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<v woman>The point of my comment is that the ruling made by Attorney General Arthur Bolton

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that it was not constitutional to pay state funds for school lunch is entirely wrong.

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<v interviewer> Why do you feel that way?

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<v woman>Well, I feel that school lunch is as much a part of the educational program

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as a lot of other things that they support.

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<v interviewer> How do you reason?

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<v woman> Well, the fact is that, first off, a hungry child cannot learn.

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The next is that the meal that they receive at noon is, in most cases,

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the only adequate meal or nutritional meal that they receive during the day.

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<v interviewer> Attorney General Arthur Bolton says that he is personally sympathetic

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toward the school lunch program, but he feels that the Constitution

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specifically says that these funds may be used only for education,

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and he says that the courts have held in similar cases in the past

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that similar things, such as school lunches, were not educational.

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How do you feel about that?

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<v woman> Well, we appreciate Mr. Bolton's sympathy.

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We've had sympathy for a long, long time, but that's not helping pay the bill.

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The ruling, in my understanding, was originally in 1938,

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and this was back in WPA days before really we were a part

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of the overall educational program.

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<v interviewer> He has given you an alternative by suggesting that the Constitution

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should be amended so that these funds may be specifically allocated

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for the school lunch program.

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Why not do it that way?

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<v woman> Well, perhaps we will, but first we think maybe a court case first

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and then the amendment, because it will take two years

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before we will have another election or another vote on the amendment,

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I should say, and that's too long.

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With the increase in the cost of labor, the increase of prices of food,

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we're going to have to have some help from somewhere.