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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
School Lunches the Best Fore
Runners of Community Kitchens

The question of the success of COM
munlty kitchens all comes down to the
matter of education, and it is the firm
conviction of at least two experts on
the subject, DR.. S. Josephine Baker, of
the Health Department, and Dr. Mary
Schwartz Rose, of the New York Fed
eral Food Board, that this must be ac-
complished through the children. If the
children can be taught to eat and to
really like the wholesome, nutritious
food which the dietitians of the commu-
nifty kitchen provide for them they will
demand the same sort of food at home.
and what the children eat their elders
will eat.
And SO it all comes down to the burn
ing question of school lunches If the
children can be given a wholesome, pal
atable luncheon every day we shall be
killing two very large birds with one
stone: we shall not only be building I'D
the undernourished children but we
shall be demonstrating to the parents
Of these children the fact that their off
spring will take as kindly to the nutri-
tious foods provided by the detitians as
they do to the less wholesome but more
familiar dishes on which they have been
brought up.
Of course, there can be no question
in the minds Of any of US as to the ad-
visibility Of furnishing luncheons in dis
tricts where the children are left to get
their own meals either from the left
overs IN the pantry or from the corner
delcatessen store or ice-cream parlor.
1t seems just as necessary to provide
these lunches as to provide textbooks
or other school equipment, and when
you also realize that the establishment
of these school lunch rooms will serve
the double purpose of educating the
grown-ups of the neighborhood out of
their food prejudices," thus paving
the way for community kitchens which
will grow and flourish like those of
which st. Louis is Justly proud, wa can
hardly wait to see the first lunthroom
established and the machinery set in
motion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Community Kitchens Born
Of the Epidemic

DIR. Harris, of the Health Department,
IS one of the most earnest advocates of
the community kitchen, and during the
recent influenza epidemic he had the OPP
portunlty of observing the working out
of the idea. Three of the women's war
relief organizations opened kitchens in
different parts of the city where soup,
cereals and custard were prepared for
the families of the sufferers and deliv-
cred to them by the women Of the Motor
Corps. Later the city took over these
kitchens and added milk, eggs and bread
to the menu. The work was discontin-
ued when the epidemic was over, to Dr..
Harriss great disappointment, for he
had hoped that it might be continued
as a permanent adjunct to the Health
Department.
However, DR.. Harris, having become
convinced of the benefit of serving cooked
food to the people of the tenement dis
trlcts, has not yet given up hope of see
ing something worked out along this
line. He has in mind a plan whereby
the hospital kitchens throughout the city
may be used for this purpose. With ex-
ira help and equipment and additional
ambulance service the regular meals
which are served to the patients in the
hospitals might be sent to the families
of the district.
An interesting experiment was carried
on along the lines of the community kit
chen in several of the settlement houses
as an aftermath of the community can
ming kitchen. When the canning season
was over the women of the neighborhood
were invited to use the equipment for
cooking meals for their families. BY
clubbing together and buying in large
quantities they saved on the raw materi
ais and, of course, they also saved
great deal on the fuel. Each of these
so-called cooperative kitchens was under
the supervision Of q domestic science
expert who tactfully directed the buying
and the method of cooking the food.
The old Mayors Committee of Women,
which went out Of existence when Mayor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Church Going As O.
Free and Joyous
Recreation
Bv MARY ALDEN HOPKINS

