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LAUNDRY... 15 gals. and Leonora Nelson Sorensen. (See The Improvement Era, "The Church Moves On," September and October ilk 1949, pages 616 and 692.) Elder Clarke, a convert to the Church from England, filled a full- time mission to his native land under President George F. Richards, then jY SHOWERS... 10 gals. president of the European Mission,
during World War I. All OTHER USES.... 45 gals. After coming to Salt Lake City, he filled a two-year stake mission in the JEANNETTE H. DEMARS LEONORA NELSON old Granite (Salt Lake City) Stake SORENSEN and also was a member of the Sunday School board of that stake. Later, as a ward and stake M. I. A. dance DAILY he was a member of the Y. M.M.I. A. FAMILY Qfi director in various places throughout REQUIREMENTS board of the Salt Lake Stake. During ?f.VGALS. the Church during the past fifteen World War II, he served the Church years. is five * 20 year prorated cost of a She the mother of chil- as assistant military coordinator for Fowler 40-gallon porcelain- dren. She has been assigned to the lined the western states. He is a well- water heater. dance committee of the general board. known Salt Lake City musician and a Mrs. Sorensen attended the Juilliard YOURS...when you member of the staff of radio station Institute of Musical Art in New York KSL. He is assigned to the special buy a FOWLER during 1944-45 and graduated from interest committee of the general 4 Porcelain-lined, rust-proof tank. the University of Utah in 1947. Dur- 4 Safety "black heat" elements. board. ing 1946-47 she instructed part time V Automatic temperature controls. Mrs. Boud, wife of John W. Boud, 1/ Efficient triple insulation. in the dance department at the Uni- former navy chaplain, V 20 year prorated warranty. graduated from versity and at the Stewart Training V Capacities: 5 to 80 gallons. East High School in Salt Lake City School. Since her graduation she has 4 Approved by Underwriters' in 1943, winning a scholarship to study been a full-time member of the Uni- Laboratories. speech and dramatics at Denver Uni- versity of Utah faculty. She has com- See FOWLER at your dealer's or versity. Later she studied at Stanford write tor complete information. pleted work toward her Master of University (California), Brigham Arts degree and has served as pianist Young University, and the University in the Manhattan (New York) and of Utah. Following the completion of the Marlborough (Salt Lake City) her college training she filled a mission wards. She has served as chorister in the Northern States, laboring in in the Marlborough Ward for three Also manufacturer of Iowa and Illinois. years. She has been assigned to the FOWLER GAS WATER HEATERS She has worked as drama director dance committee of the general board.
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Church Features The poetic charm of Janu- ary's snow has been strikingly portrayed in this photograph by Lehi in the Desert—Part I Hugh Nibley 14 H. Armstrong Roberts. Twenty Years in the Czechoslovakian Mission ...Albert L. Zobell, Jr. 32 Mission to Polynesia—IX Doyle L. Green 34 Message from the First Presidency—An Editorial 40 From an M. I. A. Diary Editorial —an John A. Widtsoe 41 EXECUTIVE AND EDITORIAL OFFICES Evidences and Reconciliations: CXLI—Where was the Garden of Eden? 42 50 North Main Street Salt Lake City 1, Utah Newest Appointees to M.I.A. Gen- No-Liquor-Tobacco Column 53 Copyright 1950 by Mutual Funds, Inc., Corpora- eral Boards are Qualified 2 The Presiding Bishopric's Page -.54 a tion of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement The Church Moves On 8 September Missionaries 56 Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Melchizedek Priesthood 52 October Missionaries 58 Latter-day Saints. All rights reserved. Sub- scription price, $2.50 a year, in advance; foreign subscriptions, $3.00 a year, in advance; 25c single copy. Special Features Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, as second-class matter. Acceptance for mailing What Shall I Talk About—III Louise Linton Salmon 17 at special rate of postage provided for in section A Tall Tale from Way Down East Albert L. Zobell, Jr. 18 1103, Act of October 1917, authorized July 2, The ERA Grows John A. Widtsoe 22 1918.
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By DR. G. HOMER DURHAM Mexico, and any other states involved, look forward and effectively enfran- Head of Political Science Department, University of Utah chise these people. Maybe if they can get votes, the rest of us will begin Deseret News Press i wMmraiu— »—! i mi mmmmmmmmmmmm to pay a little attention to the broken new year dawns. What lies The treaties and promises. The people of ahead? To project existing situa- Brigham City, will Utah, receive a Now has . . . tions may indicate some patterns for chance to demonstrate their belief in 1950. Christian gospel, in adjusting the life of The Largest and In Russia, we are told, they are their community to the new Intermoun- moving mountains with atomic energy. tain Indian School opening there in The Most Modern In China, the Communists' success 1950 for some two thousand Navajo continues. Interesting events to watch children, aged six to eighteen. Printing Plant will be the diplomatic "recognition" of Incidentally, you parents! Look the Red regime, followed by the exit around at your family at the dinner and Bindery of Nationalist Chinese diplomats from table tonight. Look especially at your in the Intermountain West United States and other foreign em- six-year-old boy or girl. You want bassies; the replacement of Nationalists him or her to attend school (and for by Red Chinese delegates in the Se- your taxes, a bargain, you'll get twelve In its new plant the curity Council, General Assembly, and years free public education for them). ) Deseret News Press has other organs of the United Nations, Moreover, your boy or girl will walk Will the United States perhaps five minutes to installed a model printing recognize Red China? If a clean warm building bindery to not, what will our atti- and be able to come plant and tude be, and what kind home for lunch. They, serve the Intermountain of situation will develop too, love their children when Red delegates ap- and want them to be West. New high-speed col- pear at the United Na- educated. But their six- or presses and equipment, tions? year-olds will have to The United Nations, go all the way to Bush- greatly increased floor meanwhile, moves slow- nell, in Brigham City space, and additional ly forward. The new center in New . . . and won't be home for lunch! York City is under construction as There is pathos in that picture! skilled printers have ex- the organization continues its fifth Elsewhere in 1950, South Pacific our capacity far year. The fifth year of the League will continue its run. "Some-En- panded chanted-Evening" Mary Martin will of Nations, 1924, was its high point, — beyond that of our former marked by the ill-fated treaties of cease washing her hair nightly on mutual assistance and guarantee and Broadway but probably not this year. plant which was one of the "Geneva Protocol." This kind of A congressional election, November the large plants of this situation, along different lines, con- 1950, will highlight public affairs in fronted the United Nations during the United States, while British Social- area. 1949 the bloc's with U. S.—western ist government will face its major test "Atlantic opens, it Pact." As 1950 at the polls sometime before July 1950. Here you will find facil- appears that the U.N. stands a fair In America, some folk will be watch- chance of continuing "onward and up- ing both elections to see whether the ities, equipment and per- ward," perhaps avoiding decline in Republican Party has a future and the sonnel capable of tremen- function or prestige. More than any British Socialists a past. Others will other power, including the U.S.S.R., be watching to see whether Jimmy dous volume of highest the United States of America will Roosevelt is elected governor of Cali- determine the U.N.'s 1950 role in fornia, and whether his younger quality printing of all human affairs. brother Franklin D.. Jr., will make a kinds from stationery, Closer home, the Navajo Indian try in New York. population of the United States, some Population is rising nearly every- cards and circulars to 65,000 souls, should serve to remind where in the world, posing problems magazines, catalogues us of a keeper's responsibilities to- and creating opportunities. The grow- wards his brethren on this planet. This ing electorate will provide steady and other large orders. tragic but proudly individualistic group pressure for increased services and ex- Whatever your printing of human beings represents the ( 1 penditures. And on this latter point poorest, (2) most disease-ridden, (3) the debate will go on and on during needs send your orders to least-educated group in the United 1950, as to whether expanding gov- States—and constitutes nothing less ernment budgets, like corporation, than a national disgrace. In an age labor union, church, and lodge budgets, TheDeseret when their potential individualism is represent progress or not. The de- News Press badly needed as a social ingredient, cennial U. S. Census will pro- (1950) Salt Lake City, Utah when public education (for whites!) vide fresh data for both sides of the is a national fetish, it seems high time argument. It will probably be an that Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New exciting year! JANUARY 1950 5 NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS
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are standing on the thresh- no one who bows down to an idol WEhold of a new year. The pass- today, but there are many interests ing of time is mechanically that call us away from the service marked off by clocks and calendars, and worship of God. Vain worldly and its passing moves us through ambition, desire for public praise, many changing patterns. the accumulation of wealth and the Gradually, yet so quickly do we lure of excessive pleasures are just grow older that we may still con- a few of the idols whom we worship sider ourselves very young. So today. Let us remember to include quickly do we pass from youth to a more sincere worship of God in age that the ideals and dreams of our list of resolutions. our youth, so sure of fulfilment then, The angels' song which greeted no longer seem a part of us. When the shepherds on the hills of Judea we realize the leisure with which proclaimed Christ's mission in the we made vital decisions, the un- strains, "Glory to God in the high- concern with which we postponed est, and on earth peace, good will our preparation, we become some- toward men." (Luke 2:14.) what frightened when we realize He gave the formula in this ad- what little time we have left. Sud- monition, "Love your enemies, bless denly we are aware there are none them that curse you, do good to
so young but that it is time to begin them that hate you, and pray for to prepare for life and none so old them which despitefully use you and but they must be conscious of every persecute you." (Matt. 5:44.) day's actions. Never was there a time when perse- With the beginning of each new cution was so intense or hatred more year there is a rejuvenation of hope bitter, yet in his dying his ; love over- and expectancy which heralds its flowed from his lips in a prayer, arrival. It affords a grand opportu- "Father, forgive them; for they nity for us to take inventory of our know not what they do." (Luke lives. 23:34.) That power which was A review of the sorrows, disap- large and divine in Jesus is to be pointments and failures of the past found in a lesser degree in all of year can give us greater strength God's children, and it grows and to overcome and achieve during the blesses us only as we cultivate it. coming year. As we size up our- Let us resolve to have greater love selves, we may quickly judge the for our fellow men, through culti- success achieved in home or busi- vating in our own hearts more
ness, but it is difficult to know how tolerance, understanding, and ap- mil much we have grown intellectually preciation of those with whom we or spiritually. We can evaluate our associate. ACCORDION TYPE DOORS obedience to definite commandments Are we becoming increasingly • Save Space such as payment of tithes and of- thoughtful of and helpful to others? • Eliminate Swing Area of Conven- ferings or keeping the Word of Are we more courteous and kind to tional Type Doors Wisdom, but it's hard to measure those with whom we live? • Make Rooms do Double Duty our response to the commandment, We all plan, work, and save day • Wide Variety of Colors "Love the Lord thy God with all after day to procure the temporal • Assure Easy, Trouble Free Oper- thy heart and with all thy soul, and will brighten our ation things of life that with all thy mind." (Matt. 22:37.) homes and bring happiness to those That love can only be measured by we love most, but we never give a modernfold the way we keep his command- thought to training our emotions to ments. He has said, "Thou shalt do and say those things that will no other gods before me" Write or Phone have bring peace, understanding, and a revert ior Free Literature (Ex. 20:3), and our minds greater love and appreciation in our to the idol worship of ancient homes and of our own families. It their ignorance Israel. We smile at is not what scientists know, but ALDER'S and think, "We do not worship what we apply that marks our prog- 1343 So. Main Salt Lake idols in this day of enlightenment ress. Phone 7-1531 and intelligence." Likely there is (Concluded on page 39) THE IMPROVEMENT ERA Only Once in a Generation— SUCH VALUES
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three of our elders have had their applications refused for October 1949 renewal to remain in the country. However, several mis- a o Kannapolis, North Carolina, Branch chapel. sionaries have received permits valid to 1951, and others " " Central Atlantic States Mission, dedicated by Elder have been given temporary permits until permanent ones ..." Ezra Taft Benson of the Council of the Twelve. can be issued. (See page 32) Claude B. Petersen, president of the Palo Alto *i A Goldsborough, North Carolina, Branch chapel (California) Stake, appointed secretary to the Council " ** of the Central Atlantic States mission, dedicated by of the Twelve. Elder Ezra Taft Benson of the Council of the Twelve. Acquisition of a home for the caretakers of the Bureau of Information at the old Liberty Jail, Liberty, November 1949 Missouri, announced. Caretakers are Elder and Sister Ephraim Tolman of Bountiful, Utah. President Harry S. Truman praised Brigham Purchase of Fine Springs Cemetery, near the village 2 Young as he addressed the American Society of of Alma, Arkansas, where Elder Parley P. Pratt of the engineers meeting in Washington, D. C. He said: "I will Council of the Twelve is buried, announced. say this to you: We haven't enough planning. There isn't a city in the United States that was properly planned A Allridge N. Evans sustained president of the En- 2 " to begin with. I know of only one whose streets were sign (Salt Lake City) Stake, with A. Palmer Holt laid out in anticipation of the automobile, and that was and F. Briton McConkie counselors. They succeed Salt Lake City, Utah. The man that laid out that city President Edwin Q. Cannon, Sr.. Rowland H. Merrill, and really had vision." Waldo M. Andersen.
W. Harold Handley released from Y. M. M. I. A. Jared J. Trejo sustained president of the Southern general board. Arizona Stake with F. Ellis Nielson and Leslie O, Brewer Tarboro, North Carolina, Branch chapel, Central At- counselers. Retiring presidency: Alando B. Ballantyne, lantic States Mission, dedicated by Elder Ezra Taft President Trejo and President Nielson. Benson of the Council of the Twelve. Henry C. Jorgensen sustained president of the Palo Alto (California) Stake with Wendel B. Christensen and a Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Branch chapel, Sidney V. Badger counselors. Presidents Jorgensen and " Central Atlantic States Mission, dedicated by Elder Christensen were counselors to retiring President Claude Ezra Taft Benson of the Council of the Twelve. B. Petersen. Over twenty miles of microfilm arrived in Salt Lake Washington Terrace First Ward, Weber (Utah) 7 City for the Genealogical Society, including the Stake, created from part of independent branch; Ernest first shipment of genealogical microfilm from Ireland. B.' Wheeler, bishop. (Utah) There were about 1,345,000 pages of records in the micro- Washington Terrace Second Ward, Weber of independent branch; film, principally from Holland, Sweden, and Denmark. Stake, created from part Orlan M. Jacobsen, bishop. The acquisition and the landscaping of the old Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Council of the Twelve 9 Richmond, Missouri, cemetery where Oliver Cow- dedicated the chapel of the Walnut Park Ward, South dery, one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Los Angeles (California) Stake. is buried, announced. Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Council of the Twelve Lloyd A. Bishop appointed coordinator of the Salt dedicated the chapel of the Miramonte (formerly Fire- Lake Region of the Church welfare program. stone Park) Ward, South Los Angeles (California) Stake. President Antoine R. Ivins of the First Council of President George Albert Smith dedicated the the Seventy dedicated the chapel of the Pella Ward, Bur- 13 chapel of the Salt Lake Valley Branch of the Deaf. ley (Idaho) Stake. President David O. McKay dedicated the chapel of the Las Vegas Second Ward, (Nevada) Stake. Moapa Elder Matthew Cowley of the Council of the 1% "This Is the Place" Monument at the mouth of Twelve released as president of the Pacific Mission 15 Emigration canyon received permanent night lights and Elder Alma Sonne, assistant to the Council of the as President George Albert Smith was joined by Governor Twelve, released as president of the European Mission. Henceforth the missions will receive visits at intervals }. Bracken Lee in turning on the thirty-two lights which have a combined strength of 13,600 watts. from the General Authorities.
o Uintah Basin (Utah) Indian Mission formed with £ Gilbert Ward, Mesa (Arizona) Stake, chapel I *- 25 " James E. Bacon, president, of the Roosevelt Stake dedicated by Presiding Bishop LeGrand Richards. high council. The mission will be supervised by the « a Verna W. Goddard, for eleven years a counselor presidencies of Duchesne, Roosevelt, Moon Lake, and in the general presidency of the Y. W. M. I. A., un- Uintah Stakes. There are about 1550 Indians living in til her release in April 1948. died. the mission area.
President Wallace F. Toronto of the Czechoslovakian Kenwood Ward, East Mill Creek ( Salt Lake Mission announced that eleven missionaries have had to 27 County) Stake created from a portion of the leave that country since May, five of them in recent days. Grandview Ward, with George Z Aposhian bishop. President David O. McKay called the incident a "mis- Joseph A. David sustained bishop of the Grandview understanding on the part of some officers of the true Ward, succeeding L. R. Mallory. recently appointed purpose of the missionaries in Czechoslovakia; two or president of the Tahitian Mission. 8 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA .
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JANUARY 1950 VERNA W. GODDARD PASSES
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The passing of Verna Wright bquare. It was while she was Goddard on November 26, serving as a guide that she met
1949, rounded out a life of Elder J. Percy Goddard, also a tem&fqtw service, largely to the youth of the guide, whom she later married in Church. From October 29, 1937, the Salt Lake Temple. They have four children, LOS ANGELES . $13.15 until April 1948, she served in the two sons and two From Salt Lake City (Add Tax) general presidency of the Young daughters, who are carrying for- If you've been dreaming about a Women's Mutual Improvement As- ward the good work of their par- summer tan under a winter sun, sociation, first as second counselor ents. make plans now to take a vaca- tion by Greyhound. There's sun- until July 1944, and then as first Mrs. Goddard continued er shine, romance, and excitement counselor until the time of her re- activity in the Church following her
in Southern California ! Let sunny lease, April 6, 1948. marriage. She became Gleaner a Greyhound travel expert plan Mrs. Goddard was the daughter teacher and also theology teacher your trip . . . ask about Amaz- ing America Tours today! of Kindness Badger and Joseph A. for the Relief Society. She served Wright. She became a Sunday also as a member of the ward presi- Great Going by Greyhound School teacher and chorister when dency of the Y.W.M.I.A., and in On EVERY trip, the cost is low, she was fourteen years of age. She that capacity wrote and directed the comfort high! Super-Coaches are pleasantly warmed. Frequent later held the position of ward choir many ward shows. In 1935 she be- schedules save you time. Go leader and achieved recognition for came stake president of the Liberty Greyhound — easy to take, and her work in that capacity. As a Stake Y.W.M.I.A. She also served easy to afford! counselor in the Primary Associa- as chairman of the Brighton Girls' OVER LAND tion and as teacher in the Religion Home. BR EYHOU Class, she also gave service to During recent months Mrs. God- has written articles for the Operated by INTERSTATE TRANSIT LINES youth. dard and UNION PACIFIC STAGES, INC. After her graduation from the Era which have dealt with the Latter-day Saint University, Mrs. youth-parent relationship. Her in- Goddard studied nursing under Dr. terest always lay with the youth of Margaret C. Shipp Roberts. She the Church, whom she served faith-
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VERNA WRIGHT GODDARD 10 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA _ -J/ V*fJ ••/
watch the old year out alone, never -Photograph by Lamar Davis For gentle ghosts that no one else can see Are always keeping vigil there with me;
I hear their voices in the undertone Of soft night wind around the deep eaves blown, And catch a cadence in a minor key That sets my heart to beating yearningly For loved ones who have gone from my hearth- as a stone. tinted The swift years bear us far apart from those Who make our memories, but still they stay Within our hearts, and so they do not die: i5utterHi Sweet as the fragrance of a damask rose, Bright as the colors of a summer day, And fragile as the tinted butterfly. a eoraia frfoore Sf 9
11 JANUARY 1950 LETTER FOR THE NEW YEAR WINTER JEWELRY ALBUM By Elaine V, Emans By Thelma Ireland By Lesley Conger
shall be sending you the customary AST night the snow with feet of down Co that was you, that thin-faced boy; I Best wishes for the new year, but they'll " Bedecked the earth in velvet gown **J So that was you, when you were ten! miss Of white with sequins here and there Would you have cared for me at six? Conveying much I wish you, aqd my very That glitter in the sunshine's stare. I would have loved you even then. so I'm writing this: Especial prayers, and The bluebirds gather on the lawn: May you look down the seasons with a Theirs was a rendezvous with dawn. You used to haunt the quiet pools glad They make a cluster, sapphire hue: To hunt for bugs and polliwogs; Anticipation, whether all comes to pass The earth now wears a brooch of blue. I would have carried all the jars As you had hoped it might, knowing that And learned to walk the slippery logs. bad Weather can be a blessing. May you Perhaps you would have held my hand amass FIRESIDE SCENE To cross the brook when it was high. Enchanted hours to store within vour By Pauline Havard How proud I would have been, my dear! heart (Why do old snapshots make me cry?) And find new friends in the out-of-doors as CLOSE to the dancing fire they sat, well The old, stooped woman and the child, As in books, and may your work be such While the little, gold-eyed cat a part WINTER BLOSSOMS Purred on the hearth. Outside the wild Of living that you love it, and your rest By Gail Brook Burket Storm lashed the treetops, rocked the tell house, In health of body and mind. May your TLflY garden dreams beneath But here, beside the fire these two new year *"* A coverlet of snow: Were folded in a fairy tale, Have a bit of glory brushing it, my dear. Yet daily I can Snug in a world they loved and knew. watch Its winter blossoms glow. Blue jays remind heart Gnarled, wrinkled finger traced the words my Of bluebells in the TAKE EACH DAY As small, pink fingers turned the page, spring: And cardinals become By Arthur Wallace Peach In this, the oldest ruse of all Red roses on the Against the bullying winter's rage. wing. each day as a gift from God, Like small brown Take And who enjoyed these moments most? mignonette, A gift for everyone, The sparrows come and go: The child or grandmother? Who knows? For each one measured by the dawn And now and then I glimpse On wings of fireshine, bright and swift, And set of sun. A rare black tulip crow. Too soon the winter evening goes.
Use it wisely, remembering It is not yours alone, A secret gift no one may share. THOUGHTS ON A STAR To him unknown. By Lulu Minerva Schultz
Who gives himself in such a gift | think a star And turns no hand aside -^C * Must surely be brought him peace Will find the day has A jewel of eternity. At eventide! The soul who won -X Above earth's might Now pins the sky SPICE BERRIES In sparkling light; By Grace Sayre That Faith May see with watchful eye happened today on a lone scarlet spray This glistening jewel in the sky. I Of berries that clung to a spiceberry bush, And saw on the wing of the tanager gay. EACH HEART WILL FIND AGAIN The same color warming the winter's chill hush. By Georgia Moore Ebecling
1 And often, as happens when grownups COMPANIONED I 'he first white burning frost had look back * silently Through years that have gathered relent- By Pansy e H. Powell Touched bud and blossom leaf and lowly less and harsh, grass I hear the blithe note of a scarlet-winged SORROW and I have traveled hand in With icy fingers, while the stout oak tree bird hand Was trembling as it felt the pale frost pass As it lifts from the spiceberry bush in the Together, since that far-off day we met. Above its head. Then day dawned marsh. Not for an instant has she ever let sunny-clear, Me know a respite from her stern command. And nature smiled rejoicing in the light, Forever at my side her form will stand; While plants ignored dark plumage and MY NEIGHBOR I cannot hope one moment to forget, the fear For will the By Inez Clark Thorson she haunt me with an old regret That gripped them in the darkness of Until my last hour's glass has spent its night. * I 'hough brawling wind is piling snow sand. The fields all lived again in aftermaths, * Against the leaf-packed garden wall, The woods flamed bright in russet red and My neighbor brings a breath of springtime And yet her presence is so sure to me, gold When she comes to call. Familiar as the coat or shoes I wear, While gay birds lingered on the forest So firm her pressure where my heart is paths, Her smile is warm as April sun, cleft, You scarcely could believe the year was Her laughter like clear brooks that wind That now I count upon her constancy; old.
