Adventure Magazine Cover, February 3, 1921 — page 185: what you’re looking at

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x * ie ; 5 “hi; “tae — UST to claim credit for our magazine as not being a profiteer, while the cost to us of our metal identification-cards has gone up, we are still furnishing them to you at the old price. Formerly there was a little margin that covered at least part of the cost of handling. The last batch we ordered, which have been going out to you for some time, cost us exactly $.259 apiece from the manufacturer, but we expect to hold right on to the $.2 5 price to you. I don’t know that we’re so blamed noble after all, for it does our magazine good just to have the cards carried by thousands of people. Just the same, according to the prevailing style of soaking the “common people” all they can be soaked, a cost price like that on our cards would be all that was needed to raise the price of a commodity from 25 to 50 cents, or 75 or a dollar and a half or almost any old figure. Gentlemen selling food, clothing and fuel please note our little old magazine’s little old ex- ample. Cardboard identification-cards are, of course, still issued free. As to our Camp-Fire buttons, we still have them from stock at the old price, which, as I remember it, was a bit under the 25-cents cost to you. I don’t think the manufacturing cost will be raised on these, for we’ve had a bid from another manufacturer which promises to hold it down. Before sending for either card or button,- please read carefully the information about them given in every issue on the “Service Page” following ‘“‘Camp-Fire.”’ Any one, of course, is entitled to either. HILE we’re having this little “busi- ness meeting’ about Camp-Fire affairs, I’ll venture to make a brief report on our magazine itself. You know I don’t bally- hoo for the magazine at Camp-Fire, but I know you have a real interest in its affairs and will be glad to know that, in these days (a2 A Free-to Mit 1 eA se - LMeeting- Place for & AGF: 3 | Readers , Writers Sie ig Sg); se" > Bt and 5 Aelimititorsn | ak when paper, transportation and labor con- ditions make it hard sledding for magazines in general, ours is booming along. Deing better than ever before. Growing so fast and solidly that, if we could get the paper— well, I won’t go into the “ifs.” The actual accomplished facts are good enough in themselves. pS TO our Camp-Fire Stations. The plan is working out very satisfactorily. It takes time to develop as big a thing as that, but our progress so far is more than encouraging. As the practical and social value of the Stations is demonstrated more and more in actual practise, the number of Stations will increase more and more rapidly. It is particularly to be hoped that more and more of you will see in the Stations a nucleus for developing local clubs along informal or formal lines so that those of us who live near one another can get into touch, meet those of kindred tastes, and have a meeting place where common in- terest can be centered. There are so many lines along which such local clubs can be instituted and developed that I hesitate to make any sug- gestions, particularly as it is distinctly a matter for each local group to decide for itself according to its own wishes. Possibly it would be best to do as the New York and Chicago Adventurers’ Clubs began—with nothing but a monthly dinner. Possibly, merely to pass the word around that on certain nights the Station was to be con- sidered a rallying point where any and all who liked could drop in and swap yarns and bits of news. Or any other of a hun- dred plans, leaving experience to dictate furture development. The connection of a local club with other local clubs would be decided altogether by the local clubs them- selves. There would, of course, be no obliga- tion to the magazine except the unwritten obligation that rests upon all of us net to do anything under the name of Camp-Fire 179 00) = a (C@ (C@