The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-04-06
ALL MOOSE READERS
WILL LIKE THIS STORY
BY LOWELL MELLETT
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LONDON. Feb. Is. (By mail)-Jtnmy
Davies. Of Plttsburg. waited into Lon
don yesterday with q half million dol
1ars in his pocket and took me to see a
SNOW. That isn't what he brought the
money for; the purpose or the haIf-mtI-l
lion viii be told in the last paragraph.
Way back in the early nineties when
Elwood peaceful townlet in Pipe Greek
township. Madison county. Indiana. had
her natural gas boom and jumped prac-
ticallv overnight into the proud position
OF metropolis OF Pipe Creek-the Buckle
OF the Gas Belt. is what they called her
some hundreds OF Welshmen came TO
introduce the alien art of tinplate-mek
ing. one Of them was Jimmy Davies
Tinplate-making wasn't the only art
for which Jimmy had q natural aptitude,
he was a born politician.
First thing anybody knew Jimmy was
candidate for the important office of city
Clerk. il was 4 profound shock 70 the
elders or the town. who had been night
ing out Elwood's civic destinies on the
issue OF Grover Cleveland vs.. Benz
Harrison. the Bloody Shirt Vs. The
Crime of %. 1s-to-1 vs.. the Gold stand
ard and such other questions plainly
relevant 10 a mans fitness for handling
rhe city Clerkship l don't remember
on which ticket Jimmy decided he would
take the nomination: he probably doesn't
remember either. Anyhow having the
solid nucleus Of the tinplate vote be
hind him he rsmbled forth Of evenings
and gathered up the pIate-glassworkers
vote. the chimney glass workers vote
| the window glassworkers vote and go
| following until he had more than he
needed. He elected himself later in the
same way.
So u~nbounded was his ambition. how
ever. he didn't stop there. AT the end
Of the term he decided he'd be County
Recorder, The Courthouse crowd down
1t Anderson were so paralized by th1s
teroeritv that before they had recover
cd. there he was, the young upstart
holding down the Recorders Job. Wei
there's no telling where the Young
Napoleon of politics would have landed
if he had kept on. like as not he'd have
become state Statistician before Inc got
through or lie might even have gone To-
Congress.
But at this stage Of his career ne met
the Moose 1t seems that Nineteen years
or so earlier there had been founded
down in Louisville tho loyal Order Of
Moose He's - noble animal, the Moose.
but tile new LOYAL order OF hin did very
poorly until IL met Jimmy. There's q
story that when introduced to Jimmy.
J who was the 146th member thus far ait
tracted 10 the fold. the Moose calf
which was all 1T had grown 70 be dc
spite its nineteen years. %snugsled right
I up 70 him and said:
"Howdv Papi'
Jimmy being soft-hearted couldn't re
stst that calf. He set right out to make
j. grow. Hes been at the job now for
about ten years and now the l. Q. O.. NJ
is a creature with more than half a mil
/ ron members. and Jimmy bears the tide
OF Director-General.
Now about that half million dollars
that arrived in London with Jimmy,
thew we're provided. one dollar each. by
the members. Davies with half a dozen
assistants lugged them over here to
helm win the war. They Will be spent
in making things as comfortable as pos
sible for such members Of the Moose as
are in the army. That's a fairly large
number already. in some cases whole
local lodges nave been enlisted.
II is proposed To establish a London
1odpe for the duration o. the war. ~
least. and likewise a Paris lodge. THIS
,-i1t h. tho home of members when they
ora ~ London or Paris and viii also
Welcome all friends that members may
bring around. Permanent stats viii pc
lant IA both cities with simple instrue-
ttons 10 do everything they know how
~ help the Moose warriors fight of
homesickness when they aren't lighting
the other enemy.
" looks like a good scheme