Adventure Magazine Cover, October 10, 1921 — page 184: what you’re looking at

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Ny) RY N \ x) y Ny Le \\ = SS! Sting: Spiete. ade 1s pv isi tetas IAN adventurers ——— Our Camp-Fire came into being May 5, 1912, with our June issue, and since then its fire has never died down. Many have gathered about it and they are of all classes and degrees, high and low, rich and poor, adventurers and stay-at-homes, and from all parts of the earth. Some whose voices we used to know have taken the Long Trail and are heard no more, but they are still memories among us, and new voices are heard, and welcomed. We are drawn together by a common liking for the strong, clean things of out-of- doors, for word from the earth’s far places, for man in action instead of caged by cir- cumstance. The spirit of adventure lives in all men; the rest is chance. But something besides a common interest holds us together. Somehow a real com- radeship has grown up among us. Men can not thus meet and talk together without growing into friendlier relations; many a time does one of us come to the rest for facts and guidance; many a close personal friendship has our Camp-Fire built up between two men who had never met; often has it proved an open sesame between strangers in a far land. Perhaps our Camp-Fire is even a little more. Perhaps it is a bit of leaven working gently among those of different station toward the fuller and more human understand- ing and sympathy fhat will some day bring to man the real democracy and brotherhood he seeks. Few indeed are the agencies that bring together on a friendly footing so many and such great extremes as here. And we are numbered by the hundred thousand now. If you are come to our Camp-Fire for the first time and find you like the things we like, join us and find yourself very welcome. There is no obligation except ordinary manliness, no forms or ceremonies, no dues, no officers, no anything except men and women gathered for interest and friendliness. OMRADE McDonald’s suggestion that Camp-Fire equip and send out an ex- pedition of its own met with a response that makes it look as if things were going to happen! At this writing the returns are only partly in. I’d rather expected a good many, though for small amounts, but, while there may in the end be as many as I expected, the amounts average far larger than I dreamed. It is too important a matter to be settled until there has been full discussion by all of you who wish, so far as our space per- mits. Most of those already heard from have given us valuable suggestions and to the greatest extent possible I’m going to print them so‘ all of us can think them over. We’d better take the time in the beginning so that when we do start we can start right. When all opinions are in, some one will have to make final decision on various points and give the undertaking definite and final shape. I can’t see how we could get a general vote on it without preparing Your desire to join makes you a member. a very long ballot and waiting quite a while to get returns. If any of you (re- membering that our magazine can’t print anything inside of two or three months after receipt), can work out a satisfactory voting method, go to it, for a vote is the best way. | Gee G a vote, I suggest the following names from which to choose a tem- porary executive committee to decide on the final shaping of the plan as nearly as possible in accordance with the general ex- pression of opinion from those of you who write in: Edgar Young, Talbot Mundy, Arthur D. Howden Smith, Harold Lamb, Arthur O. Friel, John Held, Jr. All live in or near New York City and can meet to talk things over. All are Camp-Fire members, all but Mr. Held belong to our writers’ brigade and he painted our mid- August cover, is known to you by general reputation and has been tremendously in- terested in this idea from the first, having 174 OOOLK C@