MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE Entered as Second-Class 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 Subscription—50c per Annum. ...........Copyright, 1921 by Rodnev H. Brandon Advertising Rates on Application provided for in Sec. 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 8, 1918. Issued m onthly from its office of publication at Mooseheart, III״ by the Supreme Lodge of the Worlfr Lnval Order of Moose. Edited and managed for the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, by its Executive Committee. JOHN W. FORD - Chairman RODNEY H. BRANDON ־ Secretary we Now Have One Thousand and Twenty-One Children at Mooseheart No. 7-8 THE LOYAL ORDER 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 twenty-three 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 eight hundred normal 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 prac-tlcal. About twenty-five of the most usual crafts, including agriculture, are being operated as a part of the educational work. * "11«*״ information as to the Loyal Order of Moose any e or units throughout the world, or Mooseheart, address the SUPREME SECRETARY, MOOSEHEART, ILLINOIS V: A GALAXY OF NOTABLES (From the Toledo Convention Bulletin.) _ iences has been to note the constant improvement of the personnel of the whole aggregation. It was a fine set of people that gathered in those early days, but it was not by any means as representative a body of citizens as have gradually worn themselves into the Loyal Order of Moose since the founding of MOOSEHEART. Year by year the personnel of the Convention has added to itself dignity and worth by the people who have been attracted to the Order because of MOOSEHEART. The impressiveness of this remarkable development was deepened as one faced the group of men that filled the platform at the opening session of the Convention yesterday morning. If it were possible to repeat a “roll call” of the group of Moose that faced the first session of the Convention, it would be a remarkable revelation to the Order and to the World of the social, intellectual and educational value of the Loyal Order of Moose, as one of the fraternities that is leading in the development of the best possible citizenship of our day and generation. There were too many of them to recite a roll call, but it is worth while to select just a few, as samples of the many. Beginning right here at home, there was Mayor Schreiber of Toledo, a Moose for seven years, and a man in every way worthy to receive any other gift of suffrage that Toledo or Northern Ohio or the whole State holds in store for him. Speaking of Ohio, there was Harry L. Davis, Governor of the State and former Mayor of Cleveland. The Moose ought to be proud that the present Governor worked in its ranks and proved him- Mooseheart, III, July-Aug. ’21 MOOSEHEART GOVERNORS É. J. Henning, P. S. D. San Diego, Calif. Albert Bushneil Hart Cambridge, Mass. Darius A. Brown Kansas City, Mo. 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. “has a Heart.” He is an indiscriminate lover of men, and a universal lover of children. The genuine humanity of the man is the love that suffereth long and is kind, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, seeketh not its own, is not easily provoked, re-joiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things—that’s Davis. Tennyson says something about humans being “Broken lights of divinity.” Davis is a mighty big piece of crystalized divinity light. Somebody in this Convention said he would rather shake hands with Mr. Davis than to be fanned by angels’ wings on these hot days. Davis’ hand clasp is the grip of a true friend. After all what more or better can be said of a man than that above all things he is a reliable, never failing, loyal friend and brother to every Moose, every Laborer, every Capitalist, all the way up to President Harding. JAMES J. DAVIS (From the Toledo Convention Bulletin.) WHAT CAN be said of him that has not been said ? But then, what ever is said about James J. Davis is always living stuff, because the subject is so everlastingly alive to everything that pertains to MOOSEHEART and childhood, to Moose, to Country, to Labor and Capital and a dozen other things in which he is chief operator. That word “wonderful” is a horribly abused word these days. Everything is “Wonderful,” everybody “Is a Wonder.” The word has been mouthed into such commonness and slangyness that no matter how hungry you are, you lose your appetite when you are held by the lapel and pointed to someone as a “Wonder.” Nevertheless, with full appreciation of the disgusting weakening of the word, we want to put all the old time strength and vigor and power into it, when we write James J. Davis, a “Wonder.” Everyday Manhood, Moose-hood, Cabinethood, Fatherhood, MOOSEHEART Governmenthood, Platform Talker, Organizer of Organizers, he is a Wonder. What a hea_d! What a head! Now the big thing about Mr. Davis is that he Voi, VII Those loyal representatives of the Moose were a living, cheering denial of every cynical complaint that this is a cruel world and a decadent age. Want may still be among us. Greed still