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THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1957 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Page THREE <4 If Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER TOWER IN THE WEST by;of men through conversations Freuik Norris (Harper $3.95). This is the 1957 Harper Prize Novel. The judges were Hamilton Basso, OrviUe Prescott and Jessamyn West, and this book is a credit to their judgment. Few novels have given us such a broad view of our national life and such a thoughtful criticism of its values, but it does this strictly within the novel form. It is a good story, well constructed and well cen tered in personal drama. The “Tower in the West” is a skyscraper in St. Louis that was built by Jeff Hanes, an architect of genius, shortly before the First World War. The story is told by his younger brother who deeply admired him and whose profound loyalty to Jeff and to the ideals represented by his Tower caxised him to make im- common personal sacrifices in his efforts to be a good “curator” after Jeff’s untimely death. The story is told without heroics and without dogmatism. George Hanes takes no particular credit for the efforts he made to take care of the “Tower” and his brother’s family, he is wryly amused at the futility of some of his efforts. We get his own qual ity as a person chiefly from the reactions of others to him,—^his nephew, the woman he loved, and friends that range from bar- keeps and bootleggers to bankers and publishers. The author has an uncommon talent for giving us the quality and small acts, and it is quality that interests him from first to ed me.” Ian $2,751). Jaded readers of thrillers should find this one truly different and exotic. Writ ten by a poet it begins with a I dream—a horrid dream—and a I mood established with acute feel ings for sense impressions and 1 nerve ends generally. “Washed, I shaved and dressed, a simula- 'crum of normality, I stepped into the corridor as apprehensively as into a room of expectant strang ers. But only the little angular men on the Persian runner greet- Intemationai Uniform Sunday School Lonotu BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Backgroond Scripture: Matthew 9:35 —10:42. Devotienal Beading: Matthew 10:34- 42. last whether it is in architecture or human beings. Some charac ters appear and reappear in this The problem is a poignantly personal one to Harry Sinton who tells the story. In a depress- narrative that covers two World nervous state, ridden by a WaES and a depression; and their [ggnse of guUt, he cannot remem- development or lack of it under Ujgj. certain days and hours in his these conditions is always con- j-gcent past and comes to believe vincing. The author is not so himself a dangerous character, good at depicting women, but ij^ble to murder, who has al- then the women do not have j-gady murdered, or has he and, much to do in this story. The two if whom? Absurd as this ques- principal ones are just types of ^ion sounds baldly put, the au- the woman who is always a help ^^or makes very real Sinton’s a*nd the woman who is the exact ^ gtruggle to solve it and we be- reverse. i come deeply involved in his 'There is good pace to this nov- agonizing efforts to find out el, there are poignant personal what has happened and at the situations and ' bohind all this, same time establish an alibi for there is a burning conviction a still indefinite crime. Suspense that life is only significant when is well sustained and the climax lived by ideals. Mr. Norris does, terrific, not preach about this. Only once does he have George Hanes say in a moment of intimacy to an SILENT PARIS by TRAVELLER IN Chiang Yee (Norton old friend, “When you grow Old- 1 S5.95). This is the eighth of the er you find that there are fewer j “Silent Traveller” books and rather than more things that you having read this one, we are must be true to. The Tower is eager to read the others, particu- one of those few things to me.”,iarly the one on New York. Tliis But though he does not preach, I remarkable Chinese traveller is this principle is implicit in his' artist as well as a writer. judgments of men. He knows shoddy when he sees it in high places or low, and the same goes for fundamental integrity and the shining capacity to think be yond the interests of self. FANTASY AND FUGUE, a Mystery by Roy Fuller (Macmil- Pruning - Cabling - Bracing - Feeding Cavity Work a Specialty WRITE OR CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATES SOUTHEASTERN TREE SERVICE LLOYD HALL Phone Aberdeen Windsor 4-7335—-or Phone 8712 - Burgaw, N. C. - Box 564 JAMES A. SMITH, Mgr. 30 Years Experience - m24tf Have Your Summer Clothes Cleaned and Stored for the Winter at Valet' MRS. D. C. JENSEN Where Cleaning and Prices Are Better! Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co. Members New York Stock Exchange 105 East Pennsylvania Avenue Southern Pines, N. C. Telephone: Southern Pines 2-3731 and 2-3781 Complete Investment and Brokerage Facilities Direct Wire to our Main Office in New York A. E. RHINEHART Resident Manager Consultations by appointment on Saturdays A profitable place to . .. SAVE Going Concern Lesson for February 3, 1957 Bookmobile Schedule There are twelve cdlored plates of his paintings and numerous il lustrations in black and white. No matter how many travel books you have read you will find this one different because the author-artist sees people and places that are out of the ordin ary and describes them in an un usual manner. Who else, for in stance, would find the obscure Parc de Butte Chaumont remind ing him of a Chinese park and which he decided may well have been copied from one? Investiga tion brought out that it was Count Haussman who conceived the idea of turning a rubbish heap into a beautiful park, and that Alphand who carried out the plan might very well have been at some time in China. It is such bits of real and imagined history—both French and Chi nese—that we find throughout the book and which give it its unique charm. The Silent Trav eller does not omit the life of Montmartre and Paris night life in general, to say nothing of visits to the Grande Couture and to artists and artisans of all kinds. A most rewarding book! —JANE H. TOWNE COMPLETE ETIQUETTE by Frances Benton, co-edited by 11» General Federation ol Women's Clubs (Random $1.00). If you have found formidable the size or the price of current books on etiquette, here is a modest vol ume that tells you all you need to know and that will not strain your budget. It covers manners for men, women and children, dating, weddings, table settings, clothes and a score of other sub jects. It is modem and sensible. All Accounts Insured —UpTo— $10,000 Current Rate 31/2% —Per— Annum ACCOUNTS OPENED ON OR BEFORE THE lOih EARN INTEREST FROM THE 1st Accounts Conveniently Handled by Mail. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION 223 Wicker Street W. M. Womble, Established in 1950. - - - SANFORD, N. C. Exec. Vice-President Assets Over $4,000,000.00 Poor Cliffs 1957 Moore County Almanac Is Now On Sale at News Stands Throughout the County p's Bigger and Better! And the Price is Only 10c per copy at the News Stands or 15c by Mail. Address Your Orders To: THE SANDHILL CITIZEN Aberdeen. N. C. Wolmanized^ PRESSURE-TREATED LUMBER STOPS ROT AND TERMITES Sandhill Builders Supply Corporation Service-Quality-Dependability Tel. Windsor 4-2518 Pihehurst Rd. If Aberdeen, N. C. . A “GOING concern” is one that prospers, does business and keeps growing. If the Christian church is not a going concern, maybe the reason is that it is not a going concern. That remark needs explaining; it is not meant as nonsense. Ooncern? The Quakers have a good word: Concern, which has a deeper meaning than “firm” or busi ness. It means warm, deep, even self-sacri ficing interest in some one or some group or cause. Lincoln had a concern Dr. Foreman for the Union; St. Paul had a concern for Gentiles; mothers have a concern for their children. Now the church, if it is the true Body of Christ, ought to share his concerns. We know what it was that concerned him—people, the “multitudes,” the masses as we now speak of them. The church ought to have—and to be—a living concern for all sorts and condi tions of men. A church without the human, hu mane concern which Jesus had, is not"what Christ intended. Going? Furthermore, the church, so far as it is Christian, ought to be a going concern, not only a sitting one—not only a praying one either. Plenty of churches are (so to speak) sitting concerns. The preacher preaches about “lost” people but nobody gets out to hunt for them—perhaps the preacher doesn’t look very hard himself. The members talk to one another about the dreadful state of the world, but they do nothing about it. Missions? What’s that? The fact that their denomination is ac tually going into the ends of the earth, and begs them for help, does not get through to their minds. (Maybe the preacher’s fault again?) They have a concern for the sad state of the world, but it’s not a going concern, only a talking concern, a tut-tutting con cern,—nothing alive. So the phurch dwindles and dies, it’s not a going concern any longer because it isn’t a going concern,—it has no real concern, and it never goes anywhere. [g'o Mission, No Church The first Christian church was the twelve apostles. It was a 100% going concern. Jesus did not plan for any of them to remain behind. The directions he* gave them are not now followed by any mission ary society that has much suc cess; circumstances alter Christ ian strategy. But all the same, suppose those twelve rnen had pre ferred not to go when Jesus sent them? He chose them for two purposes, we read: to be with him and to be sent out. There are always Christians who enjoy wor ship better than service. Ten peo ple will be out for church, to one who will come out for volunteer service, of any sort. But there came a time when Jesus had to say (in effect) to his closest friends: You have been with me enough. You have heard all you need to hear, learned aU you need to learn—for now. Go out now and change people, change the world, in my name! If they had refused, if Jesus could have found no one willing to go, there never would have been a Christian church. And •if the church ceases to be mis sionary today it will become a fos sil, a relic, a curiosity, without life or usefulness. “I Wouldn’t Be Here If.. Not everybody can become a foreign missionary. (Indeed thp Twelve were sent out first to a region smaller than Vermont; their horne country.) But there are various ways in which the church can go out, and send out. There is a man who has found his life’s chief work and interest in developing the moral and spiri tual atmosphere of the schools in his state. He said not long ago to a group of religious workers: “I wouldn’t be here if my church didn’t feed me.’’ What he is doing is outside the church; he worzs through public agencies of the State. But his inspiration comes from the church. And his church would not have inspired him and “fed” him if in turn it had not been inspired and fed by the Liv ing B»ead. Where the church as an organization c a n n b t go, its members, stirred and supported by the Spirit of God, must go, into life everywhere, in the name of Jesus. (Based on outline copyrighted by the | Division of Christian Education, Na-: tional Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) Tuesday, 5 — J. D. Lewis, 10; Aj. A. McCaskill, 10:15; Paul Green, 10:30; Ben Blue, 10:45; Farm Life School, 11; Miss Velma Prim, 12; John Blue, 12:15; C. F. Wicker, 12:30'; H. A. Blue, 1; Miss Flora Blue, 1:30; Raymond Wicker, 1:45; Ed Love, 2; E. B. Cook, 2:15; Lewis Short, 2:30. Thursday, 7 — Miss Sara Inman, 10; High Falls School, 10:30; HighfaRs, 11:30; Mrs. Helen Maness, 12; Penn Seawell, 12:30; Glendbn, 12:45; Miss Alina Ed wards, 1:15; R. F. Wilcox, 1:45; Miss Irene Nicholson, 2:15; Car thage, 2:45. Friday, 8 — W. E. Graham, 10:30; Jackson Springs Post Office, 11; J. C. Blue, 11:30; James Hicks, 11:45; George Ross, 12; Carl Tucker, 12:30; Mrs. Mar garet Smith, 12:45; J. W. Blake, 1; Miss Adele McDonald, 1:30; George Hunt, 1:45; Ed Smith, 2. ANTIQUES BOUGHT FOR CASH FURNITURE, BOOKS, PAINTINGS, GLASS, CHINA, SILVER, GUNS, STAMPS, COINS, JEWELRY, etc. , JOSEPH GARNIER Midland Road PINEHURST Phone 3055 VALENTINES? Yes indeed and clever and beautiful GREETING CARDS for Birthdays, Convalescents, Babies, etc. Bennett & Penna. Ave. Telephone 2-3211 DRIVE CAREFi:(LLY — SAVE A LIFE! Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday TH« S«C1?«T In another moment he will be get ting up and walking toward you, eager to tell the secret of his calm ness and strength. Will you listen? He has solved many problems, overcome much grief and temptation, been able to meet the conditions of every-day living, all because through the Church he has come in contact with the Source of all power._ In the Church he has found companionship. Its worship services have brought faith, peace and serenity. Its activi ties have furnished an outlet for his creative abilities and energy.^ The Church has been a part of his life from boyhood. Through its various departments the needs of his life have been met. He has enjoyed the fellow ship there and, looking back, he is able to trace his own growth. Have you learned his_ secret? Wouldn’t you like to know it? What the Church has done for him it can do for you. If you are young, it will help meet your problems. If you are qlder, it will bring satisfaction and peace. THE CHUHpH FOR ALL . . . all for the church The Church is the greatest fac tor on earth for the building of character and good citizenship, ft is a storehouse of spiritual values. Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civilization con survive. There ore four sound reasons why every person should attend services regularly and sup port the Church. They ore: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his children’s soke. (3) For the soke Of his community and nation. (4) For the soke of the Church itself, which needs his moral and ma terial support. Plan to go to church regularly and read your Bible doily. BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (Presbyterian) Cheves K. Ligon, Minister Sunday 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. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH New Hampshire Ave. Sunday Service, 11 a.m. Sunday School, 11 a.m. Wednesday Service, 8 p.m. Reading Room in Church Build ing open Wednesday 3-5 p.m. iriE CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOWSHIP (Congregational) 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.m.. The Forum. EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal) East Massachusetts Ave. Martin Caldwell, Rector Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First Sundays and Holy Days, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m.) Family Service, 9:30 a.m. Church School, 10 a.m. Morning Service, 11 a.m. Young Peoples’ Service League, 6 p. m. Holy Communion, Wednesdays and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and Fri day, 9:30. Saturday—6 p. m. Penance. 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 3r6 Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourtli Sunday morning, 11 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 Artie Father Peter M. Denges Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 ajn.; Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.ni.; weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confes sions heard on Saturday between 5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m. SOUTHERN PINES METIhoDIST CHURCH Midland Road Robert L- Bame. Minister Church School, 9:45 a.m. Worship Service, 11 a. W. S. C. 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