Around Our Camp Fire 



/ leave this rule for others when I'm dead, 

 Be always sure you re right — then go ahead. 



-DAVID CROCKETT. 



Some of our friends have suggested that 

 in our enthusiasm for Nature we are becom- 

 ing worshippers of Pan. This was said jok- 

 ingly, but we choose to take it seriously. Pan 

 is the ancient god whom artists use to per- 

 sonify Nature, but whose grotesque form 

 plainly indicates that he was not originally 

 intended for that purpose but to represent 

 what we know as "of the earth, earthy." 



Recreation claims that Nature is the ma- 

 terial manifestation of the Divine Mind, and, 

 even if we were worship- 

 pers of Nature, we should 

 still hold a higher posi- 

 tion than those people 

 who pretend to worship 

 a Deity whose handiwork 

 they spend their lives in 

 mutilating and destroy- 

 ing. No man respects an 

 artist and destroys his 

 handiwork. 



. We want each of you 

 to bring a log to the 

 camp fire until it blazes 

 so high that it will illu- 

 minate the whole coun- 

 try around so that peo- 

 ple will stop and ask 

 what that light means re- 

 flected in the sky ; and 

 you can honestly reply, 

 "That means a REVO- 

 LUTION,— a revolution 



from the hard, suicidal, unsentimental, dol- 

 lar-and-cent way of viewing life, to one in 

 which each of us is doing our little part to 

 restore this world, as near as may be, to its 

 original plan of a pleasure-ground and gar- 

 den for those who are sojourning here." 



More Guests at the Camp. 



Thanks to our enthusiastic and generous 

 public, the logs in Recreation's camp fire are 

 burning brightly and, although the circle 

 around it is constantly being enlarged, we 

 must still make room for the growing army 

 of juvenile campers, for the "Sons of Daniel 

 Boone'' are loudly clamoring for a seat in our 

 council lodge and we give them a hearty back- 

 woodsman's welcome. 



It is perhaps unnecessary to remind our 



Old, Tried Campers 



that the boys of today are the men of tomor- 

 row and the men of today are buried tomor- 

 row. In other words, we must depend on the 

 boys to carry on the work which we are now 

 doing, and the manner in which they acquit 

 themselves of the responsibilities which will 

 soon fall on their shoulders is strictly gov- 

 erned by our actions and examples. 



In the July number we 

 spoke of the 



RECREATION'S 

 PLATFORM 



An uncompromising fight for 

 the protection, preservation and 

 propagation of all game ; placing 

 a sane limit on the bag that can 

 be taken in a day or season; the 

 prevention of the shipment or 

 transportation of game, except 

 in limited quantities, and then 

 only when accompanied by the 

 party who killed it; the prohi- 

 bition of the sale of game. These 

 are ' Recreation's" slogans now 

 and forever. 



Quick Work for the 



Buffalo 



and quoted some of the 

 dispatches sent. The 

 facts of the matter are 

 these: that it was widely 

 advertised that there was 

 to be a grand buffalo 

 hunt in which the buf- 

 falo were to be chased 

 around in front of the 

 grand stand and shot by 

 Indians and hunters. 

 When we telegraphed to 

 the proprietors of the 

 ranch, in Oklahoma, 

 where the show was to 

 be given, they would not 

 deny this report and it 

 was not until then that we brought the pres- 

 sure to bear upon them that put the sum- 

 mary stop to the proceedings ; but this was 

 only 



One Move on the Chess Board. 



Our object now is to preserve these noble 

 beasts for all time, and we want each reader 

 of this magazine to sit down now and write 

 a letter to his congressman, asking him to 

 give his enthusiastic support to the bill which 

 will be presented to Congress, authorizing 

 the government to make a permanent buf- 

 falo park and to purchase the Pablo-Allard 

 herd of buffalo and place it upon the reserva- 

 tion selected for it. 



Every one of you, subscribers and casual 

 readers, can help us in this great move and 



