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MOOSEHEART MAGAZlKà
Director General Davis Attends Foot-Ball Game
Note About Governors’ Meeting Also
Late Saturday evening, after all had left the offices, and the children were in their dormitories, there was a knock at my door. As usual, I shouted, “come in,” and there entered a man whom I had never seen before, and he said “You are Brother Davis?” and I answered in the affirmative, after which he said “I have walked all over these grounds at*MOOSEHEART today, and inspected the buildings, visited with the children and seen this great home. I am not rich, but a plain, every-day railroad man and I want to present to you this Liberty Bond of ?50.00 which you can use here at MOOSEHEART for any purpose you desire.” I accepted it, placed it in the House of God, School House and Assembly Hall Fund, after which I asked him what his name was and where he was from. He replied that he was W. C. Brown, 1630 Nor'h Third Street, Harrisburg, Pa., and that he belonged to Harrisburg Lodge No. 107. His occupation is conductor on the middle division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He said he had heard much about MOOSEHEART, but he had never appreciated it until he had visited and inspected the place. I thanked him on behalf of the Order universal for his contribution and told him of the many improvements needed, and he said if we could get every member of the Order here there would be no question hut that every one would do as he did. The slogan at MOOSEHEART has always been, “Let every member come and see it.” JAMES J. DAVIS, Director General.
the training the boys receive here, for although they were younger and much smaller than their opponents, they out-classed them both in physical endurance and field generalship. Coach Ben A. Oswalt who has had charge of MOOSEHEART athletic teams for several years, deserves much praise for the manner in which he has trained these boys.
The Governors’ meeting was a very interesting one. Many new improvements were ordered, among them a series of baby cottages to house approximately two hundred babies. This baby nursery will be the finest of its kind in the world and will be exclusively for babies. You can imagine baby chairs, baby tables, and all that goes to make the babies happy. Many new dormitories were ordered erected to house the many hundreds of children who are coming to us now as a result of the war and the influenza epidemic. At today’s session we admitted eighty children. Think of it, eighty children. Coming at this ratio, we will have twelve hundred here by next Convention. I wish it were such that every member of the Order could have attended this Governors’ meeting and have heard the appeals and the reports of the general conditions of these families from the secretaries of our Lodges. I know what that would mean. We would then receive sufficient amount of money to complete MOOSEHEART.
points in the third period by a field goal and the Aurora team was unable to score at all during the entire game, and in fact our goal was never in danger. The boys who won for MOOSEHEART are:
John Meikle, right end; Raton, New Mexico Lodge No. 323.
Russell Cretcher, right tackle; Wabash, Indiana Lodge No. 1195,
Earl Solomon, right guard; Green Bay, Wisconsin Lodge No. 359.
James Jenkins, left guard; Philadelphia, Pa., Lodge No. 54.
Louis Harvison, center; Pittsburgh, Pa., Lodge No. 46.
Victor Kuhns, left tackle; Apollo, Pa., Lodge No. 201.
Ernest Daubenmire, left end; Lancaster, Pa., Lodge No. 955.
Thomas Jones, quarterback; Ccran-ton. Pa., Lodge No. 42.
William McClintock, right halfback, Johnsonburg, Pa., Lodge No. 149.
Dick Whalen, full-back; Butter, Mont., Lodge No. 431.
George Williams, left half-back; Waterbury, Conn., Lodge No. 703.
The big stars of the game were Full-back Dick Whalen, Quarterback “Tommy” Jones, Half-back George Williams, Center Louis Harvison, and the two tackles, Victor Kuhns and Russell Cretcher. The others were all good in their places. After the game I could not help but think that it was an exhibition of the effect of
Dear Editor:
Across the campus on my way to lunch at the Governors’ house, I encountered a sight that rivaled anything that I had ever seen. Each building seemed to have opened up and bursting forth c°me troups of children, boys and girls, large and small, all clad in their very best, on their way to the cars that would take them away to see the game in which their own team was to play that afternoon. It seemed as though a whole city was losing its teeming population. A wonderful sight were these boys and girls with their joyous shouts, their happy faces and beaming eyes; the red of the ribbons that they wore being no brighter than the roses that bloomed in the cheeks of all.
