one each or two of its stars Fredric March and Harold Russell You never heard of Russell before did you? Neither did I That's because this is his first screen performance But if he had been left out of the picture a good deal more than his third of the story would have been lost In life he was a paratrooper both of whose hands were blown off The largest part of the picture's emotional appeal hangs on the two hooks which replace his hands and which he uses with marvelous his name tearing off a match from a folder and striking it loading and firing a rifle and putting a wedding ring on the finger of Ms movie bride In addition to his wonderful skill with these rather gruesome contraption for a person untrained as an actor he gives a highly creditable performance in the role of a handicapped sailor Aside from the sure-fire emotional appeal of Russell as a fearfully handicapped veteran in life as well as on the screen there are three reasons why this is an excellent picture: first beaause its subject treated intelligently and with a minimum of screen hokum is a serious conternporary the readjustment of returned service men to civilian life second because the script is very well written by a first-class man of letters Robert Sherwood from the novel "Glory for Me" by MacKinlay Kantor and third because the professional stars in it are among the most intelligent as well as the most talented in March Myrha Loy Theresa Wright and Dana Andrew's The plot concerns the difficulties of getting back into civilian life experienced by an Air Force captain (former soda-jerker) who comes home to an unfaithful floozy of a wife who had thought of him as ramour boy up in "the wide blue yonder" and had done some high rolling on his allotment while he was away an infantry sergeant (formet bank official) who comes back from his experiences with men in the crises of war with quite revolutionary ideas about what constitutes acceptable collateral for bank leans: and a sailor (former high school athlete) who returns with a couple of hooks instead of hands to a fiancee who still loves him but whom because of his disability he hesitates to marry These of course are only three screen representations of millions of returned service men in real life This picture is thoughtful timely and very well acted It deserves the award Awar neat one Sherv Itusse becau of the been blowr the tv loadir movie grues bighl A handl reasot treate canter to cit first-c for? stars Andre I experi home rellini bank crises accepi tattle who marry lions TI the av FICTION Entertaining Book by Tar Heel The Hands of Veronica Fannie Hurst $275 A vivid story of character an unusually tne spiritual quality The Wayward Bus John Stelebeck $173 TWO BLADES OF GRASS BY Swann Harding University of Oklahoma Press Norman Okla 352 pages $350 This book has been given the subtitle "A History of Scientific Developments in the Department of Agriculture" The author an employe of the department for more than 30 years has attempted to give a picture of the more outstanding research developments of each of the bureaus of the department Each bureau is discussed in a separate chapter The book will undoubtedly prove Interesting to professional workers in the department and elsewhere Unfortunately from the point of view of the laymen he will probably not obtain a clear idea of the cooperative relationships between the Department of Agriculture and the various state agricultural experiment stations in the development of research that has led to "Two Blades of Grass" If the chapter on the Office of Experiment Stations had been tied into the discussions earlier in the book a clearer picture could have been painted of the manner in which agricultural research in the country developed The author could have made each of his chapters more interesting through better organization of the material presented His jumping back and forth from a discussion of personalities to subject matter makes reading somewhat laborious The book does contain some very worthwhile discussions and some of the more intimate pictures of the outstanding scientists who have been associated with the department are particularly interesting BAVER A MAN BE MAD By Harold Maine Doubleday and Co New York 435 pages Ss The important immediate achievement of Alcoholics Anonymous quite obviously is that the fellowship of these mountain-and-valley egocentrics has shown fifty thousand alcoholics a way to arrest their incurable neurosis and narcissism through group therapy appeasement of egomania and spiritual revolution One melts into the next and each is effective Perhaps however Alcoholics Anonymous most valuable contribution to humanity on the long haul is the fact that it has done so muct to bring the disease of alcoholism out of the skeleton closet and into the library for all