Through fields. , . . Her words are like And, though her burden seems so hard to At autumn time we find what we have lost the petals bear, Because of life's slow chilling cold and Wind has left behind! I should be lonely if she ever left. frost. 12 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA r , '-& <4?*>'-<7~><-&~>'~0 ><*&^ c*C' '^^•~Grx*0rx^0™*O^^A^^\JGr>Ks^^^<^O-x^.% h § Lappiness... * § amd this v few ear Dm [-^resident KJteoraef l ^Mlbert S^mlth § T is a :§ 1 wonderful custom to wish one another Many of the wisest among men are seeking happiness. Happiness is what we are all seek- by means of legislation to bring about a better ing, and it is what our Father in heaven desires condition and a more wholesome life among § for us. the human family. Their efforts, generally Through the ages the Lord has inspired speaking, are well-intentioned, but unless men his prophets, and they have pointed out the have faith in God, unless they understand the way of true happiness. The Book of Mormon purpose of life, they will not go very far. § tells us that there was one long period of time Men must repent of their sins before the Lord when the people were righteous, a period that can give to them the peace and happiness de- % continued some two hundred years after the sired. No other plan will succeed. § appearance of our Savior on this western As we look out upon our day, we must come hemisphere. sins, They repented of their to the conclusion that there never was a time turned to the Lord, and were prosperous and in the world's history when there was greater happy. need everywhere for men to repent of their § Our Heavenly Father has told us that the sins and seek the guidance of God, our Heaven- only plan that will assure satisfactory results ly Father. There has never been a time since is the plan of eternal life, the gospel of Jesus the Church was organized when there was Christ, as advocated by his Beloved Son, and greater need for us to humble ourselves before only sorrow and disappointment will result from the Lord and seek his guidance. disobeying the Father of our spirits. The Lord has told us that there are certain § The daily press brings to us accounts of requirements that are made of us, and that if much unhappiness, of disasters that are every- we fail to take advantage of his advice and where, and it does seem to me that if men are counsel, the result can only be sorrow and re- thinking seriously, if they are reading the gret. scriptures, they must know that the fig tree This people have been advised to con- § surely is putting forth its leaves. serve their energies and their means. We have h There are many people who think them- been taught by those whom the Lord has selves competent to lead us out of these diffi- raised up to instruct us that we should live § culties, and without hesitation they come for- § within our incomes, that we should not follow ward with suggestions to try this or that ex- the fashions of the world rapidly periment. But the wisdom of the world is not and spend as § sufficient. What we need in the midst of or more rapidly than we can earn the money § danger and distress and unhappiness is the that comes into our hands, to take care of our- wisdom of our Heavenly Father. (Concluded on page 43) -X § i f>3(^t^X^%«^»«^JV^X^>C^3(^>Ti«^i<^» 1-^>6^St^ Jl\Jl<^>^^ § JANUARY 1950 13 — 'Y'he first of an en- lightening series of articles on the Book of Mormon. j EM IN THE DESERT (13a ^Afuah e u, f-^h. *J-J. Part I The Problem The first eighteen chapters (ap- proximately forty pages) of the Book of Mormon tell the story of how one Lehi led a company of Israelites from Jerusalem across Arabia to the sea at the beginning of the sixth century B.C. Since the publication of this account, other ancient travel stories have been unearthed in the Near East and been accepted as genuine or pro- nounced fictitious as they fulfilled or failed to fulfil certain conditions. Thus Professor Albright declares the story of the Egyptian Sinuhe to be "a substantially true account of life in its milieu" on the grounds ( 1 ) that its "local color [is] ex- tremely plausible," ( 2 ) it describes a "state of social organization" which "agrees exactly with our present archaeological and docu- ," mentary evidence . . . (3) "The because "they lack specific historical turn tne scales. As one student Amorite personal names contained or geographic background, and by described it, the problem "is rather in the story are satisfactory for that their mise~en~scene, which is either to prove, by innumerable small period and region," and ( 4 "Final- ) mythical or extravagantly improb- coincidences, that which Ebers has ly, there is nothing unreasonable in able." 4 so well called the "Egypticity" of the story itself. . . . With such examples before us, the Pentateuch, than to establish The story of Wenamon the same we may proceed to test the story of any particular historical point by ex- authority accepts as true in its Lehi: does it correctly reflect "the ternal and monumental evidence.'" political history and geography, cultural horizon and religious and Just so the problem of I Nephi noting that "it correctly reflects the social ideas and practices of the is to establish both its "Egypticity" cultural horizon and the religious time?" Does it have authentic and its "Arabicity" by like innumer- able coincidences. The fact that the Book of Mormon is a modern irtually all that is known of the world in V text, and yet not modern enough which Lehi is purported to have lived has been to have exploited the fruits of ar- discovered within the last hundred years— mostly chaeology, gives it a double handi- within the last thirty. cap at the outset, and yet in view of the claims made by Joseph Smith, ideas practices of its time."' historical and geographical back- and it can plead no immunity from the Certain Egyptian episodes in the ground? Is its mise-en-scene myth- same exacting tests that have re- Odyssey Lieblein considered au- ical, highly imaginative, or ex- vealed the true nature of documents thentic because they posit "a rather travagantly improbable? Is its of known antiquity. If the book good knowledge of Egyptian con- local color correct, and are its proper can pass those tests, there is no ditions and institutions" in whoever names convincing? Until recent point to arguing about its age and composed them/ On the other years men were asking the same authorship. hand, such tales as the Shipwrecked questions of the Book of Exodus, Virtually all that is known of the Sailor may be regarded as fanciful and scholars were stolidly turning world in which Lehi is purported to thumbs down until evidence ac- have lived has been discovered * Numbers refei to bibliography at end of article. cumulating in its^ favor began to within the last hundred years U THE IMPROVEMENT ERA . mostly within the last thirty." How Syrians, Iraqians, Lebanese, Egyp- possibly be within, or even very does this information check with tians, etc., and after fifteen years of near, the city, even though Lehi that in the book of I Nephi? Before searching is ready to declare Mr. "had dwelt at Jerusalem in all his 9 we can place the two side by side Mose Kader of Provo, Utah, a true days." (I Nephi 1:4.) The terms for comparison, we must describe Bedouin. The same adventurous seem confused, but they correctly re- briefly the nature of the modern spirit that brought this remarkable flect actual conditions, for in the Am- evidence. It falls, for us, into four man to settle on a solitary farm arna letters we read of "the land of classes: near the mouth of Rock Canyon Jerusalem" as an area larger than the 1 First and most to be prized are drove him from his father's farm city itself, and even learn in one documents found in the country of near Jerusalem in his youth, to instance that "a city of the land of Lehi and dating from his very time. spend many years with the Bedouins Jerusalem, Bet-Ninib, has been cap- 10 A number of these have come to of the desert; and the same tena- tured." It was the rule in Pales- light in recent years—seals, jar cious conservatism that has enabled tine and Syria, as the same letters handles, inscriptions, and, most no- him to rear a family as strict show, for a large area around a tably, the Lachish letters discov- Moslems a thousand miles from any city and all the inhabitants of that ered in 1935. These are the other Moslems has kept fresh his area to bear the name of the city. remains of the correspondence of memory of days in the desert in This was a holdover from the times a military officer stationed in the the olden times before World War when the city and the land were a city of Lachish, about thirty-five I. On fine points he is a marvelous single political unit, comprising a 8 miles southwest of Jerusalem, at the informant. city-state; when this was absorbed time of the destruction of both cit- d ) As a check on the above re- into a larger empire, the original ies, and so give us an eyewitness ports we have the words of the identity was preserved, though it account of the actual world of Lehi, ancient poets of the Arabs. The had lost its original significance." a tiny peephole, indeed, but an un- prose story of the Beni Hilal is also The same conservatism made it pos- obstructed one; in these letters "we very useful both as a "standard sible for Socrates to be an Athenian, find ourselves brought into close work" on desert migration and as and nothing else, even though he contact with the inner religious, telling a story that parallels that came from the village of Alopeke, at political, 18 and military life of Judah of Nephi very closely on some some distance from the city. This 7 at this period.'" Since I Nephi pre- points. arrangement deserves mention be- tends to bring us into even closer Taken together these sources al- cause many have pointed to the contact with the same society, we low a far closer scrutiny of the statement of Alma 7:10 that the have here an important "control." Savior would be born "at Jerusalem 2. The new finds have called for which is the land of our fore- extensive review reevaluation and fathers," as sure proof of fraud. It by the ablest scholars of the situa- is rather the opposite, faithfully pre- tion in Jerusalem its at the time of serving the ancient terminology to fall; these learned summaries will describe a system which has only save us the trouble and risk of been recently rediscovered. making our own. We know very little about the 3. Book of Mormon descriptions city government of the Jews, save of life in the desert must be checked that the "elders" played the princi- against eyewitness accounts of life m/m pal role. By "elders" has been un- in the same deserts, for the same derstood "the heads of the most period of time, if possible. ,a Since influential families of a city." book of I Nephi than would have This the country and people concerned been possible a generation ago. would make them identical with are among the most unchanging on those princes, Though what follows is little more notables, and officials earth, there are many things that than a general survey, we believe who are designated as sarim in the are as true today as they were in letters; it pursues the lines that a correct Lachish the word sarim ap- 600 B.C., providing data of a well- plies, to examination of the story of Lehi according J. W. Jack, to nigh timeless but highly-specialized should take, and that enough evi- "members of the official class, i.e., nature which has been made avail- dence is offered to justify the re- officers acting under the king as his able in: 14 marks with which we shall con- counselors and rulers." In the a numerous ) scientific journals clude the study. Lachish letters "we find the sarim and surveys of the country, with denouncing Jeremiah to the king the Palestine The Situation in Exploration Fund Jerusalem and demanding that he be executed Quarterly taking the lead "\\7hen we speak of Jerusalem, it because of his bad influence on the 15 b ) a growing treasury of great is important to notice Nephi's morale of the people." In accus- classics on life among the Arabs, preference for a non-Biblical ex- ing the prophet of defeatism, the in- beginning with Burckhardt in 1829 pression, "the land of Jerusalem," fluential men of Jerusalem were sup- but mostly confined to our own age: in designating his homeland. While ported both by the majority of Doughty, Philby, Lawrence, Ho- he and his brothers always regard the people and by a host of proph- garth, Thomas, etc. "the land of Jerusalem" as their ets by whose false oracles "Judahite c the ) conversation of modern home, it is perfectly clear from a chauvinism was whipped to a Arabs. The author has consulted number of passages that "the land frenzy," making it, to say the least, extensively with modern Arabs, of our father's inheritance" cannot (Continued on following page) JANUARY 1950 15 , LEHI IN THE DESERT (Continued from preceding page) phere "charged with unmixed tian" physical type and the same of culture a risky business to hold an opposite gloom .... Zedekiah . . . stubborn- predominance Egyptian 18 37 opinion. For the government, with ly followed the path to ruin by con- prevails elsewhere in Palestine. Re- the weak and ineffectual Zedekiah spiring with Pharaoh." 34 The alarm cently found ivories, seals, inscrip- at the head, had set its heart on a was justified, for when the blow tions, and the preliminary study of suicidal policy of military alliance finally fell it was far more catas- mounds throughout the land all tell with Egypt and "business as trophic than scholars have hitherto the same story: overwhelming and 10 usual." been willing to believe, with "all, unexpected preponderance of Egyp- The country had just come or virtually all, of the fortified towns tian influence, to the equally surpris- through a great economic boom, in Judah razed to the ground." 1 ing exclusion of influences from 38 thanks mostly to commercial deal- The fatal infatuation for Egypt, Babylonia and Assyria. At Jeru- ings with Egypt, which had pro- which was largely responsible for salem itself, where excavation is duced an unparalleled efflorescence the calamity, is a striking feature necessarily limited, sealings on jar 17 of great private fortunes. "Phoeni- of the story. Why did the govern- handles attest the same long reign 39 cian galleys filled the Nile mouths, ment of Judah stick so loyally to of Egyptian culture. At the same tell and Semitic merchants . . . thronged an Egypt that had long since lost time, the Elephantine papyri the Delta,"* the bulk of sea trade the power to compel obedience? For us another thing that scholars never passing through Sidon, which from one thing, we now know that dreamed of and which they were first to last dominated the commer- cultural and economic ties were far at first most reluctant to believe, 1 cial scene. " Lists of goods imported stronger between the two nations namely, that colonies of Jewish into Egypt from Palestine show that than anyone had hitherto supposed. soldiers and merchants were entirely the great men of the East took the that at home in upper Egypt, where they J. W. Jack noted in 1938 gold of Egypt in return for their "excavations have shown a closer enjoyed free practice of their relig- 50 wine, oil, grain, and honey, the first ion.' The ties between Palestine and three far outclassing all other com- Egypt were, moreover, of very long 30 modities in importance. Among standing, centuries of "a common inland cities like Jerusalem the cara- Hebrew-Egyptian environment" be- vans of the merchant princes passed ing necessary to produce the as in the days of the Amarna letters, "permeation of Egyptian modes of for there were no real roads until thought and expression into He- the time of the Romans. brew," and to load the Egyptian At the turn of the century the vocabulary with words out of Pales- 1 international situation was casting tine and Syria.* The newly identi- a dark shadow over the picture. fied Aechtungstexte shows that as Babylon, suddenly freed from other early as 2000 B.C. "Palestine was concerns, moved quickly towards a tributary in large part, at least, to showdown with Egypt, the "broken Egypt," 32 while the excavation of reed" with which the leaders of Byblos, a veritable "little Egypt," 1 Judah had unwisely cast their lot." proved the presence of Egyptian ss Yet the clouds of impending war empire in later centuries were not so dark as the shadow of To say that Egyptian culture is —Photograph by the Author religious laxness and moral decay predominant in an area is not neces- Proudly wearing his father's "qumbaz" is Yusuf which, according to Jeremiah, fol- Kader, a ten-year-old Arab whose parents, though sarily to argue the presence of living on a farm near Provo, have reared their lowed upon excessive prosperity children in the ways of their forefathers. From Egyptian dominion. According to such people, living in our midst and speaking the and an overfondness for things language and retaining the customs of the East, Hogarth, Egypt exercised three de- M one can often learn more than one would by Egyptian. It is no wonder that the grees of empire: the first degree was visiting their homeland, where generations of being sarim, facing problems enough in spied upon has rendered the Palestine Arab some- rule by direct force, the second by what cautious and uncommunicative. maintaining a program of "business "fear of reconquest which a few as usual," denounced the melan- connection with the land of the garrisons and agents and the pres- choly prophet as a traitor, defeatist, Pharaohs than was suspected . . . tige of the conqueror could keep and collaborator with Babylon. The the authorities at Lachish were alive in the minds of indirect ad- country was divided into two fac- probably using, or at least were ministrators and native subjects," tions, "the two parties, pro-Egyp- accustomed to the Egyptian cal- and the third degree "meant little tian and pro-Babylonian, existed endar and the Egyptian system more than a sphere of exclusive side by side in the land—King of numeration in their local rec- influence, from which tribute was Zedekiah, his rulers and princes, ords." Though this goes for an expected but, not being secured by and probably most of the people, earlier time, "all indications point garrisons or representatives . . . 3 * favored Egypt . . . while the prophet to this connection with Egypt tended to be intermittent." Thus Jeremiah and his followers advised continuing unbroken right down to we see that the position of Egypt 1 20 submission to Babylon." It was a the end of the Jewish monarchy." as "most favored nation" in Judah anthropologist far time | of "dissension and heart burn- One went so as may represent any degree of de- ing, when divided counsels rent the to claim that Lachish was actually cayed dominion—even to an "em- 34 21 33 unhappy city of Jerusalem," and as an Egyptian colony, but investiga- pire" of fourth degree. It was the things became worse in an atmos- tion shows that the same "Egyp- (Continued on page 66) 16 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA — WHAT shall I talk about? III Second, what are likely to be the dominant interests of the group? hat shall I : talk about?" We can, for instance, recognize the This is a question we must widely different interests of such "W ask ourselves as often as we diverse groups as men and women, begin to prepare a speech, for even the young and the old, the student if a topic has been assigned, we and the laborer. An intimate dis- must decide on the point of view, cussion of the problems of courtship the particular interpretation of it might be completely out of place in that we wish to make. a mixed group but might be very Theoretically we have the entire helpful and forceful in a group of universe from which to choose. No young men or of young women. topic is inherently good or bad Third, what are the background there is none that some speaker and training of our listeners? Be- cannot make vital and interesting to fore our listeners can be interested some audience on some occasion. in our ideas, they must be able to understand them; and if they have But our task is to narrow this vast t-f oLouiie (=J~.inton S^aitmon range of subjects to the one that we had no training in a technical field are best qualified to give and that like medicine, they are likely to be will be most interesting and ap- interesting to others, and his able to follow only a most ele- propriate to the particular audience speeches took on a new sincere, mentary treatment of a medical sub- on the particular occasion on which communicative, direct quality. Each ject. Similarly, a non-member would we are to speak. of us is a specialist in something; probably understand little of a de- belief in that is the topic about which we tailed discussion of our can talk most easily and probably the hereafter. ^/hat are the basic atti- most effectively. Fourth, what do our listeners tudes and beliefs of want to gain from our speech? They your audience? probably want to learn something fyl any speakers claim that, no mat- new, but they will also enjoy hear- ter what the topic, if they have ing something old. For instance, In the first place, it is much easier sufficient interest in it themselves. we all know that we should try to and more pleasant to prepare a "do good to all men." Yet some of speech if we are interested in the the most thrilling speeches of our topic. Moreover, enthusiasm is ^^hat are likely to be time, some of the most lasting sto- contagious, and we can speak more the dominant inter- ries of the ages have to do with this sincerely, enthusiastically, and dy- ests the group? of subject. Most of us dislike going namically if we are really "sold" on into a completely strange place; the ideas we express. We cannot similarly, when we listen to a speech expect our listeners to be either ^hat are the back- we like to hear a familiar land- interested or convinced unless we ground and training mark here and there. When we are interested and convinced our- of your listeners? choose our subject, therefore, we selves. The best missionary is the should choose one which is with- missionary who has a burning in the realm of our listeners' lives testimony of the gospel. they can make it interesting to but in the treatment of which we The things about which we speak others. Perhaps they can, but some should, furthermore, be close to our topics can be given listener appeal own lives. Many of us have only if the speaker has marked What do your listeners had inspirational experiences; but talent and considerable time for want to gain from whether we have gained our in- preparation. We are wise, there- your speech? spiration personally or vicariously fore, if we analyze carefully the through conversation and reading, audience and the occasion before can add a few heretofore unknown should build our speeches we decide on our specific topic. we facts or an original interpretation. around subjects that have had real First, what are the basic attitudes Another important courtesy we significance in our lives; for ex- and beliefs of our audience? topic A owe our listeners is to keep within ample, Brother Jones consistently that would have immediate appeal the time limit set for us, and we gave bookish speeches on topics re- to a group of sincere Latter-day can do this only if we narrow our mote from his own life. They were Saints might easily bore per- and subject to those limits. Suppose we hesitant and dull. Finally he was alienate haps an audience composed want to talk about the priesthood. convinced that his own faith-pro- largely of half-hearted Saints or If we're going to give an hour-long moting experiences could be made non-members. (Concluded on page 79) JANUARY 1950 V A FROM WAY DOWN EAST I, -J&rl J: Zd.ft Brigham A Young, Jr., of the Council of the Twelve, together with W. B. Preston is a story being commenced a two-days' There revived in known to be accurate. And the conference in Smithfield, the East of how Brigham signature on Cache the hotel register in County, Young of Utah, attended by the Salt Lake City, and 1872 is neither that of President bishops of the later Brigham Young various settlements 2nd, together Brigham Young, nor of his son, and the home missionaries with his nine wives, enjoyed the Elder Brigham Young, in that Jr., of the part of the country. 3 hospitality of the Trout Pavillion, Council of the Twelve. the Lake George, N. Y., hotel area Now, how about this man with Where were these men on the landmark, in the 'seventies while on nine wives who registered on dates in question? On August 29, vacations from their duties in Utah. September 11, 1877, as it appears in 1 872, President Brigham Young at- President George Q. Morris of the the caption, or 1879, as it tended a bishops' meeting in Salt appears Eastern States Mission forwarded 1 in the story? His signature does Lake City. On September 2, he a photograph of a full-page Sunday not compare with went to the Point of the Mountain the known signa- magazine feature from the Times ture of the Latter-day Saint south of Salt Lake City to see the Apos- Union, of August 4, 1940, that is tle or of the signature new railroad cut for the Utah of the man the basis for the current story. who registered at Southern, then under construction. Trout Pavillion And we enjoyed it very much. in 1872. "Brigham Young The party left at 3 p.m. and re- 2nd." With but little difficulty we could 2 the name appears turned at 7 p.m. He'd hardly have on the register. visualize President Brigham Young Elder Brigham Young, time between these engagements to Jr., of the enjoying himself with the other Council of the Twelve vacation at a fashionable hotel in was never guests registered at the hotel Au- New York! known to call himself "2nd." He gust 31, 1872: Horace Greeley, dropped the "Jr.," soon after his On August 31, 1872, Elder Susan B. Anthony, Teenie Chaflin, father's death in 1877. The Young x Joumal Henry Ward Beecher, and Theo. History of the Church of Jesus Christ family historians have added the of Latter-day Saints. Ms., Church Historian's Li- Tilton. brary. Salt What a panel that would Lake City. August 29, 1872. Roman numeral "II" after his name nbid.. September 2. 1872 (quoting Salt Lake be to discuss the events of the day! Herald) ''Ibid.. September 1, 1872 (quoting Deserct News) And then we suddenly remem- bered that Brigham Young never returned East after entering the Salt (wfta^MuyllmJ/ PURPORTED SIGNATURE AS IT APPEARS ON HOTEL REGISTER. THIS AUTHENTIC SIGNATURE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, JR., IS FROM A DOCUMENT SIGNED DURING THE SAME PERIOD THE SIGNA- TURE ON THE RIGHT WAS WRITTEN ON THE HOTEL REGISTER AT EAST LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. Lake Valley for the second time in 1848—although he was a much- traveled man among the Church- sponsored settlements of the West. Did we remember wrong? Here was a photograph of the hotel register. We spent some time checking genuine signatures and references 18 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA 1 HOTEL AREA LANDMARK LAKE GEORC A FACSIMILE OF THE FULL PAGE PJGHAH YO G'S NAME CN REGISTER FEATURE IN THE TIMES-UNION. 5 Trout ravitlion in Salt Lake City during July and Gave Shelter to August.", 7 Many Notable? He attended a council meeting with the General Authorities on 8 September 4, 1879, then took in the Bear Lake country of Utah and Idaho. Witness the following tele- grams: Logan, September 16, 1879 President John Taylor Salt Lake City I have sent a dispatch to Brother Rich asking about Brigham. . . . Moses Thatcher" Logan, September 18, 1879 Elder Moses Thatcher Salt Lake City Sent message for Brigham Young today. George L. Farrell10 Paris, Idaho, September 20, 1879 President John Taylor Salt Lake City Sent messenger last night to Brigham Young. I think he is at Soda. Is it im- portant? Charles C. Rich11 And on September 30th: Brother Brigham Young returned from 12 Soda Springs last evening. Elder Brigham Young of the merely to keep their genealogical den and there met General Thomas Council of the Twelve had six records straight. L. Kane, who hurriedly came to wives during his lifetime." On the 11, It is believed that he never kept a Utah upon hearing of the death of dates in question, September three. diary. However, much is known his friend, Brigham Young. Wilford 1877, or 1879, he had but concerning his activities at this Woodruff continued on to a con- Knowing hotels as we do, it period. On September 10, 1877, ference assignment in Northern would seem unlikely that a birth Elders Wilford Woodruff, John Utah, while the others escorted the certificate or a like means of sure 4 of W. Young, Brigham Young (Jr.), General to Salt Lake City. identification would be asked anyone signing a hotel register. and Moses Thatcher, went to Og- Elders Brigham Young (Jr.). is to a hotel George Q. Cannon, and Albert One is who one says he if there were two Brig- Carrington of the Council of the man. But the Twelve had been named as execu- hams at the Trout Pavillion in they certainly were not tors of President Brigham Young's 'seventies, Brighams." estate. Almost two years after "our the passing of the Church leader, Hbid., August 4, 1879 NOTE THE FIRM AND POSITIVE MANNER IN WHICH PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG these three men were still trying Vbid., August 28, 1879 SIGNED HIS NAME. IT HAS NONE OF THE s Minutes of the First Presidency's office VACILLATING HESITANCY OF THE SIGNA- to settle affairs that would be ac- "Record of Telegrams Sent and Received, MS, TURE ON THE HOTEL REGISTER AT EAST ceptable to the government as well Church offices. Salt Lake City. LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. wldem. Elder Thatcher had come from home in as to the Church and the Young Logan to Salt Lake City on Church business. family. The estate and the dealings "Idem 12 of the administrators were matters Office Journal of the First Presidency's office "Catherine Curtis Spencer who bore a first child of public concern. Brigham Young August 7, 1856; Jane Carrington whom he married in 1857; Elizabeth Fenton who bore a first child (Jr.) was working on these affairs December 21, 1868; Rhoda Elizabeth Perkins whom &&r^2«*^^<$Z?f' he married May 17, 1886; Abbie Stevens whom he Vhid., September 10, 1877 married October 7, 1887; and Helen Armstrong, THIS IS THE HOTEL REGISTER SIGNATURE. x-lbid., July 12, 1879 who bore an only child March 20, 1891. JANUARY 1950 19 u5ie By ESTELLE WEBB AND THE J^>ubconscious ru r^ & THOMAS ^ rw ^ Every year of the world Susie goes through a phase; at least, that's what Mother calls it. Other members of the family have less complimentary names for it. Last year it was her Subconscious and was that a honey! Boy, we hadn't seen anything till Susie's Subconscious showed up! All her other phases had been easy com- pared to that. Maybe you've never met a Sub- conscious? That is, to recognize it. Sue says we all have one; a kind of Mr. Hyde, who hides behind our conscious selves and makes us do all sorts of queer tricks. A Mr. Hyde who hides—get it? That's a witticism, son, a joke, that is. Only, according to Sue, your Sub is a wonderful guy; with his help there's nothing, practically, you can't accomplish. Well, personally, I prefer to go my way and let my Subconscious go its way, and I think you'll agree, when you hear Susie's experience with hers, that it's best to let sleeping dogs lie, as Grand- mother told her. Cusie would probably never have found out about her Subcon- scious, or been any more bothered by it than the rest of us are, if it had not been for her new psychology teacher, Mr. Silver. Of course, half-smile on her face, or when my Subconscious, and it will hand all the junior girls fell for Mr. she'd break out with a rapturous, it to me, all solved in the morning." Silver as he was young, handsome, "divine," or "swoony," right out of a "That so?" Dad always gives and single, but Susie, being Susie, clear sky; we'd seen and heard all even the screwiest of her ideas the fell hardest. They all, as was only that before. It was when she benefit of the doubt. "Fine. I wish natural and nothing new, developed started dragging her Subconscious I had a Subconscious to solve my a sudden deep interest in psychol- into everything that we didn't know problems!" ogy and began juggling their sched- how to take it. "You have a Subconscious, Dad- ules to work it in; but Susie gave For instance, instead of puzzling dy!" Sue explained, with obvious up orchestra, which she had always over her math for an hour, crying a patience, "You just haven't dis- said she loved more than life itself, little or throwing the book across covered it yet!" and offered me her horn at a rea- the room and finally getting Dad or "Remind me to do some explor- sonable profit. In fact, Mr. Silver me to do it for her, she'd glance ing," Dad grinned, "next time I wasn't even silver to her, but pure over it, maybe memorize a rule or have a day off; it might come in gold. And anyway, Mr. Bartoli, two, with a faraway expression in handy." who leads the orchestra, while very her eyes and then close her book. good-looking in a foreign sort of "Want any help?" Dad would "What you need is a beautiful way, is married after all. finally say, when she made no more young lady psychologist," I sug- Naturally, nobody worried when move to study. gested. "She'd soon find it for you!" Sue would forget to eat and would "It isn't necessary," Sue would Dad's sly twinkle could not rescue sit