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WHO DRIVES SCHOOL BUS? An Article That Should Be Carefully Read By Every, Official And Every Teach er In THE RURAL SCHOOLS All Drivers Os The School Buses Should Be Selected With A Special View To Their Fitness For The Job. Very Grave Responsibility Resting Upon Them. Every member of the Board of Ed ucation, the county superintendent and every teacher in the rural schools should read carefully the article be low under the caption of “Who Drives The School Bus.” It especially emphasizes the import ance of employing only reliable men of mature judgment for the job of driving the children to school. Attention is called particularly to the grave responsibility resting upon these drivers since the lives of 20 or SO children are in jeopardy on every trip both ways unless the driver is absolutely trustworthy. Following is the article in full: With the opening of schools this month thousands of children will start their daily trips to and from the con solidated schools by motor bus. In order that these children may meet with no mishap, and above all, that they shall not be subjected to danger at railroad crossings, it should be the first duty of their parents and of those in authority, to see that the drivers of these school busses are re liable men of mature years, long ex perience and good judgment. Investigation of an accident which occurred last winter, brought out the fact that the driver of the bus was an eighteen year old boy who had not taken ordinary precautions to make sure no train W'as coming before crossing the railroad track. In some cases the driver is one of the older school children; in others, the helper at the garage of the person to whom the contract is let. A tremendous responsibility rests upon these drivers. They are en trusted with the safety of as many as 20 or 30 children. The trip to and from the school must be made in all kinds of weather. When it is raining there is a temptation to p.ut up storm curtains which prevent the driver from having a clear view on either side. The desire to be on time for school or to hurry home afterwards leads to a tendency to take chances that are little short of criminal. Unless the driver of the school bus is fully aware of his responsibility and fully capable of meeting any emergency which may arise, accident: are likely to happen which will strike at the heart of every family with children of school age. To guard against the possibility of such a catastrophe every known safe ty measure should be enforced. The greatest care should be taken to sec that the busses are in good mechani cal condition and frequent inspection: for this purpose should be made be the proper authorities. The selection of the driver should not be left to the person to whom th< contract for providing transportation is let, if this method is used. While he should be required to demonstrate his ability to handle the bus that h used, this is only one qualification t< be taken into account and his repu tation for steadiness and good judg ment should be the determining fac tor. No school boy, garage helper or village loafer should be chosen for the job merely because he can operate the bus and will do so at little cost. The person chosen should be placed under bond for compliance with all state laws and with such regulations as the local commissioners shall put into effect regarding the transportation of school children. Above all things drivers of school busses should be required to stop be fore crossing railroad tracks. No matter how much time may be lost, no matter how stormy the weather, no matter whether r.o train is due, the school bus should be stop ped at every crossing and the driver should be required to make sure that no train is coming. The observance of this simple rule will do away with ■disastrous accidents at railroad cross ings. Every time this precaution is omit ted there is a chance that every child in the bus may be killed or maimed. It is too late after such an accident, to say “I didn’t think a train was coming” or “I didn’t see or hear a train,” or “no train was due.” The only way is to stop and make sure. It takes a sober minded, reliable man, with a full realization of his re sponsibility to do this day in and day cut. But such a man is the only kirn’ that thinking parents should entrus ■with the lives of their children. GOOD ROADS WEEK FOR JANUARY 10-U- Climaxing the completion of the world’s greatest seasonal highway program and the completion of the first trans-Continenta improved highway in history, a National Cord Roads Week will he fold January 10- 1(5. Such is th*- statement me te here by Charles M. Upham, managing di rector of the American Road Builders Association and former chief h:gh w; y engineer for North Carolina. Mr. Upham is actively engaged at pres ent in completing plans for the week’s observance and he declares that a survey of road building of the na tion shows an astonishing amount has been accomplished. At the time when “Good Roads Week opens,” he stated “the United States will have enough roads to completely encircle the globe one hundred and twenty-nine