EXTRACT FROM LETTER
SHOULD THE TUCK-BON BE REFORMED ?—Mr. Charles E. Hecht, of the Food Education Society, 329 Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. 1, writes :—The abolition of the tuck-shop is not within the range of practical school politics and Dr. Camp- bell was, of course, enunciating the ideal system. Much good might, however, be accomplished through the agency of a reformed tuck-box. Thus the short ration of fruit at the majority of schools was lamented at the First Guildhall School Conference in 1912, long before the discovery of vita- mins had given an added importance to both fruit and salad. Moreover the meagre allowance of fruit is largely served cooked with far too much sugar. No one, I am sure, would support with more enthusiasm than Dr. Campbell himself the " re- formation " of the tuck-box so as to contain apples and other juicy fruit so indispensable to the welfare of the teeth and health, generally. A few schools already restrict them in this way.
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