Life, 1920-07-15 · page 10 of 40
Life — July 15, 1920 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines charity fundraising with social commentary on child labor. The left side features an illustrated column of children of various ages and conditions, titled "LIFE's Fresh Air Fund"—a real charitable program providing outdoor relief to urban children. The list shows monetary donations from readers supporting this cause. The right side includes a "Memo for the Historian" discussing increased child labor during World War I, citing Department of Labor statistics about working children under sixteen. An illustration below shows two women discussing a domestic servant situation with dark humor about hiring difficulties. The overall message connects Depression-era poverty and wartime labor exploitation, using visual and textual contrast to advocate for child welfare protection and highlight social responsibility.
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Lire's Fresh Air Fund Inctus; operatior ve of 191 thirty-three ye $183,025.49 and has giv 40,802 poor city children. The Fund is supported entire! contributions, which are ac Checks should be made payabli and addressed to Live, 17 West 31 Ralance ... . Leonard Gi udson .... y W. Banks, Jr Miss Kate Aycrige’ .- Flora A. Morrow .. “ Anonymous ” Alice L. Goodrich . Mrs. Newton Elwell Mr. and Mrs. C E . Rivero Laura Lee Elston and Harry Knight Model Calendar Company ............05 Rarbara and Edward F. Bishop... Wm. P. Clyde “In loving memory of William " In memory of Maud Eustis Paine. Florence T. Woodmansee........ Miss Martha Clark. Mrs. E. L. Ferdon.. Memo for the Future Historian in the and a Washington.—An_ increase number of working children longer working day for children under sixteen was the effect of the European war on child labor, accord- ing to a statement of the Department of Labor. Inspectors report that in one state, where the mini- am age for employment in canneries is fourteen years, seven hundred and twenty- one children under that age, including fifty not yet ten years old, were employed.— Associated Press dispatch. chapter child labor, please note that the suc- cessful career of this industry during and after the war is at- tributable to certain definite Show how the ques- ase of the railroads Discuss its on causes. tion was primarily one of policy. Cite the xplain why government control was necessary. effects, giving names, locations and dates of establishment of the principal after-the-war junk heaps accruing therefrom. Compare the child-labor industry and the policy adopted toward it. Discuss what might have happened to this industry if it had been taken over by the government. Elucidate the hands- off policy as applied to child labor. What are its merits? Show how the policy was of the utmost importance to the industrial bequests and + nu Ain Fuxo has been in that time it has expended a fortnight in the cou untary this column. 10.00 5.00 10,00 100.00 10.00 25.00 $.00 15.00 10.00 H. H. Clapp W. J. Sherwood Wm! J. R, Wm. Mae eet statement “includes all contributions received be- 17th.) ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS A coat for a girl, from Miss J. E. Thiell, Belvi- dere, Ill. Four girls’ undergarments, nine girls’ dresses, two silk ties, five petticoats, nine kimonos and one pair of socks from National League, through Mrs, Harri- son Cady, Brooklyn, N. Y. One very large package of clothing for girls, in- cluding thirty yards of handmade lace, books, aprons, ties, shawls, and purse containing twenty-five cents for a child, from Miss F. E. Howard, Boerne, Texas. waists, dresses prosperity of certain sections of the South, normally heavily Democratic. P, S.—Refer, in passing, to the patriotism and spirit of self- sacrifice that animated the seven hundred and twenty-one under- age children of one state who helped to win the war by working in a cannery. Mrs, Richard: Mrs. Henry: DIRECTED TO SO YOU HAVE A NEW COOK? HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MANAGE TO GET MER? SHE CAME TO THE DOOR AND ASKED TO BE MRS, THOMAS’S HOUSE, SO I PRETENDED THIS WAS IT. comicbooksiggmn