Adventure, February 1917 — page 218: what you’re looking at

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216 Adventure ae A Free Question and Answer Service Bureau of Information on Outdoor Life and Activities Everywhere and Upon the Various Com- modities Required Therein. Conducted by Our Sane Staff of Experts, Each Specially Fitted by Personal Experience and Study to Cover His Own Definite Field. All Inquiries Must Be Sent Direct to the Expert in Charge of the Particular Department Under Which It Belongs. HE purpose of “Ask Adventure” is to give our readers a practical personal service that our experi- ence of years on this magazine has shown they want and need. Since we give such a service, it is our wish, and to our own best interests as well as the interests of those served, to make it as reliable and efficient as it is humanly possible to make it. Our purpose is to have it not only the biggest service of its kind in existence, but the most dependable. This service is open and free to all. Questions should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the expert in charge of the department in whose field it falls. So that service may be as prompt as possible, he will answer you by mail direct. But he will also send to us a copy of each question and answer, and from these we shall select those of most general interest and publish them each month in this department, thus making it itself an exceedingly valuable and standing source of practical information. Our experts will in all cases answer to the best of their ability, using their own discretion in all matters pertaining to their departments subject only to our general rules for “Ask Adventure,” but neither they nor the magazine assumes any responsibility 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 for their integrity and reliability. We have emphatically assured each of them that his advice or information is not toe af- fected in any way by whether a given commodity is or is not advertised in this magazine. We intend to add new departments until the whole field is covered, but shall do so only as we find experts of the required knowledge and integrity. It is necessary to build soundly and solidly. When you ask for general information on a given district or subject the expert will probably give you some valuable general pointers and refer you for details to some book or list of books or to local or special sources of information. In short, do not expect the impossible, but do expect the best possible service that can be rendered.! Send in no questions without reading the RULES 1. Service free to anybody, but no questions answered unless stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. 2. Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular department whose field covers it. Do NOT send questions to this magazine. 3; No reply will be made to requests aor partners, for financial backing, or for chances to join expeditions. 4. ‘“tAsk Adventure” covers business and work opportunities only if they are outdoor - activities, and only in the way of general data and advice. It is in no sense an employment bureau. 5. Send no question until you have read very cacetalle the exact ground covered by _the particular expert in whose department it seems to belong. (E©) | Comicbooks