Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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3 if the husband dies leaving a family to support, a good typist can nearly always be sure of securing a secretarial position, as efficient secretaries arc much in demand. I would advise all young people starting high school to take typing courses, if they possibly can, even though they have not chosen careers as businessnon or secretaries. If you have learned to type in school you will always possess that skill, And, bblidvb no, it will help youl Suzanne Horskin '56 SAFE DFIVING The cars that arc on the road today are safer than those that traveled twenty years ago. The only difficulty with late model cars is the driver. The driver has the power to operate the car any way h j or she '.'isnos. Every day when you pick up a paper or turn on your radio you got nows of a dreadful accident, where several persons were killed. The cause of all accidents is careless- ness on your part or the other driver's part. Drinking ■when driving is another foolish and careless example. Pedestrians arc another cause of traffic accid-nts. In the urban areas of cities a youngster or a older person will very inattentively walk across the street. Tocnagors can be good or poor drivers; the choice is up to then. A toenager has quick action and thinking powor. The teenager is also subject to showing off, spooding, drink- ing, and hot roding around. On the other hand, 3one teenagers take pride in their good driving. Speed is still another cause of accidents. You may bo driving along the highway and see skid marks for fifty or sixty feet. The fcnco posts will bo down and tho ground torn up. This driver couldn't mako the corner at seventy mil-- an hour, even though he tried. Night driving is especially dangerous if the road is slippery or wet. Your visibility is poor and your reaction slower bocauso it is late and you arc more tired than usual. Remember, the car is a mechanical device; tho driver can roerste that mechanism in any manner, safe or unsafe 1 Patrica Olmstcad '56

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THE GUARANTEED ANNUAL WAGE The Guaranteed Annual Wage is the most recent major accomplishment of Walter Reuther and the C I 0 5n the Auto Industry. First they won it from the Ford Motor Ooppany and then from General Motors . Since then they have been working on the smaller independents. First of all, what is the Grarant.eed Annual Wage ? This is a guarantee to every employee of the company, from the president to the floor sweeper, that he shall receive pay for fifty-two weeks' labor whether he works six months or twelve months, hoes this make sense? I don't think soj Why pay a man for six months labor that he doesn't even do? If the employee knows that he will be paid fifty-two weeks a year anyway, he isn't going to take as much interest in his work as if he had to do good work to avoid being laid off. Of course, a men likes to have: security and if he wants it badly enough he can got it by working for it. But who will try when the union guarantees employees fifty- two weeks' pay o yesr anyway? You might say, Well, why do you care? It doesn't affoct you, Maybe I'm not working under the Guaranteed Annual Wage, but when I go out to buy a car it affects me, because the prices are sky high on account of the G. A. W. The manufacturers have to raise the prices to pay el] of their employees fifth-two weeks a year. A Guaranteed Annuel Wage might be all right in the clothing industry or something along that line that functions steadily all year long, hut in the auto industry which is so seasonable that it doesn't need the same amount of employees all year long, especially at the time for a new model, it just doesn't make sense. Thomas Magnont Arrcto, Dorcas and Suzanne;.-.working' on,-economics .in-the offi Mr. Trainor conducting a class in an adjoining room: Suzanne: Mr. Tranor is going to come in here and give us the dickens in o minute. Dorcas: Why9 We aren't doing anything. Arreta and Suzanne: That's just i;: t Miss Gatos: It gives me gleet pleasure to give you this bonus of 10 ; ointf. Why not make it ?0 and really have fun? Jackie: