New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-06
Every Cent Of Contributions
Used for Transportation
and Maintenance
Your Help eededNow
Vacations Hard to Get This
Year Without Aid of
tribune Fund

The Tribune Fresh Air Fund pro-
rides country reactions Of a fort
night each for the children Of the
poor Of Nelg York. The vacations are
absolutely free Of expense to the
children or their guardians. The
1cort IS supported entirely By the
voluntary contributions Of the public.
II you contribute TO the fund your
gift loW be expended TO the last
penny in proyiding transportation 10
and maintenance in the country for
the children. None Of 1t lciH be used
for the administrative expenses Of
the lcork. These are met from other
sources. VIII you contribute and
make some bog or girl HAPPY?
Are you hesitating over sending a
gift to The Tribune Fresh Air Fund?
Do you think perhaps that the children
Of the tenements do not need outings
this year; or, at least, DO not need 20
be helped TO get them?
A friend of the fund of many years
standing, in sending his annual con-
tribution "a generous one, by the
way. wrote: 81 DO not send as much
as usual as work is abundant and well
paid"
Examine this idea. Is work album
dant? The question is rhetorical pure
". But is this work so well paid that
the workers who live in the crowded
parts Of the city are able TO buy vaca-
tons for their children?
Vacations Just as Hard to Get
Laborers, low-priced workers Of all
kinds, are getting more money for
their services than for many years
past. Are they however, actually bet
ter paid and able to provide better for
their Approximations they more easily
give their families a breathing spell
in the country than they could, say,
in 1918?
The question is one Of proportion.
One must ask not only How much
more money does labor earn now than
in July, 1882" but also "How much
more does il cost the laborer to live
now than in July, 1872" 1t is prob
ably within the facts 10 say that the
wages If labor have not been increased
more than % per cent on the average
in the last year. But about a month
AGO Bradstreet's reported that the
cost Of living had increased more than
70 Der cent in that time. L these ng-
ures represent the situation truthfully'
then labor has a harder row 20 noe
this year than for many years past.
There can be little doubt that the
children of the tenement districts are
at present getting less than their usuai
allowance Of good, nourishing FOOD,
and their usual allowance IS snort OF
what they need. II this Is true, they
ought 20 be given every possible
chance to build up their bodies.
This Is No Year 10 Hesitate
Every child sent out for vacation
bv the Tribune Fresh Air Fund Will get
for two weeks all the wholesome, nour-
ishing food he can assimllate. In addl-
ton TO this his body will be invigorated
and vitalized by life IN the openLin
the fresh air and sunshine; he Will be
strengthened by play IN the unen-
numbered spaces of the country.
Work IS abundant, but, in proportion
10 the cost of living, IL is more poorly
psid than 10 was in the days before
the war. This is no year in which to
hesitate about supporting this cam.
paign for the relief of the children OF
DO YOU find it easier to make both
ends meet this year than you have IN
the past? Hardly. Be generous, then,
TO the child Of your fellow citizen-he
il tbat-in the crowded sections of the
city. Six dollars from you will put
that child into the land of health and
plenty for d fortnight. Send it now!
contributions TO TIE TRIBUNE FRESH AIR
FUND
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