THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from U. S. Bureau of Education 

 PUPILS "PUNCH THE CLOCK" AT THIS EFFICIENT AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR FOREIGN- 

 BORN LABORERS AND MECHANICS 



Each pupil has a card, and his school attendance record is kept with the same accuracy 

 that his "time" is kept in the factory. This system of recording" the hours spent by each man 

 in the class-room is said to have increased the efficiency of the educational institution ioo 

 per cent. 



It is now a year since we entered into 

 this war, and our men are standing shoul- 

 der to shoulder with Frenchmen on their 

 right and Englishmen on their left, hold- 

 ing the line that is to save civilization. 

 The war is coming nearer and nearer to 

 us each day. Each morning we turn with 

 anxious and with proud eyes to read the 

 list of our own heroes who have made 

 the supreme sacrifice. 



In a few days more this list will swell 

 from a few short inches into continuing 

 columns and pages. Then we will first 

 clearly see the horror of this war. And 

 then there will surge through our souls a 

 passion of indignation and outrage that 

 will close our ears to talk of peace and 

 fix our will to win. 



WHERE STREAMS RUN RED WITH BLOOD 



For now almost four years we have 

 been looking afar of! at a series of un- 



precedented battles, in every one of which 

 more men were killed than all the joint 

 participants in either Waterloo or Gettys- 

 burg. There is hardly a stream in north- 

 eastern France, hardly a village, that has 

 not been given a permanent name in his- 

 tory as the center of a great battle. 



For many days now the Germans have 

 been advancing upon Amiens, another of 

 the historic cathedral towns of France. 

 This time the Kaiser himself has an- 

 nounced to the world that he would be 

 present and in supreme command. There 

 has been no such battle before. Let us 

 hope there may never be such another. 



The determination of the Germans has 

 been shown in their unprecedented reck- 

 lessness of life. Amiens, the great rail- 

 road center leading from Calais to Paris, 

 must be seized. There never has been 

 greater courage shown by men than the 

 Germans have shown in this advance. 