to see and study It also is bringing psychiatry out of the ivory tower and down to the brass rail out of the witch-doctor world in which ignorant Philistines tried to lock the science and into the beer chaser realm With that in mind Harold Maine's "If a Man Be Mad" his autobiographical narrative of how a bruised ego came out of the thunderhead and cumulus world and into exciting and useful sanity is a good book the best I've read in years of the it happened to me and here's-how-I-did-it school the literary shock treatment writers To me an alcoholic there is nothing unusual about Mr Maine's life But if you happen to be a "normal" per son maybe a belching and boring oaf his experiences will fascinate you and you can tingle in the reflected horror of his mania Therefore read it Better still buy it For Mr Maine is a man of talent with words They have been under a bushel too long He has an unstudied way of tossing off a heady bourbon and branch water sentence with an aperitif phrase Could be now that this is behind him Mr Maine will haul off and write about castles in Spain windmills to be attacked the crying out loud of men for green pastures the discovery that the old gods really offered brimming cups instead of barren Sinai Could be And that book more than this might appease Mr Maine's egomania which we incorrectly call alcoholism I was asked to review this book because I am an alcoholic who found his way out through Alcoholics Anonymous Mr Maine didn't The jacket of his book says he tried Alcoholics Anonymous Blurb writers get paid for selling books Mr Maine is careful to explain that he never gave Alcoholics Anonymous a chance He wasn't sober long enough He didn't approach it with an open mind Alcoholics Anonymous is a few pages of this narrative That and nothing more Mr Maine fogged and hung-over did go to AA He rebelled when he saw a sign "But for the Grace of -God" Mr Maine I hope knows now that some men like that Summer Stranger Louise Field Cooper $275 Delightful reading a sparkling humorous stnry of real everyday people I "The reason he wanted Effie to go to St knew St Marys was patronized by the rich class and he' wanted to send his daugh-1 ter down to Raleigh to St Mary's' to let those people know how he could afford to send her there" The author krew Mrs Wolfe well and writes from association out al knowledge of her qualities She is represented as sul generis a frank and aggressive woman who had qualities that made her successful and attracted interest by her plainness of speech He wisely lets Mrs Wolfe tell the story in her own way which has a quality all its own: Her master passion as revealed be-I fore and after Tom's death was her pride in and admiration of her gifted and distinguished son She loved to live in his reflected glory I linian Mebane Holoman Burgwyn is Mrs John Burgwyn of Woodland Her husband is the son of Judge Burgwyn and they have four children They hope to go back to Occoneechee Neck to live when the Buggs Island flood control plan makes possible better roads a bridge to Halifax and a telephone Mrs Burgwyn graduated from Woman's College in 1935 She believes in buried treasure and thinks that "a good deal of treasure is buried in the South" that could be uncovered "merely by having better home environment better schools and better health" Ralph Ray 26-year-old Gastonia native whose drawings contribute much to the book was chosen by Mrs Burgwyn to illustrate her story when she read a feature article on his work which appeared in The News and Observer last June Chiefly noted for his bird and animal drawings Rar's work has been shown in the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte and in other eastern American cities He makes his home in New York Together these Tar Heels have built a book that will delight youngsters generally but North Carolinians in particular It is true to the spirit of helpful hopeful neighborliness of Guy's people and there isn't a small boy living who could fail to profit from Guy's honest effort to be worthy of his good luck in finally landing in a good home and the mothering care of "Miss Deily" MARGARE'rrE SMETHURST RIVER TREASURE BY Mebane Bolo-man 1311111WY11 illustrated by Ralph Ray Oxford Universkty Press New York 159 rages $250 Mebgne HOloman Burgwyn wrote "River Treasure" for children between eight -and 12 years of age with two almost "infallible -guides" at her elbqws her own John and Josephine six and 10 For her first book Mrs Burgwyn has chosen 'a setting and people she knows and has treated the story of an orphaned Nagro boy with warmth friendship and understanding Occoneechee Neck fertile farm land lying in the bend of the Roanoke River in Eastern North Carolina riqh in legends of buried treasure 1 and folklore flood and freshets is a spot she learned about by living