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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1954
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
GLORY, GOD AND GOLD, at beautiful book. The songs were
NarxatiTe History by Paul l! selected by Margaret Boni and
Wellman (Doubleday $6.00). This; arranged for the piano by Nor-
THE PILOT. Southern Pines. North Carolina
is a stirring panorama of the
Southwest from that day in 1540
when Coranado marched north
from Mexico to a stormy July
night more than 400 years later
when the first atomic bomb was
exploded in southern New Mexi
co. To Wellman the last event
seemed fittingly placed in a land
which had known so much of vio
lence.
The conquistador, of course, be
gan it. He was usually a Spanish
gentleman of more than common
fighting qualities and avid for
glory and gold, with confidence
that God was on his side. Well
man gives us some unforgettable
portraits of individuals—Coron
ado, Diego Penalosa, Juan de
Onate and the padres who ac
companied them. He does not
mince the cruelty and ruthless
ness of their conquest nor excuse
the methods used to convert or
enslave the Indians, but he gives
them full credit for a high degree
of ^ courage and pertinacity and
points to their achievements in
exploring a difficult land and as
saying its resources. Also he gives
them better rating than usual as
colonists. Though they lost the
land eventually, it was not until
they had introduced cattle raising
and left their mark on the lan
guage, the architecture and the
customs of the land.
Other sections deal with the
French, the coming of the Ameri
cans, the emergence of Texas as a
unit, the Civil War, the great cat
tie barons. And always there
were Indians until Geronimo, the
last fighting chief of the Apaches,
surrendered in 1886. Mr. Well
man’s narrative is colorful. His
method is to give history “in
terms of the lives and deeds of
the men and women who played
the chiefest roles in it.” Some
times there are too many of them
and one gets a bit confused as
when he calls the roll of the fa
mous gunmen with their six
shooters.
There is no question but that
Mr. Wellman knows his South
west thoroughly and while there
may be too much emphasis on
fights, big and little, leaving little
space for other aspects of this
region’s history, the book is high
ly readable and a worthy succes
sor to Stewart Holbrook’s “The
Age of the Moguls” in the new
Main Stream of America Series.
FIRESIDE BOOK OF LOVE
SONGS, selected and edited by
Margaret Bradford Boni (Simon
& Schuster $6.00). There are sev-
man Lloyd of the Juillard School.
It is delightfully illustrated in
color by Alice and Martin Pro-
vensen. This is the same talented
group that produced “The Fire
side Book of Folk Songs,” which
has had a well deserved success.
This one should be equally popu
lar, for it is a particularly well
chosen collection and the accom
paniments are not too difficult.
The first half is made up of
“Songs from Many Countries”;
and the second half of
“Songs from Great Composers.”
To make the book even more
worthwhile, there is a charming
introduction by the late Irwin Ed-
man. —JANE H. TOWNE
APPOINTMENT WITH GOD,
Some Thoughts on Holy Comi-
munion by J. B. PMllips (Macmil
lan $1.75). Last year we review
ed a book by the Reverend Mr.
Phillips which was made up of a
series of broadcast talks. This one
is a series of Lenten addresses
given to the people of his church
at St. Johns, Redhill, Surrey.
These intimate talks are concern
ed with such fundamentals as
common sense in regard to Com
munion, the nature of the Fellow:
ship received at the Communion
table and the spiritual nutrition
obtained there. These subjects are
followed by chapters'^on prepara
tion for the Holy Communion.
The author’s intention, as giv
en in his foreword, is “to help
the ordinary communicant to a
more intelligent and satisfying
approach to this central Christian
rite.” It is certain that the read
er will find that the author
achieves his end in a most satis
fying manner.
—JANE H. TOWNE
BRIDE OF THE MACHUGH by
Jan Cox Speus (Bobbs-Merrill
$3.50). There is a deal of Scotch
mist in this romantic tale of the
seventeenth century. The time is
that when James Stuart was king
of England and Scotland and hav
ing trouble with the unruly clans
in the west of Scotland and the
Lords of the Isles. Elspeth,, the
youthful heroine, who had been
brought up at court by her moth
er but is now orphaned, sets out
from London to visit her Camp
bell relatives in the Scotch high
lands but is kidnapped by the
MacHughs, a. rival clan.
These MacHughs are a formi
dable bunch, terrific riders and
swordsmen, delighting in danger,
devoted to their clan, loyal to
friends and feared by foes. They
live a sort of Viking life in their
coast where great fires roar up
the chimneys and between forays
men feast, gamble and fight. They
have scorn for those who live
more softly including the Scots of
Edinboro “who believed a man
bom north of the Grampians
nothing more than a cattle thief
and a riever of the lowest sort.”
Their dash and humor appeal to
Elspeth but she finds them very
exasperating, too; and an inter
esting conflict develops in her
emotions.
