Life, 1918-05-16 · page 11 of 40
Life — May 16, 1918 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a public service article about Liberty Bonds rather than political satire. The top illustration shows a young boy surrounded by women at a table, captioned "Boy of Four: If This War Keeps on There'll Be Nothing Left but Liberty Bonds and Women" — a joke about WWI's impact on society, suggesting the war will consume all resources and men. The main article, "What Are You Doing with Your Liberty Bonds?", explains how donors can dedicate their bond investments to Lirr's Fresh Air Fund, which sends poor city children to the countryside. The text mentions a specific $200 bond donation made in memory of Elizabeth C. Oliver of Philadelphia (died April 11, 1918). The small illustration of a turtle is unrelated editorial content titled "The Turtle Dove."
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Boy of Four: 1 THIS WAR KEEPS ON THERE'LL BE NOTHING LEFT BUT LIBERTY NONDS AND WOMEN What Are You Doing with Your Cautious Liberty Bonds? REAT SURGEON: I advise an immediate operation. ASTLETON: Can't you wait until the war is over? I've got too much curiosity about how it is going to end to take any chances. Mss* persons are puzzled to know just what to do with the Liberty Bonds of the fifty and one-hundred-dollar denominations for which they have patriotically subscribed. Lire has discovered a way which provides not only for the safe-keeping of the bonds, but also dedicates them to a per- petual mission of well-doing. Just send them in units of two hundred dollars—that is four fifty-dollar bonds, two fiftics and a hundred, or two one-hundred-dollar bonds—to Lire’s Fresh Air Fund, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York City. The income from each two-hundred-dollar endowment will every sum- mer send a poor child from the heat of the crowded city for a fortnight’s vacation in the pure air of the country. Each of these gifts may bear in perpetuity your name or any name that you may designate. The list of these Fresh Air Endowments will be printed in Lire from time to time through the years to come as a reminder that someone once had the kindly impulse to provide yearly happiness for a little child. Asa foundation for this purpose Lire’s Fresh Air Fund has received two one-hundred-dollar Liberty Bonds designated In memory of Etizanetn C. Oniver, of Phila: delphia, Pennsylvania, who died April 11, 1018, aged sixteen years and six months, THE TURTLE DOVE comicbooks.com