Life, 1918-11-28 · page 25 of 34
Life — November 28, 1918 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page documents donations to a charity fund supporting French war orphans during or shortly after World War I. The bulk of the content is a list of donors' names and amounts contributed. The two photographs illustrate the fund's purpose: images of young children—identified as "Lucien Boyer, Baby 2446, his mother and sister" and "Jean Albrecht, Baby 2505"—represent the French war orphans being helped. The accompanying text explains that thousands of French children lost fathers in the war, and that seventy-three dollars annually sustains one orphan with its mother. The passage contrasts America's war losses ("less than one hundred thousand") with France's losses running "into the millions," arguing this disparity makes American donors morally obligated to support French orphans as an expression of gratitude for America's relatively lighter sacrifice. This is essentially a fundraising appeal dressed in patriotic and humanitarian language.
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LIFE Captain S, H. MeVitty, Washington, D. C.. Lieutenant and Mrs, S/S. Simonson, Merced, Cal Lyndwode Smart and Rosemary Smart, Worcester, Mas janet and Edmund A, Spence, Sturgis, Mich.. Mr. and Mrs, Thos. F. Clark, Yokohama, Jay in memory of eave John Dousinse Wade ( Clopper, 3 Md. George E. Tener, “Sewickley, Pa..: Miss Edith Anne Tener, Sewickle: F. F. Bodler, San Francisco, Cal...... Five Little Friends, Wooster, Ohio. - White Lake Jitney, Grand Rapids, Mich.. Mrs. H. Pottersville, N. Y.. Mis Post Mrs. Henry Ridgely ar Dover, Miss Eunice Clara LE, Booth, New York ¢ Anonymous, Summit, N. Mrs, Francis S. Rradford, App Isabel Danforth, New York City... Two Friends, Sacramento, Cal. Agnes P, Smith, Catonsville, Md.. TIL, Phillips, Greenswood, Miss... Mrs. Ben W. Reed, Oakland, Cal Edith R. Cranch, ‘Erie, Pa....-+ Mrs. Charles B, Hobbs, Great River. L: Mrs. Robert C. Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. .. Morton Iversen, Brooklyn, N. Y.. Mr, and Mrs. L. W. Borton, Albai © Margaret,” “Earlysville, V Mrs. 5. L.’ Des Portes, Columbia, §. Miss Edith C. Swezey, Brooklyn, N. Mrs. R. J. McDonald, ‘Valley City, Miss Mary C,) Gray,” Boston, Mais . Re We . Vancouver, B Emily Blakeslee, Sandusky, Miss C. de Launay, Columbu: C H, Lessur, New York City War Worker, Washington, D. Grace M. Streit, Arrochar, Staten” Tsiand. Caroline A. Warner, Troy, N. Y....- Already acknowledged an killed Ya action), and Henry | ‘Ridgely, ¥ $2405.19 THE <0 FOR THE FRENCH BABIES After the joy of Christmas giving, mere bread,and butter and clothes and shelter seem commonplece things, but, in spite of peace, the big work must still go on. There are 1 MAIN FU dw izabeth M, W . J. Phillips, Conant, Elizabet! Baby No. “Tn memory of Mrs. O. ‘Antwerp, H. N. Woo. japan, $7 crine Webb, Robert M, Underwood $73; Joseph Pavatents ox A Reynolds, of Applet Mrs Eo $3; 'T: Agnes Said, ryan, ) keepsie, N. Already acknowl Kathryn Kimbal Mrs. Cecil A. Nelson P. W.C. RY New LUCIEN BOYER, BABY 2446, SISTER HIS MOTHER AND Sousa, Great Lakes Trainin, ptain Kinley J. Tener, 3 8 dith Anne Tener, Sewickley, Pa., for Babies Nos. tances Tener, Sewickley lub,’ New. N diner, Anac; Rellefonte, Pa., $6; The ladies of the $20; Satior, ‘wo Friends, Egypt. $1 ster, Hanove' The Williams Hotel Club, € still thousands of destitute French babies whose fathers have been killed in the war. For two years the seventy- three dollars we ask keeps a French war orphan with its mother and helps to sustain the idea of family life. America’s losses the war, killed, wounded and missing, total less than one hundred thousand. France's losses run up into the mil- lions. Our total is serious enough, but think how many little children there are in France to-day left destitute and fatherless, and then think of what cause we have for gratitude. Does not the Babies’ Fund provide a fit- ting way to express that feeling? Lire has received, in all, $276,851.00, from which there have been remitted to Paris 1,561,679.75 francs. We gratefully acknowledge from in JEAN ALBRECHT, B A. H. M., New York City, for Baby No. ‘theredge Walker, Trinity Center, Cal., Mrs. C. F. W. Lee, 3337. . for Baby’ No. 3338.» Noble, Toronto, Ontario, for Baby No, 339° Boston, Mass, for Baby No. 3340. ool, Ill,, for Baby No. 3341. ind A. Spence, Sturgis, Mich., for Babies Nos. 3343 and 3334. tain on Douglass Wade (killed in action), Clopper, Md. 9: 3348 nee Tener, S 33 Sewickley, ‘Pa., for Babies Nos: and 3349. ++ so and 335i. Pa’, for Rabies Nos. Is, Newell, W. Va., for Raby No, ast Liverpool, Ohio, for Baby No. ‘ork City, for Baby No. 3357... ++ reenwood, Miss. for Baby No. 4359. th, John, Susanne’ and Katherine Webb, Montelair, N 3361 : a little ‘sister—G . 3367.. $73; Mr, and Mrs, Willard nd Margaret Caldwell, Wheel Mr. and Mrs. Thos, Gill, Englewood, N. J : Gardiner, Elizabeth Gardiner a Elizabeth, John, § Dunne &“Co.,’ Boston, Mass "Gertrude B. Lane and Sop 's73; Janet Stanwood Foote, Grass Val Jetroit, Mich., $73. D., $3; Mrs. W. F. §,,Siqurdson, Valley City, .. if I Presbyterian Church Clarke. New York "FW. Moore, Ab i c'slck Jones. Grenade, ‘Mis wards, Cleveland, d, Clapp, ‘Alice Kath: $73; phie Kerr ley, Cal, 1, Montclair, N.” Jo. Jefiress, R mond, New ¥. ‘d’ Mary An Mrs, nis, I ccount » Wis, $6.10; Odeneal, U. Mr.’ and Mrs. A. Keene Gulfport, Miss., $10; Mrs, SS. Sacramento, Cal ith, Catonsville, Md.. $36.5 rs Mary ‘A; R © $10; Clara Good: $10; Helen J oungsters, P. $36.50; Herbert ne, Mass. $3; Dorothy Barker and Rachel D, Harker, Pough- harleston, S. C., $18 BABY NUMBER 3332 edged avs enn + $0.43 I, New. York City. i aye Colorado, Springs, Norwich, N ‘ork City. Colo. MARY NUMRER 3364 York City, comicbooks.com