Arizona republican., 1921-02-14
TELLS WHAT'S GOING
 ,O|V AT MOOSEHEAR7

The following description of the &C., tivities at Mooseheart, the institution at Mooseheart, H., established and maintained by the Loyal Order of Moose, is taken from a general letter sent out by James J. Davis, director general and is of interest to the many members of that order in Phoenix:
 The construction program at Moose heart, consisting of Il buildings and additional construction on buildings all ready erected, is progressing with great speed. Work will cost s466,000. The buildings being erected, Pennsylvania Baby Village; Connecticut; New Jer- sey; Wisconsin,; Michigan; Indiana; Missouri Kansas Oklahoma; Koch ester, N. Y. lodge; New Industrial; Old Mems Dormitory and Lake Hall The visible assets of the order total in round figures, $19,000,000. About s4, 000, 600 has been expended at Moose heart and the lodges have property val ued at s15,000,000
 The Mooseheart students band have made concert trip through the south and east, Jan. 6-30. While in New York City they played selections for records for the Columbia Monograph company Ronald Durbin, g years old, of Marion, Ind, is the youngest mem Der of the band.
 Paul DiBona of Cincinnati 16 year old prodigy who is cornet solo1oist for the Mooseheart students band, has an offer of a salary of s150 a week from the Mutual Lyceum bureau of Kansas City. Mo When he arrived at Moose heart seven years ago he knew nothing about music.
 The F'ez fund of Mooseheart Legion of the World. amounting to $7,000, is to be used, the regents of Mooseheart Legion of the World have decided, for | building a most modern kindergarten 1 in 1921. The kindergarten is part ! of the Mooseheart school course and 1t 1 is for the children of four and one-half years and thence until they are six years old
 A gymnasium to cost s25O,0d0 to be ] given by the Illinois members of the order is to be erected at Mooseheart within IS months. It will be 200x300 feet The lodges will raise money through entertainments and other legit- i innate ways
 Every student at Mooseheart is giv- en instruction in music. They aresmem- bers of the bands orchestras, glee, cubs and choral societies.
 l The Mooseheart high school football team is recognized as the logical cham pion of Illinois, on account of its rec ord for 1920 in scoring 364 points and not being scored upon.
 
 The Increase in population since 1914 has been about 22.000 per cent. No city has a health record as higf nor a mortality record as low as Moose
 heart On Christmas day only 12 chil-
 dren out of the e4S were in the Moose
 heart hospital
 Mooseheart is helping the govern
 ment and is aiding the disabled soldiers
 with it's vocational school. Eighty-fiv, disabled soldiers are taking vocationa
 training at Mooseheart under the su-
 pervision of the federal board of edu
 cation. Those men represent fifteei
 states.
 All children of Mooseheart, excep
 those 3 years old and younger, voted of their own Volition to go without thei ; Sunday evening meal and directed tha
 a sum of money equivalent to the COS
 of the meal be given to the Literar.
 Digest Herbert Hoover Relief fund, t
 aid in feeding the starving children 0
 the stricken European districts. Tn
 sum, amounting to $176. was sent a
 the children directed They ate lat breakfast and an early evening meal and therefore did not go to bed hun Il gry. ' At present there are 75 disabled sol
 diers at Mooseheart receiving training | There are now 94S children. SS widow and 12 aged members here