MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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Staff of thirty-seven children between the ages of three and twelve opened Lodge, carried through the complete order of business, put on a beautiful Ritual of: Initiation. This was not mere play but by the contributions made and obligation taken those little children, appreciating the Moose care for them also entered into active and substantial co-operation with this mutual protective feature bf Moosedom.
THE WHOLE FAMILY IN IT
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There is nothing like it in the world. Other institutions care for the home, protect and in many cases admit it to membership of a certain kind, but they do not from the very beginning, not only teach the child, but PRACTISE the child in the great ideal of Moosedom, “one for all and all for one.” Get a complete and vivid vision of all this associated Moosedom. Here is the whole family gathered under its protection, and at the same time the whole family is busy in knitting more securely the protective group and building higher and more substantially the defensive walls, and beautifying with more lovely acts the interior that makes for the happiness, the prosperity, the safety of the home.
LACK OF ACCOMMODATIONS
when the Mooseheart Hotel, to be built soon, is completed. Aurora, five miles south, has plenty of hotels, and Batavia, two miles north, has some. Visitors should not expect to sleep on the grounds and if arriving late at night, they should make arrangements for rooms as they pass through these cities. Some who have driven to the grounds late at night, expecting to sleep here, were angry when told that they would have to go either to Aurora or Batavia.
in the Order for the sustanance and protection of his home.
Moosedom, however, stands out distinct from all other institutions in that it does not only assure of protection but involves all the members of the family in active interest and co-operation in this mutual protective feature. The member of the Loyal Order of Moose at the same time that he protects his own home by his mer .bcrship, also through his activities unites with •L.j thousands of others in the protection of their homes. The Women of Mooseheart Legion, composed of the wives, sisters and mothers of Moose, unite with their husbands, sons and brothers in this mutual protection in the splendid support they give to MOOSEHEART.
The Junior Order of Moose, composed of the young men of the country, while they protect themselves by their benefits, also through their activities contribute their share in the general aggregation of home protection. For some time Director General Davis has cherished a very precious list of children born in Moose homes, whose enthusiastic fathers have been proud to enroll their new born children on the Davis Child Roll. However, even these babies through their fathers contribute their little support to this great home environment protection. It is but a very little sum of money. Nevertheless it emphasizes this great ideal of Moosedom for the benefit OF all the family BY all the family.
_ It is these prepositions “for” and “by” that signalize the ideal of Moosedom. It gives to get and it gets to give. It shields the family because the family unites its effort and does its part in shielding all the other families.
ENTER THE CHILD INTO MOOSE ACTIVITIES
AT THE late Toledo Convention last June there was added the final feature of this co-operative protection idea. The attendants at the Mooseheart Alumni Banquet were thrilled by the work put before them by young children who put on a Lodge exhibition of the “Juvenile Degree.” A Degree
highly by the Federal Board for our success. Our vocational director at MOOSEHEART showed me a letter a few days ago from one of the boys from MOOSEHEART who has taken a course in ornamental concrete construction. After completing his course he obtained employment in Sioux City, Iowa, and in his letter states he is making about $250.00 per month. Because of their sacrifices during the World War, these boys are unable to follow their previous - occupations, but their training at MOOSEHEART has equipped them so that in most instances they are able to command larger salaries than previously.—From J. J. Davis’ Report to the Convention.
FRATERNITY FOR ALL THE FAMILY BY ALL THE FAMILY
UNDERLYING all the interests and activities of Moosedom is the care and protection of the home. Many other institutions do that. The whole government of the country is devoted to subserving the well being of the home, the public school systems, the laws regarding inheritance, the juvenile courts, all kinds of life and fire insurances with other similar activities and institutions environ the family life. It is worth while for a man sometimes to think of what a net-work of protection is woven about his family when he leaves it in the morning for his daily work. There is an invisible divinity that cherishes the wife and little group of children expressed in the many guards, protections, defenses^that are woven about his home treasures.
MOOSEDOM AND THE HOME
PRIME among all these “safety first” home preservations is the Loyal Order of Moose. Its benefits, social opportunities and above all MOOSEHEART, need only to be mentioned to remind every Moose of the value that his membership is
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A Labor Day Message
By the Secretary of Labor
have been consumed. That charity must be given freely by all who have any means.
Above all, we need faith. This rich country of ours is simply sick from overindulgence. But it has a wonderful constitution, and all it needs is time to recover. Natural forces must, and will, attend to that. Next Spring should bring improvement, and not far ahead of us lies an era of prosperity perhaps the greatest we ever had. The patient has probably only this last crisis to pass in order to reach the beginnings of swift recovery. But the country must have a will to recover. We must give up silly fears and timidities. Everybody can contribute to that. Labor Day is a good day to begin cultivating that spirit of optimism and helpfulness toward the other fellow. Everybody can put some thought or effort into the national pool of thought and effort that is going to pull us through. On our business leaders rests a responsibility greater than they ever bore before. But if everybody lends his might of strength and pushes hard, the dead weight of stagnant business will begin to move.
Let’s get back. Make Labor Day the day of a great resolve to get back.
This year Labor Day finds a great number of our people who would be glad to find labor. It is not this year a day for celebration but a day for solemn self-searching for us all. The question before every one of us is, “What can be done to improve the present situation of slack business and unemployment ?”
No one man, no group of men, no agency, governmental or private, can single-handed change this situation over night. It calls for the best thought and the hardest endeavor of every citizen in the country. Every other consideration must give way to this emergency. This day no one should give a thought to his private concerns except as they may contribute to the general recovery.
There happen to be some general contributions that all can make to start things going. With all due respect for prudence, people should buy all they can to satisfy immediate needs. Employers should stop trying to crush labor organizations, and labor organizations should buckle down to sensible wages and postpone contentions over wages and working conditions to a better time. If we are to get out of this bog it will be only by giving up private grievances and working together, and working hard.
This winter large numbers of honest toilers will be out of work. Every community in the country will be recreant to good Americanism if it does not provide every bit of work, public or private, that can be created for the jobless. The American worker hates the bread-line, but in some cases charity will be needed to tide over those whose savings