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The Orders Greatest Convention
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their wives in their homes have an eight-hour work day.
These days of pinch and perplexity are teaching us all the great lessons of prudence and thrift, and the necessity of looking forward to the rainy day.
When work is scarce we cannot safely admit new thousands of aliens competitors for the jobs that good Americans themselves now find are too few.
We ought to pick out the undesirables on the other side before they sail. I mean to urge such a plan at the earliest possible moment.
Every school in this country should devote its after hours to the schooling of our embryo-citizens.
President Harding said to me the other day: “Do everything in your power for those poor fellows—the disabled soldiers; no matter what it costs.”
You cannot get prosperity by wishing for it or thinking it. You must make it.
The American workman does not want charity—he wants work.
My chief policy is the everlasting promotion of fraternalism in the industrial world, the spreading of good feeling between employer, employe and the public.
Thursday’s Session
Interesting Debate on Age of Admission
The resolution pertaining to reducing the age limit for members in the Order to 18 years—it is now 21— brought out most animated discussion.
The contention in favor of the age limit reduction was well put by Brother A. R. Hume of Ossining, N. Y. Lodge No. 1404. Brother Hume made an address which contained logic and with others supporting him, and for a while it appeared that the movement to reduce the age limit had a large following.
Then the full battery of speakers in favor of the present age limit of 21 years, showered the Convention with their oratory and logic. They were lead by Brother Dave Peterson of Camden, N. J., and others followed. The tide was turning and then came the rich defense, but beautifully, by Tom O’Donnell, of Kansas City, Mo., and Brothers Donges, McGee, Watson, Mace and others and those in favor of the 21-year limit won. The vote was practically unanimous.
Even Brother Hume got up after the vote and said the result was very satisfactory to him.
Darius Brown’s Farewell Speech
High spots in the farewell speech of Supreme Dictator Darius A. Brown:
In this great Loyal Order of Moose we have two important features, that stamp this Order as unique among all fraternal organizations of the world. First it is non-political, and second it is non-sectarian in religion.
There is no politics, my brothers, in this great Order of ours.
There is another thing that makes me prouder of my membership in this organization than anything else, and that is this, that the Jew and Gentile, the Catholic and the Protestant, the Christian Scientist, the Seventh Day Adventist, yes the member of the Salvation Army, or any other religious faith meet in a Moose Lodge or in MOOSEHEART or in a Convention on a common level.
Each recognizes the right of the other to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience and according to his understanding of God’s divine will.
This splendid fellow James Griffin of Boston who for 12 years has been laboring in the vineyard of Moosedom, who succeeds me, is a wonderful exemplification of that. He is a demo-(Continued on page lfi'
for the improvement of the health and physical uplift of children in primary, grade and high schools, public and private, as occasion may offer.
Must Meet With Director General
A resolution was unanimously
ssed, which requires that the various boards and bodies of the Order shall meet in a general conference with the Derector General at such time and place as he may designate at least once a year at a time other than the Annual Convention, upon the call of the Director General.
Vote of Thanks to President Harding
A resolution introduced by Brother-Judge R. W. E. Donges, regarding the appointment of Director General James J. Davis to the Cabinet, was passed unanimously, under a suspension of the rules. The deep appreciation of the Order was expressed to Brother Warren G. Harding, President of these United States for the great honor conferred on Brother James J. Davis and for the confidence in his integrity and ability manifested by his selection as Secretary of Labor.
To Have “James J. Davis Class”
A resolution passed unanimously and with enthusiasm, provides for setting Thanksgiving Day as the time to take into the L. O. O. M., through its 1,668 lodges, an immense class to be known as “The James J. Davis Class.”
Director General Davis Speaks as Secretary of Labor
Appealing for a spirit of fraternal-ism’ that will bind the people of these United States in closer harmony and erase the depression of the times, Director General James J. Davis, speaking as the Secretary of Labor in President’s Harding Cabinet made a plea for soul-democracy.
Some of the high spots in his address were:
Appeals for spirit of fraternalism in industry.
Institutes a policy of soul-democracy in Department of Labor.
Urges return to Golden Rule and old religious beliefs.
Would have federal employment agency on lines of Federal Bank Reserve.
Seeks experts in industry to aid in conciliation.
Believes employers and employes have the right to organize.
Wants human element and public at large considered in disputes.
Asks suport for maternity bill.
Approves restricted immigration. Would make it selective in Europe. Plans recreation department to teach Americans to play.
Will devote special attention to women and children workers and to ex-service men in vocational training.
The enemies of employers and employes are themselves. Let them be friends and most of their ills will disappear.
The most pleasant duty I have to perform is to deport undesirable aliens.
Another pleasant duty is that of the welfare of children and the brightening of their lives.
Says that no force can do as much as the church, as it has both the employer and employe in its membership.
If the Golden Rule would be followed, it would be easy to settle all disputes between capital and labor.
The church can organize to get the employer and employe together and there would be no further need of the department of labor.
Those who toil in America have no better friend than President Harding.
We need more of the old-fashioned religion of our fathers.
All men who believe in the eight-hour workday, should see to it that
minds and souls of many children, and has shown the world the way by which for all time to come any boy, any girl, born in the humblest home shall never be denied the light of God’s salvation, but ever shall have a chance to go on up and up, to a full development, to full happiness, and to its full place in the world.
