In the meantime our war expenses are piling up at the rate of $2,000,000,000 a month, and it is to make good this deficiency in our strong-box accounts that the proceeds of the Victory Loan will be used. And even with the billions that will accrue from the sale of Victory Liberty Bonds, Uncle Sam again will face a depleted treasury when the loan is successfully floated. It is true, as Secretary Glass stated some time ago, that the initial stages of peace are proving even more expensive than was the war at any period.
There are some who say that the Victory Bonds must be made so attractive that they will sell themselves as a purely cold-blooded business proposition. Secretary Glass, however, takes issue with this view, declaring that the patriotism alone of the American people will carry the Victory Loan to success. In an interview on the subject he said in part:
“The next Liberty will be a “Thanksgiving Loan" as well as a “Victory Loan,” and must be floated in a spirit of patriotism, rather than on a cold commercial basis. We must and will appeal to the patriotism of the American people, which never yet failed in a Government crisis, and will not in this particular. The honor of the Government is involved. The American people should—and will —supplement the patriotism of war with the patriotism of peace, and it is this that will make the Loan an even greater success than any of its predecessors.”
Pood for thought:	There is no safer, more
available, more commendable investment for your lodge funds, than Victory Bonds.
LET’S BE ON TIME.
for December final reports caused much unhappiness and suffering among the officers and members of the Lodges effected. Dictators and Secretaries felt that their standing with the membership had suffered and protested vigorously. Some felt hurt that the Supreme Secretary should follow such a course and scolded him roundly for his actions. Suffice it to say, however, that being scolded is no doubt a part of a Supreme Secretary’s job, and he should grin and hear it if the results are right.
Take a look at the red box in the March number. Note the white spaces between the numbers. These represent the Lodges which came in between the seventh of February and the day your own Magazine was printed. On the first day of March less than a hundred Lodges were still unaccounted for. Check this month’s red box against last month’s. The difference tells the story. It is a fact that there are fewer Lodges delinquent for reports now than ever before on the same relative date. Furthermore this promptness stops lapsa-tion.
Let us call attention once more to the necessity of the Lodge getting its accounts adjusted with the Supreme Lodge. If the Supreme Lodge owes your Lodge money send us a bill and we will pay it; if your Lodge owes the Supreme Lodge money, either pay the bill when presented or protest it to the General Dictator. In either event let’s get the slate clean as soon as possible.
Now comes the April quarter. Let’s break the record. Be sure that the officers of your Lodge get your report in before May sixth. That is positively the last day. Promptness will insure the credentials for the convention and the saving of fines, notices and embarrassment in general.
Let’s go!
EXTRA REPURT BLANKS
quarter for the reports of l>.st quarter are lost. Sometimes the 'Secre^.ry neglects to say anything about this to the Supreme office and an embarrassing situation arises if he is then late with his report. In order to obviate this, the Supreme Secretary will send during the month of March a dozen report blanks to dach District Supervisor in the Order and one-half dozen to each District Deputy Suprejne Dictator. One or the other of these
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The Children at Mooseheart Know the date of our thirty—first 1 r annual convention and are eag- 1 | erly looking forward to the J | happy days in June when they | can welcome their foster fathers, 1 the Loyal Order of Moose of this j | great land.
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back in your chair, shut your eyes, and picture the Fox River Valley, a thousand-acre farm, nearly six hundred happy, laughing, playing, working, aspiring, growing, learning children, at the world’s greatest institution of vocational education, where is taught the use and co-ordination of head, hand and heart.
Picture Mooseheart in the spring. The old winter dying, the sap, and bud and blosom and life and resurrection of spring coming. The feeling of warm, promising breezes, and kindly sun of spring here, and all about children with eyes, and hands, and hearts, and faces of the young. Eager, expectant, lives yet to make, careers to plan, characters to build, talents to train—and Youth, the spring time of life, youth and Mooseheart to do it for them.
Then thank your God, that spring has found you on earth, that a winter of influenza epidemic, and an age of bloody war, has left you to feel dawn, see sunset glow, breathe Spring into your being.
Thank your Maker, the ruler of our Supreme Lodge, where peace and harmony and brotherhood prevails, that you are a part of all that Spring and youth and hope and work and play at Mooseheart mean.
Spring at Mooseheart. It is an inspiration, a benediction. It puts hope in our hearts, steadies our hands for the work of the present, and into our brains there comes the vision of the wonderful community and greater ■work yet to be when Spring matures into summer with its larger tasks and fruitful harvests.
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THE VICTORY LOAN.
