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deed, and in this State a conservative estimate places our membership at 30,000.
At the present time numerous lodges are being organized in all the southern States.
Great enthusiasm is now being expressed on all sides over the decision of the executive council to hold the Convention at Mooseheart this year and the writer is assured that the South will be fully represented. While some difficulty is being experienced in negotiations with the railroad administration the writer hopes to be able
H. !.. Harrington	W»"׳־c Underyood
Deputy Supervisor	Deputy Supervisor
to arrange for a solid train. The general concensus of opinion is that this train should have for its point of origin Knoxville, Tenn., and all delegates and members in the several States east of the Missippi River and South of Virginia and Kentucky will assemble at this point. We hope to make parking arrangements at Aurora, Illinois. Unfortunately, we are not at this time, in a position to guarantee the above arrangements although the railroad administration has given us some encouragement. Regardless, however, of whether we are successful in the development of this plan or not we are going to Mooseheart from the Southland en-masse.
And, right here, the writer wishes to express' a thought, emblazoned in letters of gold upon the hearts of all Moose in our Sunny Land is Mooseheart, Mooseheart, the sublime, Mooseheart, the home of God’s little ones.
Once upon a time the writer overcome by the stupendous conception of man, as it is exemplified by every beautiful flower blade of grass in Mooseheart’s broad domain, wandered to the banks of the Mooseheart Lake, and there in the quiet solitude of eventide, while the last rays of the setting sun glistened through the sylvan boughs of God’s first temples, visions of childhood passed before him,
“And he thought of God,
And the Mother who lay under the Church Yard sod,”
And as he pondered, it seemed that the Celestial City must be very near, for in truth he could hear the rustle
W. F. Gi^on Deputy Supervisor
W. J. F. Lane Deputy Supervisor
of myriad angels’ wings, and from over the nearby hill there echoed and re-e'choed the songs of childhood’s happy days.
Reader, this is not an allegory nor is it a dream. ’Twas the voices of many happy children that he heart. Yes, ’twas the voices of your children and my children, Brother, our boys an our girls, little human atoms made an fashioned after the image of him who watches over us all and said“Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not for such is the kingdom of Heaven.”
Brother James J. Davis assigned to the writer, the states of Tennessee and North Carolina, but it is not until January 1st, 1918, that any real effort was made to organize, the proceeding months being devoted to getting in touch with the situation and perfecting plans for a systematic and and thorough campaign.
About this time Director General Davis assigned to the writer several other southern States, and through the medium of the press it became generally known that the Supreme officers of the Loyal Order of Moose had at last concluded to recognize the appeals of hundreds of our southern people and establish the society in the land of flowers, good fellowship and brotherly love. Yes, brotherly love, for, be it known unto you, dear reader, that the typical southerner by reason of heredity, environment and preferment, is the very embodiment of frat-ernalism, and is, at all times, bubbling over with kindly feelings towards the whole world.
While Assistant Chief Industrial Agent of the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
the officers and members of all lodges in New York and Ontario in the coming convention at Mooseheart, the week of June 22nd. This interest will result in delegates being sent from every lodge.
THE SOUTHLAND By J. W. Elliott
By letter, telegram and otherwise, I have been requested by our Supreme Secretary, to forget all matters not pertaining to the society we all love so well and for the passing moment bring the molecues that form the grey matter within my cranium into active service, correlate something of real value, then transpose it into literary gem.
I am very much afraid that Bro. Brandon will be sorely dissappcdnted as to the literary value of this article. In the first place I do not possess literary ability and in the second place, right at this time, I am on the jump night and day. Indeed I have so few spUre moments that, sleep is almost a forgotten pleasure. However, here
J. W. ELLIOTT, District Supervisor
road, 1895-1900, the writer’s headquarters were located in North Carolina, and, during this period, he formed many very close friendships, so ’twas in this state that the real southern campaign began, and, as a result, during the year 1918 there were 23 new Lodges organized, and it is a foregoing conclusion that in the State of North Carolina by January 1st, 1921, there will be no less than 50,000 good Loyal Moose.
The writer discovered early in life that this one thing is inevitable, “Just so long as time goes swinging its scythe with astetic hilarity through the meadows of humanity,” the southern people, individually and collectively, will loyally support, with their money, brains and time anything that is truly and genuinely fraternal and has for its purpose the uplift of humanity, hence the writer had no thought of failure.
After securing a hucleous in North Carolina, we began our campgain in South Carolina and here again we found a welcome, yea, a welcome in-
goes. I am seated in the smoker of a second class car attached to Southern train No. 124, the hour is 3:00 A. M., and Jupiter Pluvius is on the job, ’tis raining in torrents and beating against the window pane with such vehemence that one is reminded that of all the forces of nature, water is the most powerful. One is also reminded that it will be in great demand after July 1st—but I disagree.
Among all men who are concerned in fraternal matters, it is concluded that the Loyal Order of Moose is the “one best bet.” From the founding of the first fraternity by Leurous, the Caldean monarch, to the present day, history fails to recall one instance of an organization, fraternal in scheme, that attracted so much favorable comment, or grew to such magnitude in so short a period of time. Indeed there is ample evidence at hand to prove that as a disseminator of genuine altruistic fraternalism the Loyal Order of Moose stands alone, which leads up to the subject of this article.
October 1st, 1917, Director General,
N. Y., is now the deputy for the city of Toronto and is making good progress.
“Productive field men and efficient lecturers constitute the best guarantee that fraternity will continue to be a living force in the hearts of the members,” said District Supervisor Galvin recently. He is generous enough to say that success in this great endeavor is due to the fact that the officers and members of local lodges have co-operated with his efforts, and to the further fact that the deputy supervisors have labored ear-
H. E. Conant	Wm. Riddell
Deputy Supervisor	Deputy Supervisor
neatly. Each man gets full credit for his accomplishments. The deputy supervisors now comprising his corps r.re men from all walks of life, including an attorney, a sales-manager, and the secretary of a large manufacturing concern. These loyal and efficient deputy supervisors are Francis E. Fitzpatrick, Leland D. Ford, George E. Huckins, Leo J. Travis, Herbert Robinson, John W. Ryan, F. E. Dienst, William R. Riley, Jacob R. Hall, Harry E. Conant, Loren R. Edwards, Wallace Underwood, H. H. Harrington, C, P. Sullivan, Bastian Hefter, F. W. Schaeffer, Jules Garrison, John C. Barry, William F. McGuire, M. P. Woods and William Riddell. By their enthusiasm and vigorous work the old state of New York is being aroused for Mooseheart and the Order.
. While this is chiefly a report of the productive work of the organization department, another phase is given equal importance by Brother Galvin. He believes it is necessary in successful organization work to maintain a conservation and supervision bureau. A staff of auditors, composed of competent accountants, is constantly circulating among the lodges for the purpose of checking up accounts. But the important work of conservation is handled by a staff of lecturers and speakers, which is composed of Frederick De Forrest Lamb, General Secretary of the Railroad Y. M. C. A.; Rev. S. Banks Nelson, a prominent Presbyterian clergyman; Rev. Arthur Copeland, a noted Methodist clergy-
John C. Barry	Loren R. Edwards
Deputy Supervisor	Deputy Supervisor
man; Congressman James M. Mead of Buffalo; Hon. George W. Driscoll, former State Fair Commissioner of New York; Hon. Thomas M. Gaffney, editor of the Labor World, and member of the Advisory Board of the State Industrial Commission of New York; Hon. James M. Lynch, former President of the International Typographical Union and member of the State Industrial Commission, and AValter Basye, editor of the Fraternal Monitor, the national fraternal journal.
Great interest is being shown by