PJm Smi-airaiifii (Hmintg pttliar The N£W BERN r.oalonal- Library 400 Johnson V.o\i x3ern % Uli v^UH PUBLI8HID WIIKLY IN THI mART OP IA8TBRN NORTH CAROLINA 5^ Per Copy VOLUME 14 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1971 NUMBER 12 Our thanks to good friend Kenneth Riggs for passing aiong to us the following lines on The Art of Getting Along. The author is unknown. Sooner or later a man, if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take. He learns that it doesn’t pay to be a sensitive soul; that he should let some things go over his head like water off a duck’s back. He learns that- he who loses his temper usually loses out. He learns that all men have burnt toast for breakfast now and then, and that he shouldn’t take the other fellow’s grouch too seriously. He learns that carrying a chip on his shoulder is ^e easiest way to get into a fight. He learns that the quickest way to become unpopular is to carry tales and gossip about others. He learns that buck-passing always turns out to be a boomerang, and that it never pays. He comes to realize that the busings could run along perfectly without him. He learns that everyone is human and that it doesn’t do any harm to smile and say ‘‘Ciood Morning” even if it is raining. _ He learns that most of the other fellows are as ambitious as he is. and that they have brains that are as good or better, and that hard work and not cleverness is the secret of success. He learns to sympathize with the youngster coming into the business, because he remem bers how bewildered he was when he first started out. He learns not to worry when he loses an order, because experience has shown that if he always gives his best, his average will break pretty even. He learns that no man ever got to first base alone, and that it is only through cooperative effort that we move on to better things. He learns that bosses are no monsters, trying to get the last ounce of work out of him for the least amount of pay, but that they are usually fine men who have succeeded through hard work and who want to do the ri^t thing. He learns that folks are not any harder to get along with in one place than another, and that the “getting along” depends about ninety-eight percent on his own behavior. +-H-!•-i-+-i- Speaking to a gathering of church officials from Aree counties last Saturday produced fringe benefits for the Mirror’s editor. It happened at the Silver Hill Christian Church, near Grantsboro. Hie home folks down there spread a picnic lunch that in cluded not only the usual delicacies, but additional items like coUards cooked with plenty of hog meat and commeal dumplings. Apparently, everybody brou^t at least one cake. Much as we wanted to, we couldn’t sample them all, but this idea (Continued on page 8) JUNE BRINGS NOT ONLY ROSES AND BLUSHING BRIDES, BUT HUNDREDS OP HAPPY GIRLS WHO COME FROM STATES NEAR AND FAR TO ENJOY THE RIPPLING NEUSE AT CAMP SEAFARER, EAST OF NEW BERN.