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TO UTAH FARMERS A SPARAGUS was "grass" to everyone I met with in x\ the fertile Delta lands of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers. Here in this "land of dikes," near Stockton, Jack Klein started planting asparagus in 1930. Now he operates 3500 acres of asparagus—often ships 5000 35-pound crates of fresh "grass" daily. Mr. Klein is a director of the California Asparagus Asso- ciation, a farm cooperative that acts as a service or-

ganization for the industry ; and a farmer-representative on the Asparagus Prorate Board. "I gambled my future on San Joaquin River grass," Jack Klein told me, "and I started in tough times. By 1932 the price of canning asparagus was V>fai a pound — way under my production cost. Finally we asparagus growers got a State Prorate Law plus a State Market- ing Order which eliminated all #2 asparagus from canning. The Prorate provided for the size of the pack of # 1 grass. Then in 1939 Safeway began buying direct from the growers here and expanding our distribution. "The trouble had been that grass was being sent only to the big terminal markets such as San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. Smaller markets got only small lots by express, and at high cost. Naturally we growers suffered because our fresh grass Picking asparagus is a race with the sun on Jack Klein's usually brings a lot more per pound than canning aspar- ranches. Each field must be picked daily during harvest agus. Safeway shipped the first straight car of asparagus period because — believe it or not ! — the grass grows ever shipped as much as 6 inches in 24 hours of warm weather. "What's from this area to such markets as Dallas even more amazing is that stalks keep on growing up to and Oklahoma City. 2 inches more even after they're in crates and on their "I've checked market returns carefully and I know way to market. As you can see in my photo above, the the fresh grass market has pickers use a special cutting tool which slices the stalks 3 been increasing every season or 4 inches underground. Asparagus for shipping fresh is since 1939. That's due to better distribution through cut about 9 inches long; canning asparagus about 7 inches such chain stores as Safeway. Canned asparagus, too, is in better shape today because Safeway has helped us get a bigger market." YOUR SAFEWAY FARM REPORTER

"All during the fresh grass harvest season," Jack Klein told me, "Safeway keeps a buyer right here in the Delta lands. He buys daily in carload lots, and sends the grass off to Safeway stores so customers get it fresh. Last year Safeway bought about 100,000 \\ the packing shed I saw asparagus washed, graded, crates from me. We ship fresh grass and packed tightly into crates. "We don't bunch and tie as long as the market is good, starting any more," Jack Klein told me. "These operations are in February. Usually by April first the expensive and bunching tends to limit consumer buying. canning season has started. We keep When dealers break bunches, as they often do, the cost picking until about the middle of of bunching is wasted anyway. There's a definite swing June, when the canneries shut down." on now to what's known as the loose, heavy pack — the About 98% of all the white asparagus kind we're using here. Safeway likes the loose pack as canned in this country comes from it means a saving for their customers. You see, only 30 these Delta lands. Asparagus is green pounds of bunched grass are packed in a crate — 12 when grown in the open field—white bunches of iy2 pounds each. The loose pack weighs when shut away from the sunlight by around 35 pounds and costs no more" mounds of soil You can get a

.V DICTIONARY too, tor only 9b a dime I By FRANKLIN S. HARRIS, JR. a That's all a dime and a coupon (or box top) from a package of recovering from certain 1 Plants virus i HONEY BEE GRAHAMS by Purity diseases have been found to have e¥ brings you Webster's Practical acquired an immunity. Illustrated Dictionary ... a big 375 4 page desk-size volume containing vt 1940 census figures. Get yours V^east cells dying of mechanical in- now by mailing coupon below. jury release a substance which helps their surviving neighbors to grow and multiply at a faster rate. pysa 4 At various times and places the foot ** has represented lengths varying 1 from eleven to fourteen inches. m^w GRAHAMS 'T'he surface area of the lungs has been estimated to be nearly two thou- plat. o« ***» Waal » "°"-J, are the sand square feet, that of the intestines fifty square feet and the area of the red 6)4 ozs. corpuscles of the blood to be nearly 1 lb. three-quarters of an acre. 2 lbs. children. > vour '^TThen England was expecting inva- vv sion by Spain in the pre-armada PURITY BISCUIT CO., Salt Lake City, Utah years of 1585 and 1586, propagandist Gentlemen: Enclosed find 10c plus coupon from package of Honey Bee Grahams. Please send Webster's poetry was written to combat "fifth- Practical Illustrated Dictionary. column" activities centering around Mary, Queen of Scots. A series of _ Address — sixteen-page pamphlets of Latin poetry were issued by the Oxford University Press to sustain national morale by their wide distribution. 4 — — HThe sea level on the Australian side of the equatorial belt is two feet higher than the American side of the Pacific Ocean. This gives rise to an eastward current along the equator of two knots instead of the seven knots it would go if there were no friction. 4 A ncient and modern solutions to the ** problem of stopping itching insect bites have been found effective. Car- bon tetrachloride, and, even better, chloroform are very effective. The —Travel by SUPER-COACH ancient Egyptians found relief with onion juice and salt, or garlic and salt. and Help NATIONAL DEFENSE ^ Tn 1939, over two million Bibles were • Make your car last longer! * published in the United States, over BUY Save tires, parts, wear and a million New Testaments published tear. Go by thrifty Union Pa- separately, and over three million ad- DEFENSE cific bus on every out-of-town ditional volumes consisting of parts of BONDS trip and keep your car in good shape for the the Bible. The total of all kinds of times when you need it books published numbered one hun- WITH THE most. You'll help save DOLLARS SAVED vital defense materials, too. dred eighty million, of which school TRAVELING BY BUS And the cost is tar less than text-books contributed seventy-three driving! million, fiction thirteen million, and scientific and technological three and SEE YOUR LOCAL BUS AGENT FOR. COMPLETE INFORMATION a half-million volumes.

/^ATS and dogs hear best at a higher sound frequency than man, and they union pacific stages can hear higher notes, but a rat can hear higher still. (Concluded on page 580) 577 — 1

/MmprouemenMira (bo I^DIL JilWW- will help you to achieve suc- "The Glory of God is Intelligence" What cess? 579

OCTOBER, 1941 Heber J. Grant, What the world's largest airplane John A. Widtsoe, weighs? 580 VOLUME 44 NUMBER 10 Editors Richard L. Evans, "THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH" Managing Editor How to determine what sin is? 582 Marba C. Josephson, OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PRIESTHOOD QUORUMS, Associate Editor IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS, DEPART- we should follow the inspira- MUTUAL Morris, Mgr. Why MENT OF EDUCATION, MUSIC COMMITTEE, WARD George Q. General .Associate Mgr. tion of our leaders? 585 TEACHERS, AND OTHER AGENCIES OF THE CHURCH Lucy G. Cannon, K. Orton, Business Mgr. OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. J. How the Doctrine and Covenants form? 586 JobJjL d^ ConismiA. came to its present What draftees think about drinking in camps? 591

Response .Heber J. Grant 585 How President Lorenzo Snow was saved from drowning? 593 (fkuAck. JsxrfWlBA,

The Doctrine and Covenants John W. Fitzgerald 586 Who are conceded to be the most Mormonism and an Ideal Society Eldin Ricks 588 courageous emigrants of all 595 Cycle C. Peacock 590 time? Thou Shalt Have Long Life LeRoi C. Snow 592 Evidences and Reconciliations XLIL What is a Liberal Who settled Koosharem? -596 Religion? John A. Widtsoe 609 The Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir Aaronic 619 Where Mt. Pisgah is, and for what at the Hollywood Bowl, Verna Ward Teaching _..621 noted? 597 M. Phillips 581 No Tobacco-Liquor Brigham Young Said, Compiled 591, 616, 620, 621 stake was recently cre- By Heber Q. Hale 582 Genealogy: A Genealogical What new the Northern ated? 602 Visit to Mt. Pisgah, Leo J. "Crusade" in Muir 597 States Mission, Leo J. Muir....622 Zobell, 600 Music 623 Brevities, Albert L. Jr When the dates for October con- 602 Department of Education 624 Church Moves On ference are? 608 Regimental Committee, A. H. Mutual Messages: Executives. 625 Lee 606 M Men-Gleaners 626 Priesthood: Melchizedek 616 Explorers 627 Whether or not your religion is Field Photos 625, 626, 627 liberal? 609

You Can Say No in Camp, Too. ...Nettie Allen Thomas 591 What new chapels have been dedicated? 603 The Story of the Telescope Winifred Heath 594 Saga of the Handcart Pioneers.. John Sherman Walker 595 Exploring the Universe, Frank- ica, William and Dewey lin S. Harris, Jr 577 Farnsworth - 600 EXECUTIVE AND EDITORIAL "I Should Worry," Jack Sears..579 Peaceful Cumorah 606 OFFICES: Telefacts 580 On the Book Rack ..607 North Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. the Old Aside, Pearl Homing: "So You're My Son," 50 Cast Not Copyright 1941, by Mutual Funds. Inc., a Cor- Spencer 583 Theodore R. Martin 610 poration of the Young Men's Mutual Improve- Chiapas Ruins, Charles E. Dib- Cooks' Corner, Barbara B. ment Association of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints. All rights reserved. Sub- ble 599 Burnett 61 of scription price, $2.00 a year, in advance: 20c Ten Commandments for Teach- Handy Hints 612 single copy. ers, Hector Lee 599 Gustaf Adolf Male Chorus... 628 Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Looking Back at Ancient Amer- Index to Advertisers 636 Utah, as second-class matter. Acceptance for Your Page and Ours 640 mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October. 1917, fidtttfriolA, authorized July 2, 1918. The Improvement Era is not responsible Conference Announcements 608 for unsolicited manuscripts, but welcomes contributions. All manuscripts must be accompanied The Dangerous Slumber of Indifference, Richard L. Evans.... 608 by sufficient postage for delivery and return. NATIONAL ADVERTISING SiOiiSA., (pJDSdAl^, (?A0A&IV(flcL (pjUjjliL REPRESENTATIVES Justice James P. Sharp 589 Francis M. Mayo, Salt Lake City "The Mother of Grass Valley" Reed Brown 596 Edward S. Townsend, San Francisco George Petrick 598 Tangible Payment MEMBER OF THE AUDIT BUREAU OF Frontispiece: The Sun Leans Desert Graces, Gertrude P. CIRCULATIONS Southward, Edna S. Dustin....584 Stanton 632 Poetry Page 601 Scriptural Crossword Puzzle 638 J/UL fov&A. EVERY This welcome sign on Temple Square speaks its message to the members of the A MAGAZINE FOR Church and to the stranger who comes among us—at times of conference, and throughout the year. The photograph is by Jeano Orlando. MEMBER OF THE FAMILY 578 :

//, // ing, and investigated. Imagine his '9 Should Wovuf surprise when he entered the store to find those two men perched high upon By JACK SEARS a ladder still taking inventory. "Well, boys," said he, "have you had your big mercantile house had taken dinner? Why are you working so late?" over the stock of a merchant who "Well," answered one of them, "we A was quitting business. The man- knew you were very anxious to get this ager of the firm put two clean, vigorous stock away from here as soon as pos- young men to work taking inventory sible; we heard you say that you did of the stock before moving it to head- not wish to pay another month's rent quarters. The manager left these in- on this building." structions, "You young men are to work until six p. m., and when you leave, "You boys are made of the right put out the lights, lock the doors, and stuff. I am convinced you will develop report at eight a. m. tomorrow morn- into splendid and trustworthy business ing. When you have finished with the men—the kind of men we are looking inventory, bring it to me at my office." for. Your reward for these few freely At nine o'clock contributed hours of overtime will be a permanent position at the big store. the same evening, Just a few days ago I stepped into an you have finished this check-up, the manager, in When elevator in a modern building. The store and tell Mr. Hyrum passing the store go up to the operator was a man of very indifferent - I said you were to be put on as regular of newly ac- attitude. Next to him was a boy about employees in the best positions possible. quired stock, saw sixteen years old. He was a messenger, If you ever wish to consult me in regard the lights burn- boy, clean and cocky, and in his arms business or personal matters come to to was a bundle of neatly addressed en- for will always wel- my office, you be velopes. I will keen interest in come and take a From the messenger boy: "What! you both! Now come down and let me me hurry?—I should worry. I can take shake hands with you—let me congratu- as long as I want to for this job deliver- late you and wish you success." I getting paid THE CITIES ARE ing these envelopes. am FULL OF DISSATIS- Those few hours of overtime put by the hour, not by the job." FIED MEN. these two young fellows into good From the elevator chin-chinner positions that became bigger and better "You're right, kid! Don't ever do any as the years rolled by-—positions of more work than you have to to get by. dignity and leadership which lasted for You will get further that way, I'm tell- nearly half a century. ing you, and you will live a lot longer."

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JhsL Salt 3kdvL Proved On The West's JabsuwadsL QImVl. at Toughest Jobs ituL 3iollspvDOjcL (BdjluJL Since 1850, LEVI'S Waist Over- alb have proved they could "take By Vetna M. Phillips, it" on ranches and farms, in mines Guaranteed — Pomona, California and lumber camps. "A new pair free if they rip." HThe Hollywood Bowl on the evening of August 20 was indeed a most LEVI'S appropriate setting for the Mormon WAIST OVERALLS Tabernacle Choir to sing their praises with patented CONCEALED COPPER RIVETS of God. on back pockets As we sat there listening under the LEVI STRAUSS & CO., Sao Francisco stars to the beautiful voices of the choir coming up to us from below I couldn't help but feel that He was very near in the heavens above. I do not know how many of our Southern California Mormons attended, but it seemed they were all there, and many more who listen to the Sunday morning radio program. Wagner's "Hail Bright Abode" as the opening chorus was most fitting for this OF THESE particular setting; then as the third number, "Mountains," was sung, the hills TWO surrounding the Bowl seemed to echo their appreciation. POWERFUL I wish it were possible to express the feeling that came with the rendition of HIGH- the five Mormon hymns: "Come, COMPRESSION Come, Ye Saints," that stirring song of courage that thrills one to the heart TRACTORS when hearing it; "Lord Thou Wilt Hear Me," a song of supplication and prayer IS THE ONE so beautiful that I am sure it was heard in the heavens which seemed so near as FOR YOU? we sat there; "The Morning Breaks," the glorious Mormon song where our lovely tenor voices come out so YOU! sweetly; "Though Deepening Trials," A FREE DEMONSTRATION IN YOUR FIELDS WIFE SHOW which to all Mormons in their days of you have— T'fofjfttj' mr — —what you want your tractor to do—how much work tribulations has been such a source of M MMmMMmm. ~ ™ how heavy the work is. strength that I couldn't help feeling in PkgtZ S —with men who know tractors—men who've used sturdy Oliver tractors. the days that are ahead of us it will be ^l possible. Free! See us again a comfort, for it is our songs that *T*si£+4 —trY one ou* ™ your own fields 1 Oliver makes this today 1 carry us through. The last of this M G*Sl~ group, "Oh My Father," never fails to please. GIVE OLIVER -v I am sure that the Saints as they sat listening felt as I did that they could PLOWS hardly restrain themselves from singing these five songs with the choir. THE 3T What a chorus that would have been! TEST Many times have I listened to the ; singing those five songs but never of NO. 21 TWO-WAY SULKY, (illustrated above) A strong plow with a reputation for good have they seemed so beautiful as that work. Can plow up to 12 inches deep. Adjustable for 16. 17 or 18-inch furrows. Power lift for each beam. Easy operating depth screw. Adjustable hitch. Ask for folder. evening in under the stars the Holly- "QD" TRACTOR MOUNTED SULKY. Handles 18-inch bases. Short-coupled and strong. wood Bowl. Runs level. Easy to handle. Has large capacity and clearance to turn under corn stalks, small grain stubble and weeds. Quick-acting power lift. Hallelujah Chorus" "The from Han- PLOW MASTER TRACTOR GANG. A light draft, light weight, plow with the sensational del's Messiah and "The Star Spangled Raydex bases and points. Simpler hitch, strong flat steel beams, foolproof lift, extra high clearance, ball bearing depth screw. A different kind of plow backed by nearly Banner" as the grand finale were re- a century of good plow making. ceived with great applause. The peaceful voice of Richard Evans MOUNTAIN STATES IMPLEMENT CO. seemed as if it were Sunday morning— OGDEN. UTAH then all too soon it was over and we BRANCHES: UTAH: Murray, Ogden, Logan, Tremonton IDAHO: Preston, Blackfoot, Shelley, Idaho Falls, Rexberg, Rupert, Twin Falls, Buhl began our descent down the hillside with the crowd that as river, moved a Mountain States Implement Company, Ogden, Utah. so congested that it seemed for a while I would like to test an Oliver 60 ( ) 70 ( ) tractor. (Check which.) it would be impossible to reach our Please send me folders describing (check which)

) 60 Tractors ( No. 21 Two-Way Plow cars. ( ) ( ) 70 Tractors ( ) Plow Master I am sure everyone there returned ( ) QD Mounted Plow their truly refreshed to homes with the Name R. F. D... ..Town _ State spirit that only our Mormon hymns I farm acres. can give. 581 ) —.

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Compiled by Heber Q. Hale

"OnsL'Siudsivd" Classes (From his public addresses, as recorded in the Journal of Dis~ courses. The volume and page ANYWHERE-ANYTIME are indicated after each quotation; as also the year in which • For teachers, both re- ture, B. Y. U. offers "one- uttered. ligious and secular, for student" classes. These young men in defense Home Study courses may an may propose, but God will dispose.—13:308 services, for mature per- be undertaken anywhere, M (1870). s o n s anywhere who at anytime. If each and every one of us would would like to progress to- More than 160 courses in fervently perform his duty, it would not ward a college degree, a 30 departments are avail- be necessary to talk quite so loud and teaching certificate, gen- able. A catalogue will be quite so long as we do now.—13:274 eral advancement or cul- sent on request. (1870).

Extension Division I am prepared to prove from all the facts that have existed or that now exist in all branches of human affairs, that BRIGHflm vounG UI1IUERSITV union is strength, and that division is weakness and confusion. — 13:267 Provo, Utah (1870).

We are blessed in having the living oracles in our midst, and in having a Kil Noxious Weeds at the standard erected around which we can Roots! rally. The Bible is good, and we believe in it more than any other people. [THIS PULLING NOXIOUS I HAVE NO NOXIOUS WEEDS The Book of Mormon and the book of WEED TOPS IS DRUDGERY! NOW, THANKS TO A MACK AHTI- Doctrine and Covenants are the word SEEMSTOGETI WEEDGUNANDAFEIVGAL10NS of God, and they contain many precious AND NEVER gems; every line is full of knowledge, ME ANYWHERE. I'VE BEEN OF CARBON BISULPHIDE USED intelligence, and truth and is calculated DOING IT FOR. YEARS. YEARS AGO.THE COST WAS MOD- to be a benefit to us; but yet above and far beyond all, we have the living or- ERATE AND TH£J08 WAS EASV. 77 acles in our midst to tell us what to do KILLED today. A great portion of the scripture JHE WEEDS we have was the living oracles to the jATTHE people in the day in which it was given, ROOTS. and it has become scripture because it t was given by the inspiration of the L "sr Almighty. It was applicable to the day wxf' in which it was given. We have the ; -Vsh «" j&-~-%- -a*s* V%* "*«= living oracles in our midst to give us _>£»- «*»-: rjSf^^K m that which is applicable to our day. <&sx^> ^c 13:28-9 (1869). T*r "^Fd !&3S &~ \ Not only does the religion of Jesus K^r"3 Christ make the people acquainted with ~^&m ^\Wj the things of God and develop within ^'^^ them moral excellence and purity, but it holds out every encouragement and ^ inducement possible for them to in- knows better than the man Nobody crease in knowledge and intelligence, 71 who has benefited from the use of in every branch of mechanism and in ,^ the arts and sciences; for all wisdom and all the arts and sciences in the world «^~ CARBON BISULPHIDE are from God and are designed for the

Send for Booklet 212E telling how weed- good of His people.— 1 3 : 147 ( 1 869 ) work is accomplished. In my youth I was called an infidel, and I was an infidel. What to? This WHEELER, REYNOLDS & STAUFFER, 636 California St, Sah Francisco Bible? No, to false creeds, and to pro- fessing without possessing. ... I ask the infidel world what they give in ex- Distributors—Wasatch Chemical Co., Salt Lake City and Branches can change for the faith I have in Jesus Christ and the religion I believe in and practice.—13:215, 219 (1870).

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low and contemptible; therefore when they TbtiPuL Old OauHsl' have lost their sense of hell and wrath to "CoaL come, they return again to their former course. By Pearl Spencer 4. Guilt, and to meditate terror, are grievous to them. They like not to see with the yearning for grim's Progress that could not be ex- Faced books their misery before they come into it; though into essay by anyone intent whichennoble goodness rather than panded an perhaps the sight of it first, if they loved on digesting it for himself or predigest- make it look stodgy and dull, one that sight, might make them fly whither the example, dips again into some of the good old ing it for someone else; for righteous fly and are safe. been books with a deep sense of refresh- has the road to loss of faith ever more thoughtfully and shrewdly pic- And the manner of their going back, ment. One of the best of these is Pil- Hopeful's earnest expla- Christian says, is in this manner grim's Progress, which has lost none of tured than in nation to Christian of "the reason of its dramatic power since Christian first the sudden backsliding of Temporary 1. They draw off their thoughts, all they set out for the Celestial City, and on may, from the remembrance of God, death, and Save-self"? his way encountered Faithful and and judgment to come. Talkative, Piety and Prudence, fell into 2. Then they cast off by degrees private 1. Though the consciences of such men the Slough of Despond, visited Doubt- duties, as closet-prayer, curbing their lusts, are awakened, yet their minds are not of watching, sorrow for sin and the like. ing Castle, and viewed the wares changed; therefore, when the power of 3. Then they shun the company of lively Vanity Fair—even as you and I. And guilt weareth away, that which provoke th and warm Christians. one is struck anew with the realization them to be religious ceaseth. So then it 4. After that, they grow cold to public that, after all, of the good thoughts comes to pass, that when their guilt and most duty, as hearing, reading, godly conference, fear is gone, their desires for heaven and and reflections of the world lie buried and the like. happiness die, and they return to their in these rich old books, in spite of the 5. Then they begin to pick holes, as we course again. great number of earnest contemporary say, in the coats of some of the godly; that philosophers who belabor their favorite 2. Another reason is, they have slavish they may have a seeming color to throw fears that do overmaster them; I speak now idea in blissful ignorance of its ever religion (for the sake of some infirmity of fears that they have of men, ("For the fear they have in their having been thought before. spied them) behind backs. of men bringeth a snare" ) . So then, though 6. Then they begin to adhere to, and One of the great delights of reading they seem to be hot for heaven so long as associate themselves with, carnal, loose, in these good old books, therefore, is the flames of hell are about their ears, yet and wanton men. that terror is a little over, they be- the thrill of discovering a "modern" when 7. Then they give way to wanton dis- take themselves to second thoughts; namely, courses in secret; and glad are they if they idea in a firm old setting. Often so that 'tis good to be wise, and not run the can see such things in any that are counted casually that they seem to be careless hazard of losing all; or at least, of bring- honest, that they the more boldly do it with their riches or unconscious of ing themselves unto unavoidable and un- through their example. necessary troubles; and so they fall in with their worth, they toss us priceless bits 8. After this they begin to play with little the world again. sins, openly. that we can consider and apply as far 3. The shame that attends religion lies 9. And then, being hardened, they show will permit. Cer- as our own capacity also as a block in their way; they are proud themselves as they are and everlastingly tainly there is hardly a page of PiU and haughty, and religion in their eye is perish in their own deceiving.

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T he sun leans southward; on the moody earth His slanting finger traces platinum dew Upon the earth's once lacy pastel shawl, Now quite flamingo-hued and starched anew.

W.hile roots retrieve and store their jaded sap, He quickens amber fields of pregnant grain And rouges cheeks down in the orchard's lanes, Where leaves like bright-scarfed gypsies dance again.

IN saffron fields stretch cornstalk wickiups, By And lead-blue streams through sedgy swamps now thread;

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C^FTTIMES OUR BRETHREN IN POSITIONS OF RESPONSI- BILITY RECEIVE INSPIRATION THAT A CERTAIN THING SHOULD BE DONE, AND IT IS A WISE THING, I HAVE DISCOVERED, TO CARRY IT OUT, AND NOT URGE CONTRARY VIEWS TO THE CALLS AND DIRECTIONS THAT COME TO US FROM THOSE IN AUTHORITY

By PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT

T had a very great disappointment in my life by you are going to frighten me from having a pleasant, not listening to an inspiration that came once to delightful visit with my mother and the first holiday John Henry Smith, my senior by two years in the I have had in nineteen years, you are mistaken." the Apostles. I appointed quorum of Twelve was He said, "All right, you will never see Diaz, and by President Lorenzo Snow to go to the City of I'll have to go and open the Mexican Mission. Of reopen the Mexican Mission, and it Mexico and course, I've seen Diaz two or three times, but I'll was a very great pleasure to me to have that ap- be glad to see him again." pointment because my cousin, Anthony W. Ivins, after I returned California was president of the Mexican colonists of the The day home from I was called to go to Japan to open the mission Juarez Stake of Zion. Also, I had never met Diaz. there, President said to me, "Now, A great many people looked upon President Diaz and Snow Brother Grant, you are engaged in many different as one of the greatest rulers in all the world, con- businesses, will give you whole year to sidering the conditions under which he had to rule, and we a arrange your affairs before you start on this mis- and I had always had a strong desire to meet him. sion, if you need it. If you can get ready in four, When this appointment came I was, therefore, five, or six months, do so; but do not hurry; get out very much delighted, and told President Snow that of your various business obligations as best you I was very pleased, but, I said, "Brother Snow, my can, without too much sacrifice, and then go on mother, my wife and my daughters, most of them, your mission." are at Pacific Grove. I have been in the Council In response to these instructions, I said: "The of the Twelve for nearly twenty years, and I have first thing I want to do is to go down to the city of never taken a holiday, and I would very much ap- Mexico with my cousin and organize that mission." preciate it if I could have two or three weeks holiday President Snow replied, "There is no need of and go down and celebrate my mother's eightieth your doing that; there are plenty of men who can birthday. I have arranged to be at Pacific Grove do that as well as you, and we will send somebody for this occasion and when I return, I will go to else. the City of Mexico." "But," I said, "I want to do it." And then Pres- President Snow replied, "That will be all right, ident Snow without hesitation replied, "Oh, that Brother Grant; you are perfectly welcome to that doesn't make any difference; we will appoint some- holiday." one else—whom shall we appoint?" He looked After the meeting in the temple, Brother John around and said, "John Henry, you go and do Henry said, "Heber, I have an impression that you that." And when John Henry returned from filling should not celebrate eightieth go and your mother's my appointment in Mexico, he told me that he had birthday. continued, "If to California He you do go had a very wonderful visit with Diaz. you will never have the privilege of seeing Diaz, and Ofttimes our brethren in positions of responsi- you will not have the privilege of opening that mis- bility receive inspiration that a certain thing should sion for the preaching of the Gospel to that nation." be done, and it is a wise thing, I have discovered, I asked, not?" and he replied, "If go "Why you to carry it out, and not urge contrary views to the to California, will you not have that privilege." calls and directions that come to us from those in I said, "Well now, Brother John, if you think authority.

585 jhsL DOCTRINE w COVENANTS

An abbreviated account of its various editions and of the sections which make up the contents of the "Book of Commandments."

By JOHN W. FITZGERALD Director, L. D. S. Seminary, St. Johns, Arizona

The foundation upon which the Brief History of The Doctrine Church is built, the rock upon and Covenants

which it stands and the reason Joseph Smith the Prophet received for its progress, is discovered in the numerous revelations from 1820 principle of continuous revelation. until his death in June, 1 844. Some Broadly speaking, this principle of the revelations were given to cer- is also the basis of science. All men, tain individuals for their benefit and some unknowingly, live constantly guidance. Others were for the information of the Church as a whole, by this everlasting principle. It is or for certain groups of men in the the method used by the Lord to en- Church making known to them their lighten any person, no matter what duties and responsibilities in the new field of knowledge he may be un- Church. 6 covering. For that is the meaning Revelations were received when of the word: "to uncover that which the Aaronic and Melchizedek 1 is hidden." Whether it is to re- Priesthood was restored and con- discover or restore something that ferred, and the members who re- was known at some previous time or ceived it were told of their respective duties. to bring forth a new truth, the prin- TITLE PAGE OF THE 1S33 EDITION OF "A BOOK OF COMMANDMENTS." Doctrines of the hereafter and ciple of revelation is the same. vicarious work for the dead are However, nothing is revealed in among other items of knowledge of open vision wherein heavenly its perfection or its fulness to man- which are contained in the revela- messengers speak to men face to kind." Even Jesus "received not of tions received by the Prophet. They face; by the voice of such mes- the fulness at first, but continued contain information for the welfare sengers without their actually of the Church and for all men every- from grace to grace, until he received being seen; or by the Spirit of God 8 where. a fulness." acting upon the minds of certain The Lord speaks to men in their men, who through diligence and obe- The Publication of Latter-day own language, after the manner of dience are able to receive such in- Revelation their understanding, and then gives spiration. The principle of divine or reveals to them only as much as revelation as a growing, developing HpHE revelations that had been re- they can use. To give less would influence in the Church and in the ceived by the Prophet up to the hinder progress, to give more would world is an everyday fact easily year 1833, still in manuscript form, promote indolence. Hence men re- observed. were already known as the Book of ceive "here a little and there a little" 6 God sometimes revokes certain Commandments. as their minds are able to grasp and commandments or revelations that At a special conference held No- understand the added knowledge. He has given, especially when men vember 1, 1831, at Hiram, Ohio, a It must also necessarily that 4 be true do not obey them. Changing con- preliminary decision was made to the greater the effort of men in any ditions make it necessary to give new, print ten thousand copies of A Book field, religious or otherwise, the or add to the existing revelations: In of Commandments. During the greater the fund of information they a dynamic, moving society God afternoon of the first day of the con- receive over a period of time. This should and does provide for change; ference the Preface to the Book of knowledge be learned peo- may from revoking some commandments, add- Commandments was "received by ple; from books, secular and reli- 7 ing to others, giving new ones, yet inspiration." gious; or with the aid of special keeping unchanged the fundamental The Elders present at the con- instruments like the Urim and Thum- precepts of His Church as the ference testified to the fact that the mim. It may also come in the form foundation upon which to build an revelations or commandments "were eternal edifice. B and 1Webster's Dictionary. See Sections 15, 16, 17. 18, 20, 107, Doctrine Covenants, for examples. 2Bcigham Young's Discourses, 60-65. pp. "Joseph Smith, History of the Church. Vol. I, p. 225. sDoctrine and Covenants, Section 93:13. ^Doctrine and Covenants, Section 56:5. Vbid.. p. 222 (note). 586 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941

not known. It is known that sixty- tures on Faith which had been given EDITOR'S NOTE five chapters or revelations were previously to a class of Elders in printed and a few copies of that Kirtland, Ohio. They were placed Doctrine and Covenants has THE many printed revelations were saved. in the 1835 edition of the Doctrine gone through many editions It was not intended that the Book and Covenants because "they were since it first appeared in print more than one hundred years ago as "A of Commandments should contain judiciously arranged and compiled 14 Book of Commandments." When all the revelations that had been and were profitable for doctrine." these various editions have appeared, given up to the year 1833, and, when One hundred two sections, includ- and what textual and mechanical the press was destroyed, it is doubt- ing an article on "Marriage" and changes have occurred is the subject and of a Master's thesis by the author, ful that all those selected were another on "Of Governments prepared under the direction of printed. Laws in General," were also included Dr. A. C. Lambert, Brigham Young The Prophet was receiving and in the book to be printed. University, from which work this giving revelations to the Church All the members holding the abbreviated statement on this subject has been made. continually, so that to bring them Priesthood and all other members before the Church and the world in of the Church attending the confer- printed form, it was determined in ence voted unanimously to have these given by inspiration of God, and are a conference held September 24, items in the forthcoming book. profitable for all men, and are verily 1834, in Kirtland, Ohio, that the said true."8 conference "appoint a committee to Book of Covenants and Doctrine The Prophet closely reviewed the arrange the items of the doctrine of and Covenants Christ, for the government of commandments, and in the last of Jesus T will be noticed that when some four special conferences held in the Church of the Latter-day Saints. I of the revelations were first Hiram, Ohio, in November, 1831, it These items are to be taken from printed in 1833 the resulting volume was decided that "after deliberate the Bible, Book of Mormon, and the was called A Book of Command- consideration, in consequence of the revelations which have been given ments. In September 1834, the reve- Book of Revelations, now to be to the Church up to this date, or that lations or the manuscript of them is printed, being the foundation of the shall be given until such arrange- 12 labeled Book of Covenants, while Church in these last days, and a ments are made." The committee the 1835 edition of them is printed benefit to the world, showing that chosen was "President Joseph Smith, Doctrine and Covenants. the keys of the mysteries of the Jun., Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rig- u In the 1835 edition of the book Kingdom of our Savior are again don, and Frederick G. Williams.' there are no items included from the entrusted to man; and the riches of "The council then decided that Bible or the Book of Mormon al- eternity within the compass of those said committee, after arranging and though both these volumes are men- who are willing to live by every word publishing said Book of Covenants, 13 tioned in the minutes of the confer- that proceedeth out of the mouth of have avails of the same." ence held September 24, 1834, from God—therefore the conference voted This action of the conference re- which it is said the committee should that they prize the revelations to be sulted in the committee's working extract information for inclusion in worth to the Church the riches of on the assignment given it until Au- the Doctrine and Covenants. Why the whole earth, speaking tempor- gust 17, 1835, when at the general 9 items from the Bible and the Book ally." assembly of the Priesthood and the of Mormon were not used is not The following spring, April 30 Church held in Kirtland the book or definitely known to the present and May 1, 1832, it was decided to manuscript of the book of Doctrine writer. His opinion is that the com- print three thousand copies of A and Covenants was presented for mittee thought it would be better to Book of Commandments instead of approval. It contained seven Lec- (Continued on page 630) ten thousand. William Phelps, W. ^Ibid., Vol. II, p. 165. u 244. Oliver Cowdery, and John Whitmer 18lbid., p. 165. Ibid.. p. were appointed "to review and prepare such revelations for the press as shall be deemed proper for publication, and print them as soon as possible at Independence, Mis- • "10 souri. Oliver Cowdery was chosen to take the revelations, accompanied by John Whitmer, from Hiram, Ohio, to the land of Zion, Missouri. The revelations were duly re- TITLE PAGE OF viewed and prepared and the print- THE 1S35 EDI- TION OF THE ing of them began, when on the "DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS." 20th of July, 1 833, a mob destroyed the press, scattering the papers and other supplies, and threw down the 11 printing establishment itself. Just how many copies of A Book of Commandments were saved or how many of the revelations that were to be printed, were printed is

