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THE LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
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The Loyal Order of Moose is an international fraternal society consisting of more than sixteen 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
THE SCHOOL THAT TRAINS FOR LIFE
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 over seven 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.
x. 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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condition of the Lodge as of a date one month later.
By this change in plan the preliminary report is done away with and the Secretary makes to the Supreme Lodge only four reports a year. Furthermore, he will be making׳ a report early in the month of February, which is a slack month for collections, instead of January which is a busy month.
In general the Supreme Lodge feels that the minutiae of business operations between the lodges and the Supreme Lodge has now been refined to a point where there is no excuse for failure, and the slogan of the Supreme Secretary and his force of auditors for this year is that, “There will be no delinquent lodges in the Order when the next Convention meets.”
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 Diego, Calif. M. M. GARLAND, P. S. D.
. Pittsburgh, Pa. Supreme Council 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. JOHN W. FORD
Philadelphia, Pa. Supreme Forum EDMUND E. TANNER
Columbus, Ohio EDWARD L. BRADLEY Omaha, Neb. ALBERT H. LADNER JR.
Philadelphia, Pa. LORENZO DOW
Tacoma, Wash. ANTONIO P. ENTENZA Detroit. Mich.
Director-General
JAMES J. DAVIS
Pittsburgh, Pa. Supreme Dictator WM. F. BROENING
Baltimore, Md. Past Supreme Dictator C. A. A. McGEE
Oakland, Calif. General Dictator GEO. N. WARDE -
Mooseheart, 111. Supreme Vice-Dictator DARIUS A. BROWN
Kansas City, Mo. Supreme Prelate
JAMES F. GRIFFIN
Boston, Mass. Supreme Treasurer HARRY W. MACE
Philadelphia, Pa. Supreme Sergeant-at-Arms WM. A. BARRON
Cincinnati, Ohio Supreme Inner Guard DANIEL T. DEYOLL
New Bedford, Mass. Supreme Outer Guard SAMUEL G. HART
New Orleans, La. Supreme Trustees CHAS. NEWTON
Winnipeg, Canada LESTER W. BLOCH
Albany, N. Y. J. ALBERT CASSEDY,
Baltimore. Md.
the Loyal Order of Moose love children, be they their own or the children of their brothers.”
We believe that the Director General knows this Order better than any other man. We believe absolutely that the above expression of his represents the feelings of our entire membership and we believe that our members will be happy when they have handed over the MOOSEHEART Building Fund Dollar. Do it now, Brother. Do not wait until the last of the quarter. Experience that happy, contended feeling as soon as possible. Get the MOOSEHEART SPIRIT which comes with the love of little children.
“For if you have done it unto one of the least of these, you have done it unto Me.”
Progress
It has long been common belief that the human race is in process of evolution; that humankind, struggling upward toward the goal of approximate perfection^ constantly grows better; that the folks of this decade, whatever outward appearances may be, are more enlightened than the folks of ten years ago. The last few years have shaken this belief in some quarters. There are those who do not hesitate to say that modern civilization^ with its evolution and its religion, has shown itself weak as a guide to human conduct. There is even considerable question as to whether religion, as we have applied it, is strong enough to be the hope of humanity. To many the times seem to be out of joint, and the very fundamentals of life seem to be breaking.
This is the attitude of the coward. Whoever is stampeded by fear first persuades himself that he can no longer trust the things in which he used to trust; that nothing is steadfast; that all is lost. The carpers at religion and civilization are, at bottom, afraid. They advance their ideas of a shattered world more from a desire to be reassured than from any deep belief in their truth. They are fundamentally wrong, and are doing themselves and the world no good. A wound was never healed by declaring it fatal, and a world can never be made better by calling its inhabitants to witness that it is ruined.
Human progress was never attained without struggle. The truth is rather that the convulsions of the last four years are the outward indications of a more powerful struggle of humanity toward a higher and truer life. Just as there is no real individual, progress without struggle and suffering, so there can be no world progress without world suffering. The true believer in God and man does not fear to put religion and civilization to the test of stress and storm. Mankind is not worse, hut better; and the world is not lost, but saved.
Mooseheart Permanent Building Fund
While making■ tours of inspection of the many buildings at MOOSEHEART, the delegates to the last Convention were impressed with the substantial character of the buildings, built as they are of granite-block made at MOOSEHEART they will stand forever a monument to the Moose of this day and generation.
The delegates, however, noted a number of frame buildings which were erected to care (temporarily) for the little ones who came to MOOSEHEART as a result of the influenza and the war. In other words, these two causes increased the population much faster than permanent buildings could be erected or the large amount of money necessary could be obtained. In fact the income from the MOOSEHEART Contribution could not possibly provide for this great increase. Much of the War Fund was used for this purpose but even that was not sufficient.
With the usual “Moose” red-blooded desire to do the right thing at the right time a resolution was introduced into the Convention providing for the collection of an EXTRA DOLLAR from each member during the quarter beginning October 1st, 1919, this dollar to go to the Permanent Building Fund. The resolution was passed unanimously amid great cheering and applause which gave evidence of the MOOSEHEART SPIRIT having entered the heart of every delegate, past dictator and all others who were present.
In the language of Director General Davis, “Is there a man in whom the love of children is so dead that he would object to paying an extra dollar to put a roof over the heads of these little ones? I do not believe there is. The members of
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Soldiers Insurance
It is reported that a large percentage of our returned soldier boys have neglected to pay the premiums on their policies in the War Risk Insurance. We would earnestly recommend that each of our heroes take time to thoroughly investigate the value of this insurance before they decide to pass it up. We understand that the Government has arranged to change the forms of. policy if requested and we believe our boys will make no mistake in providing for their loved ones by continuing this insurance.
We Must Enforce the Law
Supreme Secretary Brandon spared no pains in the Convention in talking frankly to Past Dictators about the attitude of some few Secretaries who refused to comply strictly with the law in the matter of making reports on time. He explained the red box and its uses, its benefits and failure; opened up the questions which have resulted from the practise of sending individual letters to every member of delinquent lodges. He read to the Convention letters from some of the Secretaries who were not in sympathy with the program and put it up to the Convention to decide what course it desired him to take.
The response of the Convention was spontaneous and unanimous—it arose as one man to record itself as insistant upon the complete fulfillment of the provisions of Section 201. This means that the Supreme Secretary will enforce this law to the letter,—will be even more firm than before without doubt because of the position taken by the Convention. All officers of lodges, therefore, should be cognizant of this attitude and should see to it that the reports go forward promptly.
While it is true that the Convention changed the report dates so that there will be a final report in October and another on November first and another on February first and so on, it is also true that no reduction was made in the time allowed to the Secretary and Auditing Committee to get the reports to the Supreme Office. Heretofore per capita tax fines started on February sixth; hereafter they start on March sixth. The same regulation will apply October first as applies today except the reports to the Supreme Lodge will be made one month later, and will, of course, reflect the