d’ THURSDAY. APRIL 18, 1957 A .'t. n THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER A NOSTALGIA FOR CAMELS hy Christopher Rand (Little, Brown $3.95). Mr. Rand knows a Sood deal about Asia, but his book will not make you an au thority on the subject, able to tell the State Department what they should do, for Mr. Rand is a modest man. Though he spent considerable time in the East and travelled into some of the less known parts, he confesses to some ordinary tourist curiosities such as wondering what an opium den was like. It turned out to be mildly interesting and ]ust an everyday affair to those most concerned, including the manager who said that trade' was fairly good but that he was hav ing trouble getting supplies of good quality. I found uncommonly pleasing Mr. Rand’s quiet way of telling just what did arouse his curi osity, how he went about satisfy ing it and exactly what people said and did, what they looked like and what clothes they wore. It leaves you with singularly sharp impressions of individuals from the old Malay fisherman, “the human radsir,’’ to Haryey Slocum, construction engineer, building with great gusto a dam for India that will be the largest outside the United States. Prize example of the author’s way of pursuing the queries of his own mind and finding no world-shaking answers but a cer tain illumination of the mind of the Asiatic is his title story. Rand nad a scholarly friend from: Cen tral Asia who spoke of camels with “great depth of feeling,” particularly the “buta.” Now camels are to the Westerner un likely objects of affection, so Rand wondered why his friend felt that way and spent several hours and bottles of beer in try ing to find out. Some chapters appeared pre viously in the New Yorker. THE LADY by Conrad Richter (Knopf $3.00). This short novel, whose scene is New Mexico, is a fine piece of writing and a gem of its kind. One thinks of a por- to his other troubles, when ‘"The Lady,” a distant cousin by mar riage, comes to his rescue. She is rich, beautiful, generous, daugh ter of a Mexican mother and an English father. The boy falls under her femin ine spell but he has heard tales of her Spanish temper and is also aware of and afraid of another quality in her character, a ruth lessness, an inability to believe she is subject to ordinary rules. True, that is why she can and does take into her home a boy she has never noticed before just when the respectable begin to shim him, that is why she is so wonderful to the Mexican peons and servsints on her ranch, but this regal quality has its dangers when her will is crossed. * In effect, the plot is a dramatic development of the consequences that follow the logical acts of such a character, a lady whom many were willing to shield from the results of her waywardness but whom, in the last analysis, they cannot protect from the fate inherent in her own character. Yet she remains so gallant, such an example pf lonely facing the thoroughly was bom and de- tian Church veloped. THE SHORT REIGN OF PIP- PIN IV. a Fabrication by John Steinbeck (Viking $3.00)., This book has been getting so much lambasting from the critics that I do not want to add to it. I would like to point out that Mr. Steinbeck writes better than the average aifthor any time and he seldom repeats himself. This gay satire on French politics is not as funny as it might have been, but he has a good situation, and it is plausible enough to anyone who has heard elderly French- nien argue oyer the relative merits of the Bourbons and Na poleon as heatedly as men do here over the New Deal and Re publican leaders. When no French party is able to form a government, someone suggests a monarchy, and they choqse the oldest royal line of all. A descendant of the Mqroving- ian line, that of Charlemagne, is found—a quiet scholarly gentle man who does not in the least want to be king but can find no way, out. Some of the episodes are most amusing, and the story is considerably enlivened by a young American in love with the king’s daughter, who wants to introduce American methods into the situation. HE lnt«nMtion*t Unilonn Sunday School Lt>om BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Baekfronnd Soriptare: Matthew 27:53 —28:20. Devotional Readlnr: I Corinthians 15:12-23. God’s D-Day Lesson (or April 21,19S7 How does the touring motorist spend his travel dollar. Here’s the breakdown: meals 29 cents; transportation 21 cents; lodging 20 cents; retail purchases 18 cents; theaters and other amuse- stride across the pqges of this latest religious novel by LeGette Blythe. Knitting up separate threads of their lives is the ad venture-filled story of a fiction al character named Longinus. But the novel’s real hero is the budding Christian Church itself. Opening with the first Easter, “The Crown Tree” teUs the story of the early Church by telling the personal stories of the men and women who built it. The tree’s growth symbolizes the spread of this new religion. Sticking close ly to the facts from the Bible and history, Blythe fills in the pic ture-making details for a variety trait of some proud lady of the' of scenes. He covers the stoning Renaissance with shadowy fig-!of Stephen, the first martyr; ures of retainers, tradesmen, Peter raising Dorcas from death; servants in the background. The' public and private life in Rome Dona" Elena of the story is seen and Jerusalem; Saul’s conversion through the eyes of an adoles-1 on the burning road to Damas- cent boy left orphaned in a fron- cus. He carries the growth of the tier town by the unexplained dis- ; Church to the decisions by Peter a^jpearance of his father. Ugly I and Paul to accept Gentiles into rumors begin to circulate about I the fellowship, the reasons for the disappear-1 This is the first of a series of ance, and the boy is threatened three books designed to tell the with social ostracism in addition hiunan story of how the Chris- courage ments 7 cents; and admissions to deserved, travel attractions 5 cents. 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Womble. Exec. Vice-President Established in 1950. Assets Over $4,000,000.00 TOWN OF SOUTHERN PINES Pursuant to authority contain ed in the North Carolina General Statutes, Chapter 160, and in ac cordance with the Code of Ordi nances of the Town of Southern Pines, Chapter “O” notice is hereby given that -hearing will be held at the Southern Pines Library at 5:00 P. M. on the 25th day of April, 1957, on a petition of Southern Pines Motor' Com pany and David McCallum, whereby they request the right to construct a filling station on that certain lot in the Business District of the Town of Southern Pines, more particularly identi fied as follows: Being that lot adjacent to and immediately south of the Southern Pines Motor Com pany building, fronting nine ty feet on Southwest Broad Street in Southern Pines and extending a distance of one hundred and fifty feet in a westerly direction from said 'street. Provided, however, that in case of a protest against th% granting of such permit to build such filling station, signed by the owners of twenty per cent or more either of the lots included in the same block as the proposed site of said filling station, or of those directly opposite tiiereto, extending four hundred feet from the street frontage of such proposed site of said filling sta tion, in any direction of the street adjacent to such proposed site O NE OF the most famous of Easter hymns begins: “The strife is o’er, the battle done. The Victory of life is won.. .” Among the many true meanings of Christ’s death and resurrection is this: Christ has conquered sin and death. All that death and sin could do to him, was done; yet he “rose a victor e’er the dark domain,” as another familiar hymn goes. The last word of Je sus to his dici- ples, as Matthew reports it, begins —“All authority has been given nie ...” Easter is not a season Foreman for puzzles; and yet aU this does raise a question in the minds of both Christians and unbelievers. If it is true that Christ has won for us the victory over sin and death, if it is true that it is He who has the true authority over man and history, how is it that the world racks along in such a slow, painful, frustrated sort of way? Looking at a slum, or a battlefield or a cemetery, or a jail, looking at life as it is lived on this planet, would we guess that God had won a tremendous victory over the powers of evil? D-Day Is Mot V-Day A theologian of our time, Oscar Cullman has given an answer to this