Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-12
HOT LUNCHES FOR
BETTER schools,
SAY CLUB WOMEN
Papers on Helping Schools
and Serving Hot Lunches
Given Before WOman'S
Club Friday.

| BY KORA HENfEY-MEACIIAM.
There is a destiny that makes us
brothers,
None goes on his way alone;
All that we send into the lives Oh
otheres
Comes back into our own"
"Only one-seventh of your
child's time is spent with the
teacher, six-sevenths OF it you. as
parents, are responsible for" said
Mrs. Ella LaBar, principal of the
high school, in paper read before
the Woman's club on Friday after
noon on the topic, How to Help
the schools" What a child Is
and what it may become, its real
character and attitude toward life,
10 influenced and developed by the
parent rather than by the teacher,
she declared. School is only sup
Elementary
Mrs LaBar urged that parents
attempt to better understand the
aim of the school and the purposes
of the teacher. I'VE underestimate
persons whom we DO not know"
she said, land taking the word OF
child as an absolute gauge of a
teacher might prove most unfair
and inaccurate Better discipline
in the home, more respect for au-
thority, an idea of good citizenship
learned, not from books but from
life, makes good pupils"
Children seem to want the
grown-up diversions and reflect
the attitude of the parents toward
life and society, she said, and re-
bel at restrictions that are best for
their development mentally and
physically. Here is good news for
the parent who complains about
doing more work than the child
rem do, Mrs. LaBar says. Let
them do their own work but see
that they have a comfortable,
quiet place in which to study
One ear should not be turned to
hear the entertaining gossip of the
neighbor who has come in to spend
the evening and, truth to tell, is
not talking for the enlightenment
of the children. The best way to
help the schools, it would seem,
Is to send healthy, sensibly dress
ed, well disciplined children to
school who have had their neces-
sary hours of sleep and leave the
rest to the teacher.
Hot school lunches have proven
a success wherever instituted
said Miss Minnie Diehl. She sug-
gested that the city might very
profitably consider establishing
them in all schools. France was
the first to inaugurate the idea Of
hot school lunches" said Miss
Diehl. "They are served free to
two-thirds of their school child
rem and may soon be free to all.
Medicine and clothing is also sup
land 80 per cent of the school
children are now getting free, hot
lunches, that country having dis
covered during the Boer war that
soldiers who had not been proper
ly nourished, as children, made
very poor soldiers. In America,
Philadelphia was the first city to
start the free lunch idea in 1898;
70 cities are now serving school
lunches, 6S of which are served by
city governments"
Our own city school and private
individuals are furnishing supple
mentary food to IA children and
the North Fourth Street school
parent teachers association is CIV
ing free, hot lunches to 20 child
rem. beside serving the regular
lunch at 3 cents q plate. The Old
Town school also serves hot lunch
es. wherever this food is sup
Piled" said Miss Diehl, "the child
rem show a marked Improvement
in every way. They copy the
menu of these lunches and take
them home, thug introducing In
the home an idea Of proper prep