The evening world., 1915-01-06
Viii Provide Food for Neces-
sitouS Children in Crowded
Brownsville District.
ITS CHILDREN UNDERFED
System of Lunches Likely to Be
Placed in High Schools-Club
Women Interested.
By Sophie Irene Loeb.
No hungry child IN a public SCHOOL,
FOOD fVsf for scbooI rbSId~ca


No hungry child IN a public SCHOOL,
Food first for school children.
The hrst school to enjoy the Penny
Lunch Service in Brooklyn through
The Evening World Fund will be
School No. 43. as this is conceded to
be one Of the most necessitous
schools In that borough.
It is located at Boerum Street and
Manhattan Avenue. and 10 in the
heart OF the Brownsville District.
Tho principal. James O'Donnell. is in
hearty cooperation with the lunch
service plan. as are also the teach
ers in this building.
They were even glad to contribute
money toward securing the lunch SER
vice In the school, since they are
called upon times without number to
contribute funds to deserving fam
lilies In the neighborhood.
< Mrs. II. L. Cox. President Of the
Brooklyn School Lunch Association.
and who has the equipment in charge.
stated to-day:
-, ~ am dsligl led that this school
10 TO bs the first Of the Brooklyn
: group to be equipped through the
kind efforts OF Tho Evening
World. know Of no school
whore the need 10 moro urgent.
There are about three thou.
sand boys in this school, and at
! least 20 per cent. Of this number
are suffering from lack Of or i'm
proper food. ! know also that .
considerable percentage Of them
come to school breaLfastlsss, and
others como with perhaps .
breakfast Of tea and dry bread.
at has been found. in many
cases that some Of the boys ap.
pear to be faint, a. though suf-
fcrina from . drug, and upon in
svest,sation IL was found to bs
lack Of food. We shall have this
school ready in short order.
'It will then be possible for every
child who has pennies to buy the
lunch. and as Miss Grace Strachan
the District superintendent. has al.
ready been provided with fund,
through The Evening World fol
reaching the necessitous children who
assured that no child will go hungry
in this school when the service 1.
started.
IN A SECTION SUFFERING FROM
LACK OF EMPLOYMENT.
"The great trouble with tho chill.
dren OF this section IL the fact tina,
they come from families where many
Of the parents work in sweatshops
af fhara 4
considerable unemployment. Though
1t Ia n very crowded and poor neigh
borhood, many people there wht
seek aid this year were not compelled
10 do so before.
~ do not know Of anything tina
will alleviate such distress as thi
daily wholesome lunch in this publi
school. We shall endeavor to Civ,
tho most nutritious foods at once
Items of the menu will consist o
baked potatoes. soup. puddings, cocoa
milk. sandwiches. crackers. bake
beans. apple sauce. stewed fruit an
bananas"
Mrs. William Grant Brown. a MON
her of the Cooperation Committee o
The Evening World Penny Luncl
Fund, and Chairman OF the Bicnnia
Convention Of Women's Clubs. report
to-day that club women are indorsinl
the movement and anxious to help.
A typical letter comes from Mrs
Jennie s. Parker. and reads as fol
lows:
'Piease find fnciosed check 20
School Children's Lunch Fund.
think II Is ons OF the best things tina
has been done this winter"
LUNCHES TO BE EXTENDED II
HIGH SCHOOLS.
en- IA
of Lunches, ts at present working o.
n plan 90 extend lunches In the hig
schools. SO as TO make one consoli
dated organization OF all schools. u
says: 49,.
"BeiIsving that tho high scho'
lunch situation presents an oppor
turn over for the maintenance an