The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-07-15
THE MOST PRECIOUS FREIGHT IN THE WORLD.

The most precious freight world is the fish
the markets. the produce that goes from
farms nor the commodities that bartered and
sold All of these forth mighty trucks that
thunder down our highways entrusted only mature
drivers whom the these cargoes and these
may buy insurance for the protection OF their purses
against loss in any form ''
and eager doors each morning school is in session.
bound for adventures from day to day. looking for
the welcoming doors of the world just as we and
countless generations before embarked the long and
often esome journey through life This freight is our chill
dren the little who around knees who
are the substance of the for existence
for them strive to bring in enough each day to keep
well fed that people strive harder and
are more fortunate to derive better income and to
accumulate little for them Each succeeding genera
ton always want my children to have easier nan
had it."
And work. and and pay taxes to up even
greater buildings wherein the idols of dreams the
all most important hopes and heartaches be
sheltered and taught the things that will give them better
life continue struggle in the legislature to find the
painless way pay taxes to raise the salary of
teachers We cling with tenacy the age old to
protect the racial integrity of children We deny even
the thought that any Communicating influences may reach
them their early and mpressionable We want to
gives them the best of everything.
And on top of all this like throwing heap of dung up
table covered with Spotless damask toss
precious children of the most ridiculous and tragic of
inconsistencies for which the human noted We turn
this precious freight horde of school bus drivers
most of them immature people, Many of them risks that
insurance company will take.
after year sad stories home to grefstrcken
parents to tell them they have lost the most precious thing
in their m because the state has forced them to send their
children the immature drivers Truly
crime could be charged to the state ITSELF this is of the
greatest magnitude.
How inconsistent it is to carefully child for six
years and longer To toll and to sacrifice to give them the
right in life and then must be forced by the big
bugs of commonwealth under penalty of the law to turn
them immature rattle Drained vulgar and in
competent show off of boy, who lacks the commonsense
and judgement to drive Sensibly
We have it time after time where school buses
jammed with children have been sent off in the of
youths with whom would trust load of fish How
often do we see school authorities employ such people simply
because they the relatives of persons politically
influential in the community.
We hear much clamor year after year about the need
of money for teachers So many times the teachers
deserve But equally important is the school bus driver
and the state should provide adequate salary for
petent adults to drive these Buses No longer should these
jobs be given to boys who cannot buy Insurance.
but get the jobs because only $25 $50 month
is provided and neghbor relative recommends them
There is another very important reason; very mpor-
tant for doing away with this kind of drivers matter
Of discipline In school there rough neck students
bules toughs nit-ws, show-offs and sometimes
balls what have YOU Loose in school bus, they
and They impose and make miserable the
lives of smaller weaker and sensitive children Against
such persons, the juvenile drivers cannot inclined