New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund

Inc dollar spares" or spare dollars,
Whichever way you prefer to put it,
that The Tribune Fund asked for on
Monday morning are beginning to come
IN. More than GOO of them have ar
rived since the appeal was made.
That makes the outlook bright You
may remember that the luea of the
spares" appeal was that II every one
of the 142 ,000-odd readers of The
Tribune would each spare one dollar
the fund would De able to give a fort
night country outing to each Of the
10000 needy youngsters on it's list.
But the 600 spare dollars that have
arrived were sent on by only twenty
nine out of the 142 900 odd. One man
and his wife, who felt that they could
spare only the one dollar suggested in
the appeal, wrote in forwarding it:
Here is one spare dollar for
some fresh air for some poor kiddie.
Wish we could send a few 'thous.'
BEST of luck and we hope that the
other 142 900 come clean"
If the rest of the Tribune readers
do "come clean" at anything like the
rate OF to-day's twonty-nine, what a
glorious summer this will be fer the
boys and girls Of %pe tsnements!
VIII you come clean,' readers of
The Tribune?
There are $4,000 and more of you who
have Joined the family since last sum
mer. Perhaps you don't know what all
this talk of Fresh Air vacations is
about. A. word of explanation to you
The Fresh Ar Fund is an enter
prise which for the last fortyfour
years has been maintained by lovers
of children to bring health and happi-
ness into the lives of the boys and
girls of the worse tenement districts
of New York. 1t does this by select
ing the most needy of them each sum
mer and taking them to the country
for two weeks stay-this without a
cent of expense to the children or their
parents.
The Fund aims to provide for a mini
mum of 10000 such boys and girls thi=
summer, to give each of them q two
weeks share in long vacation o.
five hundred years. Half of them will
get their vacations at the funds ten
vacation camps, the other half IN the
private homes of country hosts who
will receive them free as guests, the
Fund paying only the railroad fares.
That these vacations will add flesh
and blood and vitality to the bodies OF
the youngsters who get them; that
they will afford the only real chance
for care-free play to lads and lassies
confined for the rest of the year IN
traffic -jammed streets; that they VIII
reveal to these pitiful little kiddies q
brand new world-these are things toe
easily apparent to need discussion.
But here's result of Fresh Air va
cations-especial of those passed II
a
guess:
1t has to do with friends and friend
ship. Everybody needs them; life is
a dull thing without them. But no
body has SO little chance to make gooc
friends as q child of the tenements.
On July l the Tribune Fund vii
send out for vacations fifty boys anc
girls, not simply for fortnight vaca
t>ons but for all summer vacations
with friends. These same fifty were
sent away to private homes last sum
mer and won the hearts of their hosts
| All through the year since those hosts
little guests. This summer they have
invited them to come back to theil
country homes for the entire sum
"1F; Friends? You'd have e feel prsst5 sst'
friendly toward a strange child before
YOU'D invite him into your home, tC
play with your own children, for eight
or ten weeks, wouldn't you? That's
what these hosts are doing. Is suci
| friendship worth buying for friend
less little teller" at the price OF
railroad ticket which the fund gets al
half the regular rates?
Fifteen of these little friend winner;
who are to set out on July go to theil
friends in Penn Yam, n Y. Five others
by the way, are already at that place
having begun their vacations some time
ago. A score or more 60 to then
friends in Watertown, N. Y. A dozer
will revisit friends in Hudson Falls
N. Y. The others of the fifty will be
scattered here and there.
This is only one days crop of re
unions. Every succeeding day of the
summer will see other children go ouf
TO hosts who have entertained them be
| fore.
And besides these fifty who go bach
to old friends on June 80 and July
the fund will send at least 1,500 other
boys and girls away to begin happy va
cations.
Come along, Mr.. New Reader. L
you've any Spares" send them on
Seven of them buy one child's vaca
tion-one hundred five of them will pa!
for fifteen.
| Contributions to the Tribune Fresf
! Air Fund: