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Secretary Davis: "I receive no salary from the Moose for my work as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Mooseheart, Ill. . . . However, Mr. Reporter, I do not expect to deal in these trivial things or in personalities or in casting any aspersions on any man's character...
...mood of the convention was described by Editor Donald F. Stewart* of the Mooseheart Magazine (monthly circulation, 763,000). "The most significant aspect," he said, ". . . is that it marks the end of... shoulder-slapping, grips and passwords and the beginning of a new fraternalism at work on a concrete program of social service for the welfare of the entire community...
...Mooseheart, Ill., is a home for orphaned Moose boys and girls. They are taught trades, educated through high school, afforded college scholarships. Director General Davis suggested that Moose children may be admitted in future at the death of their mother only, provided their fathers pay tuition...
...Pittsburgh. 2) He became a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. There have been loyal Moose before, but Mr. Davis was an inspired Moose. Believing that "a boy who knows how to build concrete houses will not have to sleep in haystacks," he was the founding spirit of Mooseheart-famed colony, 37 miles west of Chicago, where boys and girls are 'prepared for life" and graduated at 18. A thousand orphans (together with about 100 widowed mothers and their children) live there; learn to build houses and roads, to farm, to tinker with machinery; labor in the fields...
Moose. In Baltimore, led by a detachment of police, behind which marched James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, with the student band of Mooseheart behind them, 18,000 members of the Loyal Order of Moose, in fervent costumes, assembled for the grand parade when-Wumps, came the rain. It fell heavily. Heedless, the Moose began to march. The rain poured down their backs. They marched on. It wetted the women along the route; those who came to cheer remained to shiver; the Moosemen marched on. It soaked their hats, it trickled down their socks; a one-legged Moose...