there "three years As a member of the only white family on the Neck she learned the moods of the river and the ways of the Negroes who cling to the land in spite of flood and legends of "hants" in the woods Guy Harrison who worked hard to please his slovenly stepmother and harder still to find time to fish worked his way into the heart of a family whose own son was killed in the war Guy and his 'dog Chick also work their way into the hearts and minds of the reader of his story and child or adult who can put by Guy's hunt for the Pollock family the end of the story is too old to be reading book reviews "River Treasure" is a story about North Carolina by a North Caro 70 Miles From a Lemon Hayclie Yates $300 Mary Hallam Susan Eritz $275 A penetrating picture of mod-youth by the author t-if 'Anger In The Saga of the Shaws Interesting Story THE PEAK OF FOOLISHNESS 'Admittedly it's hard to pick the peak of foolishness in the purple prese of the perfume ads but I believe we've got it today Miss Dorothy McGhee of Raleigh sends me a leaflet advertising the 'perfume "Cobra" which reads and the woman who wears COBRA stands out alone in all her beauty like some new divine instrument soloing to the gods" Just how is that done I "soloing to the For all its rhapsody this is a notably inappropriate advertisement for a perfume y-clept "Cobra" In the first place any woman who goes in heavily for perfume obviously wishes to emulate in allure that 'Serpent of old Nile" and a perfume should lead of along this line which ought to be easy for such a serpentine scent as 'Cobra" And then again "Cobra" instead of suggesting the gods to whom its wearer is supposed to be "soloing" suggests that exceptionally fascinating reptile which offered Eve the fatal apple A MUCH BELATED CORRECTION Probably because I'm like everybody else in the world in hating to admit having made a mistake I conveniently forgot an error in Incidentally which has gone uncorrected now for a considerable time This mistake was called to my attention by Wade Marr Jr of Raleigh and relates to the wonderful quotation from the writings of Thomas Wolfe that I printed here beginning "Something has spoken to me in the night burning the tapers of the waning year" Following as I thought the manuscript of Dr Edwin Mims' speech to the Literary and Historical Association- I attributed this to a letter of Wolfe's to "Mrs" Perkins But actually he wrote it to his friend Mr Perkins Mr Mari writes me: "The whole passage from which he (Dr Mims) quotes ends of course 'You Can't Go Horne Again' and brings to a close Wolfe's gigantic labor to discover for himself a purpose positive and informing amid the confluxings of life as he had seen life He found his purpose found it on the threshold of death where his beloved Koheleth had taught him to expect to discover purpose and to know in his discovery the nearness of death Fortunately there was on this earth at the same time with Wolfe a man to whom could be addressed the Word that became mesh for Wolfe at the end of much voyaging At long last he knew concretely what his inner faith had insisted from the beginning This parted Wolfe from the man whose intimacy made it possible for these words to be- prose McGh which in all JL Ic rnent I goes 'Sem along 'Cohn whom fascini Px to adn dental mistal relate! that I night the HIstor Perkit writes course labor conflu: it on him tc nem with mesh tonere parted words Madman's Memory Roger Vercel 1230 rs -w Angel's night Edward Holstius $250 The story of a self-made man who had the expert hep of several women Brief Reviews of Recent Books The Butterfly James Cain ZOO THEY TOOK THE HIGH ROAD I3Y Gurthie Shaw Patch The Dietz Press Inc Richmond Va 374 pages $3 The descendants of the Shaws of Clan Quhele who for many centuries gathered at Rothiemurchus will be more interested than the average reader in these four romances of Scotland and America They deal with the Lady Gurtha and the Catamount o' the North the Princess Yleria and the Mae-inSagart the Puritan Maid and the Scots cavalier and the Virginia girl and Washington's rifleman "When the writer descendant of the Gurtha of the story began to write the Saga of the Shaws she found such fascinating romances of its women that she lost sight of her idea of a factual history and in her imagination she lived with these women through their adventures" the publishers explain "The editors of her book chose the romances and left the clan history to be condensed in a few pages at the close of the book for the interest of the thousands of Scotsmen in America who are members of the many families the author mentions" While the stories of the four women who loved men of the Shaw clan in exciting periods in Scotland's and America's history are interesting enough they might have been woven into a highly exciting