MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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The Moose in Public Service
By J. A. RONDTHALER, Dean
bership a large percentage of the officials and prominent men. John Hays Hammond is numbered among the staunch supports and members, with editors of the large daily papers of the country and magazines, as for in stance, Jos. Mitchell Chappie, edi tor of the National Magazine, who made a remarkable speech at the late Convention of the Moose at MOOSE HEART in the month of June. Be cause of MOOSEHEART, the Loyai Order of Moose appeals especially to the sympathy, support and active co operation in helpful membershi! to a great number of eminent Judges particularly in Municipal and State Courts. In the city of Philadelphia eleven of the fourteen Municipal Judges are active in Moosedom. In Chicago, the .majority of the Judges of the various Courts are active in Moose life. Moosedom still mourns for Judge Thomas F. Scully of Cook County Court, who was one of the most ardent admirers of MOOSE-HEART, and never failed to give his word and influence and support to the Order because of its splendid sociological feature. While MOOSE-HEART cannot in any sense be elassed with the reform schools of the various States, it’s great ideal, “The conservation of the child” in its moral and educational system, is that ounce of prevention that takes the child safely out of the track of the Municipal and Jouvenile Courts and heads him toward that civic life that needs fear no law in its judgment and condemnation. For this very reason Judges of Municipal and Juvenile Courts are greatly interested in the development of this MOOSEHEART idea and are giving it their co-opera tive sympathy.
This roll call should, if space al lowed, mention the names of eminenl educators, presidents and professors of colleges, and professional men oi all classes. This enumeration of the great ones the Loyal Order of Moose-carries on its rolls, is a proud distinction in which the Order glories and is a testimony to the broad scope the Loyal Order of Moose includes in its various activities. That such a great variety of people should find some interest and active participation in the Order is in evidence that it ap peals in a three-fold way to people interested in the advance of civiliza tion. The philanthropic are interested because of the large Brotherhood ideal of the Order; the educators are finding suggestions for broader prac tical systems in their development and those interested in the conserva tion of the economical life of the peo pie find great help and enjoy giving assistance to an enterprise tha< secures the future of a child’s lift bereft of parents for a life of safety usefulness and goodness. Thus, there gathers under the standard of Moose dom a great array of the best talent and largest heart of the energetic people of the nation. It is a proud distinction that .the Loyal Order oi Moose carries these great ones on itc rolls.
And prouder than this is the fac that individual greatness does no1־ dominate the Order. It is the voice the personality, the love and devo tion of the loyalty of 548,000 ordinary people, the people of the great Ameri can commons, who are the bone anc sinew, the heart and soul of the Loya Order of Moose.
The Order esteems the great one-of the earth for their support in mem bership and approval and co-opera tion with the ideals of MOOSE HEART, and for their help and in spiration. While the Order is digni fied by the help that greatness gives to this noble enterprise, it glories ir the love, the loyalty and the unswerv ing devotion of the more than one half million men, and common people who form the splendid and impreg nable “Defending Circle” of the Loyal Order of Moose.
sylvania. Mr. Garland as one of the MOOSEHEART Governors and member of the Executive Committee of the Loyal Order of Moose, writes: “An irmy of more than half a million men in good standing in sixteen hundred Lodges, doing a business in total of more than $6,0000,000.00 annually, nearly $2,000,000.00 assets at MOOSEHEART, Illinois, over one thousand acres of splendid land, and a city taking care of over seven hundred children and giving to each an education and a finished trade; a vocation fitting them at the age of eighteen to go out and battle with the world for a living, equipped to win their way,— these are some of the reasons why I am interested in MOOSEHEART.” Congressman Copley of Illinois, one of the most fervent advocates of MOOSEHEART and the Loyal Order of Moose, has on many public occasions expressed his high appreciation of the work MOOSEHEART is doing
Lippitt of Rhode Island who in closing a great adddress to his “Brother Moose” said:	“You know that the
State of Rhode Island was established by Roger Williams on the theory of religious liberty belonging to each individual. It was described as ‘a lively experiment.’ I think, my friends, that this MOOSEHEART of ours is a lively experiment. I hope it will be a most successful experiment and, as the years go by, people will look back, the people of this country will look back, to the foundation of this establishment as sometthing that has set a new mark in the relations of those who have grown up and are well-to-do towards those who are young and helpless.”
