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Show ItlNUt.TS I'KIIMAXK.ST "It Is often cailessly said of soi-lously soi-lously undent eight children 'Oh thoy will autgiow It. But of ton thess children giown Into men nnd women, handicapped by low tltallty and a pooily dc eloped body "Undeinouilshnient Is now known to bo .dliectly lesponslblo for niniiv cases of pool mental dovelopnient. to such an extent that Is some seilotis cases It Is dltllcnlt to distinguish this backwnidness from actual mental defect de-fect Such chlldien vslieii given pio-per pio-per uoiirlshmeut nie found to be easier to teach, to havo gieatei power pow-er of attention and concent! atlou. ond to do betlci school woik as Indicated In-dicated by higher grades. "Tho school lunch Is one method of meeting thts problem of iiudei-iiouiiKhmcut. iiudei-iiouiiKhmcut. The two most common types of school lunches nie the lunch seived at the morning and afternoon recesses and the hot noon lunch. The gi,e.it value of sehool lunches tu meeting this scilous pioblelh of un-deinouilshmeut un-deinouilshmeut Is now unquestioned" In Beteial of oiu counties the ccIiuoIh, tluough the patent trachri association nnd othei agencies aie meeting in pait tho situation. The public health mimes of the Utah Public Pub-lic Health association tot,clli with tho school mil Fes and health mipei-Isois mipei-Isois will coopciatv and do eveiy- thing possible to help. 'HiH The extension department nf tho gH Utah Agrlcultuinl Collego l8 also co itll opeiatlng and la working haul to iiS spiead the gospel of school lunches liiia nnd propel food for the school child, Wgg ilBilV |