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Show .'! Pupils Drink 5000 Bottles H of Milk at Lunch Hour 1 i; & ; $ ;. vv - H , Sekool Board of Northwest City Believes Daily Ration H ,' of Rich Milk Helps to Improve Scholarship Chil- H ' dren Pay or Not, According to Parents' Means H , Examination of Backward Children Proves Under H Nourishment Cause of Dullness. H -P1! fchio thorn brighter pupils and heatthter ohdn H Besttio brieves In feeding children befor cramming their minds. j BY JACK UNG MEYER H Seattle, Wash., April 00, Franco H I feeds her soldiers mnv; to energize H ' thorn for battle. H Seattle's public schools dispense H ' I milk to 5000 boys and girls daily to 1 increase their scholarships and pre- H pare then for victories of peace. H The results have proved romaxk- H BhlQ. H v Mental efficiency, alertness and H deportment have Increased folly 15 H per cent. H Every noon an average of 5000 H half-pint bottles of rich milk are H ! disbursed among the lower grade H younstera, H The children, pay for the nrffic or H ' not, Just as their parents means HI permit. Nobody knows, except H the parents and the principals of H the 58 schools that have milk sta- H ttons, -whether the ration is paid H , for at 21-2 cents per bottle or H with a thank you. B I The big: thing is to fill empty M txanmieg with rich food, "W started the eoheme," n plained Dr. Ira C. Brown, school medical officer, on the tiieory that poor Bchat&rshtp and deporbnent wns largely a medical probtam; a. food problem, "This has been proved true beyond be-yond a dOUbt TOTrnm-n?Hf?n 0f backward children Invariably showed show-ed that they -were midernourished. They needed fire under the boilers. They hadnt enough energy to thfnfr and study. "The principals and teachers noted almost immediately that unruly, un-ruly, nervous youngsters quieted dowir; that noisy rooms became model ones; that Interest in the daily task shot trp amazingly. "Milk simply thaV-had lyrongbt tho change' The dlstrfbTrlSng stations are rushed by the hungry children every noon, and any hungry boy or girl is permitted to ta&o time off at any hour of the school day to get a bottle of milk |