2 December, 1962
A Message from Your
A Message from Your Secretary of the Voice
Dear Friends:
First I want to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to eaclt and every one of our subscribers to the Voice. Last December the first subscription card was filed. Now our mailing list shows over 3200 subscribers. As secretary, 1 have shared and enjoyed your wonderful letters throughout the year. Every day ' s mail has brought us new friends and although I have learned to love the Tennessee Walking Horse, 1 love more the people who own them.“ People " have always been my hobby and gelling to know you through your letters, and many of you in person, during the Celebration, has given me much happiness.
1 also wish to add my special thanks to those of your Editor for your many expressions of sympathy during his illness. We are very grateful that his health is slowly improving. Your concern and interest have been an inspiration to us and we know that you will understand why our magazine is not all that we want it to be, since Ben ' s illness. He has fell able to do very little writing and many of your letters have gone unanswered. Any news or advertisements which you can send us during the next few months will be especially appreciated.
VOICE
of the Tennessee Walking Horse
Ben A. Green
Publisher-Editor
Mrs. Ben A. Creen.......................... Secretary OFFICE— SHELBYVILLE, TENN.
( This monthly magazine is dedicated to the welfare of the Tennessee Walking Horse breed for show and pleasure.)
OUR AIM— To maintain a permanent publication that will merit the full support of all who love the Tennessee Walking Horse.
Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse is owned by Ben A. Green and Mrs. Ben A. Green, Shelbyvillc, Tenn., and its editorial contents can be used for re-publication by any person or firm provided proper credit is given and the magazine is correctly quoted.
Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse is published monthly at 1110 South Brittain St., Shelbyville, Tenn.
Send all subscription payments and advertising payments to Ben A. Green, Shclbyville, Tenn.
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Secretary of the Voice
Secondly, 1 want to give you my Philosophy of Life, as expressed in the following:
Youth
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions. It is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty more than in a boy of twenty.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting tbeir ideals.
Years wrinkle the skin; but to give up your enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair— these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being’ s heart the lure of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and at star-like things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing, childlike appetite for what next, and the joy of the game of living. You are as young as your faith, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central place of your heart is an evergreen Lree; its name is love. So long as it flourishes you are young. When it dies you are old. In the central place of your heart is a wireless station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, courage and power from God and your fellow men, so long are you young.
Author Unknown
And, in closing, I leave with you a prayer written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
A Morning Prayer
Let me this morning do something that shall take
A little sadness from the world’ s vast store,
And may I be so favored as to make Of joy’ s too scanty sum a little more.
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend;
Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,
Or sin by silence when 1 should defend.
However meager be my worldly weal tli,
Let me give something that will aid my kind—
A word of courage, or a thought of health,
Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find.
Let me tonight look back across the span
’ Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say—
Because of some good act to beast or man—
" The world is better that I lived today.”
MAY THIS CHRISTMAS BRING YOU INSPIRATION AND YOUR NEW YEAR BE FILLED WITH SUCCESS.
MARY FRANCES GREEN
4 Annua! Meeting For Mid-South
Annual meeting of the Mid-South Horse Shows Assn, is scheduled Feb. 10-11, at Jackson, Miss., it lias been announced. Directors meet Sunday afternoon and the annual dinner meeting with 500 expected follows at 6:30 p. m. Sunday. Three directors will be elected and liorse show dates lor the 1963 season will be cleared.
Monday’ s schedule includes a directors meeting in the morning, a p. m. School for Show Managers and other officials conducted by Eli Long Jr., of Germantown, Tenn. and other nationally known authorities, and the final awards meeting of trophies and ribbons to point score winners at the banquet Monday night.
Reservations for the meeting may be made through Emmet Guy, P. O. Box 1592, Jackson, Tenn. Fred Fowler of Sommerville, Tenn., is president; O’ Neil Flowell, Memphis, Tenn., vicepresident; and Emmet Guy, secretarytreasurer.