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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1956
Southern Pines
North Carolina
“In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We wUl try to keep this a go^
paper. We will try to make a little money for all concerned. Wherever there seems to be
an occasion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we will
treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. .
Christmas
C hrist, Christ, is born today!
H oly be thy holiday.
R ise betimes, and haste hway,
I n thy church to kneel and pray,
S urely from thine heart to say:
T hou, O Lord, will I obey.
Many poor around there be-7-
Alms give thou, and sympathy.
So God’s blessing ’light on thee.
—Lady Lindsay
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THE YOUNG FOLKS SING AND DANCE IN HALL
AND OLD FOLKS, TOO, MAKE MERRY ALL—
’TIS CHRISTMAS DAY!
The Holly Bears
The Crown
The holly and the ivy
When they are both full grown.
Of aU the trees that are in the wood
The hoUy bears the crown:
The rising of the sun
And the running of the deer,
The playing of the merry Organ,
Sweet singing in the choir.
The holly bears a blossom
As white as the lily flower.
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Saviour
The hoUy bears a berry
As red as any blood
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To do poor sinners good.
The hoUy bears a prickle
As sharp as emy thorn.
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
On Christmas Day in the mom.
The holly bears a bark
As bitter as any gall
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
For to redeem us all.
The holly and the ivy
When they are both full grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown.
The rising of the sun
And the running of the deer.
The playing of the merry organ,
Sweet singing in the choir.
A Christmas
Antiphone
Thou whose birth on earth
Angels sang to men,
While Thy stars made mirth,
Saviour, at Thy birth,
This day bom again.
Thou whose face gives grace
As the sup’s doth heat.
Let Thy simbright face
Lighten time and space
Here beneath Thy feet.
Bid our peace increase,
Thou that madest mom;
Bid oppressions cease,
Bid the night be peace.
Bid the day be bom.
—Swinburne
A Yule-Tide Song
Now Christmas is come,
Let us beat up the drum.
And call all our neighbors together.
And when they appear
Let us make them good cheer.
As will keep out the wind and the weather.
—^Anonymous
The HoUy Berry
Then drink to the holly berry.
With hey down, hey down derry;
The mistletoe we’ll pledge also.
And at Christmas all be merry.
—^Thomas Miller
Make Me Merry
Make me merry both more and less.
For now is the time of Christmas!
Let no man come into this hall.
Groom, page, nor yet marshall.
But that some sport he bring withal!
For now is the time of Christmas!
If that he say he cannot sing,
Some other sport then let him bring!
That it may please at this feasting!
For now is the time of Christmas!
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If he say he can naught do,
Then for my love ask him no mo!
But to the stocks then let him go!
For now is the time of Christmas!
—Balliol MS. of about 1540
Ho Ho!
Ule! Ule!
Three puddings in a pule;
Crack nuts and cry Ule!
—Old Rhyme
Get Ivy And Holly
Get Ivy and Holly and deck up thine house,
And take this same brawn to seethe and to
souse.
Provide us good cheer, for thou know’st the
old guise:
Old customs, that good be, let no man despise.
At Christmas be merry and thankful withal.
And feast thy poor neighbors, the great with
the small.
Yea, all the year long, to the poor let us give:
God’s blessing to follow us, while we do live.
—^Thomas Tusser
Old England
At Ewle we wonten gambole, daunce.
To carrole, and to sing.
To have gude spiced stewe, and roste,
And plum-pies for a king.
—^Albion’s England
December
From “The Months”
Nay, no closed doors for me.
But open doors and open hearts and glee.
To welcome young and old.-
Dimmest and brightest jnonth am I;
My short days end, toy lengthening days begin,;
What matters more or less sun in the sky
When all is sim within?
(December begins making a wreath as he
sings)
Ivy and privet, dark as night,
I weave with hips and haws a cheerful show.
And holly for a beauty and delight.
And milky mistletoe.
While high above them all I set
Yew twigs and Christmas roses pure and pale;
Then Spring her snowdrop and her violet .
May keep, so sweet and frail;
May keep each merry singing bird.
Of all her happy birds that singing build;
For I’ve a carol which some shepherds heard
Once in a wintry field.
—Christina G. Rossetti
The Cultivation Of Christmas Trees
There are several attitudes towards Christmas,
Some of which we may disregard;
The social, the torpid, the patently commercial.
The rowdy, (the pubs being open till midnight).
And the childish—which is not that of the child
For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel
Spreading its wings at the summit of the tree
Is not only a decoration but an angel.
The child wonders at the Christmas Tree:
Let him continue in the spirit of wonder
At the Feast as an event not accepted as a pretext;
So that the glittering rapture, the amazement
Of the first-remembered Christmas Tree,
So that the surprises, delight in new possessions
(Each one with its peculiar and exciting smell).
The expectation of the goose or turkey
And the expected awe on its appearance.
So that the reverence and gaiety
May not be forgotten in later experience,
In the bored habituation, the fatigue, the tedium.
The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure.
Or in the piety of the convert
Which may be tainted with a self-conceit
Displeasing to God and disrespectful to the children
(And here I remember also with gratitude
St. Lucy, her carol, and her crown of fir):
So that before the end, the eightieth Christmas, ^
(By “eightieth” meaning whichever is the last)
The accumulated memories of annual emotion
May be concentrated into a great jby
Which shall be, also, a great fear as on the occasion
When fear came upon every soul:
* Because the beginning shall remind us of the end
And the first coming, of the second coming.
