THE NATIONAL, GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



83 



M WgiIIII 



Photograph by Christina Krysto 



"in the: hands of a competent teacher, the chart becomes an inex- 

 haustible SOURCE OP information" 



Without photographs the study of geography in connection with the war would be a difficult 

 matter for men who have not learned the trick of imagination 



three days and which took from the camp 

 classes the taint of the "Mex" and the 

 "Wop" and the "Squarehead" and made 

 them all plain fellow-men — Americans. 

 Is it not, after all, a little strange to speak 

 of foreigners in the American Army? 



PATHETIC INADEQUACY OP PRIMARY 

 TEXT-BOOKS 



But we could not teach on that alone. 

 We looked through the supply of books 



to be had, the discarded readers of public 

 schools, and we put them back into their 

 boxes. First-grade readers ! We had 

 visions of six-foot Juan Lopez intoning, 



"Run with me 

 To the tree," 



while he ached for a fuller understanding 

 of "tent," and "rifle," and "guard," and 

 "bayonet." We could hear our advanced 

 pupil, Gus Nelson, trying to satisfy his 