I have just returned from the big football game at Aurora, where the MOOSEHEART boys played the East Aurora High School team. The Aurora high school boys are the champions of the Northern Illinois High School Conference, and had not been defeated this year, that is, until they met our boys last Saturday. Our boys were out-weighed twenty pounds to the man, but they were determined to win this great victory and fought like tigers from the first whistle to the last one. Some of the little fellows in the line were out-weighed as much as twenty-five pounds by their opponents, but they always managed to roll their opponents aside and make room for Full-back Dick Whalen, or one of the half-backs to gain five or eight yards. MOOSEHEART scored three
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Warfare With Gas
veered around and carried their gas back upon the German lines. As a result of this whim of the winds 11,-000 Germans were killed.
“While chlorine was the first gas nsed, British chemists had suspected that the Germans would use phosgene. The man who inhales this deadly gas may not know he is gassed, but hours afterward, particularly if he has exercised in the meantime, he may suddenly fall dead, owing to the paralyzing action of the gas on the heart. Mixed with chlorine, this deadly combination destroyed all life for miles behind the trenches. Except for the man whose masks proved defective, the soldiers came through with few losses. All animal life, however, was destroyed. This was a blessing to the British Tommy, whose trenches had been overrun with rats.”
IT TAKES SO LITTLE
It takes so little t״ make us glad,
Just a cheering clasp of a friendly hand,
Just a word from one who can understand ;
And we finish the task we long had planned
And we lose the doubt and the fear we had—
So little it takes to make us glad.
Ida G. Morris.
BOOST THE RED CROSS
Whole nations find shelter in the arm of the Red Cross.
Mercy is the only creed of the American Red Cross.
Red Cross activity in the Near East means a harvest of international love for America.
“The Red Cross is America at her best. It expresses our finest ideals of service and ministry.”—Charles A. Eaton, Pastor Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York.
arrived and the gap in the line was closed.
“One thing the Germans had not counted upon was the fact that the prevailing winds in Flanders blow from west to east. During the entire Summer and Fall of 1915 the winds refused to favor them. This gave the British a long respite and enabled them to prepare gas masks. There were many disadvantages in the use of gas-clouds. If the wind was blowing at more than 15 miles an hour it would swirl the gas around and dissipate it before it did much harm to the opp״sing fighters. If the wind was light here were other dangers. On one occasion in 1916 the wind
and then the new warfare was launched.
“Just as had been expected, the Tur-cos were awe-struck when they saw, coming out of the German trenches, volumes of greenish-yellow gas, which rolled toward them, pouring down into the shell-holes and flowing over into the trenches as if it were a liquid. Immediately there was a panic and they raced back, striving to outspeed the pursuing cloud. For a stretch of 15 miles the Allied trenches were emptied, 'and the Germans, who followed in the wake of the gas, met with no opposition, except in the sector held by the Canadians. The brave Canadians held them until reinforcements
How the Huns Almost Succeeded the First Time by Stampeding the Turcos
The Allies whipped the Germans in the battle of the chemists, and before the war was ended the Germans were subjected to twice as much poison gas as they were able to deliver to the Allies, according to A. Russel Bond, who writes a history of the development of gas warfare in the August St. Nicholas. In part he writes as follows:
“The German Army had dug itself into a line of trenches. Neither side could make an advance without a frightful loss of life. But a German scientist, Prof. Nemst, inventor of a well-known electric lamp, came forward with a plan to drown out the British with a flood of poison gas. Chlorine gas was selected. For the gas attack a point was chosen where the ground sloped gently toward the opposing lines, so that the gas would actually flow down hill into them. Preparations were carried out with the utmost secrecy. Just under the parapet of the trenches deep pits were dug about a yard apart on a front of 15 miles, or over 25,000 pits.
“Everything was ready for the attack on the British in April, 1915. A point had been chosen where the British lines made a juncture with the French. The French portion of the line was manned by Turcos, or Algerians, who would be likely to think there was something supernatural about a death-dealing cloud. On the left of the Africans was a division of Canadians. The Germans wished to pick out a time when the breeze was blowing steadily, not so fast as to scatter the gas, but yet so fast that it would overtake men who attempted to run away from it. It was not until April 22 that conditions were ideal,
Officers of North Adams, Mass., Lodge No. 1476 and Director General Davis