Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-23
"NEED OF TOWN"
D. A. R." LETTER
ANOTHER NEED OF OUR TOWN

No need of our town interests the
entire community more than a need
which concerns the children. A large
majority of the children in our
school have eaten a hurried breakfast
by eight o'clock and do not get home
70 dinner until after 2:30. Any grow
ing child requires something to eat
batyeen these hours. Tests made by
Health Departments all over the coun-
try have shown that the child's ability
to learn Is decidedly greater IF dur
ing recess It has something HOT and
uourishins to eat rather than a cold
lunch. Often the children do not
even have this cold lunch but duli
their appetites and minds with candy.
OF course a child's health comes hrst
and Its education second and since a
hot lunch is q help to both of these
why do we not have hot lunch serV-
ed daily at our schoolsg 1t has been
done In other towns no larger thap
Cheraw and been proven practical
and self supporting. In Burlington, n.
c., the Parent Teachers Association
inaugurated it for the good OF the
children. They sold either hot soup
and crackers, or hot cocoa and sand
wiches, at q nominal price, just enough
to cover expenses. The children
marched through the lunch room at
recess time, were served in cafeteria
style" in a few minutes and still had
plenty of time for play before going
back to the class room. After the
first few days there were no children
who did not come with the price Of
a lunch, and the experiment proved
so satisfactory that finally an enter
prising woman took it over and finds it
a paying proposition. In larger towns
1t is even more successful.
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 14.-Annual re-
ceipts from lunch rooms maintained
at more than 80 public schools in
Dallas total from s25O,OOO to $780,
900. according to Supt. J. F. Kmball.
Beginning with the lunch room serV-
ice initiated by the Mothers club
through community effort and later
taken over by the board Of education
local schools are now serving lunches
daily to about 70 per cent, OF the
pupils In attendance at an average
cots OF from five to ten cents, Mr.
Kimball's estimate shows.
In addition to lunch rooms operated
In 81 public schools, there are two
rooms maintained by the Mothers
Club.
In three high schools. each. of which
has from 1900 to 1900 pupils. the
lunch rooms are in charge of chef.
who has his tsaff Of cooks and help
ers. These establishments have no
connection with the domestic science
Departments. Mr.. Kimball explained.
They are handled entirely by the chef,
and the volume of business is heavy,
feeding on an everage of 1900 pupils
q day at each high school. The boys
and girls are served at different cOun-
ters, an dafter the lunches are eaten,
they return the used dishes to the
scrapping tables. All high school
pupils are required to eat their
lunches in this room, regardless Of
whether they buy food there. MANY
pupils in all schools bring part o.!
their lunch from home, supplement
inc It with food from the lunch room.
u the small suburban schools an
efficient supervisor makes the rounds.
attending to proper maintenance OF
the lunch rooms.
WIN SOSl1 Va NPSASN-O
the lunches are sold near actual cost,
per cent, net profit being made to
be used as a sinking fund for break
age.
The supplies are all bought by the
purchasing agent of the board Of edu-
cation in wholesale quantities"
From THE State"
Isn't there some organization in
Cheraw interested enough in the wei
fare OF the children to inaugurate this
experiment here? We could begin in
a small way. as the ydid even in bis
city like Dallas, and at least try tF'
plan in our schools. Let us work to-
ward It and hope that It will h
accomplished thing in the near future