O « FRIDAY. DECEMBER lO.JgS^
By LOCKIE PARKER
Some Looks At Books
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THE STABS AT NOON by Jac-j
feline Cochran (Little Brown]
$4.50). This is not a profound bock
but many people are
enjoy it because it is so full ot
a genuine zest for living. To para
phrase Stevenson, Jacqueline
Cochran finds the world “so full
of a number of things” that she is
sure we should all be as happy as
kings and especially so if we are
Americans. She believes this
country still offers marvelous op
portunities for the young person
who has ambition, vitality and
the willingness to work.
Her own career is certainly a case
in point.. Beginning life as a rag
ged, little, barefoot girl in the
sawmills of northern Florida, she
has achieved fame and fortune,
known kings and queens, four
presidents of the United States
and many other celebrities. She
never found the road easy,
. though she is full of gratitude to]
the many people who helped her.
She had only a scrap of schooling.
At eight she was earning her own
living in the cotton mills and
bought her first pair of shoes—
hight-heeled ones—supplemented
the next week by a pair of sneak
ers, for she was always quick to
learn from experience.
The book has much about fly-
ing, of course, its dangers and dif
ficulties along with its thrills.
Miss Cochran came into the field
early enough to witness many ex
periments and had the courage
and intellectual curiosity to share
in many of them. She says There
has hardly been a race or record
flight by me in which I have not
tried out something new or ex
perimental.” She goes on to con
clude that “these tests and the
information I derived from them
have been my greatest satisfac
tions.”
Aside from aeronautics, there
is food here for those interested
in extrasensory perceptions, m
which Miss Cochran heartily be
lieves, and for those who are
champiorting the entrance of
women into new profession^
she organized WASP which train
ed more than a thousand women
pilots in World War II, pilots who
,left an excellent record in non-
' combat duty. There are also in
teresting clcseups of other f ani°^
airmen and women, and
into other countries all round the
world. All in all, it is a warm
hearted book of adventure by a
woman who liked almost every-
MELBOURNE by Lord
Cecil (Bobbs-Merrill $5.00). The
first third of his biography was
published in 1939 and took Wil
liam Lamb (Lord Melbourne) up
to his forthy-seventh year. Then
his y€ars of unhappiness with
Caroline, Daughter cl Lady Bess-
borough, were over. Caroline had
died, leaving only one child, a son
who never developed mentally.
This new book, with which the
first is included, gives us the ma
ture Melbourne in office again.
The prime minister. Lord Liver
pool, had had a stroke, and Wil
liam Lamb was called out of re
tirement to become First Secre
tary for Ireland. This was in 18J/.
In 1834 he was made Prime Min
ister at fifty-five years old. Thus
when Victoria came to the throne
three years later, he was in
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
Scripture; Psalms ^2: 84', 102:25-27.
DcTotlonal Beading: Psalm 63.1-8.
The Living God
Lesson for December 12, 1954
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MANAGED BY
the Cosgroves
position to help and guide this
oighteen-yeai'-old who had as
sumed such heavy duties. She had
no confidence in her mother, the
Duchess of Kent; so for the five
years until her marriage, Mel
bourne was her constant friend
and advisor.
Although, after Caroline’s
death, Melbourne had had two
love affairs, he only truly .loved
two women—^his wife, Caroline
and Queen Victoria. Lord Cecil
has written not only a well docu
mented book but an interesting
one. It is so interesting and so
worth while that it is what we
call a “must book.”
-JANE H. TOWNE
THE LOVE LETTERS OF
PHYLLIS McGINLEY (Viking
$3.00). Many of these verses have
appeared in the New Yorker and
other magazines. They are fully
as entertaining when reread.
While they are light verse in their
wit and gayety, almost all of them
have an undercurrent of serious
ness or irony, especially those un
der the headings, - “A Little
Praise” and‘“A Gallery of Elders.”
The Gallery cf Saints, while
amusing, gives real information
about some well-known saints.
The last poem, “A Kind of Love
Letter to New York” will make
city-dwellers happy. lu fact, there
are poems both diverting and sar
castic fer everyone.
