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Monday, November 25, 1963 Secretary Of Alpena C of C Answers Jim Allyn A recent Timber Cruiser article starts off with a question, "Have you ever thought ofleaving Alpena?" What young person has not at some time or other thought of leaving his hometown to try to make his fortune in the world? The article continues with the statement, "A town with poluted air and dehydrated people." The 'dehydrated people' part of this statement, I do not understand. If certain people are dehydrated, it is because they are either ill or they have not con- sumed enough liquids. The article continues, "What if a storm · should come?" O.K. - what if a st or rn should come? Storms can come to any community, and if one does, you either survive or perish. . The article goes on, "Oh, you say that you like this town surrounded by wild life and beautiful forests., you like the people here, they are your friends." This is probably true of most people. It is also pos- sible that some people do not like this kind of en- vironment . This is one of our privileges in the United States. The question, "Would you like your Alpena fr iends better than fr iends in Berlin, Rome or London, and are-your fr1ends dear- er and closer than you would find in other lands?" My reaction to this is, that a friend is a friend no mat- ter where he is. A friend in Alpena probably would be no closer to you, or dearer than the same kind of a friend in any other part of the world. The statement that says, "You can make no com- parisons or contrasts be- cause your minds are stag- nant." Most certainly you cannot _make comparisons with other communities un- til you have visited them. So if you are dissatisfied with your hometown it is a good idea to travel to other communities and make comparisons. No one is in a better position to know this than myself. People have gone away and come back much happier with their home community than they were before they took such a trip. The writer makes the statement, "Drive your car, carry your books, sleep at home, play on weekends and dream your great dreams/' as if these activities were wrong. Many citizens of faraway places would like to have a car to drive, many do not . have books to carry, and many do not have a home to sleep in. Ancl what is wrong with the 'great dreams'? Columbus, Tho- mas Edison, Henry Ford, Dr. Sweitzer, Thomas Jef- ferson and Abraham Lin- coln all had great dreams. They also did something to make these dreams become realities . It is also possible that people who seek too much security during their life- time are liable to be trap- ped by their desire to be secure. Today, college age people will probably have to decide between security and freedom during their lifetime. We quote a story that appeared in the October issue of 'The American Agency Bulletin' that was told in 1913, by the Hon- orable Stephen Pace, then Congressman from the 12th Georgia ·District. Quote- "Years ago" the Con- gres sman s aid, "in a great horse - shoe bend down the river, there lived a drove of wild . hogs. Where they came from no one knew, but they survived floods, fire, freezes, droughts and hunters. The greatest com- pliment a man could pay to a dog was to say that he had fought the hogs in Horse-Shoe Bend and re- turned alive. Occasionally a pig was killed either by dogs or a gun - a conver- sation piece for years to come. "Finally a one-gallused man came by the country store on the river road, and asked the whereabouts of these wild hogs. He drove a one-horse wagon, had an I axe, some quilts, a lan- tern, some corn and a single barrel shot gun. He was a slender, slow moving patient man - he chewed his tobacco deliberately and spat very seldom. "Several months later THE PHOTO CENTER Books For The College Stude·nt \ Dictionaries, ClassicS, Essays 129 W.' Ch~holm Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. THE TDIBER-CRUISER he came back to the same store and asked for help to bring out the wild hogs. He stated he"' had them all in a pen over in the swamp. " Bewildered farmers, dubious hunters and the store-keepers all gathered in the heart of Horse-Shoe Bend to view the captive hogs . " It was all very simple, said the one-gallus man, 'First I put out some corn. For three weeks they would not eat it. Then some of the young ones grabbed an ear and ran off in the thicket. Soon they were all eating it, then I commenced build- ing a pen around the corn, a little higher each day. When I noticed that they were all waiting for me to bring the corn and had stopped grubbing for acorns and roots· I built the trap door. Naturally', said the patient man, 'they raised quite a ruckus when they seen they was trapped, but I can pen any animal on the face of the earth if I can jist get him to de- pend on me for a free hand-out'". We have had patient men in our central government in Washington for years. They are using our own dollars instead of corn. I still think about the trap door and the slender, stooped man who chewed his tobacco deliberately and spat very seldom.- Unquote. T he happies t people ar e those who r ealize that everyone owes something to the community in which they live. A real 'aware' young person might well make a career out of developing a way to economically elimiJ.:1ate industrial dusts, noises, odors, smoke etc. This is one of our Coun- try's needs today. We should all keep in mind that Alpena Industry pays 54% of our taxes. Industry also creates the industrial pay- roll, (which is the basis of any community's economy) that helps the property owners to pay their taxes. This is why Alpena can support the fine education- al system, modern hospi- tal and other City services . that we take for granted. Service payrolls are also created by the needs of the industrial workers. These annual payrolls which in - elude a department store, $211,000, a bakery, $166,- 000, a bottling company, .PICKETT'S PHARMACY PRESCRIPTIONS Lloyd Pickett, B.S. Phone 356-1635 Alpena, Michi.gan Page3 $63,000. You can go on and on to the professfonai peo.: pl e, contractors. All of the ir income sterns from the original dollar brought in by a Community's in- dustry. industry or keep a new one fr m locating in ~ com- m unity. ~ . --=------ . May we suggest . that every citizen be a booster for their area. STANLEY GODFREY, Secretary Alpena Chamber of Commerce Careless talk can lose an GOLKE TYPEWRITER "Typewriters For The College Student" North Second Ave. PEOPLES ·sTATE BANK r· ALPENA, MICHIGAN ~ow IS THE TIME TO JOIN OUR 1964 CHRISTMAS CLUB THE BANK OF FRIENDLY SERVICE Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation