MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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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, III., 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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We now Have Six Hundred and Thirty-Four Children at Mooseheart

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THE LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
The Loyal Order of Moose is an internatio»! 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
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case. We notified the members of your Lodge that their agents, who had taken their money, had not complied with their obligations of office and had not kept their Moose membership alive.
Your members in their resolution expressed confidence in their officers. I have no doubt in the world that the officers of your Lodge are thoroughly honest, and I want it distinctly understood that I am not reflecting־ in the least upon the honesty of any man.
I want the members of your Lodge to know, however, that I think that their officers are negligent of their duties, and I want the membership of your Lodge to know that in the twelve months ending today, March 19th, 1919, your Lodge has been out of good standing 136 days out of 365 and just in that proportion the members of your Lodge have not got their money’s worth when they paid it into the Moose treasury.
I wish you would read this letter to a representative meeting of your Lodge. I am sending a carbon copy of it to your District Supervisor. If you do not have a representative attendance at the meeting at which it is read so that the full facts may be given to the members, I will be glad to send a copy of this letter to each member of your Lodge who received the other communication.
Permit me in conclusion to suggest that if the action of this office has injured your Lodge, the fault is not with the office but with the law.
The Supreme Convention will meet at Mooseheart on the 23rd of June and Past Dictators in good standing from a Lodge in good standing are eligible for a voice and vote. I assure you that I shall not be in the least displeased if the Convention sees fit to do away with Section 201, and I trust that I may have the pleasure of meeting in this Convention representative Past Dictators of your Lodge.
Yours, etc.
Is there, after all, anything in this to cause offense or anything other than for the good of the Order ?
WANTED—A CHURCH BELL.
gion send a good, big, sweet-toned hell to Mooseheart ?	,
There is a difference between the raucous, nerve-shattering sound of a whistle and the sweet, soft, musical tones of a church bell.
The Legion will donate the electrical mechanism needed to make the bell toll the hour, the half and the quarters, and the class priods.
Get busy	_	!
What member or organiaztion will have the honor of donating this for the children?
THE WORLD’S WAR VETERANS.
World’s War Veterans to perfect their national organization. It should be understood that this assistance has only been that of giving to the officers of the National Council, World’s War Veterans, the names of returned soldiers in the various cities in which Moose Lodges are organized.
The Loyal Order of Moose has no ulterior mo-
TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS CON-CERNING THE MEMBERSHIP WILL BE FOUND ON PAGE 6. DON’T FAIL TO READ CAREFULLY.


Lodge in these matters, we are printing the following letter which was sent to a Dictator of a Lodge in reply to his complaint along this line:
Dear Sir and Brother:—
It is with a great deal of interest that I read yours of March 7th, enclosing copies of resolution passed by your Lodge on February 25th, in which the members of your Lodge expressed implicit faith in the officers of the Lodge.
Knowing as I do the utmost fairness of yourself, I depend upon your reading to the members of the Lodge in open session this letter, because in your letter of the 7th, you asked for my answer to the resolution. This is my answer:
The members of a Subordinate Lodge pay their money into its treasury to buy certain things. Among these things are sick benefits, Mooseheart protection and the right to affiliate with 500,000 other men. The whole scheme of the Fraternity is based upon a book of General Laws which are made by the delegate Past Dictators of these Subordinate Lodges. The whole fraternal scheme of the Moose is based upon a condition of “good standing” on the part of these sovereign Lodges.
In many different instances in the law it is true that different factors of these Lodges are vitally dependent upon this condition of “good standing.” These Lodges have created an organization known as the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, to work for them and serve them. The Supreme Lodge is in effect their clearing house. These Lodges have given to the officers of this clearing house, Supreme Lodge, certain definite instructions.
The most definite and positive of these instructions deals with this condition of “good standing,” because the Past Dictators creating the Supreme Lodge knew that if a Lodge is not in continuous good standing, that the members paying their money into the treasury of the Lodge do not get their money’s worth.
If a Lodge is in totally bad standing the members would practically derive no benefits from their Moose charter. They could not be admitted to neighboring Lodge rooms, their children would not receive the benefits of the Mooseheart institution, and while it is true that they might pay each other their sick and death benefits, it is also true that if it were necessary to go to the civil courts with the affairs of the Lodge, the court woul$ likely hold that the Lodge was not a Lodge, unless it was in “good standing.”
The officers of this Supreme Lodge, therefore, are enjoined to keep the Subordinate Lodge in good standing in order that so nearly as possible every Moose may have the advantages of full membership.
Now what is the situation in regards to your Lodge:
The March 31st report of 1918 reached this office on the 25th day of May. The General Laws gives five weeks to do this work; your Lodge took over seven. In other words, between the 5th and 25th days of May, 1918, or for a period of 20 days, the members of your Lodge did not get what they paid for, for during these days they were not Moose, or at least not good Moose.
Your report of June 30th did not come in on August 5th, as the law provides; in fact the officers of your Lodge would probably have never gotten this report in if the Supreme Lodge had not sent Brother Blank of Blankville to your city to get it. He got it in to us on September 16th, which was one month and eleven days, or 41 days delinquent. In other words, during those 41 days the members of your Lodge did not get what they paid for.
