THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1961
ITHE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Some Looks.
At Books
By LOCKIE PARKER
WILD ORPHAN. Written and took place here in the Sandhills
illustrated by Glen Rounds (Hol
iday House $2.95). The beaver
family that you see above lived
in that North Carolina swamp
which Glen Rounds of Southern
Pines describes so vividly not
only as landscape but as a com
munity of small, busy crea
tures each intent on his own pur
suits.
—some of it he saw, some he
could read from tracks in the
mud, the gaps he filled in from
his knowledge of beavers’ ways.
The book has a handsome page
design with marginal drawings
that follow the text closely. These
line drawings, two of which ap
pear on this page, are some of
the artist’s best and that is say-
Father and Mother Beaver were i ing a great deal. Written for
sober citizens who spent their
time getting food and keeping up
their property. This included see
ing to repairs on the dam which
made the pond where their lodge
was, a work essential to their
own welfare but also beneficial
to the rest of the community.
Then one day men made a
break in the dam and set traps.
The two adult beavers and one
kit were caught and carried
away.
This book tells about the other
little beaver who was left an or
phan. Frightened, bewildered, he
huddled in the lodge waiting for
his mother until hunger; drove
him out. Even then the least
sound sent him back in a panic.
How he learned to find his own
food, grew bolder, began to ex
plore the shores of the pond is
told in intimate detail, as it
could only be told by one who
waited in patience for the shy
creature to appear and watched
him day after day. As Glen
Rounds says in his preface, this
is a true story of something that
young people, the book is a good
one for anybody interested in na
ture lore.
WATERS OF THE NEW
WORLD. Houston to Nantucket,
$5^95). Here is another man who
finds the teeming life of the
swamps impressive. Jan de Har-
tog shipped a small Dutch sailing
vessel of an obsolete pattern on
a freighter to Houston, Texas.
Then he set out to follow the
coast around to Nantucket by in
land waterways, lakes, canals and
even open sea where necessary.
His account does not deal with
wildlife for its own sake so much
as its impact on a European ex
ploring an alien land, a European
with the imagination of a poet
and a scholar. D-s Hartog found
much that struck him as wild
and hostile after the more domes
ticated landscapes of Europe. He
speaks of “the spell that the
coastal swamps of the Carolinas
throw over the mariner who ven
tures into their lonely wastes.”
Their dead trees and dark
stumps, their reptilian inhabi
tants reminded him of other geol
ogic epochs when similar scenes
must have been “caught in the
dark opal of the brontosaurus’
eye.”
But he has time to notice peo
ple, too—humble people, some
times odd people living along
these fringes of our American
shores. On the Gold Coast of
Florida, he was pleased with a
neat, cozy settlement of elderly
people in trailers, a settlement
gaily called “Pirate’s Cove.” At
Cape Canaveral he was appalled
by man’s ingenuity in mechanics
“combined with his moral imbe
cility,” but was reassured by all
the young mothers standing in
front of a display of baby foods.
This journal of de Hartog’s voy
age is a miscellany of observa
tions and reflections, never dull,
often beautiful and sometimes
giving us thought-provoking
views of our own country as
seen by an intelligent and sympa
thetic foreigner. Each chapter is
headed with a pleasant line draw
ing by his artist friend, Jo Spier.
THE CONTINENT WE LIVE
ON by Ivan T. Sanderson (Ran
dom $16.95|). In addition to being
a handsomely illustrated book,
this is a mine of information
about the marshes and moun
tains, the seacoasts and forests of
the varied continent on which we
live. The text runs to 140,000
words and is almost encyclopedic
in its coverage of plants animals
and major physical features.
Dividing the country into six
teen areas as for example, the
Great Southern Pine Belt, the
Land of the Bayous, the Appal
achians and Eastern Piedmont,
Sanderson discusses each in turn,
giving briefly its geologic history
and then telling how wind and
iveather still change the land.
There are descriptions of sedges
and grasses that grow on the
shore, of forests and wild flowers,
fungi and cacti, accompanied by
color photographs that make
even the modest beach plum look
like a jewel.
But Sanderson is at his best
when he talks of the life of the
wild creatures who live in these
places, be it the majestic moun
tain Elk (or Wapiti) that he de
scribes as “a symphony of con
struction” or the little prairie dog
in his neat and populous commu
nities. The book has 235 photo
graphs, 109 in color, an excellent
index and some useful maps.
Youth Groups in
Week-End Meets
Saturday night the Senior High
Fellowship of Brownson Memori
al Presbyterian Church met with
the youth group of the United
Church of Christ. The youth
groups had a square-dance fol
lowed by a hayride. About 40 peo
ple attended the dance.
