MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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thinks of all he has had to fight and suffer—his struggles with poverty and ignorance, his battle with life every step of the hard, long way.
All these bitter, trials may come to his children, to put grey into their golden hair, and wrinkles into their fine, fresh, fair, eager, young faces.
His dream becomes a nightmare!
His hope for their future turns to ashes in his heart!
Suppose he and “mother” should be called by Death!
What of the children?
What of their future, their education, their lives, their very souls ?
He is sick, heart-broken, if the dream, the “castle in the air” is all he has.
And every pilgrim that ever walked the grim, hard path of life, has looked into the skies beyond the hills and dreamed dreams for his children; has had visions for these God-sent messengers, which are to bear his blood and life and hopes and aims and weaknesses and strength down the ages of time, thru the portals of immortality.
Be he shepherd of ancient land, or toiler of the “here and now,” he is a pilgrim, a dreamer, a builder of “air castles.”
But in this modern time there are six hundred thousand men, who have bound themselves, as brothers, to make the pilgrimage.
They, too, have a shrine.
In the dawn of early morning and the dusk of starry night, they look not toward Mecca, but toward Mooseheart!
Instead of dreams in their minds, they have purpose written on their faces.
Instead of castles in the air, they have them on God’s firm permanent earth.
Instead of a dream for their children they have a plan.
Instead of a mere “hope for their future,” they have a program—a great institution.
Their castles already are builded!
Their children already are provided for, should the angel of death take away the support and care and love of the parents.
Hope does not die in their hearts, dreams do not turn to nightmares!
Words of brotherhood on their lips do not crumble into dust!
They are Moose!
They have Mooseheart!
Conceived in the minds of Moose, cherished in the hearts of Moose, builded by their myriad hands, Mooseheart stands a foe of poverty, superstition and ignorance, the temple of fraternity and love, the protector of childhood, the great mother training, moulding and directing the future fatherhood and motherhood and citizenship of the people of the world.
THE SACRED HOUR QF NINE
LL Moose know what nine o’clock means.
Whether in Lodge or not, never let this hour pass without a thought of the little ones at
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MOOSEHEART.
Think of them!
Let a silent prayer abide in your heart.
Rededicate yourself to their service.
Thank God for life and love; for your own children, and don’t be content until every friend and neighbor you have is enrolled in the ranks of the only fraternity that is built and operated around the idea of Child Conservation.
ENTHUSIASM
Armour & Company, says:
Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality.
It is the power that moves the world.
There is nothing comparable to it in the things which it can accomplish.
We can cut through the hardest rocks with a diamond drill.
We can melt steel rails with a flame!
We can tunnel through mountains.
We can change and control the very laws of nature by our science.
But there is no power in the world that can cut through another man’s mental opposition, except PERSUASION!
And persuasion is reason plus ENTHUSIASM, with the emphasis on ENTHUSIASM!
Enthusiasm is the art of high persuasion.
If you would like to be a power among men, cultivate enthusiasm.
Put your soul into your work!
You will not only find it pleasanter every hour of the day, but people will believe in you just as they believe in electricity when they get in touch with a dynamo.
“I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.”— Danied Deronda.
THE MOOSE RELIGION
1 CANNOT endure the thought that religious men should be less free, less joyful, less versatile than anybody else. I want a religious man to be one that is, at heart, truly upright; but more than this, I want that he should be one who shall g׳o on with more aptitude of life, with more cheerfulness, with more happiness-producing power, than anybody else in the community.—Henry Ward Beecher.
The first rule for driving a nail into a board is to get your eye on the nail..—•Holman.
WHY THE MOOSE WIN
IF you are doing things, which in some way benefit the race, contribute to its welfare; then your career is in tune with the Infinite Plan. You are co-operating with the Creator in the Team Work of the race. You are a Success!—Orison Swett Marden.
BRIEF FACTS FOR BUSY MOOSE
Chicago now has a populaion of 150,000 Negroes. Of this number more than 90,000 arrived from the South during the war.
Truck gardening as a means of livelihood is being followed in France by a number of former Russian nobles and princes who have fled there for safety.
We now have 569 boys and 461 girls at Mooseheart.
The navy is beginning to sink wells in a search for oil in the navy reserve land of California. The oil will be used as a fuel for the ships.
Texas is going to build a state owned and managed cement plant. A shortage in cement has been felt for a long time, and private interests did not catch up with the demand.
As a memorial to General Gorgas, who cleaned up the disease conditions in the Panama Canal Zone, it is planned to erect in Panama an institute for the study of tropical diseases.
The boys and girls at Mooseheart represent 20 states of the Union.
The flag of D’Annunzio, the Italian Jew who rules Fiume, is red, with gold stars and a serpent on it.
Although he strongly opposed giving the ballot to women, Cardinal Gibbons says that now that they have it they must use it.
The penny collection for the first four months has brought in one hundred and fifty thousand pennies for the Endowment Fund.
A French scientist advises tiptoeing for a few minutes each day as the best exercise for keeping in good health and prolonging life.
While American papers were carrying front page photographs and stories of the Lord Mayor of Cork, European newspapers devoted short items in obscure positions of the papers.
One sister sent to the Endowment Fund money received from making and selling a Moose pillow top.
The World’s largest crane is in the Philadelphia navy yard. It can lift a load of 350 tons.
Legion ladies are organizing sewing circles and selling their work for the Endowment Fund.
Coal in commercial quantities is found in 28 of the states and territories of the United States.
Two brothers sent to the Endowment Fund the money they came home with from the “rhummy” game.
CASTLES IN THE
LIFE is a pilgrimmage!
Whether man be shepherd of olden time, or workman of the present, he is a pilgrim—-dreaming dreams, building “castles in the air.” Little ones hold him by the hand.
He leads them and guides them, loves them and keeps them, sees visions and dreams dreams.
When the labor of day finds him weary, he thinks of them.
Exhausted by toil in office, shop, mine, mill and field, hope for them refreshes his weary soul and tired body.
When he fails, he dreams of their success!
When middle age finds many of his hopes unrealized, he thinks of their future.
When his plans go wrong he dreams of their careers.
He builds “castles in the air,” just dreams, but heart born visions of a fuller, richer, better life for them.
But they are only “air castles.”
That is the tragedy of it!
They are dreams, beautiful, but transitory.
They are in the air, not on the ground.
They are in the mind, not actual realities.
They come and go, sooth the heart at one minute, and torture and twist it the next.
Heart-burning comes when our modern pilgrim
about twenty jobs and had his office in a temporary frsniG shciclv
When MOOSEHEART was just a big farm, dairy barn, farm house, silo—that was all.
MOOSEHEART ACHIEVEMENTS
FOUR million dollars invested!
A city of beauty, utility and service. Permanent buildings of concrete, with Spanish red-tiled roofs.
Over one thousand children on the thousand-acre farm.
A farm transformed into the most unique School-Home-City ever conceived and founded.
A Memorial Hospital, costing over a quarter of a million dollars—the gift of Philadelphia Lodge.
MOOSEHEART ASPIRATIONS
THAT every state of the United States and every province of Canada will be represented by a 1 “State Building.”
That during the four years Director General Davis must give much of his time to his duties as a Cabinet officer, the rest of us will strive so hard and successfully that we will double the membership of the Loyal Order of Moose, and thus double the financial support and moral power back of our great work.
That the Ten Million Dollar Endowment may be speedily raised.
That the Junior Order, Legion and Women’s Legion may keep step with the onward progress of the parent Order.
That no worthy child may ever be denied admittance on account of the lack of facilities.
That there may be founded somewhere in a mild climate another MOOSEHEART for the aged of the fraternity.
MOOSEHEART RELIGI.0N
THE “Fatherhood of God” and the “Brotherhood of Man.”
Visit the sick, minister unto the needy, protect the widow, educate the children.
Rear the children in the denomination of their parents.
We have services each week at MOOSEHEART for Protestant, Catholic and Jew.
There is perhaps no other city where worship is so unanimous, and where religious intolerance and denominational conflict so rare.
MOOSEHEART TRINITIES
PURITY, Aid and Progress.
Head, Heart and Hand. Morning, Noon and Night.
Sun, Moon and Stars.
Man, Woman and Child.
The Past, the Present, the Future.
MOOSEHEART SERVICE
Ei VERY month or so Editor Louis W. Harvison, A a MOOSEHEART student who edits the weekly paper published by the students and printed by the printing class, contributes a page article to this Magazine on “Mooseheart Service.”
These are real stories of boys and girls who have been admitted to MOOSEHEART.
Most of these stories have a sad beginning, but all have a happy ending, for MOOSEHEART training, athletics, education, play, companionship, fill these young lives with physical strength, mental capacity, and spiritual power.
MOOSEHEART CONSERVATION
SUPREME Dictator Darius Brown has been touring the country giving his masterful lecture, “The Conservation of Childhood.”
From the pulpits of churches, in lodge rooms, at banquet tables, wherever men and women meet to worship, break bread, or discuss civic topics or educational problems Darius Brown has been welcomed and heard and greatly acclaimed for his eloquent, soul-stirring message for the children of the race.
Our Supreme Dictator is rendering the fraternity and the nation a needed service.
“The world marches forward on the feet of its children.”
“To make permanent progress we must start with the child.”
Some towns boast of their industrial products. Let the Moose proclaim to the world, “We have, at MOOSEHEART, a city interested in and devoted to producing the highest type of manhood and womanhood.
We know what we are, but not what we may be, ■—Shakespeare.