Show which has just closed wintour in jour issue cissne for aug has just the right ting ring to it it expresses my Benti menta exactly while we wa all like to see eee the young people present at our camp fires we do not like them to crowd the old people out as thy have tried to do at the last two reu reunions nUns and in the future we ball lut have to cat c down the number of invitations inai A to the people eucla nucla as we ve we vre regret it if they had given the veterans tle respect that is cue thara all might get along alon well but bat we sr are determined tu to make our camp fires a success if we hive have to exclude all but the veterans and their wives As to abe modern modem qa awa nes anti and merry zo ito around and this class of amusements I 1 think I 1 can assure my comrades s oat tl at this is ia the last time they will BIS bee them at our gatherings our oar reunions are entirely for social purer see we do ilot wish to make any money out oat of them ourselves and we are determined others shall not if each comrade who is ia able will pay his 25 cants a year rear dues does as decided on by the executive com coin mattea and then buy a badge tor lor himself and wife to keep as a memento we do not need any cemes of chance or ether nonsense about our camp fires and we ceball have money enough to pay all our expenses and more our poor comrades we do not ask to pay even this small amount and now let me sincerely thank the enquirer for all the inte interest that caper has shown us and th the 9 many good words it has ha spoken in our behalf J M WESTWOOD chairman executive committee |