Space should be given to more than the simple mention of the names of Senator Warren D. Harding of Ohio, Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, all of whom with others have given
THE picture to the right is significantly suggestive. The central figure is the Hon. E. J. Henning. He is serving as Harbor Commissioner of San Diego giving much time and attention to the duties of his office. Mr. Henning is at the same time one of the leading men in the Loyal Order of Moose. As the General Attorney to the Order and a member of the Board of Governors of MOOSEHEART and of the Executive Committee of the Supreme Lodge, he holds a large place in the development of the Order. One would imagine that with all these official duties, in addition to the demands of a large law practice, he would have little time for anything else. Nevertheless he gives to his public service as Harbour Commissioner as conscientious attention as he does to the other calls, •all the way through and up to his interest and care of little Simon Summers from Sunset sojourning at MOOSEHEART as one of the prospective world servants in the coming era of progress in citizenship.
Now Mr. Henning’s picture suggests that there is also a representation of scores of Moose men who are serving the public in a great variety of ways.
Always in these early days of mourning for that Greatest American of his day, Theodore Roosevelt”s name must head the list of eminent public servants. The Loyal Order of Moose has dignified itself in honoring Mr. Roosevelt’s memory by dedicating the great Convention Auditorium to him. “Theodore Roosevelt Auditorium” will stand as long as Moose-iheart exists in testimony of the appreciation in which the Moose held this great man, one of their Brothers, who on a number of occasions gave valuable service to the Order.
Then in this roll call of Moose as public servants comes the name of Vice-President Marshall, who in his enthusiasm for MOOSEHEART is contemplating a lecture tour through some of the States in behalf of the Order of which he is an honored member.
Then, too, there is Hon. Frank O. Lowden, Governor of Illinois, who finds time in the midst of his public !services to give an hour, one-half a day, a day to the call of his Moose l odge for valuable service.
Speaking of Governors, the names of Governor Brough of Arkansas and Governor Campbell of Arizona, former Governor, Now Senator Capper ,of Kansas, Governor Jas. P. Goodrich of Indiana, Governor William C. Sproul of Pennsylvania, Governor Gardiner of Missouri, are all enrolled as enthusiastic supporters and promoters of Mooseheart as all devoted members of the Order should be.
Then in the procession of eminent !public men who are also leaders and promoters of the Loyal Order of Moose come the members of Congress of the United States. One-half of the Senators and three-fourths of the members of the House of Representatives are active members of the Order. They have become intrested in the Order and are giving it their approval and support principally because of MOOSEHEART. There is Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania who in his speech in behalf of the Loyal Order of Moose was proud to speak of “our Order” and to say “We in Philadelphia Lodge No. 54,” after referring to a number of other noble philanthropic and educational institutions, said: “But MOOSEHEART has this distinction, over and above all of them; that it is likely to become greater than any of them, and, above all, that it is the product of individual philanthropic enterprise in fraternal organization, unaided by private endowment or State appropriation. It is this which gives the enterprise strength and makes it notable.”
And there is Senator Henry F.
ON UPPER DECK CONCRETE SHIP CUYAMACA (HEAP-MUCH-WATER׳
ABOUT TO BE LAUNCHED IN SAN DIEGO BAY
Reading: from left to rigfht:	A. P. Johnson, Jr., President Chamber of Commerce, San
Diegro ; Hon. E. J. Henning, Harbor Commissioner of San Diego ; Hon. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, and J. Aubrey Davidson, President San Diego Exposition Company
and the ideals it is attaining.
When we come to the Mayors oi cities the enumeration numbers up into the hundreds. We have Wm. F. Broen ing of Baltimore who unites his offi cial life as Mayor of the great city with his devotion to the Loyal Order of Moose as the Supreme Dictator of the Order for the present year. Mayor Thompson of Chicago has for years been a fast friend, supporter and promoter of the Order because of MOOSEHEART. There is scarcely a considerable city where a Lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose is in operation that does not include in its mem-
valuable service in behalf of the MOOSEHEART of the Moose.
Senator Johnson of California dur ing his term as Governor of that State was one of the Governors of MOOSEHEART, but because of his strenuous-duties at Washington was unable to attend the monthly meetings of the MOOSEHEART Board and therefore withdrew in his official capacity, though his interest in the Fraternity and its institution has not diminished.
Among the many representatives in the House we mention Champ Clark of Missouri and Mahlon M. Garland, Representative at Large from Penn-