Life, 1928-06-21 · page 34 of 38
Life — June 21, 1928 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and fundraising appeals**, not political satire. The main content includes product ads (Absorbine liniment for muscle pain, Allen's Foot-Ease powder, Sport-Lite driving lights) paired with brief comic dialogue showcasing their benefits. These use a simple "problem-solution" humor format typical of 1920s advertising. The significant editorial content is **Life's Fresh Air Fund campaign** — a charitable initiative sending poor urban children to countryside camps. The article describes "pitiful little youngsters" from crowded cities needing respite, soliciting donations. A detailed list of contributors (ranging from $1 to $100+) follows, including organizations like Rho Kappa Lambda Sorority and various named individuals. The fund, established 41 years prior (making this circa 1930s), had distributed over $419,000 and served 51,000 children. Twenty dollars could fund one child's holiday. This reflects **Progressive Era charity concerns** — urban poverty, children's welfare, and the countryside as moral/physical restoration — but is sincere advocacy rather than satire.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
quick relief for stiff neck and cramped muscles At all DRUGGISTS $125 Send for free triel bottle W.F.YOUNG, lne., Springfield, Mass, FLASHES FROM THE por The Optimist: “I can see good in anything.” The Motorist: “That so? Can you see good in driving at night without a SPORT-LITE?” UNITY MFG. CO. 2017S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill Please send information on SPORT-LITES. Make of car is. “TOUGH LUCK!” “Mine hurt too, before I used Allen's Foot=Ease!"’ You can’t play your game if your feet hurt. Whether you are playing or work- ing, if you shake Allen's Foot=Ease into your shoes you can walk all day in comfort. Makes Tight or New Shoes Feel Easy Allen’s Foot=Ease takes the friction from the shoes, soothes tender, tired, aching feet, absorbs perspiration, and relieves the pain of calluses, corns and bunions. It will redace your score, too. For e Sample addres Allen's Foor=Ease, Le Roy, N. Y. Sold at al The ws esa on my driving lights Longer, Stronger Beam easiest to operate. Most beautiful appearing — moder- ately priced. A standard acces- sory with most cars. Complies with legal restrictions in all states. DeLuxe size $25.00— small size $17.50. Fill out coupon for information, UNITY MFG. CO. 2017S. Michigan Ave. Chicago Lire’s Camps for Needy Children ( Continued from page 29) not be deeply grateful for. One thousand dollars or ten cents. Checks should be made payable to Lire’s Fresh Air Fund. 598 Madison Avenue, New York. : We wish we could take about one hundred of these pitiful little youngsters, with their weary, anxious faces, and their horrible misfit clothes and their underfed bodies, and let them march through the main street of your town! Why, we couldn’t gather up the con- tributions quick enough, you'd be s touched to your hearts, so eager to place the whole Fle army under the benef. cent care of our Camp counselors. We can't, of course, stage such a parade, But use your imaginations, and pretend that we have. And also see us, please, standing with outstretched hand and asking you, in the name of these little boys and girls, to give us enough to let each of them have during the fearful heat of midsummer a heaven-sent inter. lude in the cool, happy country. L. A. P, LIFE’S FRESH AIR FUND Live's Frist Arm Funo has been in oper tion for the past forty-one years, In that time it has expended $419,278.00 and has given a happy holiday in the country to 51,000 poor city chi- dren. Twenty dollars, approximately, pays for suck @ holiday for some poor child from the crowded, hot city. Won't you help? Contributions (which are acknowledged iz Lire about three weeks after their receipt) should be made payable to Lirt’s Fresit Aix Fuxo, asd sent to 598 Madison Avenue, New York John T. Pickett, Manila, P. I gp Anonymous, Albany, N. Y 100.00 Anonymous, Scotland 7] Irving L. Woodman, New York 20 Robert Morrow, Jacksonville, Fla. 25.00 H. C. Hawkins, El Paso, Tex...... 50.00 Elizabeth Wayne Cooper, New Bri- tain, Coni Anonymous, S : Benson Heale Harvey, Manila, P. 1. Robert B. Greer, M.D., Butler, Pa.. Rho Kappa Lambda Sorority Bridge, Brooklyn . Ft. Russell, W “O. I. 1.,°° New York. . os Richard Caldwell Millett, New York. Ida B. Polley, Springfield, Mass... Miss R. Schnil, Wissahickon, Pa C. E. Pray, New York i In Memory of Kenneth McDearmott. Rho Kappa Lambda Sorority (addi- tional) . Play given by the Club of “We Vera Ayres, Ann Darrach, Theresa Chalmers, Lucy Katt, Betty Cul- ver, Betty Ellis, Scarsdale, N. Y.. Charles E. Riley, Boston, Mass. C. O. G. Miller, San Francisco Anonymous Source, Brooklyn.....+ In Memory of Lt.’ Kenneth Pickens Culbert, 1st Aero Squadron, A. E. F, Alfred M. Low, Detroit, Mich Starling W. Childs, New York. comicbooks.com