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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 postage provided for in Sec. N03, Act of October 3, 1917. authorized on July 8, 1918. Issued monthly from its office of publication at Mooseheart, III., by the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose. Edited and managed for the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, by Its Executive Committee.
JOHN W. FORD - Chairman	RODNEY H. BRANDON - Secretary
Subscription—50c per Annum.	Copyright. 1919 by Rodney H. Brandon	Advertising Rates on Application
	We Now Have Seven Hundred and Sixty-Two Children at Mooseheart	1	£2:
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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 i!) 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 TRAINS 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 .this «state 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 9f about fifty buildings of modern concrete fire-proof construction, with red tile roofs. There is a central heating and power plant, large modern print shop, a high school building, several industrial shops, a modern farm plant and many dormitories and residences.
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.
For full 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
MOOSEHEART GOVERNORS
E. J. Henning, F. S. D.
San Diego, Calif.
Albert Bushnell Hart , Cambridge, Mass.
Wm. F. Broening Baltimore, Md. Rodney H'. Brandon, Sec’y Mooseheart, Illinois Matthew P. Adams, Supf. Mooseheart, Illinois
James J. Davis, Chairman Pittsburgh, Pa.
John J. Lentz Columbus, Ohio Ralph W. E. Dönges, P.S.D. Camden, N. J.
Arthur Capper Topeka, Kansas Jo¡.- W. Ford Philadelphia, Pa.
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30 picture books, 30 bead stringing• sets, 59 tea and coffee sets, 31 blocks, 9 pails and shovels, 1 base ball game, 2 base balls, 2 base ball gloves, 36 hockey sticks, 92 sleds, 88 scooters, 42 ,strings of beads, 41 manicure sets, 20 brush and‘comb sets, 2 sleeve-garter sets■, 2 large wheeled coasters, 16 toy dogs.
Promptness In Reporting
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 Rocnester, 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. DAY IS
Pittsburgh, Pa. Supreme Dictator
WM. F. BROENING
Baltimore, Md. Past Supreme Dictator C. A. A. McGEE
Oakland, Calif. General Dictator	f
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 gassed y,
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Secretary allowed these Brothers all this time.
There is a lesson in this for the whole Orter. Is it not true now that an organization close to 600,000 men, doing the sort of work this great Order is doing, should insist that it has enough dignity to demand strict adherence to ail its laws? Will the men of the world not think more of Moosedom if we insist upon compliance with the laws made? Is it not better after all to be on time?
Con rageon s- F rater n al Americanism
If one’s ideal, if one’s country, if the national life is worth dying• for, then surely it is worth living for. If it deserves the sacrifice of all the youth of the World, then surely it deserves every other sacrifice. Our young men have died for liberty and the least we can do is to make that liberty a thing for which any man may lay down his life unashamed. The young have given their future for the sake of a belief, a belief that civilization is better than barbarism; that humanity is better than savagery; that democracy has something finer and nobler to give to mankind than has autocracy. They“-died believing in America and American institutions and unless we are false to our dead, we must keep that, faith untarnished. If America lowers her standards of personal responsibility; if she turns liberty into lawlessness; if she makes herself unworthy of that ultimate sacrifice; the sacrifice of her best, then spiritual, if not physical defeat must await her. The responsibility belongs to the people. It belongs to the individual American and it cannot be laid on the peace table, or tul'ned over to the President. There was never a leader great enough to make or maintain a great Nation.
This brings us to the vital problem before us, as members of this great Moose family. Behind us the way is strewn with experiments that have met failure, with the bones of Fraternal adventurers, who have died tilting at the windmill of opportunity. We Have passed all these things, passed the experimental stage and are indeed upon a very solid working basis. The great vital problem herein referred to is not one of success, or failure, but of greater success. For the next generation or two, this must be our work and our chance. America must stand as the great example of the future; as the morning star heralding the coming of the new day. It is the cause for which our young men have died. With their blood they have sealed our democracy and the only monument that is worthy of them is a Fraternal Order that, is as noble as their loyalty and their sacrifice.
The only substantial ground work for a Republic is the conscience of its citizens. Our future rests
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The Supreme Secretary received the following ׳ telegram the other day:
“Jonesburg, S. C., Dee. 10. “Supreme Secretary, L. O. O. M.,
Mooseheart, 111.
