THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1957 THE . PILOT—Southern Pines, Nortii Carolina Page THREE o Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER OF CATS AND MEN. com piled by Frances E. Clarke (Mac millan $3.95). Admirers of cats will be gratified to find in this handsome volume that they are in excellent company. Walter De La Mare, W. B. Yeats, Pierre Loti, Hilaire Belloc, Elmer Davis are only a few of the literary fig ures 'who here pay tribute to the charm and character of cats, and the artists range from ancient ^gypt and Japan to such modern geniuses as Manet. . In fact, Elmer Davis, who leads the symposium, points out that the cat “seems to be widely preferred (to the docile dog) by irtists and writers, a tribe which with rare exceptions is almost fanatically individualistic and values individualism and inde pence in its friends, humEin or animal.” Of course, he is also aware that the beauty of some and the grace of all cats have something to do with this pref erence. Mr. Davis’ most entertaining thesis, however, is that suggest ed by the title of his essay, “On Being Kept by a Cat.” He proves to us that by all the rules of logic and economics, he is more the property of his cat than the cat is his property. When it comes to the mysteri ous side of the cat’s character— what goes on at night when he walks in the wet, wild woods by his wild lone—there is a little masterpiece, “Eroomsicks,” by Walter De La Mare, which min gles the homely commonplaces of everyday Ufe with startling glimpses into the supernatural as only a poet can. After a score of other fine tales, poems, essays and bio graphical sketches, including Hilaire Belloc’s priceless “Con versation with a Cat,” the book ends appropriately enough with a paean of praise from the chief devotee of cats, Carl Van Vech- ten. He calmly asserts that, “There is, indeed, lio single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage” and develops this idea at some length. The choice of cat portraits to illustrate the book is that of a connoisseur. Not one is a com monplace pretty pussy. From the poised and aristocratic Egyptian cat (300 B. C.) to Manet’s rowdy pair meeting on a city roof in ‘Tne Cats’ Rendezvous,” each is an individual of distinct charac ter. Even more expressive are the Steinlen sketches of cats in action that decorate chapter heads. Do not miss the startled kit tens on page 79 or the dour sage who ends the book. THE EDGE OF DARKNESS by Mary Ellen Chase (Norton $3.50). One wonders why this is called a novel, for it has no plot or action. The death of Sarah Holt, the grand old lady of the Cove, is the focal point. Her de.ath at ninety is followed by stories of her and her neighbors and their children. Under Miss Chase’s skillful hand they all come alive as does “the Cove,” a small fishing vil lage on the Maine coast. You cLEnneR Toons "You're due for a CLEAN-UP soon I see SPOTS all over your suit!" 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The Pilot gives you the facts in its news col umns and, through editorials, special articles and telling comments culled from the nation’s press, you’ll know the thoughts and hopes that lie behind the news. Order The Pilot delivered to you by mail. Send us this coupon. The Pilot, Inc. Southern Pines, N. C. Enclosed find check or money order to start my sub scription at once. Please send it to the name and ad dress shown below for the period checked. ( ) 1 yr. $4 Name Address City ( ) 6 mo. $2 ( ) 3 mo. $1 State. can judge how small when you read that when Lucy Norton, Sarah’s devoted friend, arranges the chairs for the funeral, she puts out only thirteen. I loubt if there is anyone writing now in America that knows the Maine fisher people as Miss Chase does. We under stand the tjtle when at the end of the book Lucy’s husband, Joel, says, “I’ve always noticed on this coast just on the edge of darkness, the sky often holds a long, steady glow of Ught.” -JANE, H. TOWNE • • DEEP WATER, a Novel of Suspense by Patricia Highsmith (Harper $2.95). This is as horrid a tale as you are likely to meet, but I kept right on reading so skillfully is it constructed. The suspense hangs on a duel to the death between husband and wife. He is a quiet man of schol arly tastes, courteous, self-con trolled, conventional; she is flamboyant, beautiful, impulsive, unscrupulous. Melinda’s affairs with other men are the talk of the New England town, and all sympathies are with her hus band, Victor Van Allen. Even when Melinda’s lovers take to