0UNDAYS are dreadful days in most
cities. They are the loneliest day
~ in the week for many people Yes,
oven for some who dwell in families.
Az for the hall bedroom hermit. he is
in worse fog of loneliness than q pa
hent in an isolation hospital Every
city has its own special brand of gloom.
In Boston you may spend the day wait
ING for it to be time to turn your daven-
mort into bed. In Philadelphia you
NAV send telegram to yourself for the
sake of having the landlady come up to
ask if anybody is dead. In Chicago a
man was once so bored that he COM
mitted suicide to start something. But
New York is grand place to spend
Sunday in. You can go to church,
Goodness Made
Thrilling
paper till I've had chance to explain.
Going to church in New York is a very
different matter from the practice as
YOU knew it when child. In those DAYS
the minister talked as long as he chose
on whatever subject he chose 1t was
up to you to be interested. The very
young people and the very old people
went to sleep. The others were patient.
It was easy money-what there was
of it-being a minister in those days.
To-day a New York minister has to
"hold' his audience to hold his job.
He has to make goodness as thrilling as
wickedness. The result is that church
is far more enjoyable.
If you doubt my statement look over
the church advertisements in the Satur-
day papers. The titles of the sermons
vary from "Christian Conversation
which sounds like gilt-edged gift book
on Handicapped centre table, TO the
movie-like query "Is He'll q joke" If
none of the sermons allure you, church
which will not remind you Of the dear
old home church is the McAuley Water
Street Mission, at 316 Water Street,
which holds a meeting at 1880 every
Sunday night, "drunkards especially in
dted.' The Rescue Society meets in
the old Chinese Theatre, at Doyers
Street, at 9:30 Sunday night, q time
admirably arranged to harmonic with
a supper in wicked, wicked Chinatown.
Times have changed their customs since
the days when you ate gingerbread in
the churchyard between services, dam
cling your feet from tombstone!
You can't go to Europe nowadays, but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Some Of the
Reasons Why

One vigorous woman with seven
children gave as reagon for not avail
ing herself of the privileges of this COM
munity kitchen that if she didn't do her
own cooking she wouldn't know what to
do with her spare time. Several ex-
planned that their husbands forbade
their patronizing the kitchen for fear it
would make them lazy; others objected
to paying 80 much money out "all at
once"~-they were accustomed to buying
their provisions at different stores, and
it seemed as RI they spent less money
this way Some objected to being tied
down TO regular meatimes; the various
members Of the family were in the habit
Of eating whenever they were hungry;
they rarely sat down to meal together
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

woman who has lived in India all her
life and proposes to show the women of
the district how to prepare rice and vege-
tables in dozen delectable ways" I
wonder if this we'll meaning organizer
realizes that it has taken many a long
month to convince these same women
that oatmeal with milk and sugar is a
proper food for their growing children
or how much coaxing and cajoling is
needed to induce these children to take
the first sip of this "delectable' mixture.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
low
By ELENE FOSTER

n ISIS SENSENEY'S article on
vi the community kitchens of ST.
Louis, published in the Institute
pages OF February 2, has raised the ques-
Ton as to the fate of the various COM
nunity kitchens which from time to time
have been established in this city.
Where are the kitchens of yester-
year," Disappeared, one and all, from
oil the face Of the earth-and why? For
various reasons, but largely because the
people for whose benefit they were es-
'aollshed were suspicious Of them. This
the plain, unvarnished truth, and there
no need to disguise it; one may as
veil look the matter squarely in the face
and then look about for remedy.
It is a problem akin to that of Amer
'eanlzlng the foreign population. The
people Of the tenements for whose bene-
NJ these kitchens were established do
Ao' want the wholesome, nutritious food
which is provided; they are perfectly
content to feed their families on the kind
VI food to which they have always been
s.eeustcmed, and it is only by educating
'aem in the way that they should eat"
mat the community kitchen can be made
" iulhl the purpose for which it is in
snaed and prove self-supporting civic
p'oJect~not languishing charity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
A Cathedral Tour
On the Island of
Manhattan

set in the surrounding walls, the ground
smo othed and given over to toddling
youngsters from neighboring tenemenrs
Three New York potters' fields have been
turned into parks Washington, Union
and Madison squares) after the aged
bones had been removed. The old grave
yards of st. Paul's and Trinity, on
Broadway, are filled with strolling
groups of girls from the Office buildings
at noon time and with tourists at other
hours. It's rather nice to think that
graveyaros are not such dismal places
after all. The resting places of the dead
are breathing spots for the living.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

you can visit Europe in the churches
here. The services in the different for
eien colonies are conducted in foreign
languages, according to foreign customs,
with foreign audiences Notre Dame de
Lourdes is a Roman Catholic church at
Hath Street and Morningside Avenue
West and Eglise du Saint Esprit is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

