FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1954
THE PILOT. Southern Pines. North Carolina
PAGE THREE
Some Looks At Books
BY LOCKIE PARKER
CALL TO GREATNESS by Ad-
lai E. Sltevenson (Haiper $2.2S).
This is a short and serious book,
almost a sermon to Americans on
their responsibilities and oppor
tunities in the swiftly changing
international scene. Lest you
thnk foreign affairs are a busi
ness beyond you, better left to
diplomats or, at least, to th e
leaders of the nation whom you
suppose to have less confused
ideas than your own, I should
like to quote at the state one of
Mr. Stevenson’s concluding sen-
“So the first step in learning
our new role in world affairs is
not one which can be taken by
technicians in the State Depart
ment, or even by political leaders.
$t has to be taken by individual
Americans, in the privacy of their
own homes, hearts and souls. It
involves a conscious acceptance
of Christian humility—a recog
nition that we are never going
to solve many of the hard prob
lems of the world but wiU simply
have to live with' them, for years
and maybe for centuries.”
Out of context, this may sound
like defeatism but it is far from
that—it is a challenge to be our
age, to grow up quickly.
A hundred years ago this na
tion was something of an infant
pridigy, spreading rapidly across
the continent, growing daily in
wealth and power, optimistic,
often boastful, but still leaning
to a considerable extent on Euro
pean capital for development, on
the English navy for protecting
commerce, on European culture
for ideas.
Today the Unite4 States is head
ofthe family of free nations and
facing reluctantly the responsi
bilities involved. Mr. Stevpnson
feels it is a noble challenge; that
the American people can and
must meet it nobly; that they
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have in their experience of gov
ernment by the people for the
people, in their generosity of
spirit, the resources to do this;
and that they have already made
a good beginning.
In the first of these three lec
tures, which were delivered at
Harvard last March, he gives a
brief view of world currents of
the last fifty years, descrying in
the confused mass of events cer
tain clear trends. Many of these
are familiar to us—the technolo
gical revolution, obliterating dis
tance and giving us the atom
bomb; the rise of new nations;
' the aggressive policy of Russia
and so on; but his keen and crit
ical appraisal of the place of each
in history and of our attitudes
toward them is worth a thought
ful reading.
In the second lecture, “Perpet
ual Peril,” Mr. Stevenson points
! out that this is not the first time
in the history of the world that
conflicting ideologies have faced
the possibility of living in uneasy
^ balance rather than war to exter
mination. Islam invaded Europe
in the early Middle Ages and the
Moors were in Spain for centur
ies while the eastern borders pf
Europe varied from decade to
decade. Today he sees us facing
two major problems:
“The first is the revolution of
rising expectations and the new
political independence of masses
of awakening peoples. From -West
Africa to Indonesia, millions of
human beings are now emerging
from foreign' domination and
fiercely demanding i relief from
hunger, pestilence and oppres
sion.
•‘The second is the constant
overhanging threat of aggressive
communism to national indepen
dence and to our concepts of po
litical freedom and individualism
which we have taken for granted
so long.”
To have the situation clearly
stated is much, but to follow his
closely reasoned argument for
meeting it with no quick reme
dies or universal panaceas but
with continuously alert intelli
gence, firmness, patience and a
decent respect for the opinions of
others is even more satisfying.
No short review can do justice
to the effectiveness of his argu
ments from history nor to the
power of his plea for intelligent
sha!ring by all citizens of our new
national responsibilities. One
feels that his sense of the urgency
of the problem has been deepen
ed by his recent travels and study
cl conditions in Europe and Asia.
He tells us in the introduction
that he wrote a book about these
travels and then decided not to
publish it. We are greatlul that
at any rate we have here some of
the conclusions which he reached
as a result of these experiences.
HREE BY TEY by Josephine
Tey (Macmillan $3.95), Those who
enjoy the more literary type of
mystery story derived consider-
1 able pleasure last year from the
publication for the first time in
this country of Miss Tey’s earliest
novel, ‘A SHILLING FOR CAN-
IDS' ir'5
DLES. They have even more sus
taining fare here in the republi
cation of three of her best now
long out of print in an omnibus
volume,—MISS PYM DISPOSES,
THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR and
BRAT FARRAR.
Each of these is unique in its
own way. hTe gentle Miss Yym
who unwittingly gets involved
in a murder while visiting a girl’s
school is one of the most loveable
characters of fiction, and her sen
sitiveness to the feelings of all
the people involved give unusual
intensity to this story.
Wlhat you get characteristically
in all of Miss Tey’s stories is the
minimum of physical violence
with a maximum realization of
the emotions and thoughts of the
people concerned, he is also in
tensely interested in character as
revealed by physical appearance,
dress, habits, expression, small
mannerisms. The solution often
lies in this.
As Robert Blair, the young
lawyer in THE FRANCHISE AF
FAIR put it, “It is a choice not
between stories but between hu
man beings.” That, too, can be
difficult.
