New-York tribune., 1921-06-23
The Tribune Fresh,
Air Fund

What would be THE grand and
glorious feelin'" for you these first
hot days of summer?
Would it be to find that somebodv
was making all the plans for vour
vacation and was going to foot all the
bills?
"oh, boy!" wouldn't that he the
grandest and glorousest feelin' Of all .
And just supposin' you were not Mr..
or Mrs. Prosperous, but little Johnny
or pale-faced Susie Of the tenements
with no vacation in prospect, and all
OIL a sudden you learned that a lot of
knd-hearted folks somewhere wera
planning to send you to the countrv
Tor two weeks vacation and al
| charges prepaid!
"A vacation with swimmin' holesl
AND hay rides!
Nothing to do but plavI
ihree squares" a davl
N ev'rything!
would you toss your cap in the air
or KICK up your skirts in n bigblnnd
fling and believe that vou'd fomsd m,g 1'4ho tha
in's ?" anu eioliouS 1eeI"
Wen. that's the good news for JOHNNY
atlo susie to-day. A lot of folks are
az az work on prepaid vacations for
thousands Of them. '0i
Ihey are doing it through The Trib-
une Fresh Air Fund.
some OF these folks are doing il bv
E6lvlng money to the fund. You, Mr
iLrosperous, can join hands with them
" OtLg O4tILulng your check to theirs.
orhers are doing it by opening their
tomn:ry toy homes and promising to en-
uaoiln releaih Johnny and Susie for two
weeks, at least, of the summer as
'helr honored guests.
90 lar the "others" excel in mum
pers. The fund doesn't know exactly
now many Others" there are vet bnt
10 estimates that 5000 is a consorvaz
tive figure. 1t knows that un alonq
the st. Lawrence in the neiphborhood
OF Watertown at least 263 homes are
TO be opened to Fresh Airs" on Julv .
1t knows that in northern Vermont in
the nelghborhood Of Richford, Mont
gomery and East Berkshire about
eighty homes will open to JOHNNY and
Susie on July /.
on 1T knows that approximately 800
Fresh AIRS" will get cordial welcomes
IN as many homes round about Binp-
hanton, N. Y, some time during l5lne July
1t knows that the Rotary Club of
Cortland, N. Y, expects to entertain
| 300 boys and girls in Cortland County
early IN August, and that the Rotary
Club of Geneva, N. Y, is hoping 70
excel its brother club in Cortland.
1t knows that friends in Utica. N. Y
| expect to find open homes for 100 chill
dren in Oneida County, that the Glens
Rails N. Y, Fresh Air Committee plans
to give vacations to about 200 lads and
| lassies.
1t knows that a Fresh Air committee
in Westerly, R. l., which invited lac
children for vacations in 1920, and an
| other in New London, Conn, which
invited over 100 last year. are both
hard at work finding open homes fo1
! 1921.
And besides all this, it knows that al
least 100 other communities in pleasant
country regions are busy through Fresh
Air committees inducing the kind
hearted folk of their respective neigh
! borhoods to open their homes and pro.
vide prepaid vacations for Johnny anc
Susie and their brothers and sisters anC
cousins.
And every day new committees are
| Joining the movement.
The grand and glorious feelin'
ought to spread far and wide through
the tenements of New York this sum
mef.
Everything is in order for its spread
plans are all laid down to details. Only
one thing is lacking.
That's the money to pay railroad
fares to all these vacation places. Thai
part Of it is up to you, Mr.. and Mrs
Prosperous. A beginning has beer
made on your part, but to date only
149 folks have sent contributions tc
the fund-against 5000 country folks
who have opened their homes.
Don't let the country beat you.
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