Life, 1924-08-07 · page 11 of 36
Life — August 7, 1924 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines memorial notices with a single cartoon at the bottom. The main content announces **Fresh Air Endowment donations**—a charitable program sending poor city children to the countryside for summer respite. Multiple donors are listed, establishing these as memorial gifts honoring deceased loved ones. The cartoon depicts two working-class men by a waterfront. One, appearing unwell or distressed, is questioned by the other about "committing suicide." He responds he's "just havin' me vacation"—a dark joke implying the fresh air program is so meager or undesirable that it's barely preferable to death. The satire critiques the inadequacy of these charitable efforts to meaningfully improve poor children's lives, despite donors' good intentions.
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« LIFE, : Memorials of Use (> OMMON to almost all civilized humanity is the desire “~ to perpetuate the memory of those who have departed s life. Evidence of this desire is seen in the vast area of ( devoted to cemetery uses and crowded with more or s enduring monuments with their identifying inscrip- ns. It is a usage sanctified by the centuries and which no may criticize without offense. As a happy and less saddening memorial to those who ve gone before, not a few readers of Lire have chosen to low in perpetuity gifts of summer outings for children the poor. The method is simple. Two hundred dollars t to Lir resh Air Fund creates an endowment to send poor child to the country every summer for all time. » the endowment the donor may attach any desired name description, The funds are safely invested and the secur- es turned over to the Bankers’ Trust Company to form irt of a perpetual and irrevocable trust, the income from hich is to be used to provide the fresh air outings. In se the Fresh Air Fund or the Trust Company should ise to function, the courts of the State of New York empowered to choose their successors, thus insuring as r as is humanly possible the perpetual use of the funds r the purpose intended. Creating a Fresh Air Endowment means that every immer, always, some little poor child of the city tenements ill be made healthier and happier because some one, who ved perhaps long before, had the foresight to erect this ind of living memorial to a departed loved one. Since the last acknowledgments Lire’s Fresh Air Fund has received from Mrs. J. O. Cole, of Peru, Indiana, funds to establish PRESM AIR ENDOWMENT, NO, Ix Memory or My Morner. From Mrs. Herbert S. Ridgefield, Con- necticut, funds to establish Greims, of FRESH! AIR ENDOWMENT, NO, 279, In Memory or Mrs, Georce A. Hearn. From Miss Alma R. Hubbard, of Wheeling, West Vir- ginia, funds to establish FRESIT AIR ENDOWMENT, NO, 280, In Memory or Dana Husnarp Ketty. From Miss Beatrice Bagg, of West Springfield, Massa- chusetts, funds to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT, NO. 281, In Memory or My Fatner, Aarox Baco, Jr. From an anonymous donor funds to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT, NO, 282, From « Frienp 1x Memory or E. C. O. From Mrs. E. M. McBride, Mrs. J. Gordon Mackay, and Miss Laurena Marzen, of Truckee, California, funds to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT, NO, 283, In Memory or Ovx Betoven Fatuer, Joserm Marzex, Jr (Continued on page 31) “WHAT'S THE MATTER, BUB? YE—YUM WUZN'T THIN “NAW. VM JUST HAVE comicbooks.com