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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. 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 8, 1918. Issued monthly from its oifice 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
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We Now Have Eight Hundred and Forty Children at Mooseheart £0		
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THE LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
The Loyal Order of Moose is art 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 [and, thirty-five miles west from Chicago on the Fox River, between the cities of Aurora and Batavia, lliinois. 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.
״ Jhe educational features are highly vocational and prac-tical. 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 Ordef of Moose any of the lodges or units throughout the world, or Mooseheart, address the
SUPREME SECRETARY, MOOSEHEART, ILLINOIS
and where the_ task of each hour is not fulfillment, but the promise of greater woik, yet to be done, when Spring matures into Summer, and Summer passes into Fall with its larger duties and fruitful harvests.
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Progress
The summary of the Lodge report^ for the period ending April 30th, 1920, shows a substantial gain for the months of February, March and April. The membership of the "Order on January 31st which was the basis of the reports! to the Supreme Convention was 537,103. The figures on April 30th show 546,849, a net gain of 9,746 members in three ־months.
New York wins the palm for the best showing in the three months, having a net increase of 2,310. Ohio comes next with an increase of 1,770; Massachusetts third with 1,542, while Indiana, Michigan and New Jersey have a horse race for fourth place; Indiana winning with 987; 970 in Michigan and 968 in New Jersey.
Other States which showed a net gain during the three months were Arizona, California, Canada, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota. Mississippi, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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Greetings
Speaking for the whole membership of the Loyal Order of Moose, we extend fraternal greetings to our Supreme Dictator, Brother Darius A. Brown, who assumes that high office on September 1st.
Brother Brown is well equipped for the duties and responsibilities of Supreme Dictator by training and experience. A lawyer by profession. Service rendered the people of his home city while occupying the office of Mayor. Long and continued service as Dictator of his Lodge and years of active membership in the Supreme Council is a preparation such as few men who assume important positions are blessed with.
We may add to the above the statement that Brother Brown 'is full of the vigor which comes from an abiding belief in the cause which he represents. He is an enthusiastic Moose'"who believes in the Order and its principles, and his whole heart and soul is •full to overflowing with his love for MOOSEHEART.
And so we greet you, Supreme Dictator Brown, and predict that your term of office will be a progressive and successful one. May you guide this great Order so that its message of “Service” shall appeal to all men.
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, P. S. D.	Matthew P. Adams, Supt.
Philadelphia, Pa.	Mooseheart, Illinois
promise to turn out well. We will have to harvest fifty-two acres of barley, two hundred and ten acres of corn, one hundred and sixty-four acres of oats, thirty-seven acres of rye, and one hundred and sixty-six acres of hay.
We have now, in our barns, "one hundred and ninety tons of heavy hay, and still have forty acres more to put up. As hay is now worth $30.00 a ton, our hay harvest is quite profitable and is the biggest hay crop we have ever had at MOOSEHEART, the total harvest amounting to two hundred and fifty-five tons.
We are growing vegetables on forty-five acres and sweet corn on ten acres.
We now have fifty-eight pure bred and'twenty-cne grade Holstein cows, which are regularly given the tuberculin test and are free from the dreadful plague.
We have thirty-eight work horses, which include thirteen pure bred mares. There are twenty-one colts in the pasture, seven of which will be broken for work next spring.
We have thirty-two Berkshire brood sows and thirty pigs. Last May we bought fifty-five feeding hogs at an average weight of one hundred and n:ne pounds. The middle of July we sold thirty-three of them at an average weight of two hundred and thirty-seven pounds, and with a gross profit of $651.62.
We have thirty-eight sheep and ten lambs.
We have eight hundred and fifty hens„ six hundred and eighty-five little chicks, nine Emden geese, twenty old ducks, fifty young ducks, and fifty pigeons.
At our cannery we are putting up enough stock of canned vegetables to supply MOOSEHEART until the summer" of 1921. We are canning string beans and carrots and a little later we will can beets, tomatoes, kraut, spinach and pumpkin.
During the hot-house season we have had eleven benches filled with tomatoes. There has been an average of two hundred plants per bench. The seed Was sown in February and in May we began to harvest the ripe fruit. We have also grown a great number of plans for MOOSEHEART’S gar-, den, all ferns and flowers for the hall and dormitories, park and outside sales. We also had three benches of carnations planted last September that began flowering in November and are still producing well. These bring good prices.
Farm Advisor John Evans says that there is not a certified herd in the State that will excel ours; that our horses look, the best thafthey nave ever looked, and that our crops are in excellent condition.	'	■v
We realize that while several conventions have been held at MOOSEHEART and while there is a daily stream of visitors from all parts of this and other countries, that still there are thousands of our members who have never seen our “City of Childhood,” and that therefore these details of life at MOOSEHEART may he interesting to them.
Of course our greatest pride and our biggest work is the physical, mental, and spiritual care of the eight hundred and twenty-seven children already here.
All life is related and all growth and development whether vegetable, animal, material or human, is miraculous and wonderful.
And there is no place in all the world where the eye of man can witntess, with the changing seasons, so much budding and blooming and developing life as at MOOSEHEART, with our fields and herds and flowers and children.
It is an inspiration to any man or woman to be engaged, in even the humblest way, in this great work, in this beautiful city, amid these inspiring scenes, where dreams are coming true every day,
SUPREME LODGE OFFICERS
Supreme Secretary
RODNEY H. BRANDON Mooseheart111 ״. 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
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. DAVIS
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. BAI/L
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,
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Nature’s Miracles at Mooseheart
Growth is the greatest miracle of life.
We are taught that in the physical world nothing new is ever created, and that nothing old is ever destroyed. The leaves drop in the Fall, become a part of the earth, from which the roots bring in nourishment which goes up through the tree in sap, and when Spring comes we have again the leaves and buds and blossoms.
There has been change but not destruction.
There is something in the changing seasons like life itself. Dawn and dusk; winter and spring; life and death; the shadow of the night and the glorious morn of resurrection.
Spring is the hope that never dieY in the heart of man. Come to MOOSEHEART! If you can not buy a ticket, and get on a train, take a mental trip. Lay back in your chair, shut your eyes; and picture the Fox River Valley, a thousand-acre farm, more than eight hundred happy, laughing, playing, working, aspiring, growing, learning children, at^ the world’s greatest institution of vocational education, where there is taught the use and co-ordination of head and hand and heart.
Picture MOOSEHEART in the Spring. Thg old winter dying, the sap and bud and blossom and life and resurrection of Spring doming. The feeling of warm, promising breezes, and the kindly sun of spring here, and all about you children with eager eyes and ready hands and pulsing hearts, and the faces of the young, eager, expectant—lives yet to make, careers to plan, characters to build, talents to train. Youth, the spring-time of life, Youth and MOOSEHEART to do it for them.
All about you besides the children the green grass, the shady trees, the growing crops and the lowing herds. Everywhere growing things, symbolizing the developing and the evolving City׳ of Childhood, that in seven years, as if by the waving of a magic wand, has sprung out of the very earth itself in the Fox River Valley, and we call it MOOSEHEART because it symbolizes the work and love and dreams of over a half-million men and women and, now too, young men in the Junior Order of Moose, who have dedicated their lives to humanity and to giving Moose service to the world.
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Crops at Mooseheart
MOOSEHEART has a practical side. Besides industrial training, MOOSEHEART shops manufacture products, that art useful and beautiful; and MOOSEHEART acres produce crops that are needed in this day of transportation breakdown, and food shortage, with the high cost of living, and a hungry world clamoring for food.
In spite of the late spring, our crops this year