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Editors: - JOHN A. WIDTSOE - RICHARD L. EVANS Managing Editor: DOYLE L. GREEN Associate Managing Editor: MARBA C. JOSEPHSON Manuscript Editor: ELIZABETH J. MOFFITT - Research Editor: ALBERT L. ZOBELL, JR - "Today's Family" Editor: BURL SHEPHERD THE COVER Contributing Editors: ARCHIBALD F. BENNETT - G. HOMER DURHAM FRANKLIN S. HARRIS, JR- - - LEE A. PALMER CLAUDE B. PETERSEN - SIDNEY B. SPERRY General Manager: ELBERT R. CURTIS - Associate Manager: BERTHA S, REEDER The Hawaiian Temple has become one Business Manager. JOHN D. GILES - Advertising Director: VERL F. SCOTT of the beauty spots in the islands noted for their beauty. This four-color cover, taken especially for The Improvement Era by the Visitors Bureau, serves to call attention to the fact that the The Editor's Page centennial of the establishment of the mis- "Sec What God Hath Wrought" George Albert Smith 613 sion to Hawaii occurs in 1950. Twelve and a half thousand people in the Ha- waii Mission and Oahu Stake now can Hawaiian Centennial Features enjoy temple work for both the living and the dead in this magnificent temple, Forebears and Posterity in the Pacific Isles ,. dedicated to the work of our Savior. E. S. Craighill Handy and Mary Kawena Pukui 616 A Glance at Hawaiian Mission History Marba C. Josephson 619 Man and Adrian W. Cannon 622 Excerpts from the Journal of George Q. Cannon 623 A Visit to Royalty Claire Noall 627 "By Their Fruits ....** Kathleen Dickenson Mellen 638 EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICES Contrast, Marba C. Josephson . ..606 Johnson 610 50 North Main Street Aloha Oe (Love to you), Anna Hawaiian Menus 647 Y.M.M.I.A. Offices, 50 North Main St. Y.W.M l.A. Offices, 40 North Main St. Church Features 1, Utah Evidences and Reconciliations—Should a Soldier Love His Enemy? Copyright 1950 by Mutual Funds, Inc., a Corpora- John A. Widtsoe 615 tion of the 's Mutual Improvement A Welcome Gift to the State Archives of Sweden—Genealogy...... Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All rights reserved. Sub- ._ Archibald F. Bennett 621 scription price, $2.50 a year, in advance; foreign Learn Wisdom in Thy Youth (Church of the Air Address) subscriptions, $3.00 a year, in advance; 25c single copy. Elbert R* Curtis 633 Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, Lehi in the Desert—Part VHI Hugh Nibley 640 as second-class matter, Acceptance for mailing Mutual Convention in Hawaii ..Bertha S. Reeder 643 at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 1917, authorized July 2, The Church Moves On 609 The Presiding Bishopric's Page .660 1913. y is Melchiztdek Priesthood . . 658 May Missionaries 679 The Improvement Era not responsible tor un- No-Liquor-Tobacco Column 659 solicited manuscripts, but welcomes contributions. All manuscripts must be accompanied by sufficient postage for delivery and return. Special Features Change of Address the Hilts to Statuary Hall Clarence S. Barker From Green 630 Fifteen days' notice required for change of ad- The Spoken Word from dress. When ordering a change, please include ...Richard L. Evans 648, 656, 668, 672 address sltp from a recent issue of the magazine. Address changes cannot be made unless the old Exploring the Universe, Franklin Today's Family Burl Shepherd iddress as well as the new one is included. S. Harris, Jr ....601 What Do You Know About These Times, Private Enterprise, Rayon? 644 National Advertising Representatives G. Homer Durham ..602 Your Crowning Glory 644 Children's Summer Reading 625 Hawaiian Menus 647 EDWARD S. TOWNSEND COMPANY Russ Building Stories, Poetry San Francisco, California HENRY G. ESCHEN, Made in Heaven Lee Miles 625 EDWARD S. TOWNSEND COMPANY 1324 Sanford Rushing 629 V/ilshire Blvd. His Second Bank Account Los Angeles 17, California The House With the Swing .....Amy Bruner Almy 636 HARRY V. LYTLE 332 South Michigan Ave. Frontispiece, Sentinels, Olive May Thorson 626 4, Illinois 61 Wind, Ora Lewis Wilson 628 Cook SADLER AND SANGSTON ASSOCIATES Poetry Page 612 Old-Fashioned Things, Mildred 342 Madison Ave. The Climb, Pansye Powell .....620 Goff 634 New York 17, N. Y. ...624 Pauline Havard ..: Tomorrows, Dorothy J. Roberts. Hostess, 646 Inez Clark Homeland, Josephine Harvey ..664 Late Evening Rain, Member, Audit Bureau of Circulations

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have been if the ten elders who left where she may rest or read or view in 1850 on their mission to the the ocean or clouds over which she Sandwich Islands, as the Hawaiian is flying. The food, too, was a Islands were then called, could have matter of real contrast. left San Francisco in the morning On the occasion of the centennial and landed in Hawaii that same for the opening of the Hawaiian night—some ten hours later! Among Mission, one cannot help contrast- don't you the number of elders called to this Why ing and comparing the world of mission was George Q. Cannon. In l 1850 with that of 1950. In less than his record of his service in that field the three weeks required by Presi- priw4tJt$ he wrote that he traveled, with the dent Cannon on his initial voyage other elders, "a three weeks' voyage When they see great bas- to the mission field, Mrs. Irvine will to the country to which he was ap- kets of discarded teletype 1 have traveled over the main islands, pointed on a mission," Even in news in our editorial rooms, visited and flown over them, reliving 1900 when President George Q. visitors at The Salt Lake Trib- the scenes of early Church history Salt Cannon returned on the occasion of une and Lake Telegram there as well as seeing the scenic often ask this question. the fiftieth anniversary of the found- wonders of the Paradise of the The answer is as logical ing of the Hawaiian Mission, it took Pacific. as the question: the boat seven days to make the 2 What they see discarded trip. Whatever Mrs. Irvine will find is duplicated news material. It is of interest to contrast the by way of contrast in the manner The best version has ONE voyages of President Cannon one of her trip, she will find that the been selected from ALL the hundred, and then fifty years ago gospel of 1950 carries the same hope great news - gathering serv- with the trip of his daughter, Rosan- and comfort that it carried in 1850 ices of the world and the re- Irvine*, by plane in mainder discarded. nah Cannon and that the missionaries of today 1950. Inconveniences of the ships the same zeal as those of In search of the ONE great have story for their readers, the of those days would also be in former days. skilled editors of the Tribune marked contrast to the convenience In these days of rapid change it and Telegram examine all of the "flying ship" of these days. is a great comfort to know that dispatches prepared by the The record states that the berths there is one unchanging value: the New York Times Foreign were "secured between decks, as gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, Staff, Chicago Tribune Press there were not cabin berths enough Service, New York Daily ."* revealed in these latter days never to accommodate all the Elders. . . News Service, Associated to be taken from the world again. Press, United Press, Interna- x My First Mission, Office, Salt Instead, the gospel message will in- Lake City, Utah, Second Edition. 1882. p. 10. tional News Service, the 2Journal of George Q. Cannon, dictated to his crease in power until Jesus returns Chicago son Clawson Y. Cannon, unpublished, pp. 2-3 Daily News Serv- 3Andrew Jenson, compiler, Hawaiian Mission, to rule over the earth and restore it ice, Unpublished. Church Historian's Office, Salt Lake Reuters News Agency to its paradisiacal glory. C. City, Utah. M. J. — all the great news serv- Mrs. Rosannah Cannon Irvine boarding stratocruiser. ices except, understandably, "Tass," the Russian news service. Uneconomic? Perhaps, but it's the ONE sure way to guarantee Tribune and Tele- gram readers the most accu- rate and most complete re- port of every major news event on this globe. Whether the eyes of the world are focused on Korea or Formosa, Greece, Yugo- slavia or Germany, the Inter- mountain West finds the best of ALL news reports in The Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram

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PROVO, UTAH 608 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA THE CHURCH MOVES ON

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May 1950 President George Albert Smith sented at Kingsbury Hall, University dedicated the chapel of the Colfax of Utah campus. j General Superintendent Elbert 2 Branch, Central Atlantic ^ R. Curtis announced the appoint- States Mis- sion. This is the 245th chapel com- 1 £ June M.I.A. conference opened ment of Jay W. DeGraff to the general pleted by the Church since the with a reception which was fol- board of the Young Men's Mutual Im- end of hostilities in II. lowed general sessions in the Taber- provement Association. World War by Canyon Crest Ward, Highland ( Salt nacle. Mrs. Adele Cannon Howells. gen- Lake City) Stake, created from por- The M.I. A. dance festival, with eral president of the Primary Associa- tions of Parley's Ward, with Bishop more than four thousand participants, tion announced the appointment of Edward C. Koelliker. presented before an audience of June Carlisle to that general board. Beverly Ward, twenty-five thousand at the Univer- Ground was broken by Elder Orem (Utah) Stake, created from portions of sity of Utah stadium. of the Council Sharon Ward, with Bishop Clayton Watts. of the Twelve for the new Brigham J. Tooele Seventh Ward, Tooele 7 Department sessions occupied Young University field house. (Utah) Stake, created from portions most of the day at June M.I.A. 2q Elder of the of Third Ward, with Bishop Lloyd conference. O Council of the Twelve delivered Callister. Speech festival convened in the As- the baccalaureate address before the Fair Oaks Branch, Sacramento sembly Hall as part of June confer- graduating class of the Utah State Stake, organized from portions of ence. Agricultural College, Logan. Roseville and Carmichael Wards, Music festival presented in the President Reuben Clark, dedi- J. Jr., with President George E. Leavitt. Tabernacle, with fifteen hundred par- cated the chapel of the Soda Springs ticipants on the program. n General Superintendent Elbert First and Second wards, Idaho Stake. Purchase of a ranch of about five * R. Curtis announced the appoint- President George Albert Smith hundred acres near Perris, California, ment of Harrald S. Alvord to the dedicated a monument to the memory to be used as a Church welfare project general board of the Young Men's of Brigham Young, at Whitingham, by the eleven stakes in southern Cali- Mutual Improvement Association. Vermont, his birthplace. fornia, announced. Jesse M. Smith sustained as presi- i -i West Smith Ward formed

dent of -*- the Snowflake (Arizona) * from parts of Smith and Hill- I General Superintendent Elbert Stake, succeeding President David A. crest wards, Grant (Salt Lake City) R. Curtis presented the Church Butler. President Smith was formerly Stake, with Horace W. Tame, bishop. of the Air address entitled "Learn first counselor. Marshall H. Flake was Salmon Second Ward formed from Wisdom In Thy Youth" over the released as second counselor. Presi- parts of Salmon Ward, Lost River Columbia Broadcasting System as part dent Smith's new counselors are Hyrum (Idaho) Stake, with Harold C. of the M.I. A. June conference. A. Henrickson and LeRoy A. Palmer. Havens, bishop. A testimony meeting, a general ses- sion under the direction of the General Six weeks' courses | 9 for choristers Authorities, and a "Youth Confer- June 1950 A ^ and for organists under begun ence'* session completed the June President George Albert Smith the direction of J. Spencer Cornwall M.I.A. conference. 1 dedicated the statue of Brigham and Frank W. Asper in Salt Lake Yosemite Ward, San Joaquin (Cali- Young at services in the capitol build- City. fornia) Stake, organized from portions ing Washington, D. C. Other speakers with Bishop Cleon -t M An all-day camp institute con- of Stockton Ward, on the program included Alben W. * * vened at the Wigwam, Mill C. Forsyth. Barkley, vice president of the United Creek Canyon, as a pre-conference States, and Bracken Lee, governor J. (1 Tourist guide service on session of | Tem- of Utah. June M.I.A. conference. ple Square made available dur- General President Bertha S. Reeder President David O. McKay re- ing the summer months between 6:30 2 announced the appointment of Shelah a.m. and 10:00 p.m. evening ceived an honorary degree of Woodland to the general board of the An organ doctor of laws at graduation exercises Young Women's Mutual Improvement recital will be held nightly except at the Utah State Agricultural Col- Association. Thursday and Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. lege, Logan. Statue of Brigham Young, dedicated Centennial celebration of Scandi- in the Capitol rotunda - Elder Albert E. Bowen of the navian Mission began in Copenhagen, June 1, moved to its permanent place t: Council of the Twelve delivered Denmark. It was to continue until in the southwest corner of Statuary the baccalaureate address before the June 19. Hall. graduates of Brigham Young Univer- -I ft Second annual conference of Twenty-seventh annual Leadership sity. Church writers held in Salt Lake Week convened on the campus of Charles Dunn succeeded Z. Reed City. This year it was sponsored by . Millar as president of the Boise , The Children's Friend,

(Idaho) Stake. President Dunn's and The Improvement Era. f\ The Presiding Bishop's Office counselors are Albert N. Muhlestein A recreational institute was held bulletin announced that Lyn- and Howard Ballif. Released with at Jordan Park, Salt Lake City, as a wood Ward, Long Beach (California) President Millar were his counselors, pre-conference session of June M.I. A. Stake, has been organized from the

John S. Peterson and Jesse J. conference. independent branch, with Donald L. McQueen. The M.I.A. drama festival was pre- Snedaker as bishop. AUGUST 1950 609 25% ALOHA OE (Love to you) itidon DISCOUNT! MISSIONARY TO HAWAII

The Hawaiian Islands are two It is the tender lingering note in For Full Time thousand miles from the western the sunset prayer of life. You wili

edge of America. They are the find it at the beginning and at the MISSIONARIES "crossroads of the Pacific." Peo- end of a letter. It is on the lips of ple going to Samoa, , everyone. The fragrance of beauty Australia, China, Japan, and the and joy of a happy heart is the ONLY! Philippines stop here on their way aloha woven with every tiny stitch out. in the lei that encircles the one who is honored to wear it. We realize the diffi- These sun-filled islands are teem- culty missionaries have ing with romance and adventure. Aloha Oe (love to you); Aloha

in building the com- Hawaiian girls are beautiful and Pumehana ( warm ) ; Aloha Mau plete and adequate li- lovely, and the boys are stalwart (continued); Aloha nui loa (very braries they need . . . and fine. All are friendly. They much); Aloha Palena Ole (bound- our contribution and as love to entertain, and they say, less). When a Hawaiian addresses we offer a 25% DIS- Hele mai e ai (come in and eat); a congregation, he begins by saying, COUNT TO ALL FULL- then you say, Mahalo nui ( thanks Aloha kakou, meaning Aloha to all, T I M E MISSIONARIES. very much ) . Here everybody including himself. The congrega- This saving will make it shares; believe it or not, there tion answers by saying, Aloha in possible for you to col- and nui, lect and enjoy the com- is always more to share. unison. The speaker may use plete reference library The old-timers are Kamaaina and pumehana, or some other word, that you need, and that the newcomers are Malihini. When making the aloha bigger or better; will assist you immeas- Hawaiians say, Pehea Oe, (how but he always says it with a sparkle urably in mission- your are you you say, Maikai no in his eye and a countenance glow- ) , ary efforts. ing with the love from his heart. good—excellent ) . Akamai is clever ( or smart. Their best word is Aloha. Aloha Oe, Hawaii's best-known It means "Hello," "We welcome song, was composed about 1882 by - I you," "Good Morning," "Good Queen Liliuokalani, while returning £; night," and "Farewell." It is in on horseback from a day spent at the kiss of maiden love and in the the home of Edwin Boyd at Mauna- faint tinkle of the guitar sounding wili ranch. Edwin Boyd was the over starry water. It is the ex- king's chamberlain, and the ranch quisite music of a dream, the gleam was on the windward side of the - of gladness in the eye, and it is the Pali. The basis of the tune is an I love that "sings and has wings" as old song, "The Lone Rock by the lovers talk in the moonlight. Sea." After the queen put the music on Just a few splendid The mother croons it to her babe. Hawaiian words and paper, the English translation was titles. Write The child whispers it into the ear made by Charles B. Wilson, father for complete listing. of its mother and daddy. It is in the gathering glory of birth at dawn. of Honolulu's mayor. • AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS $5 00 • NEW WITNESS FOR CHRIST IN Aloha week, in November, is a AMERICA 2 50 • EVIDENCES AND RECONCILIA- full seven days of parades, pagean- TIONS 2 25 try, dancing, and song. The Aloha • FAITH LIKE THE ANCIENTS' 2.75 GOSPEL • INTERPRETATIONS 2.25 shirt, with its tails tucked into the • HIS MANY MANSIONS .... 2.25 • KNOW THE BIBLE 1.50 trousers or left out, is socially ac- • LATTER-DAY PROPHETS SPEAK... 4.00 parties, beach •k MEDIATION AND ATONEMENT 3.00 ceptable for informal PEARL OF GREAT PRICE • parties, sporting events, and all in- COMMENTARY 3.00 • THE QUEST 2.25 formal gatherings. During Aloha • THE WAY TO PERFECTION 1.75 • THESE AMAZING 1.00 week, the Aloha shirt is worn by TREASURES TO SHARE 2.00 if the majority of men for both busi- ness and social affairs. Girls and BOOKCRAFT women wear Aloha shirts with slacks and pedal pushers. "Publishers of Fine L.D.S. Books" Alohas fill this enchanted land of 1186 SOUTH MAIN STREET loveliness with the sparkle of sun- SALT LAKE CITY 4, UTAH beams and the scent of a million m flowers. 610 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA ::; .. ': ..... :

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TO A PICTURE . . . YOUNG I SAW MY DAYS THE ISLANDS, THE MESSAGE PIONEER By Elaine V. Emans By Wendell B. Hammond By Georgia Moore Eberling SAW my days fall into patterns, whether I I wished them to or not, and sometimes HPhe prairies now are beautiful nd the still gray A voice spoke * With sage and grass, ** In words inaudible, yet unmistakable Appeared predominant, to match the they will, The sheep graze widely, as weather, To a missionary gazing at Maui's welcome And cattle wander slow and still, shores And sometimes brown, until I knew that While birds on fence posts sweetly trill gay From a weathered, low-decked ship, Their highest notes, and fling them at me As trade winds billowed its tattered Touches were needed and were mine to sails I Toward Honolulu's harbor, As pass. add. a hundred years ago! I try to see it as it looked to you And now I do it with a scarlet bird "Here shall a great work commence; So long ago, Enjoyed, a letter to make someone glad, Here shall you take part in its consumma- When you moved slowly all the day Or even one sincerely spoken word. tion." Beneath a brazen sky or gray Sometimes I find the color within a song Then silent was the silent voice. And found no stolen time for play. Another sings, in watching kittens, going How weighted must the hours have seemed Tramping when it is fair of sky, or snow- And slow ing, By lot did the elders choose to be assigned, Or in lighting candles when the day is And he who hoped drew the slip: Island of must have longed for comforts You long Maui. And for friends Rose flame of hope, and faith's of gleaming So thence with companion did he sail. That you had left; you knew dark fears; white, And if they who spoke his native tongue You must have shed some secret tears, And often love will bring the pattern right. Heeded not the message to them displayed But in your face no trace appears. Then was it surely meant for those of You reached your Zion and to it darker skin Were ever true. But deeper reverence, who in awe pro- Oh, may I have the fortitude to keep my RETURN found page Long had daily sought By Elizabeth Crawford Yates the Creator's ap- Free from black blots and worthy of my probation. heritage. Encircling this, the valley field, own grandfather Which once my But how to learn this language strange, plowed, This flow of soft, unending concatena- QUICK FORGIVENESS Is beauty given me as yield tions? Of wealth for which no back is bowed. This picture language of rainbow hues By Rose Thomas Graham My hands touch morning-glory vines, Galaxies of designs and forms and fancies. blue, Unheeding, deep into the unknown he threw a harsh word at a lad today My eyes seek mountains' dreaming J" plunged; close around my heart there twines *• I caught him treading on my pansy bed. While feet knew. Came then the event unexpected and un- looked quickly, The curving path my young He up then he turned his explained; head. Three weeks had scarce passed by And all at once blue skies, to him, were When suddenly his ears did deeply burn gray. NASTURTIUMS within. He was quite tall but not too old to play. "Dimly now I understand," he exclaimed, Then fast as fleeting clouds By Pauline Havard my anger fled. "The meaning of most, of most they say." Oh, could I but recall the words I'd said HPhe house was an old, gray, weather- Then three months later quite fluent was And quench my heart of its untold dismay. -*- beaten his use engines passed We watched a blue jay flit across the sky, House where the shunting Of the once strange tongue. Then slow and light beside a blossoming While smoke laid a sooty thumb on the "Not by me, by God's blessing was it tree. curtains. done." He scolded us, and as the saucy bird Yet someone had seen that nasturtiums And they who had seen the miracle be-

Took off again, he screamed. I laughed. massed lieved hosts of color, Then I Their red and orange Not alone his words of meaning clear Looked at the boy, and he laughed back Saying, in spite of its situation, But, in swelling numbers, the message they at me. A house can own beauty, if beauty is declared. Our eyes forgave; there was no needed wanted. word. Was it a woman's affirmation That all was not lost while beauty flour- ished? And when all of fifty years had passed, it old and widowed man, Or was some And again to the islands the missionary FLOUR MILL Rising above his lonely living came, As only the human spirit can, By Catherine E. Berry Here Saints to meet in congregation vast, blaze of color Making this red-gold Where spoke the gracious former queen, of courage, his badge of valor? '"Phe flour mill stands down by the His answer Last royal sovereign of the islands; -* railroad tracks, Who then did ask and did receive Floor upon floor of bright machinery; A blessing at his hands upon her head. The wheat is ground and sifted, poured MOONLIT LAKE in sacks, By Eva Willes Wangsgaard Watched by men in white, trained to this can industry. NIGHT breeze or moth wing? Who The zephyrs say, "Aloha," and "Aloha," There is today no manna from the skies tell? sing the seas, imperceptible To fill the growing world's deep hungry Leaf movement Then rolls the island's swellinq drumbeat need, Flow gently, breeze, and do not wake call in the lake. But wheat from all the wide, vast plains The panther sleeping To renew with them past days of worth supplies Flow gently lest his anger stir and glory. This all-important and life-giving seed. And ripple through his silver fur, For blessed be the islands and twice blessed and dripping jaws The golden wheat that God and man have To roar through ranged Those who for the gospel there did labor grown And slash with whitened sabre-claws. truly; in slaughter Gives us our daily bread that prayers in- His wrath is jungle-swift And thrice blessed be the hundredth year water. tone. Flow gently, softly, over And all, yea, all who dwell or gather there. 612 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA •^^^^'-^^^^'^^^^'•'^^••-O^^^^^^^^^^-^O^^^^O^^^^

"See What God Hath Wrought"

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Address delivered at the Conference, § Friday morning session of MJ.A. June June 16, 1950

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J T is fine to belong to the on that peak?" They strained their eyes to Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associa- see the trees, but of course there are none. tion, and I am delighted still to be asso- I said, "That's the way this valley looked § ciated with the Y.W.M.I.A. I think no when the people came in—only one tree. § § organization in the world functions better They exclaimed, "My, see what your people

than these two, and I hope that they will have done!" I replied, "When you say that,

continue to work together for the benefit I am reminded of the man who invented the I and blessing of all mankind. telegraph—Morse. When it was found that § § We were singing "Oh, Ye Mountains it would work and one could hear messages High" a few minutes ago, a hymn that was for a distance of several miles, the people § written by a man who had never seen our around him were congratulating him on what mountains and who came here later to make had been accomplished, and he, in turn, in- his home afid become familiar with some of stead of taking the credit, said, 'See what the things that he so beautifully por- God hath wrought.' § had trayed in poetry and in music. Reference So, instead of looking at this valley and has been made to Sister Ruth May Fox, saying see what we have accomplished, I say, ninety-six years young, who walked across "See what God hath wrought." § the plains. When somebody one day asked The Church continues to grow and de- § if it wasn't a terrible experience, she said, velop, and I am happy to say that I feel no

§ "It was fun all the way!" I am glad to be part of it is developing any more rapidly or able to report that she is free from pain more satisfactorily, perhaps, than the Mutual § [she fell and broke her hip a day or two ago] Improvement Associations which were es-

and is getting along nicely. I think it tablished that the youth of the Church might would be a fine gesture for this great or- grow in understanding and faith, and § ganization to remember that Sister Fox is develop to be men and women that our in the hospital so that she cannot be here Heavenly Father would delight to honor and that a message of love, accompanied by bless. You are the leaders of this § and a suitable bouquet of flowers go from this splendid organization which now numbers § convention. nearly 200,000 members. 5 It has been my privilege in the past few I was pleased, indeed, to listen to a fine weeks to visit the birthplace of President eulogy on the part of the Vice President Brigham Young at Whitingham, Vermont. in the nation's Capitol of the United States § It was very interesting to me to be able to when President Young's statue was unveiled look into the faces there of quite a number and dedicated. That is quite a change from of people from the West, as well as a num- having the United States Army sent out here ber of those who reside in that particular to drive President Young and his people section of the country in Vermont. I want from the homes they had built in this stern to compliment Brother John D. Giles on the wilderness. Of course, that was the work of fine part he played arranging for several the adversary of all righteousness. That people to make that long trip from here and was not prompted by our Heavenly Father,

return safely. I have mentioned President and of course, the army did not accomplish

Young, who came into this valley in 1847. its purpose because the Lord prevented it. He arrived here when this was a desert wilder- But to hear the second ranking official of ness. Not very long ago when some visitors the United States, the Vice President, stand

were in my office, I pointed out to them En- there in the Rotunda of the great National sign Peak which can be seen from my win- Capitol and pay tribute to the very man dow, and I said, "Can you see all those trees (Continued on following page)

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(Continued from preceding page) one occasion I was in Washington, Christ of Latter-day Saints. I pause who was leading the Church at that and somebody went into President long enough to say, my brothers time, when the Army was coming, Theodore Roosevelt's office— and sisters, this is not the Church was a source of great satisfaction. would like to emphasize the Theo- of Joseph Smith or Brigham Young. There has been much go through dore—and said to him, "Mr. Presi- This is not our Church. Fortu- my mind this morning that is of in- dent, what are we going to do in nately we are identified with, and tense interest to me. It may not this country? We have just been have membership in, the Church of

be so interesting to you. But I can checking around here, and many of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

remember as a young man when I the women, who are a very impor- I have been trying to get some of was first identified with the Mutual tant part of this population of the the older folk—I'm assuming that Improvement Association, in the old city of Washington, don't seem to most of you people are youngsters Seventeenth Ward, only two blocks care to have any children. They here this morning—but I have been from here—and from that time on, have pug dogs and canary birds trying my best to get some of our I have been identified with this or-, and tomcats for pets, but no chil- older people to realize that it is a ganization. It has been a blessing dren. What do you think about blessing to belong to the Church to me. It has inspired me with the it?" And Mr. Roosevelt said, "I of Jesus Christ. It was he who

desire to be worthy of such an or- think that's all they're entitled to." gave it its name. Let us see to it

ganization. As I have traveled to I want to emphasize that the that we honor it and recognize it.

and fro in the world, I have met the greatest blessing that can come to It is not sufficient just to belong to citizens of many nations, some of us as sons and daughters of the the Church. It is important that, them the descendants of Father Living God is to be parents of chil- while belonging to the Church, we

Lehi, living in the South Seas. All dren who keep the commandments live to be worthy of it. over, where these people have been of God and who prepare to be our While I have been away this found and have accepted the gos- associates in the celestial kingdom time, I have had| quite a number of pel, this organization has represen- throughout the ages of eternity, people ask me, "What is going to tatives. and that's what your work is, not be the outcome in the world? Many This morning I have enjoyed the only to develop and help those who nations are in distress; our own program immensely. It has been are your own children, but also to country is upset and disturbed. delightful. I like to look out into this think of others. While on that When will we have peace? How

great audience. I wish the world subject I would like to suggest that will it be brought about?" I have could see a picture of this audience in nearly all of the wards and stakes made a very brief answer that the and realize that here are the repre- of the Church there are boys and price of peace is righteousness. And sentatives of nearly 200,000 young girls who are just coming to an age there will be no peace worthy of people. Here are several thousand when they ought to be in M.I. A. the name on any other terms.

representatives who are giving of and they are not there. Many of As I stand here, I am looking their time, their means, and their them are children of people who into the faces of a large group of talents in order to develop the do not have faith in the gospel of our Father's family, who have the most valuable asset that this coun- Jesus Christ, sufficient, at least, to opportunity and privilege, not only try has, its youth. We may make pay attention to their children. I to store their own minds with truth a great deal of money; we may think we can increase the member- and apply it in their lives, but also acquire flocks and herds, become ship in this great organization if to share it with those who are their

wealthy in banks and business; those of us who know of such chil- neighbors and friends. When I

but when the time comes for us dren will go out of our way to in- meet in this building as I do today

to leave here, as it comes to all vite them to attend Mutual Im- with you, my mind goes back to the of us, we cannot take any. of those provement Association meetings as time when it was erected during the things with us when we go. But well as Sunday School, and other poverty of the people. And yet

you people have devoted a part of organizations. They are > our there is no other structure like it your lives to develop the characters Father's children. It was he who in the world. I know of no other of the sons and daughters of the said, "... Suffer the little children place where there is a lovelier in-

Living God. When I think how to come unto me, and forbid them fluence than is found when the sons many of you give your time and not: for of such is the kingdom of and daughters of our Heavenly labor to preserve the righteous lives God." (Mark 10:14.). What a won- Father assemble here in his name to ". of these, our Father's children, and derful thing it is to be partners with worship. He has said, . . Where then realize that blessing will never our Heavenly Father, bringing these two or three are gathered together be taken from you, how grateful I children tc him. He will do every- in my name, there am I in the midst am. You may go from here to im- thing he can. He will exercise the of them." (Matt. 18:20.) When mortality, with the love and the influences that come from him, and I see such a group of wonderful gratitude of the boys and girls that he will bless us if we acquire that men and women as are here this you have labored to bless going desire to live so that these boys and morning, thousands of them and with you throughout the ages of girls that are coming on, some of each a child of our Heavenly eternity. Is it not worth while? It whom have been represented here Father, and feel the influence that seems so strange to me that some this morning, will establish them- I feel here and rejoice in the people don't have any particular in- selves in faith and righteousness as program that we have had, my

children. I members of the Church of terest in remember upon Jesus (Concluded on page 673) 614 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA EVIDENCES and RFCONCTLTA TIONS

