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New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Laying a Foundation
For National Health

Up in Halifax, in the north Of
England, and in other rural dis.
tricts great electric vans have been
converted into National Kitchens,
End they go rumbling through the
picturesque lanes, bringing cooked
food to the little thatched cottages.
Many of the women in these little
cottages go miles to their work
When they return John Bull fears
they may be SO tired as to neglect
cooking food; they may even be too
tired to come to common centre
where the kitchen would be estab-
lished; therefore it is brought to
them.
At Poplar training school for
cooks adjoins the kitchen, so that
those women who feel that they
Lave real vocation for the culinary
arts shall lack no opportunity of de-
veloping it.
Since the war all Of England is
>oluble with the talk of social re-
form. The dream is to have no sub
merged tenth, no underfcd, sickly
other half, but a nation of bone
and sinew and good red blood. The
whole superstructure of reform, as
Mr.. Jones, the National Kitchens di-
rector, points out, will rear itself
successfully only on the firm foun-
dation Of national health.
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Sells Below Retail Cost and
Clears $500 a Week

OF course, the restaurant keepers
and caterers are wild, because, de-
spite the mandate that they must
show profit, the National Kitchens
draw like magnet. The Black
friars establishment, because of the
magnitude the enterprise has as
sumed, can serve meals actually be,
low what it would cost the house
, wife to purchase and prepare them
and yet show clear profit of $500
I & week, with all administrative ex-
penses paid and the weeks install
ment on the debt to the govern
ment. A.
Many prosperous families who
keep servants find it more con-
venient and more economical to
send their maids to the National
Kitchens for the cooked food than
TO prepare it in the home. They
often supplement their dinners
from the kitchen with their own
brand Of coffee and cheese, and life
IS as simple for them as it was for
the Swiss Family Robinson.
The maid washes the dishes
cleans the kettles for the next sortie
to the kitchen and calls it a day.
Thus the servant problem is by way
ef being solved also. The attrac~
tive villa of Wandsworth, outside of
I ondon, has no less than three Ma
tional Kitchens, home cooking hav-
ing been virtually abandoned.
Streatham, another thriving suburb,
Las its kitchen, as has Chelsea, one
o. the most charming and historic
old districts Of London.
Though the great factories have
turned over" from war to peace,
the kitchens adjoining them have re-
manned, and the Food Ministry has
further plans for feeding the school
children. Moreover, it has just been
announced that each Of the great
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

experts to keep the enterprise up
to the mark, ara so successful has
it been already that France, who
was watching it's. development, has
announced her intention of inaugu-
rating a similar public service
shortly.
Women the civilized world over
have dreamed Of the day when
household problems could be simpii-
fed, with domestic drudgeries obvi-
ated. The cooked food services
which have sprung up here and
there represent the attempt to at
tain this ideal, but mainly they have
been only small-scale attempts
touching small portion of the pop
ulation. Great Britain, however, by
q vast governmental gesture has set
down among her people some 800
national kitchens and restaurants.
Daily to hundreds Of thousands of
women she is demonstrating the
marvels to be accomplished by in
telligent organization, the wonder
of community effort, and many of
these women, to whom formerly out
side work spelled neglect of home,
are enabled now to eat their cake
and have it, too, as it were.
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in the heart Of the "slummiest" of
London's slums, a different and,
more picturesque sight is presented.
The Poplar housewife is joyfully
reconciled to having her food cooked
for her at a. price only slightly
above cost, but, despite the fact
that she and her family often live
in but one room, they cannot get
rsed to eating out, so she herself
comes with her kettles, gets her pre-
pared food. takes it back to her
small abode, where she reheats it, if
necessary, before serving it to her
man and children.
Thousands of women visit this
kitchen daily. Many of them are
women who never before had we'll
balanced meal. They knew nothing
about food values. Tastily prepared
food has always meant to them ex-
rensive food, and the buying and
preparation of meal was pain
full procedure, fraught with much
anxiety, for prices are fearfully
high in England to-day. Moreover,
as this article is being written. the
nation is still rationed and only a
skilled dietitian can contrive a meal
that is at once nourishing and
cheap.
The women Of the slums have not
been slow to appreciate the advan-
tages to be enjoyed from combined
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Thrift a Transplanted Virtue

