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Appreciating what we have
Cure for Odor The results of the election came as no surprise on account of paper mills pass out some greenish-looking paper stuff nowadays that reduces the odor of the mill to a big extent. The more of the paper you get the less you notice the smell. Get enough of it and the mill begins to give off the aroma of Kiss me Quick Parfum. (Parfum is the same stuff as perfume except that you get less for more money). Actually, a paper mill doesn't smell as bad as people make out. For the first few weeks you'll see people picking up their feet and looking at their shoe soles every now and then and the city's sanitation department will get some complaints about a sewer line maybe being busted but pretty soon everybody will get accustomed to it and they'll hardly notice it. Finally, if a sewer line does burst or you get something on your shoes you won't pay any attention to it. People Will Fuss Of course, if the paper mill does go to the city, there will be some people who'll continually complain, but that's to be expected. Some people just naturally like to fuss anyway and there isn't much that can be done about them. You'll find some people who object to the odor of chitterlings being cooked. Why, I just can't figure out. I could just sit down and inhale the aroma four hours and hours. There are those, too, who can't stand to be around where collard greens are being cooked. I reckon some people are naturally allergic to the aroma that goes with fine foods. Personally, I wish we could get a chitterlings - collard green canning plant right here in our town. There are so many snobbish, prejudiced people, though, that if we get a chance to get one, we had better go ahead and get it without holding an election. Don't Ask Questions Competition among Alabama towns for new industry is pretty keen right now and if a municipality has a chance to land one they had better not start asking how it smells or if the smoke is bad. They should go ahead and take 'em, smoke, smell and all. I never saw smoke so thick but what I could make out the picture of Abraham Lincoln and I never heard of anything that could keep money from smelling like money. My only trouble is that I can't hold on to it long enough to get a good whiff of it - just kind of a fleeting aroma, like when you pass the President of the Ritzmore Heights Garden and Uplift Club. Far too many Alabama towns, though, are so interested in getting new industries that they fail to show their appreciation for the ones they have.
Let's welcome the new ones, but keep right on loving the ones we have.
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