disappearing—some by violence, some mysteriously— only an unpopular few even sus pect Vic. Detectives hired by his wife get replies such as this from the garbage man, “I known Mr. Van Allen six years, I sez, and you don’t find a nicer guy in town. I heard of punks like you, I sez. You know where you be'- long? On my truck along with the rest of the muck.” By carefully building up her characters and background, Pa tricia Highsmith makes a fantas tic situation credible and one av/aits with keen curiosity the outcome. DAUGHTER OF WOLF House by Maigaiel E. Bell (Morrow $2.95). Here is a fine, dramatic novel for teen-age girls. The background is unusual, a little Alaskan Indian village, dominated by the totems of two clans, the wolf and the killer whale. Nakatla, who belonged to Wolf House, was the grand daughter of its chief, but her father had been a young sea captain rescued by her people when his ship was wrecked on the rocky coast. And now, when she was on the verge of woman hood, another foreigner had come—a trader who built a store and a home for his family. This is first of all the story of Nakatla and the trader’s son, but it is also the story Of how the challenge of the newcomers was met. To the shaman of Killer- whale House, who hated them, their coming meant disaster. To the wise old chief of Wolf House, it pointed the way to, a better life. The resulting conflict, which deeply affected the lives of the two young people, forms the climax of a romantic novel with a rare blend of outward and in ward excitement. Completes Oldsmobile Maintenance Training Charlie Boyte, Jr., a member of the service staff at Phillips Motor Sales, has successfully completed an intensive course in advance Oldsmobile servicing and maintenance techniques at the General Motors Training Center in Charlotte. He is one of many service employees who have taken in struction under high-skilled in structors trained at the Oldsmo bile factory. His training is part of a program sponsored by the company to maintain service de partments at a high level of quality, a company spokesmian said. Some North Carolina tobacco farmers are supplementing their incomes by growing vegetables for market. Get Belter Sleep ON A BETTER MATTRESS Let us make your old mattress over like new! Any size, any type made to order. 1 DAY SERVICE MRS. D. C. THOMAS ^ Soulbern Pinas Lee Bedding and Manufacturing Co. LAUREL HILL, N. C. Makers of “LAUREL QUEEN” BEDDINQ W,HE IntenMtional Uniform Sunday School Lassons BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Background Scripture: I Corinthians 16. ' DcTotlonal Readinf: 11 Corinthians 9:6-15. Giving? Lesson for November 24, 1957 Dr. Foreman pREACHERS talk too much ^ about money, some people com plain. It is very seldom that this complaint has good reason behind it. If you don’t like a religion that talks about money a good deal, you’d better hunt up some other religion besides Christianity. Head the parables of Jesus and see for yourself what a large number of 'them have to do with money. The Christian religion is a re ligion of love. Now love always involves giVing. Selfish, tight-fist ed “love” is a contradiction. Ev erybody would agree to that. The arguments or the misunderstand ings begin at this point: What is giving? Substitutes for Giving There is really no substitute for giving, but people do try. to run substitutes under that name. When time comes for a missionary offer ing, in almost any church you can hear some one sourly speaking: “Why should we give to people who never give to us? Why must it all go one way?’) As a matter of fact, missionary gifts don’t all go one way; but let that pass. The objec tion just quoted shows that the ob jector doesn’t want to give, all he wants is exchange. But exchange is not giving. Here we are nearly at Christmas time, and aU around us are people who talk about Christmas “gifts” when what they reaUy mean is a Christmas ex change. Another substitute something like this is investment. People talk about dividends from the mis Sion field, they like to feel that by- upping their contribution ten dol lars they will get a dividend in the shape of one more soul saved. But the work, the true work of the Christian church, is not like that of a business. A railway can cut off a train that is not making mon ey; but a church has no right to cut down a missionary’s salary be cause he can’t show as many con versions as the next missionary down the river. An old cripple who can never be cured, is just as worthy an object of Christian giving as