—T. S. Eliot
Light In The Darkness
The Wise Men who came to the years they have searched for
Bethlehem from the East a long, it. •
long time ago, probably passing There are two kinds of light,
across what is now Jordan Md There is the light of understand-
around the northern end of the light of the mind. Over
Dead Sea, were guided by a star. centuries, even before the
This star, as St. Matthew says, ^ju-istian era, men have yearned
“went before them, till it came ^ know the cause of things. The
and stood over where the young wisest of them have
found it impossible Fo think of a
human being’s passage through
child was.”
St. Luke tells the story of Shep
herds “keeping watch over their this world as meaningless,
flocks by night,” and how the ,
glory of the Lord shone round
rising at the year’s
about them. festival as a bird flew
A star, a glory in the night through the empty upper spaces
sky—it was by light in darkness the drafty^haH in which the
that the coming of the Man of feast was held. Such, he said,
Nazareth was made known. “is human life. We pass from one
darkness into another.”
This happened in a past so far ^ ^
that it is hard to imagine it. Who „ The darkness does not satisfy,
can believe in the cdming and We 00k for a glow in the sky.
going of, sixty generations? But
last night, and today, bells are ‘tent that the Christian religion
rung and candles are still, today, and other fait^ came out of the
being lit all around the world be- cteserts of Arabia, where even the
r-niiBP of it nights were blessed with a mul-
cause 01 IX. flaming points of light
Candles and beUs—tiiese, more in the sky. Thus men have
than gifts and trees, are the sym- sought to understand,
bols of Christmas. For the bells „ ^ . , ...
are a kind of light turned into ®“\the light of ttei^d with-
musical sound, and light is a out a light in toe heart would be
kind of music, seen instead of meaningle^. The light to wb^b
, . we look today, those of aU faiths,
is a light of the heart. It is a light
There have been many periods that is warm, beautiful and full
of darkness during the centuries cf compassion and love. The eth-
since the Wise Men came to ics of true religion come out of
Bethlehem. But in tiie darkness human nature itself—out of that
men long for light, and over all human nature which knows its
own evil impulses and yet fights
against them and seeks a lighted
path away from them.
The star in the East, the single
candle, even, is no sentimental
illusion. It stands for a need al
most as primitive as that for
food, almost as strong as the
craving for water in a thirsty
land. Over nearly twenty cen
turies this light has shone. It
has cast its radiance into many
parts of the world and into many
philosophies, systems of ethics
and religions. It has brought
hope to man.
We know that we can continue
to hope because over all the cen
turies, in spite of old and tragic
disappointments, hope has not
died out of the hearts of men. In
spite- of all, the sense of brother
hood cannot die.
We may have faith that it will
not die. Generation after genera
tion of men have fought their
own fight for the good and true,
saying, as they emerged out of
their particular blackness, the
words of Job: “I am escaped with
the skin of my teeth.”
We, too, can have faith that in
spite of hatred among men and
talk of war there will be light in
our darkness. Faith is a star that
never sets. It is a candle that no
hurricane, made by nature or by
mem, can snuff out.
—By R. L. DUFFUS
N. Y. Times
The PiihWe
Spt^akiiig
Difference in ‘Optician,’
‘Optometrist’ Explained
To The Editor: ^
o
In a recent issue, you reported
that a local optometrist had
spoken to the Rotary Club, on'the
subject of contact lenses. In order
to dispel any confusion which ^
may exist, in the minds of your
readers, as to the nature of the
services offered by those in the
field of eye care, I offer the fol
lowing explanation.
An optometrist, in order to
take the state board examination,
must be a graduate of an accred
ited college, which has a five
year course of study. If he passes
the boarti successfully, he is then
licensed to exEunine eyes and to
prescribe lenses. In most cases,
the optometrist wiU fit the frame
to the face and provide the fin
ished glasses.
•file optician, who spoke to the
Rotary Club, is a member of a
craft or guild, whose vocation is
the grinding of lenses, the manu
facture of frames, and the dis
pensing of optical products. No
formal education is essential in
the requirements for the state
board examination which the
opticians established several
years ago. '
DR. D. W. WHITEHEAD
Optometrist
Southern Pines
Lack of Competition For
Bine Knights Questioned
To the Editor:
We have read with interest the
article on the front page of your
issue of November 29 announc
ing that the Blue Knights of
Southern Pines wiU go to 11-man
football next year. We are truly
sorry to see them leave the six-
man field and wish them much
luck in their new conference.
It is probably presumptions for
Us to question anything from the
intellectual center of the county,
but we cannot help but wonder
who vrrote the article for you
which proceeds to state that the
reason the Blue Knights are
leaving the six-man field is lack
of competition and we quote—“At
present. Southern Pines is con
sidered by far the top teami in
the loosely knit six-man league
in this area, even though they
lost to Aberdeen last week for
the State championship.”
Only in 1955 were they in any
way superior to Aberdeen. In
1954 they were handed the game
On a silver platter in the last four
seconds. Their margin in that
game, 4 points.
In October 1956, they won by
two points—14-12, representing a
kicked goal after touchdown.
First downs in that game were
Southern Pines two, Aberdeen
12.
In the championship game
Thanksgiving night the score was
Aberdeen 15, Southern Pines 6,
and that game is well covered by
your reporter on page 11 of the
same issue, November 29.
Who are they trying to kid
when they say “Southern Pines
is considered by far the top team ’
or, we might say, who is doing the
considering?
If the Blue Knights should, in
the years ahead, decide to return
to the six-man fold we can as
sure you they will find the coun
try boys at Aberdeen still have a
team in the field who can play a
little ball.
Yours for good sportsmanship,
W. L. BATCHELOR
Aberdeen Boosters Club
WITHIN THYSELF
Though Christ a thousand times
In Bethlehem be borp
And not within thyself.
Thy soul win be forlorn.
—Angelus Silesius
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