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CAMP FIRE GIRLS—ALL MOOSEHEART STUDENTS Ceremonial session in tne open
Director-General Davis introduced all of them.
THE FIRST GRADUTES
Albert Patterson, Columbus, 0. Wayne Wallace, Watertown, S. D. Harold Taylor, Montreal, Canada. William Grant, McKeesport, Pa. Arthur Hower, Oil City, Pa.
The big feature of Wednesday’s session was the first commencement exercises of the Mooseheart high school. There were five graduates, the boys listed above, and Director-General Davis was also given a diploma and thereby becomes one of the first six graduates of the school.
At eleven o’clock the Convention session gave way to the graduation and the public was admitted. The big auditorium was jammed with people. The high school students of Mooseheart filled the stage. The Mooseheart band occupied the “pit” and the gavel was turned over to Director-General Davis, the distinction of presiding at this ceremony being given him as the one who dreamed best and did most to make Mooseheart.
The five graduates occupied the place of honor on the stage. The Mooseheart Governors were about and Superintendent Adams, along with his assistants and the high school teachers, made up the stage picture.
Each of the graduates addressed the audience. Each told of his coming to Mooseheart and of his advantages here. Each expressed his deep and abiding gratitude to the Order.
Patterson and Hower will continue their, education at Lewis Institute, Chicago. Wallace and Taylor will go further at the University of Illinois. Grant, who will be a printer, will further his work here.
Davis Gets Diploma.
The surprise was the presentation of the diploma to Director-General Davis. It was his first diploma, for Brother Davis is a graduate of the “school of hard knocks” and the University of Experience only. The boys unanimously voted him a member of the class and the Governors gave him a diploma. It was a touching scene. Brother Davis responded, and breathed again and with a new emphasis, the faith that is within him.
Brother Lentz Speaks.
The speech of the occasion was by Brother John J. Lentz, of the Board of Governors.
Among other things Brother Lentz said, “I have attended many a Commencement. I have graduated myself and I have seen many graduations as has Dr. Hart, of Harvard,—institutions like the University of Harvard, Columbia, University of New York, the University of Michigan and the University of Ohio. High schools and colleges across this continent are graduating thousands and tens of
observations of Moosedom; not only in America, but on two trips to the war zone.
Brother Chappie spent three months on the war front last year and after the armistice was signed went abroad again with the Moose Commission, and was the first American in Berlin. Everywhere he met Moose and he told of their concern for the progress of the Order in his eloquent speech.
Past Supreme Dictators Talk
The Convention was given a real treat at this time when all the. Past Supreme Dictators present were lined up on the stage and introduced to the delegates. They were:
Brother Abner Jones, Crawfords-ville, Ind.
Brother Charles Galey, Crawfords-ville, Ind.
Brother John D. O’Brien, St. Paul, Minn.
Brother Joseph G. Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Brother E. E. Tanner, Columbus, O.
Brother Mahlon Garland, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Brother Ed. A. Stevens, Minneapolis, Minn.
Brothers Jones and Galey would not make long speeches. Neither would Stevens. As the list came down nearer to the present the Past Dictators did quite a bit of talking and made very interesting speeches on the development of the Order.
It was a great demonstration.
WHEREAS, the ravages of war and the epidemic of Influenza have produced conditions resulting in an abnormal increase of applicants making imperative the expediting of buildings now under construction and to providé for the erection of additional buildings so that Mooseheart may be completed as originally planned, now therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Mooseheart Permanent Building fund be-and hereby is established to be created by the contribution from each member of the Order of an additional $1.00. Such payment to be made by each member during the October quarter under the same rules, laws and regulations covering the payment of all other dues and contributions and shall be paid by every member in good standing at any time during the October quarter and also by every suspended member who is reinstated at any time during the year beginning October 1st and by every candidate initiated into a Lodge during the year beginning October 1st. The fund so created shall be used by the Mooseheart Governors in meeting the exigencies set forth in the preamble and to carry out the purposes of this resolution.
One of the great addresses of the Convention was by Brother Joe Mitchell Chappie, editor of the National Magazine. Brother Chappie introduced the resolution providing the extra dollar for the permanent Building Fund. Incidental to introducing the resolution he told of his
Tussday’s Session
The second day of the Convention was devoted to the report of the Mooseheart Governors and the Commencement Exercises.
Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, presented the report of the Mooseheart Governors, and in connection with it made a very interesting and informative address about Mooseheart.
The report is printed and copies will be sent to each Lodge. Dr. Hart did not read any of it, but just “talked.” It was one of the best talks of the Convention.
He told in an impromptu way of the growth and achievements of Mooseheart, and he closed with this paragraph:
“Now, it remains to say only one thing:	The Governors are your ste-
wards. They do what the great Order through you and its Convention authorizes. That Order has authorized the raising of funds and their expenditure through the governors. I now consider all that has been spent for the children as we spend money for our own children. As they grow up, we do not count the cost. We do not say, ‘My boy has cost me $300, or $500, or $2000 a year for 20 years. What a huge sum of money to throw away.’ Whatever we spend upon our children is spent for the best possible purpose.
“In addition you made it possible to accumulate this splendid property of $2,000,000. The Governors have now come to the point where they can just carry the Institution, with 700 children,—there will soon be 1000. The regular fund authorized by this convention enables us to go on and take care of so many children—800 or 900 and no more. We cannot enlarge; we cannot receive the children unless we have a place for them; we cannot have a place for them, without funds, and when as now a considerable part of the funds must necessarily be devoted every year to the upkeep of the establishment, we have come to the point where it is no longer possible to enlarge the Institution, unless, gentlemen, you will enlarge your hearts, and your hearts are big enough. We all know that. All that the Governors of Mooseheart ask of this Convention is that they will treat the children of the Order as they would treat their own children.”
Resolution
After hearing the report of the Governors and Director General as to the urgent needs of Mooseheart, the following Resolution was unanimously and enthusiastically adopted: WHEREAS, the admissions to Mooseheart have been steadily increasing numbering now more than 700 children of our brothers who have passed down the final trail, rendering inadequate the present housing facilities, and