looking off into space with a reply, "I've put it into the hands of me from the scorn of Susie, Mother, 20 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA — and even Grandma, who is usually had received an offer of a much "Don't be so adolescent, Johnny! I on my side— I was flat. better position in Maine, and Aunt hope I'm out of the stage of pre- But Susie, as usual, wasn't con- Margaret would be along to visit us ferring brawn to brain!" tent to let well enough alone; she until he was settled in the East, Then I knew. It was Mr. Silver! must pile everyone else's problems Grandma was openly relieved. We She did have her sights trained on Sub to solve, and according to all were. But the funny thing was, high! And at that, remembering her, it worked. About this time both Grandma and Susie thought past triumphs, I thought she and Aunt Margaret wrote and asked the whole situation was due entire- Old Sub might actually pull it off. Grandmother to spend the winter ly to Sue's Sub. Personally, I Don't ask me how she went with her and Uncle Henry. She couldn't see it. about "influencing" Mr. Silver to said California was mild and warm Then there was the Thanksgiving take her to the dance. She's the and would be good for Granny's vacation. Marigold had invited Sue one who's taking psychology, not neuritis. Dad said, flatly, the trip to go home with her to Hillsdale. me—or is it I? Anyway, I wouldn't was too long and hard, and Mother Mother was against it, believed touch the stuff with a ten-foot agreed but thought it would really Thanksgiving should be spent at pole! I only know she had abso- help her neuritis. home. Well, you've guessed it, lute faith in the result of her efforts Personally, I was against it. Mother was no match for Susie and and went ahead getting ready for Granny has lived with us for so Sub combined. There were plenty the big night as calmly as if she long, I couldn't see the house with- of other incidents, too many to men- had his bid for a date all down in out her in it. I had a very hollow tion. But you can see Susie had black and white. feeling when I thought of it. Grand- become pretty conceited by now Only once I saw her weaken. mother was determined to go, one and begun to think there was noth- She was curled up on the daven- day, and certain she could never ing she and Sub between them port when I came in, studying her make it, the next. Everybody was couldn't accomplish. psych, and looked up with a wor- upset. So when she turned Merwin ried frown. Then Susie, who hadn't said down as a date for the Junior Prom, "It says here that the sub- much, just looked dreamy, stepped I wondered if she had decided to conscious mind knows no such thing into the breach. concentrate on Paul Stronge. Paul as time or space. You cannot force "Stop worrying, Grandma," she was the great big football hero it, because it does things in its own said, soothingly, "Just put it up to of Central High, and naturally, good time. Good grief, I hope it your Subconscious and don't give the dreamboat of every girl in knows the Prom is only four days it another thought." school, including Sue. The trouble away!" "I haven't got a Subconscious!" was, he had never been able to see "Shame!" I chided her, "doubt- Grandmother snapped, "and any- anything smaller than a senior, and ing Old Sub! It knew when Thanks- the way, this is no time to be fooling precious few of them made giving was, remember?" could his pick with one of those things! If you've grade. Paul have Instead of being mad, Sue looked choice and, boy, was he picky I got a sensible suggestion, make it. and relieved. "Of course, mustn't as If not, keep still!" and choosy! So, strong a team doubt. That's the secret of success! I extreme- Susie gave her a wounded look, Susie and Sub were, was I'll just dismiss the whole thing flavored with pity and forgiveness, ly doubtful if they could put that from my conscious mind!" project over. And she did. All her energy Sue has a habit of working me in, seemed centered on the contest be- tween her and Mother as to A group of big guys just occasionally, when she doesn't like whether she was to get a new black, in from the gym turned and her prospects for a date, and I don't like it. Frankly, when I trip the off-the-shoulder formal, or not. And tvatched her like somebody since light fantastic, it is fantastic—no Grandma had thrown her netv. joke! So, I sounded her out as to weight on Mother's side, I wasn't her intentions. I asked her what betting on Sue and Sub. quite a masterpiece if Granny had was the idea of turning O. F. down, But if Susie wasn't worrying seen it, but since she was scowling (meaning Old Faithful). He was about her date, I was. When it got at the bright travel folders Aunt plenty good enough to flirt with, I to be two days before the Prom, I Margaret had sent, it was wasted. said, when there was nobody else was frankly worried for my own Susie signaled me into the kitchen in sight. safety. Besides, I couldn't under- with another glance. She used to stand it. Sue is no pill. Even my grab me by the arm, but now she "What do you mean, flirt?" Sue brotherly eyes tell me she's quite a indignantly, I used will power. demanded, "When bit prettier than average. And late- give Merwin a pleasant word, it "Try to take her mind off the ly, since she'd been so taken up whole idea," she whispered, isn't flirting, it's being kind to dumb "you with her soul all, animals!" and or maybe can, if anyone can. I'll it have all because she thought she was in decided for "Well," I was just as sharp as her in the morning!" love, she had had a kind of a But in the morning, all she could she was, "I suppose you're figuring well, I guess you'd call it a radiant say to on doing your kind deed to a bigger was urge Grandma to wait look, or luminous or something; any- and dumber animal, football's gift a few days before deciding any- way, she sort of stood out from the thing. to the bobbysockers?" She knew I crowd, if you know what I mean. Well, the meant Paul. when telegram came on What was Mr. Silver waiting for? Thursday, saying that Uncle Henry "Oh, him?" she said, loftily, (Continued on page 64) JANUARY 1950 21 JOHN A. WIDTSOE RICHARD L. EVANS Editor Editor PRESIDENT GEORGE ALBERT SMITH Editor Growth is always accompanied by change. So it is with The Improvement Era. Last Octo- GROWS ber sixteen pages were added THE ERA monthly to the magazine, and color printing on the inside pages along with other improvements became a Dm /4okn -Sv. {/[/iaUoe regular feature. This month addi- OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TWELVt tions to the editorial staff along with changes in the present staff the University of Utah; are announced. Nibley, associate professor of his- science at tory and religion at Brigham Young Archibald F. Bennett, secretary of President Richard L. Evans of University; Dr. G. Homer Durham, the Genealogical Society of the the First Council of the Seventy, head of the department of political Church; and Lee A. Palmer of the who since February of 1936 has Presiding Bishopric's office. been managing editor of the maga- These progressive steps will re- zine, has been advanced to the posi- sult in a better and more attractive tion of editor along with President magazine. can now make a George Albert Smith and Elder We fuller use of the numerous articles John A. Widtsoe. Doyle L. Green, sent to us for publication; the prob- assistant managing editor for three lems of our distraught world, no- years, becomes managing editor. tably of youth, can be given more Marba C. Josephson who has served attention; gospel themes may be so faithfully as associate editor since explained more acceptably; the af- 1935, has been advanced to associ- fairs of home and household will ate managing editor. Elizabeth J. receive more adequate considera- Moffitt has been promoted to manu- tion; the progress of the world and script editor and Albert L. Zobell, Church may be more interestingly Jr., becomes research editor. They DOYLE L. GREEN Managing Editor presented. were former editorial associates unlawful Additions to the staff include Nel- Today, problems, some hearts son White as art director and Burl and devilish, are stirring the Shepherd, "Today's Family" editor. of men; forebodings hang heavy in human minds; the gospel point of Included on the new list of staff view is needed to control these members are the names of six con- evil forces which are seeking to rule tributing editors whose contribu- the world. Where and how may tions have been appearing in the happiness be found? magazine for many years. They mindful of its are: Dr. Sidney B. Sperry, professor This field, the Era, old, will of Old Testament languages and obligations to young and readers explore. literature at Brigham Young Uni- continue to help its There is work to be done, let us versity; Dr. Franklin S. Harris, Jr., associate professor of physics at do it unitedly. MARBA C. JOSEPHSON Since we are talking about our- the University of Utah; Dr. Hugh Associate Managing Editor 22 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA associate editor of the Millenial former member of the general board Star. He continued in this position of the Young Men's Mutual Im- until November 1928, when Dr. provement Association. He and John A. Widtsoe, who had suc- Sister ElVera Campbell Green are ceeded Dr. Talmage as president the parents of three daughters and of the European Mission, called a son. him to serve as secretary of the Marba C. Josephson, our asso- mission. In that capacity he ciate managing editor, has spent a visited eleven European countries, lifetime of activity in the Church. from the Mediterranean to the Mostly she has worked in the in- Arctic. terest of youth, both in the auxiliary ELIZABETH J. MOFFITT ALBERT L. ZOBELL, JR. Returning to Salt Lake City in (Continued on page 60) Manuscript Editor Research Editor "The glory of God is intelligence" CONTRIBUTING EDITORS September 1929, he secured em- I ;i|SS SB ployment with radio station KSL. : He soon became affiliated with the Tabernacle Choir and Organ pro- gram, then in its infancy as a net- work feature. Through the years his name has become synonymous with that radio hour. He went on to obtain his B. A. and his M. A. BURL SHEPHERD NELSON WHITE from the University of "Today's Family" Editor Art Director degrees Utah. He was appointed managing selves, repeat that the in- may we editor of The Improvement Era fluence of the Era has been great. SIDNEY B. SPERRY FRANKLIN S. HARRIS, JR. in February 1936; and at the Octo- Its volumes are a storehouse of ber 1938 general conference of the history, doctrine, high-type fiction, Church he was sustained as a mem- poetry, and a wealth of miscella- ber of the First Council of the neous subjects. Seventy. The Era, coming monthly in a He and Sister Alice Thornley form to save, will keep you abreast Evans are the parents of four sons. the world, the of the happenings of Managing Editor Doyle L. Church, and the state. No one can Green, is the author of the popular afford to be without it. current Era feature, Mission to about the people who edit, Now, Polynesia, which he writes with a publish, and distribute the Era for love borne of three years spent in its readers. the Tahitian Mission, 1936-39. He G. HOMER DURHAM HUGH NIBLEY President Richard L. Evans, who has a master of science degree in will take his place along with now sociology from Brigham Young JBfflpS! Sis President George Albert Smith and ^1k& University, obtained in 1942. Elder A. Widtsoe as an editor John He has been a member of the of The Improvement Era, is a faculty at Brigham Young Univer- man of many interests and great sity. Immediately before his work capabilities. All of these he has with The Improvement Era he used to strengthen the Church and served as extension editor at Utah build up The Improvement Era. State Agricultural College, Logan. His friendly voice on the air and He is an Eagle Scout and enjoys his sincerity in writing have made working with and teaching the him a friend of countless numbers youth of the Church. He is a of radio listeners and magazine and LEE A. PALMER ARCHIBALD F. BENNETT newspaper readers. Deprived of his father at the age of ten weeks, he grew up as the youngest of nine children, working his way through school. His scho- lastic ambitions were temporarily halted after his freshman college year by a call to the British Mis- sion; he departed for that field of labor in November 1926. Dr. James E. Talmage of the Council of the Twelve and then president of the ELBERT R. CURTIS BERTHA S. REEDER JOHN D. GILES VERL F. SCOTT European Mission, called him to be General Manager Associate Manager Business Manager Assistant Business Manage! JANUARY 1950 23 Elder Ezra Taft Benson offering con- gratulations to Explorer Wayne Freck- leton as he received the gold medal 'J'wice in quick succession Wayne Freckleton had dived into the muddy rapids of Idaho's Lost River in an attempt to snatch a human life from the jaws of death. With his strength ebbing, and facing a roaring whirlpool, Wayne knew it was ...This Time. ..or Never father's cousin, Ellis J. Freckleton, On the bank Ellis' wife and -j/orace men a $ had been on the river trying out five children watched in horror as some surplus one-man life rafts. he sank out of sight and rose again. raging torrent of the swollen "I was nearing a whirlpool in the Others were watching, too, in- The river Lost River held a man in its when my raft hit some sunken cluding several grown men. But deathly grip. It was this time object and capsized," Ellis said none of them made a move to help. or never. later. "I was wearing hip boots, "When I went under the second and they filled with water. The Twice Wayne had dived into the time," the drowning man afterwards muddy rapids. Twice he had been whirling water sucked me under. related, "I decided I had to get swept past the whirlpool where the When I came up, I shouted for rid of my boots, and I stayed under drowning man was entrapped. help." until I got them off. But I was so Twice he had fought his way to Ellis was a good swimmer. He exhausted when I came up that I shore down stream and run back had been a Scout and Scouter ever was unable to swim out." up the bank. There wouldn't be since he was twelve. He had been By that time Wayne had swum to time for another try if he didn't an assistant scoutmaster and a the bank, and rushed back up- make it now. scoutmaster and was then an as- stream. He picked up a light pole "Father, help me," he prayed in sistant in the Y. M. M. I. A. su- along the way as he hurried for his heart as he took the final plunge. perintendency at Moore, Idaho. He another try. was forty-three years Then, for the second time, without a moment's hesitation, The Freckleton • of age and weighed he dived into the family was in Idaho The tenth law: 180 pounds. But the maddened river. for the opening of < ( angry whirlpool and Why this boy of seventeen A SCOUT a, fin j u * the fishing season. It „ the failed boots were should have been alone in the IS BRAVE . i i. Tj was June, and the too much lorf him. He rescue attempt when there were Lost River was at couldn't free himself several grown men watching the flood stage. It wasn't too good from the whirling waters. scene is hard to understand without for angling, but they hadn't known The moment Wayne realized that fully realizing the condition of the that when they left Salt Lake his father's cousin was in danger rampaging river. "Not one pro- City. They were an outdoor he pulled off his shoes and plunged fessional swimmer in a thousand family, and they liked to hunt and into the water. But the racing cur- would have dived into that raging fish in the Gem State. rent swept him downstream before millrace," Ellis later explained. Wayne's father, Ernest, and his he could reach the whirlpool. The fact that he was placing his 24 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA — , Tt is with great pride and pleasure that I notify you on behalf of the National * Court of Honor that you have been voted the Gold Medal with Crossed Palms in recognition of your gallant conduct in saving the life of your uncle [cousin] from drowning, June 5, 1948. The medal was designed by a famous artist, Belmore Browne, and is made of gold, but its intrinsic value is small compared with the deed for which it stands. The value as a token will, however, increase each year as you wear it, for it shows that you were prepared and did your utmost in the service of others, even though it may have resulted in the sacrifice of your own life. With these facts in your mind this medal will tend to keep before you the greatest lesson in scouting, that of being prepared to RENDER SERVICE TO OTHERS in any emergency. All members of the National Court of Honor join me in congratulating you and wishing you a long, happy and useful life. George J. Fisher, National Scout Commissioner, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Hon. J. Edgar Hoover, Capt. Edivard V. Rickenbacker Hon. Owen J. Roberts, Dr. James L. Clark, Leivis Gawtry, Dr. Irving Langmuir, G. Barrett Rich, and Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Letter from National Court of Honor life at the mercv of the river for of the trouble. He didn't have dived under the surface, and found the second time in but a few min- much time to outline his final action. the victim. The fact that he now utes hadn't worried Wayne as he Twice he had tried from outside the actually had hold of his father's entered the stream with the pole. whirlpool. Twice he had failed. If cousin gave him added courage and He was a Scout. He had been he was to succeed this time, he added strength. He used that taught to swim. The tenth law would have to swim into the pool strength to swim under water to A Scout Is Brave—was part of his and take his chances in getting out. shore. nature. A man was in danger, and But could he do it, as tired as he was At the water's edge there were as long as there was a chance of and with a 1 80-pound man, when many hands willing to haul the saving him there was just nothing that man, who was a good swimmer two upon the bank. Although near- else to do but try. and fresh when he was first drawn ly exhausted, Wayne realized his But the river was mean. It had into the pool, couldn't do it alone? job was not yet finished. A drown- a man, and it didn't intend to let Well, he would try! ing victim is not always safe when him go. Wayne swam with all It was then that prayers were he is out of the water. So the Scout the strength he had and extended answered—answered because of started to administer artificial the pole as far as he could into the training, and courage, and the will respiration. But Ellis, although whirlpool. But although it passed to do or die. dazed, had not lost consciousness. over the near-doomed man, he either Ellis, who had kept swimming Stirring a little, he said that he was didn't see it, or else he didn't have with what strength he had left, all right. He soon recovered. strength to grab it and hold on. So was nearing the edge of the pool Wells McGregor, of Thatcher, Wayne fought his way to shore and raised a hand just as Wayne Idaho, witnessed the event. He is again and ran back up the bank. passed. Wayne saw the hand, {Continued on page 78>) Now Wayne wr as poised for the final try. It was this time or never. The man in the river couldn't last while he tried again. And he wouldn't have strength left for a repeat attempt. Could he make it? If he had failed when he was fresh, how could he hope to succeed now he was tired? What could he do that would save the drowning man? He didn't stop to try to answer the questions as they entered his mind. He knew that the only place he could find the answers was in that muddy water. So with a prayer in his heart, he dived in. Progress is rapid when you swim The Freckleton Scouts at home: Wilford, the youngest, Mr. Ernest K., with a fast current. That was part Wayne, and Kay. JANUARY 1950 25 —- our impulse may be to reach out and ^Jke help. We must then remember how delicate and lovely a thing is any- thing that flowers. Years ago I had given to me a little plot of ISSIONARIES land in which some scillas grew. The beautiful little blue flowers en- raptured BY my heart. One spring they were slow in coming up—so finally I dug up the earth around C^lizabeth S^>. vJ>eckwltk them to see why they did not grow — and they never bloomed have come to our home at all Mrs. Beckwith is the wife of again. As the little bulbs could not They the Reverend Kenneth D. sorts of times, by day and by Beck- with, who serves the Massachu- stand being disturbed, as a leaf must night, in winter, spring, and sum- setts Conference and Missionary unfold by itself and would be sadly Society (Congregational) in mer. With each one of them our bruised by human fingers, so also Western instant Massachusetts. reaction is the same—an would the sensitive developing spirit sense of relationship and welcome of another be mutilated by our well- an eagerness to have them stay, a intentioned but misguided efforts. see the sunlight glinting through the reluctance, to let them go. We do Our love can go forth to warm, our "like"— trees when one is told of the bap- not stop at the little word faith to inspire, and our prayers to the tism by his father of an eager little it is not even the doorstep on encircle and make safe and sure boy of eight. One senses the threshold of our love. Instead, this growing time. these missionaries of the Church of gravity— feels the purposefulness Last of all come the missionaries Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints it has given to life—when one is —and few of them there be—whose step instantly into the warmth of told what a patriarchal blessing to testimonies are mute. One wonders our affection. Never had I fully an older boy contained. There is a if the germ of potentiality is even known before what it means to be richness and a joy, a simplicity and there. They have come out be- a child in the family of God. sweetness and strength, in the back- cause they have been persuaded Christian fellowship I have known, grounds of these boys from the best to do so by another. Upon first but these missionaries are our broth- of Latter-day Saint homes that is thought this does not seem in accord ers in the most true and comforting very apparent. Their fathers and with right missionary practice at all. and strong sense of the word. Our mothers have built worthily upon Yet if there be even a glimmering of hearts open before them, and our the traditions of the past, lived ac- light in the human soul, that light love bids them stay. tively and truly up to the precepts can grow, possibly until it becomes a light of overwhelming brilliance. Qome who come are bright and beautiful, with the If a potential missionary has love morning of their day upon them. Nurtured in the enough for another to want to do faith, with a knowledge from infancy of the gospel, what that individual desires, and at they can and do expound it in a way that catches the cost of two years of his life, then and grips the attention of one's mind. in that love is a beginning. For love is of God; like a seed within the heart love grows, watered by human Some who come are bright and of their faith, and they who have need, nourished by study and by beautiful, with the morning of their given the best gifts of life to their prayer. Eventually day upon them. Nurtured in the children must feel rich indeed in love that started faith, with a knowledge from in- these their sons and daughters. on a human basis becomes divine fancy of the gospel, they can and Other missionaries come who are and inclusive. One sees mission- do expound it in a way that catches hesitant or shy. They have an in- aries "come alive" as the mystery and grips the attention of one's ner testimony but not the words or and marvel of the gospel dawns mind. They have a sureness of the self-confidence upon them. They speech that is born of knowledge to express it. One become motivated, Qthers who come are and experience and of the Holy senses the struggle energized, trans- hesitant and shy. They Spirit. One is impressed with the going on—a strug- formed. They be- have an inner testimony wholeheartedness of the Christian gle that will finally come able to do but not the the living that is behind them. Theirs result in a testi- words or and to endure that is the spiritual heritage of a great mony being borne self-confidence to express which would have and courageous people, brave that is convincing it. One senses the struggle been impossible it enough to endure suffering and per- because is that is going on. . . . had not an in- secution, faithful enough to follow achieved through ner transformation through years of trial a modern study, prayer, humility, and a much taken place. revelation from Almighty God. Like greater dependence upon the Holy So the missionaries come and go. precious jewels to be handled Spirit than they had in the beginning. They tug at our heartstrings as they reverently are the stories they tell When we become aware that some- valiantly cover up at times fatigue, one else is in the of their own homes. One can almost throes of growth, (Continued on page 72) 26 THE IMPROVEMENT ER^ . Josephine Donna Smith— Ina Coolbrith \J5iA _Ar. _j. S^aii&bvir J Among the best known of early-day western poets was Ina Coolbrith, ".?:' poet laureate of Cali- was one of those lovely June fornia. She was the daughter of Don Carlos ina Coolbrith as a young girl ITdays in the unique city, Nauvoo Smith, brother of the the beautiful. The muddy, swirl- Prophet. with Joseph Smith as lieutenant- ing waters of the mighty Mississip- general. pi, turning from a westerly course, The Nauvoo Legion served its swung in a great semicircle around nom de plume of Ina Coolbrith, by purpose. It protected the Saints the famous city, then hurried on which she was known during the until they could build their city southward toward the Gulf of remainder of her life. and establish their schools and uni- Mexico. Ina's parents suffered persecution versity, and teach and educate their Now came the measured tread in Ohio and Missouri. At one time people; so that when the jealous of the long column of the Nauvoo while Don Carlos was on a mis- politicians and preachers of Illinois Legion, marching up Mulholland sion to Tennessee, before Ina's birth, turned against them and martyred Street, led by a brilliant, twenty-six the Missouri mob in Daviess county, their Prophet and scattered the peo- starred American flag. Terse orders Missouri, burned her home, and ple, the effect was like that of rang out. The col- she, Agnes Cool- scattering a prairie fire, which, umn halted, and brith Smith, fled on smoldering here a tiny, and there, finally then formed at the ^s golden- foot in the snow, revives into a giant, irresistible con- side of the street haired girl, Ina got with little Agnes flagration that carries all before it. and presented arms, her first glimpse the strapped on her of My grandmother, Catherine as one man. Sacramento Valley while back and carrying Smith Salisbury, sister of the Their commander, she sat a Sophronia in her on horse with Prophet, told me that while a band Joseph Smith, Jr., a arms. To reach her famous western scout, of lawless Missourians waited in was resplendent in friends she waded who uttered these pro- the northeast corner of their state, the full uniform of a rr across Grand River, phetic words: There, just below Keokuk, Iowa, two of Lieutenant-General. waist deep, amidst little girl, lies your king- their spies approached Nauvoo and He was the cyno- cakes of floating dom." from a hiding place in a hazel sure of all eyes, but ice. thicket saw a parade of the Nauvoo his younger broth- Legion. In fearful haste they re- er, Brigadier-General Don Carlos turned to their outlaw band, and Smith, also attracted attention. He so badly frightened them with their was six feet four inches tall, report of the military might of the straight and athletic, fair of com- Legion that the mob forgot their plexion and blue-eyed. plan for invading Nauvoo and fled Carlos at Don was born Norwich, to their homes. Vermont, on March 15, 1816. He It was during such happenings in was the ninth child and seventh son Nauvoo that Josephine Donna of Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith. Smith was born, on March 10, 1 84 1 He endured the hardships to which Soon her sister Sophronia died. the members of the Smith family Next, her wonderful father passed were subjected during the early away at the age of twenty-four. days of the Church. On July 30, Then the Saints were driven from 1835, at Kirtland, he was married their beautiful new city. to Agnes Coolbrith. Three daugh- After a period of mourning, Ina's ters were born to them prior to the mother married William Pickett of sudden death of Don Carlos, which St. Louis, Missouri. He was second cousin of the famous General took place at Nauvoo, Illinois, on Ina Coolbrith in the year 7895 Pickett who, at the command of Lee, August 7, 1841, when he was five led the noted forlorn Pickett's months past his twenty-fourth The Nauvoo city charter pro- charge against the impregnable birthday. The youngest daughter vided for the organization of the Union lines at the battle of Gettys- was named Josephine Donna Smith, Nauvoo Legion. The Legion, orig- burg. after her uncle, the Prophet, and inally consisting of six companies, In 1852 the Picketts migrated to her father. Later she assumed the was organized February 4, 1841, {Continued on page 73) JANUARY 1950 27 UNDERSTANDING Bf JcoiiL$e &i/—>rowmn(A NSTRUCTOR IN SOCIAL WORK UNIVERSITY OF UTAH OUTH Disequilibrium at this period of life is not to be construed as permanent, and parents who are wise do not fight back or return kind for kind.' when the child of their bosom be- gins to reveal openly that he is no A dolescence is the period of life longer dependent upon the care- when socialization takes place fully planned parental program. When one talks with such parents rich mahogany bric-a-brac stand to a marked degree. Instead of and envisions the future of their with triangular shelves and turning back into the home for at- child, titudes opinions, the or girl they readily agree to a fine, hand-turned carved pillars and boy of fourteen often looks out into so- independent adult, functioning with stood in the corner of the room. It ciety to observe what others are ease and complete self-confidence. displayed spun glass objects, sea their offspring doing. An example of this is the They want to achieve shells, and miniature portraits. teen-ager who phones her closest such status; the desire is genuine. Ellis looked at it with loathing. friend on a crisp September morn- Then, when one mentions the initial "Mother, this old-fashioned gadget ing with the query, "What sweater loosening of parental control, the re- is a disgrace to our home. People are you wearing to school today? will think we are cave men. They'll Are you going to wear your plaid think we live in the dark ages, that skirt?" The "herd instinct" is we are covered in cobwebs; they'll strong, and the wise mother refrains wonder about our sanity!" from questioning the stereotyped As with many material The fifteen-year old boy orated lass who appears ready for school objects which have and declaimed, and his mother lis- looking identical with her mates. sentimental value to tened serenely. She thought of her The outside influences are important the adult, adolescence own youth, and how she had de- at this time, and the matrix of the tends to throw them spised that golden oak parlor table, home in which the child has been out, discard them, re- the one with brass claw feet growing, and which has been a pri- sent them because clutched over great glass balls. mary source of comfort and guid- adolescence is a phase "Very well, son, I'll take all the ance, seems childish and common- of self-assertion and bric-a-brac off, and you personally place to the adolescent. Parents urge. Disequilibrium at shall have the honor of removing should understand that this "grow- this period of life is not this symbol of decadence to the at- ing-out" process seems dangerous to be construed as per- tic." to the boy and girl; they should rec- manent, and parents Ellis did so, and the antique ognize that this quasideveloped per- who are wise do not shelves gathered dust along with son needs a kind of half-and-half fight back or return kind other furniture and toys. treatment—love and shielding at for kind. Who was to remember or dispute one point, and freedom for inde- Ellis seven years later, when he was pendence at another. One author- twenty-two years old, and he and ity calls the adolescent period re- his bride rummaged in the attic and birth" and says: re-discovered the bric-a-brac stand? linquishment of demands, the inter- "It's solid mahogany, dear!" he I wish I could offer a pain-dispelling mediate steps which a child must drug to mothers during this second birth, said. "It will look quaint in that take to approach adulthood, the this delivery of children into the adult alcove." And adolescent feeling very parents sometime stand world, or that I could, at least, like a good same Ellis was forgotten as reflnished the obstetrician, tell the mother what to do aghast and some even revert to de- stand and rubbed the mahogany to every step of the way." mands for strict obedience such as a satiny sheen. were used in early childhood. Ob- Very few parents stop to realize And so, as with many material viously, the adolescent rebels that they themselves are going objects which have sentimental val- against such treatment. Not that through an adjustment process ue to the adult, adolescence tends he particularly wants to disagree to throwr them out, discard them, 1 Schumacker, Henry C, The Adolescent: His with his parents, but he is putting Development and his Major Problems (Huntington. resent them; because adolescence is Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1945), p. 74. up a real fight to establish his own 2 Levy, and Monroe, Ruth, Happy a phase of self-assertion urge. John, The identity person. the and Family (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1948], p.ll. as a Although 28 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA ^ArdoU'Scent Tn referring to the period between fourteen and twenty-one, Eng- Cfirf: lish and Pearson state that the "J was busty in some adolescent must choose a vocation and begin to prepare for it, learn to decisions about depend more upon himself and less color schemes, and I upon his parents and family, bring about a satisfactory relationship learned more, living in with the opposite sex, and begin to that room, than if it accept mature responsibility. had been arranged by Parents of adolescent boys and the best interior dec- girls would do well to examine their attitudes toward ." these several areas, orator in town . . eider-down comfort of the parental evaluating their own feelings about protection was pleasant, he feels a each of them. Some parents will deep urge to "put away childish have difficulty accepting the first, quite empty, and the parents pour things." It is frequently a fight and may become alarmed if the into it all their love, strength, and against himself, as much as against child has not stated a preference emotional support. The process for his parents. How many parents for a life's work. Urgency and the child is one of receiving, taking ever consider this point of view? parental prodding will probably re- in, incorporating. But when physi- Many do not and thus find them- sult in fitful outbursts, withdrawal, cal maturation takes place, and emo- selves continually being hurt by the and sullenness. If the boy or girl tional independence becomes more boy or girl to whom they have given is not ready to choose, it is the pa- complete, the act of continued giv- rental role to support him in his so much. Most parents desire their day- ing by parents causes an overflow to-day routine of school work and children to grow up, but they keep of the vessel, and the child himself assume at least a semblance a kind of "Never-Never-Land" of poise cannot take any more. His desire about the whole matter. On the such as Barrie described in "Peter is gradually to discontinue being re- other hand, enthusiasm of youth Pan," as a secret wish of their plenished by others, and to give of sometimes hearts. opens a floodgate of en- himself; he no longer wants to re- ergy in projected plans which are ceive but to extend himself. Of admittedly out of the question from Pouring the period from fourteen course, the physical urge is very the point of view of parental pocket- to twenty-one, the adolescent strong and sometimes out of pro- book and inclination. It is notable is assimilating his values and forti- portion to psychological maturity, that these flights of vocational fancy fying himself for the battle which is and it is in this exigency that under- are frequently disseminated by some to be his. As one girl stated con- standing parents can offer guidance, urgency of the present, or by sheer cerning an elongated period in her and recognize with the adolescent lack of favorable circumstances. life when she was expected by her that he is going through a pretty In learning to depend more upon mother only to "set the table": trying period of his life. Praise himself and less upon his parents "I'm tired of setting the table—no and interest are helpful here. One and family, the adolescent makes matter how nice the dishes, silver boy whose father was particularly many trial flights. With pa- and linen look— I want to cook the close to him said that he was great- rental permission he may plan dinner!" One author has stated ly relieved just to talk with his dad a summer vacation in company that growing up is like the filling of about how much he wanted to be (Continued on page 77) a vessel: in childhood the vessel is married and to discuss the disparity between his physical development —Photograph by Harold M. Lambert and his ability to support a wife. this particular father :: : Undoubtedly ..