Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-09-28

only natural. AnOIueF cause LOT lue
decrease, however, was the strike In
the steel industry, the principal con-
sumner of fire brick.
The average price per unit increased
very little in 1919 as compared with
1918. Common brick increased in
price II per cent, face brick Is per
cent, hollow tile eight per cent and
vitrified brick or block 80 per cent
The average increase in price Of all
these wares from 1916 TO 1919 was 70
per cent.
Structural clay products IS a whole
(mainly brick and tile) were valued
in 1919 at $102, $4,000, or sc per cent
of the total, compared with $4,000, 300
in 1918. Engineering products (vitri-
fed brick, sewer pipe and draintffe)
rose in value from s30,675,000 in 1918
10 $37. 100000, or 20 per cent of the
total, in 1919. Refractories (fire brick
and stove lining) decreased in value
from $50, 322, 900 in 1918 to $36,900,0 900
in 1919, 20 per cent Of the total. Mis-
cellaneous products constituted four
per cent.
Common brick regained 1T rank as
the clay product of greatest value in
1919; but notwithstanding the large
gain shown in the accompanying table,
production in 1919 was the smallest
yet recorded by the United States
geological survey, except that in 1918.
The average price per thousand in
1919. $12.79. was the highest recorded
by the geological survey.
Face brick showed the next largest
increase in actual quantity and value
and by far the largest percentage of
increase.
Big Gain for Building Tile.
Hollow building tile or block, which
has been steadily gaining in use, in
creased in both output and value in
1919, and its value was the highest
recorded, being greater by % per cent
than in 1917, the year in which it had
next greatest value.
Tile mot drain) also made con-
siderable increase in value in 1919
and reached record value $1.250.0 900.
The year of next highest output was
1917, when the value was $G,S21 POI.
Architectural terra Gotta, which in
1918 reached its lowest value since
1900, rallied in 1919; but with the ex-
ceptiOn of the years of 1908 and 1915,
its value was the lowest since 1904.
With the removal of government re
Striction on road building the out
put of vitrified brick or block in 1919
increased somewhat but was apparent
~ below the normal having been lit
tie more than half the average
reached during the preceding ten
years. The average price per thou
sand in 1919, $23.1l, was the highest
ever recorded.
The value of sewer pipe and drain
tile also showed large gains in 1919,
having been exceeded only in 1917.
School Lunch is important.
According to the federal bureau
of education, lie school lunch is
rapidly becoming a recognized part
of our school system. and should
therefore be established through
the use of schol funds, with
the overhead expenses of conducting
the lunch supplied from the same
source. The day Of the concesSionare
is passing. says the bureau, and it can
not pass too quickly. as it turns the
lunch into q commercial enterprise
with the welfare Of the children not
the first and only consideration. No
school lunch should be conducted at a
profit. Even in the larger schools the
receipts from the lunches should at
the most only cover the cost of the
raw food, of service, and other running
expenses.
A careful study of SchOol-lUnch
problems should be made in every
school starting such work, as it is of
the greatest Importance that the lunch
should he developed along the BROAD
est possible lines. The cooperation
and interest Of the entire community
are necessary, and the interest of the
school boys and girls themselves
should be aroused and maintained in
every conceivable way. Good Organi-
cation is necessary for successful
work. The problems of organization
and administration are here discussed.
while the food problems themselves
are not considered in detail. Valuable
references on diet are available, and
q selected list of these is given for
the benefit of teachers who wish TO
inform themselves in regard to all as
poets of the work. The knowledge.
teacher will determine the success of
the undertaking.
Vital Part of Health Teaching.
The bureau says the lunch work
should be n vital part of the health
teaching in every school. The chill
dren who stay at school for lunch need
hot food at the noon hour. but that is
not all. An excellent opportunity is
offered for instruction and training in
right food habits. and teacHers should
take advantage of this to the fullest
extent possible. The lunch at school
should never become perfunctory
matter. 1t is not just a question of
providing food. but is means of
teaching the boys and girls TO eat in
the right way the foods that are good
for them.
Through the school lunch teachers
may work very closely with the homes
of the community and should know
something of home conditions in their
own districts. Common errors in the
feeding of children are frequently re-
vealed when teachers secure the inter
est and cooperation of the mothers.
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