Life, 1917-11-29 · page 30 of 40
Life — November 29, 1917 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate satirical pieces from *Life* magazine: **"The Fashion Model Comes In to Get Measured for the Draft"** (cartoon): A well-dressed young man in a fashionable suit stands while military/government officials measure him, suggesting he's being conscripted. The satire appears to mock wealthy or fashionable young men facing military service—likely during World War I era. **"Is the Money Theirs or the Children's?"** (article with commentary): This exposes alleged trustee misconduct. Connecticut trustees holding stock shares from a deceased man's (Edwin Gilbert's) will were explicitly instructed to use accumulated dividends ($10,000+) for a children's farm charity. Instead, the trustees refused to release the funds. The satire ridicules how privileged trustees exploit legal loopholes to personally benefit from charitable bequests while vulnerable children go without needed resources, concluding with biting sarcasm: "when we die...be careful" choosing trustees "particularly...in Connecticut."
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THE FASHION MODEL COMES IN TO GET MEASURED FOR THE DRAFT Is the Money Theirs or the Children’s? OW would you like to die and have your estate, as a sacred trust, come into the hands of Davin H. Mitter of Georgetown, Connecticut ; Danie. Davenport of Bridgeport, Connecticut ; Dr. R. W. Lowe of Ridgefield, Connecticut, and certain relatives and employees of Mr. Miller? These gentlemen hold, as trustees, three hundred shares of the stock of the Gilbert Manufacturing Company, be- queathed in the will of the late Edwin Gilbert with the following explicit instructions: “The income and divi- dends thereof to be used for the maintenance of the work carried on at Lire’s Farm.” When Mr, Gilbert died he was familiar with and in- terested in the work carried on by Lire’s Fresh Air Fund at the farm in Branchville, to which the bequest refers. Something over ten thousand dollars in the way of “income and dividends” has accumulated from the stock since 1910. The trustees have been repeatedly asked to give up this money for the use to which Mr. Gilbert wished it to be applied. Under the Connecticut law they don’t have to give it up. The money is needed to safeguard the health and lives of the children at the farm by improved sanitation, fire- proofing and less crowded dormitories, The gentlemen named above act as though the money was left to them personally and for their own benefit in- stead of to help poor children, It seems to be a combined case of God helps those who help themselves, and the Devil take the hindmost. And the moral is that, when we die, we should be careful about choosing the trustees who are to carry out our charitable intentions. This is particularly true if the dying is to be done in “Connecticut. as iC Ga To Ka Who, ' And L iilled jee Who, sv With Who : Who We h To st Who The | Tf an: comicbook3egi