£;'::,: :y::"!, ';. .;,: established a good relationship with his son when he was a small child. Parents need to ac- cept ivith as much poise as possible the fact that at times fane and Jimmy actually pre- fer the companionship of their teen-age friends. SYNOPSIS Tn the year 1851, President Brigham * Young sent colonies to extend the Mormon territory to the south. Those who went had to fight four adversaries: the Utes, the Navajos, the renegade whites, and nature, on which seemed at times the greatest adversary of all. No treaty with the United States could guarantee the settlers from the depredations of the Navajos. Even Kit Carson who displaced the Indians had found it impossible to quell them. Jacob Hamblin and Thales Haskell gen- uinely loved the Indians, and time their look without blinking. They after time won them to a reluctant had their glittering six-shooters on peace, only to have it broken again because of the actions of the rene- their hips, the brave six-shooters gade whites. But at last the Mor- which soothe the coward's yellow mons had begun their settlement, in the face of Indian attack nature. nerves and bolster him in the cheap- and — Photograph by Hal Rumcl est kind of lie about his own pusillanimous self. If Jones had XVII as if to demand, "Are we going to only had a gun, it would have given stand for that?" If they were not them excuse to act, but he had no nights later they stood going to take it and call it good, Two gun, and they hated themselves and around a campfire at Rincone, then they had to have among them each other because they had to their thoughts about that dance at least one man with the sand to listen to him in silence. still echoing in boasts and protests. say so, that the others might muster Among that nonplused gang, "We let 'em down easy that the fortitude to endorse his objec- glaring through the firelight at their time," one of them repeated, "but tion. But the courage which rests solitary accuser, was a little fellow when they insult us again, we'll on its own honest feet is very dif- with a sense of humor, and with shoot out every lamp in the hall." ferent from the kind which hangs the courage to speak. "Well, sir, Kumen Jones had been riding for dear life to a gun. Mr. Jones," he admitted reflectively, with them that day in the interest of Kumen Jones, unarmed and un- "I think you have it doped out the Bluff cattle, and he listened till afraid, stood there before them with about right. No man's goin' to get the babble of brave words died more security of position than any any kick out of scarin' sick women down like a falling wind. "Look one of the blustering gang who had and little kids." here, you fellows," he broke forth, substituted a gun for the grit which "do you think your brave yells and Was not to be found in his anemic No other one around that fire your shooting frightened any man anatomy. indulged another brave gesture. They conferred in low tones as they in Bluff? It may have startled "Every man and boy in Bluff," scattered off to their blankets. They nervous women and timid children. Jones went on without fear of be- had sought the sheltering walls of Everybody else that heard it felt ing answered, "who heard you to escape the laws of the nothing but disgust." shooting so heroically there in the San Juan United States, and they could not They opened their eyes at him in night to torture sick folk and chil- permit a little backwoods town to quick astonishment. dren had just one impulse, and that force any of its discipline upon 'You call yourselves brave men," was to get his gun and shoot even for the brief time they he went on. "It takes your kind straight at you. You can thank your them, to stay. If they of bravery to frighten the weak and good fortune they had better hold might want the lions in that log the helpless. If ever I saw a bunch of themselves than you have of couldn't be of cowards, it's right here." yourselves or that is exactly what meetinghouse and carry on like a An indignant hush settled on the they would have done." stampede of steers down a box circle in the glow of that fire and They looked daggers at him in canyon, then they would have a they searched one another's faces disarmed hesitation, and he met dance of their own and set a style 30 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA so dashing it would have to become might be the best way to their solu- Wood, Nephi Bailey, and others in the rule. tion. the procession. They faced diffi- When they stayed in Bluff, they President Hammond went with a culty and danger from the very first ate at the home of Grandfather pack outfit, taking some of the lead- day of their beginning, for Monti- John Allan and made his place their ing men of the colony with him, cello had to fight its own battles, headquarters. They decided to and explored along the eastern side stand on its own feet, and carry stage their dance in his dooryard. of the big San Juan territory, look- on if it was to survive the herd of He was old and stooped and weary ing for strategic places for outposts. ruffians waiting and resolved to ride with the weight of strenuous years; He proposed that they build one over it roughshod. That much was surely he would have no tempera- post on White Mesa, east of the clearly understood by the brave ment to object, even if he failed to Piute stronghold in the Little Val- men and women who answered the see that objecting would injure his leys and another post at the base call. By their magic of unusual hotel business. . of the Blue Mountain where the diplomacy they were supposed to But John Allan, however stooped pirate empire was taking more defi- bring law and order into that and jaded, had the fighting fire of nite shape every day. Building and howling chaos. old Scotch clans in his blood, and manning the two posts at one time A winding wagon track over sandhills and rocks, through stretches of sagebrush and across precipitous canyons, extended tL FIRING LINE through the fifty miles of solitude between Bluff and Monticello. Communication between the two £ JWLt /e. x man places was infrequent and uncertain, j '"The Church Authorities, in their 'J'he cowpunchers east of Blue Mountain regarded solicitude for the mission and its the building of Monticello as an unwarranted in- difficult problems, called the bishop vasion of their territory. . . . They never missed a of Huntsville, Francis A. Ham- chance to shotv hoju quick, they were on "the draw" mond, to preside over San Juan Stake. Coming at once, he took what faith can do— faith, that im- horses and cattle; they carried off studious account of the distressing pelling power so generally dis- saddles, bedding, guns, anything situation and discerned that of the counted in the human soul which they could reach, mainly to dis- three major labors assigned to the bears it on to its noblest achieve- courage the spectre of law, inci- mission, the first, the winning of the ments. dentally for the amusement of gain. Navajos, had in a great measure When the president called men They got away with much of the been accomplished. It was hardly first crop of grain raised at Monti- to go and dig in and establish them- thinkable that this could been have cello. The big objective of these selves at Monticello, they gathered done if Bluff not had been in such new builders was to establish law, close proximity to its first problem. up such equipment as they could but for the present they had diffi- It seemed therefore that prepare and started, Frederic I. probable culty enough in holding their own in the lead, with Charles E. the building of other outposts near Jones and surviving. to problem two and problem three Walton, Benjamin Perkins, Samuel (Continued on page 62) JANUARY 1950 31 0(0 K SEKDKC AX EXPRESSION £F 10VE AMD OREEM T01HE FIRST mSlDHCV QFTHECHa0CHQFOESO5CroT OF UTlEtf-DAY SAINTS WON" THE OCCASION OF THE 20TR ANTORSAW OF THE FOOTING OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK Mission WEKTY YEWS A£0 THE SEED OF THE KESTOKEP W\lV OFCQTOAS OOMOFGOD. - 30IYH1W The Czechoslovakian Mission was Mission was formed, with seven Commemorative resolu- opened July 24, 1929, by Dr. members: three in Prague, two in tion and greeting to the John A. Widtsoe of the Council Cercany, one in Zmaimo, and one in : First Presidency of the * * of the Twelve, at that time president Carlsbad. 1 Church of Jesus Christ of a Latter-day Saints. Spe- of the European Mission. He was The twentieth anniversary was cially drawn and painted assisted by President Hyrum W. time of rejoicing for the Saints there upon the occasion of the Valentine of the German-Austrian as two hundred ten members and twentieth anniversary of Mission and President Fred Tadje friends in Czechoslovakia made the the founding of the mis- of the Swiss and German Mission. pilgrimage to Knezi Hora ( Priest's sion. From these two missions the Czech Hill) near the famous Karlstejn 32 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA n WENTY fj A li Jj in the L^zecnoslouakvan • Dm ^Mlbert <=JL. /-.obeli, /ft vdsvon RESEARCH EDITOR Castle on Saturday, July 23, where the mission was begun in 1929. Sabbath day, 24, privilege of commemorating this There they witnessed, as the The July brought four wonderful meetings. twentieth anniversary. There were first event of the anniversary serv- In the priesthood meeting, under favorable comments from the press ices, "God's Hand Through the of local brethren, the concerning this telegram. Ages," the pageant written, pro- the direction "The Holy Priesthood, Many of the isolated members duced, and directed by Elder Stan- subject was the foundation of God's great had the privilege of coming and ley H. Kimball, whose home is in theme of the general joining in this two-day conference, Denver, Colorado. work." The meeting was "The Church—the in which the Spirit of the Lord pageant told of the begin- The increase as the meetings way to happiness and salvation." seemed to nings of religious freedom in Czech- reports followed a sacrament and advanced. Mimeographed oslovakia, and of the martyr, John Then of the anniversary were prepared Huss, (1369-1415), and ended with testimony meeting, and finally a for the Saints there and for the the establishment of the mission of missionary theme meeting with the Saints who could not come. the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- general subject "The gospel of the Czech ter-day Saints. Nearby, in the dark- Christ—the power of salvation." The missionaries of series of missionary ness of that tree-crowned hill, Knezi From this gathering a telegram was Mission held a 27, in Hora, stood the impressive stone sent to the President of the Repub- meetings on July 25, 26, erected by the Saints of of the gospel monument lic thanking him and the govern- which the furthering the difficult days of that mission in ment of Czechoslovakia for the {Continued on page 76) 1944, to the founders of the mission: Elder John A. Widtsoe of the Council of the Twelve, Elder Arthur Gaeth, who was transferred from the German-Austrian Mission to be the first president of the Czechoslovakian Mission, and El- ders Alvin G. Carlson, Charles Josie, Joseph I. Hart, Willis A. Hayward, and Wallace F. Toronto, the first missionaries. Elder Toronto has spent much of his time since as missionary and as mission president in Czechoslovakia, being the current mission president there. Then, representatives of each branch of the mission spoke, re- dedicating their talents and their labors to the service of the Lord. Joseph Roubicek, the acting mission president during World War II, and chairman of the mission anni- versary committee, recounted many of his experiences in directing the mission during the war years. A missionary chorus of thirty voices broke the quiet of the eve- ning with the ever-inspiring hymn, "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet." There was a prayer of thanksgiving and a dismissal, and first day of the anniversary celebra- Pageant a never-to-be-forgotten 600-year old Karlstejn Castle. tion was took place atop Priest's Hill in page of memory. background. 33 JANUARY 1950 At a conference of the Church members of the Society Islands Mission held at Putuahara on the island of Anaa September 24, 1846, it was announced that Elder Addi- son Pratt would return to America, "recruit" as many missionaries as possible, and return with them and his family to continue the work of the Lord in the Islands. MISSION TO OLYNESIA The Story of Addision Pratt And The Society Islands (15u IX ing difficult. In his journal under in the shade of some lone coconut that date Addison made this soul- tree and pour out our complaints Immediately following the con- searching entry: before him, and he has never forsaken ference Addison made prepara- us but has blessed our labors, and through him we have jointly baptized tions to leave Anaa for Tahiti I shall never forget the parting with over a thousand natives besides a on the first schooner that came Brother Grouard. He and I have been goodly number of Americans and along. Natives from each of the yoked together in this mission for Europeans. five villages on the island flooded three and a half years. We have him with presents of pigs, chickens, withstood the frowns of poverty, the A RRiviNG at Tahiti, Addison made opposition of men and devils, . . . and coconuts, sea shells, mats, fishhooks, the frowns of hunger, traveling over his way to the home of Brother and pearls, and from them he also the sharp coral rocks and slippery Lincoln whom he had converted received heartfelt thanks and good mountains with our toes out of our and baptized on the island of wishes and requests to be sure to shoes our knees and out and elbows his heart made after he visited Tubuai. Here was return to them had of our clothes, living a part of our glad with the invitation extended America. time on coconuts and raw fish and to him to stay there until he should Then came three weeks of wait- sleeping on the ground for the sake of get a passage home. ing for a ship, during which time he obeying the Savior's commandments preaching the gospel to the na- continued his labors, teaching, and Addison thought that he had be- tives of the South Sea Islands. Ofttimes preaching, baptizing, and adminis- come case-hardened to disappoint- when we have met and talked over tering to the sick. During this time ment, but when Brother Lincoln our trials and hardships, what was he also dedicated a chapel at told him that some time before "a more grievous to be borne is our being Tamarie. As the two missionaries package of news from home," had neglected by all that is dear to us on part October 14, been sent on to him, he felt as heart- shook hands to on earth and how often we felt that our ever been in his life. just before Addison entered the Heavenly Father was our only friend sick as he had package, Brother Lincoln boat to row over the reef to board left, and then we would seek some lone In the the Robroy, tears once more retreat where we could bow down said, was a volume of Times and clouded their eyes and made speak- before our God upon the coral sands Seasons, letters from his wife, Brig- 34 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA plight. Although Louisa was a Louis for them. They had lost the faithful keeper of a journal, for bill and would not let me have the thirteen months after August 11, goods." As she was returning to 1846, she did not make a single her home after dark that evening, entry in her diary. At the time she slipped and fell on the frozen of her last entry she and her daugh- ground and sprained her knee. ters were on the road between Mt. Friends helped her home. During Pisgah and Council Bluffs. At the the days and weeks that followed, Bluffs Louisa was seized with a her limb swelled to an astonishing sickness of "chills and fever," and size and remained swollen all win- all of the children came down with ter. For several weeks after she the same malady. In spite of this, was able to get out of bed she went when they were well enough, they about on crutches. Sometime dur- pushed on to Wmter Quarters ing the winter the chimney to the where they lived in a wagon and house, which was also made of a tent. sods, entirely failed, and the family Part of the time the youngest moved into a dugout, a small "den"' daughter, who was six years of underground. To make it as com- age, was well enough to take care fortable as possible Louisa covered of her mother and three older sis- the dirt floor with willows and ters. At other times they were all spread a thick carpet over them. down at the same time. The bed consisted of a straw mat- tress and a feather mattress which Realizing they couldn't live under laid on the carpet. The air such conditions during the winter, were in the dugout was cold and damp Louisa paid a five-dollar gold piece and stuffy, and the carpet and the to have a sod house built. The soon became wet. workman made the house from turf bed taken from the earth and covered While this fatherless family were it with willows and sods. A blanket living in their underground "den," hung at the door and three panes Brother Anson Pratt came to visit of glass let in a few rays of light. them, and when he saw the condi- In surroundings like the scene depicted above, tions under whicfh they were living Elder Pratt labored faithfully and diligently and the sickness that was among amid disturbing rumors from the homeland across the far-flung ocean: The Prophet Joseph them, he sat down and wept. and his brother Hyrum foully murdered! The Straightway he made a search of Saints driven from their haven of refuge in the camp to see if there was a room Nauvoo! Were his beloved wife and four small girls suffering with the rest of the available into which the family exiles in the "camps of Israel" or were they could move, but there was none. trudging over trackless prairies and through Finally, when the dugout be- savage Indian territories on their way to a new haven in the West? came completely unbearable, Louisa moved out, determined to sleep there no more and in her weakened condition climbed back into her ham Young, one from the ship wagon. Then came a long heavy Brooklyn of New York with Latter- rain. "I was forced to keep close- day Saint passengers for San Fran- ly covered which caused me to cisco on board, and a number of sweat profusely for three days," others "from friends in various she later wrote, "this broke my places." These had been sent on a fever, and I began to recover." schooner which was unable to reach Anaa and were left on the island of H\own on the sunny islands of the Manii with orders to send them on South Seas, Addison, of course, to Anaa at the first opportunity. did not know the whole story of Why he was being kept in such In this they lived during the early what his family was going through. ignorance of conditions at home was winter, existing on what little food He did not know how they were a mystery which Addison could was available. There were no vege- suffering. He could not know that not solve, especially in view of tables in the camp, and scurvy broke each meal he ate, as scanty as it the fact that in every other way the out. Louisa later wrote that she may have seemed, would often have Lord had blessed him almost be- would have given a yoke of oxen been welcomed as a feast by his yond his power to receive. There for a cheese. family. He did not know the full must be a reason. What was it? To make matters even more un- story of how the Church had been bearable, during midwinter when persecuted and driven out of their TLJalfway around the world, Ad- Louisa was able to walk a little, homes. He did not know the hun- dison's wife, Louisa, and their she went to a store to "get articles dreds of pressing responsibilities pitiable I four daughters were in a by which had sent money to St. {Continued on page 74) JANUARY 1950 35 ) — ANDOUT THOUGHT-PROVOKING ARTICLE FOR LATTER-DAY SAINTS P. X £LunA W.3). While much has been written adopted the diet of the modern and and even more has been "civilized" world. spoken concerning the Word These facts have been revealingly :: !,.:.: . ,,;..: i^^^-il-flb. : : of Wisdom, there is still a real need brought to light by the late Dr. for something concrete—something W^eston A. Price, who for nearly specific by way of summing up and two decades devoted himself as- binding together in a simplified and siduously to the task of visiting every easily comprehended manner, the remote group of people on the great lessons taught in this docu- earth. He examined these people ment. For, after all, since faith carefully and methodically, photo- without works is quite ineffectual, graphed them, studied their diets; so also would be the Word of Wis- and in his laboratory he analyzed dom if we possessed the revelation the foods that made up their diets. but did nothing about it more than Few are the remote corners of the merely to assent to its verity. earth which he failed to visit, and It was in an effort to present on most of his expeditions he was these truths (now almost daily be- accompanied by his wife, who en- ing substantiated by scientific re- couraged him in his great undertak- ing. of the few remaining search ) in a concise way—easily Most understood and equally readily re- areas which he was not permitted membered—that the "handout" diet to visit before his recent death were chart was assembled. On the covered in a closely paralleling —Photo by Keystone View Co. digits of the outstretched hand are study made by Dr. Robert McCar- Throughout the world today there may still found the essential ingredients and rison of Britain. Dr. McCarrison's be found men and women and children whose dietary habits comply in principle with the investigations classes of foods which go to make and conclusions were Handout diet. up the best dietary for man. And the same as those of Dr. Price. Nor below the hand is an elaboration of are these men alone in this type of this diet. And these are quite in scientific investigation. to the same infectious diseases accord with the teachings as con- For those who are interested in which plague the civilized world. tained in the 89th section of the further study, the book by Dr. Moreover, a return to their own Doctrine & Covenants. (It is not Price cannot be too highly recom- eating habits and to their own by chance, for example, that the mended; as also the other books natural foods almost as quickly re- little finger was chosen to represent and articles listed in the bibliog- turns them to their enviable state in diet. meats the raphy. In summing up, it can be of physical well-being. In the very Throughout the world today stated that the physical advantages first generation born to parents who there may still be found men and enjoyed by the people studied by have adopted the diet of the mod- women and children, in larger or these investigators are theirs in erns, degenerative changes are evi- smaller groups, whose dietary consequence of their superior diets. dent which one would like to call habits comply in principle with the That heredity is not the answer is heredity—-and which, in the past, "handout" diet, and in every in- amply attested to in their accounts has so been called—but which is stance they are physically superior, and investigations, for wherever now unquestionably, directly or in- having better physiques, greater these same peoples have come into directly, a result not of heredity per stamina, and increased endurance. contact with our modern dietary se but of nutrition altered nutri- And they are surprisingly free from habits and adopted them, they too tion. This is certainly true, as Dr. the common diseases—infectious, have rather quickly demonstrated Price proved, with respect to dental neoplastic and degenerative—that the same degenerative changes in caries and malformation of dental so commonly afflict people who have their bodies, and have fallen prey arches. 36 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA , By and large, that which is spite of them. The increase in in nutritional research to link to- abundant in these more primitive longevity is largely, if not wholly, gether in a cause and effect rela- diets and which is lacking in the a result of our increasing control tionship, the increase in incidence of modern diets is not calories but over the infectious diseases. But these degenerative and neoplastic rather minerals and organic activa- far outstripping the downward diseases with the increased con- tors, which latter include the so- trend in the incidence of mortality sumption of the highly refined and called vitamins. These substances and morbidity resulting from the in- nutritionally deficient foods. are abundant in the natural foods fections, or diseases directly at- Some homes solve the problem of of the primitive diets, while in our tributable to germs, is the sharp obtaining fresh whole wheat flour modern diets they have been upward trend in the incidence of by the purchase of a home flour eliminated, destroyed, or otherwise the degenerative diseases, which mill, which is altogether economical rendered, in a measure, useless to include those affecting the heart and and which utilizes the whole and us by our modern methods of mill- blood vessels, diabetes, diseases of entire wheat kernel. Bread made ling, processing, and otherwise pre- the excretory organs, and the in- from such fresh whole-grain flour serving our foods. crease in incidence of cancer. is, to use a common expression of We live longer in this day not There is an ever-increasing today, "out of this world." because of our eating habits but in tendency today among scientists It is our recommendation that the "handout" diet be posted in every kitchen, and that it serve as the basis for planning every meal. It is sincerely believed that its adoption and use will go far toward preserving good health and promot- ing well-being in the lives of all who subscribe to its principles and teachings. I am indebted to the Lee Founda- tion for Nutritional Research for many of the books and abstracts used by me in compiling this diet. They have been of great assistance. "'t^' ?X^.^V?