MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE гntororf яс <*ernnd-Clas־s 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 •ней in Sat 1103 Act of October 3, 1917. authorized on July 8, 1918. Issued monthly from its oifice of publication at Mooseheart, ill., by the Supreme Lodge of the World, Шва Tor in ©«*1 1 ״ ио_! .G, ___________I ״ О___________ I ״Шл.м I ״«,«i hw rtc Cv״״!.„״״ n______________ Loya^Order of Moose.'^Edited and managed for the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, by its Executive Committee. Advertising Rates on Application Secretary JOHN W. FORD ־ Chairman RODNEY H. BRANDON Copyright, 1919 by Rodney H. Brandon We Now Have Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven Children at Mooseheart Subscription—50c per Annum. 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. For full information as tn the Loyal Order of Moose any of the lodges or units throughout the world, or Mooseheart, address the У SUPREME SECRETARY, MOOSEHEART, ILLINOIS Aged Brother Service Congratulations are due to the men and women of the Mooseheart Legion for their magnamimous act in constructing upon the MOOSEHEART Estate the beautiful building dedicated to opportunity service for the aged brothers of the great Moose family. It is not possible at this moment to tell as to just how this service will be administered, who will be the beneficiaries of it or what class of persons will come within its field of operations. However, that it is dedicated to furnishing an opportunity to aged brothers of this organization to live out their declinig years in peace and happiness, surrounded by the bénéficient atmosphere of Mooseheart is sufficient to merit its full approbation by the Legionaires. We wonder if the rank and file of men in the Loyal Order of Moose know what has been accomplished by the two branches of the Legion in the last four years. Without any investment of capital whatever from the Supreme Lodge or from any source other than the organization itself, these men and women in the Legion have in four years built up two societies numbering fifty or sixty thousand men and women; paid for the equipment of two complete organizations with ten thousand dollars worth of merchandise stock in new buildings and equipment at MOOSEHEART and are, today, operating without taking a penny of the money which the members contribute in their quarterly remittances for operating expenses. It is our feeling that in thus operating fraternal organizations without the collection of per capita tax contributions, the Legion has set the fraternal world a pace worthy of study by similar organizations. Of course, it must be conceeded that this would not have been possible if it had been for the fatherly regard and moral support of the great Moose Order, but we cannot commend too highly a business administration which can find the money to pay all its operating expenses from a tax upon new members and a legitimate profit upon the merchandise handled through it’s Central Office. The Regents of Mooseheart Legion are expending eleven hundred dollars per month in supervising, promoting and administering the four hundred and more Chapters of the Women of Mooseheart Legion and the one hundred and more Legions of the Second Degree. Yet this entire amount is paid from a portion of the initiation fees paid in by new affiliants and by merchandise profit. No one can estimate the supporting and enthusiastic value of this respectable army of men and women of the Legion. The time will soon come when no Lodge will he without its Chapter and no Lodge will be without a goodly percentage of second degree members. MOOSEHEART —г 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. Dönges, 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. P. S. D. Matthew P. Adams, Supt. Philadelphia. Pa. Mooseheart, Illinois when the shortage is discovered and every assistance rendered him to save himself by the return of the money, either in cash or in undeniably secure paper. If, however, after all fraternal effort has been made, the officer fails to settle, every effort should he expended to give him the severest possible punishment. This punishment should not he meted out in the spirit of revenge but rather from the broader view, namely; that it is necessary that such practices cease and the way to stop them is make every officer of this fraternity understand that if he takes money improperly from this organization he will be apprehended and if apprehended will either have to settle or pay thé penalty. While we do not know exactly how much money was handled through the bonded officers of this organization in the year of 1919, it is safe to say that is was not less than $7,500,0.00.00. The bonding company who carried the bond schedule paid out only a small fraction of 1 per cent in shortages and some of that, of course, has been and more will be returned by the men who committed offenses who are paying it back to escape the penalty of the law. This is a record which few fraternities could equal. If the same methods for detecting wrong doing are applied to them as in this organization will it not be the motto and watchword of our organization that no man may steal from the treasury of the lodges of this fraternity without paying the price therefor. Our Lodges must remember that they buy bonds for just one-half the