New-York tribune., 1919-08-02
The Tribune
Fresh Air Fund

Tho Tribune Fresh Air Fund has a
gold star in its service flag.
a number of years ago young man,
then unknown to fame. spent summer r
helping the Fresh Air Fund bring
health and happiness to hundreds of
boys at the Ashford Hill Home, Ards
ley, N. Y. In later years he often spoke
OF his work there as one of his most
interesting experiences.
On July 80, 1918. at Chateau Thierry.
this man. still in the bloom of his man.
hood, laid down his life for the chill
dren of the world-and the world sor-
rowed at his passing.
He was Sergeant Joyce Kilmer.
Yesterday his mother called attention
work for the children of the poor in
the foil owing letter:
My dear son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer,
VINO died in France one year ago to-
day (July 30), was one Of the workers
IN Ardsley, N. Y, some years ago for
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund, and often
SAID 1T was one of the most interesting
experiences he ever had. 1t is to his
dear and sacred memory that | send
IL.
The Tribune Fund aims high-aims
to put the outings it provides beyond
reasonable criticism in accommoda-
tons provided in food supplied, in the
personnel Of the staff who care for the
children sent to it's vacation centres.
Inc accomplishment OF the first two
Items Is simple, requiring merely en-
ergy and money.
But where are the young men and
young women who have it in them to
DC the big brothers and big sisters Of
70 deeper need than the right kind
OF big brothers and sisters chosen for
tnelr vacations? Where arc the young
men and young women willing to work
TOT the sake OF the children as much
as Tor the salary paid them? Upon
lihd'ng them depends IN great measure
the real success OF each summers work.
Hard to find? Yes; but the Fund
finds them. Joyce Kilmer is a proof
0i that. True, they are not all budding
SenlUses, but every year the Fund gath
cTs together company Of wholeheart-
90, educated, inspiring young men and
women who leave lasting impressions
on the youngsters committed to their
charge.
They do not preach to them, nor
moIailze with them. They simply live
with thcm-in their play, at their
meals, IN what they do from the time
OF their arrival at the vacation places
to the time when they 80 back to their
tenement homes. And there is no
question that these big brothers and
SISTERS, most Of them, live in the men,
orIes of their small charges long after
the youngsters have left them behind.
Visitors to Tribune Fund camps fire.
quently ask where the Fund gets it's
helpers, how it persuades them to do
all summer the work they see them
doing. Of course, there is no single
answer to the question, but the Fund
gets them every year to the profit
of the Fresh Airs" who are the one
great concern of the Fund and the
friends who support its work
Contributions to The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund are as follows:
Previously Acknowledged. s34.74s.42
In memory Of Sergeant Joyce XII
mer, Mrs. Kilburn iIiimer $500
From ., n, ManehesteT ". raised BY
George H. Hawley and Mrs
orvis .................... $4,000
I.ulu a. iiufiputt. t.....-........ 800
II. \. Kelly ................. 700
Mrs. IT, l.. SeYenoak. k............ 1000
Howard Mansfield ld......... 10 ~
Little rails Fresh Air Committee I50 90
bessie : ELS ................. 100
Proceeds of a play given by Doris
Miller, Florence Iibonati, Rob
y, ert Miller and Byron Conk!in 100
+ ;. MaIbrldge :.............. zoo
Seorge . rraniNlln .,.......... 1900
Elmer 5' Iyrell. ll.....,.......... 1000
I; e G..'......; ................ 1000
yrs Morrls Goldstone. .......... 100
MIS-. tannah Freud d-........ 100
frances I.i!lanth>l. ............. 800
Mss M NJ. Z. A. ::........ 100
Rowley, NJ. L. R........... 900
a =. r. .................. 90
I1eleh T. hlrkihan 100
j: - r.. .......,......... 100
Mrs. Helen l.. Monroe. oe......... 100
-. ~ l.. ................. 500
Mary r.: Johnson. .............. 500
II: r: NJ. ..-.... ............... 500
W. NJ t.... ................... 900 90
Total Aug. l, 1919 .s35.76342
Contributions, preferably by check or
money order Sh ON Id ho cnnt 10 TLo