Ask yourself how you would like to grow and study on a cold day with no warm food inside of you from early in the morning until late in the evening. Good school buildings and adequate equipment and teachers may be provided, but unless the children cannot reap the benefits of those fine things. Many teachers testify to the fact that the children appear to be in better physical and mental condition than they are at the lunch hour and that the children do better school work in the afternoon.

Much good work can be done toward establishing good food habits for the children by installing the hot school lunch. They learn something about the kinds of foods that are needed to make them grow, to build their bones and to keep them warm and give them the best. As a result, they are more willing to eat the kinds of goods that are best for them.

In some of the schools in Idaho, where the hot lunch has been installed, the hot dish is served only during the cold months and discontinued when the weather is warm in the spring and fall. Others serve the lunch for the entire school term, because the children want it and the teachers and parents believe it is worth while.

The children are eager for the lunch, they feel better because of having only too glad to cooperate, and in many schools the boys build tables and cupboards from dry goods boxes and the girls prepare the hot dishes. 