The divinely revealed preface to holy purposes of the temple. The the Doctrine and Covenants SHOULD A SOLDIER cause of righteousness must be makes the statement that "... I man's first and constant considera- * the Lord cannot look upon sin with LOVE HIS ENEMY? tion. the least degree of allowance." Nevertheless, though sin can be (1:31.) (See also Alma 45:16.) given no quarter, nor those who The nature of sin justifies this un- seek to impose sin upon others, yet Bvj JoL ^4. Widtdoe relenting, final judgment. Sin is the soldier must recognize that the OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TWELVE untruth, and the misuse of truth. sinner, as an individual, remains a

It violates law, the essence of truth. child of God, subject to repentance It decries freedom, and fosters and the Lord's eternal mercy. Since tyranny. It deceives and lies. It a war should be supported by all he represents a sinful cause, it may destroys, but never builds up ex- who love right above wrong; by all be necessary to use against him the cept for more destruction. It slinks who adhere to the right of free only weapons he recognizes, even away from light and lurks in dark- agency, for which the heavenly bat- though it means his destruction. The ness. It is in deliberate opposition tle was fought, long ago. coin of Caesar is his; we must to the Lord's plan for human prog- If it be desired to test the right- render it to him to win the Lord's ress. Sin is the mark of Satan. eousness of a war, compare the is- cause. Yet we may hope and pray The wide spectrum of sin, laid sues with those of the divinely that on the endless,- eternal journey, against a background of selfishness, formulated plan for human hap- he may find his way to salvation. is everywhere evil. It extends from piness. No other test is needed. Love is the first activating force wilful ignorance to the use of knowl- The standards are all there. of the gospel. For love of his chil- edge for unholy purposes; from dis- dren the Lord laid out the plan of In such a spirit, with such under- honesty in speech to deliberate mur- salvation. It was love for humanity standing, the soldiers who go out der; from family and neighborhood that gave the Savior courage to meet from this Church must go into bat- contentions to warfare among na- his death upon the cross. It is tle. They are fighting sin; they tions. Every part of it corrodes, an- through love, one for the other, are fighting for truth; no quarter can nihilates, is death-dealing. Every among the children of men, that the be shown the opposing side. The part of it, if uncovered, is hideous brotherhood of man, the aim of the soldiers, of the enemy, whether will- and found to beckon from slimy, gospel, will arise upon earth ing or not, represent a sinful, de- poisonous depths. Through love, right will triumph structive cause. They must be de- Sin cannot be shown love or over evil. But, it should ever be feated at any cost, even that of their mercy, however meek and beguiling borne in mind that love is defeated, lives. Sin cannot be looked upon if may present itself. It cannot be unless righteousness is victorious. "with the least degree of allow- condoned. Were that done the ance." The opposing army must be Therefore, the love of truth, the structure of truth would collapse. viewed as a cause, not as a group gospel, to bless all mankind, must The battle of the Church is against of men. transcend the love of an individual sin, of every kind; it must be con- or a group. Usually, the best way The cause must be uppermost. quered, or the plan of salvation will to love our enemies is to keep truth The individual must recede in im- be defeated; it must be fought to from being trodden into the ground portance, until the cau^e for bet- the bitter end. Tolerance of sin is by those who are led by evil, design- terment has triumphed. Soldiers of itself a sin. ing leaders. Make truth and right a righteous cause, whether the war- All human affairs must be meas- triumphant, and love will bear rule fare be great or small, must fix their ured by the standards of right. If among men. There is no other way. attention upon that cause, and with evil is in man's acts, it becomes a All need to learn that love, as all determination fight for it. The fate sin to support them. The statue other virtues, must be exercised with of the enemy as individuals must be totters and falls if clay is mixed wisdom and in a common-sense set aside in the battle for principle. with the iron of the feet. The manner. Hysteria and emotional If right wins, as it must and will, strength of a democracy, more than outbursts, often for criminals, are the enemy and all humanity will any other form of government, lies not expressions of love, but of dis- be blessed. in its adherence to the principles of eased conceptions of the right the plan of salvation. In sacred history war has often manner of loving our fellow men. war can be called just, only been permitted, to establish A the The banner of love will ever be when waged against sin and for the cause of righteousness, or to prevent held aloft by the Church. The victory of truth; it battles for evil from triumphing when among men. soldier can and should love his the preservation of the principles Even the Savior when the temple enemy, but not in the sense that he the plan of salva- of God, "a of which make up house prayer," had forgets the greater love of the cause tion, then warfare is righteous. If been made into "a den of thieves," by which in the end the enemy and it is to defeat the attempt to overthrew the tables of the waged money all others will be blessed. enslave men under tyrannical rule, changers and the merchants, and *Reprinted from The Improvement Era, April it sin. alJ becomes a war against Such drove out who were violating the 1942, page 225. AUGUST 1950 615 & 'J FOREWORD vated only in the Americas, especially on the west coast of C-. .3. L^ralqklli ^Mandi and throughout y rthe last chapter of the Book of South America Alma we read that in the years . It was known in Poly- and 54 and 53 B.C., Hagoth, a nesia as kumara, and the same word expeditions of was one of its names in one dialect builder of ships, led ah -J\awena j^ukHir> Nephites, men, women, and chil- of Ecuador and Peru. Sweet po- dren, "from the land Bountiful, by tatoes do not swim, nor can they lands complex— for example, an- other vegetable staple, the taro

, Colocasia antiquorum ) —certainly ( were brought by migrants from South and East Asiatic lands. The taro's ancient distribution was whol- ly from the Pacific to Africa: it did not exist in America. Such historical problems are deeply interesting. But they do not, for the authors of this article, de- serve the center of the stage. To us

it seems that it is not the past of this great Polynesian race that is of prime importance, but its future. That future should, if wisely planned, be a new growth in which the best that modern civilzation has to offer is engrafted upon the sound spiritual, moral, and utilitarian principles and heritage evolved in their island civilization by these their two-thousand- A faro patch at Niuhaa, Faaroa District, Society Islands, Raiatea. Polynesians in year residence in the unique island environment that we call Polynesia. the land Desolation" (an apt de- be borne upon storm winds ac some birds. scription of Peru) northward into seeds are, nor by currents or Genealogy originated in Pacific, and "they were never Botanists tell us they the Every Polynesian family of South America. If so, man carried heard of more." Were these the passed on humble standing in the old days settlers of the Polynesian Is- them into the Pacific. This first from generation to generation the lands? Latter-day Saints believe but valuable vegetable botanically names of forebears who, having and ethnologically may be the key they were. Ethnologists have in re- Unseen World migration passed into "The cent years recognized one undeni- to an early Polynesian {Po)," were believed to be still able bit of evidence indicating westward. intimately concerned with their But the problem of the origin and deriviation of some of the civiliza- These names cannot be descendants on earth. tion of the far-flung island world migration of the kumara linked the living, when recited on key to solved by quoting scripture, nor will from South America. The family worship, perusing special occasions of important bit of evidence is this story be written by this at birth, mar- alone. as during pregnancy, the humble sweet potato. (See The the history of this vegetable riage, and death, with the near and American Anthropologist, Vol. 34, As a cultivated plant, the sweet distant forebears, whose ultimate potato (Ipomea batatas) was, in the pp. 40, 594ff.) marriage of Sky but one source was the Prior to the explorations of Euro- Americas and the Pacific, {Rangi, Lani) with Earth cultural heritage Father peans in the Pacific, the sweet item in an era of studied all together. potato was unknown in the Asiatic- which must be *For a note about the authors see Your the Pacific Is- Ours, page 680. Euro-African area. It was culti- Other elements in Page and THE IMPROVEMENT ERA 6\6 Mother (Papa), according to the mythological lore of these nature worshipers. The Polynesian genealogist was required to know not only the names of the forebears, but also the rela- tive status of the various lines of ascent or descent. In all cases, superior status was a matter of seniority—a lineage from and through the first-born ranked first. All members of a household de- scended from junior lines owed fealty to those directly descended from and through first-born chil-

dren. But it is not only status and honor that are inherent in the first- born, but responsibility also. This FISHING NETS SPREAD TO DRY ON THE ISLAND OF TAHITI. person, man or woman, was the multitude of signifi- mate suitable physically and so- titular head of all branches of the tions, record a Until the girl had matured family, junior as well as senior: cant facts about forebears that will cially. had produced a new and upon him or her rested the enlighten their descendants. and the mating to carry on both lines, an grave duty of perpetuating this first-born solicitously cared heritage as first-born by a worthy Birth affianced girl was for and guarded by a fostering marriage, if possible to a first-born veneration of nurse. Both husband and wife were of an equal or superior lineage. The old Polynesian in preparation for Under the old Polynesian system, their ancestors, and with it the fed special foods the girl's such marriages were arranged by orderly family and community life, parenthood. During prayers or chants were elaborate bethrothal rituals in the collapsed, due to unenlightened pregnancy, early recited to strengthen infancy of the first-borns. policy and education of the composed and missionaries, both Protestant and the spirit of the child. Genethnics Catholic. With this collapse, the Physically and spiritually, ex- traditional care for worthy descend- pectant mothers, within the limita- ants neglected. In old In old handwritten record books became tions of their natural environment, Polynesia, those families which belonging to families, in printed received intelligent care certainly treasured the heritage of their an- records, in documentary archives, equal in most way to that of modern cestors planned for better posterity are thousands upon thousands of medical practice. In some ways, systematically as in modern these Polynesian genealogies, re- as we Polynesian care was and is superior, scientific horticulture plan the pro- corded from all parts of the Pacific. for in the Polynesian the psychic duction of more and better crops. From a scientific point of view, most and spiritual factors are given their Polynesians were expert horticul- of these are of little value, historical- full place. There is no line drawn turists, and they applied equal ex- ly or otherwise. They are mere lists between psychic and organic: for pertness in the more essential of names in columns headed by the the Polynesians both are phases of breeding of human beings. words man and woman. There is the whole natural process. Spiritual- To the precious first-born boy or no means of establishing 1, whether ly minded Christian Polynesians do girl affianced in childhood a the names are mythical or actually was (Continued on following page) whether the order of personal; 2, A FISHERMAN CASTING HIS NET. names represents actual parenthood; 3, who the persons named as recent forebears actually were, when or where they lived, their place of birth, or what sort of person any particu- lar name stands for. Names are given at birth. In the devastating contacts of careless whites with natives, many lives are later wrecked. Of what value, then, are these bare records, which are noth- ing more than poetic words? In the hope of helping to create a true science of genealogy for the future, the co-authors of this article are working with a technique, termed genethnics, which will, at least for recent and future genera-

AUGUST 1950 in the thousands of small communi- ties, along coasts, on atolls, back in the valleys. In these communi-

ties it is what sociologists call the "extended family" that is the basic social unit and principle. Families are interwoven like strands in a mat or skeins in a cloth. They may be in compact communities or scat- tered; but the interweaving makes a very durable social fabric.

Relationship

Throughout Polynesia, from Ha- waii to New Zealand, from Tonga and Samoa to the Paumotu atolls, there exists a universal system of SAMOA, EXTERIOR OF VILLAGE COUNCIL HOUSE. principles and terminology relat- ing to the "extended family." Tupuna or Kupuna axe "grand-

fathers" ( and-mothers-uncles-and- Forebears «J Posterity aunts), from actual grandparents right back to the most distant an- cestors. The root tupu means "to (Continued from preceding page) their high birth rate. From a scien- grow," tupuna "having grown." this today; but even with L.D.S. tific point of view, Polynesians The living elders, as links in the Polynesians there is something of when well-nurtured, have three ad- chains of family growth, are the old lost native practice that has vantages with respect both to grouped by this term with those never been recovered a systematic, breeding — and survival: 1, They have who have passed on into the hidden rigorous consecration of effort and "hybrid vigor," to use the biological land of the Unseen {Po). This is prayer upon the central purpose of term, i.e. genetically they have a interesting to think into: that even producing a worthy child. wider range of variability because while still living, elders in the fam- Certainly one of the most inter- they embody traits of several good ily and community acquire a degree esting phases of Polynesian ther- racial stocks which combine favor- of the respect, sometimes venera- apeutics is that related to child ably; 2, they are rich in cultural po- tion, accorded to the souls of the breeding and rearing. (See "Ha- tentialities because they "belong departed. Respect and solicitude waiian Beliefs to," are conditioned and Customs During by, and have for "old folk" is universal with all Birth, Infancy, and Childhood"; affinity for the several cultures of true Polynesians. Mary Kawena Pukui, Bernice P. their forebears; and 3, both their This has a practical side. The Bishop Occasional Papers, vigor cultural Museum hybrid and potentiali- {Continued on page 677) Vol. xvi, No. 17, Honolulu.) The ties are more adaptable to the uni- recording of these practices of peo- que environment to which they be- ples throughout the Pacific is much long and which they love. But to to be desired. Only in Hawaii has fulfil their promise, these Neo- even a beginning of this work been Polynesians must be well-mothered, attempted. which is not so rare—and well- fathered, which is much more rare. Nature and Nurture Church or public schools can never In Polynesian communities no do for them, or for anyone in fact, the family alone child is left unmothered. This is what and home partly because the instinct for ma- can do. feel ternity is so strong with womenfolk. That is why we the urgency This instinct transcends the sense of of perpetuating the well-ordered old racial and cultural differences. In Polynesian family systems, which communities like Hawaii and New were and are, when adhered to, so well-adjusted to the conditions Zealand it means that, by a slow of process over the centuries, Poly- living of young and old in this is- nesians with an admixture of white land world. Island life is and al- and Oriental will probably outbreed ways will be rural and maritime. Honolulu, Hilo, Papeete, other racial types: that is, the un- Wailuku, mixed old Polynesian, white, or Auckland: good Polynesians can live there, Oriental. Already this is statistical- yes. They can be modern. ly evident in Hawaii: the "part But the real stock of this race is Hawaiians" are multiplying more Printing board for making Siapo (Samoan rapidly than even the Japanese with bark-cloth). 618 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA The ten missionaries who were trying to get relief from sea- sickness by resting in "berths A Glance At secured between decks" 1 were rude- ly jolted into anxiety by terrible banging noises. Inquiring as to the cause, they learned that the vessel awauavi on which they were sailing had struck a heavy breaker; the wheel ropes broke: Mission History and the grating noise that we heard was the thumping of the helm. Had the breaker gone over us it would have swept the d5u fv{awa U. /4o5eph$on, ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR, THE IMPROVEMENT ERA

Clark was appointed president, and the island of Oahu. The elders the other nine young men thus made their way up the hill, which called were: Thomas Whittle, today is a residential area called Henry W. Bigler, James Keeler, Pacific Heights. They gathered John Dixon, George Q. Cannon, rocks as they climbed and built an Thomas Morris, William Farrer, altar and dedicated the land to the James Hawkins, and Hiram Black- preaching of the gospel, and them- well. selves to that service. The ten had booked passage on Discouragement faced the elders the ship Imaum of Muscat and set as they began their work. Since sail November 22, 1850, from San they spoke English, they sought the Francisco for the islands. Their English-speaking people, only to be fare was a modest forty dollars rebuffed. None of the elders had each, less a five percent discount; any success with the whites on the they must, however, furnish their islands. They even had difficulty own bedding. The captain was to finding lodging places. Elder Big- give them the same food as that ler succeeded in finding a native which the cabin passengers ate. The who was willing to give him food —Photograph by Frank W. McGhie captain seems to have repented his and lodging if he would milk the Front of the L.D.S. Tabernacle at Hawaii at night. bargain, for the vessel was be- cow and do other chores. 3 calmed for a time, and the food was Early in February of 1851, Presi- not good. dent Clark baptized a native boy decks clean, or, had the wheel ropes broken 12, they wel- of a short time before, it is probable the On December 1850, who was about sixteen years vessel would have been lost. comed the sight of the islands Ha- age. This lad is credited with be- In considering our narrow escape, after- waii, Maui, Molokai, and Lanai. (Continued on following page) wards, we felt to give the glory of our de- Later they landed at Honolulu, on 3Jenson, op. cit., Jan. 25, 1851 liverance to God. We were his servants, and on his business, and he had pre- 2 served us.

These ten missionaries were on their way to serve in the newly cre- ated mission of the Sandwich Is- lands, as the Hawaiian Islands were then called. Elder Charles Coulson Rich, an Apostle who had been placed in charge of the California Mission, had set these young men apart as full-time missionaries; prior to this time they been filling a spe- cial temporal mission. Elder Hiram

Andrew Jenson, compiler. History of the Hawaiian Mission, unpublished, Church Historian's Office, Salt Lake City. Utah ^George Q. Cannon, My First Mission, Juvenile Instructor Office, Salt Lake City. Utah, 1882 (Second edition, p. 14)

Citizens of modern Honolulu of Ha- Y/aiian descent take off their business suits and fashionable gowns to don the ancient costumes of Hawaiian royalty of two hundred years ago for the Makahiki pageant. AUGUST 1950 —

A GLANCE AT HAWAIIAN MISSION HISTORY

{Continued from preceding page) 1851, "Elders Cannon and Keeler felt very thankful for this gift from the Lord. 5 ing the first Hawaiian to be bap- administered the sacrament to 190 members of the Church at Hona- tized. The following day ( February With the learning of the lan-

) decided and baptized ten new con- it 1 1 four of the elders guage, Elder Cannon felt that 4 that their mission should be verts." was almost imperative that the Book among the natives of the is- New missionaries were sent out of Mormon be translated into the lands and that they therefore must by the First Presidency to replace Hawaiian tongue. This work was learn the language in order to con- those who had deflected, and the begun January 27, 1851, and com- verse with them in their own tongue. work went steadily forward. pleted July 22, 1853, Bigler, Branches were organized, and the Consequently, Henry W. about two years and a half from the time gospel message was preached con- James Keeler, George Q. Cannon, I commenced it. But it was not until the and William Farrer went up into stantly. 27th of the succeeding September that we 6 the mountain behind Lahaina, Maui, But the language difficulty still completed the revision. prevailed. The elders studied and and fasted and prayed all day that The translation and revisions of prayed, but still had little genuine the Lord would aid them in learning the Book of Mormon were no mean understanding of the fluid tongue the language and would help them feats to accomplish because the which the natives used. One of to touch the hearts of the natives work had to be done in an intermit- them undoubtedly spoke for all with the gospel message. tent fashion, interrupted by preach- when he wrote: By March the missionaries were ing and traveling to the various My desire to learn to speak was very beginning to have signal success. islands. As William Perkins stated, strong; it was present with me night and Elder James Hawkins baptized first I permitted an opportunity day, and never . . . there was a general call from all six later eight Hawaiians; in and of talking with the natives to pass without quarters for Brother Cannon to come and April he baptized fourteen more. preach to them, as he understands the this month, some of the language. 7 But in THE CLIMB elders, at President Clark's in- By Pansye H. Powell The natives who could assist were sistence, decided that they could not used only when they could spare first the trail was clear and wide, be successful in these islands and AT Foxglove and fireweed at each side. time from their own affairs. One that they should go to the Mar- of the poignant stirring bits of I squandered young strength merrily and quesas Islands to labor. Five of And thought what fun the climb would be. history lies in the deep confidence the elders finally turned away from Gradually the path grew steep and love that sprang up between the mission to which they had been I learned to plod and not to leap. George Q. Cannon and J. H. called, leaving the other five to Thick boulders challenged me to climb, Napela, with whom Elder Cannon carry forward the missionary work Or walk around them, losing time. resided and where the translation to which they had been appointed. Each rise encouraged me to stop went forward. Elder Cannon wrote The five who gave up their assign- And turn back, daunted, from the top. of Napela: ments met most tragic ends, and Then, unexpectedly, this place President Cannon later stated that Came into view, this havened space. ... He was an educated, intelligent Hawaiian, who thoroughly understood his their untimely deaths were in some Here I could rest; my eye delight the exact cliffs, and distant height. own language and could give me unwill- In valley, measure the result of their meaning of words. The meanings at- But there, above, is the towering peak, ingness to stay and finish their mis- tached to many words depended upon High at my left; it seems to speak, sionary labors. the context. It is important, therefore, in Saying, "This level, grassy bed of President Clark translating, to know that the words used The deflection Gives but a pause, from which are sped conveyed the correct idea. Unless the lan- and the other missionaries was not "Sinew and soul for that last try guage used carried to the Hawaiian mind the only disheartening event, for Onward and upward toward the sky!" the same meaning precisely which the the problem of food and clothing be- words in our translation gave to us, it came vexing. Potatoes with mo- would not be correct. improving it. I also tried to exercise faith Probably but few in the nation were lasses, poi, and fish became their before the Lord to obtain the gift of as well qualified as Brother Napela, to help steady diet, and this food seemed talking and understanding the language. me in this respect. He was a descendant One evening, while sitting on the mats strange for people who were used of the old chiefs of the Island of Maui, in conversing with some neighbors who had to many vegetables and fruits. whose families the language was preserved dropped in, I felt an uncommonly great Strangely enough, they soon came and spoken in the greatest purity, and he desire to understand what they said. All no other equally diet. had advantages which to like their enforced The at once I felt a peculiar sensation in my well-educated man, at that time, possessed. question of language was almost ears; I jumped to my feet, with my hands He had studied the principles of the gospel at the sides of my head, and exclaimed to an overpowering one. Beautiful very thoroughly, he had a comprehensive Elders Bigler and Keeler who sat at the as the language was, it differed mind to grasp the truth, and he had been table, that I believed I had received the 8 greatly from that of the mission- greatly favored by the Spirit. gift of interpretation! And it was so. problem of aries. But the greatest From that time forward I had little, if The final revision of the Book of all was the opposition they met from any, difficulty in understanding what the Mormon occurred between Decem- other people said. I might not be able at once the missionaries from ber 24, 1853 and the last day of to separate every word which they spoke churches, who, having been in the following from every other word in the sentence; January in 1854. The islands longer, held great power {Continued on page 666) but I could tell the general meaning of the over the Hawaiians. was a great aid to me in whole. This 5 Cannon, op. cit., p. 23 Slowly as the work of conversion learning to speak the language, and I mid., p. 70 7Jenson, op. cit., Jan. 19, 1852 s cit., 68-69 seemed to be moving, by August Hbid., Aug. 1851 Cannon, op. pp. 620 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA : A Welcome Gift 3 Mf ; State Archives

GENEALOGY i5uV ^Mrchibatd ^jr. (Dennett

Microfilming of genealogical mission applied to the dozen ar- "The following appeared in print records began officially in chives in various parts of Sweden. in The Daily News, the largest Sweden on October 19, 1948. Microfilming has gone on in the Swedish newspaper, and in many A large up-to-date model C camera utmost harmony and spirit of good other leading newspapers in Swe- was installed in the city archives of will, and the archives officials in den: Stockholm, and records of church Sweden have given many evidences books and tax records have been of their appreciation for what is "The great American Genealogical In- stitute as the Genealogical brought to it and microfilmed con- being done. On April 6, 1949, the known So- ciety of Salt Lake City, Utah, negotiated some time ago to microfilm all records in the different archives pertaining to such records that would be of interest for per- sonal research work in a number of Euro- pean countries. At the same time, the So- ciety pledged or offered to donate a posi- tive copy of all records thus microfilmed to the respective countries. Wednesday, the representative of the Society, Eben R. T. Blomquist, in Stockholm, presented to the State Archivist, Bertil Boethius, the first finished films covering about 375,000 book pages, containing all the Church records of the city of Stockholm. "As President Blomquist presented to Mr. Boethius the first rolls of microfilm, he stated that as a representative for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he brought greetings from the First Presidency of the Church, and in behalf of the Genealogical Society was pleased to present the film. He expressed an ap- preciation for the splendid cooperation that had existed in all the different departments in making the accomplishment possible and trusted that this harmonious cooperative spirit would continue until the work is com- pleted. He felt assured that the vastness and importance of this work will be ap- preciated by all and generations yet un- born.

"In response to this, as Mr. Boethius ac- cepted the roll of film as well as a big box which was standing nearby, with emotion he said: "In behalf of Sweden and the Swedish Archives, I am more than pleased to accept this generous gift by your Church and Genealogical Society. It will In the State Archives in Stockholm, Sweden, are seen former President Eben R. T. Blomquist and so much to us. It has been a pleasure Lars von Willebrand standing, and Bertil Boethius, State Archivist seated at the screen. mean to work with you in this accomplishment, tinuously since that date. Within representatives in Sweden of the and we shall do all we possibly can in order to assist you and see that all records a few weeks three other cameras Church Genealogical Society pre- are made available. It is satisfactory to were installed in archives in Fin- sented to Mr. Boethius 250 rolls of know that if anything should happen to land. Some months later a fourth microfilm, representing nearly five our records here, another copy can be machine was put into operation miles of film, a positive copy of the obtained from over there. This is most there. With these five machines films made for our Society from the satisfactory. Please accept and extend to the First Presidency of your Church over 3,500,000 pages of precious various parish registers of the city and those associated in this work our most records have been copied. of Stockholm. presentation The hearty thanks for this most generous gift. Permission to copy all of the ceremony was a most interesting It is a new epoch in our archive history. Thank you, Mr. Blomquist.' records desired by us was granted occasion. Sister Margit J. Blom- for all Sweden in 1947 by the state quist has written the following in- "At the same time, Mr. Lars von Wille- archivist, Bertil Boethius. This per- teresting account: (Conctuded on page 670) AUGUST 1950 621 only child in Liverpool, :':;?': * :" WHEN a W: 'WW^W^M George Q. Cannon had read I the scriptures avidly. After he had retired one night, his parents heard him crying. On going to his room, they learned the cause. He was weeping with sorrow that he could not, like the people of Jesus' time, behold the faces of the Savior and his blessed Apostles. Little did he know that the heavens had recently been *re-opened to Joseph Smith in far-off America. George Q.'s family was later to be con- verted and educated to the princi- ple of gathering by John Taylor, an uncle by marriage of George Q. As the slender sixteen-year-old stood on the deck to see Nauvoo, soon to be the largest city in Illinois, no thought occurred to him that he would one day be a biographer of Joseph Smith, an Apostle, First Counselor to three Church Presi- dents, the son-in-law and secretary to Brigham Young. Close examination of Elder Can- non's life tends to vindicate his convictions, now shared by more than a million people, that the youth Joseph Smith beheld and conversed *1 with God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. From them Joseph re- ceived a commission to reactivate —Photograph courtesy Hawaii Visitors Bureau on the earth their glorious empire of WAIKIKI BEACH, HONOLULU, DIAMOND HEAD IN THE DISTANCE truth and power. This miracle ushered in the supreme kingdom which Daniel prophesied would

grow from a small rock until it filled the whole earth. When has man dreamed of an empire whose And The days could not be numbered, whose sovereignty could not be chal- lenged? In the life of George Q. Cannon and others, we find evi- dence that such an empire will soon (Sterna Ipi bear sway. In helping build up the imperish- able kingdom, George Q. Cannon (l5u ^Marian l/w. L^cannon lived through countless adventures, trials, and joys. He wrote exten- sively. The total number of words native England, he would probably have actually consisted of weeds. But found in his published speeches been heard of in Parliament, and it is in California conditions improved. within the bounds of conservative calcu- and his writings surpasses the two- He was able to earn money and eat lation to imagine such a one the peer of and-a-half million mark. Gladstone, Disraeli, and other premiers of regularly. Before he left for Hawaii, the latter part of his During the realm. he was earning fifty dollars a day congressional career, he was per- managing a trading post. He chose haps a most reliable authority on In October 1849, at the age of this work because the greed and law, procedure, and legislative per- twenty-two, George was instructed false values of most gold diggers sonnel in Congress. Since Utah had to leave Salt Lake for the gold fields prejudiced him against "digging." only a territorial status, and since of California. This assignment was After a year in California, he and he was a polygamist, his potential actually an economic mission since nine others were called to Hawaii usefulness was unrealized. Whit- the impoverished Church needed by Elder Charles Coulson Rich. ney's History of Utah states: funds. For three years he had This was purely a spiritual call. scarcely been free did not He would have been a man of mark in from hunger They know how long they any community. Had he remained in his pains, and at times his diet had would be gone or how they were 622 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA to obtain the necessities of life. Henceforth, their treasure was to be the souls of men. xcemts In & November they booked pas- sage on the Imaum of Muscat. Their quarters were between decks The Journal and were anything but sumptuous. From The place was dark and comfort- less. To add to the dismal condi- of tions, the sea became uncommonly rough while the ship was yet in the harbor. In writing of the situation, George Q. Cannon George Q. states:

. . . we were all suffering from the effects

could not help laughing. . . . My levity, however, under circumstances so incon- Jn 1900 — 1901 venient and perplexing, offended one of the elders so much that he reprimanded me for Can- of wonder to them that I should it. 1900 President George Q. INnon and some of his family re- be able to speak in their language at After some time had passed, how- turned to the islands for the all after so long an absence from ever, all mirth disappeared from the celebration of the fiftieth anniver- the islands. I was made to feel group. A terrible anxiety gripped sary of the establishment of the very happy through this blessing them as the fury of the storm Hawaiian Mission. His son, Claw- of the Lord upon me, for he removed mounted. But ever in the worst son Y. Cannon, acted as his secre- all my causes for dread. It was so moments of the storm, George Q. tary at that time and kept the diary every time I spoke during the two and his companions had firm faith as his father dictated it to him. Some days of the celebration. and confidence. They knew that of the notations are of the greatest The morning meeting passed off God would not desert them. interest and value. Selections have in a most gratifying manner. The Not so the captain—his despair been made from the diary: people show a loving affection for was such that he told his wife "to me, and I was honored to my heart's Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1900 prepare for eternity, for he did not content. Fifty years ago today I, with think we would ever see daylight other elders, ten in all, landed at Thursday, Dec. 13, 1900 in the world again." this place as missionaries to preach I occupied some time this morning Cold, foggy, and turbulent was the gospel. Of those ten, three are in addressing the congregation in the departure. after But almost still living, James Keeler, William English and Hawaiian. I had great four full weeks, the splendor of Farrer, and myself. I may say freedom in both languages. I com- Hawaiian beauty greeted the sea- here, that there were two things menced in English, but the Spirit voyagers. weary Seeing the ex- which I dreaded very much upon rested upon me, and I broke out in uberant natives bedecked with leaving home, one was the sea voy- Hawaiian. In the afternoon there flowers and selling bananas and age, the other was my inability to were some variations in the pro- oranges, it was difficult to remem- talk the native language, for forty- gram. The ex-queen, Liliuokalani, that it ber was December. six years had passed since I left was present this afternoon, and she The elders went to a nearby and I have done very little in talking expressed a wish that I should mountain, where they dedicated the the Hawaiian language since that speak, as she wanted to hear me, land. While on the mountaintop, time. The sea voyage, through the which I did. I afterwards went to the young missionary heard one of blessing of the Lord and the prayers her seat, and we had quite a lengthy the elders speak in tongues; another, of the brethren, was a most pleasant conversation. In reply to my ques- who had the gift of interpretation, one and furnished no cause for tion as to her state of feeling, she translated the comforting promises. dread. The language, also through replied, how could she feel other- He mentions two other occur- the favor of the Lord, came to me wise than well after such a pleasing rences that inaugurated his min- in a manner to surprise me. When [word omitted] as I had given her istry. I was called upon this morning to (referring to Salt Lake.) She said speak, I did so principally in Eng- she hoped to see me at her resi-

