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Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, December 9, THE PILOT Published each FYlday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYOK Editor CMARLES MACAULEY DAN S. RAY AdTtrtising Circulation Hdcn K. Butler, Beuie Cam«ron Smith, H. L. Eppi, Auociates Member Wjodyard Associates Subscription Rates: On« Year . $2.00 Six Mentha $1.0t Three Months 50 Entered at the Postoffice at South- •rn Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. A CALL TO ARMS (First of a series of contributed editorials sponsored by the Sandhills Kiwanis Club’s Committee on Church Attendance. This is by Eugene C. Stevens, chairman of the commit tee—Ekl.) “Whereas, in many lands churches have been abandoned and religious organizations abol ished, strife and conflict exist throughout the world, contro versy and turmoil have raged beyond the power of man to con trol, and all efforts, such as leg islation, conferences and media tion, have failed to reconcile the differences between men and be tween nations or to bring har mony in social, economic and governmental relationships: “Be it Resolved, that the del egates to the 22nd annual con vention of Kiwanis Internation al assembled in San Francisco declare their firm conviction that the principles of religion embracing the love of God and love of neighbor, are the only adequate and effective means for settling strife, misunder standing and controversy; and believe that if all people will turn back to God, declaring their implicit faith in Him and giving suppo!^ the Churches in their spiritual aims, that the Power Divine will work amazing chan ges in the hearts of men, tem pering strift and controversy, and giving joy and peace to the people of the world.” The above was passed last June by Kiwanis. Think how much more apt this is right now and has been for the past thirty days. Kiwanians, a call to arms has been sounded and we are all ask ed to be sure to attend some church this coming Sunday and each Sunday this month. By at tending a church you will great ly benefit yourself and will be a good example for others in the community. Don’t forget, “We Build” not only materially, but most certainly spiritually as well. THE'POCKETBOOK ^.KNOWLEDGE NOW CHEAPLY AtANUrACTUREP FOR UNIVfR^Al U^E, riR^T A\APE IN AMERICA IN 1607. THE FIR^T PROPUCT WA^ BPAPi U5EP FOR TRAOE v«tTH iNO>AN^ GROW IN AUSTRALIA....... TME «TfM ON THE LA^6B CNO-. 1 FtJR EVERy ^lOO OF CHEMICAL PROPUCT^ i0l0.^3.oo GOE^ TO RESEARCH TO filVE CONSUMERS i-'i^s>OVEP PROPUCT* AT lOW^p PRICE* fr you omve s/oun auto "So mtie* AA/ HOU>f ANP G£T K WlCi TO THE OAUON. CrAiOHNe TAXfi AVf^AGC ABOUT II CtHTi Pffl HOUK / China hA*> inf ONiy COin IN THE \WORlP PtCTuR.MG AN AUTO It X«V*^TPUCI^ TO HONOR The Purchase OF an AMERICAN By A GOVFRJSOR an INTER lOn OQOViNCe It Is Foolish To Go To Church!! By Rev. V. O. Taylor “It is foolish to go to church,” said my friend. “The church recog nizes Jesus as the Person of our life, the one complete personality, .1. j 1 * I, II - gone. Even in spiritual matters deal- the ideal guide to human living. Does ” church where submission is taught. OnJy p xveak person' needs the church and its God, anyway.” And so on, my friend might have not the church know that Jesus has failed; that the world is not follow ing with his own person, w’hich can never be inherited but only exper- ing him as the churches ask it to; ienced, he is trying to play the old that Bibles are read no more and American game of ‘passing-the-buck.’ even their sales fallen off the past However his own spiritual self may two years; that the cross has lost shrivel; he is sure that the church, its appeal to mankind ? I have no perhaps Christ himself, is to blame, need for the church. I am of the ' but not one bearing his own name, opinion that it has out-grown and Over eighteen centuries ago Paul outlived its usefulness. I tend to, jp preaching Christ and his cross science and the almighty dollar for | found the Greeks of his day calling my salvation. My scientific mind has his efforts foolish. They could not see discovered that much of the religious teachings of the churches is unin formed of the latest biological and psychological ‘theories.’ I have ah aesthetic nature that enjoys the beautiful tee and fairway more than the architecture of the churches and their outmoded techniques. My yearn ing heart finds no comfort in the AN OPPORTUNITY IN BASEBALL Jack Corbett, manager of the Syracuse, N. Y. International League Baseball Club, paid a re cent visit to Southern Pines. He was seeking a training camp lo cation for his “Chiefs” for next spring. That he was ready to sign on the dotted line was evi denced the following day when news came that Mr. Corbett had closed negotiations at Camden, S. C. the very evening of the day he left here. Mr. Corbett knows North Car olina. He has managed teams in the state and has farmed other teams here. He says the Sand hills is ideal for early spring training. He liked Southern Pines, wanted to come here. But the ball field field wasn’t adequate. He requires a fenced- in field and something in the nature of a clubhouse. The en tire playing field, including dia mond, must be firm grass. Upon