New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-29
Tired of Baking PavementS, He
Longs to See Waving
TreetopS.
He WANTS HIS VACATION
Won Have Had Yours-S5
Would Take Him to the
Land He Dreams About
Its up to You"
Have you had a vacation?


Johnny Jones has not, and. what is
worse. his chance Of getting one is
growing smaller every day. Do you ask
why? Because Johnny's one chance lies
in the possibility that the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund will send him away for a vaca-
ton. and the Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Sc on the verge of being forced TO stop
sending boys and girls 10 the country,
owing 10 lack Of the funds necessary for
the continuance of its work.
Have you, kind reader, given one
thought 10 Johnny Jones and his ilk this
summer? Have you stopped TO ask once
this summer. not whether il is your duty
though that question might be asked.
too-but whether 1t would not make you
happier and your vacation a more joyous
one If you should make possible the va
cation Of some Johnny Jones?
You have gone light heartedly through
the summer. clad in purple and fine linen.
so TO speak. and you have Jared sumptu-
ously upon the fat Of the land every day.
Every week end you have run up 10 your
Adirondack camp, out to your farm or
down 10 the seashore. You are one Of
LIES fortunate ones.
And Johnny? Poor, dirty little beggar.
as you would call him if you should see
him in his everyday character and
haunts. he has whied away the days
swel.ering ones, rainy ones. week ends
and middles-between the curbs Of his
aforementioned street. Instead Of the
cool turf which you have trod he has
had the baking asphalt or fiery cobbles;
instead Of the waving treetops over his
head. he has had the bedding Tapping
from tenement windows. instead of the
boom Of the breakers or the sough OF
the wind through the pines, he has had
in his ears the incessant clatter and
racket Of the crowded streets and the
babel Of a thousand voices never still.
A person 10 be envied is Johnny!
Il is unthinkable, is il not. that you
should lay aside your comforts for a
time and put yourself in this lads place
don his rags, breathe the noisome at
mosphere Of his street, eat his meagre
fare. creep into his airless bed, take his
cuffs and kicks and hard knocks. May
his never be your lot. but can't you for
moment try to imagine what ii would
mean?
For S you could put Johnny far be-
yond the reach of all this for fort
night. For S. you could assure him of
as pleasant a vacation as you have had
or are going TO have. For SO you could
provide an outing not only for the boy
but for his little sister as well. Give It
a moments thought; imagine yourself TO
be Johnny for a moment.
Why should you look after these chill
dren? Because they have no one else to
Go il. Johnnys father is out Of work, or
he has no father. and his mother sup
ports a family Of six, or sickness has i'm
poverished the family, or laziness has
cursed il. or any one Of thousand other
misfortunes has robbed Johnny OF
chance in life. And when you think ths
matter over. write this large in the con-
sideration-Johnny is not in the least to
blame for the condition Of life in which
he finds himself.
There are hundreds Of boys and glrls
waiting for Tribune outings. Help US TO
accomplish for them their hope. But
you must help quickly If at all