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[[margin note]] monotonous [[/margin note]] by [[strikethrough]]cheap[[/strikethrough]] middle class dwellings. [[strikethrough]] An elevated rattles above.[[/strikethrough]] Traffic swarms down the street. Boys are jumping on trucks and autos. [[strikethrough]] Other boys play cards in a doorway. [[/strikethrough]]. Children are diving and splashing in a river into which city sewage empties. A crowd gathers and we follow it to the spot where a child has been run down in the traffic.
[[ margin note]] [[strikethrough]]congested areas dangerous to children [[/strikethrough]] [[/margin note]] in the suburb [[/margin note]] 
4. - "CIRCLE THE HIGHEST GRADE OR YEAR COMPLETED IN SCHOOL." The applicant slowly makes a circle around the figure 6. We are shown a mill or a mining town with long [[strikethrough]] monotonous [[/strikethrough]] rows of shanties and rickety frame houses. We see a group of children carrying lunch boxes and paper bags - children of school age who are already working in the mills.
[[margin note]] In the mill and mining town [[/margin note]]
[[margin note]] Child labor [[/margin note]]

5 - "WHERE IS YOUR PERMANENT HOME?" We are shown the fields and gardens of a dirt farm, chicken coops, stock pen, farm implements. There follows a succession of incidents; the crash of 1929, drought and foreclosure, ending in one of the famous "penny sales" of the midwest. [[margin note]] on the farms[[/margin note]] [[margin note]] Dispossessed farmer[[/margin note]]