Show SCHOOL 1 I IS A very enthusiastic audience listened to mrs christine B claytons claytona Clay tons talk on oil the school lunch at tremonton Tre monton saturday afternoon three outstanding phases of 0 the pro problem blem were ere discussed namely the dietetic needs of the school child why school children Cli ildren grow thin and I what the school lunch should be the speaker pointed out that many school children alter after a hurried and wholly inadequate breakfast rush to school with a hastily prepared sandwich in a newspaper wrapping or an unventilated tin pall pail to serve as a lunch small wonder children under such conditions grow thin and fall behind in their school work at the close of the discussion the ladies present decided to take the following lines of action 1 to attempt to secure the cooperation of the school board and school teachers in providing a warm comfortable for table room in which children mayl may eat their lunch 2 to endeavor to secure the assistance of teachers in supervising the lunch period this may be accomplished without hardship to anyone by the teachers in turn giving fifteen or twenty minutes of each lunch period to supervision of the conduct of children lunching and overseeing their setting the room to rights in readiness tor for the afternoon work parents can cooperate in this work by bring 1 ing home influence to bear upon youngsters inclined to be unruly 3 to request teachers to include in their regular report blanks at least once in three months the height and weight record ot of children this will greatly assist parents in checking up the nutritional condition of their children d re n i 4 in communities where a large percent ot of the school children carry box bos lunches to work toward the goal of a hot supplementary lunch dish to be served at the school in each case a careful survey of local conditions be made so as to adopt methods of accomplishing this result to the needs of the individual community 00 oo |