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9 Q THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1959 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Onmiina Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER ADVENTURES OF A BIOG RAPHER by Catherine Drinker Bowen (Lillie. Brown $4.00). These essays offer the rare privi lege of sharing in intellectual as well as physical adventures, and they are written with such pas sion, sincerity and skill at com munication that the reader really does share. Tbs one called “John Adam’s Bowl” is as emotionally stirring as a love story. In fact, to Mrs. Bowen the writing of biography is not unlike a love affair with similar pains and pleasures. She uses the com parison more than once. In “The Search for a Subject,” she tells how after her first successes she was overwhelmed with advice as to her next choice, how she turn ed a deaf ear to all this, made a tentative list herself of the men who attracted her, explored their lives and thoughts, sometimes reading for weeks and months about a man before she decided he was not for her. Then comes the moment of recognition: “The writer feels at once the sting and promise of an intimacy to be achieved, provided he has wit and persistence to endure.” This is characteristic of her way of working, the sensitive artistic conscience discriminating be tween the gaudy and real quality, the dedication to the subject that carried her through years of im mersion in her research, through many rebuffs and much hard work. The book begins with rhore ex ternal adventures when Mrs. Bowen set out to travel in Rus sia in 1937, looking for material for her biography of the broth ers Rubinstein. Her brush with Polish custom officials and the obstacles encountered in Russia are described without rancor but with a quick sense of the ridicu lous and a sunny appreciation of human foibles. The same can be said for her account of her ex periences on Beacon Hill where she encountered different but •squally formidable obstacles when she was seeking to recon struct the youth of Chief Justice Holmes. Such incidents give the book the flavor of good conversa tion. Mrs. Bowen is less tolerant with those closer to her own field. In her chapters on histori ans and librarians she measures them by much the same stand ards she applies to her own work, and sometimes found them woe fully wanting. Yet oddly enough it was just such encounters with these and other specialists that seemed to give her the strongest stimulus, that clarified her own aims and made her more deter mined to achieve them. There is mhch to ponder in this book as well as much to enjoy. THE SIEGE AT PEKING by Peter Fleming (Harper $4.00|). It is a pleasure to recommend a book so well written and inter esting as thjs one. The story of this siege has been told before, but Peter Fleming has found new material and reassembled the old. As he says in his preface, “We are left with the numerous pieces of a large jigsaw puzzle which has never been put together.” The purpose of his book has been to assemble these pieces and in do ing so he has given us a vivid and unforgettable picture of the famous siege of 1900. He gives us, first, enough of the background to explain the uprising of the Boxers, a fanatical group of anti-foreigners, but is unable to account for the Chinese government of the Dowager Em press recognizing and helping the Boxers. This was at a time when colo nialism was accepted, and we can understand in a more enlightened age why the Chinese resented their partition. What we cannot understand is the duplicity of the Empress’s government, and their acceptance of the slaughter of the missionaries, their families and their converts. The story of the siege of the Legation which lasted 55 days and of their final relief is a fas cinating tale. The author’s com ments on the fact that as long as there was a common peril, the eleven nationalities represented were able to work together, but that after the danger was over, the jealousies and bickerings be gan again are interesting and realistic. Peter