The Washington herald., 1913-08-10
One of Questions that Will
Come Up for Discussion
Will Be Providing School
Children with Cheap, but
Wholesome Luncheons.

ing to the counter to take a luncneon. Il
have just come down to eat with you"
| The colonel spent > cents on his lunch
con. which consisted Of one cr'p Of bean
soup and one egg saE1 Sirh
Now got what / would lave regarded
as a first class luncheon or dinner on a
roundup or out with my regiment Or on
a picnic or a hunting trin. l feel very.
very strongly that we ought. by law. IN
every State to give the s"hool boards
power to serve meals to tts children al
not more than the cost DrIca IF the raw
| material / hope it will be a plank in
the Progressive party's municipal plat
! form this fall.
The children must be physically fit or
you can't get the best results out OF our
schools he continued. There were
other things which impressed me. At one
| of the schools a dozen OF boys were serv-
| ing the others and for that they got
their five-cent meal free. The whole thing
was first class. Then there were two
older boys who volunteered tEcir services
and their job was to keep things straight.
forgotten their last names, but they were
both very good friends OF mine before
the luncheon was over"
At the Buffalo Congress, the problem o.
School Feeding will be given a special
symposium, which Is now being arranged
by the committee on school feeding of
the American Home Economics Society.
There will be papers, discussions and sci
entific exhibits showing the bad results of
school children eating lunches sold py
street vendors. and also exhibits on school
luncheon work as being carried on by the
American Home Economics Society.
Senators On Woman Suffrage.
From the Hartford Times
The remarks which were made by
number of United States Senators re-
Gently during the presentation Of peti-
tions in favor of national law granting
the suffrage to women can hardly be
called a discussion of the suffrage ques-
tion, because all of the Senators confined
their remarks to compliments to women
and expressions of belief in the right If
women to vote. Some of those who IA
vored tine granting of suffrage to women
were candid enough to declare their be-
lief that no important improvement in
government could be expected to result
from the exercise of the suffrage by
women. Senator Works of California at
tempted to meet the argument that
women would not vote If they wele al
lowed to do SO by presenting the figures
showing what part women voters took
in the recent municipal election in Los
Angeles. with the result of showing in
rather striking way that those who claim
that nothing will be gained by imposing
the suffrage on women can find material
evidence in support of their position in
the Los Angeles election.
1t appears from careful study OF the
figures that while there was a total regis
tration of 17l.025 voters in Los Angeles,
including 97,1S6 men and 73,S,9 women,
the total vote was only S,S31, which was
only 52.5 per cent OF the registration.
Votes were cast by 52,73l men and S,1oO
women. and the percentage OF the regis
tered men was 542 and of the women
502 Relatively, the indifference of the
women voters was not very much greater
than that OF the men. The number of
registered male voters who abstained
from voting was A.455: the female voters
who did not go to the polls numbered
Sc, ,73s
Perhaps the nearest that any Senator
came to dealing with the actual and prac-
tical question of what is to be gained by
woman suffrage was the remark of the
new Senator from Illinois, Mr.. Sherman:
Somebody has said to me, M. Presi-
dent, in private conversation on this
question. that womankind will not i'm
prove politics. Well, if she does not. If
she only keep It from getting any worse,
am willing to take a chance on it,