MOOSEHE/1RT MAGfiZiNts
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National Memorial Day
By WILLIAM H. EDWARDS
International Revenue Collector at New York and General Chairman Actors’ Memorial Day Committee.
tional Memorial Day.
THINK of what the actors did cheering the soldiers on the other side and rendering such powerful aid in the various war drives.
THANK and HELP by attending some theatre on National Memorial day, December 5, and become an active part of this splendid humanitarian movement.
NEW KATE JONES HALL
NOW BEING OCCUPIED
The new Kate Jones Hall is now being occupied by the students formerly living at Lake Hall. It is a beautiful building, “T” shaped, and made of the regular granite block. It houses twenty students comfortably. It is in an excellent location, being near the Governors’ House.
LOVE—NOT CHARITY
By a resolution the recent annual convention of the Loyal Order of Moose ordered the word “Charity” stricken out of the literature and ritual of the Order, and the word “Love” substituted instead. This will require some time, but probably will be effected in the course of a year or two for future issues. Charity as used in the Holy Writ is now translated as love. What we understand by Charity now is almsgiving. It is humiliating to receive it and a fraud to give it. The loyal member of the Loyal Order of Moose gives out of the love of his heart, and in need he receives as a right because he has been loyal and is deserving.
MAYOR OF DALLAS
VISITS MOOSEHEART
Mayor Frank W. Wozencraft of Dallas, Tex., visited MOOSEHEART on Thursday, November 7. The mayor expressed himself as being delighted with what he saw, and said he would return to Dallas and help to get members for Dallas Lodge. It will be remembered that Dallas is the home town of Supreme Councilman Pierson who is District Attorney of that city.
Mayor Wozencraft has been visiting a number of Northern cities with a desire to become a real Mayor. He is progressive and agressive and has great hopes for the future of his city, and will without doubt use any and all improvements in municipal management which he discovers in the cities which he visits.
Brother Wozencraft is probably the youngest Mayor in the country. He left college, served in France and upon his return to his home he was elected Mayor.	>
Prisoner:	“I am a locksmith.”
Policeman:	“Well, what were you
doing in that gambling house we just raided?”
Prisoner: “I was making a bolt for the door just as you came in!”
Mrs. Spatting: “A British military authority asserts that married soldiers display greater courage than unmarried ones.”
Mr. Spatting: “Naturally. A married man doesn’t care what happens to him.”—Buffalo Express.
and infirm actor that this movement is Concerned. We are concerned with those of the present generation in the profession who are of the rank and file in stageland. They will never attain the enviable heights of fame and are subject to the whims of a profession, the uncertainties of which are to be deplored.
Many of you, no doubt, have been in a theatre when some star of the stage came on to make his plea to “buy another bond.” You have seen this star literally take off his coat, roll up his sleeves and go to work on the audience. You have seen hundreds and thousands of dollars worth of bonds sold by these people of the stage. They have been tireless and the people and the government of this country owe them a debt which it will be hard to repay, but we can do a part of our duty by making December 5th one of the greatest days in the history of the American stage.
In my tour of investigation in Europe for the Red Cross, it was made plain to me throughout war-torn northern France and all through Belgium how much American actors and actresses contributed to the strength of those people to enable them to bear up under their sorrows and to hang on until the dawn of peace stopped the slaughted and brought the inevitable victory.
I have said that the Actors’ National Memorial Day is destined for a big success. But there is such a thing as over-confidence. We want to make it certain. Let every man, woman and child in this great land “lend a hand” in this most worthy cause.
Think! Thank! Help!
That is the slogan for Actors’ Na-
army—the army that was the wonder of the world.
The Actors’ fund has been sadly depleted. It is for the purpose of replenishing this fund that Actors’ Memorial Day, December 5, has been set apart.
This campaign affords us an opportunity to express our gratitude and to place the seal of approval upon the scroll written by the stage, in the darkest days of the nation. In word and deed the men and women of the stage were with the Allies heart and soul during the world crisis. The affairs of the Actors’ Fund are passing through a crisis mainly caused by the devotion of stage people to the cause of democracy which was wavering uncertainly in Europe. We owe it 'to ourselves now to “clean our own house”; to tide the Actors’ Fund thru a crisis, and eventually to place it upon a footing that, in the future, never will falter.
The Actors’ Home is the Home of Memories. We know that when we get old that about all that is left to us is our memories. No matter how high we may have gone in the world of affairs there comes a time when we have outlived our usefulness and then we spend the declining years of our lives looking backward—ever backward.
The Actors’ Home represents the glories of another era. Its charges are luminaries of the past. Time has dimmed their splendor, and the thousands who may have worshipped at the shrine of many now dependent in the Actors’ Home perhaps never have given a thought to their idols of the past who have dropped from sight.
But it is not only with the aged
Actors’
The American public never will forget the magnificent work of the men and women of the stage in “winning the war,” The gratitude < f the people will be shown in an unmistakable manner on Actors’ National Memorial Day, December 5, when in thousands of playhouses all over the land tributes will be paid to these self-sacrificing and deserving people.
It is getting to be an old story— but it will ever bear repetition—of the war work at home and abroad of the people of the stage. When the call to arms came many performers whose contracts run into five and six figures volunteered and “went across.” Some made the supreme sacrifice. Those who did not go over Were ready to help the Liberty Loan, Red Cross and other great drives. Many a loan has been “put across” by the appeals of these red-blooded men and women of the stage. It was impossible to resist their appeals.
The big idea of this campaign is to commemorate the fine work done by the American stage and at the same time to put the Actors’ Fund upon a basis enabling it to carry out its charities and philanthropies without embarrassment.
In my work in the Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Boy Scout and other drives I have had an exceptional opportunity to observe the generous impulses of stage folk. The fact that leading business men and financiers of every city, town and hamlet in the country are taking an interest in this movement makes its success certain.
In the dark days of the war the spoken words of the actors and actresses breathed Americanism. These are busy days in our American life. Our very souls are troubled. Movements like the Actors’ Memorial Day make for patriotism, make for a richer, truer and grander United States of America. The men and women of the stage in their appeals during the war breathed Americanism for America. That is what we all must do today. We must cleave to it with our whole strength.
Those who are forwarding this great movement are not asking for money. The public is asked to buy seats for one of the shows in the respective town in which it is given. This great movement is backed by every manager who gives his theatre for that day. I have been told that people who seldom go to the theatre are arranging for seats on that day to show their appreciation for what the Actors have done. The American public never lacks in appreciation.
Talk to the returning doughboy and he will tell you the part that the actors and actresses played in the war. Cheer was brought to the lives of the soldiers scattered all over the battlefields of Europe.
A little over a month ago I returned frbm a trip to Europe in the interest of the Red Cross. One of the many things that impressed me on the other side was the spot in the heart of the Argonne forest—underground—where the Germans had erected a theatre to keep up the fast dwindling morale of their army. They had taken a leaf from the book of the Americans. The performers who went abroad helped keep the morale of the American
Officers of Nashua, N. H., Lodge and Director General Davis