Life — January 23, 1913 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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194 Life's Fresh Air Fund Season of 1912 HE following extract, from a let- ter of Mr. Mohr, our manager at Lire’s Farm, may prove good read- ing for those interested in this charity Lire’s Fars, Braxcuvitte, Cony. Sept. 28, 1912. We entertained, for two weeks each, one thousand and cleven children from June 25 to September 3, at a total ex- penditure of $5,964.19. This amount in- cludes $821.88 charged for the transpor- tation of the children alone, and also the $500 authorized last fall to be spent for repairs, roofing, painting, grading, ete. We derive the greatest pleasure, how- ever, from the fact that among all these little people, we have had no sickness or accident, although the last party we returned to their homes carried with them, in bags we provide, 42 bushels of apples, actual measurement. One of the vouchers, you will notice (No. 211) for $7.50, is from the only doctor we have had, with or without pay, and covers the past three years, 1910, 1911, 1912, and includes attention to several caretakers, as well as any of the 3,030 children we have. entertained during that time. We have had, during the past season, applications for an outing for more than seven thousand children, and have taken pains to accommodate as many from hospitals and clinics as we could. ANNUAL STATEMENT INCOME Previously acknowledged... $10,122.90 “Church Services, Canandaigua Lake, N. Y.". 18.95 C. J. Manly, Major, U. S. Army. 5.00 Proceeds of Fair held by Kathryn Slayback and Florence Singer... 171.00 ‘Thos. Smidt.. se eeeeeee $.00 AON CBurk ie eserncsncevscane 4.09 The evens Hodge Corporation. 20.00 * Paris” $0.04 Mrs, Hans Isenberg... Interest on Marion Story Fund. From the Estate of Edwin Gilbert 425.00 5.70 Interest on Deposits. . . ‘ 25.00 Total. + $11,118.80 DISAURSEMENTS Welp eeeessaaes. -$2,156.60 Transportation ......... 844.23 Food and Supplies..... 2,162.21 Repairs and miscellane- ous expenses. 801.15 Reserve Fund.......... 4.51400 10,478.19 Balance 341403603 $640.61 Season opened June asth Season closed Sept. 3rd. Average cost per child, $5.90. CARREL’S NEXT EXPERIMENTS He Will Try to Transplant Nerves on His Return to New York By Marcon! Transatlantic Wireless Tele- graph to the New York Times Parts, Jan. 3:—Dr. Alexis Carrel will sail immediately for New York. He said in an interview to-day that in collaboration with a young Swed- ish scientist he was about to en- deavor ate the Rockefeller Institute to transplant Rerves. Transplant nerves! Can the human mind conceive more unbearable agony than is prom- ised by these “ endeavors"? And for the victims, the hospital patients, the dogs and monkeys who undergo the useless torture, it would be a barren consolation to know that America is the only country where these wholesale, irresponsible experi- ments are tolerated. France and Eng- land have actively protested. And the tragedy is still more hideous when perpetrated with the knowledge that these freak experiments are of no pc sible service in the prevention or cure of disease? If you caught your boy of ten at similar practices you would be surprised, and more than shocked. You might not punish him. But when many boys over thirty years of age are still at it, the entire community—if civilized—should take notice. Why not give this Dr. Carrel his own medicine? Let the punishment fit the crime. Transplant a few of his own live nerves into the quivering person of John D. Rockefeller, the man who furnishes the money for these atrocities. No Need for Education CCORDING to figures gathered by the Sage Foundation, Alabama pays less attention to educational facilities than any other State in the Union, though several other Southern States vig orously emulate Alabama in this regard May we express the hope, however, that these figures will be correctly con- strucd? Alabama and the rest of those aristocratic Southern commonwealths know what they are doing. If they had need for more educational institutions they would acquire them. But they haven't the need. They have found much better use for children in the mills ard mines and fields, Why should they have expensive buildings and hire ex- pensive teachers when the children haven't time to make use of them? You are all right, Alabama ef al. Don't let sentimental reformers inveigle you into taking any foolish steps. Where ignor- ance is profit, ‘tis folly to be wise. E. 0. J. comicbooks.com pee 2