the lesser joy or satisfaction as it
passes, while the civilized man waits
-defers his satisfaction that he may
have greater one when it comes.
This is the whole spirit of thrift.
Whether it be Of materials or money,
food or clothing, the idea is to save,
not waste-invest in the thing that
fasts rather than in the perishable
commodity or pleasure. Of all the
new ideas and inspirations that the
war has brought us there is surely
none that America needs more to
cultivate under peace conditions than
this one Of "thrift." But it needs to
be given to the children as an ideal
in self restraint for the purpose of
having later keener, bigger pleas
ure, sense of safety and power, in
having something back of you," a
steppiog-st on which one may
stand to reach a greater good than
the thing one could buy et the
moment.
One ice cream soda ip these days
represents NEARLY a whole thrift
stamp, and twenty Of them is a
whole five dollar bill-Awhich may
be part of bicycle or some other
dreamed of bliss. And the dream
can grow on into travel and college
education if rightly nourished. We
need q real theology Of thrift-a
visiop Of it's blessings--to teach our
children. TO teach them merely to
| skimp or to hoard would be indeed
: sorry thing. And SO we un-
doubtedly needed this Thrift Sunday
with word from the pulpits on
thrift as a national virtue, just as
we needed the plans in the schools
that the children might absorb this
ideal along with other knowledge.
II will be disaster if our love Of
thrift proves 10 be only war affair.
It should be the love Of lifetime.
A. L. p.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
A Good accent Dinner
Is Enjoyed by All

One evening I went down to
Blackfriars for dinner and was i'm
pressed not only with the very deli
cious food and the prompt service
Ct John Bulls domestic undertaking
but also with the democracy Of it.
The heterogeneity of the crowd was
remarkable; army and navy officers
scintillant with medals and service
ribbons; men in tophats and even
ing togs, off for the theatre or some
social function; middle-class fami
lies, of anti-race-suicide proper
tons, occupying whole tables by
themselves, and a great throng of
very poor people, who seemed to have
had no new clothes for years.
1 had oxtail soup, roast beef, hot
potatoes, lettuce salad, coffee and
tapioca pudding. Only the fact that
everything was so good-so much
better, in fact, than l was getting
at my hotel-kept the size of the
portions from seeming appalling.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Disdain of Girls and
Women a Useful Trait

Disdain of girls and womankind
is natures wise protection of the boy
who is neither child nor man. 1t
does not take close observer or a
logical mind to conclude what would
happen to his manly development if
he were the slave to the "fair SEX
at twelve or thirteen that he is, say,
at, seventeen. However, a woman
who really loves and understands
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7 seems to rest largely with the
women and children to Garry
on" the thrift campaign. - Do we
really believe in thrift as regular,
everyday virtue pertaining to peace
times? Or was it one Of the forced
growths springing out Of war ne
cessities, when we begrudged every
cent that did not help to win the
war?
We may make more real progress
toward peace-tine thrift if we ad-
init frankly that the average Ameri-
can in his innermost soul regards
thrift as synonym for stinginess; !;
thrifty person as tight wad."
We have much to do to "clarify our
concepts" on this score and get our
dshnitions Strengthened out. A
af1fty person is one who does not
waste small amounts-who gets the
most for his money. 1t does not
ioilo~ that he spends Leslie will
IN the long run be able to spend
more and get more for his money.
~ II the careless, needless habit
'i "leaks' in the pocketbook that we
are too shiftleys to stop that the
snrlft campaign is designed to cure.
oot OF our vast heritage of thou
'snas Of miles of land and sea and
Mountains, ready to pour their
"ssith into our hands, the American
nss come TO despise the value of lit.
.'e things, but with growing popu-
,as'on and changing conditions it be-
.oves us TO transplant the humble
'1Vae Of thrift from less wealthy
countries TO our own. The next
ssnssation may miss it sadly unless
= u ecclimated. Certainly, it is not
ssssss indigenous to America--it
must be cultivated.
: !nere is wise saying to the ef.
s.st mat one Of the main differences
B Desxesn the savage and the civilized
zen + that the fdrmer spatches At
- y
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Four Thousand Guests a Day
At the Blackfriars Restaurant

