M-Hl THE FRANKLIN TIMES Issued Every Friday MB Court Street Telephone 288-1 A. F. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ome Tear flJSO Sis Months 70 Bight Months .... 1.00 Four Months .... JO Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York City Entered at the Poatofflee at Loulsburg, N. C. as second elsss mal) It is delightful to see Congress waking up. Its true in wartime the Chief Executive needs to have broad powers to conduct the war, but it is not necessary for Congress to surrender all its rights and authority. If so then we need no Congress. 0OO If the enforcement of the new draft rules announced over radio some days ago, with reference to deferment, is carried out there will be many who are now slipping by on technicalities, will have to enter service. The fact that a person makes so many units should not privi lege him to ride around town half to a third of his time, instead of working. This does not mean that the farm boy should be restricted any more than the town boy. There are many town boys that, in fairness to the boys now in service, should be in uniform. . 0O0 ,Jt will be noticed that the County Commissioners are inviting applications for the position of Superintendent of the County Home. In our opinion the County Home should be considered to be carefully maintained for the comfort, care and contentment of the aged and infirm inmates. The question of profitable management of the farm should be a secondary consideration. We feel sure the Commissioners will take this view and select one of a mature settled age with a well trained ability to carry out this object. In reality we believe it would be a great deal cheaper to the County and of a much greater service to its people to convert the County Home into p. Ccjpnty Hospital. We feel confident that a plan of Successfiif operation can be worked out that will be profitable to the County financially and of great benefit and ^convenience tp th^?health of the ppople. At least -w6 believe the idea well worth a serious and careful in vestigation. ooo RESPECT THE SIRENE People of Franklin County are* cautioned to respect ti sound of a sirene on the highways or the streets, e importance of this was manifested Monday when officers were racing to get a Doctor for a little child who had been run over by a bus. The officers report tjhat pra'ctically no one paid any attention to the* sound df the sirene. When one is sounded persons driving or walking on the highways or streets should get to one aiide ? not necessarily stop ? but give room for the ap proaching vehicle to pass. These signals are only cus tomarily carried by Ambulances, Firemen or Officers, and. their sounding is always a warning of an emergen cy, which needs the right of way. It is hoped the peo ple of Franklin County will be more quick to respect the qound of the sirene. 0O0 WONDERFUL RECORD It might be interesting to our readers to know that 3778 children were transported to schools in Franklin Opuntv as a daily average in 1943. This would mean an average of 680,040 for the term of one hundred and eighty , days. During the same period there were 64 school buses in use which meant 64 drivers of school age, or aft average of 1625 children for each driver. During the past ten years we can recall only five accidents including the one Monday. While it was exceedingly unfortunate in the lost of three lives, one serious injury and one ac cident without serious injury, the record shows a won derful acheivement on the part of the youthful drivers and sets aside* the arguement that grown nps would do better. To more thoroughly realize the exceedingly low percentage of accidents by calculation you will see that there were only five accidents, of which there, jyare only three fatalities among a total of 6,800,000 children haul ed in ten years based on the 1943 daily average. While we deeply sympathize with the bereaved relatives in the fatalities that occurred, we sincerely congratulate the school system in Franklin County and each individual driver for this wonderful record. ? oOO SCHOOLS NEED IMPROVING The bill giving a nine months school in every neighborhood In North Carolina was the best piece ot legislation of this de cade. The people look to the newly-created State Board of Ed ucation to enforce the compulsory attendance law. mainly by school officials, and to see that every child has the best possible opportunity of securing an education. Following these fundamentals it Is good to see that there le being carried on by such university presidents as Dr. Hutchins and public school leaders a survey of present methods, a sifting to see if there is not room for improvement. Educational me thods are not alone falling into ruts and being continued when better ones should be adopted. The war has demonstrated that. 1b addition to the need for education in the classics and humanities, there is need to add more Instruction that enables graduates to earn a livelihood. Education that does not give a graduate the tools to work with in the practical affairs ot this work-a-day world Is one-sided and needs to be changed. Col toga man should change outmoded curricula just