historical novel superior to "They Took the High Road" GEORGE A PENNY THE GREAT WIDE SEA By Coker The University of North usrolins Press Chairt fill $5 The earth is full of Thy riches So is this great wide sea Wherein are things creeping innumerable Both small and great beasts There go the ships There is that leviathan Whom Thoth hast made to play therein C117 The author of the book at times has lived on boats and islands or in coastal ports of the Atlantic and Pacific For a while he was special investigator of the Asheries and the guano industry of Peru for some years he was director of scientific inquiry for the United States Hu reau of Fisheries He taught zoology and aquatic biology This book is the result of tbe sea and science being in his blood and is enriched by the story of scientists and oceanography which the author has translated in everyday language to bring the knowledge to those who are not experts or scientists It is a brief and comprehensive but not technical presentation of some of the basic phenomena of the ocean as a place for plants and animals Mrs Mike Benedict Nancy Freedman $275 Mrs Mike I Benedict Nancy Freedman $275 Mnlionnm IIINMEMONI OIMMEIMIENIME A love story against background of ness splendor A love story against background of wilder--: ness splend THE QUIZ KIDS By Eliza Merville Hickok Houghton Mifflin Co Boston $zso The author who intrigues readers with the stories about these prodigies claims they are perfectly normal children but they are that plus normality- They do more and are more than other children You travel with children at home at school traveling and there's fun all the way through MRS TIM GETS A JOB Bv to Stevenson Rinehart and Co Inc New York 282 pages $275 While her husband the colonel is away at war in Egypt Mrs Tim got herself a job She played hostess and assistant manager to the guests in an understaffed hotel and the guests found her a good friend and advisor Her captivating charm was displayed in top form once when she substituted for a gypsy fortune-teller This story of an EngHs wife during war is your answer for a lot of fun and light reading material "Apart from his writings I knew Wolfe only to the extent of a night of 32 beer my familiarity with the discipline of literary criticism ceases with I A Richard (not I understand a very happy place to stop) therefore I have no basis for doing- more than wondering about these words being written to MRS Perkins Such a fact plays havoc with several important considerations derived from reading the words and seeking their spirit Internal evidence of course often gets mighty ridiculous when external facts show up "But even so no matter to whom any letter may have been written these words make up 'the greatest tribute one man ever laid at the feet of another And the man was MR Perkins and not the lady of the house" rtght elm stop) these with and se ridicul these anothe 1 51 I falls in love with and bigamously marries a young American What happens after that is right out of this world but is so skillfully handled by the writer it appears more credible than sensational It's the story of a woman's temptation fall and fascinating framework on which crises and development of character are built NOVELS ANTI STORIES BY ROBERT LOV1S STEVENSON Selected with an Introduction by Prichett Duel! Sloan and Pearce Inc New York 615 pages $395 Only 50 years have passed since the death of Robert Louis Stevenson yet already we know that the stories of this imaginative Scotsman will be read by generations to come It is Stevenson's appeal to the youthful element in all of us which is perhaps his strongest feature In this lengthy volume of fine print Stevenson's life is reviewed briefly in the introduction yet bringing into play all the important facts Two complete novels "Kidnapped" and "Weir of Hermiston" are included in this volume plus a number' of selected short stories The volume will please both old and new fans of Robert Louis Stevenson 0- Robert Louis Stevenson The Walls of Jericho Paul I Wellman $300 richo $3 00 n-00- ww 1 The Echo Ulla Van Saber A portrait of one woman's soul laid bare by the scalpel of plychoanalysis Echo Saber 75 one woman's by the scalpel 'analysis s-ea kw" Awnalaij 010 Best Sellers THE RAZOR EDGE 01 An by Somerset Maugham American History THE FORMATIVE History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison BY Henry Adams Condensed and Edited by Herbert Algae Two volumes Houghton Mslihn CompanY Boston $to The best story of early American history written by Henry Adams in the years before Adams lost his early faith and turned cynical and ceased to make constructive writing the reason he ceased such works as his nine volumes on the administrations of Jefferson and 'Madison However he was dissuaded from writing when he said: "I have