MOOSEHE/1RT MAG/lZINä	15
International Fraternity a Reality at Last
be at least several thousand members who have either relatives or friends in the British Isles and if it were possible to insert in one of the future issues of the Mooseheart Magazine a notice in׳ bold faced type, requesting every member who has a friend or relative there to write a letter stating that he is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose and that a movement will soon be started to establish lodges in the United Kingdom. The membership in Canada should be approached on this subject. If it were possible to have the members write as well a letter to me giving the names and addresses of those to whom they have written. It will be a great start for the work over there. No doubt in our membership we have thousands of business men who have correspondents in the British Isles as well.” Here is a thought that is right in the line of general Moose development. The surest growth of a lodge in the States or Canada or Islands of the Sea or France or England is through the personal solicitation and boosting of the membership known as the “rank and file.” We hope that Mr. Jenkins’ suggestion will meet with cordial response from American Moose. Do not wait until things are started in England, or until the French movement is a little further along. Do it now. There are many returned soldiers, members of the Loyal Order of Moose, who no doubt have made acquaintances with both French and English soldiers. In many letters we have seen out enthusiastically they have spoken of their membership in the Moose to their French and English acquaintances in the trenches and camps. Having sown the seed why not do a little cultivation and write to these men that opportunities are opening to them to come into the blessed shelter of the Loyal Order of Moose ? Let such ones write to their friends and also to Jos. A. Jenkins, care Loyal Order of Moose, Blvd. Malsherbes, Paris, France.
A LETTER FROM OVER-THE-SEA
Mr. James J. Davis, Director General,
Loyal Order of Moose,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dear Mr. Davis: It gives me great pleasure to inform you that Paris (France) Lodge was instituted last evening. You will find the report of the institution enclosed. The meeting was a great success and I look for great results. Everyone seemed to be deeply impressed with the initiatory ceremony, as it was given complete. We did the work entirely from memory, as we had had a number of rehearsals on the Ritual. I was very anxious that the proper impression be made at the first meeting. I occupied the station of Dictator, delivering the Vice and Past Dictator’s part of the ceremony; Brother M. M. Moore acted as Prelate; Brother William Gabriel acted as Orator and Brother E. V. Reed as Sergeant-at-Arms. The work went through without a hitch.
After the meeting we had a social meeting with plenty to eat and drink. A number of the new members said they were very favorably impressed and said that the club feature was just the thing for the English speaking-men. We had a number of Frenchmen and Americans.
We ,have decided to hold the meetings the first and third Tuesday of each month. A membership and Entertainment Committee was appointed as well as a House Committee so that I am looking for results.
I will write you again shortly giving the progress of the work.
With best wishes, I am,
Fraternally yours,
JOS. A. JENKINS.
Vice Director General.
HEART should have added to it an international value of education. It will be good for French and English children to spend some of their “learning years” in common with our American children. Just so it will be good for some American children to get French and English education when once there are MOOSEHEARTS in Europe. And it will be just as good for American children to get the early impressions from their French and English cousins. We have noted what good influences result from boys and girls gathered from all parts of the country. They bring their local color and mingling with all the others add their peculiar tone to the social life here at MOOSEHEART and make it a picture of exquisite character.
In one of Vice Director General Joseph A. Jenkins’ letters he writes with characteristic force, reaching to the future, the following suggestive paragraph, “With reference to organization work in the British Isles, this thought occurred to me: There is no doubt, in our membership, there should
ment? He felt sort of queer in his head and put up his hand and found a hole where his eye used to be. He finished his toil and then gave himself to the mercies cf the hospital. The Loyal Order of Moose owes this man a great debt of gratitude for the inestimable services he is rendering the Order. The speech he made on Mooseheart day was one of the best “send-offs” that any lodge has had in those early hours of its first awakening to the great oportunities of membership.
