The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-22
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heauQuarterS al MOOSeneaft, llllnOlS. All the general activities of the Order there and the Supreme Offi- cers in active charge have their offices tbcre.
 Mooseheart is an estate of one thousand fifteen acres of land, thirty-five miles west from Chicago on the Fox River, between the cities of Aurora and Batavia, Illinois. The title to this estate is in the Su- preme Lodge of the World, Loyal home and vocation training school for over seven hundred children of deceased members of the Order The residential part of Mooseheart resembles modern village of about one thousand inhabitants and con sists of about fifty buildings of mod ern concrete fire-prOof construction, with red tile roofs. There is a cen tral heating and power plant, large modern print shop, high school building, several industrial shops, a modern farm plant and many dor mitories and residences.
 Educational Work.
 The educational features are high ly vocational and practical About twenty-five of the most usual crafts, including agriculture, are being op- erated as part of the educational work.
 The children at Mooseheart are organized as one large, happy fam fly; an aggregation of children who know each other, like each other, work and play and live "a common life The children are admitted from birth, and in some instances the mother. whose husband has passed away, has gone to Moose heart and given birth to her child.
 The children remain at Moose heart until they have received a high school education and trade, before they go out into the world in competition with others.
 These children are never 'farmed out" The families are kept to- gether until after graduation Every child must graduate in some trade or vocation. The children have a bank account in the Students Bank operated solely for the edu- cation and instruction of the students and all bills are paid by check.
 Ideal Life for Riddles.
 The Mooseheart children have all the advantages of farm life, coming in contact with hundreds of horses, cows, sheep, hogs, poultry and the like, thus getting the farm educa- tion and in addition to this they have the elementary and high school facilities of q large city. to- eether with city living accommoda- tions as far as fre-proof buildings, steam heat, electric lighting and metropolitan water, sewerage and street lighting systems
 Every child has the opportunity for a musical education either in the AS piece Junior band, the 50 piece Senior band, 55 piece orchestra or various choral and glee clubs
 One thing in particular in which Mooseheart differs from all other in- stitutions in the world, is the sue cess in the training, development and government of the children, notwithstanding the fact that there are nearly one thousand children housed in one beautiful village of small family groups, each with their table, kitchen and family life, and in it's prospective development into a city of 5000 children, living on 5000 acres of the richest of the Illi- nois Prairie, containing a beautiful lake, bordered by the Fox River and the Lincoln Highway.
 Hospital Facilities.
 Mooseheart has It's own resident physician. dentist, nurses and a hos pital fully equipped for the thor ough and scientific examination of each child and a careful follow-up until each child is as perfect physi- cally, as science and fraternal af- lection can make possible.
 On the entrance of each group of children, they are kept separate until they have been examined by the physician and found to be free from contagious disease, and they are also examined by the physician | and dentist for any other ailment or defect, and should any disease or defect be found they are immed- iately given the most scientific at- tention and treatment for the same !,
 During the recent World War, |; the Government selected Mooseheart IS one of the institutions capable )f training it's soldiers, and two groups of about one hundred and