Food School

In the U. S. are free public trade schools to teach youngsters to fly an airplane, repair an automobile, refurbish a woman's face. But until last week there was no free public school for training workers to serve the nation with its prime necessity--food. Last week New York City's Board of Education announced that a week hence it would open the first Food Trades Vocational High School.

The school will take elementary school graduates, in four years turn them into butchers, bakers, grocers, waiters. The food industry has contributed $30,000 worth of equipment: a butcher shop with mechanical slicers, refrigerators, gleaming showcases and sawdust on the floor; a bakery; a grocery; a cafeteria with a soda fountain; a food bacteriology laboratory.

Students will usher food through every step from field to table, learn to sweep floors, write advertisements, calculate profit & loss. They will study also the science of food: what makes bread rise, what makes beer. When they go to school each morning, students will first take a shower, then don white uniforms. The food they carve, bake and cook will be dished up to them and their teachers for lunch in the cafeteria.

Stocky, industrious Teacher Jacob Simonson, who will have charge of the school, has been ten years persuading the Board of Education to create it. He will stock his school with 300 picked students. For the first cellophane-wrapped graduates, he says, there will be waiting in New York City alone at least 800 jobs.

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