Lorraine Beith was in charge of
the program Sunday night. 'The
program was “Getting Along
with Myself,” the first of a series
of three programs on personality.
The Senior High Fellowship of
Pinehurst attended. A total of
32 people were at the meeting.
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With The
Armed Forces
Army PFC Alton L. McLaugh
lin recently participated with
other 32nd Signal Battalion Com
pany A personnel in Checkmate, a
NATO tactical training exercise
conducted in Europe.
Mis mother, Mrs. Fannie O.
Person, lives on Route 1, Carth
age. His father, Claude A. Mc
Laughlin and his wife, Naomi,
live in Baltimore, Md.
McLaughlin and members of
his unit were joined in the simu
lated combat exercise by NATO
troops from Great Britain, France,
Germany and Belgium. 'The ex
ercise was designed to test pro
cedures for joint combat opera
tions.
The 21-year-old soldier, a pole
lineman in the company at Darm
stadt, Germany, entered the
Army in May, 1960, completed
basic training at Fort Jackson, S.
C., and arrived overseas the fol
lowing September.
Karl E. Schweinfurth, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Schwein
furth of Route 2, Vass, has com
pleted recruit training at the
Naval 'Training Center, Great
Lakes, Ill.
Military ceremonies marked the
end of nine weeks of “boot camp”
and included a full dress parade
and review before high ranking
officials and civilian dignitaries.
Army Specialist Five Tip S.
Blue, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Blue, Route 1, Jackson Springs,
participated with other 101st Air
borne Division personnel in
Checkmate II, a NATO tactical
training exercise conducted in
Turkey, September 15-25.
Specialist Blue, a member of
the division’s 1st Airborne Battle
Group, 327th Infantry, was air
lifted from Fort Campbell, Ky.,
on September 9. Upon arrival in
Turkey, he joined with other
NATO ground, air force and naval
personnel from Great Britain,
Greece, Turkey and Italy in the
simulated combat exercise. Some
2,000 U. S. based military person
nel participated. .
Blue, first cook in the infan
try’s Company C at Fort Camp
bell, entered the Army in 1951.
CARD OF THANKS
'The Carter family wishes to
express its appreciation to the
communities of West End and
Jackson Springs for the kindness
extended them during their be
reavement in the death of Mrs.
A. C. Carter.
T
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coming more popular each year.
It is a pattern of farming in al
ternate contour bands of close
growing crops and row crops.
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During recent years several new industries have come
to Southern Pines and, by the looks of things, more are
on the way. This means more jobs for local folks, more
funds circulating in local pockets, more good citizens
coming here to live . . .
During the past year a dozen or more drives have been
held here for funds in support of better health, better
education, to alleviate human need . . .
During the past year more people have come here to
live, attracted by what they hear or have read of the
climate, the sports, the pleasant living, the charm of a
friendly, attractive community . . .
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Christians Grow
Lessen tor October 8, 1961
/~^RISTiANS aren’t such a pe-
culiar /reed that they stand
outside dw laws which God has
wri+teji itt’i) nature, the laws that
govern .'.il human beings whether
Christian or not. The Christian
child has to Isam his lessons and
finish his spinach
just like other
children. The
Christian texui-
ager is not going
to find he can get
by without doing
his home work
just because he is
a Christian. The
boy who goes out
Dr. Foreman jqj. the basketball
team had better be a good player
or he won’t get on the team, and
that holds' for Roman Catholics
or Quakers just the same as for
atheists.
There are certain laws of
growth which are in force at all
times and lor all persons. The
Christian grows, and can grow,
only in the way that others do,
when it comes to physical, mental
and social growth. But what about
.spiritual growth? How can we,
or can we, make progress as
Christians?
“Learn from Me”
First of all, and most founda
tional of aU, the Christian be
comes more of a Christian.—he
becomes more ChrisUan in every
aspect of Ms life—, by learning
from Jesus. TMs means at least
that Jesus is THE TEACHER,
the number One tea(fiier, of the
growing Christian. If we take se
riously the claims at Jesus as we
read them in the New Testa
ment, if we take seflously what
the church says about the divine
authority of our Lord, dien the
only logical conclusion is: If we
take any other authority ahead of
the authority of Jesus, we are in-
sincere at worst, inconsistent at
best. Now we can’t learn from
Jesus, we don’t rate the name of
“disciple” — which is to say,
“learner”—^if we never read or
stop to think about what Jesus
said. The study of the four Gos
pels is absolutely indispensable
for Christian growth.
Copy Whom) «
Of course, learning from Jesus
is not only learning to do as he
says, but also and always learn
ing to do as he does, to live as
he lived. Even those who are not
Christians understand tMs. Chris
tianity is fully possible, Bernard
Shaw said once, only in a nation
of Christs. Quite right; and that
is precisely what Christians
should be aiming at—a nation of
Christs. But after aU, some one
will say, Jesus lived long ago and
in vastly diEerent circumstances
from ours. How can we follow
him?
At this point we have a valuable
hint from what seems at first a
conceited remark by Saint Paul,
but is not really conceited: “Copy
me,” he writes to the Phllippians
(Moffatt’s translation.) The Chris
tians to whom Paul was then writ
ing had no writt«a gospels, and
even If they had, they might have
felt a little baffled. How could
they—Roman citizens, slaves,
Greeks, copy J^sus who was
neither citizen nor slave nor
Greek? Paid gives the answer.
“Copy me”; for us tMs would
mean. Imitate the most Christ-
like persons you know, living in
your own time and place. ■
Why Christians Don’t Grow
It is a pathetic, tragic fact'that
, most Christians are stunted,
Christianity has not spread in the
world as one would expect; and
one big reason is that we don’t
have enough good eaiBples of
genuine all-round Christians. We
are scrawny in spirit for the same
reason that some sick people are
underweight In body: we can’t
or won’t take proper nourishment.
, “There is still much that I could
say to you, but the burden would
be too great for you now,” Jesus
told his disciples. “I could not ad
dress you as spiritual men,” Paul
writes to the CorintMans, “but as
. . . babes in .Christ.” Not even
an inspired apostle, not even our
Lord himsdf, can cram truth
down into the mind of one who is
not ready for it, or who rejects
it. There is a mental disease, or
symptom, known as aboulia, in
wMch the patient just does not
want to do anything whatever.
Set the patient, htmgry from two
days’ fasting, down in front of a
bountiful meal, and the patient
sits there without moving; wUl
starve there if not helped. Spir
itual aboulia Is worse, for it
starves the very soul.
(Based on outlines eo^/rlfhted by <
the Division of Christian Education, i
National Council of the Churches of «
Christ in the U. S. A. Released by "
Community Press Service.)
Page THREE
Inienuttonal Uniform
Sunday School Lessons
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
blble Material: Matthew 11:23-30; Luke
9:51-56; I Corinthians 3:1-4; Philip-
plans 3:4-17.
Oevoticnal Beadiny: John 14:21-26.
Attend The Church of Your Choice
Next Sunday
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Ashe St.
Maynard Mangnm, Minister
Bible School, 9:46 a.m. Worship 11 a.m.
Training Union, 6:30 p.m. Evening Wor
ship. 7 :30 p.m.
Youth Fellowship, 8:80 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7;80 p.m.;
mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.;
choir practice Wednesday 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and third Tues
days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers,
second Thursday, 7 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY’S CATHOLIC
Vermont Ave. at Asho
Sunday Massed: 8 and 10:30 turn,; Daily
Mass 8:10 a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 A f
a.m.; Confessions, Saturday, 6:00 to 6:89
p.m.; 7:30 to 8 p.m.
Men’s Club Meetings: Ist & 8rd Fridays
8 p,ro.
Women’s Club meetings: Ist Monday
8 p.m.
Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Wednesday
7:30 p.m.
Girl Scout Troop No. 118, Monday, b
p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Avenue
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m. .
Wednesday Service, 8 p.m.
Reading Room in Church Building open
Wednesday. 2-4 p.m.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 9:46 a.m. Worship Serv
ice 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Women of the
Church meeting, 8 p.m. second Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Choir Rehearsal, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
THE UNITED CHURCH OP CHRIST
(Church of Wide Fellowship)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Carl E. Wallace, Minister
Sunday School, 9:46 a.m.
Worship Service. 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Pilgrun Fellowihly
(Young People).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH vEpiaeopal)
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. 16 a.m. and Friday, 9:80.
Saturday—6 p.m. Penance.
BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship servw
ice, 11 a.m. Women of the Church mast*
ing. 8 p.m. Monday following third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at 7 o’aloek
each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wi*dnesday, 7:15 pju.
OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH
Civic Club Building
Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and Ashe St.
Jack Deal, Pastor
Worship Servic, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 10 a.m.
METHODIST CHURCH
Midland Road
Robert C. Mooney, Jr., Minister
Church School 9:46 A. M.
Worship Service 11:00 A. M.
Youth Fellowship 6:16 P. M.
WSCS meets each ^hird Monday at 8:00
P. M.
Methodist Men meet each fourth Sunday
at 7:45 a.m.
Choir Rehearsal each Wednesday at
7:30 P.M.
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