The Cordele dispatch., 1919-10-24
HOT SCHOOL LUNCHES

ing the not lunch service anu mas
issued circular covering the plan
Of operation. And the IDEA has caught
IN all over the state.
Hot school lunches for anaemic
children in the slums of cities have
been intermitenty tried for years
They are a poor substitute for good
housing and effective hygienic re-
gulations. But out in this fantastic
country where rainboWs are painted
on the mountains. where water comes
by the striking of the rock and fruit
full ,rees spring up to feed the people
ont where the spell of the ancient
past still fingers, one scarcely is pre-
pared for this Innovation.
Behind the hot school lunch is an
expression of the community spirit,
the awakening to the idea that often
there is a better way of doing things
than the one that has been handed
down to us. Communities, more than
ever before, are awakening to the
idea of doing things together. They
are decoverng in Arizona the gen
uinn pleasure that comes with team
work. the spirit of "all for one and
one for all"
May not this idea be carried to the
larger things than hot school lunch
es? What valid reason is there in any
community, for any member to be
Hadly housed and half starved? Once
a township in an eastern state never
had representative in the county
aims house. The pride of the people
forbade that such thing should be.
They took care of their own with a
fidelity that saved many heart ache
and set an example for emulation
wherever possible.
If we follow the development of
the community spirit of cooperation
and helpfulness along its logical
course the aims houses will disap-
pear. VIZ shall have banished the
idea thai we have no responsibility
to the community beyond our own
front gate.
Return to the hot school lunch.
This becomes by slight extension, a
community lunch, a getting together
for social while, democratic ar
rangement. In the hot lunches there
will be a tendency toward plain, sub
stantial food in place of an excessive
amount of sweets in the form of cak
es and pies that make havoc with
some digestions.
AS we think of it, what ridiculous
thing it is to have a school house
without well appointed kitchen and
dining room where all the young
folks may learn the art of cooking
and all the refinement that belongs
to cooking. serving and the equip
ment and decoration of the home
Where have been all our vaunted
ideas of progress and enlightenment,
that we have not though of this be-
fore?
|. appears that there is new
thought in the world. We have come
quite unanimously to the working too
much and thinking and playing too
little. The lunch hour may become
a period of social celebration.
The hot school lunch in Arizona is
an expression of what is taking place
in the minds Of the people in widely
separated parts of the country.
When a community attains TO a
state of mind that impels the mem
bers to work industriously and in
harmony for the common welfare,
when they are willing to forget social
presidents and reference and enter
whole heanedly into doing things
that will benefit everyone the seed
of anarchy is smothered,
The hot school lunch, the social
hour that goes with it. the parental
interest in the school that will de-
velop from it, mark a good beginning
EXPLAINING THE WAR
Few people in this country think