Jerome County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1919-1920, 1919-07-10

ices Of food and the scarcity Of cooks
y American people like coed things TO eat just
: we'll as ever. The question Is where can these
od things be hadf large proportion Of TWEEN
th century married women cannot cook accept
Sly and would not cook II they could. a modern
fy woman who can cook can hardly be blamed
y unwIlllngness TO spend all her time in home
$Crk. II is an age OF inefiiciency In restaurant
boxing as In most other things and menu prices
- even higher in proportion than material
ices.
/ Iva Lowther Peters. Ph. D.. OF hc womnn's divi-
on OF the council OF national defense made In
lS complete survey OF the various cooperative
M community food enterprises Of this country.
was then believed that n the war continued com
unity kitchens would have TO be established In
pr larger cities TO save food and fuel.
England was already running a great many Of
em, with encouraging results. and Doctor Peters
pt only studied these. but undertook thorough
tyestlgaton OF the cooperative movement from
b. time II was born In the eighteenth century.
As II happened the signing Of the armstice came
PSI In time to make the survey useless TO the
nited States food administration. but IL is going
b be Of great assistance to those individual Amer
pans who thinking OF cooperating with other
Pdivldual Americans I'm bringing down the price OF
biting.
An object lesson is a community kitchen that
3as opened in 1907 in Carthage. Mo II To-
&ted in a private residence and the various fami-
rs OF the neighborhood came TO II for their meals
zen family furnished Its own table. chairs, dishes,
pen silver. thus maintaining Its own tastes and
Pandards. To provide the original equipment for
Be kitchen assessment Of So per adult and $3.50
child was made In the beginning there were
members. including 10 or IL children. For the
rst three months the price of meals was SO for an
iut and $50 for child per week After the
When the number decreased 10 30 the price of
pard was advanced to $3.50 per week As the
tchens patronage decreased and the cost Of food
creased the price OF board kept advancing until
laliy' In 1911, four years after its opening, the
,chen went quietly out Of existence.
MOST OF the community cooking enterprises sur.
yed by Doctor Peters for the council OF national
iense tell practically the same story-a brief
punrity, brief decline. then extinction.
But the community cooking enterprises tell one
her story and II is this:
Inc only community cooking enterprises showing
unsuitable signs of success those where the
ntral kitchen delivers the cooked meals to the
mes These kitchens are now being established
several cities
ohlcago and many OF its suburban cities have
eir attention on Evanston. H.. just now. Evans
IS few miles north Of Chicago on Lake Mich
an II has about 20 'NO eople. II is city of
WINSTON Is called the CITY OF Churches" is the
at OF Northwestern university and is what may
81 ou'eu II high-eass American small city.
ies' EVANSTON is city of homes There are
ee" OF dwellings and comparatively few fiat
!" evidence. There are trees and lawns. The
'useS LOOK as II they had kitchens-good big
Domy, old-fashoned Kitchens where things Were
ooAeu-'pes like mother used to make" aud
us"nuts TO compare even with those of the Sal
ntlon Army.
D' 'he imagination that sets you TO shifting In
w nope OF catching delectable cdors from thes,
ui"shloned kitchens I'm these old-fashioned
Y"es Is delusion and snare. The kitchens nr,
"ere' nut they are as idle as n painted ship on
r s'n'eu ocean. Cause why-there nre no cooks
"ere was time. not long ago. when an occa
o"an COOK could be entlced out TO Evanston ant
past. '' WV" ''''''
% evanston Is going to have n community kitch
/" "nu mas made beginning. That's why Chicago
~ iii'hois are watching aer .ith interest.