Life — February 28, 1924 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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EVIL. DOG” LODGE, WHO CAPTURED AN EN- EMY TRENCH SINGLE * HANDED PRIVATE MOSES WHO, ALTHO WOUNDED AND GASSED, CARRIED DESPATCHES FIGHTEEN wHo, THREE OF HIS SHIP MILES MATES SEAMAN JOHNSON, UNDER HEAVY SRELLFIRE, RESCUED UNKNOWN HERO, THOUGHT To BE CORPORAL REED, IST MISSOURI INFANTRY 3 SENATORIAL HEROES OF UNITY THE NEXT WAR WOULD BE CASSUMING THE FIRST TO ENLIST.) THAT THOSE OPPOSED TO WORLD LIFE’S War Prize Contest Senate Investigation Threatened ROM sources usually reliable, we learn that the announcement of Lire’s War Prize Contest has thrown the Senator Ba ion of Death into a furor of excitement. One of the Senators prominent in isolation circles expressed the feel- ing of his colleagues when he said in a statement to a reporter: “There is more in this than meets the eye. Just when we were busy preparing for a big world conflict to come off in June or, at the latest, July, along comes L with its plan to start hostilities before April 30. It is all a gigantic hoax; any one knows that you can’t get a good war going in less than six months.” In reply to the accusations of these disgruntled Senators, Lire can only assure its readers that it is entirely disinterested in the matter. There is nothing commercial in it for us; our reward will be the spiritual exalta- tion which seems to come from starting trouble. Since the announcement of contest, Lire has refused several huge advertising contracts from manufacturers of poison gas, barbed wire and munitions, who feel that its this magazine is doing a great good work in the promotion of interna- tional ill-will. It is felt that all the agitation in Washington would have been avoided if Lire had not barred members of Congress from competition in the coutest. Much of the official resent- ment may be traced to this source. In the meantime, the War Prize Contest will go on, and suggestions from Lire’s readers will be welcomed. If you have any constructive ideas about war, you should send them to Lire at once. You may submit as many suggestions as you please, but each must be limited to two hundred words. (Many of our most popular wars have been started with fewer.) Brevity is an object. The prizes in this significant con- test are a First Prise.. Second Pris Third Pri. 2 The April and the judges will not consider any 1 cripts received after that ¢ All professional ons and war ministers of the patriotic” defense f Hohenzollern—are barred of Live so ineligible. the are addressed. to Mae Aven mitted, the Editors of Live will select those suggestions that they consider These will be published from week to week in Live and the readers of the magazine will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites From the tions the Editors will make the final aw Should of the winnie plans be duplicated, the full amount of the prize will be given each tying contestar Checks will be sent simultaneously with the announcement of the award Every contribution to this Contest which is fublished in Lire be paid for at our regular whether it wins a prize or mot comicbooks.com