The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-07-04

ing her stay at Mooseheart Her re-
cord in all kinds of sports is most
enviable; she was popular with her
associate Campfire girls, and was most
active in the home training Chapter,
Women of MooSeheart Legion.
On July l, at Mooseheart, Miss
Sneider will be in a class of sixty
seven graduates, forty-one of whom are
boys, and twenty-six girls Those
graduates come from the lodges in
eighteen states of the U. S. A, and
one province in the Dominion of Can
ada. The average age of the gradu-
ates upon coming to Mooseheart is ten
years. The average age at graduation
Is eighteen years and ten months.
All the siXty-Seven boys and girls in
this class have completed the work
prescribed for full high school course,
equal to the course taken by the
graduates of any high school in the
state of Illinois. Furthermore they
have completed the prescribed course
for specific trade or vocation. In
the instance of the boys, the trade in
struction that they have received is
equivalent to corresponding number
Of years of instruction obtained in any
standard trade school throughout the
country.
The number of trades represented
by the boys in this class Is ten; the
number of vocations represented by
the girls is six.
Nineteen of the graduates of this
class intend to pursue their studies in
higher schools of learning. IN this
they will be assisted by the Revolving
Fund established by the Alumni Associ-
alton of the Loyal Order of Moose.
One of the requirements for gradu-
alton at MooSeheart is that all juniors
and seniors, during their last two years
In high school, must earn sufficient
money to pay for their own clothing,
as well as for their graduation outfits.
In addition, they must have upon
graduation $50 on deposit in the Moose
heart Students Bank About a year
ago the plan by which the junior and
senior students could earn this money
was inaugurated. Specifically, the plan
combined practical work with class
room instruction, and the students are
now required to work at full time en-
ployment for three months of the year
Wages are paid weekly and are de-
posted in the Students Bank on the
following basis; three-fif in clothing
and store account; one-fifth in a $50
graduation savings account, and one
fifth in a checking or spending ac-
count. The plan has proved .amaz-
ingly successful.
On July the graduates will receive
their diplomas from the hands of
James j. Davis, u. S. Secretary of
Labor in the Cabinets of three PreSi-
dents. Secretary Davis is the founder
of Mooseheart and the Director Cen
eral of the Moose. Coming to America
as an immigrant boy from Wales, he
eventually became an iron puddler In
the Pennsylvania mills, and it was
there that he saw families torn apart
when misfortune overlook them and
they were left to the questionable
graces of public charity. An idea
formed in his mind and later, as he
climbed the ladder of success and be-
came interested in the Moose, his
clarion cry was stop Separating Fam
ilies!" He saw in the fraternity an
opportunity to put this into effect, and
MooSeheart, to which families could be
taken intact, resulted.
Mooseheart's cornerstone was laid
ing city-a home for orphaned children
of deceased members of the Order. It
is vast park-like estate of more than
thousand acres situated on the rolling
prairie land thirty-five miles west of
Chicago. Upward of 1,400 boys and
girls ranging in age from tiny infants
to about eighteen-the average age
when they are graduated oppor-
tunity there for home, high school
education and instruction in trade.
At the completion Of this it is expected
they will be able to go out into life
and provide for themselves. The city
is complete in itself, with its own hos
pital, water system, fire department,
and sanitary system. More than $50
dormitories, cottages, and vocational
buildings, made of granite-faced con-
crete with red tile roofs, rise out of the
greenery of lawns and trees. A sup
erintendent has personal supervision
Of the Child City, under the direction