In Blackfriars, one Of the most
popqlous districts of London, lying
between historic Fleet Street and
the Houses Of Parliament, as many
as 1000 people have been known to
storm the doors of the neighborhood
restaurant in a day, and often long
queues form outside to wait their
turn for entrance. This establish
ment is run on the cafeteria plan,
snd only twenty cooks are employed.
One cook for 200 famished patrons!
And the food is extremely we'll
cooked and the service marvellously
smooth. I know, because I have had
meals there.
This kitchen is open from 1880
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England's national kitchens,
established supposedly for
the duration of the war;, are to go
on. 1t was when all the ablebodied
housewives were at work in the
rnunition and aeroplane factories.
on the buses, trans and railroads
that John Bull was moved to roll
up his sleeves and go into the
kitchen and see what he could do
by way of competing with war
profiteering restaurants.
That was more than a year ago,
when all of England appeared to
have taken the last notch possible
in its belt. The country was ra-
toned down to its last potato and
the pSs2ae1Ahaz oA a no~zaeAfns
meal was not within the ability of
the inexpert. But what John Bull
did not realize was that in estab-
fishing restaurants and kitchens
adjacent to his great industrial
plants he was starting something
he would have to carry on with in
peace times.
That, however, is precisely the
situation. Having taken a ''f1ier"
in community cooking, he has now
decided to. convert that wartime
experiment into a definite, peace
time actuality. The British Ma.
tional Kitchens, due to popular
clamor, have come to stay. T. G.
Jones, a conspicuously able member
of Lord Rhondda's Food Ministry,
has been appointed Director of Ma
tional Kitchens, with a staff of food
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

hole" in the psychic fence between
man and boy, but most men have to
have woman point it out to them.
1t seems to be taken for granted
that motherhood is a profession but
fatherhood only an avocation. If
child welfare could be made the avo-
cation of every good man and woman
the children of our country could be
surrounded by such care as would
make them good citizens.
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points out hero who would consider
himself traitor to his country if
he did or said anything to lower the
ideals of a future citizen.
The woman and the wise man who
know enough to say "old man." not
little man," and are inconsistent
enough to meet the demands of boy
aood in every possible way, will work
wonders in conserving that spon.
taneity and versatility that play
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
If There's "Sumpin' DOM -
The Small Boy Is There

Dld you ever wonder why, when
the crowd was SO thick around the
soapbox speaker, there seemed to
be no one close up to him, and when
you finally managed to see you found
him surrounded by an admiring
circle Of small boys? Who gets
tangled in the rope when the bal
loon goes up? Who gets injured if
something goes wrong when the avi
ator ascends or a mob is dispersed? D.?
Who but the small boy is everywhere
that there is "sumpin' doin'"
Now vacation is at hand and the
air is full of such discussions as
no grownup, native-born American
couA possibly have heard during his
character forming days. The woman
who is looking ahead for the boy
not only makes her daily conduct
contributory to his welfare but
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them and instead send their pages
with covered utensils to the kitchen
The newspaper stats of many of the
great newspapers in Fleet Street
are also fed in this manner.
At the kitchen at Poplar, however
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
By ELEANOR KINsELLA MDoNNELL-

until $3.50. Many of the factories
and office buildings which abound
In the district and which formerly
had their own canteens for their
employees have now discontinued
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

