MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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Childhood’s Greatest Opportunity
too late. Then they discover their life work it is too late to begin it. They are treading the tow path their parents placed them in or in which circumstances set their feet. But every one of them hopes his son may have a chance to express himself through his work.
Suppose that you and I, all of us, had two years in which to try various kinds of work to learn whether we liked and were adapted to it? Not that only but that we had three months’ trial at each of these kinds of work ? Three months are long enough for anyone to determine whether that is his work. Every MOOSEHEART boy has this chance. And this without any interruption of his school work.
He may begin with cement work. This is a growing vocation and a profitable one. For three months he spends two hours a day at the cement works in Machinery Hall. After three months he concludes that he doesn’t like cement work, but believes he would like to he a printer. There is a printing plant in Administration Hall. It is under the direction of a practical printer. The work is direct, for the printing^ plant gets out the monthly publication, The Mooseheart Magazine, and that prints every seven days the Mooseheart Weekly. The boy tries type-setting for three months. No. Printing is not for him. He is sent out to the dairy farm to study agriculture with the good looking instructor who has come from a four-years’ agricultural course in the university. Among the trades he chooses one, and_ for two years more perfects himself in it. Before he is graduated from MOOSEHEART he has found the trade by which he can earn his living in the great outside world.
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A Series of Impressions of Moosedom’s Philanthropy by Ada Patterson, of the New York Journal Staff.
THE BIRTH OF, and BATTLE FOR an IDEA
(CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTH)
How many men do you know who and in which they are most effective? are doing the work they want to do Many men have “found themselves”
Cement Modeling Class
They chose well the name for MOOSEHEART when they called it “The school that trains for life.”
All schools should train for life but few do. Said a prominent and loyal Moose: “We try to give a boy such an education that if he were dropped down at Broadway and Forty-Second Street he would know what to do.” Broadway and Forty-Second street is the busiest intersection of city streets in the world. Street cars and limousines dash past in a steady stream uninterrupted save for the raised, mandatory hand of the traffic policeman. Men, women and children cross it in a stream as steady. They pass with intent faces and cool eyes, the cool, impersonal eyes of the East, absorbed in their own business of the moment. The stranger who nears the curb is startled by the crowd, appalled by the unceasing roar of the city’s throbbing main arteries. It is as though he were suddenly to hear the throb of a monster’s giant heart. Imagine a clear eyed,' pink cheeked, broad-shouldered, firm-muscled boy— that is, the kind of boys they rear at MOOSEHEART—set down a stranger on the shore of this human Niagara and told to shift for himself.
It is a test of any mind, any character, but I believe the MOOSEHEART boy could meet it. Right education teaches a man how and where to find what he wants to know and how to meet a crisis. It trains him to “be calm under fire.”
At MOOSEHEART a boy is taught to “find himself.” Which means that he is helped to discover the work for which he is best fitted. Every man’s job is born with him. MOOSEHEART leads a boy to find that job in which he will be happiest and most useful to the world.

From Soldier to Judge, Mooseheart Governor Honored
Eminent Camden Lawyer Appointed by Governor to Succeed Judge Howard B. Carrow. Career of Honored Activity
In February, 1918, he became a member of the planning staff of Major General George W. Goethals, quarter-master-general and assistant chief of staff. From March to May he was assistant chief of administration in the office of General Goethals. As such he was director of the purchase, storage and traffic division of the general staff.
When he entered the army he accepted the commission as lieutenant-colonel. As a member of war department’s board of appraisers it was his duty to conduct proceedings and make awards for compensation for property of every character which was commandeered, or produced under compulsory process for the war department. The total awarded by this board aggregated millions of dollars worth of war materials.
He personally conducted trials and wrote opinions in more than 250 cases before the board of appraisers.
When Camden Lodge of Moose was organized, Mr. Donges became its first dictator. Under his direction the lodge developed until today it is one of the strongest of that organization in the entire country, having more than 6,000 members. He soon became identified with the national body, being elected supreme dictator and in that capacity going all over the country. He is at present a member of the supreme lodge, and is a Mooseheart governor.
Past Supreme Dictator Donges installed as officers of Philadelphia Lodge No. 54, L. O. O. M., last Sunday, Dictator John W. Ford, Vice-Dictator Harry W. Mace, Treasurer John McAdams and Prelate John Cliffe. Officers of that lodge, on Tuesday night, passed resolutions of congratulation, upon his elevation to the bench.
of the national guard committee and a member of the executive committee of the Camden public safety committee. He was also a member of a special war committee of five of the national association of the public utility commissioners of the United States, dealing with utility problems growing out of the war.
active part, having for years been prominently identified with the national guard, rising from second lieutenant of Company C, to captain and quartermaster of the regiment, a position he held from 1905 to 1913.
From May 29, 1917, to• May 1, 1918, he was chairman of the Camden city draft board No. 2, as well as chairman
(From “Trades Union News,” published at Camden, N• J.)
One of the most important of the appointments made by Governor Edwards of New Jersey was that of Colonel Ralph W. E. Donges, of Camden, to succeed Howard B. Carrow as judge of the circuit court comprising the counties of Burlington, Salem, Atlantic, Gloucester and Cape May.
This is the post over which there had been a good deal of factional strife. Colonel Donges was a former member of the utility commission and served throughout the war in the judge advocate general’s department at Washington.
Born at Donaldson, Pa., May 5, 1875, Ralph W. E. Donges has been a resident of Camden and identified with its activities most of his life. He is the son of Dr. John W. Donges, a member of the city board of assessors and for over a generation one of the best known physicians in Camden.
Educated at a private school and graduating from Rugby Academy in 1892, he read law with former Judge John W. Wescott, being admitted to the bar at the February term, 1897, and receiving his counsellor’s degree three years later. He has practiced law since, having offices at Third and Market streets with his brother, Raymond I. Donges.
Always identified with the democratic party, he was appointed a member of the public utility commission on February 19, 1913, by Governor Wilson. He was elected president of that body and won an enviable reputation for his fairness and his grasp of the many knotty problems that confronted that body.
His term would have expired iu 1919, but at the outbreak of the war with Germany he at once took a very