Life, 1919-02-20 · page 13 of 34
Life — February 20, 1919 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Shows two men in bowler hats; the caption reads "President Wilson Visits the United States" with the subtitle "Sam: Do you expect to remain here long?" This satirizes President Woodrow Wilson's extended time abroad during World War I peace negotiations, suggesting he'd become so removed from American politics he's practically a foreigner visiting his own country. **Main Article:** "Twenty-Five Children Every Year" describes LIFE's Fresh Air Endowment program, which sends poor urban children to the countryside annually. The accompanying illustrations show children at a rural camp. **Bottom Cartoon:** Depicts children with what appears to be a machine gun, captioned "We guess they won't mind this 'machine gun nest'"—apparently a humorous reference to children's games mimicking military activity.
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PRESIDENT WILSON VISITS THE UNITED STATES Sam: vO YOU EXPECT TO REMALN HERE LONG? mm ON : asi & a he income from this amount provides that every summer, Twenty Five Children Every Year in perpetuity, a poor child will be sent from the slums of New (FICS Fresh Nie Endowments have reached point York for a fortnight’s stay in the fresh air of the country This work has now been carried on for thirty-one years, in where it is made sure that through all the years to which time ¢ than forty thousand children have gained ume, every summer, there will be taken from New York's n superheated slums twenty-five little children to be trans- heath s hess ton < a \ Fresh Air Endowment may bear any designation its donor ported to the fresh air of Live's Farm for a fortnight’s stay cdunneee Lire wishes that the founders of these endowments might ¢ able to sce with their own eyes what this means to these unfortunate products of modern civilization. And aiter the generous donors have passed away the work of merey will go on in perpetuity Lire has received from Mr. and Mes Hubert H. Hall of Berkeley, Cali- fornia, two hundred dollars in Liberty Bonds to establish PRESIL AIK ENDOWMENT. NO. In loving memory of Cuaiorre Eo wakps Hau, To establish a Fresh Air Endowment two hundred dollars in Liberty Loan 414 per-cent. bonds should be sent by reg: tered mail to Lire’s Fresh Air Fund, Inc., West Thirty-first Street, N. Y. City. WE GUFSS THRY WON'T MIND THIS “ MACHINE GUN NEST comicbooks.com