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: 1 i 1 New Bernlans, Including this editor, need to remind them» selves at frequent Intervals that nothing on earth can smile but the race of man. Gems may flash reflected ll^t; but what Is a diamond flash compared with an eye-flash and mirth-flash? Flowers cannot smile. That is the charm which even they cannot claim. Birds cannot smile, nor any other living thing; It Is the perogatlve of man. It Is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy—these three. It Is the li^t In the window of the fhce, by which the heart signifies that It Is at home and waiting to entertain friends. A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom and dries up on the stalk. Lau^ter Is day,^dsobrlety Is night, and a smile Is the twlllidit hovers gently between them, and Is more be witching than either. A smiling child, from earliest latency on, is sunshine Itself, but what we seem to forget as adults Is the happy tect that you can wear a smile becomingly at any age. Itfs one of the few things that the old and the young can share with equal grace. In all other respects, those of us who are getting along in years fq>- pear ridiculous when we dress up In something that kids look well In. Ordinarily, the old ster who clings to youth when youth is no more is a foolish and pathetic Hgime, but there’s nothing pathetic about a smile, at el^t or eighty. If If s genu ine. Perhaps the big reason why smiles look so well on an elder ly person is the solemn truth that most of us smile less and less after we reach middle age.-Worries, real and Imagin ary, get us down, and aches and pains In varying degrees make us grumpy and depressed. It has been our observation that those who smile least of all are the self centered, who in sist on living in their own little world and have no hobby- no concern for others. Such folks should heed Adam Clark, who said, ”I have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness Is this: Never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of too many irons In the fire conveys an untruth. You cannot have too many— poker, tongs,—and all, keep them going.” Dickens observed that**with- out strong affection, and human ity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute Is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.” His were the words of a very wise man, who knew human nature and con veyed the fruit of his talent to others with his teclle pen. Socrates described happiness as •‘unrepented pleasure’while Sheridan said it is “an exotic of celestial birth.” As forBon- stetten, he Insisted that “one cannot be fully happy until alter his sixtieth blrthtoy.” So, if you’re beginning to doubt that life begins at forty, stick around a few more years until the real fun starts. Meanwhile, keep busy at doing something. Grenville Klelser reaffirmed a great truth when he wrote these lines: "One of the most insistent things in life is that you are ultimately judg- (Continued on page 7) The NEW BERN ^.—■■ > ' WEI Ik EAS WEEKLY Of CARw. > 5^ Per Cop> VOLUME 8 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1965 NUMBER 27 MODEST HERO — Lieutenant Colonel Woodland (Woody) Styron of New Bern smiles self consciously as Lieutenant General Jay I. Moore awards the An* Medal (Fourteenth Oak Leaf Cluster) for valor as an Air Force pilot in Vietnam. His Styron Stallions of the 310th Air Commamlo Squadron airlifted a rec ord 197,764 pounds of cargo during a single day on September 1, to distribution points throughout South Vietnam. I THEY DID IT—^Pictured here with Lieutenant Colonel Woodland Styron are members of his crew. During their record-breaking day, they made 22 take-offs ana landings and five refueling stops. In one instance the aircraft was off-loaded, refueled and loaded in only eight minutes. Woody, now on leave in his native New Bern, says copies of The Mirror reach him reg ularly in Vietnam and were shared with other Tar Heels.
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