mid., p. 226. Vbid.. p. 235. 10Ibid., p. 270. ^Ibid.. pp. 390, 393. 587 Nineteen hundred years MORMONISM ago, the Son of God offered mankind a plan for an ideal society. It has seemed strange to AND AN some that though the nation in which He was born was chafing under Roman tyranny He raised no army to throw off the yoke. Though the IDEAL SOCIETY government under which He lived was rotten with corruption, He ad- vocated no political reforms, as such. By ELDIN RICKS was one of the winning state- Though at the age of thirty-three the THIS Principal, L. D. S. Seminary, ments delivered at Brigham masses acclaimed Him their king and Overton, Nevada Young University during the 1940-41 their liberator, accepted no office. He Heber J. Grant contest for which the have been the ex- author received an inscribed copy of Whatever may one Monsieur Cabet, acquired pos- pected ways of attempting to remake the Book of Mormon from President session of their property and at- Grant. the world, He seemingly did not tempted an experiment in communal follow but concerned Himself in- living. Under the most desirable stead with teaching men and women circumstances, in a community made how to live. With profound insight, Here is a practical political Gospel to order, and financed, it is said, by recognized what the world yet arises before a chaotic world He a vast sum of money, a few short that must learn that there can never be today points — years saw their system's collapse. neighborhood of and an ideal society until there is an of tomor- In the meantime, the Mormon peo- forward to a brotherhood ideal people. ple, faced with well-nigh insuperable row. In an age when the message of obstacles, had conquered a desert, had been discarded and gross Jesus laid the foundations for greater iM"ot only has Mormonism demon- darkness covered the earth, a new cities than Nauvoo, and had begun strated its power to found suc- dispensation opened, and, once was the building of a great common- cessful communities and to erase so- again the plan was restored in all of wealth in the midst of the Rockies. cial and racial barriers from among its fulness and glory. "Mormonism" It is unlikely that history provides men; it has also revealed an excep- so-called is that message in the — — a more vivid comparison between a tional ability to produce outstanding world today, and no better indication man-made society, motivated by hu- men and women. Horace Have- have of its vitality and power do we man aspirations, and a society in- myer, head of the United States it has produced. than the fruits spired by the Gospel of Jesus sugar industry, came to Utah a few It long has been the marvel of the 1 Christ. years ago to find a Latter-day Saint world, how the Latter-day Saints In 1926, President Franklin S. man to fill a certain responsible posi- have been able to take people of Harris of Brigham Young Uni- tion. When asked why he selected every nationality, creed, and condi- versity visited Japan as an American a western man to assume an eastern tion of life and mould them into a delegate to a scientific congress, job, he replied, "There is something cooperative, unified society. With when several of the members of the about those Mormon boys that converts from Scandinavia, Britain, Church there, learning of his pres- makes them especially adaptable to France, Germany, North and South ence, sought opportunity to meet and positions of trust and responsibility." America, Joseph Smith, in the eight- converse with him. At his invitation Despite the humble beginnings of een thirties, transformed a swamp a small group boarded a train with the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- in western Illinois into the city of him one evening, and, as the train ter-day Saints, scarcely more than Nauvoo, the largest, most thriving rumbled into the night, ten Japanese a century ago, it is a significant fact metropolis in the state. When, after and one American discussed until that "Who's Who" today credits it the death of the Prophet, the Mor- the morning hours the glorious pro- with a larger number of prominent mon people were forced by jealously gress of the restored Church of men and women than any community angry neighbors to leave their beau- Christ. The fact that they repre- of like size in America. Though this tiful city, their farms, and their sented different nationalities and may seem remarkable, actually it is homes, to seek refuge somewhere traditions mattered not at all. They no more nor less so than the Church in the West, it is an interesting fact were brothers in a common cause. itself, for its philosophy permeates of history that a band of French the home, influences the rearing of communists, called Icarians, led by 'B. H. Roberts, The Life o[ John Taylor, pp. 225. (Continued on page 635) 588 s )

Justice?

A NOTHER STORY OF THE OVERLAND STAGE and Orrin Porter Rockwell

I,N the early days of the West there were few men who did not fear the Indians. Jim Bridger and Porter Rockwell were two such men. They had learned to give the red men the benefit of the doubt. It took the owners of the Over- land Stage a long time to realize the value of "Port," as he was best known. They finally placed him in charge of affairs west from Salt

Lake. PRESENTLY THEY SAW IT COMING, At Fish Springs there was a home LEAVING A STREAK OF DUST BE- HIND IT. WHEN IT ARRIVED station. A short distance away was By JAMES P. SHARP THERE WAS A WOMAN DRIVING. an Indian camp. One of the drivers known only as "Windy Bill" drove She did—she talked freely of the rubbed his chin, turned the team the east run. He seemed to have wonderful ride until Windy paid around. He drove to the old aban- persistently forced his attentions on more attention to her than to the doned station at Dugway, backed a young Indian woman, Phoebe, horses, when she pulled a revolver the buckboard up to the dry well, whose husband, "Dawy-Wunce," from inside her dress and com- and let Windy's mortal remains find invariably carrying a heavy bow manded him to stop the horses while a deep grave more than one hundred and a number of short, thick arrows, she got inside the coach, where she feet below. had many times escorted him out of soon fell asleep. When she awoke He resumed his journey. The sun the camp on a mighty fast walk. the horses had stopped. She called was unmercifully hot. At Black Port heard of those visits and warned the driver and, getting no answer, Rock point he saw something out in Windy to expect trouble unless he got out, gathered up the reins, and the desert. Heat waves cause kept away from that camp. here she was. strange sights. Sometimes this ob- The eastbound stage pulled into "Your gun. Let me see it." ject looked like a long, shimmering Fish Springs one summer evening. He examined it. One empty cham- pole; at others it resembled a squatty A lone passenger, a woman, got out, ber. Taking his handkerchief, and tea kettle. Port was used to these ate her supper and climbed up in the a small stick from the wood box he strange sights and marked the spot boot with Windy. Most of the wiped the barrel out. Yes, just as as he drove on with nothing in sight men knew her by reputation, for she he thought. Fresh powder stains. but desert and heat waves. did considerable traveling along the He gave it back. Plenty of time to He stopped the team and shouted, line. Reports had it that she was pick her up later. "Davvy-Wunce. Dawy-Wunce." capable of taking care of herself un- The stage continued east with a No answer. der any, and all, conditions. relief driver, while Port, after filling Again, "Davvy-Wunce, it's me, At Simpson Springs the men his two canteens with water, headed Port Rockwell." waited. The stage was over one west. He made good time until he As if from nowhere, an Indian ap- hour late and not in sight. Some- came to the place where she said she peared. He walked over to the road. thing must have happened, for had driven from. From there on he Port handed him a canteen of water, Windy often boasted that the only drove cautiously, scanning every for well he knew not one drop of time he would be late was for his inch of the ground. Halfway up water had passed those parched lips own funeral. Presently they saw it Dugway Mountain he found the ob- during the last thirty hours. One coming, leaving a streak of dust be- ject of his search. He got down, swallow, and only one, the Indian hind it. examined the body, scratched his took, after which he climbed in the When it arrived there was a chin, ran his fingers through his long seat beside Port. That heavy bow woman driving. She threw the lines hair, then turned the body over. Not and his short, thick arrows he held to one of the hostlers and said, "Get a drop of blood anywhere. When tightly all the time. Not another those crow baits off and get some he had searched the body, he stood word was spoken until they arrived real horses hitched up. We're late." up, looked to one side of the road, at the Indian camp, when Port said, She climbed down and entered the and walked to a large rock some "Phoebe is making a pair of gloves cabin for breakfast. Many ques- thirty feet away. for me. Bring em down right away." tions those men asked. She an- Satisfied with what he saw, he swered none. As she sat down, Port returned. He removed Windy' W,hen the men at the sat beside her. He told the cook to guns and personal belongings and station saw Windy's guns they be- help hitch his team up, and when began the task of loading what re- gan asking all kinds of questions, they were alone he said, "My name mained of Windy in a buckboard, a But apparently Port was deaf, dumb, is in charge of law Porter Rockwell, hard job, even for a big man, which and blind. Finally one said, "I just along this line. your and order Do Port was not. He drove up the road knew that woman would settle ac- talking." a short distance, stopped, thought, ( Concluded on page 633 589 Cycle have all heard that history Werepeats itself. And looking back over history we see that through each cycle a few more problems have been solved and the heritage handed down from one age to the next a little better than the one the fathers received. In gen- By C. PEACOCK eral it was the great men of each time who made those improvements pos- University Ward, Seattle Stake sible. That's just where we come in: Remember how Moses took the people out of Egypt? Other than is in heaven." This was a prophecy that they were to be the forefathers to our fathers, the Pioneers, so that of a great people, there was little it might give them courage to begin to distinguish them individually from the task. Ours is the even greater other ignorant slaves. But they responsibility of fulfilling that were given a moral code known as promise. the Ten Commandments. They wrested themselves a home in a new HPo my mind, fulfilling that promise land and prepared the way for is a task in which we should Christ. He brought with Him the spend every minute of our waking way of life: the standards by which time. Think this over carefully: we man could, if he would abide by are to be the leaders of men. We them, live the happiest and most are to set such an example that fruitful life. He organized his throughout all the world the people Church and put it in the hands of who are watching our every action leaders of men to be perpetuated. will be able to find no fault, will Those "pioneers" did their part. marvel, and will strive to follow our They withstood every physical example. abuse men of that time could devise. People are watching us. Books They withstood all this and gave about Mormons are becoming very to their followers (let us call them popular. Newsreels are made. their children ) the greatest heritage Stories are told in picture magazines, man had ever had up until that time. literary magazines. Eyes are being But their children abused that her- turned toward us, friendly but crit- itage; their standards became ical eyes, and we must set the ex- warped, and they lost those ideals amples and provide the leadership. so that the Church was taken from secution, and a true heritage was es- This example-setting is a very the earth. How did they lose those tablished. And today, as when the real thing. It means for you, the ideals? Through a worship of the Visigoths sacked Rome, brute force house-builder, for instance, that you material things of life, by making and power without moral Christian must build a little more sturdily, a compromises of their standards with ideals are threatening the world. little more beautifully, must put a the standards of their associates. Then, the Christians forgot little more care and pains into your Here baptism is a good example. that their heritage was not only work than your neighbors do. "It didn't matter so much," they something to be proud of but that it It means for you, the mother, not said. Besides, it was the easier also carried with it a great responsi- only that you should instil high road. Then, when the "powers of bility. A responsibility which, in moral values in your children, but al- force without ethics" came upon my opinion, was one for setting ex- so that you should see to it that they them, they sank into the centuries amples and providing leadership are balanced in all other ways, that of the Dark Ages. rather than meeting sword with they excel mentally in their school Since history repeats itself, let us sword. Then, they who had re- lessons and that they excel phys- follow through another cycle. The ceived this heritage failed and the ically in their school sports. They Pilgrim Fathers were oppressed, Dark Ages resulted. Today we have the best heritage; the raw ma- subject to a form of slavery, mental have reached the point where the terials are in your hands. and religious slavery. They crossed people failed before. Now the We must be engaged today in their "Red Sea," but this time it Lord has prophesied to our Pioneer building a generation of leaders, was the Atlantic. Again they parents that this time the Church leaders and example-setters, so that wrested a home in a new land, had should not fail and be taken from the world may know that we truly a religious philosophy. Again the the earth. He has told them that have the best way of life. We must way was prepared for the Lord's we would be strong enough to over- not speak of this task boastfully, but Church, this time through Joseph come personal temptations and be- rather spend our time putting into practice the plan Smith. Again it was handed to able come leaders of men, that we would which has already leaders, who were the Pioneers we become examples to the world so been outlined for us. know. Again were the people that others "might see our good Economically: We have, poten- of this Church subject to great per- works and glorify their Father which (Conctuded on page 636) 590 YOU CAN SAY By NETTIE ALLEN THOMAS NO From "The Allied Youth" IN CAMP, TOO

Tn the army, as in industry, the man at the top is con- *- stantly looking for young men who are worthy of promotion. This means a constant training of new material in higher duties. Any man that demonstrates unusual ability, stamina, or character is at once "spotted" and often given a tryout to determine whether he is worth training. and it is not among the "boozers" that this promising material is sought or found. Col. GEORGE A. SKINNER, M.D. Medical Corps, U. S. Army, Ret. (In Signs of the Times.)

own, but you're expected to be in full HThere are other young men in the step with your company next morning, A service who have clear-cut ideas hangover or not . . . and the day's about the effects of alcohol. work is apt to be downright torture to "Our second lieutenant was a high the fellow who has had too much the school football coach," the young man night before." told me, "and he says that if a drinking He mentioned some of the young men fellow isn't fit to play on a football he knew who, after one or two experi- team against the team from the next about drinkingg in ments, found saying no to their asso- town, ne's even less desirable as a camp?" I asked Ric:nard ciates less difficult than "taking it" soldier. He can't kick the drinking men on his third week end at home. . . . from a top sergeant when the dulled out of the company, the way he could senses drop them from the training squad, "There's lots of it," he said, "not ac- of a hangover refused to function but he can and does use his influence tually in camp, except for beer, but in smoothly and quickly. toward breaking drinking habits." F , which is wide open." Richard says that one of the most training serious drinking problems in his camp The seriousness of for Amer- "Are most of the boys drinking . . . is caused the sale the ican defense is not lost on the boys more or less?" I wanted to know. by of beer in cantonments. from all walks of life who have been Richard said he thought not, at least called into service, this one young sol- "The sort of beer they sell, with low in the part of the great camp that had dier believes. News over the radio alcohol content," he went on to explain, been his home since February. of military events abroad, as the young "is supposed to be non-intoxicating, "You see," he explained, in the slow, defenders of this country get it day and I suppose when a fellow drinks tolerant way that had won popularity in after day, is tending to produce a grim- one bottle, along with a couple of sub- high school for the boy and his high ness that leaves alcoholic beverages stantial sandwiches and maybe a slice personal standards, "they don't give a among other "foresworn for the dura- of pie, there isn't enough alcohol to fellow much opportunity to make tion" products. have any effect. But there are ways choices in the army. When the bugle The arguments that alcoholic bever- of mixing different brands that give sounds in the morning, it's no use say- ages makes possible a certain amount them real kick . . . and then, the ca- ing you don't want to get up. You get of "letting down," or forgetting one's pacity of some of the men for drinking up. And when the order is to drill, you troubles, of catching a moment of false bottle after bottle seems unlimited." may not like marching in the hot sun, happiness, of feeling like a million, are but you wouldn't try saying "no" more Young men in camp, says one of apt to get increasingly cold reception them, are like than once. In the mess hall, it's the very much young men from young men who are taking their a big same thing. You take what is served. on university campus where there defense duties seriously, and who are is not the close supervision to which But when it comes to drinking . . . beginning to realize to what extent the well, you can do what you want to most high school students are accus- future of their country depends on their about that." tomed. physical fitness and mental alertness. Not all the young men in the camps "The freedom of being on your own, "Yes," said a tall young soldier on his that are scattered throughout the away from the home and family, reacts last evening at home before returning to country will say no to drinking, as on lots of boys the way it often does another period of intensive training in Richard does, but nearly all will agree on college freshmen," Richard says. one of the more exacting branches of that it's great to be able to make a He has had opportunity to judge, for military service, "you can say no to personal choice in a society that must he had just completed his university alcohol in the army . . . and plenty of necessarily be almost wholly regi- course when his number in the draft us are saying it every day. There are mented. was called. lots who drink in the camps . . . just Life without liquor has more advan- "There are the same smart-alecks as there are citizens who combine busi- tages than the simple novelty of inde- who have to try everything once . . . ness with drinking . . . and parents who pendent choice, points out this typical and some who have to do whatever the think abstinence isn't necessary . . . but one-of-a-million-boys from Uncle Sam's crowd does . . . and a good many there's no more pressure on a young defense army. who have brought drinking habits along fellow to drink at camp than there "You're free to drink as much as you with them, and can't perhaps be ex- would be on some university campuses. can afford or carry," Richard said, pected to get rid of these without You can always find plenty who "while you're out of camp and on your drastic measures on somebody's part." agree with you in leaving liquor alone." 591 THOU SHALT HAVE LONG LIFE

During his long life of nearly "At this time we were just com- eighty-eight years, President By LE ROI C. SNOW mencing the descent of a mountain Lorenzo Snow narrowly es- some miles in length; it was quite dark, caped death many times. From the the road rough and rocky, and it may be readily imagined that our prospects circumstances surrounding many were not the most inviting. Our coach dramatic narrow escapes it would swayed fearfully—the wheels ever and seem that an evil power was trying anon striking fire as they whirled over to thwart the Patriarch's promises the rocks, with a double span of horses made to Lorenzo Snow when he was upon a keen run, tossing us up and but twenty-two years old: "Thou down, giving us a few hard strokes of hast a great work to perform in thy the head against the top of the coach. day and generation. Thou shalt "At length Elder Benson, in a trem- become a mighty man in the earth. ulous yet powerful voice, demanded of the driver to moderate his speed, which Thou shalt have long life. No was responded to by an increased and power shall be able to take thy life." more furious lashing of the foaming, Surely these were miraculous pre- panting steeds; thus, and more, with a dictions to a youth but a few made drunken coachman (as we afterwards months after his baptism. In the learned ) , we tore along down the light of subsequent events of his life mountain, every moment in jeopardy they could have been given only of being dashed to pieces. At last through divine inspiration. reaching a station, we were happily LORENZO SNOW AS HE APPEARED this article are related, relieved from the perilous adventure, In brief IN EARLIER YEARS mostly in his own words, two of On our return we learned that the Lorenzo Snow's experiences—a peri- inebriate had been discharged. a story of two dramatic in- "But one peril over, another comes. lous stagecoach trip with a drunken cidents in which a prom- The most exciting and dangerous por- driver through the Sierra Nevada ise was fulfilled in the tion of our overland route is yet before Mountains and his near drowning preservation of the life of us, which we encountered in passing in the Pacific Ocean. Lorenzo Snow. over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Many portions of the road were cov- Tn 1857 [with the coming of Johns- ered with snow and ice, and ran a long ton's Army to quell the "Utah Re- way close beside fearful ravines, hun- bellion"] missionaries were called dreds of feet in depth. One sitting in home and the Sandwich Islands mis- tleman, and we soon discovered that the coach, by inclining the head a little he possessed a wonderful tal- side, the sion [now the Hawaiian] was left musical to one could gaze down into ent, in the exercise of which he elicited vast depths below, conscious that the in charge of a native Elder. During our surprise and admiration. It really wheels of the vehicle were often within this time, Walter M. Gibson pro- seemed to me that a sweeter, a more a few inches of the terrible gulf; con- fessed to accept the Gospel, was pathetic or melodious voice I had never sequently, the slipping of the wheels, to the Hawaiian baptized, and went heard. It is quite possible that the the least blunder of a horse, or a strap Islands, where he reorganized the stillness of the night and the wild or buckle giving way, or the least care- Church according to his own scenery of nature around us had a ten- lessness of the driver, would plunge the scheme; he ordained Apostles, for dency to enhance the effect and increase whole outfit over the rocky crags into a stipulated price, and other officers our appreciation of melodious accents; the abyss below. The danger was in- for lesser amounts. When Presi- whatever it might be, I was charmed, creased by the ice and snow, and the delighted, felt I in road. dent Brigham Young learned of this, and that could embrace sudden, abrupt turns the When that man and call him brother. we approached very slippery places, it was decided that Apostles Ezra "Wnether the causes of these varia- where the road frequently was barely T. Benson and Lorenzo Snow should tions exist originally in their organiza- of a sufficient width for the coach to visit the Islands, and that Elders tions, or are the result of a life of train- pass between the high, sharp rocks on Smith, Joseph F. Smith, Alma and ing, may be a subject for philosophical one side and the frightful chasm on William W. Guff should accom- discussion, but facts definitely prove the other, the driver in guarding against pany them. that some people are made up of op- catastrophies, would put his two spans Lorenzo Snow's journal picks up posite elements, the proof of which one on their utmost speed. the narrative: may visibly notice by waiting and ob- "Hour after hour, as we thus moved serving, as in the case now instanced. on, particular points in the road were "We took stage at Salt Lake City "A sudden lurch of the coach, which pointed out to us, where coaches had March 2, 1864, for San Francisco. was occasioned by a miss-step or awk- whirled down precipices and every Some interesting incidents occurred ward movement of the horses, wrought occupant had been killed. These nerve- during our overland trip to California, a sudden, marvelous change in our stirring recitals caused us more seri- that seemed to us at the time rather entertainer, and instantaneously closed ously to realize the gravity of our situ- interesting or, at least, a little exciting. . our animated entertainment, while a ation and our dependence on God for "At [one] time, having stopped to volley of oaths and the most horrid the preservation of our lives; and we exchange horses just as night was set- blasphemies succeeded. As he poured truly felt grateful for our deliverance. ting in, one of our company remarked forth his disgusting and heart-sickening and, breathing more freely, felt our that our new driver had quite the air profanity, he most furiously lashed the pulses restored to their normal state as and appearance of an intelligent gen- innocent horses. we dismounted from the coach at the 592 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 western base of the Sierra Nevada drowning, for while on my former mis- this, the crew of our boat consented to Mountains. sion I had learned to swim and sport remain and assist us. "On our arrival in San Francisco in the surf of those shores. "The captain was taken ashore, and we were kindly entertained by Elder "The last I remember of Brother by working over him for some time, Eveleth, whose hospitable house was Snow, as the boat was going over, I was brought to life. Probably his life our home during our short stay, while saw him seize the upper edge of it with would not have been much endangered making arrangements for our passage both hands. Fearing that the upper but for a sack of four or five hundred by steamer for the point of our destina- edge of the boat, or the barrels, might silver dollars which he held in his hand, tion. Brother Eveleth's kindness and hit and injure me as the boat was going the weight of which took him at once hospitality to the latter-day mission- over, I plunged head foremost into the to the bottom. The natives dived and aries traveling to and from Salt Lake water. After swimming a short dis- brought him up, still clinging to the is proverbial; and although called to a tance, I came to the surface without sack. When his vitality was restored, higher and broader sphere, he lives in being strangled or injured. the first thing he enquired about was the grateful, affectionate remembrances "The boat was bottom upwards, and the money, intimating to the natives, of those who knew him." barrels, hats, and umbrellas were float- with peculiar emphasis, that it would ing in every direction. I swam to the not have been healthy for them to The following is from the nar- boat, and as there was nothing to cling have lost it. rative of Elder W. W. Cluff: to on the bottom, I reached under and "Brother Snow had not yet been dis- seized the edge of it. covered and the anxiety was intense. "We arrived in Honolulu, the capital "About the same time Brother Ben- The natives, evidently, doing all in their of the islands, about the 27th of March, son came up near me and readily got power. Finally, one of them, in edging 1864. On the 29th we sailed for hold of the 'boat. Brother Alma L. himself around the capsized boat, must Lahaina, on the schooner Nettie Mer- Smith came up on the opposite side of have felt Brother Snow with his feet rill, Captain Fisher, for the island of the boat from Brother Benson and and pulled him, at least partially Maui, a distance of about ninety miles myself. He was considerably strangled, from under it, and the first I saw of from Honolulu. On the morning of the but succeeded in securing a hold on Brother Snow was his hair floating up- 31st of March, we came to anchor the boat. on the water around one end of the about one mile from the mouth of the "A short time afterwards the cap- capsized boat. As soon as we got him little harbor of Lahaina. tain was discovered, about fifty yards into our boat, we told the boatmen to "Apostles Ezra T. Benson and from us. Two sailors, one on each side, pull for the shore with all possible Lorenzo Snow and Brother Alma L. succeeded in keeping him on the sur- speed. His body was stiff, and life ap- Smith and myself got into the small face, although life was apparently ex- parently extinct. boat to go on shore. Brother Joseph tinct. "Brother A. L. Smith and I were sit- F. Smith, as he afterwards stated, had "Nothing yet had been seen of ting side by side. We laid Brother some misgivings about going in that Brother Snow, although the natives had Snow across our laps and, on the way boat, but the manifestation was not been swimming and diving in every to shore, we quietly administered to sufficiently strong to indicate any gen- direction in search for him. The peo- him and asked the Lord to spare his life, eral accident. He preferred to remain ple, as soon as they discovered our that he might return to his family and on board the vessel until the boat re- circumstances, manned a life boat and home. turned. The boat started for the shore. hurried to the rescue. We were taken "On reaching the shore, we carried It contained some barrels and boxes, into the boat, when the crew wanted him a little way to some large empty the captain, a white man, two or three to row for the shore, and pick up the barrels that were lying on the sandy native passengers, and the boat's crew, captain by the way. We told them beach. We laid him face downwards who were also natives. The entrance that one of our friends was yet missing, on one of them and rolled him back to the harbor is a very narrow passage and we did not want to leave. We dis- and forth until we succeeded in getting between coral reefs, and when the sea covered that a second boat had left the the water he had swallowed out of him. is rough, it is very dangerous, on ac- shore and could reach the captain as "During this time a number of per- count of the breakers. Where the ves- soon as the one we were in. Seeing sons came down from the town. Among sel lay, the sea was not rough, but only them was Mr. E. P. Adams, a merchant. presented the appearance of heavy All were willing to do what they could. swells rolling to the shore. .i?^-^ We washed Brother Snow's face with "As we approached the reef it was camphor, furnished by Mr. Adams. We evident to me that the surf was running did not only what was customary in higher than we anticipated. I called such cases, but also what the Spirit the captain's attention to the fact. We seemed to whisper to us. were running quartering across the "After working over him for some waves, and I suggested that we change time, without any indications of return- our course so as to run at right angles ing life, the bystanders said that nothing with them. He replied that he did not more could be done for him. But we think there was any danger, and our did not feel like giving him up, and course was not changed. We went still prayed and worked over him, with but a little farther when a heavy swell an assurance that the Lord would hear struck the boat and carried us before and answer our prayers. it about fifty yards. When the swell "hi "Finally we were impressed to place passed it left us in a trough between our mouth over his and make an effort two huge waves. It was too late to to inflate his lungs, alternately blowing retrieve our error, and we must run in and drawing out the air, imitating, our chances. When the second swell as far as possible, the natural process struck the boat, it raised the stern so of breathing. We persevered in this high that the steersman's oar was out until we succeeded in inflating his lungs. of the water, and he lost control of After a little, we perceived very faint

the boat. It rode on the swell a short indications of returning life. . . . distance and swung around just as the "When this result was reached, it wave began to break up. We were must have been fully one hour after almost instantly capsized into the dash- the upsetting of the boat. A Portu- ing, foaming sea. guese man, living in Lahaina, who, from "I felt no concern for myself about DOWN THE SIERRA NEVADAS IN 1865 (Concluded on page 630) 593 ofc $ojcL; an*L ihsL flbimamswL

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THE STORY OF THE TELESCOPE

Holland. Lippershey wanted a By patent, but other would-be inven- tors appeared and said they had WINIFRED known about the telescope all along. The authorities compromised by giv- HEATH ing Lippershey a good income for life with the strict understanding that the telescope idea was to be kept PALOMAR OBSERVATORY, HOUSING FOR THE WORLD'S LARGEST TELESCOPE in Holland. Even when the King down. The boy was much too busy of France wanted a telescope, he to hear the door open or see his had to do much persuasive talking master. and pay a very high price to the waste my valuable time, Ever since the dawn days of "So you Dutch Parliament. man's life on the earth he has as usual." The Dutch government had an- too excited to be scanned the heavens above him But the lad was other very good idea—it wanted the and wondered, awed by their scared. same kind of instrument for both a miracle has beauty, scarcely dreaming of their "Master, Master, eyes, and so the world got the con- please look immeasurable distances and depth. happened. Please, venient binoculars. glasses!" David, dreaming on the hills of Pal- through these two News of the telescope, however, Lippershey looked and was estine, put into wonderful words the Jan could not be kept in Holland, and just as startled as his young appren- ' things that all humble students of soon they were being made in the skies have felt. The story of tice. France and in Britain, where they "Master, why is everything up- the telescope is the record of man's were known by the quaint name of unceasing longing to learn more of side down?" "Dutch Trunks." out of that awkward mo- God's great handiwork in the hea- Jan got The world's first known picture ment by bidding the lad get back vens—the sun, the moon, the brightly of a man using a telescope appeared But set to work to shining stars. And as with most of to work. Jan in 1609, and the owner was Simon he finally succeeded man's greatest inventions, the tele- find out, and Marius. There were people in those world's first telescope had a very humble beginning. in producing the days who regarded the telescope as scope. Back in the thirteenth century a a sinful thing since it seemed to show submitted his paper tube with gentleman of the fine city of Florence He a lack of gratitude to God for our the lenses to the States Gen- in Italy invented spectacles. They two own good eyes. Perhaps that is why approved of it highly, for were mentioned in an old manuscript, eral, who the artist who painted the picture of they felt it would help them to keep as follows: "Those glasses they Simon Marius gave him a rather an eye on the armies of Spain who call spectacles, lately invented, to sinister, sour expression. were trying hard to enslave brave (Continued on page 634) the great advantage of poor old men when their sight grows weak." It was these spectacles which made the telescope possible. About a century after the invention of glasses a certain young apprentice who worked in the optical shop of the good Dutchman, Jan Lippershey, REVOLVING DOME, happened to pick up two lenses in- PALOMAR OBSERV- for "poor old gentleman ATORY. 1,700,- tended some 000 LBS. OF STEEL with weak eyes." For some reason WERE USED IN THIS SECTION. he put one on top of the other, a convex, and the Photos used bg concave lens over a courtesy T. V. result was so amazing that he nearly Watterson, Jr. dropped them. He could actually see the town church with its steeple, weather-vane, and cock, but they had all moved close to him, and stranger still, they were all upside 594 SaqjDL x>£, ihsL HANDCART PIONEERS

An Epitome in Bronze by Torleif S. Knaphus

By JOHN SHERMAN WALKER

handcart companies that The the braved the dangers of Mor- A STUDY OF TORLEIF KNAPHUS IN HIS STUDIO mon Trail from 1856 to 1860 heroism. The ranks of those are acknowledged to be among the parties, comprised mostly of converts from most courageous emigrants of all England and Scandinavia, piti- waiting on the fron- time. Without even the protection were lands and those fully thinned by the storms of tier desired the journey that the covered-wagon trains had, an who to make early western winter and the effects lacked funds to the hardy men, women, and children to Utah and who the of starvation when their meager sup- outfit wagons, to adopt the handcart of these later expeditions pushed and plies ran out. Edward Martin's of travel. pulled their handcarts, containing all mode company, following the Willie first handcart companies to of their earthly possessions, through The party, suffered particularly, huddled cross the plains were led by Edmund rivers, over sage flats and moun- in the scant protection of a ravine on Ellsworth and Daniel McArthur re- tainous trails the full thirteen hun- the bleak western plains, five hun- spectively. third of Welsh dred miles from Iowa City to Utah. A group dred miles from their destination in Saints, under of Edward The suffering and hardships they command the Salt Lake Valley. Bunker, followed shortly after, in experienced at times on the trail seem Many of them perished before of 1856. Most of them, too, scarcely credible to those who today June supplies could be rushed to them; destination safely, enjoy the luxury of modern travel reached their despair and grief had bowed down happy to be in their new land of facilities. The disasters which over- those who were still able to continue Zion, praising their that they took certain of their expeditions God the trip; yet, the complaints were enabled at last to worship gives the reader pause, to marvel at had been comparatively few. There was a wished. the devotion and determination of as they large purpose behind their journey fitting this epic of the these Latter-day Saints who braved It is that to the west the promise of freedom handcart pioneers should the wilderness with nothing more — Mormon and protection that only the far, inspired sculptor-artist Torleif than their bare hands and the have looming Rocky Mountains could af- convert and staunch strength of their muscles and the S. Knaphus, a ford them. Saint, to perpetuate this hope in their hearts to carry them on Latter-day It was necessary for a great many theme in the enduring medium of to their Valley of Promise. of the Mormon Saints from foreign bronze, for many of those who trav- The Willie and Martin companies elled thus were Latter-day Saint con- are notable examples of this humble THE "HANDCART PIONEERS," BY TORLEIF KNAPHUS verts, drawn from the same courageous, hardy Norwegian stock as he. The Scandinavian sagas of old were told no more forcefully than is the history of the handcart pioneers as epitomized in the Knaphus handcart statue which for so many years has been one of the featured attractions in the Bureau of Informa- tion on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Now in the course of completion in the Knaphus studios on Richards Street, just off Salt Lake City's busy Main Street, is an enlarged replica of the famous statue, which represents perhaps the finest conception ever achieved of the Mormon handcart pioneers, in its heroic size attaining {Continued on page 636) 595 \\ THE MOTHER OF GRASS VALLEY //

