New Britain herald., 1919-07-19
GIVES REPORT ON
 MOOSE CONVENTION
F. 5, lllin8Worth Tells of National
 Gathering

F. s. IllingWorth, past dictator of the local lodge of Moose, who has just returned from the national Moose convention at Mocseheart, Ill, was present at the meeting of the lodge last night and made a, report on the convention, speaking in part as fol- lows:
 "The thirty-irst annual convention of the Loyal Order of Moose will go down in history as the greatest con- vention ever held by our order, or any other fraternal order in the world. I will endeavor to show you why it was the greatest convention.
 T left New Britain Saturday, June 21. The convention hall was opened at Monday morning and at 10 o'clock an address of welcome was given by Hon. James F, Harley of Aurora, who represented the mayors 1 committee of the Fox River valley. i Supreme Dictator Charles A. McGee responded. The Senior band at Moose 1 heart rendered 9 few selections. Wis., itors were disn issed and the conven- tion opened for business at Il o'clock
 ''The credentials committee report ed that 492 delegates and past dicta- tors had been given credentials at the openlng of the convention, and before adJourning the number had reached 500 and by Thursday, 891, representing 1892 lodges and nearly 60O,0 1000 mem bers
 At adjournment Wednesday the delegates headed by the band su- preme and past supreme officers and the Philadelphia delegation marched to the site of the Memorial hospital, which is a gift of the Philadelphia lodge as a memorial to the brothers of that lodge who lost their lives in the world war. The service was very i'm pressive. The building was presented to Mooseheart by Dictator John w. Ford and the speech accepting 1t for the board of governors by James J. Davis. The cornerstone was cast by one of the Mooseheart students
 The hospital will cost about S500,~ 900 and the equipm ent which is to be given by the legions (male and fe- male) of Philadelphia, about s25O,O0O an extremely generous gift from one lodge and it's auxiliaries.
 At Thursdays session the conven- tlon committees reported. The most important one, the committee on reso- lut1ons submitted several for the con- slderatlon of the delegates. As the recommendations of the committee were read, if no objection was made, they were considered adopted by the chair without 8 vote of the conven- ton. Some of the most important were: Raising the initiation fee from $10 to $20 under closed charter and from $5 to S10 under open charter. This caused more discussion than anv other but it was finally deemed ad visable to pass it. Recommending the payment of six months pay to each man discharged from the military and naval service of the United States: fixing the salaries on percentage ba sis; changing the time of the quarter ly reports to the last day of January, April, July and October, creating of hclally the office of director general and the election of James J. Davis to this office for life and that the office should cease upon his death; naming the new assembly hall the Roosevelt auditorium; building of church at Mooseheart as a memorial for the brothers who made the supreme sacri- flee in the great war; to have official L. O. O. M. markers placed on all members graves buried in France; the resolution changing the age from Fl to IS and permitting the board of governors to raise the per capita tax from 40 to 50 cents per year, the rec ommendation of the committee "ought not to pass were sustained by the chair