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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
An Education of a Real Value
from three to four years in intensive work made up as before, of about two-thirds of the practical work and one-third of the technical or book side of the work. They often require special programs, because of previous work they have done or because of their wish to specialize along certain lines. Industrial Vs. Agricultural Training.
One point which requires special study is the opportunity for boys to choose freely as to whether they want to take up the agricultural work or the industrial work. In most institutions throughout the country only one of these is available. This naturally means that where industrial work is given, there are many boys who may prefer agriculture, who get into the industrial work because no agricultural work is given. The same thing is true of boys in an agricultural school, being obliged to choose the agricultural work, even though they may prefer the industrial. At Mooseheart the agriculture is fully developed and the boys have a chance to choose freely whether they wish to go into the agricultural or industrial work.
News Notes
Erie, Pa., Lodge No. 66, has a beautiful home valued at $85,000.00.
Buffalo, N. Y., Lodge No. 8, has
net assets valued at $91,286.08.
Philadelphia, Pa., Lodge No. 54, purchased $10,000.00 worth of Liberty Bonds.
Woonsocket, R. I., Lodge No. 482, has invested $3500 in Liberty Bonds. Fine business.
It may take more than two years to demobilize our fighting forces. Buy more W. S. S.
North Adams, Mass., Lodge No. 1476, is still increasing its membership. Keep it up.
The Moose Temple of Pittsburgh, Pa., Lodge No. 46, is valued at $555,000.00. It’s some Temple.
Irwin, Pa., Lodge No. 236 has increased about 45 per cent the last three months. Some showing.
Ambridge Lodge has purchased $4000.00 worth of Liberty Bonds which is an average of nearly $10.00 per member.
Philipsburg, Pa., Lodge No. 123 shows an increase of 53 per cent in membership in the last three months. Somebody’s on the job.
Dowingtown, Pa., Lodge No. 1153, have applied for a special dispensation to open their charter. Watch them double their membership.
Newport, Pa., Lodge No. 1562 is only four months old and shows Net Assets of over $15.00 per member. A nice head of steam for a starter.
Nathan Atkinson, Secretary of Tuckertown, N. J., Lodge No. 1090, says they are taking ־>n a new life. Good luck to Tuckertown.
Cohoes, N. Y., Lodge No. 1332, has trebled its membership since April 1st. Other Lodges, please get the habit! “Do your bit” to reach the “MILLION MARK.”
J. C. Lines, Treasurer of Warwick Lodge, is a big booster for the Moose. We want more like him. He also donated $5.00 to the Children’s Moose-heart Christmas Fund, besides paying a Special Contribution of $5.00 to the War Fund.
By MATTHEW P. ADAMS, Superintendent of Mooseheart
Editor’s Note:—Matthew P. Adams is one of America’s greatest experts on vocational education. Tne cuicors feel that the owners of Mooseheart should get the fullest possible knowledge of this great feature of their school. Hence, from time to time, articles from Bro. Adams’s pen on this subject will be featured. Every Moose should conscientiously study them, not only for their Mooseheart application, but in order that he may know if the public school in his own city is making the most of its possibilities.
habit, concentration, consistency and “stick-to-it-iveness.” In young boys and girls this latter is one of the greatest traits to develop. A boy who has this quality is bound to succeed in the world.
While this pre-vocational work is attractive to the boys, and the work
culty that they can be transferred to another vocational group. The first week in the new class, they do not like the work at all and do not want to stay, but they gradually grow to like the new work, and at the end of this period the same difficulty is experienced in transferring them to another
Practical Work as Carpenters
is a pleasure, it is serious and purposeful work, requiring initiative and judgment.
Vocational Training.
After the boys have been through the pre-vocational work, they then choose the department in which they wish to specialize, where they spend
group. This is experienced term after term. In each case, however, boys of these ages are required to move on, in order that they may have experience in a number of fields so they can choose their life work intelligently.
