Tacoma Students Fight for Better School Lunches

Senior students of the high school held a mass meeting at the noon recess yesterday and adopted resolutions favoring the establishing of school management for the school lunch room. A committee composed of Harry Bissell, Olive Russell and Schuyler Pratt was named to appear before the school board and present the resolutions. It is claimed that prices are too high at present, owing to the fact that the lunch room is run under private management and that quantities of unwholesome bakery stuff are sold instead of light lunches more suited to a student's stomach. As an example, the lunch rooms of Seattle high schools are cited where the school board manages the sale of lunches and the cost has been reduced to a minimum. Trade at the lunch room has depreciated to a great extent because pupils would rather carry their lunches than eat the lunch-room fare. A complete steam-cookery outfit could be established at the school for about $2,000, an amount that would be saved in a year.