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rolled up. His midget assistant, the Vice-Dictator, only weighs two hundred and twenty-five pounds. Brother Hauck is six feet one inch tall, while Vice Dictator Herbert A. Thompson is only six feet. Brother Hauck is also an all round athlete. He is twen-
ty years of age and the Vice-Dictator is eighteen.” Think of what these men will do when they get to be Senior Moose!
Aurora, Illinois, Lodge No. 10 deserves heartiest congratulations because it has equipped itself with James A. Stewart as its Governor. We welcome Brother Stewart into this special line of Junior Moose work. As the Dictator for a number of years of Aurora Lodge No. 400, L. 0. O. M., and the Chairman of the Convention Credentials Committee for some four or five years, with other responsible positions in Moosedom, he is in addition to temperamental adaptation particularly fitted to direct young men in Moose affairs, while he is grinding into their characters and ideals the great leading words of Junior Moosedom—Love, Aspiration, Truth and Self-Control.
New Bedford, Mass., No. 36 instituted on April 1st, 1921,, at third meeting held first initiation, putting in eight new members, making a total of forty-one for the first month.
Whitesville, W. Va., Lodge No. 110. Auditor M. E. Jeske returns from his visit to Whitesville, W. Va., where he ran across several fine representatives of the Junior Lodge. He reports Juniors are in fine shape, enthusiastic in their work, and he feels that they will easily double their membership by June 1st.
The Degree Team of Quaker City (Philadelphia) Lodge No. 32 recently made a fraternal visit to Phoenixville Junior Order of Moose Lodge and performed the initiatory work. They also presented to Phoenixville Juniors a set of Degree Team suits. Phoenixville Lodge has been established about six months and it appreciates this gift from the boys of Philadelphia. Junior Moose, note this item! It tells how a Junior Lodge can be so full of energy and Moose enthusiasm that it “runs over” its own borders and inundates the surrounding territory. Every Junior Moose Lodge can do missionary work. Work up your Degree Teams, and then offer their services to new or
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Junior Order of Moose
A Page Devoted to the Interest of the Juniors. Edited by Dean J. A. Rondthaler, Supervisor.
will be too late for Lodges to make any record that can be used to enhance the value of the Junior Order in the estimation of the Supreme Lodge in Convention at ioledo. We must, therefore, in this page, begin to use the favorable acceptance of the convention as an inspiration for immediate operations following the convention. The message to all Lodges, therefore, is—that while you in your Lodge history are using in these days in a special way the word of the Prelate’s lecture it should act as a spur to your individual activities as a man in the special lines of your life, and your enthusiasm, and effective effort in behalf of the Lodge of which you are a member and to which you gave your obligation that you would seek its highest and best attainments.
NEWS OF THE LODGES
It is an honor for a Lodge to be published among the first ten largest Junior Lodges; it is creditable to a Lodge if its officers are giving special attention to efficiency in the ritualistic work; it is admirable if a Lodge enjoys the initiation of candidates at least once a month; and last though not least it must be a cause of special pride for a Lodge to have the biggest men, physically speaking, as Dictator and Vice-Dictator. That honor belongs to Columbus, Ohio, Lodge No. 95. Past Dictator Herbert Hoover writes: “We challenge any Junior Order of Moose Lodge in existence to produce a larger Dictator and Vice-Dictator than we installed just recently. We have in these two men five hundred pounds of executive
ability. Our Dictator, Brother Joseph F. Hauck, weighs two hundred and seventv-five pounds with his sleeyes
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an ascent step by step, or round by round, until success in fortune, business, position or attainment of some kind is reached. There are no trap doors or barriers in the way of a young man’s progress in these days. It is altogether up to him whether he will run on a lower level or constantly ascend to greater accomplishments. Adverse conditions, discouragements, and even failures to the man who knows how to use them are not clogs to success, but if rightly handled are really the aids in the upward progress. Even the mistakes that we make can be wrought into elements of usefulness if they will teach us how to avoid their repetition.
This is all very trite. But if you will read the many current magazines that are devoted to “Success”—that great goal of present day living—you will find that they all in one way or another twang this one string of “Aspiration.”
As we finished this last paragraph, a friend came in and gave us the following. He had copied it from some show window in an Ohio town. It just fits in to this editorial.
PEP
Vigor, Vitality, Vim and Punch.
That is Pep.
The courage to act on the sudden hunch.
That is Pep.
The nerve to tackle the hardest thing, With feet that climb and hands that cling
And a heart that never forgets to pray and sing,
That is Pep.
The spirit that helps when another’s down,
That knows how to scatter the broadest frown,
That is Pep.
