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>—MIBR0R-IIEBAIJ>—Tuesday, July 17, iMt cwokm SiOmpffi Not so strange pdw To the editor: It la admirable that aome cltlzena are aaklng for a familiar hlatorlcal landmark (The Baker home) be aaved from the by- paaa rqute. But, I find It atrange that there waa no auch cry for the numeroua cltlaena who loat their homea to progreaa along the bypaaa route. I alao find It atrange the bypaaa route waa finally aet to cut through the city Umlta and through the Uvea of ao many cltlaena, Inatead of further no^ of the city where there are no homea. I auppoae that open land la more valuable than the Uvea and comfort of people. l^be It lan’t. ao atrange afteraU If we oonalder that poUtlca played a hand In thla. And It would be hard for anyone to deny that playing poUUca la playing a game that biinga aelf-proflt. Maybe before the coming election day the cltlzena wlU hear about auch ahenanlgana puUed In the name of local poUtlca. BVERB1TB PEARSON Klnga Mountain MAOICCAU You muat put theaa egga la a large bowl and beat them at high speed for at least 16 first ingredlont Is a Orels at Loro • flllsd minutes. Be sura to beat long enough to gst with fidth. Stir woU. Iho doubts, I Oan’t, I Wen’ts and the rears .. out. TlMn add to Um mixture. BLOSSOMS AMONG THE OBASS Deep appreciation To the editor: I'd like to extend our deepest appreciation to the foUowlng contributors for the many gifts, complimentary passes and support for this years Independence Day celebration. The Mirror Herald, Clarks Tire Service, Bridges Hardware, Fashion Cleaners and Laundry, Hardee’s of Kings Mtn., Kentucky Fried Chicken, Kings Mtn. Office Supply and Equip., UtUe Moo Dairy Bam, McDonalds Hamburgers, Pizza Hut, Sonic Drive Inn, Weiner King, The AUanta Braves, BUtmore House and Gardens, Carowlnds, Florida’s Thank you, KM Rotarians To the editor: This letter Is written In appreclaUon tor those responsible for selecting me to represent Kings Mountain at Rotary Leadership Camp in Brevard In June. Rotary Leadership Camp was one of the most enjoyable and enriching experiences that I have ever had. The speakers were very Informative and most of them were Interesting as weU. The other campers were weU worth meeting, and most of us were sad when the time came to leave. I think this camp is a very worthwhile experience, and I thank the Kings Mountain Rotary dub for making It possible for me to attend. My feUow campers and I enjoyed the experience and each other’s company so much that we are arranging a reunion to be held sometime this summer. I wUl highly recommend the camp to whomever Is chosen to attend next year, and once again, thank you. RUTH OLLIS Kings Mountain I mihSiIhkiild PUBLISHED EACH TUESDAY AND THURSDAY . GARLAND ATKINS Publisher TOM McIntyre Editor ELIZABETH STEWART Woman’s Editor GABY STEWART Sports Editor DARRELL AUSTIN General Manager CLYDE HILL Advertising Director MEMBEROF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION The Mirror-Herald Is pubUshed by General PnbHsUng Company, P. O. Drawer T6t Kings Monstaln, N. C. tSdSd. Bnslness and editorial offices are located at 4S1 N. Piedmont Ave. Phone 7Sb-T4M. Second Class postage paid at Kings Mountain, N. C. Single copy IS cents. Subscription rates: 18.80 yearly I In-state. $4.88 s'fai months, 10.80 yearly I I out-of-state. 88 six months; Student rate | i for nine months 88.84. |'asps'OTl-04o' Circus World, Southeastern Balloon Ser vices, Kings Mtn. City Commissioners; Mr. BUI Grissom, Mr. James ChUders, Mr. Ibimes Houston, Mr. James Dickey, The lOngs Mtn. Fire Dept. Most of aU, we thank the many icing. Mountain residents, and neighboring communlUes for being with us to enjoy the many acUvltlea and events of this years Independance Day Celebration. MIKENAPPI Superintendant of Parks and Recreation Next add 1 cup of OouThfo leupofDarliit icupofDraamliit Mix well. Next add 1 cup of Sharing leupMOarlag Tom this lightly. Next add 1 0(9 of Hope for s«ngtitm..,t and enduring and sUr waU. Next you add 4 eggs Itt Is Doubt SndlsICan't SrdlsIWon’t 4th la Fear Dion add l cupof Patlonoe 1 cup of Kindness 1 cup of Laughter 1 cup Starlight 1 cup sunlight And mix WeU. nila la aU the Ingredients you need for the cake. Bake at 860 ALL DAT LONG’. Tou wlU delight In this csIm if you eat 1 sUce ovary day. OPEN GATE GARDEN CLUB KINGS MOUNTAIN In every field of grass God tucks a flower within. To let the