times. Over half a million miles will have been improved to some degree, and the 'irst trans-Continental improved high way will have been completed. “The trans-Continental highway ex pends from New York to Washington 1). C. St. Lousi, Tulsa, El Paso, and San Diego, Cal. At present time ap proximately ninety-nine per cent of this road has been improved over a length of 3,350 miles. “Good Roads Week marks the turning point in the history of road-building. It is the point where he construction of highways ceases ;o be a matter of speculation and Coes on under scientific schedule. We are now spending approximately $1,000,200,000 per year for these high ways, and the fact that such expen liture can be measured dollar for dol 'ar in earning power is of great im portance. Every school, civic club, government department and fraternal organization in the United States is expected to celebrate this week with fitting programs devoted to Good Roads.” AUGUST FIRE LOSS ON PAR WITH JULY Another big decrease in the monthly fire loss in North Carolina is shown in the August fire loss re port, issued Friday from the offices of the State Insurance Department, which reveals that fire destroyed $188,(572 worth of property last month is against a loss of $3(51,892 in Au gust, 1925. The August loss is 011 a oar with the July fire loss, which was the lowest in the history of the State for any one single month. In only two of the larger towns in the entire State, Greensboro and Wilmington, was there a $5,000 single ire loss. A building burned in Greens boro with a loss of 815,300 while fire razed a building in Wilmington, which was valued at $22,118. The largest ! oss was a buggy factory at Oxford. The factory was valued at $27,500. The value of the property at risk in August was $1,677,980, with insur ance of $1,044,925. The figures for the corresponding month last year were: property at risk, $2,403016, with insurance of $1,824,995. There were 104 fires, of which forty were dwellings, as against 202 the nreceding August, when 88 dwellings were razed by fire. There were but <even fires with a loss of $5,000 and >ver each, these aggregating $123,- •43, leaving a los sfor the other 97 .'ires of only $64,818. The following towns reported no ires during August and were placed >n the Insurance Department’s Honor Roll; Hickory, Concord, Belmont, Shelby, Bryson City, Graham, Wake Forest, Mount Airy, Pinetops, Granite Falls, Sim City, Aberdeen, Thomasville, Southern Pines, Beaufort, Leaksville, rlenderson, Elizabeth City, Waynes /ille, Fairmont, Kernersville, San ford, and Pinehurst. QUIT Saying that fate is against you. Finding fault with the weather. Anticipating evils in the future. Going around with a gloomy face. Fault-finding, naggin gand worrying. Dwelling on fancied slights and wrongs. Exaggerating and making mountains out of mole-hills. Pitying yourself and bemoaning your lack of opportunity. IT IS A POOR JOKE When some woman blushes with ombarassment. When some heart carries away an ache. When something sacred is made to appear common. Wren a man’s weakness provides the cause for laughter. When profanity is required to make t fanny. When a little child is brought to .ears. When everyone can’t join in the j iaughttV-—From American Tyler-1 keystone. ' i QUIT THE ZEBULON RECORD FRECKLES JOTISTICAL human beings 9 like to think about and brag 9 SB about Die things they dc not need to dc which ordi nary mortals must of neces sity do. Buck In the past history of man kind when we were still a primitive people, only the favored few could remain at leisure inside the shade and protection of tent or dwelling A'liile the majority toiled outside, ex posed to the sun. Freckles indicated •xposure to sun and wind and, hence, people classed the freckled witli the •omruon people, or at least as not be longing to the favored few. With advancing knowledge people iave learned that nothing is more •onduclve to robust health than spending much time out in the open. Jeneral conditions have so changed hut the pale “shut ins'' are now looked upon with pity rather than with envy. Although a lirmly fixed idea is hard to change and there are still those who dislike freckles, it is now much more popular to be healthy, although freckled than to be unhealthy although lily white. Freckles are no longer a disgrace. In the spring of the year when the barefoot boy first takes to the swu.i mlu’ hole he is likely to return with his shoulders s -verely blistered. The actinic rays from the sun burn the delicate cells of the skiu, and we call it sunburn. Nothing daunted, our small boy again must go swimming, but this time his back is noticed to be some what brown and this time be blisters much less. Presently his back be comes as brown as leather and he rinds himself perfectly immune to sunburn. What has happened is that nature, ever alert to avoid damage, has de posited in the deeper layers of skin a blanket of coloring matter (pig ment) which intercepts the burning rays of the sun. The boy has become throughly tanned. Now it happens that sometimes this blanket of protecting coloring matter is not evenly and smoothly spread. Here