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Walking Filly On Parade In L . A .; Beats Rose Bowl
Just received is a letter from Los Angeles , Calif , that tells us what is being done for the Tennessee Walking Horse in schools — and it ’ s a lot better for the breed than an expensive display of the horse in the Tournament of Roses Parade ( a display suggested every New Year ’ s Day when the Rose Bowl takes place ).
L . B . Ryel , supervisor of Elementary Science & Agriculture ( a new Voice subscriber ), tells us about it in the following letter : “ Dear Mr . Green , “ In answer to your card of April 21 , 1963 , 1 would like to tell you that our department in the Los Angeles City Schools is very unique . Our department makes it possible for the boys and girls of this crowded area to have an opporunity to see , to touch , and to learn something about all domesticated animals as well as all of the native wild animals of Southern California .
“ We have an animal center where boys and girls are bussed in . It is at this center that they get to view our Tennessee Walking Filly , and in the future her foal . We also have a cow , calf , a sheep , a goat , a pig , a turkey , and all the rest of the animals that go with a small farm .
“ We have " 138 elementary schools and have four mobile units that go to ( he schools each day so the boys and girls can see and touch animals — one is the Small Stock , one the Dairy , one the Conservation and one is the Wildlife .
“ I would like to tell you more but it would take too much of your time . Thank you very much for your interest in our work . Sincerely ,
LOS ANGELES CITY SCHOOLS L . B . Ryel , Supervisor Elementary Science & Agriculture
( Editor ' s Note — Dear Mr . Ryel ; J am immensely thrilled with your letter . Your city seems destined to become the largest in the XJ . S . A . within my lifetime , and I am almost 61 years old — and on cancer probation . Right now I am going to write to some friends in Los Angeles and suggest that they get together on a project that will supply all the " 138 elementary schools of Los Angeles with a copy of my book — Biography of the Tennessee Walking Horse . I am placing a copy of this book in the mails for you today . It has an index that will be helpful to the young readers . It has 18 pages of color pictures . The kids will go wild over it — and it will help make the
Don t Try To Get More Mileage Than The Engine Is Built For
( Many beautiful and inspiring letters were received by the Editor during his illness last winter .
We wish to share this one with you , our Friends , because it meant so very much to us , and we feel that it might help others . BAG )
Dear Mr . Green :
We have your letter concerning the cancellation of your Training book and are truly sorry ol the circumstances that occasioned its writing . But our great disappointment in not receiving the new book , is overshadowed by the knowledge that the state of your health will prevent the publication .
We are taught that we are created in His image . Instead ol taking care of the wonderful gift of life , we are prone to try to get a little more mileage than the engine was built for . We ignore the little warnings of tension and overwork , that might have been collected — a stitch in time , so to speak .
Then we are so surprised when the line ceases to be slack and easy and we suddenly realize we are at ihe end of the tether — and must ease up on the line . If we let our basic feelings come to the surface , we can paw the ground and foam at the mouth , which will only further fray the rope , but we can also accept it , and live with it !
We can now have the time to remember our Creator , and do you know , it is Good that we are permitted to take His hand , and just leave things to Him . It is a wonderful feeling to realize that for once you are free to live each day as it dawns , paradoxically as that may seem , and as Longfellow said “ No longer forward or behind , 1 look with hope or fear But grateful , take the good 1 find — The best of Now and Here .” This decision was handed me after nearly four months hospitalization from a heart attack . I was told 1 could go at any time but with reasonable care 1 . might die of a broken hip or something when 1 was 85 . 1 chose the ' broken hip ’ at 85 — and told the medics that I planned to get from each remaining hour — 60 minutes of distance run — using the hard-earned experience and the brain the Good Lord gave me ,
Tennessee Walking Filly ( and especially her future foal ) the BIG STAR of your Big Animal Show . Watch us go to help you tell the children all about the Tennessee Walking Horse . You are a source of great inspiration — perhaps a nationwide movement . Thanks New Friend . BAG .)
June , 1963
to monitor those hours profitably , but with discretion . During a long period of immobility , except mentally , 1 sought to retain the nearness to God that 1 had reached with the brush of death — Lo have and to hold forever . I lost all fear and the above poem became my motto .
At times when 1 tend to get low and sorry for myself , I look for the “ Best of Now and Here ” and I have always found it . The golden nuggets seem to stand up out of the sand for the picking . It has been almost nine years since then , and I have lived more satisfactorily and more abundantly these nine years , than all of the 60 before — and 1 am grateful . I know the depths of despondency and the adjustments necessary . It takes courage and faith . May you have both .
" Faith "— By Sybil Leonard Armes Faith to me is a simple , shining thing — 1 know that He who marks the sparrows fall , Will care for me whatever the day may bring , And learn to hear my faintest , weakest call . Faith to me is but a daily creed of simple trust .
He will provide a way — who knows my every need , And that is all 1 need to know Today .
Few Walkers In Minnesota Area
Garlene Holt , 2185 Reaney Ave ., St . Paul 19 , Minn , says that there so few Walkers in her area , that whenever she sees a name mentioned in the Voice of a nearby owner , she writes to him immediately . It has been difficult for people in the St . Paul area to show their Walkers in the shows , until this year . Carlene says that a newly created Open English Pleasure Class incorporated by many shows , allows the Walker to be shown . The pleasure gait clause allows the Walker to do the running walk while the others trot .
Carlene writes : “ 1 am having my mare , Secret ’ s Painted Lady out of Midnight Secret , bred to a double Midnight Sun stallion down in Iowa and plan to show her in this area this coming summer . I have a yearling stud colt out of her and a Merry Boy bred stud , who is really developing into a real Walkin ’ colt ! I do believe I ’ ll have to sell him , however , as I board my horses out and one is about all I can alTord . My colt ’ s name is Secret ’ s Royal Silver .”