The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-01


When | paid a visit to one Of
these establishments, it was just
the time for the school children
TO be having their lunch. There
we're about fifteen hundred Of
them. coming in relays, the over
flow stretching in queues clear in
to the street. School children can
get breakfast and lunch free.
The enormous advantage. Of
course, is that the meals are
planned by the department Of pub
lie health, and are l.ence bal
anced meals, with vitamins and
minerals.
The same advantage applies to
the meals given the adults. For
four cents they got, the day ] was
there, a good, nourishing soup,
veal with rice and gravy, and
bread, and a dessert pudding. OF
course coffee, for South America
is the land Of coffee.
The building was light, airy
one-storied structure, with floors
and walls of tile so that they
could be easily cleaned, table tops
the same, and kitchens scrupu-
lousy clean. The men eat in one
room; the women in another.
Milk fer the Babies
on the women's room is a nurs-
cry, with cribs for over hundred
babies. Clean rubber covers were
being laid on the mattresses. The
babies are given bottle Of clean,
scientifically prepared milk for
one cent, and a nurse tends to
them while the mothers are in the
nearby dining room.
There are eight such establish
ments in the city Of Lima.
The official who accompanied
me to the restaurant said as we
drove away, There is no Com
munism in Peru"
Certainly it seemed that our
neighbor has carried out a very
advanced policy.
Think Of the contrast between
this way Of feeding the economi-
cally under privileged and the
haphazard way they are fed in
many Of our large American
cities.
! saw a number Of other indi-
cations Of social progress in medi-
cal lines, in Peru as well as other
South American republics. Every
where there are large free hospi-
tals-separate ones for men, for
women and for children. Some Of
these were erected with the profits
on the public lotteries. Others are
part Of the government policy Of
social security, which is far more
advanced than ours. Every en-
ployed person pays a percentage
Of wages as insurance, the en-
ployer also adding an allotted per-
centage. This is insurance against
sickness, accident, unemployment
and death.
The sickness insurance seems to
act very well. I can assure the
American Medical Association
that the fears it has been foster
ing about such a procedure in the
United States seem very old
womanish when one sees the
scheme in operation.
Lenten Reducing Diet
A. suggested by
the Chef Of The Hotel Huntington,
Pasadena, California
First day
No seasoning on anything.
Either coffee or tea (no sugar
or cream with every meal.
Breakfast: Grapefruit and cof-
fee.
Lunch: Chicken sandwich on
rye toast; ! raw tomato.
Dinner: Stalk Of celery; good
sized helping Of steak; sliced to-
mato; lettuce and endive salad Tor
cucumber) n grapefruit.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
L. A. c.: "Is it true that q
child goes through a kind Of TO-
cusing Of the eyes between the
ages Of from two or four years?
Is there anything that can be done
for child at two and half years
whose eyes have started to cross
for the past six weeks? They only
cross at times, when looking
straight at you or some object.
Answer-Yes, bifocal vision
that is, the ability to fuse an OBJ.
ject with two visual images, is
developed at about the age YOU
nantiou IA IN yot1r second ot1aa