In casting lots for islands, fell to Maui lish and spoke with great power. dence. . . . us. were sailing past it, When we my spirit powerfully upon The rested I landed here fifty years ago yes- feelings were drawn towards that island, me, but while speaking in English, little and I felt that I would like that to be my terday with very money, a bring field of labor. the Spirit of the Lord would comparative youth without experi- the native language back to me, and ence and knowledge of the world. this time the paired I break out in it to the sur- At men were would When I commenced my ministry, I off. George Q. had made no selec- prise of myself and the delight of was a stranger to the people and to tion. {Continued on page 674) the people, for it was a great cause [Continued on following page) AUGUST 1950 623 —

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(Continued from preceding page) of the ground has been much first called on to speak, then Brother the language and friendless and changed by attempted improve- Cluff and Brother Woolley, fol- homeless. My lonely and friendless ments. lowed by a native speaker. I am condition, and the opposition and From this point we went down to deeply impressed with the love and enmity I met with at the hands of the wharf. The steamer Alameda affection displayed by this people those who awaited the truth caused came in about four today. Two to me. They overflow with kind- me to shed many tears, but when elders of the New Zealand Mission ness and appear as though willing the message I bore was received were on board on their way home. to do everything in their power to and obeyed, then I was no longer They were Brother Heber Aldous show the love they entertain. with no one but God, my Father, and Rufus Hardy, two grandsons of for in conformity with my promise John Kay. Brother Farr of this Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1900 to the people that if they would mission is released to labor in Cali- We left Laie about ten o'clock. obey the truth, the Lord would give fornia, and he sails on the Alameda The Saints came in crowds and gave them a testimony and a knowledge for the coast. We bade them good- us a parting song. for themselves, he did bestow his bye. We took the train at Kahuku for Spirit upon them, and they became Honolulu. The country was very witnesses of the truth of the gospel Monday, Dec. 24, 1900 beautiful, with grand views of the as well as myself. In this way, An old lady called upon me this ocean. We reached Honolulu at thousands of friends were raised morning and insisted on giving me half past five o'clock. up. When I think of the goodness two dollars. She can't tell the year and mercy of God in sparing my she was born in, but judging by the Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1900 life for so long a period to witness things which she told me she re- At ten o'clock we drove to Hono- the grand results that God has membered, she must be one hun- lulu. Sister Cannon did not intend caused to follow the planting of the dred years or upwards. Her memory to go to Maui with me as she gospel here, I am filled with praise is good, and her mind is clear, but dreaded the landing, but Sister to the Almighty Father for prompt- her hearing is defective. I gave Fernandez said that she would go ing me to do I did. what To him the dollars two to Brother Woolley to Maui if Sister Cannon would, all the praise and glory is due. so that he could aid her or some so they both made up their minds other Monday, Dec. 17, 1900 needy person. The natives to go. We embarked on the Kenu The ex-queen Liliuokalani sent got up a surprise party this afternoon and the voyage occupied about me word that she would like to see for the purpose of showing their seven and a half hours. me at one o'clock today as she ex- good will on the of my depar- ture and also to show the pects to sail for Hilo. Sister way the Thursday, Dec. 27, 1900 Fernandez took me to the ex- native feasts were conducted fifty I had many reflections this morn- queen's residence in her carriage. years ago. A heavy storm broke ing upon my first residence in this She welcomed me very cordially on us this afternoon, which delayed place. It was here where the Lord the feast and expressed the pleasure it gave two or three hours. The revealed to me the good that should her at meeting me. She also dwelt gathering was in an amusement hall be accomplished if I should stay on the good my visit had done and which is used for dancing and other and work with this people. So would do, how the people's feel- purposes. The utmost good feel- clear was I upon this point that I ings had been aroused and their ing pervaded, and in the remarks was resolved to stay here if I had love awakened and strengthened by which were made by the native to do so alone. My feelings are my visit. Many more remarks of speakers I was mentioned in the indescribable when I see how fully this character were made by her, most reverential manner. I was the the Lord has fulfilled his words to and when I arose to bid her good- me concerning that which should be bye, she said she would like me to accomplished. We were alone give her a blessing; then she led the TOMORROWS then with no earthly friend but with to another I way room. Before was the gospel. By Dorothy Roberts Hundreds and thousands aware of what she was doing, she J. of friends have been raised up as was on her knees at my feet to /"Ane thinks of tomorrows—small as witness to the truth. What great ^-' receive the blessing. I felt very free fronds cause have I [to rejoice] in viewing Minute within the mind of God, in blessing her, and the Spirit rested When seeing deserts where only the pod what has been done. It am pro- upon us both. . . . Of slim white candles parch on wands foundly grateful that I was chosen Sister Fernandez took Sister Can- and inspired to perform the Among the Joshua and sage. part non, myself, and the children out One thinks of strains, unquenchable, which I did. Thousands have been In man, and wings, to Pacific Heights. . . . While I immutable, brought to the knowledge of the Cocooned in hearts of every age, know it was on this side of the truth who have rejoiced exceedingly mountain that we ten elders built That vision such barren plains of earth in its possession. the altar and dedicated the land the Their sons' wide yard, the trek begun, I started out to find if possible The green of growth supplanting day after we landed in 1850, and dun, And as their sires, an empire's birth. the place where Nalinanui lived where we had a time of rejoicing when she gave us shelter. I wanted and the interpretation of our work, In harbors, yet, new sails will court to find the site of this house and the Fresh winds to drive a seeking prow. I could not locate the exact spot The legions of the questing now garden where I sought the Lord in where we built the altar as the face Converge upon a distant port. (Continued on page 672) 624 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA adem Heaven

more white kind to the elderly couple. heard lots of folks say that ii j»NYBODY want words some l\ meat? Here, Uncle George, Now it was Uncle George's mo- people's marriages must have been -f*-you can eat another slice, ment. He waited for complete si- made in heaven. They've said it can't you? And how about you, lence before he began, with the about Mother and Dad. But I guess Grandma? After all, this is your sense of drama which everyone said maybe there's one thing you didn't golden wedding." made him so impressive as a state know. And that is that theirs Nettie held a platter of sliced senator. actually was made in heaven. Eh? turkey between her uncle and the "Well, folks," he smiled expan- I see some of you don't believe me. frail little grandmother. Grandma sively, "I won't bore you with a lot Well, it's the gospel truth." Uncle sighed and shook her head; but of introductory remarks. You all George had expected the amused

Uncle George helped himself gener- know why we're here today, and I smiles of the young people and the ously, grunting his thanks. Glasses hope you're all as happy to be here giggles of the children. They won't

and silverware clinked pleasantly for that purpose as I am." Uncle believe it, he reflected, because they down the length of the table. Little George turned and looked down at won't understand. of talk patches drifted upwards his mother. His face softened with "Well," he continued, "it was to their and seemed hang above tenderness. over fifty years ago that this mar- heads in the warm air of the room "And now," he said, glancing riage was made. Yes, it was ar- until bursts of laughter dispelled around the table thoughtfully, "I'm ranged even before Dad and the them. At the head of U-shaped going to tell you a story. It's a Mother knew each other. They table sat Grandma and Grandpa, wonderful story. It's one that came to know about it, though. Uncle George and Great-Uncle Mother and Dad told to me—well, They knew when they first saw each David; the rest of the relatives were more than thirty years ago. Yes other that they would be married. ranged on either side according to sir, the night before I left for my But, say, that's getting ahead of my age and importance. first year in college, they told it to story. It really starts way back in Uncle George rose to his feet me. And you know, folks, it's a Scotland, in Ayrshire. Mother was and "harrumphed" importantly. It pretty thrilling and impressive story. eighteen, and judging from her pic- was time for the tributes to begin. Sort of gave me faith in a lot of tures, I'd say she was very pretty All afternoon, during open house, things, 'specially in marriage. and sweet." Uncle George smiled outsiders had flocked in and spoken "Well, this is the story. You've (Continued on following page) AUGUST 1950 625 MADE IN HEAVEN

(Continued /rom preceding page) wildered and frightened because of side her that rose from her heart at Grandma, and she looked at him this sudden change in your life. It and spread to her fingertips. She fondly, her head tilted so that she saddens your mother and father began to feel calm and somehow could hear every word. that you cannot accept it as God's very peaceful. Never when she will. But all understand that had knelt to pray before had she "Anyhow, her folks had just been we it is for with felt like this. It as if converted to the Mormon Church, hard you." He spoke was God had kindness. tapped her on the shoulder and said, and they were set on coming to Utah with a group of Saints who "Jennie, your parents and I have "It's all right, Jennie." She found just together asking herself a of her were sailing together. But Jennie— been praying whispering prayer God for guidance about you. And own now, clenching her hands Mother—wasn't quite sure that she asked him to reveal to what tightly and feeling the dampness of wanted to come with them. She was we you be." her palms. could hear the vio- engaged to a young Presbyterian your course should She lent thudding of her heart she fellow, and she couldn't make up her "You mean—you mean you ex- as finished, and she was filled with mind to leave him. And then, she pect God to tell me what I should that chest had a talk with one of the mission- do?" Jennie's voice was incredu- such happiness her was aries who had converted her par- lous. tight with emotion. Her face was radiant, and her eyes were wet ents." "Not exactly." Brother Stephens when she turned to face the mis- looked at her with such directness sionary. that she felt ashamed. "I expect him to help you to understand your- "Is everything all right now, Grandma's head was bent, and self, so that you can make your own Jennie?" her eyes were almost closed as she decision. Will you pray with me "Yes. Oh, yes, at last every- listened now. She could remember now, Jennie? Please." His tone thing's all right!" that day very clearly. Even now was compelling. Jennie knelt be- she could see the old vine-covered side him, feeling overpowered by stone house on the banks of the Ayr his authority and intimacy with River, and smell the heather as she God. Grandma was jarred abruptly walked along the path. She re- She bent her head as the mis- back to the present when she heard membered the way the river had sionary began his prayer. It was Uncle George making a toast to sounded when she stood on the very still on the slope near the river, her. She acknowledged it with a damp, springy grass trying to face except for the soft slipping of the faint smile, unable to speak. the thoughts which she had kept water against the rocks. Brother "Grandma, did you really see a pushed far back in her mind for the Stephens spoke with quiet rever- vision of Grandpa, or talk to God?" past few weeks. Now she had to ence, as he made his appeal to God. insisted a curious ten-year-old. make her choice. She could leave felt the her back Jennie warm sun on "Nae, nae, o' coorse not." Even tomorrow for Liverpool with her while she listened to his words. fifty years in America had not parents or she could stay here and She could not explain the strange taken the soft Scotch burr out marry Alan. She could go to live feeling that unexpectedly invaded of Grandma's voice. "He just with his parents in Troon until he her. The voice of the missionary showed me the way I sh'd tak by had their own house built, out by rang dimly in her ears and there making me feel sa right whin I Irvine, and then they could make was a surging, singing sensation in- prayed. After that, I said g'bye to themselves a very snug life together Alan and came to Amer-rica with on the little farm. Alan was kind ma folks. Br-rother Stephens used and would take good care of her. to tease me, thin, and he kep' She loved the way he looked at promisin' me that the first mon I her and called her, "My wee Jeannie LATE EVENING RAIN saw whin I got to ma new home w'd Broon." But still she was not sure. By Inez Clark Thorson be the mon I wuz mated to in hiven. There was this new religion, and He thought 'twas a joke, but it her parents. They wanted her to THE rain falls gently on my roof really happened that way." Grand- go to America with them. And runs along the pane ma spoke half in her native brogue And gives a portion of itself "Why, Jennie, hello," a man's To fields of corn and grain. as she reminisced. She paused and voice broke in upon her troubled looked at Grandpa. Her eyes The blades of grass are clean again thoughts. Jennie turned and looked twinkled. "The first mon I saw whin And proudly lifted up up unhappily at the missionary who While thirsty flowers hold on high I got off the train at Winter Quar-r- had been up at the house talking to A tiny nectar cup. ters was your gr-randfather. We her parents. were wed six months later-r." Then clouds turn silver linings out; "Jennie, my girl, I'm worried The raindrops' song is still, "Yes, but, how about Grandpa? So still that I can hear the flute about you," Brother Stephens be- How did he find out about you?" Of one lone whippoorwill. gan quietly. "I know you don't Grandpa leaned forward with a have much faith yet in the Church, I turn into the lane and from smile. He mopped the top of his A window opened wide, but you do have faith in God. I bald head with a handkerchief in a My children's laughter drifts to me know that you feel hurt and be- And peace walks at my side! (Concluded on page 654) 626 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA —

regulations, he taught them in the English language. ^Af Visit ^Jo Libbie did not regret his stay at Laie. In May 1886, their first child was born. Libbie was confined under aim the capable hands of Julina Lamb- son Smith, wife of Joseph F. Smith, floJi who became the sixth president of the Church. Eleven days previ- ously, Julina, a trained midwife, had taken care of herself when her own son was born. From Libbie's bed, she went to a Hawaiian woman's. When she put a child into this mother's arms, an unbreakable bond was formed among the three women. Matthew and Libbie called their child Vera, but the natives thought that name too plain. They gave the little black-eyed girl one of their own Kalamakuokeola, or the "Light of Everlasting Life." While Libbie and the baby waited for Matthew at Laie, he spent the second winter of his mis- sion laboring on the island of Hawaii, where he used the native HAWAIIAN KING HAWAIIAN QUEEN tongue exclusively. He walked and Her dress is of exquisite peacock leathers from branch to branch of the velvet. Church, spending about a week in each village or city. He found Hilo November 1885, when Mat- The couple arrived at Laie some almost as large a port as Honolulu, INthew and Libbie Noall left their twenty years after a large plan- and equally exciting and beautiful. "bride's house" in Salt Lake tation had been acquired there as Yet, in the outlying districts, he City to go to Hawaii, they were a a gathering place for the Church. sometimes visited in grass homes, carefree couple. Twenty-one and Here many native Saints from the though most of the Saints had built twenty years old, they had not the Hawaiian branches had established frame houses. least idea of what it would mean homes. Mission headquarters were Life in this island proved a rich to serve as L.D.S. missionaries in in a house of Spanish architecture, experience for Matthew and pre- a strange land where, if successful, purchased with the land. pared him for the work he was their work must be carried on in a The Noalls* first night at Laie later to do in Honolulu. In Hawaii, foreign tongue. was not spent in the mission house, he became acquainted with the land. Most of the mission wives in the however, but in an auxiliary build- (Continued on following page) islands considered themselves pri- ing, or shed. Here the rats ran

marily as wives rather than as actual up and down beside their bed, w%i helpmeets in the field, and few of which swayed on long strips of can- them learned to speak the Hawaiian vas, once part of the ceiling. Nor tongue. Most of the elders found were Libbie's fears allayed by the the language difficult. But Matthew sound of the trade wind's ceaseless and Libbie set to with all their moaning. hearts to learn it. Their eventual One of Matthew's first assign- fluency led to deep understanding ments was to build a four-roomed between themselves and the native house which would serve as four Hawaiians. apartments for missionaries and Such communion was a far cry their wives. This work kept him at from Matthew's dread of the is- Laie, where he and his wife joined lands when first called on his mis- a language class. Matthew's next sion. For years he had been look- assignment made him the school- ing forward to marriage and life teacher of the native children at in the "bride's house" which he Laie. According to government had built with his own hands and which was largely furnished LIBBY AND MATTHEW NOALL through Libbie's handiwork and her earnings as a schoolteacher.

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(Continued from preceding page) efforts it had been made homelike provement Associations. The na- He visited the great craters of and attractive. tive women adored her. Even so, Mauna Loa and Kilauea. He In April 1888, the chapel was they exasperated her by frequently learned to understand the native dedicated, and the Saints were failing to live up to her expectations. attachment to the old ideas. Though honored by the presence of Queen Though they loved fairs and Christians, these lovable, hand- Kapiolani. Matthew and Libbie bazaars where they had an oppor- some people still hung tenaciously were acquainted with both their tunity to display their remarkable to their belief in the power of their Majesties. When the queen spoke handiwork, they were like children ancient gods. They feared their at the service, the dedication of the when it came to arranging the dis- old Kahunaanaana, or priests. Mat- chapel became renowned. At the plays. Instead of working they thew saw some people abandon conclusion of the meeting, she said sang, laughed, danced, and idled, themselves to this power and lie in her native tongue to Libbie, proving themselves almost incapable down to die. He learned that in "How is it that when I call my sub- of understanding cooperative ef- thus giving in to this idea, certain jects to help me in some special fort. Enthusiastic over her high individuals had died. He counseled work they respond begrudgingly, goal, Libbie was perplexed and an- the Saints patiently and wisely in or reluctantly? Yet, when you ask noyed by such behavior. Still she regard to natural phenomena; he your sisters, who are made the best of things. She tried to make them understand the also my subjects, to help you in your proudly displayed the hat the na- fire of their volcanoes was not a special work, they serve you whole- tive women had made for her of result of priestly wrath. heartedly?" braided straw. Around the crown, In the Hawaiian language. Libbie they had placed a wreath of squash In April 1887, Matthew and Lib- said, "I will answer you in the vines which they had split and bie were the only L.D.S. mission- words of Joseph Smith curled. The tendrils were so deli- aries in Honolulu. In this beauti- when he replied to a similar inquiry: cate as to be exceedingly attractive. ful city Matthew had the pleasur- 'I teach my people correct princi- In visiting the various branches able task of building a chapel. On ples and let them govern them- in the Honolulu district, Libbie Boulevard the Church Punch Bowl ' selves.' found transportation a problem. She owned a piece of property where a The queen did not resent this tried riding horseback for a while. dilapidated building had been serv- answer. She became still more But she soon abandoned this method ing as a meetinghouse for the Hono- friendly with Libbie. However, the because she had to take Vera lulu Saints. On this same piece of Noalls had never set foot in the along. At this time she herself ground stood a three-roomed cot- royal palace. From the first was hardly fitted for such riding. tage, which he moved to one side glimpse she had caught of the When she took a carriage or taxi, of the lot. This house had been grounds, Libbie had longed to see the expense troubled her, as it had empty and had been used as a the king and queen at home. to be met by the Church. Finally stopping place for traveling mission- Underneath the pleasant experi- she employed a native woman to aries. Then, as now, Honolulu lay ences of the Noalls in Honolulu, lay look after Vera and help with the on the main line of travel in the much effort and determination on household duties. When the na- Pacific. Families going to and re- their part to make the best of tive did not work energetically, Lib- turning from Samoa and landing at numerous trying situations. In her bie was again tried, but she spoke the Hawaiian Islands made use of diary, Libbie wrote: "Vera tries to her kindly, and the woman was this house. Local L.D.S. travelers me nearly to death. I don't know faithful. also made themselves at home in what to do with her." If the child Libbie's baby, a second daughter, it. But—approximately thirty-five was fretful, it is understandable, was born in July 1888. At this time years after the founding of the mis- for owing to her unsuitable diet, she and Matthew were looking for- sion—the Church deserved better she had worms. Libbie herself was ward to their return to America, accommodations in this appealing expecting another child. Still she but before they left the islands the city. Here, there were many white remained active as president of the great desire of her heart was people to be reached as well as Relief Society, and as a worker in granted. A missionary, on his way natives. the Primary and the Mutual Im- to Samoa, left a gift from a former imported from Lumber was missionary, a Brother Lambert, to United States for the northwestern be presented to the king and queen. meetinghouse. Fellow missionaries WIND One of the native Saints was an came from Laie to help build the employee at the royal grounds, and chapel. Native Saints from Hono- By Ora Lewis Wilson through him a visit to the palace lulu proved excellent workers. is a woman who dresses hair; WIND was arranged for October 31, 1888. Finally, after three months of Treetops and clouds she brushes with care, Libbie wrote: "I had long wanted arduous toil, the building was com- Parting them here and plaiting them there. to see his Majesty before leaving pleted. It had a seating capacity of Then with a swoop and a sudden swirl these islands and also for once to a Sunday over two hundred, and She fashions a wave and a wisp of curl put my foot on the threshold of the And turns the sky to a gay young girl. School room in the basement. Be- royal palace. Unacquainted with the Dozens of coiffures, one by one, sides this, the cottage had been put formalities of royalty, she noted She combs and coils and, then in fun, in good condition; through Libbie's Carelessly takes them all undone. (Continued on page 664) 628 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA —

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Nesbitt, standing on Fayescreened-in porch, watched husband as he came toward vfi&i house. "I've been foolish to even hope £o?**- the oat crop," she thought, as she looked about at the great damage of last night's storm. Twigs and small branches from the trees cluttered the ground, and the heavy rain had pitted great holes in the yard in some places and had left corrugated sheets of silt in others. Herb Nesbitt was entering the yard now, his shoulders drooped, his hat pulled low over his face. Faye turned quickly back into the kitchen.

"I won't embarrass him by staring "Guess I won't be home until supper, honey. ..." at his disappointed and discouraged ents good-bye, and Faye put his lunch face," she thought. pail in his hand, saying, "That second No, she'd let him get himself in piece of cake is for that little boy hand. He would make a great-to-do you said never, never had cake!" always checking on it," and with these about getting the mud from his feet. "Yes, ma'am, thanks," and with a startling words, he kissed her quickly He'd wash pretty thoroughly and flash of flying legs and a slamming and hurried out the door. comb his hair there on the porch be- door, Donnie was gone. Faye was so surprised she couldn't fore he came in. Oh, Herb had Faye saw her husband lean back find voice to call after him for an ex- counted big on his oat crop! Faye in his chair and shut his eyes. Then planation. A second bank account! felt her throat ache with unshed tears. he said, "Faye, we've got the children What on earth was Herb talking She glanced hastily in a mirror and to educate and take care of. And you about? They had no second bank struggled to banish her worried look. were counting big on some new yellow account. Why, Herb was so bothered Herb mustn't find anything here in curtains for the dining room, weren't he hardly knew what he was saying. his home to drag on his spirits. That you? I believe that hurts me most Oh, pshaw, she wouldn't worry about ruined crop should be enough. you not getting them. You've put it! There was too much to do to take She could hear him industriously them off so long!" time off for figuring out Herb's odd cleaning at his shoes. The baby in "Material things like curtains don't joke. her high chair began a tinkle-tinkling count, Herb. What counts is the stuff "I know what I must do today," with her dish and spoon, and Faye inside us that can stand up under hard- Faye cried, "do everything in my bent to kiss her curly head. She ships," Faye said and began piling the power to fight off that blue feeling could hear Donnie, their seven-year- breakfast dishes in the sink. when a person loses a crop. If Herb old son, hustling about getting his cap She whispered a little prayer, there comes home to a house bright and and schoolbooks together before the at the sink, that she and Herb would shiny and everyone cheerful, the fight bus came. prove brave under any chastisement. A is almost won!" Herb came in then, sailing his hat honk in the road brought Herb to his When Herb returned for supper, toward a corner. "Yep, that field of feet. He went out quickly but came she'd have everything so cheerful he oats is flatter than a pancake! How back in a moment, "I'm going to try couldn't worry! And she'd have the we're going to feed the chickens and to find some kaffir seed. Clint Hart yellow curtains, too. There was a stock around here now is anybody's thinks we could make a little fodder, at package of dye in the sewing machine guess!" he burst out with a forced leas f ." drawer. ravado. "Why, of course, you could try," Then Faye shifted herself into high "Oh, Herb, honey," Faye let slip Faye cried cheerfully. "And we do gear and went to work in earnest. out, a little despairing in spite of her- have a bank account you can check on She bathed and dressed the baby, self, then added quickly, "we'll have to buy the seed." putting her in her pen with her play- some late crops, I'm sure." Herb came over to her, his shoulders things. Then she jerked down the "Oh, I don't know—this sure was erect now, and grinning the way a per- old curtains, washed and dyed them, a gully-washer last night. Broke ter- son does when it hurts just a little, and when they were on the line drying, races and burst drainage ditches. Oh, "Guess I won't be home until supper, she cleaned the house. She was so busy Donnie, the bus is coming! Look how honey, and I may have to check on she almost fdrgot about lunch. She it's slipping!" Herb called out as he our bank account to get the seed. But kept herself tuned to a little song she sank into a chair with a siqh. I've got a second bank account I sang half under her breath, yet try Donnie rushed out, telling his par- don't know what I'd do without! I'm {Continued on page 671) AUGUST 1950 629 ^J~wm ^Jke

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Music which drew tears was seven, is the only living daughter played by the U.S. Marine Band of President Young, pulled the cord and Orchestra and sung by the which raised the flag of the United Utah Centennial Choruses of States from the imposing statue. missionaries from the Eastern Assisting were the sculptor, Ma- and Central Atlantic States mis^ honri Young, a grandson, and Or- son Whitney Young, member of the state statue commission and a

Immediately following the unveiling Presi- great-grandson. dent George Albert Smith shook hands with Mabel Young Sanborn, daughter of Brigham Vice President of the United Young; sculptor, Mahonri M. Young at her States Alben W. Barkley praised left, and Orson Whitney Young at right of President Smith. President Young unstintedly: "He was a true pioneer and promoted the right of free worship. He was sions, and by the Manhattan an advocate of justice and democ- Ward choir, New York Stake. racy—of the kind of democracy One hundred and fifty years of Among the selections were Evan we must preserve." Church history and terrain ex- Stephens' anthem, "Let the Moun- of Governor J. Bracken Lee Utah tending from the green, tains Shout For Joy," and an presented the statue to the federal wooded hills of Vermont to the ensemble "Devotion" composed and government and paid tribute to mountains and valleys of Utah arranged by Crawford Gates, with President Young as having "en- were surveyed by thirty-eight mem- words by Vilate Raile, and directed dowed his people with an undying bers of the Brigham Young by LeGrand Maxwell. faith and trust in their Creator, a Memorial Tour, May 20 to June 8, To President George Albert burning desire to earn their way by sponsored by The Improvement Smith went the honor of dedicating the sweat of their own brows, an Era. the statue of the man once driven abhorrence for governmental pa- Throughout the twenty days of from the United States. Mrs. ternalism, and rugged individual- travel chartered bus traversing by Mabel Y. Sanborn, who at eighty- ism." nineteen states, Canada, and the

District of Columbia, it was evident and participants that crowded the Rotunda of the National Capitol, Thursday, that early leaders and members of Part of the audience June I, 1950 at the unveiling ceremony of the Brigham Young statue. the Church lived close to the soil. Modern highways, speeding auto- mobiles, and power machinery have changed the tempo of living. Evi- dence persists, however, that Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, who obtained from the Lord the founda- tions for building great cities and empires, were born and reared in sparsely-settled agricultural areas. There, close to the soil and associat- ing with Bible-reading, God-fearing neighbors, they gained profound knowledge of God and man. In contrast to the peaceful coun- try vista found at many of the stops were the deeply moving services

June 1 in the National Capitol. There before more than a thousand people packed in the rotunda and many crowded in the entrances and steps, a white, Italian-marble statue of President Young, prophet-colo- nizer-statesman, was unveiled amidst the acclaim of leaders of the state and nation. 630 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA Senator Arthur V. Watkins of Utah told that President Young HILLS had taught— how obstacles were a 3 blessing -not a detriment—and had demonstrated this. W. D. Canedy, Whitingham Town (ship) clerk, re- lated history of the area. John D. STATUARY HALL Giles, conductor of the tour and executive secretary of the Utah Pio- neer Trails & Landmarks Associa- tion, conducted the stirring program. He had handled much of the work incident to erection of the monu- ment, which was provided by de- scendants of President Young in cooperation with the Church. After the program and after hav- ing been guests of the Town (ship) of Whitingham for a delicious box luncheon, the tour party proceeded eastward to the Connecticut River Valley, then northward. It was easy to see why, because of the narrow river valleys, shallow soil, and outcropping rock, parents of Brigham Young and Joseph Smith and others went southwestward to take up more fertile land in the then frontier areas of the state of New York. On the morning of May 29, the group held services eighty-five miles north of Whitingham at the birth- place of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Situated high in the hills in maple Whiiingham, Vermont, monument to Brigham Said Judge Harrie B. Chase, Young dedicated Sunday, May 28, 7950. Left to and farming country are the me- right: Gladys Young Orlob, Edith Young Booth, Brattleboro, Vermont, of the U.S. Leah D. Widtsoe, George S. Young, and Don C. morial cottage and a polished Young. Circuit Court, speaking for the granite shaft thirty-eight and one- Town (ship) of Whitingham: half feet high, a foot for each year The name Brigham Young has become of the Prophet's life. To the at- Senator Elbert D. Thomas of accepted as a symbol of perseverance, tentive group, Heber C. Smith, in Utah told of the profound effect courage to bear difficulties, and capacity charge of information and mission- President Young's work had on the to surmount them. This monument is a ary work at the cottage, related spread westward of religious free- fitting tribute to a great American, Whit- historic background. dom. Mrs. E. E. Ericksen, commis- ingham's famous son. family sion executive secretary, conducted The Joseph Smith, Sr., In another eulogy, Elder John A. the program. Senator Carl Hayden moved to the Solomon Mack Widtsoe of the Council of the Township, of Arizona of the Joint Committee homestead in Sharon Twelve said: on the Library, United States Con- Windsor County, under humble circumstances. There the father gress, accepted the statue on behalf Out of discord he brought concord . . . of the federal government. he taught his people industry and left no labored on the farm in the summer- place for the idler; he taught them to study Attended by as large an audience, time and in the winter taught school. and founded several universities; he is all a in the picturesque setting of the They were isolated from but looked upon as the founder of cooperation few neighbors. green mountains of southern Ver- in our day, and taught that men must have mont, was the dedication Sunday, faith, resting everything on industry, edu- From Sharon the family moved May 28, of a twelve-foot polished cation, and cooperation. to Lebanon, New Hampshire, some His ideas could save the world. Brigham granite shaft at the birthplace of twenty-five miles distant, and later Young was a great man. His place in President Young, Whitingham, to Norwich, Vermont, nearby. Dur- history is safe. Vermont. There also, President ing this period, Hyrum, older broth- Smith realized the ambition of many President S. Dilworth Young of er to Joseph, attended Dartmouth years in completion of the monu- the First Council of the Seventy, Academy, now Dartmouth Univer- ment which he dedicated. president of the New England Mis- sity, Hanover, New Hampshire. The shaft is on an eminence in sion, said, rugged Vermont, which From Norwich the Smiths went to a public recreation and memorial has produced many great men, yet the Palmyra, New York, area. area two miles above the village of will rejoice that a prophet of the A luncheon stop was made at Whitingham. Lord was born within its borders. (Concluded on following page) AUGUST 1950 631 FROM THE GREEN HUES TO STATUARY HAEE

