The Washington times., 1938-07-07
$4,000 NEEDED
TO AID Is 7. B.
CHILDREN HERE.
Citizens Asked to Give
Funds for Cause

A pitiful study in contrasts is
under way in Washington today
while IS little boys and girls wait
hopefully for kind-hearted citizens
to contribute the $4,000 necessary
to support them for the summer
at the Child Health Camp on Bald
Eagle Hill.
Steadily the children who were
left behind when 100 youngsters
were sent to the tuberculosis
camp Tuesday are losing ground
in their fight against insidious
germs Of the white plague which
have been detected in their bodies.
100 AIDED
But the 100 youngsters at the
camp already are showing the
effects of health-building sun
shine, fresh air, plentiful food and
supervised rest.
Every day the rs forgotten
youngsters are left in their pres
ent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS hard
on hot and crowded streets, eat
ing Skimpy. unbalanced meals and
sleeping in drab, overcroWded
rooms-their chances of becom-
ing strong and useful citizens
grows less.
* EMPTY COTS
It cos.s only $50 to maintain a
child <or the summer in the at
tractive T. H. preventorium at
ForGy.ninth Street and Minnesota
Ave. s. E. All the facilities neces-
sary to care for 25 additional chill
Cren are available at the preven-
gorium. But IS cots stand empty
today because Of the lack Of
$4,000.
Possibility that one Of the cots
may be filled before nightfall ap-
peared this morning when the Dis
trict tuberculosis Association re-
ceived two checks, each for $25.
Donors were ]. E. Barnes of the
Edmonds Building, and Caroline
Mytinger, 3640 Sixteenth St. N. w.
They asked merely that the money
be spent where it will do the most
good at the Child Health Camp.
DIRECTOR CONFIDENT
Mrs. Ernest r. Grant, executive
director Of the tuberculosis AS.
Sociation, said she is confident
Washington will not fail the 25
youngsters who were left behind.
II am delighted" she said,
"by the quick response to the
appeal for funds. am sure the
people Of Washington will see
that everyone of those 25 chill.
dren are given the chance they
deserve to regain their health"
Solution of the droopy pants
problem-major quandary facing
attendants at the Bald Eagle Hill
Camp p appeared near following
dinner yesterday evening.
Youngsters when they entered
the camp Tuesday discarded their
city clothes for little sun suits and
shorts made by WPA workers. The
new clothes were cut to fit the
"tummies" of normal children and
they dropped pitifully on the
emaciated forms of most of the
youngsters at the camp.
GALL YOU WANT TO EAT"
But after the 100 boys and girls
had had an opportunity to stow
three bountiful meals under their
belts nurses began to wonder if
1t would not be advisable to loosen
up few seams.
"Jimminy Christmas" exclaim-
ed a 5-year-old tow head yester-
day, "all you want to eat. Pass
that bread will you Charlie"
At the time the little tot had
consumed a heaping plate of
spaghetti, tomato sauce, liver and
onions, five slices of raisin and
brown bread, four half pints of
milk and salad. And he was still
hungry.
It's really joy to watch them
eat" said Miss Sara Shriner, su-
perintendent of the camp. mo
wonder they gain four and five
pounds the first week they are
here. We hate to do it, but we
have at first to keep food away
from youngsters, like that little
blonde over there, for their own
good"
Only $50 spells the difference
between slumber time at camp and
the search for fun here. And it
can easily be the difference be-
tween life and death.