Life, 1929-02-08 · page 4 of 44
Life — February 8, 1929 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **no political cartoon**. Instead, it features two distinct items: 1. **A Valentine's Day Advertisement** (left): "Say it with Flowers" promotes sending flowers on February 14th. The heart-framed image shows a romantic couple, accompanying text encourages men to remember their sweethearts. This is straightforward commercial messaging, not satire. 2. **"Letters of a Modern Father"** (right): A humorous advice column where a father writes to his son about potentially skipping college commencement to work on Uncle Jim's ranch. The satire is gentle—poking fun at paternal anxiety and a son's desire to escape academia for outdoor work. The signature is "McCready Huston." The page also advertises a short story contest offering $5,000 in prizes through *Life* magazine. **No political satire is present.**
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witt remember so VALENTINE'S DAY dont YOU forget. FEBRUARY 14TH F THERE is one day in all the year just made for flowers, it is the fourteenth of February. This is adate she has marked in her memory—you may be sure of that. And how it would please her for you to remember. You know how women are about things like that. Letters of a Modern Father My Dear Son: I have a note from the dean of You department which intimates that you may be with us some months in advance of commencement. Probably you are aware of this impending reunion and have hes. tated about notifying us through a &. sire to come bounding in on us as aha surprise. I hasten to let you know thi after a great effort your mother and | have conquered our wish to have you here. When and if the college decides to yy to stagger along without you, please go x once to your Uncle Jim’s ranch in Cai. fornia and report to the superintendent for field duty through three cantaloupe and two head of lettuce crops. I recall that you have often chafed to get away from the atmosphere of th classroom and out into God’s great ou. doors where you could feel the sun ove. head and the winds of heaven in you face. Your Uncle Jim says he can’t promise to satisfy you on the breeze detail bu will guarantee the sun. If when you receive this you decide t make a concession to the school and r. main to get your degree, no other receipt will be necessary than your endorsement § on your allowance checks. Your AFFECTIONATE Fatuer. McCready Huston, Short Stories of Life $5000 PRIZES $3000 SECOND” PRIZE ‘THIRD PROD $1500 $500 JUDGES —— RAY LONG MERLE CROWELL Editor. Editor, CosmorouTaN Macazine = Amenican Macanxe ROBERT BENCHLEY Associate Editor, Lire Tre Editors of Lire will award $5000 for the best short stories published ia Live during 1929. They may be light fcr tion, timely burlesques, detective or my tery stories, or humorous stories, but they must be short: six to seven hui words, One story will appear each week and regular rates will be paid, on accept: ance, in addition to the award, for each story published. Any number of stor may be entered by any one writer, and all will stand equal chance in the awards. Manuscripts must be typewritten, on one side of the paper, the pages num with the name and address of the author on every page, and should be accom panied by return postage. Address manuscripts to SHORT STORY EDITOR LIFE, 598 Madison Ave., New York Ot} Published i ishing Company, 598 Madison Ave., New Y« N.Y, ‘ion, $5.00. Vol. 93, No. 2414, Feb. 8, 1929. Eat'd as 2nd Class Matter, June & 1550 hess Sar te Seated Kinser ov he Pos Sept Conan, Copyright England a0 LIFE: lished Weekly by New York Post Office, under act 1879, Printed in U. 8. A. Ent'd as 2ad' Post Office 1929, Life Pub, Co, in US, comicbooks.com