Life — November 4, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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844 Life’s Fresh Air Fund, Season 1915 making its annual acknowledgment to its readers for their generosity to the children of the poor, Lire regrets that there is one feature in the state- ment which it could wish were differ- ent. This is the increased cost per child of these fortnights in the fresh air of the country. This cost has nearly doubled in the thirty years since the establishment of Lire’s Fresh Air Fund. The increase is not caused by overhead expenses nor extravagance in disbursements, but by the advance in the cost of transporta- tion, labor and supplies. These things Lire cannot change, much as it would like to. On the brighter side of the account we have the happiness of reporting, as usual, that during the season there have been no broken bones, no accidents, no sickness, no doctor and no professional nurse at the Farm. This year there have been entertained many more crippled children than usual, meaning those using iron braces, crutches and plaster casts. These and others from the hospit clinics and the Board of Health have all shown marked improvement as a result of their stay at the Farm. Since the Fund was started we have entertained 37,778 child guests for a fortnight each. This year the generosity of Li readers has enabled us to give two weeks’ hap- piness to 1,011 children. The following is the annual state- ment: INCOME Balance forward from 1914 Contributions Marion Story Fund Interest $928.54 6,595.32 210.60 236.48 $7,970.94 DISBURSEMENTS HOB cscemanseae «$2,407.99 Transportatio 874.81 Food and supplies 3! Repairs ......... $3.00 Miscellaneous expenses 960.96 Reserve fund... 313.75 $7,033.02 Balance $937.92 June 29 . Sept. 7 rott Season opened Season closed. eees Children entertained Average cost per child...........4 English Version ITTLE Orphant Belgium's come to our house to stay, — pray —- shout But the Zeppelins will get you if you don’t watch out. FOOTBALL TERM PASSING THE BAWL The Turks Make a Record 'HE Turks must have been wor- ried for fear the Germans were making a reputation greater than theirs for ferocious cruelties. Some of the German exploits in Belgium and northern France were hard to beat, but the Turks have beaten them. Their exterminating warfare on the Ar- menians, under the patronage and protection of the Kaiser, seems to have broken all the records of the war. The stories we get are astounding A year ago they would have been in- credible. A year ago a mere approach to such horrors as the Turks have accomplished in Armenia would have sent a British fleet scudding eastward in the Mediterranean. But now Eng- land is busy, and the Turks are operating under cover of the Kaiser. There will be talk in Parliament, but Parliament has its hands full al- ready, Will anything be said in Congress? If any monster had the human race outside of the Western Hemisphere by the throat and was proceeding to extinguish it, would anything be said in Congress? It seems as if we Americans ought to be more in the world or further out of it. There are drawbacks to this living on the outskirt, where we get all the European and Asiatic news promptly and fully, and are restrained by our tradition from doing anything about it. Comstock’s Successor 'HE successor of Comstock is John S. Sumner, a lawyer, the son of an American Anthony rear-admiral and presumably an educated man. His picture has been published, and the looks of him give good hope that he will be equal to the judicious discharge of the duties of a hard place. The job calls for courage, diligence and understand- ing. Comstock had the courage and the diligence, but his under- standing was not always equal to his task. comicbooks.com