When comes the Victory Liberty Loan With call to “finish the job,"
To safely “bring the victors home”—
Each “devil-dog,” doughboy and gob—
All patriots to the pressing need Of Government should respond,
By giving prompt and telling heed To “buy still another Bond.”
IT WON’T he long now, before we ynll he hea^i ing, froifi ■every nook and corner of the United States.—from the mouths of orators and salesmen, in newspapers, on billboards, and in manner inn!ti ludii-.ous—the cry:
“ftuj another Liberty Bond—a Victory Liberty ?end.”
The Victory Loan, according to latest advices from Washington, will be floated in April—probably the latter part, directly after Easter—and wifi be for $5.000,QC-0,000 at least, and perhaus $6,000,000,000, as Uncle Sam is urgently in need of ready cash with which to carry on his vast reconstruction work.
You see, the proceeds from the fourth Loan were exhausted as long agp as the early part of last December, since which time the Government has been paying it war bills with borrowed capital, which must be repaid this Spring, in order that the banks may continue to extend credit to the business interests, great and small, of the country.
Mooseheart Magazine
Vol. V	APRIL, 1919	No. 4
Entered as Second-Class Matter January 26, 1916, at the Post Office at Mooseheart, Illinois, under the Act of .March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Sec. 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 8. 1918. Issued monthly from its office of publication at Mooseheart, 111., by the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal
Order of Moose.	___________
Edited and managed for the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, by its Committee on Public Information.
John W. Ford________________________________________Chairman
Rodney H. Brandon-----------------------------------Secretary
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SUPREME OFFICERS LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE Supreme Dictator, C. A. A. McGee, San Diego, Calif.
General Dictator, Geo. N. Warde, Mooseheart, 111.
Supreme Secretary, Rodney H. Brandon, Mooseheart, 111. Chairman Executive Committee, John W. Ford, P. S. D״ Commercial Trust Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.
Chairman Board of Mooseheart Governors, James J. Davis, Farmers National Bank Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Superintendent Mooseheart, Matthew P. Adams, Mooseheart, 111.
Chairman of Supreme Trustees, Chas. Newton, Winnipeg, Canada.
Chief Justice Supreme Forum, Edmund E. Tanner, Columbus, Ohio.
THE LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE.
The Loyal Order of Moose is an international fraternal society consisting of more than fifteen hundred lodges in the United States, Canada and throughout the English-speaking world, .having an aggregate membership in all these lodges of more than five hundred thousand men. Most of the lodges provide for sick benefits and funeral expense funds for their members. Each lodge is a complete unit in itself, with full local autonomy.
As a means for the better accomplishing their purposes the lodges have organized a central agency called the *‘Supreme Lodge •of the World, Loyal Order of Moose,” with headquarters at Mooseheart, Illinois. All the general activities of the Order center there and the Supreme officers in active •charge have their offices there.
MOOSEHEART.
Mooseheart is an estate of one thousand fifteen acres of land, thirty-five miles west from Chicago on the Fox River, between the cities of Aurora and Batavia, Illinois. The title to this estate is in the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose. Mooseheart is a home and vocational training school for about six hundred children of deceased members of the Order. The residential part of Mooseheart resembles a modern village of about one thousand inhabitants and consists of about fifty buildings of modern concrete fire-proof construction, with red tile roofs. There is a central heating and power plant, large modern print shop, a high school building, several industrial shops, a modern farm plant and many dormitories and residences.
The educational features are highly vocational and practical. About twenty-five of the most usual crafts, including agriculture, are being operated as a part of the educational work.
For full information as to the Loyal Order of Moose any of the lodges or units throughout the world, or Mooseheart, address the
SUPREME SECRETARY, MOOSEHEART, ILLINOIS.
Springtime at Mooseheart
IME of bud and blossom, shoots of green grass coming, sap rising in the trees, red blood surging thru veins of boisterous, healthy, happy hoys and girls; young life, exuberance and enthusiasm and playfulness, the rebirth of the old, the coming of the new, the changing of all— it’s spring at Mooseheart.
Boys playing marbles, rollicking in the sun, roaming the fields, looking with longing eyes into the swimming pool, wondering how soon before spring at Mooseheart will be warm enough for proctors and teachers to say the word fer the first 1919 plunge.
There is something in the changing seasons like life itself. Dawn and dusk, winter and spring, life and death, the shadow of ike night and the glorious morn of resurrection.
Spring is the hope that never dies in the heart of man. Come to Mooseheart! If you can t buy a ticket and get on a traiil, take a mental trip. Lay