The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-28
SICK BABIES BADLY
IN NEED OF SOME ICE.
McGrath Calls Attention to
Serious Cases
NO MONEY TO BUY IT
SAYS $40 Month Will Supply Really
Needy During the Hot
Months of the
Summer

There's one class of people who can
buy linen SUITS use ice cold drinks, sit
under electric fans, take Weekend trips
out of town, mop off the perspiration
with linen handkerchiefs and kid the
Weather Man about the hot weather.
There's another class which can't
And thereby hangs a tale. There are
sick babies in this town that need
ce-and they haven't got it. There
are men and women In this town who
are suffering not only because they
haven't got ice but because they can't
get it. either for themselves or their
families
They don't perspire. They sweat
They can sweat and work like the 9TH
ers, but when the burning sun drops
below the horizon after a burning day
they have no jokes to banter with the
Weather Man This heat is a serious
business to them 1t is a matter of life
and death.
They know that the baby will cry
and worry through IA more burning
hours as soon as daylight comes. They
know that he'll get hungry and have
to eat and that he will eat-milk that
has never been near ice. They may
know that mother or wife or whoever
it may be will be burning up tomor-
row with the fever inside and the livid
heat outside-and that there will be
no ice.
No ice tomorrow just as there was
no ice today.
Thn nt1xr ipe hot on, II icna -a
germs out of food In weather like this
is ice. The only thing that can give
relief to the uffering gs of the sick baby
or father or mother in weather like
this is ice. And SO an appeal was issued
last night to those who can afford it to
donate money to fund to provide ice
for the poor people of this city who
cannot afford it.
Secretary McGrath of the Associated
Charities stated that there We're about
"a children under IA years of age who
badly needed ice and were in such cir
cumstances that they could not get it.
Out of these "a he estimated there are
IA, mostly babies, who are i'll and must
have ice or suffer serious conse-
quences. One woman was mentioned
who has four children, every one of
whom has tuberculosis and she is earn
ing $3.50 a week. That woman needs
lots of things, but in this kind of
weather she probably needs ice worse
than anything else Another case was
mentioned where there are two very
sick babies in one little home and there
is no money to buy ice.
t 1t is estimated that there are Is
families in Birmingham that are suf-
fering and badly in need of ice Sec
retary McGrath states that arrange
ments have been made with the Bir-
mingham Ice factory to distribute this
ice to the addresses given by him, if
enough money is secured to pay for it.
Mr.. McGrath states that close watch
will be kept and that only needy fam
lilies will be permitted to receive the
ice.
He estimates that it will cost on an
average of about $40 per month to
supply all the families that need it, and
he asks that anyone desiring to donate
anything to the Hot Weather Ice Fund
send subscriptions to the offices of
the Associated Charities, Chamber of
Commerce building, Birmingham, Ala,
and more than one heart will feel ap-
probation