in the simplest terms. We Uve, he says, in the interval, so to speak, between D-Day and V-Day. All who can remember back to June 6, 1944, remember the tre mendous victory of that hard- fought D-Day. But the war went on for nearly a year after that. Was D-Day, then, a failure? By no means. With D-Day the war was virtually won. The enemy had little chance, after that; but it ook a lot of fighting, and some of it, like the Battle of the Bulge, costly and disheartening. So we are living, in the time between Christ’s ascension and his coming again in glory, as it were between D-Day and V-Day. ’ What God Has Dona What has hern accomplished by God’s D-Day? One thing is, that God’s power has been shown, once and for all. Over and over in the New Testament, especially in the letters of Paul, the power with which God raised Christ from the dead is called the same power that works in Christians. The victory over sin and death which we see in Christ, can be the hope and to an increasing degree the exper ience of our own Uvt s. ’There real ly is a difference between living in the world before Christ and af ter. All that Christ was and did and said, climaxed by the resurrec tion, are ever before our minds if we only think. Before Christ, no one on earth really know what God could do. Since Christ, men of faith do know. ’The other achieve- of said filling station, such con- ment of D-Day’s victory is, for us. sent by the Town Council of the Town of Southern Pines shall not be given except by favorable vote of three fourths of all the members of the said Council of the Town of Southern Pines. This notice is published pursu ant to instructions by the Town Council of Southern Pines given at its regular meeting on the 9th day April, 1957. WM. GARY HEAD Town Clerk all-18 Get Better Sleep ON A BETTER MATTRESS Let us make your old mattress over like hew! Any size, any type made to order 1 DAY SERVICE MRS. D. C. ’THOMAS ' Sotilhem Pines Lee Bedding and Manufacturing Co. LAUREL HILL, N. C. Makers of “LAUREL QUEEN” BEDDING sharing in God’s certainty of vic tory which finally shall be com- plete. One of the easiest and subt lest temptations into which we can fall is to wonder whether God may not at last be overwhelmed by a universe which he created but can not now control. Realizing what D-Day means, we need never have such fears. What We Mast Oo Calvary and Easter have prac tical messages tor the Christian. They are not mere admiration- days, when we can sing happily about what God has done. ’They are chaDenge-days calling us to thought, attitude, action, as befits children of the mighty God. As for death, we can see clear through it. Christ has shown us the glory on the other side. As for sin, Christ bore our - sins with Him “to the tree” as Peter said. The power that wrought in Him is available tor us in our struggles against evil But there Is something more than this. John Baillie speaks of our era, between the time of Jesus and the end of time, as “the years of grace,” that the great task of Christians is just the very thing which Matthew leaves with his readers as the climax of his story of Christ. “All authority has been given me . . therefore—(.sit down and be at ease? wait quietly for the end? spend youi time singing my praises? no, none of these,) — therefore GO. and Make Discip les,” The going, winning Christian is the one in whom the victory of Easter moves on toward final tri umph ' (Based on outlines oopyrlrhted by the Division of Ch~Js*lan Education, Na- '-■ r Counril f the Churches of Christ .n th» V S. A. Ueleased by Community Page THREE J Bookmobile Scbcidiile Tuesday — Mount Carmel Route: Art Zenns, 10; Sandy Black, 10:15; Lloyd Chriscoe, 10:30; E. F. M^itaker, 10:45; H. A. Freeman, 11; Vernon Lisk, 11:15; John Davis, 11:30; Fred Richardson, 11:45; Mrs. Herbert Harris, 12; Mrs. Roberta Lawhon, 12:15; ’Tracy Seawell, 12:30; Miss Rpmell Gorden, 12:45; S. E. Ban ner, 1; Eulis Vest, 1:15; Mrs. Pearl Frye, 1:30; Mrs. Joyce Hay wood, 1:45; John Willard, 2; C. L. Baldwin, 2:15. Wednesday—Aberdeen School, 10; Roseland Route: Marvin Hartsell, 12:30; Calvin Laton, 12:45; H. M. Kirk, 1; C. S. Galy- ean, 1:15; Colonial Hts., 1:30; Mrs. J. J. Greer, 2:15; Pinebluff, 3. Thursday — Robbins Route: Perry Smith, 