Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-14

ada as far north as Nome. Alaska, and
 lodge Of over 1000 members in Home
 lulu making five fin the Hawaiian ls-
 lands, and one in Manila The order has recently registered in south Africa and the active promotion or the looges
 will be enforced as soon as the pres-
 eht commercial and labor depressions
 is adjusted to the progress or that
 region. The order is also legally reg
 istered in Germany with lodge NO. 1000, in Berlin in process of organi- zation.
 In the year 1911 the supreme lodge
 organized the Junior Order of Moose,
 for young men between the ages of II
 and q years. The Junior Order Df
 Moose is not merely young mems association but an educational instl-
 ideas of the Loyal Order of Moose. ia its aspirations to become a factor in the mental moral and physical train ing of young people. The Junior Order hinges on the Mooseheart ldea which has become the absorbing inter
 est of the order in the last two years. The present census of all Moose fra ternities with it's allied associations is
 rapidly approaching 600,000. The great stirring principles of the l.. Q.
 O. M. are contained in it's leading
 words, Purity and Progress. The leading principles of the L. O. O. M. are expressed in the names of the sta- sions of the various lodge officers, Love, Ambition, Truth and Self Con- ! troll The leading principles of the Woman's circle are Wisdom, Loyalty, Mercy and and charity. While the L..
 O. o. M. has all the features of other fraternities, such as sick, acident and funeral benefits it has also taken a forward step in founding a great school for the education of the chiI dren of it's members.
 This movement toward a great ua- iversity was first suggested at the Bal tinnore convention of the Supren ] lodge in 1911. At that convention a
 commission was appointed to secure a site for such an institution and :o propose to the Supreme lodge plan of l org anization for the development of an iTfdustrial-vocatfonal school. This commission undertook it's task with
 more tha an ordinary sense of con posed and finally the commission de-. cided upon the purchase of a large es- tate in the Fox River Valley, twenty
 seven miles west of Chicago.
 During the first month following the purchase Of Mooseheart in March 1918, very little was accomplished in the
 work of erecting permanent buildings
 and preparing for the large farEA IT
 an institution that was designed ul-
 tfTnately to house from three to five
 thousand students. It was not until
 the Cincinnati convention of the L. ). organization for Mooseheart WIS
 reached. A board of governors whf-h
 consists of seven members had be sn appointed by the Supreme council of | the L. O. O. M. This board has char-e of everything pertaining to. Moose heart.
 The social life at Mooseheart is n fine state of progress. The system | of government at Mooseheart is orig inal and unique That means that. the 1 whole student life is developed con- troled and, directed by the Assembly. This assembly consists of all the chil- I dren with all those who have anythins 2
 to do with the Mooseheart wards. The assembly meets every day for an hour
 before supper when the days work IS over. It makes all the rules pertain- l ing to student life, hears all the com plaints and administers upon ali Lrou- 1 ble, disagreement and misbehavior
 , The object of the whole system .s | to teach to all Mooseheart people the | important lesson of self government
 has proved itself satisfactory Not a l child received at Mooseheart has re- | fused to come into cordial, kindly, helpful cooperation with the assem- l hly form of government. No officer, teacher or attendant ministers any
 punishment Every offence is report
 ed to the assembly. The assembly
 has ordered that there shall be no
 corporal punishment. It has banishcd
 the rod. whip, switch, strap, ruler
 boxing Of ears, skipping of faces
 knucklipg of hands and all the un-
 natural forms of punishment The
 assembly always studies to form it's
 decision on the great divine princi- pie in nataure an dhuman life that
 whatsoever a man soweth that. shall 1 Mooseheart is in no sense a re- form school The children combe from | the homes of the average citizensh' D I They are not slum products. They are young people representing that great clas of self-respecting middle class of our present. day American