Life — March 13, 1924 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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LIFE LIFE’S War Prize Contest Nation-wide Response to Sensational Plea for New World Conflict HILE the Sena Death is mobilizin, rial Battalion of to investigate Lire’s War Prize Contest. the public at large is rallying loyally to the sup port of this magnificent campaign { ill-will international the promotion of The man in the street realizes the first time in history he tiven the chance to pick his and he is making the mos casion, From the enormous number of sug gestions and comments already sub it ap whelming War seems to be the T lined by fol mittee ears that there is an over Civil sentiment in favor of of entanglements watchword. advantages of Civil War, as out Ws A private ser alie keep out undesira Neither army would be “The other side got a bonus.” If the struggle covered a sufficiently large area, it would give many « hoys a chance to See America First There would be no difficulties about age and no imported war-brides The same magnates could finance both armies, and native munition-maker Id dividends. would carn tw There would be no ship AIL the b «, thereby pin sare 1 be kept many tleficlds wou men em giving yyment as guides in the devastate area. Volstead an Issue AG GREAT majority of the sug ns display a surprising disrespect for ie Eighteenth Amendment ; indeed the most popular casus belli is the en forcement of Prohibition throug the world. This vut in the opinion of the as it would Lire shting started before er than that judges, is ne take too long. — Remember that hopes to get the f April 30; if we the Senate wait k will beat us to it Several contestants have expressed a desire for longer They cite the wars Thirty Years’ War do the Hundred Years’ War as models, The last con flict, they say, ended just when people were be Many of the ¢ test have init to warm up to it ntributions to the Con trarily been a ruled out be cause they do not conform to the con on how F‘ IR the best suggestion to start another good, big War, Lire will award the follow- ing prizes First: Pri $250.00 Second fF 125.00 Third Pr ! Pr CONDITIONS “The Contest will close on April the judges will rot cot 3. All professional war-promoter from the Contest. The Editors « | to the War Editor, Lire, $98 Madison New York ¢ . the Editors of Live. will These will be published from week to week in Live, and th readers of the magazine will have t portunity to vote for their favorite ons the Edit awards. Should any f plans be dup ant of the f tying contestant. Checks simultaneously with th annotncement of the aw. Every contribution t Contest fuid for at our regular rates ther a prize or not. dition that suggestions must be lim t » hundred words. Those who sub- future—and the until April 15: must pay strict attention to this con No matter mit suggestions in the Contest docs not close dition. how much comment you may have to offer on the Contest itself, be sure that your actual plan does not exceed the word limit We want bigger . da better War's! The two comments quoted below are idered significant I understand that everything is ing done by the proper European authorities, so [ haven't any great uneasiness about the war's not arriving on time.” Boor TARKINGTON Indianapolis, Ind. ‘Your campaign for bigger and better wars fills, in my opinion, a long-felt_w Since the termina- tion of the late unpleasantness I have accumulated th an excellent wands ¢ tion: to wit, a wife, a aughter, nd five additional years added to my already venerabl I therefore can endorse y Contest with all my heart. One of ee valid f exemp my cherished dreams is to be able to say to my young, able-bodied, ttached friends, ‘I'd give any thing to have your opportunity You don't realize how lucky. y are. In. fact, I'd enlist myself, this minute, if I thought they'd take me.” Then i'd offer my. services to the Department of Justice as a se cret agent, and report all of my friends who weren't as 100° per as myself.” Newman Levy New York, N.Y. War Plans MONG the tions that cent multitude of sugges- have been received the following are the most representative As a scheme for promoting war, I offer the winning plan in the Bok Peace Prize Contest. It'll work both ways H. J. Manckiewicz 8 Central Park West, New York We could, of course, become involved in ordinary wars by attempting to. « lect the war debts, or by colonizing Brooklyn, but in this age of progress wars should keep pace with other ad vances in civilization. Let us annex Greenland. Let the Shenandoah, on its trip to the North Pole, proclaim’ the discovery of oil fields. Let Prohibition be extended to Green: land, and enforced on British, French. Italian, even American oil seekers, who will congregate there. This is to pre vent another Robert Service epidemic Let the Smithsonian Institute dis cover that the European exploiters are removing the lubrication from the bear ng whereby the world turns on its axis, and that imniediate relief measures are necessary (Continued on page 33) comicbooks.com