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CLOSE THE DOOR
' you too much worry.
Don’t worry!
Don’t fret!
Don’t anticipate evil!
Most of our troubles never come!
Most of our accidents never happen.
These are creatures of an unhealthy imagination.
Don’t fear anything!
If you make the right preparation there will be no need to be afraid.
A plan is better than fear.
A little thinking now is better than worrying later.
Protect your children by joining the Moose.
What is past is done.
“The mill cannot grind the water that has passed.”
Nor can you do anything with the time that has gone by.
The sand that has run through your life’s hourglass cannot run through again.
We can do nothing with the past except to profit by its lessons.
Always take a pleasant thought to bed with you because you build character while you sleep.
Your dominant thought when you fall asleep will work in your brain during the night, and you will awaken in the morning, cheerful, strong, resolute to win out during the day; or depressed, weak, negative, hopeless, according to the nature of the thought you took to sleep with you.
Take habit into partnership!
Form the habit of radiating sunshine and good cheer.
Put it in your job, into your home, into your lodge, into your life!
Start right!
And right away!
Draw nothing over the threshold of the New Year which will cause you pain and regret.—Orison Swett Marden.
WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE
the Memorial Hospital at MOOSEHEART. In the past two years this one Lodge has paid into MOOSEHEART and the Supreme Lodge more than a quarter of a million dollars.
Here comes another! Upon the occasion of a recent visit to MOOSEHEART, made by Brother Albert H. Ladner, William Abrahams and several other members of Philadelphia Lodge, Brother Ladner, who is Great North Moose of Philadelphia Legion, told the assembly that Philadelphia Legion would supply new uniforms for the Mooseheart Band.
During a recent conference of the officers of Philadelphia Legion it was discovered that the Legidn treasury would not be in condition for some time to come to make good the promise of Brother Ladner. At this point, Brother William Abrahams called the conference to a close by asserting that he and his father. Brother Simon Abrahams, would supply the uniforms free of charge to the Legion and the Legion would receive the credit for the gift. The proposition was gratefully accepted with the exception that those present mentally decided that credit should be given to these big-hearted, generous, loving Moose, Brothers Simon and William Abrahams.
The original uniforms worn by the cadets at MOOSEHEART were a present from the same brothers some years ago. It seems that these two big-hearted Moose cannot do too much for the-students at MOOSEHEART.
God bless MOOSEHEART—AND—God bless Simon and William Abrahams.
No man is ever better than he wants to be.
-Our happiest moments are when we forget self in useful effort.
THE CITY OF CHILDHOOD
IT IS the Mecca of the Moose!
It is the Order’s sacred shrine!
It is the “City Beautiful,” the “City Fraternal,” the “City Beloved,” the “City of Childhood”.
It is a city built with a vision and with a plan.
It is a HOME-SCHOOL-CITY, ■where under the guidance of every PARENT-GOVERNOR, each CITIZEN-SCHOLAR has “Head, Heart and Hand” trained for the Battle of Life.
With its own Post Office, established and oper-' ated by the Federal Government; with its own railroads connecting it with the outside and so-called “normal” world of struggle and strife, and competition and war, and sin and ignorance, and slums and poverty—MOOSEHEART is the only City in the world dedicated and maintained for the single purpose of housing, educating, developing and caring for boys and girls from the tenderest ages to the period of maturity.
To prevent is better than to cure; to form is better than to reform, and to ever permanently change the world for the better, we must start with the child.—James J. Davis.
THE WORLD WILL COME
AW7T5 HAVE nine hundred and eighty-six chil-VV dren, fifty mothers and seven aged members ־ at MOOSEHEART._
A noted philosopher said that if you can write a better book, preach a better sermon, ot make a better mouse trap than anyone else, that even if your house be in the wilderness, the world will make a beaten track to your door.
MOOSEHEART is the world’s FIRST city for children.
It is the world’s ONLY “City of Childhood”.
We hope others, in various ways and many places can help to conserve childhood.
Especially do we appeal to educators, administrators, statesmen and economists to think of this in a day ,and during a winter when millions of little lives;—all innocent victims of a world catastrophe—will be wiped out by starvation, pestilence and disease.
The Loyal Order of Moose is rendering a service that men and women can get in no other place.
No other organization, in all the history of men, has ever been able to pledge that if death comes it will take the dependent normal children of the members and care for them, feed them, educate them, give them a trade, a high school education, and send them forth to do their share in the world, with trained minds, skilled hands, and love for God and man in their hearts.
