The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-12-02
Order Of
Moose
As Viewed by vice-P resi.
dent Thos. r. Marshall

No apology Is needed today for the
Loyal Order Of Moose.
/ In an age like the present-when
secret Societies in America are SO re-
markedly numerous that for a man to
hold membership in a fraternal or
g~anization is the rule and not the ex-
eeption; in this age when the number
of existing good fraternal societies is
30 great that they are a positive bur-
den especially to many the mar who
feels compelled to belong to SO many
las he does-it certainly did at first
appear, to many of us at least, as
though the bringing into existence Of
Inc Moose was an unnecessary move.
To many of us at the time it all
looked as though the Moose move
ment would not only prevent. the
Moose e itself. from becoming a
success-sprung at that particular
ttme-but that the movement would
really result in a general reaction
against fraternal organizations in
general-through the bringing on of
a surfeit of them.
Many knowing people prophesied at
the time that the Moose birth and
n%urturing would result in a needed
slaughter OF many Of the surplus,
sickly children in the already too
numerous Family of F~raternal Socie-
ties. And that the latest child would
be the first to be put under the
chloroform. they generally foretold.
But. as before stated, the Moose
need 10 apology.
Coming as the new Order did-as
the unwelcomed child in the already
over-childrened family-the Moose
infant not only failed to die of NEGLECT.
as the elder children supposed 1t
would. but on the contrary. was found
to be gifted by Nature with such a
wonderful pair Of lungs and with such
a sound back-bone-that almost in
stantly the kid" Moose was the CEN
ter Of all family attention.
Result was that even the sickly
children Of the family began to get
pinkness in their cheeks once more
through watching the wonderful
into almost immediate iuvenilitv. and
almost suddenly afterwards, into early
manhood. of the very child which
they supposed must necessarily die at
its birth through the impossibility of
Its receiving enough nourishment to
keep it alive once the passing within
Of humanity gave it a ''sop Of milk"
Positively there must be "a reason
why!" Positively there must be. an
extraordinary something-or a series
OF extraordinary somethings-about
the idea" Of the Moose movement to
have insured for the Baby Order SUCH
instant attention.: such careful watch
ing by it's sisters for it's very birthday:
important Of all!-there
positively must be something about
the Moose Idea that is extraordinarily
worth, while and generally valuable to
have enabled the Moose to have SD
captured the hearts of such an enor-
number Of worthy men, to
make them members, so thai almost
before the Order Of Moose was fully
started, it had nearly a half million
members. with single lodges 80
weighty in membership that 10000
members to a lodge was no longer
wondered at, while a philadelphia
lodge of Moose holds down a grand
total of $4,000 members. Think Of
this, ye lodge secretaries. with your
accustomed lodge attendance Of
barely enough members to all the va.
rious "chairs." Think Of one single
lodge Of $4,000 members to keen =
regular account with.
Nor is 1t by the mere statement OF
Its phenomenal growth numerically
that the striking success Of the Loyal
Order, OF Moose is alone to be meas.
ured. The very idea" OF the Moose
spells Progress" That Moose 'Idea"
is to make a working nan member
a better workingman-better to him.
self and to his family and to his fell
low employees and to his employers
and to the whole wide world at
large.
s~hakespeare's admonition {thru
Polonius in Hamlet TO thine own
self be true. and then must follow
just as sure the night the day thou
canst not then be false to ANY man,
might aptly be quoted as being tho
whole keynote of the Moose idea"
Do you want to become afiliated
with this Great Order? Do you want
to give your children the advantages
of being educated in our great Voca-
tional School? Do you want to take
advantage Of all the benefits given. by
the Moose? ~
Beginning Tuesday. December ..
Grand Forks Lodge No. 657 will meet
every Tuesday evening In K. p. hall.
A special dispensation reducing the
Initiation fee to $500 for a short time
IL in operation. Ask any member
about 1t OF for full information drop
n card to sChas. e. Boyle. National
Director. box 80. or call at Room Z.
Kelsey, block.-Ady,, ,.,