Life — July 18, 1912 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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‘LIP E: Don’t Miss a Good Chance Ik your birthday comes this month, why not celebrate it with a party where every guest will be promptly on hand and more than happy to attend? We mean the children at Lire’s Farm. A donation of ice cream is always appreciated. These children don’t get it every day. Twenty-five dollars will cover it. A lot of happy Life’s Fresh Air Fund Lire’s Frees Atm Fuxp has been in oper: otion twenty-five years, In that time it has expended $133,340.25 and has given a fort night im the country to 33.737 foor city chile The Fund is supported entirely by bequests and voluntary contributions, which are ee knowledged in this column, $5,816.83 10.00 12,00 $00 5.15 23.00 10.00 70 Previously acknowledged. . Allen, ‘ d Ida A. Campbell 3.00 In Memory of Janet Nelson Rhoad: . S$. Hammo: Mrs. Burr Porter. H.W. Pe... Pupils “of Sunday Hall sat Lititz, Pa. Mrs. J. Sumner, Draper * Bessic, Molly, N 1 Ge Lillian ‘McA. Felix Rosen 10.00 10.00 17.50 little people will be really glad that it is your birthday, and you can be sure of more than two hundred of the heartiest good wishes for returns of the day. A special occasion like this should be specially observed. In any case, Lire wishes you many happy returns. George F. Corliss. GB. Dan: Julius Wil ‘A Frien Helen Ralston “EB. A POSTAL. Dean Morner Davy wants Harry to go home we are very lonesome without you Tcant sleep ever night we go very early to bed. I sleep with a christian and the bed is to small for two. 1 avill have a big sin if I sleep with the christian, there are more christians there than jews. I would like to go hon end a postal card to me and write that I should come hom when we go on the line to eat b t, dinner and supper the chris- tian boys hits Davy and Harry and when | want to Rit them back they hit me. Your loving daughter Annie, LIFE’S FRESH AIR FARM SWIMMING IN THE OLD QUARRY Afraid of Money ? Puntapereiia, Pa, Moxpay.— Seven cases of smallpox have been eported here, 21,000 persons have been vaccinated and the medical force of the city to-day is alarmed. HY alarmed? If vaccination prevents small- pox there is surely no cause for alarm when all can be vaccinated. Faithful followers who still believe in it are glad to submit, and are ready to pay for the poison. And the money goes to the vaccina- tors. Why should the medical force be alarmed? The real cause for alarm is with those who are vaccinated. Every Man His Own Capitalist DISCOVERY has been made by the Rock Island Railroad which bids fair to revolutionize our thought processes. It is put forth in a circular to its employees: “ Suppose you earn $1,000 a year. At 4 per cent. that is the yearly interest on $23,000. In other words, the company capitalizes you at $25,000 and willingly pays interest on that sum for the use of your energy and faculties.” Step right up, employees. Open your ledgers on the new basis, enter up your assets and apply for a rating in Bradstri Consider yourselv: henceforth worth twenty-five times the amount of your annual wages, or, if you are ambitious, you can reduce the interest to 3 or 2 per cent. and then you will be worth still more. Funny we haven't thought of this before! Here we have been going along on the narrow idea that interest was the payment for borrowed capital and, at the maturity of the loan, that the capital had to be returned in an unimpaired condition, every cent of But, by the simple device of calling wages interest, we make the worker himself the principal. In order to get interest and take his position in the envied ranks of the idle rich, all he has to do is to use himself up. What matters it that nobody ever pays him back? When he gets a job he is cap- italized. When he loses his job he is decapitalized. comicbooks.co