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? - Patriot lENT IN POLITICS ST. Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesbord, North Carolina JULIUS a HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTEP Publishers 19SS?DANIEL J. CARTER?iUM SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year - $2.00 (In Yflkea and Adjoining Conn ties) One Year $3.00 (Outside Wilkes and And Adjoining Counties) Rates To Those In Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 _ loitered at tLe postofflc^at North ooro, North Carolina, as Second-Class under Act of March 4, 1879 " Monday, June 21, 1948 Industrial Corporation Great Forward Move The state of North Carolina has grant ed a charter to the Industrial and Invest ment Corporation formed here. This corporation was set up to provide capital for industrial expansion. An in dustry seeking a location wants to know first of all what is the attitude of the people, and especially existing industry and business, toward pew industry. Formation of the Industrial and Invest ment Corporation provides an answer which means something?it means tan gible assistance to new business in addi tion to saying in no uncertain terms that new industry is welcome and wanted. It is most gratifying to note the number of charter stockholders and their identity. It represents a great amount of present business and many from professional life. It represents unity of purpose in the in terest of progress. Too long this community has had an exodus of good people going out to other places to find employment. Let us furnish jobs for our own people, who are the best to be1 found anywhere, and let them live and prosper in their home county. Formation of the Industrial and Invest ment corporation tells to the world that here is a. community which wants pro gress, and is willing to put forth united effort in that direction. No Trespassing "Fishermen and other holiday makers in the. countryside are discovering that the pleasant spots where they might disport themselves, without defiance of a 'no trespassing' sign, are growing fewer and fewer because of fire risks," says the Saturday Evening Post editorially. The Post then cites the case of a correspon dent who lives on acreage that contains an excellent brook. He once allowed fish ermen to come on his property and the state stocked the stream. But, the Post 'goes on, "Our informant had half a dozen minor scares from abandoned fires dur ing the first few fishing seasons, and one major one in which, more damage was done to fine trees than all the fish in the township were worth. Since then the warden has not stocked the brook, and the angler who coasts along the road in his car, looking for a place to throw his line into a promising stredm, finds an un broken succession of signs telling him ? what the law will do to him if he tres passes." This is tough on the fisherman and the hunter. And it's a great deal tougher on the people whose property is razed by fire, the magnificent stands of forests that are turned into ash, and the wild life which is killed in its nests and caves. No one can honestly claim that forest fires are natural and inevitable. The cold figures prove that 90 per cent of them are caused by individual carelessness. We must enforce fire safety laws to the letter. And, far more important, we must learn the basic rules of fire prevention in the outdoors and everywhere else. Do you want to he the one who causes the death of a forest and its inhabitants? ? ?e "The man who feels that he cannot touch his breakfast should see a doctor," says a cereal advertisement in a radio program. It also might not hurt to consult the cook if it can be done discreetly.? Greensboro Daily^News. Successful Horse Show Is Anticipated July 2 and 3 are dates for the Kiwanis club horse show at the local horse show grouhds. The annual show here because of its size and quality has already earned a reputation as being one of the outstand ing horse show events in the state, a fact which reflects great credit on the spon sors. There are many to whom a horse dhow is tops in entertainment, because they re spect and admire good horses and their show performances. It represents a high type of sports and entertainment. Success of the horse show is evidence] of what can be done by people who are truly interested in what they are trying to do. It has not been many years ago that the average person locally knew nothing about horse shows. Now a great many people are keenly interested ?'iit** hc/ise shows and get real entertainment from the horse show exhibitions. The horse show project deserves much support from the public. Any net profits from the show will be used by the Kiwan is club to carry on the club's fine work for underprivileged children, and for other worthy projects. So far Congress seems to believe that the country prefers draft beer to draft bill.?Greensboro Daily News. ?o David Lilienthal, who himself was sig nificantly serviceable withi TV A and for our money can go on with utomic energy, urges University of Virginia graduates to "plan definitely to set aside a number of years" for the public service. That's a splendid idea, but not one which pre cludes a bit of self-service while awaiting the public's orders.?Greensboro Daily News. LIFE'S BETTER WAY WALTER E. ISENHOUR High Point, N. C., Route 4 MAKING OUR DECISIONS There may be many influences that count in our lives, either for good or /evil, and that help determine the way we take, but when everything is1 summed up and brought to a final climax, we make our own decisions. We decide to go with God and His people, or we decide to go with the devil and his people. We decide to be godly, or we decide to be ungodly. We decide to be spiritual, by the grace of God, or we decide to be worldly, carnal, sinful and wicked. We decide to be moral, or we decide to be immoral. We decide to be honest, truthful, upright, depend able, noble and great, or we decide to be dishonest, untruthful, small in principle and life, thereby accomplishing nothing good, great