“First report will be in mail Friday. Others follow shortly. Am giving all the time I can spare. Auditing committee working with me. Lodge wrought up over your persistent nagging. When will we get our application cards back. When will Smith’s debts here be paid.
Do you desire to completely nullify all our hard work.
(Signed) “JOHN DOE.”
Except for the fact that we have purposely falsified the names and the place in this telegram the foregoing is an exact copy of a genuine communication.
Now what are the facts in this case ? The Lodge at Jonesburg was instituted in September, 1918. Quite a lot of men, acting in good faith, paid their money into the treasury as dues in order that they might become members of the Loyal Order of Moose. A set of officers were selected and these officers obligated themselves to fulfill the duties of the office in accordance with the law. When the time came for the first report of the Lodge, regular notices were sent out. There was no receipt of the regular quarterly report. We have continued to scold these Brothers to get action, pleading with them that they were not doing justice to the men who were paynig money into the treasury, because they were not Moose unless •they were in good standing.
Finally in December, 1919, comes the report for September 30th, 1918, and the assurance as in the telegram above that other repoi'ts may come from time to time.
What will become of a lodge that is run as this one is ? What would become of a fraternal society that would continue this sort of procedure? If it had not been for the fact that this Lodge was located i» a state where the Moose was unknown three years ago no such ludicrous leniency would have been extended as has been true in this case. Under normal conditions the charter would have been lost long ago and all the money paid in by these men would have been wasted. Because of the fact that it was new territory the Supreme
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How Santa Clans Remembered the Mooseheart Kiddies
Express packages arrived as early as the 15th of December, and by the 20th the stream of them was unceasing and appeared to be unending. It is estimated that three thousand different packages reached MOOSEHEART as remembrances for some of the students. Practically in all instances these were specific remembrances for specific children, although a number of Chapters of thè Legion sent in bundles of dresses, sweaters, caps, sox and other items calculated to bring joy and comfort to the youthful soul.
On the 23rd, Superintendent Adams and his assistants began to check the list of presents received against the list of students to see who had been forgotten. It was discovered that over 350 children either had nobody in the world to remember them other than their MOOSEHEART friends, or if they had such friends they had been forgotten.
The great heart of MOOSEHEART felt it wanted to remember each of the 350, who were receiving nothing, with a gift and so Superintendent Adams as a good Legionaire would, turned to the Fez fund of the Legion to which had been added the Christmas donations of many of the various Chapters, and asked how big the hearts ' of the Legionaires of the Moose had been during the year just 'past.
They told him to go as far as he liked and that not only should every child be remembered at MOOSEHEART in addition to whatever present he might have received from out in the world, but wanted each child who had not been remembered by outsiders to receive enough presents to balance up with those who had.
The following is the list of the items that were bought by the Legion Fez Fund and presented this Christmas:
Seventy-six knives, 54 boxes handkerchiefs, 49 fountain pens, 22 gloves (girls), 23 ties, 33 boxes stationery, 6 collar pins (boys), 24 footballs, 16 fire engines, 7 iron trains, 10 iron wagons, 57 ice skates (boys), 8 ice skates (girls), 27 roller skates, 15 flash lights, 25 red wagons, 1 paper doll, 1 large coaster wagon, 12 double rocking horses, 14 doll buggies, 4 set dominoes, 5 drawing slates, 12 kiddy kars, 22 metalophones, 22 wash sets, 25 puzzle maps, 3 funny face family, 4 chess, 16 games, 37 teddy bears, 15 tool chests, 18 geography games, 117 card games, 48 target sets, 10 chemistry outfits, 48 drums, 3.6 horns, 13 “reminders” note books, 42 cuff-collar sets, 71 watches, 30 telegraph games, 36 parcheesi sets, 32 ten-pin sets, 30 pianos, 75 embroidery sets, 27 cooking sets, 22 dominos, 14 rubber dolls, 109 dolls, 31 spelling boards, 6 pai»t boxes, 91 guns with bayonets, 10 rattle boxes, 5 scroll puzzles, 1 table tennis, 12 old maid games,