New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-13
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund

The Fresh Air Fund has enemies-of
a sort.
They are not folks who have found
anything in the work the fund is do
ing, or in the way it does it, to de-
velop Crouch over. Not at all, at
least as far as they reves..
They've grudges against something
else and seem to think that little tene-
ment kiddies ought to suffer because
they-these enemies-want to work off
their grudges.
There was one holder of q crouch,
for example, who yesterday vented his
spleen in a missive to the fund which
read:
1.-THE Anti-Saloon League may help
you better than l can.
IN AMERICAN CITIZEN"
Strange to relate, another one of
the grouches few days ago threw a
stone from the other side of the pro-
hibition fence. This is the way he put
his Crude in writing:
Don't ask me for help for The
Tribune Fresh Air Fund; ask the brew
ers and the bootleggers."
Another Has e Grudge
third enemy-the only one, it must
be admitted, who thought it worth
while to sign his name to his pledge of
ti-allegience-put it this way:
"How much of the money you collect
for the Fresh Air Fund goes to help
the British? We're going to keep our
eye on you"
Still another had religious grudge
The Fund thought it was Keeping
everything pertaining to the prohibit
ton question, the Irish British contro-
versy and all sorts of sectarianism out
of the Fresh Air column, but these
holders Of grouches-well, they must
read between the lines each to suit his
own taste.
What have all these things to do
with giving vacations to suffering lads
and lassies of the tenements? What
have little children to do with prohibi-
ton or its opposite, with the Irish
question, with one religion or the
other? Why should a man or a woman
cheat boy or a girl out of chance
for relief and health because that man
Or woman feels this way or that on
one of the stirring questions of the
hour?
Say, for instance, It was a boy or a
girl like those told about in the fol-
lowing letter:
"City of New York, Bellevue and Allied
Hospitals.
"July II, 1921.
"Mr. Leslie Comfy, New York Tribune
Fresh Air Fund, 154 Nassau Street,
New York.
"My Dear Mr.. Comfy: am very
much interested in the family who used
to live at -. They now live at -.
Margaret and Isabelle were sent away
with special party to Mrs. Orson
Mears, Hudson Falls, N. Y. These chill
dren have no home at present The
fathpr died of tl1harrf1 losis Last 7uintsr
The mother is now quite i'll in Bellevue
Hospital. She is a chronic case, and
needs to remain some time for treat
ment. Mrs. Mears requested to have
these children again this year. think
possibly she might be willing to keep
them longer. Would you approve of
having them remain longer than the
two weeks? I have the little brother,
Anthony, in my own home, as he has
no place. He was sent to CASTLE last
year, He is very anxious to return
there again. l do not remember the
family.
81 would appreciate your interest in
this family, as fear they are soon to
be left orphans, and will have to be
cared for in an institution.
every sincerely yours,
SARA E. SHAW,
Nurse in Charge"
Are you friend OF an enemy?
If friend advance and give the
countersign; that is to say, send a
check to the Fund to-day. Look at
all the friends who sent theirs yes
terday!
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