FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1953 THE PILOT—Southern Pinei. North Carolina Page THREE 9 m 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^ SANDHILL AWNING CO CLARK & BRADSHAW SANDHILL DRUG CO. 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