New Britain herald., 1927-06-21
SEEKS TO ARRANGE CH|LDREN'S OUTING
New York Fresh Air Fund
 Official Visiting City

Mrs. Nave Palmer Jago, field worker of the New York Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund, is in New Britain at the Burritt hotel to ap- point a chairman and committee to care for the fresh air children sent from the Tribune this year. She has Just come from Pennington where the following committee has been arranged: Chairman. Rev. Quincy Blakely: vice-chairman. E. G. Stew art; committee, Rev. H. F. Cassidy. Rev. Edward Roberts. Herbert Knox Smith. Mrs. Stewart E. Phelps, Miss Helen Andrews, Miss Ethel Cross, Victor Malmberg. Miss Mary Rourke. and Miss Anna Andrews.
 Mrs. Jago has secured chairman and committees in the following towns in Connecticut: Danbury. New Milford, Kent, Canaan, Cornwall, Norfolk. Winsted. Washington. Woodbury. southbury. Colebrook, Torrington. Thomaston Collinsville, Roxbury. Pleasant Valley, Bethel. Southington and Pennington.
 The Herald Tribune fresh air fund is 51 years old this summer. Last year 17,500 children among the poor of New York were given vacation of two weeks. They were sent into New York state. Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire Vermont, Pennsylvania. Virginia Maryland, and New Jersey
 There are 35.vc0 on the list this summer. They are children of the New York schools, who have none of the advantages of a real Ameri- can home unless the friendly people in the friendly towns, open their home and hearts to the children of New York's crowded tenements.
 In her plea to New Britain people and those living in adjacent towns. Mrs. Jago said: Those of us who awaken in the morning with sum- shine streaming in our windows and on looking out see beautiful coun- try, grass, trees and flowers. have no conception of what child living in a crowded tenement in the congest- ed district of New York feels as he looks out on the same such scene. and knows he can romp and play on tho grass, climb the trees and pick the flowers for two whole weeks.
 "They awaken perhaps 50 weeks out of the year in two-room tene- ment, six or seven in the family. with a tiny gas jet to light the rooms, blank walls on all sides and only the street to play on. Is it any wonder then. that they think they will find the end of the rainbow when a settlement worker tells them that friendly people in friendly town have invited them for 8 two weeks visit in the country. where they can play and romp at will and that the New York Herald Tribune fresh air fund will pay their railroad fare to and from that paradise
 Children of the tenements have never seen COWS and their only idea of milk is in cans." ..
 All that is asked of the town is to give these little people of the tenements two weeks care in any two weeks in July and August. The children are given thorough phy- sical examination by reliable phy- sician the day before leaving New York, and worker accompanies them to the town where they are to be entertained and comes for them at the end of two weeks.
 Mrs. Jago told the story of boy who was pulled off a garbage wagon in New York last week while trying to get some faded flowers. He said he wanted them for his mother who was sick. The worker who talked to the boy, bought a rose and went with him to see his mother. She found family of seven occupying two rooms, the mother ill with an infected hand. The worker asked the boy if he would like to go to the country and pick real flowers and real apples. He said that he couldn't leave his mother. When he was told his mother would be taken care of, he replied, "Could I really pick them?"
 When the worker said 'yes" the boy. who was 10 years old. said. Sure I'd go; I'd like to do that for I never have picked anything in my life." He had never been in the country.
 It is boys and girls of this type that the fresh air fund is trying to help get a two weeks vacation.
 The fund is enrolling day by day the names ot thousands of children sentenced by poverty to the priva- tions of the tenements. Every name in the list is that of child whom a welfare worker will be willing to swear needs country vacation. but hasn't a chahce of one unless the fresh air fund provides 1t. Out Of these thousands. the fund is plan ming to select the 1s,o00 who most