^^*^,^^'^^'-^' sugars like honey and molasses there is a natural control in con- sumption which is not the case with refined, unnatural products. Nevertheless, even natural sugars are to be eaten sparingly. >N the digits the out- of DAIRY PRODUCTS: These in- stretched hand are found clude milk and milk products, the essential ingredients and butter, and cheeses. Also in- classes of food ivhich go to cluded are eggs. These products make up the best dietary for are best nutritionally when fresh man. ... as is the case with all foods. While there is good reason to be- lieve that raw milk is nutritionally r r r r r r {Continued on page 75) *<*O *^& **&~*jO *~&*4 Handout Diet Chart K0 *^&~J VEGETABLES: All vegetables . . . preferably fresh and sea- sonal. When a vegetable may be eaten either raw or cooked it is well to eat it raw. If eaten cooked, as little water as needed should be used and should not be discarded after cooking, but should be taken with the vegetables (vege- tables are better served in a bowl to utilize this water). When fresh vegetables are not available, frozen products are desirable. Where the peeling of a vegetable (or fruit) is edible, it should not be pared away. FRUITS AND HONEY: All fresh fruits . . . preferably un- cooked. If cooked, the same applies to fruits as to vegetables. Likewise with respect to the frozen products. Dried fruits are preferable to canned fruits. Honey is preferred over refined sugars, because the latter have been deprived of their food value other than calories. Moreover, with natural •Photo by Harold M. Lambert JANUARY 1950 37 FROM TEIVIRLE By RICHARD L EVANS to find it somewhere. And if we can't continue to keep it up. In L^klidren —and Jime don't give it to them, the kind of poverty we are afraid we can't companionship they find may not provide for our children. In plenty Tt is quite common to hear comment be the kind we could wish they had we are afraid that prosperity will and concern about the weaken- found. They are going to find spoil them. Those who don't have ing and waning of home influence friends and form habits and learn what they want are afraid they and discipline. It is not unusual to the ways of life under the influence won't be able to get it. And those hear parents complain that they of someone, somewhere. And if who have what they want are afraid have tried "everything" and failed. we want our influence, our stand- they can't keep it. Some men are They have counseled and cautioned ards, our environment to be upper- more fearful than others. Some are and coaxed and threatened, some- most, we'll have to do what needs better bluffers. Some don't show times seemingly without satisfying to be done when it needs to be their fears as much. But it is more results. If such failures were only done, and not merely at our own than probable that our opponents a personal and private problem, convenience, not merely when we and competitors and almost all the they would be serious enough. But have more time. men we meet have their fears down failure in the home is also failure — -November 6, 1949 deep inside of them. But we must in the neighborhood, in the nation, learn not to let fear keep us from in the world. Perhaps most parents moving forward. It is no disgrace are willing, conversationally at ^J~ear and ^J~aLlnre to be afraid, but it is a disgrace to least, to do all they ought to do for let our fears defeat us. And if we their children. But in addition to "T et not your heart be troubled, 1 wait until we aren't afraid of failing, all the material things we provide neither let it be afraid." It we'll wait a long time before we do for them, among the always urgent would be interesting to know how anything worth while. We must requirements are understanding and many worth-while things we could learn not to let the fear of failure companionship. But one of the have done and should have done make us fail, and not to let our fears common complaints is that we don't that we failed to do because we make our failures final. have time. We are so breathlessly were afraid. We sometimes as- —November 13, 1949 busy. And it is true, we are busy. sume that we are more afraid than are busy 'John 14:27 Whether or not what we other men are. But when we are Copyright, King Features is at are things of first importance trembling to our very toes, it is at another question, but certainly we least a reasonably good guess that are busy. And yet we have all the the men we have to meet and com- J^uck time there is. We live longer, pete with are trembling inside also. generally speaking, than our grand- No mortal man ever lived who "Sian parents did. The day is still as long, didn't know the feeling of fear. and so are the seasons. But with Our fears change, they seldom but f^NE way of finding out how much more years to our lives and with completely disappear. When we are we have to be thankful for, is more conveniences to carry our young, we fear some things, and to give up some of our blessings and load, we are still breathlessly busy. when are old, fear others. we we see how grateful we would be to And since we can't add hours to the Sometimes we are afraid of the have them back. Consider for a days nor days to the years, it is dark, and sometimes we are afraid moment just one seemingly simple squarely up to us what we are go- of the wolf at the door. But we are thing: nourishing food—not fancy ing to the time there is. But do with fearful of some problem at almost foods, not the trimmings, but just before we give our answer, suppose every period of life. Before we simple, strength-sustaining food. face this we fact: If we don't have have a job, we are afraid we won't We may have come to consider it time for our children, someone else be able to get one. And when we as commonplace, but let it be taken will. They aren't going to sit by have one, we are afraid we won't from us for only a few days—or for and wait for us to make time. They be able to keep it. At first we only a day—and see how abundant- are going to grow up whether we are afraid we can't win. And when ly blessed we would feel to have it have time for them or not. They we have won once, we are afraid back. Let's look at health—just are going to grow up no matter how we can't win again. Before we ordinary, reasonably good health, much or how little influence we are married, we are afraid we can't just the feeling that it's good to be have in their lives. They need make a home. And when we have alive: Let us once stop feeling like companionship, and they are going a home, we are fearful that we a functioning, hearty human being, 38 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA — and we quickly come to learn ably blessed to have back what we and wants company in his misery the surpassing blessing of having may now have come to consider as or in his failure. Some people like health. Look at such simple things commonplace. to pull other people down—and as countryside scenes—and eyesight —November 20, 1949 that's why dares are often danger- Copyright 1949 to see them; as music and voices ous. Those who urge others into and ears to hear them; as friends hazardous or compromising situa- and family: We casually accept tions don't always say, "I dare them. We sometimes abuse them. you," in so many words. There But once let us lose them, and we are other ways of saying the same pOR some unexplained reason it is would see how abundantly blessed thing. Sometimes they merely say: sometimes supposed to be em- we were when we had them. Some- "Come on, be a good sport." But barrassing not to do what someone times children are troublesome, and is it being a good sport to urge else dares us to do. But why should sometimes they are looked upon as others to do what they feel they it be considered smart or courageous being a burden; but let one of them couldn't or shouldn't do? Some- or commendable to do some stupid be in danger, let one of them be times they say: "Everyone is doing thing merely because some stupid seriously stricken, let one of them it." Everyone isn't "doing it," but person is willing to do it or dares be lost, and the surpassing blessing if everyone were, that wouldn't be us to do it? In the first place, as of having them will soon be in reason enough for us to do what we to physical performance, we must abject evidence. Let's look at work: have good reason for not doing. remember that what someone else Sometimes we complain of it. But They may resort to ridicule. But dares us to do he may have long let someone take from us the right what is a little ridicule compared practiced doing, or he may have to work or let some illness prevent with compromising principles or los- some special talent or ability to per- us from the privilege of work, and ing self-respect? To suffer a little form with reasonable safety or as- we would soon see what a blessing passing embarrassment is so much surance what could result in almost it would be to have our work back. better than to be forever sorry for certain failure or embarrassment or Let's look at freedom: We may doing something that cannot be un- disaster for us. But there are many have come to accept it casually done. And anyone who has his kinds of dares besides those in- freedom to live where we want, to share of good sense will never hesi- volving difficult physical feats. And worship as we want, to work at tate to look a dare in the face and when we are dared to do things, what we want; freedom from intru- turn it down—if it is a dare to do we must remember that the darer's sion upon the privacy of our homes, something that shouldn't be done standards may not be safe stand- freedom to read and to think as we or that would be uselessly danger- ards. What he dares us to do may wish. Once let it be lost—as it has ous to do. Perhaps there will al- seem all right to him, but it may been by so many men (or as it has ways be false friends and foolish not be right. And it may be that never been known by so many men ) people to dare others to do what he who dares us has already slipped —and we should soon see how un- shouldn't be done. But why should speakably thankful we would be it be considered smart or courageous for freedom. If we need any added to do some stupid thing that no one evidence of what we have to be in his right mind would choose to thankful for, let there be taken from do, just because some stupid or de- us even the least of the seemingly signing person dares us to do it! that life livable, simple things make —November 27, 1949 and we should soon feel unbeliev- Copyright, King Features EARD FROM THE "CROSSROADS OF THE WEST" WITH THE SALT LAKE TABERNACLE ChOIR AND ORGAN OVER A NATION- H wide radio network through ksl and the columbia broadcasting system every sunday at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time, 10:30 a.m. Central Time, 9:30 a.m. Mountain Time, and 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time. (Concluded from page 6) in the celestial kingdom hereafter. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS In the affairs of life it's not the This is not some beautiful faraway intellect that counts so much as state to be lost or gained in a day, character, not the brain so much as the rule in life. Experiences so but rather the consummation of a the heart, not the genius so much small as to leave scarcely a trace life of noble deeds so trifling as our as the self-control, patience, and behind are producing a life that reaction to giving a two-and-one- judgment. Great things are the is noble or ignoble, useful or use- half-minute talk in Sunday School, results of little things. Human life less, an honor or a disgrace. our attendance to quorum or auxil- is a succession of unimportant Our Church teaches us a plan of iary meetings, a reverential attitude events. A crushing sorrow, loss of life and salvation which, if we live in partaking of the sacrament, and a fortune, great mental or physical to the best of our ability, will bring obedience to those in authority over suffering are the exceptions and not us happiness here and life eternal us. JANUARY 1950 39 — Each December since 1902, the First Presidency of t^^v^^o^o^. ^5 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been sending out to the world through the pages 'V^s of the Christmas News and other Church publications Christmas greetings containing messages of hope and love, of charity and gentle instruction. During the seasons in which we observe the birth of the Prince of Peace the three presiding high priests of his Church MESSAGE live A on the earth have continually encouraged us to by his word. FROM THE Long after the Holiday bells and whistles are si- lenced, long after the decorations are down, long after the year 1950 ceases to be young, the admoni- on FIRST tions contained in the 1949 greeting will lead us to a better life~ if we will but heed them. In January, April, or October, the importance of the message of which we print on these pages—will live § PRESIDENCY excerpts on.—D. L. G § -4 -ooking back over the centuries that second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy have passed since then (the birth neighbour as thyself." (Matt. 22:37-39.) to say: jjBgrof the Savior), thinkers are com- : It was this love that impelled him pelled to ascribe all that is best and most "Love your enemies, bless them that curse sacred in life to the example and teachings you, do good to them that hate you, and of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. pray for them which despitefully use you, The greatness of the Savior was graphical- and persecute you." (Matt. 5:44.) ly portrayed by a thoughtful disciple as he How tragically far has the world departed stood on a promontory overlooking the plain from these teachings. This holds true of of Megiddo, the scene of many of the great- nations as well as individuals. Instead of fought est battles of the world: "Here love, hate is the ruling force and human Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon. They life is considered of little consequence when have all come up by the pass of Megiddo. measured in terms of self-gratification and They came with victorious armies dangling national aggrandizement. Bloodshed and the destinies of the race in their fingers and carnage stalk the land, mankind seemingly deciding with a word the fate of nations, having forgotten the scriptural warning: items and they have all vanished into the "Whosoever hateth his brother is a mur- of archeological research. One conqueror, derer: and ye know that no murderer hath living however, crossed this plain whose eternal life abiding in him." (I John 3:15.) influence grows with every century. He came The same ethical and moral standards ap- few followers, unheralded, afoot, with a should find application § plied to individuals willing to endure two blows rather than give in the judging of nations. No race or na- § one; going southward to be crucified; and tional government has a moral right to in- him be the glory and the dominion to fringe upon the rights of other countries, forever and ever." and aggressive measures can be justified only § The compelling force in the life of the for the protection of life, liberty, and the Master was his superlative love for his maintenance of peace and justice in the fellows as manifest in his every act; and world. the center and core of his teachings were The gospel of peace taught by the Savior embodied in what he termed the two great- of mankind became lost to the world through est commandments: "Thou shalt love the the transgressions of men, and for centuries Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with the world lay in spiritual darkness, when all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is light heaven the first and great commandment. And the suddenly the refulgent from 40 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA burst forth, revealing the personalities of testimony of earthquakes, . . . the testimony the Father and the Son. Later revelations of the voice of thunderings, and the voice resulted in the restoration of the priesthood of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and the establishment of the Church of and the voice of the waves of the sea heav- Jesus Christ in these latter-days through the ing themselves beyond their bounds. And Prophet Joseph Smith. all things shall be in commotion; and surely, is fail them; for fear shall At present the message of peace being men's hearts shall § heralded to the world by more than 5,000 come upon all people." (D. & C. 88:89-91.) duly commissioned servants of the Lord, As the representatives of our Heavenly representing the Church of Jesus Christ of Father, we admonish people everywhere to Latter-day Saints. The mission of these turn unto the Lord and forsake evil, lest ambassadors is to cry repentance unto this his judgments overtake them. Only through generation as well as to teach the gospel of a return to the teachings of the Master can Jesus Christ in its fulness. Should this peace come to the world and the kingdom message be rejected, the Lord has warned of God be made ready for the return of the § the people as follows: Prince of Peace to reign as King of kings "And after your testimony cometh the and Lord of lords, ^^^^^a^s^^k^ § 7 0*&*^*<&> an Ml* It A* <=JJltarny slavery! Slavery! Not that! I am young; § z^/anuartf tit, 1950 life beckons me. I must be free! Can it be that right and freedom travel '"This diary was among my Christmas together, that wrong and slavery are bed- things. I think I will use it. It may be fellows. Have I found the key to the new interesting a year from now, to read what day? I write now. Besides, we Latter-day Saints I want freedom above all else. Can it be believe in keeping a record of what we do. that whatever contributes to freedom is A new calendar year begins today. There right? That whatever enslaves me, ever so was a lot of shouting last night. This is little, is wrong? I think I have found one called New Year's day. definition of right. Then, I must keep my That word new intrigues me. Does it eyes open. I am not going to be fooled into merely mean that another year has come? slavery. I shall be on the side of right. Could it not mean also that the year now- I begin to understand. That which I born is to be different from last year? I have been taught my life long, they have like that better. called it the gospel, leads to freedom. They I thrill to think of the changes that may have said that the gospel leads to perfect come. I mean progressive changes, that freedom. I guess there is no other certain will make the world happier. Just now it way. That thought begins to stand out in seems to me, the world is not very happy. my mind. So that's my job to learn and New things in science, economics, and gov- — to obey God's law. Then freedom will be ernment are sure to develop. Maybe we mine. shall have answers to A-bomb questions. Maybe I shall take part in bringing these Someone said that the gospel spells free- new things about. That would be fun! I dom of action. I hadn't really thought of it know I am only one of many people, but I that way. But freedom is a double-edged know that as the people, the many individ- sword. Freedom gives me the right to uals, think, so the world becomes. In the choose. I must choose, and I must choose end, despite temporary dictators and tyrants, right to win the blessings of freedom: That the people rule the world. means responsibility. I am one of the people, so I must think Don't forget! If I am free to choose. I am and act right. Would it not be terrible, and going to choose that which leads to freedom. I guess it's possible, if these coming changes I accept the responsibility of freedom. I moved the world back-—back to poverty and [Concluded on page 64) JANUARY 1950 41 >g$M jRecotic 1^r ^?V~&r,<*0r ^l^&*i i v^, cxuu. VUhere lA/ad the Liarden of Cedent HThere has been much speculation about who were all high priests, with the residue of the location of the Garden of Eden, his posterity who were righteous, into the where Adam and Eve were placed when valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and there be- 5 they came on earth. The earliest record, the stowed upon them his last blessing." Bible, gives no conclusive clue. It says: Adam-ondi-Ahman is located on the north side of Grand River, in a sharp bend of the And a river went out of Eden to water the stream, on an elevated spot of ground over- garden; and from thence it was parted, and looking the river and country roundabout. became into four heads. On the top of the hill was an ancient stone The name of the first is Pison: that is it which altar. compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where . . . when the altar was first discovered, there is gold. according to those who visited it frequently, And the gold of that land is good: there is it was about sixteen feet long, by nine or bdellium and the onyx stone. ten feet wide, having its greatest extent And the name of the second river is Gihon: north and south. The height of the altar the same is it that compasseth the whole land each end was some two and a half feet, of Ethiopia. at higher to the center, which And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: gradually rising four and five feet high—the that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. was between 1 And the fourth river is Euphrates. whole surface being crowning. Such was the altar at 'Diahman' when the Prophet's possible with this informa- It has not been party visited it." with certainty. Wild tion to locate Eden any According to these several revealed state- that Assyria and guesses have been made ments Adam lived in America, in the region countries in Ethiopia, names applied to now known as the state of Missouri. The sufficient evi- modern times, might furnish Garden of Eden must then have been on dence, but without success. the American continent. This view is re- the The question was finally answered to enforced by the recorded testimonies of Latter-day Saints. satisfaction at least of the those who heard Joseph Smith on this sub- revelation, the Prophet In 1831, under ject; for example, Brigham Young said: Joseph Smith directed the Church to found to settlements in what is now the state of It is a pleasant thing to think of and know Missouri, at that time sparsely settled. In where the garden of Eden was. Did you ever do, for in and near Independence, Jackson County, think of it? I do not think many garden of Missouri, the Saints planned to build a city Jackson County [Missouri] was the has declared this and I am as to be called the "New Jerusalem, a land Eden. Joseph bound to believe that, as to believe that of peace, a city of refuge." In that "city much Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. We must of Zion" was to be erected a temple to Al- the Lord take his own time and prepare the mighty God. let way for our return to that country and to build The Prophet designated the land at up the Temple.' Independence and beyond as "the land where again Adam dwelt."" Further, he declared, Heber C. Kimball said: under revelation,'"' that Spring Hill, Daviess County, Missouri, is "the place where Adam I will say more, the garden of Eden was shall come to visit his people," and called Jackson County, in the State of Missouri; where 4 it Adam-ondi-Ahman. The revelation said Independence now stands. . . . The Prophet that "three years previous to the death of Joseph Smith frequently spoke of these things." Adam he (Adam) called Seth, Enos, Cainan, (Concluded on page 74) Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah, t-lbid., 107:53 *Historg of the Church 3:39; Durham, Gospel Kingdom, p. 102 7 1 (See ^Gen. 2:10-14 Joumal History, January-April, 1857; March 15, p. October 7, ^Doctrine and Covenants 117:8 also Journal History, October 1-December 31, 1860, 14:7-9.) ^History of the Church 3:35 page 5; Contributor ''Doctrine and Covenants 116 ''Journal of Discourses 10:235 42 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA — — to stir the hearts and minds of the modern-day youth, who, like Ruth, must learn to worship the true God, N TIN E_ &*>ksisCXA2\& regardless of the sacrifice of home and J^S country that may be called for. The book likewise serves to show the dif- ference between the tribes of Israel. The weaknesses as well as the world through the Prophet THE HISTORICAL Joseph strengths of ancient Israel are revealed Smith. The author's style of writing BACKGROUND OF THE in this book, tender with the love of DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS is lucid, and his descriptions are vivid. Ruth and Boaz.—M. C. /. (E. Cecil McGavin. Salt Lake City, The historical material has been care- Utah. 1949. 228 pages. $2.00.) fully selected, and most of it is perti- AMERICAN HEARTWOOD purpose in writing nent to the revelations discussed. Al- /^ecil McGavin's ( Donald Culross Peattie. Houghton though there are a few errors in the The Historical Background of the Mifflin Co., Boston. 1949. 307 pages. book and some unnecessary repetition, Doctrine and Covenants was to give $3.50.) these minor defects are inconsequential students of the latter-day scripture a IRrobably no one can write so feel- when one considers its entire worth. "panorama of the interesting historical ingly or so glowingly about nature Elder McGavin is to be con- setting out of which these [modern] as Donald Culross Peattie. In this gratulated for the production of revelations sprang." In his preface, book he combines nature with the another useful Church book which will the author cautions the readers not to history of America, beginning with undoubtedly play its part in helping regard the volume as commentary to the nature which Leif Erikkson found Latter-day Saints obtain a greater love the Doctrine and Covenants but to when he skirted the shores of New- and appreciation for the revelations view it as an attempt to present his- foundland, and including the history contained in the Doctrine and Cove- torical data supplementary to that holy of Columbus, Pocahontas, William nants. Milton Hunter scripture. His suggestion that the var- R. Penn, and many other famous people ious revelations received by Joseph of American history. As the author Smith should be studied in conjunction RUTH states in the early part of the book, with the supplementary material as (Irving Fineman. Harper & Bros. ". . . men and trees are partners in presented in his book should be fol- New York. 1949. 277 pages. $3.00.) the American story"; and as we read lowed if one desires to receive the Tnto this story of the gleaner Ruth his book, we can see indeed that such maximum benefit from this volume. are woven the stories of the ancient is the case. This book is one that Elder McGavin has made a worth- heroes and heroines of Israel, and the will warm the hearts of all who read while contribution to Church literature beautiful Psalms to comfort the young it because of the subject matter, but in the production of this book. It woman who left all that was known more especially because of the author's should prove useful to anyone who is to her to go into the country of her exceptional ability to use language to interested in the marvelous gospel mother-in-law. Poetically and sym- stir the imagination and increase doctrines which were revealed to the pathetically written, the book is one knowledge. M. C. J. HAPPINESS AND THE NEW YEAR (Concluded from page 13) came seeking first the kingdom of take of a feast and we ignore it, selves and our families. Let us fear God, and today their descendants we may be sure that we shall suffer the bondage of debt and do all we live in comfortable homes, are edu- the distress that will come to those can to avoid it. cated in the best schools, and enjoy who refuse the blessings of the I wish that debt were the only surroundings that are ideal, as far Lord when they are offered. bondage. I fear many people of as conditions in this world can I plead with this people, at the this great land are suffering much make them so. I ask you if the beginning of this new year, to be more from the bondage of iniquity. promise of the Lord has not been faithful in the payment of tithes Many have need of repentance. But fulfilled? Surely "All other things and offerings and in all other obliga- if men will turn to our Heavenly have been added." If we do our tions. Father, I have no fear of the future. part, we can always rely upon our I think the finest recipe that I He has made a wonderful promise. Father in heaven to do his part. could give to obtain happiness He said: "... seek ye first the king- If there ever was time a when we would be: Keep the commandments dom of God, and his righteousness," should examine ourselves to find of the Lord. That is easy to re- mind you, not last, "But seek ye out whether we are doing what the member, and if we will do that, we first the kingdom of God, and his Lord would have us do, it is today; may be sure of success. The gospel righteousness; and all these things if there ever was a time when we of Jesus Christ is the only code shall be added unto you." (Matt. should be sure that we are in the of conduct whereby peace and 6:33.) pathway of eternal life, it is now. prosperity and happiness may be There are among us those whose We can't slight these opportunities. preserved. parents came into this land in the God will not be mocked. When he a depths of poverty, with scant cloth- has offered to us a gift, when he I pray that we may all enjoy ing and no shelter, depending upon has placed within our reach a bless- well-earned and well-deserved hap- others for food to sustain life. They ing, when he has invited us to par- piness—in this new year. JANUARY 1950 43 ) time it was laundered, a...d so the label had no actual meaning. As a result of the Federal Trade rul- ing, practically all material with pre-shrinkage labeling has been taken off the market, because the manufacturer does not find it ad- vantageous to declare that a fabric £5uri ^_>ke altera, C-dit will still shrink from 3 percent to 5 percent. (A 5 percent residual Pre-shrinking shrinkage in a 54-inch dress length FABRIC FINISHES means that the fabric will shrink Many manufacturers have de- nearly three inches! veloped shrinkage control methods, However, there are methods of Do You Know Them? but not all are satisfactory. Identi- fying labels are illuminating, but if there are none the seamstress may time to get in the swim on It's be wise to do the pre-shrinking textile terminology, for this is herself before sewing. the scientific heyday on fabric The Federal Trade Commission finishes, and the average shopper, has ruled that if the manufacturer not supplied with all the latest makes any statement regarding books on textiles, goes to market shrinkage, such as "pre-shrunk," tongue-in-cheek. A great deal of "shrunk," "full-shrunk," the amount her information must come from the of remaining or residual shrinkage label attached to the product, for must be declared on the selvage or science has performed some finish- label. This was done because ing feats that make our age-old many shoppers believed any shrink- knowledge of fabrics as useless as age labeling to be indicative of wooden nickels. The amazing quality when actually it was not variety of materials to choose from so. A fabric which had been pre- is confusing, and one cannot tell shrunk might shrink more every by the "look" or the "feel" of the material, nor by the price tag, whether the smooth, good-looking finish will still be pleasing to the eye and pocketbook after the first washing. Some very expensive drapery materials, for instance, BLUEPRINT FOR costing as much as $5 to $8 a yard, have been known to shrink alarm- ingly and lose much of their color on the first laundering. It's enough Toc^iiuj to stump the experts! Better "buymanship" demands an insight into these new finishing Beauty is as beauty plans to be—so processes, so here are some high- this column maintains. lights on the ways of modern Individuality, personality, graceful these daily requirements. The same clothing manufacture. living—these we all desire, and may be said of beauty. these we all may have. The column Lady Luck knows few favorites, will discuss each month some phase although many will credit or dis- of self-improvement. Suggestions credit her in comparing their rela- or comments are invited. tive state of beauty (be it of face or figure, mental development, charm of manner, personality, or place on the sliding scale of Our a happy combination of all good beauty is largely up to us! qualities) with that of others. We Not long ago someone wrote a look about at those whom we con- book about planning to be healthy. 