Fleming was first known and admired in this coun try for his “Brazilian Adven ture. —JANE H. TOWNE THE BOLD CAVALIERS; Page THREE Bookmobile Schedule November 30-December 4 Monday, November 30, West- moore Route—Westmoore School, 10-11; W. J. Brewer, 11:10-11:15; Roland Nall, 11:20-11:30; Bald win’s Store 12:10-12:15; Mrs. Ray mond Williams, 12:30-12:40; Glen Crabtree, 12:55-1. Tuesday, December 1, Union Church Route: Mrs. O. C. Black- brenn, 9:45-9:55; Mrs. Howard Gschwind, 10-10:10; R. A. Edmin- ston, 10:15-10:20; Mrs. Mattie Mc Rae, 10:25-10:35; Parker’s Gro cery, 10:40-10:45; Elbert Taylor, 10:50-11; M. L. Patterson, 11:05- 11:10; Mrs Ina Bailey, 11:15-11:20; A. C. Bailey, 11:25-11:30; J. M. Briggs, 11:40-11:50; Mrs. Mabel Wood, 11:55-12. Wednesday, December 2—Cam eron School, 9:45-10:45; Vass Lakeview School, 11:10-12:10; Farm Life School, 1-2. Thursday, December 3, Cam eron Route—Sam Taylor, 9:30- 9:35; James Hardy, 9:40-9:50; M. M. Routh, 9:55-10; 'Thomas Serv ice Station, 10:05-10:15; Mrs. Lloyd Thomas, 10:20-10:30; Mrs. J. A. McPherson, 10:35-10:45; Mrs. H. D. Tally, 10:50-11; J. A. Phillips, Jr., 11:05-11:30; Mrs. Kate H. Phillips, 11:35-11:50; J'Csse Maples, 11:55-12:05; Walter McDonald, 12:40-12:50; Wade C llins, 1-1:10; Lewis Marion, 1:15-1:25; Mack Oakley, 1:30-1:35; Lynn Thomas, 1:40-1:50. Friday, December 4, Murdocks- ville Route—Ira Garrison, 9:35- 9:45; Edwin Black, 9:55-10:05; Finney Black, 10:10-10:20; W. R. Dunlop, 10:25-10:35; Dan Lewis, 10:40-10:50; Miss Margaret Mc Kenzie, 10:55-11; Tom Clayton, 11:05-11:15; Earl Monroe, 11:20- 11:25; Mrs. Helen Neff, 12-12:10; Tom Young, 12:15-12:20; J. V. Cole, 12:25-12:35; R. F. Clapp', 12:4012:45; Art Zehns, 12:50- 12:55; Sandy Black, 1:06-1:15; E. F. A^itaker, 1:20-1:30; H. A. Freeman, 1:35-1:40. SP Intarn«t)on4J Unilocm Sunday School Laswna BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN Bible Ifateriiil: Acta 9:10-31, BerotioaiU Beading: Colossians 3:12-17. New Convert Lesson for December 6, 1959 Newspapers - Magazines • Books SOFT DRINKS - CANDIES - TOBACCOS - NOVELTIES Open Every Day - 8 A. M. ’til 9 P. M. Southern Pines Newstand Next lo Browns Auto Supply Co. Southern Pines, N. C. Parkway Cleaners 141 E. Penn. Ave. SOUTHERN PINES 3-HOUR SERVICE For the Best in Cleaning and Pressing Call 0X5-7242 HOW TO BE A LIVE WIRE ... Keep well informed on the happenings and person-, alities of your community. Men and women of MoOre County read The Pilot for what they need to know to enable them to play their part in the life of the com munity. The Pilot gives you the facts in its news col umns and, through editorials, special articles and telling comments culled from the nation’s press, you’ll know the thoughts and hopes that lie behind the news. Order The Pilot delivered to you by mail. Send us this coupon. The Pilot, Inc. Southern Pines, N. C. Enclosed find check or money order to start my sub scription at once. Please send it to the name and ad dress shown below for the period checked. ( ) 1 yr. $4 ( ) 6 nio. $2 ( ) 3 mo. $1 Name Address City State Morg^m's 2nd; Kentucky Cavalry Raiders by Dee Alexander Brown (Lippincolt $6.00). The Lexington Rifles had been organized in 1857, dashing youths very popular at picnics and parties. After war came in 1861, Captain John Mor gan slipped out of Lexington one September,night and was met at a prearranged rendezvous by miost of his men. Then they marched to Green River and join-ed the Confederate army. They were brave, they were young, they were gay, they were tough. “Alligator horses” they liked to call themselves. Many other Kentuckians joined them and, later, units froni other states served under Morgan’s com mand. They were fabulous raid ers, penetrating further north than any other Confederate unit. 