Adventure Magazine Cover, June 20, 1925 — page 199: what you’re looking at

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The Camp-Fire stable of forty good cattle, always ready and fit for traveling; but when a man came for a horse he was led into the stable, where there was great choice, but was obliged to take‘the horse which stood near- est the stable door; so that every customer was alike well served, according to his chance, and every horse ridden with the same justice.” In 1660 Milton wrote two humorous poems, or epitaphs, on the old carrier’s death. In the Times the editor asks on one occasion: “Why is the greatest of free communities reduced to Hobson’s choice?”’ Possibly Hobson was impelled to make this rule as the greater number of his patrons were university students and inclined to wild riding. In any event his stable rule has perpetuated his name along with his rule through nearly three centuries, and ‘‘Hob- son’s Choice” was a bit of familiar vernacular in the time of Wayne’s campaign.—HvucH PENDEXTER. ae AS TO the birthplace of Buffalo Bil. Comrade Guest tells us ex] Scott County, Iowa, is the spot. As he requested, Mr. Guest has been put into touch with Mr. Howard. Another example of the helpfulness and friendly spirit of our Camp-Fire. Davenport, lowa. In the January 20th issue there were a few lines by Mr. Arthur B. Howard on the famous scout, Buf- falo Bill, otherwise known as Wm. S. Cody. One thing I would like to straighten out and correct, as Mr. Howard has his wires mixed on where Buffalo Bill was born. He states Cody was born near Leaven- worth, Kansas, but Scott County, Iowa, has always been known as the birthplace of him. Would like Mr. Howard’s address, as I could give him additional data on Cody.—CHARLES GUEST. REPEATEDLY at Camp-Fire I’ve said that undoubtedly the Bolshevics are giving their full ' support to the anti-weapon craze now sweeping this country. Their method is to gain control of a country by force. It makes it easier to gain control of a country by force—and to keep control of it—if you can disarm its people first. Quite possibly that seems only “‘alarmist stuff.” But remember that even in the story the wolf did come. And don’t forget that nobody has as yet been able to find out who is supplying the money and organized central effort back of this anti-weapon cam- paign. Read this from the New York Herald- Tribune of March 16: Revolution was portrayed with sensational real- ity yesterday in the course of a Communist pageant given in Madison Square Garden before 10,000 mem- bers and friends of the Workers’ Party of America. 181 The occasion was a celebration of the French Com- mune of 1871. Meanwhile the pageant’s interpreter, a speaker wearing a red sash and standing on an eminence to the left of the stage, cried out the mistakes of the Communists in allowing arms to remain in the hands of the bourgeoisie. This error, he pointed out, resulted in the failure of the F rench Commune, and the Russian Commun- ists, in 1917, took care not to repeat it, he said. Note first that there were in one city at a single meeting 10,000 Reds vociferously present. There must be quite a few of them in the whole country! And the propaganda at that meeting seems to have centered pretty definitely on the idea that the body of the people must be disarmed and kept disarmed if the Red cause is to succeed permanently. Yet it isn’t possible—probable—that it is the Reds who are chiefly back of the anti- weapon campaign? oe TWO of you have sent me a: booklet on the Sergeant William You will re- ’ member that Camp-Fi ire has al- — heard the charges that Cunningham was railroaded into Leavenworth because he was uncovering extensive graft among commissioned officers in 1919. The facts have not yet been clearly established and that in itself is a disgrace and an injustice. The War Department, however much it strives to ignore it, is nevertheless responsi- ble to the people and dependent upon their good will. And the Administration, how- ever many and great the scandals it has triumphantly survived, does not command any too great an allowance of respect for. the loudly advertised whiteness of its moral garments. The pamphlet closes with the following: “Editor of The New York Bulletin: —Determined to bring about the liberation of Sergt. William Cun- ningham, members of the Kings County Council, Veterans of Foreign Wars, representing every post of that order in Brooklyn, unanimously decided te thoroughly investigate the charges and fight for a review of the case which resulted in the confinement of this veteran to military prisons. Efforts to have an exposure of the “grafter’s plot” made known through the medium of the public press. were fruitless. City editors, although realizing the. news value of the story, dared not “run” an article of this kind which would jeopardize their positions. Committees of the V. F. W., endeavoring to have stories concerning this case printed, were told that a “hands-off” policy was being pursued by the pa~. pers requested to feature the articles. COMIGDIOOKSEEO