MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE Entered as Second-Class Matter January 26, 1916. at the Post Office at Mooseheart, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of oostaoo provided for in Sec. N03, Act of October 3, 1917. authorized on July 8. 1918. Issued monthly trom its office of publication at Mooseheart, III., by the Supreme Lodqe of the World Loyal Order of Moose. Edited and managed for the Supreme Ledge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, by its Executive Comm'ttee. JOHN W. FORD - Chairman RODNEY H. BRANDON ־ Secretary Copyright, 1919 by Rodney H. Brandon Advertising Rates on Application We Now Have Seven Hundred and Forty-Nine Children at Mooseheart Subscription—50e per Annum. X5) No. II DECEMBER, 1919 Voi. V THE LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE 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 TRAINC 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 ..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. x 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 V of water standing where it lay. Another comes more confidently and lives longer until the upper air is filled with hurrying, rushing flakes which come and go in shifting, billowing eddies. And now the window-base and the roof nearby and the walks and last of all the grass are swathed in sweet, pure blankets of white snow. The door of North Loyalty is pushed out against the snow blast. From behind it emerges a stocky, sweatered figure in knitted cap and mittens. A beatific smile of fundamental joy sweeps over his freckled face. “Hi, fellers,” we hear him yell. “Hi, you guys! Break for the attic! Git them sleds! She’s all snowed under! Hurry, kids! Hurry up, before she melts.” Winter has come! Yearly Payments An investigation of the cause of suspensions for non-payment of dues will prove that “carelessness” is responsible in at least seventy-five per cent of the cases. Members will forget to pay their dues and when they eventually realize that they are in bad standing, they decide not to pay up. Inability to pay dues is very seldom the cause of suspensions. Our members can afford to pay their dues, but they are “careless.” Why not pay a. year’s dues in advance? Why not carry a receipt which shows you are paid up for the whole year 1920. Try it! You will feel more comfortable and your Secretary will appreciate your effort to make his duties that much lighter. Yearly payments are very satisfying. Try it. Now Winter Comes Leaves of the oak, the maple and the elm, drenched deep in reds and browns and amber, dying, have ceased to live, and have surrendered to the west-wind’s rushing grasp. We see them now, a sodden mass, dead in the ditches. Long lines of south-bound ducks and geese, clamoring in nervous excitement, rush by overhead, fearful of the nipping teeth of winter, rushing after them. On the Arboretum field the football boys still struggle back and forth, strengthening brain and brawn. A flake of white appears from the upper air. It hesitates, drops downward, swings aside and up again, finally resting upon our window-sill, sparkles a moment and then dies away, a tiny drop ^]|||IMIIIIIinilllMIIIIU[]llllllllllll[]||||||llllll[]|llllllllllinilllllllllllHllllllllll!|[lllllllllllllI>> j Next ! j Supreme j | Convention j j — AT — I ! MOOSEHEARTI I _ WEEK OF -- j j June 20th, 1920 j $]|||||||lilll[]| The nominating committee is not bound to offer only one name for each office. It may offer as many for each as it sees fit. Generally, in Moose-dom, we have found that the most successful Lodge is the one which trusts its officers fully and cooperates with them. We feel sure that the same high, quality of officers which now characterizes our Order will be continued under this new statute. 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 DR. A. C. BALL Alliance, Ohio Supreme Inner Guard SAMUEL G. HART New Orleans, La. Supreme Outer Guard DAVID B. PETERSON Camden, N. J. Supreme Trustees CHAS. NEWTON Winnipeg, Canada LESTER W. BLOCH Albany, N. Y. J. ALBERT CASSEDY, Baltimore, Md. Life Membership “If you want anything to become a law, agitate it.” This is an old trite saying, but it is as good today as when it was first uttered. Therefore we are agitating the question of “Life Memberships” by keeping it before our members. Supreme Dictator Broening has given this as his “slogan” for the year. Let us respond to it. Nothing adds greater stability to a Lodge than a large percentage of life members on the Lodge roll. Life Membership Campaigns should be started in every Lodge. Members should be educated to the value of Life Memberships. As a business proposition it is a good investment. As a provision against the exigencies of the future it is the best kind of insurance. Advocate and Agitate Life Memberships. Lodge Elections In January it will be the duty of your Dictator to appoint a nominating committee to select from your membership a list of proper members to be considered by -you as officers for the next year. This committee will consist of the present elective officers, the five most junior Past Dictators and five members whom the Dictator will appoint. This group of eighteen men or less ought to represent all elements in the Lodge, and the very best material for officership should be selected for your consideration. If, by any means, the best material is not so chosen, any member may circulate a petition to have names added.