never yet heard-of ten men who had ever read my history" The reason was that people do not read nine volumes covering two administrations Mr Agar has rendered a great service by cutting the book to a third of its original length giving the fascinating story of the birth of a two-party system that continues to this day He thus brings the story to the averagt reader And it came into being without the intention of the founders of the two parties In fact though he founded the Democratic party Jefferson had -said in 1789: "If I could not go to heaven but with a party I would not 'go there at all' But when Hamilton sought to organize the new government to serve commerce finance and the manufacturing interests in the North and East at the expense of the agricultural population of the South and the frontier communities of the West it called for a political party to prevent exploitation of agriculture by the manufacturers and businessmen Thus parties developed on sectional lines At first ITamtlton'was poweful where big business was developing and the Jeffersonians in the argicultural parts of the country This book illuminates early American history and is as interesting and intriguing as it is inspiring the founders of the two parties In into being without the intention of fact though he founded the Demo- erotic party Jefferson had -said in ot 1789: "If I could go to heaven but with a party I would not go there at all" But when Hamilton scpught to organize the new govern- ment to serve commerce finance and the manufacturing interests in the North and East at the expense of the agricultural population of the South and the frontier communities of the West it called for a political litil party to prevent exploitation of ag- riculture by the manufacturers and businessmen Thus parties devel- oped on esectional lines At first poweful where big business was developing and the Jeffersonians in the argicultural parts of the country This book illuminates early Amer- history and is as interesting and intriguing as it is inspiring 5 (Compiled by Publishers' Weekly) Fiction "Lydia Bailey" by Kenneth Roberts "The Wayward Bus" by John Steinbeck The Walls of Jericho" by Paul Wellman F's Daughter" by John Marquand "Mrs Mike" by Benedict and Nancy Freedman Non-Fiction "Peace of Mind" by Joshua Liebman 'Infortriation Please Almanac" edited by John Kieran "The Lincoln Reader" edited by Paul Angle "The Egg and by Betty MacDonald "An Essay on Morals" by Philip Wylie erts Fiction "Lydia Bailey" by Kenneth Rob- "The Wayward Bus" by John The Walls of Jericho by Paul I Steinbeck Wellman aVs Daughter" by John Marquand "Mrs Mike" by Benedict and Nancy Freedman Non-Fiction "Peace of Mind Liebman by Joshua "Information Please Almanac" edited by John Kieran "The Lincoln Reader" edited by Paul Angle The Egg and by Betty Mac- Donald "An Essay on Morals" by Philipi Wylie THE SILVER ROBIN' BY Dean Marshall Illustrated by Frank Doh las and Malcolm McGuckin Jr Dutton and Co New York 246 Pages 8250 A Junior Literary Guild selection this book is beautiful in every way combining a fascinating fund of bird lore with an exciting story The older ones in the family as well as the children will take an interest in this book The story con- cerns Bobby of the Robin family who becomes very adventurous with other birds and finally comes home with a silver band on his slim ankle becoming' indeed "The Silver Robin" THE IRON PASTORAL By John Frederic Nims William Sloane Associates Inc New York 86 pages $250 John Frederic Nims is the Winner of numerous poetry prizes and his poems have appeared in Poetry Accent Partisan Review and The Saturday Review of Literature The author proves his command of words as well as wit tinged with sarcasm and satire as he writes on Many modern subjects The clock (making us crazy slaves to time) football poolrooMs- elevated trains and other subjects are chosen and given the special treatment of this young author who teaches at Notre Dame thi a -Junior Literary 'Juno selection book is beautiful in every way combining a ascinating un ir dfbdTHE lore with an exciting story The older ones in the family as well the children will take an in- atesrest in this ho'ok The story con- cerns Bobby of the Robin family whO becomes verY adventurous with other birds and finally comes home becoming' indeed "The Silver with a silver band on his slim ankle Robins THE IRON PASTDRAL BY John rred- ric Nims William Sloane Associates Inc New York 86 pages $250 John Frederic Nims is the Win- ner of numerous poetry prizes and his poems have appeared in Poetry Accent Partisao Review and The Saturdae Review of Literature The author proves his command of words ae well as wit tinged with sarcasm and satire as he writes On Many modern subjects The clock (making us crazy slaves to time) football poolroom'e