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Do you know that- 100.000 of our public school teachers ue

Only 19 years old? "QM: . ‘ 50,000 of them are without high school

education?

The salary of a graduate teacher is no

more than that of a milliner's apprentice while she is leaming her trade?

The minimum wage for a teacher in New

York City is $20 less than the minimum *llc of R ci'¢.Y sfdblaman ? '

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our million American-born children

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nd of an educqgfon as YOUR chzld getting?

HINK of it-700,000 men in our first army draft who could not read or write! Four million Americans

in the country today who are illiterate!

. Grown-up men and women in every state

intheUnion-notnewlyarrivedforeigners; but native-born Americans!-who cans' not read a newspaper !-cannot, write al letter!-cannot even read the safety signs in the streets or factories! Hundreds of thousands-millions of children today ' _who are# getting no education whatever! 'You-thelwomen of the country-is this Amer-ica’s great free school system of which you are so proud? ,The helpless children-have you forgotten them under the press and strain of war?

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Is Americato lag behind *' England and France? ~

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Do you realize that America is behind

England in the education of its children- behind France-behind Sweden? That educationally we are becoming a second-

» Y class power?

’ While these countries are lengthening the school age, thousands of our children under 14 are being thrown into the mills

, and factories. At the very moment when

our Supreme Court was deciding that the Federal Government could not act to pre-

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vent child labor, England was totally prohibiting the employment in industry of all children of school age.

America is rich enough [to give fits

children as good an education as any nation in the world. And yet-

Not only are thousands upon thousands

of American children growing up illiterate -blind to every kind of print or writing-

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The great bulk of American chil-

dren in school right now-today--are

ably inadequate. ,

Are 20 million mothers sleeping ?

Are America’s twenty million mothers ’

asleep? Who is responsible for the chil- dren of the country if not the mothers of the country? __= _ .,._,_,¢& , _,ii _(rw,

Rheta Childe Dorr, in her stirring

article, “The Shame of America" sounds the clarion call to every mother, every father, every educator in the country. She tears the veil aside and reveals the farce of our educational system that does not educate. She goes further than mere criticism. She shows the remedy. »_

Read thispgreat constructive article in

the May number__of _ Pictorial Review.

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For years there have been country school! `

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ugliou t e West in which the English I

language was barred out? ~

Many of our public school teachers can

hardly make themselves understood UI

English?

Thousands of teachers are leaving thi

schools to enter other professions?

In New York City_alone 32,097 children

of' school age are receiving no instruction?

EAD “A Fair Fieldin -Seir” by ex-State Senator Helen Ring Robinson

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IS IT true that most women like to he bossed by a man? That they ` - _ _ vocative. It will awaken se1f~questioning in every woman’s mind-it is 3

d0n’t want to be taken too seriously’ That it fiat e ‘ witty challenge to every man. The first article in a delightful new series'

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man order their lives for them, tell them what they should_e`at,‘ wear) ; .__

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' ,_NVould_you commit a

crime to save a friend? ' When it came to the test, how far

would you go for your best friend? ‘

Lend him money-get him a job-- stand by him when he is down-and- uut, yes. But would you go out and commit a crime, if-well, read "A Double-Barrelled Friendship" by

Edward S. O’Reilly,

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would have done in i f ’ . this man’s place. - ’

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Love-making based on /‘ With' the shadow of S A girl doesn’t_liave to

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Blunderingly, with hopeless in-

efficiency, the average man makes love. But this man was an excep- tion. Read how with brilliant busi- ness acumen he attacked the com- plex problems that every lover must face. “Pleasure " and Business Mixed ” is one of Clarence Buding- tonKelland’smostdclightfulstories.

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And hiscmpty sleevewlhe wasn't

the same gay, splendid lad she had sent away to France. Life would never be the same again for either of them. And yet-wasn’t that wonderful thing he brought back worth the price? This thrilling, moving story,“What They Brought Out,”by Norma Patterson, will grip your heart. It is one of the really great stories that has come out of. the war.

With her thin little fs`ce§ her big

wistful gray eyes, no one would have looked twice at her. And yet- do you thinklife couldn’t have thrill- ing, wonderful adventures in store for her? Read “Love’s Labor” by Agnes Mary Brownell-on e of those unexpected romances that liein wait for people just around the corner.

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What was the sédféf she hid from him?

The dancer on the beach, with

her sea-blue eyes, her light, laughter- loving nature-what was the secret she was strong enough to hide, even while they were facing death to- gether? Rosa Mundi is a wonderful picture ofa woman, in the grip ofa strong feeling. Ethel M. Dell hal written here one of the finest love stories of the year.

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Tangled undergrowth as high as a man’s head Machine guns raining down fire from the tops of trees. It was a death trap - yet, our men pushed on. Here the Lost Battalion - cut off -- held against overwhelming odds. Painted by Charles S. Chapman

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News From Home His mother - his

wife-his little son-he never knew what their letters could mean until, in some Frenc_h vil- lege 3.000 miles overseas, he waited anxiously while the mail was handed around |The moving, human side of war Painted by S _I W00lf»

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-roof in flames. Wounded men who themselves could hardly walk, struggling to drag out their helpless comrades. The Red Cross nurses workingonunder fire. F. Luis Mora has painted here a great dramatic picture. -

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0U~the woman shu up ,in a little city apartment, nursing yonur babies and strug-

gling with the high cost living; you-the woman fighting for a livelihoc :you-the woman smothered under wealth and conventional sur-

roundings-do you feel that life is as interesting, as worth while. as full of f eedom and oppor-

tunity as it should be? tg,

How can you get more ou _of life? In a re-

markable special article in tllie May Pictorial Review, Ida Clyde Clarke onens a great new horizon for American women

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