(Concluded from preceding page) hanna River is the site of McKune through agreement with the city, is Rutland, Vermont, near the birth- settlement, Harmony Township, the grave of . Far place of Oliver Cowdery. From Pennsylvania. The homesite of West, headquarters of the Church Vermont, Oliver had moved to Isaac Hale, father of Emma Smith, in 1839, with a population of five Manchester Township, New York, and homesite of Joseph and Emma thousand, now is sparsely-populated where he stayed with the Smith Smith about 1828-31, where he farmland. The temple site, on a family a winter while teaching translated much of the Book of farm owned by the Church, still school. Mormon, is here. The Church re- has stones at the corners, placed cently purchased the large farm. there 112 years ago. It was from The historic Palmyra area, It was on the banks of the Sus- here that many Church members twenty-five miles east of Rochester, quehanna River near the McKune were driven into Illinois. New York, was visited May 27. settlement that Joseph and Oliver Fertile fields with occasional rises -ondi-Ahman was viewed received the Aaronic Priesthood at such as the Hill character- from a distance since no good roads the hands of John the Baptist May ize this section. Three miles from afford access to the hilly area in 15,1829. The Melchizedek Priest- which is located a thirty-acre the hill is the Sacred Grove and hood was restored soon after in the Joseph Smith Farm, purchased for Church-owned farm. wilderness along the river between the Church in 1903 by President Nauvoo, Illinois, across the river Colesville and Harmony townships. George Albert Smith. northeast from Keokuk, Iowa, was From the New York areas, the Near Mendon, eighteen miles dis- the next gathering place of the early Church members moved to tant, was seen the John Young home Church. Now virtually a ghost Kirtland, Ohio, about twenty miles built partly by Brigham Young. town, it was visited by the tour east of Cleveland. Tour members Robert Hutchinson, third genera- group May 24. visited Kirtland May 26. Through tion of a family which since has twenty-three miles distant courtesy of the Reorganized Church Some owned the home and farm, dis- is Carthage Jail, now a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day played a brick the of bearing "B" memorial. Bullet holes in the oaken Saints, which now holds title to the Brigham Young's initials, which the door through mobsters forced temple, the party visited the interior which father of Mr. Hutchinson had dug their to murder the Prophet of this gracefully-proportioned way from the site of Brigham Young's Patriarch structure. and June 27, 1844, were chair factory. displayed a He seen and felt by the party. They chair that Independence, County. reputedly made in fac- Jackson also saw stains of the blood of the tory. Neighbors of a bygone day Missouri, was visited June 4 and 5. Patriarch Hyrum on the floor. classed Brigham Young as "lazy" Of sixty-three acres of the temple West of Nauvoo, tour members because he built a millrace and lot dedicated 1 19 years ago, twenty- traveled along much of the trail machinery to saw wood. six now belong to the Church. On traversed by their ancestors a cen- Southeast, between Lakes Seneca this are Central States Mission tury ago, stopping at the village of and Cayuga, is the Peter Whitmer headquarters, a chapel, and Zion's Garden Grove and pausing as near farm, now owned by the Church, Printing & Publishing Company. Mt. Pisgah as road conditions where on April 6, 1830, the Church The huge, reinforced concrete would permit. was organized. Nearby is the oak and steel auditorium and other grove in which the Three Witnesses buildings of the Reorganized They saw Council Bluffs, known to the Book of Mormon were shown Church, and a Church of Christ in early Church history as Kanes- the plates. ( Hedrickites) frame church, oc- ville, and visited impressive Winter cupy most of the rest of the temple Quarters cemetery on the Beautiful homes on the Genesee out- Turnpike near Auburn, New York, lot. skirts of Omaha, Nebraska. Pio- neers buried six hundred of their said to have been built by Brigham At Liberty, Missouri, is the dead in the Young, chief carpenter and de- Church-owned site of old Liberty area now graced by the magnificent sculpture, the work signer, were visited, also the Jail, where the Prophet Joseph, of Avard Fairbanks. Seward mansion, inspiration for the Patriarch Hyrum, and four others Lion House, Salt Lake City. were imprisoned during the winter Fremont, Nebraska, in the fertile Some 125 miles southeast from of 1838-39. Tour members saw valley of the North Platte River was part of the stone dungeon floor and Palmyra is the village of Nineveh, the scene May 22 of the dedication the filled cavities in which eye bolts closest settlement to what became of a granite monolith marking the once were embedded, holding chains the first branch of the Church in approximate site on the old Mormon to which prisoners could locked. Colesville Town (ship), New York. be trail where President Young or- In an area now devoted exclusively The site of the Richmond, Mis- ganized the first company of Pio- to farming, Josiah Stoal and souri, jail was visited—the jail neers along military lines on April Joseph Knight operated gristmills where the Prophet Joseph was 17, 1847. and carding mills alongside Indian chained and tormented but rebuked Independence Rock and Martin's Springs Creek. They went to his jailers with such power that they Cove Handcart Company monu- Palmyra in the fall of 1825 to buy trembled. ment southwest of Casper, Wyo- wheat and there met Joseph Smith. In an old cemetery at Richmond, ming were settings of Sunday serv- Thirty miles down the Susque- beautified this year by the Church ices May 21.

632 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA Church Of The Air

earn Wisdom In Thy Youth

Address presented as the "Church of the Air" sermon over Radio Station KSL and the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- 16 tem, June Conference Sunday, June 7:30 a.m., Mountain 18, 1950, at GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT Standard Time

Y. M. M. I. A There is an account of an ancient city which was encircled by the enemy for many days. Food On nearly every hand we see ex- from the pleasures which are supplies and water were success- amples of men who prove in their transitory toward pursuits based on fully cut off. The suffering was getting that "the wisdom of this lofty concepts of eternal truth, and

great. The siege was so successful world is foolishness with God." (I which, therefore, brinq lasting that the besieged sought for terms Cor. 3:19.) satisfaction. of surrender. I recently read an editorial from I am pleased to represent today "Bring your wealth and your one of the prominent newspapers of an organization which is charged most priceless gems to the gate of the nation, which named some of with the responsibility of building the city tomorrow at sunrise," was the individuals who were considered in the hearts of the young a testi- the reply. America's most successful men mony of the divinity of the gospel The morrow came; the gate was twenty-five years ago. The subse- of Jesus Christ, and all that it im- opened; and there marched out quent history of these ten men who plies in daily living. This organize ahead of the city officials, their boys were such powers in the financial tion is known by the meaningful and their girls—truly, their most and industrial world shows two title of the Young Men's Mutual priceless gifts. bankrupts, one insane, one insol- Improvement Association of the Fathers, mothers, church and. vent, two who have served time in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- thinking civic leaders, indeed most prison, and three suicides. dav Saints, and with it is a com- men and women everywhere, recog- The editorial says, panion organization, the Young nize the value of our youth and the Women's Mutual Improvement As- These men knew how to make money need for, and the importance of, sociation. and gain fame and influence, but they were teaching them aright. We might so engrossed in their respective callings When these associations were well- well be concerned for their and activities that they never took the time formed some -five years ago, and im- being, for in them rests all of our to acquire the most fundamental President Brigham Young said: hopes and aspirations. In this portant knowledge of all. Obviously, not one of them mastered the knack of learning blessed land of the United States Organize yourselves into associations for how to live. improvement. Let the keynote of of America emphasis has been mutual your work be the establishment in the from placed upon spiritual values To put it more simply, in their youth . of an individual testimony of the the day the Pilgrim Fathers landed. lust for getting the things of this truth and the development of the gifts These Pilgrim Fathers were well- world, they lost their sense of bal- within them; cultivating a knowledge and appreciation of the eternal principles of acquainted with the proverb, ance, and in the process lost God. the great science of living. Train up a child in the way he should One of the challenging problems he is old, he will not depart this nation and the go; and when which confronts These organizations are, there- from it. (Proverbs 22:6.) is that of building in world today fore, auxiliaries to the priesthood a true under- We, their descendants, in the our young people of the Church and are as arms to of life, a concept that life days of our temporal prosperity are standing assist in preparing young men and meaning and is purposeful. This prone, in our getting, to overlook has women to live and teach the gospel. is not easy task, for the forces the acquiring of understanding, and an The great object is to assist in particularly the getting of wisdom. which are pulling in the opposite equipping our youth for lives of The same author of sacred litera- direction are powerful and effective. usefulness and in fortifying them ture said, This challenge rests with the against the widespread unbelief Church, and it cannot be met ade- and godlessness of the world about Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, quately without a program utilizing and the man that getteth understanding. them. which will attract (Ibid., 3:13.) means our youth {Continued on following page) AUGUST 1950 633 LEARN WISDOM IN THY YOUTH

(Continued from preceding page) Lord, that they might call upon temple of God. One would think I wish that each of you might him and counsel with him in all that judgment alone would induce have been with me here on Temple their doings. a man to treat his body with defer- Square in Salt Lake City during We have before us also the great ence and respect, doing all within the past three days. over 1 From objective of teaching virtue. As a his power to build a healthy body, the nation there have gathered more part of our program we select an capable of carrying him through than ten thousand teachers of the annual theme. This is developed life without disease or suffering. A young. have here for They come through the year by means of cul- glance around is sufficient to see training inspiration will and which tural arts, through social activities, that many enslave themselves to enable them to their go back to own and by spiritual instruction. Dur- habits which they must assuredly communities and build boys and ing the past year the theme has know will result in unhappiness in girls into men and women of God. been: later life. They have learned to become We want to teach our young peo- more effective teachers, not only of How glorious and near to the angels is ple to understand that youth is the the youth that is clean; this youth has joy philosophy of the gospel of preparatory time for parenthood, unspeakable here and eternal happiness Jesus Christ but also as leaders in hereafter. (From First Presidency, April 6, and that parenthood is a partnership recreation and cultural arts—dance, 1942.) with God. I learned from the lips drama, speech, music. of my own sainted mother that "the Some of them also have sharpened The Savior of the world promised reward of virtue is untainted parent- their abilities as coaches of basket- that the pure in heart should see hood." ball, baseball, softball, volleyball, God. But what are our young peo- And so in this great program for and tennis. A large school for ple facing? In most cities it is diffi- youth we are seeking to cultivate scouting has also been conducted. cult to walk down the street with- within them a consciousness that Why have we done all this? To out being reminded of sex on every each of us is a child of God, that enable these teachers of youth more hand. The newsstands are flooded the body with which he has en- capably to meet the objectives of with sexy, racy literature. Much of dowed us is a sacred tabernacle of this great program of the Church. our entertainment is built around the spirit, that virtue is a precious And what are those objectives? One salacious material which appeals to gift to be treasured, and that true is that every boy and girl shall the baser instincts. happiness is incompatible with dis- develop a personal testimony that The Apostle Paul, writing to the solute living. Such training, with God lives, and that he hears and Corinthians, said: appreciation for virtue, modesty, answers prayer. and chastity, gives a sweetness and They are encouraged to partici- Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of dwelleth in purpose to life. pate in family and individual prayer God you? are trying to carry on a great —to know that wisdom and faith We If any man defile the temple of God, educational program for your young and strength come to those who him shall God destroy; for the temple of people that they might come in seek the Lord—that prayer is a God is holy, which temple ye are. (I Cor. 3:1647.) touch with the refining influences of source of power all its own, a source life. have just heard a chorus for good which has been success- You Nor in the light of this teaching of more than a thousand of these fully tried and proved in the lives can any young man or woman with represen- of countless men and women. young people. They are impunity fill his or her body with tative of many thousands over the If we are to be a nation of God- substances which tend to weaken Church who have learned to sing fearing men and women, we must and destroy. The use of alcohol, such anthems of praise to the Lord. teach our youth an awareness of tobacco, and other deleterious sub- In the cultivation of their talents God. We must teach the eternal stances is hardly compatible with the they have found expression and as- truth that every boy and girl is in belief that the body is the sacred sociation and gladness. Their lives very deed a son or daughter of our have been enriched. living Heavenly Father. The ex- perience of the past has demon- By means of the dance, drama, strated the truthfulness of the OLD-FASHIONED THINGS and public speaking, they have also Savior's words when he spoke in the found expression, and they have By Mildred temple at Jerusalem: Goff had a good time while doing so. We earnestly believe that the Lord de- X like such old-fashioned things My doctrine is not mine, but his that * As blue percale, wide apron strings, lights to bless his children and have sent me. Sweet William and forget-me-not, them happy. If these glorious young If any man will do his will, he shall know Lavender and bergamot, people of ours are to believe, if of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or trees and grapevine swings. whether I speak of myself. (John 7:16-17.) There's magic in these homely things. religion is to appeal to them, it must not be a matter of a long face, Buttermilk and homemade bread, And so we are endeavoring to Kittens in a pansy bed, but of giving them rounded-out, bring into the lives of our young Candlelight and yellow roses, joyful experiences. By the same Old photographs in formal poses people through prayer and reading token, the field of recreation is Take me back on memory's wings. experience a to the and nearness I like old-fashioned things. developed as an auxiliary to wor- 634 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA — — — —

ship, for we feel that all of the enjoyments of life are intended to CHILDREN'S SUMMER READING increase our devotion to the Lord. MR. DOODLE RIVER OF THE And so we have been carrying on WOLVES (Sally Scott., Illustrated. Harcourt, ( Stephen W. Meader. Harcourt, Brace this great training program for the Brace and Co., New York. 1947. and Company, New York. leaders of our youth, that they 46 pages. $1.50.) 1948. 249 pages. $2.50.) might inspire and teach in the wis- [r. Doodle was a puppy who tried ""This out-of-doors adventure story dom of the Lord. earnestly to do the right thing, begins in the backwoods country with this program, In harmony but found it difficult to understand the of Maine immediately before the we have selected as the theme of gueer ways of people. Through the French and Indian War. Dave Foster our work for the coming year the love of Peter, an eight-year-old boy goes to live with an uncle; the uncle's farm is ancient admonition: "Learn wisdom who lived in town, and who was per- attacked by Indians, and Dave, as an Indian captive, learns the in thy youth; yea, learn in thy mitted to have the puppy on a week's dangers and trial, Mr. Doodle came to understand hardships of life in the Canadian youth to keep the commandments and to obey. wilderness.—A. L. Z., /r. of God." (Alma 37:35.) A lively story for youngsters, it is It is a timely teaching in our DAVY OF printed in large type and contains THE EVERGLADES (Written and present-day world, when there is many amusing black and white draw- illustrated by Eleanor Frances Lattimore. William so great a tendency to consider the ings. D. L. G. Morrow wisdom of the Lord as foolishness. & Co., New York. 1949. 127 pages. On every hand we see broken BITTER SWEET $2.00.) Harper. ![~)avy Dale lived with his parents homes, heartaches, suffering, and (Martha Barnhart Longmans, Green and Co., New York. 1948. and his little sister on the high- misery, as a result of rash and 238 pages. $2.50.) way that led through the Everglades thoughtless action on the part of T ucy Barnhart assumed the big in Florida. Davy was allowed to go men and women who have learned to the Glades if he sister duties for seven young would be sure to neither wisdom nor adherence to wear his high rubber Pennsylvania farm children of Civil boots. There the commandments of God. he could pretend that he was an ex- War days. She is so much fun—and The records tell us that in 1946 plorer, a zoo keeper, or a game warden. just the kind of person it takes Davy's experiences over 108,000 young men under to soothe the hurt of eleven-year-old in the Glades and at the Seminole village will twenty-one were arrested for crimes Joe, who was sent home with his drum — make interesting reading serious enough to warrant finger- from the enlistment center because of for the six to ten- year-old group.-—M. C. /. printing. A visit to any state penal his age. Lucy's romantic inclinations are with a young reverend minister. institution will reveal the majority BLACKIE AND HIS FAMILY L. Z., /r. of the inmates to be young men —A (Mary E. Cook, Harcourt, Brace and whose wasted bodies and twisted Company, New York. 69 pages. THE SMART LITTLE BOY AND outlook on life are generally the 1949. $2.00.) HIS SMART LITTLE KITTY result of failure to learn wisdom Cook has described (Louise Woodcock. Illustrated. Wil- JI/Tary the life while of the young. liam R. Scott, Inc., New York. California blackbird simply Religion, spirituality, and living 1947. 18 pages. $1.25.) and effectively in this book. Printed near to God are not intended mere- in clear, large type and with many ""Phis entertaining story of Peter and ly for those nearing the end of life's drawings, this book will supply young his Kitty presents the philosophy people journey. The Lord glorifies in the with hours of entertainment as of tolerance in such a manner that the well as give them a valuable lesson faith, devotion, and service of the very young can comprehend. on the life and habits of birds. young; and youth, properly led, re- Peter's kitty could do things Peter —E. M. spond with gladness and devotion. couldn't do but wished he could, and J. In this spirit we must accept the Peter could do things the kitty couldn't DEBORAH'S WHITE WINTER challenge of our time with a pro- —but the kitty didn't even care. (Written and illustrated by Eleanor gram for young people which will D. L. G. Frances Lattimore. William Morrow stir their souls to an appreciation & Co., New York. 1949. 124 pages. ANABEL'S WINDOWS for the rich heritage that is theirs $2.00.) (Agnes Danforth Hewes. Illustrated and prepare them for the opportuni- Cix to ten-year olds will find interest by Kurt Wiese. Dodd, Mead & Co., ties before them and, above all, im- in this story of Deborah and the New York. 1949. 240 pages. $2.50.) plant in their hearts a testimony of Christmas play in which she was an 7V combination of author and artist the gospel of Jesus Christ, that it angel, and of her skis and the snow such as this assures pleasurable might be an influence for good all carnival. It's a fun book ior winter readings for the seven to eleven-year and will put joy into the snowfall the days of their" lives. — olds. Added to this ideal combination and the icy weather. M. C. May the Lord bless all who J. is the fact that the book is really earnestly strive to serve him through HOOK AND LADDER NO. 3 autobiographical—the story of the serving his children, I ask in the (Bill and Bernard Martin. The Tell- author herself, who as a little girl lived name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Well Press, Inc., Kansas City, Mis- in Syria, when her parents had gone souri. 26 pages. $1.00.) there to study and teach in a little hillside village in Lebanon. History A peppy little tale of a hook-and- comes to life in the Dare household ladder fire truck that found a job as do geography and the folklore of to do even in Hackenberry, where the

this Biblical country. —M. C. /. only tall building was fireproof. —D. L. G.

AUGUST 1950 635 — —"

The House with the

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Hunter watched the summer "I hate these shabby old places. red geranium on the stand, his easy Edlandscape unroll swiftly as the It's that swing you must be daffy chair, and through the door, a train bore him homeward. In about. Anyway, if we ever do glimpse of the white, red-trimmed less than a half-hour he would be move out from town, it'll not be kitchen, with Emily, his wife. How often, to such a dingy, ramshackle place 'You don't know how glad I in his three years in the navy, he as this. I don't see what we could am to be at home again," he said. had envisioned these stretching ask better than our cozy apart- He took Emily into his arms again.

prairies! Not that he was a farmer, ment. No, no, Ed, I'll never come "So many times I've dreamed of No, it was machinery that he loved to such a place!" home and you." most. His hands were always eager .Often, in these last three years, "Ed, dear," she whispered, to; fix and repair not only machinery he had thought of this rundown, clinging to him. "We're going to but everything that required a deft weathered house. And then he begin all over again, aren't we?"

hand to restore it to good condition. had thought of that swing, and With that, she released herself Really, it was a bit of the out- that had led to his dreaming of his from his arms and ran into the doors that he wanted, a place boyhood and his own elm-tree kitchen to attend to the lunch. Be-

where, after his day's work at the swing. : cause Ed always had an enormous machine shop was over, he could The train was slowing down. It appetite for Emily's food, he went tinker about in house and yard. stopped. There was Emily, wait- to wash up in a hurry. He wanted No. use, though, to think about ing for him. It made him hold his to be ready for that picnic basket. that too seriously. Indeed, he had breath, she was so pretty, so He sat down in his arm chair to said too much to Emily about a just Emily. wait. Yes, even if there wasn't suburban home. That was the only They were no sooner on the bus, any outdoors here, it was good subject that had, at times, threat- than Emily announced happily that yet, he would like to be able to ened their few years of happy mar- they were going on a picnic that putter around—plant some bushes, ried life. More than once, it had very evening. Ed gave a tragic perhaps—so many things he would brought them very near to a serious groan. "So soon? Why I've just like to do quarrel. Only the good sense of got home!" Emily was rousing him: "You've bcfth of them and their fondness of

each other had prevented it. To be years in the navy, dreaming a bit outdoors he sure, it was he who had always HThree of of yielded. Emily had invariably wanted, a place where, after his day's work at the machine shop was over, he could tinker about in house and argued that it wouldn't be reason- yard. able to wear himself out doing odd jobs after his hard day's work at the shop, "And as for that elm-tree "Do you really mind, Ed? It's been asleep, dear. Aunt Laura's swing that you're talking always only the three of us. Aunt Laura here." about, Ed," she say, "you're would is going to stop for us in the car Aunt Laura, who was more like just going back to your childhood!" after office hours. Why, Ed, the an older sister than an aunt, Occasionally, when he and Emily picnic is in your honor, and we greeted him affectionately: "Wel- had driven out into the country, could hardly wait. There'll be come home, Ed! You're a bit thin, they had passed houses, run-down fried chicken and a lot of other but you'll soon get over that with from neglect rather than from age. good things, too." , Emily's care and good cooking." Such places had always attracted "Yes, and when I'm working "Of course I don't mind, Emily, him. He was certain that they again and I'm mighty lucky, too, but you don't know how eager I've — could be bought quite reasonably. to get my old job back. Now if I been to get home and stay there. — One such place he recalled in par- had a yard to fool around in We're lucky to have a home to ticular. He had noticed that there No one was paying attention to come to, with all this housing was a swing at the side of the him, was a good thing, for shortage." which story-and-a-half unpainted house,. he didn't want to start an argu- "I'll say we are!" Emily agreed. "There, that's exactly the kind ment about any run-down place of house and acreage I'd like to Ed stood in the middle of in the outskirts. buy," he had told Emily. "We the small living room and looked They were soon driving east. could fix it, up fine." around him with satisfaction: the The road was familiar to Ed, for "No, no!" Emily had retorted. tiny gas fireplace, the bookcase, the it would take; them past that place 636 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA "

her. "But— why?" He followed her across the threshold. Emily's hand held his tightly. He couldn't speak. He could only stare. The sun was coming through the small-paned windows, sifting a mellow light over the stone fire- place and over the furniture, furni- ture that seemed oddly familiar to him.

"But, Emily, I don't under- stand—or do I? Do I?" "Yes, Ed," she said softly. Her that he had taken such a fancy to smile was wonderful. "This is just before he had left. our house, and the four acres Why, Aunt Laura was turning around it. Ours," she repeated. into the driveway of that very "Our nest egg in the bank made the down payment, together with what house! "Oh, I say—you aren't coming in here!" he cried. we got when we sold our car. Our Emily laughed gaily: "Yes, why monthly payments will be the same the apart- not? We decided to picnic o'ut as we are paying now for here because you were once so ment." the best enthusiastic about it. The place "Oh, Emily! You are has been sold, but as no one is wife in the world! You don't living here at present, we can pic- know what this is going to mean nic in peace. Just imagine, Aunt to me all my life." Laura, anyone getting daft over "Don't try to tell me, dear." She such a ramshackle house as this! -*$£!> went on then, in a matter-of-fact Such scrubby grounds, too. Ed manner, "All the furniture in this said it had wonderful possibilities. room came from my old home. We nearly quarreled about it." again," Emily commented during a You know, it's been in storage Immediately Ed went exploring. pause in the eating. "If it were un- ever since Mother died. There is A little later, joining the others, der an elm tree you might feel a lot more of it, but this is the only he exclaimed, "I should say there more at home," she teased. room that Aunt Laura and I had are possibilities here! Fixing, that's "Oh, an apple tree isn't so bad," time to fix up. There'll be time all it needs. See, I found these he chuckled. "Neither are brown later on to attend to everything." roses in a tangle of shrubbery down thrashers, for that matter." They "Sure, plenty of time. I can the slope. If the right kind of peo- listened. One of them was singing hardly believe it, Emily. No won- ple were only living here—Why, if from the very top of a cottonwood. der you wanted that picnic the Emily were here, it wouldn't be They were through eating. very day I came home! Honestly, I long before we'd have one of the Ed went over to examine the was a little peeved to have to go. trimmest set-ups around. Give swing. "Needs a new rope, that's But shall we explore the rest of us, say, three years or so." sure. It's an old apple tree, but the house?" he asked, starting for

"I see you're the same old fixer, it looks as if it was good for a long the inner door. Ed! "Emily exclaimed. "But right time, yet." He picked one of the Emily held him back for a mo- now it's the 'eats' we're interested little hard apples. Wait till fall ment: "You see, Ed, I got to think- in. We'll put out things on this and there would be bushels of ing, more and more, of what this old rustic table— I hope it won't them. "Black Twigs, I guess they place might mean to you, and the break down. Just sit down any- are. more I thought about it, the more way and make yourself at home." "Ed!" Emily was calling. "Ed!" I knew that I wanted such a home "I sure will. This is what I've She was standing at the side door myself. And Ed, if we should have been homesick for. Something like of the house, a bunch of keys in children, and we will,— even if we this." He soon became too en- her hand. should have to adopt grossed in chicken and potato salad "Ed, we're going into the house, Ed interrupted, "Why the chil- to talk. now I" dren can have a lot of fun on that "I guess you saw that swing "How's that?" he asked, joining swing under the apple tree."

