The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-08-26
Brother Dictator and Brothers

Brother Dictator and Brothers
Loyal Order of Moose:-
If you ask me why | am member
of the Loyal Order of Moose | would
answer you with one word and that is
Duty.
An examination of the history of
our Order convinces any thinking man
that he owes it to his country, his
family and himself to belong to and
become an active member of this order
because of the principles for which it
stands and because of the good work
| 1T Is doing for the welfare of the
j children of deceased members as well
as those who, weighed down with
age, are unable longer to wage the
| battle of life unaided
Who of us can turn his eyes towards
Mooseheart with its 1926 children and
its fine equipment for the making of
men and women without a glow of
pride that we are part of the organi-
cation that makes such an institution
possible.
What one of us is there whose pulse
does not stir to quicker beat and whose
heart does not glow with fuller pride
when he thinks of Moosehaven, that
happy, comfortable home for aged
members OF our order. Our order is
indeed an order of service and no
mans life can be complete whose
efforts, in part at least, are not de-
voted to the welfare of his fellow man.
In 1896 we had $50 members. To-
day they number more than 100000.
During the last 10 years the order
has grown in membership and influ-
ence until today it has no equal among
the great fraternities of this country.
1t will continue to grow and prosper
for the reason that it is an order with
an ideal. 1t is an order with an aim;
it is an order that has an excuse and a
reason for its existence.
I have been an active member of
this Order for more than s years.
Today am Dictator of my home lodge
at Red Lodge, Montana and let me say
that we have 200 live, active members
of the order there. Should the next
meeting of the State Convention be
held at Billings or any nearby city. |
invite you to take half days holiday
and come up to Red Lodge where you |
will find the best lot of people and the |
livest lot of Moose and the purest lot
of air and the purest, clearest water
to be found in the known world. in
vite you in behalf of the members of /
Lodge No. 1854 and | assure you that
when you come you will have such
good time that you will hate to leave.
1t may not be out of place for me to
say that we have been royalty enter
tanned here in Deer Lodge | know
you have one institution in this city
where guests are kept so busy that it
IS impossible for them to leave home
but such things are necessary and |
nope there are no Moose in that insti-
luton on the hill.
So Brothers, | am glad that | am a
Moose. l am glad for the sake of the
children at Mooseheart and glad be-
cause of my own children. Should |
pass away | shall. feel that they will
De well provided for and should I live
he measure of years and find myself
without competence have the as
'urance that there will be room for me
1T Moosehaven amid the green trees
If Florida.
So let us every one remember the
of PURITY, AID and
PROGRESS. Let us have that purity
If heart and that purpose that should
De in the breast of every Moose. Let
is give that Aid that is the real aim
If our great Order. Let us make and
strive to make such Progress so that
he whole world may acclaim us and
20 that the orphan and the widow NAV