1 sider beautiful, and envy their op- The author said that one who portunities. Do we then fairly com- would have health today must first pare our own, if we would live up know what the requirements of the to the best that is in us? If so, we body are and must plan a health must surely conclude that beauty program which would include all is as beauty lives and desires. None 1 will have the same inherent quali- Davis, Adelle, Vitality Through Planned Nu- trition. New York, Macmillan Co. 1949, p. 9 ( Continued on page 50) 44 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA determining the exact amount of shrinkage of a fabric, and of re- ducing the residual shrinkage to 1 percent or less. Among them is that labeled "Sanforized." This Looks bigger applies to cottons, linen, and spun rayon. This is a process by which the amount of "shrinkage- after-washing" is predetermined, and the cloth reduced in size accordingly on the Sanforizing ma- chine. It is a mechanical process using live steam and heat. Equally reliable labels to look for regarding good shrinkage are "Regimel" and "Sanforset," both guaranteeing a residual shrinkage of not more than 1 percent. Wool is the most difficult fabric to shrink satisfactorily, because most shrinkage processes destroy the beauty and elasticity of the fabric. "Lanaset" resin finish, used chiefly on woolen shirts and wool jerseys, is satisfactory for these items because they are washed or cleaned frequently, and the fact that the chemical finish causes the fabric to wrinkle more easily than usual is not all-important. and BIGGER Your housekeeping money seems to buy less and less ... so now this big bar of Fels-Naptha, jam-full of the double cleaning action of mild, golden soap and active naptha looks more than ever like the best buy on the soap shelves. Next time you're in the grocery store, why not join other careful stock up with Fels-Naptha Soap — Photograph by Harold M. Lambert shoppers— at present thrifty prices. The best labeling of woolens — reads, "Sponged and shrunk, ready for sewing." This is a guarantee that the material will not shrink GET THE EXTRA CLEANING ACTION OF due to steam or pressing pressing MILD, GOLDEN SOAP AND ACTIVE NAPTHA with a damp cloth during construc- MADE IN PHIL*. BY FELS & CD tion, water spotting, or dry clean- ing, but it is not a guarantee against shrinkage if the fabric is laundered. Realizing that in the long run it is the consumer who is responsible Fels-Naptha Soap for fair-trade laws governing label- ing, the National Home Economics Association at its last convention BAN/SHES TATTLE-TALE GRAY in San Francisco recommended that the consumer refuse to buy wool (Continued on following page) JANUARY 1950 45 ) FABRIC FINISHES [Continued from preceding page) rayons in blues and purples are in- that has not been shrunk ready for clined to change color, especially sewing, and the other would soon be if there is a gas stove in the home. thrown off the market. Be sure to look for the label, "Anti- Shrinkage information on drapery gas," "Inhibit," or others which material is usually printed on the carry a guarantee against gas fad- selvage; for yard goods, it is on the ing. Price of the material is not a boltboard or the tag hanging from guarantee. it; for woolens, it is on the tag, al- Resistance though the tag might often be Crease Insist on tucked inside the bolt. Cottons, linen, rayon, and spun seeing it. rayon may all be made crease or resistant by the addition of Color crush chemicals which are durable for the Three agents fade color from a life of the product. Fabrics made fabric: light, washing, and perspira- crease resistant shed dust and dirt tion. Blues, blue-greens, and reds more easily than others not so should not be hung in the sun- treated and stay new-looking in light, as they fade more quickly use, even in humid heat. There than other colors. Neither should are many trade names covering prior to of them be- Sift flour, baking powder colored goods be soaked such treatments, some and salt together, Cut in shortening. Store in tight- laundering, but should be laundered ing "Tebilize," "Vitalize," "Uni- ly covered container in re- frigerator in a mild soap solution; the addition dure," "Magicvel," "Sheltonize," of water softeners is also recom- "Martinize." But crease-resistant Here's Clabber Girl's contribution to modern Girl baking methods . Here's how Clabber mended. labels will not be found on those Master-Mix helps to save time, makes baking easier, more pleasant, more sure of results. How can fabrics whose colors fabrics which have a natural elas- • SO SIMPLE . . In Clabber Girl's Master- resist fading be recognized? Often ticity—wool and silk, for these will Mix you begin with a blend of basic ingredients, and refrigerated, from which a surpris- mixed in labels one sees the term, "Vat not wrinkle appreciably anyhow. ing variety of baked products can be easily made simply and easily to com- Ingredients are added and this is the best guaran- plete the chosen recipe. Time is saved; baking Dyed," ( To be continued is simplified; cost is reduced. tee of color fastness in cottons, FOR INSTANCE . For baking powder bis- cuits simply place one cup of the prepared linen, and rayon. The wise seam- Master-Mix in a mixing bowl and add % cup of milk (or enough to make a soft dough that can stress may look also for the word be handled). Then mix lightly just until the flour is moistened, turn onto a lightly floured board, "colorfast" on the manufacturer's knead roll, and cut the biscuits. Next, the biscuits are placed one inch apart on a lightly greased label, but this may not mean that baking sheet and baked at 450° F (a hot oven) until lightly browned, 12 to 18 minutes. the fabric is color fast to all agents . jar • ADDED VARIATIONS . . A of Clabber which cause fading. The Federal Girl Master-Mix in the refrigerator helps quickly REFRESHMENTS to bake waffles, gingerbreads, qxiickrolls, cookies, Commission has ruled that cakes and other interesting and exciting home- Trade baked products. this term shall mean that the color will be permanent to the appropriate CLABBER GIRL In other with use and care of the fabric. The BAKING POWDER ; Tt must be simple—it must be inex- The Balanced Double Action words, while more and more em- but it must be good! HULMAN AND COMPANY - TERRE HAUTE, IND. pensive— phasis is being placed on merchan- 1S9 shall serve at fireside? dise which will be color fast to What we It's easy to get into the ice- washing and sunlight, often the dye so cream-and-cake rut, or . the soda- used is dependent on the use for BASKETBALL pop-and-cookie habit. Actually, if which the fabric is designed: EQUIPMENT you're buying refreshments to save draperies must be fast to sunlight; time rather than baking at home, linings, to perspiration; indoor it's usually as easy to purchase furniture coverings, to light indoors, whole wheat cookies, oatmeal cook- but not necessarily to the brighter ies, thin whole wheat wafers, or light of the outdoors. fruit cookies as it is the refined On drapery material the color white flour products. But if guarantee will be printed on the mothers are going to whip up a selvage, about every half yard con- cake for the fireside, mightn't it tinuously down the fabric. Unless as well be a delicious health cake? A gym shirt or a complete outfit a guarantee is in evidence, it is well Here are a few ideas to work on. for your M. I. A. Team . . . You'll to buy a small piece and test it at Perhaps you have some good ones find quality, style, value ... at home for color fastness and shrink- to add. age. Here it may be well to mention a (a) Date Stacks and hot postum or new finish for acetate rayons to in- w**#s*sXt\ lemonade. CORNER SECOND SOUTH AND STATE hibit their changing color due to atmospheric gases. Many acetate Date Stacks. Pit enough dates ,46 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA for your needs and simmer them with a little brown sugar and enough water that the dates can be stirred into a paste when soft. After removing from fire, stir in a little lemon juice and vanilla. Spread between graham wafers, building a stack about six wafers high as you go. Cool in refrigerator and cut in slices when ready to serve. (May be served with a dash of whipped cream if desired.) (b) Oatmeal or whole wheat cookies and fruit juice. Oatmeal Cookies % cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 cup fine whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 34 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon BEST BREAD IDEA OF THE MONTH-fo, luna, 1/^ cup of milk dinner or midnight suppers—a delicious treat Y°ur family and 1 teaspoon vanilla guests will cheer! Melt-in-yourrmouth Corn Balls! Mix one 1 cup oatmeal No. 2 can of cream style com with 2 slightly beaten eggs, raisins 2 cup l y 1 small minced onion, /% teaspoon of salt and 2 cups of Fisher's cup nuts Y2 enriched white or 100% whole wheat bread. Shape into small balls, and bake on an oiled baking sheet, turning once to brown Cream shortening and sugar. evenly. Serve hot with maple syrup. Serves 8. Added cheers Add eggs separately, beating for you when you're sure to use Fisher's—truly bread at its best! vigorously after each. Sift to- gether the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and add to egg mixture alternately with milk. Add vanilla, oatmeal, raisins, and nuts. Drop by spoonfuls on oiled cookie sheet and bake in moderate oven for 15-20 min- utes. Makes about four dozen cookies. Whole Wheat Cookies J/3 cup shortening % cup brown sugar 1J/2 teaspoons vanilla 1 grated lemon rind 1 egg 2 tablespoons milk 1J4 cups whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking powder % teaspoon salt % cup chopped walnuts Cream shortening and sugar till light and fluffy. Add vanilla and lemon rind. Mix milk and well- beaten egg together. Combine sifted dry ingredients and add alternately with milk and egg to first mixture. Stir in nuts. Spread the batter thinly on well-greased cookie sheet and bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Cut WITH EVERYTHING YOU EAT WITH SYRUP in squares. (Concluded on following page) JANUARY 1950 47 ) ) FIRESIDE REFRESHMENTS AT 6:30 TONIGHT (Concluded from preceding page) Mix dry ingredients. Cut pea- plan to have Tuna en Casserole nut butter into them, then add milk and eggs. Let rise 20 min- made with this improved ( c ) Cheese Wafers or Wheat Wafers and tomato juice. utes. Bake in moderate oven. Makes one large loaf or two **A ti Cheese Wafers small ones. 2 cups soft grated cheese (f) Whipped Jello and cookies. 2 tablespoons melted butter or fresh dripping Whipped Jello With "the tuna that almost 34 cup whole wheat flour Prepare any flavored Jello de- serves itself". . . it's one of the 34 teaspoon salt easiest, quickest of hot entrees. sired, and when it is partly set, remove from ice box and A satisfying main dish that Mix together with enough cold will like, including whip with beater until foamy. everybody water to make a stiff dough Dad. ("Bite-size" tuna is some- Return to ice box until firm. ( about 1 tablespoon ) . Roll out thing a can "get his teeth Serve with whipped cream. man very thin on floured board. Cut into"!) in shapes and bake on greased Self-iced sheet in hot oven (about 450° (g) cake or whole wheat spice cake until brown. and beverage. Wheat Wafers Self-iced cake Vs cup butter or shortening 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 cup brown sugar 34 teaspoon salt 4 egg yolks teaspoon baking Yl powder IY cup whole wheat flour Cream 2 teaspoon baking powder 34 teaspoon salt Sift dry ingredients together 34 cup milk and mix with cream until of 1 teaspoon vanilla right consistency to roll out thin on floured board. Cut in- Cream shortening and sugar, to small rounds or other shapes. add egg yolks. Sift dry in- Bake till barely brown. These gredients together and add al- may be reheated when served ternately with milk and vanilla to regain crispness. to the first mixture. Beat well. Place the batter in cake pan, (d) Date Roll and hot drink or tart and make a meringue topping lemonade. of 4 egg whites, beaten stiff, Y cup sugar, 34 cup chopped Dare Roll nuts, J4 teaspoon vanilla. Pour this over the cake batter and 2Yi lb. dates, chopped bake the cake and icing to- 234 lb. marshmallows, cut gether for 40 minutes at 325°. 234 lb. graham wafers, ground J4 lb. chopped nuts Whole Wheat Spice Cake 1 pint milk 3 eggs lb. butter or shortening, soft Combine dates, marshmallows. J4 1 cup brown sugar crackers, nuts. Add milk. Mix 134 cups milk well. Form into four rolls. Roll 3 cups whole wheat flour in powdered sugar, and place teaspoon salt in ice box for 24 hours. Slice 34 teaspoon nutmeg and serve. Makes about fifty 34 1 teaspoon cinnamon servings. 3 teaspoons baking powder (e) Peanut Butter Bread and apple To the beaten eggs add the juice. other ingredients in order Peanut Butter Bread named, and beat thoroughly. Bake in very hot oven ( 450° oz. Always packed 6V2 Ne" 3 cups flour for first five minutes, then re- Contents to a can. 3 rounded teaspoons baking duce heat to 350° for 45 min- Look for "Net Contents" powder utes. on label every time you buy 134 teaspoons salt Grated tuna. % cup peanut butter (The recipes for oatmeal cookies, Trademark of Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc. 134 cups milk cheese wafers, and wheat wafers are Terminal Island, California 1 cup brown sugar from Leah D. Widtsoe, How To Be 3 eggs Well. > 48 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA New... for Farming in the 1950's One Minute TO PUT ON IMPLEMENTS . . . RIGHT FROM TRACTOR SEAT NEW EAGLE HITCH EASIEST 3-POINT HOOK-UP YOU EVER SAW HYDRAULIC CONTROL Low-pressure hydraulic system has ? steady-running gear-type pump for posi- tive, dependable action. Direct drive from engine—works any time, regardless clutch, gears or power take-off. Lifts fast, lowers instantly, holds in-between at any MONEY IN THE 2-PLOW CLASS point you set the little lever. Be fair with yourself. Demand proof before you put your precious dollars into any tractor. Ask your Case dealer to demonstrate . . . gets NEW right in your own fields . . . that the 1950 Case "VAC" more LATCH-ON IMPLEMENTS work done and does it better than any other tractor in the low-cost class. Take the wheel yourself and compare it for pull, for working Regular and two-way rear-mounted plows speed, for easy handling. that hold their depth regardless of hard Send today for new "VA" Series catalog. Get the full story of pulls and uneven ground. Disk plows, cul- the amazing Eagle Hitch . . . the wide choice of Latch-On imple- tivators, bedders. Tool-bar tillers, listers, hydraulic control. ments . . . the features of the new low-pressure mowers—a few shown below. All in addi- farming, but the next thing to it! Write postal tion to Master-Frame cultivators and It's not push-button Racine, Wis. other front-mounted implements. card today. J. I. Case Co., Dept. A 44, JANUARY 1950 49 — IT'S BLUEPRINT FOR BEAUTY (Concluded from page 44) checks up on her points, good and LANG ties with which to work, but that bad, and decides not only where In your own home you is our salvation—we can capitalize she'd like to go, but also how good can now learn to speak 2 on our differences. a chance she has of getting there." SPANISH Regardless of the present, the future First, we must recognize that PORTUGUESE can be better. It is neither too late we can stand some improvements, FRENCH • RUSSIAN nor too early to be beautiful! and second, we must really desire GERMAN • ITALIAN to improve. At this stage we can We Latter-day Saints are richly Or any of 23 other languages take the first active step in becoming endowed with a concept of beauty by the World Famous which is fundamental in beautiful—to list our individual our train- LINGUAPHONE weaknesses, study them, and then ing from childhood. How grateful we should be! The difficult prob- Conversational METHOD plan a course of action which, if faithfully followed, will bring that lem of training our thinking to This method combines the most modern educational ideas for holding the student's mental and physical glow of hap- invite all that is beautiful and reject interest, making unforgettable impressions piness and vitality which is the true all that is ugly is early begun. Our on his mind through and EAR EYE sparkle we so often admire in others. through sound, word and pictures. convictions about this life and its learn For there are two sides to human You by LISTENING . . . you hear the relation to eternity are a wonderful voices of native . . teachers . you repeat what beauty: the inside and the outside. they say . . . you ask and answer questions in guide in our beautifying plan; for itself. phrases of every day use . . . and before you are Each is a study in Each re- aware you are actually holding a conversation we become as relatively beautiful flects, to an extent, the nature of in the foreign language. as are our mental and moral atti- the other. Dress, makeup, carriage, tudes toward life and toward others. and so forth, are by no means all- conclusive in conveying true im- And these elements of wholesome pressions of personality, but our personality and beauty with which inner thoughts and emotions are we must work continuously to be- indelibly recorded on our counte- come more beautiful as time goes nances for all to interpret. on encompass all our daily habits and determine our place on the Every author who has written sliding scale of beauty: 1. to forget about beauty has recognized the ourselves and think of others; 2. to "inside secret" of "outside finish," learn to love the people around us so when we start to map our "blue- and do things to make them happy; Half Hour a Day—A Lifetime Advantage print for beauty" we must first of 3. never to cause others to feel small In your own home, at any time, your all recognize the great secret of all is instantly ready to teach or inferior; 4. to give generously, to LINGUAPHONE set loveliness the "light you. Your teachers never get tired. They repeac charm and — judge leniently; 5. to believe in any portion of the lesson you wish, over and within." It is the wholesome habit over till you know it. You set your own pace; others and think no evil of them; you can go as rapidly or as slowly as suits you of right thinking which is the whole 6. not to be warped and shriveled best. You can study alone or have the family or foundation of beautiful living. "The friends join you in a delightful pastime that by envy, greed, jealousy, petty pays dividends. cleverest makeup in the world can- gossip, for what we habitually find Language Is Power not hide the effect of negative, in others, they will find in us; 7. to As you master a new language you get a new sense destructive thoughts," actress Janet of added power. You have pushed back the horizon, be sincere quick to compliment, making you familiar with new countries, new peo- Gaynor once said. And she was — ple, new experiences. You get more out of travel in never to flatter; 8. to be tolerant and foreign lands. You can mingle with distinguished right. No one can be beautiful on visitors on terms of equality. You can read the great patient and sweet-tempered; 9. to be classics of international literature in the original. the outside and vicious and ugly on In business and the professions, ability to speak honest with ourselves and with so it follows that another language may prove the upward turn in the inside. And others; 10. to seek out our weak- your career. no girl can learn correct posture, nesses and fears and overcome them GET THIS BOOK FREE graceful carriage, clothes sense, —to face the facts, but never to let LINGUAPHONE INSTITUTE clever makeup, or any other attri- 63 RCA Bldg., New York 20, N. Y. Circle 7-0830 them beat us; 1 1 . to believe in the butes which are pleasing to the goodness of life; 12. to avoid all LINGUAPHONE INSTITUTE eye, until she first has within her- 63 RCA Bldg., New York 20, N. Y. but constructive worry; 13. to think self a vision of loveliness—a picture in terms of success and plan for Send me the FREE Linguaphone Book. of what she wants to become—and the future with enthusiasm and Name the self-assurance that with hard confidence; 14. to be happy, to Address work she can realize her ideal; not Language Interested smile, to leave behind us the con- cross the finish line, for there is tagion of laughter; 15. to protect none: we do not attain perfection; health and to seek better health we grow in it. SEND ME YOUR and hygiene habits; 16. to remember young to GENEALOGY PROBLEMS We cannot begin too that beauty and goodness are in- PEDIGREES, plan. "The PIONEER BIOGRAPHIES, blueprint our beauty separable; 17. to realize that love LOST PERSONS OR ANCESTORS authority, "is (Service Charges Very Reasonable) clever girl," says one is the secret of loveliness. WAYNE STOUT one who, quite early in the game, 2 Girl Can Be P. O. BOX 1721 SALT LAKE CITK Cades, Hazel Rawson, Any Good sits down and looks herself over, Looking. New York; D. Appleton & Co.. 1927 50 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA —5 — and nation, as exemplified by the STRENGTHEN LIBERTY Scout oath and Scout law. Sunday, February 5, 1950, has & &J. Wl. JULam been designated as Scout Sunday throughout the Church of DIRECTOR L.D.S. CHURCH SERVICE Jesus BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Christ of Latter-day Saints. The First Presidency of the Church has so designated this date as 66"! ITelcome to America, Coron- Scout Sunday in a letter to the WW ica" was the message wig- General Superintendent of the through wagged by a patrol of Boy Y. M.M.I. A., under whose direction Scouts from the hand of the Statue all Scouting in the Church is super- YOUR CHURCH of Liberty in New York harbor to the vised. Scout leaders should make captain of the new luxury liner immediate arrangements in their UNIVERSITY Coronica on her maiden voyage. own wards for these services in Later the captain confided that this cooperation with the ward Y.M. * CHURCH HISTORY, I and II good Scout deed brought him more M.I. A. superintendency and the personal pleasure than all of the bishop. * BOOK OF MORMON, I and II elaborate ceremonies that were The aims of Scout Sunday ob- * PEARL OF GREAT PRICE given this liner as she docked. servance are to let members of the When returning to * LIFE OF PAUL America into wards know and to impress upon New York harbor, most sailors look both Scouts and Scouters the deep for the Statue of Liberty, Register now for one of for she spiritual and religious foundation of is a symbol of liberty. courses scouting as based upon the Scout these Religion or of the other 138 "Strengthen Liberty" is the theme oath and law. It is our duty (a) any for the fortieth anniversary ob- to stress these spiritual values, courses offered. These servance of the Boy Scouts of thereby making better Church mem- courses contain valuable America. The theme is the heart bers—better men of God, and (b) information for use in of a two-year crusade of the Boy to blend the scouting program into church, community, school of the program of the Y.M. Scouts America to strengthen M.I. A. and and occupational leader- leadership, membership, and the the Church. Since liberty is a spirit- ship. College or high Scout program. This crusade will ual concept rooted in religion, the school credit is given after be climaxed with the second Na- slogan, "Strengthen Liberty" can the completion of each. tional Boy Scouts Jamboree to be easily be related to the Christian held at the seat of liberty, Valley message. Forge, Pennsylvania, June 30 to A special program is suggested For a free catalog and July 6, 1950, at which time some below for your consideration and forty thousand application blank write to Scouts and leaders use on the Sunday evening program will gather from every part of the of Scout Sunday. nation to encamp at this historic HOME STUDY DEPARTMENT spot. Scouts will come prepared in Suggested Program the true tradition of Scouting to Opening Song—"Battle Hymn of the fend for themselves, living and Republic" BRIGHAM YOUNG cooking in the outdoors. Presentation of Colors—Senior Patrol Leader At the International Scout Con- UNIVERSITY Invocation—Scout or Explorer ference held in Norway last August, Scout song that everyone knows PROVO, UTAH unity of thought and the dedication Greetings by M.I. A. Superintendent— to the spirit of world brotherhood minutes were paramount. Differences of What it Means to be an Explorer—Ex- race and religion were merged into plorer—5 minutes a unity of purpose to train youth Two-minute talks by Scout or Explorer THE ALEXANDRIA The Scout Oath physically, mentally, and morally —by a Scout HOTEL Duty to God for maintaining and strengthening Duty to Self 5th <£ Spring Sts. freedom and liberty throughout the Musical numbers, Scout, Explorer, or LOS ANGELES. CALIF. world. Aaronic Priesthood Chorus Announces the appointment of Scouting and My Boy—a Mother— RAY H. BECKETT The scouting crusade has a minutes as Associate Manager spiritual depth in which all Scout Scouting and My Boy—a Father— (formerly Resident Mgr. of advancement now is interpreted minutes— Lankershim Hotel) through three phases: (1) Scout Scouting "Strengthen Liberty"—Stake, YOUR HOST ON THE spirit, (2) Scout participation, and Council, or other qualified Scouter 10 or 15 minutes COAST (3) Scout skills. The spiritual Musical number by Scouts or Explorers L.D.S. values of scouting have always been MEET YOUR Repeat Scout Oath—Scouts, Explorers, first in the eyes of the leaders of FRIENDS HERE Scouters, and former members. scouting throughout 500 ROOMS WITH BATH the Church Benediction—Scout or Explorer JANUARY 1950 51 edek THUMB PRINTS FOR SANTA ("^rateful Indian chil- dren unable to write, hit upon a novel method Senior President Joseph E. Wood, active as a of thanking Santa Clans. Mrs. Dale Spencer, Mrs. Hugh M. Christensen, seventy for thirty-eight years, makes a toy as and Mrs. Joseph £ Wood, "fixing up" dolls for good as new. Indian children. mas seasons, and the end is not of store damaged toys—toys that '"This is the story of how an ill In- yet. Sears turns over to service organ- dian woman was administered Sister Ruth Polacco of Crystal, izations for repair and distribution to, and how that started a chain of New Mexico, was ill in the Salt to needy children each Christmas. events in brotherhood that has made Lake City L. D. S. Hospital, in The homes of the missionaries many people happy for two Christ- 1948, and Ralph Evans, former then became Santas workshops as president of the Navajo-Zuni IVIis- toys were repaired and repainted, sion, and Joseph E. Wood, then and discarded pieces of cotton and president of the Wells (Salt Lake rayon came from sewing machines City) Stake Mission, went to ad- as doll clothes. Everyone who was minister to her. Brother Wood in- contacted wanted to help. Candy vited her, just as soon as she was and nuts were collected, and the well enough, to talk to the Wells Christmas gifts went to the Indian Stake missionaries about her peo- children. ple. One of Brother Wood's prized In keeping this appointment, she possessions is a letter he received told of the plight of the Indian for the Wells Stake Mission after children. And that missionary group the 1948 experience, containing the decided to sub for Santa. Brother signatures of the Indians who re- Wood contacted his employers, ceived the gifts. Those Indians who Sears, Roebuck Co., and obtained could not write (and there were about three hundred dollars' worth many) placed their thumb print on Left to right: Presidents Dale S. Spencer, Blaine Schafer, and Darwin Sorenson of the 290th Quorum of Seventy repair toys for their Christmas ' 4J U|wC L l 52 THE IMPROVEMENT ER'A NO-LIQUOR-TOBACCO L^ouWWIVI (conducted btf WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED acquired condition. We have learned that, ABOUT ALCOHOL whether congenital or acquired, a state ot mental irresponsibility is fertile soil for problem drinking, and that such people (A reprint from the Clip Sheet, can never take a drink of alcohol without September 5, 1949, published by the being at the mercy of the drink. Board of Temperance of the Methodist We have learned that alcohol, as com- Church.) monly used today, causes more disease, dis- ability, and death than any other cause ot P\r. Haven Emerson, widely known ill health which is wholly in the power of the individual to prevent and avoid. physician, scientist, and health Since the end the authority, professor of Public Health of war in the theatet of European operations, there have been Administration of Columbia Univer- more deaths among American troops in Eu- sity, former commissioner of the New rope from alcohol than from all communi- health, York City board of addressed cable diseases combined, according to the the Convention of the National Tem- preventive the paper, and someone wrote their chief of services. Men in the perance League at Pittsburgh, Pa., on army in the last stages of the European the side of the prints. names by offensive died in larger numbers January 19, 1948. There were some from use The year 1949 saw a different of alcohol to the point of self-destruction things, he said, which we have learned president of the Wells Stake Mis- than were lost by all the communicable and can now confidently state, in re- diseases put together. sion. Brother is senior Wood gard to alcohol: president of the 290th Quorum of We have learned that alcohol as com- monly used today is the largest cause of Seventy, ( McKay Ward, Wells sciences have learned The medical disease and disability of any condition that the effects of alcohol Stake) and the quorum adopted enough concerning is within the entire control of the individual without the activity as a quorum project. to teach the truth simply and to prevent. equivocation and complication. The same Sister Polacco was asked for sug- Medical sciences have learned and found things are being taught now that were that alcohol is not a food, a stimulant, or gestions. She wrote that as the but they were often taught a while back, harmful only in drunkenness. That was missionaries were teaching cleanli- contradicted, and mistrusted repudiated, the former belief. The liver, stomach, and among scien- ness to the Indians, dish towels, because of lack of agreement heart were supposed to suffer only from tists as to the truth. We have come so clothespins, and dish cloths would drunkenness. Those are the least of the far that we can now teach the truth simply. damages alcohol be appropriate. The wives of the causes. Deaths from truth is not difficult to The assured alcoholism are the least of the harm that quorum members met, and the In- teach. alcohol causes. It is the constant and se- that misinformation dians had their supply of towels We have learned vere interference with human relations, the developed by advertising, and ignorance and cloths. A drive was made disturbance of the conduct of people to resulting from off-balance common school among quorum members for clothes- each other, that is the major damage that responsible for the education, are largely alcohol does in our society today. pins and nuts and candies. Sears become drinkers social habits of many who Alcohol is a depressant, narcotic drug, derelict in again was contacted, and they gave of alcohol. I count that nation and not a stimulant. That cannot be too if it teaches a child some unsalable toys. The pictures its duty in education often repeated, and has many social impli- about milk and fails to teach him about reproduced on these pages tell a cations. of alcohol. The child has milk as part The effects of alcohol are the quorum almost en- story of their own, as school. he his diet until he leaves When tirely, if not wholly, to be explained by members and their wives repaired has to face a choice about leaves school he its toxic damage to the central nervous he has no information with toys and redressed dolls. alcohol, and system, the brain, and spinal cord. It is Many hands made the work light which to meet the situation. upon those tissues that the action of for We have learned that the taste alcohol shows most strikingly. The other as it lasted only two or three nights. is not a hereditary or genetically alcohol effects are so minor as to have little, if And because of this project, the any, part. It depreciates the divinity of quorum has found a spirit of man. The only thing that distinguishes brotherhood, and each participating man from the brute is his power of self- material for monthy priesthood member discovered again just what direction, self-control, judgment, discretion. leadership meetings during 1950. Those things are the first qualities of man the spirit of Christmas could mean The suggestive helps are adapted that are destroyed by alcohol, long before in "oood will toward m<>n from the program used in 1946, there is any obvious interference with the muscles and motor functions of the body. copies of which may still be avail- Alcohol is not describable as a food able in some stakes. which forms any part of a wholesome diet. Leadership Meeting Stake authorities are at liberty In recent times, it has been observed that to plan and conduct their monthly the life-saving reflexes of the body are all Helps Available leadership meetings according to slowed from five to ten percent by amounts '"The General Priesthood Commit- their local needs, provided that they of alcohol too small to be socially ap- preciable, and in amounts far smaller than conform to the suggestions made in tee will furnish to stake Mel- can ever be registered under the law or chizedek Priesthood committees, the Melchizedek Priesthood Hand- by the police as indicating intoxication. In upon request, suggestive program book. (Concluded on page 58) JANUARY 1950 53 OAKLAND WARD, OAKLAND (CALIFORNIA) STAKE L.D.S. GIRLS SOLVE THREAT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RECORD Aaronic Priesthood—L.D.S. Girls Three age groups and each L.D.S. girl profited from a special effort to bring the average attend- ance at Sunday School up to award requirements. Award Frames Previously Supplied to Be Used for 1949 A One-Hundred-Percent Day was appointed with the result that all L. D. S. girls twelve to twenty- one and their advisers were present at Sunday r\N this page in The Improvement will be sent to be placed in frames School on that day to overcome a threat against Era for October it already on hand. each certifi- the Sunday School attendance requirement of the 1949 was an- With award program. nounced that new frames would be cate there will be sent eight metal Another splendid idea from the field, to the field. furnished with all Standard Quorum turnbuttons which bishops will have Awards and Standard Group Awards affixed to the back of the frames All Aaro nic Priesthood Leaders for 1949 and that the frames would furnished in 1947 or 1948, removing be equipped with turnbuttons so that the old certificate and replacing it with The Value of the "Handbooks" certificates awarded in the future could the new one. A piece of hard pressed replace the old certificates, thus cutting paper cut to size will also be furnished As this article is being written, a down on the expense of furnishing as backing for the certificate so that well-informed executive chair- new frames every year. changes made through the years will man of a stake Aaronic Priesthood In view of developments since Octo- not wear out the paper backing committee has just left the Presiding ber, it is announced that the frames through the use of turnbuttons. Bishop's Office. He had called to furnished for the years 1947 and 1948 A form letter of instructions will be ask a question which he said was not are to be used for 1949 and subsequent furnished with each mailing of certifi- answered in the Aaronic Priesthood — certificates. To accomplish this, only cates giving complete instructions on Handbook "at least I cannot find the the Standard Quorum Award and the how to equip frames already on hand answer," was his courteously modified statement. Standard Group Award certificates for use for 1949 and subsequent years. Certificates approved for 1949 will It took less than one minute's time be sent in new frames where the to turn to the index and then to the Ward Teaching quorums or groups did not earn such page where the answer to his question recognition in 1947 or 1948. was found and read to him in full. Heretofore, we have routed the After recovering from a persistent Relationship Between — Standard Quorum Awards through blush, he said "I have never yet been Visiting Teaching the chairman of the stake committee. able to ask you a question on the and Hereafter, since most of the awards Aaronic Priesthood program when A ward teacher cannot call up- will go forward by first class mail, you have not immediately turned to on a family as a teacher they will be sent direct to bishops. the handbook and read the answer. I without calling also as a visitor. Sending the awards in any other way, felt sure I had you this time— I am teacher can easily under the new procedure, would slow embarrassed." But a ward call upon a family as a visitor down the replacing of the old certifi- Hundreds of letters are written and without filling a single obligation cates with the new ones in frames al- answered each year when a reference as a teacher. The ideal in ward ready on hand in the wards. to the Aaronic Priesthood Handbook ——_ m teaching is, therefore, to make it would have saved both the expense of both "visiting" and "teaching," writing and the delay in time incident Use New Forms When since these are inseparable in the thereto. We are happy to answer all full discharge of the teacher's Applying for Awards correspondence. Do not think other- duty to his calling. wise. But we try to save our leaders TDecause of changes in the require- Do your teaching first in each inconvenience and expense by pro- ments of the award programs for home and your visiting will take viding all possible answers in the both the Aaronic Priesthood and the care of itself. respective program handbooks. Latter-day Saint girls, new applica- Where visiting is the first We suggest a greater use of the tion blanks must be used when apply- order of business, you may ac- Aaronic Priesthood Handbook and of ing for the awards for 1949. complish only one, the least, of the Handbook for Leaders of Adult Application blanks will be sent only your two objectives. Members of the Aaronic Priesthood. on request. 