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Show School Days: Everywhere! AAJa SSnJ'I r I 1 1 a Xti: -4 i 1 a Almost universally, September is acknowledged as the beginning of the school season. While American youngsters are packing their books off to the classroom for another year, children elsewhere are doing the same thing. Above is a class for beginners in the art of spelling under the instruction of white missionaries mis-sionaries in session in the heart ot the Belgian Congo. Meanwhile, In a central European country, youngsters young-sters are also rushing off to their classes to study the "readin'-'ritin'-'rithmatic" procedure. 15 ; : '--Hi Though exiled from their native land, white Russian children in Man-chukuo Man-chukuo are not allowed to neglect their school training. A group is shown studying botany in the laboratory. lab-oratory. Meanwhile (right) Russian children study in one of the institu tions supported by the government to educate and care for the armies of homeless waifs whom the national nation-al calamities left to wander at large through the country. Most of these youngsters are now between the ages of ten and fourteen. Note that they wear regulation dress, also that their heads are closely cropped through a standard hair-cutting process. Johnny and Robert look just alike here! k I kX' r-JVK I - Native boys in Egypt (above) study in plain surroundings, taught by an instructor in the familiar Egyptian garb. Below are Chinese school children learning their lessons despite the Japanese invasion that has created havoc with their lives. East is east and west is west, but everywhere every-where September means back to school for tomorrow's men and women, the beginning of another period in the training schedule that will make them better citizens of the world. ' Xlw in - i llX'Sj v z " i ' V--' '''A, i , f .' ", i . , - , , ' Tan--"rtrr w.v r-rv ! |