Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25
Pleas by Mrs. Norton and
Hull Win District Com
mittee Support.
NEW JERSEY MEMBER
PRAISES DR.. BALLOU
Declares That Undernourished
Children Should Get Benefit
Where Doubt Exists.

After pleas in behalf Of underneur-
ished school children in the District
schools by Representatives Norton,
Democrat, of New Jersey, and Hull
Republican, of Wisconsin, the House
District Committee today, by 6-to-5
vote, ordered a favorable report on the
Mcleod bill authorizing an appropria-
ton Of $4,000 to provide free lunches
under Health Department supervision.
Those who voted in favor of the bill
were Representatives zihlman, Mary
land; Mcleod, Michigan; Sullivan,
Pennsylvania; Hull, Wisconsin; Nor
ton, New Jersey, and Patman, Texas.
Those who voted against favorably re-
porting the bill we're Hall, Indiana
Palmer, Missouri Whitley, New York :;
Loofbourow, Utah, and Carver, Georgia.
Quotes Stars Report.
Mrs. Norton quoted from The Stars
report en- the survey, made by DR.. Frank
w. Ballou, superintendent of schools,
which disclosed that 1880 students are
being fed while 1882 went without food.
She said that she considered DR.. Ballou
a higher authority than any one else in
the District regarding the schools. Mrs.
Norton also expressed surprise that
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, foru;fr preSi-
dent of the Parent Teacher Congress,
had switched her positioG after she
said Mrs. Rafter had interested her in
an effort to relieve conditions regard
ing undernourished children in the
schools.
Mrs. Norton INDUCED in a sharp ex-
change with Representatives Loofbourow
and Palmer regarding the testimony
given by representatives of prominent
associations, and declared emphatically
that where there was any doubt what
ever, she preferred to give the hungry
child the benefit of the doubt. She also
questioned how the conditions which
DR.. Ballou In his report stated as ex-
isting could exist If the welfare or
CARNATIONS cared for the children as
they testified they could do.
Representative Hull pleaded for the
children, and said that 1900 Of them
are without a MONDAY meal. He chal-
lenged the citizens representative who
appeared yesterday in opposition to the
measure on why they had not appeared
to expose graft games" which he de-
clared exist to such an extent that
Speaker Iongworth recently denounced
on the floor certain appraiSals Of real
estate sought by the Government.
Mr.. Hull declared that the Census
Bureau shows 5000 heads Of families
unemployed, and said that under such
conditions children must be hungry.
He emphasized that II Congress passes
the Mcleod bill it will be serving notice
on the charity organizations that unless
they take care of such situation the
Federal government stands ready 20
feed hungry school children.
Resolution Is Offered.
Following the favorable report on the
bill, Representative Mcleod offered a
resolution to meet objections raised by
certain members, which the committee
adopted. as follows:
Resolved by the Committee, on the
District of Columbia, that the Board OF
Commissioners of the District be and
hereby are requested to direct and SUI
pervise a study of the conditions of
health and welfare of children in the
District of Columbia, with view to re-
porting to this committee at the next
regular session Of Congress compre-
hensive plan to improve general condi-
tons of health and physical develop
ment of children, to foster the use of
the best known methods of mental
hygiene for children, and to increase
and extend the opportunities with
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