AUGUST 195,0 637 beings who had merely evolved a different cultural pattern. Hawaiians (lju ^Jkeli were always given responsible posi- tions within the Church. This approach left the Hawaiian with his individual and racial pride intact, his self-respect unimpaired. And therein lies the keynote of the success of the Church. Instead of Fruits... attempting to uproot all vestiges of the native culture, the Latter-day Saints, by sympathetic methods, have been able to produce a living faith, capable of growth and propa- Dm ^J\atkteen

FORMER MISSION HOME AT LAIE. respect and admiration. Thus Laie became a haven for Hawaiians who planning for the care and edu- successful work of the Latter-day found there the traditional warmth INcation of the people of the Trust Saints among the Hawaiians. The of the ancient days and the com- Territories of the South Pacific, reason is easily found: from the forting security of a well-patterned the American government has wise- beginning they dealt with the life. ly chosen to utilize the services of Hawaiians not in the condescending The story of Laie can well be told anthropologists to insure the pres- manner of superiors working with a through the life of one of its early ervation of the best of the native "heathen race," but as fellow human leaders, Samuel Edwin Woolley, cultures. It is now well recognized that within these ancient cultural patterns are to be found literary and historical treasures of great value to AUTHOR'S NOTE the world. It is further recognized that satisfactory development of the came to the Hawaiian Islands from my home in Virginia in 1922. Becoming I in the Hawaiian people, I adopted a little Hawaiian people themselves can evolve only immediately interested homestead settlement called Papakolea and have since then been their "Mother out of the foundations of their own Advisor." hereditary background. It was there that I noted the beneficial effects of the L.D.S. religion on the lives of its members. In the words of Samuel Woolley; "I looked at their lives In this connection it is interesting and knew that the Church was good." to note that the Church of Jesus My first book, In a Hawaiian Valley, was dedicated to the people of Papakolea. While writing my next book, The Lonely Warrior, which is the Christ of Latter-day Saints followed life of Kamehameha the Great, I was impressed by the similarity of the methods this advanced method of thinking a used by the Church in guiding the Hawaiians and those used by Kamehameha hundred years ago when establish- in training and developing his people to be healthy, good, and self-reliant citizens. It was for this reason that I suggested to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Woolley that I ing its first branch in the Hawaiian would like to write an article about the L.D.S. Church—as observed by a non- Islands. member. Those who write of the Hawaiian —Kathleen Dickenson Mellen scene invariably comment upon the 638 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA —

who served as its head from 1895 to 1 92 1 . "He was our father to us," say the old Hawaiians. "He wanted us to be good and to be happy. We worked hard for him—but we sing and laugh while we work like in the days of Kamehameha." They discovered that the Church attitude toward prayer was much like their own. Mr. Kekuku gave a story in illustration. "I remember my grandfather, before he put the taro top in the ground, would lift

it toward the sky and say to God, 'The spirit of this is for you; the meat of it is for my grandson that he may grow strong and healthy to serve you.' Mr. Woolley liked us

to do that, too, even if it took a little more time for the work. He always wanted us to be good people and to be happy and healthy. He health is important, and it's religion, Samuel, now is president of the would say to us, 'I want the world even if it isn't mentioned in the Oahu Stake, which was formed to look at you and to know from Bible." from part of the mission in 1935. your lives that the Church is " He told them to wear flowers to Although unalike in temperament, good.' church so they would feel happy father and son hold alike the loyalty Mr. Kekuku's eyes filled with as God wanted them to feel. Thus, of their Church members. Samuel tears; "He was our father. He al- by working through many pathways was a dynamic leader, loved and ways protect us and make us feel Mr. Woolley developed a group of obeyed because of his zestful safe and happy inside." people who were healthy, happy, leadership. Ralph, gentler by na- Samuel Woolley ruled his little and self-reliant. They say, "Once ture, is loved and obeyed "because colony with a firm hand, but he filled you get the Mormon religion you it would hurt his heart if we didn't." the lives of the people with the kind have to live it to be worthy of it. Although Samuel Woolley had a of joyous expectancy in which Mr. Woolley made us so strong in- scholarly knowledge of the Ha- Hawaiians revel. His sermons were side that we never lose it." waiian language he customarily pungent and personal. Glancing Ralph Edwin Woolley, son of {Concluded on page 666) over a Sunday morning congrega- tion, he would say, "If any of you left your houses unclean or the stock unfed, you must go home and at- tend to your duties. You cannot receive a message from the Lord if your house is dirty or if the cows and pigs are crying for food." Then he would pause. And with painful reluctance, those who had left chores undone would file out of the building dev- astated by the thought of missing a thrilling sermon. The following Sunday would find them up and at work before dawn. Mention of unweeded plots of land in a sermon would send the people scurrying to the fields to put their gardens in order. Or perhaps the sermon would be on health, be- ginning with, "I rode around Laie last night and saw several houses shut up tight. If you sleep with your windows closed, you will be- come sick; then you won't be able to lead full lives, get enjoyment, and do good work. Health is a part —Courtesy Hawaii Visitors Bureau of religion. Taking care of your View of Honolulu from Punchbowl. AUGUST 1950 639 — "

IN THE

the cities of Palestine VIII tine Exploration Fund Quarterly For ages appear many years ago, and Syria had been more or less Adventure in Jerusalem started to rule of military governors, its readers have been treated to a under the theory at and his brothers made two constant flow of official reports on of native blood but, in NEPHI "These trips back to Jerusalem. The newly-discovered caves in and near least, answerable to Egypt. rabis in the second was only to "the land Jerusalem. The country is peppered commandants (called 284 subordinate of Jerusalem" to pick up Ishmael, with them; for the area southwest Amarna letters) were who tyut the first was an exciting and of the city, "it is difficult to give an to the city-princes (chazan), dangerous assignment in the city of the principal excavations commonly address them as 'Brother' account " mere 21 " a sordid itself. Though it was no of this type (caves) without appear- or 'Father.' They were authority raid, as we have seen, the men ing to use the language of exaggera- lot of careerists whose them and deception and taking their tents with tion ... to attempt a descriptive depended on constant ex- their going quite openly, they were catalogue of these caves would be intrigue, though they regarded lots to sometimes pecting trouble and drew altogether futile, the mere labor of offices as hereditary and Laban. In the should go in to . themselves kings. see who searching the hills for examples . . styled the 1 The story tells of hiding without would be almost endless." " Farther Amarna letters we find these men in the dark to walls, daring exploits out, the Beit Jibrin area "contains raiding each other's caravans streets, mad pursuits, masquerading, an innumerable number of artificial build up their private fortunes, ac- quar- 2SR desperate deeds, and bitter caves, and the deserts of Tih and cusing each other of unpaid debts rels—a typical Oriental romance, Moab swarm with them. 280 Many and broken promises, mutually de- typical because you will say, but of these caves are younger than nouncing each other as traitors to do, and did, such things actually Lehi's time, but many are also older Egypt, and generally displaying the It has happen in Eastern cities. and have been used at all times as usual time-honored traits of the and conven- 2 ever been a standard hiding places. ™ But who in America crooked high official in the East. gallantry for some tional bit of knew of these hiding places a hun- The Lachish letters show that such with a price on his Bedouin bravo dred years ago? men were still the lords of creation head to risk his life by walking Lehi's day the commanders of The purpose of the first return in — right through a city in broad day- the towns around Jerusalem were trip to Jerusalem was the procuring gesture but light, a very theatrical still acting in closest cooperation of certain records which were writ- a thing which my Arab friends as- military matters, de- ten on bronze (the Book of Mor- with Egypt in sure me has been done in real life a pending on the prestige of Egypt mon like the Bible always uses reading thousand times. It was while 201 their corrupt power, and "brass" for what we call bronze) to bolster the Beni Hilal epic that the writer as groveling and un- plates. Lehi had a dream in which still behaving was first impressed by the close re- 295 he was commanded to get these scrupulous timeservers. semblance of the behavior of Lehi's records which, as he already knew, functions of sons on that quick trip to Jerusalem One of the main were kept at the house of one East has al- to that of the young braves of the local governors in the Laban. Nephi does not know ex- Beni Hilal when they would visit ways been to hear petitions, and as- 28" actly the reason for this and practice has ever a city under like circumstances. their established sumes, incorrectly, that the object (or any- The tales of the migrations of the been to rob the petitioners is to "preserve unto our children the 'Amer tribe have the same pattern one else) wherever possible. The language of our fathers."" It is in- camping without the walls, drawing Eloquent Peasant story of fifteen Hilal in teresting that the Beni in- lots to see who would take a chance, centuries before Lehi and the setting out for their great trek felt sneaking into the city and making numerable Tales of the Qadis from it necessary to keep a record of a -getaway through the midnight fifteen centuries after him are all their fathers and to add to it as 286 picture, and Laban streets —it is all in the Book of part of the same they went, "so that the memory of Mormon and all quite authentic. fits into that picture as if it were it might remain for future genera- is the to set off his portrait. Thoroughly typical also 293 drawn tions." The keeping of such a hiding out of the young men in daftar was also known to other city while they in unto the house caves near the . . . and Laman went wandering tribes. waited for Laban's henchmen to of Laban, and he talked with him as he sat what were the records do- in his house. cool off and debated with Oriental But house, and who was heat and passion, their next move. ing at Laban's And he desired of Laban the records the Pales- Laban anyway? which were engraven upon the plates of ( I Nephi 3 : 27-28. ) Since THE IMPROVEMENT ERA 640 fc-. , ^icii^^SS^ymi^

—Photograph by Adelbcrt Bartlett MODERN-DAY HARVESTING IN MEGIDDO, PALESTINE. brass, which contained the genealogy of my father.

. . . angry, and thrust And Laban was visitor desired of the merchant their bargaining power when they him out from his presence; and he would prince that he part with some cedar lost their fortune. not that he should have the records. Wherefore, he said unto him: Behold thou logs, the latter flew into a temper A few deft and telling touches art a robber, and I will slay thee. and accused him of being a thief resurrect the pompous Laban with But Laman fled out of his presence, and ("Behold thou art a robber!" says photographic perfection. We learn told the -things which Laban had done, Laban), demanding that he produce in passing that he commanded a unto us. (I Nephi 3:11-13.) his credentials. Zakar Baal then garrison of fifty, that he met in full "had the journal of his fathers ceremonial armor with "the elders Later the brothers returned to brought in, and had them read it of the Jews" for secret consulta- Laban laden with their family treas- before him," from which it is plain tions by night, that he had control ure, foolishly hoping to buy the that the important records of the of a treasury, that he was of the plates from him. They might have city were actually stored at his old aristocracy, being a distant rela- known what would happen: house and kept on tablets. From tive of Lehi himself, that he prob- this ancient "journal of his fathers" ably held his job because of his And it came to pass that when Laban the prince proved to Wenamon ancestors, since he hardly received saw our property, and that it was exceed- his it by merit, that his house was the ing great, he did lust after it, insomuch that ancestors had never taken that he thrust us out, and sent his servants orders from Egypt, and though the storing place of very old records, to slay us, that he might obtain our latter softened his host somewhat that he was a large man. short- property. by reminding him that Ammon, the tempered, crafty, and dangerous, And it came to pass that we did flee lord of the universe, rules over and in the bargain cruel, greedy, before the servants of Laban, and we all kings, he was given a bad time unscrupulous, weak, and given to were obliged to leave behind our property, drink. All of which makes him and it fell into the hands of Laban. {Ibid., by the ruler, who, with cynical po- 3:25-26.) liteness, offered to show him the a Rabu to the life, the very graves of some other Egyptian en- model of an Oriental pasha. He Compare this with the now classic voys, whose mission had not been is cut from the same cloth as the story of Wenamon's interview too successful; the negotiations be- military governors of the Lachish with the rapacious Zakar Baal of ing completed Zakar Baal, on a legal letters: Jaush, "probably," accord- military Byblos. The Egyptian entered the technicality, turned his guest over ing to J. W. Jack, "the great man's house and "found him to the mercies of a pirate fleet lurk- governor of this whole region, in 296 sitting in his upper chamber, lean- ing outside the harbor. And all the control of the defenses along the ing his back against a window," while he smiled and bowed, for after western frontier of Judah, and an even as Laman accosted Laban "as all Wenamon was an Egyptian intermediary with the authorities in he sat in his house." When his official, whereas Lehi's sons lost (Continued on following page) AUGUST 1950 641 —

11111 IN THE DESERT

(Continued from preceding page) later told Nephi ) in conference with But this was still not enough; Jerusalem. The author of the let- "the elders of the Jews . . . out by the Spirit spoke again, explain- ters, Hoshaiah, apparently the was night among them" (Ibid., 4:22), ing the Lord's reasons and as- leader of the military company situ- and was wearing his full-dress ar- suring Nephi that he would be in at some outpost near the main ated mor. There is a world of inference in the right; to which Nephi appends coast." road from Jerusalem to the this: we sense the gravity of the yet more arguments of his own, re- His character is one of "fawning situation in Jerusalem, which "the membering the promise that his peo- 297 servility." elders" are still trying to conceal; ple would prosper only by keeping As to the garrison of fifty, it we hear the suppressed excitement the commandments of the Lord, seems pitifully small. It would of Zoram's urgent talk as he and have been just as easy for the au- Nephi hastened through the streets and I also thought that they could not keep

the commandments . . . save they should thor of I Nephi to have said "fifty to the city gates (Ibid., 4:27), and have the law. thousand," and made it really im- from Zoram's willingness to change 298 but the Book of Mormon pressive, sides and leave the city, we can be which the worthless and criminal in such matters. 300 is very headstrong sure that he, as Laban's secretary, Laban alone kept them from hav- It has reason to be. The number knew how badly things were going. ing; suits perfectly with the Amarna fifty From the Lachish letters it is clear military forces are picture where the that well-informed people were And again. I knew that the Lord had always so surprisingly small and a delivered Laban into my hands for this quite aware of the critical state of cause. . . . Therefore I garrison of thirty to eighty men is did obey the voice things at Jerusalem, even while the of the Spirit. thought adequate even for big sarim were working with all their towns; and this is still more striking- might to suppress every sign of At long last Nephi finally did the ly vindicated in a letter of Nebu- criticism and disaffection. How deed, of which he is careful to clear chadnezzar, Lehi's contemporary, could they take counsel to provide himself, putting the responsibility wherein the great king orders: "As for the defense of the city and for the whole thing on the Lord. If the fifties who were under your to their own interests without exciting the Book of Mormon were a work command, those gone to the rear, alarm or giving rise to general mis- of fiction, nothing would be easier return to their ranks." or fugitives givings? The only way, of course, than to have Laban already dead on this, Offord says, Commenting would be to hold their councils of when Nephi found him or simply days it is interesting to "In tliese war in secret. The Book of Mor- to omit an episode which obviously the indication here, that in note mon shows them doing just that. distressed the writer quite as much platoon con- the Babylonian army a as it With great reluctance, but urged does the reader. tained fifty men;"" also, we might persistently by "the voice of the (To be continued) add that it was called a "fifty,"—- Spirit," Nephi took Laban's own hence, "Laban with his fifty." sword and cut off his head with it. BIBLIOGRAPHY the or- ( I Nephi 4:1.) In great wars This episode is viewed with horror 284i Ne. 7:2-5. The armies quick- expression "up unto the ganization of opposing £ l th ' h ° u a incredulity people ap- °, " Part by itself and by who t"in thep landfT?of Jerusalem.f They similar in all essential traveled "into the ly becomes wilderness to go up to proved and applauded the recent Jerusalem." which is a Semitic way of saying "through respects, since neither side can allow the wilderness in the direction of killing of far more innocent people Jerusalem." The fact that this in was a simple and the other to overreach it, and uncomplicated mission at a time than Laban by the armed youth of when things would have been hotter than ever in Babylonia the city the struggle between 301 for the brethren, who on their former our own land. The Book of Mor- expedition groups were chased by Laban's police, implies and Egypt, individuals and that Ishmael. is the Bible con- like Lehi, lived well out in the mon no more than country, change sides with great frequency pleasant episodes; 285 fined to mild and Margoliouth (Arabs was bur- and Israelites, p. 23) cites then as now the world the Beni Hilal it is for the most part a sad and as illustrating migration even as early as dened with a single standard type the Exodus, and gives some rules also grievous tale of human folly. No- observed by Lehi's party (p. 24): "They do not organization. Laban, migrate haphazardly ..." but of military disturbed the send out scouts, and one seemed more by before making a move are careful to determine the Hoshaiah of Lachish, had a will of heaven: like unpleasant incident than Nephi "various omens and auguries en- tered into the process. ... If human single company of soldiers under beings are himself, who took great pains to unchanged, it is likely that the emigrants would representing the permanent not at once lose all attachment to the tribes whence him they explain his position. (Ibid., 4:10- had sprung. . . ." as against the "tens of garrison, 286 18.) First he was "constrained by J. Dissard, "Les Migrations et les Vicissitudes in the de la thousands" he commanded Tribu des "Amer," Revue Biblique N.S. II the Spirit" to kill Laban, but he said (1905) 411-416 field it was not these latter but — in his heart that he had never shed 2S7 F. Bliss the "fifty" that frightened Laman J. et al., Excavation in Palestine human blood and became sick at 1898-1900, p. 204 and Lemuel; and like Jaush (who the thought: "I shrunk and would ^Id.. p. 269 may even have been his successor) that I might not slay him." The <2SB Survey of Western Palestine Special Papers. I, he kept in close touch with "the 19ff Spirit spoke again, and to its 290 authorities in Jerusalem." Bliss, op. cit.. p. 266f. On the use of promptings Nephi adds his own rea- these caves as hiding places in ancient times, W. F. Returning by night in a third Birch, sons: "Hiding places in Canaan," PEFQ 1884. attempt to get the records, Nephi pp. 61-70, also 1880, p. 235f and 1881, p. 323f 201 While "brass" properly refers' to any alloy over the prostrate form I also knew that he had sought to take stumbled of copper, "to distinguish alloys of copper and tin, away mine own life; yea, and he would of Laban, lying dead drunk in the the name BRONZE has recently been adopted," ac- not hearken unto the commandments of cording to the Oxford Dictionary. deserted street. {Ibid., 4:7.) The the Lord; and he also had taken away our 202As a matter of fact, that language was not commander had been ( so his servant property. [Continued on page 670) 642 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA —

M.I. A. leaders who conducted the M.I. A. conven- tion recently in Hawaii. Left to right, Judge William H. Reeder, General President Bertha S. Reeder, General Superintendent Elbert R. Curtis, and Sister Luceal R. Curtis

Mill ill

Convention In J4cawau

i5u (LSertka ^_), Keediev

GENERAL PRESIDENT OF THE Y. W.M.I. A.

The morning of April 19, 1950 flower leis. The native boys, won- which the Hawaiians prepare for proved to be a red-letter day in derfully adept at swimming, dived tourists, usually monthly; it begins the lives of General Superin- into the water for the coins thrown with a thirty-five mile scenic drive tendent Elbert R. Curtis and his into it by the tourists who thrilled over Nuuanu Pali to Laie Beach. wife, Luceal R. Curtis; my husband, at the agility of the Hawaiian lads. Lei and lauhala weaving, poi pound- William H. Reeder, and me, for on The drive along the highways ing, and other crafts are exhibited.

that day we started for Hawaii to was indeed like a trip into fairyland. The imu ( underground oven ) is hold an M.I. A. convention in the Stately trees and beautiful flowers opened, and the pig of the luau

Paradise of the Pacific. garlanded the road. The homes ( feast ) served at lunch is removed. The trip across the magnificent have beautiful gardens, made love- After luncheon, guests are enter- Pacific in the S. S. Lutline defies ly by the profusion of ferns, vines, tained by fifty Samoan and Ha- description. It was a restful trip, and flowering plants. The Hawaiian waiian dancers, all Latter-day permitting enjoyment of the experi- hibiscus alone blooms in two thou- Saints, and singers on the outdoor ences that are too often overlooked sand shapes and colors, ranging stage. in the hurry of modern-day living. from pure white to the most vivid The atmosphere is one conducive The flying fish, the graceful alba- vermilion. But the hibiscus, beauti- to recreation, and the Mutual Im- tross, dipping their wings into the ful as it is, must share its laurels provement Associations are doing water as they swooped down for with the night-blooming cereus, the exceptional work—as are the other food, the iridescent water itself jasmine, and the waxlike antherium, organizations of Oahu Stake, under one minute sapphire, the next perfect in its exquisite beauty. the able leadership of President indigo—all fascinated us on our Varied as the flowers are in their Ralph E. Woolley. Oahu Stake is westward trip. color, beauty, and species, so are composed of seven wards and five As we neared our destination, the people who inhabit the Ha- branches. The M.I.A. boards are first one island then another ap- waiian Islands. Seven nationalities fully organized and are carrying peared until in the distance we saw mingle picturesquely on the streets the Mutual program as it has been Diamond Head against a back- of Honolulu as Hawaiians, Japa- outlined ground of high mountains covered nese, Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, The recreational program of the with vegetation. The mountains re- Portuguese, Europeans of various Mutual has made many converts to minded us of the Green Mountains countries through their individual the Church. League basketball, of Vermont where my husband garb add color to the already color- volleyball, tennis, swimming, and all

and I presided over the New Eng- ful islands. kinds of outdoor sports are entered land Mission for five and a half Lei-day is a novel holiday for into with the keenest of interest. years. Hawaii, a day honoring the spirit The young women as well as the Boats came to meet the Lutline, of friendliness in a land where 365 young men enter into these activi- and the natives sang their haunting days are devoted to laughter and ties; in addition, the young women Hawaiian songs as they presented the enjoyment of living. The hukilau have a stirring handicraft program. everyone on the ship with beautiful offers one of the complete programs {Continued on page 670) AUGUST 1950 643 — —

wool, linen, or cotton? That's why the shopper is often confused: It isn't easy to tell the difference be- tween rayon gabardine and wool TODAY'S gabardine, or between rayon crash and linen crash, if no labels are present. SDurl Shepherdr EDITOR Types of Rayon There are two types of rayon in common use today, called "rayon" and "acetate rayon." The first (al- so known as viscose rayon) is a out JC>now what a. cool fabric, suitable for summer dresses, blouses, baby clothes, boys' shirts, and underclothes. Because Ju RAYON? it is absorbent, it is quite comfort- able to the body in warm weather. It is not subject to gas fading, so Cinderella's fairy godmother had nothing on the modern chemist. He, too, can wave a "magic wand" to achieve delightful changes in milady's wardrobe. He can dress her up in wood pulp and cotton linters, amazingly transformed by the use of chemicals into beautiful fabrics which we know today as velvets, chiffons, rayons! Satins, hi taffetas, moires, and some jerseys, 3 all sleek and smooth to the touch Row material for rayon is the Solid cellulose is reduced This liquid is forced through these are being made today from cellulose from wood pulp or chemically to a sticky liquid. tiny holes of a spinnerette in cotton linters. fine streams. These are hard- rayon. ened into "filaments" or strands of rayon, which are To make other fabrics, the long woven into yarn. fibers of rayon are cut into short lengths and spun into a yarn which more wrinkle repellent. Did you may be purchased in blue shades is suitable for gabardine, shantung, know that by using the same spin- without fear of its changing color; crash, and other fabrics. These have ning and weaving machines as are but it does not take a permanent good sewing properties because the used for wool, linen, or cotton, this moire finish, and the shopper must slippery qualities of the yarn have rayon can be made into fabrics watch for a guarantee in this regard, been eliminated, and they are also which remarkably resemble those of lest her pretty moire disappear in

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it that. modern beauty prepara- their ingredients not allow WASH it and brush and style But as do a it with care. The same tried tions are not so harsh, and the dull film of lime from the water to and true prescription for hair emphasis is on liquid shampoos stick to the hair. Also, they are less care that has won the approval of even soapless ones. Liquid sham- irritating to a sensitive scalp. beauty specialists for ages past is poos are more efficient than cake Whichever preparation is used, the rule today. soaps, yet castile soap makes an it should be lathered on the hair Our pioneer grandmothers prob- excellent shampoo when dissolved twice during a shampoo and rinsed, ably sudsed their long locks with a in hot water. In favor of soapless after the last application, until all strong cake of lye soap once every shampoos, it must be said that they the film is gone and the hair month or so and were glad to have wash out more easily than soaps, {Continued on page 652) 644 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA the first wash water. By putting a

twist in the fiber before it is spun into yarn, the manufacturers have developed its creping qualities and thus cut down on wrinkling. Both Bemberg Aristocratic are trade <^W»««|f and names of fine quality rayon crepes OFFERS THESE used in good rayon dresses. Acetate rayon, in contrast to vis- WASHING ADVANTAGES cose rayon, is a warm fabric, not particularly suitable for fitted sum- 1. Mild, golden soap.

mer clothes because it does not ab- 2. Gentle, active naptha. sorb moisture readily. However, 3. Finer 'Sunshine' Ingredients because of this factor it makes a that give white things extra, good rainy-day dress, as it dries brilliant whiteness—make quickly. Also it can be used with washable colors satisfaction in shower curtains. The brighter than new. fibers of acetate rayon melt or fuse

together when heat is applied to it,

making it a good fabric to use for permanent pleating, but necessitating that only a warm iron be used for pressing. It is because of this melt- Yes, little girl, your Mother's a very ing property that acetate rayon will

take a permanent moire finish, smart lady . . . she is a regular user while others will not (the moire of Fels-Naptha Soap Chips—now design being melted into the fabric improved for finer washing results. with heavy steam rollers ) . Acetate rayon has body and holds its shape You and Mother will have your wash well; in plain weaves it does not done in a jiffy, with Fels-Naptha and shrink; except in blue shades, which

fade quickly by perspiration, it is your wonderful automatic washer good for linings because it does not working together. Your play-soiled readily absorb perspiration. In blue dresses will come sparkling clean and shades it is subject to gas fading unless especially finished to prevent fresh and fragrant, because Fels-Naptha such reaction. Crisp rayon fabrics combines the extra washing energy of usually contain acetate, while the golden soap and gentle naptha, plus the softer ones are viscose rayon. special 'Sunshine' ingredient that makes Would it be worth while, in buy- ing a dress or sewing for the family, washes 'sparkle-white and color-bright.' to be able to tell one rayon from another? Textile experts recommend that home-burning tests be made on IMPROVED all rayons purchased to determine their identity. The test is simply this: Take a few fibers of the fab- Fels-Naptha Soap ric, twist them together, and apply a flame to one end. If the fibers WITH NEW 'SUNSHINE' INGREDIENTS burn with a flame, emitting a slight (Continued on following page) AUGUST ,1950 645 WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT RAYON? AN OUTSTANDING OFFER (Concluded from preceding page) 2. Ironing on skimpily-padded TO LD.S. PARENTS! a vinegar odor, and leaving a hard, board black, brittle ash which does not 3. Ironing collars, plackets, and For children crush easily, the fibers are acetate other-double-thickness sections from 2-15 rayon. Another test consists of ap- on the right side without a years— truly wonderful plying a drop of acetone to a piece press cloth over them. development of fabric, and if it becomes soft and 4. Insufficient rinsing; soap left sticky and then hardens as the ace- in the fabric may cause grease tone evaporates, acetate rayon is spots or stain. present. Acetone can be purchased Practically all rayons are more

FOR YOUR CHILDREN at a drugstore. beautiful if ironed on the wrong side Characters which move with the with a light, dry pressing cloth, on touch of a magic wand. Care of Rayons the order of cheesecloth. Following 1. Bible Stories are ironing instructions regarding 2. Mother Goose Washing: In general, smooth, flat ( ) dampness of the garment before 3. Fairyland a fabrics such as sharkskin will wash ironing, and (b) iron temperature. 4. Little Artist well, while crepes, because of their Rayon sharkskin ( and other crisp A MUST for Parents & Teachers twisted-yarn composition, may rayons of the sharkskin family, as $1.25 Per Copy shrink or stretch when wet. A very they usually contain acetate ) : even- Set of 4-$4.50 crepy crepe should always be dry- ly damp, ironing slowly with a warm Satisfaction GUARANTEED—Post- cleaned. Rayons are best washed age Prepaid—Quantity Rates for iron on the wrong side. Teachers, Auxiliaries, etc. in lukewarm, sudsy water without Rayon jersey (usually contains

SEND YOUR ORDER OR INQUIRY rubbing or wringing, rinsed in luke- acetate rayon) : slightly damp, using TO warm water, and dried in the shade a warm iron. R0MNEY-L1NDSAY till only slightly damp; then they Heavy rayon satins: evenly can be shaped and ironed on the damp, ironing till the fabric is dry. BETTER BOOKS wrong side. Rayons are more If heavier parts remain damp, hang (Exclusive Distributors) susceptible to alkali than cotton, and on hanger to dry, then touch up on 1248 Alameda 1716V2 Warren Salt Lake City Seattle, Wash. so only mild soaps should be used. wrong side. Some satins require a Instructions given on the label for warmer iron than others. Test the washing or dry-cleaning are impor- iron on a seam. tant. Washable rayon crepes (and YOU'VE NEVER TASTED Bleaching: Rayon is naturally a lightweight satins ) : almost dry, white fiber and does not turn yel- with a moderately hot iron. POTATO SALAD low; therefore, it needs no bleaching Heavier spun rayons (including or bluing. Strong bleaches tend to gabardine, covert, flannel, butcher THIS GOOD BEFORE weaken any fabric. Sunlight is a linen ) : slightly damp, with a hot natural bleach and is hard on all iron. colors, making it advisable to re- Dress-weight spun rayons (in- move colored clothes from the line cluding shantungs, broadcloth, nov-

as soon as they are dry. elty fabrics ) : dry, with a hot iron, Drying: Rayons lose from twenty and using a light pressing cloth. percent to sixty percent of their Sheer, lawn-like rayons (blouses,

BECAUSE strength when wet and so require baby clothes ) : almost dry, using a careful handling. Moisture should hot iron. A slight trace of damp- S5 TASTIER! ... "latUf be squeezed from them, not wrung. ness in the fabric before ironing Their original strength returns gives a crisp finish. "IS TOPS" '1d4Uf when they are completely dry, and extra Packed with it is best to allow twenty-four hours -»-^g» »

richness . . . extra zest! Magic "flavor factor" for drying before they are worn. wins everyone who They should not be allowed to tries Tang—discover HOSTESS this different dress- freeze on the line or blow in a high ing now! wind. Knitted rayons, and those By Pauline Havard that should be ironed quite damp, GALLEYS' r\AY held her door ajar for me; JT SCOOP, may be rolled in a towel to dry suf- *-' Entranced, I stepped inside ficiently for ironing. Her gold-walled house of gracious charm. IT'S THRIFTY, TOO Ironing: Rayons should be ironed The door stayed open wide without pulling or stretching and For other folk like me to find. I stayed until Night's boughs ironed always with the grain of the Were full of stars; reluctantly material. Iron-shine on rayon fab- I then left Day's bright house. Still I had learned that lovely things rics is caused by: THE PERFECT SALAD DRESSING Occur before day's end, 1 . Using a too-hot iron And greet Day as a friend! 646 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA HAWAIIAN

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"Rrom Hawaiians and American friends of Hawaii come these tempting recipes which have been SveftM Otmce ajfouf adapted for general use. Naturally, much of the goodness and flavor How eagerly you watch the scale for the steady gain of these recipes is due to the use of such fresh foods as coconut and that means so much to your baby! And the milk that pineapple, which are usually avail- you put into his bottle plays such an important part in able only where grown. We sug- the ounce-by-ounce gain that tells you "all's well." gest the substitution of the canned product where necessary. You can be sure "all's well" when you give your baby Recipes are from the files of Ro- Sego Milk. It is always easy for babies to digest. mania H. Woolley (wife of the Always uniformly rich in the food substances of good Oahu Stake president, Ralph E. whole milk. And as safe in its sealed container, as if Woolley); Katherine Napoleon there were no harmful germs in the world. (former Y.W.M.I.A. president in

Oahu Stake ) ; and Ivy White ( Salt In Sego Milk, too, your baby gets all the vitamin D Laker who filled a mission in Ha- doctors say he must have in order to develop straight, waii). The recipes are printed as strong bones and sound teeth, and to make the best of received. growth. All Sego Milk is enriched with vitamin D, the Pineapple Egg Nog sunshine vitamin, in pure crystalline form.

1 egg, separated Ask your doctor about Sego Milk for your baby. 1 tablespoon sugar Dash of salt y2 CUP fresh pineapple juice 1 cup rich milk Dash of nutmeg FREE TO MOTHERS!

