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2- THE TIMBER-CRUISER, Friday, May 20, 1966 THE TIMBER CRUISER Official Newspaper of the Journalism Class of Alpena Community College Published Monthly - September through June at 666 Johnson Street, Alpena, Michigan Editor . ....... .......... , .. ~••••• • •••· Douglas R. Schmidt Assistant Editor • , , . • • • . • • 0., •••• •• ••H•. William Homant Orga~ization Co-Ordinator • • --· • • ,:H ••••• Lowell Long Business Manager . •.. , •• , _ ... ,._ ••••••• .•... Jack Adair - News Editor •..•• , •••••••••• , , , • •• .. John R. Thompson Sports Editor • • •• , , •• • • •.• , . . . • . . . . . Randall J . rJeWyse Reporters . , .•••• , H., • . Theodore Bugg, Randall Wagner, Donald Fitch, Mike Stosik, Ernest Roy, James Herman, Jim Nensewitz Sports Reporters . . • • • • , •. • , •• • . Robert Boucher, Gary Smith Society Editofs . , •• , • • , ,._ •• '.. • . Dianne Prittie, Gail Ayling Advertising Manager • , • • • • . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry Covey Advertising .Staff . . •• .., • • , • Gerald Newhouse, John Naylor, Timothy Doughty, Lyle Jamieson _ Circulation Manager .. • ••••• , • • • • • • • • • . . . . Robert Soper Ass't. Circulation Mgr ........ , • • • ,. , • , • •.. . Michael Blasky Chief Photographer •• , ••• u•• •.• ••• • . . Richard McDonald Newhouse Elected 'l'he 1965-66 A.C.C. freshman class held its elections on Octo- ber 12th and 13th. Those e:lect- ed were William Newhouse, President; James McCallum, Vice - President; Jannel Thom- ais, Secretary; Judi Sn e 11, Treasurer. Re_presenting the freshman as student govern- ment members are J a m e s O'Neal, Barbara Hayes, Linda Molter and Mary Beth David- son. Mr. Newhouse, the President, is a 1963 graduate of T a w a s High School. When interviewed he expressed his wish to thank .his supporters for electing him to office and promised to de• vote his energy to promoting more spirit and participation in school sponsored activities. Mr. McCallum, the n e w 1 y elected vice - president, is a 1965 graduate of Alpena Hi g h School. He feels that since he was the only candidate it might have had something to do with his election, Congratulations Class of 1966 GarTlbles 123 WEST CHISHOLM CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES LaLONDE SHOE STORE Good Shoes Since 1899 SCHULTZ CHEVROLET CO. "Chevy Service Center of the North" US-23 NO'RTH ALPENA Wonderland Stafe Salutes Herif age Per.sons who want to brag about their state during_ Michi- gan Week can say truthfully that its rivers and streams would reach one ~nd one-hail£ times around the world. Bordered by four of the five Great Lakes, Michigan has the largest supply of fresh water of any of the fifty states. It also has 1,037 inland lakes and 36,350 miles of streams and no community in the state is more than six miles from an inland lake or stream. Its, 3,000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline is longer than the nations coastline on either the Atlantic or Pacific. The locks at Sault Ste. Marie are the second busiest waterway in the world. More tonnage pas- ses through these- locks in an eight - month navigation season than through the Panama or Suez canals in a full year. Michigan's total land area of 36,494,080 acres makes it larger than Greece, larger than Swit- zerland and Portugal combined and nearly five times the size of Belgium. With its nearly 40,000 square miles of water surface, the state's combined land and water area make it the largest state east of the Mississippi and .the tenth largest in the nation. Its population of about eight mil- lion ranked it seventh among the states in the 1960 federal census. The Upper Peninsula alone is equal in size to the combined areas of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Is- land. It has 16,538 square miles of land. Jim Nensewitz DEAN'S COLUMN · , _ ;. ! i The May issue of the Timber-Cruiser will be the last one for the current academic year. This is, therefore, my lasii opportunity to express to the students m~ feeling that this has been a good year for the College and to congratulate the student bod on the excellent way the affairs of studen have been conducted. It has been a good year academically as evidenced by the fact tha this is the largest graduating class in the his tory of the College, and there are twelve honor graduates with two summa cum laude and two magna cum laude. DEAN VAN LARE It has been a good year in student activi, ties. According to all reports, social event have been well conducted and well attended. Student Government has conducted its affairs successfully and with distinction. It has bee a good year in intercollegiate athletic competition. The Col lege student body has shown a keen interest in current affair both local, state, and nationa and has shown this interest by evidencing a desire to explore, think, and obtain facts, mean- while exercizing the restraint that can be expected of college · students who have reached a greater maturity and awareness • than is true of the general pop- ulation. Congratulations on a good year. Many of you have no doubt been following the excellent series of articles in The Alpena News on China - "One - Fourth of Mankind." If you have, you've noted that many of the experiments being