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| Why We Ask You To.....Show Your Membership Card Doing so maintains our rights as a private organization and can, quite literally, save your Lodge (and you) from financial ruin. I have walked into several hundred Moose Lodges during my years as a member and every time, I have been proud to reach into my wallet as I entered, to fulfill the requirement of displaying my Moose membership card. I have always thought of this small plasticized card as saying several things about me & about any other manor woman who carries one: It says that the holder is a fraternalist, a friendly person who enjoys the company of others & who stands ready to help a fellow human being in need whenever he or she can. It says that the holder is someone who holds a special place in his or her heart for children. Through his or her Moose membership, he is doing something real & tangible to provide hope and a better life for youngsters in need, at Mooseheart Child City and School in Illinois. And, it says that the holder is ensuring even if he or she (and his or her spouse) reaches retirement age without adequate savings that together they will enjoy a secure, dignified retirement without being a burden to either family or society, through the availability of Moosehaven in Florida. Even though showing a Moose membership cards says all those positive things about a person, I know very well that the fraternity*s requirement that a membership card be shown every time a member enters a Lodge, or makes a purchase, has for years been a big point of irritation among thousands of Moose men & women across North America. "Fifteen years I*ve been a member here; why in the world should I have to show my card every time I walk in the door?" During my tenure as General Governor, I*ve read or heard some variation of that question literally thousands of times. Let me pose three questions in return: For those of you who play golf, say you*ve received a very nice present a three year membership at the exclusive golf club where your doctor plays every Wednesday. When you walk into the club house with a guest and are asked to show your card, do you roll your eyes & groan? or do you relish the chance to pull that card from your wallet? Many of our members who travel are also members of the American Automobile Association (AAA) or the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) both of which have programs enabling their members to enjoy reduced rates in roadside hotels nationwide. But when you check in, to receive that lower rate, you have to show your AAA or AARP card. Does this irritate you? Finally, consider this one carefully: You*re the Jr. Past Governor walking into your Lodge*s Social Quarters on a busy Friday afternoon, the door opened for you by a polite smiling thirtyish man you don*t quite recognize but who*s arrived at the same time. Must be a fairly new member, you think. Inside, the server, recognizing you & knowing how much it irritates you! decides against asking for your card. You place a dollar fifty on the bar, request and receive a beer. Then, not wanting to offend the young man now standing next to you, the server also draws a beer for him without asking for a card. At the next month*s Lodge meeting, then, this nightmare: your Administrator*s trembling hand holds an invoice for more than $90,000 in back federal income taxes, interest, penalties and fees. The invoice has been presented to him that day by that same pleasant young man you*d stood next to at the bar that Friday afternoon! He was the regional IRS agent and you had been right there when he witnessed the Lodge operating as a public accommodation! If your Lodge*s situation is like many, it can get even worse: Let*s say the Lodge simply can*t scrape together $90,000 cash to pay that IRS demand, nor does the Lodge have that much equity in its building; it*s heavily mortgaged. Regrettably, as a Lodge officer, the IRS could legitimately look for some or all of that $90,000 from you personally. This scenario is not an unrealistic exaggeration. It has actually happened to more than one Moose Lodge in recent years. Their officers and longtime members didn*t want to be "bothered" with having to show their membership cards. Well, they paid a substantial price to be freed of that "bother." Let*s put the IRS and the income tax issue aside for a moment. * Under the First Amendment to the U.S. constitution ("the right of the people peaceably to assemble") fraternal Lodges such as ours enjoy special rights as a private organization. We are exempt from laws requiring royalties to be paid to music publishers such as BMI, ASCAP, & SESAC for "public performances" of musical selections from bands & jukeboxes. We get to run our operations under our own rules & bylaws, instead of being bound by civil court litigation. Perhaps most importantly, we have the right to choose who will associate with us. |
| Dear Members: We are near the end of Moose Year. Our Membership has been slow, so lets sign up a new member and make them welcome. The State association Mid-Winter Conference will be held at Atlantis in Reno, Nevada on March 25-28,2010. Also, we now have a ATM Machine for a convenience to all. So, lets sign up a member. Thanks again for all our volunteers. See you at the lodge. Ron Propernick, Administrator |
| Moose Charities and H&R Block Raise money for Moose Charities Inc. When you use H&R Block to do your taxes. Go to H&R Block Office with Organization referral form. If you are new client Moose Charities will receive $25.00. Referral forms will be located on the bulletin board at the Lodge. |
| LOOM Community Service Please continue to take the time to bring in your donations of magazines, aluminum cans, eyeglasses, old clothes and books of all kinds.To our members new and old about our lending Library -- Please go in and browse around, if you find a book you like to read, take it home and after reading, please return it to the lodge library. If you enjoyed the book their is a coin box in the library please put a donation in the box. We need donations of stuffed Animal of all kinds so we can give them to the Seniors when we visit. We supply them to different Convalescent Homes and Hospitals. If any of you would like to join us just contact me. Thanks Neighbor, Charley Bright |
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Starting in March Lou Delorme will start
collecting for this years BOOSTER
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mailing of the Moose Call Newsletter.