eyes that see know Along this patti I have been. There grows the wUd daisy Mixed with purple clover. Under taU trees He sprinkles WUd flowers aU over. ^ Where'ere God walks a flower springs To glorify the spot. Regardless of slopes and rocky bin* He plants a flower to dot. In every field of grass A pretty flower grows. To out-shlne the weeds A flower that He chose. VIIGANS. BILTCUFFE TOM MclIiTYRG Tollesons did not fear Skylab Last week, before Skylab did a Buster Crabbe back to earth, Mrs. Haywood Lynch dropped by the office with a few hiunorous notes from her daughter, Betty Lynch ToUeson of Columbia, 8.C. "SkyUb Is falling,” Mrs. ToUesem wrote. “Let’er faU. It can't hurt us.” Mrs. Lynch said "It looks like the sky has already faUen on them." On June 16, Haywood (Woody) TbUeson, 18, lost a hand In an accident at Slndow Chemical Co. uhere he Is employed. June 19, Mrs. W.W. ToUeson, the mother- in-law, took a spUl at home and broke her ankle in three places. June 85, Betty got the scare of her life when she developed chest paliu and discovered a lump in her breast The scare lasted untU a hospital examination revealed nothing serious In either case. July B, George ToUeson, Mrs. Lynch’s son- in-law, who Is an electricsd engineer with RepubUc Construction, suffered two broken leg bones when he was struck by a lengtg of falling steel on a Job site In (Charleston, S.C. -oOo- Speaklng of the late great SkyUb, I would like to commend New York-based syn dicated columnist Jimmy BresUn for his highly humorous piece on how the crash could benefit the world. In that column BresUn suggested that he throw a party at Studio 84, the disco Joint where aU the celebrities gather, and Invite a special group of guests. BresUn suggested BUnca Jagger, Margaret Trudeau and Triimsm Cmwte, among others. BresUn feels these people are totally empty and offer the world nothing but b.s. He Included himself In the guest list. His ardent hope waa that the safe containing the Him aboard SkyUb would plunge right through the disco joint roof and wfoe them aU out. After reading that list, Ed McMahon would turn to Johrmy CarsMi and say, "TTiat U the most complete list you would find In the world. There is not another name you could add to BresUn’s list." And as Johnny would reply, "Wrong, badger-breath." -oOo- HOw-wr ong-Uh^e ? Gene White and I were discussing the Skylab’s faU Ust week suid BresUn’s column and Gene came up with a few mof^ names that should be added to the lUt. "But, Gene. I can’t print those names In the paper. It’s aUight to pick on the In- tomatlcmaUy famous, although God knows what they are famous for," I said, "but to localize It would surely mean disaster.’’ Barry Jenkins, the CPA who’s office piggy-backs the redevelopment commission quarters, dropped In for coffee about that time and commented, "If SkyUb feU on KIngz Mountain It wouldn’t hurt anybody and the citizens would owe the redevelop ment commission a vote of thanks.” "Why so?" Gene and I asked. "Because, due to the efforts of the RC - KM has almost nothing left but vacant Und!" Americans biblical foundation ByTOM ROSE ^lecUl to Mirror-Herald As thankful Americans across the land sit down to a weU-browned turkey stuffed with seasoned dressing, cranberries, candied yams, hot mlnced-meat pie and other niceties. It is only natural that they should remember those sturdy reUglous separatists who esUbllshed a new civilization In the barren Amerlcsui wilderness. Two centuries after the Pilgrims arrived on this continent In 1630, there was, indeed, a thriving civilization here. It flourished on the solid religious foundation that the Pilgrims had bequeathed. By 1880 It had become the political and economic marvel of the whole world. In America men had more political and economic freedom than man had en joyed since the time of the Judges In Israel over 1,000 years before Christ. For the first time In centuries of known history famine had been conquered. Men had plenty to eat: no man who was willing to work need see his family go hungry Economic opportunity abounded. Something had made America different from other countries—so different. In fact, that a stream of curious Europeans came to her shores In search of America’s secret of greatness. Alexis de TocquevlUe, one of these searchers who came to America In the 1830s, gave thla ringing teatlmociy to America's greatness: "I sought for the greatness and genius of America