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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Eastern Meeting of Supreme Council
the Harvard Club in Boston by our good Brothers and Governor, Albert Bushnell Hart, on Saturday night. October 4th. Dr. Hart had selected to meet the gentlemen of the Council, President Bumpus of Tufts College; Mr. O'Brien, Editor of the Boston Herald; Professor Jewett, who holds the chair of Arabic; Professor Holcomb of Harvard; Professor Dewey of the Institute of Technology; Professor Honus, Educational Department of Harvard; Professor Carver of Harvard; Dean Pound and Professor Wambaugh of the Harvard Law School. The dinner served by our good Mooseheart Governor was not only beyond criticism but the flow‘ of soul and the feast of reason which followed was quite remarkable. Many happy things were said about our good Brother Dr. Hart and many fine things were said about MOOSE-HEART by these great educators, many of whom had beën interested students of our educational effort. Dean Pound of the Law, School gave MOOSEHEART a new definition which will be found elsewhere upon this page. Our own fellows came away with a very high regard for the esteem in which Dr. Hart is held by these educators.
The New York Meeting The Council, establishing a new precedent, slept down to New York Saturday night and resumed its session at the McAlpin Hotel, New York City, Sunday morning. At 1:30 in the afternoon we adjourned, however, to attend the great meeting of Moose held in Madison Square Garden. This meeting was one of the greatest meetings ever held by a lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose. The big hall was packed to the rafters. No such demonstration was ever held by a fraternal organization in the metropolis. Dictator Shanor conducted the exercises in a masterful manner. Every minute of the three hours there was singing, speaking or instrumental music. During an incidental recess Miss Sue Howard rendered three songs which brought the great crowd to its feet in enthusiastic applause. The initiatory work was conferred by the team from Brooklyn Lodge No. 14, and the work was excellently done. Mr. R. E. Towne. General Manager of the American Express Company of New York City was the candidate. Among other petitions were Col. Théodore Roose velt, Chas, M. Schwab, the great steel magnate, and many other business and professional men, whose names are well known in New York and some of them are household words throughout the land. Many excellent addresses were made. Supreme Die tator Brother Broening was greeted with a roar of applause and had his great audience on its toes during the few minutes he spoke. His address was a masterpiece.
After the conclusion of the Supreme Dictator’s address the delegates stood and cheered for several minutes Taken altogether the New York meet ing was a complete success and I con gratulate the officers and members of the New York Lodge on the mannei in which the meeting was held. II was really wonderful to hear this
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By JAMES J. DAVIS, Director General
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WHAT MOOSEHEART IS
“The work of MOOSEHEART is to give boys and girls an opportunity to learn the things they ought to know, in order to allow a human being to live a human life in a civilized community.”
DEAN POUND,
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tee, the chief work of which would be to see that the graduates of MOOSEHEART are given every opportunity to make their way in the world after graduating.
Progress in Europe
On Friday morning, October 3rd, the Council meeting opened in earnest. The biggest question which came before us was the discussion of plans for making Loyal Order of Moose the leading fraternity of Europe. I had the honor of reading an exhaustive report by Vice-Dictator General Jos. A. Jenkins outlining his plans for placing Moose Lodges in the leading cities of France and Englund immediately, with, of course, the thought of further expansion as time went on. The Lodge in Paris had already been instituted prior to the Council meet-ins. Brother Jenkins proposed that as soon as it was in good running order he would move his headquarters to London and direct the organization of the fraternity from that great city.
Although it was not, of course, possible to set out all of the details of our European work at such an early stage in its development it was determined that some reasonable per-capita of Supreme Lodge dues would be exacted from the members in Europe together with the regular MOOSEHEART contribution and that for the present at least the dependent children of the members in Europe would be received at MOOSEHEART itself, rather than to attempt at this time to establish any MOOSEHEART Institution abroad. I might say in this connection and, I think it is the biggest single item of progress in the year, that I am thoroughly satisfied that Vice Director General Jenkins will succeed in establishing the Loyal Order of Moose in a substantial and proper manner in the countries of Europe within the next few months and that at the Supreme Convention in 1920 we shall clasp hands with full fledged Moose from Lodges in good standing under both the British and French flags.
