;lass 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 3, 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• Edited and managed for the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, by its Executive Committee. Advertising Bate9 on Application txecuiive committee. JOHN W. FORD ־ Chairman RODNEY H. BRANDON ־ Secretary Copyright, 1919 by Rodney H. Brandon Subscription—50c per Annum. We Now Have Eight Hundred and Fifty-Two Children at Mooseheart Voi, VI Mooseheart, III, Oct. 1920 No. 10 V®1 , . jTU THE LOYAL ORCER 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 to the Loyal Order of Moose any of the lodges or units throughout the world, or Mooseheart, address the SUPREME SECRETARY, MOOSEHEART, ILLINOIS MOOSEHEART GOVERNORS E. J. Henning, P. S. D. San Diego, Calif. Albert Bushnell Hart Cambridge, Mass. Wm. F. Broening Baltimore, Md. Rodney H. Brandon, Sec’y Mooseheart, Illinois Matthew P. Adams, Supt. Mooseheart, Illinois James J. Davis, Chairman Pittsburgh, Pa. John J. Lentz Columbus, Ohio Ralph W. E. Donges, P. S. D. Camden, N. J. Arthur Capper Topeka, Kansas John W. Ford. P. S. D. Philadelphia, Pa. These boys and girls, young, eager, full of buoyancy and life and red blood and undirected energy, are as different and as varied as the myriad shades and shapes and fragrance of the flowers of a beautiful garden, and the very differences between them, some gifted for one thing and some for another, makes Mooseheart vocational educational work one of the most fascinating fields ever offered to men and women of heart and vision. For the first ten or twelve years of life the human plant needs sunshine and fresh air more than books and schooling.—Luther Burbank. The Junior Order SUPREME LODGE OFFICERS Executive Committee Chairman JOHN W. FORD, P. S. D. Philadelphia, Pa. E. J. HENNING, P. S. D. Sau Diego, Cal. M. M. GARLAND, P. S. D. Pittsburgh, Pa. Supreme Council W. A. McGOWAN Chicago, Illinois WILLARD A. MARAKLE Rochester, N. Y. FRANK J. MONAHAN San Francisco, Calif. JOSEPH G. ARMSTRONG Pittsburgh, Pa. M. M. GARLAND, P. S. D. Pittsburgh, Pa. C. A. A. McGEE, P. S. D. Oakland, Calif. ANTONIO P. ENTENZA Detroit, Mich. J. ALBERT CASSEDY Baltimore, Md. Supreme Forum Chief Justice E. E. TANNER, P. S. D. Columbus, Ohio Associate Justices EDWARD L. BRADLEY Omaha, Neb. ALBERT H. LANDER, JR. Philadelphia, Pa. NORMAN G. HE YD Toronto, Canada J. EDWARD KEATING San Diego, Calif. Supreme Lecturer WM. TRICKET GILES Baltimore, Md. Director General JAMES J. DAVIS Pittsburgh, Pa. Supreme Dictator DARIUS A. BROWN Kansas City, Mo. Past Supreme Dictator WM. F. BROENING Baltimore, Md. General Dictator GEO. N. WARDE Mooseheart, 111. Supreme Vice-Dictator JAMES F. GRIFFIN Boston, Mass. Supreme Prelate j. W. PIERSON Dallas. Texas Supreme Treasurer HARRY W. MACE _ Pliiladelohia, Pa. Supreme Sergeant-at-Arms A. C. BALL . Alliance, Ohio Supreme Inner Guard DAVID B. PETERSON Camden, N. J. Supreme Outer Guard CALEB A. HEILIG Winston-Salem, N. C. Supreme Trustees CHAS. NEWTON Winnipeg, Canada LESTER W. BLOCH Albany, N. Y. SAMUEL G. HART New Orleans La. Supreme Secretary RODNEY H. BRANDON . Mooseheart, Illinois a new field. Our work is no longer an experiment, but an established and recognized system that will have its influence upon our entire American public school system. “If men ever work out the race’s salvation, it will be because a little child has led them.”—David Starr Jordan. Vocational Education Director General Davis in his report to the Convention told us of the great conference of educators called together to discuss the Mooseheart Plan of Vocational Training. Vocational experts and trained school men from all over America were summoned to make suggestions and give advice as to how the Mooseheart educational system could be improved. These men represented many schools and colleges and when they heard the story of Mooseheart, and learned the details of our work here, it was their unanimous opinion that they had gotten much to take home to their various communities, and that they could offer nothing different or new to change or improve the work being done at the “School That Trains For Life.” The greatest monument that any man or organization can leave is something that will bless and serve humanity. State Buildings The dedication of the Memorial Hospital which Philadelphia Lodge built under the leadership of John W. Ford, P. S. D., has inspired many organizations to get busy and sponsor a building for Mooseheart. The sites have been chosen for state buildings for Indiana, West Virginia, New Jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois have voted to be represented. Rochester, New York, Lodge will have a building all of its own. The Pennsylvania Lodges are raising $150,000.00 for a group of five buildings to be known as the “Pennsylvania Baby Village.” Everything, the buildings, furniture, equipment, walks, will be of the right size for the little tots, and this will be one of the most interesting and most unique sights at Mooseheart. Already the Pennsylvania lodges have sent in ?35,000.00. I love children. They do not prattle of yesterdays their interests are all of today and the tomorrows.