The price was one shilling one
Eenny-26 cents! 1t would have
cost at least a dollar in one of the
cheaper chain restaurants and twice
that much, or more, at a hotel. If
! were housewife in England I
should never cook a meal.
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effort. AS one beaming Cockney,
kettles on arm, said, with rare phi
losophy, Speaking of her husband +;
This way e gets 'earty meal
and lovin' wife at the sine time.
What more can a man arsk?"
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merely furnishes cooked food for
home consumption. In others it is
operated as a restaurant where
whole families to whom heretofore
eating out" has been a luxury
available~only, to the rich and spend
thrift may be- seen to come for their
three meals a dav.
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patronage, really appreciable profits,
so that the managers have been able
to improve and enlarge the estab-
hshments.
In many localities the kitchen
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Is John Bull better cook and stronger feminist
than Uncle Sam? We ask vou

IS n ANY during the last FIVE years demonstrated
that they do better thing. industry than
they do in domesticty In the have red make
cook or THAI know that
culinary ability is necessarily inherent
know also that organization spells
who do the work better
best efforts OF required
this period OF world recouction We
Gated work, when there much sides In the in
terest OF child welfare too
ing indgesbe meals that badly
bought There's plenty of work evrv
to be placed in the niche to
T. c. JONES, Director of British National Kitchens
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him can gain his confidence and ac-
cording to the "way of woman"
direct him without his knowing it.
Since she is thinking only of his
good, she will endure his patronizing
her and perhaps his being little
ashamed of their intimacy; he is
cultivating that precious trait un-
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such an important part in the lives
Of great men. The woman may be
too circumspect, but the wise man
whispers, "D- consistency if it
suppreSSeS."
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Danger is In inverse ratio to the
noise the boy is making

known in the science of "kultur"-
the protection of the weak. AS a
propitiaton to the feminist we will
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supplanted tomorrow, but that very
trait broadens and educates the boy
by teaching him the essential factors
that form strong characters. OF
course, it is easy sailing when it is
Foch. or even William S. Hart in
some of his pictures, or the street
car motorman with his need for con-
centration and steady hand. But
when he comes in awed and elated
over the lounger in the park who can
spit the furthest, perhaps Minerva
herself would have to think little
to find useful application. Whether
the hero be Napoleon or Horace
Greeley, dead, or the very much alive
policeman on the corner, the mother
must point out ideal characteristics
to be emulated.
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public parks in London is to have
it's kitchen, so that pleasure seekers
win not have to hurry home to their
meals.
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hero of the boys own selection.
True, "the' boys will is the winds
WILL" and the hero of, to-day will be
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Only the Apron at the
Other End of the String

The woman who believes mother
hood to be the most learned profess
sion and ponders in her heart every
thing that concerns her boy knows
that there comes a time when it is
best for her not to be everywhere
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

, add "at least what he thinks is the
weak"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

INVARIABLY on dress. parade oc-
casions in honor of motherhood
some one quotes that glowing
tribute, "God could not be every
where and so He made mothers" but
very few are honest enough, or, it
may be, thoughtful enough, to add
that mothers have been expected to
be everywhere ever since. If they
had not almost accomplished this
impossible feat we would probably
never have conserved enough small
boys to compile a victorious A. E. F.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-18
staging Another Raid On the Treasury.

Secretary Lane of the Interior department
is conducting persistent propaganda in favor
of his bill to expend within the next eight years
$100,000,0O0 to wipe out teracy in the United
States. It's object is nicely swathed in wrap
ping of patriotic effort, designed to promote
and foster AUGMENTATION Of foreigners and
education of native iliterates. Il covers up the
main purpose, however-that Of relieving GER
tain backward states of their responsibilities
in the matter.
Just why the taxpayers of Nebraska should
be asked to contribute to the support of public
schools in South Carolina or Alabama is not
plain. Yet that is what the Lane propaganda
aims at. The public school systems of the sew
eral states ought to remain under the control
of the states liberalization of our schools
holds great deal more of danger than appears
on the surface. Project for the moment the
controversy now raging in Nebraska over GER
tain phases of the school question into a nation
wide dispute and see what you will have
But each state should be held responsible
for its schools If not adequate for the proper
instruction of its children, it should be required
to bring them up to moderate standard of eff
cheney, but this should give it no right to ask
more progressive states to bear the cost.
Illiteracy in the United States springs from
several causes, one of which will very likely be
removed by the cessation Of immigration from
backward countries. Native-born illiterates may
be reached by state laws. If these can not be
made effective, the laggard state must bear the
odium. To permit it to shift to other states any
part Of the cost of giving its own children
primary education is unfair
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-18
TRYING no srop NAE TALK.