—JANE H. TOWNE
the mysterious leaf by
Richard Banks (Harcourl $2.50).
Every year there seems to be at
least one fantasy spun for chil
dren that promises tO' give a good
time*to the adult who reads it
aloud with a child. One year it
was “Charlotte’s Web,” and last
year it was “The Borrowers
Here we have a slighter book and
a more gossamer fantasy but
handled very skillfully by Mr.
Banks who is Associate Director
of the Yale University News Bu
reau aM has several children of
his own.
*The story revdlves round one
very small' girl, three professors
and a magic leaf. The professors
are edd but kindly people por
trayed with humor and affection
by both author and artist. In fact
the fine pen and ink drawings by
Irene Haas have an imaginative
quality that certainly helps us to
believe that these strange things
did happen in the town of Spark-
D O ALL men "yearn for God’’?
Plainly, they do not. Many ig
nore him, many wish they could
be sure he did not exist, some
even spend a good deal of effort
trying to show that there is no God.
Many even so-called religious ^peo-
ple, church mem
bers of the more
lukewarm sort,
cannot by any
stretch of the im
agination be said
to “yearn” for
God. Some people
are so flabby by
temperament that
they never yearn
for anything or Dr. Foreman
anyone in their whole lives. Like
oysters, they take what comes
their way and think as little as
possible. Nevertheless and for all
that, the longing for God is toe
deepest longing of which toe im-
man heart is capable. Those who
have known this desire know that
there is no other which is so in
tense.
Schedule of the Moore County
bookmobile for the week Decem
ber 13-17, has been announced as
follows; . « ■ t
Monday — Routh’s Service sta
tion, 2 p. m.; Cameron, 2:30 to
3:30; Lakeview (Bob Gulledge
home), 4 to 4:20.
Tuesday—^Westmoore school, i
p m • Nall home near Dover
church, 2:15; Baldwin’s store, 2:30;
Frye and Diggs homes near Cal
vary church, 4.
Wednesday — Highfalls school,
10:45 a. m.; Eagle Springs school,
1 p. m. , ,
Thursday — Pinckney school,
10:30 a. m.; Carthage Library,
11-30 to 12; Robbins Elementary
school, 1:30; Rchbins Library,
2*30
Friday — Murdocksville route
from Dan Lewis home to Earl
Monroe’s, 2:30 to 3:30; Cleaver
mailbox (neighborhood stop),
3:45; Coy McKenzie’s, 4; Mm.
Bertie McKenzie’s, 4:30;
Williams’ home at Juniper Lake,
4:45.
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THE STATE rersus PAUL M
phoSgSrhed.' R happens” srqi1etf% with so little drama, that
ST^TE fSus PAUL M it happened
JULIUS BOROS, Professional
Only the Living find Satisfies
Men do cry out for toe
God as the Psalmist said. Men
do not really care for dead gods.
A deity who is only a name, a
deflnition in a catechism, an arti
cle in a creed, a hypothesis m a
philosopher’s mind, a concept, ^
idea; a god who is spun cob
web out of a thinker’s brain, a
god who is another name for a
Wish, a god who is no more than
a mirage, a reflection of a man s
own ego on the blank curtain of
empty eternity,— such a god no
one wants. It is only the living
God who ^ satisfies. Indeed the
great saints have always believed
that only the living God could in
spire in men this^deep desire for
himself. But what is meant by
the "living” God? First of all it
means the weaver of destiny. A
God who made the universe am
threw it out to whirl forever uu
tended and forgotten, might be ^
majesti'c deity but not the hving
God for whom the saints have
■yearned. The living God is one
who- is here, now, weaving at his
loom of time and space, living m
the hearts and minds of his chil
dren, controlling by his provi
dence the course of history, “pre
serving and governing all his crea
tures” as an old creed’expresses
it. To such a God we dare to
nray: of such a God we may ex
pect concern, a hand stretched
out to lift the falling.
fifJee'nte'rs °ago PauTwas a Uttle shaver then. .It .was early on
:ar‘Daddf a'id Mama f ,£1^ ^5" pulled the
covers over his ear. “Why ” he thought
“must they ring them for Sunday^Sch^l
as well as Church?” Mama heard them,
and got up to start the coffee.
