The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-08

the commerce of Great Britain. That was by way of exaggeratiOn from the pen of one, of the deftest writers of modern times. But 1t is really no exaggeration to say that this new business of ours has &C., of the enterprising City of Water bury. I cannot too highly praise the quick response ana the inn mense care of the three milk firms mentioned in handling without hitch this sudden access which we gave to their business. The extra bother and care have frequently made 1t necessary for Mir Cashin of the Worden company and MT Lam- son of the Merriman company and MT Phillips to come here and con- fer with me regarding details. Of their own volition, too, these men agreed to furnish a straw with each bottle of milk, in order that the children might drink the milk in a clean and sanitary way.
 May 1 make two more comments:
 l. Kindly note that in our big gest week we distributed in the schools 21,732 bottles of milk. Kind ly note, further, that of these 12.- 557 were pay orders. Now you have some idea of the large amount of extra work devolving on the principals and teachers. Not only did they have to distribute 21,732 bottles among the pupils, they had the ex- tra burden and care of collecting the three cents for ecah bottle of milk sold. They had to send it to this office, in order that we might be in g. position to do all the book keeping. And they did this ex- tra work with a patience and an enthusiasm characteristic of them every time public necessity places a new burden on them. Also, do not fail to put down the biggest credit mark you can inscribe with that gold fountain pen of yours, for Miss Alice Benham, head sec retary in this office and for all her assistants who always cheerfully go to her aid in the time of need, for doing all the bookkeeping involved
 in keeping track of every bottle of milk ordered either for pay or for free distribution. There are almost daily changes in our orders In all the schools, and record must be kept of these changes, as well as of the cash turned in by all the principals. And this is all addi- tional to the daily tasks of Miss Benham and her capable and will ing assistants. all of whom have each at her own desk. big daily task to keep the business of this office up to date.
 2. And one thing more. If you will refer for a moment to the weekly statement of our free orders for the last full week in Decem- Der you will find that we spent $275.O0 (speaking in integral num- bers). Well. the total contributions to date are about $4,0O0. Begin ming the new year, therefore, we have less than $3.00O left in the free milk fund. Now, counting out June. there are still 19 weeks of school. l make the guess that our biggest week in December was no
 larger than each full week to l come. We shall then need over $5,00O more and We have less than $S,000 left. If we cut off the work on or about May 1st. we shall still De broke unless the fund grows.
 Well, Doctor. we have thus far worked together pretty we'll in double harness, without rarin, nm m when the load was heavy, But if looks as if we still had tho biggest hill to climb with this load. Heaven knows l have said all I could think of and more. So it looks now as if you will have to get buster than ever. You know this problem of undernourishment from the scienti- fic side. 1 am merely a school teacher. can often guess, as [ xo about. that certain little ones are undernOurished. But 1t takes the pen of a scientist to recount all the monstrous things that may happen. when in the most opulent country that ever existed on earth, hunger IS wasting the bodies of boys and girls who will be citizens in very snort time. You tell them that story, please. Very sincerely yours,
 M. c. DONOVAN,
 .... SuDerlnteudento of Schools