New-York tribune., 1922-08-07
Front page stuff?

- Front page stuff?
Why not put the two columns about
the Tribune Fresh Air Fund on the
front page of the daily paper instead
of way in the middle, where it is not
so easily or so quickly seen?''
A constant reader of the Fresh Air
column puts this query to the editor Of
Inc Tribune, and backs it with the
statement Truly .his is one Of the
most worthy enterprises"
The Fund doesn't know just how the
editor answered the qtiery--though it
knows it was answered-but it sus-
poets he wasn't impressed, for no
notice has been served yet that it's
allotted space will henceforth be the ton
OF columns one and two, page one.
Probably the answer was that Che first
page IS reserved for "newsl" of inter
national, national or at least, city wide
interest, and that the Fresh Air Fund
could hardly be called that. And. of
course, there's not a shadow of doubt
that the editors of many big papers
would make the same reply
Let's wonder about the matter for a
minute. How does the Fresh Air news
size up with stuff that does, or might,
get on the coveted front page?
Pledges Are Kept
Suppose, for a moment, that all the
women in IT'S towns and villages in the
eight states nearest to New York City
should publish the fact that they
had pledged themselves to go back
at once and forever to long skirts with
trains, and the men of these same
places that they would return i'm
nediately and for good to the boiled
shirt of their forefathers. Can YOU
Visualize something like this in the
papers in place that would hit your
eye:
Skirts Come Down! Billed Shirt
Games Back!"
But the Fresh Air Fund has bigger
story than that. The women and the
men of IT'S towns and villages in the
pledged themselves to take Tribune
Fresh Airs" into their homes and give
them vacations for two weeks. And
they've more than kept their pledges.
too.
Or suppose that some socially or
otherwise prominent man or woman Of
New York should arrange to have
nearly 700 kiddies of the tenements
taken to the country for days outing.
Wouldn't something like this get
pretty close to the front page:
MRS. BIG BUG HOST TO TOO
KIDDIEs"?
But the Fresh Air Fund has better
story than that! Up north in Water
town, N. Y, one woman has so aroused
the pity and sympathy of her neigh
bors that they have taken as their
guests for two weeks 682 Of the Funds $
Johnnies and Susies of the tenements
and are hard at work putting flesh on
their bones and painting roses on their
cheeks.
Beaten to Frazzle
Or just imagine that the New York
Rotary Club or the Kiwanis Club
should invite 800 newsboys up to its
rooms and give them a royal blow-ou ut
with turkey and ice cream and vaude-
vile acts n ev'rything. Wouldn't that
get place in the big news Of the day ?
1t might be heavy-faced out on the
front page!
1900 NEWS1ES FEAST"
Well, the Fund has that story beaten
to frazzle. The Rotary Club Of Cort-
land, N. Y, and (not "or') the Kiwanis
Club, of Elmira, N. Y, both gave over
800 newsies, newsies' sisters and news
les cousins, not one meal, but three
meals day for fourteen days Not a
half hour of vaudeville, but 336 hours
Of fun, play and happiness in the coun-
try. They padded them out with, say
ton and half of good new flesh and
blood, taught 'em to see America
through newly opened eyes and did q
thousand things for them that space
won't permit the recital of here.
Front mage stuff? Sure-exceot for