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'THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1963 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Page THREE Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER -BIRTHS- Christmas should be merry, and the publishers do their best to add to the merriment by small books aimed to make you laugh. Here are those which have seem ed to your reviewer the most suc cessful in this aim. THE ELEPHAKT BOOK by Lennie Weinrib (Pocket Books $1.00). You may think this one silly, but it is all the vogue just now with the ten-to-fourteen group. It specialises in the absurd and contains such gems as “Why do elephants paint their toe nails red? So they can hide in cherry trees.” Or is that in the book? At any rate a youngster asked me that one while leafing through it. The trouble with this one is that it does lead on to that type of crea tive activity. HOW TO GROW UP IN ONE PIECE by Robert Paul Smith (Harper $2.95). This book solemn ly announces a cultural change— “Mothers are out, Fathers are in” and you kids had better behave. The author is known for his “Where Did You Go? Out” which is a sort of nostalgic recollection of his own childhood free from organized play. This, too, seems more reminis cent of days when fathers laid down the law than any cultural change that we have personally observed. Still it cannot be that, for Father Small includes the tel evision set in his witty statements of family problems and rapid dis posal of them by paternal decree. Sample: “You can have any kind of dry breakfast cereal you have been able to con your mother into buying. If there are premiums in the box you can eat them, too, unless they are metal. If they are metal, give them to your little brother to eat.” The illustrations are equally stern. THE DOT AND THE LINE by Norman Juster (Random House $1.95). This “romance in lower mathematics” is dedicated to Eu clid. It is a perfect miniature nov el. There is the famous sex tri angle. A sensible straight line falls deeply in love with a dot. Anyway he, the line, looked at her—front, side, top—the dot was just perfect. But the frivolous dot pre ferred a Wiggly line, a riotously im- kempt squiggle. She said he was “so gay and free and uninhib ited.” However, true love will find a way. Under the stress of need to win her love, the straight line developed new capacities— all strictly geometrical—and finally the dot, but let’s not tell all. Illustrated with diagrams in purple and black. WILL SUCCESS SPOIL JEFF DAVIS? The Last Book about the Civil War by T. Lawrence Con nelly (McGram-Hill $4.95). This obviously is for the Civil War buff or perhaps even more ap propriately for someone who has had enough of all that. It begins with a cartoon of “The Profes sional Confederate” with sword and uniform, commanding a bat- MOORE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL December 9 — Son, Mr. and Mrs. Everette Moore, Aberdeen. December 11 — Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward DeWitt, Route 1, Ellerbe, daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Jackson, Southern Pines. December 12 — Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Avery O. Ritter, Route 1, Robbins; son, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cameron, Pinehurst; daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. We- hunt, Pinehurst. December 13 — Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Bratcher, Raeford, daughter, Mr. and* Mrs. Elwood tie with tin soldiers on his study table. The book ends with “The War Nobody Lost,” reminding us of the known fact that in literature and song the Rebels have far out distanced the Yankees. “Let minie balls corrode, Confederate money (crumble, and imitation battle flags rot. As long as there is a tear-jerking poem to be read. . . a cannon ball to be unearthed . . there will always be a Con federacy.” Due attention is also given to Centennial celebrations, and the drawings by Campbell Grant are a major asset to an amusing and timely book. THE OLD FARMER'S AL MANAC (Yankee, Inc. 35c). For old timers, this offers a store of entertainment. To be sure, its main function is to impart infor mation about the weather and other odd matters that may oc teur to the editor, but there is much in lighter vein, too—puz zles, anecdotes, riddles, verse. Of the last, one that pleased me was a juvenile effort by Henry Wads worth LongfeOlow that begins, “MR. PHINNEY had a turnip And it grew behind the bam And! it grew there and it grew there And the turnip did no harm.” J. Benfield, Southern Pines; son, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Willis, Route 1, Shannon. December 15 — Daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ivey Irvin Hall, Jr., Aberdeen; son, Mr. and Mrs. Ed win G. Moore, Route 1, Robbins; son, Mr. and Mrs. D. Hugh Mc Lean, Vass. CARE’ Provides Food Packages For Millions Overseas Through its Food Crusade now underway, “CARE” appeals to Americans to send 6,000,000 pack ages, at $1 per package, to the needy and desolate on four conti nents. Foods are mainly U. S. do nations of farm abundance. Combined with “partnership” programs whereby local govern ments pay distribution costs, the packages will complete a year long CARE plan to help feed more than 35,000,000 persons in 33 countries of Africa, Asia, Eu rope, Latin America. Long after the holidays havr passed, the gifts will be used tc nourish the hungry and give them health and energy to help them selves to a better life. Every package is presented with the name and address of the donors who send their dollars to- CARE Food Crusade, New York, N. Y. 10016. “No matter what language men speak, America’s prayers for Peace on Earth are quickly un derstood when we give food so others may eat—through oim kindness, for the present; by their own efforts, in the years ahead,” said a CARE official in a special Christmas holiday appeal for public support of the organiza tion’s work. + BUILDING ? « BUYING ? 20AJIfS. 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Christ mas Seals fight TB and other Respiratory diseases. WATCH OUR ADS YOU'LL FIND ITl tfn MAYTAG Sales & Service Parker Oil Co. ABERDEEN Next Sunday BibI* M.UrUI: Luke 2:1-20: Gahitlntis i through 4. ... DcTotioniU RcMling: Luke 1 :u::-09. A QUESTION that can be aKked about every baby, but never answered, is; “Why was this baby bom?”