and there are blotphes much thicker than the rest. These blotches are freckles. For some reason blonds and .ed-haired persons do not spread this blanket of tan so evenly and hence are more likely to be freckled. Freckles can only be quickly re moved by removing the basal layer of cells of the epidermis. This is a dangerous procedure. Lotions pur porting to remove freckles are hum bugs, pure and simple. Some lotions will, to a certain degree, protect the skin from the sun and to that de gree will prevent tauning and freckles, but once the pigment of tan lias been deposited they will not re move it. The person who has freckles should be proud of them. Why try to remove freckles? THE STARS IN THE FLAG On the blue field of the United States flag there are 48 white stars. These stars are arranged in a rectan gle or six horizontal rows of eight stars in a row. Each star in the field represents a particular state in the American union in the chronological order in which it was admitted. Delaware has the place of honor— the upper left-hand corner—being the first state admitted to the Union. New Mexico is the baby state, being represented by the last star in the lower ringht-hand corner. The eight states in the first row, in order, are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, New Jersey Aerry . tD shrdl shrdlu Massachusetts, Maryland, South Car olina. The eight states in the second row of stars, in order, are: New Hamp shire, Virginia, New Y’ork, North Car olina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ken tucky, Tennessee. The eight states in the third row of stars, in order, are: Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri. The eight states in the fourth row of stars, in order, are: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, lowa, Wis consin, California, Minnesota. The eight states in the fifth row of stars, in order, are: Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Da kota. The eight states in the sixth row of stars, in order, are: Montana, Wash ington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Okla home, Arizona, New Mexico. Pupils in school as well as adults should be able to point to the star 9n the flag that represents their state in the American union.—The National Tribune. *Henry A. Uselton. With fine restraint Hollywood has so f« r not offered to send any bath ing beauties to cheer up Florida. Three young women of Orlando, Fla., by giving their blood for trans fusion, saved the life of a 9-months old baby. . .. 4lty do Peter Maltby Sets Trot Record Above Is pictured Peter Maltby, Inst year’s two vear-old champion of the Harriman stable at Goshen, who won the three-year-old trot at Endicott, setting a world's record by covering the final heat in 2:09*4. McManus Is Star Keystone Sacker Second Baseman McManus of the St. Louis Browns is one of the classiest keystone suckers in the American leagne. Even Eddie Collins of the White Sox, or Stanley Harris of the Champion Nationals, have nothing on him in fielding, batting, base running or playing the game. Lately he has been holding down third buse, while Mellilo has been playing second. By Arthur Brisbane PIE-EATING PRISONERS. MORE PAY? TERRIBLE! RELIGION’S POWER. DUST AS AUTO FUEL. Men that own railroad stocks, and never do, never did, never will do any hard work, think it sad that the men working on the railroads should get one hundred million dollars more a year. That would be a great deal less than thirty cents a day average for each man, while the railroads get the hun dreds of millions more and have the Government and its interstate j Commerce Commission always ready to force the public to pay higher rates if railroads need them. The Government, compelling the public to pay more for railroad service, without giving the pub lic anything to say about it, should also compel railroads to pay more to working people with out giving railroads anything to say about it. But Government and its workings are arranged by those that OWN the railroads, not by those that WORK on the rail roads. Fifty years ago, fewer than two million women worked for pay in the United States. Half of them were in domestic service. Now 9,000,000 women are engaged “in gainful occupations.” That pleases the practical mind. Farmers like to see the horse and mare working. German farmers harness the cow. Our boasted “gainful occupa-’ tions for women” take women out of their only occupation really gainful to civilization, the produc* tion of good children. A young man arrested for rob bing ’ the house of Cardinal Dougherty of cash and bonds told *the police, “I didn’t dare take the Cardinal's diamond studded gold cross, worth I was afraid might ii:.., ;rt> 1 also left a gold cup. Something told me they used it in church. 