elevated trains and other subjects are chosen and given the special treatment of this young author who teaches at Notre Dame THE CONVERSION OF AN INTELLECTUAL (COICLUDED) The "real reason" for Clare 'Boothe Luce's religious conversion was "Jesus Christ Himself" she says in the third concluding' and best installment of her confession of faith which appears in the April issue of McCalrs under the head The 'Real' Reason" 'This will reassure all those including me who believe her conversion to have been sincere since any other reason would have marked it no matter through what church it came as bogus In this concluding article her confession which sagged somewhat sourly in the middle rises to an impressive Regenerate or not the gal with the rapier is still in evidence at the beginning of this installment when saying that she has seen in the papers a suggestion "that we now begin to date time from the day of the Eplittin of the atom" she writes a creed for the Atomic Age to be repeated in the First Church of Atomic "I believe in the Atom Power Almighty Substance of Heaven and Earth once and forever divisible first split at Oak Ridge as prophesied by St Einstein then dropped over Hiroshima in the form of a bomb killing millions still to be split over the whole world whence it may bring the atomic Kingdom of Heaven on Earth or come to judge mankind obsolete I believe in Uranium Plutonium and the Cyclatron the Communion of Scientists the corruption of the body the relativity of all mind and matter world with an end Amen" One reason I think that more intelligent people aren't interested In religion is because from sour-pusses among the clergy and the more superficially they erroneously assume that to embrace religion means to lose one's sense of humor I well understood 'for instance the student I taught in one of my Bible classes at St Mary's who said that she would like the Gospels more if in any one of them it had been stated that Jesus laughed But that He must have I have pet doubt since of all the people who ever lived He had the best sense of proportion which I believe is the basis of most humor Wit such as Mrs Luce's is distinsuished from humor In sharpness and cleverness but generally it brings a smile and it's good to find that one can occasionally smile while reading her confession The religious convert is fortunate I think who at the end of his Cr her "seeking" reaches a desperate crisis of suffering "the dark night of the soul" after which the flood-gates of divine Love open for soul-healing and release Allconversions of course are not of this sort some are more gradual more "volitional' as distinguished from "emotional" as William James puts it though some act of self-surrender in varying degree of intensity is common to them all Mrs Luce discovered her complete personal divine a hotel room in New York in 1945 when all the isms had failed her and when "a tidal wave of despair" seemed to overwhelm her She began to pray as best she could and then she appealed to a priest of the Roman Church who had been praying for her for a long time as a person sick with a desperate physical illness might appeal to a doctor This priest referred her to another Monsignor Fulton Sheen who brought her "through" Her description of that crisis of despair and the ensuing conversion has a familiar sound to anyone who knows William James' great bock "The Varieties of Religious Experience" and to me it is obvious attestation of the genuineness of her conversion rm particularly inter ested in hers because as the title of my reviews of her articles indicates it is the conversion of an intellectual and seems to have been a mixture cf what William Jhmes calls the emotional and volitional types into which broadly he divdes all conversions That is to sayt whereas the climax the crisis which finally turned her to -God plainly was emotional there seems to have been a definite volitional (or better intellectual) element in the pre-climactic "seeking" and in the months of "reading study and soul-searching more arduous and often painful than any I had ever spent in my life" which passed before she entered the Roman Church It doesn't matter to be in the slightest that it was a Roman priest who brought her through the point is that somebody helped her to find "the pearl of great price" and that in her conversion as she has described it in McCalls a great many people can see the operation of the Spirit of God which the world now needs most I still think that a Holy Boller preacher could minister with equal efficacy to a sick depending of course upon the soul But the Roman way was the way for her Sometimes I wish it could be the way for me But it can't Unregenerate individualist that I constitutionally Protestant shy away from all authoritarianism ecclesiastical as well as any other Mrs