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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Junior Order of Moose
A Page Devoted to the Interest of the Juniors Edited by Dean J. A. Rondthaler, Supervisor
ioi's have organized three clubs of five members each. Each member puts into this club ten cents each week. The railroad expense, meals and cot at MOOSEHEART next year at the Convention will be about $22.00. Each club contributing fifty cents a week will pay this expense for one Junior. The member of each club bringing in the most members between now and June 1, 1922, will represent his club at the Convention. He will get all the money put into the account by each member of the club, thus having his expenses paid to the Convention. We will organize more clubs just as fast as the members come to the meetings. So you can look for, at least, three representatives from the Junior Lodge next year.”
Governors, communicate with MOOSEHEART and your railroad ticket agent to find out how much it will cost to have a member of your Lodge spend a week at MOOSEHEART next year. Then divide that cost by _ the number of !remaining weeks, divide this figure by five, and you arrive at the amount of weekly dues five boys will each have to contribute in order to organize such clubs as Grand Rapids has.
NOTES OF THE LODGES
We have been reviewing the reports in the Supreme Secretary’s office of the Junior Lodges for the quarter ending June 30th. From these cards we cull some information with regard to the net gain that some of our Lodges have made in membership and increase in net assets for the quarter.
We might make a more showy column of these if we published the Lodges that reported initiations during the quarter, but that did not serve our present purpose so much as to show just what real strength a number of our Lodges has been making. The paragraphs following• show the net increase in membership and increase of net assets for the quarter.
Jenkins (Ky.) No. 29, shows a gain of seventeen members and an increase of net assets of $111.42.
Vallejo (Cal.) No. 102 and Buffalo (N. Y.).No. 106, each show a gain of fifteen members.
Kittanning (Pa.) No. 113 reports a gain of nine members and a gain of $50.22 in net assets.
Belleville (111.) No. 120 gained eleven members with an advance of $44.23 in net assets.
Milwaukee (Wis.) No. 122 showed a gain of six members and an increase of $97.54 in net assets.
Vineland (N. J.) No. 81 shows a gain of five members and Auditor Council says Vineland ought to have done better than that, because there is no Lodge in the Order that makes a better report than No. 81.
Forest Park (111.) Proviso Lodge No. 82 gained five members with an increase of $94.03 in net assets.
Aurora Lodge No. 10 shows a gain of four members and $89.60 increase in net assets.
Quincy (111.) No. 14 made a gain of seven members.
Evansville (Ind.) gained ten members.
Baltimore (Md.) No. 34 gained seven and increased in net assets $87.40.
Parsons (Kansas) and Russelltown (Pa.) each started with 25 charter members.
Black Betsey (W. Va.) No. 75 started with 31 charter members.
Rock Springs (Wyo.) instituted with 30 members and net assets of $234.95.
Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada, No. 72. “Snappy music, bright lights, a jovial crowd and a warm calm night contributed to make the lawn social staged •by the Junior Lodge last night an unqualified success.” This is the (Continued on ,page 12)
to the Junior Moose proposition in localities where everything seems to be discouraging for the organization of a Junior Lodge. “The thing is impossible here,” or “it can not be done,” or “There is no show,” or something as hopeless as that. Now if there is one individual in that community who believes in the Junior Order of Moose, who accepts the testimony of hundreds who have tried it and found its great value to the Senior Order and its final value to MOOSEHEART, that is the individual who could be inspired by Thayer in accomplishing the “impossible,” and James J. Davis’ example of hewing success׳ out of the hopeless.
Now and then we get letters from organized lodges on the eve of collapse with a remark. “The Lodge is not a success here.” It wants this
and needs that and has not the proper impetus from quarters that should support and co-operate with it, and a number of other excuses, ending up generally, with the remark of “impossibility.” That is the Lodge that wants to take hold of Mr. Thayer’s article on “accomplishing the impossible” and J. J. Davis’ success in recreating a moribund fraternity.
MOOSEHEART MARCHING CLUBS
Mr. Grube visited Grand Rapids Lodge No. 60, Loyal Order of Moose a short time ago and as Governor Pop-ma says, “He injected some good Junior ideas into them. Hereis one of the ideas sprung from his visit. The Jun-
was no promise in it. It was “impossible” in the estimation of some. Then Mr. J. J. Davis had a vision. In his dream he saw what might be made of it. He has really “accomplished the impossible”. Out of virtually nothing, an institution has been created of over six hundred thousand members in more than sixteen hundred Lodges with the Women’s Legion, the Junior Order of Moose, and Moose-heart, and involving the lives of at least a million people.
