Marion progress., 1948-10-07

Librarian of Olivia Raney Library,
Raleigh, proudly announces the ar
rival of Wake county's new brick
red bookmobile.
Among the new registrations at
the library in Marion are Juanita
Callahan, Mr.. NJ. H. Connally,
Charles Ray Glenn, James E. Hall,
Elizabeth Lanning and Doris Marie
Romines.
Among the new books added to
the library are a number Of titles
for adults, both fiction and non-fic-
ton.
mirror for Americans" by Helen
Mears-Study of our relations with
Japan before, during and since the
war. The book shakes our COM
placent attitudes toward our con-
quered enemy and raises issues of
worldwide Importance which must
be faced by the American people
if the vicious cycle of war and i'm
perialism is to be broken.
"Story of John Hope" by Ridgely
Torrence-Biography of the Negro
educator, the president of Atlanta
University, who did much to pro-
mote better relations between the
races, who spent a lifetime in the
struggle to give the Negro the wild
est education in the liberal arts,
and to remove all limits to his cul-
tural upward climb.
Tomorrow Will Be Better" by
Betty Smith-"From the lives of
the poor Brooklyn's tenements, lives
seen with pity, understanding and
humor, the author of "a Tree Grows
in Brooklyn" tells another richly
sympathetic picture of prewa
Brooklyn days. The scene is Will
liamsburg in the Twenties; the
heroine, shy Marcy Shannon, just
out Of school looking for her first
job and eager for happiness. Like
her first book it is rich with the
flavor of Brooklyn talk, the laughter
and pathos of family life, the nos
talgia, the sighs and chuckles; and,
through Marcy Shannon, it brings
to life her whole world of little peo-
pie, hardworking, distillusioned and
ever hopeful"
Diamond Head" by Houston
Branch and Frank Waters-An un-
usual mission was assigned to two
young Confederate navel officers
in the last days of the Civil War
and, in carrying out their strange
and dangerous assignments, John
Kirby is shanghaied and Cameron
Richards joins the crew of the Con-
federate ra d er "Shenandoah,"
bound for the Pacific under sealed
orders. The love story of Cameron
and Abigail, daughter Of the sea
captain, Jireh Macy, adds romance
to high adventure.
"The Proud Way by Shirley
Seifert-Story of the antebellum
years 1S43-44 and the courtship of
Varina Howell by the brilliant young
widower, jefferson Davis, later to
become Congressman, Cabinet Mem
Der Senator, and finally President
of the Confederacy.
bride of Fortune" by Harnett
Kane-Novel based on the life of
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, the First Lady
of the Confederacy, "Queen of the
Lost Cause" who was born an aris-
tocrat in cotton-rich Natchez on the
Mississippi and left her home at the
age of eighteen to face an uncer-
tain future as the wife of Jefferson
Davis.
"The Case Of the Lonely Heiress"
by Erie S. Gardner-Another Perry
Mason mystery.
"Rock Haven" by Adelyn Bush
nell-Ulysses and Virgil Ulmer were
born in Rock Haven, Maine, of a
kind seafaring father and a bitter
bigotted mother Ulysses represents
the good in all of US; his brother,
Virgil, the bad. The boys were con-
,ditioned by their upbringing, espec-
tally Virgil, his mothers favorite.
The novel tells the story of their
lives, always intertwined even when
they were continents apart: their
loves, their hopes, victories and de-
feats.