Class room in the Sahara. Going to school in the Sahara Desert is a casual routine. The school room may be any perfunctory spot that looks comfortable and "smoking is allowed." A class in Mohammedanism is conning the Koran from wooden "slates" whereon all the wisdom considered necessary in this land is carved. When they have learned it all by heart backwards and forwards their education is considered complete. Thousands of children in this part of the world are toothless from lack of dentistry and other thousands are blind from lack of hygiene and sanitary measures. Bathing their faces in polluted streams causes part of the scourge of blindness, and the hot sun and sand also cause part of it. Some of the most worthy students are to be selected from among these oriental children and "coached" for scholarships in foreign schools and colleges by the Junior Red Cross of America. It is believed that this training will help them to carry back modern ideas to their people of an importance over the wisdom of the Koran for preventing the spread of disease