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PRIZE WINNING STORY IN THE M. I. A. SCOUT THEME PROJECT CONTEST

By REED BROWN It in was this field that Christian Age 14 was injured by a knife-edged flint on which he stepped. Infection set Scout of Troop 6-19, in, and the boy died a few days later Koosharem, Utah —only six months after the death of his father. This trouble-stricken family was Koosharem, Utah very much consoled when the Lat- December 16, 1940 ter-day Saint missionaries came to Mr. Paul P. Ashworth, NE HUNDRED SEVEN- visit them. Crasten became more Richfield, Utah. Q Sir: TEEN years ago in the city of Copen- and more disturbed as his mother Dear hagen, a baby girl was born into grew intent on the idea of going to T was selected by the Boy Scouts of * troop 6-19 to write an original the Peter Holestie family. Karen America. He felt even more dread- story of some near relative. I pre- was selected as her name by the ful the missionaries when converted ferred writing a brief sketch of the family and she was christened her to the Mormon religion, and she life of my great-grandmother, Karen Karen Holestie. Her childhood was began making plans for a journey Nelson. I have on the following spent in poor living conditions, but to "the new world." When Karen pages attempted to write the life history of a noble and ideal woman, she was nevertheless happy. She convince that could not him he "The Mother of Grass Valley." seemed blessed even then with the with them, she forced should go was Sincerely, good-natured optimism that fol- to go without him. She boarded Reed Brown. life. lowed her throughout the ship Stavanger, waved goodbye Age 14. Karen was married while still to her friends, and sailed away. young and the first years of married Although when Karen and her life with Christian Christensen four children walked aboard the passed quickly. During that time ship she was a stranger to everyone, though she had to carry John on her six children were born: Crasten, before long nearly everyone knew back, Karen was always the leader the oldest, then Peter, Christian, her because of her undying faith and of the company. Stena, Mary, and John. good will. A very old man was their only This young family lived content- The days passed quickly and well. companion, and together they walked edly together on their small farm, One morning, however, the luck day after day. How the people of each doing his part to help earn a changed. The doctor announced a Chicago laughed when they saw this livelihood. It seemed that such hap- case of typhoid fever caused by the strange sight. The old man carried piness could not last because soon stagnant water that was being car- a sack of fat pork on his back which a disaster came which caused a ried for drinking. Everyone re- the hot sun had melted, and his change in the life of the entire family. mained isolated, but the dread clothes were completely saturated Christian, the father, gave the un- disease reached little Mary, Two with grease. usual complaint that he was not feel- days later she died. It is almost unbelievable, the ening very well. Karen willingly went The grief-stricken family and durance they possessed and the to do the chores for the night. To passengers gathered together for a hardships they overcame. It would her horror and dismay, her husband short funeral service, then they be impossible to write the many was dead when she returned from placed the little girl in a cloth-lined trying experiences they had on that the corral. box and lowered it into the water. long trip across the plains. The next few months were spent In 1866, Karen and her children in terrible bereavement. The com- arrived in Utah. They had been plete responsibility of making a liv- W'henH the Christensens on the way for two years. She set- ing was left to Karen and the chil- left their home in Copenhagen, their tled in Manti. Life was very hard dren, but she did not give up. The destination was Utah, and Karen for them all. A few months after next spring found her with her fam- was not intending to give up until arriving in Manti, she married Nels ily in the fields plowing and tilling they got there. So right away they Nelson, Soon after Mr. Nelson took the soil for the summers crops. set out westward on foot. Even ill and became bed-ridden. Later he 596 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 died, leaving Karen once more to face life alone with her family. VISIT TO MT. PISGAH In 1874, Church authorities called on Karen to settle in Grass Valley. J. She went willingly even though it By LEO MUIR was a wild, unsettled land, inhabited President of the Northern States Mission by about four hundred Indians. The party who headed for Grass Pisgah cemetery memorial- Because of severe winters, inadequate Valley consisted of Karen, her only MT.izes one of the most tragic chap- shelter, and scant food supply, many unmarried child, John, who was now ters in early Mormon history. Saints in this colony died of exposure fifteen years old, and three other The Mt. Pisgah settlement was estab- and privation during the winters of '46, '47, '48. lie buried be- families. They soon made a peace- lished by Parley P. Pratt in the early and They neath the quiet turf of Mt. Pisgah. ful settlement which they called months of 1846. Here several thou- It is gratifying to note that this heroic "Koosharem" after the Indian sand acres of land were fenced for cul- tivation a project similar to that of experience in Church history has been clover that grew abundantly on the — Garden Grove, which lay approxi- properly memorialized. By the side of hillsides. — mately twenty-seven miles eastward. the road—just a weed-bordered lane- All the settlers were happy when Like Garden Grove, Mt. Pisgah served stands a huge, rough stone perhaps the first crops matured successfully. two purposes: a resting place for the forty-five inches high and securely set Then one morning the people awoke exiled emigrants and a source of pro- in the ground. Cemented into the face this stone is bronze plaque which and found the Indians' horses graz- vision for the companies moving west- of a bears the following inscription : • ing peacefully in their grain patch. ward. Monday, July 7, following a quar- The young men of the settlement 1846 terly conference in West Iowa District, corralled the horses and waited for MT. PISGAH the Indians to come to claim them. SITE OF THE The greeting they got from the In- FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT dian tribe was far from being IN UNION COUNTY friendly. They stood with scowling ERECTED BY THE faces and folded arms while the NANCY McKAY HARSH settlers, old and young, filed out of CHAPTER the doorways to hear the message AND THE IOWA from Chief White Horse. Each SOCIETY warrior clenched a tomahawk, and D. A. R. it was evident that they had planned 1928 a massacre of the white settlers. The other women pleaded with Mt. Pisgah consists of a single acre Karen to come and be killed with of ground—a perfect square—facing the rest of them so that she would east and sloping gradually toward the not be left alone to be tortured to west. This acre plot is securely fenced is soft native death by the tribe of ruthless killers. and covered by a carpet of grass, customarily mowed once each But all their pleadings were in vain. year. Six trees, most of them hickory, Karen declared she didn't have time stand in irregular order near the east to be frightened by the Indians, and border of the tract. A stately monu- so stayed home and knitted a pair ment, erected in 1888, marks the exact of socks for John. center of this plot. This monument with the In- MT. PISGAH MONUMENT, WITH WALTER F. stands upon the mid-point of a pedestal After an argument WHITEHEAD (STANDING, LEFT), PRESIDENT dians, they grew even angrier at LEO J. MUIR (STANDING, RIGHT), AND of solid cement and the four faces of the (SEATED, LEFT TO RIGHT), ELDERS JAMES P. column carry the names of those buried the white settlers, and with a loud HAWKES, FREDERICK K. BALLI, AND LYNN C. addition to the following in- war-cry they began their destructive NELSON. THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN BY ELDER there, in GERALD E. ALLEY. scription: mission. One of the elder men, Massiah Bahannan, was being ap- it was my privilege to make a second This monument—erected A. D. 1888 proached by a warrior when he visit to this sacred spot. Walter F. in memory of those members of the dropped to his knees and began Whitehead, formerly of Provo, Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who died in 1846-1847, and 1848 praying. The Indians were very and now of Iowa, took a party of mis- during their exodus to seek a home sionaries by automobile from Des superstitious, and when they saw beyond the Rocky Mountains. Moines to Mt. Pisgah. In addition to this, they thought he was calling to Brother Whitehead and myself there their God "Shenab." They became Vandals or souvenir seekers have were in the party District President very frightened and immediately dis- chiseled from the face of the stone a Balli P. Frederick K. and Elders James fragment two inches by six inches in persed, leaving the settlers wide- Alley, Hawkes, Gerald E. and Lynn C. size which takes the capital "H" off eyed with amazement. Nelson. Mt. Pisgah is approximately the name of William Huntington. The forty miles south ( slightly west ) of Des Karen died in Grass Valley when monument is not otherwise damaged or she was eighty-three years old and Moines. It is five miles northwest of defaced. was never known to have an enemy, Thayer, Union County, Iowa. the 18th day of May, 1846, Pres- Editor's Note: An "Improvement but many were her friends. On ident Brigham Young and several of Era" article on Mount Pisgah appear- Never was a truer sentiment the apostles visited this hamlet and ing in volume 40, pages 20 to 21 (Jan- spoken than that of the bishop of effected a temporary Church organiza- uary, 1937) gives further details on Koosharem he said, "Here when tion. Elder William Huntington was Mount Pisgah, including a complete list lies the most noble character I have appointed president, with Elders Ezra of those who were buried there, whose ever known, the Mother of Grass T. Benson and Charles C. Rich as coun- names are inscribed upon the faces of Valley." selors. the monument. 597 —

TANGIBLE PAYMENT

'he story of two who found something that mattered more.

Alice swept in, saying quietly: By GEORGE PETRICK "These are my special darlings." H,,erb Kolton looked The children greeted her with such for some time across his desk toward an uproar of glee that Herb decided Alice Weil, who pecked at a type- "But this is different," insisted she was also their darling. writer modestly and most efficiently, Alice, her brown eyes soft with a "Aunt Alice," cried a little girl, before he grasped her chair and kindness that made Herb gulp. "This her face shining with a happiness al- swung her around: is a place where people make a 'home' most too much for such a small per- "Do you realize I've been trying for children until they find them a son to hold. She tugged at Alice's " to enter into a conversation with real 'home.' dress. you?" he said, perching himself on "It is?" "What is it, Doris?" dropping to the litter of papers. "Oh, it is. Why not come with her knees so that her lips were close Alice waved him off: "I haven't me the next time I go out for a visit?" to the beaming child. Other chil- time to talk with you." Had anyone but Alice asked this, dren flocked around, until Alice was "What's so frightfully impor- he would have refused immediately. engulfed in a clamor of laughter and tant?" But he could not deny her. calls. From the side, Herb watched "A little girl wants a doll," her Herb was doubtful about any pos- and marvelled. eyes becoming earnest, "and a new sible value to be gained from the trip. After Alice had distributed her dress. A little boy with hair like His whole life had trained him to gifts and kissed the last wriggling well," with a quick glance at him, distrust, for his experience had bundle of joyous excitement, she "like yours, needs a new pair of shown him that people were selfish turned to Herb. "This, children, is trousers for the ones he tore while and hard and false, all for them- Mr. Kolton, a friend of mine." playing baseball. And both of them selves and themselves only, with no They were shy, afraid of his stern —and dozens of others—need a lot consideration for those around them. face, but willing to welcome him be- of other things." Then Alice came to work at the cause he was a friend of Aunt Alice. He stared his curiosity. next desk and her curious mixture Herb returned their greetings with "Have you ever had the feeling of competence and naiveness drew a grimness made worse by his own of not belonging to anyone?" asked his interest. Her work so completely uneasiness. Alice. absorbed her that the office noise "Weren't they marvelous, Herb?" His lips tightened. Yes, he had. and action swirled around her with- she glowed, on the way home. After his father's death in the ex- out penetrating the shell of isola- He smiled wistfully, longing to plosion at work, his mother struggled tion. Particularly was this true capture the same exaltation that she to rear the little boy. And when she when, after her regular tasks were had. But he could not. To him, died. ... It was all something that completed, she entered into her the youngsters remained only noisy Herb had shunted into the back of church activities. children, clamoring for attention and his mind, content to let it remain a Herb smiled down at her now as favor. Certainly they dim anguish. Now Alice's question they stopped before the Children's were to be pitied. But that was all. tore it back out of the years he Home, although he still harbored a "That first little one sort of wanted to forget. twinge of resentment and doubt. was cute," he admitted. All this he tried to explain and in "Well," with anticipation lilting "Doris? Oh, she's such a sweet some measure his fumbling words did in her voice, "here we are." Herb little thing. excited about convey what an orphanage had nodded gloomily. "Oh, come on," And so the party we're planning." meant to him—the cold, forbidding seizing his arm as he hesitated, regulations; the iron shell of system "you'll love some of these young- and order; the stern, unloving at- sters." He shrugged his shoulders. In the days that followed, tendants, blind to the timid wistful- Pausing only to fling a brief greet- Herb found the time after regular

ness of the children around them. ing to the capable woman at the door, { Continued on page 614) 598 . —

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CHIAPAS RUINS Jin. QommondmsmiA. By Charles E. Dibble J Mexico's southernmost state, Chia- pas, is dotted with ruins, most FOR of them well covered with vegetation and as yet unstudied. These ruins belong to the ancient culture of the Maya. Excavation and research in TEACHERS the region of the Maya has established with reasonable certainty a number of facts regarding these monticulos or By HECTOR LEE "little mountains":

First: The mountain of earth represents are "first-nighters" in the last structure and usually covers two There Church classes as there are in or three earlier structures. the courses offered in secular edu- Second: The pyramid-shaped structure — represents only the foundation or base of cation "first-nighters" who feel the a building. The summit was never pointed need for further advancement in un- but leveled off, and over a small square was derstanding the Gospel or for en- erected a small temple with walls of wood, lightenment in any form, but who adobe or stone. The rooms were small and quickly lose interest for one cause few in number, sometimes only one or two. Windows or openings for light were not or another and simply don't bother very common, and when they did occur they to come again. There are always matter how packed with information it were very small and usually in form of the the faithful, who "endure to the is, the course will bog down. Learn to a T . end," but the greater number are not see the humor of your subject and your Third: These ruins do not represent the so determined. Skillful teaching can students will enjoy you. inhabited part of the ancient cities but rather win and keep these "first-nighters." 6. Be yourself. Affectations of dress, the civic and religious centers of the people. speech, or manner arouse disgust, not The Maya of a thousand years ago lived Here is a decalogue which may re- admiration. If necessary, seek out that and built their homes much as do the pres- mind a people who are primarily a rare friend who will tell you the truth, ent-day natives. A framework of slender teaching people to cross the "t" and take him to visit your class; get him to poles securely bound together is covered dot the "i" in "teaching." describe honestly your teaching person- with palm leaves. The palm leaves are so ality, and then believe everything bad placed that the smoke from the fire within

1 students sin- he tells you. And remember that af- filters through the roof, but the rain torrents Be interested in your — fectations of thought, poses in attitude from without seldom enter. cerely, not superficially; individually, not collectively. Be alert to their ambitions, and opinion, are to the man of sense just desires, and tastes; be sympathetic when as nauseating as any other form of in- they are in distress. Be their friend, sincerity. will yours. and they be 7. Be sensible. Look in the mirror occasionally and see. Listen to your 2. Be interested in their course. Pre- voice occasionally and hear. One can pare your lessons. Know your material be neat even if he is not handsome; one so well that your students will respect can show good taste even if he is very you for your knowledge and have con- poor. fidence in you as a teacher. The student

who is able to see the bottom of a 8. Be loyal to your superiors and to teacher's knowledge soon loses interest. the other teachers. People do not respect a person who criticizes his su- A 3. Be patient. Never forget that NATIVE VILLAGE OF TODAY, OR OF 1000 A. D. periors. If you do not agree with a learning is elaborate and painful toil for policy or method, the best you can do some people and that you are their mas- is keep your mouth shut when around ter in knowledge only, their servant in your students. There will be other all else. proper—times and places for you to dissatisfaction. 4. Be honest. If you don't know the assert your

answer, don't try to bluff. . . . Another 9. Be progressive. Try to keep up kind of honesty is keeping promises; with the world and always keep ahead don't forget to bring those pictures or of your students—in your own field, that chart you promised last week. And anyway. don't fail to attend your own class 10. Be optimistic. "There is nothing regularly and punctually. either good or bad, but thinking makes

5. Be cheerful. If the teacher is long- it so." (Adult Education Bulletin, April, A MOUND STILL COVERED WITH VEGETATION IN HUIXTLA, CHIAPAS. faced, the class will be dull; and no 1941.) 599 :

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 LOOKING BACK AT d?A£VJiWL dncifwL (hn&hiajL

By WILLIAM and DEWEY FARNSWORTH By Albert L. Zobell, Jr.

aCTUALLY there is a difference of only seven hundred ninety-three words between the number of words attributed to Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded by Matthew, whose account of the Savior's career is more complete than any other of the New Testament authors, and the number of words uttered by the resurrected Christ during His ministry on the American continent, as recorded in the Book of Mormon in Third Nephi. St. Matthew gives 14,148 words and Third Nephi 13,355 words as spoken by the Re- deemer. 1 But Nephi, referring to the instruc- CEMENT BLOCKS IN MUSEUM AT SAN JUAN TEOTIHUACAN tions the assembled throngs received Throughout Mexico and especially in San Juan Teotihuacan which is twenty- eight miles northeast of Mexico City, are found evidences of cement of superior from Christ, freely admitted: "And quality. While the modern grades are composed chiefly of coarse gravel with a now there cannot be written in this topping of cement, the ancients used fine sand for their base, effecting a product which has endured for hundreds of years. Added to this, these ancient builders book even a hundredth part of the seemed to have perfected also the art of coloring cement, remnants of which are things which Jesus did truly teach the found in numerous places. These huge blocks of cement in the museum at Teotihuacan are covered with hieroglyphics and pictures depicting the art of writing people." (3 Nephi 26:6.) in its primitive form. We may contrast the comparative scarcity of direct information in these two books with the mass of knowledge that daily comes within our grasp: a metropolitan newspaper could print the 27,503 words quoted by both Matthew and Nephi in less than four and one- half pages of newsprint, while a radio station could easily broadcast the same information in four hours and forty-five minutes. The news editor figures that eight hundred words fill a column, eight columns make a page, and a radio announcer averages one hundred words a minute.

PYRAMIDS AT TOLUCA (Above and Below) Sixty-one men have become members Near Mexico City is situated the picturesque little village of Toluca whose of the Quorum of the Twelve during the archaeological zone of about eleven pyramids has recently been uncovered. Only three mounds have been entirely excavated, "Calmecatl' or priests college on trie past one hundred and six years. Their lower level, "Quetzalcoatl" pyramid higher up, and above this the "Temple of average age upon appointment has Tlaloc" and "Tzompantli" or house of skulls, on the outer wall of which may be seen ten sculptured skulls in stone, likewise protruding from the same walls been forty and three-fourths years. 250 "pegs" of stone four inches in diameter to which it is thought were hung the have served for an average of heads of sacrificed prisoners. These pyramids are formed of uncut stones and They cement and the round structure shown in the picture is the only one of its kind twenty years each. The youngest to be found on the American continent. The round open excavations in the Apostle to be ordained George A. foreground have been a source of dispute to archaeologists as to their use. They was may have been cisterns for the storage of water, or grain bins. Some have even Smith, who was twenty-two years of ventured the opinion that because their blackened interiors as of they were used age; the oldest to fire boxes for the melting of ores. be appointed was Charles W. Penrose, at seventy-two. Alonzo A. Hinckley had the shortest career as an active member of the Coun- cil of the twelve: two years and two months. Franklin D. Richards was a quorum member for the longest period fifty years and ten months.

Six of the original Apostles, chosen in 1835, lost the faith and were excommunicated. Eleven of the sixty-one Apostles were excommunicated; two of these returned to the Church. Two Apostles suffered martyrdom for their belief.

Twenty Apostles attained office % before the Saints settled Utah; one )SBKttsBKK&&&&$$ of these, Willard Richards, was ordained while on a mission in England. 600 ——— — : —

STRENGTH LIBERTY PARK DEDICATION By Rose Thomas Graham By Mabel Jones By Dott Sartori The old park was not like it is today; Around its edges it was woody-wild, memories are like a coverlet f LOVE the temple on a stormy day; MY With trees so thick that only little folks Laid gently on his past, It stands so tall and firm, so soundly made Could wind between. The trunks were not Laid tenderly upon his every word, It matches graying skies with deeper gray, so big, The first, the last. And meets the tempest boldly, unafraid. But some would hide us, if we pulled our skirts As light as eiderdown, impervious The wind and rain beat at its walls as though In tight, and tried to stretch as tall as they. To cold forgetfulness, furies charged with wrath un- A thousand We played at hide-and-seek, and peek-a- Protecting for those left the sacred years, curbed boo; The joyousness. Would force an entrance with each pelting Then when our tired legs would run no more, blow. We'd hunt a little clearing in the shade This winter weeping nourishes the roots The temple stands serene and unperturbed. To eat the lunch that mother had prepared, Of all his little deeds, And listen to the birds, for it was spring. Restores again to fadeless blossoming His boyish needs, I would that I might build a stronghold thus, The old park was not like it is today: That when the winds of life should blow And I lament no single tear of my way The driveway was a circle then, as now, these But not so wide and it was deep in dust; That watered leaf and stem I'd meet them without fear or doubt or fuss Or if, by chance, it rained, the mud would Preserving like a full and sweet bouquet But wisely, sanely, calmly live each day; fly. His life and them. And stand aloof when trouble or despair Old Mat, the horse, would jog at steady pace, From a heart's long harvesting and things Would storm my faith and lay my ideals He knew the way, and at the middle road he left, bare. Would turn in where the horses liked to I built and dedicate drink. This printed monument where he may be We did not like, but patiently we'd wait Articulate, THE BAD LANDS Till he had had enough; then we would coax Though his leaping pulse is stilled like To go around again. 'Twas fountains By Cristel Hastings summer now. At the park in fall,

The old park was not like it is today: I lift this leaf, and he is there as if Sun's a-sinkin' in the skyline Dead twigs and brush are raked up clean He heard my call. Makin' all the country gold; and burned: Purple mountains rim a valley The lawn kept newly mowed. In spraying Where thar's gold, so I've been told; hose Tumbleweeds go racin' madly CHOOSE WELL YOUR WORDS The rain-bow colors dance in water drops. With the winds that never cease, 'Tis very beautiful, but in my youth An' at dusk a starved coyote By Harry Elmore Huvd We'd wade through leaves knee-high and Wails until thar is no peace. love the swish HpHE word is life and laughter, uncon- And crackle as we walked, or ran, or * These are bad lands, dry an' wicked. fined-— jumped, Man an' cayuse have died here It bleeds and weeps and seizes on the mind Or tumbled down, then up to try again. While the water-hole they thirsted With swift insistence. Write the word with The air, less balmy now, the day-time short, Was mirage—now far, now near. care, So home we'd race to kitchen fire Little winds keep flyin', cryin' and Lest fluid joy be tinctured with despair, warmth In this desert hole o' sand And all the days remaining to a man With arms we'd hug ourselves, for it was Till it seems, to stay here longer Be dark with imminent grief. Let poets plan fall. Is jus' more than I can stand. And fit the patterned words with due regard For men who bear their burdens up the hard The old park was not like it is today: These are bad lands, full o' mis'ry, Steep slope of time—^remembering that The few remaining trees of other years, Rattlesnakes, an' all the rest death Are, even now, brought But the winds keep blowin', knowin' low for newer And life are separated by a breath, green. Both brief and final. Ponder well I am part o' this old West. and long Do patterned flower beds So I'm prospectin' around here have more appeal Before selecting symbols for your song Than did my crooked paths Must be gold in them thar hills and unkempt Since men will memorize the wondrous trees? Mine's the hope o' gold eternal word. Do children, with their modern slides, feel If it has power to heal it is An a water-hole that fills. when heard. joy » « i^ Beyond my own in dried up leaves? Per- haps. WEATHERVANE LET ME GRIEVE But often when I'm dreaming quite alone And visions of the past come back to me By Ernestine Mercer Genneva Dickey Watson With all the simple freedom that it brought, I like God's park just as it used to be. "\17hat fun to be a weathervane [ never see the dropping leaves Photograph by Gladys Mildred Relyea And pose against the sky, But something in me stops and grieves, To mark the destination of Though I know well the parent tree Each wind that dances by, Each spring will bud forth cheerily; And dropping leaves have rightful place To be so useful and so gay, They net the ground with gypsy lace, By all the world looked up to; And pouring life-strength in the earth, Though leading such a fickle life They help the rootlets starting birth. Remaining incorrupt, too.

Yet, ordered seasons all must pass, Now such a combination of

From tender green to frozen grass, Extremes is most disarming—

Yet, for one moment I must share Why, bless my heart, there's one thing that's This grief of lost leaves in the air. Dependable and charming! m =52£ mB%urctrmoves

B. Cecil Gates Passes Two years later her family was called to what is now Provo. There T3 Cecil Gates, 54, former assistant she lived until she was eighteen when *^* director of the Tabernacle Choir, her family again came to the Salt Lake and nationally known composer, died Valley. August 29, at his home in Salt Lake She married Isaac Brockbank in the City. Endowment House December 31, 1864. In his lifetime he was the director of and moved to Holladay, where they the Lucy Gates Grand Opera Company lived for more than sixty years in the —named for his sister, now Mrs. A. E. same house. Twelve children were Bowen—which played many operas in born to the couple. Mr. Brockbank the old Salt Lake Theater, supple- died in 1927. menting local musical talent with guest stars from the Metropolitan Opera Presidents Clark, Company, and other eastern musical McKay, Have Birthdays organizations; director of the Salt Lake .Oratorio Society; and head of the music HHwo members of the First Presidency departments of the L. D. S. University marked birthdays during the and the Utah State Agricultural Col- month of September. President Reuben Clark, quiet- lege. He was an organizer of the Mc- J. Jr., Cune School of Music. ly celebrated his seventieth birthday- His best-known musical arrangements September 1, by visiting his birthplace and compositions include: "The Lord's in Grantsville, Utah, and attending an BRIGHAM CECIL GATES Prayer," "My Redeemer Lives," outdoor family dinner at his Salt Lake City "Cornfield Melodies, Neath Your home. 5. The adoption of a project by every Window," and the choral works President David O. McKay, who Priesthood quorum in the region. "Restoration," "Eternal Life," and was born in Huntsville, Utah, sixty- 6. Develop a greater spirit of fraternal- eight years ago September 8, marked "Resurrection Morning." ism. the date with half day's Although ill health had required his 7. Improve the crafts and skills of all a work and retirement years ago, he continued ar- Church members and make a careful analysis by visiting in Ogden. In the evening ranging musical compositions, putting of working power. he was honored by a family dinner in the last touches on the second of two Salt Lake. volumes of Gates Anthems only a day Last of 1847 before his death. Pioneers Dies South Salt Lake He is survived by his wife, Gweneth Stake Created Gibbs Gates; four daughters, Gweneth 'T'he last personal tie with the first G. Mulder, Emma Lou G. Ashton, year of Utah's pioneer history was Organization of the South Salt Lake Helen and Ruth Gates; his father, severed August 18, with the death of ^^ Stake, the one hundred thirty- Jacob F. Gates; Harvey and Frank Mrs. Mary Ann Park Brockbank, who eighth in the Church, was effected Gates, brothers; Leah D. Widtsoe and was the sole surviving pioneer of 1847. August 31, by a division of the Wells

Emma Lucy Gates Bowen, sisters, and She was 98. and Grant Stakes. Axel J. Andresen two grandchildren. She was four years old when she was sustained as stake president, with Funeral services conducted Septem- entered Salt Lake Valley with her Hubert E. Record and S. Ross Fox as ber 2 in the Assembly Hall were at- three sisters and parents in September, first and second counselors. tended by all the First Presidency and 1847, all members of the Edward Hunt- The Burton and Columbus Wards many other of the General Authorities. er and John Taylor wagon trains from were taken from the Wells Stake, and The Tabernacle Choir sang music Winter Quarters. the Southgate, Central Park, and Miller written by the late composer. Wards were taken from Grant Stake to form the new unit. The Miller Ward 7 Point Welfare was then divided, creating the Eldredge Ward, giving the new stake six wards, Program Outlined three of them with new bishops: Her- bert Urry, of the Eldredge Ward: /^alling upon the Church member- W. Niels H. Hansen, of the Miller Ward, ^-> ship to intensify production to take succeeding Edward Solomon, and care of needs for as many as five years, J. Jacob P. Burton, of the Burton Ward, of the Council of Elder Harold B. Lee succeeding President Andresen. the Twelve and managing director of The stake was created under the di- the Church Welfare Plan advised wel- rection of Elders Joseph Fielding Smith fare workers of Salt Lake Region on and Harold B. Lee of the Council of August 12 to adopt the following: the Twelve.

1. Intensify production with no let up. 2. Provide fully for needs of worthy Joseph E. Robinson Dies members. 3. Urge all families in the region to Joseph E. Robinson, 73, president of store food for at least one year. The Wel- the California Mission from 1901 to fare officers should give aid and instruc- 1919, died at his Los Angeles home. tions in storing non-perishable foods. August 7. His long, active career in 4. Do not wait for an emergency but plan the Church and state included member- Welfare projects for the future which could in the constitutional conven- provide work for all members, even those ship Utah who may be prosperous today. MARY ANN PARK BROCKBANK tion in 1895. 602 —

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Tabernacle Choir has been announced by Dr. Franklin A. K. Anastasiou, acting president of Sings on Coast L. West, Church Commissioner of the British Mission in the Millennial Education. Star. In the same issue, July 10, it was The three powerful tenets of the church In his new capacity Elder Wood will reported that since all the American an ideal, a prayer and a song—were assist in directing work in . the one missionaries were withdrawn two years

exemplified in this program . . . the pro- hundred eight seminaries which provide ago, thirteen British missionaries have gram was varied but the ideal was apparent week-day religious instruction and served six months apiece and now have all, idealism, a in the words of a religious other activities for twenty-two thou- returned to their homes, while twenty- challenge to modernists and an exhortation sand students of high school age in the seven others are now in the field. to the faithful. Prayers were offered in intermountain area. the music. . . . The choir . . . has an un-

usual balance and blend . . . maintains a New B. Y. U. Building smooth symphonic quality. Ten Seminary Installs Chimes Teachers Named the praise written Isabel Such was by A SET of chimes is being installed in "P\r. Church Morse Jones, music editor of the Los Franklin L. West, "** the tower of the new Joseph Smith after hearing the Salt Angeles Times Commissioner of Education, an- Building at Brigham Young Univer- Lake Tabernacle Choir sing the tradi- following appoint- nounces the new sity. The chimes, a gift from the 1940

tional hymns and songs loved instructors : Mormon ments as seminary J. Wal- graduating class, will be connected to wherever music is heard, in their ap- lace Johnson teaching at Lyman, Wyo- a public address system with a loud pearance at the famed Hollywood Bowl ming; S. George Ellsworth teaching at speaker in the tower that will magnify of on August 20, before an audience Bunkerville, Nevada; Eldin Ricks the notes electrically so that the chimes fifteen thousand. teaching at Overton, Nevada; Ellis H. may be heard over the campus. The next night, August 21, the Tab- Rasmussen teaching at Weston, Idaho; ernacle Choir received the highest George T. Boyd teaching at Mesa, and B. Y. U. Plans praise in San Francisco, where they at Phoenix, Arizona, as principal; An- Founder's Day were presented by the San Francisco thony I. Bentley teaching at Afton, Opera Association in the Civic Audi- Wyoming; Jay Christensen teaching at President Franklin S. Harris has torium to an audience of some five Manassa, and Sanford, Colorado; Cal- announced October 1 1 as the annual thousand persons. vin Bartholomew teaching at Esca- Founder's Day at Brigham Young Both cities had proclaimed special lante, Utah; Harold L. Dean, Menan, University. The exercises, to be held days in honor of the choir. Idaho; Jack Cherrington, Grace, Idaho. in the new Joseph Smith Building, will The choir left Salt Lake City for be built around the life and teachings Los Angeles on Sunday, August 17, Elder Brown Speaks of the man after whom the building following the regular broadcast, and At Fort Lewis, Washington was named. An important part of the traveled by a special train of eighteen program, this year, will be the dedica- cars, with more than four hundred forty "Plder Hugh B. Brown, the Church- -L tion of this building. people on board, more than three hun- ' Army Coordinator, was the dred of whom were choir members, speaker at the Sunday evening serv- and returned via San Francisco a week ices in the United States Army Chapel Relief Society Board later, August 23, after a trip of more at Fort Lewis, Washington. In his Adds New Member than two thousand miles. Lester F. address he called for righteousness, "r\R. Florence Jepperson Madsen, Hewlett, president of the choir, made strength to withstand temptation, and professor of music at Brigham the tour with W. Thomas as tour faith. He cited cases in the lives of J. Young University has been appointed manager, Spencer Cornwall, con- Washington and Lincoln where prayer J. to the General Board of the Relief So- ductor; Richard L. Evans, commen- played a very important part in guiding ciety. She was also made chairman of tator; Richard P. Condie, tenor soloist the leadership of the nation. The meet- the Relief Society music committee and assistant conductor, and Alexander ing was well attended by both the men which is planning special musical Schreiner and Dr. Frank W. Asper, in uniform and the members of the near- events of the 1942 centennial year. accompanists. Bishop Marvin O. Ash- by branches of the Church. ton met the choir in Los Angeles and returned with them. (See also page British Mission Sets Two Chapels Dedicated 581.) Apart Home Missionaries T^he Elmhurst Ward Chapel of the •* /^\ne hundred home missionaries were Oakland Stake was dedicated Au- J. Karl Wood Becomes gust 31, by Elder Charles A. Callis of ^-^ set apart in the British mission be- Seminary Aide the Council of the Twelve. tween June 1, and July 10, wrote Elder The Mt. Pleasant South Ward, of Karl Wood, Appointment J. North Sanpete Stake, was dedicated *"* LEFT, OF TABERNACLE CHOIR formerly principal of the Hyrum, VIEW THE September 14, by President Reuben IN HOLLYWOOD BOWL, AND RIGHT, A J. Utah, seminary, to become a seminary PART OF THE VAST AUDIENCE THAT Clark, Jr. supervisor in the Church School system, CAME TO HEAR THEM. (Continued on page 604) Photos courtesy Deseret News. —

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 Hawaii Honors L. D. S. People

Preceding the dedication of the Oahu * Stake tabernacle, The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Hawaii's greatest newspaper," ran four pages of illustrated material pertaining to the new building. About twenty-four articles of wide interest pertaining to the Mormon Church were printed along with many beautiful pictures.