Huguenot church at as East Twenty
seventh Street, where the services are IN
French. The Church of the Most Pre-
cious Blood, in the Italian district, at
113 Baxter Street, is a bit of Italy For
Polish church, try ST. Stanislaus, at
lO7 Seventh Street. The Russian church
is the Orthodox Cathedral of st. Nicho-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

Hylan came into Office, had Furnishing
Community Kitchen well established in
the old New York University Building,
at Twenty-third Street and Lexington
Avenue. When the present Mayors Com
mlttee came into existence this kitchen
was discontinued and the plant given
over to the making of pastry and dough-
nuts for the soldiers and sailors can
teen which the Mayors Committee is
CONDUCTING
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
History Repeats
lt,eH

Inc history Of the community kitchen
,ss oeen somewhat the same everywhere.
'siaennber back in the days Of my youth
~s experiment which Mrs. Ellen Rich
S'os tried out in Boston. She estab-
.'''so q series Of these kitchens in the
r''fsr districts which she called New
."siand Diet Kitchens" where nutri-
'sss 1000, prepared by dietitians, was
~ az cost. These Kitchens were never
''@iing SUCCESS, but they were kept on
= number OF years in the hope that
- might grow in favor as the people
-" educated 10 the better kind Of food
sA'en they provided. But the people
49,. am get educated and the New Eng
"'et Kitchens died natural death.
a. =" Remember Mrs. Richards's keen
.sn appointment at their failure and re-
49,, nc quoting the words Of one Of the
a. a.0rnood women, who, when asked
~. 'as oidr't patronizc the diet kitchen.
~. N'' Because I'd rather eat what I'd
~ tor Wv """s W" ioikS TELL
&. : sou viii inquire into the reasonx
49, - Passing Of the several community
hi. s 3. which have been established In
'ss during the last few years you
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
A Nice Party to Which
Nobody Came

Some six or eight months ago the food
committee Of the Woman's Municipal
League evolved what seemed very
practical plan for simplifying the food
problem for people in moderate circum-
stances, that is to say those who pay
rental of from $25 to $40 a month. The
idea was to rent two rooms in building
in the district and equip kitchen for
serving hot meals to the people of the
building or the block This, after all, is
the old Bellamy and Charlotte Perkins
Stetson idea. Adults were to be fed for
40 cents day and children for 20 cents.
Thus, if family consisted of father
and mother and three children the price
Of the entire food for the family a day
would be only $1.55, to say nothing of
the saving Of fuel and labor.
The first Of these kitchens was opened
with a neighborhood tea party The plan
was put before the women, and appar-
emily was received with unqualified ap-
proval. The next morning the kitchen
opened its doors for business and not
enc solitary customer appeared on its
threshold, and what is more, no one ever
did appear, although the kitchen was
kept open for several weeks. Visitors
were sent from house to house through
out the district for the purpose of nves-
tigating the cause Of the failure of the
scheme and a great deal of interesting
data was collected, some Of which was
very amusing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

Fulton Street, is the oldest of all. it
was built in 1854, the steeple being
added thirty years later A choice col
lection of graves surrounds the edifce.
ST. Marks, at Second Avenue and Tenth
Street, is sometimes called St. Marks
ln-the-Bouwerie. st. Johns Chapel, in
Varick Street, hadn't pane to it's win
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

be-sure-to-sees But if you care to
combine history and architecture along
with language, music and religion on a
Sunday morning-a decorous portfolio
of pleasure-why, then, you'll be glad
to know the three oldest church build
ings.
st. Paul's Chapel, at Broadway and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