his departure Mr, Cor bett told The Pilot he was pre pared to come here after next spring if Southern Pines would provide a satisfactory field. He'd be willing to sign a five- year contract, he said. It would mean some 45 persons here for one month, stopping at local ho tels, spending their money lo cally. It would mean an income from exhibition games of 15 per cent, the amount allowed to lo cal interests where ball clubs train. j It would appear to be some thing worth looking into. We are in the center of a baseball- loving community. A field could easily be made available. And 45 times—say $4.00 a day as a minimum, times 30 days is $5,- 400 to the hotels, not to mentior what the players, their familie*^ and club attaches would spenu in the community. ROOSEVELT LEADS LIST OF CANDIDATES President Roosevelt was the top choice of Democrats for the 1940 nomination of his party in a poll just completed by the In stitute of Public Opinion. Sec ond choice was Vice President Garner, and then in order came Secretary of State Hull, Post master General Farley, United States Senator Clark of Missouri, Governor Lehman of New York, Governor General Paul McNutt of the Philippines, United States Senator Barkley of Kentucky, Governor Murphy of Michigan, WPA Administrator Hopkins and Ambassador to Great Bri tain Kennedy. Two groups in Washington are reported as especially active in attempting to induce the Pres ident to run for a third term, one led by Thomas C. Corceran and Mr. Hopkins, the other by Re publicans like SematoB* Norris of Nebraska, who has predicted FDR’s reelection in 1940. Many observers, however, find it im possible to believe that Mr, Roosevelt would consent to break the third term precedent. Meanwhile Republicans are ‘figuring it out that all they have to do to win in ’40 is to hold the vote the party received this year. The National Committee has.a series of tables showing that the GOP got 53,1 percent of the votes in 28 out of 33 states that elected Governors last month, which would give them 365 electoral votes. As 266 electoral votes are all that are leeded to elect, the Republican candidate for President, on the basis of the 1938 votes, would walk into the White House, ac cording to the National Com mittee. To quote the Syracuse Herald, “Inclusion of New York’s 47 electoral votes in this GOP tab ulation will, apparently, have to be put down as political license. The vote last month seems to have affected many of the once melancholy Republican bosses as profoundly as that whiff of Ten nessee white mule liquor affect ed the rabbit that stood up and nissed at a bulldog.” any reason or common sense in the proclaiming of supreme happiness in and through a man that was cruci fied like a thief. And that long ago Paul stated the only answer: "The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us that are saved it is the power of God.” The Spiritual Self It seems never to have occurred to my friend that he has a spiritual self that must be fed lest it perish of undernourishment. Properly speak ing, there are but two classes of men known where the gospel is preached: the unbelievers, the foolish, who are perishing; and the obedient believers, who are in in a process of salvation. And my friend seems not to know anything of the strong current of return to religion among those who are seeing many of their theories about physics, evolution, or psychol ogy vanish like the myth that they a.re. We know that Newton Is not In fallible, and we did not account for mutations In evolution, and entirely new frontiers of the mind are on the scene, with much more to come. My friend does not realize that modern science with all of its great advance in knowledge and methods knows lit tle to nothing of the greater mys teries of life, death, or birth,— whence, whither, or why. Jesus was careful to say of a sick man that there was a little demon at work within him. Modern science makes the appalling discovery that the trou ble is a little disease germ at work within him. My friend has not learned that with all of our knowledge about faith and social living, or courage, or health, or valor of spirit, or serenity of mind, that only those who put forth effort in gaining such for oth ers succeed in gaining it for them selves. Humanness of Religion It is foolish for one to go to church If he is going to be intellectullly and spiritually lazy, or likewise snobbish. It Is an easy fact that he who puts no effort to his task at hand finds no benefit therefrom. Many do not go to church from the simple expedient that in their lazy and snobbish aloof ness of occasional, condescending, cynical physical visits, they have not brought to church with them a mind to leam and share and a mood to help and be helped. Such mental- spiritual laziness and snobbishness causes them to mlsa entirely the beauty of the simple shared human ness of the religious experience. Any experience is meaningless until it Is experienced. It is foolish to go to church unless one leam that submission In relation Grains of Sand Wilbur H. Currie, who on Monday was chosen by his fellow County Com missioners as chairman of the group for another term, has made a record that is outstanding. During his eight years