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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: cents. Land was bought, a building erected and in 1913 the school
was dedicated by Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President of the United
States. There were eleven children established in the home. Soon
the lodge membership increased enormously. Having passed the
hundred thousand mark it swept on to the half million goal. The
"Mooseheart idea," as we called it, had caught the imagination of
the men. To-day the city of Mooseheart in the Fox River Valley,
thirty-seven miles west of Chicago, is the home of more than a
thousand fatherless children and one hundred and fifteen mothers
who are there with their children, and several old men whose
working days are over. The dream of the Moose has come true. In
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