a crippled child who can be cured. Prying It Loose Parting with your money isn’t giving it. If you are being held up and -are relieved of your wallet, you don’t take credit for being generous with bandits. If you sit down and write the government a large check about the middle of next April, nobody can be fooled into thinking you arc giving the United States anything; you are merely paying your tax. And may be you wouldn’t even do that if you didn’t know it was a case of pay —or else . . . And yet people in the church will take credit for be ing generous when they are only parting with money they’d n'uoh rather not part with. This is not to say that the church ever robs any one. But sometimes a church will assess its members so much a member. It will be known who pays and who doesn’t, so the man pays; but he’s really being held up, he is paying only because he can’t help it. What has to be pried out of a man is never a gift! True Giving “Let aU that you do be done' in love,” Paul said. This hojds .for giving as for anything else. In I Corinthians 13 Paul had already said that if a man actually gave away every single thing he owned, even if he presented his own body as a sacrifice to be burned on a great altar, but did this without love, it would amount to nothing at all. The love of which Paul speaks is not a natural thing, that is to say, without the Spirit of God this love cannot exist. Ordinary love is so different from this that the New Testament uses a dif ferent word for it. There is an ocean of difference between “love” that demands some kind of return, some reward, some dividend, and love that pours itself out without even asking for return. Such love is a rare sight, you say? To be sure it is; and that is why true Christian giving is so rare. This is not to say that a church should run each of its contributors through a third-degree examina tion—“What was your motive?’,’— before it will accept a cent. But every church ought to be working to educate its people; out of being exchangers, investors, prestige- grabbers, quota-flUers, Lady Boun- tifuls, into the joy of giving from pure Christ-like love. (Based on outlines oopyrlfhted by th'* Division of Christian Rducatton, Na tional Counell of the Churches of Chris* in the IT. S. A. Released by Communltr Press Servioc.) County Goes Over Quota On Annual Savings Bond Sale Moore County has exceeded its annual goal in the sale of savings bonds, it was announced this week by W. H. Andrews, Jr., state volunteer savings bond chairman. Sales of E and H Bonds in the county during October were $40,605, and for the ten-month period through October, $353,- 979, Andrews said. The annual quota was $342,720. Moore is one of ten counties in the state which has exceeded the goal. Others are Dare, Gates, Macon, Onslow, Alleghany, Northampton, Stanly, Chowan and Cherokee. The quota in this county was, incidentally, higher th.an in any of the other nine counties. Welcome to CHURCH OF CHRIST E. Main St. Aberdeen Sunday School 10:00 Morning Worship 11:()0 Evening Worship 7:30 AIR TICKETS CRUISES TOURS -:- RESORTS Domestic & World-Wide Travel SHEARWOOD TRAVEL SERVICE Pinehurst, N. C. %KEl Ph. CY 4-4122 DRIVE CAREFULLY—SAVE A LIFE Let Us Clean and Store Your Summer Clothes Now! "'Valet MRS. D. C. .JENSEN Where Cleaning and Prices Are Better! Attend The Church of Your Choice Next Sunday "V THE FIRST THANKSGIVING ' S'? ' ..m Dost think this turkey will please the Pil grim Fathers? Those cranberries have been strung with careful fingers, the bird itself has been roasted to just the proper degree of succulent brown ness, and that bit of wheat, lying on the table, symbolizes the rich bounty of this year’s harvest. If our Puritan maid, Priscilla, looks a bit skeptical, it is only because she is wondering if tom turkey will be big enough to satisfy all the hungry guests. They will be coming with vigorous appe tites, whetted by the walk through snow covered fields from Church, where they have given thanks for their good fortune. And on all Thanksgivings since that first one, thankful people have knelt in prayer. Thanksgiving is our own American holiday, unlike any other. It is deeply religious in nature. We can only observe it if, like the Pilgrims, we go to church to give our thanks. And never have a people had cause to be so thankful for so much. the church for AU Th^ CHURCT tor fac- character and aood o{ i® a storehouse^o/^? It Without a strono u ‘ democracy nor^ neither survive. Thera can reasons why everv™ sound attend services ran Should