54 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA ^R& [Prepared by cJ.ee ~At. /-^atmer Adult Members Aaronic New Individual Certificates of Award Priesthood for Deacons, Teachers, and Priests for 1949 New Course of Study tor 1950 years will go far beyond all previous A new course of study for the adult records. members of the Aaronic Priest- hood for 1950 is now ready for distri- f : h* : IP* rf'ir**v"fl ft *r-i at !\il! rril The Late Starters bution. Come wards did not get under way Entitled ^4 Study of the Character with the new program for 1949 and Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as soon as had been hoped. This de- the new manual contains forty-two lay will result in some disappointments lessons and is priced at twenty-five to our young men. Already we are cents a copy, postpaid. being asked to make exceptions to When ordering the new outline, offset such disappointments. please specify the title. However, in fairness to leaders and . youth in wards and stakes who got Adult Members Aaronic Priesthood INDIVIDUAL AWARDS FOR PRIESTS in motion at the beginning of 1949 and Certificates designed by L. D. S. Business College who have conducted a full year's cam- Keep a Master Roll Cince the Individual Certificate of paign to meet the increased require- Award program was introduced ments of the new program, any modifi- Progressive and business-like stake on a Churchwide basis in 1943, one cation of the requirements would be committees keep a master roll of form of certificate has served to the adult members of the Aaronic recognize achievements of individual Priesthood for which they are respon- deacons, teachers, and priests. sible. However, for the year 1949, there The idea of a master roll was will be a certificate for deacons, a originally introduced to stake com- certificate for teachers, and a certificate mittees for the adult members of the for priests as indicated on this page. Aaronic Priesthood through the This new procedure will harmonize "Church Section" of the Deseret with the announcement in The Im- News, May 8, 1948. provement Era for October to the Response of stake committees to the effect that quorums of deacons, quo- recommendation that they keep a rums of teachers, and quorums of master roll, indicates considerable priests, respectively, will have a separ- interest in the plan. ate award for 1949. The "master roll" is in the form of INDIVIDUAL AWARDS FOR DEACONS This departure from the procedure an individual record card for each of the past will personalize both the a measure of discrimination untenable adult member. Individual Certificate of Award and with fair play. The requirements stand Space is provided on the card for the Standard Quorum Award. Already as announced and as recorded in the the name, address, age, priesthood, there are evidences of an enthusiastic Aaronic Priesthood Handbook issued hobbies, and other vital information reception of the change. January 1, 1949. designed to aid the stake committee in With the stipulation that fifty per- keeping an accurate check on each cent or more of the quorum members Progress of the Individual Award adult member and furnishing a record must earn the Individual Certificate of Program of the individual's activity up to the Award as one of the requirements for HPhe idea of recognizing individual time he is advanced to the Melchizedek the Standard Quorum Award, it is achievements as well as quorum Priesthood. anticipated that the number of indi- achievements has met with a hearty We recommend that stake com- vidual awards for 1949 and succeeding response in the Aaronic Priesthood mittees keep an accurate record of the ranks of the Church. Leaders and work being done with these brethren. young men alike have responded to the Keep your finger on the pulse of the plan. work by being reliably informed v p»»if - V J'itiiu'iOu:il « The response is evidenced in the through the "master roll." number of individual awards approved Individual record cards can be ob- by the Presiding Bishopric each year tained at the Presiding Bishop's Of- since 1943 as follows: fice, free of charge. Deacons Teachers Priests Total 1943 4,206 1944 3,034 1,411 887 5,332 1945 3,830 1,888 1,043 6,761 1946 4,567 2,412 1,509 8,488 1947 5,576 2,719 1,983 10,278 INDIVIDUAL AWARDS FOR TEACHERS 1948 6,344 3,109 2,315 11,768 JANUARY 1950 55 SEPTEMBER MISSIONARIES MISSIONARIES ENTERING MISSION HOME SEPTEM- Max R. Todd, Sherwin Coleman, L. Gail Johnson, Fourteenth row: Charles Beecroft, Dennis Carbine, BER 12, 1949 AND DEPARTING SEPTEMBER 21, Mary L. Stewart, O. L. Stewart, Hal Furgeson, Tess Walter Forsyth, Gordon Forsyth, Dorian Bell, J. 1949 Madsen, Rosemarie May, Donald L. Dawdle, Jack Fielding Nelson, LeRoy Rasmussen, Arnold Peart, Park, Kean Farrer, Paul Kelly, Gerald Winsor. C. L. Murray, Darrell Call, Clifford dive. Reading from left to right, first row; Charles T. Seventh row: Lillian Froerer, George Wirllmd, Fifteenth row: George Stone, Daryl Workman, Bradbury. Jay Fellows, Arvel Israelsen, Edward Earl Robert N. Boyack, Douglas E. Morris. Clarence Moon, Heber Peterson, Kermit Smith, Marvin E. Pullan, Edwards, Donald E. Toomey, Norman Eugene Stock- Bruce Warden, Wayne Berge, Audrey L. Strong, Wal- Donald Buehner, Joseph Fagergren, Gerald Wells. ton, Fay Beebe Syphus, Robert Paul Fjller, Fred lace Strong, J. Donald West, Virgil R. Losee, Lynn Sixteenth row: Lowell Jensen, George Hilton, M. Stevens, Charlie Ctawson, Wilmer Lee, Raymond T. Woolston, Richard Long, Fred Richards, Charles Antone L. Skanchy, A. Burtron Johnson, William R E. Howes. W. Olorenshaw, Ruel Westover. Siddoway. Second row: Emma Lou Palmer, Donna Haymore, Eighth row: Eldon B. Hamblin, Philip H. Clark, Seventeenth row: Earl Clark, Donald B. Nelson, Dcirtna Fay Rasmussen, Hazel May Brooks, Helen Bruce Dyer, Reed L. Reeve, Robert R. Burdett, Edward M. Higbee, R. M. Patterson, Milton H. Cleo Jorgensen, Mary Evelyn Wight, Ella Ruth Herbert D. Williams, Grant L. Jensen, John C. Wilcox, Robert Pixton, Leland H. Smith, Gaynor E. Turner, Gayle Beck, Don B. Cotton, director; Annie Hansen, Calvin H. Rasmussen, John A. Price, Ken- Atkinson, William Olsen, Paul Hurst. neth E. Porter, Donnell W. Hunter, Marvin Rallison. B. Johnson, Clarence F. Johnson, Alice B. Nelms, Eighteenth row: J. Myron Walker, Ross Lloyd, Gail Ninth row: Robert McCullough, Clyde Cummings, Ardus Naone Mason, Helen A. Ernstrom, Rela Wardlti, Leary, Douglas Bischoff, Richard Knot, Lanell B. Raymond Hill, Melvin Gamble, Frank LaVonne Wiseman, Nida Jean Pyper, M. Norma H. Brown, Bachman, Heber Hancock, Golden Gardiner. Liechty. Bruce Brockbank, Boyd Hunter, Kenneth Yearsley, Ariel L. Williams, Hugh A. Adams, Arthur T. Sut- Nineteenth row: Harold D. Donaldson, J. Blaine Third row: Delores Murray, Linnea Wall, Faun ton, Kent W. Pilling, Lawrence E. Braby, Niles Bingham, Vernon Parent, John Harris, Kenneth Noall, Johnson, Gaynell Birch, Louise Cook, Claim Persson, Raydon Madson, Clifford Woodall. Lee Capel, Jack Brown,, Richard Wright, Paul Maughan, Mary Heckman, Gordon Malan, Norma Crockett, Bob Wells, John Wendel. Jean Gietz, Wilford Hanson, Bonita McBride, Tenth row: Dan Wood, Burk O. Clegg, Roland G. Twentieth row: Bob Day, Donald V. Johnson, Geraldine Ivie, Frances Hunter, Madonna Stradley, Rotison. Dean Jensen, Allyn R. Mahonev, r'aul Han- son, Allen DeLee Miller, Ralph Harding, Robert Holman. Marva J. Paxman, Lois Olson. D. Pedersen, Carth Hess, Stanley G. Mann, Melvin Graham, Floyd H. Gowans, Wendell Weed, Twenty-first row: Blaine H. Quigley, Gerald S. Fourth row: Elvaletta Zollinger, Joy Heckman, Clare Olsen, Glenn Martin, Orin D. Daley, John Fish, Paul S. Ebert, Eldon R. Griffin, Robert Skanchy, Adrienne Peterson, Marilyn Hoglund, June Tanner, Wursten. Daniel D'Hurst, Laurie Dillman, Lavell Harris, Grant Maxine Brim Barnes, Ora June Kresser, Ida P. Eleventh Beyler. Lubbers, Sarah Hoggan. Ella Deanne Shill, Caleen row: Richard Kay Hanks, Wayne Bank- Adams, LaRue Truman, Kathryn Ingebritsen, Thailia head, Donald Arrington, Grant Bethers, Herbert Twenty-second row: Leslie Ball, Edward Banner, Beattie, Lucille M. Meyer, Eileen Gibbons, Gwen Spencer, Russell Olsen, Richard L. Snow, Jay Coombs, Darwin R. Thompson, Alden Hibbert, Nowal C. Lewis. Harold Tanner, Kenneth R. Anderson, Don Wood. Jesperson, Arthur Patterson, Dean Cook, Melvin Spencer, Floyd H. Roberts. Fifth row: Florice Hjorth, Doug Leavitt, Rell G. Twelfth row: Thomas J. Michaelson, Alma Ander- Francis, Donna Bird, Dawna Wilkinson, Karma son, William C. Nelson, Scott Beesley, Albert Left Balcony: Jay Bennett, Austin Wahlquist, Crofts, Lloyd N. Andersen, Lawrence G. Cannell, Ostraff, Rulon Marcusen, Richard Hansen, Eugene George Rampton, D. Wayne Van Dyke, David O. Leonard Duggar, Robert P. Farnsworth, Mary Gene C. Farnsworth, Merlyn Fowler, Wallace Neilson. Mitchell, Doss E. Whatcott. Hill, Beverly Huss, A. Jeen Hyer, Grant B. Claybur'n, Thirteenth row: Vernon L. Snow, Teddy E. Brewer- Right Balcony: Robert Warnick, Lawrence Brady, Calvin J. Luke, Kenneth Kohler, Lucille Garner. ton, Arthur Cahoon, Joseph Bough, Kenneth Ander- Monroe G. Gallier, Clifton Bennion, Clint Larson, Sixth row: Edith Johanson, Glenn Frandsen, Ster- son, Richard Sorensen, Don Sorens&n, William Card, Neil Lovell, Harold Pratt, Floyd Dixon, Tad Hen- ling Ottesen, Gwyn E. Christman, John R. Buchanan, Vol Dahle, Don Burningham. dricks, Richard Merrill. 56 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA THE DESERET NEWS Has Become a More Attractive Newspaper! ^ ^ ^C The period since The Deseret News became Passing Parade is actually the product of an Ed a seven-day-a-week newspaper has been the fastest- Austin whim. One day, while he was doing a column growing period in the history of this 100-year-old and experting on global matters, he got the urge to do newspaper. something different, just for once. So he wrote a piece The response by our readers and our advertisers about the anxiety of a man eating blackberry pie to our efforts to make The Deseret News a really while clad in a white suit. The response was so great great newspaper has inspired us to take further steps and favorable from the readers that he has been writ- ing ever since about things and people that you I in our program of improvement—to be of even greater and service to those communities served by this news- meet every day. paper. Ed Austin's column, which is being read all over America, is now on page 3 of the second section of EASIER TO READ The Deseret News. We're sure you'll like Passing Parade. Monday, November 28th our friends were intro- FOR SPORT FANS duced to a completely re-designed Deseret News—re- designed for easier reading—re-designed for more to Nearly every sport fan in America has heard read in less time—the most for your leisure time. about Red Smith, who is either the top—or near the For many months we have tested and experi- top—sports writer in America. Red is nationally mented with the latest and best methods of news and famous for his smoothly technicolored style and his feature presentation. During that time we have had close-ups of the players themselves—players in every the services of America's most famous designer of sport. He is more interested in people than in figures newspapers, Mr. Gilbert P. Farrar. Mr. Farrar cre- —people that you would like to know—people whose ated the modern methods of news presentation and names you see on the sport pages all the year 'round. he has redesigned more than 50 of America's most Red knows his audience, and more than anything attractive newspapers. He brings to our readers the else, it is his droll but heady humor which, within ten latest most successful methods of making the reading years, has boosted him to the very forefront of sports of your newspaper one of the comforting joys of the columnists. If Red Smith is ever dull, no one has ever day. caught him at it. Look for Red Smith's column in the new Deseret News. NEW FEATURES Just a minute, sports fans, we have another fine feature for you. Of all the sport cartoonists, there is With the new styling, The Deseret News brings one who signs his drawings PAP. This is the one, you three new popular features, plus all the old and more than any other, that more topflight athletes look well-read features now in the paper. for every day. Joe DiMaggio says, "I've been a PAP Facing the editorial page will be Edward T. fan for years." Ted Williams says, "PAP'S cartoons Austin's new column, PASSING PARADE. This are my favorites every day." Sid Luckman, of the column will be found to be as refreshing as a cool Chicago Bears says, "PAP'S cartoons are a treat for breeze. You will find it thought-provoking, homey every sports fan. They're tops with me." philosophy, with no affection or hokum. It is truly PAP began his sports cartoon in The Deseret American, flavored with wistful, easy-going humor. News Monday, November 28th. This writer leaves the corn and complexity to those You will like the easier-to-read new Deseret less competent. News. Just be sure that you see these new things. THE NEW DESERET NEWS More Readable... More Entertaining! JANUARY 1950 57 — OCTOBER MISSIONARIES MISSIONARIES ENTERING THE MISSIONARY HOME Anita Louise Allred, Rodney W. Fye, Carol A. Eugene Lee Choate, Wayne C. Spackman, Ronald OCT. 10 AND DEPARTING OCT. 19, 1949 Clark, Claron Spencer, Mary B. Davis, John S. Hodges, Fontella Willden, L. Carl Holley, Bert D. Davis, William T. Hay, DeVere P. Harmon, William Miner, Grant M. Flygare, John C. Meyers, Paul Reading from left to right: C. Andersen, Harold Campbell, Morris Musig, Haynie, Dale E. Stevenson. Bryon E. Key. Thirteenth row: Paul Murdock, Ronald Stone, First row: Don A. Caldwell, E. Lionel Brady, Seventh row: Dorothy Mae Peck, Dennavor Hatt, LaMar Olsen, Alton W. Buttars, Lawrence J. Leavitt, Joseph M. Merritt, LeRoy Edwin Lindsay, Paul J. Mary Lou Matthews, Ardell H. Jenkins, Robert V. Albert Adams, Donald L. Hicken, Dallas M. Pen- Anderson, Jr., James Richard Bowen, Marion S. Thurston, Walter E. Muir, Howard K. Matthes, rod, Robert H. M. Killpack, Glenn R. Blatter, Russon; Richard S. Koster, Lester Taylor, Van C. Gerald Wilkinson, Maylen C. Madsen, Gaylen J. Gerald Gudmundson, Melvin W. Cox. Gailey, Graham R. Mather, Robert Beard, Harold Matheson, William H. Oppie, Wayne L. Clark, L. Fourteenth row: Perry Rex Brown, R. Desmond Norton. Wayne Brimley, Morris Seely, Buster Murphy. Pincock, Paul C. Bennion, Alan B. Holyoak, Carl Second row: Donald C. Turner, Curtis Rex Young, Eighth row: Norma Hakes, Velma Mae Lunt, Hatch, Blaine L. Olsen, Thomas H. Clark, Howard Luana Carter, Lois Nielsen, Rebecca Hernandez, Enid Critchfield, Jackie Barlow, LaRue Hinckley, R. Francis, Glen E. Fullmer, LaMonte Sant, Richard Don Mortensen, Joseph F. Cutler, Mildred Burton, Dennis A. Clegg, Elmer Jay Hartvigsen, J. Allen K. Cotant, William Albert Miller, Wendell Christen- Kathryn Grimm, Bernice Carpenter, Norma Mabey, Wayman, George T. Crane, John Reese Hunter, sen, E. Woodrow Hunter. Emma Vontella Smith, Robert W. Waldron. James Byron Hill, Robert Louis Wolz, W. Denton Fifteenth row: Leon Kent Burnett, Richard C. Third row: Clarice Anderson, Colleen Dickson, Nejeker. Low; Albert Bill Atkins, Evan O. Koller, Reo L. Jennie M. Child, Jennie L. E. Carter, Margaret Ninth row: Elaine Genevieve Pugmire, Evelyn Williamson, Gerald L. Davey, Garth L. Geddes, Hoyer, Jack Melvin James, James H. Rane, Richard Gilbert, Delbert V. Olsen, P. H. Allen, Glen Lee Dale T. Fletcher, John L. Crockett, Glade M. C. Merrill, Jack Cragun, Howard H. Richardson, Glen Williams, Wayne R. Crook, Wayne P. Tenney, Hal Sowards, Harold Hancock, Robert G. Cutler, Sherrill W. Welling, Mary E. Pitcher, Marriner F. Bingham, H. Curtis, George A. Ricks, James D. Chesire, Jr., O. Huff, L. Stanford Hunsaker, Deon S. Bringhurst; Dean O. Harrison. Keith N. Worthington, Arvin R. Christopherson, W. Gordon Chytraus. Fourth row: Evelyn Sabin, Eva Collard, James E. Wendell Wagstaff, Alton Wendell Averett, Verl J. Sixteenth row: Jay Peterson, Richard Oveson, Ray Hook, Burton H. Harris, Hal Barrus, Joseph C. Cox, O. Harvey Harward. Williams, Ivan Baker, Dean Durrant, James D. Gardner; Reginal Garff, James Thompson, John T. Talbot, Celeste O. Talbot, Tenth row: Nedra Jean Nielson, O. Dean Pendle- Donald V. Cook, W. George E. J. W. Walser. Lyman, Richard Stosick, Jesse A. ton, Maughan W. McMurdie, O. LeGrande Eliason, Knight, Burke Lee Isaacson, J. Lynn Stayner, Seventeenth row: James T. Johnson, William H. Eugene Tueller, Glen A. Shumway, Clyde E. Harvey, Carol L. Clayton. Harless, Royal J. Fulton, Clair Christensen, Gary Don C. Moffett, Kay D. Lindow, Max White, Lamar Fifth row: Lois Rogers, Nadine McRae, Joyce Jackman. Bowen Lyman, Montel B. Graff, Robert L. Tucker, Stoker, Wallace Somerville, Ethna Robinson Reid, Howard G. Todd, George L. Burton, Byron Gassman, Eleventh row: Warren Anderson, Lester M. Clark, Pearl E. Oliver, Clair F. Lloyd, Karla N. Zbinden, Hugh W. Higgins. David Farr Hodge, Glendon Hyrum Jones, Robert Albert R. Zbinden, Fred R. Sorenson, Freeman J. Eighteenth row: Francis A. Rogers, Eldon f. V. DeLonzor, Shelby Ronald Lisonbee, Jack Olsen Barnes, Howard J. Ruff, Kenneth G. McClellan, Jenkins, Richard M. Hebertson, Gerald Purser, Wal- Wright, John Grondel, Jr., Gene Fessler. Wm. Merrill Hymas, Richard Rulon Wilkins. lace Earl, John Gale, E. Paul Hullinger, Max H. Sixth row: Mildred Russell, Verda Wimmer, Twelfth row: Gaylen J. Cox, Loyd D. Wilson, Garrett, Mark L. Wahlquist. 1 «^ • NO LIQUOR-TOBACCO (Concluded from page 53) that does not show an inferiority of per- visiting nurse, the ministry, the libraries, formance after the use of alcohol in the press, and the broadcasting stations. the beginning states, in amounts too small amounts smaller than would be recognized health department, local or state, is to be appreciated, alcohol slows the re- No as of toxic significance. to be considered adequate in its program flexes of the body, which we are endowed of public service if it fails to use its author- with to protect ourselves from destruction Perhaps the most important of all, is the ity to deal with alcohol as a cause of pre- —the nervous reflex action of the eye, the positive statement that no evidence of im- ventable disease for which it should have ear, the muscles—which we depend on provement in human health has so far a policy and a program. for safety in this world of speed and been found to result from the use of al- power and uncontrolled human association. cohol in the normal human being. The above is a factual up-to-date Alcohol, as used, causes many times more The evidence shows that there is no form statement of scientific knowledge of the infectious activity so tested which does deaths than diseases. of human far the effects of alcohol on the human not show inferiority of performance as the Civil authority is limited to reducing op- body whether it is found in beer, wine, invariable sequel of the absorption of al- portunities for exploitation by alcohol. Re- whisky, etc. Alcohol is a poison cohol. I do not care what you try—adding sponsibility for correcting conditions rests gallon, barrel, machines, typewriting, taking dictation with the public school system, also on the whether in a drop, a or a there is no small or large accomplishment family physician, the health officer, the science declares. 58 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA It has theTulf Yes, you'll say the '50 Ford tops them all for brilliant beauty — both outside and in! Here's true "Fashion Car" styling in every line and every detail! White side wall tires optional at extra cost It has theln More hip and shoulder room than any other car in Ford's class! Plenty of leg room both front and rear. And more comfort with new non-sagging front seat springs and special foam rubber seat cushion. No won- der people say the '50 Ford is the one fine car in the low-price field! Ever handle a car that you can steer with finger-tip ease — stop with a feather touch on the brake pedal? That's the '50 Ford with 35% easier acting King-Size Brakes! It has the 50 ways new — that's Ford for '50! For ex- ample, just get the feel of the new 100 h.p. V-8! So quiet it whis- pers, so alive it puts you out front in any traffic situation! Like broadcloth —or mohair? Take your pick; the '50 Ford offers both in spar- IM kling new colors. in There's a in your future. ..with a future built 59 JANUARY 1950 — THE ERA GROWS (Continued from page 23) volumes which have been well ac- where she was graduated in 1948, organizations of the Church, on the cepted by the Church: Minute Ser- as a member of Phi Upsilon Omi- ward, stake, and general board mons, Sunlight and Shadows, and cron, national home economics fra- level, (she is a former member of Storyteller's Scrapbook. ternity, and of Phi Kappa Phi, na- the Sunday School general board Nelson White, art director for tional honorary scholastic frater- and has served longer than any of The Improvement Era, once heard nity. She was active in the student her associates on the Young a young missionary preach in halt- publications. She has been a faith- Women's Mutual Improvement As- ing language in his native Denmark, ful Church worker as secretary and sociation general board), and in the and immediately purchased a Book teacher in the Sunday School, high schools and colleges of Ari- of Mormon to prove it false. After Primary, and M.I. A. zona and Utah, as well as the Uni- three months of intense study he The business department of The versity of Utah. applied for baptism, and in 1914 he Improvement Era is headed by She was born in Philadelphia, emigrated, leaving his lucrative art General Superintendent Elbert R. Pennsylvania, a daughter of Abram field in Denmark behind. In Utah Curtis of the Young Men's Mutual H. Cannon and Lilian Hamlin Can- he began to apply his knowledge of Improvement Association who is non. Her early education was re- publishing problems to intermoun- general manager. General Presi- ceived in Mexico and Canada. She tain newspapers and magazines. dent Bertha S. Reeder, of the was graduated from the L. D. S. Within three years he had so far Young Women's Mutual Improve- University, attended the University assimilated the American spirit ment Association is associate man- of Utah, and has done graduate that eastern magazines reached into ager. work at the University of California his the west for work. His artwork John D. Giles first became con- and the University of Utah. over the years has appeared in such nected with the Era in April 1929 coming to the Era, her Before national publications as The Satur- when he was called by George Al- active for the Society pen was Relief day Evening Post, Ladies' Home bert Smith, the general superinten- The Children's Magazine and Journal, and McCall's. dent of the Young Men's Mutual is the mother of four Friend. She A highly successful national or- Improvement Association, as a and one daughter. sons ganization which specializes in mak- member of a three-man committee Elizabeth Jackson Moffitt joined ing printing plates for syndicated commissioned to revise and promote the publication in May 1933 as a release to magazines and publica- the magazine. In 1935 he was ap- stenographer and has advanced to tions throughout the world features pointed to The Improvement Era editorial secretary, editorial asso- more than eight thousand of Nel- executive committee. He has been ciate, and now to manuscript editor. son White's drawings, all of them business manager since December She was reared in Carbon Coun- drawn during his spare time when 1944. For twenty years Brother ty, Utah, and made her home there he was, as he himself styles it, "re- Giles has been field campaign di- until her husband's untimely death. laxing" from his local endeavors. rector for The Improvement Era. Then she came to Salt Lake City The West, however, has become Verl F. Scott, assistant business with her two daughters and en- his homeland, and here he feels manager and advertising director, rolled at the L. D. S. Business Col- contented. Here he can apply his joined the Era staff in June 1948. lege, where she later taught classes. thinking, efforts to inspirational and He filled a mission to the western She began working on the Era here in his working hours at The states prior to his army services dur- staff when the late Harrison R. offices, and in Improvement Era ing World War II. He holds a Merrill was managing editor and his spare moments, he is busily bachelor of science degree from the has devoted her time since then to thinking up new ways in which to University of Utah. He has served building the public up magazine. present inspiration to the in numerous capacities in the appeal. Albert L. Zobell, Jr., our research through eye Church, and in addition to his other editor, began writing Era material Burl Shepherd, one of the new assignments he is a member of the in 1939, and became a regular con- additions to the staff of The Im- general information and statistics tributor about a year later, when he provement Era, is editor of the committee of the Church. He and began doing part-time work in the new "Today's Family" section. A Sister Arline Martindale Scott are editorial department. native of Cardston, Alberta, Can- the parents of two daughters. He obtained his bachelor of sci- ada, she came to Utah in 1944 to There are other members, too, in ence degree in history and political begin her college work at Brigham the Era family: men and women science from the University of Utah Young University. The following who type, keep up the subscription to the Utah (the diploma said "honors") in year she transferred lists, mail, and perform the many June 1944, and a master of science State Agricultural College, Logan, other routine tasks which are neces- degree the following year. His sary in the publishing and distribut- thesis was on the biography of ing of a publication. All of these, Thomas L. Kane, a great friend of WINTER FOOTBALL together with the hundreds of Era Brigham Young and of early Utah. supporters in the field are working Thelm a Ireland He became an editorial associate continually to help The Improve- in September 1945. THE trees and shrubs wear helmets ment Era toward its goal of being shoulder pads, snow-shod Since completing his university And the best religious magazine in the Protection from the tackles work, he has compiled three small Of Winter's charging squad. world. 60 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA . Fenny wise.,%064 foolish? 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Drive your car in today and armor it against winter with Conoco See Your Conoco Mileage Merchant, HOW I MOTOR OIL JANUARY 1950 61 } THE FORI ON THE FIRING LINE Continued page 3 ( from 1 to the ranch, and Peterson's medi- no stray bullet would find them. To All the cattle companies in the cine left them fully primed for the some of them it was terrible, and county could not employ, even for big demonstration. among those who suffered in help- their board, a tenth of the birds of It began with a jargon of yells lessness was the sick wife of passage around the mountain, yet and shots in the air as they stood Bishop F. I. Jones, who had for not one of them went hungry or there in the storeman's dooryard, some time been confined to her bed without a horse and outfit. They for his store was his home, and he and lay now in anguish of suspense lived fat and flourished, and their had rushed his family away when lest someone would be hurt. The numbers increased. Sarah Jane he saw what was coming. The bishop waited there with her, chaf- Rogerson, one of the plucky women renegades began shooting every can ing under his conscientious scruples who faced the perils of early Monti- of fruit, every can of corned beef, which held him from answering the cello, relates that one night when every can of baking powder, any- outrage as his nature demanded. the cowpunchers "shot up" the thing and everything they found on In the evening, as many of the town, she counted seventy-five of the shelves of the store; they took cowpunchers as could still ride re- them by the light of their guns as hundred pound sacks of sugar to turned to Peterson's store and, single file their horses jumped over the door, slit them from end to bringing in all the horses that could a ditch on the public square. end with their knives, and scattered get through the doorway, fed them They had come to this rendezvous the sugar all over the yard. They hay and grain on the counter, and from states as far away as Kansas did the same with salt, grain, flour, spreading whatever they could find and Washington, With their everything in sacks. They threw in the way of blankets on the floor, spotters and bribe-takers and their slabs of bacon in the air and shot they sank down to sleep in the part alliance with the system at Rincone, them and ransacked the store for of the house where Peterson and else which to dissipate they felt a degree of security and anything on his family had been living. intended to preserve a maze of con- their exploding energy. Returning fitfully back to con- fusion from which officers of the One of them ran with a bolt of sciousness at a late hour next morn- law would be glad to get away calico out to his waiting horse, ing, and sitting up on the hard alive. They abolished government wrapped the loose end of the bolt floor to rub their eyes, one of them so completely there was nothing to to the horn of his saddle, and remarked that the cast-iron kettle hinder them from killing each other dashed up the street, while the on the stove was the only thing in on suspicion for the fun of it, and bolt unrolled to flutter like a long the place which had not been shot, the fellow fawning at a man's elbow ribbon on the wind ' behind him. and a fellow snatched up his gun was often more to be feared than Others followed; it was too smart a and blew it to bits. an officer sniffing on his trail. They trick for one man to monopolize; fought out their differences to the and the bright colors rippled in They had pulled off a whale of death, no one to pity the victim or long banners or caught on the pole a party; Blue Mountain had seen punish the victor. Just how many fences at the corners of the streets nothing like it ever before; and as of their numbers they eliminated in as these madmen raced up one side they rode away in the middle of the their camps and secret places is but and down the other, skinning their forenoon, they agreed it would not a guess. And it could not be re- throats to make all the noise pos- be the last of its kind. lated that they were followed by sible. any penalties of the law. About They raised their Comanche TThe fortunes of the struggling out- that time in a perfunctory court voices in echoing exultation. They post at Monticello were vital procedure one of the jurors assured fired their brave six-shooters. to the people at Bluff as part of his friends, "Whoever comes before The people of the town stayed their own mission. The two places this jury is innocent." behind their log walls, praying that kept as closely in touch as distance little store in the Mons Peterson's and the ruggedness of the country recently shipped corner of town had would permit, the quickest com- in a few bottles of liquor to be used munication being the time it took of sickness. The cow- in cases a good horse to run fifty miles. punchers had heard of it, had in- One July morning, with the first sisted on sampling it, and had nimbus of day appearing over the fumed and cursed when Peterson cliffs east of Bluff, a rider came on refused. They would sample it now, a fagging trot from the mouth of regardless. Cow Canyon, his horse covered Straight to Peterson's store the with lather and ready to drop. He whole howling gang of renegades had come since midnight from rode whip and spur, ordered the Monticello, and he had a story to flasks from their hiding place and tell about wild men and whiskey, passed them around with lavish the most dreadful of all combina- hand. They were already well tions. loaded with liquor they had brought (To be concluded) 62 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA Oil helps grow food for you... in Hawaii Beyond the Islands' coral beaches, behind Standard of California's job ever since ker- their blue, cliff-sharp hills, lie some of the osene lamps burned in Honolulu's light- most efficiently mechanized