New-York tribune., 1921-08-12
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
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A story full OF pleasant implications
for lovers of and believers in children
Crowds of boys and girls setting out
every day for the country-setting out
happy and full of eager authorizations.
Crowds Of boys and girls coming back
to the city-coming bscll happier, their
anticipations all fulfilled.
Crowds of boys and girls Ieayine
town sallow and pale; crowds Of bows
and gIris returning to town bright
eyed, Drowned by the sun, full of new
knowledge and pleasant memories.
During the present week more than
1000 OF the pale ones have begun their
vacations. In the same period over
100 of the brown, bright-eyed ones
nave returned 70 their homes with fort
nights in the country behind them.
And every night Of the present week
more than 1000 tenement kiddies have
slept in vacation places provided by the
Tribune Fund.
,,.,o}l Dpring ct the first four days Of next
country bound parade. BY the time
they have finished their journeys the
Fund VIII have provided vacations this
summer of 1921 for about II 900 young
sters who would have had no respite
from their city streets and homes but
for the Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
$50 Go Out Each Day
The last two days Of next week have
no parties scheduled to go out. These
viii be the first days since June 20 on
which no children have started Tribune
vacations. The average number OF boys
and girls sent out per day up to Au-
gust IS will be almost 250.
Four hundred and thirsy-two of this
weeks outgoing Fresh Airs" have been
sent to four OF the Funds vacation
camps. The others have been sent to
country communities, where they are
being entertained in private homes.
The country communities which have
opened their doors to the children are
Johnstown, Sherburne, Lowville, Tully,
Perry, Coventry, Greene, Moravia. Dry,
den and Corning, N. Y; Hackettstown,
\. J.; Tunkhannock, Towanda, Ulster,
Moscow and Easton, Pa; Moodus and
Hadlyme, Conn, and Mount Hermon,
Mass
Fresh Airs" learn lots of things
while on their vacations Not all of
them are things you would expect. A
worker from Bethlehem Chapel, in
Bleecker Street, who was seeing off
some of the small proteges at midnight
the other night, tells q story Of Joe,
one of her Italian boys. Joe had re-
turned from his vacation with an up
state farmer. He reached home during
the afternoon. When he sat down to
supper that night his head dropped for
ward for moment.
His mother thought he was falling
asleep and, giving him cuff over the
head, said:
Come on, now, eat your supper; this
is no time to fall asleep
To the treatment and the remark Joe
retorted Indignantly: "Aw, quit va
kn0ckin' me; amt sleepin', Pm prayin'
Ike they do before they eat in the
country"
No Discrimination
man who wrote letter to the Fund
yesterday said: Il shall be glad TO
make contribution to your Fund if
you Will let ne know what percentage
of the children to whom you give vaca-
tions are Hebrews"
The Funds answer to his inquiry and
all similar inquiries is that it does not
know what percentage of its children
are Hebrews, Protestants or Catholics.
The Fund is not interested in that par
ticular question. 1t never of it's own
accord raises the question as to a
child's religion or nationality. It's
places are open to all on an equal foot
ing. The only question asked is (Which
child needs the vacation the most?" Its
constant endeavor is to fill up its places
with the most needy children.
The Funds expenses to date have far
outrun its receipts through contrbu-