. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. JAPANESE SCHOOL CHILDRENBoys predominate in the upper picture, girls in the lower. A system ofcompulsory education is enforced in Japan, and 98 per cent, of the children ofschool age attend. Even the country schools run ten months in the year —longer than in a, majority of our states JAPANESE FARMING AND FARMER FOLK «l two years in the army (unless he is in a normal school studyingto be a teacher), and a record is made as to the literacy
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. JAPANESE SCHOOL CHILDRENBoys predominate in the upper picture, girls in the lower. A system ofcompulsory education is enforced in Japan, and 98 per cent, of the children ofschool age attend. Even the country schools run ten months in the year —longer than in a, majority of our states JAPANESE FARMING AND FARMER FOLK «l two years in the army (unless he is in a normal school studyingto be a teacher), and a record is made as to the literacy orilliteracy of each recruit. That is to say, there is a placewhere the fact of any recruits, inability to read would berecorded, but the Department of Education informed meto-day that the illiterate column is now absolutely blank. There are no illiterates among Japans rising generation. More than this, we have to reflect that it is in their povertythat the Japanese are thus doing more than we are doing inour plenty. We waste more in a year than they make. Evenwith a htmdred acres of land the American farmer is likely toconsider himself poor, but w
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