All in all, Mrs. Speas has given
us a swift and colorful tale that
should have a special appeal to
those descendants of Highland
Scots who cherish a fondness for
the land of their ancestors. Mrs.
Speas herself is one of these, a
native of North Carolina, whose
ancestors came from Scotland.
Intwnational Uniform
Sunday SchdoJ Lossont
BY DR. KENNETH 1. FOREMAN
Seriptnre: Proverbs 6:6-11; 12:24. 27:
13|11; 14:23; 15:19; 18:9; 24:30-34.
USTolioiiAl Beadlnr; Ephesians 4:11-
16.
Legal Notices
NORTH CAROLINA
MOORE COUNTY
NOTICE
The undersigned, having quali
fied as Executors of the Estate of
Thomas-Hobson, deceased, late of
Moore County, North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against said Estate to
present them to the undersigned
on or before the 2nd day of Octo
ber, 1955, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es
tate will please make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
This the 28th day of September,
1954.
Gladys Mary Hobson, Richard T.
Graham, Richard S. Perkins, Ex
ecutors of the Estate of Thomas
Hobson, deceased.
ol,8,15,22,29N5
NORTH CAROLINA
MOORE COUNTY
Work Worthwhile
Lesson for October 31, 1954
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
BEFORE THE CLERK
NOTICE OF SALE
Alice J. Fox, Harvey Fox, Ruffin
Vann, Lena Williams Hill, Willie
Hill, Jerry Diggs, Cheryl Jones,
Minor, by Next Friend, Margaret
Brewington,
Ex Parts
Under and by virtue of an Or
der of the Superior Court cf
Mocre County, made in the
Special Proceeding as above en
titled, the undersigned Cominis
sioner will on the 1st. day of No
vember, 1954, at 12 o’clock noon
at the courthouse door in Carth
age, North Carolina, offer for sale
to the highest bidder for cash
the lands in the Town of South
ern Pines, Moore County, North
Carolina, described as follows:
Lots Nos. 5, \ 1, 8, in Block
P&9; Lots Nos. 21 and 22 in
Block 0&12, and a portion of
the center square in Block
0&12, described as follows:
Beginning at the intersection
of the west line of alley from
Illinois Avenue in Block
0&12 and center square and
following the line of the cen
ter square and Lot No. 22,
N. 55 degrees 30’ W. 42
feet; thence following center
square N. 34 degrees 30’ E.
48 feet to center of old troUey
line; thence following center
of old trolley line, S. 34 de
grees 40’ E. 45 Feet to a point;
thence S. 34 degrees 30’ W.
32 feet to the point of begin
ning.
COME very kind-hearted person
remarked that something good
could be said about everybody.
“What good could you say of the
devil?” he was asked. “Well,” he
answered, “the devil’s a mighty
hard worker!”—which goes to
show that work, by itself, is not
necessarily a good thing. It de
pends on what you
work at, and on
what comes of
yoiu: efforts. Work
is certainly not
good if it does
harm. If only the
devil had been
bom lazy, how
much better this
world might be!
Work is not good. Or. Foreman
either, when it is nothing but
“busy-work,” mere effort with no
purpose, nothing to be gained by
it. A person could go down to the
seashore with a large shovel and
pile up a mountain of sand one
day and shovel the whole thing
flat again the next day . . . but
so what? Aside from the exercise,
no use at all. And the exercise
itself might be better gotten in
other ways.
Work and Value
Work has dignity, work is worth
while, only under certain condi
tions. One of these conditions can
be expressed in this way: Does
the work increase or create value?
A piece of iron is yorth far less
than the same iron made into steel
watch springs. The work done adds
to the cost, of course, but also to
the real value. A , weedy, eroded
field is not worth what the same
field is worth when it has been
worked, fertilized, planted, cul
tivated and a fine crop of pota
toes, cotton, wheat or what not is
growing there. Karl Marx pointec’
this out in the 19th century, onlj
he overlooked something impor
tant. He seems to have had tht
notion that the only work that adds
to the value of things is manual
labor.
It is true, as he said, that the
toil of the miners goes into the
value of the coal you burn; but
he was wrong in thinking that
labor contributes everything, man
agement nothing. A president (a
good one, no stuffed shirt) sitting
in his office may not do enough
physical work in the course of a
week to raise a drop of perspira
tion. But his plans and decisions
are work too, and they may add
more value to what his plant turns
out than any 20 stevedores on the
place.
Work and Character
Work has dignity too, and it is
worthwhile, when it produces that
highest of all values, charactei
The many contrasts in Proverl>
between the worker and the iaz-
lout bring this out. The worke:
is not only adding to the sum o
values in the world, he is buiid n
his own character. The hand of ih<
diligent shall rule, one Proveil
The" Commissioner reserves the!
capable by the very work he does
The reward of good work is not
FREE
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whichever brings the highest
bids. The high bidder or bidders
will be required tp make a 10
per cent cash deposit.