Editor Riley H. Allen's leading editorial congratulates the L. D. S. people and he remarks:

This tabernacle is more than a remarkably beautiful building from which all the people of Hawaii may benefit and of which this city may very well be proud. It is more than an outward symbol of a particular religious sect. It is a monument to the remarkably fine record of substantial, upright citizenship which the members of the Mormon faith have established in Ha- THE NEW OAHU STAKE TABERNACLE waii as well as elsewhere. President McKay, The Mormons have been in these islands

now nearly a century. . . . Bishop Wirthlin Return Priesthood Pageant Planned They have contributed largely to the growth meanwhile 1-3 For October of Hawaii to its present cultural, industrial, Dresident David O. McKay returned and religious P*ighteen Stakes of the Salt Lake dimensions. to Salt Lake City September 1 , af- ^ region will join in presenting the ter dedicating the new Oahu Stake Tab- Arizona Pioneer Descendants ernacle August 17, and making a tour Aaronic Priesthood pageant, "Prepare of the Hawaiian and the Japanese Mis- Ye the Way," October 1 to 3, in the Observe Historic Fete sions there in the islands. President Salt Lake Tabernacle under the direc- McKay was accompanied by Bishop tion of the Presiding Bishopric. The Tn the shadow of Graham Peak Joseph L. Wirthlin and Sisters McKay pageant, written by Evelyn N. Wood, where the historic Jacob Hamblin and Wirthlin. (See also page 640.) will have over one thousand persons family paused in its wanderings, the in the cast, including a chorus of four descendants of that family and of other hundred fifty voices under the direc- hardbitten pioneers gathered at New Grant Stake tion of N. Lorenzo Mitchell. Thatcher, Arizona, on July 24, 1941, Ward Formed in commemoration of the 94th anni- Wyoming Preserves versary of the arrival in Salt Lake Cpringview Ward, Grant Stake, was Old Pioneer Road Valley of Brigham Young and his band created August 31, by a division of of Mormon pioneers, "Cencing of a strip of land, two hun- July 24, 1847. the Wandamere Ward. Iris B. Mor- •* dred feet wide and a half mile long, The Graham County Mormons, gan was sustained as bishop of the new by the Wyoming State highway de- some 3,000 strong, count among their ward. partment has preserved a section of a number many of those same pioneers near-century old highway across the whose faces are etched with the lines Visitors To Temple nation. Located twenty-two miles east of early day hardships in Arizona. These watched in silence Square Gain of Farson, and but a short distance a pregnant from historic Pacific Springs, the fenced with memories while a pageant by the portion is partly on a hill top where members of the St. Joseph Stake de- \7isitors registering at the Temple v it cannot wash in with the storms. This picted the trek of the Mormon column Square Mission in Salt Lake City road was used by Oregon-bound set- from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake from January 1, through August 3, 1941 tlers, Mormon Pioneers, and California City, thence to Arizona. Scenes of numbered 390,876, compared with 286,- gold-rushers. At the height of its tragedy and despair encountered on 644 for the same period last year, ac- career, the trail was beaten "ten wag- every hand by those early day Mor- cording to a report of John H. Taylor, ons wide" with ruts as much as three mons moved impressively toward the mission president. In each case the feet deep. The intervening decades of climax, wherein the choir from the Pima visitors came from all parts of the globe. storm and trampling by sheep and cat- Ward sang "Come, Come Ye Saints" tle have failed to fill in the path west- Other scenes depicted the trials of the William H. Pettigrew Dies ward. Jacob Hamblin family. M. Smith of the presidency of the Church Musicians J. ^7illiam H. Pettigrew, 81, head of St. Joseph Stake, Thatcher, Arizona, vv Attend Institute the Salt Lake Temple proof read- urged that the day be considered not ing department, and former mayor of "\\7ith leading musicians as consult- a holiday, but a holy day in the history Nephi, died in his Salt Lake City home, ants, music teachers who direct of the Church. Reported by I. Thom- September 4. He was the father of classes for choristers and organists asson Naumann. Alma H. Pettigrew of the Y. M. M. throughout the Church participated I. A. General Board. August 28, in their annual Teachers' Triplets Enter Missionfield His life of activity for the Church Institute at the McCune School of and civic groups included a mission to Music and Art in Salt Lake City. "Plders William A., Willis A., and the Southern States, 1891-93, a term as More than five thousand students Willard A. Jensen, triplet sons of bishop of the Nephi First Ward, and have enrolled in classes conducted in Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum A. Jensen of membership in the commission which the past six years as a result of this Marion, Summit County, Utah, left Salt erected the Mormon Battalion monu- institute, which is under the direction Lake City, September 18, to labor in ment on the Utah State Capitol grounds. of the Church Music Committee. the Spanish American Mission. 604 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941

Mural of First Primary Dedicated

A mural depicting the organization "^^ of the first Primary of the Church was unveiled and dedicated amid impressive services on Sunday, August 24, in the Farmington Ward Chapel, scene of the organization. The first meeting of the Primary, held August 25, 1878, under the direction of Aurelia S. Rogers, a Pioneer mother, was attended by two hundred fifteen PRIMARY ORGANIZATION MURAL IN FARMINGTON chil- commemorates the first Utah smelter, of the two hundred twenty-four WARD. (See story, this page.) dren of the ward. erected by W. S. Godbe, of Chicago, The eight by twenty-five foot paint- in 1871. Bishops, Presiding ing by Lynn Fausett and Gordon Cope, Elders Appointed Utah artists, hangs behind the Missionaries Released In 1941 chapel's pulpit. They finished it after July* Recently appointed bishops and presid- studying old photographs of those who Argentine: Asael D. Palmer, Lethbridge, ing elders in the Church include: attended the meeting. It was unveiled Alberta. University Ward, Chicago Stake, Henry by Anne and Fisher Squires, great- Brazilian: Ferrel W. Bybee, Smithfleld, A. Mattis succeeds George Harris. Whitney Ward, Franklin Stake, Melvin great-grandchildren of Mrs. Rogers, Utah; George J. Angerbauer, Salt Lake. and dedicated by Elder Charles A. California: Eldon C. Morgan, Lorenzo, G. Larsen succeeds Orval D. Benson. Redondo Ward, Inglewood Stake, Joseph Callis of the Council of the Twelve. Idaho; Sherman Parker, Richfield, Utah; L. Angela A. Smurthwaite, Baker, Oregon; Rencher succeeds Abel J. Flint. Music for the program was furnished Kay Poulson, Richfield, Utah; Chester G. Ninth Ward, Liberty Stake, George F. by the Farmington Primary Children's Wakefield, Winslow, Arizona; Veda Steele, Robison succeeds Ralph T. Cannon. Chorus. Six hundred were in attend- Stake, Iona, Idaho; Howard L. Randall, Ogden, Logan Twelfth Ward, Logan J. ance at the meeting. Utah; Elaine A. Jensen, Marion, Utah; Nel- A. Meservy succeeds Parley A. Hill. son L. Jack, Chin Lee, Arizona. Bellflower Branch, Long Beach Stake, Barracks, Smelter Canadian Mission: Lillis L. Widdison, Ernest W. Harper succeeds Henry Visser. Monument Dedicated Rexburg, Idaho; Charles W. Romney, Salt Compton Ward, Long Beach Stake, Lake; Richard D. Poll, Ft. Worth, Texas; Walter R. Sant succeeds Willard E. Tyler. A monument was dedicated August A. Boyd Ostler, Salt Lake; Basil W. Fife, Milton Ward, Morgan Stake, Robert H. Brigham, Utah; F. Carr, Berkley, Giles succeeds Herbert J. Whittier. "^ 20, two miles south of Stockton on Warren California; Samuel W. Clark, Tooele, Utah; North Morgan Ward, Morgan Stake, the Rush Valley road in Tooele County, Hibbert N. Beesley, Pocatello, Idaho; EI- Joseph E. Rees succeeds Horace Heiner. marking the site of the first army bar- wood K. Whitehead, Twin Falls, Idaho. Brooklyn Ward, New York Stake, Fried- racks in Utah. Here in September, Central States: Milton L. Weilenmann, rich Radichel succeeds F. Artell Smith. 1854, a detachment of the United States Salt Lake; Walter B. Welti, Salt Lake; Marsh Center Ward, Portneuf Stake, Army from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Floyd L. Thompson, Elfrida, Arizona; James Capell succeeds Wilford H. Sor- enson. the first to enter the Rocky Mountain Alvin C. Soderborg, Salt Lake; Newel S. Archer Ward, Rexburg Stake, Sterling region, erected quarters, stables, and McKee, Tridell, Utah; George E. Lyon, Vernal, Utah; H. Magleby succeeds J. Ray Smith. corrals under the command of Colonel Robert C. Joyce, Salt Lake; Ethan Echols, Pima, Arizona; Edwin C. Leota Ward, Roosevelt Stake, Austin E. Steptoe. J. Cox, Cedar City, Utah. Wardle succeeds Imanuel S. Eksund. marker, is the ninety- The which East Central States: Lois Nichols, Mur- Twenty-second Ward, Salt Lake Stake, seventh erected by the Utah Pioneer ray, Utah; Charles I. Worthing ton, Grants- Roy M. Hill succeeds George D. Jorgensen, Trails and Landmarks association, also (Concluded on page 629) Goshen Ward, Santaquin-Tintic Stake, Evelyn Kirk succeeds W. W. Thomas. Maywood Ward, South Los Angeles Stake, N. Ursel Anderson succeeds John W. Willes. Lindon Ward, Timpanogos Stake, Jesse K. Thorne succeeds Leonard S. Walker.

^ Pendleton Branch, Union Stake, Lorin G. Folland, Jr., succeeds Calvin E. Cald- well. Wells Ward, Wells Stake, Lon W. Reese succeeds James F. Sheffield. Herriman Ward, West Jordan Stake, %X: Darrel Crane succeeds Milton Bodell, de- ceased.

L. D. S. Boys in Northern California Camps Invited To Affiliate With Bay MISSIONARIES LEAVING FOR THE FIELD FROM THE SALT LAKE MISSIONARY HOME Region Church Activities ARRIVED SEPTEMBER S, 1941—DEPARTED SEPTEMBER 17, 1941

Left to right, first row: Kenneth Ralph Tobler, June Cragun, Ha Westover, Leida Atwood, Don B. T^he M. I. A. of the Oakland and San Colton, Vivian Poole, Eileen Felix, Irma Webster, Wanda Gibbons. Second row: George E. Watkins, Myreel Smith, Mignon England, Lillian White, Marjorie McBride, Francisco Stakes are very anxious Elizabeth Divett, Sarah Low, Jeana Russell. to reach the Latter-day Third row: Jesse Davidson, Maurice Dwane Dalton, lola E. Sorensen, Elsie McGinty, Ruth Pearson, Saint boys in Carma Peterson, Dorothy Goates, LaMar Sainsbury. training camps in and around San Fran- Fourth row: Eldon L. Wlton, George L. Sevy, Eugene Ellsworth, Lelie Webb, Lloyd W. Gensen, Albeit L. cisco Bay District. Payne, David Grant Skinner, John George Cannon, Wm. E. Berrett. Both stakes have Fifth row: Keith Pendleton, Harold A. Tate, Lloyd Peterson, Frank R. Christiansen, Ferris E. planned many special activities for en- Hillyard, Hyrum Loutensock, W. Jr., Keith Nelson, Dean Barms. tertaining our young Sixth row: Reid E. Bankhead, Von R. Nielsen, Mart J. Petersen, Dean Bruce, Dee H. Barker, Howard men and hope also J. Thayne, Floyd M. Carlson, Terry L. Hansen. to have them feel at home and partici- Seventh row: Rodney Petersen, Willard A, Jensen, William A. Jensen, Willis A. Jensen, Ray E. Foulger, in Alma J. Pate, L. Marsden Durham, Rex K. Thompson. pate our Sunday Schools, M. I. A., Eighth row: K. G. Ashcroft, Jr., L. R. Walker, J. Robert Anderson, Vergil C. Fewkes, Blaine M. and other activities. Jackson, Dick Moffat, Ken Homer, Dean Flanders, Vee J. Koyle, Pres. Thomas E. McKay. However, Ninth row: Richard A. Allphin, Bobby K. Taylor, Lowell M. Bleazard, Curzon W. Hailes, Frank D. Day, many do not know that Grange C. Goff, Loren LaSelle Taylor, Ursel Ralph Embry. (Concluded on page 628) 605 1 : ) ) —

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Under the caption "Peaceful Cumorah, Cradle of the Mormon Faith," an article from the pen of Ruby Price Weeks appeared in the July Ford News, along with three illustrative pictures. A few paragraphs are quoted from the article. Courtesy 40th Division CHURCH ACTIVITY COMMITTEE, 115TH COMBAT ENGINEERS, CAMP SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA Left to Right: Major Theo. E. Curtis, Jr., Regimental Chaplain; Corporal L Don Carney, Secretary to the Chaplain; Corporal Karl Manwaring, B Co. (L. D. S.); Sergeant Dean Snow, C. Co. (L. D. S.) ; Private First if Class Claude G. Wisler, D. Co., Chairman, of Protestant Section. Private First Class Roscoe Maalehy, H. and S. motorists unfa- Co. (L. D. S.); Sergeant Emmett Gahbet, F Co., Chairman of Catholic Section; Sergeant Charles Zimmer, Nighttime E Co. (Protestant); Corporal Ray Watters, Medical Detachment (L. D. S-); Technical Sergeant Frank Goodrich, miliar with the interesting H. and S. Co., General Chairman of Committee (L. D. S.); Sergeant Maoc Alleman, A. Co. (L. D. S.); Private spots of central New York, wonder at First Class Cat-ling Allen, Band (L. D. S.); Private Mahin Bensman, A. Co., Jewish Section Chairman; Private First Class Ballard J. Christiansen, Band (L. D. S.), Organist; Private First Class Dennis, Medical Detachment the shaft of light atop a hill just outside (L. D. S.); Warrant Officer Milton L. Perkins, Band Director, and Director of church musical activities (L. D. S.). the Village of Palmyra, York, on Note: Private Hideo Asai, chairman of the Buddhist section was not present when picture was taken. New Route 21. They may have heard of the 'village with four churches on four

dfagjun&ntaL fojnmiJtJbiB, corners' . . . history may have taught them that Spanish-war-veteran Rear By Technical Sergeant A. H. Lee, Admiral Sampson was born here . . . Medical 1 Detachment, 5th Engineers ( C recent biographies on Winston Church- <<*T? ill may have informed them that his HERE ^ J.Q bg n(;) fggj. jjjgf, an A y ATTENDANCE REPORT mother was born thereabouts. But they young man will suffer spiritual Melchizedek Priesthood Meeting, probably do not know that this little loss during the period of his military 115th Engineers (C) settlement lays claim to being the service. believe that the young We July 27, 1941, 8:00 a. m. cradle of Mormonism. soldier will return to his home with a "That is why the arresting shaft of keener understanding of the sacred light holds forth; it illuminates the Angel ideals for which our churches stand." g3 u O Moroni Monument ... a true symbol This statement, made by General tj ** ^_. wn u of the constant faith of the Mormon George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of

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THE every side about "Food will win the war the West, a most important chapter in Exception must be taken to certain state- and make the peace," and unquestionably the building of America, is not well known. ments, especially those regarding alcohol food is the most important factor in human Therefore this book should be welcomed. as a food; yet on the whole the book is well-being; yet, as Dr. Chandler says, "The It recites informally the early history of sound. average mother and housewife is as ig- "that part of the North American continent Charming illustrations add interest to the norant of calories and vitamins as she is of lying west of the Missouri River and north text, which deals in its table of contents the gold standard or how her refrigerator of the Santa Fe Trail." First, the western with feeding problems from "calories and works." He makes a plea that these truths country as a whole and the several early vitamins to bellyaches"! L. D. W. be taught in the grade schools and westward routes are described. Then fol- especially in high schools, for the youth so (Continued on page 612.) lows the story of the development of the West, from the coming of the first white men and the fur traders to the days of permanent settlement. The early means of transportation, with pack animals, oxen, Announcing a new book to be ready horses, even camels, are described. The stage coach and the Pony Express appear in review. Indians and adventurers mingle for October Conference with home hunters and gold seekers. The narrative is fascinating, brimful of human interest. Once begun, the reading of the JJul (p/isidjudjwtdu o^ jthiL gAwuck book will be finished. There are eighteen full-page rare illustrations. By PRESTON NIBLEY It is unfortunate that in dealing with Utah and the Mormons Miss Gardiner has 300 pages, printed in large 14 pt. readable type. Beautifully illustrated followed unreliable sources. Nephi did not with large pictures of the seven presidents of the Church. Written in a pop- present the plates to Joseph Smith; polyg- ular style which will make very interesting amy was never mandatory upon members reading for children as well as adults. of the Church; the Danites were not formed Contains a brief biographical account of the life, accomplishments within the Church; the Church did not at and missionary labors of the seven great men who have served as leaders any time engage in blood purging and of the Mormon people. An ideal book for teachers of Priesthood Quorums heretic hunting; the Mormons in '57 did not and Auxiliary organizations. consider Utah a state independent of the United States; etc., etc.—/. A. W. ON SALE OCTOBER 1ST WHAT ARE THE VITAMINS? $2.50 (Walter H. Eddy, Ph. D. Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York, 1941. 225 pages.) M. I. A. READING COURSE BOOKS, P\r. 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JhsL (DajnxpJwjuLA, Shumb&A, THE GENERAL CONFERENCE

HThe One Hundred and Twelfth Semi-annual Tf we were called upon to make a list of the evils Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of our day, the evil of indifference would be well Saints will convene in the Tab- of Latter-day up toward the top. Collectively, men appear to be nacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, Saturday, grossly indifferent toward most things which do

and Sunday, October 3, 4, and 5, with general not immediately and definitely affect their own lives comfort. calamity a thousand miles sessions each day at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. and A away has a passing effect on us as we read about The general Priesthood meeting will be held it or hear about it, but it is largely an intellectual in the Tabernacle on Saturday, October 4, matter. Comparatively few men are stirred to at 7 p. m. action by a calamity a thousand miles away. In-

deed, it is difficult to stir some from the complacency of indifference toward what goes on even in their own town or in the next street, for that matter,

so long as it doesn't contribute to their personal discomfort, or injury, or inconvenience.

Men are a good deal that way about their eternal future, also. Why should they disturb themselves The First Presidency. about that which now seems to be a remote hereafter, so long as the day passes pleasantly, so long as no one disturbs their tranquility or challenges STAKE MISSION PRESIDENTS' their beliefs, or shakes their confidence in the sooth- ing thought that all is well, and always will be, CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 2 with them. There are ways to quiet the over- Ctake Mission Presidents from throughout zealous—there are ways to deal with an active the Church have been invited to partici- opponent—but how to stir an indifferent man out is question that has often pate in a special conference in Salt Lake City, of his self-complacency a Thursday, October 2nd, under the direction begged for an answer. of the First Council of the Seventy. Sessions This thought carries with it a refrain that goes will be held at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. in the as- back to the words of St. John who addressed himself sembly room on the fourth floor of the Church thus to the Laodiceans: Office Building, 47 East South Temple Street.

The day will be devoted to discussion by the I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I Stake Mission Presidents and assigned speak- would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of ers of problems pertaining to the Stake Mis- my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased sions. with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that The regular semi-annual Seventies' Confer- thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and ence will convene as usual in Barratt Hall, naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment that thou mayest be 4:15 p. m. ( Saturday, October 4. clothed ... be zealous therefore, and repent. (Revelation 3:1549.)

This ancient indictment of an indifferent people BISHOPS* CONFERENCE OCTOBER 2 has another refrain in the words of a later utterance, "Dishops of the Church have been invited to which says: "Men should be anxiously engaged participate in a special conference in Salt in a good cause, and do many things of their own Lake, Thursday, October 2. Important phases free will." (Doctrine and Covenants 58:27.) No of the work of the Church entrusted to bishops man can afford to be indifferent to the issues of will be discussed in all-day sessions. The the day in which he lives, or to the issues which con- Aaronic Priesthood Pageant, "Prepare Ye the cern that eternal journey which we are all traveling Way," will furnish the program for the together. Would that there could be found some evening. quick and sure way to wake all men from the dangerous slumber of indifference. R. L. E.

608 are apostates from a cause, engaged in building EVIDENCES AND their own cause under false colors, whether in the state or the church. They ar-e often without basic convictions, rudderless mariners, victims of every RECONCILIATIONS passing wave. Such men, whatever they may call themselves, are dangerous to human happiness. xlii. What Ia. cl 3tibsUiaL Certainly, they are not entitled to be called liberals dfarfjuyhtL? within the organization of which they are members. Their chief pastime is to sow the seeds of anarchy HThe word liberal, correctly used, has a noble in the hearts of others. meaning. The true liberal hates slavery of It is folly to speak of a liberal religion, if that re- every kind. He battles for human freedom. He ligion claims that it rests upon unchanging truth. wants liberty in thought and action. He is tolerant, Neither can one be a liberal in religion except in free from bigotry, and generous in all his deeds. the application of the underlying doctrine to human He places truth above all else and hungers for full needs. It would be as preposterous as speaking of truth. He welcomes all new improvements and a liberal science, since science rests upon truthful calls for more—the telegraph, electric light, tele- observations of nature. It is only in the use of phone, printing press, typewriter, railroad, airship, scientific discoveries that the word liberal may be radio. He insists that every new invention must be used. One either accepts or rejects truth. There used for human welfare, with full respect to civil is no middle course. and moral law. In short, the liberal seeks to make Proponents of a liberal religion are probably not better the day in which he lives, and he becomes certain of the foundations of their own faith and therefore a crusader for the betterment of the hu- characterize their distrust by the world liberal. man race. They are doubters. For example, a Catholic or Such a liberal, to accomplish his purpose, holds Protestant Christian who denies the literal resur- fast, without the least concession, to the convictions rection of Jesus Christ has no right to claim the title of his soul. He is anchored to the rock of truth, liberal. He is an agnostic to, or unbeliever in, a as he may see it. He never wavers from the basic, fundamental, necessary doctrine of the church. underlying principles of the cause, whether of It is well to beware of people who go about church or state, to which he is committed. All the proclaiming that they or their churches are liberal. world knows how and where he stands. The probabilities are that the structure of their faith His liberalism lies in his constant attempt to is built on sand and will not withstand the storms make the underlying unchanging principles of the of truth. Usually, if they try to define their liberal- cause he represents serve the changing conditions ism, the teeth of the wolf appear under the sheep's of the day. He may differ with the superficial con- clothing. ventions of the past, but not with its established Under the definition of true liberalism, the truths. He may refuse to continue the church archi- Church of Jesus Christ is preeminently liberal. tecture of the past but will insist that the ancient First, it makes truth and love of truth its founda- truths of the Gospel be taught in every building tion. The whole latter-day work was initiated by dedicated to worship. He may be forever seeking, Joseph Smith's search for truth. "In the midst of under changing conditions, to make the doctrine this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often of human brotherhood more effective in behalf of said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all .?" the needy. He is a believer who seeks to use his these parties are right . . Thus came the first beliefs in every concern of his life. great vision of Joseph Smith; and as a consequence Unfortunately, the word liberal is not now al- of his search for truth came the other revelations, ways properly used. It has been used, or misused, and the enduring light-giving structure of the for so many purposes that its original meaning has Church. In his differences with the beliefs of the largely vanished. Word-juggling, making a good churches of his day, he did not seek cover under word cover a doubtful or an ugly cause, is an age- the name of an existing church. Instead he frankly old pastime. Words are too often used as shields formed another Church and fought out the issue on to hide or disguise truth. Many men are inclined the basis of his own fundamental doctrine. It is to hide their true motives behind a word. understood that every worthy member of the The self-called liberal is usually one who has Church must likewise seek and find truth for him- broken with the fundamental principles or guiding self. Then, the Church recognizes that there is philosophy of the group to which he belongs. He is constant change on earth but insists that every an unbeliever. He claims membership in an organ- change must respect and use the basic doctrine of ization but does not believe in its basic concepts; the Church, and must be for human good. It de- and sets out to reform it by changing its founda- clares that men "live and move and have their tions. He is forever entangling his unbelief with being" under the law of progress. Change steps his membership. He wants the protection of the upon the heels of change in the unfolding of a organization, therefore refuses to admit frankly that progressive universe. The simple eternal truths of he rejects the fundamental beliefs of the cause and existence are combined and combined again, in seeks truth elsewhere. It is a species of cowardice. different ways, but progressively, to serve man on In the United States, communists, nazis, or fascists his never-ending journey. It is much as the endless would probably insist that they are liberals. In a combination of the few numerical digits from simple church, the liberal refuses to accept the doctrine of to increasingly larger numbers. Members of the the church or the way of life that it enjoins upon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do not its members. It is an undeserved compliment to need to look elsewhere for a liberal Church. designate such men by the noble word liberal; they —/. A. W.

609 CONDUCTED BY MARBA C. JOSEPHSON

"SO YOU'RE MY SON" sling-shot itself, nails, pocket-knife, ones from which you thought they chalk, a chewed-off pencil, eraser, fish- came—but if you could see them again By Dr. Theodore R. Martin line, and even had your fingers pricked the next day you would find them re- by one of his best bait-hooks. Yes, arranged to the exact position of the many times have you you have been astonished and some- night before. As you gaze at the boy How all things emptied your son's pockets times amused, that these in his bed you couldn't possibly scold should come out of two front pockets, him, and still you feel that the things and been amazed at the conglomeration two back pockets, and a small watch you have found there in his pockets of things you have found there? Un- pocket of one pair of trousers. given you better insight to the questionably you have discovered such have a Mother, you have been patching the activities of your throughout the important things as marbles, tops, boy pockets of these trousers or possibly day. stones for his sling-shot, possibly the putting in a new seat while the boy is But—have you ever stopped to ex- sound asleep in bed after a hard day amine the mind of the boy and the nu- at play and while Dad sits comfortably merous things that clutter it? Have reading the evening paper. Sometimes you ever stopped to patch up the many you have bothered Dad with the de- loop-holes there—to weed out the per- tails and have asked him to speak to the nicious and detrimental and transplant boy about such steam-shovel loads in there some of the most lovely and his pockets, but by morning Dad has worthwhile experiences of your own forgotten all about it while wondering life? Have you tried to understand if he has the proper necessities in his more thoroughly the thoughts of your own pockets before starting for the boy by exploring his brain during his office. Except for the slight expense waking hours as you have done his of a new pair of trousers or the trouble pockets during his sleep? of patching, it is such a trivial matter, You will be filled with awe at his anyway, because if he takes these things intellectual prowess and astonished at out he will find so many, many other his capacity to wiggle and worm his things to take their place. Hence, we way out and around things that make know you have returned these most him wary of your inquisitiveness. precious possessions to the pockets, the Gradually you will find the bonds of

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THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 Homing understanding strengthening and your IF !T7S son will find that you, too, faced many of the perplexing problems that now BORDEN'S confront him. Your successes will be relived in memory and honest effort IT'S GOT TO made to develop them in actuality, and your possible failures, too, will serve as BE GOOD bridges over the gaping crevasses of would-be disappointments in his own life. Prepare your own mind for the op- § LAST MINUTE MOOS portunities that will come to share a few waking hours with the toys in the pockets of your son's brain. He is Says Elsie, the famous Borden cow: part of you—for he is your son. Utah? Why that's where many of my Borden friends live and work. That's where (in Logan) rich, pure milk from Utah cows is evaporated by Borden's, irradiated with Sunshine Vitamin D. No wonder Utah gro- cers are proud to offer their customers this fine Utah product. Are you By Barbara Badger Burnett enjoying it? Do.

Tomato Steak

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1 large onion 2 cloves 2 teaspoons salt }/% teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons flour Get Those 3 Pottery Bowls! 2 tablespoons water Score the meat by slashing with a sharp For cereals . . . and a host of other uses knife. Place it in a casserole and sear at They're a cheery canary yellow, 5 500 degrees for 20 minutes. Put the carrots 2y8 inches high and 5 /8 inches through the coarse knife of the food chop- across and made of the finest pottery. Every housewife will find per. Add the carrots and the seasonings many uses for them. You'll surely want three to start with, espe- to the meat. Pour the tomato juice over cially when it's so easy to get them at less than half what the meat. Cover and bake at 275 degrees you'd expect to pay. for 3 hours. Remove from the oven. Add the 2 tablespoons of flour mixed with 2 tablespoons of water. Boil together over Send these 2 BOX TOPS and a surface burner for a few minutes until thickened enough for gravy. Go to your grocer. Get a box oi C* ^^ POLKA DOT. the modern bluing, and a J I If* American Chop Suey With Noodles % REGULAR SIZE box of PAR SOAP. Send ^ ^^ 1 pound fresh lean pork us the tops of these boxes, with 50c and three bowls 4 onions of gleaming California table pottery will be sent you Yl tablespoon fat post paid. POLKA DOT is the modern bluing you use with 3 cups celery soap ... in the washer or tub . . . while you wash. 2 green peppers Cuts washing time and is mighty economical, too. Try 1^2 cups mushrooms POLKA DOT next time, with PAR. Enjoy a better, 1J/2 teaspoons salt easier washing. And, for the pottery, send 50c and 2 cans consomme the two box tops to

Cut the pork into small pieces and slice PAR SOAP COMPANY, 767 - 85th Ave., Oakland, Calif. the onions very thin. Brown in a pan with the fat. Place in a baking dish and add the celery, peppers, and mushrooms cut in small pieces. Add the salt and consomme. Cover and bake for 3 hours at 275 degrees. Serve with noodles.

Hallowe'en Fruit Salad

2 packages orange gelatin 2 cups hot water 2 cups cold water d McDo^ds 2 cups diced pineapple «B' & COCOA 2 cups diced peaches » Stands^ all iiC ^.^ leads 1 cup diced pears *he kiddie* 1 cup seedless grapes it A VaUbiul «* 16 canned peach halves . . as Ml* a t s £ lettuce ¥** °* McDonald's Original *" *gj& Dissolve the gelatin in hot water. Add DON'T BOIL COCOA the cold water and chill until it begins to thicken, then add all the fruit except the • Ground Chocolate • Baking Chocolate The House of McDonald peach halves. Put the halves in peach 1481 South Main Street - Salt Lake City, Utah (Concluded on page 612)

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Put a couple of small pieces of charcoal Homing in your refrigerator to absorb odors. —Mrs. G. C, Monte Vista, Colo. rows hollow side up in a shallow pan. To wash crystal—extra care should be Pour the fruit mixture over the peaches exerted to avoid breakage, especially and chill until firm. Turn upside down the fine stemware. Line the dishpan with to unmold. Cut in squares around each a thick turkish towel and wash only one peach. Place on lettuce loaf and make a glass at a time. A fine brush is handy for face on the peach with raisins and mara- scrubbing cut ware.—Mrs. C. W. B., Taber, schino cherry. Alta, Canada.

Raisin Pudding Cake delicious whipped cream substitute is A easily made by adding a mashed 1 cup sugar banana to the white of one egg. Beat until J/2 cup shortening 2 eggs stiff. The banana will almost dissolve, but it should be used immediately after prepar- % cup diluted evaporated milk ing.^—Mrs. T. F., Shelley, Idaho. 1 cup finely rolled graham cracker crumbs 1 cup flour Spinach will retain its bright green color 3 teaspoons baking powder if cooked with one-fourth to one-half 34 teaspoon salt teaspoon of baking soda in boiling water. 1 teaspoon vanilla —Mrs. L. F., Olympia, Wash. Yl CUP chopped nuts hang skirts on an ordinary wire hanger, 1 cup seedless raisins To catch the band or top of skirt with Cream the sugar and shortening together. spring type clothespins which have been Add the well-beaten eggs, milk, and graham hooked over the rod on the hanger. -Mrs. A World of cracker crumbs. Add the flour, baking A. E. P., Tucson, Arizona. powder, and salt sifted together. Add the an electric refrigerator unit in vanilla, nuts, and raisins. Pour into two Defrost Comfort greased layer cake tins and bake about a minimum of time by this method. 40 minutes in a moderate oven (375 de- Turn off the refrigerator, empty the ice- grees). Cool and put together with cream cube trays and fill them with very hot water. when you unit the filling. Cover top with seven minute frost- Replace them in the freezing and ing. box will defrost in a very few minutes with- lowering the overall temperature of the For the cream filling, add 2 cups of out HEAT YOUR HOME milk to one package of vanilla pudding. refrigerator appreciably. E. C. S., Phila- delphia, Pa. Stir until the boiling point is reached. Cool. . » . with Bread and Butter Pickles On the Book Rack 20 medium size cucumbers cut % inch thick 5 cups water (Concluded from page 607) 3 cups cider vinegar THE SECRETARY'S HANDBOOK— 1 teaspoon alum A MANUAL OF CORRECT USAGE 2 teaspoons salt (Sarah Augusta Tain tor and Kate Mix thoroughly; M. Munro. Macmillan, New York, 1941. GAS allow to come to a boil, remove from the fire and let stand 30 min- 540 pages. $2.50.) utes. Drain and pack into sterilized jars. This complete revision of a handbook You enjoy more than the comfort of Add to the top of each jar 2 tablespoons which has proved successful from its uniform warmth when you have Gas minced onion. Pour over the pickles the initial publication in 1929 will prove of great following solution which has been worth to all who need to write. The authors Heat. You also enjoy the supreme brought to a boil: state that they have studied carefully the comfort and ease of entire freedom Yi gallon cider vinegar various manuals of style and have pointed from unpleasant work around your 1 pint water out, where there is a great difference of furnace. 3 cups sugar method in them. Part I deals with capital- 2 teaspoons celery seed ization, punctuation, hyphenation and di- Gas is the only 100% automatic 2 teaspoons mustard seed vision of syllables, use of italics, figures, house-heating fuel. This means: no 2 teaspoons tumeric spelling, diction, abbreviations, and points of grammar. Part II includes letter-writing; storage space required ... no fur- Seal jars. correct usage in letters; invitations; business nace tending ... no fuel handling Peach and Cantaloupe Conserve announcements; telegrams, cablegrams, and . . no work at all! radiograms; the framing of petitions; the 1 pint diced peaches writing of minutes; the framing of resolu- 1 pint diced cantaloupe And Gas is clean. No dust, soot, tions; the framing of constitutions; the writ- 2 lemons, juice and grated rind ashes, clinkers or smoke! ing of reports; preparation of manuscript; 3 cups sugar 2 compiling a bibliography; proofreading; /3 cup walnuts, blanched and chopped making an index; rules for alphabetical fil- ECONOMICAL, TOO Combine ingredients, with exception of ing; sources of information useful to secre- nuts. Cook mixture until thick clear, taries; inscriptions. Gas Heat is surprisingly economical, and citations; and add nuts and pour into sterilized jars and This should be a must book for secre- especially when you use Gas for seal. taries.—M. C. /. the 4 big jobs—heating, cooking, water-heating and refrigeration NOT BY STRANGE GODS ( Elizabeth Madox Roberts. The Viking dicmdsf diinidu Press, New York, 1941. 244 pages. Come in or phone for $2.50.) Payment for Handy Hints used will be complete information one dollar upon publication. In the event TO most readers this book will have a that two with the same idea are submitted, . nostalgic flavor, for they will know the one postmarked earlier will receive the that this gifted writer will write no more. dollar. None of the ideas can be returned, Her death is a distinct loss to the literary MOUNTAIN FUEL but each will receive careful consideration. world. Not by Strange Gods is a collection of six of Miss Roberts' short stories written If buns, sweet rolls, or raisin bread are during the past eight years. SUPPLY COMPANY * brushed with a cloth dipped in a mixture, In these stories, as in all her previous one part molasses, one part water, while work, Miss Roberts proves her ability to Salt Lake - Ogden - Provo they are still hot, they will have a delicious portray the humanity that she knows so

Serving 23 Utah Communities flavor. Miss M. T., Rockville, Utah. well—M. C. /. 612 ——

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On the Book Rack RESTLESS ARE THE SAILS (Evelyn Eaton. Harper and Brothers, GRANDMA LEARNS ABOUT SOUP New York, 1941. 348 pages. $2.50.) HERE IN THE WEST This novel dealing with the New France OUT in the American hemisphere is refresh- f. You should have seen ing and stirring. Treating old material in Grandma's eyes bulge when a new way, this book deals with Paul de she discovered that I was buy- Morpain, a prisoner of war in New England, ing soup instead of making who contrived to convey news to his coun- it— and after all the training trymen of the attack planned by the colonists she had given mc at home, on Louisburg. Of more impelling interest, however, than this historical material, is Down East. his own personal life in which he met with all kinds of unusual experiences, which threatened to ruin his life, but in the end worked to his betterment. The author's ability to recreate the atmosphere of the period with which she deals is nowhere more marked than in this, her latest book.—M. C. /. NO LIFE FOR A LADY (Agnes Morley Cleaveland. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1941. 356 pages. $3.00.)

This autobiography introduces its readers to the New Mexico of cowboy fame. The author, who belies the title of the book, still thinks of the northwestern section of New Mexico as "home." She was born there in 1874, daughter of the chief construction engineer of the young Santa Fe railroad and his gentie wife. Two other children were also born to them. Then the father was killed at the unready age of thirty-eight, after which his young widow tried desperately to manage his farm, until the time when Agnes and her brother Ray took it over. Raymond Morley became in his own right a famous cattle man, with holdings of nearly a half a million acres. The negative feeling that may be aroused when looking at the artist's end papers and finding Utah misnamed Idaho vanishes as the reader gets into the story, for it is redolent with the flavor of the old West, 3* "No wonder the children arc so and rings true. Filled with rare good 2. But she was amazed to sec how humor, the book moves to a satisfactory the children loved their Rancho Soup, so healthy," she beamed. "Why that Rancho conclusion, revivifying this important pe- completely amazed that she broke down and Soup is simply bursting with good, sub-

riod of our expansion. if westward M. C. J. tried some herself. "Why this is wonderful," stantial food. And it tastes bome-made-as

it simmered for hours, just as I WHERE STANDS A WINGED she cried. "Imagine soup as delicious as this had been taught you back home. I've made a great SENTRY coming out of a can. I never dreamed of (Margaret Kennedy. Yale University such a thing." discovery," she added proudly. Press, New Haven, 1941. 251 pages. $2.00.)

Beautifully written by a competent author, this book bares the souls of some English folk—and makes them beautiful and courageous and much to be emu- RANCHO lated. In the beginning section, she states: "All my life I have had a great curiosity to know SOUPS what it felt like to live through history," and then she relates the historic period between May and September of 1940. Per- Vegetable haps the wisest test of the merit of a people Mushroom is their ability to "take it." Miss Kennedy Chicken Noodle proves in this book that Englishmen cannot Pea only take it, they can take it smiling! Asparagus In addition to the chronicle of the time Tomato which the author depicts so tellingly, she 4r, "Simmering is only half the story," analyzes the characteristics of the English, I told her. "Rancho Soups are made from RANCHO the Americans, and the French in such a manner that all of her readers will be grate- top quality vegetables grown right around ful for her analysis. the Rancho kitchen, and from poultry and But more than all else, the book reveals pastes produced nearby. That's why Rancho the hopes and fears and courage of a people, PACKED SOUPS Soups are so good - and inexpensive!" P. S. \ UMWK CONTINUOUS f | INSPECTION OF THE I fighting for its very life and its ideals. AGMCULTUtAL Grandma took a case of Rancho Soup home HARKETIK XKVICE 1 | Rancho is the only soup This book is a first-hand account of a Of/ loFTHCU.S.Mrr that carries ibis U. S. AWrCOUUK genial English family's response to the with her. Department of Agricul- ture's Insptttion shield.

hardships and horrors of the war. M. C. J. .

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Now — drink this famous food to your health, in he said at last. plain, cool, tomato juice, milk or water.You'll like it! After seeing that Doris was com- fortable and worrying only about the coming party, Herb vanished, leaving Alice to soothe the child. In a few minutes he reappeared, how- IN USE For OVER FIFTY YEARS PIANOS ever, with smug satisfaction lighting his face. Aids in treatment of Canker, simple Piano training is the foundation of a musical education and furnishes the center of home en- "Don't worry too much about the sore throat and other minor mouth tertainment. Call for demonstration or write for catalogues party," he told Doris when he and and throat irritations. New Spinets from $295 up New Grands from $545 up Alice left. 30 months to pay if desired Hall's Canker Remedy Outside, he turned to Alice. DAYNES MUSIC CO. "Why can't we have the party right 536 East 2nd So. — at Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake 47 So. Main St. City here?" 614 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 TANGIBLE PAYMENT

"Do you suppose the hospital earlier qualms about driving the car would allow it?" full of squalling children.

"Certainly. That's why I ducked "You're a swell driver, aren't Ahead are Fall and out of the room before. I went to the you?" suddenly mumbled the boy Winter months when vitality superintendent. He agreed." beside him. "I wish I could learn runs low and wholesome, nutritious "Oh, but how could we have it to drive like you." foods are a necessity in here. The children and the decora- Herb laughed. "Wait until you every diet. tions and all of that. Oh, and the get a little bigger," he said. "Then food. It's impossible!" I'll teach you." Herb laughed. "I'll talk the boss "Would you really?" gasped the into letting me use his big car, then boy. He sat straighter. "Oh, Uncle we can drive the young ones here. Herb! Next week, huh?" We won't need any better decora- The car pulled up before the hos- tions children their than the and pital and Alice shepherded her fun." charges along the white corridor Include in all your The next morning Herb appealed and into a bright, airy room, filled meals plenty of health- his to employer, Mr. Mattingly. "I with the gaiety of the other children, ful Milk White Eggs . . . have only a coupe, that's why we who billowed around the bed where rich in essential vita- need a bigger car. Otherwise we'd lay Doris, her eyes sparkling in an- mins, minerals, and pro have to make so many trips that the ticipation. tein. last children would just arrive when Then followed what seemed to the first ones would have to leave." Herb at times a holocaust of sound, Consent came readily, to his sur- a swelling babble that threatened to prise, and perhaps the assistance overwhelm him. Alice was sure and from Mr. Mattingly lent a greater deft, and he scurried around at her shade of importance to the work. commands. Soon the hubbub be- In any case, a glow warmed Herb came less confusing. The children and heightened his enjoyment as were really quite obedient. the last package was wrapped on The afternoon faded through the Keep your family safe the Saturday of the party. procession of games until the time . . . healthy. Particular housewives know the "Now don't get into a fret over for refreshments came. These were goodness of Milk White anything," Herb cautioned as Alice handed out on paper dishes, and the Eggs. Ask for them afc began to fuss and worry. They children sat before the bed of little your grocer's. were speeding out to the hospital in Doris, whose eyes shone as she said Mr. Mattingly's big sedan. a grave blessing on the food. In the momentary hush while "I can't help it. I'm sure we've Milk White Eggs are used in all forgotten something. Did you put hungry jaws were munching, Herb M. I. A. Cooking Schools in that extra jar of pickles?" was astonished to see Mr. Mattingly stroll into the room. He groaned. "Yes, I did. Also "I just dropped in to see how Produced by the bread and the butter and the everything was getting along," he ham. Everything! Quit fluttering Utah Poultry Producers' announced, and before leaving, around. Be calm and nicely effi- Co-operative Association dropped a roll of dimes into Alice's cient, like me," his grin belying his hand. "Give these to the children own pulse rate. later." Then the party was at an end, .tYlice subsided at last, miraculously and successfully. Herb only to revive when, all the supplies struggled to fill the car with the first having been deposited at the hos- youngsters, delivered them, and re- pital, they drove over to get the chil- turned for the last bunch. After dren. they too were off his hands, with a SUCCESS in "We'll take half of them now," chorus of "Thanks, Uncle Herb!" Herb said as the children wriggled ringing in his ears, he sped back to Beauty Culture with impatience. "Then you can the hospital, where Alice had re- can be yours . . but stay with them at the hospital while mained to help bring order to the you must start on the right foot by getting I come back alone for the second bedside of Doris. the finest training half." The lucky first group piled "Do you still believe a person available. Quish training prepares you to face the future into the car and jeered at those left must have a tangible payment for his with a sense of security, ENROLL NOW! Write for illustrated catalog. behind. efforts?" asked Alice when the two "Please be careful," pleaded Alice were away from the hospital. as he departed for the second trip, Herb grimaced. "No," at last. QUISH School of Beauty Culture "ltd be terrible if you had an ac- "But I still like doing this because "The Best in the West" cident." He patted her hand and I'm with you." 338 So. Main., Phone 4-0313 roared away. She did not move. "That's why Salt Lake City, Utah After a while Herb realized that I enjoyed it, too," simply. But that Fill in coupon for new illustrated catalog. he had forgotten temporarily his was enough. r*k

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CONDUCTED BY THE MELCHIZEDEK PRIESTHOOD COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TWELVE—JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH, CHAIRMAN; JOHN A. WIDTSOE, JOSEPH F. MERRILL, CHARLES A. CALLIS, SYLVESTER Q. CANNON, AND HAROLD B. LEE

LETTERS THE FIRST PRESIDENCY in seeing that men who are candidates TWO FROM for ordination are men of faith, living in full accord with the principles of the is one of the highest privileges and pre- of the Concerning Temple rogatives which belong to members of the Gospel and the doctrines Church. Only the worthy are entitled to Church. Moreover these presiding Recommends the privilege of going to the temple." officers should faithfully impress upon all candidates for ordination the seri- August 23, 1941 presidents of stakes, We expect ousness and responsibility which ordi- Presidents of Stakes wards, presidents of mis- bishops of nation to the Priesthood entails, and the Bishops of Wards branches sions, and presidents of who dreadful consequences of disobedience Presidents of Missions issued to persons have recommends or the violation of the covenants which Presidents of Branches the time fully worthy who were not at are received when offices in the Priest- obtained them Dear Brethren: to receive them, but who hood are accepted. (See D. 6 C. 84: on the promise that they would obey /^\N July 1, 1941, all temple recom- 32-42.) the laws and commandments of the ^^ mends expired, and it is now neces- The candidate will first be notified Lord, to check very carefully every sary to issue new ones. As we indi- to meet with and be interviewed by the such person to see that they are now cated when we sent out the new form stake president, or a counselor in the living in a way that makes them worthy of temple recommends at the beginning stake presidency, who will question to have a temple recommend. of the year, the issuing of temple recom- carefully the candidate and require him In every case, no matter what the mends is not a perfunctory matter. to fill in the questions on the back of previous record shows, every applicant Recommends are to be given only to the certificate. The endorsement of should be considered as if the request those who are worthy to go through the bishop of the ward in which the he now makes were the first request the temple, and the worthiness of the candidate lives and that of the president he had ever made. individual is to be attested to by the of the quorum to which he belongs, Faithfully your brethren, individual's own examination, which is are required, as also the approval of on the back of the temple recommend, THE FIRST PRESIDENCY the high council before the name is the stake plus what the bishop or president of By Heber J. Grant, presented to the Priesthood of

stake, or president of mission or pres- J. Reuben Clark, Jr. for approval. ident of branch, may know about the David O. McKay. The new "Recommendation for or- is to replace applicant. m ' dination in the Priesthood" candidate is We refer you, with a request that it all other forms and each be carefully reread, to the material on Concerning Ordinations required to answer all the questions in pages 129-134, inclusive, of The Hand- person and sign the recommendation as book of Instructions, and to the letter To Priesthood indicated on its back. sent out over our signatures under date These recommendation blanks will Responsibility of Stake Presidents; the of January 6, 1941. be kept by the stake clerk and Our attention has been called by Endorsement of Quorum Pres- stubs will be retained by him in the some temple presidents to the fact that idents and Bishops also asked for stake office, as indicated on the stub. altogether too many recommends that Very sincerely your brethren, August 21st, 1941. have come to the temples show that Heber J. Grant, Presidents of Stakes the individual who received the recom- J. Reuben Clark, Jr., mend did not keep the Word of Wis- Dear Brethren: David O. McKay, a long time the General Author- dom, nor pay a full tithing, and in some Cor The First Presidency. cases none, or the applicant was not ities of the Church have felt that otherwise living a life which is con- there has not been enough care in sistent with that required of those en- advancing and ordaining men to offices NO-LIQUOR-TOBACCO in the Priesthood. There are in the titled to do work in the temple. CAMPAIGN We call attention to Question No. Church today thousands of men holding 6 of the "Statement to be filled in by the Melchizedek Priesthood who are in- the Applicant," which reads: active. Many of these men never "Five Cardinal Sins Against understood the full significance of the the Heart Tea-Drinking, Will you earnestly strive to do your duty — meaning of Priesthood and what the in the Church, to attend your Sacrament, Coffee-Drinking, Cola Drinks, obligation is upon them to magnify their Priesthood, and other meetings, to obey Smoking, and Alcoholic callings when ordained. The Lord has the rules, laws, and commandments of the Beverages" Gospel? made very clear in several revelations, notably sections 20:38-66, 84:32-42, "pROM the June number of the magazine This situation will be particularly ap- and the entire revelation known as sec- Good Health we quote: plicable to those who obtained recom- tion 107, the importance of faithful- "At a recent medical convention in year, mends at the beginning of the and ness and cleanliness of life on the part a discussion of the causes of disease of not then observing the laws who were of those who are ordained to the Priest- the heart, which is destroying the lives and commandments. In this connec- hood. of more than half a million American tion we refer you to the second full This laxness has resulted in many citizens every year, one of the speakers of paragraph on page 130 The Hand- men who have received the Priesthood, said, 'The five cardinal sins against the book of Instructions, under the head- and who are not really worthy, return- heart are tea-drinking, coffee-drinking, ing, "Applicant's Statement." ing to their evil habits and indifference, indulgence in coca cola, smoking, and statement made We repeat again our if these were ever forsaken. Because the use of alcoholic beverages.' in the letter of 6, referred to January of this, it has been deemed wise to ask "Tea and coffee, coca cola, tobacco above, in which we said: care and diligence on the part of pre- and alcohol are certainly all heart poi- The performance of work in the temple siding officers in the wards and stakes, sons, and all make large contributions 616 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941

to the burdens which break down the heart and make heart disease the lead- THE P0CATELL0 ing cause of death not only in the FOURTH WARD United States but in other civilized ELDERS' CHORUS countries." Our Church-Wide Campaign Aur campaign to free the Church ^^ membership from the use of liquor and tobacco is gaining momentum. The Priesthood, Melchizedek and Aaronic, THE POCATELLO FOURTH WARD ELDERS CHORUS is becoming more active. Soon every quorum in the Church will be at work. "pROM a humble beginning great things twenty-two members and the follow- All General Boards of the auxiliary or- can be achieved through coopera- ing achievements to its credit: twelve ganizations have initiated projects in tion and brotherly love. Such is the concerts in surrounding towns; six sac- their organizations. The schools and conviction of the Pocatello Fourth rament meetings in wards of the stake, seminaries will continue to make their Ward "Elders' Chorus," which on Feb- four P. T. A. programs, seven mission- effective contributions. ruary 13, 1938, sang for the first time ary parties, eight wedding receptions, With all of these agencies in opera- as a group at an M. I. A. stake festival. six Relief Society entertainments, and tion our people will develop the con- There were no trained voices among it has rendered the music for ten ses- sciousness that the world does not ex- chorus members, and not over two sions of stake conferences and con- pect to see them smoke or drink. To who could really read music. But ventions and scores of other like en- be well thought-of we must be true to sustained effort at weekly Thursday gagements. our high moral professions. night rehearsals was splendid, and al- But perhaps the most outstanding op- most at once their services were re- portunity came to it when it was chosen Tobacco Ads. quired. to represent the stake at the laying of Alonzo L. Baker, associate editor Each year since then, the group has the corner stone of the Idaho Falls ** of Good Health, writes in the Au- helped the ward Genealogical Society Temple. gust number of that magazine that "if in sponsoring a special temple excursion Sister Arvilla P. Croshaw is director tobacco ads told the truth" they would on Saturday to the Logan Temple, and of the chorus, Leona F. Madsen, ac- untiring efforts say: 'There is a carload of cough in have there rendered songs at the as- companist. Their are semblies. responsible for making the chorus what every pack— ; that cigarettes do not At the present time the chorus has it is today. aid the digestion— ; that cigarettes do cut your wind— ; that laws should govern cigarette advertising just as

they do medicine and foods— ; that cig- Melchizedek Priesthood Outline of Study, November, 1941 arette testimonials are paid for to the Text: Priesthood and Church Government. tune of $1000, $3000, and $5000 per

testimonial— ; that tobacco not only im- poverishes the user financially but LESSON LXVII . 4. Tests willingness and fitness Priesthood and Temple Work 5. Points out ultimate destiny of physically also [and spiritually] — ; that (Read chapter 28, pp. 350-355) those who love truth and live by 26% of the forest fires in America in it 1939 were caused by careless smokers I. The temple as a sanctuary: Parley P. Pratt's declaration VII. Marriage for time and eternity —and this was no exceptional year—; a. sacred contract made lasting II. A work to be done: purpose of temples A by that one-fourth of all fatal burnings in (See Supplementary Readings, No. power of the Priesthood American homes are due to fires that b. Performed only in temples 1, 3) c. Authority to perform and annul have their origin in smoking— ; that a. For the living temple marriage vested in President those who want to be physically fit, 1. Endowments of Church mentally alert, and morally strong 2. Marriages should abstain from the use of tobacco, 3. Sealings Problems and projects b. For the dead which is an impoverisher of man's purse, 1. Have someone present a fuller account 1. Baptisms man's body, and man's mind." of the development of temple ordinances in 2. Priesthood ordinations this dispensation. When was the complete 3. Endowments, marriages, sealings endowment made known? What ceremonies Local in California Option III. Binding on earth and in heaven: seal- were performed at Kirtland? At Nauvoo? "K^any of the statements and promises ing power of the Priesthood 2. Why was a restoration of the Priest- a. Exercised only within temples made to secure repeal have not hood necessary before the principles of tem- IV. Administration of temples ple work could be revealed? Show the been realized. The "saloon" has come a. Seven temples and temple districts role of Priesthood authority in each phase back. Liquor is being bought today in b. Temple presidency of temple work. a it great many more places than was c. Ordinance workers 3. Members will be interested in a brief sold before national prohibition. Much V. "The ancient order of things": restor- history of each of the seven temples: when more liquor is drunk now than then. ation of temple work begun and when completed, the area each And the results of drinking are always a. Joseph Smith instructs select group serves, architectural details, (See Supple- 4, 1842 the same. It is these results that have May mentary Readings, No. 5) the history of the b. Endowments for all Saints proper awakened, and are awakening, the peo- in period during which it was erected, interest- place ing items concerning each. Assign these ple to the need of action. VI. The temple endowment (See Supple- topics to quorum members well ahead of In California this action is being ex- mentary Readings, No. 2) time. pressed in efforts to place upon the a. Joseph Smith: endowment needed 1942 election ballot a provision which, "to overcome all things" LESSON LXVIII Priesthood and (cont.) if adopted, will give the state local op- b. Brigham Young: endowment "leads Temple Work (Read chapter 28, 356-361) tion. us back into presence of the Father" pp. What the prospects for success are c. Nature of the endowment I. The importance of records: Joseph 1. Relates story of man's eternal Smith's admonition we do not know. But from the basic journey a. Records to be "worthy of all ac- theory of American democracy it is dif- 2. Sets forth conditions upon which ceptation": as on earth so in heaven ficult to see why there should be any progress depends (See Supplementary Readings, No. opposition to local option. Liquor in- 3. Requires covenants to accept and 4) (Concluded on page 621) use laws of progress (Concluded on page 618) 617 —

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Melchizedek Priesthood 2. Life and annual memberships why such condemnation? Because "the 3. Full-time staff of trained work- greatest responsibility in this world that {Concluded from page 617) ers God has laid upon us, is to seek after our c. Prepares study courses dead." (Genealogical Course, 1935, part b. Complete record needed to weld d. Has two-fold duty III, dispensations together p. 11.) 1. To spread knowledge of doctrine 2. Labor in the temples brings much joy. c. In baptizing for the dead of salvation of dead The temple endowment if properly under- 1. Recorder 2. To advance work of gathering stood is a great blessing to him who re- 2. Witnesses genealogical records ceives it. It becomes an interpreter and d. Need of order in recording III. Stake and ward genealogical organi- protector of life. e. Need of archives zations The temple endowment may be received II . Temples a necessity a. Reorganized during 1940, Sunday by every faithful member of the Church. a. Ordinances outside the temple per- Schools charged with providing It may be taken also for the dead. Thereby mitted "in the days of your pov- genealogical instruction erty" an opportunity is given to keep the meaning b. Ward and stake committees con- of the endowment fresh in our minds. b. Ordinances outside temple not ac- tinue Temple service for the dead is wholly un- ceptable "at end of the appointment" 1. Teach members principles of re- selfish and consequently has a marvelous to build house of the Lord search refining influence upon those who engage in c. Building of temples a standing 2. Encourage temple work and plan it. approach a fulness of spiritual joy, commandment (Doc. and Cov. 124: To excursions 29-39) the privileges of the temple must be used IV. Temple index bureau as often as possible. A. Widtsoe, III. Baptism for the dead: a fundamental (John a. Clearing house to avoid duplication teaching Program of the Church, p. 112.) in temple work 3. validity of vicarious service, in a. Scriptural injunctions The b. One of world's largest which one person acts in behalf of another, b. History of baptism for the dead in V. The family organization: the patri- is generally recognized as an element of this dispensation (See "If the Dead archal order institutions; that such service Rise Not," The Improvement Era, human and a. Convenient unit for promoting wel- may be acceptable unto God is attested by September, 1940, p. 530) IV. Temple recommends fare of family groups the written word. Ancient and modern b. Aids in fulfilling responsibility of scripture, the record of history other than a. Issued to faithful members on rec- temple work sacred, the traditions of tribes and nations, ommendation of bishop; counter- VI. The place of genealogical and temple signed by stake president the rites of bloody sacrifice, and even the work in the Church sacrificial abominations of pagan idolatry, b. Exemplary young people may per- a. not auxiliary form baptisms Basic, involve the essential conception of vicarious b. A Priesthood function propitiation and of service rendered by c. Conditions of temple-going proxy. The scapegoat (Lev. 16:20-22) 1. Payment of tithes Problems and projects and the altar victim (Lev. 4) in the Mosaic 2. Observance of Word of Wisdom 1. Quorums within reach of a temple dispensation, when offered by constituted 3. Loyalty to Church authorities should plan a quorum temple excursion as authority and with due accompaniment of 4. Mental preparation for temple their project for the month. Quorums be- acknowledgment and repentance, were ac- ordinances yond easy access to a temple should en- cepted by the Lord as sacrifices in mitigation d. Temple endowment not recom- deavor to secure a quota of names to be of the sins of His people. E. Talmage, mended for women married to non- sent to the temples. Emphasis should be (J. House the Lord, 69, 77-8.) members on temple work and genealogical research The of pp. 4. And further, I want you to remember e. Women married to Church members this month. Testimonies and accounts of that the Revelator contemplating not worthy may receive recommend past excursions and research adventures John was this very subject in relation to the dead, on written consent of husband would stimulate the project. when he declared, as you will find recorded 2. Invite the chairman or a member of — Problems and projects in Revelation 20:12 "And I saw the dead, the ward genealogical committee to tell the 1. Call to mind the number and kinds of small and great, stand before God; and the quorum about his work. How does his records kept by the Church in its manifold committee discharge the two-fold obligation books were opened; and another book was activities. How important are they? Why opened, which is the book of life: and the of (1) teaching members the principles of are records of temple work particularly im- dead were judged out of those things which research and (2) encouraging temple work. portant? were written in the books, according their What benefits accrue to the ward having an to 2. How far-reaching is the Lord's com- active temple and genealogical committee? works." mandment concerning temple - building? You will discover in this quotation that 3. Encourage the formation of family or- What does this indicate concerning the the books were opened; another ganizations. If a representative of such an and book future? Have someone report on the temple was opened, which was the book of life; organization is within reach, invite him to now under construction in Idaho. the dead of speak to the quorum concerning the nature but were judged out those things 3. Review the scriptural foundation for which written in the and activities of his group. were books, according baptism for the dead. Have someone pre- to their works; consequently, the books sent Joseph Smith's teachings concerning it. spoken of must be the books which con- Why was the Prophet so concerned about Supplementary Readings tained the record of their works, and refer the proper performance of this ordinance? to the records which are kept on the earth. 4. from Learn the bishop what procedure And the book which was the book of life is now being followed in securing temple a 1. It matters not what else we have been is the record which is kept in heaven; the recommend. Discuss the questionnaire recalled to do or what positions we may principle agreeing precisely with the doc- quiring answer before recommends are is- occupy, or how faithfully in other ways we trine which is commanded you in the reve- sued. is issuing the Why recommend twice have labored in the Church, none is exempt lation contained in the letter which I wrote yearly a good thing? from this great obligation [of doing temple to you previous to my leaving my place LESSON LXIX work]. It is required of the Apostle as that in all your recordings it may be re- well as the humblest Elder. Place or dis- corded in heaven. (See Doctrine and Priesthood and Temple Work (cone.) tinction, or long service in the Church, in Covenants 128:2-7.) (Read chapter 28, pp. 361-365) the mission field, the stakes of Zion, or where 5. The First Presidency proceeded to I. Temple excursions: a Priesthood ac- or how else it may have been, will not en- the southeast corner, to lay the first stone, tivity title one to disregard the salvation of one's though it is customary to commence at the a. Ideal as quorum project dead. Some may feel that if they pay their northeast corner—that is the beginning point b. Participation in ward, stake excur- tithing, attend their regular meetings and most generally, I believe, in the world. At sions other duties, give of their substance to the this side of the equator we commence at c. Junior baptismal excursions poor, perchance spend one, two, or more the southeast corner. We sometimes look d. Responsibility of supplying names years preaching in the world, that they for light you know, brethren. You old 1. Own lineage are absolved from further duty. But an men that have been through the mill pretty 2. Ward, friends' lists equally great and grand duty is to labor well, have been inquiring after light—which II. Genealogical Society of Utah for the dead. We may and should do all way do you go? You will tell me you go a. A common tool for securing gene- these other things, for which reward will be to the east for light? So we commence by alogical data given, but if we neglect this other weighty laying the stone on the southeast corner, b. Organized November 13, 1894, at privilege and commandment, notwithstand- because there is the most light. (President call of First Presidency ing all other good works, we shall find our- Brigham Young, Millennial Star, Vol. 15, 1. Duly incorporated, officered selves under severe condemnation. And p. 488.) 618 —

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given to Moses on the mount, and thereby 'He that is considered the least among Aaronic Priesthood ' magnified it and made it honorable, in- you is greater than John—that is myself.' stead of destroying it. The son of Zach- John the Baptist, like most of the Pro- Nineteenth in a series of articles arias wrested the keys, the Kingdom, the phets before and after him, sealed his testi- written by the late Elder Orson F. power, the glory, from the Jews, by the mony with his blood. He was beheaded Whitney of the Council of the holy anointing and decree of heaven. while in prison, by order of Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee, whom he had repre- Twelve. Published originally in "Who did Jesus have reference to as hended for his incestuous and adulterous "The Contributor," being the least? Jesus was looked upon marriage with Herodias, his brother Philip's as having the least claim in all God's king- wife. This tragic event occurred about at proper age, and the Arriving the dom, and was least entided to their credul- A. D. 31, the first year of our Lord's active ^^ days of his compelled retirement ity as a Prophet, as though He had said: ministry in the flesh. being over, John entered up- The history of the Aaronic on his mission as the fore- Priesthood now merges with and runner of the Son of God and is overshadowed by that of the preached throughout Judea Melchizedek Priesthood, restored through Christ and repre- the baptism of repentance for sented by Him and His Apostles, the remission of sins. Jesus and the Elders by them ordained. himself was baptized of him Comparatively little is said for in Jordan, thus setting the the Lesser Priesthood by the great example and practical sacred writers of that period, the illustration of the truth of reason of which, we think, is His own words, declared af- obvious. The chief labor of the Apostles was to found a new terwards to Nicodemus, order of things, to supersede the "Verily, verily, I say unto old, in which the Aaronic Priest- thee, except a man be born hood had been the reigning idea. of water, and of the Spirit, It devolved upon them to con- he cannot enter into the king- vert the people, so long tradi- dom of God." tionated in an exclusive reverence for the house of Levi, to On a certain occasion, that more perfect order which when speaking of this prophet, the Son of God introduced, to the Savior said: "Among wean them from the law of those that are born of wom- Moses, now fulfilled and conse- en, there hath not arisen quently obsolete, and convince them of the subordinate nature a greater prophet than John of the Priesthood of Aaron, the Baptist, nevertheless, he which had been their highest that is least in the kingdom ideal for many centuries. Hence, of heaven is greater than he." though there were doubtless in the ancient Church, The Prophet Joseph Smith, CHARLES W. NIBLEY, FIFTH PRESIDING bishops, Priests, Teachers, and Deacons commenting upon this utter- BISHOP OF THE CHURCH in abundance, as well as apos- ance of Jesus, after reminding tles, Prophets, Pastors, High poverty to the heights of affluence his hearers of the scriptural From the depths of Priests, Seventies, and Elders; declaration that John "did this was the life experience of Charles Wilson Nibley, the former are not so prominently fifth Presiding Bishop of the Church. no miracle," says: "How is it mentioned as the latter. Born February 5, 1849, at Huntersfield, Scotland, to that John was considered one (7*0 be Continued) parents who had joined the Church five years before, his greatest of prophets? of the childhood was spent amid preparation for and the migration, His miracles could not have first to Rhode Island in 1855, and then to Utah in 1860. Aaronic Priesthood constituted his greatness? The first family home in Cache Valley was a part dug- Pageant Ready out. A stove was traded for land, and the future Presiding details of the for "Firstly. He was intrusted Bishop began his career as a farmer. Beginning in 1865, A ll plans with a divine mission of prepar- he became successively clerk, station agent, general freight *^ the Aaronic Priesthood ing the way before the face of and ticket agent, and missionary to England. Pageant, "Prepare Ye the the Lord. Whoever had such a In 1879, Elder Nibley became manager and secretary Way," have been completed of the United Order Manufacturing Company at Logan trust committed to him before and the presentation will oc- or since? No man. and assessor and collector for Cache County. Later he became an organizer of the Oregon Lumber Company, the cur Wednesday, Thursday, "Secondly. He was intrusted Sumpter Valley Railroad Company, and the LaGrande and Friday, October 1 , 2, and with the important mission and Sugar Company. He was first counselor in the first stake 3 in the Tabernacle. it was required at his hands to presidency of Union Stake. The first production of its baptize the Son of Man. Who- He had many close contacts with high Church leaders. kind to be presented by the ever the of doing that? had honor He accompanied President Joseph F. Smith to Europe, Aaronic Priesthood, this Whoever had so great a privi- Hawaii, and to Canada, and President Heber Grant to J. pageant is intended to em- lege and glory? Canada and Arizona for temple dedications. phasize the message of the The call to the Presiding Bishopric came in 1907. He "Thirdly. John, at that time, served until 1925 when he became second counselor in the Priesthood and to bring forc- was the only legal administrator First Presidency. He died in 1931. ibly to the attention of young in the affairs of the kingdom that Bishop Nibley served during the World War as a member people particularly the value was then on the earth, and hold- of the War Industries Board. During the war he an- of the Priesthood as a guide ing the keys of power. The nounced for the Church that more than 200,000 bushels of to life and living. Jews had to obey his instructions wheat, which had been accumulated by the Relief Society Impressive and appropri- or be damned, by their own law, since 1876, under advice of President Brigham Young, ate scenic and lighting effects, and Christ himself fulfilled all would be released to help relieve the wheat shortage in righteousness in becoming obe- America. which have been developed dient to the law, which He had {Continued on page 620) 619 .

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continue to be the sport of total ab- Aaronic Priesthood BISHOPS' CONFERENCE, stainers, leading coaches say. {Continued from page 619) OCTOBER 2 The new roll call in which prominent institutions and their football mentors over months of research using fluor- of the Church have been Bishops are quoted on "no drinking" rules in invited to participate in a special escent lighting for special "atmo- sports resulted from a survey of 15,000 conference in Salt Lake, Thursday, sphere" effects will be a feature. high school students, which indicated 2. phases of the Nearly a thousand persons will be October Important work of the Church entrusted to the close attention these young people engaged in the presentation a chorus — bishops will be discussed in all-day have given to the coaches' warning, of over four hundred and choral speak- sessions. The Aaronic Priesthood "Even a few drinks spoil your possi- ing groups of nearly five hundred. Pageant, "Prepare Ye the Way," bilities as an athlete." Principals, musicians, committee mem- will furnish the program for the Replying to Secretary Breg's request bers, and special assistants will com- evening. for up-to-date opinions and observa- plete the roster. tions, "to show why this rule persists, Members of bishoprics and stake even though drinking is increasingly will realize that this is one of their presidencies attending the bishops' con- popular among many Americans," were contributions to the National Defense ference October 2 are invited to attend the coaches of Princeton, Cornell, Syra- on that date. in Program. Those the Salt Lake cuse, Harvard, Ohio State, Washing- area When conditions permit the lifting are encouraged to attend on the ton State, Texas Christian, Colgate, of these restrictions, and new plans can opening night, leaving the Friday eve- Texas Agricultural and Mechanical, ning presentation for conference visi- be made, it is intended to go forward and Universities of Alabama, Illinois, with the excursion along the lines orig- tors. Pennsylvania, California, Kansas, inally announced. North Carolina, and Minnesota. California Excursion Postponed Typical of the two-point emphasis Standard Quorum Award on "why coaches won't keep drinking Inability of the railroads to provide Records Should be Checked Now men on the squad" was the statement of Cornell University's head football facilities during the month of De- Ctake and Ward Aaronic Priesthood cember, because of requirements of the coach, Carl G. Snavely, who found *-* leaders and officers of quorums National Defense Program, have made alcoholic indulgence harmfully effect- working for Standard Quorum Awards necessary the postponement of the ing stamina, skill, nervous reactions, for 1941 should check the records now Aaronic Priesthood California mid- and mental processes, and also threat- and plan to make up any deficiencies of winter excursion plan- ening team morale. which had been the summer months. ned for the holidays. Under restric- "Those who make tests or perform With three months left in which to tions, which have just been announced experiments concerning the effects of build up credits, leaders should offer all the railroads, no excursions of any alcoholic beverages will agree that the by possible encouragement and improve kind are to be permitted within the use of these beverages has a harmful activity records to insure the winning United States during the period from effect upon one's stamina, skill, nervous of the award, where it is at all possible. reactions, and mental processes," December 12 to December 31. With Leaders of quorums which have not the release of 200,000 men from the Coach Snavely stated, in a summary made the effort this year should lay army, already announced the approved by the other coaches inter- by Gov- plans now to get the proper start for ernment, beginning early in December, viewed by Allied Youth. 1942. It is desirable that considerable the to give furloughs for "Regardless of any skill he may and proposal educational work be done in prepara- the Christmas holidays to several hun- possess, I am not interested in having tion, and now is the time to do it. the railroads any boy on my squad who does not dred thousand men, have Nothing succeeds like success. Quo- have sufficient pride, poise, and self- been required to hold all their facilities rums which have won the Standard open for these movements. control to lead him to abstain from all once find it easier to Quorum Award of alcoholic beverages. Under the circumstances, there is no types win it the second year. A tradition of "It is my opinion that a boy who alternative but to postpone the excur- success has been established which takes so little pride in his performance sion until such time as present restric- carries over. tions are removed and new plans can or has so little ambition to excell and There is so much involved in the to make the most of his qualifications as be made. Standard Quorum Award plan that a player would not be likely to prove It is with keen disappointment that encourages progress in Aaronic Priest- during the rigors of this announcement is made, but dependable a tough we hood work that every quorum is urged season. could he meet critical hope it will be accepted by members Nor to adopt and follow it. of the Aaronic Priesthood and the lead- situations which we expect to arise reg- ers in the spirit of good citizenship as ularly upon the football field. The presence of such a boy on the squad one of the sacrifices being made neces- THE sary by the National Defense Program. YOUTH AND would undoubtedly have such a harmful effect upon the morale of the or- Under the circumstances we must all be WORD OF WISDOM willing to make whatever sacrifices are ganization that, even if he possessed required of us, for National Defense. superior ability, his influence would be harmful and would more than offset The enthusiasm with which this ex- ATHLETICS ALCOHOL AND anything he contribute tempo- cursion announcement was received might rarily in the form of superior play." over the Church has been most grati- /^Outstanding football coaches of ^•^ "There is no place in championship fying. It not only promised to be American universities announced athletics for liquor," agreed Coach the most important event of its kind in recently through W. Roy Breg, ex- H. Norton of the hard-hitting Aaronic Priesthood history, but also to ecutive secretary of Allied Youth, na- Homer Aggies (Texas Agricultural and do a great amount of good for the tional educational movement of high Texas boys of the Church. The improved school students, that there are no places Mechanical ) morale throughout the Aaronic Priest- open on college and university football "Ohio State University stands by its drinking' for athletes," Paul E. hood quorums of the Church has al- squads for players who use alcoholic 'no rule Brown, director of football, announced, ready been noticeable, and it is hoped beverages. "because feel a boy owes it to his that it can be maintained and turned Even though the man-power of we physiological welfare and to the to good account. It is hoped that the prominent football contenders among own boys of the Church, who had already colleges and universities will be de- welfare of the team as a whole." begun planning to go to California, creased by army duty and jobs in de- (To be concluded in the November will not be too greatly disappointed but fense industries, varsity football will Era) 620 — —

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The action of tobacco is exactly the TEACHERS opposite of alcohol. Alcohol expands WARD the blood vessels. In time this ex- A ND if any man among you be strong in the Spirit, let him take with him pansion becomes permanent and causes "*"* Ever- him that is weak, that he may be edified in all meekness, that he may a break-down." (From The green. become strong also. ) Therefore, take with those who are ordained unto the lesser you Concerning Tea and Coffee priesthood (Doc. & Cov., 84:106, 107.) The fact that coffee, in doses sufficient Suggestions For Ward Teachers to produce any stimulating effects, raises blood pressure and stimulates the action of Teachers should be actively interested in their people. They should the kidneys, is also good reason for using it with caution in these days of arterial visit them in times of illness and death. They should be aware of the strain and tendency to kidney affection. spiritual, physical, and temporal status of their people to such an extent Nowadays drugs that act on the kidneys that distress and want may be reported at once, and appropriate assistance are used with great caution. Instead of to the worthy be provided without delay. spurring the kidney with drugs, its work it is highly In keeping with the duties assigned to teachers by revelation, is regulated by proper diet, water intake, appropriate, where making a formal visit, to ask each member of the family etc. A recent investigation of a group of questions containing the following import: 1,000 cases of high blood pressure showed that excess use of tea and coffee was one 1. Are you in harmony of the outstanding factors in this group. a. With your neighbors and associates? b. With ward, stake, and General Authorities of the Church? Priesthood 2. Are you attending to your Church duties Melchizedek a. As a member Attending meeting, fasting once each month and paying Fast Offering, No Liquor-Tobacco Column participating in ward social functions? paying tithing, and ( Concluded from page 617) b. officer As an terests, however, always oppose it. Is Setting proper example, attending council meetings, etc.? this not a good indication of what the 3. Are you attending to secret and family prayers? friends of temperance should do? Success to the movement in Califor- nia, in Idaho, and elsewhere! Drinking and Driving THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTER A problem not yet solved in America ** Jesus said: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in or elsewhere is that of safe driving. heaven is perfect." Matt. 5:48. It is a much-discussed problem, but ap- It should be the aim of every Latter-day Saint to strive to perfect parently it is yet to a considerable himself as urged by the Savior. While perfection may appear to be im- extent a problem similar to that of the possible of attainment in this life, to strive for it is not only possible and weather, of which Mark Twain re- desirable for every person, but it is our duty. marked "Everybody talks about it, but The Gospel of Jesus Christ should make of the Latter-day Saints a nobody does anything about it." people who will be the wonder of the whole world. If all members of the If two things were done—refusing Church would live according to its teachings, overcoming weakness and to permit anyone to drive while under temptation, perfecting themseves and living righteous lives, this people the influence of liquor and reducing the would challenge the admiration of all nations. speed of driving—there would be far The development of strong character, with its positive qualities of fewer motor car accidents. Does not honesty, courage, self control, faith, confidence, kindness, energy, thrift, the gravity of the problem warrant loyalty, morality, and will power, should be the determination of every these two things being done? member. What power and influence for good would come to the Church! The problem of liquor and driving is The world today needs men and women of noble, upright character, one to which the American Business as never before. The Church has the same need. Those of us who are Men's Research Foundation has given beset by worldly weakness should strive with all diligence to develop strong, much study. In a recent circular of the desirable characters by continually exercising self control and will power. Foundation Mr. Charles R. Jones, ex- Doing the will of the Lord and living in accordance with His teachings will ecutive vice president, said: be of greatest assistance. With the Ten Commandments as a guide and We must not lose sight of the fact that determination to live the life of a true Latter-day Saint as a sustaining the number of traffic deaths throughout the force, a strong, positive, wholesome character is possible for every one country this year to date is menacingly of us. higher than it was in 1940, when some 34,500 fatal accidents were reported, which included 25%, or approximately 8,600, in which liquor was a driver or a pedestrian Tobacco Taboo for the Athlete athletes or athletically minded persons factor. We must remember that the drink- assemble. ing driver is an everyday peril to safe highway travel. Tn a recent copy of The First Aider, The excessive use of tobacco con- published by the Cremar Chemical tracts the blood vessels. This cuts the Relative to this problem President Co., a very interesting article on the circulation of blood. Over a period Jones said elsewhere: action of tobacco on the body of an of time these vessels, arteries and Experience since repeal shows that ap- athlete will settle many arguments that capilaries cannot respond and perma- proximately one-fourth of all automobile have arisen in midnight sessions and nent injury occurs—nutrition decreases accidents are caused by persons who have other round table discussions wherever and growth may be hindered. been drinking. 621 u fiencaloqu

A GENEALOGICAL "CRUSADE" genealogical instruction and two peo- Miles traveled in automobile 15,318 IN THE NORTHERN STATES ple of wide experience and deep spir- Cost of gas, oil, repairs, etc $312.32 MISSION itual sincerity ready for action. The Cost of food, lodging, and other es- writer had long before taken the meas- sential items $534.08 By President Leo Muir J. ure of Roe C. Hawkins and his spirited Special genealogical meetings held.. 114 Northern States Mission wife, Julia S. Hawkins. Back in 1935 Other meetings attended where op- they had been appointed to organize and portunity was afforded for gene- Tn six months the Saints in the North- conduct a movement in Los Angeles alogical discussion 65 ern States Mission experienced a Stake for the reclaiming of several hun- Private interviews in solving gene- soul-stirring renaissance in genealogy. dred Church members who had become alogical problems 582 In every branch of the mission fifty- — indifferent to the influence of the Number of people receiving direct eight in number public private — and Church. As a result of their activity, genealogical instruction 2,171 meetings were held in which eager lis- three hundred people—most of them Total number of people attending teners were taught the scriptural back- newly married couples with young fam- genealogical meetings 2,753 ground of genealogy, methods of re- ilies—were led forward into active Grand total of public meetings at- search, family records, preparation of Church service. tended 179 temple sheets, the importance of temple Roe C. Hawkins is a convert, having Hours devoted to actual teaching of work, books of remembrance, etc. joined the Church in 1920. He has held genealogical work in public gath- This extensive campaign of spiritual numerous Church positions: among erings 282 Total hours spent in public meetings, and technical instruction was conducted them, assistant stake director of gen- by two strong-hearted crusaders in a family gatherings, and individual instruction 533 pilgrimage which covered six of the Pamphlets, tracts, and work sheets leading industrial states in our nation. employed in this service 5,500 In a car whose trunk and back seat sec- Nights lodging paid for 35 tion were packed with essential cloth- Nights lodging at homes of saints.... 127 ing and genealogical equipment, these crusaders ferreted their way through a Like all statistical information, these thousand towns and cities to chapels, figures, though impressive, are cold and halls, and homes where appointments colorless. They are the mathematical were arranged for meetings of instruc- product of a pilgrimage motivated by tions. Who were they and what led love, brotherhood, and the soul-re- them to this vast undertaking? deeming spirit of Elijah. That the At the close of a testimonial held Saints and missionaries alike were cap- May 26, 1939, in honor of the writer of tivated by this spirit has been evidenced this article and his wife, a suggestion in every meeting held and in the urgent was made to Roe C. Hawkins and his request that Brother and Sister Haw- wife, Julia S. Hawkins, of Long Beach, BR0THER AND SISTER ROE C. HAWKINS kins return to give extended instruc- California, that they prepare to fill a tion. More often than otherwise the short term mission in the Northern ealogy and member of the stake high meetings ran to midnight, often later. States within the next few years. council. He is a good speaker and an With deep religious zeal, members and "We'd love to do so," both of them excellent teacher. He makes friends missionaries received instruction and affirmed enthusiastically. However, on every hand and influences them with labored to perfect their knowledge of they proceeded to explain that during a kindly spirituality. Sister Julia S. genealogical technique. As Brother the past decade their business had suf- Hawkins is a native-born Mormon, and Sister Hawkins concluded their fered rapid decline—from an inventory through Idaho pioneer parents. She visits, parting sorrows were every- of $100,000 almost to the vanishing too has held numerous offices of the where manifested. point. At the moment, because of de- Church both in ward and stake organi- They have made for themselves hun- faults of several creditors, the concern zations. Following a mission {1906- dreds of genuine friendships. They was laboring under approximately 07) in the Western States, she was have written their names and im- $3,000 of urgent indebtedness. a counselor or president in ward or pressed their spirits upon many hun- In spite of all this, a strong ambition stake Relief Societies for twenty-two dreds of hearts in Northern States to perform a mission directed particu- years. For nearly four years she Mission. larly toward genealogy found lodgment served as a member of Los Angeles But, better than all this, they have in the souls of these fine people. "While Stake genealogical board. impressed upon hundreds of hearts the they gave only faint promise that they With this background of rich experi- deep import of the message and the would set their hearts to the task of ence, Brother and Sister Hawkins left service which brought them to this mis- preparing for such a mission, they Long Beach, April 1, 1940, en route to sion. Hundreds of people have "gone secretly cherished the desire and looked the Northern States Mission. Follow- to work" in this great spiritual enter- forward to the undertaking. Before a ing April general conference in Salt prise. In practically every branch in full year had passed, under the spur of Lake they spent eight days in the of- this mission someone can now be found this laudable ambition, and surely with fices of the Utah Genealogical Society to take leadership in genealogical ac- the blessing of the Lord, all indebted- studying the files. They reached mis- tivities. In every branch there is some- ness of the enterprise was paid off and sion headquarters in Chicago on April one who knows how and feels the urge $600.00 was laid by to cover the esti- 19. The next day their service began to take hold of this movement. mated cost of six months in the mission at the Indianapolis conference. In a spirit of sincere gratitude and field. The writer was greatly surprised The following tabulation presents a genuine pride the Northern States Mis- when word came in late March, 1940, graphic picture of the work accom- sion makes acknowledgment of its in- that Brother and Sister Hawkins were plished by Brother and Sister Hawkins debtedness to Brother and Sister Haw- ready to enter the mission field. between April 20 and September 23, kins. We cherish the hope that they Here, indeed, was a great opportunity 1940, when they left Springfield, Illi- will soon bless us with another mission- for service: a mission field ripe for nois, on their journey homeward. ary service. 622 —

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CHURCH-WIDE HYMNS FOR three sacramental hymns for special similar instances, play this tenor part OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, attention during the coming three in the right hand with the thumb and AND DECEMBER months: in October, No. 15, "Behold second fingers. The harmony will al- the Great Redeemer Die"; in Novem- ways be rich when all four parts are HYMNS CAN BE BEAUTIFUL ber, No. 9, "Again We Meet Around sounded, and especially so when the Board"; and in December, No. 32, sounded together with a sixteen-foot "How great the Wisdom and the Love" sub-bass. By J. Spencer Cornwall will be sung during the time in our meet- These hymns may also be very ef- OCTOBER ings when the Priests break the bread fective when played by the organ alone Behold the Great Redeemer in preparation for the sacrament serv- during the service. It should then pro- Die—No. 15 ices. ceed at a slower tempo and very softly. These three beautiful hymns call for The inspiring words by Eliza R. Snow Eliza R. Snow—George Careless identical treatment by organists. The will then filter through the minds of all chosen hymn should be played through those present, focusing their thoughts 'T'his sacramental hymn is one of our once in such a reverent and devotional upon the service, and thus improving Structurally it is built in best. a style that the congregation will be eager the quality of their worship. Try to series of arches or half-arch form. To and ready to sing in that same way. touch their hearts as you play the cold give more tone to the highest notes of To accomplish this, the organist should keys before you. each phrase by introducing smooth play only medium loud, with soft six- crescendos is ef- and diminuendos, an teen-foot bass in the left hand in the fective way to interpret it. It should case of a reed organ, no four-foot or sung reverently therefore with be and super couplers in the right hand, and tone. a more subdued volume of The with only the right knee swell in use speed is slow but not so slow that each for expression. The tempo is leisurely MUSIC phrase cannot be sung in one breath. We specialize in music for churches and schools. slow, but it would be well not to allow Large stocks lor vocal and instrumental solos, choirs, bands and orchestras. Headquarters it to become progressivey slower and _ for music for L. D. S. organizations. Mail orders NOVEMBER slower. On the other hand, try not to filled promptly or write for catalogues and spe- Again We Meet Around play ahead of your singers, but rather cial lists. the Board—No. 9. accompany them. Be a gentle shep- DAYNES MUSIC CO. Eliza R. Snow—George Careless herd. We solicit your patronage Most important in these hymns is the 47 So. Main St. Salt Lake City 4 * A gain We Meet Around the need for a very smooth, legato rendi- ^ Board" is a sacramental hymn of tion. Take a breath at the end of much beauty. Due to the pitches em- phrases, but keep the fingers pressing HEADQUARTERS for All ployed in the soprano and alto parts, well on the keys everywhere else. By M.I.A. Festival Music it is imperative that the ladies use tone means of such melodic continuity, the quality which is somewhat subdued and organ will seem to be singing also. constantly beautiful. The slurs used The tenor parts may give trouble to warn£25 throughout should be performed with some young organists, as, for example, directness and no portamento; espe- at the beginning of "How Great the 70 SO. MAIN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH cially is this true of the soprano and Wisdom and the Love." In this and alto duet. Simple beauty is the aim to attain in the singing of this hymn. DECEMBER How Great the Wisdom Your Ward CAN Own a and the Love—No. 32. — Eliza R. Snow Thos. Mclntyre HAMMOND ORGAN "T-Jow Great the Wisdom and the A Love" is a forceful exposition of ASSISTANCE the sacramental theme. It should be WITH THE FULL APPROVAL AND sung with a solid tone throughout OF THE PRESIDING BISHOPRIC louder than soft. It must always press forward with deep sincerity. The chorister must, to insure ease, make a Everywhere, churches have found that the magnificent tones point of repose at the end of the first of this instrument has a strengthening influence. YOUR con- line by slowing the two beats of that gregation will feel a deeper religious interest stemming from measure. A sincere spirituality and a clear declaration of the text are the ends the glorious music of the HAMMOND. For to seek in the performance of this hymn. full information, see or write

SUGGESTIONS FOR ORGANISTS MR. SELDON N. HEAPS ON OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER HYMNS GI.ENBH05. MUSIC CO. By Alexander Schreiner

'T'he General Music Committee of the 74 SO. MAIN Church has chosen the following SALT LAKE CITY )

(D&pahiwumL £dua*iwtL is being made to work overtime trying /^ to do two jobs, that of Faith and its own. THE CHURCH EDUCATIONAL standards and mould them to those of Such being the case the Church feels IN PROGRAM LOS ANGELES the group. Furthermore, the young justified in the yearly spending of hun- men and women of the business world By Dr. G. Byron Done, dreds of thousands of dollars for the are just as fine, and attract each maintenance of beautiful buildings con- Director the of L. D. S. Institute of other just as strongly, as those on a col- venient to these campuses, where classes Religion at Angeles Los and Lecturer lege campus. The opportunities for a in Church History and Doctrine are in Religion at the University of romance which may lead to marriage given; where the Bible, the Book of Southern California with those of another faith may be the Mormon, and The Doctrine and Cove- in same both instances. But this is nants are taught as historical and reli- Approximately 36,000 young men doubtful, as success "^ in college is as gious facts; where the religious method and women will enroll this fall at much a social recognition or identifica- and the religious experience are con- the two Universities, four Junior Col- tion as it is a scholastic attainment. sidered as real and as valid as those of leges, and one Business College in the One of the purposes of the university science; where men of faith, and of Los Angeles area where the Church and the college seems to be that of scholarship on a level with many of maintains an Institute of Religion and providing social and recreational life the teachers of science and philosophy, sponsors Socio-Religious organizations (experiences) for students. The ex- are employed to help perplexed stu- such as Deseret Clubs and the Lambda istence of scores of social fraternities dents think through their problems Delta Sigma Fraternity. and sororities on a campus is evidence when and where they first appear, and Only 600 of the 36,000 enrollees will of the fact that the individual seeks the when they are most needed; where be Latter-day Saints. This means that social approval of the group. So strong teachers are immediately accessible to for every Mormon student that registers is this desire in many that they are students who are inclined to have there will be 60 non-Mormons register- willing to compromise their own stan- more faith in the advice of a religious ing. On some campuses the pro- dards for such approval. Thus the very man with academic standing than in portions will be higher and on nature and purpose of a college or uni- that of his own parent, bishop, or Sun- others lower. For example: Those versity campus encourages the social day School teacher. of the 600 who enroll at the University experiences of the students in a way While students on the Utah and Los of California at Los Angeles will repre- that is not true of the business world. Angeles campuses have many prob- sent but 1 in 90, while those en- But the complete and distinct differ- lems in common the problem of social tering the University of Southern Cali- ence in the two situations is to be found identification with those of their own fornia will be outnumbered 83 to 1. in the comparison of the natures and kind would seem to be greater for those The Mormon boy or girl at the Pasa- functions of the classroom with those in Southern California. dena Junior College will be interested of the office, bank, store, or workshop. The majority of students at the schools are in knowing that he or she will be only The Mormon youth in the business Utah Latter-day Saints most of whom were 1 in 200 as compared to his fellow world are not exposed several hours a born in religionists at the Compton or Long day for several years to lectures by small Mormon communities where they went through the grades and Beach Junior Colleges where 1 in every scholarly men, many of whom are au- 42 will be members of the Church. thorities in the fields of science and high school with Mormon classmates These predictions are made on the philosophy, the doctrines of which are and were taught in the main by Mormon teachers. At college the majority of their assumption that all Mormon students still theories but are taught as facts and enrolling at these schools will designate accepted as such by immature minds classmates, fraternity brothers, sorority their religious affiliation on the regis- that are unduly impressed by the erudi- sisters, and members of their clubs will tration card provided for this purpose. tion of their teachers. Yet, not once be Mormons. To students, therefore, ac- However, this will not be the case, for during these impressionable years customed to the warm, friendly, and in- timate atmosphere of the Mormon com- about one in six ( a conservative figure will students hear in any college will prefer to keep his church member- classroom, from any teacher of scholar- munities large cities and campuses present a problem, that of social ship secret, thinking, perhaps, it might ship equal to those in the fields of new — militate in some way against his schol- science and philosophy, one lecture on identification with their religious group, a group that represents only 10 of astic or social success were it known. "Faith In God," "The Divinity of — every 1000 population. tempta- The Church is intensely interested in Christ," "The validity of Religious The tion to accept the religious anonymity these 600 young people, as it is inter- Faith," or "The Plan of Salvation." the ested in all its college youth throughout There are, of course, men on college which great metropolitan centers the nation. So interested in fact that faculties who could deliver such lec- and their schools offer is an enticing one to many, the invitation to "of it spent nearly a million dollars last tures if permitted to. The law, how- — be year, and will spend an equal amount ever, forbids the teaching of religion the world" with little fear of being discovered or censured the groups this year in teaching them the Gospel in state supported schools, although it by and in keeping them socially identified permits the teaching of irreligion and in which they should be active. with each other while at school. agnosticism—not in formal courses Cognizant of the many difficulties True, the Church does not foster labeled as such, naturally, but by in- facing Mormon students in Los Angeles Religious Institutes, Deseret Clubs, direction through inferences, insinua- and elsewhere, the Church urges them, and Lambda Delta Sigma Fraternities tions and omissions. When religion as it does all its youth in the college for its thousands of young stenog- was excluded from the classroom the and university world, to take full ad- raphers, bookkeepers, bank-clerks and state unwittingly placed the stamp of vantage of the facilities of its Institutes carpenters as it does for its student approval upon science and philosophy, of Religion; to identify themselves with youth. And this in spite of the fact that and in essence said to all students, its religious, intellectual, and social in places like Los Angeles the problems "Only that experience which can be programs; to safeguard their heritage of students and clerks parallel each verified by the scientific method is a and to enrich their lives with the soul- other in many respects, most important fact or real. Therefore, the only way satisfying truths of a revealed religion of which is the fact that both are to truth is by the scientific method." rather than starve by confining minority groups by great odds, and are Believing this fallacy thousands of their education to the vacuous doc- being bombarded constantly by social teachers and students have become, as trines of man-made philosophies; to pressures and appeals inimical to their one devout educator has expressed it, feel the strength of faith in God rather own standards of conduct and religious "Brains on stilts." Consequently, in than the enervation of doubt and agnos- devotion. Both are targets of the slow, the hearts of many of our own boys and ticism; to choose the right him or the subtle, unconscious forces in social in- girls the prophet is being replaced by only her from among those of like re- teraction which break down individual the philosopher, and factual knowledge ligious heritage. 624 -

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feel that they will be kept happy and Important: Students in piano are active in the Church. welcomed to the classes for organists. CHORISTERS, ORGANISTS They will be taught how to transfer SecutiVes PREPARE FOR LEADERSHIP! their skill and technique to the new =33 medium. General Superintendency and Presidency The Mutual Improvement Associa- TWO PROGRAMS FOR RELIEF M. I. A. tions are keenly aware of the value of SOCIETY AND M. I. A. Dear Brethren and Sisters: this course and the opportunity it af- fords to our workers. Through such Sunday Evening Service, Nov 2. HpHE Music Institutes for the training of training and development the constant r T *• choristers and organists will again be T o cooperate with the Relief Society problem of where to find held during the coming season in the various adequate lead- in celebrating their centennial year, ership localities mentioned in the enclosed sched- in music is largely solved. It is. the I. A. is to grant this re- M. happy ule. recommended that the necessary quest that they given the first Sun- be We have noted most gratifying improve- amounts to cover the fees for this. day evening in November (November ment in the work of those who have taken course for at least one M. I. A. direc- for the presentation of a special our courses and carefully followed our sug- 2) tor and one M. I. A. organist in each gestions. It is felt that if we persist in this membership-building program. All ward, be included in the budget allow- movement of training Church musicians, wards are asked to set aside the regular ance for the organization. that in a few more years, a decided im- work outlined for this evening and to provement in the music exercises of the participate in the following program whole Church will be noted. May we, there- THE M. I. A. THEME planned by the Relief Society: fore, respectfully suggest that you give ac- BOOKMARK tive support to this movement Music — Congregation by urging your choristers and organists to enroll in T AST year for the Theme Festival and Prayer _. _ the courses to be given the coming year. *~* Special Music—Relief Society (Singing Honor Days, the General Boards The location and (in some cases) ten- Mothers, if chorus is available) prepared small scrolls, on which were tative time of beginning of these courses "Our Common Quest" printed the M. I. are given in the enclosed schedule. For A. Theme, and offered: Relief Society representative exact information concerning the day and them for use in the field. Many wards Special Music -M. I. A. hour of the first class, the local bishop should and stakes accepted them eagerly and "Salute to Relief Society Membership".... be consulted. they were greatly appreciated by the Y. M. M. I. A. representative Sincerely, individuals "Salute to Relief Society Membership".... receiving them. GENERAL This year, on suggestion of the — Y. W. M. I. A. representative MUSIC COMMITTEE Og- Music "A Hundred Thousand Strong" By Tracy Y. Cannon, chairman. den Stakes, it has been decided to

, — Singing Mothers furnish the Theme in the form of an. (if chorus is available), congregation Professional Training at attractive bookmark. The theme is in. to join in chorus Exceedingly Low-Cost the center; at the left appears the in- Closing Prayer signia of the M. I. A. in green back- A full 24 hours of training is yours The Relief Society will consult with ground with monogram and the words. to enjoy at these nominal costs: Or- "Let's to M. I. A. officers in making the M. I. A. Go Mutual" and "Bring a ganists, $8; Choristers, $4. assignments. Friend" in gold. The price is 30c per The training is comprehensive in 100. If you order immediately you can scope and practical in character. Or- Tuesday Evening Service, receive them in time for your Autumn. ganists are given a basic March 17 schooling in Socials or for your Carry On-Advance- organ technique and trained in the selec- ment exercises. Tuesday, March 17, is the Relief tion of appropriate music for all ward Society Birthday; this year it marks and stake occasions. Choristers are the 100th anniversary of the organi- ERA SUCCESS NOTED taught how to project their personal- zation of the women of the Church by ities and to interpret music to singing Cister Marion Harris, who led her the Prophet Joseph Smith. On this *^ groups. They are also drilled in such ward to victory, is displaying the evening the Mutual Improvement As- technical items of conducting as the recognition given to the Tacoma Cen- sociations are asked to cooperate with effective use of the baton. These stu- tral Ward for not only being first to the Relief Society in whatever way the dents, also, are instructed in matters reach its quota but also securing the latter may desire. In order not to lose of appropriate music selection. (Continued on page 626), important features of our own program, it may be necessary to "double up" on March 10 or March 24, so as to include lessons now scheduled for the 17th.

SCOUTS AND BEE-HIVE GIRLS TO BE GIVEN SPECIAL CONSIDERATION

A letter from the General Superin- ^* tendency of the Primary Associa- tion solicits our special consideration for the new boys and girls. It calls attention to the fact that occasionally the twelve-year old children who enter the M. I. A. feel "quite lost when they find "ERA" WORKERS OF THE THREE LEADING WARDS IN THE SEATTLE STAKE—1940-41 CAMPAIGN they have to adjust to a semi-adult situ- Readino from left to right: President Ray Parker, Tacoma Central; Bishop Elvin E. Evans, Tacoma Central* President Taft Young, Bremerton; Bishop John J. Frye, Bremerton; President Harold Thompson, West Seattle; ation." "If they could to feel be made Brother Ambrose Chabot, West Seattle; Brother Tom Jones, West Seattle; Idris Haneburg, "Era" Director, Bremerton; more welcome and more cared for as President Myrtle Frye, Bremerton; President Ora Qualles, Tacoma Central; L. C. Seal, "Era" Director, Seattle Stake; Marion Harris, "Era" Director, Tacoma Central; President Olive Webster, West Seattle; First their ages demand," Primary officers Counselor Ardella Thompson, West Seattle. 625 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941

Mutual Messages a simple story of self-sacrifice and long, Toleration is the highest virtue—Hu- loving devotion to the cause of hu- mility comes next." So courageously (Continued from page 625) manity. The reader feels so much a does he pursue his resolve, and so fruit- largest percentage of its families as Era part of the story, is so entranced by its ful is his work that you feel within subscribers. poignant beauty, that his interest never yourself a strong determination to take President Olive Webster is holding lags. up the fight where he leaves it. the recognition given to West Seattle Father Chisholm made this pledge Too much of this lovely book must Ward for taking second place, Era when he was an unhappy boy: 'I not be revealed. Begin to read it and Director M. E. Salisbury being absent. promise faithfully to oppose bravely all it will be difficult for you to lay it down Sister Idris Haneburg is holding that is stupid and bigoted and cruel. until it is finished. recognition given to Bremerton Ward for third place, which ward led the stake during the previous year. All three wards have more than an Era in every home or its equivalent, reaching 770% of their quota.

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Dr. W. Creed Haymond and Hazel Brockbank, chairmen; Dr. Wesley P. Lloyd, Dr. Franklin S. Harris, Dr. L. A. Stevenson, Homer C. Warner, Werner Kiepe, John D. Giles, Dr. Le Roy J. Buck- miller, Marie Waldram, Ileen Ann Waspe. Freda Jensen, Minnie E. Anderson, Vella H. Wetzel. MY book holds many stories Wrapped tighdy in itself And yet, it never makes a noise But waits upon the shelf Until I come and take it; And then my book and I Are sailing on a fairy sea, Or floating in the sky. —Unknown. In the July Era a tentative yearly program for M Men-Gleaners' reading was given. It was suggested that for October you choose a book of modern fiction or non-fiction. A "must" for fiction reading is The Keys of the King- dom, by A. J. Cronin. Many authors in their eagerness to present a startling picture of life, con- centrate, to the boredom of the dis- criminating reader, upon the distasteful, the unpleasant, and the immoral. They have forgotten that the purposes of literature is to inspire the masses to live better, to lift them, as it were, to the "window-sills" of life where they might see more beauty and purpose than their constricted lives would allow them. As in his preceding novel, The Cita- del, Dr. Cronin tells the story of a man who is an individualist in the sense that his conscience and not his self- interest is his guide. The loss of his parents and childhood sweetheart in- fluenced him to join the ministry. Dr. Cronin has combined in the life of this humble priest, Father Chisholm, a strength of character that is matched only by the dramatic episodes which test him. Through it all there is suf- fused an air of beauty and gentleness, 6. K0L0B STAKE'S PRESENTATION OF THE OPERA "MARITANA." and a welcome thread of humor. It is 7. a, b, c. DETAILS OF DECORATIONS USED IN THE LAS VEGAS WARD, MOAPA STAKE, FOR THE GOLD AND GREEN BALL. 8. A BEE-HIVE FIREPLACE AT WOODRUFF, SNOWFLAKE STAKE, WHICH WAS PLACED AS A CORRECTION JUBILEE YEAR MEMORY MARKER. In the September issue of the "Era," p. 560, the 9. THE "COLONIAL CHORAL SOCIETY" ORGANIZED IN PORTLAND, OREGON. captions for the pictures were incorrect, except for 10. CAST OF CHARACTERS OF THE DRAMA, "HANDCART TRAILS," PRESENTED IN THE FAIRBANKS the first picture. Picture 2 is of the Ensign Chorus, BRANCH M. I. A.. NORTHWESTERN STATES MISSION. missionaries of the Eastern States Mission; picture 11. DIRECTOR AND CAST OF CHARACTERS OF THREE-ACT COMEDY "THE LOVELY DUCKLING," 3 is the Explorer-Junior Chorus of the Fifth Ward, PRESENTED BY THE NEPHI SOUTH WARD, JUAB STAKE. Pocatello Stake; pictures 4 and 5 are scenes from the 12. VINEYARD WARD, SHARON STAKE, HONOR BEE-HIVE GIRLS. operetta MARITANA, produced by the Hill Spring 13. FOUR HONOR BEE-HIVE GIRLS OF ETNA WARD, STAR VALLEY STAKE. THE FIRST TO HAVE Ward, Alberta Stake. The second caption did not COMPLETED BEE-HIVE WORK. belong in the series, since the picture of the 14. "HANDCART TRAILS"—A DRAMA PRESENTED BY THE PAROWAN STAKE. "Colonial Chorus Society" is appearing in the current 15. MISSIONARIES OF MAIN AND VERMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE DISTRICTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND (October) issue as picture 9 on this page. MISSION. 626 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941

The old timers present were: John Mutual Messages Q. Adams, Magnus Holm, C. C. Cres- sall, Mark H. Preece, John Cardon, Emil Moser, R. A. Perkes, and Lola Jorgensen. txppjHs Explorer boys participating were: — Omar Hansen, Lynn Jensen, William a> Cook, Welden Perkes and Varnell M. Elmer Christensen, chairman; Mark H. Nichols, Perkes of Troop Park. Axel A. Madsen, Elwood G. Winters, Floyed G. 117, Hyde Ted Eyre, John D. Giles, Dr. L. A. Stevenson. Stanford and Joseph Lawrence of Troop 105, Logan Fifth Ward. Lee ..-* . . CLIMBING THE EXPLORER :: Allen of Cove, Elden Hendricks, Lavon

...... :: . TRAIL i '".,.. . Anderson, Russell Mauchley, Earl Nel- son, Keith Crocket, of HPhe General Board has made avail- LaMar George Nibley. Hyrum District and Alwyn able for the first time a handbook D. Sessions of Watsonville, California. for the Explorer himself. Previous publications on the Explorer program Scouters participating were: John have been intended primarily for use Q. Adams (Dan Beard of the Cache by the Explorer leader. Now, how- Valley Council.) Rudgar H. Daines, ever, the Explorer can find out for Sol Allen, Fred Duce, Earl A. Fred- himself what his program contains, rickson, Owen Kirby, Amos Gerber, thereby making the task of his leader- Lola Jorgensen, and Albert Kirby. dedicatory ship much easier. The handbook is The prayer was offered called "Climbing the Explorer Trail" at the monument by Joseph B. Daines and sometimes referred to as the "Trail of the Logan Temple presidency. Book." Since the cost is only ten Pioneer experiences were related by cents it is felt that every Explorer can John Q. Adams, Mark H. Preece, C. acquire a copy and should be urged to C. Cressall, and Magnus Holm, men do so by Explorer leaders. The size who were sawmill workers. Also is a decided advantage, being small speaking were, Joseph E. Cardon of enough to be carried in a shirt or Logan and Oscar A. Kirkham, Deputy trouser pocket. Regional Scout Executive from Salt The Trail book is divided into three Lake City. parts; ( 1 ) Guideposts; which include Gospel gems and character-building items which every boy of Explorer George Q. Cannon. The theme project ATTENTION! for 1941-42 is: Every Explorer a age should know; (2) the Explorer WARD BISHOPRICS AND M. I. A. program, written in concise form, easily Healthman. The Healthman Title OFFICERS! Within Salt Lake Valley! Open ior Engagement. A Colored Sound understandable by any young man, and Plan is fully described in the Supple- Motion Picture Travelogue Entitled (3) a personal record section where ment to Log No. 10 and in Climbing "AUSTRALIA BOUND" the Explorer may keep a record of his the Explorer Trail. Showing Scenes of a Camera Trip From Salt Lake City to Australia via San Fran- advancement in Exploring as well as cisco, Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, and other Church activities. LOGAN TEMPLE SAWMILL New Zealand. One Hour's Unique Entertainment. Apply Every attempt should be made to MONUMENT ERECTED Ben Alward, 121 1st Ave., Salt Lake City place a copy of the Trail Book in the Phone 4-2431—Evening Performance $5.50 "Dorty Explorers, Scout leaders, and hands of every Explorer. old timers of the Cache Valley TOOLS FOR THE LEADER Council erected and dedicated a monument on the Logan Temple sawmill site T og No. 10 is the official handbook Saturday, July 26. ^ for M. I. A. Explorer leaders this The building of the monument be- season. Although it was published in gan early Saturday morning and con- 1940, it will unquestionably remain the tinued throughout the day. It was basic leader's guide for several years. completed by 4:20 p. m. The monu- No leader should attempt to assume ment is constructed of rock taken from direction of an Explorer troop without the fireplace and chimney of the old first having studied this handbook, sawmill mess hall. Also, incorporated which is replete with methods for oper- in it are a slip-scraper and a wagon ating the program. wheel that were used at the mill while it A supplement to Log No. 10 has been was in operation from 1 877 to 1 886. In published for the current year which a copper box deposited in the monument should be used along with Log No. 10. are a complete history of the Temple MEXICO The most important features it con- Sawmill, an issue of various news- tains consist of the joint Explorer- papers and many miscellaneous articles Extensive archaeological tour leaving Junior program suggestions and the contributed by the members of the by train ior Mexico City in January

. . . and January is Explorer Healthman Plan which is a group present. Springtime in Mexico 1 See the pyramids; ancient new program feature this year. A plaque is placed on the face of the Mayan cities; a bull tight; and enjoy slip-scraper and inscribed with the fol- a boat ride in the flower gardens oi ARROWHEAD AWARD lowing : CHANGES Xcilimilco. An unusual opportunity! 1877-1886 Monument to Temple Saw- Very Reasonable Rate. HTwo Arrowhead award requirements mill. The men called were : C. O. Card, Phone 3-0946 change each year, namely No. 2 Superintendent, Paul Cardon, Bishop T. X. Smith, George Batt, Joseph Foster, Ed. and 5 which refer to the reading course Clark, B. M. Lewis. First tree felled by and theme projects. Paul Cardon. First board sawed by C. O. The reading course book for this Card. Erected by Cache Valley Council Farnsworth Mexico Tours year is The Latter-day Prophet by Boy Scouts of America, 7-26-41. P. O. Box 1584 Salt Lake City, Utah 627 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941

Odol& Tyiak. ChftoUL Deseret Sunday School Song Book, Su&iafc celebrated his ninety-second birthday at his home in Payson, Utah. 'T'he Gustaf Adolf Male Chorus, the the singers present at the Bellingham * Swedish male chorus of Salt Lake convention enthusiastically accepted August 10, 1941 City, Utah recently returned from the invitations of the Salt Lake chorus Mrs. Mary Eleanor Watson Silver, trip to Bellingham, to hold the Swedish Singers' conven- an extended Wash- 85, wagon-train pioneer of 1863, died ington, where a convention of the Pa- tion in Salt Lake City during the Cen- in Salt Lake City, after a life devoted cific the tennial Celebration to be held in 1947. Coast Division of American to Church work, notably the Relief So- of Swedish Singers held The next convention will be held in Union was ciety where she had served in the Can- 30th 3rd. Angeles in 1943. from July to August Los non Ward presidency for seventeen The purpose of the American Union After the passing of Axel B. C. Ohl- years. of Swedish Singers is to keep alive the son in November, 1936, the chorus was beautiful Scandinavian folk Melodies under the direction of Joseph P. August 12, 1941 and the continuation of traditional Fernelius, who was succeeded by Rider Mrs. Mary Ann Soffe Shields, 85, Swedish male chorus singing and ac- C. Waring as director in January, 1941. well known early day nurse, and former tivities. The American Union of Miss Beatrice Davies, accomplished matron at the state school for the blind and deaf, died in Ogden. She was THE GUSTAF ADOLF MALE CHORUS born at St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1856,

In front: Rider C. Waring, conductor; Beatrice Davies, accompanist. while her parents were making the pio- First row, left to right: Rudolf D. Lindgren, Nils A. Carlson, Knute T. Borg, Franz E. Johnson, J. Arthur neer trek to Utah. . Johnson, Edwin Hansen, Elof L. Peterson, Hyrum W. Swenson. Back row: Michael Froisland, John J. Erickson, Edward N. Rosenberg, C. B. Olson, Olof L. Olausen, C. C. Anderson, Nils E. Sanders, Alvin R. Erikson, and Emil C. Ottesen. Not in the picture: Geo. A. Hazelgren, August 13, 1941 Curtis Norling, Roland Sahleen, Carl F. Johanson, Oscar Olson, Conrad Soder, Eric Sholund, Axel Soderberg. Olof Ignatius Pedersen, 76, former bishop of the Logan Sixth Ward, and prominent civic worker, was killed as he fell from a roof that he was repair- ing in Logan.

August 17, 1941 Bishop M. O. Ashton of the Presid- ing Bishopric dedicated the new Alpine Ward Chapel and Recreation Hall, at Alpine Arizona. Constructed of native stone and timber, the building cost $20,000. More than five hundred persons were present at the dedicatory services.

August 17, 1941 Mrs. Anna H. Lambson Vincent of Park City, who was 101 September 14, Swedish Singers was organized No- the accompanist of the organization was feted by members of her family at vember 25, 1892. since its beginning. a reunion in Provo Canyon. In remi- During the early part of 1926, notice The present officers of the chorus niscing she recalled that during the con- was given that the Crown Prince of are as follows: Rider C. Waring, di- struction of the Salt Lake Temple she Sweden, Gustaf Adolf, would visit Salt rector; Beatrice Davies, accompanist; used to carry vegetables from her own Lake City during that summer. It was Knute T. Borg, president; Rudolf D. garden to the workmen employed on suggested that a group of male singers Lindgren, manager, George A. Hazel- the building. from the Swedish people organize a gren, secretary; Alvin R. Erikson, treas- male chorus to sing for the enjoyment urer; Roland Sahleen, librarian. and August 24, 1941 of the party accompanying the Swedish Presiding Bishop LeGrand Richards, Crown Prince. The late Axel B. C. turned the first official Ohlson was chosen as their director. spade of earth in the ground breaking Under his direction the organization ceremonies in the was led to an outstanding position as a The Church Moves On construction of a combination Driggs Ward chapel and Teton Stake house, worthy representative of the Swedish {Continued from page 605) at Driggs, Idaho. people and of Salt Lake City, Utah. The chorus sang for the Crown Prince August 4, 1941 August 26, 1941 and his wife and party, and on that oc- Death came to James B. Morrison, casion the Crown Prince personally F. D. Higginbotham, 72, first bishop 80, pioneer settler and early political the chorus the Adolf of Wells Ward, and Wells Stake named Gustaf figure of Sevier County, in Alhambra, Chorus, after himself. This honor patriarch died in Salt Lake City. Male California, where he had lived for a has never been extended any other year. As a youth he became engaged chorus within the United States. Formal in railroad construction work, helping L. D. S. Boys in organization of the group was com- build the old Atlantic and Pacifi^Bail- Northern California pleted the 19th day of July, 1926. Camps road ( now the Santa ?C^ wfefKJh {Concluded /rom page 605) In 1932, the chorus became affiliated northern Arizona in the early eighties. with the Pacific Coast Division of the He had been a member of the Sevier there are twenty-two regularly organ- American Union of Swedish Singers Stake High Council and stake superin- ized wards and branches in this part of and attended the Singers' Convention tendent of Sunday Schools. Burial California. If you have space to print held in San Francisco that year. The was in Richfield, Utah. the directories of these two stakes, per- Salt Lake Chorus played host to the haps we may reach many boys who Singers' Convention held in Salt Lake August 9, 1941 have no knowledge of the opportunities City during the summer of 1934. All Joseph L. Townsend, the only living within their reach for wholesome pianist and choral director, has been composer whose work appears in the amusement and proper contacts. 628 )

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 THE CHURCH MOVES ON Oakland Stake Safford, Arizona; Craig A. Decker, Kirtland, Dance, Blackfoot, Idaho; Maude Redd, Alameda Ward meets at Odd Fellows New Mexico; Roscoe B. Denham, Prescott Monticello, Utah. Hall, Park and Santa Clara Sts., Alameda, Arizona; Clifford A. Aamodt, Murray, Northern States: Margaret Meeks, Bick- Cal. Utah. nell, Utah; James A. Nuttall, Ephraim, Berkeley Ward meets at Berkeley Chapel Northern States: Albon L. Smith, Idaho Utah, Reed P. Larson, Preston, Idaho; —Walnut and Vine Sts., Berkeley, Cali- Falls, Idaho; Grant B. Shaw, Ogden, Utah; Frederick K. Fechser, Downey, Idaho; Beth fornia. Donald G. Poulton, Salt Lake; James Arlo M. Nielsen, Sandy, Utah; Lilly P. Spencer, Claremount Ward meets in hall at 2980 Nuttall, Ephraim, Utah; K. Edward Ling- Logan, Utah; Margaret Mackay, Murray, St., Adeline Berkeley, California. wall, Salt Lake; William J. Kesler, Beaver Utah; Blair W. Archibald, Rexburg, Idaho; Diamond Ward—chapel, 3618 Diamond City, Utah; Norma Jensen, Ogden, Utah; L. Wayne Redd. Blanding, Utah; Fred- Avenue, Oakland, California. Wilford L. Bruderer, Salt Lake; Willard erick T. Aldrich, Amity, Missouri; Melda Elmhurst Ward—chapel, 9658 Thermal H. Bruderer, Salt Lake; Lois B. Olson, Christensen, Hinckley, Utah; Julia Smith, Street, Oakland. Idaho Falls, Idaho. Winslow, Arizona. Hayward Ward meets in a hall, 1070 Northwestern States: Helen E. Pyper, North Central States: Olive Parker, B Street, Hayward, California. Salt Lake; Oliver O. Liechty, Salt Lake; Draper, Utah; Genevieve Hatton, Fillmore, Martinez Chapel, east end of Arch Street, Harold W. Goddard, Salt Lake; Stanley Utah; William E. Read, Jr., Ogden, Utah; Martinez, California. R. Fuller, Pine, Arizona; Earl L. Francom, Faye Brown, Monroe, Utah; Stanford F. Maxwell Park—Hall, corner Mason and Payson, Utah. Johnson, Holden, Utah; John P. Dalby, Salt Foothill Boulevard, Oakland, California. Spanish-American Mission: Helen Pierce, Lake.

Napa Branch—Chamber of Commerce Salt Lake; J. Roe Armstrong, Salt Lake; Northwestern States: Wilford R. Thorn- Building, corner Clay and Brown Sts., Dale G. King, Grace, Idaho; Rex D. Terry, ack, Ogden, Utah; Elvira H. Jensen, Aetna,

Napa, California. St. George, Utah. Canada; Arthur J. Record, Salt Lake City; Oakland—Chapel, corner of Moss and Texas Mission: George L. Romney, John D. Butler, Eagar, Arizona; Helen Webster St., Oakland. Salt Lake; Stanley B. Nance, Sandy, Utah; Bringham, Ogden, Utah; Maurine Ander- Pittsburg Branch Veterans' Memorial Max V. Murdock, Kyle, South Dakota; son, Tremonton, Utah; Roberta Lindsay, Hall, 9th and East Streets, Pittsburg, Cal- Melvin Hurst, Blanding, Utah; Mary L. Midvale, Utah; Hermoine Tracy, Ogden, ifornia. Christensen, Salt Lake. Utah; Carrie Samuelson, Sandy, Utah. Richmond—Chapel, corner 28th St. and Western States: President and Mrs. Southern States: Florence M. Williams, Nevin Ave., Richmond, California. William W. Seegmiller, Salt Lake; Clara Hamer, Idaho; Roba Jardine, Menan, Idaho; Vallejo—Hall, 2010 Marin Street. Vallejo, Morrill, Tridell, Utah. Erven E. Brundage, Mesa, Arizona; David California. Southern States: Carlos A. Yeates, L. Haymore, Douglas, Arizona; Joseph Mrs. S. F. Patton, 1915 Street, Loertscher, Salt City, Orville Rose Logan, Utah; J. Lenard Warner, Salt Lake; Lake Webb, Berkeley, hostess for Oakland Stake. Leon K. Stevens, Montpelier, Idaho; Mary Lordsburg, New Mexico; Lloyd F. Gunther, Campbell, San Diego, California; Chad M. Lehi, Utah; Hazel J. Nalder, Layton, Utah. In and around San Francisco are Bertelson, Ephraim, Utah; Carrie H. Spanish American: Elizabeth A. Mc- the following wards: Bounds, Mt. Shasta, California; Elizabeth Kenzie, Ogden, Utah; Karl G. Buckmiller, Brinkerhoff, Glendale, Utah. Rexburg, Idaho; Herman C. Fails, Boise, Ashton St. and Balboa Ward, Ocean Hawaiian Mission: Robert T. Johns, Idaho; Elmo Elison, Malta, Idaho. Ave., San Francisco. Ogden, Utah; Dunford F. Greene, Salt Lake. Hawaiian: Izetta North, Salt Lake; Burlingame Ward, Bayswater and Lor- Raymond H. Shaw, Logan, Utah; Robert ton Aves. L. Worley, Baker, Oregon; Glen Walton, Mission Ward, 1234 Valencia Street, San Missionaries Released in August, Salt Lake. Francisco. 1941 and Others not Previously Japanese: George T. Willis, Salt Lake. Alto Ward, 771 Addison Ave., Palo Reported Brazilian: James D. Davis, Provo, Utah; Palo Alto. Paul R. Merrill, Brigham City, Utah; Ed- San Francisco Ward, 1649 Hayes Street, ward C. Beck, Spanish Fork, Utah; Mirl San Francisco. California: Ann Lyman, Salt Lake; Blake Hymas, Ovid, Idaho; Ray H. Crane, San Jose Ward, 34 Cleaves Ave., San Raymond G. O. Burton, Baltimore, Mary- Riverton, Utah; Howard R. Taylor, Lehi, Jose, California. land; Marjory T. Kuehner, Ontario, Can- Utah; J. W. Turner, Heber City, Utah; Sunset Ward, 22nd Ave. and Lawton ada; Mary D. L. Groves, Salt Lake; Albert John P. Rich, Salt Lake. St., San Francisco. L. Taylor, Jr., Salt Lake; Raymond H. Redwood City Branch, Foresters' Hall, Walton, Salt Lake; Mary Duke, Vernal, To Redwood City. Utah; LaVerne Burningham, Sandy, Utah; New Equipment Added San Rafael Branch, 1036 "C" Street, San ORyan Gull, Brigham City, Utah; Mar- Tabernacle and Organ Rafael. wood W. Bawden, Salt Lake. Mrs. Theodore Martin, 1451 37th Avenue, Canadian: LaVerna Ackroyd, Magrath, /Conference attenders this month will San Francisco, California. Hostess for Alberta, Canada; Kirkham Vard Grabb, enjoy the Tabernacle's new ven- San Francisco Stake. Lehi, Utah. tilating system which utilizes the two Central States: Wilford K. Wegener, large light wells in the ten-foot-thick Thanking you for your cooperation Salt Lake; Arend H. DeBoer, Ogden, Utah; ceiling as a means of exhausting stag- in this matter I am Raymond L. Barlow, Richfield, Utah; Elaine nant air. Sincerely yours, M. Mack, Riverside, California. year has been spent to complete (Mrs.) S. F. Patton. East Central: John A. Gardner, Ogden, A Utah; Paul A. Martin, Ogden, Utah; Sarah an overhauling of the Tabernacle or- L. Howard, Woods Cross; William H. Dale- gan, replacing worn parts and adding Missionaries Released in July bout, Salt Lake; Jack A. Hartvigsen, Poca- new equipment. tello, Idaho; Gladys Henriksen, Salt Also, new on Temple Square this Concluded from page 605 ( Lake; Paul R. Merrell, Brigham City, Utah; October will be a seventy-two foot steel Ralph J. Lauper, Oakland, California. ville, Utah; Gilbert R. Hunter, Lewisville, flag pole erected immediately east of Eastern States: Alva C. Snow, St. Idaho; John R. Carlston, Ephraim, Utah. the statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. George, Utah; Adelia Bayless, Blanding, Eastern States: Nolan R. Taylor, Farr Utah; Ida L. Whitaker, Salt Lake. West, Utah; C. G. Williams, Pingree, Ida- Mexican: Harlem F. Johnson, Colonia Relief Society Will ho; Milan D. Smith, Clearfield, Utah; Char- Pacheco, Mexico; William E. Beecraft, Plant Memorial Trees Skidmore, Salt Lake; Walter Lind- les J. G Colonia Chuichupa; John A. Davis, Colonia say, Stockton, California; Karl C. Klingler, Chuichupa; Ernestine Hatch, Colonia Dlans for the planting of a hardwood Rexburg, Idaho; Edith Dunn, Logan, Utah; Juarez; Hannah V. Taylor, Colonia Dublan; tree by each ward and stake to be Chatterley, Cedar City, Utah; George Jay L. Marvin B. Judd, Colonia Chuichupa. known as the "Relief Society Centen- L. Merrill, Thatcher, Arizona. iVeif England: Mary Darrington, J. nial Tree" have been announced by the England: Clinton F. Larson, Salt Burley, Idaho; Sterling C. Larson, Ririe, New general board of Relief Society. Each Lake; John N. Eldredge, Salt Lake; Keith Idaho; Marjorie Smith, Draper, Utah; Es- ward and stake has been asked to plan Hyrum Bates, Salt Lake. tella Palmer, Kirtland, New Mexico; F. impressive ceremonies as the trees are North Central States : Wendell R. West- Lant Haymore, Douglas, Arizona; Donald over, Aberdeen, Idaho; Edsel M. Tenney, A. Purdy, Sparks, Nevada; Anna Letha planted on all chapel and stake house Humbolt, Arizona; Freeman M. Stewart, Fugal, Pleasant Grove, Utah; Eldred L. grounds on or near March 17, 1942. 629 —

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THOU SHALT HAVE LONG LIFE (Concluded from page 593) would be some way of escape; that the boat upset in the surf.' Quick as the first rendered us much assistance, the Lord would provide the means, for lightning the scene of our disaster invited us to take Brother Snow to his it was not possible that my life and flashed upon my mind. I immediately house. There being no Saints in the mission were thus to terminate. This asked, 'Are you brethren all safe?' The place, we gladly accepted his kind offer. reliance on the Lord banished fear, emotion that was awakened in my bos- Every possible attention was given for and inspired me up to the last moment om by the answer of Elder Cluff, will Brother Snow's comfort." of consciousness. In such extreme remain with me as long as life con-

cases of excitement, we seem to live tinues : 'Brother Snow, we are all safe.' I will now give my father's own hours in a minute, and a volume of I rapidly recovered, and very soon was account of the upsetting of the boat thoughts crowd themselves into one able to walk and accompany the breth- and of his sensations in being single moment. It was so with me in ren to our lodgings." drowned and then coming to life that perilous scene. Brother Cluff resumes the nar- again. "Having been somewhat subject to rative : "As we were moving along, prob- faint, I think that after a few moments ably more than a quarter of a mile from in the water I must have fainted, as I "As soon as Brother Snow was out not suffer that pain in the where we expected to land, my atten- did common of danger, it occurred to me that I had tion was suddenly arrested by Captain experience of drowning persons. I better return to the vessel. As I reached Fisher calling to the oarsmen in a voice had been in the water only a few mo- the deck by the rope ladder over its until I lost consciousness. which denoted some alarm, 'Hurry up, ments, The side, I saw at a glance that Brother I shore, hurry up!' I immediately discovered first I knew afterwards, was on Smith was under great anxiety of mind. the cause of the alarm. A short dis- receiving the kind and tender atten- We both were under an intensity of tance behind us, I saw an immense tions of my brethren. feeling which men usually experience surf, thirty or forty feet high, rushing "The first recollection I had of re- only a few times in their lives. Brother towards us swifter than a race horse. turning consciousness, was that of a Smith had been informed by a native We had scarcely a moment for reflec- very small light—the smallest im- that the captain and an elderly white tion before the huge mass was upon us. aginable. This soon disappeared, and man were drowned. The latter he sup- In an instant our boat, with its contents, I was again in total darkness. Again posed to be Brother Benson, hence his as though it were a feather, was hurled it appeared much larger than before, great anxiety. My own nervous sys- into a gulf of briny waters, and all was then sank away and left me, as before, tem was strung up to an extreme tension under this rolling, seething mountain in forgetfulness. Thus it continued to by the events of the past two hours. wave. It took me by surprise. I think, come and go, until, finally, I recognized, When I told Brother Smith that all were however, that I comprehended the situ- as I thought, persons whispering, and safe, the sudden revulsion of feeling ation—in the midst of turbulent waves soon after, I asked in a feeble whisper, almost overcame him. We rejoiced to- a quarter of a mile from the shore, with- 'What is the matter?' I immediately gether that through a merciful Provi- out much probability of human aid. recognized the voice of Elder Cluff as dence, and the faith that had been be- "I felt confident, however, there he replied, 'You have been drowned; stowed upon us, we were all alive." THE DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS

{Continued from page 587) were included in all editions of the The verse numbers were also have a complete volume made up Doctrine and Covenants from 1835 changed when the 1876 edition came entirely of latter-day revelations to 1921. They were omitted in the off the press; for example, using the and beliefs, which would supplement 1921 edition, and do not appear in same section 89 we find that before and complement the other two vol- any later edition. 1876, it contained only an introduc- umes of scripture. It might have The book of Doctrine and Cove- tion and three verses. No words, been concluded that to take a verse, nants from 1835 to 1921 was printed sentences, or thoughts have been chapter, or chapters from the Bible in single column. Since 1921 all edi- altered in the contents since then, or the Book of Mormon, away from tions have been in double column. but the existing verses were broken the setting in which it is placed up, and they, together with the in- would, in a measure, result in con- Changes in Section troduction, now make twenty-one fusion. Arrangements verses. This was probably done to The 1835 edition of the Doctrine make the revelation more easily read and Covenants was the last one to HPhe arrangement of sections dur- and easier to understand. be printed in the lifetime of the ing the history of the book has That part which now constitutes Prophet. (If there are others the also undergone change. For ex- the first three verses of section 89 present writer has not been able to ample, Section 89 containing the was incorporated into the revelation locate them.) revelation known as the Word of itself beginning with the 1876 edi- Wisdom was not printed in A Book tion of the Doctrine and Covenants. The 1844, 1876, and 1921 Editions of Commandments, although it was Before 1876 these three verses ap- received in February of the same peared only as an introductory Tn 1844, an enlarged volume of one year, 1 833, in July of which year A paragraph preceding the revelation hundred eleven sections, printed Book of Commandments was on the Word of Wisdom. after the death of the Prophet, was printed. This same revelation was issued. This volume remained the listed as Section 80 in the 1 835 edi- Introductions same except for dates, place of pub- tion and as Section 81 in all subse- lication, and persons publishing it, quent editions to 1876, when it be- HThe changes that have taken place until 1 876, when the number of sec- came Section 89. In fact, all the in the introductions to the sections was increased to 136. One sections were re-numbered and re- tions during the development of the article or section, the one labeled arranged when the 1876 edition of Doctrine and Covenants are very "Marriage," was omitted in 1876. the Doctrine and Covenants was noticeable; for example, Section 100 The seven "Lectures on Faith" printed. in the 1835 edition, which becomes 630 — )

