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its coal stove, recitation bench and single teacher for all the students. We return to the farm where the farmer is loading a Model T Ford truck with farm produce for the market. He looks dubiously down the road, then climbs into the Ford and begins a long trek through the mud. We see him at intervals farther and farther away, joggling and splashing along the almost impassable road.

Meanwhile, the narrator begins: "This is how we live, 40,000,000 of us. This is how we work. Our wives must drudge. Our children in the country are far from schools. In the cities they face the hazards of sickness and traffic crowded streets. We work hard. we pay rent. But we must live in the cast-off sections of cities, in the shambling rows of mill towns, in suburbs wherein our homes and belongings are in constant jeopardy - - -".

The Ford jogs out of sight. We return to the employment office where men are now filing more and more rapidly past the personnel man, who hands to each an employment slip.

The narrator continues: "40,000,000 of us - factory workers, mechanics, clerks, office workers, storekeepers, farmers -