Cooperstown Central School - Reflections Yearbook (Cooperstown, NY)

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THE PATHFINDER TIME THE UNTENABLE TYRANT EVERY nation has been the slave of some besettmg idea The Egyp tians yyere slaves to the idea of life after death the Greeks to the idea of beauty, the Romans to that of conquest, the Rlediaevals to that of the church the Germans to that of the autocracy, our fathers to that of money We are slaves to the idea of time Time is the tyrant of our lives, it is the one god yye serve implicitly, universally, exclusively Art yye slight religion yye pass by poetry yye abandon Health yye neglect, beauty yye disdain love yve mock But time yye yyorship Time prescribes our every act VVe dare not move yy ithout consulting time It is almost impossible to state a thought yyithout bringing IU the idea of time VVe Cat by time, sleep by time, yyork by time, plav by time We record accomplishments, plan our future and even measure the distance from one place to another by time Even today cartoomsts portray time as a feeble old man yy 1th an hour glass in one hand and a scythe in the other But they still cling to the obsolete In reality he should be portrayed in the fulness of his youth yy ith a stop yy atch in one hand to keep tabs on us and a machine gun in the other to mow us down Some people, it is true, still cling to the idea that their time is thelr oyyn If there is anything they argue, that is free, it is time As they grow older poverty stricken For time is the most precious thmg in the yy orld yyhen yye remember that a sum of yy asted days yvill not give a year that is yyorth yy hile, and a sum of yy asted years yyill not give a lifetime When yye yyish to speak about accomplishments yyithout yyhispering the august name of time, vye refer, but with almost equal reverence to efficiency Efficiency is fondly regarded in the American mmd as the greatest contribution of this age to civilization It is deemed an agency for good, a thmg of yyhich one can not have too great a supply And so, since procrastination is the thief of time, efficiency is the policeman set to catch the thief By the use of efhciency minutes are changed into dollars, yyhich is after all, yyhat most of the yy orld is trying to do Time is money, our forefathers yy ere fond of saying But yye have gone farther, yye have learned that monev IS time But still there is danger in our conversions Money is tangible and the more you save the more vou have But time is far more subtle stuff VVe have Just tyy enty four hours a day income from God and the yyonderful thing about this income in time is that yye can save it only by spending it The more you save, the less you have The man yy ho begins saving time no longer has a mmute to spare Y . . y . v 7 , , ' Y 1 l . y v ' ' , v v ' ' v v ' Y . . . , . . . . t v hoyvever, they will begin to realize that when it comes to time they are v it ' 7 V. . v . v . V v 1. V . . . U' . . Y v Y. v 4 1 cl 'n v H . Y . Y . . ,, V v 'x

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ASS OF 1922 CI

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THE, PATHFINDER imc not monty, is thc thing cuh one of us is strixing for pmxinff or ani making his montx for Ihc almighty dollar is gixing xx ix to th almightx minute lxen the rich man xxith all his xx ealth tan not take time by the fortlotk Douhtless a fitting retribution has oxertalten the old lady xx ho said th it 'ill time xx as good tor xx as to rent houses by Ask the m1n of the houi for anything tangible and you xxill find him generous A lt him for his time 'md you xxill find lnm a miser Xll g1e1t inxentions of this 'ige lmxe been time saxing dexiees lhey die gxtit inxtntions betause they save time lhese uncanny eontrixances help us to do in minutes xxh1t formerly took us hours or ex en days We do not call xxe telephone It is so mueh quicker XVe do not traxel, xxe tele gmph It does not tilct so long Dtspitc its intent origin, the effcet upon the xxorld of the lime Idea h1s hun intfileuhhle 'Hott nmtuial progress has taken pluee in the past centtnx th in in ill tht rest ol lnstoix put togethei lht unix eise in these d ixs is stepping lixely Into one lifetime xxe con hoxx mueh he mn gmt out but hoxx much he tan get into lite 1 killing p it but xxe must key it I The stiuggle foi se tstixition Xintiiti is heme ind mereiless Iiom this tiemencons multi itlon ot Int tht Ameiixan his no est ipe exetpt to gixe himself to th: L sxxi x n r tux us idea 1 xelx bL'lllfI u 5 cxmi sset in the poem I untly lloxx, thou falling IIXCY, like a dream that dies fixx Doxxn to oeeln gliding exei lxcep thx mlm uniufllcd xx ay, lime xxith suth 1 silent motion, lloits llllllfa on xxings of 'nl lo lternity s dank oeean, Burying dll its ticfisuics time E,LIZABl lH A lXIeI1xx1w,'22 I . . , - . I .Q .'. vi 1' C I V ' 1 i l . i. 4 1 ' . 'i '. f. 'Q ' ix ' . ls V K Y 5 v Y-u ' y v ' - K . ' V I Y . . is hh . ui N 4 - A i I il.. -A X r 1 sh ' centrate ten lifetimes. The problem the American sets himself is to see, not It is: ' Y Ve 5 eu ' uw. ' lf- pr-:- : ' in f ' 1 ' '- - l 5 tid- and be Q 'ftl-' hor e mn to If -nity. Tl ' 's ' -. 'f ll' xi 'spy-l ' ' ' : 1. v 1 xr I .g- 1 vzlyvg . nz .,., ' z 5 z f ' 5 . ', V i xi 1 I Y,- r - - f ' 'Q l -v.