1962-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1962 June Voice | Page 3

Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse
VOICE
of the
Tennessee Walking Horse
B en A. G reen ....................Publisher-Editor
M rs . B en A. G reen ....................... 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 aid who love
the Tennessee Walking Horse.
Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse is owned
by Ben A. Green and Mrs. Ben A. Green, Shclby-
villc, Tcnn., 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 pub­
lished monthly at 1110 South Brittain S l , Shelby-
ville, Tcnn.
Send all subscription payments and advertising
payments to Ben A. Green, Shelbyville, Tenn.
Subscription Price: $4 per year; single copy
50 cents.
Words That Sell
Horses:
Health And Comfort
Two words—valuable lo every in­
dividual that lives—offer ihe major
keys to sales of Tennessee Walking
Horses.
This is our opinion—but thought
on the matter will make them your
opinion also.
These words are “health and com­
fort.”
The Tennessee Walking Horse
pleasure animal gives both to the
rider, according to testimony we have
received by word of mouth and by
letter, hundreds upon hundreds of
limes.
Here is a very good description of
what the Tennessee Walking Horse
can do for a person—taken from the
May 7, 1962 issue of the Oklahoma
City Times—sent to us by a reader:
“An owner o[ a Tennessee Walking
Horse once said that his horse re­
minded him of a lightning rod, for,
as he rode, all the sorrows in his heart
flowed down through the sfilendid
muscles of his horse and. were
grounded in the earth.”
This is a precious paragraph. A
saleman with ability could take this
paragraph and sell horses by the van­
load. He could write a book on the
subject. Our own mail contains many
illustrations.
You have seen examples on our
pages; the 81-year-old engineer who
testified that riding his horse gave
him a pick-up after a day's work, all
during his years of work; we recall a
letter in which a woman told of a
serious back injury suffered in an
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auto wreck—an injury that defied
treatment until her doctor prescribed
“Tennessee Walking Horse riding."
She told us riding “greatly improved"
her back trouble.
The Stale of Tennessee several years
ago issued a special bulletin citing
Tennessee Walking Horse riding as
a key to health.
AVe venture to say at least 20 per
cent of the purchasers of our Bi­
ography of the Tennessee Walking
Horse, and also subscribers to this
magazine are doctors in various fields.
We must plough deeper into this
ground—get more factual evidence on
health and Tennessee Walking Horse
riding, and also horse-loving. The
physical exercise of riding with the
“lightning rod” contact, and the
spiritual force of loving a responsive
animal, furnish a big bulwark for
mental peace and physical welfare.
These are health builders.
NOW I AM ALL YOURS
Beginning May 25, 1962, the Voice
Editor divested himself of newspaper
duties—closing out a 37-year career in
the field.
This makes him “all yours” for
Tennessee Walking Horse duty. Of
course he feels other duties—To His
Wife and To His Church—but the
"working time” is now Tennessee
Walking Horse Time.
On June 7 the Voice circulation
passed a mark that makes certain—in
a bank savings account—enough funds
to print the magazine for the rest of
the "guaranteed year—as set out in
the Voice promise—12 issues or all of
your money back.”
We believe now the Voice has the
largest Tennessee Walking Horse
paid-up subscription list serviced by
any horse magazine of general cir­
culation. We are reaching the people
interested in the subject. We are a
good advertising medium. We solicit
your support on the basis of these
facts. Ben A. Green, Editor.
Our Goal-To Help Every
Child Dream Of Owning
Tennessee Walking Horse
Friends, we have dreamed up an­
other Goal for the Voice of the Ten­
nessee Walking Horse. And we must
thank Dr. W. R. VanDenBosch of
2216 South Street, LaFayette, Indiana,
for stimulating our dreaming appara-
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Mother Asks Help
Locating Son, 17,
Who Loves Walkers
JAMES WILLIAM SEXTON
Age 17—Missing Since
March 15, 1962
(Editor’s Note—We have received the fol­
lowing urgenL letter from the Mother of a
Lost Boy. Please help her in any way that
you can. BAG.)
“Dear Editor Green:
“We so enjoy your wonderful maga­
zine—I am writing concerning our son,
James Wm. Sexton, who this year was
using a Tennessee Walking Mare for
one of His 4-H projects.
“This boy, James Wm. Sexton, age
17, mysteriously disappeared March
15, 1962, and we have had no trace of
him since that time.
“Since he was interested in horses
and dairy cattle we thought perhaps
he might be located through your
magazine; having been in the South
several times—a 11 e n d e d the Cele­
bration—and knows several of the
horse breeders and especially Jersey
cattle breeders.
"H e was second in judging all
breeds of cattle in the FFA judging in
our district last year, and is almost as
good in judging Walking Horses but
had never had as much opportunity to
judge horses. His description:
“James Wm. Sexto n—Age 17-
Height 5 feet 11 inches—Weight 140
to 145 pounds—Brown hair, very
brown eyes—walks rather stooped—has
large abdominal scar—very mannerly,
reserved and timid.
“We have no idea as to where he
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