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Show . I MORE MILK i With modern education advanced to the stage where greater eiiip!ia.si:s i.s laid on mental efficiency, with numerous ; tests to classify the student into his or her intelligence cute-! gory, we are apt to lose sight of the fact that t:.e body is as necessary in the operation of learning, as the mind. Mayor j LaGuardia of New York said to a meeting of school teachers in his city, "Before you give a child the Binet test (intelligence (intelli-gence rating) he sure to give him the Borden and Sheffield test. I mean, find out if he gets enough milk just plain cow's milk". We know that a growing child needs plenty of the right kind of food, and today most of us are aware of the various vitamins contained in foods, especially in milk. Without proper feeding there has been many a child who has seemed incapable of learning, but often this same dull youngster can be made alert mentally by seeing that he gets two or three glasses of fresh mtilk every day. It is far easier: to govern this on a farm and in rural districts where folks! are apt to be milk-conscious. Some city schools, at a small cost to each pupil, serve milk and graham crackers during the regular school session. This is in kindergarten and the early grades. Such procedure may seem foolish and unnecessary unneces-sary to some citizens, but consider the various nations who serve extia meals each day to renew the energy of their workers. They say a mind does not tire, that it is only the body, but we must keep the body strong to have the desire to use the mind. o |