prevails. Imprudence still visits its stern penalties upon those who yield to it. Man has not yet conquered the circumstance that brings misfortune and disaster. And while this human nature remains imperfect, perhaps he never will. Yet here is a fellowship banded together to fight these lingering enemies, to do what it can to sweeten human nature, to ward off the penalties of its weakness, to smooth out the harsher inequalities of fortune and station that creep in between men and women. Who says that the members of that great fellowship shall not take due pride in the work they are doing, in the numbers upon numbers that are flocking into that work and in the magnificent spirit of enthusiasm with which they go about their work of help and healing. Who shall forget the inspiring sight of the parade, with its symbolic floats, and the marchers in their trim and colorful uniforms! More than a hundred thousand persons thronged the streets to watch the pageant of these spirited men and women marching to an ideal of fraternalism. Next year, when the convention is held in Chicago, we are going to count on an attendance of 50,000— and we are going to get it. The various reports of progress submitted at Toledo, and the balance sheets which showed our Order to be in such abounding financial health, it is not necessary to go over again in detail. In time they will have become widely circulated among our membership. But no one can read such a record of progress and prosperity without a thrill. A thrill and a hope. The hope is—and it is a hope amply justified by past achievement—that we shall go on at a faster rate than ever, building a larger membership and a still larger exchequer, in order to provide ourselves with new powers for good. Not one MOOSEHEART, but others, will soon be adding worthy new citizens to our nation’s rolls. New burdens of care will be lifted from the weak among us. And the strong shall be stronger than ever in the tie of brotherhood that binds us into a magnificent body of American manhood and womanhood, learning new things in life through that fraternalism and its warm associations. SUPREME LODGE OFFICERS У׳ Executive Committee Chairman JOHN W. FORD, P. S. D. Philadelphia, Pa. E. J. HENNING, P. S. D. San Diego, Cal. B. W, E. DONGES, P.S.D., Camden, N. J. Supreme Council W. A. McGOWAN . . Chicago, Illinois WILLARD A. MAR ABLE Rochester, N. Y. FRANK J. MONAHAN San Francisco, Calif. JOSEPH G. ARMSTRONG Pittsburgh, Pa. JOHN W. FORD, P. S. D.. Philadelphia. 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. HEYD Toronto, Canada J. EDWARD KEATING San Diego, Calif. Supreme Lecturer WM. THICKET 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 . Philadelnhia, 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 V THE MOOSEHEART EXTENSION FUND BY A unanimous vote the Toledo Convention declared for the creation of an Extension Fund ---by which humanity may be more forcefully reminded of its duty to dependent _ children. The fund is to he created by the collection ^ of a volun-teer dollar from each member who thinks enough of the MOOSEHEART idea to pay a dollar to broaden the field of its influence. The result from the creation of this fund will be a sum of money ranging somewhere between one dollar and $552,713.00. We know there will be one dollar because the writer hereof has paid. How big will the fund be? Let every Secretary, every officer, every Legion-aire, every friend of MOOSEHEART, every Moose, constitute himself a committee of one to see that every member understands the magnificent unselfishness of this Mooseheart Extension Fund. Which Lodge will he first to be one hundred per cent? THE TOLEDO CONVENTION By JAMES J. DAVIS Director General and Secretary of Labor THE recent Thirty-third Convention of the Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of *־ Moose, at Toledo, was beyond all peradventure the greatest ever held ih the history of the Order. It is doubtful if any fraternal organization was ever able to report such progress and expansion as cheered the 20,000 Moose Brothers at Toledo. In a time of national stress we found our exchequei-bursting with the means toward new advancement, new deeds of uplift, and a stronger spirit than ever of brotherhood among our members. In Toledo the Order was taken where it had never gone before. With the stimulus and inspiration aroused at that convention and sent throbbing through the uttermost ranks of the Order, it will go on to a still more remarkable growth and to greater achievements than ever. The Delegates, the Past Dictators, and the thousands of good Moose and Legionaires who come to Toledo, were from every walk of life. There were Governors, Mayors, judges, lawyers, doctors and bankers; there were mechanics and carpenters and workers at every trade. But those men were alike in one thing. A single thought animated them. A single bond bound them. Whatever the difference in their station or their pursuits, they were brothers. They came from afar; had never met before. And the one thought in their minds was for the good that may be done in the world through that brotherhood. It was the single thrill in all their souls.