Elwood Community High School - Crescent Yearbook (Elwood, IN)

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,, A, Probably the most useful single article in our everyday life is the clock. When someone says the word time, instantly on the screen of your brain appear the hands and face of a clock, the same clock, which, from the humble beginning of a burning candle or a sundial, has developed into the delicate, complicated symbol of accuracy and time which it has become. When someone looks at you inquiringly, raises his eye- brows, and turns back the cuff of his left sleeve, you know without question that he is wondering what time it is. One of the great unsolved mysteries of life is why a clock runs slow when we wish it to run fast and vice versa. No one has ever been able to Egure it out, so I think we should stop wondering and accept the facts. Someone has said, If you see a man who has just looked at his watch and ask him what time it is, he has to look again before he can tell you. He asked the watch, 'How much time have I?' and the watch answered, 'You have ten minutes' At your question, he has further to ask his watch, 'What time is it ?' and it replies, 'Twenty minutes after seven.' ' There are many well-known styles of clocks. There is that sentimental symbol, grandfather's clock, which stopped when grandfather died. 'There is the clock in the murder mystery, which, in a lone beam of moonlight, sounds away the long seconds before midnight so that every tick seems to be a felon's footsteps in the dark. There is also the famous cuckoo clock which taunts you with saucy sayings every fifteen minutes. There is the chime clock on the bank which regulates the life of our business section. We have all whiled away the weary hours before the clock in the station, waiting for a late train. The most lazy and indolent clock in my experience is the one in front of Sidwell's. It cares nothing for the march of time, preferring to stay in one place, smugly satisfied with a perpetual five after eight. Oh, I do not wish to censure it unjustly. There is reason to believe that it gave long years of service and is now retired on a pension. Among the most important is the clock which hangs on the east wall of Sam Aurelius's store. And the school clock is last but not least ffor if the last should ever happen to be least, it would upset one of the most useful phrases man has ever coinedj .