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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
News From The Paris Moose Club
as being the most worthy of the contribution, and of course I was governed by his recommendation.
With the kindest personal regards and best wishes, I am,
Sincerely and Fraternally yours, JOS. JENKINS, Vice Director General.
UNION DES COLONIES ETRANGERES EN FRANCE en Faveur des Victimes de la Guerre, sous le haut patronage de Monsieur
Raymond Poincare, President de la Republique Française.
11 bis rue Scribe, Paris, October 16th, 1918. Mr. Jenkins,
Vice-General Manager of the Loyal Order of Moose.
5 Bid. Malasherbes, Paris. /
Dear Sir:—We have received on your behalf, 5,000 Fes. from Mr. Franklin-Bouillon, former Minister, which amount is to be attributed to a French Agricultural School for Maimed Soldiers.
We highly appreciated that Mr. Franklin-Bouillon has chosen our “Ferme-Ecole de Champagne” at Juvisy-s-Orge to benefit of this generous gift.
In the name of the Union Des Colonies Etrangères en France we wish to express you and all the Members of your Society, our heartfelt thanks for your liberal donation which is greatly appreciated by us.
Believe me, dear Sir,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) WALTHER BURG,
President.
Edited By JOS. A. JENKINS
ity presents itself, and further, I wish your Organization every success in France and particularly at home, so that many deeds of kindness and mercy may be accomplished in an endeavor to be of service to our Brothers.
This card is highly appreciated and will be cherished by me, and at all times I will prize the same as a special token of esteem, and I trust that my life will be such as to merit your confidence and that it will always be worn by me as one worthy of being member of the Loyal Order of Moose.
COL. M. DeHAY.
OUR CONTRIBUTION
Paris, October 26th, 1918. Mr. James J. Davis, Chairman.
Moose War Relief Commission.
2117 Farmers Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., U. S. A.
Dear Mr. Davis:—Enclosed you will find a copy of a letter which is self explanatory, with reference to the contribution of 5,000 Fes. you advised me to give to Mr. Franklin Bouillon. Mr. Bouillon recommended the Union des Colonies Etrangères en France
in your efforts to promote the great aims your Organization has in view.
When this terrible conflict is over, T am looking forward eagerly to visit your great country, America, and I can assure you that one of my first acts will be to visit Chicago, and then to immediately arrange my plans to see your beautiful National Home, of . which I have heard and learned so much, Mooseheart, and endeavor to get into closer touch with the members of your Organization. I am longing to see your great country and to make friends with many of its wonderful people, for those individual links of personal friendship are the true ties which for the benefit of both countries will bring closer together in the future the United States and France.'
In closing, permit me to say ^gain that today I feel highly honored; and in accepting this beautiful gold life membership card in Mooseheart Lodge No. 00, I again pledge myself to do everything within my power to forward the aims and purposes of your great Organization and exemplify its teachings, to assist my fellow men׳ whenever and wherever the opportun-
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FROM THE ITALIAN FRONT.
Harry T. Brockman, Past Supreme Dictator and Associate Grand Regent is very proud of two sons in overseas service. The following letter from one gives a vivid picture of action on the Italian front:
Somewhere i n Italy, Oct. 16, 1918. Wednesday.
My Dear Father:—
I received your kind letter of Sept. 24 in tonight's mail¿
I was pleased to hear that you are spending many of your evenings making speeches to boost the sale of Thrift Stamps. It goes to show that the folks back home are doing their share over there to help us win the war over here.
I read with interest the clippings you enclosed with your letter, especially the one where the Germans are kicking because the Allies are bombing their poor defenseless towns.
It seems as though they have already forgotten what their aviators have done in different towns in France, but it looks as though the Allies are going to keep them in mind of it by repaying them with a dose of their own medicine. We get English papers here two or three times a week, and in every one of them are accounts of air raids made and bombs dropped on munition dumps and railroad centers by allied birdmen.
You spoke about the splendid reports received in America of the fine work being done by the Americans on thé western front. We get the same reports here through the Paris editions of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Herald.