conducted in our current society were tried many centuries ago in China. Some of them were tried cen- turies before Christ. One of the characteristics of the educat- ed man is his desire to learn to avoid mistakes by understand- ing history, interpreting it, and relating it to current problems. This may well be done in rela- _ tion to the present tendency to attempt to question and influ- ment is always in peril and may be more so now tha,. ever before. If this is - the case, the excesses that are becoming more and more prevalent in our current society and demands backed up by ill - advised dem- onstrations will contribute great- ly to the loss of freedom and coming of a more authoritarian system. It must be realized that the companion of freedom must be !restraint. If "x" desires one direction and "z" another and they are dichotomous, one must be restrained; and the restraint must be exercized by orderly processeis - in most instances either administrative, legisla- tive, or judicial. In other words it must be made completely clear that freedom and restraint are inseparable. Judd Arnett in a recent col- umn is apparently interested in the same concern being expres- sed here. He bases his concern on two incidents in Detroit, One of them is the "Northern inci- .;..-......,._ ence b nose -counting, dem n-K LEM E N·-s strations, pressure for specific purposes, etc. For examlpe, you .are referred to the attempt of deer hunters t-o influence the dent" and the other the "Knox inciden . " ou fa · · ar with the "Northern incident" but perhaps did not take note of the "Knox incident." T h e "Knox indicent" referred to the pitching of a tent by J a m e s Mitchell on the lawn of the Knox home - Mr. Knox being the De- troit City Housing Director, Ap- MEN'S WEAR - STYLE - - VALUE - - QUALITY - Phone 354-4589 125 W. Chisholm SHERWIN WILLIAMS 110 North Second 1 Ave. or Call 35.4-4980 try our SUPER KEMTONE or KEM-GLO Michigan legislature by demon• strating on the steps of the Capi- tdl. Our Representative Joseph Swallow has a good di!Scussion of this in a letter to the editor in a recent issue of The Alpena News. This is quoted in part. • • . And, if peaceful demon- stration fails, then some resort to militant demonstration and pressure tactics. Whether the location be Watts or Berkley, California, Saigon, Detroit or Lansing, the principle is undeniably the same. And, who is to blame? Th e legislator or public official who, by giving in, encourages more pressure tactics? The sincere, but uften misdirected demon- strators? Or the responsible majority of Americans who sit by complacently and do not ob• ject to suoh activities? We all in our own way have a duty to uphold • the rule of law. If we don't, the conse• today than many of us realize ..• end of quote. Again, referring to the history of China, perhaps you noted in No. 6 of the series the chapter entitled "T h e Contending Schoo1Js." Some centuries before Christ there were apparently four schools - Lao-tze, Mencius, Mo Ti, and the Legalists. Ap- parently after a number of years of experience with disor- der, the Legalists took over. To the Legalists "all this talk of morality was nonsense. Govern- ment should be based not on love but on power." It is being suggested that disorder, lack of understanding of proper govern- mental procedures, improper pressure groups, failure to live under sound "principals of dem- ocracy as expressed in repre• sentative government can only lead to a major change in the governmental ·way of life in the United States. It is suggested that this change will be in the direction of more authoritarian- ism. In other words democracy through representative govern- - parently Mr. Arnett feels that both_ of these incidents are ex- amples of the kind of thing that must be a matter of concern to those interested in the preser- vation of freedom, democracy, and orderly government. He concludes his column with this paragraph: "The week that was demonstrated there are 'lead- - ers' in this community w ho have yet to learn that progress cannot be successfully force. fed on distortion, disorder, and diatribes. Bad news, this." Alpena Community College students, as people well on the way toward completion of a prescribed program of higher education, can be expected to be leaders, in the direction of preservation of freedom, exer- cize of restraint, and protection of the orderly processes of gov- ernment. There are many who fear that this nation is on a "binge." Wage demands are high and the demands for fewer hours a n d more fringes are often extrava- gant. Strikes are prevalent. In- flation is a' real danger a n d though still creeping shows siglllS of beginning to crawl. M a n y demonstrations have been or- <ierly and in a few instances may have been necessary. I am not an alarmist and I feel that if we're on a "binge," it's mod• est; but I do feel that a greater feeling of awareness of the dangens is needed. If excesses do lead to breakdown and loss of freedom, it may be close. It may well be in ou!l' lifetime and in this generation. I am reasonably certain that students know me well enough to be sure that my position is not to be construed in any sense as limiting discussion, examina• tio_n, exploration, and pursuit of truth wherever this may lead. These things I support. •