Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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CROWN POINT INKLINGS Compliments of THE NORTH MAIN FANCY GROCERIES QUALITY MEATS GROCERY MANAGER H. G. Gerdt MEAT MANAGER Joe Cilek and Store Personnel AUTO SUGGESTIONS Check the wheel—make sure that a loose nut isn’t holding it. Be sure the “miss” in the motor is sitting beside you. Don’t race trains to crossings. If it’s a tie you lose. For jaywalkers every year is leap year. Be sure the only crank in the car Is in the tool box. A pedestrian is a man who miss¬ ed the payment on his car. If you must have a blow out have it at home. A bird at the wheel is worth two in the ambulance. Beware of green drivers on rec lights. A minute gained at the cost of an accident is no bargain. The optomistic driver believes in taking a chance. The pessimist has a sadder life but a longer one. Be tolerant with the pedestrian He has his faults but they are no. crimes punishable by death. A drivers license doesn’t provide an open season on pedestrians. Each living creature is supposed to have some purpose in nature’s plan but the road hog must have been a zoological error. Speeds of cars have increased but how about the motorist’s mind. The proper place for an antique is in the home. A car like a dollar bill should be retired from circula¬ tion before it is down to the Iasi shred. One little error in judgment has caused a lot of grief. Alcohol is all right in the radiator but not in the operator. Insist on the right-of-way. It makes a nice thought to take along to the hospital. There Is no easier way to get your name in the paper than by driving in a careless manner. Alert today—alive tomorrow. HOW NOT TO STAY ALIVE A good way to attract attention— use the horn instead of the brakes. Emergencies in traffic are likely to happen any time, but it’s more exciting to be caught unawares. Time waits for no man behind the wheel of a car. When there ' s a car ahead step on the gas to prove your importance. There once lived a noble reliever Of the sick and the poor a receiver. When he became ill There wasn’t a pill That could cure this doctor ' s spring fever. There once lived a noble reliever Of sick and the poor a receiver. He worked day and night To make a cure right That would check the dreade.: spring fever. Kirk: “Can you tell me, Bob, what a mouse likes to do most?” Briggs: “Naw, sir.” Kirk: “Correct.”

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CROWN POINT INKLINGS have raised a protest asserting that their works are being infringed up¬ on by scab labor. They maintain that depression poets, not having the great overhead to maintain in¬ spiration, can undersell the market While the depression product is of high standard the dissenting part ies claim that the genuine appeal of the poetry is lost. It is not my purpose to take sides in this conflict; but I do wish, for fairness sake, to point out a simil¬ arity of a happening of a genera¬ tion ago. The picture of the young man, nattily dressed riding on a bicycle through the lanes and by - lanes of the beautiful coutnryside, which prompted your father and grandfather, your mother and grandmother, to seek the beauties of nature on a bicycle, was taken ii a small photography shop agains a painted background. Since I have introduced the de¬ pression poet, it is fitting to presen one of his products—a poem written no doubt, under the inspiration of steam heat. By examining any number of weekly and tri-weekly publications, I found a number of poems evidently sent in by depres¬ sion poets. This one was hidden among the want ads, but it’s rhy¬ thm, its meter and subject matte ' show how the poet makes use of steam heat. “INSPIRED CONFIDENCE” Out of a world a million years ago Comes foliage of palm and tropica! growth; Changed is the fresh green to an ebony glow, Brought forth from its sleep to give me warmth. The warmth of the tropics was stor¬ ed away When the ear th was young and new, To come again a tribute to pay With the heat of its flames, red an blue. Others may search for a sunny clime While I remain snug and happy at home, Enjoying a southern atmosphere aged by time, For the rest I just let my Imagina¬ tion roam. The crimson, orange-disked sun is sinking low Swallowed in the haze of a lazy- languid sea; Upon my fevered brow orchid scent¬ ed breezes blow, Bringing with it serenity, peace and calm, to me. In truthfulness I should add that this was used in solicitation for the Cash and Carry Coal Company.) Far be it from me to stray from my original purpose of showing the influence of steam heat on modern poetry, and take a negative view However, it should be clearly under¬ stood that while much has been saiu about the influence of steam heat on modern poety, it is equally true that a great deal can be said on the influence of modern poetry on steam heat. Toby: “You’re driving me crazy Williamson.” Jim: “Not a drive my boy, only a short putt.” COMPLIMENTS OF THE DOCTORS DR. GRAY DR. HOUR DR. PETTIBONE DR. TRACHT DR. IDDINGS DR. FARLEY

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32 CROWN POINT INKLINGS News Flashes By PURDY Flash—Did you know that if the Scout Cabin or the Covered Bridge could talk there would be a lot of i red faces and not from sunburn? When you think of Cannon, think of half-shot; it’s the same differ¬ ence. Flash—They say down Fisher way that—He’s a man. Who’s a man? He’s a Fisher High School Man. Flash—If Yurgilas added up his cents and his sense he would still be financially embarrassed. Flash—Did you know that Jimmy is “The Great Light Lover”, but he does fall hard. Flash—Lowell, Indiana — Three suspicious looking characters were seen riding around this fair city in a model A Ford. We wonder who it was? And Rooty went to Ham¬ mond. Flash—To the party crashers, if you are looking for a party, don’t always look for the house that i all lighted up. Flash—Long ago they used the expression: in the neck of th woods; but now it’s necking in the woods. P. S. Times have changed haven’t they? Flash—Brownies new teeth are like a doctor—sometimes they are in and sometimes they are out. Did you know that “Love is Just Around the Corner”, so you better stay or the straight roads and be happy. Flash—Placeville, Indiana—Plug- ger reports that beautiful dames come out of the Dyer High School at 4 o’clock; maybe we had better look into this. Flash—Did you know that you have to have a straw to get a drink in school? It used to be news if Chuck Miller or Lorene Ellis missed a day, but now it’s new if they come to school once a week. P. S. Chuck says, “When I’m sick and you send me flowers, make it four roses if you please.” Flash—When Vernie started writ - ing to Guynthe, he could mail his letters for three cents; but now they are thinking of sending theii packages parcel post. Flash—Look what women do to find beauty! I knew a girl who slept on a collar button every night to get a dimple. In the olden days women used to kiss and make up but now the makeup comes before everything. In other words wom¬ en paint what they used to be. At forty a woman stops patting her¬ self on the back and begins under the chin. Flash—Did you know that beer will make you strong, especially if you get into the habit of carrying cases home? Flash—Texas—A Texas man of ninety-eight says honey has kept him alive, and yet, too many of them will shorten any man’s life Remember all’s fair in love or war. and this is war. When the dirt is dished out, we’ll split fifty-fifty: I’ll take the dishes, and you can have the dirt. COMPLIMENTS OF Northern Indiana Public Service Company