'ows the last time passed. It's evident
10 services are being held there and that
the small boys of the neighborhood are
enterprising. It's charming building
and deserves to see better days again.
Old London graveyards have been
turned into children's Fairgrounds. The
broken, weatherworn headstones are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Where Are the Kitchens of Yeeyear? The With
Some of Nesv lorks Special Problems in Community
Work and Ho1u Sofue

except for Sunday dinner. A great many
refused to forego the pleasures of mar
keting, as this was the one excitement
in the days work-it was almost their
only opportunity for social Intercourse.
There were many, too like Mrs Rich
ards's customer, who "wanted what they
wanted when they wanted it." and not
when the community kitchen said that
they could have it,
"Native Dishes" Should
Have Place
There were fore gners among them,
too, who preferred their own native
dishes to any prescribed by the kitchens
dietitian. This, of course, is one of the
greatest drawbacks in q district whose
inhabitants are foreign-born. Not only
in the Jewish districts where food regu-
lations are part Of the religion,
but among other foreigners-Italians
Greeks, Bohemians and so on-there are
deep-rooted food prejudices which must
be overcome. Only those who have
worked among our foreign population in
the interests of food conservation can
realize how strong these prejudices are
and how obstinately these people cling to
their native dishes. The children are
especially "fnicky," and it would seem
that the poorer they are the more par
tcular they are about what they eat. AS
DR.. Baker, who has made study Of the
subject, puts it, "The poorest child will
suffer the pangs Of hunger rather than
touch the food which the child Of we'll
to-do parents will eat without muir
muir"
On the other hand, as the st. Louis
kitchens prove, the difficulty can be over
come by tact, good judgment, patience
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

will find that history repeats itself And
this state Of things applies not only to
the poorer classes. A recent experiment
has shown that it is the same with peo-
pie of better circumstances and pre-
sumably higher grade of intelligence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

las, Greek Catholic church. This is
at ID East Ninety-seventh Street. Syri-
ans attend St. Joseph's Maronite Chapel
down by the Battery, at 46 Washington
Street. The loveliest of all the foreign
churches is the Spanish Church of Our
Lady of Hope, at 156th Street, near
Broadway. A long list of these quaint
spots of worship is given in Riders
New York City," The very names
show they are not the kind your mother
used to make you attend, under the i'm
preston, poor dear, that if you had to
go when you didn't want to you would
want to go when you didn't have to.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

\ n ISIS SENSENEY'S article on
vi the community kitchens of ST.
= o1,i.- Ll:rl.o.I +lao
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

very amusing.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-06
Plans Mature for the National
Organization for Law Enforce
ment, WithT.C c. Darlington, State
Director, and H. N. Phillips Treas.

with the
drives for funds for every known
Apart the Of these campns
sTs been secure funds for limited IN Us epss sna s
which being perfected which differs from Other,
Antssoon league America will during Of January
lion lars 70 fnn heh Be- expnsea two great OBJECTS
these objects law the second ns akea
Boil
opinion s minds ANY, eoed 9os
The e league plans a1 to
this great work 70 a ssE fo 9th p s
Systematic and plans have been made for reaohs
campaign OBJECT
efran s s a9rssa ted an" s n
distribution Other printed matter
mining
nes ssses what smosracy es ssn and wharf h
s s ar ' he s ,s s a 81 a ..r
srit1 .hns
not '" Of the ''', sdi & II n
age cansress " as washington
extending prohibition all
s. sreash out sul this Meeting that man foreign
nnb " any effective wn,x to n' a" aeHoT
Of his country conference
tuna to rased January M 81 devoted sesas and liquor
the un,.sa feeding China Cuba ans ether countries NTH
sa, r.;
nvaso" Of the Gss ss s-2sn vfss '
Plans
Of the eanpasn ha been opssd
being the STAT
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s q a r i .
e Sess isaa
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-06
Reported American Delegation Favors
Immediate Dispatch Of Note to Germany