Noted Statistician Speaks Roger Babson of Wellesley Hills, Mass., the noted statistician, who gets annually $1,500,000 for serving 16,000 clients, who is a member of only one fraternal society, and that is the Loyal Order of Moose, addressed the convention and he gave the delegates the most interesting and instructive lesson they ever had in the fundamentals of prosperity.
General Dictator’s Report General Dictator George N. Warde’s report shows that the Order is in excellent shape, and when he asked the sense of the Convention in regard to a rigid enforcement of all laws in the fraternity, particularly those regarding club houses, he was voted to use every power of the great Order to enforce every law and rule of the Loyal Order of Moose. There was a great deal of discussion, but the unanimous sentiment was in favor of his actions and desires, and it was all followed by a motion advising him to “utilize all the power” of his office and of the fraternity at all times to rigidly enforce the laws and the rules.
Wednesday’s Session
To Build Hotel In Mooseheart
The movement to build a hotel in MOOSEHEART was officially started in the convention. Director General James J. Davis told of the need of a hotel, and advocated that it be built for 50 rooms, but in a way it can be enlarged by wings, when rooms would be needed.
Brother Davis is announced that Brother-President Warren G. Harding has promised to deliver the address to the Mooseheart High School class of 1922 and he wants the hotel built and ready by that time.
Brother Davis said that he didn’t want donations. He wanted stock taken, a stock that wouldn’t likely pay dividends, but one that assuredly would be redeemed at the death of the owner, and one that could be redeemed at any time at par by the Board of Governors.
Brother Davis pledged $5,000 as a starter. Many others followed with subscriptions of $100 to $1,000. Between $60,000 and $100,000 was subscribed in a few minutes.
Penny Collection Obligatory The Penny Collection for the Ten-Million-Dollar-Endowment Fund, which has been voluntary was made obligatory, as the result of a resolution passed by unanimous vote.
Vote Money for Pueblo Sufferers By resolution the Supreme Lodge voted $5,000 to the sufferers from the Pueblo flood. To supply this fund every lodge is asked to pay into the Emergency Fund an amount aggregating two cents per capita. This resolution was passed unanimously.
Indorse Physical Uplift The Convention put itself on record in favor of the government, national, state and local, taking steps that would improve the “health and physical uplift of children in primary, grade and high schools, public and private, as occasion may offer.” The resolution refers to the ontable and successful work of MOOSEHEART along these lines and the very successful development that came from this work. Members of the Loyal Order of Moose are urged to use their influence at all times in behalf of suitable measures
Brother Ralph W. E. Donges of Camden, N. J., was some time ago appointed a member of the Executive Committee to succeed the late Brother M. M. Garland.
The Mooseheart Juveniles
The Mooseheart Alumni Association held its second grill in a store roof restaurant and •then moved to the Auditorium, where the Mooseheart Juveniles—tots from three to twelve years of age—put on their ritualistic work and afforded two hours of delight to the Alumni. Amazement and delight were the general expressions of those who saw the work. A degree staff of 37 children opened lodge, carried through the complete order of business, put on a beautiful ritual and ended with fancy and ballet dances. The work was of a higher order than is seen in most adult organizations. The Past Dictators and Past Senior Regents were forced to agree that the juvenile field is one of tremendous possibility. Grand Regent Brandon announced that the degree was proposed as a part of the program of the Moose for fraternal service to the whole family.
After the initiation an executive session of the Alumni Association was held and several hundred candidates were initiated.
Tuesday’s Session
Brandon’s Great Speech Electrifies Convention
One of the greatest speeches of the convention, an extemporaneous effort, was delivered by Rodney H. Brandon. The Supreme Secretary arose during a, heated debate, and after getting recognition from the chairman, began making a statement pertaining to the question being debated. Brandon’s statement was so explanatory that he really killed the interesting debate. Some one shouted to him, “Go ahead and give us one of those regular Moose speeches.” Others seconded the suggestion.
He didn’t need much urging and he delivered a typical Brandonese talk, which was one of those outbursts from a full heart that thrilled his auditors and remolded the day’s work. When Brandon makes a talk he takes each thread singly and knots them together.
High spots in the address of Supreme Secretary Rodney Brandon:
If every secret society is a fraternity, then Moosedom is not.
The picture of MOOSEHEART comes before me, of the children, walking slowly before the windows of my office, and the picture of the old man coming swinging by two or three times a day on his way over to the restaurant to peel potatoes for dinner.
The Loyal Order of Moose is an organization for human service.
The man who dies leaving children and without money in the bank, commits the greatest crime that humanity has ever discovered.
MOOSEHEART saves your children from becoming public wards, labeled with numbers, and given away under concealed identities, to whatever persons are willing to take them.
The average child who comes to MOOSEHEART stays there nine years.
The Loyal Order of Moose has developed and perfected a system by which the working man whose income may not be more than $600 a year may, with four cents a week of his precious funds, put an absolute barrier between his boy and his girl and poverty and ignorance.
Let us go out with our hearts glowing with the thought that we alone have developed the system which, for all humanity has brought salvation, material and spiritual to the bodies,