That loves its neighbor and loves its town.
That is Pep.
To say “I will”—for you know you can.
That is Pep.
To meet each thundering knock-out blow.
And come back with a laugh, because you know,
You know you will get the best of the whole darn show,
That is Pep.
JUNIOR LODGE ASPIRATION
What applies to an individual is of equal value in the progress of a Junior Lodge of Moose. It is made up of young men who should each and all be ambitious to succeed in his chosen sphere of life. The gathering of fifty or one hundred or more young men should constitute an aggregation of mental and moral force that would put that particular Lodge in the forefront of progressive movement. It is true that the Ritual of the Junior Order of Moose teaches young men the highest idealism of Americanism, and at the same time it is expected that they will return to the Lodge their activity in the promotion of its success.
By the time this editorial is read it
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AT PRESENT WRITING THE TEN LARGEST JUNIOR ORDER LODGES, ACCORDING TO LAST REPORTS, ARE :
No. 8—Camden, N. J......................................... 509
No. 26—Rochester, N. Y..................................... 250
No. 32—Philadelphia, Pa.................................... 237
No. 25—Indianapolis, Ind................................... 129
No. 7—Chicago, 111......................................... H9
No. 12—Ft. Wayne, Ind...................................... H9
No. 60—Grand Rapids, Mich................................• •	91
No. 10—Aurora, 111. ....................................... 90
No. 9—Collinsville, 111.................................... 82
No. 34—Baltimore, Md........................................ 82

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A JUNIOR ORDER SURVEY
The first lodges of the Junior Order were organized in 1911.
Growth the first two years eighty-seven Lodges.
Because of the interest of the Loyal Order in other matters, especially the development of MOOSEHEART, and because of the call of the government to young men for service overseas, the Junior cause languished, so that by October, 1919, there were but eight Lodges in operation.
A list of thirty-three Lodges was handed to the Supervisor, but of these only eight were found to be active. The remaining twenty-five were entirely inactive. A number of these have been reorganized as new Lodges. The Lodge numbers of the others have been reassigned.
Number of Lodges instituted since October, 1919—One hundred and one.
Active Lodges—One hundred and seventeen (117).
Commissions to Organizers—Institution on the way—One hundred and one.
List of .Lodges instituted since April 1st, 1921:
Covington, Ky., Lodge No. 84, J. O. O. M., under jurisdiction Covington, Kentucky, Lodge No. 1359, L. O. O. M.
San Francisco, Calif., Lodge No. 6, J. O. O. M., under jurisdiction of San Francisco, Calif., Lodge No. 26, L. O. O. M.
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Lodge No. 83, J. O. O. M., under jurisdiction of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Lodge No. 792, L. O. O. M.
Gloucester, Mass., Lodge No. 78, J. O. O. M., under jurisdiction of Gloucester, Mass., Lodge No. 1471, L. O. O. M.
Kemmerer, •Wyo., Lodge No. 76, J. O. O. M., under jurisdiction of Kemmerer, Wyo., Lodge No. 1047, L. O. O. M.
Black Betsey, W. Va., Lodge No. 75, J. O. O. M., under jurisdiction of Black Betsy, W Va., Lodge No. 1165. L. O. O. M.
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Lodge No. 72, J. O. O. M., under jurisdiction of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Lodge No. 1073, L. O. O. M.
Iowa City, Iowa Lodge No. 52, J. O. O. M., under jurisdiction of Iowa City, la., Lodge No. 1096, L. O. O. M.
Parsons, Kansas, Lodge No. 55, j. O. O. M., under jurisdiction of Parsons, Kansas, Lodge No. 606, L. O. O. M.
ASPIRATION
Years ago it was the habit to treat ambition as one of the vices of the human race, or at least a vice-tainted quality in the moral character. Henry Ward Beecher in his Plymouth pulpit in Brooklyn some fifty years ago, rescued the word out of the pillory and set it among the high virtues of human endeavor. Every now and then you still hear from some quarters a strong protest against “ambition.” It usually crops out in flinging an adverse criticism on some successful individual. It denominates him as an “ambitious man,” and thinks to give thereby a sting to his enterprise and his upward climb.
Because of this lingering prejudice against “ambition” the Ritual of the Junior Order of Moose uses the word Aspiration. It means ambition of the higher, nobler order. We would earnestly request all Juniors to give special attention to the lecture on Aspiration from the Prelate’s station, at the next initiation of candidates. The message of the Chaplain’s sermon to every candidate is the call to every young man to make the best of himself. All true life in America is a climb. The story of hundreds is the account of a start on a low level and