leaves no further room for pickering
on the part OF Berlin.
While no official explanation 10
given postponing the despatch OF the
note there Is no question in the minds
Of those close to the supreme coun-
Gil that the allies are still tenroriz-
Ing with Germany because they are
unwilling to adopt a Anal policy unfii
the attitude OF the United States SEN
ate toward the question of reconsider
ing the peace treaty is revealed
The question as to whether there
will or will not be further represen~
.aticn OF the United States at the
peace conference is another factor
believed 10 have much to do with the
delay In bringing the Germans to
terms.
Meanwhile France is vigorously
capita lizing the German attitude in
order to win over the American GEM
ate to the treaty and assure virtual
alliance between France and Amer
lea.
A tremendous press campaign Is
anticipated, the object of which Will
the German peril and hasten the
adoption Of definite American pol
icy toward the allies which will be
utilized as a basis for the ultimate
action toward Germany.
That important exchanges OF
opinion are going or secretly be-
tween Paris end Washington with re-
ference to the withdrawal Of the
American delegation is indicated by
the fact that Frank Folks sailing
date is not vet set Nor IL there q
single sign Of actual preparation for
departure evident at the Crillon in
spite Of the recent announcement
that the American delegation would
leave Tuesday or "wednesday.
In authoritative quarters. here Y 10
not believed the Germans win refuse
20 sisn the protocol in the face Of
MarehAl Foch'S assurances that he
possesses adequate means Of military
IcoAxcion.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-06

strike. Both parties are very anxious
to have the conference continued
Accordingly, the sessions took an
adjournment until II o'clock Monday
morning Throughout tho day the
separately. The operators came first
and the governor made u very serious
talk on the situation facing the
country He spoke of the hope OF a
settlement The operators listened
to his statements and then retired to
their hotel
The minors leaders then came
forward and the governor had a long
talk with them, following which
another conference with operators
lasted until Ave O'Clock. It was then
he said he saw progress,
Both sides made an agreement 20
keep out of the newspapers ~ II had
been calculated that too much pub
licity injured the chances OF early
settlement OF the strike. They per-
nitted the governor to make public
all that was to be said. The govern
or's statements were brief and'to the
point
Before the conference began H.. A.
Augustus OF Cleveland. who Is per-
haps the leading coal operator IN
Ohio. said:
lem willing to leave everything
to the governor. lThis IL without any
reservation. ~
a settlement Il likely to be At
tempted q Indiana md Illinois.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-06
MEMORIAL SERVICES
RICHMOND ElkS

The Benevolent and FrafechNe
Order of Elks throughout the conn
Try will observe tomorrow 81 their
annual memorial day.
Richmond lodge will assemble
With their friends and the puriie ~
he lyric ,heater at s O'Clock, WHARF
the usual exercises, augmented by
a special musical program VIII ne
observed. and an address delivered
by Governor Davis
The Manchester lodge will meet
at II O'Clock at the home IN South
Richmond. where the services will
he held This lodge will Join with
the Richmond lodge In the afternoon
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-06
SHOOT FRoM HILL roPs.

SHOOT FROM HILL T0pS.
shooting In the Virginia Lee camp
resulted IN guards being Organised 70
run down the radical miners, ond OF
ficsr Cox was sent with bloodhoAnds
from the Bcndurant camp 60 aid insthe
search. Efforts to appreh4nst the -xslt-
Gals were unavaiitng ard Cor -
turued,s.s 81. s9sg $50 MI
ABOUT twenty minutes efxes fsamena
plsced the dngs tn $50 s1seNais@ l4
WA fSnAd near caaaD1Acu4
murder by an sunknovn 1Gp4 334nk and
detective groups have ex1rtsd ever
posvsibIe effort to apprehsnd his nnur.
/ derer. HI 4.
INTIsfInATE LOYAL sdINERH
Current threats purported 70 inttmi-
date loyal miners continue to be heard
about the several mining camps IN this
st Charles district. according 70 ad-
vices
asa result of these threats, produc-
ticr, which had reached point pf
about IN per cent of normal has ai-
ready been reduced to 20 per cent and
operators expect continued decraa&a
until something has heen done TO APP
prehend the radical element.
With industries crippled In every
section of the country and domestic
coat consumers limited to one-ten de-
liveries. conditions in the coal-produc-
ing districts in Virginia are said % h4
RAPIDLY getting worse @
Operators claim that if Governor
Da~is had allowed them troops the
ST Charles district would be In .
full operation at this time. Feel
ing among the operators and loyal
miners IN this district IL said to BE-
very strong against the governor 4
for his failure to act