FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1953
THE PILOT—Southern Pinei. North Carolina
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By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
EVOLUTION IN ACTION by
Julian Huxley (Harper $2.75). If
it is some time since you were in
college, this book offers a beauti
ful synthesis of the findings of
modern biology, geology and al
lied sciences. Mr. Huxley sees the
universe as a whole and gives you
a sweeptng view of a hunch-ed
million galaxies before he settles
down to the recent and amazing
phenomenon of life as it has de
veloped on our little planet.
That he builds his theses often
on.careful and minute studies of
creatures as small as the fruit fly
never blinds him to the wonder of
the larger view. “For millions and
millions of years livina substance
was confined within \he prison
walls of microscopic floating cells.
Who would have ventured to
prophesy what it would bring
forth? The birds in their branches,
the glistening fish among the
reefs of coral, the tribes of busy
insects, the strength of the bull
and the beauty of the butterfly
.. . the intelligence and flexibility
of the dog.”
He describes the process by
which such variations and devel
opments are possible, tells how
they have been traced from fos
sils and, in a limited way, recap
itulated in the laboratory. Finally
he devotes considerable space to
man and his two unique achieve
ments—language and a common
pool of organized experience.
Here he passes from biological
evolution to psycho-social evolu
tion, or human history. The five
or six thousand years of recorded
history is a very short chapter in
biological evolution, and Huxley
believes that we have only made
a start on psycho-social evolution
and that the future holds great
possibilities. Here man can and
does give direction, sometimes
into blind alleys, sometimes into
ways that are both benefici^al in
themselves and open up oppor
tunity for further advances. This
involves criteria of value and he
says, “The highest and most sa
cred duty of man is seen as the
proper utilization of the untrap
ped resources of human beings.”
TIME AND TIME AGAIN by
Janies Hilton (Little Brown
$3.75). The many readers of James
Hilton’s books will be happy to
find here one of Mr. Chips’ boys
doing him credit. Charles Ander
son is of the English minor gen
try very conscious of tradition and
devoted to the small graces of
life. The book opens with Charles
at fifty odd, drawing near the end
of a modest career in the diplo
matic service and making an
earnest effort to get acquainted
with his seventeen-year-old son.
Charles plans to write a book
about his life. It will mostly deal
with Greco-Turkish problems, an
authoritative and serious work
that will impress the reviewers.
When his son suggests, “Chapter
One. Early Years,,” he says,
“Good heavens no. . . there
wouldn’t be much to write
about.” The author is of another
opinion and more than half the
book is devoted to those early
years, especially to a romance of
his college days, a satisfying, very
happy affair with a lovable little
typist. How this ended and its ef
fect on Charles was of major im
portance in shaping the man or,
at least, in revealing the limits of
his character. It also served to
make him sympathetic with his
son when the latter reaches the
age for emotional entanglements.
The book is gently melancholy
and has a full measure of the Hil
ton charm. One becomes so fond
of Charles that one is really grat
ified when he achieves some
minor success in hiS profession or
personal relations. In short, it
is a well written book and will
give many people pleasure.
COCHISE; APACHE WAR-
Umstead Names
Mrs. Ives To
New Commission
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives of Paint
Hill farm near Southern Pines has
been appointed by Gov. William
B. Umstead as a member of the
Historic Sites commission created
by this year’s General Assembly.
Also named to the commission
were Dr. Hugh T. Lefler, profes
sor of history at the University of
North Carolina; William T. Polk,
associate editor of the Greensboro
Daily News; J. A. Stenhouse,
Charlotte architect; and Paul
Reid, president of Western Caro
lina college.
Mr. and Mrs. Ives have been
away from Southern Pines this
summer, part of the time travel
ing in Europe with Mrs. Ives’
brother, Adlai E. Stevenson. Sev
eral letters from Mrs. Ives, rela
ting events of this trip, have been
published in The Pilot.
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Scripture: Luke 12:16-23: I Timothy
6:1-19.
Devotional Reading:: Proverbs 8:10-21.
only REGISTERED PHARMACISTS fill
your prescriptions at
SOUTHERN PINES PHARMACY
Al. Cole, R.Ph. Graham Culbreth, R.Ph.
tfn Phone 2-5321—Night Phone 2-4181
Fields Plumbing & Heating Co.
PHONE 5952
PINErfURST. N. C.
All Types of Plumbing, Healing
(G. E. Oil Burners)
and Sheet Metal Work
RIOR AND STATESMAN by Ed
gar Wyatt (Whittlesey $2.50). This
book begins with the overland
stage dashing across the desert.
Not only the guards but each pas
senger is heavily armed and on
the alert for Indians. This is the
last lap before they reach the
safety of “Cochise’s mountains.”
Why would the white men be
safe in the territory of this great
Apache chief? That makes a fas
cinating and unusual story as told
by Edgar Wyatt.
This author has already given
boys the story of the Apache war
rior, Geronimo, told with such
fairness that Geronimo’s grand
son was willing to illustrate it.
