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Congested areas
dangerous to children
^[[our children]]
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by cheap dwellings. An elevated rattles above. Traffic swarms down the street. Boys are jumping on trucks and autos. Other boys play cards in a doorway. 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 traffic.

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Child labor
^[[one, in the suburbs]]
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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 monotonous 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.

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Dispossessed
farmer
^[[one, on the farms]]
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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.