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NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
MOORE COUNTY
Under and by virtue of the
power of sale contained in a cer
tain Deed of Trust executed by
John F. Buchholz and wife, Helen
Hart Buchholz, to R. F. Hoke Pol
lock, Trustee, dated the 28th day
of June, 1952, and recorded in
Book of Mortgages 95, page 226,
in the office of the Register of
Deeds for Moore County, North
Carolina, default having been
made in the payment of the in
debtedness thereby secured and
the said Deed of Trust being by
the terms thereof subject to fore
closure, the holder of the indebt
edness thereby secured having
demanded a foreclosure thereof
for the purpose of satisfying said
indebtedness, the undersigned
Trustee will offer for sale at pub
lic auction to the highest bidder
for cash at the Courthouse door in
Carthage, Moore County, North
Carolina, at 12:00 noon on the
20th day of September, 1954, the
land conveyed in said Deed of
Trust, the same lying and being
in McNeill Township, Moore
County, North Carolina, and more
particularly described as follows:
Being Lots Nos. J8008 to
J8014, inclusive; No. 2118 to
No. 2120, inclusive; No. 2127
to No. 2138, inclusive; No.
2147 to No. 2206, inclusive;
No. 2207A and No. 2207B; No.
2208 to No. 2211, inclusive;
No. 2216 and No. 2218 to No.
2222, inclusive, as shown on a
map entitled “Knollwood
Center, a Division of Knoll
wood, Inc., Moore County, N.
C.,!’ made by W. I. Johnson,
Jr., C. E., September, 1929,.
said map duly recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds
for Moore County in Map
Book 3, page 31, to which ref
erence is hereby made.
Subject, however, to all con
ditions, reservations and re
strictions placed of record by
Knollwood Development Cor
poration by Deeds dated Au
gust 2, 1944, and August 13,
1947, said Deeds being duly
recorded in the Office of the
Register of Deeds for Moore
County in Deed Book 145, at
page 85, and Deed Book 154
at page 497.
Subject, however, to a cer
tain Easement to the Town of
Southern Pines from Knoll
wood, Inc., dated February 1,
1925, duly recorded in the of
fice of the Register of Deeds
for Moore County in Deed
Book 95, page 543, said ease
ment granting the right, priv
ilege and perpetual easement
to lay, maintain, operate, re
pair and remove water and
sewerage mains through or
over the respective tracts of
real estate of KnoUwood, Inc.
'There is, however, except
ed from the above described
lots one (1) acre tract describ
ed in a Deed duly recorded in
the office of the Register of
Deeds for Moore County in
Deed Book 86, page 378.
There is excepted from this sale,
however, all properties previously
released from the lien of said
Deed of Trust as appears of pub
lic record in the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds for Moore County,
North Carolina, and those certain
two lots described in a Contract
of Purchase and Sale from Buch
holz Copipany, Inc., to Joe Gar-
zik, said Contract dated June 26,
1953, and duly recorded in the of
fice of the Register of Deeds for
Moore County in Deed Book 186,
page 421..
The above described property
will also be sold subject to taxes
for the County of Moore and
Town of Southern Pines, and spe
cial assessments.
This 25th day of August, 1954.
R. F. HOKE POLLOCK
A27S3,10,17c Trustee,
International Unilwm
Sunday School Lessonb
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
The Bible Speaks
Scripture: Acts 6:1-6: Romans 12:9-
16; 13:1-10; I Corinthians 3:4-9; Gala
tians 5:13-15.
Devotional Beadinf: Isaiah 41:6-10.
Christian
Citizens
Lesson for September 12, 1954
CUPPOSE the dream of some
scientists comes true, and there
is built a “space platform” buzz
ing around the earth, some thou
sand miles away, like a little moon?
Suppose this thing is equipped with
telescopic sights
and atomic weap
ons? Such a thing
— and it is now
technically possi
ble—would give its
possessors power
over the whole
earth such as no
conqueror has
ever had. The
question then Dr. Foreman
would be: What kind of people are
running the thing? Do they really
take an interest in the human race,
or suppose they didn’t care, and
started blasting away some fine
morning just for fun? E. B. White’s
famous story, “The Morning of the
Day They Did It,” imagines what
would happen then.
Learning to Belong
That may not be true as proph
ecy, —a continent, a planet, blown
out of existence because two men
who do not care anything about it,
or anything else, take a notion to
blast it. But it is quite true as a
picture of human attitudes. Neither
soldier nor senator nor common
citizen will do anything to help a
country or people for whom he
feels no special attraction; and he
may very easily injure or destroy
it without much conscience. In
war, this is a picture of how each
nation looks at the enemy; in
“peace,” it is a picture of the lack
of social responsibility which pla
gues every country in the world.
“Do what you like with it—it isn’t
mine,” may possibly be all right
wjien you are talking about your
neighbor’s tomato-patch or auto
mobile. But when you are talking
about your neighbor’s nation, you
are talking about something that
is just as much yours as his. We
all begin life as little egotists, each
of us the center of his little high-
chair universe. By degrees we
learn to -say “we” about our fam
ily, our gang, maybe our town or
high school or lodge. But it takes
church members a long time—
some of them—to say “we” about
the church, and even longer for
even Christian citizens to say “we”
about their country. Having no
special feeling for it, they don’t
care what happens to it, and may
even take part in doing it harm,
just because they have never
learned to belong to it.