'This is their story based on personal diaries and letters, on old newspapers and official rec ords, illustrated with photo graphs. It is written with keen I appreciation of the personalities j involved and a feeling for the exhilaration of the cavalry charge and the excitem.ent of this kind of war as well as for the grimness of gradual attrition ahd the ulti mate tragedy of a lost cause. So real do some of these characters become to the reader that he re joices and suffers with them. FAMILY GATHERING by Kathleen Norris (Doubleday $4.50). The author of some sev enty-five novels, Mrs. Norris here looks back on her long life and writes a love letter to her family, her friends and her two cities, San Francisco and New York. Not that her life has been all roses. The early death of her par ents, leaving six children, left the three older ones responsible for the support of the family. Kathleen went to work in a hardware store but later got a job as reporter on the San Fran cisco Call. When she was tw.enty- eight and the younger children all grown, she married Charles G. Norris, then an editor of the American Magazine, and lived in New York for some years, later moving to California and buying the ranch where they lived for twenty-five years. This is an intensely personal story by a woman who has enoy*- ed living and enjoyed people, Tiot only her family but a host of friends, including such celebri ties as Noel Coward, Ida Tarbell, Sinclair Lewis, Charlie Chapljn and Eva Le Gallienne. GUNS Cleaned — Repaired Spare Parts Any Type — Old qr New Wanted To Buy Used Guns and Antique Guns SIDNEY HODGIN GUNSMITH A & N STORE 226 Wicker St. Sanford F ifteen thousand, nine hun dred elgthy-two persons decided for Christ when Billy Graham was down in New Zealand last “spring.” (It was fall down there.) What will happen to those 15,000 new con verts ? What has happened to con verts in other Billy Graham meet ings ? The answer to that question depends on the converts them selves; but it de pends also' a great deal on what other Chris- tiams do about it. Billy himself has said, “After the obstetrician comes the pedia trician.” The Dr. Foreman birth of a baby is important good news; but suppose from that mo ment everybody forgets the baby and nobody does a single thing for him? In that case the baby might as well never have been bom. Getting Acquainted Saint Paul was a new convert once. The church of the ages owes much to him, but we also owe a great debt to some people without whose help Paul would hardly have become the great apostle and mis sionary that he was. He was very eager to get back to Jerusalem where he had builti up his career as an anti-Christian. He risked his life, in fact, to get back there. He knew that the most effective place to give a good wit ness is just where you have made a bad witness in times past. It is much easier to go to a strange place for a complete new start, than to make the new start in the old surroundings. But Paul seldom took the easiest way, and so we find him back in Jerusalem . . . a lonely mjm. For not a ChrlsUan there would speak to him. He was known as a bloodthirsty and im placable enemy of all Christians. When he began speaking for Christ instead of against him, the Chris tians were shocked and afraid. All professional religious man, en gaged in wholesale murder. He was a man who belonged to one of the strictest religious sects of that or any other era, and yet en gaged in trying to smash up people who were actually better than he was. He was a man who was pas sionately devoted to serving God, spending his time making Ufe mis erable (when he could not actually kill them) for persons who rmder- stood God better than be did. A man like that, you would think, is not to have a “con- VMjtional” or average religious ex.-' perience. Budding Saint Pauls skice his time naay have bad some what similar conversioas; but John Doe usually has the John Doe type of cemversion. ConfronM WM Christ F<h- an that, while much, hi the circumstances of PauTs c<8iver^on. (to usi a name be did not actuaUy bear tin some tune later) was pe culiar, bizarre or awe-inspiring as you might think it, still basicahy it was a Christian cmiversion, with the basic Christian el^nents plain ly in it. Firrt of all, it was con fronting Christ It was a kind of miracle in Paul’s case. The miracle may not be so spectacular in other cases but Christ is always there