—meaning by “Why?” not the circumstances under which his parents met, his ancestors and so on, but rather: “What is going to I be the main pur- I pose in life for this infant? For j what will he be I remembered?” No j one can answer that. The baby’s I mother knows, or thinks she knows: but how often Imothers have Dr. Foreman been disappoint ed! The Baby Jesus had a God-given reason for being born. His mother had high hopes of him, too. She was sure he was born to be King. She was disappointed, but not as most mothers are. For instead of failing to come up to the heiglit of her hopes, he grew far beyond them. He who—Mary sang in her heart—was to be King of Israel would be more, much more. He would be King of mankind. His very name (in Hebrew) means one who sets men free. Fre« from law The strange and wonderful thing about Jesus is that he is a person who though he died is not separated from us by his death. He can not only be remembered. He can be known. Those who do know Him, know from their own experience that He does set men free. A man begins to be a heart- Christian indeed when he goes be yond saying, Christ sets men free, to saying Christ has set ME free. Free from what? First of all. He set us free from the law. That sounds a little strange, doesn’t it? We tend to regard lawless people as dangerous. What does this mean, to be saved from the la-w? What law? Well, Paul wrote the letter to the Ga'atians on that one point mostly. P' "ot quite excite over it. What Paul was driving at was this: All his life he had been a Pharisee, one of those proud people who were most proud of the way they kept the law of Moses which they took to be the very laws of God. But what both ered Paul was this: He knew God would be satisfied with nothing less than perfection, and he was sadly aware, as many Pharisees were not, how far short the best of men come to wholly pleasing God. So Paul tried and tried to be good, to follow the law to the let ter. But the law became a kind of terrible pursuing monster to this man, threatening him with the thousand and one times he had forgotten or not done this or that. Free from sin Some people have thought that “freedom” means absolute free dom to do anything at all, to be as free to do any one of a million things as any other one. That is not it (and if you think about it, you don’t want yourself or any one to be “free” like that). The freedom Christ was born to bring is freedom not only from the Jaw as a slave-driver, but free from sin itself. Free from its power, its frightening power, free from its corruption, its weakening poison. Voices from the darkness that rims the life of man cry, “What you are, you must be; what you are and do is written in your blood. Sin you must, for time and circumstance hold you in chains.” Against these dark voices comes the challenge of Christ: “The truth shall set you free.” Free from fear Christ was born also to set men free from their worst fears. Not that Christians are reckless dare devils, not that there is nothing fearful in this world, but free from the paralyzing dreads that haunt so many. A former Buddhist told this writer that all he could remember of his childhood was this: “There were eight hundred gods and I was afraid of them all.” Simply to learn that there is one and only God, a God of love and power, who “has the whole world in his hands”—^this comes as a great message of freedom to prisoners of despair. Men without fear of demons or of heathen gods are nevertheless afraid all the time of death, the “last enemy.” Christ who himself conquered death sets men forever free from the fear of it. (Based on oatlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Edocation, National Council of the C^inrches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.) METHODIST CHURCH MMIsnd RmM A. h. Thomp«>n, MlnUter Church School 9:46 Wonhip Service 11:00 ».m. Youth Fellowship O'.IS P.m. » ..no WSCS meets each third Mondsy at 8.00 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH New Hmmpahlro Avenoo Sunday Service, 11 a.m. Sunday School, 11 8.m. Wednesday ServieejS p.m. Readins Room in Church BnUdinc opm Wednesday, 2-4 PJB. MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CBTORCT Sunday School 10 a.m.. Worship Mrrfee 11 a.m. »nd 7:80 p.m. PYF 6 ; Women of the Church meeting 8 Tue«day. Mid-week service Thursday 7:80 p.m,, choir r^earsal 8 s80 peSie EMMANUEL CHURCH (Bpiseopal) East Maseachasetts Ave* Martin CaldwMl. I^tor Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First Sundays and Holy Days, 8 a.m. and 11 asm.) Family Service, 9:80 a.m. Church School, 10: a.me Morning Service, 11 aeBie Young Peoples’ Service League. 4 iwn* Holy Communion, Wednesday and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and Friday, 9:80 a.me Saturday 4 p.m.. Penanee- THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (Church of Wide FsllowsUp) Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire Carl E. Wallace, Minister Sunday School, 9:46 a.me Worship Service, 11 aem, Sunday, 6:00 p.m.. Youth Pellow^p Women’s Fellowship meets 4th Thursday at 12:30 p.m. This Space Donated in the SANDHILL DRUG CC. SHAW PAINI & WALLPAPER CC G.E. APPLIANCES Sales & Service Vass TV & Radio Call Vass 245-7781 ST. ANTHONY’S CATHOLIC Vermont Ave. at Adi. St. Father Jdin J. Hatp« Sunday Mbosm 8, 9:16 and 10:80 a.m. Daily Mass, 7 a.m. (except FViday. 11:15 a.m.): Holy Bay Masses, 7 a.m. and 5 :a0 p.m.: Confessions, Saturday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 to 8:M p.m. Men’s Cluh m-«tine: 3rd Monday each ""women’s Club meetins. Ist Monday, Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Wednesday, ^ ffirf &out Troop No. 118. Monday, I p.m. OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH avlc Chib BaHdln, . . Corner Ponnoylvaitla Avo. and Aon. M, Jnek OeaL Pastor Worship Service, 11 njn. Sunday SchooL 9 :46 n.tis, L.C,W. meets first Monday 8 pjn. Choir practice Tbursdny 8 p.in. BROWNSON MEMORUL CHURCH (Proriiytorten) Dr. Jnlian Lake, Mbitator Hay at. at Ind. Are. Sunday School 9:45 8.m., Worship Sotvto, 11 a.m. Wom^ of the Church moettae. 8 p.m Monday followin, third Bnadv. The Youth FellowshipB meet at 7 ododi each Sunday evening. « _ Mid-week service. 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