as Chair man of the Board, he has never been absent from a regular, an adjourned or a called meeting. Mr. Currie meant what he said when he took the oath of office. Fee-( tuffs markets advanced slightly during the last week of No vember influenced by wintry weather and sti'ength in feed grains, reports the U. S. and N. C. Departments of Agriculture. We have never believed in being ilsrespectful to the President of the United States. But we can't resist telling this one heard on the comer as the President’s special train went through Monday. Even Mr. Roose velt. who loves a good joke on him self, will appreciate it. One man approached another in front of the Broad Street Pharmacy and said: “Did the President wav« to you?” “Yes, but I couldn’t wave back." “Why so?” “I had one hand on my pocketbook and the other on my checkbook.” The Christian Advocate gives this story: An old lady went up to a man who was singing at some work he was doing, and asked him, "Don’t you find it monotonous to keep on singing ..e songs day after day?” “Yes, mum,” he said, "I do. I’ve done it for years. My father did it before me for years and years, but it wasn’t so monotonous for him, be cause he knew the words!” 1(H U R(H E5I The Sunday evening meeting of the Fellowship Forum, at 7 ;00 o’clock In the Church of Wide Fellowship, will be a song service led by Miss Pauline Poe. Everyone is cordially Invited. At the Church of Wide Fellowship this Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock the' Rev. Voight O. Taylor’s sermon theme wUl be “The Offer of Person ality.” At 8:00 p. m. there will be a Union service at this church with the congregation of the Baptist church, Mr. Taylor preaching on Sons of God.” In GOLD Your name or initials on a Parker Pen or Pencil Or on Bill Folds, Key Cases, Brief Cases, Bibles, Testaments or Prayer Books Our Stock for the Newest Fiction, Biography, Sporting, Travel and Children’s Books is Larger and Better than ever. Shop for Christmas and Buy the Best at HAYES’ SANDHILL BOOK SHOP Southern Pines, N. C. ROBERT an ANNE WALKER HOME CRAFT SHOP Phone 7013 37 N. Broad Street Southern Pines, N. C. SLIP COVERS DRAPES UPHOLSTERING FABRICS- RUGS BLINDS ANTIQUE RECONDITIONING CABINET WORK McLEAN FURNITURE CO. tt of || ABERDEEN and SOUTHERN PINES Moore County’s Oldest . . . Moore County’s} Largest . . . Moore County’s Leader since 1926 . . . Headquarters for Simmond’s Beds, Springs and Mat tresses. Gold Seal Rugs, Armstrong’s Linoleum. In eith er store you will find just what you want. H At the Emmanuel Church on Sun day the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, rec tor, services will be as follows: Holy Communion at 8: a. m., Church School at 9:30 and Morning Prayer and Sermon at 11:00. "Is There A Purpose in Life.?” is the theme of the Rev. E. L. Bar ber’s message on Sunday morning at the Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church. In the absence of Dr. Mar cus A. Brown.son who is ill at Duke Hospital for treatment Warren A. Smith will address the Adult Bible class at 9:45. These seivlces are held at the Carolina Theatre. The subject of the sermon at the Southern Pines Baptist Church Sun day morning at 11:00 o’clock will be “In a Thousand Tongues.” The pas tor, Rev, J. F. Stlmson, will preach. to the self-assertive tendency of dom inance and leadership is a compli mentary tendency and necessary bal» ance. This is a first principal of any education, meaning by submission, not fear, but desire for approval or praise, as well as adversion to blame or being looked down upon. The church, far from being a refuge for the weak. Is the true home of the dominantly tough-minded. It takes a strong self to answer yes to the 'I ought’ of his conscience. The church is his aid and his ally. Go to church to leam of its spiri tual aim, and to find for your own incomplete self the meaning and val ue of the experience that it keeps preaching about. Go to leam of the Christ, and his teachings about God, the moral law, the way of love, the Kingdom of Love, and the life ever lasting. “He knew all men and re quired no evidence from anyone about human nature.” He saw into the cen ter of men’s lives to know how they were conx>ded by pride, greed, and lust, and wrecked by love of self and fear of others. He knew how to un lock us to ourselves. In the great art of living, he is the greatest ar tist. We w’ant him as our friend be cause such living thrills us. Across the ages his clear call still comes: 'Follow me I’ Do your Christmas shopping at home. ®{]e ^rk SOUTHERN PINES NORTH CAROLINA COUNTRY DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL for GIRLS and BOYS Successful preparation for leading Schools. Music (Pianoforte and Violin) Art Handicrafts Dancing Tennis Riding KINDERGARTEX, SUB-PRIMARY, GRADES 1—VIII SEASON OPENS OCTOBER 4TH Mrs. Mllllc*nt Ebiyes, PrlnatpaL nxiixixxiimxttmxtmxixitixitvttxxmtxttitixtxii Be Comfortable Before cold weather arrives modernize your HEATING PUNTand PLDNBING SYSTEM ESTIMATES GLADLY GIVEN FRIGIDAIRE OIL BURNERS IRON FIREMEN ' (Automatic Coal Burners) ESSO-HEAT FUEL OIL L. V. O’CALLAGHAN FRIGIDAIRK SALES AND SERVICE Telephone 5S41 Southern Pines
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