Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang, Vol. II. No. 13, October, 1920 AN OPEN LETTER The Whiz Bang Farm, Rural Route No. 2, Robbinsdale, Minn. To Our Readers: With this issue, Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang discards swaddling clothes and starts bounding on its second year of existence. In this number, which we have termed “Our Annual,” the writer has taken the liberty to review many of the stories and poems from the 12 previous issues. It is obvious that a new publication must start with no circulation. If it strikes a popular appeal in the heart-chord of human existence it succeeds; otherwise, it sinks into journalistic oblivion. Thanks to a legion of loyal readers and volunteer scribes, The Whiz Bang has weathered the colicky and diarrhoetic stage of life. Our eye-teeth have been cut and the worst is over. This little family journal of uplift has no one to thank but its readers. It is your magazine and it is you who send in the snappy articles to fill its pages each month. Again we extend our heartiest thanks. We are now spread from the mackerel munching macaroons of Manhattan’s bright isle to the squawking squabs of sunny California; from the wily, wicked pole-cats of Northern Minnesota to the perk and prim creoles of feverish Orleans. On this month, the month of our birth, the editor feels as happy as a kid sucking a lollypop and smearing its chin with an ice cream cone. All we lack to complete the illusion is about three fingers in a wash-tub. Adios until November rolls ’round. CAPTAIN BILLY. [Illustration] _Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang_ OUR MOTTO: “_Make It Snappy_” October, 1920 Vol. II. No. 13 Published Monthly by W. H. Fawcett, Rural Route No. 2 at Robbinsdale, Minnesota Entered as second-class matter May 1, 1920, at the post office at Robbinsdale, Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879. _Price 25 cents_ _$2.50 per year_ _“We have room for but one soul loyalty and that is loyalty to the American People”--Theodore Roosevelt._ Copyright 1920 By W. H. Fawcett [Illustration] _Edited by a Spanish and World War Veteran and dedicated to the fighting forces of the United States, past, present and future._ _Skipping with the Skipper_