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Long before he was even thought of for mayor Mrs. Ernest Poole and Mabel Kittredge personally devised a system of school lunches. They got permission from the Board of Education to do it in one school experimentally. They wanted hot lunches at noon. The school that was chosen was one farther up on the West Side - I should say it was in the '30s or '40s. The cooks were volunteer. The money to buy the food was raised privately among acquaintances and people of good will. There was an organization known as the School Lunch Committee.

Miss Kittredge was a home economist by profession. Mrs. Poole was a well-wisher whose heart was in the thing and who had seen hot lunches being served to children in German schools in Germany when she was traveling. She had thought it was an admirable idea, particularly in the poorer quarters of the city where the food supply was low.

It was a great success in this one school where it was tried out. The families liked it. The children liked it. The teachers liked it. The testimony was that they were brighter in the afternoon than they had been when they didn't have the hot lunch at noon. They used to bring a crumbly crust of bread and banana and eat it before that. They a to hot soup, or stew, or macaroni or something like that.

Then Martha Draper got interested in the idea. By