10; K. C. Maness, 10:15; G. S. Williams, 10:30; Mrs. Etta Morgan, 10:45; Audrey Moore, 11; E. C. Derreberry, 11:15; Talc Mine, 11:30; Robbins^ School, 12; Elise High School, 1; Robbins Library, 1:30; Carthage, 2:30. Friday — White Hill: W. E. Horne Jr., 10; R. H. Hendri(dcs, 10:30; Danny Clark, 10:45; Lynn Thomas, 11; Wesley ’Thomas, 11:45; Albert Denny, 11:30; Bill Cameron, 11:45; Arthur Gaines, 12; Arthur Salmon, 12:15; Mrs. M. D. Mclver, 12:30; Mrs. J. V. Easomj 1; Dunrovin Station, 1:15. STOP THAT ITCH! IN JUST 15 MINUTES. If not pleased, ypur 40c back at any drug store. The instant-drying ITCH-ME-NOT for itch of ecze ma, ringworm, insect bites, foot itch or other surface itch. Easy to use day or night. Now at SANDHILL DRUG CO. ENGRAVED reasonable. Informals. The Pilot Prices THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS A New Translation of the Apocalypse by J. B, Phillips ($2.00) and other inspiring books for the Lenten season. THE CHILD JESUS by Florence Mary Fitch, illustrate ($2.50) Bible Stories for every age. Lovely Easter Cards with appropriate messages. Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday < ^ V’A ’5 mm TH€5B...ITS €3«gTG5t! J I of W J- ' ^ ' - < J 'vV Yesterday, these four were their Mothers’ despair. Their faces were grimy, their play- clothes spattered with mud. They were even ready to put up their fists and fight when the rivalry between spacemen and cowboys became a little too keen. Today, they are immaculate. They sing like young angels. They even look like angels ... be cause today is Easter! And these boys are pro claiming the glorious message that Christ Is Risen. Easter is the time of promise, beauty, awe at the miracle of birth and rebirth. Easter is the time to let the joy of living seep into you. It is the time to tell yourself that you believe ... and, if there’s been any doubt about it, to sta^ believing again. Spend part of your Easter in Church. Spend the rest of it looking, with new eyes, at the wonderland God has created around you. the CHUBCH fob AU , . . AU FOB THE CHUBCH lor on earth lor the building ol character and good citizenship. It « o storehouse ol spiritual values. Without a strong Church, neither =ivilization can ^tond semces regularly and sup- FTh's%?„“tie.’''’r2V;:r children’s sake. (3) For the sake ^his community and notion. (4) which f which needs his moral and ma- lertal support. Plan to go m BWe your Sunday.. Monday. Book Chapter Verses ># 1-20 —. ,, .Matthew 28 1.9A J Cef^nthians 15 |-2S ?% if »V V V’ Copyngbl 19S7. Keister Adv. Service, Stimsburg. Va. BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (Presbyterian) Chevee 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, Wedne^ay, 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 (Episdopal) East Massachusetts Ave. Martin CaldweU, Rector Holy Communion, 8 ajn. (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 Ache David Hoke Coon. Minister Bible School, 9:45 aun. Worship 11 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.in. 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 pun. Missionary meeting, first and third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers, second Thurs days, 7 p.m. MANLY PRESBYTERlAK CHURCH Grover C. Currie, Minister Sunday School 10 ajn. Worship Service, 2nd and Sni Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth Sunday morning, 11 aun. Women of the Church meeting, 8 p.m., second Tuesday. Mid-week service Thursday at 8 p.m. ST. ANTHONY’S (CathoUe) Vermont Ave. at Ashe Father Peter M. Dengee Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 « -™, ; 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 pjn. SOUTHERN PINES METHODIST CHURCH Midland Road Robert L. Bame. Ministw Church SchooL a.m. Worship Service, 11 a. m.; W. S. C. S. meets each third Monday at 8 p. m. —This Space Donated In the Interest of the Churches by—• GRAVES MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. CITIZENS BANK & TRUST CO. CLARK & BRADSHAW SANDHILL DRUG CO. SHAW PAINT & WALLPAPER CO. CHARLES W. PICOUET MODERN MARKET ' UNITED TELEPHONE CO. JACKSON MOTORS. Inc. Your FORD Dealer McNEILL'S SERVICE STATION Gulf Servioe PERKINSON'S, Inc. Jeweler W. E. Blue JACK’S GRILL & RESTAURANT SOU’THERN PINES MOTCM Ca AStPTEACO.