Another report was due from your Lodge on September 30th, the legal limit for getting it in expired on November 5th. Did the Lodge get the report in on November 5th? They did not, it reached here on December 7th, 31 days late again.
Again your Lodge was due for a report on December 31st. The law gave it until February 6th. It was not in this office on February 6th, in fact it is not in this offce yet and the members of your Lodge are not entitled to visit in other Lodges; your Lodge is not in good standing, and you are not doing justice by the men in your Lodge who are paying their money into the treasury.
I was not the Supreme Secretary during 1918 and I am not able to say whether the conditions of Section 201 were carried out by the Supreme Secretary or not. I do know that I was Supreme Secretary on February 6th. I do know furthermore that in January the General Dictator and I joined in a bulletin to your Lodge in which we told you plainly that you had been careless in the past, and that we must insist in the future upon your living up to the requirements of the law. When you failed to do this we did those things that Section 201 required, and also by instruction of the Executive Committee sent the circular letter to each member, provided for as optional in Section 201.
If you were a policy holder in an insurance company and paid your money to the agent, and that agent neglected to keep your policy alive by forwarding the money to the company, would you not feel hurt if the company neglected to advise you that your agent had not made good and that your policy was lapsing? That is exactly what we did in your
SUPREME LODGE OFFICERS
Supreme Secretary
RODNEY H. BRANDON Mooseheart 111. Executive Committee JOHN W. FORD, P. S. D., Philadelphia, Pa. E. J. HENNING, P. S. D.
San Francisco, Cal. M. M. GARLAND, P. S. D.
Pittsburgh, Pa. Supreme Council JAMES F. GRIFFIN
Boston, Mass. JOHN B. PRICE
Chicago, 111. W. A. McGOWAN
Buffalo, N. Y. J. W. PIERSON
Dallas, Texas WILLARD A. MARAKLE Rochester, N. Y. FRANK J. MONAHAN
San Francisco, Calif. JOSEPH G. ARMSTRONG Pittsburgh, Pa. M. M. GARLAND
Pittsburgh, Pa. Supreme Forum
EDMUND E. TANNER
Columbus, Ohio EDWARD L. BRADLEY Omaha, Neb. ALBERT H. LADNER JR.
Philadelphia, Pa. CLAYTON M. JONES
Jamestown, N. Y. LORENZO DOW
Tacoma, Wash.
Pa.
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Director-General
JAMES J. DAVIS
Pittsburgh, Pa. Supreme Dictator C, A. A. McGEE
San Diego, Calif. Past Supreme Dictator JOHN W. FORD
Philadelphia, General Dictator GEO. N. WARDE
Mooseheart, Supreme Vice-Dictator WM. F. BROENING
Baltimore, Md. Supreme Prelate
DARIUS A. BROWN
Kansas City, Mo. Supreme Treasurer HARRY W. MACE
Philadelphia, Pa. Supreme Sergeant-at-Arms WM. A. BARRON
Cincinnati, Ohio Supreme Inner Guard DANIEL T. DEVOLL
New Bedford, Mass. Supreme Outer Guard SAMUEL G. HART
New Orleans, La. Supreme Trustees ANTONIO P. ENTENZA Detroit, Mich. CHAS. NEWTON
Winnipeg, Canada LESTER W. BLOCH
Albany, N. Y.
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FOR A BETTER MAGAZINE.
MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE wants to interest not only every member of the Moose family but we aim to interest those who are not members of this great fraternity. We have an ambition to make this Magazine the exponent of progressive ideas, especially along the line of children’s education. When Mooseheart ideas have been proven valuable we want to give them to others interested in child-welfare. We are also cognizant of the fact that our readers are interested in the current topics of the day. These we propose to have discussed by men of national reputation. Along this line there will he found in this issue a conversation with Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, Mooseheart Governor.
LODGE EDITORS.
BROTHER M. R. Gray, Editor of The Hoosier Moose, recently suggested that it would he desirable for the Editors of Moose Lodge papers to meet together at conventions for an interchange of ideas. .This is a splendid suggestion, and why can it not he consumated at the coming convention ?
Every brother who talks to the membership of his Lodge thru the columns of the Lodge paper should be thoroughly familiar with all branches of the work of our Order; especially should he know all about Mooseheart. We believe that it would be a good investment for any Lodge to send its Editor to the convention. We could readily arrange for these brothers to have a room assigned to them for a conference. The Executive Committee will be very glad to hear from the Editors and to assist in making arrangements for such a meeting.
HAVE WE NO SINGERS?
IT IS surprising how few Lodges really appreciate the value of singing in the Lodge hall. Some three months ago it was announced that the Committee on Public Information had secured a supply of song hooks which included the words and music of 55 songs and would sell them at 10c per copy. Some Lodges appreciated this but this number remains in the minority.
PENALTY OF BEING LATE.
SOME of the Dictators and Secretaries have felt greatly hurt because the Supreme Lodge notified the individual membership of the fact that reports were not sent in. Some went so far as to have the Lodge pass resolutions of confidence in them.
In order that the whole Order may have a better understanding of the attitude of the Supreme