10	MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Cleveland Lodge Next to Wealthiest In Country
Past Supreme Dictator Ford Praises Financial Showing■ of Lodge
“The girls are first taught how to become good housewives. She is taught how to keep house, make her own clothes and trim her hats, and then she is given an opportunity to take up any vocation she desires such as bookkeeping, stenography or anything else.
“We teach boys to be real men. Boys must work. They are required to do a certain amount of work every day around the house or chores of various kinds.
“Then _we have solved a problem that I think has worried most vocational educational institutions. We teach 17 different trades. The puzzling question has been:	Which of
them is a boy best equipped for? Here is how we answered it.
“At 12, we enter the boy on what we call a vocational course. He spends a certain amount of time in the var-ous departments. Three months with the carpenters, three months with the printers, another three months in the bookkeeping department, another three months on the farm, and another three months in the cement plant or in the electrical bureau or machine shop. For two years, he takes a course of three months in each of the separate vocational classes. Record is kept of the progress in each. At -14, when he enters high school, that record is produced. That shows exactly what he wants to make his life's work, because he made better progress in the class teaching the vocation he likes best..
“As a result of this system, boys when they leave MOOSEHEART are tradesmen who are competent, that have been trained in the exact vocation which they are best fitted for and which they themselves prefer to follow.”
Members of the lodge, following the initiation ceremonies, were entertained with their families in the club house with a motion picture performance.
TOMORROW, TOO, SHALL GO
We meet at morn with kisses To part at night with tears,
And joys the short day misses Are ghosts of after years.
The gorgeous gleam of roses .
That dimpling dawn uncloses,
At night in death reposes
Like gladness turned to fears.
Today with lips of laughter Youth idly jests and plays;
In years that follow after Age weeps o’er wasted ways.
No more may we re-measure The parted paths of pleasure,
Nor hope to hold and treasure The joys of buried days.
Today we know not whither Tomorrow’s winds may blow;
The soul moves yon and thither Through realms of weal and woe. Then laugh at pain and sorrow,
And stoop ye not to borrow The fears that haunt tomorrow,
For tomorrow, too, shall go.
—Will H. Greenfield.
Reading, Pa., Lodge No. 155 now boasts a membership of 2,800. In the recent campaign which closed Dec. 31st, 400 new members were secured. The lodge also has appointed a committee to make plans to enlarge its home. A new addition will be added, that will contain a kitchen, banquet room and an auditorium with a seating capacity of 2,500.
Moline, 111., Lodge No. 1627 has made a special effort this year to entertain the children of its members at Christmas time. Mayor Bro. F. G. Johnson presided over the meeting and made one of the best talks on Moosedom ever delivered in the city. After the children had been given toys, fruit and candy an elaborate dinner was served by the ladies.
other member. There are 560,000 stockholders in it. And your stock is worth more than $2,700,000—the value of the property at MOOSEHEART.
“But far beyond the financial investment, you have a human investment, the responsibility for the future of 760 little children. And that responsibility is being increased almost daily. Before the next convention, there will be nearly 1,000. Building work is going now to extend the facilities, as there 200 children on the waiting list now.
“Is that an orphan asylum? No! Is it a charitable institution? No!
_ “The fathers of these children provided for them just as you are doing. It is a Home and a School of happy
childhood. Never have I seen more happy and more healthful children than there.
“Note they are not all dressed in same kind of clothes like they are in orphan asylums. They are clothed differently as I would clothe my children and you would clothe yours.
“Some time ago the superintendent of the New York state schools, considered the best in the country, said to me, following a visit to MOOSEHEART:	‘Your educational system
at MOOSEHEART is equal to that of the state of New York.’
“And he became so interested in the work that he asked to be permitted to join the Order.
“The high order of education may be judgde from the fact that a diploma from MOOSEHEART high school is accepted in any college or institution of learning in the country.