1 wasn’t look ing for any trouble like that.” < The modernist will call that “superstition,” others will see in it proof that religion has power even in the case of a young criminal who tells the police, “I have no religion.” To treat prisoners cruel Is vile. To make a joke of their crimes is stupid. * The Governor of New York should tell officials of Sing Sing what he thinks of their Labor Day pie-eating contest, twelve convicts with their hands tied behind their backs, eating pies, like swine, for a $5 prize. How does that impress men and women, out of prison, working to buy food for their children? However, stupid as it is, a prison with pie-eating contests is not as bad as the prison of that good bishop, in which prisoners wore iron collars, with sharp spikes turned inward so they could not lie down to sleep, or the Spanish prison in which the noble-hearted English prison reformer found a man fastened to the wall, his feet above ground, starving, “his face clotted with blood and tears,” or the prison mine, in which Peter the Great chained each prisoner to his wheelbarrow, to stay chained night and day until death released him; better than the ancient gal ley, where the man chained to the oar was released when he fainted or died, his hand cut off to save time, body thrown over board and another slave chained in his place. We are sentimental fools in our prisons, but we have improved. When men talk of harnessing the electron it should be remem bered that Providence does not allow trees to grow into the heavens, or permit conquering man to move up too rapidly. Air, water, the earth, nature gives to us free, and the sun’s light and heat. We must work for every thing else. You read that an automobile engine had been made to run wth the explosive power of dust from a grain elevator instead of gaso line. Messrs. Noel and Heilbach, Department of Agriculture en gineers, showed that ordinary' dust might be used to create an ex plosive force greater than that of gasoline, PEACE TO HAVE A NEW BUILD New buildingH which will <i| the student capacity, provide a l j library and additional class and sf\ rooms are projected for Peace ■ tute, the well-known junior collegi girls at Raleigh. This will coml one of the most attractive grout . college buildings in the State. More space for boarding pupi the immediate need. Every rooi the dormitories was taken before gust Ist this year, and many a cants had to be refused because t was no room for them. Peace i the most flourishing condition h history, and additional accomna | tions for students are absolutely | cessary to meet urgent demands, President Pressly. The trustees’ committee dead si I erect two new dormitories and ■ I brary, with the historic old , building as the center of the grl The library will adjoin the main bn l ing on the east, corersponding ini sign to the Dinwiddle Chapel wl ' now joins it on the west, while 3 dormitories wiil be erected on eii side, being connected with the M ' group by attractive enclosed coritl 1 Atwood and Nash, of Durham | , Chapel Hill, are the architects, J their plans were adopted unanimag Mr. B. N. Duke, of New Yoafc,?j offered to give 525,000 to che buildings; Cajt. Nathan o’Berry4|| Goldsboro, has pledged SIO,OOO aud&j Peace Institute Alumnae have atrae_ contributed SIO,OOO towards the 000 fund which they are raismgj| I the Burwell Memorial Library. * campaign to raise the remainder the the $30,000 necessary for construction and equipment of jj buildings will be conducted in Oe her. Dr. John B. Wright, of Rale ii is chairman of the general cuiapog committee, and auxiliary commits and local organizations will be fora to aid in raising the building ft> Sesqui-Centenniali & Philadelphia, Pa. COACH EXCURSION FARES via NORFOLK SOUTHERN! RAILROAD and connections, tickets soli Tuesdays and Fridays, Jtd§ 2 to November 30th, l£j| inclusive, final limit ineiuJ ing date of sale About Ifout\ Health T hings You S Knogr'' Gainc^M°Q>^ <*■■■! i rn'mi' "l I WORRY. I knew a woman, wife of a naflftj farmer, who was bom in pwessw' days when the popular hatatarino was a log cabin with a dirt She married early, and grew » family of eight children. Her mm hands wove the clothing of kr family; she sewed the garraea hand—no machines then. Mm cooked, summer and winter* ae m log fireplace. She helped «fi» tie I butchering, ‘rendered’ the 2**it made soap from the , triim»®*(Xf’ and did the family wash ajt 4k nearby creek. I cannot think off anything that she did not do% «rs assist in doing,—even to bringaqri fire-wood and helping to chop it into suitable lengths for ne «r fuel. She lived to be a little ninety-two years of age! Ami,. with all this, I never knew h«r 1» worry or complain at her task. , S This woman was not a ‘freak. 1 ’ 5 We are the freaks, we who vrwry at trifles and regard all crock aai degrading, all toil as unwortlqr iff] our hands. We have almost enow to regard motherhood with anijp-, nation in these days of fashion aad ‘progress’. My point is, that work uuk 1 harmed any living soul, if txntSmA on intelligently, without wrsarjt. Sickness is merely the chasUckg for offenses committed —igiaomafc- ly or wilfully, and every mot* against right living is sure to Isxg punishment. Worry kills—striving to d® Ifib* impossible, at unseeming frwsnt* overfeeding, intemperance in aasste tion, and in neglecting the lanes as rest and recreation. What a lesson in longersita® There are none so blind as who will not see. ”8 Next Week: J
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