—Mansfield. Get your boy and your neighbor’s boy in the Junior Order of Moose! It is the great recruiting ground for the Moose of tomorrow. These boys will be the men and Moose in whose hearts will be carried the beautiful teachings, and whose lives will exemplify the Moose religion of the “Fatherhood of God,” and the “Brotherhood of Man.” The child reads your motives as no other human being reads them. He sees into your heart. The child is the purest, truest thing in the world.—■ Judge Ben Lindsey. Don’t Go to Sleep A real fraternalist must not only be friendly but also busy! You can’t help people just by thinking about it. Wanting to do something isn’t doing it. Intending to doesn’t get you anywhere. You thought about sending in $5.00 for the Mooseheart Endowment Fund, but you just thought about it. You intended to speak to that fellow, who works next to you at the shop and who needs Mooseheart protection because he has three little boys and two girls. But you haven’t spoken to him! Don’t go to sleep, Brother! The Moose needs that friend of yours, but he needs the Moose more. Tell him to get in the defending circle, so that if he should drop out, the gap would be closed by loyal brothers, and the children protected and safeguarded, and given the greatest thing that men can give to men—an education—so that the child can be helped to help himself. “I want every child to have a High School education and a trade.”—James J. Davis. Child Culture If there is ever to be a happier, better world it will come, not by the reformation of the old, but by the forming and moulding and proper culture of the children of the race. Whenever anybody, anywhere, in any organization or institution, contributes in the smallest way to the care and culture and training of children that man has rendered a real service to civilization. Mooseheart is more than a city; it represents a new educational program. The Moose are trail blazers! We are pioneers in The Human Stairstep “The Human Stairstep” would be a very good title for the picture on the front of the magazine this month. This picture answers the question, asked hundreds of times: “What are the ages of the children at Mooseheart 1 ” Children are admitted here in our “City of Childhood” even before they are born. We have had several unfortunate mothers, whose husbands were taken away by death and these mothers have been brought to Mooseheart and their children have been born here in the home and vocational school where they will live and get their education and, upon graduating from the Mooseheart High School, go forth into the world with heads, hearts and hands trained for the tasks of life. In this little picture this month, which can be very well described as the “Human Stairstep,” you can see with your own eyes the actual pictures of just a few of the 852 boys and girls, who are making their home here, protected and maintained by our ever increasing “defending circle.” One of the finest things any man ever did is to devote a reasonable amount of time to ascertaining what is good in his neighbors and telling others about it. Are Men Smarter Than Women? This is a question often discussed, with the men saying one thing and the women thinking another. Professor Starch of the University of Wisconsin says that while there are some differences between the mental traits and emotional tendencies of men and women, that these differences are much smaller than people generally believe. This is good Moose doctrine! There is far more difference between people of the same sex than there is any fundamental difference between the two sexes. Here at Mooseheart we believe the heads and hearts and hands of all can be trained for great services and high ideals. Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentile, North or South, East or West, from all creeds and states, the children of our brothers, girls and boys, are reared in the religious faith of their parents, given a high school education and taught a useful trade.