Adventure, February 20, 1922 — page 180: what you’re looking at

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By a system of education we purpose through our organization to acquaint every American with his. daily duty to our country; we purpose with organized effort to exert an active influence for the betterment of politics and control of public affairs; we purpose through concerted action to produce throughout the land the adoption of a united course of physical training for the youth of our land; we purpose to have organized in every city; town and miet, an organization taking active interest in their town and country’s betterment, we purpose by convention, literature, and local public gatherings, to solve among ourselves our country’s problems— unemployment, housing, outrageous profit, food con- trol, immigration, etc. — We recognize the American right assured every child of “Old Glory” of religious freedom, free ‘speech, and public assembly. Our goal is a better - land, a fit habitation for the salt of God’s Kingdom, a place where man is truly man’s brother and where an injury to one is justly an injury to all. | -WHO MAY JOIN VERY male citizen of native birth in the United States, of clean and moral character, regardless of class or creed, who is willing to sign our obligation and diligently to exert himself to the - furtherance of our objects, will be a welcome addi- tion to our ranks. HOW YOU MAY JOIN R THE present, we have but our National, Headquarters. The membership now being enrolled are entered as national members. Later ‘we will perfect our plan of State organization. Our now in process of application. When this local charters will be issued to ber of national members. These local chapters will carry on our work. ~ Our National dues are one dollar per year. Upon signing our obligation and returning it to our Na- tional Headquarters with one dollar your application will be acted upon by our Chicago Chapter, and if _ found acceptable you will be enrolled as a national charter member of the American Society. A mem- bership card for the year 1922 and a gold-filled enameled button bearing the symbol of our or- _ ganization will be mailed to you. Our symbol is the Star and Circle adopted by the former American Legion. If you are a red-blooded, two-fisted Ameri- - can of native birth we urge you to send your appli- cation for enrollment at once. We can promise you the association of real American manhood; men who in the past have proved their fighting ability and faith in their efforts to promote and defend the traditions and standards of Americanism. OUR OBLIGATION oe Seer , of good moral character, born at pari ote , in the year of ...., hereby tender my application for afiiliation in the American Society. I solemnly pledge myself to at all times uphold éhe Constitution of the United States, to take an active Adventure ; . interest in promoting the welfare of our country; to - participate in all local and general elections; to wherever possible, in my daily, social and business - life watch over the well-being of my fellow Ameri- cans; to support any movement that will tend to promote the physical and mental betterment of the youth of our land, and to daily lead such a social and business life that the American Society shall have no cause to ever feel shame in calling me — a member. To all of which I pledge my solemn and sacred honor. We urge every virile and decent native-born American to enroll himself in the ranks of the Ameri- can Society. FREDERIC T. O. WOOD, M. E., National President. James L. Renshaw, First Lieut., F. A. R. C., U.S. A. National Secretary-Treasurer. 1238 N. Clark St., -Chicago. —— OMETHING from Charles V. Fischer in connection with his story in this issue: Newark, New Jersey. Farallone Island, the largest of a group of rocks that lie thirty miles west of the Golden Gate, is the place I mean by “Fog Rock.” This might be of interest. I was once stationed on that rock and, along with another “‘brass pounder,” had an experience similar to that of Goat and Grave- yard in the story. We went out fishing one morning = and suddenly found ourselves making knots toward Honolulu, without either one of us at the oars. A physical affliction kept the other fellow from rowing. Hence I had to man the oars without relief. I pulled for about two hours without getting an inch nearer to the rock. Then the fog covered us. We anchored. Lay out there twenty-four hours before the gang found us. . lackie is the same character I had in “Up the Pole.” This story is therefore a sequel to that one.—Cuas. V. FISCHER. ‘ : eae of all, this is no precedent. There would be no room for anything else in ‘‘Camp-Fire”’ if we opened it regularly to letters of this kind. ‘A. A.” is the answer for practically all cases of this kind, but once in a while out of good comradeship we can take a chance on a case some of whose queries are too specialized to be entirely covered by “A. A.” Please note that no men are wanted for this expedition. Denver, Colorado. I would sure appreciate your publishing part of this letter in ‘““Camp-Fire’”’ as soon as you conven- iently can, in hopes that some of your readers may have attempted something like a friend and myself are going to attempt next year and will be able to give us good advice. all practical, and if that be so, then we can find out about it, before we blow in too much money on equipment. My chum has written Mr. Young and Mr. Whiteaker and they both have given uS considerable rt comicbooks.c Our scheme may not be at |