This time his hero is a greater and
more complicated character who
saw that the white men knew
things that it might be useful for
the Indians to learn and who tried
to live at peace with them. How
this peace was broken and the
tragic results is' told in clean,
swift-moving narrative. One of
the triumphs of the author is to
make a peace conference as dra
matic a climax as any battle. The
illustrations, again drawn by Al
lan Hauser, are full of action and
have a fine feeling of space.
THE STEADFAST TIN SOL
DIER by Hans Christian Ander
sen. illustrated by Marcia Brown
(Scribner $2.25). Here is a picture
book to cherish. The artist whose
earlier books have 'won her con
siderable acclaim has chosen one
cf Hans Andersen’s most poignant
stories and illustrated it with sen
sitive drawings. The unusual col
ors are just right for fantasy.
Using Money
Lesson for September 6, 1953
FOR RESULTS USE THE PI
LOT’S CI.A.SSIFIED COLUMNS.
Drs. Neal and McLean
VETERINARIANS
Southern Pines. N. C.
A Lot'
In Our Kenwood Subdivision of
KNOLLWOOD
and we will build you a home
20 YEARS TO PAY
No City Taxes
City Water
Garbage. Collection
41/2% FHA-APPROVED
• Street and Road
Maintenance
• School Bus Service
• Fire & Police Protection
Discuss your financing with us if you are thinking of buying
a home or building one
Also your
FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE NEEDS
Graves Mutual Insurance Agency
HENRY L. GRAVES
Phone 2-2201 - P. O. Box 290
GLADYS D. GRAVES
USE. Pennsi^vania Avenue
SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.
a2128c
^AN you use $500?” is the way
a loan company begins its
circular inviting you to borrow
from them at a ruinous rate of in
terest. Yes, indeed,' I can use
money, everybody thinks. What a
man means by that is: I can think
of ways to spend it. Give me a
hundred dollars and I can guaran
tee to get rid of it before night.
Give me a million and it may take
me longer but I can use it, I can
make it vanish, I can swap it in
for something else.
But that is not
using money. That
may be using it,
but maybe not.
Money can be
spent in wise ways
or foolish; it can
be exchanged for
something good or
something bad or
for really nothing
at all. Using Dr. Foreman
money is something more than
merely passing it out of your
pocket into somebody else’s.
* * •
Root Of All Evil
Money is not a bad thing in it
self as some have thought. But it
can be the root of many bad things.
Or to speak more correctly, not
money but the love of money is a
root of all evils. (Paul does not in
the original Greek say THE root;
he does say A root.) For example,
when a murder is committed and
the police are trying to solve the
mystery, one of the first questions
asked is: Who stands to benefit
by this murder?—meaning, who is
going to strike it rich by this
crime? Love of money can be a
root of murder, theft, adultery, all
the sins on the calendar. We could
not abolish crime by abolishing
money, to be sure. We could not
abolish crime by seeing that every
man, woman and child had exact
ly the same amount of mbney.
The sinful heart has many out
lets. But love of money, or In
other words greed, selfishness, is
onft of the easiest and most fre
quent ways by which man’s inner
meanness comes out in the open.
* * *
Rich Toward God
On the other hand, money makes
much good possible. If a man is
going to be a “good father;” he
. can’t be that if he is a pauper. He
doesn’t have to be rich, but he
does have to have money for groc
eries and education and aU that it
takes to bring up children. If a
man is going to be a good citizen
he will pay his taxes, and if the
state is a good state those taxes
will be wisely used for the bene
fit of all. A poverty-stricken state
is not a good state to live in. A
poverty-stricken home is not the
kind of home you want your chil
dren to grow up in. Or consider all
the good done by the church.
Much of it is made possible by the
contributions of the members. An
orphanage, a hospital, an old folks’
home, an evangelistic campaign—
every part of the church’s activity
is sometiiing that uses money and
transforms it into service and hap
piness. In Jesus’ parable of the
rich farmer whom God called a
fool, no doubt the neighbors (some
of them) admired the man for
his wealth and his thrift. “He
takes good care of what he’s got,”
they would say. But Jesus did not
think weU of the man. His trouble
was not that he was well-to-do.
Jesus never condemned a man
simply for owning property, money
or anything else. The rich fool’s
trouble was that he thought of
no one but himself, built his barns
for no one but himself. To be “rich
toward God” he would have to
think about using his wealth for
the benefit of some one besides
himself.
♦ « *
Bull’s Eye
Everybody aims at something in
life—everybody, that is, but the
aimless, who don’t count. We all
take aim—^but at what? When you
pull back the bowstring, or cock
the trigger, and look toward the
target, what do you see in the
buU’s eye? What is the very cen
ter, the principal aim of living?
Some see nothing but the dollar
mark. It is a mark that can be
hit, and a man’s aim can be ab
solutely accurate. But the trouble
with money as a central aim in
life, is that the more successful a
man is in hitting it, the less satis
fied he is likely to be. There are
rich people who are happy; but it
is not true ihat a man grows hap
pier with every dollar he adds to
his pile; it is not true that the
happiest persons in town are the
wealthiest. It is generally a fact
that if a person is both rich and
happy, his happiness comes from
other source than his bank account.
(Based on ontUnes copyrlfhted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na*
tlonal Council of the Churches of Christ
In the U.S.A. Released by Community
r*ress Seyvioe.)
IT'S IN THE BOOK!
What does the law say
about following too closely?
I don't believe there is any
specific distance outlined.
You’re right. The Motor Vehicle
Manual doesn’t specify a set dis
tance for tailing another vehicle.
However, the regulation reads as
follows: “The driver of a motor,
vehicle shall not follow another
vehicle more closely than is rea
sonable and prudent, with regard
for the safety of others and due
regard for the speed of such ve
hicles, the traffic, and the
condition of the highway.”
This rule doesn’t count for
trucks, thdugh. Outside business
or residential areas they must not
follow within 300 feet of another
vehicle.'
(Ed. Note: Each week for sever
al weeks. The Pilot plans to run
“It’s In 'The Book!,” consisting of
a question about North Carolina
motor vehicle laws, answered by
the Motor Vehicles department.
Watch out for this timely infor
mation ’ published in the interest
of traffic safety.)
L. V. O’CALLAGHAN
PLUMBINC & HEATING SHEET METAL WORK
Telephone 5341
The Prudential Insurance Company
of America
L. T. "Judge" Avery, Special Agent
Box 1278
SOUTHERN PINES
Tel. 2-4353
CLARK’S New Funeral Chapel
FULLY AIR (X)NDITIONED
24-Hour Ambulance Service
Phone 2-7401
Attend the Church of Your Choice Next Sunday
pOUIN HE !
But he’s a game little tike, this youngster
so well-padded on the North side. Even
though his pillow doesn’t keep him from fall
ing, it does cushion his falls while he learns
how to balance himself, how to stroke, and
swing.
It will be that way with his life, too—and
yours. As you grow older you often feel the
need of something to cushion yourself against
the jolts that come suddenly in everyday
living.
Since you learn to skate only by skating,
and to live only by getting into the thick of life, you
have to expect these mishaps.
If you cushion yourself with the true knowledge
of God and His ever-present love and watchful care,
you will feel these blows less
THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . .
ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the greatest fac-
tor on earth for the building of
character and good citizenship. It
is a storehouse of spiritual values.
Without a strong Church, neither
democracy nor civilization can
survive. There are four sound
reasons why every person should
attend services regularly and sup
port the Church. They are: (1)
For his own sake. (2) For his
children's sake. (3) For the sake
of his community and nation. (4)
For the sake of the Church itself,
which needs his moral and ma
terial support. Plan to go to
church regularly and read your
Bible daily.
Book Chapter Verses'
Sunday... llumbers li 10-17
Monday.. .Deuteronomy 1 9-18
Tuesday . .Job 7 11-21
Wednesd y Psalms 55 12-23
Thursday.,Matthew 11 25-30
Friday.... Philippians 2 l-ii
Saturday.,I Peter 2 20-25
PSi
Oopyright 1963. KMNtcr Adv. ^ervl«. btrasburg, Va. -
BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH
(PTesb'yleiian)
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
Ne-w Hampshire Ave., So. Pines
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.
CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP
Royal G. Davis, ad interim pastor
Church School 9:45 at the high
school. Morning worship 11 at the
church. Nursery for young chil
dren of parents wishing to attend
church, 11 at the parsonage. Twi-
Pilgrim fellowship, 6:30 p.m. at
various homes. Forum, 8:00 p.m.
at various homes.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York avenue at South Ashe
Rev. James Oppert
Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Worship
11 a. m. Training Union 7:00 p.m.
Evening worship, 8:00 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Tuesday, 7:30
p. m.; midweek worship, Wednes
day '7:30 p. m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8:15 p. m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p. m. Ghurch
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 3rd
Sunday evenings, 7:30. Fourth
Sunday morning, 11 a. m.
Women of the Church meeting,
8 p.m. second Tue$dajr.
Mid-week service Thursday at 8
pm.
EMMANUEL CHURCH ’
(Episcopal)
Summer Schedule:
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (10 a.
m. on first Sundays.)
Family Service
Prayer, 10 a.m.
and Morning
light hour, no summer meetings.
—This Space Donated in the Interest of the Churches by—
ST. ANTHONYS
(Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.
m.; Holy Day masses ^ and 9 a.
m.; weekday mass at 8 a. m. Con
fessions heard on Saturday be
tween 5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p. m.
OUR LADY OF VICTORY
West Pennsylvania at Hardin
Fr. Donald Fearon. C. SS. R.,
Sunday Mass, 10 a. m.; Holy
Day Mass, 9 a. m. Confessions are
heard before Mass^
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CITIZENS BANK & TRUST CO.
UNITED TELEPHONE CO.
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