Life — June 11, 1914 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Buk STARK SS ae ? For the Best Title to This Picture in Twenty Words or Less LIFE Will Pay $500 Conditions of the Contest The title, with sub-title, or in what- ever form submitted, must not exceed twenty words. The paper upon which the title is sent should contain nothing Lut the title, with the name and ad- dress of the author in the upper left- hand corner, Manuscripts should be addressed to The Contest Editor of Lire, 17 West 31st Street, New York. Envelopes addressed in any other way will not be considered. All titles submitted must be at Lire office not later than Thursday, July 2, 1914. The contest will close at noon of that date. Within two weeks from July 4, a check for $500 will be sent to the winner, Announcement of winner will be made in Lire’s issue of July 3o. It is not necessary to be a subscriber to Lire in order to compete. Only one title from each contestant will be considered. No manuscript will be returned, The editors of Lire will be the judges. They will award the prize to the title which, in their judgment, is the most deserving and will debar any contribution not conforming to these conditions, The classification of the titles will be supervised and certi- fied by Messrs. Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, certified public ac- countants, The sooner you get your answer in the better. In previous contests many have arrived too late. 1065 Hypercritical Seattle AUTHORITIES in Seattle, Wash- ington, have been examining their text-books, particularly those dealing with geography, and have been complaining that in no proper text- book in their schools which they have examined is the name of Seattle men- tioned. We are surprised that Seattle should he disturbed about such a little thing as this, The fact that Seattle is a large, growing city is no reason why it should be on the map of any school- hook geography. The people who are compiling school-book geographies in these days have trouble enough of their own, They have as much, if not more, than the people who compile our school histories. It has taken our school historians over one hundred years of continuous work, night and day, to justify our war with England, and to show that it was not a smug- gling expedient. Now, geography is all the more susceptible to hard work on the part of the makers of text- books because it changes so often. When we have rearranged the map of Mexico and shown our purpose of get- ting rid of the reigning rulers in order that Big Business and other philan- thropic industries may perform their useful functions, we may possibly get around to Seattle. But in case we do not, Seattle should not worry. When Seattle gets big enough to have wars of its own and creates enough slaves to call attention to herself, then it will he put down in our text-books as an example for posterity; but until that time Seattle, we are afraid, must wait its turn in line, A Waring LL lawyers, directors, managers, dummies, fiscal agents, go-be- tweens and other functionaries of corporations which are in trouble are hereby warned that it is extremely perilous to burn their account-books. Anything a man says after he has burned his books is not worth the smoke that carried away the evidence of his corporation's miscreancy. OES the futurist artist always know where to draw the line? comicbooks.com