So please show your support and
donate.
The cost is $ 3.00 per person and your
name goes into the newsletter.
Starting in March Lou Delorme will start
collecting for this years BOOSTER
ROLL.
The BOOSTER ROLL is collected to
off set the cost of printing, copying and
mailing of the Moose Call Newsletter.
So please show your support and
donate.
The cost is $ 3.00 per person and your
name goes into the newsletter.
| International Moose Convention July 2-7, 2010 Gaylord Opryland Resort, Nashville, TN CNMA 76th Mid-Year Conference Alantis Casino & Resort, Reno, NV March 25th-28th, 2010 |
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We can choose whom we wish to have with
us as fellow members instead of having to
take anyone who walks in the door, as is
required of "places of public
accommodation" under the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
(And lest anyone jump to conclusions, that
last sentence does NOT mean we in the
Moose afford ourselves the right to
discriminate on the basis of race in
choosing our members. That would be
stupid, even if it weren*t dangerous. Fine
men & women, come in every race &
ethnicity & we need them. What it does
mean is that we maintain the right to say,
to an applicant who is known to be a
chronic abuser of women, or a bully, a liar
or cheat: "No we don*t choose to have you
with us."). But we lose all of those rights
that a private organization enjoys, if we
don*t conduct ourselves as a private
organization! We cannot have it both
ways. When a Lodge chooses not to check
membership cards, and essentially opens
itself up to the public (with the exception of
approved Community Service activities,
consult the fraternity*s General Laws
book) that Lodge puts the entire fraternity
at risk of:Relinquishing the
BMI/ASCAP/SESAC exemptions, Losing
our right to operate under our own rules,
and Losing the right to choose our own
members. If your Lodge officers tell you
that nonmembers are allowed purchasing
privileges because "that*s the way it*s
done around here," or "we*ve have to do it
to make ends meet," or "what Moose
International doesn*t know won*t hurt
them," you should know that your Lodge is
placing its tax exempt private status in
jeopardy & that of the entire fraternity as
well. Showing your card may be a slight
inconvenience, but it is worth it to protect
our Mooseheart kids and Moosehaven
seniors entrusted to our care. Even
(perhaps especially!) if you*ve been a
member for many years, be proud to show
your Moose card every time you walk into
your Lodge even if you*re not asked! It
shows that you*re the sort of person who
believes in doing something for the
betterment of kids & seniors in need, & in
making our communities better places to
live & in maintaining our fraternity*s legal
ability to do what we do, for many years to
come.
We can choose whom we wish to have with
us as fellow members instead of having to
take anyone who walks in the door, as is
required of "places of public
accommodation" under the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
(And lest anyone jump to conclusions, that
last sentence does NOT mean we in the
Moose afford ourselves the right to
discriminate on the basis of race in
choosing our members. That would be
stupid, even if it weren*t dangerous. Fine
men & women, come in every race &
ethnicity & we need them. What it does
mean is that we maintain the right to say,
to an applicant who is known to be a
chronic abuser of women, or a bully, a liar
or cheat: "No we don*t choose to have you
with us."). But we lose all of those rights
that a private organization enjoys, if we
don*t conduct ourselves as a private
organization! We cannot have it both
ways. When a Lodge chooses not to check
membership cards, and essentially opens
itself up to the public (with the exception of
approved Community Service activities,
consult the fraternity*s General Laws
book) that Lodge puts the entire fraternity
at risk of:Relinquishing the
BMI/ASCAP/SESAC exemptions, Losing
our right to operate under our own rules,
and Losing the right to choose our own
members. If your Lodge officers tell you
that nonmembers are allowed purchasing
privileges because "that*s the way it*s
done around here," or "we*ve have to do it
to make ends meet," or "what Moose
International doesn*t know won*t hurt
them," you should know that your Lodge is
placing its tax exempt private status in
jeopardy & that of the entire fraternity as
well. Showing your card may be a slight
inconvenience, but it is worth it to protect
our Mooseheart kids and Moosehaven
seniors entrusted to our care. Even
(perhaps especially!) if you*ve been a
member for many years, be proud to show
your Moose card every time you walk into
your Lodge even if you*re not asked! It
shows that you*re the sort of person who
believes in doing something for the
betterment of kids & seniors in need, & in
making our communities better places to
live & in maintaining our fraternity*s legal
ability to do what we do, for many years to
come.
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