rate charged if they bonded individually, lodge by lodge, from local agents. The x־ate is very low and may be maintained only if full co-operation in the apprehension is accorded the adjusters by the Lodge Officers. The Value of Publicity The Organization Department has been conducting an advertising campaign in Chicago, using the great Daily Newspapers of that city as a medium. Thousands of dollars were expanded with the primary thought of telling the ciizens of that community about the Moose and MOOSEHEART. The National result, however, is astonishing. Hundreds of letters were received from points three, four and five hundred miles away from Chicago. Thousands and thousands of men doubtless now know of the Moose, who never heard of it six months ago. To know MOOSEHEART is to be a Moose. Is it not true that this Fraternity as an International entity could well afford to expend tweny-five or fifty thousand dollars a year in making the world at large to know of our good works, and in knowing, become a part of it. ---------o-------- Congratulations Word just reaches the desk as we write that that mystic bird of most essential service, the _ stork, has once more entered the home of onr Director General and left therein a little lady who will be christened Jane Elizabeth Davis. To the home and the help mate of our leader all of us extend our heartiest good wishes and congratulations. It might not be amiss to comment that the young lady arrives at the brightest moment in the history of womanhood; at the time when the greatest nation on earth for the first time places the scepter of full citizenship into the hand of woman on the same plane as that of man. We trust that this young lady (who has already made her application for life membership in the Women of Mooseheart Legion) may, under the inspiration of her father’s life work, live and grow to take her place in the future citizenship of this great land. SUPREME LODGE OFFICERS Supreme Secretary RODNEY H. BRANDON Mooseheart. 111. Executive Committee JOHN \Y. 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. MARA EXE Rochester, N. Y. FRANK J. MONAHAN San Francisco, Calif. JOSEPH G. ARMSTRONG Pittsburgh, Pa. M. M. GARLAND Pittsburgh, Pa. JOHN VY. 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. DAVIS Pittsburgh. Pa. Supreme Dictator WM. F. BROEN1NG Baltimore. Ma. Past Supreme Dictator C. A. A. McGEE Oakland, tain. 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 OHAS. NEWTON Winnipeg. Canada LESTER W. BLOCH Albany, V T. .1 ,ALBERT CASSEDY, Baltimore. Mu. V Stealing Fraternal Money The question of misappropriation of funds in fraternities is a delicate one and as a rule doesn’t receive the publicity merited by its importance. There is so great a liklehood that the member who doesn’t think about the matter enough will take the position that if in any organization there is an occasional departure from honesty, that nothing should should be said about it because of the discredit it might bring. In other words, to change the figure of speech, there is the danger that the misappropriation of funds may become a carbuncle upon the neck of the fraternity which, when covered over with the silk handkerchief of secrecy will continue to give pain but when lanced by an expert hand will for a moment seem doubly unpleasant but later heal to a condition of permanent health. The men in the Loyal Order of Moose are no different from the men outside of it as to honesty and dependability. When as many as a half-million individuals are in anything the average becomes the average of the whole people. We are too big, therefore, to be classified or to suffer any criticism as to the honesty or dishonesty of our membership. If any fraternity of more than a quarter of a million members says that no misappropriation of funds ever takes place in that organization you may rest assured that it is either because such organization does not have mechanical means of discovering shortages or if it does discover them, takes the old fashioned position that it is disgraceful for such a thing to be known and simply drops the matter and allows the erring Brother to go upon his way with the spoils of his impropriety. The Moose has always set the pace and it occurs to us that it is about time to set a new one. Any man who will take for himself the money paid in for a fraternal association for the benefit of its fellows, not only automatically severs his connections with his act but he also deserves the unstitnt-ed condemnation of every man in the association. The record in the Moose is good, and is getting better each year, even though more acute auditing was resorted to in the bond year of 1919 than in the previous year. There were less shortages by three or four thousand dollars in 1919 than in the year previous. We confidently believe that the shortages of 1920 will be less yet and that by vigorous punishment of offenders and by a thorough understanding with every bonded officer that instead of' rallying to his support when he goes wrong that the severest punishment will be enforced, we will ultimately reach the mininum which will be negligible when considered along with the vast volume of money handled b!7 this organization. The attitude taken by the Supreme Secretary’s office in .the matter of shortages is that the utmost consideration should be shown defaulting officers