In her fertile fields and boundless forests; It waa not there. I sougiit for It In her free schools and her inatltuUons of learning;' It was not there. I sought for It In her mat chless Constitution and democratic Confess; It was not there. Not until I went to the churches of America and found them aflame for righteousness did I understand greatness and genius of America. America la great because America Is go<ri. When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Today, many Americans have forgotten— If they ever knew-how the Bible-baaed views of the Pilgrim aeparallsta helped establish the phlloeophlcal base upon which the American republic was founded. What were the Pilgrims’ theological views? And what philosophy of civil government did they hold? First, the Pilgrims unqueatloningly ac cepted the biblical revelahcm of a sovereign God sdio created the world and who pur- poslvely sustains the universe moment-by moment to achieve His pre-determlned will. Second, they accepted the biblical teaching that man U created In the Image andUkenesaofGod; thus,man should be free to serve God as a self-responsible being who Is answerable to Him. They beUeved that num can be nuxally responsible to God only to the extent that he Is capable of exercising Ms freedom of choice. And man’s most Important role Is to live according to God’s moral law and to bring the Gospel to the unsaved. Third, the Pilgrims believed that the purpose of civil government In this Im perfect world Is to maintain law and order so the church (believers In Christ) could freely pursiM their predestined purpose as Christ’s ambassadors on earth. It Is from these fimdamentsd Christian doctrines that the early Pilgrims set up their covenant society, which. In turn, radically affected early American political philosophy. The writers of the American Cbnstitution did borrow from the European Enlightenment philosophers like Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu. But some of these were Christians; and all, certainly, were influenced by Christianity. In any event, the writers of the Constitution borrowed selectively. The greater Influence came from the Pilgrims. It Is to the Pilgrim separatists that we owe the political concepts of: (1.) Representative self-government by cmitract between citizens and temporal rulers, who were regcu-ded merely as Mstributors of God’s higher moral law. Examples the Mayflower Compact. (8.) Limited government with powers divided Into separate law spheres. They got this concept from the Holy Trinity-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-whose acUvltles and responsibilities are separated Into distinct, but related, activities with regard to man: the Law Giver, the Executive, and the Judicial. Whai*8 your opinion? . .WewanttohenryoiiroplBlManlhlagBof interest to yon. Address all oemspearisnoe tor this page to Reader DfologiM, BBrrer- Heraid, F.O. Box Drawer 78S, Ktaga Mountain. N.C. 86868. Bo sora nad sign proper name and Inohide your Unsigned letters will not bs pnbUahod. •5) "Fake It," Gene said. Anyway, Gsno’s list contains personages reknowned for pomposity, ego-mania, mendacity, prevarication and halitosis. He also included my name and his own to the list. Now, why would he do that? "Show me where It says Certified Public Accountant turns Into Don Rickies," Gene said. I thought about organizing a gigantic Skylab Is Falling Party, but the thought came too late. Besides, I haven’t thrown a party since I wore a hole In the knees of my last bathing suit. (8) Sphere sovereignty-the Trinitarian concept also had Its Influence In the Idea of , > separate law qiheres tor the various social InstltuUons within society. The home, the church, the school, voluntary associations, and the various levels of civil government (local, stete, and national) aU had their own Individual sphere of law that was In- dependent of the others. This helped produce a viable society that afforded free citizens with competing Q avenues to achieve their own personal goals. If one area of the country did not appeal to be a person, he waa free to move to another whose law-sphere and customs he liked better. Truly we owe the early PUgrlms more than we realize. Let us always remember, and communicate to our chUdren, the rich heritage wMch helped eatobllsh the religious and phllosopMcal foundation of American freedom.
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