Life, 1909-08-05 · page 12 of 44
Life — August 5, 1909 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct pieces: 1. **"At Life's Farm"**: A photograph showing a large outdoor gathering with an American flag visible, appearing to document a charitable or community event related to "Life's Fresh Air Fund" (a program providing outdoor experiences for underprivileged children). 2. **"Uncle John's Great Race With His Income"**: A satirical cartoon with accompanying article mocking wealthy philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. The piece humorously tracks how his charitable giving—particularly his recent $10 million donation to the General Education Fund—is outpacing his ability to accumulate wealth. The silhouette cartoon shows a figure struggling to keep up with his own generosity, satirizing the absurdity of a billionaire's "race" between earning and giving away money. The satire critiques both wealth inequality and performative philanthropy.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
Lites Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged. E. Parmly, Jeescess Franklin Lindley’ Ce Virginia Jocelyn}. Rosemary s. Eleanor Lee Flagg Mrs. Elin “EKO Anna McChu Edward White. Wan. P. Clydeciessicccscees 100.00 Caroline Bt : : 5.00 jaxwell Greene... ‘ 10.00 Do iisccenecste trvces 5.00 From a Peoria well-wisher 100 © A. GIL" Syesee : 3.00 rs. Arthur S. Goodwin. \nony mous ert Tol Memory of Lowry Dick 'S Mack. A Modern Decalogue T VE but one God; and 1 A God acceptable to thee. It Unto no graven image bow; We print all wealth on paper now HI no holy thing by word; Him be Blasphe Enough that it is deftly slurred IV Desist one day each week from wor! And all the rest, if you can shirk V Let parents not in poorhouse sit; Newspapers will get hold of it AT UFE’S FARM vl Destroy no man with sword or gun; He can be otherwise undone. VII Keep to thine own wife; but of course Thou mayst take others by divorce. VIII By no means snatch. How very crude, When ‘tis so easy to delude! IX Speak out no lie. Insinuate; Much safer, and of greater w Naught covet! Well,-here I opine We must reduce-our laws to nine. —Cameron Mann Uncle John’s Great Race With His Income hundred and twelve milhons his in- come has gained on him. We suppose it is twenty-five millions or thereabouts a year. He cannot keep ahead of such an allowance of money as that by retail processes. He must be a wholesaler or give up, Realizing that, he seems 10 have established the General Education Fund as his wholesale department. Sad to say, Uncle John and Andy the Laird seem to have a lot of fun with their money, It is enough to disgust all the philosophers of all times down to Theodore Roosevelt, who writes in the Outlook “ Give Me Neither Poverty Nor Riches," to see the disgraceful amount of enjoyment those two gay old birds get out of their unconscionable heaps of dross. A CCORDING to tables in the papers Mr, Rockefeller's recent gift of ten million dollars to the Gen cral Education Fund brought the total of his benefactions up to and beyond a hundred and twelve million dollars. s does not include his early con tributions to Sunday-school and mis sionary objects, but only what he has done in comparatively recent years since he really began to throw money around. Out of the one hundred and twelve millions, fifty-three have gone to the G Education Fund and twenty-seven to the University of Chicago and the Rush Medical School How is Uncle John getting along in his great work of disbursement? Is he getting ahead or dropping behind ? The most encouraging sign for him is this dropping of ten million dollars at a whack into the General Educa- tion Fund. We suppose in the con- siderable period covered by the one neral Orr coLor comicbooks.com