Life, 1924-02-14 · page 24 of 36
Life — February 14, 1924 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("So I Took The $???,000.00!"):** Two men labeled "Fail" and "Anderson" examine a newspaper showing enormous costs. This satirizes the Louvain Library Fund campaign—Belgium's library destroyed in WWI needed $1 million for reconstruction. The cartoon mocks the gap between pledged American aid and actual donations received. The figures appear to represent prominent figures in the fundraising effort shocked by the expense. **"Passing the Censors" Cartoon:** Depicts figures (likely representing war profiteers or smugglers) being questioned by Senate censors about contraband goods. The dialogue—"What ya got? Where'd ya git it? What ya pay fer it?"—satirizes post-WWI concerns about black-market goods and wartime profiteering passing through government oversight. **Lower Text Sections:** The "Hickory Branch Jottings" and other brief humor items are small-town Americana jokes about rural life—gardens, school supplies, traffic accidents involving cows—typical satirical filler for the era. The page overall addresses American post-war obligations and domestic profiteering concerns.
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The Louvain Library Fund MERICA’S gift to the Belgians— the new library at Louvain—is lan- guishing for lack of funds. Up to the present time little more than a third of the one million dollars needed to cover the cost of construction has been raised and work is at a standstill. Lire is unwilling to belicve that Ame forgets so quickly. What the invaders destroyed in 1914 we are pledged to re- place. To Cardinal Mercier and to Albert and his Queen our word has been given. Plans are drawn, work has begun, and only the money neces sary to complete the building is lacking Louvain must no longer remain a gift without a giver. Lire invites contributions from its readers that the work may go on. Checks should be drawn payable to J P. Morgan & Co, and marked for the Louvain Library Fund. They may be sent either to Lire, 598 Madison Av to the Secretary of the Na tional Campaign Committee, 407 West 117th Street, New York City Checks received by Lire w Hickory Branch Jottings VE got a new attachment on my — knowledged in these columns UFE MILTON is planning to have player-piano.” ; warded to the Committee in charg That so? What's it for?” Lire starts its list with a contribution Two hundred and fifty dollars of $100.00. CLOSE HARMONY a garden this spring if he can find some one to lend him a spade Tom Reynolds came near winning the Bok peace prize. Hi ber was 1468 Zeb Brown's six children are all through school now and Zeb thinks it is a shame the money that’s being wasted on educatior Bill Jones dreamed the other night that he paid off all of his creditors, He has been sleeping cighteen hours a since, tryin Jream where he is ge to get the money Nicodemus Firkin, our constable would like to see just one traffic tie-up here that didn’t have a cow mixed into it School Supplies COUNTRY Sctoou-reactie (on country school-teacher's salary) : Vf cach child will bring an egg to school to-morrow I will show you how Co: lumbus made one stand on end. And if you cannot tan egg, why, just bring a piece ham. “LIIVES bother you this winter No I've escaped, thus far PASSING THE CENSORS without a scratch.” “WHAT YA GOT? WHERE'D YA GIT IT WHAT YA PAY FER IT?” comicbooks.com