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that class of foods — and there is no 

 better way to bring this to bear that 

 I know of, as an Association, than to 

 have a committee. 



I believe that, as long as Indiana has 

 taken the pains to pass these resolu- 

 tions and have a committee of three 

 from Indiana, the Chicago-Northwes- 

 tern should appoint a committee to 

 operate with them, and that this is our 

 duty. 



Now I would like expressions from 

 any one here in regard to this mat- 

 ter. 



Mr. Smith — It seems to me that that 

 is one of the best things that has 

 been advocated since I have been at- 

 tending these meetings. 



There is a chance to see some ef- 

 fective advertising — advertising that 

 will last for almost all time to come, 

 and advertising that will mean some- 

 thing to the consumer as well as to 

 the purchaser. 



We are benefiting everybody; we are 

 benefiting the teacher by giving her 

 a broader knowledge of food products. 

 We are benefiting the person who eats 

 the product so I think whatever steps 

 are necessary for this Association to 

 take should be taken. 



Mr. Stewart — What are you going to 

 do without money to do all that? You 

 want a committee to work for noth* 

 ing? They won't work very well un- 

 less you pay them for their time and 

 their outlays; you have to have money 

 to do it or it won't work very well. 



Mr. Kannenberg — If the committee 

 is appointed to see these teachers in 

 the high schools and in those schools 

 where the teaching is taught I think 

 the committee don't need much print- 

 ing and such things as that as long 

 as they are acquainted with the high 

 school teachers and those who do the 

 teaching. 



Mr. Smith — Tou don't need to know 

 a single high school teacher in the 

 city of Chicago; all you have to do 

 is to reach the man, the Superintend- 

 ent, and lay the facts before him, and 

 it will go to the teachers. If we can 

 convince that man that we are all 

 right, he will soon convince his em- 

 ployees. 



It requires but ten cents car- 

 fare and a half hour's time to go down 

 and see the Superintendent. 



This Association should put in the 

 bands of such a committee as they 



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appomt, reliable information that is 

 printed on the subject, so that they 

 can take it home any evening and get 

 it together in readable and present- 

 able form; get an audience ■with Mr. 

 Shoop of ten or fifteen minutes and 

 present their proposition to him, and 

 the work is done. 



Mr. Bruner — So far as this concerns 

 the schools of the city of Chicago, 

 there is a supervisor of Household 

 Arts who happens to be a lady. The 

 Board of Education have practically 

 nothing to say as to what is done in 

 these different courses of this sort ex- 

 cept to iO. K. what is recommended to 

 them. The Supervisor of Household 

 Arts has nothing to say, except to O. 

 K. or turn down what is recommended 

 to her. 



That whole thing is in charge pri- 

 marily of a committee of teachers. 



It is that committee that must be 

 reached. Not the Supervisor of House- 

 hold Arts, the Board of Education, or 

 the Superintendent, but that committee 

 is the prime mover of anything that 

 has to do with the changing of courses 

 as it is laid out in the schools. 



We have to get to that committee — ■ 

 to the Supervisor, and then to the 

 Board, but primarily the essential 

 thing is the committee that has charge 

 of what shall be done in this course. 



So much have I been informed by 

 the teachers in the machine, and, be- 

 lieve me, the machine of the Board of 

 Education of Chicago is a wonderful 

 organization. 



We have, in this city, about 350 pub- 

 lic schools — in the city of Chicago. In 

 each of these schools there is any- 

 where from, say, two teachers to three 

 or four dozen; there are thousands of 

 teachers in the city of Chicago; they 

 spend millions of dollars every year; 

 perhaps millions of dollars every 

 month, I think they do. It is a won- 

 derfully big organization; and it has 

 to be systematized and specialized, and 

 this committee has to be seen, that will 

 handle the getting of this on the 

 course, and I believe that is something 

 aside from the school board of the 

 state. The Chicago School Board is so 

 large it does business practically for 

 itself. 



One to take care of the city of Chi- 

 cago and one to take care of the state 

 as a whole. I am not sure of that. 



Mr. Smith — Of course they are two 



