New-York tribune., 1920-07-05
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
''Thanks for the Trouble You re Caused U.s.

benefactor?
-, Answer: When the beggar is The
tribune Fresh Air Fund.
Ihe Fund has been begging the peo-
PIE OF the country to open their homes
'or the entertainment of "Fresh Airs
ana pleading with the people of the
Guy TO give their money to pay rail-
road fares to the country. Do these
folks look upon The Fund and its
children as nuisance and give
grudgingly?
You are not beggar but a bene-
factor" writes a contributor, and con-
tinues, I'm just starting alone for a
vacation and have been wondering
whether I'd find congenial companions
where I'm going. If you will send off
at once the regular fellars' this check
WI pay for, should worry III have
three good friends somewhere"
Glens Falls Active
The Woman's Club, the Mothers
Club and the Daughters of Isabella. at
Glens Falls, N. Y, discovered that a
Fresh Air Committee there, led by the
business men Of the place, was plan
n,ng tor the entertainment of crowd
OF the funds girls at camp on Lake
George. They decided that this wasn't
enough and, working together, secured
invitations for twenty-five more to be
entertained in the homes of the club
members. In sending on the invita-
tons for the children the chairman of
the women's committee wrote:
We are grateful to you for the op-
portunity of taking them. We will
look after them to the best of our
ability"
In the same vein another Fresh Air
committee chairman, writIg after the
canvass for invitations in her locality
was completed, says: Thanks for the
trouble you've caused US. 1t was work
to do this thing, but it did US good.
May it do as much for the kiddies
when they get here"
"For the kiddies-Somehow."
THE spirit is willing, but the flesh
is weak" has to be rewritten land the
flesh will find wav" for the friends
of children. "For the kiddies-some-
howl" is their motto.
A college girl attending the fifth
reunion of her class few days ago
passed the hat among her classmates.
She sent The Fund SO and with it the
promise that every time she found
herself with group of people this
summer she was going to repeat the
experiment.
A friend in White Plains who would
"like to do something really big
enough to count" found a way to
make a beginning. Il have not much
to spare" runs her letter, "but as
this money was an extra earned by
tutoring little girl, l thought it
appropriate that the money earned by
teaching a child should be applied to
giving some fresh air to another
child" Though she didn't realize it,
she has done something big enough to
count already.
A Dollar a Week
Still another contributor who wishes
he could do more" says: "Heres this
weeks dollar" implying that other
weeks will have their dollars, too. A
dollar week for seven weeks will do
Just as much as ST sent all on the same
check.
All these people believe with the
writer of a few days ago that "happi-
ness was born twin" Have you ever
tried it, friends? Think how much hap
piness there would be in the hearts Of
little lads and lassies of the New YORK
tenements this summer if one-tentn of
all those who read The Tribune this
morning would get the spirit Of .nesc
folks and do what they could-from
one dollars worth to ten thousand dol
lars worth-for those lads and lassies.
Will you do your share?
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