Adventure Magazine Cover — page 193: what you’re looking at

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

The Camp/Fire provision so that the next comrade who happens along, hungry for something to read, can find that magazine, read it, sign his name, and pass it on to the next wan- derer? An edsy way to do a real good turn. And a chance for all kinds of originality and fun in your method of doing it. The stay-at-homes may regard all this as only a sort of joke. Those who travel the far places will take it seriously, for they know what a bit of reading matter can mean. Men shouldn’t be limited to our magazine alone. This isn’t an advertising scheme. Give the “next fellows” any mag- azine, book or paper you happen to have. If it interested you, it will probably interest them. If you want to honor our own mag- azine above the other “‘books” in the library, make it the registry book. Or use the Camp-Fire number “71,” or the button design or even our “‘coat of arms.” The intrinsic: value of such a library will not greatly tempt thieves. And anyhow, if there’s honor among thieves, there’s a darned sight more among adventurers. Also there’s considerable good-fellowship and comradeship. How about it? Why not establish the informal custom of informal “‘libraries” in out-of-the-way places? Some of you have already invented the scheme and begun carrying it out of your own accord. Why shouldn’t all of us get the habit? If we did, those “libraries” would soon be scat- tered all over the world. The poem in the following case serves its purpose excellently. Come across with other suggestions. Maybe some one of you can produce something that we could use as a sort of standard. OF COURSE such “libraries” HE “‘monicker’’ Comrade Pierce drew in his letter is as follows: Draw a rather sprawly capital M; inside the lower part of the letter print the letters “‘cree;” starting at top and at bottom of left side of M, draw two parallel lines to the right, ending them and bringing them together in a loop; inside this loop and to the right of the M, print the date—7.21.20;. through the whole design draw an arrow, head on the right, and a P just in front of the head; under the whole design print “D. Mcree.” If you are present, Dan Mcree, speak up. 183 And have any others-of you seen his “i- brary” and signed your names? And where is Comrade Pierce when he reads this? Incidentally, here is a time when I’m printing praise of our magazine. Couldn’t very well help myself this trip. hes Berea, Ohio. Was in Alabama working on the Nitrate Plant at Muscle Shoals. Having a day off walked several miles up the river, sat down to eat a sandwich, saw a bottle with a note in it and read same. Here it is: “Listen to wisdom from old Dan Mcree, *T will be a wonderful day, and happy you'll be. Look on the rafters of yonder mill A magazine you'll find, read your fill, Place it back when you're done, and your name next to mine, Place the note in the bottle and all will be fine. Some day I’ll be back. There I hope it will be With a big row of names, headed by old Dan Mcree. Let’s hope there’s no man so low or so mean That will destroy an Adventure, the best magazine. oe Here is. his monicker. \ 3.0.5 ¢ ees D. Mcree Who has seen itPp—R. E. Prerce. FLEke are six jobs for the ethnologists, archeologists and historians among us. It ought to result in some interesting in- formation. Manhattan, Kansas, To Camp-Fire: I flatter myself that I am one of your old friends. No further introduction is neces- _ sary in that case. My particular mental obsession is “historical mys- teries.””. Here are some that have been in my mind for some time and I would like to get some one else’s opinion about them. There is no “catch” or “jolly” business about this; I am asking for information. . 1. Is it possible that the Aztec God, Quetzal- coatl, the “fair God, with hair like the sun,” was some shipwrecked Norseman? The Norsemen, Normans or ‘‘Hommes du Nord”’ first began to be really troublesome about 800 aA.D., in the time of Charlemagne. Were the Aztecs established in Mexico by the eighth century? All their legends tell that they “came down from the North” from somewhere. 2. Where did the Basques, or Iberians, come from? They are at present in or near the Pyrenees Mountains, but in appearance, language, customs, etc.. they are radically different from either the Spanish or French. Are they a branch of the Aryan race? 3. Who was the ‘Man in the Iron Mask?” All French histories are very vague on this point. 4, Has any explanation ever been offered as to who constructed the strange monolithic images on Easter Island, South Pacific? . 5. Who was Kubla Khan? _ 6. The swastica cross. . . . has been used as a decoration for a long time by various tribes of American Indians. I am informed that it also ap- pears on old Buddhist temples in China, Tibet and is also used by various tribes in ‘Central Asia. Is there any- explanation of a ‘C. McKay. Pa 1.OO =) a (E©) 6S (EO) mm