Adventure Magazine Cover, December 18, 1919 — page 195: what you’re looking at

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organization. over by the time you read this, but in ‘any case you will probably be. getting your issues of Adventure faster than” _ schedule, - week -interval; Lf —_ ? = ‘AMP: FIRE. A MEETING-PLACE \ “a> for READERS, WRITERS 4 has and ADVENTURERS J = = —< <= = | prorancy there is little - tp ex- plain that your delay in getting this issue of ‘Adventure and the one before it is due to the printers’ strike in New York.! Camp-Fire is not the place to discuss the merits of the strike, but: I’d like to make ‘clear the fact that if it were not for a conflict between the local Unions and the general organization there would be no delay in getting your magazines to you, this being a Union shop in good standing with the general Perhaps the strike will be usual until we catch-up with the regular Don’t wait for the usual two- keep your eye on the stands for the appearance of new issues. Romance; too,' will go through the same kind of hurry-up process. I’ll not bother you with the details, but in order to speed up these delayed issues it was found advisable to substitute the Mid-January and First February issues for the Mid-December and First January issues, with, of course, the exception of the serials and some minor changes. | Also another change—since the stories by H. A. Lamb and Robert J. Pearsall are consecutive, they have to be dropped from several issues but will appear as soon as conditions make it possible. Likewise it was impossible for us to publish in this number the stories prom- ised in the last ‘Trail Ahead.” They will appear in a later issue. Our “Camp-Fire,” too, has had to be changed in minor ways, as have “Ask Adventure” and. “Looking Ahead,” but, unless I make a slip somewhere in the general confusion, I think these changes will in no way affect your comfort in 4s ERE is an extremely interesting suggestion put forward by Edgar Young. He knows. the adventurer’s needs at first-hand but the value of these books seems plain enough even to the stay-at-home. How do you feel about it ? Brooklyn, New York.’ I am passing along an idea that occurred to me. Perhaps there might be some manufactur- ing stationery comrade of your acquaintance saat might like to take it up, or the man who nay makes the large registers for the sta- tiorts might like it. It’s free to any one who likes it, so far as I’m concerned. I T ig’a fact that all of us have carried books ‘ef some sort and got signatures in them, but nothing especially for. this purpose has ever been designed, so far as I know. Every man who drops in fiere begins to drag out railroad clearances, letters, etc., to establish proof of something or other. -A book of the sort along the general lines I have hastily sketched should be very acceptable to all travelers. A great many of us are modest about telling some out- landish thing we have seen in some outlandish place without having proper papers to back it up, and a thing that cuts is to be accused of lying when telling the exact and unvarnished truth Books of this kind could be filled and others obtained and used in numerical order. A man could have*a just pride in such a record and hand the book down to his children. The numerous foreign and native seal impressions and signatures with autographs of prominent men would also make it interesting, I AM one of those who claim that adventure has better precedents and records than it has ever been given credit for. All advance- ment on the face of the earth has been due to it. We Americans can be especially proud of our adventurous forefathers. There are those who, alas, wish to detract from the spirit of adventure. “Rolling stones gather no moss,” they claim. This in spite of the fact that the famdus hobo Ar owns a large brick building in Pittsburg or somewhere over’ there, the usual detractor from the name of the roving tribe not having a hundred dollars’ bank bal- ance. The rolling stones do gather the moss, 5: reading: the magazine, ‘lots of it, intellectual and material, when they e, Sige a : 181 Ba cies SS se ee Wh Seger Comicbooks:- coin rmtir a. <a wh ed Pt ; Sa ' + ~ Nee he = ts