Life, 1910-04-07 · page 23 of 76
Life — April 7, 1910 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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**Upper Section—College Contest Advertisement:** Life announces a $100 prize for college students' best articles about college life. Standard submission rules apply; entries close June 1, 1910. Notable: the competition is explicitly "open also to girls' colleges," reflecting early-20th-century expansion of women's higher education. **Main Cartoon—"No Doubt With Ethical Intentions":** This satirizes Colonel John Jacob Astor's land acquisition in Dutchess County, New York. Astor demolished villages, churches, and farms—erasing thirty to forty houses—to create a private estate. The cartoon mockingly suggests his "ethical purpose" is philanthropic (teaching about money's uses), when observers suspect he merely wants an exclusive park and hunting preserve near New York City. The satire exposes how the wealthy frame self-serving projects as morally justified. **Bottom Quips:** Two brief jokes about women and marriage complete the page, typical of Life's satirical humor style.
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Life’s College Contest To All College Students: Lire will give one hundred dollars for the cleverest article suited to Lire’s uses on each college and its life. ery college student is eligible to compete. It is not 'y to be a subscriber to Lire. all manuscripts which do not receive the prize, but which are deemed worthy of publication, Lire will pay at its regular rates. CONDITIONS. Manuscripts should not be more than fifteen hundred words in length and should be typewritten when possible or written in a legible hand. Manuscripts should be written only on one side of the paper. The contest will close on June 1, 1910, no contributions received after that date being considered. The name and address of the sender and his class year should be written on the upper left hand corner of each manuscript. Manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by return postage. No individual inquiries can be answered, but where an inquiry is of a general nature a reply covering the point at issue will be published in Lire. The competition is open also to girls’ colleges. All communications will be treated confidential the author’s name will not be published unless so desired. Address Cottece Contest, Lire, 17 West Thirty-first Street No Doubt With Ethical Intentions HE newspapers report that Colonel John Jacob Astor has gradually acquired four thousand acres of land in Dutchess County, near Rhinebeck, and is restoring most of them to the state of nature. The process involves the demo- lition of dwellings, churches and other buildings once in use by the occupants of the land, and the emancipation of the land itself from tillage. Two villages, the papers say—one of thirty houses the other of forty—have disappeared in the march of Colonel Astor's improvements Colonel Astor is not a wasteful man and deeper purpose in his innovations than thoughtless observers suspect. Persons who suppose that he is merely making for himself a park and shooting preserve conveniently near New York are invited to extend their hypothesis. Park ani shooting place may be incidents of his intention, but we sus- pect his chief design is to afford an object lesson of the uses of money which helped in their day to raise hob in and in our day have brought on the budget crisis in Without some such ethical purpose in the back of his the Colonel, we are pretty sure, would not be making waste land of so many acres. s, no doubt, a AT FIRST SIGHT IT LOOKS AS THOUGH MABEL’S HAT WAS HE man who gives in when he is wrong is wise; the man A BIT OVERTRIMMED, BUT who gives in when he is right is generally married —1T 1sx’t! comicbooks.com