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WILLIAM SLOANE. Chairman	CLEVELAND H. DODGE, Treasurer	JOHN R. MOTTE. General Secretary |
Associate General Secretaries: F, S. BROCKMAN, J. S. TICHENOR, C. R. TOWSON, C. V. HIBBARD
NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL
OF THE
Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States
Address all Correspondence to
OVERSEAS PURCHASING AND SHIPPING DEPARTMENT T. W. D. TURNER, Manager
WHHP
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|347 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK
TELEPHONE: Vanderbilt 1200 CABLE: Forseo
November 19, 1918
Rodney H. Brandon,
Grand Regent,
Loyal Order of Moose,
Mooseheart, Illinois.
Dear Sir:-
We take pleasure in advising you that the three cases of knitted goods, etc., which you forwarded to the Y.M.C.A. Warehouse for shipment overseas have arrived in New York and will be placed on board a U. S. Army Transport for Prance within the next few days.
Yours very truly,
NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL, Y.M.C.A.
Per:	J. J. MALONEY
Overseas Purchasing & Shipping Dept.
JJM/MAR

Paris, October 26th, 1918. Mr. James J. Davis, Chairman,
Moose War Relief Commission,
2117 Farmers Bank Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., U. S. A.
Dear Mr. Davis:—It causes me great pleasure to inform you that yesterday we held banquet in honor of Colonel De Hay, Commandant of Verdun, at which we presented him with the solid gold life membership card in Mooseheart Lodge. The card was received about a week ago. Through a very fortunate chain of circumstances,
I met , the Colonel De Hay the same evening that I received the life membership card, at a banquet given by the Franco-American Club.: It seemed like a coincidence to receive the card in the morning and then to have the pleasure of seeing him in the evening. He informed me at that time (in French of course) that he was leaving Paris on the 25th, so it was necessary to have quick action. The enclosed clipping from the New York Herald will give you additional information regarding the luncheon. Colonel De-Hay made a very appropriate answer to the presentation, and I can assure you was deeply moved upon receiving this honor.
With best wishes and kindest regards; I beg to remain,
Fraternally and sincerely yours, JOS. A. JENKINS, Vice •Director General.
The clipping follows:
COMMANDER'OF VERDUN
ADMITTED TO LOYAL MOOSE
At a luncheon given yesterday by the Loyal Order of Moose a beautiful solid gold membership card was presented to Colonel A. Dehay, Commandant of Verdun, who was admitted to membership by Director-General James J. Davis during the recent visit of the Moose War Relief Commission. The obligation of the organization was administered to Colonel Dehay at the citadel, in Verdun. Colonel DeHay became the first Moose upon the banks of the river Meuse in France.
The presentation of life membership was made by Joseph A. Jenkins, vicedirector-general of the organization in Europe, to which a very appropriate response was made by Colonel DeHay. Mention was made that the Loyal Order of Moose now has 52,000 members with the Allied forces. Those present at the banquet were as follows:— Colonel A. DeHay, Lieutenant Le Marcis, Lieutenant L. Biscardy, Lieutenant L. Alleq, of the French Army; Captain H. L. Walker, of the Canadian Army; Lieutenant Harold Leder-man, of the American Army; Danny Dunn, of the Knights of Columbus Forces; Edouard Dolleans, of the French Diplomatic Service; W. J. Thomas, vice-director-general of the American Express Company, and Joseph A. Jenkins, vice-director-general of the Loyal Order of Moose in Europe.
COL. DeHAY’S RESPONSE.
Mr. Jenkins:—
As the representative of your Order in Europe, it affords me great pleasure to respond to you at this time, inasmuch as I am very highly honored to have been so kindly admitted as a member of your Society, the Loyal Order of Moose.
When the obligation of your Organization was given me by your untiring leader, James J. Davis, at Verdun, in March last, I can assure you I was deeply touched by your consideration. Words fail to express my feeling for thq friendship that you have shown me, for which I thank you, and I will try to be worthy of the confidence, and do all within my power to assist you