at the beginning of every really Christian Ufe. It may be a Confu- cian scholar reading a Bible for the first time; it may be an artist attracted by a picture of the Last Supper; it may be a French ag nostic, seeing Christ in his wife’s character; or a middle-aged man remembering one day how his mother used to pray. Somehow or other, aU conversion is baspd on this meeting between an individual and Christ. Th« First Tsra Qnsstiou Years later Paid t<dd the story of his converskm, to some people who at the moment were bent on kUUng him. He added something to the story tefid in Acts (the best manuscripts). He relates two ques tions, not one, which he asked in that great and awesome hour near Damascus. The first question: "Who art Thou, Lord?" and the second one: “What will you have me tb do?” (See Acts 22.) On those two questions himg all his future Ufe. Note three things here: he put his questions now to the highest Authority; he wanted to know aU about Jesus; and he put his Ufe at the disposal of his Lord. This is the essence of conversion. (Based on outlines copyrlgrhted by the Diyision of Christian Edneation, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Beleased hy Conunnnity Press Serylce.) Go To Church Sunday Mrs. Wilcox, 79, Carthage, Dies Mrs. Kate Cole Willcox, 79, of Carthage, died Sunday night in Moore Memorial Hospital. She was the widow of J. D. Willcox. Surviving are two sisters, Mfs. May Cole Davis and Carrie Cole Mclver, both of Carthage. ‘ Funeral services were held at 3 p. m. Tuesday at Carthage Presbyterian Church, conducted by the Rev. B. E. Dotson, assisted by the Rev. W. S. Golden. Burial followed in the church cemetery. BIRTHS Births at St. Joseph of the Pines Hospital: October 29—A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rogers, Vass. October 31—A son to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hall, West End. November 7—A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Barber, Southern Pines; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. R. Fleming, Eller- be. November 11—A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hoover, Jackson Springs. November 12—A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Billy D. Chavis, Vass. November 13—A son to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brown, Jr., Rob bins; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jo seph Gooch, Pinehurst. November 14—A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Greenwood, Aberdeen. 'ONE TWENTY-FIVE SOUTH' ANTIQUES 125 South Bennett Street Tel. OX 2-8851 FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICAN WILD LIFE 2000 illustrations. 740 species in full color by Henry Collins, Jr. — $6.95 THIS IS NATURE The best from 30 years of Nature Magazine — $5.95 FISHERMAN'S SUMMER by Roderick Haig-Brown — $3.75 THE GARDENER'S WORLD, Plant Lore from Homer to Ed win Teale by Josph Wood Krutch — $8.95 180 West Penn. OX 2-3211 Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co. Members New York Stock Exchange MacKenzie Building 135 W. New Hampshire Ave. Southern Pines, N. C. ' Telephone: Southern Pines OX 5-7311 Complete Investment and Brokerage Facilities Direct Wire to our Main Office in New York A. E. RHINEHART Resident Manager Consultations by appointment on Saturdays Attend The Church of Your Choice INext Sunday oxn o This great land of ours has been blessed with ^ the riches of the earth and with the freedoms, the rights, to enjoy them. But does the. mere owner ship of these goods guarantee our happiness? All of us have experienced a disappointment at finally possessing some much-desired article. After weeks and sometimes years of looking forward to it, we find that the actulil ownership brings little pleasure. Could the fault lie with the gift itself? No, apparently it is within ourselves. Our own attitudes, our own relationships, our own understanding have certainly much more to do with our final satisfaction. I How then are we to derive the greatest blessings from the goods lyhich have been put at our disposal? The best place to begin is in the Church. Here, in a personal search for God and our own under standing of Him, we may achieve a spiritual har mony, which will bless our lives and those of our fellow men. Copyright 1959. Keistor Adv. Servieo. Strasburg. Va. THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . . ALL FOR THE CHURCH The Church is the greatest factor on earth for the building of character and good citizenship. It is a storehouse of spiritual values. Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civiliza tion can survive. There are four sound reasons why every person should at tend services regularly and support the Church. They are: |1) For his dwn soke. (2) For his children’s sake. (3) For rhe sake of his community and nation. (4) For the sake of the Church itself, which needs his moral and material support. Plan to go to church regularly and read your Bible dally. Day Book Sunday Oenesls Monday , Psalms Tuesday Matthew WedneMay Matthew Thursday Mark FHd Friday Saturday Psairns Psairha Chapter Verses 8 20-22 24 1-10 19 16-23 6 19-21 4 26-29 42 1-2 61 14-16 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH New York Art at Soath Ashe St* Maynard Mangrnm* Minister Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Training Union, 6:80 p.m. Evening Wor ship. 7:30 p.m. Youth Fellowship, 8:30 p.m. Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7:30 p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.: choir practice Wednesday 8:15 p.m. Missionary meeting, first and third Tues^ days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers, second Thursday, 7 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH New Hampshire Avenue Sunday Service, 11 a.m. Sunday School, 11 a.m. Wednesday Service, 8 p.m. Reading Room in Church Building open Wednesday, 2-4 p.m. MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Malcolm Anderton, Pastor Sundsfy School 9:45 a.m. Worship Serv ice 11 a.m. Women of the Church meeting, 8 p.m., second Tues. Mid-week service on Wednesday, . 7:30 p.m. Choir Rehearsal, Wednesday. 8:15 p.m. Men of the Chiu’ch meeting, 8 p.m. fourth Wednesday. METHODIST CHURCH Midland Road Robert C. Mooney, Jr., Minister Church School 9:45 A. M. Worship Service 11:00 A. M. Youth Fellowship 6:30 P. M. Junior Fellowship 6:80 P. M. WSCS meets each third Monday at 8 P. M. Methodist Men meet each third Thurs day at 6:30 P. M. Choir Rehearsal each Wednesday at 7:30 P. M. ST. ANTHONY’S CATHOLIC Vermont Ave. at Ashe Sunday Masses: 8 and 10:30 a.m.; Daily Mass 8:10 a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 ft 9 a.m.; Confessions, Saturday, 6:00. to 5:30 p.m.: 7:30 to 8 p.m. Men’s Club Meetings: Ist & 3rd Fridays 8 p.m. * Women’s Club meetings: Ist Monday, 8 p.m. Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Tuesday eve ning 7:30 p.m. Girl Scout Troop No. 118, Monday, 8 p.m. THE CHURCH OP WIDE FELLOWSHIP < Congregational) Cor. Bennett and New Hampshire Carl E. Wallace, Minister Sunday School, 9:46 a.m. Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fellowship (Young People). Sunday, 8:00 p.m.. The Forum. BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (Presbyterian) Cheves K. Ligon, Minister Sunday School 9:46 a.m. Worship eerr- ice, 11 a.m. Women of the Church meet ing, 8 p.m. Monday following third Sunviay. The Youth Fellowships meet at 7 o’clock each Sunday evening.. Mid-week service,. Wt^dnesday, 7:15 pjn* EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal) East Massachusetts Ave* V Martin Caldwell, Rector Holy vCommun^n, 8 a.m. (First Sundays and Holy Days, 8 a,m. and"ll.a.m.> Family Service, ^:30 a.m. Church SebooL 10 a.m. • Morning Service, 11 a.m. Young People* Servi^ Lehffue, 6 p.m. Holy Communion, Wednesdays and Holy Days, 10 a.m. and.^iday^ .^:30. Saturday—6 p.m. Penance. —This Space Donaled in the Interest of the Churches by— CLARK & BRADSHAW JACKSON MOTORS, Inc. Your FORD Dealer . McNEILL'S SERVICE STATION Gtttf Service PERKINSON'S. Inc. W. E. Blue Jeweler UNITED TELEPHONE CO. A & P TEA CO. SANDHILL DRUG CO. SHAW PAlNt & WALLPAPER CO.
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