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 choose to pay for it, while in cases where children are underfed through parental neglect or inefficiency, the lunch should be free of charge. The widest European experience affords a basis for the provision of lunches.

For national defense two schools are provided, one at Annapolis and one at West Point. In these schools, food, clothing, and the most painstaking training are provided for the boys who are expected to become the military defenders of the nation. It is seldom that the nation is compelled to resort to the military in order to maintain itself, but every moment of every day the nation is absolutely dependent upon industry for that maintenance.

Is it a necessary thing to give food, clothing, and training to the military defenders of the nation? How much more imperative that the necessaries of life should be provided for its industrial defenders. The military struggle is an occasional one, but the industrial struggle is a constant one, and far more depends upon it than upon military events.