SANITATION

The greatest single item in reducing losses among troops is effective sanitation; and accordingly, all the armies in Europe are adopting strenuous methods to secure this end. In Austria, where a cholera epidemic was threatened, the measures include even sprinkling station platforms with carbolate of lime, as shown in the first photograph. Typhus-ridden

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HUGE model of a house, perhaps ten by twelve feet, takes a deal of work to build. It takes skill and patience, and when it is finished it is not good for anything. Manual training schools have been turning out models of various sorts ever since their inception. But such schools have not been really successful until they dropped that sort of work. In · Connecticut the old order has been changed. The instructor dons a pair of overalls, leads his crew of carpenters in embryo to a vacant lot, studies the archi

LEARNING TO BE A PRINTER

This boy is being given practical work, not mere theory. He will be able to step into any composing room and run his "lino", when he is graduated from the school.

tect's plans, and then man and boys start to put up a house. It is a building that someone is going to live in, someone is going to pay for, that someone has really ordered and wants.

A few errors in a job such as these Connecticut boys undertake means someone is going to be "fired". There will be no errors if they all follow the instructor and take their problems to him, for he is a real carpenter and contractor. A boy who is careless on such work does not deserve the chance to learn and there are plenty who are anxious to fill his lucky shoes. And thereby hangs a tale of what a school should be to the fourteen-year-old youngster of an industrial State, that is, to a boy who obviously can not go to college or acquire a higher education traveling abroad.

When they are fourteen, boys are beginning to look at the world with big round eyes. The three "Rs" pall on them with deadly monotony, and the round of the ordinary city or country school seems to be the height of uselessness. It is made bearable for a few. ambitious ones by the business of selling papers and magazines, but for the most, life holds no joy when school is so large a part of it. Educational statistics tell what happens then. The boys quit and go to work, believing that they take their places in the world as bread-winners as real men should. For just this reason the United States today is overpopulated with unskilled workers, yet underpopulated with real journeymen. The schools are the cause of the present situation; even the educators themselves admit it. As to the remedy-look to Connecticut.