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Section 108 in all editions from 1844 members of the Church as a whole when the Government of the United to 1876, has only one word which before 1876. States declared Mormon plural mar- introduces the section, the word ( 1 ) Section 2 is a record of the riage illegal. It instructs all mem- "Appendix." Angel Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith bers of the Church to abide by the In the 1876 edition there appears and the quotation of the Prophet law of the land in the matter of marin the corresponding Section 133, Malachi's words when he ( Moroni riage. the following: appeared to the young Joseph The omission of the seven "Lec- Smith on the evening of September tures on Faith" has been briefly men- Revelation, called the Appendix, given 21, 1823. tioned. These were not received through Joseph, the Seer, at Hiram, Portage Section 13 records the ap- by revelation. The same might be Co., Ohio. (2) pearance of John the Baptist. It said of the article on "Marriage." The introduction to the same sec- also records the words used by him It was not received by revelation but tion, 133, in the 1921 and all sub- when he conferred the Aaronic was an "article" which was voted sequent editions appears as follows: Priesthood upon Joseph Smith and upon to be placed in the 1835 edi- Oliver Cowdery on the 1 5th of May, tion of the Doctrine and Covenants. ^ REVELATION given through Joseph 1829. When the revelation, Section 132, Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, No- (3) Section 110 records the vis- was incorporated in the book, which vember 3, 1831. Prefacing this revelation ions in the Kirtland Temple, April was the will of the on the sub- the Prophet wrote: At this time there were 3, Lord many things which the Elders desired to 1836, when the Lord Jesus Christ, ject of marriage, the section or ar- know, relative to preaching the Gospel to Moses, Elias, and Elijah appeared ticle on the same subject was the inhabitants of the earth, and concerning to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cow- omitted. the gathering; and in order to walk by the dery. It is well to state here that not all true light, and be instructed from on high, on the 3rd of November, 1831, I inquired (4) Section 130 records among the sections in the Doctrine and of the Lord and received the following im- other things a prophecy on the Covenants of today are revelations portant revelation, which has since been Civil War, which states that the war as such. However, they are lofty in added to the book of Doctrine and Cove- would begin in South Carolina, and thought and are not in disagreement nants and called the Appendix.—A proc- lamation to be carried by the Elders to the would probably arise over the slave with any of the sections which are peoples of the world—Zion and Jerusalem question. That section also con- listed as revelations. Section 121, both to be established—The voice of the tains information that the Father that great masterpiece on the rights Lord to issue from each of these centers and Son are personages of flesh and of the Priesthood, is one not listed The Lost Tribes to be remembered by the Lord and to be brought forth from the bone while the Holy Ghost is a as a revelation. But in the writer's north countries—These to receive their personage of spirit. opinion it was received by the spirit blessings at the hand of Ephraim—Graves (5) Section 131 records the in- of revelation, and is in fact a reve- of the Saints to be opened at the coming formation that there are three lation though not designated as such. of the Lord—The doom of those who reject the Lord's message. heavens or degrees in the celestial glory and that in order to attain to Textual Changes Similar changes have occurred in the highest one, a person must enter all the introductions, the greatest into the new and everlasting cove- HThe changes so far mentioned are, change being made in 1921. These nant of marriage. This section also for the most part, mechanical. changes, in the writer's opinion, have has in it the statement: "It is im- No alterations of words in the reve- been highly desirable. One has possible for a man to be saved in lations themselves, from one edition only to compare them to see that ignorance." to another, have been shown. Let us consider this matter of tex- they have resulted in a clearer under- ( 6 ) Section 1 32 contains the reve- now standing of the place, purpose, and lation on the eternity of the mar- tual changes in the development of contents of each one of the revela- riage covenant and the doctrine of the book of Doctrine and Covenants. tions. plurality of wives. In verse 4, Chapter II, in A Book (7) Section 136 contains the of Commandments, printed in 1833, Sections Added in 1876 "Word and the Will of the Lord" we read: to Brigham Young, and it deals . . . therefore repent of that which thou TThe addition of sections has al- mainly with the organization of the hast done and he will only cause thee to be ready been mentioned. There Camp of Israel in the Journey west- afflicted for a season and thou art still chosen and wilt again be called to the were twenty-six sections added to ward to the Rocky Mountains. It work: . . . the Doctrine and Covenants in the also contains the information that year 1876: 2, 13, 77, 85, 87, 108, 109, it was needful for the Prophet to In the corresponding section and 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, seal his testimony with his blood. verse in the 1835 edition of the Doc- 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 129, Another addition to the Doctrine trine and Covenants, we read: 130, 131, 132, and 136. All of these and Covenants was the inclusion of . . . ; therefore repent of that which sections were received the the "Official Declaration" by or what thou hast done which is contrary to the Prophet except Section 136, which is commonly known as the "Mani- commandments which I gave you and thou was received by Brigham Young. festo." This item was first bound art still chosen and art again called to the Synopses of the contents of some in the same volume with the other work; of the above sections follow and form revelations in 1908. According to Chapter VI in A Book of Com- an invitation to the reader to read Elder John A. Widtsoe of the mandments reads as follows: these and other sections that have Council of the Twelve, the teaching been added. Points on the doctrines included in the "Manifesto" was 1. And the Lord said unto me, John my beloved, what desirest thou? and I said, of the Church are found in some of received by revelation." It was given Lord give unto me power that I may bring the above-listed sections, which souls unto thee. the Lord said unto ^John A. Widtsoe, The Improvement Bra. Novem- —And were not easily available to the ber. 1940. p. 673. {Concluded on page 632) 631 : ) — —

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Concluded page 63 ( from 1 In Section 102, verse 10 (1835 resulted in a better understanding edition), a phrase reads: me, Verily, verily I say unto thee, because of the revelations themselves. Of thou desirest this, thou shalt tarry till I course these helps were not there

and withdraw . from their fellow- come in my glory: when the revelations were given to ship." 2. And for this cause, the Lord said unto the Prophet Joseph Smith. Peter: If I will that he tarry till I come, — The added sections are a distinct what is that to thee? for he desirest of me The same phrase in the corres- that he might bring souls unto me: but thou ponding section, 134, in verse 10, in advantage. Added light on Church desirest that thou might speedily come unto the 1921 edition, reads: doctrine is made available to the me in my kingdom: I say unto thee, Peter, people of the Church and the world. this was a good desire, but my beloved has "... and withdraw from them their fel- Why they were not placed in the undertaken a greater work. lowship." book of Doctrine and Covenants be-

1 fore 876 can be explained by ( 1 ) The corresponding section in the These are but a few examples illus- the fact that printing facilities in the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and trating the type of changes between west were very limited, that all edi- Covenants, issued under the direc- the various containing the volumes tions of the Doctrine and Covenants tion of the Prophet, reads: revelations, usually grammatical, or printed 16 from 1846 to 1876 were corrections of printing errors. printed in England and that the same 1. And the Lord said unto me: John, my beloved, what desirest thou? For if stereotyped plates were used. Only you shall ask what you will, it shall be Summary the date of printing and address was granted unto you. And I said unto him: changed during that time with the Lord, give unto me power over death, that HHhe writer's conclusions regarding added change of the name of the per- I may live and brings souls unto thee. And the differences or changes that the Lord said unto me: Verily, verily I say son authorizing the new edition. unto thee, because thou desirest this thou have occurred in the Doctrine and These changes are unimportant so shalt tarry until I come in my glory, and Covenants during its history are as far as the book itself is concerned. shalt prophesy before nations, kindreds, follows: Another reason: probably tongues and people. (2) the Church as a whole was not pre- 2. And for this cause the Lord said unto The mechanical differences, such pared to receive the revela- Peter: If I will that he tarry till I come, as versification, double column pages, added what is that to thee? For he desired of me longer and more complete introductions until they were included in the that he might bring souls unto me, but thou tions, and footnotes are all placed Doctrine and Covenants. There is desirest that thou mightest speedily come there to help the reader and have a strong point here. During the life unto me in my kingdom. I say unto thee, of the Prophet Smith only Peter, this was a good desire, but my be- Joseph loved has desired that he might do more, 16 For a more complete record of such changes the certain revelations were selected reader is referred to the writer's unpublished Master's or a greater work yet among men than what Thesis. It is in the library of Brigham Young "as were deemed proper for pub- he has before done. Yea, he has under- University, Provo, Utah. lication." We naturally draw the taken a greater work: therefore I will make conclusion that reveal him as flaming fire and a ministering angel; God may he shall minister for those who shall t>e heirs truths to His prophets which the of salvation who dwell on the earth. And I world could not receive at the time. will make thee to minister for him and for DESERT GRACES Later, by obedience and diligence thy brother James; and unto you three I will the people would receive them. give this power and the keys of this min- Gertrude Perry Stanton istry until I come. By Concerning the differences in wording that have taken place dur- shall we search for virtues that This revelation is designated Sec- Where ing the history of the Doctrine and abide— tion 7, in the 1876 and all subsequent In haunts of wealth, of luxury and pride, Covenants, it is clear that no change editions. It contains the same word- Or in the simple homes of humbler clay? has been made in wording that has ing as the 1835 edition, but the num- If I could show you what I saw today altered or changed a fundamental ber of verses has been increased to A tiny cabin, stripped, unpainted, old, doctrine. One wondered how it could be made to hold eight. The bed, stove, table, and a chair or two; The changes that occurred be- Differences of the wording in cer- No towering tree a grateful shadow threw tween chapters and verses in A Book Upon the dusty and forsaken plain; tain revelations received by the of Commandments and the corres- On one side, scant sagebrush, dwarfed and Prophet Joseph Smith and altered dry; ponding sections and verses in the by others and accepted by the The other, plowed ground white with alkali, 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Church after his death are also in- No trace of pasture or of growing grain. Covenants were doubtless made by teresting, as the following shows: A man and woman, bent with years of toil; the Prophet Joseph Smith himself She had a washing flapping on a line, In Section 4 in the 1835 edition ( ) to correct errors by the He slowly dug a cave of crude design, 1 made find in we verse 12 a phrase that Merely a hollow in the crumbling soil; printers, (2) to give added light to reads as follows Not one thing there of beauty or of grace revelations that were not complete That makes a home from out a barren place! when first printed. Not one? verily, I three: "... are not baptized by water in my Nay, show you ." Faith, in a ditch that yet was dry as dust; The writer's study during a year name. . . Hope, in a square of slender saplings thrust and a half of the growth and devel- In earth, around a building-spot to be; opment of the Doctrine and Cove- The corresponding Section 84, in And there was love; there must be love to nants leaves him more convinced the 1921 edition, in verse 74 the hold phrase reads: A pair together while they had grown old, than ever as to its divine authen- For nothing else would have strength to ticity. He stands convinced of suffice and are not baptized in water in the fact that Joseph Smith was and is Through labor, penury, and sacrifice; my name. a Prophet whose testimony concern- So still abideth Faith, Hope, Love, these three ing the Father and the Son we may Another example follows: The graces desert homes have shown to me. believe and know to be true. 632 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941

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counts with Windy. I'll bet she killed him."

"I'll bet it was old Davvy," another replied. "He had a right to be the one to end Windy more than anyone else."

"Think he did it, Port?" said another. "Ask him. Here he comes down the road." The gloves were delivered, paid for, and the Indian, still carrying his bow and arrows, in search of a rab- bit for supper, was well on his way to camp before anyone spoke. Some days later Port showed up at the main office of the Overland Stage in Salt Lake. Those men plied him with questions from every side. LOOK AROUND They demanded action. When a man was killed they wanted to know who did it, the reason, and why he, You'll see "Caterpillar" machinery doing or she, had not been brought to jus- national defense everywhere throughout tice. Some demanded he arrest the woman; others different ideas, had the nation, and particularly in this territory. and still others just waited for Port to tell what he knew. Finally he And you'll also see "Caterpillars" construct- said, "Windy came to his death by a lightning stroke." ing roads, on farms, at mines and smelters What a commotion this caused. and other industrial uses everywhere. In- Lightning on a clear, starlit night — without a cloud in sight? One de- deed, "Caterpillar" is the popular choice manded the body of the dead man. Where was it? whenever power or earth moving machin- "Thought something like this ery is needed. might happen, so I knew the only place I could keep Windy was down the dry well at Dugway. We, just me and you, could go out there and I TRACTOR and could let you down on a rope. Might not be able to pull you back up, but EQUIPMENT CO. when you had finished investigating LAMDES SALT LAKE CITY you might climb back up that rope. When will we be a leaving?" Distributor of "Caterpillar" Diesel Engines, Track-Type Tractors, Road Machinery No one wanted to go, so Port took a piece of paper and wrote, "Windy came to his death by a lightning stroke. Port Rockwell, Investi- gator."

"Why not call it a 'Streak of Lightning?" asked one. KRESS PARADE "Either way suits me," replied or Port, leaving. cl As he walked down the street he ZodkJL! Hik, SUIT YEAR style of Hollywood wondered how long Davvy had These suits arrived irom the centers See them while in for Conference. practiced to know the exact pull to 100% VIRGIN WOOL Monotone Wool put on his bow so an arrow, shot just J95 under the short ribs, on the right side, SUITS SUITS $| Costume style contrast- Flannels. Suede Fin- and passing through the heart, would ing Jacket and Skirt. i s h , Herringbone, Trim Tailored Lines stop with just the tip pricking the New colors T skin under the left arm pit, leaving not over one inch of the feathered SALT LAKE KNITTING STORE j^r3l 36 SOUTH MAIN — 36 PAY OUR NEW STORE A VISIT end sticking out. 633 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 THE STORY OF THE TELESCOPE TRAVELER'S MOTOR LODGE 1481 SOUTH STATE (Continued from page 594) torture, but we know that he never SALT LAKE'S OUTSTANDING MOTOR COURT New and Strictly Modern At first the telescope was more or really gave up the truth which he Air Conditioned in Summer — Automatically believed he had discovered, and Heated in Winter—Beautifully Furnished With less a plaything. The first man Carpeted Floors and Colored Tile Showers, which has since been proved. Radios Free to glimpse the wonderful possibil- BETTER THAN THE BEST HOTELS—FOR LESS ities that lay in this instrument was The next great astronomer was the great Italian Galileo, who all his John Kepler, whose three great laws life regarded the heavens even as the governing the known planets and _DELICIDUS Psalmist David, with reverence and other heavenly matters still stand TlatwiaL Qh&sidJL awe, rejoicing in the glory of God's undisputed. After Kepler there work. seems to have been a lull in things PIMENTO Galileo was away from his native telescopic and then another enter- AGED CHEDDAR Padua in the city of Venice when he prising Dutchman comes on the DUTCH LUNCH first heard of this strange invention scene. This was Christian Huy- for "viewing afar" (the name "tele- gens, to whom the telescope was scope," taken from two Greek words, "the noblest thing that ever came means just that). He rushed back out of Holland." He realized that to Padua and visited every optical about the most important part of the store to find the very best lenses. telescope was the lens, so he and his But none of them proved satisfactory, good brother set to work and man- and so he ground his own—which aged to produce finer ones than had was anything but a simple process ever been made before. in those days when there were no On March 5, 1655, Christian tools such as we have now. Huygens, looking through one of After many experiments Galileo their own telescopes saw, so far as | TAYLOR produced the world's finest telescope is recorded for the first time in his- | and presented it to the Doge and tory, the rings which surround the other high officials of Venice, a very planet Saturn, nine hundred million great republic in those days. These miles away from the earth—a dis- This is the time to think of n p gentlemen were amazed when, look- tance which the human mind can U School Rings and Pins. We \ ing through that first simple tube, scarcely grasp. n can furnish you with these they saw, as if close by, the won- This celestial discovery swept U articles. Refinement of de- 5 new derful bell tower of the great Cathe- through the world like wildfire and fl sign and quality makes us dral of Saint Mark. everybody wanted a telescope. For o an outstanding Manufac- 9. This first real telescope seems some reason people got the idea that hirer. [) {] very crude beside the great instru- the longer the tube, the better the 162 So. Main St., Phone 4-8554 ments of today, but through it Gali- view, and so the instruments grew Salt Lake City, Utah o o leo was able to see much more of longer and longer. Johannes Heve-

Recognized Utah Headquarters in dent of the stars, the honest astron- that they would not have to be taken Los Angeles omer, has always been humble in down and put up. His dream was CLAYTON V. SMITH, Managing Director Formerly of Salt Lake City spite of great achievements. He to come true some hundreds of years has also been endowed with an im- hence in the shape of marvelous lab- mense patience and persistence. oratories built to house such instru- Galileo, like many other great ments as Christian and his brother men, was ahead of his time and in- had never dreamed of. BOOKS curred the wrath of certain important people that ' BOUGHT - SOLD - TRADED who were convinced our Tp to this time there had been HIGHEST CASH PRICES for books in earth was the center of all God's uni- only one kind of telescope, the lots oi 1 or 1,000. Particularly inter- verse. hundred years before ested in private libraries. Mormon One refractor with two lenses, convex and Western Historical items. the invention of the telescope, a wise concave. Let us help you locate the books you and With these there was want. 20,000 new and old books man of Poland, Copernicus, had put always an annoying blur and color in stock ... all kinds ... or will forth the theory order for you. humbler that our fringe around the object viewed. It Drop in and browse or write. Ref- earth was but a small part of the erences gladly furnished. was an Englishman, John Hadley, starry world and by no means the WILSON'S who found a way to improve on the BOOK EXCHANGE center. bean pole and to get rid of the colored 113 E. 2nd South St. In those days one had to agree fringe. He also invented the mod- Salt Lake Cit\ with the important people or go to ern sextant which took the place of jail, or perhaps even lose one's life. the astrolabe and other ancient Galileo suffered imprisonment and mariner's guides. 634 —

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When Hadley presented his neat ments of them must be—or as close six-foot portable refractor telescope to it as is humanly possible. to the Royal Society of England, By 1775, William Herschel had they were delighted. Hadley John completed a seven-foot reflector Complete was a modest man, and, like our own telescope better than anything yet good and equally brilliant and help- invented, but he was still not satis- ful Benjamin Franklin, he refused to fied, and kept right on. His reward take out any patent for any of his was dSanhin an instrument of forty feet 9 inventions but was content to share through which he discovered the the fruits of his labor with all men. planet Uranus. Another famous Englishman, Sir Next came an Irishman, John Par- Isaac Newton, famous for his ob- sons, later Lord Rosse, who in 1 828 servations of the law of gravity, spe- produced a fifty-eight-foot telescope The general forward move- cialized in the reflector type of which new brought the moon closer to ment in business finds this telescope. borrowed the idea men's He eyes than ever before. One strong, conservative bank from a canny Scotsman and did of the most remarkable things about cooperating with its clients to make the reflector or mirror this much achievement is the fact that Lord in every possible way. Our telescope popular. Rosse trained his own mechanics service includes Commer- find next an eminent German and engineers, We using his own farm- cial and Savings Accounts, coming into the story. This was hands, who went to work for him Trust Department—acting William Herschel, who started out with a will and proved just as intelli- as Administrator, Executor, as a musician and very fine organist, gent as he expected them to be. Guardian and Trustee, but wanted a larger field. He ar- It is now soon expected that the Abstract Department and rived in England during the year Big Eye with its two hundred-inch Safety Deposit Boxes. 1757 and found himself something mirror will be completed on Mount of a social success, the talk of the Palomar in Southern California, fashionable town of Bath, and re- with funds provided for this purpose garded as a very handsome and in- thirteen years ago. The great tele- SAVINGS & scope IT T 71 U teresting young man. itself, the world's largest, is U 1 /Til TRUST CO. William had a sister Catherine mounted in the dome and the drive 235 South Main Street who also had ambitions and found and control mechanisms are being Member Federal Reserve System ample room to use them when her completed and installed. Member Federal Deposit good brother suddenly gave up his The work of figuring the 200-inch Insurance Corporation career as a fashionable musician and mirror has continued for about five turned all his attention to the tele- years at the optical shop on the Cali- scope. Like Huygens and his good fornia Institute of Technology cam- brother, Herschel and his devoted, pus. During this process more than intelligent sister Catherine worked four tons of glass have been removed day and night. William's specialty by grinding. All the world is wait- was the grinding of mirrors, and he ing to see the wonders which this Nobody Can often worked all twenty-four hours Titan Eye will reveal. while his sister brought him food. Yet while we give credit to the Stop LOSS— He experimented with the mirror scientists of today who have made type, or reflector telescope, which the big eye possible and given us an requires an almost superhuman ac- opportunity to see further into the Everybody Can curacy. His equally famous and glory of God's heavens, let us re- handsome son John set down in his member those who went before. It Avoid It Through notes: "The total thickness to be was they, brave and patient, pains- abraded from the edge of a spherical taking and persistent, filled with rev- INSURANCE speculum ... is only 1/21333 of erent wonder at the handiwork of an inch." Just as the laws which God, who wrote the first fascinating, govern the heavens are accurate to all-important pages of the story of the nth degree, so man's measure- the telescope. When you come

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(Concluded from page 635) is beginning to recognize the divine attributes of this great work. It is tions, become the greatest people, very well, indeed, to hear and be mentally and physically, that the thrilled by the news that Mormonism world has ever known." Stap-Kist is being lauded by great men in high Here was a man of high station, places of the earth; but we must not a keen student of human affairs, allow ourselves to be lulled by these Tuna making the striking observation that things into a complacent, self-satis- Mormonism has within it a philos- fied sense of false security. We THE TOP GRADE PACKED 2 WAYS: ophy of such power and concern for have done well in the past, but we FANCY SOLID PACK or READY GRATED the betterment of the individual that are now on the threshold of a new- IN STARKIST'S MODERN SUNLIT PLANT —if lived—will produce a race of era, a new age, indeed a new civ- super men and women. ilization. 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Vano Household Cleaner 580 hikes through the nearby canyons Wasatch Chemical Co 582 Then at fourteen, still with the and hills, where he searches for un- Wheeler, Reynolds, 6 Stauffer.... 582 art desire uppermost, young Torleif Wilson's Book Exchange 634 usual scenes for his paintings. was apprenticed, through the agency of his father, with a paint and deco- Or Knaphus' early life was rating establishment. And at sixteen WELCOM i crowded with adventure, for, the youthful decorator branched true to the tradition of his Viking out for himself in this field. Conference Visitors ancestors, he sailed before the mast It was natural enough that at some - <$»— his THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO. as a sailor. He has studied in the period of young, adventurous

J. L. Purvis, Sales Agent art institutes of Paris and New York years this active son of Norse par- 132-134 E. 2nd South and has made extensive voyages and entage should heed the urge to "go Salt Lake City, Utah trips in connection with his work. down to the sea in ships," for the 636 .

THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, OCTOBER, 1941 surge of the sea has ever been strong in Scandinavian blood. So, it is not PMkct Invest In surprising that we find him serving Smi% * you/I HOME as a sailor, in which exciting though hazardous occupation he worked on Better Living . . the ships of Norwegian merchant lines for about two years. Modernize His sailing ventures were given WITH of the wishes up, however, because • Weyerhauser Premium Ce- of his mother, who desired him to as dar Shingles. • U. S. Rockwool Insulation. home. his return, Torleif 0»£ •si] return On #* • Acme Quality Paint. again turned his talents to decorative • 4-Square Lumber. • Douglas Fir Plywood. art, finishing his apprenticeship, with • Curtis Kitchens. • Silentite Windows. the intention of later becoming an • Curtis Period Doorways, Enjoy your home more by periodically artist. and China Closets. There was another interval in planning some improvement to keep it Modernize—including labor and materials for CJC Cf| which young Torleif was actively up-to-date and avoid the costly results as little as M>*J.OU mont h. engaged in athletics, competing fa- of neglect. Dollars invested now in Your 4-Square Lumber Dealer vorably with district athletes at modernization can be made to pay many of the track-meets held in vari- double dividends in increased value and ous parts of western Norway; a Sup- House Lumber favorite event was the spear-throw. livability. Call us today . . . informa- '& But these interludes seem to have tion and estimates are free of cost and Hardware Co. been only the demands of a healthy 117* E. 21 SO. DIAL 6*601 obligation. young body to throw off excess energy. The art impulse was ever there in his mind and fingers, too strong to be denied, awaiting only time to reassert itself.

It was on the very night of a ban- HERE'S PRACTICAL PROOF that quet tendered some hundred athletes (t at Stavanger, Norway, among whom L. D. S. TRAinmG PAYS" was Torleif Knaphus, that art won out over athletics in young Torleif 's Miss Verda Ipson, who came to us from Panguitch, mind. And at that time he an- Utah, expresses her opinion about the school:

nounced his intention of devoting "The L. D. S. Business College cannot be sur- himself henceforth to the art work passed for spiritual guidance, technical training, which he had temporarily aban- and good fellowship. The training has helped me a great deal with my stenographic work at the Capi- doned. Suiting the action to the tol." word, he sailed that same night for

Oslo. Literally, Torleif Knaphus Miss Marie Western, re- was thus embarked upon his career cently of Deseret, Utah, en- of art—a career that has placed his rolled here January 2, 1941. Seven months later she re- numerous works in their rightful ceived a permanent posi- niches among contemporary art VERDA IPSON Panguitch tion. Here is what she pieces. says:

"Without the excellent training I received at the At Oslo, through the recommenda- L. D. S. Business College, I would have been unable to fill the position that now brings me security, sat- of tions of a Professor Dietrich isfaction, and happiness." that city, Torleif received a permit in to paint and copy the old masters Multiply these examples by hundreds every year the National Gallery of Oslo. It and you will understand why L. D. S. is the choice was there that he met the famous of an increasing number of high school and college MARIE WESTERN Harriet Backer of the Harriet Backer graduates of the Intermountain territory. Deseret Art School, who invited Torleif to become her student at the school, PLAN TO BEGIN YOUR BUSINESS CAREER NOW1 under her personal instruction. L. D. S. Along with these two years of BUSINESS COLLEGE study at the Harriet Backer School, Salt Lake City, Utah the young Mr. Knaphus also received an invitation to study with Lars Utne, professor and sculptor at the King's Art School in Oslo. . . . Under this tutelage, Torleif pro- WE OrfER STEER gressed rapidly, working in the A COMPLETE RARE DECORATION HORNS ENGRAVING SERVICE For Sale, over six foot spread, Polished and his tal- medium which seemed to suit From Missionary Portraits to the Largest mounted, Fine decoration for Home or Office, ents well. He had now decided to Catalogues Rare opportunity, Texas Longhorn cattle now- Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention extinct, Free Photo. Lee Bertillion, Mineola, devote his art entirely to becoming Texas. UTAH ENGRAVING CO. .a sculptor, planning to spend several 113 Regent St. Salt Lake City, Utah (Concluded on page 639) 637 Scriptural Crossword Puzzle—The Apostles at Pentacost SOLUTION OF SEPTEMBER PUZZLE "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judcea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words."—Acts 2: 14. w H E^ M A ^I* ^ R T A R R PI "R

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on their way to . . . 19 "Silver . . . gold have I none" who were nouncements and Invitations. a "I them, and they follow 53 "Who made thee a . . . and 20 know " us? Here you wiN &&& a complete judge over 21 Northwestern state 55 "And he [Matthias] was numbered assortment of wedding station- 22 Austrian river; rise (anag.) with the eleven ..." 24 Abraham's old home 56 Canadian province ery, the latest and smartest. — 25 Weight of Korea is 26 "and, . . . , I am with you alway" Our Text from Acts 2, 4, 17, 19, 27 "and ... in the earth beneath" 27, 30, 40, 42, 43, and 55 com- PROMPT, COURTEOUS bined ATTENTION DOWN

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(Concluded from page 637) which institution he was awarded a font in the L. D. S. temple at Card- years in southern Europe for the first mention in his sculpture work ston, Alberta, Canada, heralded at continuance and finishing of his after a year's time. On his return the time of its placement as a piece studies. to the States, he spent another half of symbolical statuary of high order A stronger influence even than year at the Art Students' League in and distinction; and a similar font of art, however, was to shape the course New York. One of the first com- terra cotta at the Mesa, Arizona, of his travels at this time. At Oslo, missions received by him from the temple. Around the exterior of the Mr. Knaphus made his first acquaint- Church was the making of the hand- Arizona temple are also eight friezes ance with Latter-day Saint mission- cart statue. The inspiration for this by Mr. Knaphus, representing the aries, and so impressed was he with remarkable piece of sculpture was various nations of today in their re- the Gospel they preached, that al- attained largely through his contact sponse to the Gospel message. He though quite familiar with the teach- and conversations with many of the is now working on the oxen for the ings of various other religious sects, pioneers in the valley who had made baptismal font for the Idaho Temple. he found himself favoring the plain the immortal trip across the western Every Salt Lake school child is and, to him, sincere theology of plains in this manner. familiar with the patriotic statue Mormonism above all doctrines The handcart statue was com- erected a few years ago on the which he had heard. Not long pleted and placed in the Bureau of grounds of the City and County afterward, in February of 1902, Mr. Information Building in 1926, where building, depicting an American boy Knaphus joined the L. D. S. it has since remained, admired by and girl with eyes upraised to the Church. He sailed for the United the tens of thousands of visitors who flag. This is also one of Mr. Knap- States in January of 1906, coming have passed through the display hus' fine conceptions. to Utah in the same year, where he rooms of the building since that time. continued his Church work and es- The Handcart Monument alone tablished his home at Salt Lake City, Besides the handcart statue, would be well worth a visit to famous now blessed with a goodly group of among the best known works of Tor- Temple Square. In the detail of this children and flaxen-haired grand- leif Knaphus are the celebrated Hill statue a masterpiece has been made. children, a typical happy, healthy Cumorah monument in New York There is a realism and a flowing Mormon family. state, overlooking the site where rhythm of movement in the group In 1912, Torleif Knaphus returned Joseph Smith found the golden which takes one along with it on that to Europe, where, in Paris, he plates from which the Book of Mor- great trek of the Mormon handcart studied at the Julian Academy, at mon was translated; the baptismal pioneers. Greatest motor oil development so far

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times persons wishing to emphasize bad situations feel AT Yes, sir, the best way to get the most out of life is to fall in that the words "very much" are not strong enough. They love with a great problem or a beautiful woman. an error by using the expression, "the worst way." make Why not choose the last one and get both? In a sentence like this, "He needs help in the worst way," it would be correct to say, "He needs help very much." APPROPRIATE <$>

September 4, 1941. Rastus: "Did you-all have a special celebration foh yo' Dear Brethren wooden weddin'?" our recent trip to the Hawaiian Islands, we had the DURING Mose: "Yassah, we did, in a way. She hit me on de haid privilege of visiting the lepers settlement at Kaulapapa, wid a rollin' pin, 'cause Ah wouldn't split no kindlin' foh her." Molokai, T. H., where President David O. McKay dedicated a recreation hall. We have in this settlement some fifty-two members of the Church, who are afflicted with this terrible UPSIDE DOWN disease, but they are full of faith and devotion to the Church, and exemplify the plan of the Gospel in their lives in such a Mrs. Newlywed entered a store and asked for some floor wav that they set a splendid example for the rest of the Church. wax. Their banishment to Kaulapapa is virtually life imprisonment, Salesman: "Sorry, ma'am. We only have sealing wax." as few, if any, of these people ever recover from leprosy. Con- Mrs. Newlywed: "Don't be silly! Who ever heard of sequently, the physical world that they live in is comparatively waxing the ceiling?" small, the village being fronted by the ocean and at the rear cliffs rise to a height of 2,000 feet. As I listened to precipitous DUDE, their testimonies I wondered what we could do to exhibit our DUDE interest in them, and so I asked Brother Koni what he thought 1920's, Britisher arrived would be most helpful to the members of the branch; and he In the prosperous a at a western ranch and decided to try horseback riding over the mesa. indicated that if more copies of the Era could be forwarded to them, as well as some of the other Church periodicals, they "Which do you want, an English saddle or a Western?" asked the cowboy. would bring them in direct contact with what is transpiring "And what is the difference?" replied the Britisher. in the Church. With that suggestion in mind, it would be "The Western saddle has a horn." deeply appreciated if the Era could forward four or five copies I the visitor. each month to these stricken people. "I think won't need the horn," said "I don't plan to ride in heavy traffic." The dedicatorial exercises at Honolulu were most inspiring. Without a doubt the Church has the finest edifice of its kind on the Hawaiian Islands. The people, both in and out of the SOUNDS LIKE A MENU Church, have taken a keen pride in the erection of this building; and it stands as a monument to the integrity and the devotion The lady from Kalamazoo was touring South America. of the members of the Church. Ordering dinner, she pointed to the menu and said, "Waiter, bring me some of this." Wishing you every success, and with all kind 'wishes, we are "Madam." replied the waiter, "the orchestra is playing that Sincerely your brethren, now." THE PRESIDING BISHOPRIC. By Joseph L. Wirthlin. YOU ASKED FOR IT $ "Upper or lower berth," inquired the would-be traveler, PALMYRA PILGRIMAGE "what's the difference?" "Well," replied the ticket agent, "the difference is $2. But following excerpts are from a letter written by David R. THE that is not all. The lower is higher than the upper one. The Pingree, Jr., formerly of the Twenty-seventh Ward of higher price is for the lower. If you want it lower, you have Salt Lake City. This young man did most of his undergraduate to go higher. We sell the upper lower than the lower. Most work at the University of Utah, went to Stanford University people don't like the upper, although it's lower on account for a year and there received a bachelor's degree, and was of being higher. When you occupy an upper you go up to later graduated from the Harvard School of Business Admin- bed and get down to get up." istration. He is now employed by the Erwin-Wasey Company of New York City. WILL TELL "The trip to Palmyra was one of the highlights of my life. BLOOD The pageant was truly the most remarkable and wonderful First girl: "Oh, Jack, is so romantic! Poetic, too. When thing I have ever seen. . . . Two hours before the program " he speaks to me, he always calls me 'Fair Lady.' started there was not a seat left and cars were jammed for half Second girl: "Simply force of habit, dear. Jack's a street- a mile down the road in both directions waiting to get in. . . . The audience was simply spell-bound by the performance. car conductor." No one seemed to move even so much as an inch during the whole two hours. WHAT'S IN A NAME "Two information booths were maintained and after the Seeing her former suitor at a party, a girl decided to snub him. performance was over, there was not one piece of this literature "So sorry," she murmured when the hostess introduced him, left on the ground. "but I didn't get your name." "This pageant not only does a great deal for the outsiders "I know you didn't," said the unabashed f. s., "but you but it also certainly builds up a lot of enthusiasm in the mis- certainly tried hard enough." sionaries. And let me add that perhaps most important of all, it stimulates the interest of members like mvself who have never

really known what our religion is and what it is based on. . . . SPEED, NOT METHOD "And besides seeing this marvelous pageant, it was a great inspiration to me to see the Hill Cumorah, Joseph Smith's home, Patient: "Doctor, I'm sure you saved my life, How can I the Sacred Grove, Palmyra, the Martin Harris home, etc. repay you for all you've done?" Seeing these sights makes one feel that one can easily see how Doctor: "Well, I'm not particular about the method, but the events that took place one hundred twenty years ago on this if you can repay me about three years quicker than the last sacred ground were possible." time, I'd appreciate it."

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