Luce dres well in this piece as in the others not to emrhasize specifically Roman doctrines The fact that she does not gives her valuable confession much wider appeal than it would have had if the had done sd She ends it with a quotation from Francis Thompson's "The Hound of Heaven" one of the most beautiful mystical poems in the language (Gods voice is speaking): "All which I took from thee I did but take Not for thy harms But just that thou might'st seek it In My arms All which thy child's mistake rendes as lost I have stored for thee at home Rise clasp My hand and comet" Ear Regenerate or not the gal with the rapier is still in evidence at the beginning of this installment when saying that she has seen in the papers a suggestion "that we now begin to date time from the day of the plitting of the atom'' she writes a creed for the Atomic Age to be repeated in the First Church of' Atomic "I believe in the Atom Power Almighty Substance of Heaven and Earth once and forever divisible first split at Oak Ridge as prophesied St Einstein then dropped over Hiroshima in the form of a bomb killing millions still to be split over the whole world whence it may bring the atomic Kingdom of Heaven on Earth or come to judge mankind obsolete I believe in Uranium Plutonium and the Cyclatron the Communion of Scientists the corruption of the body the relativity of all mind and matter world with an end Amen One reason I think that more intelligent people areiff i interested In religion is because from sour-pusses among the clergy and the more superficiafly they erroneously assume that to embrace religion means to lose one sense of humor I well understood for instance the student I taught in one of my Bible classes at St Mary's who said that she would like the Gospels more if in any one of them It had been stated that Jesus laughed But that He must have I have eo doubt since of all the people who ever lived He had the best sense of proportion which I believe is the basis of most humor Wit such as Mrs Luce's is distinsuished from humor in sharpness and cleverness but generally it brings a smile and it's good to find that one can occa- sionally smile while reading her confession The religious convert is fortunate I think who at the end of his Cr her -seeking" reaches a desperate crisis of suffering the dark night of the soul" after which the flood-gates of divine Love open for soul- healing and release All conversions of course are not of this sort some are more gradual more volitional as distinguished from "emo- tonal" as William James puts it though some act of self-surrender in vary discovered her complete personal ing degree of intensity is common to them all Mrs Luce divine a hotel room in New York in 1945 when all the isms had failed her and when "a tidal wave of desair" seemed to overwhelm her She began to pray as best she could and then she appealed to a priest of the Roman Church who had been praying for her for a long time as a person sick with a desperate physical illness might appeal to a doctor This priest referred her to another Monsignor Fulton Sheen who brought her "through" Her description of that crisis of despair and the ensuing conver- sion has a familiar sound to anyone who knows William James' great bock 'The Varieties of Religious Experience" a "nd to me it is obvious attestation of the genuineness of her conversion I'm particularly inter- ested in hers because as the title of my reviews of her articles indicates it is the conversion of an intellectual and seems to have been a mixture what William Jsmes calls the emotional and volitional types into the crisis which Which broadly he ditneles all conversions That is to sayt whereas the limax finally turned her to -God plainly was emo- tonal there seems to have been a definite volitional (or better Intel- lectual) element in the pre-climactic "seeking" and in the months of "reading study and soul -searching more arduous and often painful than any I had ever spent in my life" which passed before she entered the Roman Church It doesn't matter to be in the slightest that it was a Roman priest who brought her through the point is that somebody helped her to find "the pearl of great price" and that in her conversion as she has described it in McCalls a great many people can see the operation of the Spirit of God which the world now needs most I still think that a Holy Roller preacher could minister with equal efficacy to a sick depending of course upon the soul But the Roman way was the way for her Sometimes I wish it could be the way for me But it can't Unregenerate individualist that! constitutionally Protestant shy away from all authoritarianism ecclesiastical as well as any other- Mrs Luce dres well in this piece as in the others not to em- Phasiae 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