Adventure Magazine Cover — page 195: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

for Readers, Writers and Adventurers Frre 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 gentiy among those of different station toward the fuller and more human understanding and sympat "y that will some day bring to man the real democracy and brotherhood he seeks. Few indeed ave 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 fust time and ee like the things we like, join us and find yourself very welcome. There is no obligation except ordinary manliness, no forms or ceremontes, no dues, no officers, no anything except men and women gathered for interest and friendliness. Your desire to join makes you a member. once at sea in a hundred-ton schooner. She was eight thousand. We sailed around her in the good- old-fashioned way. Cheerio, and Luck to The Gang—DINGLE. NE of you wrote us a long letter, en- closing an article from the Dearborn Independent, but since, contrary to Camp-Fire custom, he did not wish his name printed with his letter, neither name nor letter is printed. However, I sent it to Harold Lamb of our writers’ brigade, who as you know is an old crony of Genghis Khan, Prester John, Tamerlane ef al, and his reply makes plain the general drift of letter and article. He’s always a good man to turn to for help, for he not only knows 13 whereof he speaks but handles everything thoroughly—in this case, having omitted one point from his first letter, he was good enough to write a second. Berkeley, California. I’ve discussed the J. S. letter with several men, from anthropological, archeological and _ historical angles. A couple of these chaps are authorities, more or less. Here’s the gist of what we threshed out: 1. S. has the merit of being sincere, and plain spoken. 2. The theory, that the yellow race is a product of black and white, is not proved in any way in the enclosed data, or elsewhere. In fact the contrary can easily be proved. By the various tests (anthropologically speaking) the white man is fundamentally different from the black and is actually between the black and yellow. (Take one test, body structure: Black—long legs, short body; white, long legs, long body; yellow, long 193 COMICLOO CO