and worth while. We decide for ourselves what life is to be, and what the final outcome shall be. We decide what we aim to be, or what we do not aim to be. We decide what we are going to do, or what we are not go ing to do. We decide the place we shall fill, or the place we shall not fill. We decide the company we shall keep, or the company we shall not keep. We decide what we shall believe, or what we shall wrong, good and \evil, Christianity and not believe. We decide between right and sin, heaven and hell. We (jlecide whether we are going to be wise and go with God, or be unwise and go with decide whether we are going to believe the Bible, heed its great Christ into our lives' and g narrow way unto eternal the' Bible, reject Christ, ind maybe be the devil. We truths, ftake ) with Him the life; or reject i an influence and finally atheists and "infidels, wiel that shall curse humanity, sink into everlasting despair, woe and damnation. We read over in First Kings 20:40: "Thyself hast decided it." This was spok en of king Ahab in regard to his disobe dience unto God, which eventually meant his death and damnation. Indeed men make their own decisions. When they de cide to live for the devil, go the way of the world, live sinful, wicked lives, dis obeying and dishonoring God, then they decide their own awfur fate. What a great responsibility there is upon us as to our decisions! When we decide to re pent of all sin, give it up, take Christ in to our hearts, souls, lives and homes, live to do His will and be faithful unto death, then we decide our own eternal bliss and welfare in heaven. Hallelujah! "What de cisions have you 'made, and what are you making? PUBLIC PULSE ? ? 3?Sl This is a column open to the public for free exprefsion. The Journal-Patriot does not as same any responsibility for ar ticles printed under this head ing, and neither endorses nor condemns them. Please be as brief as possible. (Editor's note: The letter pub lished below was written by Dr.. Gilbert R. Combs to Attorney Larry 0. Moore, bnsineee man ager of the North Wilkeeboro baseball club, and Is published at the request of the writer, Dr. Gilbert R. Combs). AN1 OPEN LETTER TO THE NORTH WILKK8BORO BASEBALL CLUB _ Thq N. W. Baseball Club, Mr. Larry 6. Moore, Secretary, North Wilkesboro, N. C. Dear Larry: lit is with genuine regret that I feel that I must return to, you the complimentary season ticket thai you were kind enough to send to me to the baseball games to be played in' North Wilkee boro this season. As you will re call I wrote you a letter of ap preciation for this gracious cour tesy and commended the club for the expressed purpose to avoid scheduling any Sunday games in our community. Now that you have decided to depart from that policy, and I have felt obliged to criticize your action, publicly and privately, I do not feel that it would be right of proper for me to accept and use this gen erous gratuity from the club. I thank you again for your cour tesy and consideration in sending the ticket. I like baseball and have en joyed the few games I have been able to witness since the season opened. And I was greatly pleas ed with the general orderliness and sobriety of the crowds at the games. When the project of building a Memorial Park was first sug gested I wanted to give it my hearty support, for I am commit ted tp a program of community recreation. In my opinion the average community does not give half enough attention to the mattdr of providing wholesome recreation to its people; especial ly its young people. One of the main talking points in the pro motion of the Memorial Park project was the proposed plans for a professional baseball club I inquired specifically if there were plans for the use of the park fjbr 8unday baseball or other Commercialized recreation or amusements on the Christian Sabbath, and was assured that no such was contemplated. Two men who were present at the meeting of the Town Council when a group of those interested in the baseball club first appear ed before that body to discuss the matter, told me that it was clearly stated there that no Sun day baseball was planned or de sired. I was glad to hear of these assurances and, upon receiving them, was glad to give the Me morial Park by support. My cash contribution was not large, of course, but I tried to add to that material support whatever small influence I might have. I gave the enterprise my public and private endorsement. Some of the more substantial contributors to the Memorial Park fund have said tjiat if they had known that the Park wa8 to be used for commercial amusements on Sun day they would not have given their support. One of the things that Ameri can sports has always emphasiz ed is fair-play, good sportsman ship. ]We urge our young people to be good sports in their games and contests because we want them to learn to be good sports in the Larger game of life. Put ting aside for the moment the larger issues of this matter, I wonder if the Baseball Club hon estly feels that they have been very '[good sports" in their deal ing with the Town Council and the citizens of the community in ' this matter. Thej so-called arguments that are commonly advanced in de fense |of a movement of thi8 kind are familiar to us all. And every one of them, in my opinion, eith er dodges the main issue or begs the question. It is so easy for ue to! temporize or rationalize with almost any issue until it becomles justified in our thin ing. "Everybody else is doing it" "It is not as bad as some other things that are done on Sunday," "After all, it is a very innocent sort of thing." Et cetera. We should begin with the very clear understanding that the Christian Sabbath is a religious institution. It owes its origin and its continued life to the Chris tian Kospel, rooted in the great Hebrew tradition. That being true the only sound or valid ar gument that can 'be advanced for c< immercialized recreation or amusements on Sunday is on the groun Is of morality or religion. 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