Life — June 28, 1929 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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18 Life Can you think of a Title for this Picture? Ist Prize $500 2nd Prize $250 3rd Prize $100 4th to 9th Prizes $25 Each wy ~\ Contest Instructions on Page 28 LIFE’S Camps for Needy Children Eddie lives on Houston Street. Have you ever seen Houston Street? Eddie could tell you all about it—how whole families are cooped in single rooms to stifle in the sultry heat, how they dangle from the windows to catch a breath of the hot, damp air that rises from the sweltering street below. Eddie knows because he has spent nine of his ten summers on Houston Street. But last summer Eddie and_ his friend Joey, who lives on Livingston Street, learned that there are lovelier greens than the languishing vegetables that wilt on the push-carts, At Lire’s camp for boys at Pottersville, N. J., they romped and played and swam and hiked, free and uncramped, and forgot for the while the grimy walls that shut the light and air out of Houston Street. Eddie and Joey are wondering: Will they get a chance to go again this summer? It depends on you. Will they have sixteen glorious days of fun and clean, healthful, outdoor liv- ing (for which the small sum of twenty dollars will provide) or must they stay in the dingy, over-crowded tenement? They want to go again; they have been hoping all winter for the chance. Just read an excerpt from one of Eddie's letters to his counsellor, who is also his “big brother” and his friend, Dear Uncle Bill, I'm reading the book you sent me for my birthday. Gee, it’s great. It must be great to have a motor-boat and go on trips all summer. But, I'd bet you, Uncle Bill, they don’t have a better time than we did last summer. Every time I remember Joey and that bottle of milk I laugh. Joey’s mother is sick, They are going to send her away. Gee, Uncle Bill, I hope we can go again next summer. Yours truly, Eddie. Don't you want to make his hope come true? You would if you had seen Eddie the day he came to camp, pale, scrawny and tired-looking and then had met him three weeks later, after a nourishing diet and plenty of milk and vegetables had brought color into his cheeks and new vitality into his body. And the joy of it is that it takes so litle to accomplish so much. Only twenty dollars will pay for sixteen days for Eddie at the Pottersville, N. J., camp or for a little girl at the Branch- ville, Conn., camp. Smaller sums can be added to other smaller sums—every bit helps. Please make out a check, (and please make it out soon so that the next heat-wave will find Eddie and Joey in the cool swimmin’ hole and not on the blistering pavements of New York) to Lire’s Fresh Air Fund, 598 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. —I. M. LIFE’S FRESH AIR FUND Lire’s Fresn Ain Funo has been in opera- tion for the past forty-two years, In that time it has expended $476,000.00 and has given a happy holiday in the country to 52,000 poor city children. Twenty dollars, approximately, pays for such a holiday for some poor child from the crowded, hot city. Won't you help? Contributions (which are acknowledged in Lire about four weeks after their receipt) should be made payable to Live's Fresit Aix Funp, and sent to 598 Madison Avenue, New York. Previously acknowledged Members of the A.N. A. at French $3,087.50 Lick Alfred M. Low, Detroit G. D. Emerson, New Port Richey, Bia vce 10.00 20.00 50.00 25.00 115.00 25.00 Douglas L. Elliman, New York B, E. Levy, New York H.C. Ry Rye, N.Y... $3,332.50 Cravats at half-mast in honor of John P. Nukkel, the deceased neckwear-king. comicbooks.com