Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-01-20
HON DARIUS IL. BROWN TELLS
AUDIENCE ABOUT MOOSEHEART
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community, let's wash the slate clean
and give them a chance. He that is
without sin, let him cast the first
stone
Although we Americans eat better
food, wear better clothes, live in bet
ter furnished homes and enjoy more
comforts, convenienees and Injuries
than anybody else in Gods earth, yet
we are brought face to face with facts
and statistics which force the blush
of shame to the cheek of every real
American. In the operation of the
draft law it was found that 20 per
cent of the boys of the land were
physically and mentally unfit for the
service of their country in her time
of need. A disgracefully large per-
centage were unable to read and
write the language of their country.
Seventy-five per cent of all arraign-
ments befor our criminal courts are
of boys under the age of Il years.
One boy in every three Is in need of
medical treatment. Sixty per cent of
the public school children are under
fed and underweight. Four out of
five receive only a grammar school
education. Less than 10 per cent re-
ceive a high school diploma. Less
than tire per cent enter a college of
university. Our government has a
department of agriculture, but none
for the youth.
Several years ago those who had
charge of the welfare and destiny of
the l.. o. O. M. came to the conclusion
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much longer justify their existence
by merely furnishing to their men,
bers selfish and individual benefits,
advantages and pleasures, but If they
were to continue to be a factor they
must do something worth while to
solve some of our great national prob
lens. As they gathered to consider
this question they opened the cover of
the Great Book and turning to the
gospel of st. James found this def
milton of religion: True religion and
undefiled in this to visit the father
less and the widows in their affliction,
and to keep ourselves unspotted from
the world They heard the cry that
goes up every day in every American
community of the despairing widow
who, falling at the feet of God, cries
out in the agony of the soul: oh,
God, don't desert these little ones;
they are as much your children as
they are mine; il is not my fault that
am left a widow, | am doing the
best / can for them; Oh, God, save
them from a life of poverty, ignor-
ance, vice and crime And so they
determined to consecrate all of the
power, the influence, the assets and
the eagerness and activities of the
l.. o. o. nj. to the idea that every boy
and girl is entitled to at least high
school education and vocation or
trade. They acquired an estate of
1,023 acres in the beautiful Fox River
valley, 80 miles west of Chicago, with
the privilege of acquiring more as
necessity demands.
an 1913 this beautiful estate, then
farm, was consecrated by a splendid
address by Brother Thomas II. Mar
shall, Vice-President of the United
States, and the next year the building
of Mooseheart was begun, and chill
dren began to arrive at the institution
that trains for life.
First in the Mooseheart scheme is
the purpose of keeping children in a
vigorous state of health. Mooseheart
is perhaps doing more than any other
Institution or community in develop
ing her children to perfect types of
manhood and of womanhood. A con-
slant supervision, scientific feeding
and free, out of door life, in accord
ance with the fixed and definite laws