This 28th day of September,
1954.
J. VANCE ROWE
Commissioner
08,15,22,29
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Telephone
2-6161
Powell
Funeral Home
D. A. BLUE, Jr.
Southern Pines
24-Hour Ambulance Service
usually a vacation but a promo
tion, that is to say, a chance to
do more work on a larger scale.
Most Presidents of the United
States, however capable they were
when they were elected, left the
White House abler meij than when
they entered. This is all just as
true on the humbler levels of life.
All work has dignity, all work is
worthwhile, when it adds to hu
man values and when it builds
the character of the worker. A
garbage collector is adding to the
health-values of the community;
and if he is a good one (no stuffed
blue shirt!) he can be growing in
character too. There is a certain
professional cleaner of grease
traps who looks on his work with
such pride and satisfaction thai
he has beeir an inspirer of othei
men
Laziness Is a Sin
The Proverbs point out thret
sins in this ar«a of life. One if
pure laziness. The lazy man doef
not usually think of himself as a
sinner. He isn’t doing anything
But that is just the point. Not
doing what needs to be done is a
real sin, it eats out the lazy man’s
character in no time. Another sin
is slackness, the “sin of slap
dashV’ The man who, is slack
in his work is brother to the de
stroyer, it is said. How many build
ings have burned down because of
“defective wiring!” And what does
any price of defective wiring spell
but somebody’s carelessness on the
job? How many crops have been
lost not because any one destroyed
them but just because what had to
be done was not well done?
(Based on ontlines copyrigrhted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
Bookmobile
Schedule
Monday—^Routh’s service Sta
tion, 1:45 p. m.; Macon Moses
home, 2; Cameron: 2:15 to 3:30;
Lakeview, 4 to 4:20.
Tuesday—Doubs Chapel route
from Don Garrison’s to junction
with West End road, 1:30 to 3:30;
back to Eastwood, 3:30 to 4:30;
Bilyeu home, 4:30; Ira Garrison’s,
4:45.
Wednesday—Highfalls School,
10:30 a. m.; Highfalls (town), 11;
Garren Hill route in afternoon.
Thursday — Carthage Library,
1T:30 to 12:30; Murdocksville
route, 2:30 to 4; Cleaver mailbox
(neighborhood stop), 4; Coy Mc
Kenzie’s, 4:15; Mrs. Bertie Mc
Kenzie’s, 4:30.,
Frid^—Red Hill church route.
2 to 4:30 (out from Cameron).
Approximately 100 cars a
month are stolen in North Caro
lina according to the Motor Ve
hicles Department’s Theft Divi
sion. But about 98 of them are
recovered and returned to their
owners. i
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What a wonderful existence mankind
would have if all the troubles and prob
lems of this world could be dumped into
a magician’s hat—-and then with a “presto,
chango” they would all vanish.
Or, if you had such power, wouldn’t it
be marvelous to rid yourself of all per
sonal worries?
But by our very nature, we are imper
fect. While going it alone, we are incap
able of perfect deeds and decisions.
Fortunately, there is a Greater Being
than ourselves who stands ready and
anxious to help us. To Him we must look
for guidance and faith. And it is through
His Church, here on earth, that we can
best come to understand His will.
Attend Church this Sunday and every
Sunday. Here, in spite of all our weak
nesses, we will become stronger men and
women. Here, we will learn to face the
future with a surer understanding of right
and wrong.
THE CHURCH FOR AU . .
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reasons why
attend services reJi should
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for his own saie p"'
children's sake r
his communHv
"’hich needs hist Church itself,
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BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
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, Wedne.sday,
7:15 p.m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
New Hampshire Ave.
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.
THE CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP (Congregational)
Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire
Wofford C. Timmons, Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Charles V. Covell, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (except
first Sunday).
Church School and Family Ser
vice, 9:45 a.m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a.m. (Holy
Communion, first Sunday).
Wednesday, 10 a.m.. Holy Com
munion.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York Ave. at South Ashe
David Hoke Coon, Minister
Bible School, 9:45 a.m. -Worship
11 a.m. Training Union, 7 p.m.
Evening Worship, 8 p.m.
Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30
p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednes
day 7:30 p.m.; choir practice
Wednesday 8.T5 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Church
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 Tuesday.
Mid-week service Thursday at
8 p.m.
ST. ANTHONY'S (Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.m.;
Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.m.;
■weekday mass at 8 a.m. Confes
sions heard on Saturday between
5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p.m.
SOUTHERN PINES
METHODIST CHURCH
E. E. Whitley, Minister
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, Ashe Street)
Church School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a.m.
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