There is remarkable opportunity in this pre-vocational work to develop
Dean of Mooseheart to Visit Lodges in the Southwest
Dr. Rondthaler is a lecturer of many years standing. He has delivered sermons from the pulpit and lectures from every point of vantage. When he came to Mooseheart he made it a better place to live in for his gentle kindly spirit, combined with the forcefulness of his noble character have made for happiness always. Ample opportunity will be to the Moose of the Southwest to hear Dr. Rondthaler and the Committee on Public Information urges that every Moose possible hear him when he is in their vicinity.
Dr. Rondthaler's tour has been arranged and is under the supervision of the Committee on Public Information, who will book him whereever he is to speak and will arrange for bookings for other Lodges, than those already arranged, who desire his help. The !Secretaries and Officers of Lodges who desire further information concerning this tour are requested to communicate with the Committee on Public Information, L. O. O. M., Mooseheart, 111.
DR. J. A. Rondthaler, Dean of Mooseheart, who is on his way to the Pacific coast to preach the gospel of Mooseheart there, has kindly consented to visit the Lodges throughout the Southwest on his way. A number of these Lodges have arranged for public meetings at which Dr. Rondthaler will deliver an address, preceeded by the new Moose films. Wherever it is possible the Lodges are attempting to make a membership drive out of the meeting at which Dr. Rondthaler will speak. Presumably there are many members in the Southwest who are not aware of this tour. Certainly, there are few who would not like to hear the Doctor, for probably no one in the Order can speak as intelligently, as entertainingly and as instructively on Mooseheart as can Dr. Rondthaler. Few have been closer to the children at Mooseheart than he, and not many have been so thoroughly inbued with the atmosphere that prevails at this great institution.
WHAT is the money value of an education? The average reduced to individual cases would be something like this: Two boys, age 14, are both interested in mechanics. One goes into the shops, the other into a technical school. The boy in the shop starts at $4 a week, and by the time he is 18 he is getting $7. At that age the other boy is le iving school and starting to work at $10 a week. At 20 the shop-trained young fellow is getting $9.50 and the technical graduate $15; at 22 the former’s ׳weekly wage is $11.50 and the latter’s $20; and the time they are both 25 the shopworker finds $12.75 in his pay envelope while the technically-trained man draws a salary of $31. These figures are based on a study of^ 000 actual workers made by the Massachusetts Commission for Industrial and Technical Education.
Pre-vocational Work.
The vocational work at Mooseheart is planned on the theory that the children from 11 to 14 years of age are “finding themselves.” With this in 'view, the children between these ages pass through certain pre-vocational experiences by spending three months in each of the different pre-vocational classes. For instance the boys spend three months with the hens, then three months with the cows, then with the horses,the hogs,in the nursery department, the garden, the crops; in the carpenter shop, then in the^ paint shop, then perhaps in the machine shop, the wood mill, the cement plant, etc.
At the present time the following pre-vocational and vocational classes have been started: Carpentry, electric work, mechanical drawing, sign painting, modeling, cement work, printing, blacksmithing, painting, automobile repairs, motion-picture operating; plain sewing, home-making, cooking, typewriting, shorthand, dressmaking, chicken raising, dairying, horticulture, nursery propagation, animal husband-dy, mill work, power plant operating and machine shop.
During these three month periods spent in each of these different vocational groups, about two-thirds of the time is at practical work and about one-third is devoted to the theory or book side. This makes a happy balance so that the student gets the practical as well as the theoretical aspect of the work. The advantage of this changing is to give the student a “taste” or idea of what the different vocations really are, so that by the time these children are 14 or 15, they may, with judgment, select that particular vocation which they wish to follow for life.
This vocational sampling is called “pre-vocational work” and is very necessary in order that the student may select well his life work. From one point of view, this is a highly developed scheme of vocational guidance to which so much attention is being given throughout the country.
In pre-vocational work, the boys are “routed” through the different groups, and in so far as possible preference is considered in each case. If a boy, after having spent one or two or three terms on the farm, should find the farm work distasteful, it is shortened and the work made more extensive on the industrial side.
A peculiar thing is always encountered in transferring the boys from one group to another. After they have been in a certain class, doing the practical work and studying for three, months, it is with the greatest diffi-