This Paris lodge and all others that will be instituted in European countries will in every respect hold the same relation to the Supreme Lodge as lodges in the States and Canada. The benefits of MOOSEHEART will be open to them just the same as any other lodge. Possibly in the far off coming time there will be a MOOSEHEART in Europe. Possibly more than one, if the dreams of Moose promoters will materialize in the multiplication of MOOSEHEART. For the present it is better that one MOOSE-
The Loyal Order of Moose has acquired a firm foothold and a sure abiding habitation in Europe. Paris (France) Lodge No. 1660 has been regularly instituted, and is humming along at a true Moose gait. It is all due to the pluck, energy and unswerving loyalty of Joseph A. Jenkins, Vice Director General. He was in charge of the welfare work of Moose soldiers in France during the War. He performed valiant services in behalf of his charge. He is particularly happy in getting other people to do “good works” and in the prosecution of his great responsibility he saved the Order thousands of francs by enlisting the assistance of other organizations and their different secretaries to render some special service to Brother Moose. He had the personnel of several thousands of helpers on a purely voluntary basis.
Since the War, Brother Jenkins has been quarrying unusually good material for a permanent lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose in France. This first lodge is in Paris. Others will soon follow. American Moose want to keep informed and interested in the progress of Moosedom in France and further on. -For Brother Jesakins in his letter already speaks of an invasion of the Moose into England. There is no reason why all of J. J. Davis’ Welsh cousins,—and we are told there are a host of them,—should not be corralled in Moose lodges in time all over the rocks and hills and in their mines. What an event that will be when a Welsh chorus of Moose will sing in their own corrugated and everlastingly twisted language, “Mooseheart the Happiest.”
Have you not sometimes thought that the title, “Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose” was a pretty big figure of speech. It seemed a nice thing to dream about but you sometimes felt that it was mere dream material that would never materialize. But here is the beginning of a substantial meaning to this title, “Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose.” There are lodges in other parts of the World—in the Sandwich Islands and the Philippines, but they are manned by American sojourners. But here is this lodge in Paris, France, that is no American sojourner’s proposition, but of genuine French composition, with possibly a sprinkling of resident Americans. Brother Jenkins has started this thing going out into the wide, wide world, and who can tell what a fan-shape of Moosedom will eventuate from this Paris Lodge No. 1660? The pictures on this page will become historic. They show the first meeting of Paris lodge held on October 7th and another great meeting close on its heels on October 27th. It is significant that Paris lodge started organically on Mooseheart day. The men in these pictures are true hearted and noble minded Frenchmen. Men of considerable note, some of them,
The Paris lodge has upon it the uplifting of the countenance of Mr. Floyd Gibbons, now the editor of the French edition of the Chicago Tribune, and the cordial appreciation of Mr. Mitchell of the New York Herald. Mr. Gibbons, it will be remembered, was the man who probably got off the greatest reportorial stunt ever pulled off. He was a passenger on one of the big liners that was sunk by a German gun-boat. He landed in Queenstown in a most physically distressing condition. Before he allowed himself rest and refreshment and cure he made his way to the nearest office and dispatched a five thousand word story to his paper. Then he went on to France and in the trenches in gathering up stuff for his paper he had an eye shot out. But what is a bullet in the head of a reporter when he is on an assign-
DANCE HELD IN PARIS MOOSE CLUB, OCTOBER 27, 1919
PARIS, FRANCE, LODGE INSTITUTION OCTOBER 27, 1919
Seated (left to right): James A. Leonard, Lewis A. Cripps, Joseph A. Jenkins, S. P. Gerard, S. G. Potter, Thomas E. Jones, G. M. Ronsse, Joseph Moran, W. H. Tiffin, Jean Vincent, M. M. Moore, D. G. Dillon, J. M. Smith, B. H. Connor, M. David Detar, Stanley Fargo, M. L. Severe, C. F. Planchamp, M. E. Buehrle, D. E. Callahan, A. D. Beeler.
Standing: Capt. F. P. Fifield, George E. Aufrere, Emile Plot, F. C. Colonna, Marcel Collette, James Warnick, Tom J. Flanagan, Raymond Laprand, Keith M. Brooks, Bertram Lord, Herbert P. Crowdy, Francis J. Lowe, Joseph Kilbride, James R. Whelan, Joseph B. Peck, J. J. King, Gustin Wright, George Evan.