The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-25

Community Kitchen in
Atlanta Feeds Poor at
2 Cents a Meal; Every
Worthy Person Eligible.
BY RALPH SANDERS
United Press stan Correspondent

A TLANTA, Ca Nov. 25.-A
IA charity movement of great So
cial significance began operations
today when a community kitchen
eryed food to the needy poor at
The cost Of 2 cents a meal.
The plan, originated by J. r. Nix,
president of the Atlanta Restau-
rant Owners Association, provided
steaming hot meals, complete in
vitamins and calories, to be car
ried out of the kitchen in the pur-
clasers pals and buckets and to be
consumed in the privacy of home
The bucket" cafeteria is ex-
pected to prevent the kitchen from
becoming a meeting place of va
grants and undesirables.
At the same time it provides a
square meal for every worthy"
person in Atlanta, since, as Nix
told the United Press, amy per-
son who is too lazy to come down
here and get it deserves to go to
bed hungry
TICKETS for meals are sold at
Il 2 cents each and the citizenry
is clamoring for them intrigued
by the idea of feeding five persons
for 10 cents a day.
Mr.. Citizen even is arning him
self with tickets to appease the
persons who stop him on the
street asking for the price of
cup Of coffee.
So great has been the response of
public benefactors that President
Nix started a second kitchen for
Negroes.
The Restaurant owners Asso-
citation, which conceived the idea
partly to eliminate the necessity
of giving free meals over their
restaurant counters, have organized
the entire movement without a cent
OF expense.
No individual concern has been
canvassed and all the contributions
have been voluntary.
Il
TN the beginning the scheme was
i announced in the newspapers.
A banker came first with offer
of a large showroom free of rent.
The co-operatives in Produce
row. brought offers of all the veg
etables the kitchen can use.
A bakery offered abundance of
bread and cake.
A dairy promised plenty of milk.
The power company offered free
electricity.
The gas company offered free
gas.
The phone company free tele-
phone.
A decorating company painted
the place free.
A sign painter painted signs all
over the kitchen without charge.
A plumbing company fixed the
plumbing.
A woman's club manned the
kitchen with cooks and assistants
working without pay and also pro-
vided bookkeepers and clerks.
A furniture store provided chairs
and tables.
The wholesale grocers promised
all requested canned goods.
An equipment house gave re-
frigerators and stoves, pans and
kettles.
The street car company sent down
several hundred street car tickets
for the use of workers in the
kitchen.
A printing company printed meal
tickets free of charge.
A ND still they come, all anxious
n to help. Many have offered
their cars and chauffeurs to take
food to invalids who can not come
to the kitchen. The retail grocers
asked to help and were advised to
buy IS worth of tickets and seek
out the persons needing help.
Nix thought of the plan as he
sat in his apartment one night
after a meeting of the association.
The restaurant owners had been
complaining about the number of
free meals they were forced to give
each day One had reported feed
ing twenty-one persons without
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