MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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of faith in mankind, visit MOOSBHEART!
Here in the “City of Childhood”, in the school that trains for life, where the Moose train the “Head, Heart and Hand,” you will get a vision that will send you forth a bigger, broader, better man.
If God had intended a man to go backward, He would have given him eyes in the back of his head. —Victor Hugo.
ALL ABOARD FOR TOLEDO
Now the Moose will go to Toledo.
Toledo has children at MOOSEHEART.
Toledo brethern always have been big-hearted and generous in their support of the “City of Childhood.”
Toledo, the city of “Golden Rule Sam Jones”.
Toledo, the home of the man, who tried in a factory city, of competition, to found a little of the “Kingdom of Good” thru social welfare and social justice.
Sam Jones established playgrounds and recreation centers.
If alive to-day, he would make the pilgrimage to MOOSEHEART and see a city, as he would have had Toledo and all cities, places of peace and happiness, and education for all—no riches and no poverty—real democracy, equal opportunities—the spirit of Christ—the genuine . religion of the “Fatherhood of God” and the “Brotherhood of Man.”
The thirty-third annual Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose will be held at Toledo, Ohio, the week of June 27th.
June 27—July 2 is the time!
Start getting ready!
Make your preparations now!
Don’t delay!
Make your hotel reservations now, as the Toledo hotels will have only 7,800 rooms available for the delegates, members of drill teams, ritualistic teams, bands, members of lodges and their families.
The Toledo Hotel Men’s Association has had a meeting and promises to take care of 7,800 persons and guarantees no increase in prices. They have quoted prices to Chris. F. Wall, of Toledo, Chairman of the Housing Committee.
The Hotel Men’s Association, working with the Toledo Lodge Housing Committee, will publish a pamphlet containing a list of all available rooming places in the city in preparation for the International Convention of the Moose. All pesons with rooms to rent will be listed. A tent city may be erected in Bay View Park.
There are already many requests for rooms and Toledo newspapers announce that the city is preparing for the biggest convention ever held there.
To give you an idea of the interest the Lodges are taking in the Convention we will mention some of the early reservations made:
Bellefontaine, Ohio, Lodge, Brother E. C. Curry states, expects that every member of the Lodge will attend the Convention.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Lodge is trying to organize a Morching Club of 3,000.
Philadelphia Lodge wants 200 rooms.
Greater Chicago Lodge has asked for 500 rooms. They will also send a glee club of 50.
Cincinnati Lodge, through Secretary Frank Anderson, has engaged 150 rooms and has hired a Toledo band.
Pittsburgh, through Fred Jones, has engaged 250 rooms and has hired a 65-piece Toledo band.
Johnstown, Pa., announces that it will be represented with a uniformed Marching Club and that it will have a snug amount of money to spend on the trip.
The Meriden, Conn., Lodge will send a good delegation, who are members of the Mooseheart Club.
Toledo is historical in all the word implies—right there is the beautiful Maumee, bowing through the city, navigable for the largest boats on the lake. In the suburbs of the city is Fort Miami, where Kentucky men gave their lives to the end that this country might be wrested from a foreign power. Down a little further on that magnificent river is Fort Meggs. Down a little further on the beautiful bay is where Perry sent that famous notice to his chief: “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
MOOSE MEAT
Health is wealth!
Genious is mostly hard work.
Face life with a smile.
The uneducated, the unprepared man is always placed at a great disadvantage. No matter how much natural ability one may have, if he is ignorant, he is discounted. It is not enough to possess ability; it must be developed by mental discipline.
Don’t suspect!
Don’t knock!
Don’t act little, or you will get little.
By helping, cheering, serving others, the great “Unsought” will come into your heart to enoble you, lift you up to a higher life.
Those who bring sunshine to other lives cannot keep it from their own.
Don’t forget to send your five dollars to the Endowment Fund! You will never miss it, but added with the other contributions will help toward the “Ten Million Dollar” goal.
THE “GOLDEN RULE” CITY
SOME years ago there lived in Ohio a strange and eccentric man.
He was a manufacturer.
He ran a factory.
He employed men.
He was rich.
He had a fine home.
Altho starting a poor boy, by the time he was a middle-aged man he was in a position to have and enjoy most all of the so-called “good things” of this material• world.
All this is very well, you say, but nothing unusual.
America is full of cities from five to five hundred thousand population, where there are factories, owned by men who were poor boys.
And we might add that some of these men, too many of these men, forget not only their boyhood, but also their poverty.
Of course it is not unusual to read the history of a moderately rich man.
Every town and city has its rich.
But this man was different!
After he had money, he wanted an education.
He had no illusions about general learning.
He realized that he had succeeded along one line, and had grown rich without being educated.
But he felt that he had missed something, that other men enjoyed books, and culture and art that he did not enjoy, that he did not even know anything about.
And he started reading, studying, learning!
He read economics, sociology, the Single Tax.
He reflected upon the problems of society.
He read again portions of the Bible.
He seemed to re-discover the “Golden Rule.”
Of course he had read it before, but had accepted it as most people do, as a text, an epigram, a beautiful sentiment.
But now it seemed more than a few words put together.
Instead of a text, the Golden Rule was a program. It was a chart fob a world at sea.
It was a guide for lost children on a dark road.
It was an inspiration, and a call to service for weak humanity in a world of selfish striving.
And this man had painted on a tin sign the words of the Golden Rule:—
“Whatsoever ye would have men do unto you, do ye even so unto them.”
He had the sign tacked up in his factory as a substitute for “shop rules.”
The next morning he woke up famous.
The newspapers of America told their readers about this strange .man who had an idea that the “Golden Rule” was a practical thing to be taken out of the Sunday School and put into the world of factories, and competition and business and politics.
“Golden Rule Sam Jones” was known the nation over.
He was elected Mayor of Toledo, Ohio.
_ The people wanted to try as their Chief Executive a man who had such infinite and unusual faith in human nature and in practical religion.
After his serviie as Mayor for a number of terms, one of his “boys,” Brand Whitlock, was elected Mayor.
Brand Whitlock, as Minister to Belgium, won a place in the hearts of all by his efforts for the suffering people of that stricken country.
“Golden Rule Sam Jones” is dead.
The world is still a place of sin and struggle and selfishness, with unsolved problems, unemployed workmen, oppressed people, and suffering, and in some countries starving women and children.
But here and there over the earth, there are men and places which inspire us on our way.
As we pointed out in the January issue of the Magazine, the world gets better.
There are lapses, periods of retrogression, but in the big sweep of things, there is a slow but certain onward move and forward urge.
At MOOSEHEART, we have a symbol of a better day.
Some men talk co-operation.
MOOSEHEART is the result of co-operation. Some men preach the “Golden Rule.” MOOSEHEART practices it.
If you want to feel better, if you want a rebirth
Let’s start this month a nation-wide, a continentwide pilgrimage to the “City of Childhood.”
Every day is visiting day.
From sunrise to sundown all the world is welcome.
Send a committee from your Lodge!
Make it up of brothers who have never made the pilgrimage here.
Raise a fund in your Lodge, to use for sending non-members here. Pick out your newspaper editor, one of your leading preachers or priests or rabbis, and a prominent business man, and say: “We are going to send you—all expenses paid—to MOOSEHEART. We want you to see with your own eyes, what we stand for, what we are doing, and what is really behind this Lodge in your town, that you don’t belong to, because you don’t understand, and words cannot tell you.”
When these men return to your town, even if they can’t tell it in words, there will be a shining light in their eyes, that will proclaim to men that they have made the greatest pilgrimage, caught a beautiful vision, and have come back with that joy in their hearts, which comes to all, who dedicate their lives and labors to human service.
The time will come when an able-bodied man who has the audacity, the presumption, to try to get all the good things out of the world and give nothing in return will be looked upon as a monstrosity, an enemy to civilization, and will be ostracised by all decent people.
THE ENDOWMENT FUND
TEN million dollars!
For the future!
From the members.
For the children!
Penny collections, five dollar bills, any amount! No one has to give—all Moose are asked.
This endowment fund means Mooseheart immortality.
Every good man gets it!
Every good institution deserves it! MOOSEHEART, the SCHOOL-HOME-CITY, must live forever.
This endowment fund means that in spite of everything, panic, depression, war, pestileince—• everything except the end of the world—that MOOSEHEART will never die.
Cut out the coupon in this issue, wrap up your five dollar bill, and get on the “Roll of Honor.”
WRITE THE EDITOR
־WTRITE the Editor what you like or dislike in , \\ the Magazine.
Tell what special Editorial or article appealed to you this month or last.
If some short Editorial struck you as good, get up and read it in your Lodge meeting, under the head of “For the good of the Order.”
Write what you would like to see more of in the Magazine, of what you would like to have left out.
Address your letter, “Editor Mooseheart Magazine,” Mooseheart, Illinois.
Moose literature is as essentia! to the life of a Lodge as food is to man; as fuel to fire; and as force is to motion.
LOSING AND FINDING YOUR LIFE
IF you lose your life you will find it.
And if y ־ try too hard to keep it just for yourself, you will lose it.
This is not the language, but it is the idea* in one of the parables of the “GREAT FRATERNALIST.” Happiness is not accidental, but is incidental! What you grab for, you miss!
People do not find happiness, by seeking it.
You can’t walk down the road to it, by walking toward it as striving for a goal.
The only human hearts that ever cherish joy, and the only human beings, who ever reach happiness are tho^e who do not work for it, or worry about getting it just for themselves.
There is only one road to happiness and joy and that peace that “passeth all understanding.” And that is the road down which the Good Samaritan walks, doing good, ministering unto others, living for humanity, serving God by serving men, women and children.
Don’t make a mistake, Brother Moose, and Sister Legionaire!
The more happiness you give, the more you get! The more you give away, the more you keep. Every time you divide it, you multiply it for yourself.
Forget about your troubles, real and fancied. Don’t gossip!
Don’t condemn!