This bandy book that -makes it easier Combine egg yolk with sugar and to care for and train your baby. salt; whip until thick. Then add milk Dozens of the most important ques- tions about the care and training and pineapple juice. Fold in stiffly of your baby are answered in this 64- beaten white. Pour into tall glasses page illustrated book. Approved by and sprinkle with nutmeg. (Half of a a well-known doctor. Praised enthu- fully-ripe banana may be whipped in siastically by mothers in the inter- mountain west. to give added nourishment and rich- Send for your free copy of this helpful book today. ness.) Address: Sego Milk Co., Dept. E-4, Salt Lake City, Utah. Pineapple Fluff

1 egg white Sego Milk Products Co., Originator of Evaporated Milk in the Intermountain West 1 teaspoon sugar {Continued on following page) Plants in Richmond, Utah; Preston and Buhl, Idaho AUGUST 1950 647 it's as simple %-^ as this *» HAWAIIAN MENUS

(Continued from preceding page) Coconut Custard 1 cup pineapple juice Mint leaves 6 tablespoons cornstarch 4 tablespoons sugar Add sugar to partially beaten egg with Better caps & lids )<4 teaspoon salt white and beat till stiff. l Pour pine- /2 cup milk apple juice into the egg mixture. Add 23^2 cups milk or 2 cups milk and mint leaves. Serve in glasses. (Continued on page 650)

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648 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA Food stores

for farm families ?

dollar of sales SAFEWAY HAS BEEN BUSY improving of each food dollar spent in them than Fourteen cents out of each is a considerably smaller cost than average its food stores — rebuilding and re- could our older Safeways. modeling for even more convenient self- for the jobs we do. service food shopping. Safeway now distributes It is also a smaller part of the food dollar than Safeway required to perform The newer Safevvays are better lighted, for smaller part of food dollar 10 years ago. And one main more spacious, and equipped to the last its services than 10 years ago reason is that — year by year — we've minute. Customers tell us they're a pleas- services all farm to operate more efficiently. ure to walk into. And we know for a fact For all our retailing on learned out that more people are walking into them... crops, Safeway requires less than 14^ of the food dollar. This 14^ is an average With our rebuilding and remodeU —some farm products require less than ing, each Safeway store today aver' 14^ per dollar of sales to handle, others The Safeway idea of selling more food ages over four and a half times more. per store and per employee isn't ours the sales in dollars that a Safeway Such Safeway costs as wages, rents, alone. We are in free competition with store averaged 10 years ago. taxes, displaying foods attractively and many stores working toward the same end. advertising them plus Safeway's profit This expansion in sales per store (and per — It seems to us that is good for every- are all covered by our 14^ total re- employee also) results in money-savings. — body—for farmer, customer and store man quirement per food sales dollar. alike. We invite you to test our ideas of how Enough money is saved to more than much is Safeway's profit? It a store should be run by doing your food offset the enormous increases that have How amounted in 1949 to \ l per dollar of shopping at Safeway, where almost one- taken place in labor and rebuilding costs M sales at our stores. fifth of all customers are farm families. (increases farmersknowplenty about, too!).

While the dollar volume of our sales is naturally larger now than 10 years ago, due in part to increased food prices, this SAFEWAY fact stands out: These modernized stores STORES of ours can operate for fewer pennies out

AUGUST 1950 649 )

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( Continued from page 648

1/2 cup fresh coconut milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup freshly-ground coconut

Mix together until smooth, the corn- starch, sugar, salt, and Yi CUP milk. Scald the remainder of the milk in top of double boiler. Pour a little of the scalded milk into the cornstarch mix- ture. Blend. Then add the corn- starch mixture to remaining milk. Stir until the mixture thickens. Cover, and cook 25 minutes. Cool. Add vanilla and mix well. Then add the coconut and pour into loaf pan or into individual molds. This makes a solid pudding that can be sliced or cut in squares and served with pineapple cubes. For a softer pudding, use half the amount of cornstarch suggested.

LUMBERJACK SYRUP GIVES YOU Coconut Cake THAT "OLD TIME MAPLE FLAVOR" — SO ECONOMICAL, TOO! The Cake:

cup butter ff cup sugar LUMBERJACK SYRUP eggs cups sifted flour j* teaspoons baking powder WITH EVERYTHING YOU EAT WITH SYRUP teaspoon salt cup milk teaspoon vanilla

Cream butter and sugar. Add un- beaten eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift the dry in- gredients together three times. Add vanilla to the milk, then add milk and dry ingredients alternately in small amounts to first mixture, beating well. Bake in two layer tins in moderate oven (375°) for thirty minutes.

The Filling:

1 cup milk 34 cup sugar 3/£ teaspoon cornstarch 2 egg yolks teaspoon butter y2 3 drops vanilla Pinch of salt

Special Morning Milk is the evaporated milk especially Scald milk in top of double boiler. cornstarch, and salt, and prepared for babies. It is Mix sugar, recommended by many stir this mixture into the milk. Stir a yolks, then doctors because it is so safe, bit of it into beaten egg so easy to digest, and be- add the egg-yolk mixture to the milk constantly, cause it has extra vitamins mixture. Cook, stirring Tr Evaporated A and D needed for sound until thickened. Cool, and add butter bones and teeth. Ask your and vanilla. Spread the custard be- doctor about Special Morn- tween cake layers and sprinkle with ing Milk for that special coconut. baby of yours. Special The Frosting:

MORNING MILK Y cup pineapple juice {Concluded on page 652) 650 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA What Makes a Good Jar of Jelly? To get clear shimmering jellies that sparkle

in the glass, you've got to combine . . . whole- some, ripe fruit with pure fine granulated a sugar . . . possibly some fruit pectin, and little of grandma's know-how. You'll get deliciously beautiful jellies that will win you prizes at the fair. You'll find no better sugar for your jelly making than pure U and I. It's the whitest, finest, purest, sweetest sugar available.

Remember, if it's canning your

planning, always buy U and I. UTAH-IDAHO SUGAR COMPANY

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AUGUST 1950 651 HAWAIIAN MENUS AIL ALUMINUM {Concluded from page 650) Wash and partially cook the sweet potatoes in as little water as possible. 34 cup water TRIPLE TRACK STORM WINDOWS Trim off bruised and discolored parts, Yi cup sugar in x then cut in thick slices and place AND FINEST /\ teaspoon cream of tartar buttered casserole. Cook the brown STORM 2 egg whites, beaten stiff sugar, orange juice, rind, and butter DOORS 1 cup freshly-grated coconut together 5 minutes, and pour this syrup over sweet potatoes. Bake in moder- Keep Out Cook the pineapple juice, water, ate oven until tender. Cold Drafts sugar, and cream of tartar together until it spins a thread. Pour it slow- Save on ly into beaten egg whites, beating con- Glory Fuel stantly. Spread over top and sides Your Crowning Stop Sweaty of cake, and top generously with coco- (Continued [com page 644) Windows nut. squeaks when pulled between the finger tips. If using hard water and EASY TERMS Coconut Ice Cream a soap shampoo, the final rinse may Call or Write be made slightly acid to neutralize 10 coconuts any remaining alkali from the soap. 4 cans condensed milk tablespoon of vinegar in a quart STOACO INTERMOUNTAIN, INC. 4 pints whipping cream A of water is suggested. Lemon 4847 So. State, Murray. Utah Sugar to taste warm juice is a popular rinse also. It MURRAY 955 effect is SALT LAKE 9-4107 Puncture the eyes of the coconuts has a slight bleaching and with a nail, pour out the coconut milk therefore preferred by blondes. and reserve it. Split the coconut Sensitive skins may be protected Please have one of your representatives ( in as call and give us a free estimate. shells and remove white meat ( during a shampoo by rubbing a large pieces as possible, then grate it Name small amount of cold cream or oil on a fine grater or put through fine over the forehead, cheeks, temples, Address blade on food chopper. Heat coconut and ears before beginning the sham- Town > State milk to boiling, pour it over the grated it till the hair coconut meat and let stand one hour. poo and leaving on Then squeeze the mixture through is nearly dry. This will prevent cheesecloth to make coconut cream. irritation. Contrary to popular Discard the dry grated meat. Add opinion, frequent shampoos are not other ingredients, coconut cream to the harmful to the hair and scalp; stir well, and freeze. This ice cream, GOOD HEALTH rather, they help to keep it healthy. say the contributors, is food for a The hair should be washed as often king! . . . one of the most precious as necessary to keep it clean: oily things in the world— hair of tener than dry hair. ; "Hawaiian-Style" Baked Bananas BE BLESSING! MAY YOUR Usually it is too little brushing that massaging which causes the Nutrition authorities agree 1 lemon, juice only and

many human ailments are due to 1 orange hair to lose its luster, for this daily lack of essential minerals. )4 lb. butter exercise for the hair and scalp is GOOD HEALTH DEPENDS 1 cup brown sugar stimulating and healthful. Even a unsweetened pineapple juice UPON A BALANCED DIET ]/2 cup week of regular brushing will add or orange juice It dry hair Supplement your daily food life to the hair. helps 8 bananas with by stimulating the oil glands, and it helps oily hair by distributing the VIKING GOLDEN HEALTH Peel bananas, cut in half, and place oil evenly and thus keeping it from MINERAL FOOD (with yeast) in buttered baking dish. Sprinkle them follicles. The with lemon juice and grated orange clogging the hair Each tablet contains fifteen vi- rind. Slice the orange and place hair should be brushed upward and tally essential minerals of U. S. between the bananas. Mix to- outward, away from the scalp. This Pharmaceutical grade or better. slices gether the butter, brown sugar, and is best accomplished with the head ACT TODAY min- fruit juice, and boil the mixture 5 hanging down, either by bending to improve your health Pour the syrup utes to make a syrup. over from the waist while standing over the bananas and let stand 2 hours. up, or by lying with the head hang- Viking Laboratories Then bake one-half hour at 350° ing over the edge of the bed. Mas- lntermountain Division (moderate oven). 45 South 3rd West sage can well be done from the same Salt Lake City 1, Utah the fingers firmly You will find enclosed $12.00 for which position, placing SUPPLY Hawaiian-Baked Sweet Potatoes please send me ONE YEAR'S on the scalp and rotating them gent- (800 tablets) of Viking Golden Health Mineral Food. ly so that the scalp moves. This % lb. butter Name cup brown sugar activity wakes up the oil glands, Y2 Address cup orange juice loosens the scalp, and relaxes the Y2 orange rind City & State 1 tablespoon grated nerves. Sweet potatoes Concluded on page 654) 652 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA foremm®.all

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( Concluded from page 652 parts of rubbing alcohol, thin min- For Dry Hair. Hot oil treatments eral oil, and cooled boiled water. are good for dry hair, especially if Preparations sold as scalp foods or the warm oil is applied a few hours hair restorers are of little value, for before the shampoo and massaged each hair bulb is nourished by its into the scalp. Then, just before own individual blood vessel, and washing, it may be steamed in with the only way to feed the hair is a towel wrung out of hot water. A through the food which is eaten and little brilliantine or pomade may be becomes a part of the bloodstream. used as a hair dressing, but the best One who has dandruff should cut treatment is regular brushing, mas- down on acid-forming foods such sage, and diet. as meat, bread, pastry, and candy, For Oily Hair. Bi-weekly sham- and correct any elimination faults. lockernp poos are often necessary for Drying the hair in the sunlight is oily hair, and an astringent hair a healthful procedure, but hair tonic will help to keep the hair dryers should be avoided as they Perfect protection for your fro- fluffy and bright. In cases of ex- are drying to the scalp. The scalp

meats, fish, fowl ! zen and game cess oiliness, a pinch of borax may should never be scraped with a WESTERN LOCKERAP locks be added to the regular shampoo to brush or sharp-toothed comb. One in flavorful juices and natural color of your choice freezer- help dissolve grease, or a special home treatment for bad cases of stored cuts. ..guards against shampoo for oily hair may be used. dandruff consists of a salt pack taste-robbing sub-freezing tem- The diet should be steered away made by dissolving a pound of peratures. ..retains put-away fla- from sweets and starchy foods and salt in a quart of water and pouring vor and freshness. should include six to eight glasses it over the head after a shampoo. WESTERN LOCKERAP is of water daily. The pack should be left on for five used by smart locker operators and housewives throughout the For Dandruff . A mild case of dan- minutes, then rinsed off. Since dan- West. Wrap your frozen meats, druff is not serious and may be druff is a disorder of the sebaceous fish, fowl and game right, with helped by extra washings, careful glands which supply natural oils to

the right wrap . . . WESTERN rinsing, regular brushing, and good the scalp, it is better to see a physi- LOCKERAP. Ask for it at your food. stimulating, antiseptic grocer's or locker plant. A scalp cian for treatment of serious cases lotion applied after a shampoo and than to take chances with many followed by a finger-tip massage is commercial preparations which may also helpful. A good lotion may be aggravate rather than help the con- made at home by combining equal dition.

MADE IN HEAVEN

( Concluded from page 626 his throat with a fond "humph."

familiar gesture and chuckled in the "Well, I'll have to be going if

way old people do. I'm to make it through the canyon "Well, it's funny, but I did have by morning." Uncle George rose, FREE colorful guide to help a dream about your grandma. Yes, and there was a general flurry of you prepare, protect and pre- I'd been in Zion for almost two departure. serve your quick-frozen foods. years, and I engaged to a pretty Write how to Western' Waxed was Grandma and Grandpa shut the Paper Co., North' Portland, nice girl back in England. But I door and went into the living room. Oregon. Your copy will be was getting to the point where I It dark now, but they did not mailed at once. was wasn't so sure I wanted to send for turn on a light. They sat before her, so I prayed about it. A few the fire, he in his Morris chair, she Roll contains 150 feet of nights later I had this dream. And in her rocker, holding hands, feel- WESTERN LOCKERAP. you know, all there was to it was ing the fulness of their lives to-

Choice of 18t SO or 24 inch this face of a girl I had never seen gether. They did not speak or Widths. before in my life. It certainly move, for there was no need for it. wasn't my fiancee." He paused for They had come through fifty years a little wave of amusement to sub- of life with each other. It was side. "But when I went to the sta- good. tion to meet the new group of Saints "Well, Jennie," Grandpa said, as a couple of weeks later, there was he often did when they sat together. the girl of my dream! It was your "Well, John," she answered. The grandma, stepping off the train, and ends of the logs in the fireplace smiling right at rae!" nudged a little closer to each other; Grandma reached out and the fire blazed again cheerily and patted Grandpa's hand. He cleared went on burning.

654 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA Standard develops peacetime use for atomic energy

Salt Lake Pipe Line Company (a How could these products be kept Each time a change to a new prod- Standard Oil Company ofCalifornia separated... products ranging from uct is made, very minute amounts subsidiary) is completing a 566-mile diesel fuel to high-octane gasoline of radioactive tracer material are

pipe line between Salt Lake City ...as they follow each other through put into the line . . . tracer material and Pasco, Washington. The line this common carrier line? This prepared especially for this use in will serve many points with a vari- problem has been solved efficiently the Government atomic pile at Oak ety of petroleum products. by using atomic energy. Ridge, Tennessee.

Using a Geiger Counter, operators at the destination tracer is so diluted in each batch of products that only can tell exactly when the radioactive tracer arrives in the recording made by a Geiger Counter can tell you the pipe. ..and they can switch the new stream of it's there. Its radioactivity will be far less than that of gasoline or oil into the proper tank. The radioactive a luminous watch dial.

This is one of the first commercial uses of atomic energy in American

industry. But it won't be the last. Our scientists... and those of other companies . . . are fast learning how 0f «wo to make this great development , Wl4 work for peaceful purposes. You'll see the results of this knowledge

soon , „ . not only in improved meth- ods of transportation but in new and useful products.

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make of it a closely knit brother- PRESIDENTS OF PRIESTHOOD QUORUMS hood by a growing faith in God and the glory or each other's love. By President Levi Edgar Young rect and definite teachings given in the First ". Of Council of the Seventy Holy Writ. For example: . . therefore glorify God in your body,

Brethren, . . . this one thing I do, for- and in your spirit, which are God's." EVERY MONTH, getting those things which are behind, and (I Cor. 6:20.) See that you have reaching forth unto those things which good organization in are before, your quorum: A QUORUM MEETING I press toward the mark for the prize a good secretary, a good teacher, of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. a growing feeling that you must be Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be (Paul to the Philippians 3:1344.) in attendance at your meetings stronger men. Do not pray for tasks every Sunday. Your principal equal to your powers. Pray for powers presidents of priesthood quo- meeting comes monthly. You meet equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you Yourums have a noble spiritual with all the members of the quorum shall be a miracle. Every day you shall design in building up a true and discuss your problems and en- wonder at yourself, at the richness of life moral character within your groups. gage in a discussion of the lesson. which has come in you by the grace of An old proverb tells us that "a man Remember that you have plenty of God. Phillips Brooks is molded into the likeness of the time; you are not to be disturbed lives that come nearest to him." in your deliberations; at the close The regular monthly meetings of Goodness creates an atmosphere of the hour of your sessions you the Melchizedek Priesthood quo- for other souls to be good. These should part with a fine feeling of rums have become a tradition in all are the things that lie at the founda- brotherhood. You will do right the stakes of Zion. In the early tion of brotherhood, striving after because it is right. days of the Church, presidents of the same high purposes. You can In the early days of the Church, quorums called their members from never feel very safe with a man the Prophet Joseph Smith organ- afar to be present in meetings which whose humor tends to bitter speak- ized a School of the Prophets. As were considered all-important, for ing, or a man who is given to hasty members, there were men who had the presidents realized the necessity speech. There are more breaches little schooling, but they filled their of coming together that they might of peace among friends through the minds with knowledge and became renew their confidence in one an- sins of speech than from any other conversant with the truths of re- other and enter upon a new and cause. In the book of Ecclesiastes ligion and the general trend of larger existence with understanding we find these words: events of the day. From their writ- and mutual good will. They lis- ings and public addresses as we find than tened to one another's experiences Two are better one; because they them in the earliest publications of have a good reward for their labor. and exchanged views on the vital the Church, they had effective For if they fall, the one will lift up problems of the day. They learned fellow. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.) memories for the truths of scrip- his how to live by work and by genuine ture and the revelations of the Lord. useful social labor. They have left You brethren feel that to teach In your quorum group you can form us a fine lesson. They worked in and to be taught is one of the happy a concept of what good government a right spirit and to a right end. things of life. To have purpose is should be, a government based on They had a dominant purpose, com- to have vision. You will plan for cooperative intelligence, good will, prehensive of all human needs. They your brethren, and your meetings and noble loves. You can only di- had purpose, and to have purpose every Sunday with your quorums rect your brethren as you direct is to have vision. will be for the discussion of ques- yourselves. Gather your brethren tions pertaining to religion and about you to teach and be taught. On March 8, 1855 Truman O. Angell, the architect of the Salt other subjects that will build you When you feel that you have Lake Temple, issued a call through up in the faith. You will speak of need of some brethren to join your things you have read about, and ranks from the other quorums, go the columns of The Deseret News and letter for all of the you will soon discover that you are to your stake president and lay the by members 14th of Seventies growing in knowledge of the events matter before him. He will cooper- Quorum to meet at his home. It reads: of the day. Sometimes you feel ate with you and soon your quorum that your class instruction has be- can have an addition of new mem- LOOK HERE come stereotyped, run into grooves, bers whom you may welcome and and is uninteresting. This is why help in every way possible. Three The members of the 14th Quorum of brethren often refuse to go to meet- things we would particularly im- Seventies are requested to meet at the house of T. O. Angell, the evening ing. All this is rectified by having press upon your minds are: have on of the 6th of April, at 6 o'clock precisely; a good class teacher to direct the your council or presidency meetings and as there are matters of importance to lessons taken up by the quorum. as often as possible; devise means be settled, a punctual attendance is ex- Think and reflect on the many di- to keep up the quorum interest; and pected. The members scattered abroad 658 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA . —

are requested to report themselves, at least, The presidencies kept in touch with ing his varied experiences and nar- once a year, in writing, and also to send subjects were assigned at the close row escapes from death. in their genealogy if they have not pre- of meetings which were to be taken viously done so. We wish to know the It must always be remembered up at subsequent meetings. It is standing of every member of the quorum, that a meeting is only helpful as and those who do not report themselves interesting to read the old records its members are given an incentive may expect to be dropped and their places and minute books to see what was to live better lives to look to supplied by others. and the done. It seems that faith in the Direct (post paid) to EDWIN RUSH- future every day. "Man's deepest gospel issued in creative action, for TON, Clerk of 14th Quorum, G. S. L. need today is not food and cloth- we read that brethren were to pre- City. ing and shelter, important as they the pare subjects from four standard are. It is God." The step Herein is an example of fine co- Church works, and encouragement is a holy life, transformed and operation. The brethren had a was given to attend lectures in the radiant in the glory of God. It noble purpose in view, and at times meetinghouses on stated occasions. would be a fine thing if at the close were compelled to travel long dis- It is interesting to note that in 1870, of every Sunday meeting, the tances to be at their meetings. mem- Powell, the There was a unifying purpose and John W. famous ex- bers would leave with the thirteen all participated in the discussions plorer of the Colorado River, lec- Articles of Faith or parts of the and each member felt himself tured to the priesthood of the 13th Sermon on the Mount directing their equipped to speak in his own way Ward of Salt Lake City, and purposes during the entire week be- for a purpose which all should share. thrilled the congregation by relat- fore them. L. E. Y.

CAN NOTHING WAKEN US? AIN'T WOMEN FUNNY?

HpHE consumption of all alcoholic N0- What I can't understand is how beverages has increased 154%, some women will go to a beauty par- from 8.37 gallons per capita in 1934 lor to have themselves made as at- to 21.25 gallons in 1949 (fiscal years), LIQ10R- tractive as possible, wear fine clothes while the expenditure for these intoxi- in the latest styles to create the best cants has increased 323%, from impression, and then spoil it by making $2,080,000,000 in 1934 to $8,800,000,- themselves offensive smoking cigarets 000 in the calendar year 1948 (latest TOBACCO and drinking cocktails. available ) —The Australian As measured in terms of absolute Temperance Advocate alcohol, the amount of such alcohol COLUMN consumed in the various intoxicating WHY DRINK? beverages has increased from 0.58 gal- This is really a challenging question, lons per capita in the first year of re- but not so regarded by many people peal to 1.64 gallons in 1949. Beer CONDUCTED BY who indulge in liquor consumption; consumption has increased from 7.90 DR. JOSEPH F. for they give little or no thought to gallons to 18.58 in the same period, why they drink. It is just a matter of but this increase in beer drinking has MERRILL — environment "When in Rome, do as not prevented an increase in the con- Rome does." sumption of distilled spirits from .33 to One of the finest, if not the finest, 1.21 gallons per capita in the same of all human arts is the art of living years. drunkenness alone have increased agreeably with our fellow men. Er- The latest official data released by from 1,490.1 per 100,000 in 1933 to roneously, some people act as if they the Bureau of Census and the Depart- 2,492.3 per 100,000 in 1949—1.7 times. believed such living requires them to ment of Commerce show: These official records sharply con- participate in doing what the others A 266% increase in dependent tradict liquor advertising statements. are doing. But this is certainly not families from 1932 to 1947 fight infantile We paralysis and true if participation requires a depar- A 32% increase in the F.B.I, record heart disease; and so we ought. We ture from one's moral or religious of violent crime rate suppress immediately the sale of germ- standards. In fact, to depart from A increase in women sentenced 52% infested milk or impure water. The these to win favor usually has the op- to federal prisons appearance of a single case of small- posite effect—to lose rather than win A 73% increase in hospital admis- pox is a signal for mass inoculation. respect, especially the respect of sions of alcoholics without psychosis V/e insist upon health examinations worth-while people. A little reflection A 272% increase in the number of for handlers of food. But the handlers will convince any thoughtful person of dependent children in the U.S.A., from of intoxicating drinks are in different a the truth of this statement. This is a 270,000 in 1933 to 1,006,000 in 1947. category: they are favored destroyers. fact that well might be burned into the F.B.I, reports show that the crime "Let them continue" is the general pub- minds and hearts of young people, rate in the United States for all re- lic attitude. Many of our people are especially those who accept the Word complacently indifferent, ported offenses listed by the Uniform while destruc- of Wisdom as a divine revelation. tion is eating at the very Crime Reports has increased nearly heart of what Many factual illustrations might be fivefold in the years since repeal. That is best in American life. When will given of the foolishness of failure to is, the rate for all of- these reported the members of their quorums, and live in harmony with one's moral and fenses has increased from 6,639 per we awake to the truth of our condi- religious standards, with the teachings 100,000 in 1933, to 30,110.04 per tion? of the , for example, 100,000 in 1948. The arrests for —The American Issue (Continued on page 663) AUGUST 1950 659 _JT=r=*rr=__ ^rr^i <£t-— --"-.-r^^T^

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Aaronic Priesthood Explaining The New Ward Aaronic Priesthood Committee Meeting

Emphasizing The Personal Visit 'T'he full time of the monthly meet- assistant Explorer Post adviser, Scout- ing, which used to be the ward master, and assistant Scoutmaster. X-Te is one of the most consistently youth leadership meeting, is now to be faithful Aaronic Priesthood ad- The ward Aaronic Priesthood com- occupied as the ward Aaronic Priest- visers we know. Therefore, mittee meeting is to be held each the fol- hood committee meeting. This change lowing statement, made in the Pre- month under the personal direction of is the result of the recent transfer of siding Bishop's Office, should carry the bishop and his counselors. the Latter-day Saint girls program to considerable weight with his fellow ad- the Y.W.M.I.A., which took all Until a new Aaronic Priesthood visers throughout the Church: leaders of girls out of the ward youth Handbook is issued, bishops will modi- leadership meeting. fy the order of business for parts one Nothing pays off like visiting a boy in In keeping with the change, the and two of the ward youth leadership his home. You simply cannot do your ward Aaronic Priesthood committee meeting found in the current edition job as it really should be done unless you meeting will henceforth be devoted of the handbook to make it apply to know the boy in his home as well as in entirely to a consideration of full-time consideration of the activi- the quorum meeting. Church You often do so much more good than programs for young men twelve to ties and records of Aaronic Priesthood you thought was possible when you put twenty-one and of the status of each members and those of Aaronic Priest- yourself out to call on the lad. It is a boy in the respective programs. hood ages not yet ordained. real thrill to meet an anxious father, or a Leaders expected to attend the ward We cherish the hope that stake and hopeful mother, or both, who consider it Aaronic Priesthood committee meeting ward leaders will now give new em- almost an answer to their hearts' desires each month, in addition to the bishop- and their prayers that called phasis to this meeting each month and you on their ric, are as follows: Aaronic Priesthood son and that you keep on calling until devote their energies to making it — general secretary and quorum advisers you get their boy to follow your leader- really worth while. The meeting is in to priests, teachers, and deacons; Sun- ship and to become active in the Church. the program to stay, and the sooner day School teachers of The Gospel The personal call is the greatest thrill ward bishoprics realize this and con- of all my experiences as an Aaronic Message, Advanced Senior, Senior, Priesthood quorum adviser. Advanced Junior, and Junior classes; duct the meeting each month, that Y.M.M.I.A. M-Men leader, Junior M- much sooner shall we all see why it leader; Who is he? Well, we published a Men Explorer Post adviser, is in the program—to stay. photograph of his deacons' quorum > and gave an account of his record on this page in The Improvement Era Stakes With Incomplete Reports for July. He is Harry M. DeRyke. Not To Be Listed If you are interested in what can be Among Church Leaders done for boys, go back and read his Tt has been decided that to deserve a secretaries in these three programs record; look it over, but don't over- position among the twenty-five are urged to complete their stake re- look it. leaders in Aaronic Priesthood work, ports and place them in the mail on or We bring Brother DeRyke into this or the program for adult members of before the fifteenth of the month. If page again because of his striking the Aaronic Priesthood, or ward these instructions are faithfully fol- will left views on the place and the effect of teaching, a stake ( 1 ) must have a lowed, no stake be out be- the personal visit between the adviser report from every ward and branch cause of a late report. and the boy in the Aaronic Priesthood for the month, and (2) the stake re- We emphasize the "on or before" program. His attitude is commend- port must reach the Presiding Bishop's in the above recommendation. Stakes able. We hope its contagion reaches Office on or before the twentieth of should calculate the number of days into every corner of the Church where the succeeding month. required between mailing and delivery there is room for improvement in this dates and be governed accordingly in feature of our work. In their respective handbooks, stake the mailing of their stake reports.

UINTAH STAKE (UTAH) YOUTH CHORUS of forty- eight voices presented an evening of music, "Memo- ries in Melody," which netted one hundred dollars for the building fund of the new, and recently dedicated, Glines Ward chapel. The chorus has sung at quarterly conference, stake Gold and Green Ball, mis- sionary testimonials, sacra- ment meetings, Christmas programs, and other special meetings, according to Theda Murray, director. Darla Dean Fletcher and Vonda Lee Curtis are assistant directors; Enid Cook is accompanist.

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Ward Teaching My New-Found Blessings

(Excerpts from an address by Ken- Dangers Oi Illusions neth R. Bailey, Jr., representing the adult members the Aaronic Priest- of A lmost everyone has experienced an hood in a recent quarterly conference optical illusion. It is an arrange- of the San Juan Stake attended by ment of lines, figures, or objects which Presiding Bishop LeGrand Richards.) deceive the eye to the point where perception presents a distortion of A fter thinking about this subject for facts. Optical illusions may be fasci- a few days, I came to this con- nating, but they are deceptive. Illu- clusion—the blessings I now receive sions, whether optical or otherwise, are not from doing the Lord's work are not to be relied upon. entirely new. But thinking about them and analyzing them has made me more It is not unusual for illusions to aware that they do exist, and I feel creep into Church activities without being recognized. leaders that I appreciate them more. There- KENNETH R. BAILEY, JR. Ward some- fore, I might say that the blessings I times labor in a state of misconception strengthened, life have always thoughtlessly enjoyed are that religion in my because of these delusions, losing sight new-found. will act as a balance wheel; that I of the real objectives; for example: may be able to fulfil my mission on I think the greatest of these blessings The ward teachers may consistently earth with honor to myself, my fam- is the peace of mind I feel when I visit an average of seventy-five percent ily, and my Church. know I am taking advantage of the of the families in the ward each month. duties and opportunities which are The percentage figure stands out on mine as a member of this Church. the report because it is fifteen percent

I appreciate the blessings of the Award Records for 1949 above the stake average; it appears Holy Ghost in guiding and directing even better when compared with the During the first six months of thoughts and actions. It has been Church average. my 1950, the Presiding Bishopric ap- experience that when I heed these my proved 799 Standard Quorum Here is one of the dangers of an promptings, the Spirit grows stronger Awards and 12,811 Individual illusion. Because our ward excels in in aiding me to overcome my failings. Certificates of Award for the stake and surpasses the Church As a ward teacher, I have observed Aaronic Priesthood members for average, some of us become self-satis- the family unity and harmony which the year 1949. fied. The incentive to improve is lost, in the I prevail many of homes have and only sufficient effort is put forth visited, and it creates a desire within to maintain our position. me to have these things prevail in my us analyze more of the dangers own home. Challenging Record Let involved. Assuming the ward has a I have received many blessings from Billy is a teacher in the Price Third membership of one thousand, consist- paying tithing. It has helped my me Ward, Carbon ing of 250 families, this means that to develop self-mastery instead of self- (Utah) Stake, and is rolling up a chal- sixty-two families, or 250 members, are love and selfishness. Paying an honest lenging record. neglected each month. Viewing our tithe is helping me to overcome many For more than two years he has accomplishments from this angle is a barriers to eternal happiness. had a perfect at- tendance record at serious blow to our pride in them. I have been especially blessed by priesthood meeting, keeping the Word of Wisdom. I en- sacrament meeting, When the Lord said, "See that all and Sunday School. joy a clear mind and a more healthy Only three M.I.A. the members do their duty," he ex- body by doing so. meetings kept him cluded no one. Until we reach that from a perfect rec- I am also thankful for the exercise ord in this activity high ideal in ward teaching, the Lord's of my own free agency. This funda- also. standard, no ward leader or ward At the age of mental law will enable me to progress fifteen, Billy is a teacher should be satisfied with any- Life Scout and has as far and as fast as I choose. but one more merit thing less than one hundred percent, I sincerely believe that by constant BILLY E. NELSON badge to earn be- giving as much attention to quality as fore becoming an study and labor my testimony will be Eagle Scout. to quantity.