Christian Citizens Needed
The Apostle Paul v;as a citizen
of a great empire, and he was
proud of the fact. He believed that
every Christian, whether a citizen
or not, had certain duties of obedi
ence, responsibility and support,
toward the Roman Empire. If this
was true in those dqys, when the
government was non - Christian,
corrupt and oppressive, when
Christians had for the most part
no chance whatever in sharing the
responsibilities of government,
how much more true it is in a
democracy! With professed Chris
tians numbering about half the
total population, with the vote in
our hands and our representatives
no farther away than the nearest
mail-box, we have even more rea
son and opportunity to make our
presence and our ideas felt, as
Christian citizens, than could have
been possible in the time of Paul
and Nero. Any Christian''who is old
enough to vote and educated
enough to read and write, might
well ask himself a few questions
to see if he is much of a Christian.
Quiz for Christian Citizens
Do you know the names of your
senator, your congressman? Did
you vote for them? Why? Do you
know whether they are Christian;
by profession? Do you know how
they have been voting on impor
tant questions? If so, do you find
that they have been taking a
Christian attitude as reflected in
their votes?
Have you ever taken the time
and spent the money to write or
wire your congressman or senator
to let him know how you and your
neighbors stand on important mat
ters? Have you felt that inter
national affairs were somehow be
yond your scope, or have you real
ized that bad relationships between
nations have always brought death
to happy homes? Do you realize
that our nation, and others, have
developed weapons of such terrible
force that to use them can destroy
the race of man? Do you have any
idea what your congressman and
senator, your personal representa
tives, are thinking and doing?
(Based on ontllnes copyrliphted by 4he
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Connell of the Churches of Christ
In the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
wrmTHE
Armed Forces
Maj. Herbert L. Garris, whose
wife, Mrs. Ethelene Garris, lives
at Pinehurst, is serving with the
IX Corps in Korea.
The IX Corps, one of three in
the Eighth Army, coordinates an
intensive post-truce training pro
gram for UN units under its con
trol.
Major Garris, son of Mrs. Ellie
M. Garris, of Raleigh, a member
cf IX Corps headquarters, holds
the Bronze Star Medal with Oak
Leaf Cluster, Pmrple Heart and
the Commendation Ribbon. He
attended North Carolina State
College.
A|3c Robert E. Spiirgin, son of
Mrs. Ada Buttry of U. S. High
way I South, Southern Pines, is
presently being trained as a fix
ed wire specialist at Warren Air
Force Base, Wyoming. '
At this historic former cavalry
post, outside Cheyenne, the Air
Force is training airmen in many
specialties.
DRIVE CAREFULLY — SAVE A LIFE!
Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday
BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
Cheves K. Ligon. Minister
Svmday School 9:45 a.m. Wor
ship service, 11 a.m. Women of
the Church meeting, 8 p.m. Mon
day following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
7:15 p.m.
Three things mar the Jjeauty of this
picture. DIRT .... POVERTY ....
and NEGLECT.
Dirt can be scrubbed away in ten
minutes. ,
Poverty cannot destroy human char
acter. It has bred some of our greatest
men and women. _ -tv,,..-
But neglect—for it there is neither
cure nor consolation. It is the shadow
of evil days to come.
Delinquency, immorality and crime
can nearly always be traced to neglect.
And not simply to the physical neg ect
so evident in this picture.
stem from the neglect of our children s
spiritual needs. There are y^^gsters
with clean faces and fine clothes who
are being brought up in the soul-sti
fling atmosphere of a church-less
^°Our children are children of God.
It is their sacred right to learn ot
their Father, and to see^Him honored
daily in their homes.
Parents, where will your children be
on Sunday morning?
'lill
THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest fac
tor on earth for the building of
character and good citizenship. It
is a storehouse of spiritual values#
Without a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilization can
survive. There are four sound
reasons why every person should
attend services regularly and sup
port the Church. They are: (1)
For his own sake. (2) For his
children's sake. (3) For the sake
of his community and notion. (4)
For the sake of the Church itself,
which needs his moral and ma
terial support. Plan to go to
church regularly and read your
Bible daily.
Book
Sunday.... Joshua
Monday... .Luke
Tuesday... Acts
Wednesday Acts
Thursday..! Corinthians
Friday James
Saturday.. .Revelation
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Are.
Simday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 pjn.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP (Congregalional)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p.ra.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Charles V. CovelL Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (except
first Sunday).
Church School and Family Ser
vice, 9:45 a.m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a.m. (Holy
Communion, first Sunday).
Wednesday, 10 a.m.. Holy Com
munion.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship
11 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.m.
Evening Worship, 8 p.m.
Scout Troop 224,,Monday, 7:30
p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednes
day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Worship Service, 2nd and 3rd
Sunday evenings, 7:30. .Fourth
Sunday morning, H a.m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m., second Tuesday.
Mid-week service 'Thursday at
8 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.m'.;
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.m.;
■weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confes
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
E. E. Whitley, Minister
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, Ashe Street)
Church School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
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