Administration supporters are expressing
considerable apprehension that they will not be
able to repress discussion, and perhaps criticism
Of the League of Nations plan until after the
president has had chance to say his say at
Boston.
Why should the matter be laid over, pend
ing the return Of the executive1 In every other
country in the world it is being debated, in pub
lie and in private, while Americans are asked
to suspend judgment or even discussion until
told what the president has in mind
Only few months ago we were asked from
the White House to suspend discussion Of
German peace offer until the executive was
ready to give his views AT that time he re-
ceived such an unmistaEeable proof of the SEN
tinaent Of the citizens, that whatever he had in
mind at the outset, his ultimate utterance, even
though delayed, was in line with public senti-
ment. He has little cause to fear the debate Of
his present great project
The people of this country are earnestly de-
sirous Of peace, but they are quite averse to
buying any more pigs until they are brought
out of the pokes in which they have been car
ried to market. They want to know where we
are going, and probably will have considerable
to say about the direction Attempts to head
off public discussion Of national issues in Amer
lea generally are futile
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-18
In the Matter 81 Wages.

Judge Alschuer, acting as referee, has made
an award increasing wages paid packing house
employees by 10 per cent. A Chicago manufac-
turer has just made over his entire plant to his
employees, as reward for faithful service. Seat
tie shipbuilders are expected to return to work
on Wednesday morning, at the scale of wages
they struck against several weeks ago. The
Chicago central labor union has voted for one
day general strike, to stop the bosses profits
for one day"
Here is material for volume of moralizing
disquisition. In the case of the packers, the in
creased cost of production will be passed along
to the consumer. In the second instance, the
employees now become owners, will prosper
just as they are industrious, energetic and
thrifty in the management Of their business
They willget a far better notion of the relation
between wages and profits The Seattle strik-
ers have already lost in wages almost as much
as the increase they demanded would have
amounted to in year; and they never can re-
cover from the effects Of their idleness. The
Chicago unions may be foolish enough to cease
all productive effort for a single day, to cut of
the profits of the boss, but they must not forget
that in doing so they also cut off the wages of
the men. And the most perishable thing known
is labor. That which is not sold today never
can be sold. Opportunity to work dies with
each tick Of the clock and never comes back
You can expand these truths for yourself
Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-18
Germany's War Bill.

DR.. Schiller, minister of finance of the new
German government has just given the world
some figures on the war bilpof the empire. 1t
may or may not be for the purpose of impress
ing outsiders with the fiscal difficulties of the
Germans, but its details are extremely interest
ing According to DR.. Schiller, 161,00OOO0O00
marks is the total expended by the kaiser's
government in connection with the war. This
is the charge against the imperial treasury alone,
and does not include any of the cost borne by
the states or communities, which will foot up
fully half as much more. In other words, the
final bill to the German people, exclusive of the
indemnities will be very close to $600O0,000,-
000 The interest charge on the imperial debt
at present is 1o0O00O0,0OO marks, or three times
the total revenue of the empire in pre-war
times. For the current year budget of 23,OOO,-
100000 marks is asked In Presenting these fig
ures, the minister of finance warns Germans
they must consider themselves as confronted
by most serious predicament Whether the
country can recover from its great burden will
depend on peace terms, which can not be an
tcipated. 1t is very certain that if the bills to
be presented by the Allies are met, that Ger
many will not enter on world war very soon
again