Mooseheart is an oasis in a desert of selfishness; a guiding star pointing the way to a higher road; a paradise-city of childhood, happiness and peace in a world of bickerings and strife.
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WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE
ERE is some medicine prescribed by Abraham Lincoln after the Civil War, which we think would be a good tonic for our war-weary, war-sick, debt-burdened world of today.
Abraham Lincoln said:
“With malice toward none;
With charity for all;
With firmness in the right,
As God gives us to see the right,
Let us strive to finish the work We are in;
To bind up the nation’s wounds;
To care for him,
Who shall_ have bourne the battle,
And for his widow And his orphan—
To do all which may achieve and cherish A just and lasting peace,
Among ourselves,
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Don’t forget your State Building Fund.
Send the flowers when the man gets well, instead of when he doesn’t.
“Experience with life gives a man charity fo: all.”
The mouth indicates the flesh; the eye the soul.
Success is ten per cent opportunity and ninety per cent hard work.
“To me,” says J. Ogden Armour, “every man who enters our employ is an investment. If he fails to grow, to advance, he is a bad investment, and We are the losers.”
There is more said in Scripture about the generosity of the widow and her two mites than about all the rest of the givers in Hebrew history.
Taste is the test of the mind.
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
The big reward is not for the man who will lighten our burdens, but for him who will give us strength to carry them.
Two necessities in doing a great and important work: A definite plan and limited time.
THE GREAT FRATERNALIST
FEBRUARY 12th is his birthday!
Kentucky was his birthplace.
In southern Indiana he grew to manhood.
In central Illinois he ran for the legislature, studied law, was elected to Congress, and from the then country town of Springfield went to the White House.
He differed with many men, but never hated any man.
He had infinite patience.
He had deep understanding into human hearts. He knew how to get men who did not like him, and who did not like each other, to work with him and with each other for the good of the country.
Executive, debater, orator, lawyer, champion of the common people, Abraham Lincoln was above all a friend of man, a lover of children, a greathearted, far-sighted brother of mankind—a real fraternalist.
He preached fraternalism and also practised it. He lived in a day and in an environment, where the words “neighbor,” “friend,” and “brother” were understood.
Lincoln was at home in the corner store forum, and in the great fraternal lodge room, under the big blue dome, found at stump-speakings, barbecues, picnics and rallies.
He liked to be with people, talk with them, exchange views, give advice and take counsel.
Abraham Lincoln was a fraternalist in the best sense of the word.
He wanted to help others help themselves.
He would have made a true, loyal Moose.
He would have joined with President-elect Harding, Vice-President Marshall, Governor Lowden, Senator Hiram Johnson, Senator Arthur Capper, Albert Bushnell Hart and others of the nation’s “good and great” in praising MOOSEHEART and the work being done there for the children of today and the citizenship of tomorrow.
Lincoln’s life and deeds, his great love and tender heart, his romantic rise from “Railsplitter to President of the Republic”—all that he did and wrought makes him very dear to all Americans, and to the common people of all the world, who should he inspired by his life to look up, never lose faith, always be kind and live and die for humanity.
“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower, wherever I thought a flower would grow.”—Abraham Lincoln.
HEARTS AND FLOWERS
AV THEN Abraham Lincoln said he wanted to W pluck thistles and plant flowers, he meant he was against misery and cruelty, and for kindness and service.
Every kind word, every gracious act, every encouraging smile is a fewer that will cheer some human heart, and uplift some struggling pilgrim on life’s highway.
Life is a long walk, and for many a hard one.
Poverty, sorrow, misunderstanding, ignorance, all these come into many lives.
We Moose have banded together to PLUCK “thistles” and PLANT “FLOWERS.” ■
MOOSEHEART is our biggest “flower garden.”
Here we make the most hearts happy, and the most lives strong.
Let us remember the “Endowment Fund” and all our various activities in behalf cf humanity.
Scatter the flowers now for you will not walk this road again.
OUR MOOSEHEART GARDEN
PROTESTANT and Catholic, Jew and Gentile, North and 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.
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, make MOOSEHEART vocational educational work one of the most fascinating fields ever offered to men and women of heart and vision.
Giving alms has made some men paupers; helping men to help themselves is constructive; forming children into useful citizens is the world’s greatest work.
The fellow who bears his burden cheerfully, finds his burden lighter.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Health and happiness can only be found out of doors.
Most- people spend so much time in getting a living that they have no time to live.