Evening star., 1937-07-03

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the employees hurrying to the banks
or on a quick dash to a store during
the normal lunch period.
The following day, the enploys
being still in funds, the cafeteria
does its best business Even an extra
10 cents is spent. Provision must be
made for the more selective tastes
Of the workers. However, as pay day
becomes further in the past, and
the next seems to linger in its
advent, the worker, with funds be-
ginning to run a little short, is in
clined to take less expensive foods
and even cut the quantity lower than
would seem sufficient.
These matters must be kept In
mind by the management of the
cafeteria. In the service lunch room,
an extra charge of 10 cents is made
for the service. and a luncheon
costing IS cents more than the
regular luncheon is provided Con-
nected with this room, which can be
divided into three rooms if luncheon
| conference is desired, is the private
dining room of Secretary Wallace.
This he seldom uses, however, pre-
ferring to lunch in a larger room in
which his principal assistants eat.
A SAMPLE menu of the regular
luncheon served for 25 cents
gives a fair idea of how we'll the
| cafeteria is operated. On the day in
| question, there was a choice between
| brolled mackerel and hamburg steak.
! The choice of two vegetables from
list containing potatoes, turnip puff,
golden bantam corn and pink pears
was offered. In addition there was
bread and butter, beverage and a
7 desert. A Ia carte dishes were also
/ provided
A conveyor system carries the food
/ from the Kitchens 10 the steam tables
and takes the dirty dishes from the
cafeterias to the room where they are
washed. Much of the washing Is done
by machinery. No dish towels are en-
ployed at any time. Both dishes and
silver, after being washed are steril-
lied with steam and emerge from
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must be handled with gloves. The
| heat causes evaporation, which pro-
vides quick drying.
To operate the conveyors, the mix
ing machines, the ice machines and
various other equipment, total of 48
motors are in service that keep a
maintenance man constantly at work.
The personnel of the cafeteria Is
| MADE up IN part Of home-trained cooks
who have been given added training.
of students who are working their way
! through school ana of individuals who
| actually need the work for support.
! Among the skilled workers, there Is
! only small turnover, many having
| been with the cafeteria since it was
| first established.
THEN there is the matter Of leisure
hours
Entertainment and sport are pro-
vided in great variety. An audi
forum which seats $50 with a stage
| of 1882 square feet occupies one court.
Modern motion picture projectors ars
available and vast supply Of Aims
produced by the department are in
| storage.
Employees have formed an 8O-piece
| symphony orchestra. They have also
dramatic club which gives frequent
| performances. In the sports line, vari-
GUS leagues have been formed for bowl
ing, basket ball, tennis, golf and other
types of sport and trophy case in
the main lobby testifies to the success
of the teams.
The patio in the main building often
serves for dancing and many scenes Of
gayety have marked pleasant inter-
ludes in the lives of the employees.
Located in the south building is
one of the newest of the departments
undertakings, a studio for the pro-
duction of sound movies. The most
modern equipment has been assem-
bled in the large, high-ceiinged room.
and everything is in readiness for the
development of the departments ed
uCational films.
Several laboratories have been COM
pleted for the preparation of films
after they have been exposed In one
the film passing over series of cogged
wheels travels through the developer.
flxer and washer to come out the
other end ready for drying. Leaving
this room, the film passes through a
hole in the wall into another room
where a continuous dryer brings the
film out within a few minutes, all
wound and ready for display.
The department already has a large
stock of films, some $50 subjects
having been pictured. The originals
have been duplicated many times in
order that they may be available for
public display.
THIS service is open to clubs,
churches or individuals who care
to see the films, They are sent out
free Of charge, the only cost being
transportation.
AS the films are highly infam-
mable. they are stored in a series
of explosion-proof vaults, protected
with automatic sprinkling devices
and are equipped with double shock
it would be confined to the room in
which it originated.
This brief outline may give some
impression of the extent of the work
of the department in this headouar-
tiers building. When multiplied by the
activities of men in the field, forest
rangers, plant pest eradicators, ex-
perts in animal husbandry, those en-
gagged in the extension service; plant
explorers, who comb the far corners
OF the earth to find new and better
stock and new and adaptable plants,
the work of this department.. which
terminated slowly from the seed
planted by John Adams in the Con-
tnental Congress in 1776, becomes
impressive. Add to it the work OF
crop control, soil preservation and
rural settlement, the New Deal addi-
tlons to its duties, and it seems cas-
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