Brother Ford here explained that the organizer of the Paris Lodge proposed to go to many other European cities where the work done by the Moose for its 52,000 members who served in the war especially for those in France, had attracted wide favorable comment. He referred briefly to the policy of the Order to care for the near relatives of members in service when such care was necessary.
“We teach men to provide through payment of dues, for decent burial if they suddenly die; the continued provision for themselves when they are sick—and most fraternities do that.
“But here is where the difference begins. Please note there is no such
word in the language of the Loyal Order of Moose, as “Charity”, because every man in our fraternity pays for what he gets and gets what he pays for. He is under no obligation to anybody.
“What’s a man, or rather his family, to do, if he should be suddenly taken away before providing for his little ones. The leaders of the Order took that matter up. And they decided something should be done for those little children. The idea was born in the brain of James J. Davis. The matter was thought out and taken up as a part of the work of this Fraternity to care for the children.
“Today, we have built out at MOOSEHEART a splendid institution of happy childhood.
“We are stockholders in this great proposition. You hold as much stock in MOOSEHEART as I do or any
Pointing to Cleveland Lodge No. 63 as the second richest Lodge in the Order, Past Supreme Dictator John W. Ford, of Philadelphia, gave high praise recently to other progress made by that lodge since a previous visit two months before.
Brother Ford attended initiation ceremonies on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 30, at which 27 new members were formally inducted into the lodge. The ceremonies were performed by Brothers John G. Tomson, Dictator; W.
V.	O’Reilly, acting Vice-Dictator; T. F. Keevan, acting Prelate; Charles
W.	Johnson, acting Past Dictator, and John Feller ,Orator.
Officers called attention to the high type of men represented in all recent classess initiated. Alva R. Corbett, secretary of the Cleveland Public Service Department who represented the initiated class; William Bramley, and Richard Harburger, executive secretary of the city plan commission of Cleveland, also new members gave talks in which they appointed out how thoroughly impressed they were with the high ideals and practical aims of the organization.
Cleveland Lodge today is worth more than $250,000—a very satisfactory condition, indeed. Brother Ford said in part to the nearly 300 members who attended the initiation:
“The officers, I find, are competent, and their services entirely satisfactory, especially from a business view point. I am constrained to believe Cleveland Lodge is next to my own home Lodge in Philadelphia as to finances. My lodge is worth $515,000 of assets with no liabilities.
“However, there is something more than finances in this fraternity of ours. It isn’t all a buisiness proposition. Sentiment enters largely into it. I want to say that in this respect, there is a big improvement in this lodge over condition two months ago. I am pleased to note activity on the part of the Degree Staff. That’s a step in the right direction. And I want particularly to point out the part of the ritual so splendidly given by the acting Vice-Dictator.
“This world today needs the spirit of fraternity, which we are trying to teach. If all the world had been fra-ternalist there wouldn’t have been a World’s War. If all the countries in the world had fostered fraternal organizations as the United States of America had, there would not have been a World’s War. There are seventeen million men in this country that have learned the story in fraternal organizations about the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. If they had learned these lessons, they would not have been ready to go out and cut each other’s throats.
“One of the results of this World’s War is a higher conception of Fraternity. I believe we are together to spread this gospel of Fraternity to all parts of the world, and before taking rash steps—before crushing out the life of a fellowman, men will hesitate and they will remember that he has assumed an obligation such as they have assumed.
“The Loyal Order of Moose is just a little different from all other Fraternities. I belong to almost all of the fraternities, and they have all done a great work along their lines. But one of the principles of the Loyal Order of Moose is Progress, and we don’t propose to stand in the same rut for 20 to 75 years. We propose to be Progressive.
“We propose to take a part in civic matters, in state matters, and in national matters, and besides, we propose to interest ourselves in international affairs. We have already started along that line. We have already 50,000 members of our fraternity in Canada. We recently established a magnificent lodge in Paris, France, and it is attracting the attention of the best men in that city.”
BROTHER HARRY L. DAVIS Elected for third term as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
Brother Davis is a member of Cleveland Lodge No. 63 and was formerly a National Organizer for the Loyal Order of Moose.