Life — March 14, 1918 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Life Magazine Title Contest & "A Sailor Song" This page announces **Life's Title Contest** for the aviation image shown—a humorous illustration of what appears to be a man and woman in or near a small early airplane. The contest offers $800 in prizes ($500 first place) for readers to submit witty captions, with special bonus amounts for entries by soldiers and sailors. Below is a poem titled **"A Sailor Song"** attributed to W. O. Miller and marked "(Passed by the Censor)." The poem humorously describes an unnamed sailor waiting for an unnamed girl in an unnamed port on an unnamed day—a comedic exercise in repetitive vagueness, likely satirizing wartime censorship restrictions that prevented publication of specific military locations and personnel details during World War I.