Evening star., 1925-07-11
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

| There is a genuine "blue-sky'' stock
enterprise active in Washington. and
the police are not interfering in the
| least degree. eff this be libeI-make
the most of it').
Certain bankers are interested in
| the profitS-John JOY Edison, for in
| stance, is the chairman of the board
and the gains are certainteed to be
more than satisfactory to every in
vestor in the preferred stock" While
/ the scheme Is not a land investment
rivaling Florida, it has a certain in
terest in headquarters located not far
| from the famous hut of Joaquin Miller
| in Rock Creek Park. There, partly
| hidden by the forest, like a moon
| sinners still, the headquarters are
shielded from public view so effectu-
| ally that none but an experienced
| ''revenooer" is likely to discover it.
In fact, there is a steady procession
! Of automobiles passing within a quar-
| ter of a mile of the hidden camp,
with not one of the pleasure-seekers
suspecting its proximity.
Yet, many a traveller is mystified
when he catches ripping through the
trees and echoing amid the hills the
| merry laughter of $50 children or the
| splashing of water punctuated with
| shouts of diving boys or padding
|
| is declared daily by this remarkable
"blue-sky' enterprise, which even the
police are winking at and bankers are
| underwriting with such confidence.
| Blue sky? Some of the $50 partici-
| pants never had seen so much blue
! sky in their 10 or II years of life as
they are seeing now daily in Camp
| Good Will. in Rock Creek Park
1t is the best investment in Wash
| ington and vet there is an opportu-
| nifty for large or small investors to
get in on the ground floor by apply
ing to the Summer Outings Commit
| tee, Social Service House, 1922 Elev-
enth street northwest. Stock is sold
at par in any quantity, and every
share is backed by some boy or girl
whose heart is filed with joy over
| two-week outing, which would have
been impossible otherwise.
Some of the shares are supported
even by working mothers, who, with
their children, are there in the woods,
in the tented camp, actually resting
Rest in hot weather for some of the
mothers of Washington! Rest under
the whispering trees! Rest in the
woods before dawn when the bird
choir is chirruping high C and low
q and the morning breeze is so heav-
! enly,
There In the camp is a baby house,
| presided over by a trained nurse and
| a practical nurse" who know all
about how to carry babies through
| their second Summer and make them
| fat and jolly. The nurses not only
battle and feed the babies just right,
| but they teach their secrets to the
mothers. And the babies sleep-sleep-
| and wake up laughing over their baby
| dreams That is the extra dividends"
on the stock.
How scientific handling of babies
has changed the statisticsl A few
; years ago quarter of the babies born
| in Washington died of wrong feeding,
| before they were years old; now
only l out of 50 so perishes. In
Camp Good Will the babies of the
| scrubwoman and of the seamstress
| have the same scientific treatment
that only much money can insure in
the homes of the favored rich.
How much is bid for stock in this
blue sky corporation of Good Will?
| The Kiwanis Club made a run on that
stock some time ago and now holds
three of the principal "skyscraper"
buildings of the camp-the baby
! house the dining house and head
quarters house. But it shall not cor
| ner the market.
A patriot named Wardman has run
a close second by building, at cost, a
| swimming pool, 80 by so feet, where
| the youngsters perform great feats in
water from 2 to feet deep. On
| the opening day, after Chairman
| Edison had sent up some oratorical
eagles, boy swan clear across the