New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
$4,000 Vacations for the
Children of Poor 9l1ls
Year Is Goal Of tIac
Annual Tribune Drive
$lOO, 900 Needed for II
Upstate Towns Are Pre-
pairing to Entersain Hosts
of Youngsters in July

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tions is the goal for 1921 That means
$4,000 weeks, 500 years, Of health. pleas
ure and relief for Little Johnny and
Susie Of the tenements.
Two good reasons inspire the cont
dence that this program can be put
through. The first is EXPIRE ssed in The
seasons first list OF contributions, pub
lished below. On Monday the Fund
made its first appeal for the 100000
that will be needed to pay The expenses
CT $4,000 vacations. To-days list shows
one-tiftleth of the whole sum aready
subscribed. seven-league stride to-
ward the goal
The second reason for confidence is
the way the Fresh Air committees in
the country are going at their work
this year. These are the folks who
actually entertain the children in their
homes Not since the years before the
war have they responded TO the Funds,
appeal for cooperation with the en-
thuslasm they are showing now.
Cortland TO Be Host
Up in Cortland, n. y, the Rotary
Club has adopted the movement to find
vacation homes for children az its own
ic is sending out its members tn ran.
Vass a whole county, and expects N
nave places for 800 guests bv August
IN Watertown. y. Y, the local news
papers are running head lines like this.
gov Fresh AIRS Coming July ID"
AT Glens Falls, ~ Y. a committee
/ which entertained one bundrad ho,,s t.eve
and girls in 1920 began early in Anil
TO lay its plans to take care Of twice
that number this year.
rem Yam, n. Y, hopes to reirvite
TINS summer the eighty boy and eirl
guests 1T made happy last August and
10 add another eighty of their brothers
ana sisters TO the 1921 invitation LIST
rive OF its last years party already+
are III Penn Yam for the entire sun,,
/ mer 'H''1~
Ihe committees at Burlington, VT
and Plattsburg, N. Y, have made them.
selves the centers of county organizn-
lions; with subcommittee in all sur
roundlng towns and villages. They are
l"aNihg no boasts as to the numoer 10
to be entertained, but are WORKING
hard without fear as to results
Then there is Binghamton. n Y
Oldest and tirmest friend of The Trib3
| une's Fresh Airs Not for twenty
aVe years has it missed its step in the
vacation parade. It's average number
OF guests Is IN the neighborhood of
three hundred. 1t is doing it's big part
IN this years campa ign
Many Communities Ready
And these are only a few Of the
communities that are at work on
thuslastically and efficiently. Others
ooth old and new, to the number of Vt
least eighty have begun their cam
palgns and reported their prospects
AT least as many more ought to be at
work by the end of June.
Inc outlook for the summers work
is bright. And it needs to be, for there
VIII be more children in New York this
summer whose parents cannot buv
vacations for them than for several
years past. Business depression and
the lack of employment are sufficient
proof of that.
Readers of The Tribune, friends in
the city, host of boys and girls hone
/ tnat you Will help these other friends
OF the Fresh Air campaign to put this
program through this summer. Thera
are many more than the $4,000 who
need vacations. The fund. in settinp
Its goal, allowed for only the yerv
neediest cases. Will you help provide
for these neediest ones? They are
closer neighbors of yours than Of the
folk IN the country who are WORKING
50 hard for their welfare
Your part is to help make Up the
| $4,000 '"0
Send contribution to-day. Make
boy or a girl happy.
Follow the lead of the nine-year-old
lassie who wrote this letter yesterday:
Dear Tribune Fresh Air Fund:
am sending $14 1 have saved from nv
/ allowance to send two little children
to the country
GILLIAN R, WRIGHT.
40 Prospect Terrace,
Montclair, N. j."
Money Given to Date
Contributions to The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund
Aida Boyer ..........~.-..... s12so5
Gssh under office door ........... 800
Easter birthday Offering from the
primary class OF the Madison
Presbyterian Sunday School 12.74
Advertising department OF The
1rlDune ...s.,...,. ......... 6.69
Relief committee Of the Masters
School IOaV EtIraery m