Evening star., 1924-07-13
ASKS $1,000 MORE
FOR LOCAL CAMPS
Summer Outings Committee
Announces Needs for
Rest of Season.

John Joy Edison, chairman of the
summer outings committee. is asking
for $4,000 additional funds to meet
season. The committee estimates that
it costs 81 a day for each camper
With $50 at Camp Good Will and 1875
at Camp Pleasant, the total expense
is nearly $500 day. Checks may be
sent to Treasurer Harry G. Mems, at
1922 18th street.
The campers now at Camp Good
Will will return Tuesday after their
two weeks holiday, making way for
the newcomers Wednesday. Many re-
quests have been made by those now
in camp to be allowed to stay another
fortnight, but others are waiting to
take their places. and only mothers
and children who are in extreme need
because of home conditions or physi-
cal defects such as underweight can
be retained. There are now three
sets of twins in camp, the youngest
only two years old.
Require Special Care.
Among the few who remain over
is family where two of the children
whose mother is deserted by their
father, are anaemic; two families
where the children are undernour-
ished and anaemic and where there is
suspicion of a tendency to tuber-
culosis; a mother and six children,
with another child expected, where
there is tuberculosis in the home; a
| mother and five children, where a
good deal of time has been lost from
school because of i'll health and the
father is too i'll to work.
IeROy Mark iS again ct vear
providing an operator and films for
weekly movie nights. The navy yard
committee, which has been response
Bile for establishing Saturday field
| tion of the custom this year. One in
noVation is camp picnic in the
woods, which is enjoyed by each new
party, and there is a continuance of
the weekly trips for the mothers and
children to the Zoo.
Big Sisters Provided.
Camp Pleasant. at Blue Plains. D..
| c.. which opened it's season July
I with 13o campers, has remained full.
There are comparatively few mothers
| in this first party, because so many
of them were found unable to leave
| their work long enough to go with
| their children to camp. In order that
| the children themselves might not
suffer by having to stay at home,
Mrs. Laura B. Glenn, the superintsnd-
ent, has arranged for number of
volunteers, several of them scho ol
teachers, to play the part of big sis-
ters to the younger children who
need special care.
The mothers who are fortunate
enough to be able to enjoy the two
weeks holiday with their children
also lend a hand in looking after
their neighbors' little ones
The first party will return from
Camp Pleasant tomorrow and will be
succeeded Tuesday by a second group
of 125, the normal capacity of the
camp. Fearing Brothers gave the
camp great treat last week, when
they took their largest radio outfit
with amplifier to Blue Plains, n. c.,
and the bedtime stories were heard
by the children and they were al
lowed to stay up a little later than
usual to hear the fine concert in New
York
Several new tents have been named
at Camp Good Will during the past
week, including an additional one by
Cleveland Park, Ell Dorado Club, Will
liam c. Eustis, Edna ]. Thomas, We'll
fore Club of the Office of the regis
ter of the Treasury and the teachers
of tenth division, public schools, have
contributed to name a tent at Camp
Pleasant.