The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-09-09

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We NIL up our cups as we pass along.
lheS We decided were as good as the
chickens.
| DO you know that there are 6.0O0.-
OOO children, or one out Of every four
IN the Unied Safes suffering from I'M
dernourishment and that $4,000 chill
dren die every year from poor or de !
ficient food? Not from lack of food.
understand, hut improper food.
One line of help for the betterment
of the malnourished child is the hot
lunch at school-either hot dish to
supplement the lunch brought from
home or the entire lunch servet. at the
school
The greatest need for the hot lunch
is found in the rural schools. There
are hundreds OF children in Idaho
who leave their homes for the school
buildings at Z 80 or 500 O'clock In
the morning and do not return home
again until 8 200 or 5 80 in the even
ing. They snatch a hurried breakfast
in the morning, make the long trip on
the school wagon, or go horseback or
perhaps walk; have cold lunch at
J noon and make the return trip home
, having had no ether food than a cold
! lunch that probably has been prepared
in n hurry.
, The children are growing and de-
veloping rapidly in the years from the
first grade to the eighth, but they
cannot progress mentally and physic-
; ally If they do not have adequate food.
e A cold lunch now and then is not so
e bad, but cold lunch five days a week
! four weeks n month, eight or nine
t months out of the year, grows most
|, monotonous.
a Ask yourself how you would like tC
grow and study on cold day with nc
. warm food inside of you from early II
y the morning until late in the evening
i Good school buildings and adequate
r equipment and teachers may he pro
It vided, but unless the children are in {
If good condition for study they canno
s. reap the benefits Of those fine things
G. Many teachers testify to the fact tina
" the children appear to be in bette
~ physical and mental condition TO
:, work when they have a hot dish a
:. noon, that the discipline is easier a
~ the lunch hour and that the childre
Ut do better school work in the Afternoon
'e Much good work can be done towar
tn establishing coed food habits for th
Sc children by installing the hot scho'
lunch. They learn something abot
the kinds of foods that are needed
make them grow to build their bone
and teeth, and to keep them warm an
IN give them energy. AS a result the
" are more willing to eat the kinds {
20, foods that are best for them.
In some Of the schools in ldah
49,. where the hot lunch has been installe
"a the hot dish is served only during Il
~, cold months and discontinued wht
~ the weather is warm in the spring al
no fall Others serve the lunch for Il
ID entire school term, because the CHI
dren want it and the teachers al
rot parents believe il is worth while.
Q The children are eager for the lunc
.et they feel better because Of having
q hot dish and they like the party spil
rst of being served together. They a
700 only too glad to cooperate, and i'll ma
in schools the boys build tables and Gu
tho boards from dry goods boxes and t
girls prepare the hot dishes. The oh
tba dren have made some attractive pc
o ers illustrating their ideas of the
nm school lunch. One concludes from
-or. posters and ihe letters which the lie;
tba ers and agents have received from
O children that the lunch is very POI
,nn lar with them and if it We're up to In
mr. alone to decide the matter, there wo
IA be a unanimous vote for hot sch
cun lunch.
the The department of agriculture
inc Washington states that the hot lul
lin. was installed in 1920 schools in
north and west states last year thro'
him the efforts of the home demonstrat
or agents. Some of these were in Ida
sale The school year of 19202l should
at great many more hot lunchNs inst
ring ed in the rural districts of this stat
req If you are asking yourself 4
can we have the hot lunch in
fer school the problem may be solved
an follows: If you have farm bur
ore and IA home demonstration agent
her. your county, your community may
m tain the help of this agent in worl