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	We Now have Seven Hundred and Sixty-Two Children at Mooseheart	
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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 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 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 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 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.
,	F°p.f״״ 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
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l|	 ־־ ־ MOOSEHEART	GOVERNORS	
James J. Davis, Chairman	E. J. Henning, P. S. D.	
Pittsburgh, Pa.	San Diego, Calif.	
John J. Lentz	Albert Bushnell Hart	
Columbus, Ohio	Cambridge, Mass.	
Ralph W. E. Donges, P. S. D.	Wm. F. Broening	
Camden, N. J.	Baltimore, Md.	
Arthur Capper	Rodney H. Brandon, Sec’y	
Topeka, Kansas	Mooseheart, Illinois	
John W. Ford	Matthew P. Adams, Supt.	
Philadelphia, Pa.	Mooseheart, Illinois	
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“Every Child is Entitled to at Least a High School Education and a Trade”
I AMES J. DAVIS, Dlrtctar-Cm»ral
lightly turn to thoughts of love, but also the fancy of those old enough to know better:
I’m glad to see them here again,
The busy days of toil and fun—
I see old busybody wren.
Her Spring housecleaning has begun. And all the world seems full of life—•
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 Sau 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. DAYIS
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.

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gifts which the years have given, for a safe and sure and speedy passage back to
The sweet old Spring of the long ago,
The ever and ever so long ago!
Progress in Illinois
For years Moose leaders have urged that that which is sauce for the goose might well also be sauce for the gander; that if it be well for the Moose of the land to have a Mooseheart, that it might be equally well for the other fathers and mothers of the land, thru civic, religious and fraternal organizations of various kinds, to do something along the same line. Each time that the least indication of progress along this line has appeared the helping hand of the Moose has been found behind it, urging. The Odd Fellows of New York State are now working upon plans for a Mooseheart, and Friel Kendrick, our own good Moose brother from Philadelphia Lodge, who is incidentally Imperial Potentate of the Shrine this year, is making child conservation and child service the key-note of his administrative year. Every Moose who is a New York Odd Fellow and every Moose who is a Shriner should get busy to help in these quarters.
Upon my soul, I want a wife!
How dear old nature—being of feminine persuasion—must laugh to herself over this outcome of benefits overlooked until too late. Then with the wisest air another of the fraternity apprises us of the indubitable fact that:
Gentle Spring has come again
With her sunshine, breeze and dew, Following in her winding train,
See the blossoms, sweet and new.
Here a yellow primrose shows All the world a heart of gold,
There a scarlet tulip grows By the breeze made overbold.
There is no lack of sentiment in the work of the Spring poet—he fairly luxuriates in it. We always smile at it—at least almost always. Sometimes we lose our poise, though, and let some foolish thing hold us; some soft, intangible touch creep from the poem to our hearts—a touch which presses the cynical smile quite out of sight, which presses a dew into our tired eyes, because—well, because for some things, as Rosetti says:
Spring must come again with light and bloom,
Or in this world, or in the world to come.
Sounds, Sighs and Songs of Spring
The Spring poet is as much a feature of these balmy days as the modest blue viofet, and like the violet he blooms in all sorts of unexpected places.
One would naturally suppose that as a subject for rhyme Spring must be quite threadbare, seeing that she has stirred the poetic fervor of men’s souls ever since she first came coquetting over the hills and dales in the days when the earth was new.
But not a bit of it. In this blessed year of grace, 1920, the poet will pour out in strict confidence— to a long-suffering public—such new and astounding statements as:	,
Spring’s awake, so light and glad,
Long enough she’s been asleep, Something makes me feel so sad,
I must either write or weep.
Of course we devoutly wish he had concluded to vent his sadness in good sound weeping instead of poor, unsound rhyme, hut it would be expecting quite too much, as we know deep down in our mind. Like the bobolink and the robin, he has his lay to sing and he sings it, but he has not, with these feathered songsters, taken lessons from the master musician of nature.
And now comes Illinois as a state. About every fifty years Illinois holds a Constitutional Convention to amend her basic law. She is doing that now. One hundred and two delegates are in session at Springfield studying these matters. On Dec. 15th seventy of these delegates spent the afternoon and evening at MOOSEHEART studying child welfare problems, and every man of them, whether he was a Moose or not, spoke feelingly of the State’s duty to the child.
Of peculiar interest to the Order; is the fact that Supreme Secretary Rodney H. Brandon is one of the delegates who is helping to revise the Illinois Constitution. Of even greater significance is the־ fact that the President of the Convention has
And so we read lingeringly:
When we walked together among the flowers, When the world was tender with bloom and glow, Oh, the dawn and dew! Oh, the shine and showers! Of the sweet old Spring of the long ago—
The ever and ever so long ago!
A hunger for all of the past delight
Is stirred by the winds which softly blow,
Can you spare a thought, dear, in heaven tonight For the sweet old Spring of the long ago—
The ever and ever so long ago!
There is generally touching reference to faded flowers and past Springs and dead hopes throughout his productions; and it is all so ancient. Everybody knows all about it; almost everybody has a stock of these articles on hand. There’s enough dead hopes and faded flowers, to say nothing of past Springs, lying around loose to make a shadow deep enough to keep us cool all through the coming summer, if they were properly set up. One spends his strength briefly:	,
All hail, fairy queen!
We sing:
Fairest ever seen,
’Tis Spring!
named Bro. Brandon as Chairman of the Committee on Education. This is a recognition of the Moose and MOOSEHEART of which every Moose in, Illinois should be both proud and appreciative. It means that Moosedom’s broad love for childhood is likely to be mirrored in the new basic law; it means that thousands, yes millions, of children now unborn will rise to higher places in life than would otherwise have been possible; it means a sadder day for the devil and all his works and more cheer on Cod’s side.
Practically, as well, it means that every Illinois Moose should get ready to be a booster for the new Illinois Constitution and the broader service it will represent.
And there is no denying the fact that there are times and seasons when the most worldly-minded man—and woman—has this Spring fever to the extent that he or she would hastily and heartily proceed to barter wealth and wisdom, and other
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Another takes a practical strain. But then he is a Westerner and sings according to his light:
All the world seems full of zest In the Spring.
Or at least it does out West In the Spring.
You can throw off coat and vest,
You can work like all possessed,
You can do your level best,
In the Spring!
\nd this next effusion is probably from the pen of a bachelor, for it is a sad but true fact that in the Spring not only does a young man’s fancy