God heard them, too. And only God
kn;ew that in this tranquil scene, which
His bells left undis
turbed, sentence had
been passed in the
case of THE STATE
versus PAUL M—.
THE CHURCH FOR AU . . .
AU FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is ihe 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
cua iictppcii All vAAw vx...— — , . (
ling. The rhymed riddles which
lead the reader on to the solution
of the mystery will be relished by |
children.
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God the Friend
“God is my friend” is the most
stirring thought a man Can have
A God who could not be a friend
but only a creator, a judge,, would
not be the living God of the
psalmists’ prayers. Yet when we
speak of God as a friend, we have
to avoid two mistakes. One is U
think that he is a friend to al.
alike, that it makes no difference
at aU to him what we do, he ir
for us no matter what, that what
ever we pray for he is bound to
do for us. No; as we were think
ing last week, God can be against
men. He will not say "Yes to
foolish or wicked prayers. He is
for good and against evil, and he
plays no favorites. Another mis
take is to think of him like some
human friends, persons who wish
us well but can’t do anything else
about it. Human friendship is often
no more than weak and helpless
sympathy. The friendship of God
comes from the heart of reality
itself. In spite of our kurnan
friends we may be destroyed; but
as St. Paul put it, If God be for us,
who can be (successfully) against
ouivivv. litexe ur© lour souna
reasons why every person should
attend services regularly and sup
port the Church. They are: (I)
For his own sake. (2) For his
children's sake. (3) For the sake
ol 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.
Day
Book
Sunday... Amos
Monday,. .Micah
Tuesday.. Habakkuk
Wedn’sd’y Malachi
Thursday. James *
Friday... .James
Saturday. .Revelation
Chapter Verses
5 14-24
BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH (Presbyterian)
Cheves K. Ligon. Minister
Sunday .School 9:45 a.m. Wor
ship service, 11 a.m. Wom^ of
the Church meeting, 8 p.m. Mon
day foUowing third Sunday.
The Youth Fellowships meet at
7 o’clock each Sunday evening.
Mid-week service, Wednesday,
7:15 p.m.
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The Unchanging God
Both in the Bible (as in Psalm
102) and out (as in Christian the
ology) we hear about the unchang
ing or the unc)iangeable, Grd. W<
have to be careful to think of th ‘
as the Bible shows us, and not t
make a caricature out of the ide;-
God is the living God; let us kee
that in mind at all times. He :
not unchanging as a statue is. F.
doll Is made smiling; cuddle th
doll or leave it in the rain, ana
the doU smiles on. But God is no
doll' God is not unchanging as a
formula is in mathematics. Any
mathematical law, any law of
physics or astronomy for instance,
is unchangeable; but it is not a
living thing; it knows nothing, it
cares for nothing, it can be used
by evil men and good. God on the
contrary is the divine person, not
a what, not a thing, but infinite,
personal, loving,—our Father. His
unchangingness is not the same
ness of a doll, not the inflexibiluy
of a formula. It is the changeless
ness of a fatherly love on which
his children can now and always
depend.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE l^URCH
New Hampshire Ave.
Sunday Service, 11 a.m.
Sunday School, 11 a.m.
Wednesday Service, 8 ,,,
Reading Room in Church Build
ing open Wednesday 3-5 p.m.
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 ol the Church meetmg,
8 p.m., second Tuesd^.
Mid-week service Thursday at
8 p.m.
the church of wide
fellowship (Congregation^)
Cor. Bennett and New
Wofford C. Timmons. Minister
Sunday School, 9:45 ajn.
Worship Service, 11 a-^^ _ ,
Sunday, 6:30 p.m., Pilgrim Fel
lowship (Young people).
Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
, (Episcopal)
Charles V. Coveil, Rector
Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (except
first Sunday). -i, c....
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 8:15 p.m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. ^Church
and family suppers, second Thurs
days, 7 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
Robert L. Bame. Minfater
(Services held temporarily at
Civic Club, Ashe Street)
Church School, 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service, 11 a. m.;
W. S. C. S. meets each first Tues
day at 8 p. m.
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