New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-11
Vacationlsts Can Laugh at
Heat, Poverty and
Plague.
STAY-AT-HOMES
IN NEED OF HELP.
Aid Required to Bring Them
Joys of Fortunate Ones
in Country.
"Are we down-hearted! Mol"

It's not the Anzacs you hear, shout
ing from the trenches facing the en-
envy. It's the Fresh Airs" shouting
from the hillsides "'way, way off,
from their enemies.
That wasn't exactly what they
shouted, either, as matter of fact;
it was Just ruse to catch your eye.
As an expression that's a sort OF
guarded affirmative-if you know what
that is. Analysed it means: Were
not down-hearted; no; but we have TO
keep reminding ourselves of the fact
to keep our spirits up"
And that isn't the case with the
Tribune Fresh Airs" They don't
guard their alternatives. but let them
sing out with all the elan, eclat,
verve, sang froid, enthusiasm, empha-
sis-and a few other things-they can
muster up.
Light Hearts in the Country.
What they actually shouted was:
"Are we light-hearted? Yes!"
Nothing of the lift-yourself- by-your-
own bootstraps quality in the tone,
either. 1t Tilted and shrilled and was
vibrant with unguarded affirmative
ness. And why not? Why should not
these "Fresh Airs" on the hillsides be
light-hearted? We're they not healthy
and brown and having the time OF
their lives? Hadn't they escaped
through the lines of their enemies and
left them far behind them?
"What enemiesW you ask. And
where and when all the shouting"
Think a moment and you will know
the enemies: heat and poverty and
poliomyeitis- hand-in-hand alliance
that even q grown-up who reads the
newspapers might be light-hearted at
escaping.
Where Care Is Barred.
And the time and place of the shout
ing? Why, the Tribune Fresh Air
country yesterday or the day before,
to-day or to-morrow-the Fresh Air
country over at Happy Land, Tenafy,
N. j., or down at Eunice Home, Atlantic
Highlands, N. j., or up at Devereux
Home, Deposit, n. Y, or out at North
Shore Holiday House, Cold Spring Har-
Dor, Long Island, or at Outcault Cot
tage, Freehold, N. j., at Housein-the-
Woods, Tannersville, N. T., at Middle
town Goshen, N. Y, Home for Conva-
lescents, at Elm Cottage, Fairfield,
Conn.
For all of these places are filled with
boys and girls sent out by the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund for country vacations
in which to gain fun and health, knowl-
edge and inspirstion-an and the young
sters are so full of all four that they
are ready to shout their light-hearted-
ness at any one and at any moment.
But there are some others, not in
Fresh Air land, who, if you asked them
to shout, would look up pitifully from
their gutter trenches and pipe:
"Are we downhearted? Yes!"
For they haven't been to the coun-
| try yet this summer and unless some
thing happens pretty soon, they won't
get there. guarantees to the right of
them, guarantees to the left of them,
guarantees in front of them are shut
ting up, one after another, all the
doors into the land of health and fun
this at a time when, if ever, they need
the health and strength and resisting
power a country visit would give them.
Pitiful little beggars-
Theirs not TO question why,
Theirs but to stay and diem
Is there no help for them?