Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-16
Moose Chats
b. NJ. juno. DenntY Snneryisor.


II the readers of this paper will
watch this column for the next few
issues, / will try and put something
IN it that will be Of vital interest to
them.
Some people read for amusement
and do no thinking. | am not writing
TO amuse you, but to make you THINK
of the most serious problem you have
before you, now or any other time,
that is, the future welfare Of your
self and your family.
Do you know that statistics show
that 50 per cent of widows are in
want, while 80 per cent lack LIES
common comforts? That 80 per cent
of children who enter school at the
age of six have to go to work before
they reach the eighth grader That
10 out of 20 men fail to provide for
their old age or for their family ?
That SO men out of every 100 leave
no estate at death? That at the age
of sixty 81 per cent of all men are
dependent financially?
And these conditions obtain in the
richest nation in the world. Why?
Procrastination is one reason. Men
say: ooh, have plenty of time.
I'll do that sometime but not now"
Thoughtlessness is another reason.
The little honey bee will make mil
lions of trips from the flower to the
beehive to store up the honey. The
little squirrel will work like a little
nailor in the fall, gathering acorns
and nuts to store in the old hollow
tree for the winter. What does man
do as a rule. He goes blindly on his
way, squandering his present and
mortgaging his future and saying
that have plenty of time but has he?
Government figures say he has not
and figures do not lie. My friends,
am not bringing this problem to
your attention without any hope Of
a solution. l have a solution for you,
the only one that has ever been work
ed out by society-that is the Loyal
Order of Moose-the only human or
ganization that has ever worked this
thing out and found solution for it.
The subject Of protecting depen-
dent people has been SO difficult and
often abused by alleged professional
charity workers that many have lost
faith in the hope of ever successfully
solving this perplexing problem. The
care and protection Of destitute chill
dren and widows has been solved at
Mooseheart so conspicuously that
other fraternal organizations are de-
vising ways and means of treating
deceased and crippled children, caring
for the aged and infirm and all others
who unfortunately cannot do these
things for themselves. Mooseheart
is the trail blazer of real philan-
throphy and practical Christianity,
Dependent children Of deceased Moose
are not scattered, farmed out, adopt
ed and given different names, sent
to orphan asylums or distributed
among relatives, friends and public
institutions. Mooseheart holds the
family intact, cares for and educates
and loves them and does for them all
that generous hearts and willing
hands can do.
The best hearted mother, the most
considerable mother, the hardest work
ing mother could not possibly do more
for her own child individually than
Mooseheart does collectively for its
1900 little citizens. Kindness, gen.
tleness, love and affection are the in
fluences with which Mooseheart tries
to surround her children. Every child
at Mooseheart is on an equality, there
are no castles or social distinctions
no cliques and no snobbery; you are
obligated to nobody and what you
get at Mooseheart is your as mat
ter of right and not charity. More
of this wonderful organization in next
weeks issue. have opened the char
ter of Aberdeen Lodge, Loyal Order
of Moose, and would like to meet you
and talk this thing over. A card ad-
dressed to the Moose club will reach
me.
n AN0