The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27

brothers were worried like every
thing over you, and the fellows
called you skinny"
Wouldn't you Just love to get
fat and show EN-?
Wouldn't you like to walk out
and sight 'em to a muscle that
could match up with Dempsey's
when he was a little rascal?
I've got the prettiest story TO
tell you old staid Birminghammers,
and Montgomery-ers and all you
Alabama folks don't know to call
by name but sholy am strong
for, just the same, cause know
you've got a lot Of tribulations,
too.
A kind human being who won't
let his name be known has gone
down to DR.. Henry NJ. Edmonds,
and said:
"Here! There are just too many
frail little boys and girls in this
world to suit me. Some of these
days, if we keep on fooling like
this, lot of 'em II be dead-or,
anyway, always sad and beat out.
Suppose we have a Fresh Air
Camp for Underprivileged Children
every year, beginning in June and
ending in September"
And when the speaker got to
the word Suppose" he-or maybe
it was she?-thrust out hand,
and in that hand was a check for
just $4,000!
And that's to be an annual gift
for the camp.
Now DR.. Edmonds looked around
as soon as he was able to talk
from the shock of honest-to- good
ness delight-and chose commit
tee to manage that money.
And he put Mrs. Chalmers
Moore, one of the wheel-horses at
the Independent Presbyterian
church, in the craftsmanship, and
these others to help dispense the
fund and make it do rigid double
duty: Mrs. C. B. Spencer, Mrs.
B. G. Copeland, Mrs. r. B. Chand
Ter, Mrs. E. L. Scouten, Mrs. Jack
Bowron-and five men: w. E.
Mitchell, C. NJ. McCrum, DIR. Elwyn
Ballard, F. w. Miller and Ralph
Barrow.
Now the plan is to get a big
house somewhere-two or three
have already been Investigated
and to open the camp with the first
25 little Riddles about June %.
After that, the children will be
taken out in groups of 25 every
little while. Both boys and girls
will be taken on different occa-
sions.
But there are to be no strings
tied to the entrance of The little
people. Their need will determine,
before board of judges, whether
they shall go; and their stay at
the camp will be indefinite. If
good results are being obtained,
then a child will be allowed to re-
main as long as it is considered
necessary to get him or her on the
pathway to good health.
No child with tuberculosis will
be taken Just children who are
run down. If possible, the chill
dren are to sleep on outdoor
porches.
Think what a great thing for
Birmingham-town this camp will
be!
1t will help little tots which it
will locate through all the chart
ties, take possibly others from the
Children's hospital, and surely
some from the Northside and
Southside Community houses. Pos
sibly the Salvation Army will rec
ommend little folks whose frail
bodies will need to be built strong
to withstand disease.
The camp is to be in charge of
Miss Danewood, special nurse, and
rest and food are the keynotes.
Visitors are to be allowed at the
camp, and if it is anything like
the one conducted the past year,
there'll be plenty of such callers
most of whom will be loaded down
with gifts for the kitchen.
Before the camp begins, Mrs.
Moore is planning shower, at
which she wants it to fairly rain
sheets and pillow cases, white night
gowns for children, butter and
eggs, ham, spice and everything
nice