Life — March 5, 1925 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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they look foolish anyway, but the timid man has the comfort that no one knows him. Kids will be kids, but if they don't grow up they're Klansmen. R. F, Starzl, Box 347, LeMars, lowa. A Post-War Product HE Ku Klux Klan is because the termination of the war brought to an end such activities as four-minute speak- ng, shoving Liberty Bond quotas over the top, shoving other people's sons over the top, dollar-a-yearing, supplying the Government with clothing and munitions, getting out spruce for airplanes, and building ships for the Government on cost-plus contracts; and some people ply must have an outlet for their bun- dred-per-cent. Americanism. One hundred per cent. yours, Harold H. Yost, 1324 Tacoma Ave., Berkeley, Calif. Fear HE Ku Klux Klan is founded on an inferiority complex. Its members FEAR the people they would persecute. They fear them collectively because they are the only classes in this country which, to-day, are not practicing race- suicide. They fear the Negro because he can undersell them for his labor. They fear the Roman Catholic because of his solidarity. They fear the Jew because he is brighter than they are and is so apt at separating them from their money. When they can’t compete they seek to destroy. Fear is the excuse for the existence of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert D. Harper, 1008 S, 48th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Apostles of Pep HY is the Ku Klux Klan? Be- cause all other fraternal organiza- ions in this land are by comparison tame and sissified. All this talk you hear in the old lodges about harmony and fove—that stuff is not for a he-man. The Klan gives you action. Sheets, masks, raids in the night, tar-and-feather parties, kidnapings, whippings, shooting -here are things to stir a red-blooded man. The Klan is here because it is an organization with a kick in it. Leon Fram, 1227 Independence Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Prize Question No. 6 DO THE NEWSPAPERS ENCOURAGE CRIME? (Answers to this question must be received in this office not later than noon of March 14, 1925. More Honorable Mentions Lack of space prevents publication of further answers, although contri- butions from the following contestants received serious consideration by the Judges: M, Attarpyce, 1248 Johnson Ave., San Diego, Cal.; Louise Parks Bett, 49 East Willis Ave., Detroit, Mich.; Jane Baipces, 2012 7th North, Seattle, Wash. ; Ctarexa Luptow Brownett,’ Hamil: ton Apts., sonville, Fla.; W._R. Van Buskirk, Uniontown, Penna.; Ep- warp C. Crarx, Erie and Orleans Sts., Chicago; Epwaxp Atten Craton, goz West 2sth St., Richmond, Va.; Cyrait J. Conran, 1429 Ninth Ave. toona, Penna.; Mitnor Dorey, 924 wood Ave. Trenton, N. J.; Ruvovrn Eurers, Norborne, Mo.; Tuomas Horxspy_ Ferrit, 2 Downing St., Denver, Colo.; W. 1. Goutp, 24 Auburn St. Malden, Mass.; Jexome B. Gray, West Chester, Penna. ; Exixor C. Hatey, 401 Belmont Apts. 33th and Spring Garden Sts., Philadelphia, Penna.; Vera B. Hatt, R. D. 2 Birch Meadow Road, Amesbury, Mass.; H. Gorpoon Hayes, Dept. of_ Economics, Ohio State U: versity, Columbus, Ohio; Mary Henke, Monticello, Ind.; W. McA: TER, P. O. Box 510, Atlanta, Ga.; LaVexcne Mit- Ler, care L. Garoy, atford Hous: East 32d New York City; Win Moopy, Theological Seminary, Alexan- dria, Va.; W. S. Parks, 1621 Vinton Ay Memphis, Tenn.; Ceci. E. Rey- NoLDs, 1023 Pacific Mutual Bldg., Los Angeles; Marcia Sancuty, 4014 Pershing Drive, El Paso, Texas; W. Suetvon, $8 East Washington St., Chicago; Wi LiaM Snestpay, Harvard Hotel, $714 Blackstone Ave., Chica C. A. Ste- PH 313 Pacific Bl San Francis Mrs. Marcaret Ave *Swrexey, 21_Win- throp St. Roxbur on THom- son, Jn. Dover Attert Tuose- son, 2601 S. Figu Los Angeles; Kennetu F. H. Unperwoop, 1001 Pros- Peet Ave., Plainfield, N. J.; A. Van ipper, Bel Air, Md. PARKHURST Wuitxey, Hingham, Mass.; Ranpovrit Baxttett, 264 Fifth Ave., New York. For the best record through- out the Contest: FIRST PRIZE. ....$300 SECOND PRIZE. ..$125 THIRD PRIZE....$ 75 For the best answer to each individual question: WEEKLY PRIZE. ..$50 See Conditions on page 29.) 'HE sixth question in Lire's great- est Contest gives our readers a chance to express themselves on a most important problem. Crime, as every one knows, is ratn- pant. Daily we read terrible stories of murders, hold-ups, rum rings and gang wars. It seems that the average citizen travels around with a flask in one hip pocket and an automatic pistol in the other—the while he and his wife and his flapper daughter all make faces at the Constitution. Do the newspapers encourage crime? Do they, by devoting so much space to the glorification of the lawbreakers, contribute to the current tidal wave of felony? That is the question—and you are urged to give us your answer in two hundred (or fewer) words. The Question Contest has now passed the half-way mark and is attracting an increasingly large number of contest- ants every week. It has five more weeks to run; and even if you have answered none of the previous questions, you are stilleligible for the major prizes. But you are urged to enter the Contest NOW, and follow it through to the finish. The general quality of the answers re- ceived on the first three questions is amazingly high, indicating that the questions themselves are calculated to stimulate intelligent consideration. The long list of Honorable Mentions, printed in adjoining columns, proves that the Judges have had a wealth of excellent material from which to choose, You may rest assured that every answer you submit will be judged upon its own merit, regardless of the opinion that it may express. Mr. Kellogg's an- swer, which wins the $50 prize this week, was chosen by the Judges because, in their opinion, it stated its case more forcibly, more concisely and more effec- tively than any of the others that were submitted. Send in your answer as early as pos- sible after announcement of the ques- tion, Every envelope should be ad- dressed to the Question Editor, Lire, 598 Madison Avenue, New York City. comicbooks.com