The Strong Man Versus the Weak Man
Emerson says something about the ordinary ma.i being able to see and use only the bruit up towns, the cultivated farms, the improved property; but the rv.n r x grip, of vision, of determination, cf perserverance goes in-
to the forest and on the wide plain, and sees possible farms and towns and cities. Then he gets to work and sees out of the apparently unpromising and hopeless, the reality of his vision.
The Junior Moose Lecture on Aspiration
Young men of the Junior Order of Moose, the inspiration of all this you are to get out of the Prelate’s lecture at the station of Aspiration. What is the use of mouthing over that lecture, if its bald words do not soak into you and inspire you to the great forward progress for yourself which is one of the inspirational ideals of Moosedom?
Junior Lodge Aspiration
Sometimes we get letters relative
THE “BIG TEN”
No. 8,	Camden, N. J......................................       509
No. 26,	Rochester, N. Y,........................................ 250
No. 32,	Quaker City, Pa........................................  233
No. 7.	Chicago, 111, ...........................................134
No. 25,	Indianapolis, Ind........................................122
No. 12, Fort Wayne, Ind..........»...............................104
No. 60,	Grand Rapids, Mich.. .................................... 98
No. 10,	Aurora, 111.............................................  94
No. 34,	Baltimore, Md...........................................  89
No.102, Vallejo, Cal. ..............................»............ 88
Evansville (Ind.) Lodge No. 38, J. O. O. M., Baseball Team
ASPIRATION
In the June number of our Junior page we had an editorial on the general subject of “Aspiration”. It is the word that we are using in a special way during this time in our history. For that reason we want to make it particularly impressive in the thought of all Juniors in good standing so that the use of the word may not glide over them like the water over a dam, but may run into the stream that works the old fashioned water wheel.
In a late number of the American Magazine there is an unusually suggestive and action producing article by B. C. Forbes, telling the story of Mr. Harry B. Thayer, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company with its two hundred and fifty thousand employees. The article is just full of sticking points that are so sharp in common sense, that the whole story would be worth while to be printed in tract form and scattered over the country for the benefit of young America between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one. We select one of these inspiration thoughts.
Accomplishing the Impossible
After a paragraph in which Mr. Thayer extols the faculty of looking ahead and being prepared for emergency, opportunity, or even luck as he calls it, he rounds out this thought with this paragraph: “In our business i—and I have no doubt it applies to a great many other businesses—we are always trying to accomplish the impossible. We turn our attention to it, keep on trying, and experimenting, and it is remarkable how often the impossible, through perservering effort, becomes possible. This constant effort to achieve the impossible is nothing more nor less than a species of foresight. And foresight enters into the achieving of any notable success of any individual or of a corporation. Foresight, in turn, springs from thorough mastery of the business.”
Dream to Some Purpose
Now there are thousands upon thousands of young men of the present make-up who have their eyes upon the great successful men in business, in government, and in the profession. They dream what a nice thing it is to get somewhere up into the top ranks. It is a good dream! Every true young man ought to indulge in it. It is a most worthy dream of an ambitious young Moose who gives due attention to the Prelate’s lecture on “Aspiration”. At the first when a dream gripped the will and purpose of some inventor or promoter it seemed that its accomplishment was impossible. It is all nice enough if your dream of “Aspiration” leads up along a beaten road over, which others have travelled. You have but to do as they did, and you will get there, but that road is. pretty well crowded• There may be some element in your dream that has the condemnation of “impossible” on it. That is the factor in your dream that you want to take hold of with a vigor and a will power equal to that which made Mr. Thayer the great successful man that he is.
“It is remarkable how often the impossible, through perserving effort, becomes possible.”
J. J. Davis and the Impossible
Take it in the story of the Loyal Order of Moose. It had languished along for years until it was about to gasp its last. Only a few Lodges were left. They were for the most part inactive. The whole membership amounted to scarcely five hundred. Other fraternities were forging ahead, and apparently covering the ground, supplying all that is necessary for the general citizenship. The thing looked like a forlorn hope. Apparently there