Adventure Magazine Cover, November 10, 1924 — page 186: what you’re looking at

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A Free Question and Answer Service Bureau of Infor- mation on Outdoor Life and Activities Every where and Upon the Various Commodities Required Therein. Con- ducted for Adventure Magazine by Our Staff of Experts ete oe Fans UESTIONS should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the Sg SHE expert in charge of the section in whose field it falls. So ah ny ee that service may be as prompt as possible, he will answer you 2 (||) ee by mail direct. But he will also send to us a copy of each question and beara ape answer, and from these we shall select those of most general interest and publish them each issue in this department, thus making it itself an exceedingly valuable standing source of practical information. Unless otherwise requested inquirer’s name and town are printed with question; street numbers not given. . 4 4 N ye MM ER i Ys he f i 4S \ 2 + a When you ask for general information on a given district or subject “ 3 fa. Ya Ze Ratt the expert may give you some valuable general pointers and refer you to books or to local or special sources of information. Our experts will in all cases answer to the best of their ability, using their own discretion in all matters pertaining to their sections, subject only to our general rules for “Ask Adventure,” but neither they nor the magazine assumes any responsi- bility beyond the moral one of trying to do the best that is possible. _ These experts have been chosen by us not only for their knowledge and experience but with an eye to their integrity and reliability. We have emphatically assured each of them that his advice or information is not to be affected in any way LS yg é re pug 5 A; Luipea ~ by whether a given commodity is or is not advertised in this magazine. Service free to anybody, provided self-addressed envelop and full postage, not attached, are enclosed. Correspondents writing to or from foreign countries will please enclose International Reply Coupons, purchasable at any post-office, and ex- changeable for stamps of any country in the International Postal Union. 2. 3. field covers it. He will reply by mail. to join expeditions. is in no sense an employment bureau. and intentions. Make your questions definite and specific. Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular section whose Do NOT send questions to this magazine. No reply will be made to requests for partners, for financial backing, or for chances ‘‘Ask Adventure’’ covers business and work opportunities, but only if they are outdoor activities, and only in the way of general data and advice. It State exactly your wants, qualifications Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. Send no question until you have read very carefully the exact ground covered by the particular expert in whose section it seems to belong. Please Note: To avoid using so much needed space each issue for standing matter and to gain more space for the actual meat of “‘Ask Ad- venture’’ the full statement of its various sec- tions and of “Lost Trails” will be given only in alternate issues. In other issues only the bare names of the sections will be given, inquirers to get exact fields covered and names and addresses from full statement in alternate issues. Do not write to the magazine, but to the editors of the sections at their home addresses. - The Sea. In Three Parts . Islands and Coasts. In Two Parts . New Dig wie and the South Sea Islands. In oO Parts 8. Australia and Tasmania . Malaysia, Sumatra and Java New Guinea ll. Philippine Islands Hawaiian Islands and China Japan Asia. In Four Parts . Africa. In Eight Parts . Turkey Asia Minor . Balkans. In Three Parts. 31. Scandinavia : . Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Poland 33. Great Britain . South America. In Three Parts . Central America 38, 39. Mexico. In Two Parts 40—46. Canada. In Seven Parts 47. Alaska 48. Baffinland and Greenland . Western U.S. In Six Parts Middle Western U.S. In Four Parts 5 . Eastern U.S. In Six Parts Radio Mining and Prospecting Weapons, Past and Present. In Three Parts Salt and Fresh Water Fishing Forestry in the United States Tropical Forestry Aviation Army Matters, United States and Foreign American Anthropology North of Panama Canal First Aids on the Trail Health-Building Outdoors Standing Information Note from an “A. A.’? Man San Francisco, Calif. To Att My “A. A.” INQUIRERS: And now for a change of address. A change that will carry your letters to an island almost at the end of all the world. October 8th is when I slip through the Golden Gate for this beautiful Island of Beginning Again. What with my ever increasing “A. A.” work, the writing of South Sea tales and a book that will be in its scope quite unlike any other island volume, and managing my own avocado and vanilla plan- tation, I glimpse shinmg straight ahead of me, near the toot of a green sea trail, days that I am going to share in print with you. 184 COMmichoo (© 5}