Governor Hart’s Dinner
I cannot devote space to the fine meeting of Boston Lodge on Friday night, October 3rd, but must say something about the wonderful dinner given to the Supreme Council at
Concertina Band. I join with Brother McKay in suggesting that it would be a fine thing if we had a concertina band at MOOSEHEART.
From North Adams I went to Bellows Falls, Vermont, where I was met by the veteran of Moosedom, Brother James E. Byrne. As we went together over the city, it seemed to me that everybody knew Brother Byrne. He has held every office in the city that is worth while. After a fine meeting and special entertainment and refreshment I journeyed on toward the Council meeting at Boston.
Nashua’s Hospitality
On the first night of the session I ran out to Nashua, N. H., for a meeting. Nashua is one of the old time Lodges. A committee took us to the Nashua Country Club where we received a genuine old New England dinner. The audience at the meeting in the Moose Hall was most enthusiastic. After the meeting adjourned I went with District Supervisor Hayden to Lowell, where Past Supreme Dictator C. A. A. McGee of Oakland and Supreme Councilman Frank J. Monahan of San Francisco were addressing a great meeting. It seemed to me that everywhere we went the people were eager to hear the story of MOOSEHEART.
We journeyed to Boston that night by automobile, coming through Cambridge, over the same road that Paul Revere traveled on his famous midnight ride.
John Hays Hammond Honored
I was due to speak at Lawrence on the following night but was unable to do so because my good friend, Brother John Hays Hammond, paid a more or less official visit to the brothers of the Council and was presented with a solid gold life membership card. Because of the fact that Brother Hammond was one of the first trustees of MOOSEHEART and is so deeply interested in the work of our Institution I felt that I should spend the evening fvith him and so asked Supreme Secretary Brandon to represent me at Lawrence. Brother Hammond expressed himself as greatly pleased with the progress of the Order, and particularly interested in graduates of the MOOSEHEART School. He asked that he be given permission to serve upon a commit-
AT THE recent Convention at MOOSEHEART in June it was determined that the interest of our Order could best be served if the Supreme Council would hold its meetings throughout the year at various cities, thus affording an opportunity for the Supreme Officers to speak to and mingle with our members in the various lodges and thereby create more enthusiasm. In accordance with this action Supreme Dictator Broening called the Council to meet in Boston on the morning of Friday, October 3rd. Each member of the Supreme Council was invited to fill a number of speaking engagements, both en route to and in return from the meeting.
. My own first stop was at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and I was given a splendid reception. It was a source of great joy to meet such a large number of the old faithful members whom t had met there some ten years ago. They were just as enthusiastic as ever. Bridgeport has recently purchased a new club and home and has opened its charter for a new drive, in the course of which they expect to add at least one thousand new members to their roll. Brother Charles Dennis who has been Dictator of the Lodge since its institution is still in the chair and is the same jovial and enthusiastic Moose whom I met when [ instituted the Lodge.
At the meeting I was met by Brother George Hubbard, District Deputy Supreme Dictator for Connecticut. He was there in his automobile and requested us to accompany him to the Legion meeting in New Haven. Strange as it may seem the Legion had adjourned when we arrived in New Haven but the boys were called together in the Lodge room and we had an enthusiastic midnight session. I found New Haven Lodge on the boom with Brother P. J. Fitzgerald in charge of an extraordinary double-the-order drive.
From New Haven we journeyed on to Meriden where Brother W. J. Bennett District Supervisor and we were guests of D. D. S. D. Hubbard for the evening.
Visited North Adams
After Meriden came North Adams, Mass. I was met at the station by a special committee of the Lodge headed by Dictator Wm. A. Robare and Secretary Frank McKay. After an auto ride over the famous Mohawk trail we were tendered a dinner and reception by officers and leaders of the Lodge. The Junior Past Dictator and Mayor of North Adams, Brother Joseph Makant, severed as toastmaster at the banquet and I never listened to a better one. During the celebration my heart was particularly reached by the large chorus of Welsh people who came and serenaded us.
From the banquet we went to the hall where a large audience awaited us and we were enthusiastically received. It was a great day and a wonderful night. I left North Adams with regret. Brother McKay, Secretary, is by way of being a professional concertina player, and directs a concertina band in North Adams. Before he came to this country Brother McKay played with the Liverpool