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662 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA. No - Liquor - Tobacco Do you have your copy of the {Continued from page 659) by those who accept these teachings new travel booklet as divine. Failure to live these teach- ings in order to win popularity is usually ascribed to hypocrisy or weak- ness—unbelief in the teachings, or a lack of moral courage to live them. To HIGHWAY be considered a hypocrite or a weak- ling is always hurtful to the individual // concerned. Here is one illustration to the point: Many years ago, Simon Bamberger, ADVENTURES? remembered as governor of Utah 1917- 1921, told the writer that he served as personnel manager of the Bam- berger Companies. "We like to hire "returned L.D.S. missionaries," he said, "because they have had a splendid training in the art of getting along with people. We don't want to offend our patrons." But before being hired, the missionary was tested. The com- pany gave a dinner annually to its permanent employees. At these ban- quets, coffee, liquor cocktails, and "smokes" were served. On an occa- sion of this kind when friendliness, jollity, and real enjoyment were in HIS new edition offers order, sometimes the missionary would page after page of suggestions not dampen the fun by totally ab- on places to go. It's the most complete staining—he would at least take a few volume yet published on the attractions of the sips from the wineglass, make a few intermountain area. A copy is yours for the asking. draws on the cigaret—enough to show Just drive in to your nearest Utoco dealer and ask for one. he was a good fellow, that he did not Of interest to fishermen will be the new Fishing Calendar, condemn his associates for their in- Lubricate available now at your Utoco dealer. This calendar dulgence. Thus did Mr. Bamberger for safety

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AUGUST 1950 663 A VISIT 10 ROYALTY

{Continued from page 628) the King's Sister, were in the 'Blue that she and Matthew did not Room!' Libbie wrote that only dread the visit. They knew the "very high-toned people were now- race to be more sociable than aristo- adays permitted in this reception cratic. She said that though the room, the finest in the palace, and king and queen were blessed with then only on special occasions." means, and with a title that made went up a long flight them powerful in command, what of stairs, the outside of which they knew about royalty, they had looked "seaward." The queen and copied from other royal heads. The Lady Dominas rose to receive them life of the Hawaiian kings and when they were presented by the queens was anciently "quite differ- treasurer—after which they were

ent from what it is today," she asked to be seated. wrote. At this moment the king entered, At nine in the morning the Noalls and all rose to greet him. Dressed left their cottage and were soon entirely in white, he stepped for- escorted through a massive iron ward to shake hands with Matthew door at the palace grounds. A na- and Libbie. Once more all were tive soldier allowed them to pass. seated. Libbie wrote that the As she entered, Libbie was amazed. queen was wearing blue satin, "to PROTECTION She wrote that the sights of inter- suit the room, a heavy pair of gold est were too many for her to take in bracelets, a large round pin ( . . . wi th t m at one time without being considered now the style), a lei of yellow AP "ill-behaved." feathers, the national kind. Her hair was done high, as is customary "Here and there a prisoner could ALUMINUM COMBINATION DOORS now, . . . her glasses were grace- be seen at work, keeping the beauti- Alumatic aluminum doors are fully catched [sic] to her bosom, a ful gardens and walks in repare permanent improvement! Screen she sat on a beautiful sopha [sic] [sic]," she recorded. "We were or storm panels quickly slip into of figured blue velvet. Lady conducted to the underground part a strong aluminum frame that Dominas was in white, . . . and never needs repairs! of the building. . . . There we met p wearing a lei similar to the AT peno. the Tresurer [sic] who announced Queen's." that the Queen and Mrs. Dominas, Libbie described the gorgeous blue room, which has been carefully ALUMINUM preserved to the present day. She COMBINATION noted a tinge of blue on everything, STORM AND SCREEN WINDOWS as each large window, opening like save fuel by insulat- HOMELAND a door onto a large piazza, was ing the entire win- dow opening! hung with navy blue velvet curtains. By Josephine Harvey The furniture was upholstered with * Guaranteed by FHA terms Goad Housekeeping the same material, which was ir pHE lamp that is lifted "beside the golden marked with a deeply sculptured * door" For Complete Information figure. In the center of the room Is more than a symbol of home to me. CALL or WRITE stood a "cushioned stool of peculiar shape. Its purpose, I do not know," I have watched ocean waves splash on the Libby. She then described INC. shore, wrote INSULATIONS Gulls rising and dipping over the sea. the deep-piled carpet, of lighter

1349 South Main Salt Lake City, Utah I have stood in the desert where the warm blue than the other furnishings and Phone 8-0511 winds blow, flowered in pink. She said it Entranced by its mystical beauty. stopped short of the walls and re- vealed the highly polished floor. There are times when I feel a deep longing cala- to go She also noted the exquisite

PIKES PEAR Where my life is not bound by a duty. bashes, whose strands were of koa wood. "The variety and shape of FLOUR But my roots go deep like those of a tree, this woodwork as well as the mag- For I am a child of the mountain land. would impossible With FOUR nificent polish be I claim the wind-swept hills, yet I am ever to describe. I noticed three beauti- Extra Baking free fully ornamented bands of gold Advantages To love the ocean spray or the desert sand. around the Calabash," she con- tinued. SALT LAKE FLOUR MILLS Like others, I have looked through tears 425 West 5th South to see When the king opened his gift, Salt Lake City, Utah The torch that flings a light across the he found "some very beautiful land. 664 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA ! !

mmmmmmwmm® formations taken from the bottom of Salt Lake, also the photo of Brother Lambert and wife," Libbie THERE& NO HALFWAY continued in her journal. The king thanked Matthew for this gift. When he inquired about the L.D.S. QUALITY IN TUNA temple in Salt Lake City, Matthew wmzmmm took advantage of this opening to inform the royal family of some of ?£$& Saint beliefs. He m the Latter-day %;.*\ gave the king a copy of the Articles )\^ of Faith. With the termination of this visit, neither Matthew nor Libbie ex- pected to see their majesties again. ..>* Their release from the mission soon came. In Salt Lake City a son was born to them—the first child born in the "bride's house." He was JLots of husbands can give their wives this valuable "tip"! hardly more than a baby when Mat- Their mothers had the same experience, learned, the hard thew and Libbie returned to the way, that tuna is either delicate, tender and delicious , . . islands as missionaries. This time Matthew was to serve as president, or it isn't! Next time, she'll the youngest man in the Church to insist xx Von*B/TESIZE"TUNA hold such office. and the dish that was such his most important ac- Among a dismal failure will be a complishments was the reorganiza- glorious success! tion of the sugar plantation at Laie, LOOK FOR THE CAN WITH THE which instead of a liability, now be- GREEN LABEL... ALSO an asset. In the United came AVAILABLE IN SOLID PACK States, because of the tariff, the Trademark of Van Camp Sea Food Co. Inc., Terminal Island, Calif. price of sugar had been cut almost in half. Matthew was advised he might have to sell the plantation. Seeing that the mill was operating at a loss and that the plantation UTAHNS ACCLAIM FISHER'S was profitable, he sold only the mill to a neighboring company. This saved the natives, as many of them earned their livelihood in AS FAVORITE RREAD, 2-T0-1 the cane fields. Matthew now in- dulged in a master stroke. There No ordinary white bread were two groups or gangs of em- can compare with

ployees, one of men ( each man this better tasting Potato Bread earning fifty cents a day), and one made by a new secret recipe. It's culturized! of women ( each woman earning forty cents a day). He announced that thereafter efficiency and not sex would be the determining fac- tor. This inspired the men to work because they could not let the women outdo them. It inspired the women because never before in the history of the islands had a woman's wage equaled a man's. During a time of great financial need for the Church at home, Matthew sent out checks amounting to nearly twenty thousand dollars. Also through the FREE! profits from the plantation, he wiped out the debts at the mission. New Book of "Sixty Sandwiches" By means of a crude device of Ideal for Picnic, School and Work his own, Matthew surveyed the Sandwich Ideas rental lands for the taro patches of Write Today to Fisher's, (Concluded on following page) P. O. Box 2227-A, Salt Lake City 13, Utah 665 AUGUST 1950 A VISIT TO ROYALTY

(Concluded from preceding page) happened to be in Honolulu, to the natives, thus settling many an come to the palace for a private ancient dispute as to how much land consultation in regard to the affair. each controlled, and as to how much Matthew wrote that her majesty should be paid for it. The plan seemed to favor the lottery. "My worked so well that the Chinese rice wife," he wrote, "explained to her growers came to the missionaries to our belief in regard to gambling, have their lands estimated. and told her we would not favor At this time the Hawaiian legis- such a crime." lature was considering making the Thus Libbie again saw the pal- "Louisiana lottery" legal in the ace, and her friendship with the Hawaiian kingdom. The owners of queen increased. this gambling device, Matthew Noall wrote in a letter to the First In later years, a descendant of Get Going Presidency of the Church, had of- Queen Kapiolani, Queen Liliuoka- fered the government $500,000 a lani, became a member of the year for the privilege of bringing Church. When she paid a visit to

it into the islands. The natives the United States, she went direct-

were largely in favor of it. Most of ly to Utah to see the temple and

the white people were against it. the tabernacle. In the tabernacle, The king and queen themselves at her public appearance, Matthew

Pick a vacation packed with pleasure! were troubled. Noall had the privilege of acting as sent for Libbie, who personal escort to her majesty. . The queen Fun-filled playlands invite you . . from the Historic East to Western Wonderlands, from cool Canada to sunny Old Mexico. Take to the high- " way of romance on a Greyhound BY THEIR FRUITS ..." Amazing America Tour— hotel accom- modations, transportation, and special (Concluded from page 639) of his father and to his own skill sightseeing—all included for one low in the simple tongue of the as an engineer and builder, Ralph cost! Get full information from your spoke Greyhound Agent NOW! people. Ralph Woolley speaks in Woolley's first job in Hawaii stands the ancient, allegorical Hawaiian, today at Laie: the Hawaiian Tem- full of depth and subtle meanings. ple, acknowledged by all beholders Not always fully understood by as "the most beautiful building in those less well versed in the "deep the islands." ALL-O-WHEAT meaning" of their ancient language, When the work of the Church in CEREAL the Hawaiians one and all can the Hawaiian Islands is evaluated, sense the depth of his sermons. it may well be assumed that the Best and Most Healthful The "Sometimes it is so beautiful that L.D.S. religion is sound at the core. Cereal for Your Family to Eat! it makes us cry." "By their fruits ye shall know a monument to the devotion them." ALL-O-WHEAT As contains these valu- able food elements in their natural state: AT HAWAIIAN MISSION HISTORY Calcium, Iron, Phos- A GLANCE phorus, Thiamine, Ri- (Continued [rom page 620) we look for this yoke soon to be broken boflavin, Niacin, Vita- " off, ... min A, and Panto- year Elder Cannon was permitted thenic Acid. IT'S STEEL CUT to complete the setting of the type The prophetic words of Elder to fulfilled, STEEL CUT—NOT GROUND for it, and the Book of Mormon Johnson were soon be Polulu, to retain all the natural goodness and was published in the Hawaiian for at a conference held at high-quality wheat. Cut nutrition of language in California and sent to Hawaii, June 5, 1854, there was to a fineness for quick cooking—an aid representation of the sixteen in avoiding loss of important food the islands. values. branches on Hawaii. A month Those who came to labor among later it was reported that more than ALL-O-WHEAT IS the Hawaiian people came to love four thousand persons had joined • DELICIOUS to the Taste them and respect them. Elder the Church. It was in July also • NUTRITIOUS to the Body Benjamin F. Johnson wrote: elders • EASY TO PREPARE that four of the five faithful who had first come to the islands • VERY ECONOMICAL to use We feel sanguine that this people are blood, and that a great were honorably released to return Ask your grocer or local health store of the Covenant today for work is to be done among them. Many home to see to the printing of the and are ALL-O-WHEAT of them are quick of apprehension, Book of Mormon. Henry W. Big- apt to believe the truth. They are nat- Or Write to ALL-O-WHEAT CO. ler, who with George Q. Cannon, an honest, and kind-hearted peo- Ogden, Utah urally unnatural James Hawkins, and William ple, arid were it not for that All-O-Wheat now available in missionaries, thousands would Pacific Coast health stores fear of the 9 Jenson, op. cit., March 29, 1853, as reported in Corp. of Los Angeles Served by Hales believe, and soon embrace the truth. But 15:428 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA 666 Farrer, returned to the mainland, wrote at the time of his release:

I was on the islands three years and seven months, and was instrumental in the hands of God, in bringing many of the

islanders to a knowledge of the truth. . . . The natives are a kind hearted people and will do all they can to make a mission- ary comfortable; they will give the last mouthful of food, and the best and only bed; and if one's legs are weary through TABLE QUEEN walking they will lomi (rub) them and take the soreness out. 10

It is of more than passing inter- est to know that Elder Joseph F. Smith, who later became a Coun- selor in the First Presidency with George Q. Cannon and who after- CyJjKL wards became President of the Church, was assigned in September 1854 with eight other missionaries to serve in Hawaii. Here's a loaf of extra value — a The work went forward, the premium bread in every way, elders appointing some native mis- thanks to skillful baking and the sionaries to preach to their relatives use of highest quality ingredients and friends. And the elders tried only. Next time, take Table to devise means of establishing the Queen—for bread at its delicious natives and also of earning a living best. Look for it in the sparkling for themselves, since they were sent white wrapper. out without purse or scrip. Finally, by 1865, a plantation of six thou- sand acres was purchased, and the elders organized so that the -v*^?ssS!2S£ I****- land could become self-sustaining »*"M*^ and help support them. Many of the early missionaries had diffi- culty in maintaining themselves. Touching reference is made to Sis- ter Woodbury, who opened a school for Hawaiians to learn Eng- lish and took in sewing in order that she could earn a living for her- «U *.*". *i- ,w*» self and her husband, John Wood- bury. tMPRMiD FLAVOR With the passing of the years new difficulties arose. The appear- ENRICHED ance of apostates served to hamper WITH mmm the work for a time. Another dif- ficult situation presented itself in the person of Walter Murry Gib- son, whose "conversion" in Salt Lake, proved later to have been planned with the express purpose of going to the islands where with PROFITABLE DAYS the credentials afforded as a Latter- AHEAD FOR day Saint, he might line his pockets with easy money. Mr. Gibson ob- QUISH tained land ostensibly for the Church but had the deeds made in GRADUATES his name. His efforts brought Capitalize on QUISH training now! You'll bo a about a schism among the native competent beautician when .C.P. graduated. QUISH pro- converts. Eventually Gibson fell vides you with technical skill and knowledge into disrepute, and the disaffected ENROLL gained Jam & Jelly NOW in 25 Years- SEND FOR either left the Church entirely or FREE CATALOG TODAY! were shown the error of their ways. PECTIN SCHOOL OF BERUTV CULTURE (Continued on following page) MORE FOR YOUR MONEY 33t SOUTH MAIN

10Ibid., July 29. 1854 AUGUST 1950 667 A GLANCE AT HAWAIIAN MISSION HISTORY

(Continued from preceding page) George Q. Cannon and some of his Hawaii in 1 893, sponsored by some growers, and The missionaries learned to love family returned to the islands. ( See ambitious pineapple forced to look the Hawaiian people, and they in page 623. ) President Cluff re- the islands had been turn learned to love these white ported that many of the Hawaiians to the United States for their super- people who came from the distant who heard him speak in their lan- vision. The former queen Liliuoka- mainland. Real affection sprang guage remarked, "How wonderful lani attended the afternoon meeting up "between whites and the Queen that he should remember our lan- on December 13 and asked Presi- Liliuokalani, who eventually be- guage all these long years." 1 dent Cannon to speak again. She came a member of the Church. In The revolution had occurred in also asked him to call at her home, the fall of 1891 the Saints made a which he did. He gave her another 12Ibid., December 12, 1900 present to the queen. It was a ^<^^^0^0,^Or>i^^^^O, r^O^<-^^^^ calabash. After they had given it ^O \ to her, the Saints moved up one by one and dropped coins into it until they had given her forty dollars. p.roximutu to a The queen spoke to them saying that she wished to reign with jus- tice so that peace might continue in the land. She asked the Saints that, BY RICHARD L EVANS in order for her to be enabled to falls do this, they pray to God to bless ]Vff AY we quote a sensible sentence: "No one ever her with wisdom and understanding. over a precipice who never goes near one." Crowd- About a year and a half later the ing things to the outer edge is always an invitation to

queen invited the elders to hold disaster. And it is frequently true that people partly invite weekly religious services in the their own difficulties and disasters. They often flit and

palace. s flirt on the edge. They often start things without thinking In Hawaii, information concern- through beforehand how or where they can stop them. § ing the temple being built in Salt § This has happened to youngsters who have started rocks Lake City moved the Saints. They rolling, or who have released the brakes on idle automo- wished to do something to prove biles who haven't been able to stop what they started. § and their loyalty. At the time, Matthew In a sense they may have been innocent, but actually in Noall was mission president. The most instances they knew they were doing something they Saints built a table according to his shouldn't be doing, even if they weren't aware of the full design. It was three and one-half consequences. If we start anything rolling, we may be feet square and inlaid with native powerless to stop it halfway down the hill. Starting a woods. Even in those days it was § fire and then dashing down the street and putting it out made at the cost of $185.00, so it may also be exciting, but preventing the fire in the first was indeed a wonderful gift for the place is much safer. Fires are sometimes stubborn things § Hawaiians to make. But they gave to stop. We sometimes hear those who humorously say: other things as well: two ground "I don't know my own strength." But the person who Kahilis mounted on stands, and 160 doesn't know his own strength may also not know his own fans made from bamboo by the Re- weakness, and where unknown factors are concerned, it

lief Society sisters of Laie. The is wise to play the safe side. For the protection of its gifts were shipped and "received by personnel, the army has often declared undesirable places the First Presidency in Zion with to be "off limits." And we should learn in our own lives "u thanks. . . . what is "off limits" for our personal peace and protection, In August 1895 Elder Samuel E. and keep a safe distance. There is danger in dealing with Woolley arrived in Honolulu to re- the devil in his own domain. Tightrope walking and place President Noall as mission balancing in precarious places may be all right in the president. At the time of his ar- circus, but in life it is a pretty poor policy to place our- rival, cholera had been raging for selves in a precarious position where one misstep may ten days. Elder Woolley and his mean much regret. There should be a margin of safety family landed at Honolulu and im- in everything we do, and if there is any question in our mediately left for Laie. Scarcely minds what the margin should be, we should make.it much ten minutes after their departure a wider than we think it needs to be. It is a smart man who strong guard was thrown around knows how to keep clear of any extreme edge from which the city to restrain anyone who he might suddenly slip. "No one ever falls over a preci- might try to enter or leave the city. pice who never goes near one." § The Saints felt that the Lord surely had directed the Woolleys in their § Uke Spoken lA/ord hurried departure from the city. FROM TEMPLE SQUARE § PRESENTED OVER KSL AND THE COLUMBIA BROAD- To celebrate the fiftieth year of CASTING SYSTEM, JUNE 18, 1950 § the Hawaiian Mission, President s Copyright, Kiiig Features \

-^Ibid.. March 9, 1893

668 I HE IMPROVEMENT ERA blessing at her request. Reference is made to a blessing that she had received from him in Salt Lake City and subsequent healing of a cancer under her chin, from which she had suffered. It was during this visit that Presi- dent Cannon prophesied that one day a temple would be built for FROM YOUR MASSEY HARRIS DEALER the Saints in Hawaii. Then they who were faithful could be married for time and eternity and also do work for their kindred dead. This prophecy was fulfilled in 1919." The work of the mission progressed under all the mission presidents. The faith of the earliest missionaries was more than justified, for the Hawaiians have been most receptive to the gospel message and have been diligent in their adher- ence to its principles. The islands have also served as headquarters for the Japanese missions during

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AUGUST 1950 669 marvelous work is about to come Archives of Sweden forth among the children of men. The whole world marvels at what is 1 ( Concluded from page 62 ) brand, representing the Rekolid Company, being accomplished in the short which company holds the contract to do span since the restoration of the the microfilming work throughout Sweden Church. These things are only ac- and Finland, presented Mr. Boethius with complished through the proper and a brand-new American latest model micro- leadership of the Church. film reading machine for which he also inspired

expressed his appreciation. —Margit J. Blomquist"

"This memorable occasion, the These records from Sweden and

sixth of April, 1949, 1 19 years after Finland are arriving in regular the organization of the Church, will shipments at the Genealogical So- PRICELESS never be forgotten in the Swedish ciety and are being carefully in- for use by Mission, and it —bears out the spected and catalogued WHEN YOU NEED IT prophetic utterance 'A great and the general public.

There is no substitute for insurance . . . and when you need it, will you have it? 4:1.) As a high military commander Laban would Don't take chances with costly losses . . . command tens of thousands in battle; but such an ar- insure and be sure! Your local Agent Lehi In The Desert ray is of no concern to Laman and Lemuel: it is the is an insurance specialist . . . consult him "fifty" they must look out for, i.e.. the regular, frequently as your insurance needs change. {Continued from page 642) permanent garrison at Jerusalem. preserved even in antiquity, and when the 2 Let our agent help you choose the insurance time ™Joshua Offord, "Archaeological Notes on Jewish came for the record to fulfil its great purpose of plan best suited to your individual needs. Antiquities," PEFQ 1916, p. 148 bearing witness to the world, it had to be trans- S(k>W; F. Albright. "The Seal of Eliakim, etc." A GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY lated by the gift and power of God. Of this pur- Int. Bihl. Lit. 51 (1932- 79-83, shows that the title pose Nephi at the time knew nothing. all types of Insurance . . . represent- writing "servant" in Jersulem at this time meant something strong stock companies. Prompt claim -•"•Tap/in bah Bent Hilal. p. 14 ing like "official representative." and was an honorable settlement. awMeyer.G.J.A. II. 1. 137 rather than a degrading title. **J. W. Jack, "The Lachish Letters, "PEFQ 1938. Frank Salisbury, Mgr. p. 168 "'"Samaual ibn Adiyt, the most famous Jewish -"We are following the Wenamon story as given poet of Arabia in ancient times, gained undying all the Arabs when he in J. Breasted, History of Egypt, (1905) pp. 513-518. praise and fame among It is given at length in almost any history of allowed his own son to be cruelly put to death Egypt or the Near East, e.g. James Baikie, The before his eyes rather than give up some costly History of the Pharaohs (London, 1908) pp. 285-7; armor with the keeping of which he had been Comb. Anc. Hist. II, 193. entrusted by a friend. The story, true or not, ^"Jack, loc. cit. illustrates the difference between eastern and western a9RThe older brothers, though they wish to em- standards and should warn the reader against being phasize Laban's great power, mention only fifty. shocked by some things he reads — the Arabs are (3:31.) It is Nephi in answering them who says just as shocked by the callousness of Americans in 330 Judge Bldg. Salt Lake City that the Lord is "mightier than Laban and his some things. Brockelmann. Gesch.d.arab.Lit. (1909), fiftv, or even than his tens of thousands." {Ibid., p. 34.

MUTUAL CONVENTION IN HAWAII

{Continued from page 643) Y. M.M.I. A. general board and a One of the reasons for the visit Scout executive, attended to aid of Superintendent Curtis, who is the Scout work. one of the sectional vice chairmen The Mutuals are teaching the of Region 12, Boy Scouts of Amer- fundamentals of the Church through ica, was the sectional meeting of the spiritualized recreation and inspira- Boy Scouts in Honolulu. Scout tional lessons. The age groups are meetings were also held in Kona, following the lesson plan. The Hilo, and Maui. leaders of the M.I. A. there, as else- Several national and regional of- where, are trying to build a testi- ficers of the Boy Scouts of America mony in the heart of every boy and were there, including William V. every girl. M. Fawcett, National Chairman Ex- Attendance at Mutual is almost plorer Committee; E. Urnar Good- phenomenal; one Mutual we at- # from the national office; Henry tended had present 240 people. . man, Man, woman or child . . healthy, handsome, well- B. Grandin, Chairman of Region 12, While we were in Hawaii, the groomed hair is a real help to Don Moyer, regional Scout execu- Junior Girls held their rose award personal assurance, happiness tive; and Roland E. Dye, deputy night. At an M Men-Gleaner ban- and success! regional executive. quet nearly four hundred were in Latter-day Saint boys are promi- attendance. It was an inspiring L.B. makes hair sparkle, keeps activities in sight to it groomed, helps control nent in the Scout the see the representation of dandruff! Non -greasy, non- islands, as they are wherever the nations: Hawaiian, Portuguese, • alcoholic, a joy to use! Church is organized. Scout work Chinese, Japanese, Samoan, and is being given an increased impetus American. The tables were cov- the island of Oahu by Elder Milt ered with banana leaves; FOR on the Allen, deputy under Scout execu- decorations consisted of gorgeous HAIR THE tive, Hazen Shower. Elder Allen flowers, including hibiscus, bird of NEW L.B. CREAMED is giving special attention to the paradise, and antherium —placed in SHAMPOO training of Scout leaders among the the center of the LB with 2

670 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA dressed in their evening clothes, made a beautiful picture, and they maintained our M.I. A. standards throughout the banquet and dance. STRENGTH A drama and music festival pre- ceded the convention. Since our Hawaiian brothers and sisters love For to sing and dance, as well as act, this festival was a delightful experi- ence. The convention was well at- SUCCESS tended, with every ward and branch represented. During the evening the need for better facilities was These days a young person wants to learn how to indicated so effectively that the 1. earn a living surprise announcement of President good Woolley pledging a stake gym- 2. help make a fine home nasium in the very near future 3. share in building a better -world thrilled and delighted the entire as- semblage. This gymnasium will do much to enhance and increase our At Utah State, the student finds training that contributes to activities in the islands. success in hundreds of occupations. Also liberal education is In addition to Oahu, we visited provided to help a young person develop to the utmost mentally and spiritually, to help better parent, citizen, and Kona, Hilo, and Maui. In each of him become a leader. these places we found the same spirit of love among our people. The two stake boards enter- Advantages include tained us at a luau in the garden • libraries totaling 140,000 books of Bishop and Sister Pai Kekamha • laboratories with excellent equipment at Laie before our departure. It (electron microscope, spectrograph, etc.) was a delightful experience. • more than 500 teachers and scientists to aid the Our party from the mainland in- student in learning to earn and to lead. cluded Bishop and Mrs. Ray Davis, the Ernest A. Strongs, the Frank Schools of Agriculture; Arts and Sciences; Commerce; Edu- Earls, the Merrill Christophersons, cation; Engineering and Technology; Forestry, Range, and the Floyd Davises, Dr. and Mrs. Wildlife Management; and Home Economics. R. L. Knight, Dr. and Mrs. John G. Jones, President and Mrs. Victor Bird, Mrs. Elizabeth Fagg, Judge Fall Quarter Registration: Sept. 28, 29, 30 Reeder's sister, and the Taylors. t returned We by plane, and as the For catalog and other information, address plane was readying for departure a large group sang "Aloha," and na- The President tive girls gave several beautiful dances. When the plane took off, we waved our last farewells with Utah State Agricultural College sadness, for we were sorry to leave our dear island friends. Although LOGAN, UTAH we had been with them only a short time, they had taken us to their hearts and made us feel a very inti- mate part of hopes and dreams for the future achievements of M.I. A. HOTEL LANKERSHIM SUN-VISTA in the Hawaiian Islands. 7th & BROADWAY Delicious BLACK-EYED PEAS ROOMS WITH BATH BUTTER BEANS BABY LIMA BEANS PINTO His Second BEANS Bank Account LOS ANGELES GREEN CHILI PEPPERS PINTO BEANS WITH PORK {Continued from page 629) "TWO PERSONS - ONE CHARGE' as she would, there was an anxiety At Your Grocers that persisted. What had Herb meant about his second bank account? He had never kept any secrets from her. Then she'd say cheerfully, "Oh, of course, it was nothing." And the tight feeling left the pit of her stomach. READ The curtains were beautiful at the W&mmwmmW* windows again, all starched and clean ii •© ASHBURTON PLACE i ^>*V|;FT iVy*:^ i .•v.y.iiu and a pale golden hue. Why, tears i The Improvement Era BOSTON 8. MASS- almost came to her eyes, looking at (Concluded on following page) c AUGUST 1

where we stopped was the house of their ancestors. We took a lunch His Second Bank Account her grandson. His father was of poi at the Mission House. At (Concluded from preceding page) Chilean and his mother a daughter two o'clock we met with the Saints them, for the sunshine coming through of Nalinanui. We all felt that this in the meetinghouse. Brother Cluff them made a wonder-glow all over the was an extraordinary coincidence spoke for a few minutes and I dining room. She'd have a good sup- and the natives it for in per for Herb, too. So she dressed a called Kupaian- followed and spoke one hour fryer and made two egg custards. The aha. Before leaving, a number of Hawaiian. I enjoyed great liberty custards were plump with a covering folks assembled, and I addressed and felt to thank the Lord for giv- of frothy meringue Herb's favorite. — them. The Spirit of God was poured ing me his Spirit to enable me to Then she saw with a start it was al- out upon us. . . . address the people in their native most time for Herb. She put on a freshly laundered dress and tied a rib- tongue. I spoke altogether during Sunday, Dec. 30, 1900 bon on the baby's hair. She took from the afternoon in the Hawaiian lan- the cupboard her best tablecloth, her I attended Sunday School and guage with the exception of less saved-for-Sunday chinaware. Why, addressed the school and the Saints than half a dozen sentences. To me it was almost like a birthday or an present. I spoke upon temple build- it is that I should anniversary! very wonderful Then Herb came, and Donnie soon ing, the work to be done in the be able to speak at such length after after. Herb looked about the house temples and the necessity of their so many years have passed since I for a long moment, and Faye held her gathering all that they could about used it. (Concluded on page 674) breath. He didn't say much, but Don- nie cried out. "O Mamma, whose t ^!?^?^^^Cr>>-&v^i<<&^&v^\l&*i^^ birthday is it?" ^<^ At length they sat down to eat, and Faye saw that there was no look of worry on Herb's face now. He felt sure the kaffir could be used, and they land in fall TIMING could plant part of the oat turnips and black-eyes. BY RICHARD L. EVANS "Faye, this is a right good supper," get he cried once, "and where did you HPiming in life is exceedingly important. What we do those pretty curtains? They sure make may be all right, but when we do it may be all wrong. things look swell in here!" Faye smiled, pleased, and told him. A dress that was a dream a few years ago has by now Yet still she was puzzled. Finally likely lost much of its allure—not that the dress has changed, Don- supper was over, and Herb and but that the styles have changed. Whether we like it or nie began helping her stack the dishes. not, whether we agree with it or not, timing is the essence Then Herb took the baby on his lap of fashion. Timing is the essence of many other things and leaned back in the rocking chair, and Faye watched him as he played also. Things that are funny at one time may not be with the baby's curls. She was glad, funny at another time. Often when we hear a comment that heart again. so glad he had taken calls for a "comeback," we can't think of anything suitable "I wrote a check today for the to say at the moment; but after it's all over, we can think kaffir seed," he spoke up at last, "but there I've been checking on my second bank of the wittiest remarks we might have made. But account all day, and it didn't fail me. is nothing quite so late as a clever comment that is just a It never does." little too late. It isn't only a question of what we say but "Your second bank account?" when we say it. "When" is important in everything, both gasped out Faye, a little breathlessly. on the light and serious sides of life, and it isn't enough Herb was tucking his chin in the baby's curls and not looking at her, merely to be able and willing to do something: It is es- "Yes, my second bank account. We sential to do it when it ought to be done. The farmer who it, could couldn't get along without we forgets his sense of timing doesn't have a harvest. The kids? It's—it's Mamma's courage!" debtor who forgets his sense of timing kills his credit. « » A debt that loses track of time may double itself in inter- est. The time to save money is when we are earning it. Journal of George Q. Cannon The time to seize an opportunity is when there is an open- (Continued from page 624) ing. The time to repent is when there is yet time to re- secret prayer and where he conde- pent—and the sooner the better. The time to prepare is scended to commune with me, for when there is time to prepare. Next year may not be I heard his voice more than once as soon enough. Tomorrow may not be soon enough. Even one man speaks with another, en- "in a minute" may not be soon enough in some situations. couraging me and showing me the And there is a great difference between the youngster work which should be done among who comes when he is called and the youngster who this people if I would follow the says he will come "in a minute"—and who lets the min- dictates of his Spirit. Glory to God utes multiply until it is too late. And there is also the in the highest that he has permitted same difference in adults. One of the great lessons of me to live to behold the fulfilment of life is to learn not only "what" is important, but "when!" his words. § §. I found the place that I thought ~Jhe S^poken Word FROM TEMPLE SQUARE had been the site, but great changes PRESENTED OVER KSL AND THE COLUMBIA BROAD- have been made. I made inquiries CASTING SYSTEM, JUNE 25, 1950 Copyright. King Features about Nalinanui and Kealakai Honua. Discovered that the house 672 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA THE EDITOR'S PAGE ^t^i^i^^nsiii^i^ijsin^i^tywjaw!

(Concluded from page 614) joyment and the companionship of soul is stirred with gratitude that those we love throughout the ages I have been permitted to live in of eternity. this age of the world and have Brethren and sisters, I pray that as my associates men and women the Lord will continue to bless you, such as you. I do hope and pray that you will have joy in this work, that each of us will renew our de- that you will realize that it is an termination to live such lives as investment beyond all price. I hope e will entitle us to the constant com- and pray that every boy and every panionship of the Spirit of the Lord. girl in the communities in which you ^ live I walked into an office the other will be helped, will be trained taught, that truth 0^ day and saw one of the most popu- and so and the lar magazines in the United States things that are eternally beneficial w will be a part of his or her char- lying on the table. I looked at it and thought to myself, "What are acter. That is our privilege, and if we coming to?" The cover was a we will do that, when the time picture of a man and a woman, comes for us to go hence, those who practically without any clothing on, stand by our casket will be able lying down and apparently talking to say, "This world is better be- cause this individual lived in it." to one another. If that magazine m th< had come into my mothers home That is our privilege. when I was a child, she would have God lives; Jesus is the Christ; thrown it into the fire before we Joseph Smith was a Prophet of Hawaii Mission had a chance to see it. While the God, who was sent to restore the majority of the magazines of this purity of the gospel of our Lord. nation contain much that is whole- The Church that was organized by some and desirable, side by side him at the direction of our Heaven- with that which is worth while are ly Father is the only Church in all the temptation and publicity of to- the world that has the right to bacco and liquor and immorality. claim divine authority. I do not Brother Giles has just referred to say that in unkindness, for all these the Era. It has been my pleasure other churches have wonderful men

here and in the Old World to have and women in them. But it is just as people say to me, "That is the it was in the days of the Savior, when cleanest, finest magazine that we he came among the people, many of have ever seen." We desire it that his own race repudiated him and way. We want it to be wholesome. refused to have anything to do with If we continue to see that this him; in one place it is recorded in magazine is what it should be, no- the scriptures they said, "Why, we body can object to its being in the have Abraham for our father." And homes of the people. A large num- his answer was, "If you are the chil- ber of a recent issue was sent out dren of Abraham, you do the works to many prominent people, and of Abraham." (See Matthew 3:9.) while I've been away this time, I This is not our Church. It is not have had a number come and tell the Church of Joseph Smith or any me they have seen the Era, and man who has presided since that they've read it through. They think time. It is the Church of Jesus it is a wonderful magazine. These Christ, our Lord. With all my are people not members of the heart I thank him for my member-

Church. ship in it, and pray that we may all

I congratulate you, every one, be worthy of that membership, and that you are considered worthy to that day by day, the righteousness Deseret News Press be identified with the Church of of our lives may make this world Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. better for our living, and in the end, &1&jd onsL hund/uut

I congratulate that when he shall gather his jewels, that you you belong lf&WlA, old. to an organization, the purpose of we may all find our names recorded

which is the uplift and development in the Lambs Book of Life, along Office: 40 Richards Street of people here in mortality, to pre- with those that we love and as- Plant: 1605 South Industrial Road pare us to go to the other side, and sociate with here, not one missing. Salt Lake City. Utah when that time comes, I hope that And I pray that it may be so in the we shall be worthy of a place in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. celestial kingdom and have the en- Amen. !^!^^[^[^[^^l^Pl41ta4!^»Jt^!«««!

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Journal of George Q. Cannon

( Concluded from page 672

Among other things which I men-

tioned, I dwelt upon it at some length, was the necessity of living

lives of purity. I led them to be- lieve that if they did so and exercise faith the Lord might move upon his servant, the prophet, Lorenzo Snow, to authorize one of his servants to seal wives to husbands for time and

eternity. . . .

Saturday, Jan. 5, 1901 We left Brother Fernandez a little before three o'clock and called

at the Mission House and bade it farewell. At the wharf the Saints had assembled there by hundreds. Better Living ... They loaded myself and wife and children with wreaths and garlands of flowers. My entire person was ... Better Learning almost covered; I was loaded down so with flowers, and garlands of Additional dormitory facilities for 300 men students will be maile. The manner in which 1 provided at the University of"Utah this fall with the remodeling of this picturesque station hospital. A central dining hall and excel- was decorated made me very con- lent recreational facilities also are being arranged for out-of-city spicuous and embarrassed me some- students. as I to press With no regular graduating class at the three city schools, the what had my way out-of-Salt-Lake enrollment of freshmen is expected to hit a new through the dense throngs which high this fall to take advantage the opportunities at our State of covered the wharf and its ap- University. Everything possible is being done for the convenience of students around the state. proaches. The greatest interest and Educational opportunities are unlimited at the University of affection were shown by the people Utah with ten outstanding colleges manned by 500 prominent and towards me. Many of them had well-trained instructors. left their employment to be present Remember These Dates at the departure. It was a scene which I ought never to forget. Entrance exams for Freshmen Sept. 18 Registration of Freshmen ..Sept. 21 Registration of all others ..Sept. 22-23 Classwork begins Sept. 25 The Man and The Eternal Empire PLAN YOUR FUTURE AT YOUR STATE UNIVERSITY (Continued from page 623) Then the Spirit of the Lord told me to For full information write Office of the President choose Brother James Keeler. I did so.

Brother Keeler afterwards told Elder Cannon he had prayed they might be able to work together. UNIVERSITYWOF UTAH Elder Cannon very rarely alluded to his spiritual manifestations. Salt Lake City 1, Utah When he did so, it was to promote faith and understanding. Samuel A. Woolley and W. W. Cluff have each publicly referred to separate visions experienced by For Your Reading Pleasure George Q. Cannon. Of his early struggle with the language, George Q. Cannon Each Month of the Year wrote My desire to learn to speak was very strong; it was present with me night and day. ... I also tried to exercise faith be- THE IMPROVEMENT ERA fore the Lord to obtain the gift of talking and understanding the language.

In less than a month after his ar- 12 Issues $2.50 rival, he was listening to some na- tives, and he became very desirous of understanding them.

674 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA I jumped to my feet, ... I believed that

I had received the gift of interpretation!

And it was so.

His linguistic ability and deter- mination enabled him to commence translating the Book of Mormon after being in Hawaii only one month. In the course of his mission he translated the book. An example of physical courage took place a few days later. He decided to leave the elders and go among the people on the other side of the island. To go around the island by boat required money. He had none, so he attempted to scale the volcanic mountain. This was considered impossible, even by the hardy natives. The rank vegeta- tion grew as high as eight feet. The mountain rose almost four thousand feet from sea level in three miles, and to get down the other side meant negotiating almost sheer cliffs. The men who planted the gospel in the fertile islands had no trace of wealth, political, or military

power. Yet it is an acknowledged

! fact that in acquiring the language, translating scriptures, curing and converting the people, the elders of the new dispensation proved suc- cessful. Truly these men were valiant servants of a great cause. Americans of today who want spiritual, lasting wealth should con- sider this testimony of the young missionary to Hawaii, for the king- dom of which he speaks still flourishes and will do so when other governments cease to exist:

I know that Jesus lives; for I have seen him. I know that this is the Church of

God, and that it is founded on Jesus Christ, our Redeemer.

I testify to you of these things as one who knows—as one of the Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ that can bear wit- ness to you today in the presence of the Lord that he lives and that he will live, and come So Easy to C/eattf Beattfi'/u/foot to reign on the earth, to sway an undis- puted sceptre.* That's Hermosa Tru-Joint* Tile *From Testimonies of the Divinity o} the Church

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These Times preceding page) L. D. S. Business College {Concluded from would have us believe. It has worked better than any other system on earth. QUARTER problems. FALL But it does have The Problems of Private Enterprise Begins Viewed as the immense, productive, corporate structure that it is, the American enterprise system faces TUESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1950 these problems:

1. To maintain itself as a voluntary, free system as against govern- ment and itself. This is as true of the big labor unions as of the ask about big businesses; or, of the farmer economy planned for SPECIAL RATES within the him by the crop quotas and subsi- for dies of the Department of Agri- Returned Missionaries culture. 2. To provide for economic growth through steady expansion of Get new free booklet plants and facilities, to meet the the de- L.D.S. BUSINESS COLLEGE growth of population, 70 North Main mands for employment, goods, Salt Lake City, Utah and services. To maintain private ownership with- out also providing for economic growth— for an expanding economy socialism. The the Largest Selling would not save us from Year After Year ... itself ex- corporate structure ( 1 ) must pand, dare, risk, create! (2) It must Church Organ not restrict other "private" develop- ments by artificially closing trade channels to youngsters trying to start in the new enterprises. (3) It must out- distance government enterprise. Gov- World! ernment enterprise is with us. If there is an electric power shortage or water in the This church model is used shortage, or any other need American economy, that need, realis- in over 18,000 churches tically understood and defined, be- and comes an immediate challenge to pri- the more L.D.S. Wards use vate enterprise. If needs are not met private en- from $1285-up Hammond than any other (even assumed needs) by political leader will appeal F.O.B. Factory organ. terprise, the to the voter to give him "the contract," write —and political power will undertake the job with tax money provided by CO. private enterprise. GLEN -BROS. MUSIC The private enterprise system did 74 SOUTH MAIN STREET not have this challenge, this rough, tough competition from government in the nineteenth century. But since all men have gained the vote, every man's needs or assumed needs have a way of demanding satisfaction. If private initiative, group enterprise, private vi- sion, private creative insight is in- sufficient, then we have seen that voters will be marshalled and consent gained from them to "do it" with taxes. Are there new Grand Coulees, TVAs, Hoover Dams, to be built to provide the basic electric energy for our burgeoning population? New enter- prises based on atomic energy? Sym- phony orchestras? Housing? Medical services? Better mousetraps? Are our capacities and energies as private citizens, in private groups, as creative 676 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA . .

and effective as our political capaci- ties and energies? This is the ever- new frontier for private enterprise in America: to compete successfully with GombOMLs and outdo the state in providing ade- quate means for economic growth; to provide leadership in fundamental Star-Kist ANY economic, capital expansion. The BRAND state should recognize and welcome Tuna^ AT ANY PRICE the growth of private enterprise. Where private initiative does not take The milder flavor Compare it with any the lead, we can faithfully expect in of Star-Kist Tuna. brand you may choose these times, as in the past, political enterprise. Such is a Newton-like law in a free democratic system. We, the THEN DECIDE people, have to bear responsibility and decide how much of each we are to it satisfaction! have, for we have to pay the bill, long Prove to your own run or short run. This is the genius Star-Kist Tuna is MILDER because MILD- and the problem of constitutional gov- NESS is a natural quality of the smaller tuna. Only these smaller, MILDER, tuna are packed ernment. under the Star-Kist Tuna labels,

Forebears and Posterity in fc^- Buy ^\iSf^l^ the Pacific Isles AND any 1. Appear- Pack Tuna ^J^^mcompare them for: aTany price! Side-by-s^e ^ ^ (Continued from page 618) experiences of matured age actively guide the family, for the wisdom and knowledge of the old is re- spected. And also, the care and rearing of young children is the T* Guaranteed bv *^\ „ responsibility m|Li-i»j^jj; and privilege of ^ l Good Housekeeping) 5^ FANCY SOLID PACK or CHUN K STYLE, elders. Those of the age of parent- Both are the same fine Star-Kist quality!

hood ( matua ) are thereby left free, • BEFORE you buy new the mothers to bear and nurse their

screens . . babies, the fathers to fish, plant, BEFORE you repaint or build boats, houses, or earn a liv- This

old ones . . ing, until they in turn gradually as- TRAVEL rewire your sume the It will pay you to invest- role of tupuna as they is it! acquire grandchildren. igate RY-LOCK. Send The tupuna who had gone "down coupon for information, the Great Road to Tane" (the path THE name of nearest dealer. of light cast by the setting sun on the ocean) into the Unseen Land (Po) beyond the horizon and be- WE HAVE THE RY-LOCK WORLD neath the earth and sea are still ON DISPLAY concerned with the well-being and Tension affairs of their relatives remaining SHOP IN OUR in "The WINDOW Day World" {Ao Mara- Department Store of Travel ma). Their continued existence and Among Our Services love for their relatives is, for Poly- SCREEN nesians in every Pacific community ACCOMMODATIONS today, vividly and definitely evi- PASSPORTS AND VISAS AGENTS FOR WORLD-WIDE TRAVEL- denced through dreams and certain STEAMSHIP LINES-AIRLINES other forms of psychic experience RAILROADS which missionary and modern teachings have affected very little. Our Service Costs You These facts in their lives are mat- Nothing ters of experience to them, not be- lief. In dreams, remedies and other Write or Phone RY-LOCK COMPANY LTD. requirements are prescribed in con- 2485 Washington Ave., San Leandro, Calif. nection with sickness; a name may UNIVERSAL You may send me complete information. be dictated for an expected child; TRAVEL SERVICE a song or dance will be learned; Mezzanine Hotel Temple Square ADDRESS. coming events revealed. Here, as Dial 3-3419 everywhere, there are not only (Continued on following page) AUGUST 1950 677 Forebears and Posterity in

the Pacific Isles RICKS COLLEGE {Continued from preceding page) beneficent aspects of this spiritualis-

Rexburg, Idaho tic phase of native life, but also serious and dangerous pathological The Latter-clay Saint College in Idaho and malevolent phenomena. No one can have any true knowledge of A FULL FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE Polynesians without understanding and com- REGISTRATION DATES that individuals, families, munities everywhere sense the presence and intimacy of the unseen Fall Quarter September 15, 18, 1950 with the seen. A very simple and true definition Winter Quarter December 11,1 950 of the old Polynesian concept of sin (hara, error) would be: injur- Spring Quarter ...March 12, 1951 ing, being disloyal or unfaithful, by word or act, to one's relatives, seen or unseen. Registrar for Catalog Write In the parents' generation, the

term parent ( matua tane, male par-

ent; matua vahine, female parent } is applied also to uncles and aunts, and in general to all individuals of one's parents' generation. Within First to Sears! a single generation, three principles prevail: seniority irrespective of sex Then to School! ( already described in the section on genealogy ) ; 2, sharp line drawn between the sexes: a boy's sisters and female cousins are all "sisters" (tuahine) to him; a girl's brothers and male cousins are her "brothers" {tunane). Strict rules govern social intercourse between tuahine and tunane after childhood; 3, between persons of the same sex in the same generation, terms indicating senior- ity are applied: privileges, respect, and also obligations, which go right up the line, as between generations. Seniors are called tuakana (tau ana, kua'ana) and are respected by juniors, and they are also responsi- ble for juniors. An older brother or WE OFFER... sister or cousin is tuakana to all A COMPLETE Save! Annual juniors of the same sex. All juniors ENGRAVING SERVICE of the same sex are to him or her From Missionary Portraits to the Largest teina. In any Catalogues. Winter Wear Polynesian community Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention you will see older children person- UTAH ENGRAVING CO. Lay-Away Sale ally tending their little brothers and sisters, as you see old folk keeping 113 Regent St. Salt Lake City, Utah $1 holds your selection until an eye on all of them and doing October 1st their share of the tending. Dr. Margaret Mead, in her latest book Male and Female 1 has written: IPSE for OVER FIFTY YEARS "The Samoans have made one of Aids in treatment of Canker, simple the most effective adjustments to DRINK sore throat and other minor mouth the impact of Western civilization irritations. and throat of any known people." It is also interesting to read A delightful that today in hot beverage for Samoa HALLS REMEDY those "the rate of population in- who don't drink coffee. Salt Lake City, Utah 1 William Morrow and AT YOUR GROCERS Co., New York, 1949, p.

678 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA 2 crease is the highest in the world." prevailed. It is the basis of the com- transmission of skills and knowl- These facts are to a considerable munity set-up: a village or district edge, for instance in medicine, or in extent due to their loyalty to their functions through the heads of the art of hula dancing, as well as own family and social system.3 In households and/or of lineages. The in inheritance of material wealth,

the light of the above quotations, it said heads are, so to speak, a bio- the extended family system pre- will be plain to our readers why, in logically self-perpetuating "Board vails and functions. It is incorrect seeking to revive by research and of Trustees" for the welfare of the to say that the life of Polynesian writing what we term the "sur- families in the community, whose peoples was or is "communal": it vival techniques and values" in old patriarchs they are. Ideally, the was proprietary ~familial~and~inter~ Hawaiian civilization, we have head of each family should be the familial. The system is not merely taken family organization as a stone first-born male of the senior branch regulatory: it is mobile and dy- rejected (or at least neglected) by in the elder generation. {Matai in namic. Through the heads of early white educators in Hawaii Samoa, matahiapo in Tahiti, Cook trustees of any individual house- (and still overlooked) which may Islands, New Zealand, makahiapo hold, part of or all of the entire

become a cornerstone in the build- in Hawaii. ) But actually, there is community can be drawn upon, can ing of better Hawaiian individuals, sufficient flexibility in the social sys- be mobilized rapidly and completely families, and communities." tem to permit the most competent when necessary, for co-operative member of the older generation to enterprise, or in emergency. Every Community serve in council as patriarch or individual of every age comes for- trustee. ward in voluntary, planned co-op- It is not only in families that the eration. The system entails authority orderly system of relationships, And it is not only politics and and obedience: but it is essentially status, duties, and responsibilities civics which the family system sub- r ^ _ t democratic. serves so efficiently: in subsistence Vbid.. p. 409. 3 See Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, (fishing and planting, the division This system not only should be William Morrow and Company, New York, 1928; and Social Organizations of Manua. Bishop Museum, and preparation of food), in crafts- understood completely by every Honolulu, 1930. manship such as house and boat missionary as he learns the native *See "The Ohana or Extended Family System of Ka'u, Hawaii," by E. S. Craighill Handy and building, bark cloth, net, and mat language, but also, by our civiliza- Mary Kawena Pukui, journal the Polynesian So- of making, in the inheritance and tion as a whole. ciety, Auckland, N. Z. ( June 1950.

May Missionaries

MISSIONARIES ENTERING THE MISSION HOME Fifth row: Odell Pancheri, Harold Home, Bruce Glen Hogan, Marlin W. Andrus, C LaRay Neilson, Nilsson, Parker J. Williams, MAY 8, AND DEPARTING MAY 17, 1950 R. V. Redding, Donald C. Rogers. Noel Keith S. Humpherys, Carlos C. Monroe Gunn McKay, Elizabeth Stevens, Luelma Schramm, Quintin R. Graves, Duane Lott, Kent Broderick, Virgil K. Mittelsteadt. Dallas Peterson, Remington. Reading from left to right, first row: Loran Oscar Kent Hulet, Gene C. Millward. Bingham, T. Edmund Kruger, Bertha B. Woodbury, Tenth row: E. Crawford Jones, J. Sherwood Young, Janet Marilyn Pew, Don B. Colton, Director; Shirley Sixth row: Keith M. Munk, Garald Beazer, Quincy Owen A. Romrell, Clair L. Wyatt, Glen S. Cahoon, Whitaker, Emily T. Hill, Robert Fails, Carol Whit- Byrd Schuenman, Jack F. Trump, Joseph K. Lawson, Lawrence E. Evans, LeRoy C. Taylor, William E. tier. James O. Mason, LaVoy T. Jones, Arthur Fenton Lund, Keith S. Hone, Richard G. Miller, J. Lynn Gardner, Gay Errol Boman, Dewaine M. Brown, McBride, Conrod R. Nelson, Howard S. Johnson, Donald V. Silotti, Ross E. Sharp, Sterling Bylund, Second row: Viola Lehman, Helen Lehman, Sibyl M. Oral R. Covington. Brown, Marva Johnson, WHma Brown, LuGene Hobbs, Floyd A. Johnson Gertrude Hoffman, Gladys Tippetts, Pat Flake, Eleventh row: Rex Bennion, Leonard Hogan, Clif- Jane Walker. Seventh row: Dwayne Stailey Rogers, Versal A. ton M. Parker, Herman J. Shields, Russell Clinton Mickelson, Donn V. Welch, Bender, Bryan K. Wahl- quist, Oren H. Randall. Paul H. Lefevor, Milton EIDean Jensen, Richard 5. Edward Scott, Russell L. Third row: Franklin H. Butterfield, Robert A. Noack, George Kirk, Dean C. Zollinger, Eli Fenn, Meloy R. Johnson, Dene Carson, Clifford Don Bush, Reese, Merl Jensen, Newell K. Hill, Don C. Elison, Glenn Taylor Burgess, Dale Frank G. Sanders, William E. Cox. Clayton Bullock, Fred Sarah June Day, Thelma Zweifel, Delbert F. Selin, Arthur Huxhold, Keith Alvin Pedersen Arnold D. Ozment, LaWana Stokes. Eighth row: Kenneth D. Zenger, Donald P. Hinck- ley, Thomas X. Smith, III, Arvel Braegger, LaMar Twelfth row: Myrl E. Perry, Clifford Reid Gibby, Fourth row: Leland F. Jackson, Gordon F. Holmes, Glyn R Williams, Chester G. Lykins, Glenn Robert B. Meibos, Donald A. Beck, Howard J. Rodgers, Clair E. Brown, William J. England, Kent G. Lark in. Christensen, Robert L. Ellsworth, Harry C. Smith, M. Christiansen, Bonnie Jean Eyre, Mrs. J. Marlow Carl Arland Burrell, James Albert Stacey, Sheldon C. Taylor, J. Marlow Taylor, Byron D. Stout, Donald Ninth row: Roy Russell Valantine, Jacob Dale Butterfield, J. Rulon Nelson, Elwood Dennett, H. K. A. Larson, Darlene Norton, Darlene Romrell. Bigler, Lloyd Kay Davis, Heber Clean Miller, Demar Wood.

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E. S. C. Handy, who with Mary Kawena Pukui, con- THE LIGHT TOUCH D",tributed "Forebears and Posterity in the Pacific Isles," be- § ginning on page 616, is truly a world student. After receiving his three university degrees from Harvard (and incidentally, Reciprocal his college career was interrupted by a term of service in h World War I) he spent four years in ethnological explora- He was about nine and extremely fond of the neighbor's tion in Tahiti and adjacent dog, •who returned the esteem. One evening the two were § islands, and in the Mar- romping on the floor when the dog stood up, put its paws quesas Islands as leader of on the boy's shoulders, and plastered him with wet affection. § parties of the Yale-Bayard To the mother's horror, the boy planted a kiss of his own Dominick Expedition to the right on the dog's nose. § South Seas, organized by "Aw, what you worryin' about?" he said when she remon- § Dr. Herbert E. Gregory, strated. "It won't hurt him. I got over my cold a week then director of the Poly- ago." nesian Bishop Museum. In- cidental studies were made, Point of View in transit, in the Paumotus, Cook Islands, New Zealand, An Easterner was being driven by a rancher over a blister- Tonga, and Samoa. Follow- ing and almost barren stretch of western Texas when a gaudy ing this he traveled for sev- bird, new to him, scurried in front of them. The Easterner eral years in India, Indo- asked what it was. China, and Japan. The "That is a bird of paradise," said the rancher. following years, 1928 and The stranger rode on in silence for a time, and then said: 1929, he studied oriental "Pretty long way from home, isn't he?" § history, civilizations, and re- § ligions at the University of Agreeable Paris. From 1931 to 1935, he was an ethnologist for Employee: "But, I don't need any help. I couldn't find % the Bishop Museum, Hawaii, where he was engaged in field enough work to keep you busy." work in Hawaiian agricultural and subsistence techniques Young Applicant: "You'd be surprised how little it takes § and in the study of family life. From there he went to Yale to keep me busy." Graduate School, where he served as a visiting professor in $— ethnology. During World War II the government found his knowledge of the peoples of the world valuable. In 1949, 'The Lord Has Spoken Again' § after ten years of research and experimentation in Virginia, Dr. established the research organization 4t and Mrs. Handy HPhe Lord Has Spoken Again" is the key word of the known as Genethnics, Incorporated. Returning to Hawaii, ** missionary campaign of the missionaries laboring in the they applied their technique to the study of native Hawaiian Scandinavian countries in this their centennial year of preach- biography, family life, and certain ethnological problems. ing the gospel in the lands of the far north. "Our co-worker and Hawaiian sister," as Dr. Handy calls A week-long program of activities was completed in June, Mary Kawena Pukui, was reared as a Punahele or sacred child which depicted the progress of missionary work in the various by her maternal grandmother. From her mother and grand- Scandinavian countries since Erastus Snow and his companions mother she first learned the lore of her Hawaiian forebears. came to Copenhagen June 14, 1850 with the gospel message. At the present time she has withdrawn from the Bishop A two-day conference was held on January 24 and 25 in Museum where she has been engaged as translator and Gothenborg, Sweden, which was attended by (left to right) hostess since 1931 and is compiling a new edition of the President and Sister Edward H. Sorensen of the Danish Mis- Hawaiian Dictionary. Her husband, Napoleon Kalolii Pukui, sion, President and Sister Clarence F. Johnson of the Swedish was one of the Hawaiians who came to Utah with a Hawaiian § Mission, and President and Sister A. Sherman Gowans of the colony in 1889. The hospitality of her mother, Mrs. Wiggin, § Norwegian Mission. The photo below was taken here. will long be remembered by the L.D.S. missionaries who have % labored in Hawaii. Her grandmother was one of the early % Hawaiian converts to the Church. % $ ' % Dear Sir: § saw the advertisement of the L.D.S. Business College in I The Improvement Era and I do hope I can enter the Church college and study with "wonderful brothers and sis- * ters. I am a Japanese boy and my name is Yootaro Yoshino and now attending the Japanese high school and I shall from it next March. Finishing the high school, I § graduate § would like to enter the L.D.S. Business College, but before that I want to know how the school is more clearly and in detail, so I do hope I can get the catalogue of the college. My name: Bro. Yootaro Yoshino. Address: 1121 Kami- machi, Tomioka Gumma-Ken, Japan. Sincerely yours, § Yootaro Yoshino § § Harker's Island, N. C. Dear Editors: We certainly liked the April issue, but we like all the issues of the Era. I'm afraid we are selfish in wanting more than twelve issues per year. Earl C. Davis

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