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JHOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Whither Goèst Thou and What To Do?
CONVENTION FOREWORD
and with an adequate understanding of the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship. Mooseheart is challenging the attention of the -world and will leave her indelible impress upon the institutions of the future.
Having builded even better than we knew, having constructed beyond the achievements of other organizations and having found our great opportunity in this splendid work, let us come with no carping criticism, with no anger, hostility or antagonism in our hearts, but let us submerge all personal grievances, if an}•־ there be, in the glory of a common good, and determine that while demanding from our servants a full account of their stewardship, that we will give credit where credit is due and seek explanations always in a spirit of fairness and in a desire to improve and to strengthen our sphere of usefulness.
The world takes us seriously and looks upon us with favor. Men and women everywhere, without regard to creed or nationality, extol our ideals, approve our purposes and applaud our accomplish- ־ ments.
Enshrined in sacred memory are the deeds of the brothers living and dead, who responded to the best traditions of the world and offered their all that civilization might be preserved and generations yet unborn given the guaranty of a square deal, and the right to live under free and self-determining governments. But now that "tumult and the shouting dies, the captains and the kings depart,” now that the fervor of war is over, let us not be recreant to our trust, let us still link our fraternal-ism with red blooded, militant patriotism. Let us extend the hand of fellowship and aid to the soldier brothers, whether from Canada or the States. Tho the boundary still exists, the line of demarcation between the two peoples is wiped out and we are admonished by the blood ׳ that “beats within our hearts and throbs along■ our veins,” that we are one people under one God, united in a common cause and aspiring- to the same ideal.
My brothers, from the plain and the forest, the mine and the factory, the counting house and the church, from the islands of the sea. from the north land and the States, we bid you come for a week of regeneration, of recreatiqn.
My brothers, Mooseheart welcomes you home. Come to see and you will remain to pray; come to work and you will go back to perform; come as a seeker after knowledge and you will go back to impart it; come as a devoted member and you will go forth a crusader.
By C. A. A. McGEE, Supreme Dictator
“The tumult and the shouting- dies,
The Captains and the Kings depart,
Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.”
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I would call the roll of the lodges and the men who have rendered signal service, but their name is legion. We witness an army laboring to exalt the ideals, quicken the conscience and raise the standards of life, an army wearing its fraternal responsibilities like the knight his armor of old. It is in the tried and proven genius and devotion of these brothers that will be found those qualities in our delegates that by every gauge will improve, safeguard and protect the Temple of Chiiehood
and Haven of Opportunity which we have builded at Mooseheart.
As it were, in a day we have witnessed the development of a city about us, a city with the heart of a .peaceful and. contented village. Here dwell, gathered from the .far regions of our domain, six hundred and seventy-five children, living in the atmosphere of. the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man ; trained in the great fundamental truths and principles of life. Vocationally and culturally are they, taught, each being prepared for his or her proper place in life, to do efficiently that which each ife best fitted to do; to go into the world of affairs, trained for industrial leadership
THE war is over. The devotion, the heroism, the sacrifice of our.people upon the land and upon the sea is imper,ishably inscribed upon the scroll of civilization.
Our thoughts now turn to the problems of readjustment, reconstruction and conservation. Confronted with new problems, we come to the solution of them with quickened consciences and a more perfect understanding of the proper relations between man and man; with a more perfect. understanding of the duties iipposed upon us; of; the dignity of labor, the necessity of sacrifice and the gdory of service.
An unfaltering light makes bright our way, the light of human love. In its warm and genial rays the great, army of Past Dictators, a peerless body of fraternalists and crusaders, literally obeying the Biblical injunction "And a little child shall lead them,” will march to the Thirty-first Annual Convention at Mooseheart.
To embark upon a voyage without a definite port; to; enter upon an undertaking without a definite understanding of the purposes and objects thereof, is. to be a wayfarer, an airpless wanderer, is to arrive at the port of “Nowhere” and at the goal of failure.
So with understanding :or without it; steering a definite course or aimlessly wandering; in a spirit of tolerance and love ־or in a spirit of antagonism and.anger; to perform our full duty or to neglect it; to do good or to do evil, will we come to the great home reunion, here to fraternize with our brother, to take him by thè hand, look into his eyes, to get ; his ־־ viewpoint and to unifèrstand him; thereby the more perfectly un-d e rs t a n ding ourselves.
Here also will we . affectionately greet our : children and enter more perfectly into their lives. We will play their games, wander with them over the green meadows, sym-	) . ,־.
pathize with their disappointments and glory in their triumphs. , Here-will we attend the Supreme Lodge, jealously guarding our privilege and fearlessly discharging oùr duty. Here will we participate in the inspirational ceremonies and pledge ourselves to a better and broader obligation. Here in a word will we . consecrate ourselves anew to the cause of service and brotherhood.
: The six־'brief years that have elapsed since the laying- of the cornerstone at Mooseheart have witnessed the regeneration of our Order, until at the hour of the convening• of the, convention we will hjjye atta,in«/lvthe climax of: our strength, not alone ;numerically but likewise spiritually.
Hospital to be Erected by Philadelphia Lodge No. 5d
In iXlcmorv of Their• Mrinbrrs Who Made The --	Sacri tire in Defense of Liberty
Supreme brothers who gave their lives in the defense of Liberty.” This recommendation was unanimously approved. The Board of Officers was authorized to begin the erection of the Memorial. Arrangements will be made if possible, to lav־ the cornerstone during the week of the Convention which opens on June 22nd, next. It is expected that a large delegation from Philadelphia Lodge will attend’ the Convention.
The building, when finished, will be one of the handsomest structures on Mooseheart grounds. In design it follows the lines now generally accepted for hospitals, that of a Greek Pi. The large main building ( shown herewith) will be supplemented by two wings of an equal height running toward the rear. Every modern appliance for sanitation and efficiency is present in the beautiful plan.
The plan is drawn by Philadelphia’s greatest hospital expert.
the Lodge by the Board of Officers on Sunday, May 11th, “That Philadelphia Lodge build a Memorial Hospital at Mooseheart in memoriam of our
Mooseheart Memorial
TV7TTH a membership of more than ; \\	25,000 Philadelphia Lodge had
1725 members in the U. S. Service during the World’s War; of this number 44 made the Supreme Sacrifice. To do honor to those heroes the members of Philadelphia Lodge conceived the worthy idea of erecting at Mooseheart a permanent memorial.
In considering the form the memorial should take, several kinds of buildings were considered. It was remembered that Director General Davis had assumed the task of collecting from the lodges $250,000 for the completion of the Assembly Hall and the School House and the erection of the House of God. Someone suggested that a permanent Hospital was one of the most important buildings in any great institution. This proposition was received with acclaim! What more appropriate building for a Memorial?
The recommendation was made to

MOOSEHEART MEMORIAL HOSP/TAL TO BE ERECTED BY PHILADELPHIA LODGE NS •54 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE