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Thursday, May 16, 1940 I . HOW TIME DOES PASS We were over at the high school one day last week to make a picture of the graduating class, and what with all the bustle and excitement among the seniors we were vividly re minded of the year long gone when we were a senior. • Although we have reached the stage where our joints set up a faint creaking when we move, we still feel young in spirit. Still, when we count back, we can't deny it has been 17 years since we received our high school diploma. Seventeen years! Why when we were graduating some of the seniors of Elkin's class of 1940 weren't even born. tsJ.iv; otiuui o UI uintit o viwuu Others were sporting three-corn-' ered pants. Yet it doesn't seem so awfully long ago. Back in our day seniors didn't go in for gowns and caps like they do these days. But our class room teacher was sort of swanky and had high faluting notions, and she told us we would have to have a cap and gown to graduate in. We didn't know just exactly what she meant, but figuring whatever she said was okey, we didn't ask any questions. And for a long time we wondered why everyone in the auditorium laughed when we paraded onto the stage to get our diploma, at tired in a split-tail night shirt and night cap. A night shirt was a gown as far as we were con cerned. Oh, well, what difference did it make? Those were the days when we didn't have all the mod ern inconveniences that beset us on all sides these days. Those were the days when a fellow had to study Latin whether one wanted to or not. We rode three ponies to death dividing Gaul into the necessary parts, and we were in full sympathy with the guy who did in Caesar. It's a part of commencement for the seniors to sort of do as they like, and it seems that all seniors gang up and ride around quite a bit in automobiles during school hours on commencement week. We did, too, but instead of riding around in modern autos with their steering column gear shift, knee action and soft plush seats, we toured Main street in a T-Model Ford. And white flan- Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rheumatic Pain Quickly If you suffer from rheumatic, arthritis or neuritis pain, try this simple inexpensive home recipe that thousands are using. Get a package of Ru-Ex Compound today. Mix it with a quart of water, add the juice of 4 lemons. It's easy. No trouble at all and pleasant. You need only 2 tablespoonfula two times a day. Often within 48 hours— sometimes overnight—splendid results are obtained. If the pains do not quickly leave and if you do not feel better, Ru-Ex will cost you nothing to try as it U sold by your drug gist under an absolute money-back guaran tee. Ru-Ex Compound is for sale and recommended by TURNER DRUG COMPANY ELK PHARMACY We Proudlv Announce A MIRACLE! We can dye and clean any col or of ladies' suede shoes. Will not scuff or smut off. The work is done by a new dyeing pro cess. Also any leather shoes for men, women and children. ROGERS ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP ELKIN, N. C. 19 W. M. WALL JEWELER Phone 56 iiinmam nel pants and blue coats were the order of the day. In our day there wasn't a war going on in Europe ready to en gulf all young men of 18 and over, but we had already been through one World War, with its accompanying hardships and ex citement, and everyone said that such a war would never come again. We studied about the World War in history, our senior class did, and it wasn't hard be cause we all remembered the ac tual facts. Unfbrtunately, the history of the present war hasn't yet been written. But we ramble on like an old man. Maybe we should sprout a long grey beard in keeping with the tone of our writing. But see ing senior classes come and go, and knowing that graduation ends one of the happiest periods of a person's life (but try and tell a senior that), we gaze with troubled eyes and wrinkled brow upon a future that holds for them, and for all of us, a horizon shrouded with dark clouds of war and uncertainty. We don't mean to be an old kill joy, but we can't help but feel that one of these days the United States is going to get messed up in the war in Europe. We have retid that rrfany high officials in Washington have quit wondering if the U. S. is going to become involved. What they are wondering now is how soon? The first World Wac. didn't seem so serious to us at the time, but we'll never forget how wor ried we were when news reached us that the Germans were within 30 miles of Paris. That was be fore the U. S. got in, but we felt sure, once the Kaiser took Paris, his troops would head for the United States. Then, when America became involved, we re member how anxiously the daily casualty lists in the morning pa per were read by those with rel atives and friends in France. And we vividly remember getting the news that a young man who was in high school while we were in grammai grade, had been killed in action. All, yes, children, those were perilous times. How would you feel trying to sweeten your coffee with Karo syrup # or stick candy? It didn't do so good. Or eating bread made from a half and half portion of flour and meal? Then came the first influenza epidemic. Funeral processions passed home in steady streams. People died like flies. And ev eryone who was well went about the streets with gauze masks strapped over their nose and mouth, like a surgeon just getting ready to operate. But there was plenty of excite ment, too; excitement cut out for a boy 12 years of age. It was go ing out to the depot to watch the boys depart for camp. Some would be in uniform. And local bigwigs, too old to be eligible for active service, would pass around boxes of cigars to the soldiers, and there would be a great amount of flag waving and speeches, mingled with the tears of parents and other kin left be hind. And then there was the fun of gathering on the grassy lawn of the old Masonic Lodge and watching the home guard drill in green uniforms and with dummy guns. They made a great show of it, but just who and what they were to guard against we never did quite get figured out. Then came the news of the armistice, which we remember celebrating by cutting three som ersaults down a grassy bank in THE EMTIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA front of our house. The war was over! Ah, what memories an old man has. An old man who Is 35. • '• • » PLEASE BEAR WITH US That's the way with us. We start out writing about graduat ing classes and wind up all ex hausted after going through an entire war. We hope you seniors will bear with us, for after all we have no reason to wish you anything but a future that will contain a mini mum of life's sorrows. Time starts moving fast when one graduates from high school. You'll be surprised how rapidly the years will roll by, each one treading upon the heels of the other. And these years will bring a responsibility as yet unknown to you. t Other senior classes will come and go. May we express the hope that you, Class of 1940, will go far along the road of happiness, and if you find happiness, your life will be a success. And now, if you don't mind, we're going off somewhere and enjoy a good cry. "One Million B. C." At Monday, Tuesday Put Hal Roach's new prehis toric film spectacle, "One' Million B. C.," down as the next picture you will run—not walk —to see. The new production will be shown next Monday and Tuesday at the Elk theatre where it will be un reeled under the auspices of United Artists. 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