farming areas house. Today, this service has spread to all in all the world. the Islands . . . provides millions of gallons The pineapple of you eat and much of the petroleum products every year . . . helps sugar you serve are grown, not in palm- insure better living for the Islanders and shaded tropical valleys, but on broad fields better food for you. of rich, red soil . . . contour plowed, ex- pertly cultivated, carefully harvested. And in all these jobs, oil plays a major part. Oil powers plows and cultivators ; petro- leum emulsions control weeds in fields of young cane and pineapple plants; at har- vest time, huge Diesel machines rake and load 130 tons of cane an hour, and ripe pineapples are gathered on conveyor belts. Trucks and barges speed the harvest to can- neries and mills. Supplying the oil Hawaii needs has been JANUARY 1950 63 ) " " —" "Oh, so Sub is being coy!" I M.I.A. FROM AN DIARY jeered, but Susie shushed me, just 4 as Dad came in. ( Concluded [rom page 1 that! No slavery for me, no matter a in how sugarcoated it may be! "Well, maid who's majoring shall refuse any gift, however But is not every day the begin- men will certainly flunk her course varnished, that leads away from ning of a new year in my life? I if she lets that one get away!" I freedom. I am beginning to hate do not intend to live by the calen- muttered, as we sat down to the dictatorship. I like the Church dar but a succession of new table. teach truth, God's eter- method, to progressive days of freedom! My "Sh!" Sue hissed back, "Who's free to nal truth, and leave you resolution holds for every day. majoring in men? My major's use it. Dear diary, good night! psychology!" I shall try to make the new year And the Lord help me! "Besides, the faculty of Central /. really new. You may depend on — A. W. don't date students!" I managed, while Dad was telling Russia off. Susie's only answer to that was SUSIE AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS a glance that said plainer than words that she and Sub knew what {Continued from page 21) he'd find her. Well, maybe he they knew, and I was an infant On the last day before the Prom, would. and worse still, an adolescent. the deal?" I de- I saw her come out of his room "Now, what's Paul called twice after that, but after psych period, walking on air manded, as soon as she came back. each time Susie was nowhere to be and with that look on her face of "Here you've been carrying the found. When the third ring came, seeing visions. She didn't even see torch for Paul, for years and years, I confess I was mad. I pranced in- who was in the hall, but they saw as we both know. Well, here's your to the hall, yanked the receiver her, all right. A group of the big chance, and what do you do? Run off and gritted viciously, into the guys just in from the gym turned out on it!" mouthpiece, "Sorry, but Susie is her like she was and watched "I couldn't help it, Johnny. I still out!" until somebody brand new, she was just couldn't talk to him." I a cultured out of sight. And who do you think — was hanging up when "But I still don't see gave the longest and most expres- voice answered, "Oh, I'm so sorry! "Well," Susie explained, hurried- sive whistle? I wanted very much to speak to ly, because Mother was calling us her!" right! The great Stronge, You're to get ready for dinner, "we've "Oh, oh, Mr. Silver!" I stam- in person! I'll bet that was the got to stall him off till I see if Pro- that bloke ever actually — mered, "Wait—hold on a moment! first time fessor Silver She's I think I just heard her come saw Sue, although he'd been her — in!" I was squeaking so loud Susie hero for at least two years. Of heard me and dashed in from the course, it never occurred to me that porch, the great wheel would be free from NEIGHBORHOOD LIGHTS pale as a ghost, her eyes big entanglements on the very last as saucers. By Katharine Welles Wheeler evening before the Prom. But he "Is it—him, Johnny?" for picture that must have been saving himself stood and watched the I nodded, and she grabbed the WEwas made a miracle, for we'd no sooner got phone. The professor's voice came There in the night, before we drew the home that afternoon than Mother shade: over the wire as clear and elegant said the phone had been ringing for as in the classroom. I could hear The house across the road was bright as Sue. It rang again while she was day; every word. telling us, and Mother said, casual- They spent the midnight oil that was "Is that you, Susie, my dear? I'm their way. ly, just as if it were some ordinary so glad you came in, I want to ask mortal, "The Stronge boy, I be- The one next door was dark, for they were a great favor of you." gone lieve he said he was." "Oh, Mr. Silver, don't call it But would return from work at break of " Well, Susie turned actually white dawn. that! I "But it is, my dear. A very great and whispered, "Answer it, John- Dame Simpkin's light went on at half past ny." Then she fled out the door, eight. favor. And if it had not been for Up in her room, she reads till very late. the whither I knew not. unusual interest you have shown Her schoolgirl help had climbed the attic in my classes and the fact that you It was Paul, all right, and was he stair; seem a real friend, I should not dare disappointed when I told him Sue The student-lamp was like a beacon there. to ask it." wasn't there. "Oh, you never The house with draperies drawn had left a "Oh, Mr. Silver, you make me can tell," I said, when he asked slack — feel so if I knew when she'd be home, And slender, gleaming, tantalizing crack. "Well, I may as well come to the "You know Sue. Out having a The doctor's porch globe was a hooded glim; point. You see, Susie, I'm in a soda with some guy, I suppose." But served to guide the sick who came to quandary. The fact is, my-—my If I Paul, that him. knew would make fiancee has happened to be passing him all the more anxious, and it It's great to watch the habits of the through here en route to the coast. neighborhood did. He said he'd look in all the On impulse, she decided to stop Where you belong; the feel of it is warm joints before calling again, maybe and good! over for a couple of days to—to 64 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA " visit with me," he gave a sickly- t» laugh, "and attend the Prom— I had I SHOULD HAVE HAD MY IRONRITE written about— that—naturally she's interested 25 YEARS AGO!" Sue was hanging onto the phone Says Mrs. D. J. Oliekan as if she'd faint if she let go. Mr. 434 3rd Avenue Silver had paused for her to say Salt Lake City. Utah something, and she made a husky little murmur before he went on, "My Ironrite saves me more time and labor than any other appliance I have ever owned. I sounding embarrassed, "Well, the look forward each week, now, to ironing day. point of the whole matter is, I "I can iron everything in my wash with amaz- ing ease. My Ironrite's two useable open ends simply cannot find accommodations are priceless when I iron my daughter's nice for her on such short notice. You cotton dresses and frilly blouses—and, I am proud of the way my shirts look. know-—there seems to be absolutely "Best of all, my Ironrite's rhythmic, restful, automatic ironing brings me to the bottom of nowhere she can stay—the conven- " my clothes basket still 'fresh as a daisy.' tion coming at the same time as the Prom—-" His voice trailed off, and I saw Sue gulp. Now, I've always thought Ironnle Sue was quite an actor, dramatizing Low Down Payment—easy credit terms. Ask about a FREE Home herself, you know, always being Demonstration. some character she'd read about till you never knew what the real Sue was like. But this time she was SEE ONE OF THESE IRONRITE DEALERS FOR A FREE DEMONSTRATION UTAH up against the real thing. I couldn't BLAKE ELECTRIC COMPANY Richfield CULLIGAN SOFT WATER SERVICE Salt Lake City help thinking it was a kind of test, READ BROTHERS' COMPANY Ogden and the way Sue took it would show THE CLARK COMPANY Salt Lake City whether she was a thoroughbred or IDAHO ATKINSON'S APPLIANCE STORE Malad a phony. Well, she rated an A on C. C. ANDERSON COMPANY Idaho Falls SAM H. JONES FURNITURE AND APPLIANCES Blackfoot that test. Play-acting or not, Sue Distributed fay proved she was no phony. Her face GORDON E. W1LK1NS-— IRONERS, INC. 142 So. 5th W. Salt Lake City, Utah was dead white, and it looked old and grownup, like maybe she'll look when she's thirty, but she didn't hesitate more than a couple of seconds before she said, as warmly ALL-O-WHEAT as Mother ever did, "Why, bring CEREAL her right over here, Mr. Silver! We have plenty of room, and we'll The Best and Most Healthful love having her. I'll go and tell Cereal for Your Family to Eat! Mother." The All -0- Wheat I slipped out while Mr. Silver was People use only the thanking her. I didn't want to see most carefully select- Sue's face when she hung up. But ed wheats with high- est food values. there was nothing unusual to see. They are skillfully She stayed alone in the hall for a milled to retain all minute or two, but when she came of the food values back into the living room, no one but nature intended them to have- IT'S STEEL CUT me,. who had the low-down, noticed For smoother, richer she was paler and quieter. While ALL-O-WHEAT IS she was telling Mother about Mr. HOT CHOCOLATE Silver's fiancee, the telephone rang • DELICIOUS to the Taste again. • NUTRITIOUS to the Body Use Morning Milk—diluted • Believe it or not, it was Paul EASY TO PREPARE or undiluted, as you please. • Morning Milk's smooth tex- again, and was I ever glad to hear VERY ECONOMICAL to use ture, rich flavor make the his manly voice! The awful thought Try a package of ALL-O-WHEAT and best hot chocolate taste note its DELICIOUS FLAVOR, had come to me that he had prob- even better! Try it — and evidence that the entire wheat berry you'll taste the difference! ably given up. After all, it was is present not Paul who usually did the chas- Ask Your Grocer Today For ing, and if he'd quit, where would ALL-O-WHEAT MORNING Susie be then, poor thing! But it Or Write to ALL-O-WHEAT CO. must have been the difficulties he Ogden, Utah MILK (Concluded on following page) JANUARY 1950 65 SUSIE AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS (Concluded from preceding page) Well, Sue was what Grandma the front porch ( she certainly was was running into that were making would call the belle of the ball, as an ordinary-looking Jane, not even him so wild about Susie. was only to be expected for Paul in Sue's class). "Do you know, "This is me, Ananias," I babbled, Stronge's girl and date. Boys Johnny, it's the funniest thing," (she "Did you, by any chance, want danced with her who hadn't known and I were in the kitchen eating ' Sue?" she was on earth, although they peanut-butter sandwiches, before "Oddly enough, yes," he an- had probably been in the same going to bed) "but yesterday, in swered, with heavy sarcasm. classes. Even the senior girls were chapter thirty-six of the psychol- "Doesn't she live there any more?" respectfully jealous and treated her ogy book it said, 'Occasionally the "She certainly does," I answered, like she was One Of Them. Mr. Subconscious, rather than assisting, knowing now she wouldn't be hard Silver broke away from his girl seems at the time to be frustrating to find. "Sus-ie, Telephone!" friend long enough to dance with one; but in that case, one is apt to "You'll thank Old Sub for this her. Though when I say dance, I learn later that it was for his best some day," I said, when Susie had am using the term loosely, for Sue good the plan in question did fail.' accepted Paul in a quiet and digni- admitted to me, some time later, that The Subconscious, with the infinite fied way that must have been some- his dancing is definitely dated, and wisdom of Time and Space to draw thing new in H.R.H. (His Royal I think that went a long way to- upon, had acted for the best." Highness) 's love life. I was just ward helping her to forgive Old "That's right," I said, heartily, trying to show a little sympathy Sub for failing her in a crisis. glad for once to be on the side of without saying anything embar- "Do you know," she said, late the Subconscious, "If we have to rassing, but Susie only gave me a that night after Paul had finally lose faith in anyone, let it be Mr. twisted smile and went up to her gone and Mr. Silver was saying a Silver, by all means. Let's never go room. lingering good-night to his girl on back on dear old Sub!" LEHI IN THE DESERT (Continued from page 16) in a time when Egypt was enjoying But it is now time to turn to the Egyptian cultural heritage that was the short but almost miraculous re- Book of I Nephi. How perfectly all-powerful, Egyptian influence be- vival of splendor that marked the the author depicts the very situation ing strongest in Palestine after XXVI Dynasty, with its astonish- we have just described! He ex- Egypt had passed her peak as a ing climax of world trade, the credit plained that he did not intend to world power.™ of that country should stand high write a political history, and so we In the great days of Egypt the in the land of Jerusalem? must often look between the lines; renowned Ipuwer had said, "the Palestine, always a melting pot, yet the amount of information he foreigners have become Egyptians was more so than ever in this period imparted in the most casual and everywhere,"' and a near con- of internationalism and trade. It unlabored manner imaginable is temporary of Lehi can boast, "be- was a time of great mixing of cul- simply astonishing. Consider first hold, are not the Ethiopian, the tures and nationalities throughout the picture of Lehi. Syrian, and all foreigners alike in- the ancient world, both through the Lehi was a very rich Jew; he was structed in the language of operations of commerce and of war. proud of his Egyptian education, : Egypt?" For centuries it was the Lists of skilled workmen living in spoke and wrote Egyptian, and in- custom of the princes of Syria to Babylon immediately after the fall sisted on his sons learning the send their sons to Egypt to be edu- of Jerusalem show an almost un- language. He possessed exceeding 8 41 cated.'" No matter how sorry the believable mixture of types. As great wealth in the form of "gold, plight of Egypt, the boastful in- for the internationalism of business, silver, and all manner of precious scriptions of her rulers—sometimes the princes of the Delta were mer- things," not manufactured at Jeru- 42 very feeble ones—proclaim the ab- chants, the princes of the Syrian salem; he had close ties with Sidon solute and unquestioned superiority and Palestinian cities were also, as (one of the most popular names in of Egyptian civilization to i all the Amarna tablets show, mer- the Book of Mormon, where it ap- \ others: with Egyptians that is an I chants; the story of Wenamon is pears both in its Semitic and its article of faith. Like the English in enough to show that the princes of Egyptian form of Giddonah ) ; yet ] our own day, the Egyptians demon- Phoenicia and Philistia were mer- he lived on an estate in the country, strated time and again the ability to chants; the Arab princes of the "the land of his inheritance," and maintain a power and influence in desert were merchants, and the mer- was something of an expert in vine, j the world out ;bf all proportion to chants of\ Egypt and Babylonia olive, fig, and honey culture; so their physical resources; with no would meet in their tents to trans- there can be little doubt of the other means than a perfect and act business; 43 the two wisest of the nature of his business with Egypt.'' 4 tenacious confidence in the divine Greeks, Lehi's great contemporaries, Now this man, coming from one superiority of Egypt and Amnion, Solon and Thales, both traveled ex- of the oldest families and having a almost succeeded in tensively Wenamon J ' in the East—on business. most unobjectionable background i i i ) overawing the great prince of In short, Lehi's world was a world and education, suddenly found him- 40 Tyre. Is it any wonder then, that of merchants. self in bad with the "people that j 66 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA count." First, there was mockery, then, anger, and finally, plots against his life (I Nephi 1:19-20) which, since they were serious, must have been supported in high places, for in openly sid- ing with Jeremiah (Ibid,, 7:14) he had made himself a traitor to his class and his tradition: mem- bers of his own family turned against him and, taking the side of "the Jews who were at Jerusalem," as Nephi explains, accused their father of criminal defeatism in think- ing and preaching "that Jerusalem, that great city, must be destroyed," (Ibid., 1:4) exactly as the Sarim ac- cused Jeremiah of treasonable talk. So vehement was their support of the government party's point of view, that Lehi's two eldest sons shared with the Jews the great crime of plotting against their father's life. (Ibid,, 17:44.) No- where is the "dissension and heart- burning that rent the unhappy city of Jerusalem" more clearly shown forth than in those impassioned scenes within Lehi's own household. The elder sons, reared to a life of Egyptian elegance and heirs to a fortune that owed much to Egypt. were staunch defenders of the status quo, while the younger sons, less spoiled by all accounts, had been made aware of the real nature of the crisis in Jerusalem, which was not really an economic or a political but basically a moral one. (Ibid., 1:19.) The older men could not see this at all: "the people $&lM i Nephi's story of Jerusalem is, as we MAAS Cathedral Chimes Vibrachimes have seen, strictly authentic, and the Carillons Harp Celeste Vibrachord of utter danger . annihilation of Ask your nenrhy Macs Dealer or write to: .» _ Delicious Jerusalem that runs like an ominous MAAS ORGAN CO. IV SUN-VISTA fate motif through the whole book BLACK-EYED PEAS was, as the event proved, perfectly BUTTER BEANS BABY LIMA BEANS justified. PINTO BEANS GREEN CHILI PEPPERS The world has always cast a PINTO BEANS WITH PORK superior and mocking eye on the At Your Grocers inordinate concern of the Book of Mormon for things Egyptian. With surprise and incredulity it is now Write for your free copy of the learning that Egyptian culture counted for far more in Palestine in 1949 Era Index {Continued on following page) JANUARY 1950 67 LEHI IN THE DESERT (Continued from preceding page) he could read these engravings, and they spoken only Hebrew. Ancient 600 B.C. than anyone had ever sup- teach them to his children." (Mos. Hittite was just such a dual lan- posed. It is significant that the 1:4.) We have seen that Egyptian guage. The reason "none other Book of Mormon concern with was taught to "Ethiopians, Syrians, people knoweth our language" to- Egypt is strictly cultural—it never and all other foreigners" in Lehi's day is that English is the result of mentions Pharaoh or speaks of day. Mormon tells us (Mor. 9:32- imposing cultivated French on native Egyptian government, but only of 34 ) that the language of Lehi's Saxon, just as cultivated Egyptian Egyptian culture and especially descendants was not Hebrew or was imposed on native Hebrew in language. It makes it perfectly Egyptian but a mixture of both, Lehi's Palestine. On a ceremonial clear, however, that Egyptian was both being corrupted in the process, dagger which with its handle of for Lehi a second language, "for so that "none other people knoweth white gold reminds us of Laban's he having been taught in the lan- our language," which would cer- sword, we read the name Jaqoh- guage of the Egyptians, therefore tainly not have been the case had her, "Jahveh is satisfied," a name which neatly combines Egyptian and Hebrew in a process of fusion for which a great deal of evidence now exists, and which had been in progress long before Lehi's day.45 It was common in ancient as in modern languages to use one and One -J the same word (e.g. Eng. "speech" Get Egypt, "ra") both for "utterance" and "language."* When Nephi Starting says, "after this manner was the language of my father in praising of his God," (I Ne. 1:15) he is not telling us what language his father spoke, but giving notice that he is quoting or paraphrasing an actual speech of his father. Likewise when he says, "I make a record in the language of my father," that he is going ( Ibid., 1:2) he says to quote or paraphrase a record actually written by his father. {Ibid., 1:16,) He explains that his father wrote the record in Egyptian w I th though it dealt with Jewish matters, but he never affirms that Egyptian 46 was his father's native tongue. WINTER GRADE But it is not only a dual culture that is thus reflected in the Book of Mormon. The same mixture of types that turns up among the cap- tives in Babylon is vividly depicted GASOLINE in the proper names of Lehi's de- scendants. The temptation to list a few of these here is too great to resist, and such a list furnishes a really helpful commentary on Lehi's own background. Hebrew and Egyptian names together make up MOTOR OIL the overwhelming majority and oc- cur in about equal strength, which is exactly what one would expect from Mormon's claim that both lan- guages were used among them, but Hittite, Arabic, and Ionian elements UTAH OIL are not missing. UTOCO REFINING Some Egyptian names: Aha COMPANY ("Warrior"), Giddonah (Eg. Dji- dewnah, i.e., Sidon), Korihor (Eg. Herihor, Khurhor, etc.), Paanchi 68 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA 60 (Eg. Paankhi), Pacumeni (Eg. etc., would never be suspected if Kumen-onhi, Kish-kumen (Eg. Pakamen, "Blind man," a proper inserted into a list of Book of Mor- -Hitt. Kumani, an important city), name), Laish (Eg. Leshi, "Joy"), mon names. The Book of Mormon Seantum (Eg. -Hitt. Sandon, San- Aminadab (Eg. & Canaan. Amina- does give the right type of Hebrew das), Akish (Eg.- Hitt. Akish, thab-i), Himni (Eg. Hmn, a name name. a name of Cyprus, ) Gadiandi (Eg. 52 of the hawk-god), Zem'/f (Eg. W^hat comes as a surprise is that for Hitt. city: Cadyanda ). Their Znb, Snb—very common, also a number of Book of Mormon Egyptian form shows that these Senep-ta), Z,emna~ri~hah (Eg. names are possibly Hittite and some names reached the people of Lehi Zmn-ha-re, the same elements in of them are undoubtedly so. Thus not directly but through normal different order, a common Eg. while Manti suggests Eg. Monti, routes, though it has recently been practice), Xenoch (Eg. Zenekh, Manti, Menedi, etc., it also recalls noted that some of Lehi's important once a serpent-god), Zeezr-om and the Egyptian name of a Hittite city, contemporaries in Israel were Hit- Seezor-am (Eg. Zozer, Zeser, etc.), Manda, and a characteristic ele- tites, and that Hittite settlements Ammon (Eg. Anion, the common- ment of Hurrian names -anti, -andi, and names still survived in the hill 5 ' est name in the Eg. Empire and likewise fairly common in the Book country of Judah at that time. 51 also the Book of Mormon), Pachus of Mormon. So likewise Kumani, [Continued on following page) (Eg, Pa-ks, Pach-qs), Pahoran (Eg. Pa-her-an, in its Canaan, form Pahura; in Eg. as Pa-her-y it fitting- ly means "the Syrian"), Gimgim~no (Eg. Kenkeme, cf. Kipkip in JUST OFF THE PRESS... Nubia and Bibl. No-Amon "City of Amon"), Morianton (Eg. Maru- A NEW LUNDWALL BOOK! Aton), Sinim (Eg. Sanam, i.e. Napata), Ziff (Eg. Sepa in its ( , Semit. form ) , Sam Eg. Sam ) Ezias (Eg. Azesha, Azizie), Kish (Eg. Kush, Kesh, etc.), Hem (-Eg. Hem, "Servant"). The great frequency of the element Mor- in Book of FAmTuKfnS Mormon proper names suits with the fact that in the Egyptian lists of Lieblein and Ranke the element Mr ANCIENTS is, next to Nfr alone, also the B. LUNDWALL commonest. The Book of Mormon N, names Gidgiddoni and Gidgiddonah have interesting resemblance to an Egyptian compound meaning, ac- A new classic by N. B. Lundwall, cording to its ending, "Thoth hath author of such popular books as said, He shall live," and "Thoth Temples of the Most High, Assorted hath said, She shall live"; the Book Gems of Priceless Value, The Vision, forms suggest "Thoth of Mormon Inspired Prophetic Warnings, etc. hath said I," and "we, shall live" re- spectively/7 Nephi, of course, has 4" a wealth of Egyptian possibilities. Foith Like The Ancients ... a compilation of statements and gospel doc- trines from various authorities ond writers in the Church over a period of Since the Old Testament was the last one hundred years. These writings have been carefully chosen and available to Joseph Smith, there is edited from many volumes ond Church periodicals It is a book full of no point in listing Hebrew names, truth which enhances ond betters your understanding of the gospel of but their Book of Mormon forms Jesus Christ. are significant. The strong tendency in Book of Mormon names to end in Aah is very striking, since the SPECIALLY BOXED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE vast majority of Hebrew names These three favorites are now pcckaged ond fectured at one low price. found at Lachish end the same way, GOLDEN NUGGETS OF THOUGHT ALL THREE indicating that ~iah names were very Compiled by Ezra Marler 48 GOD PLANTED A TREE fashionable in Lehi's day. Non- By Ora P. Stewart FOR Biblical Shallum and Mattaniah STORYTELLER'S SCRAPBOOK $295 By from Lachish suggests Book of Albert L. Zobell, Jr. Mormon Shelem and Mathonihah, while Hebrew names turned up on ancient jar handles from other places have a familiar Book of BOOKCRAFT Mormon ring: Hezron, Mamshath, 1186 SOUTH MAIN SALT LAKE CITY 4, UTAH Ziph, Jether, Epher, Jalon, Ezer, Menahem, Lecah, Amnon, Zoheth, JANUARY 1950 69 LEHI IN THE DESERT that the {Continued from preceding page) Near East." Lehi's people, even eus" means "a Laconian"— traders were Lacon- The occurrence of the names apart from their mercantile activi- oldest Greek left colonies in Cyprus Timothy and Lachoneus in the Book ties, could not have avoided con- ians, who with these people ( Book of Mormon Akish ) and of of Mormon is strictly in order. siderable contact traded with Palestine."" Since the fourteenth century B.C., in Egypt and especially in Sidon, course in that day ( To be continued ) at latest, Syria and Palestine had which Greek poets even were celebrating as the great world been in constant contact with the BIBLIOGRAPHY r Aegean world, "' and since the mid- center of trade. It is interesting to (Common abbreviations used are PEFQ, seventh century Greek note in passing that Timothy is an dle of the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly, Ionian name, since the Greeks in mercenaries and merchants, closely BASOR, Bulletin of the American Schools (hence the bound to Egyptian interests (the Palestine were Ionians of Oriental Research, and JEA, Journal best Egyptian mercenaries were Hebrew name for Greeks: "Sons of o[ Egyptian Archaeology) since "Lachon- Greeks), swarmed throughout the Javanim"), and— 'Wm. F. Albright, Archaeology and the Religion of Israel (Baltimore, Johns Hop- kins Press, 1942), p. 62 'Id., p. 63 '"]. Lieblein, Handel und Schiffahrt auf dcm Rothen Mecre in Alten Zeiten (Leip- zig, 1886), p. 8 Albright, loc. cit. BH. G. Tomkins, in PEFQ. 1884, p. 54 ""Though archaeological research goes back over a century in Palestine and Syria, it is only since 1920 that our material has become sufficiently extensive and clearly enough interpreted to be of really decisive value." Albright, op. cit., p. 37. We shall treat the chronological problem in our last article. 7 T. W. Tack, "The Lachish Letters, their Date and Import," PEFQ 1938, p. 165 8 In 1932 Mr. Kader returned to Pales- tine to get himself a wife. Though she has not, like her husband, traveled in the desert, Mrs. Kader's knowledge of the customs of Palestine is encyclopedic, and she has the uncanny memory of one who has never been handicapped with a knowl- edge of reading and writing. "After they had failed in Jerusalem, Nephi's advice to his brethren was "there- fore let us go down to the land of our ." father's inheritance. . . (I Ne. 3:16; 3:21.) "And it came to pass that we went down to the land of our inheritance." "To go down" in the Book of Mormon means to travel away from Jerusalem (Ibid., 4:33- 35), while to go up to the land" is to re- turn to Jerusalem. (Ibid., 3:9; 7:15.) Down and up have the same sense in Egyptian, ha meaning basically "to go down," but when applied to travel specifically "to go to Egypt," (A. Erman & H. Grapow, Wortenbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache, 1928, II, 472-4); so in the Old Testament one "goes down into Egypt," (Gen. 12:10), and "up to Jerusalem ... up out of the land of Egypt," (I Kings 12:28). So the Lachish letters: "Down went the " H. commander . . to Egypt . . . Torczyner, The Lachish Letters (Oxford, by the Trustees of Sir Henry Wellcome, 1938) p. 51 (No. 3). The elevation of Jerusalem was well appreciated by the Jews, as was the lowness of Egypt, and this fact lies behind the use of these ex- pressions, always correct in the Book of Mormon. On the other hand in the Book of Mormon one simply goes "unto" a house within the city (I Ne. 3:4, 11), so that when the brothers "went down to the In the after . . land of our inheritance . . . and . artistic package /^€^f/ went up again unto the house of Laban" fjti- a perfectly clear that VANILLA CHOCOLATES (I Ne. 3:22f), it is DARK their property included land as well as a Walnut Creams • Green Mints house and necessarily lay_ outside the city, Lemon Custard- Raspberry Nut as the terms "down" and "up" attest. 10 A. Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna-Tafeln ' MILK CHOCOLATES J. (Leipzig, 1915) I, 864-7, 872-5; for Bet- Pecans' Vanilla Walnut Chocolate Ninib, Id. II, 876-7 Chocolate Almonds • Coconut Caramel GlADfc CANDY COMPANY - SALT LAKE CITt "A. Alt, "Die syrische Staatenwelt uor IMPROVEMENT ERA 70 THE , :u dem Einbcuch der Assytec," in Xt-schr. dec Aramaic written to a Pharaoh of Egypt," "The language of the Pentateuch . . . dt. Morgenl. Gcs. N.F. 13(88) 1934, pp. The Biblical Archaeologist XII (1949) 46- cannot be explained except as a new crea- 247-9, cf. Wilh. Nowack, Lchrbuch dec 48, and H. L. Ginsberg, "An Aramaic tion of a common Hebrew-Egyptian en- Flebraeischcn Archaeologie (Freiburg, Contemporary of the Lachish Letters," vironment, when the Hebrews lived for a 1894), p. 194 BASOR 111 (1948) 24-27. On absence of long period in constant and most intimate iaThe parallel development of an original Babylonian influence, see A. S. Yahuda, contact with the Egyptians," thus A. S. Athens embracing many small communities The Accuracy of the Bible (London, Yahuda, The Accuracy of the Bible, xxv. is described by G. Busolt, Die Griechischen Heinemann, 1934) p. XXIX; S. L. Caiger, See especially by the same author, "The Staats-, Kriegs-, u. Privataltertuemer Bible and Spade (Oxford Univ., 1936) pp. Language of the Pentateuch in its Relation (Noerdlingen, 1887), 106ff. 83f, 91f to Egyptian I" (Oxford, 1933) pp. ,:! Nowack, op. cit. p. 3001 ~"A. H. Sayce, "The Jerusalem Sealings XXXII-XXXV, and passim. B3 "In PEFQ 1938, pp. 175f on Jar Handles," PEFQ 1927, 216f; J. G. W. F. Albright, "The Egyptian Em- [ *Loc. cit., cf. W. Albright, "A Brief Duncan, "Excavation of Eastern Hill of pire in Asia in the Twenty-first Century of Jerusalem," PEFQ 1925, 19f History of Judah from the Days Josiah B.C." Jnl. of the Pal. Or. Soc. VIII ( 1928) :!0 to Alexander the Great," The Biblical A. Cowley, Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth 226, 223ff, cf. Albright, "Palestine in the Archaeologist IX (Feb. 1946), p. 4 Century B. C. (Oxford, 1923), p. 120: Earliest Historical Period," /. Pal. Or. Soc. "Jack, loc, cit.; for a recent summary of "Already in the days of the kings of Egypt II, HO- 138 the international situation cir. 600 B.C., our fathers had built that temple in '""It is often maintained that there was ." beside the studies of Albright and Jack, Yeb . . etc. These papyri "have shed no Egyptian Empire in Asia during the undreamed-of light see John Bright, "A New Letter in Aramaic on some of the darkest twelfth century . . . this entirely erroneous written to a Pharaoh of Egypt," The areas of Jewish history." Says Albright, conception ... is due exclusively to lack Biblical Archaeologist XII (1949) pp. 49ff. Archaeol. & the Relig. of Is., p. 41, (Continued on following page) 17 ". . , the artists no longer work only for the court and the temples; they had now to fill orders for a wealthy bourgeoisie. ..." A. Moret, Histoke de L'Orient (Paris, Presses Universitaires, 1941) II, 727f: cf. J. Breasted, A History of Egypt (N. Y. Scribner's, 1909), p. 548. From 663 to 539 B.C. Egypt enjoyed unbroken Good peace. '"Breasted, op. cit., p. 577 '"Albright, Archaeol. & the Religion of Israel, p. 69; Ed. Meyer, Geschichte des Altertums (1928) II. 1.98 Neighbor "E. Meyer, op. cit, 1:2, 260; 11:1, 98, 135. The "prince kings" of Tyre and Sidon "accumulated great wealth and could afford the benefits of Egyptian culture," in their business of transporting the goods of the princes of Syria and Palestine, whose "figs, wine, honey, oil, fruit trees, corn and cattle," was the source of their You all know Joe your good neighbor. He's doing his wealth, Georg Steindorff, Egypt, N.Y., J. — J. Augustin, 1943) p. 64. The economy of level best to bring his children up so he'll be proud of them. these great Palestinian estates is described Works hard 8 hours a day, but knows that his responsibility by Ph. J. Baldensperger, "The Immovable East," PEFQ 1908, 290-6, and 1918, 121f doesn't end there—so he's an active head of committees in his y 'The rapidly deteriorating situation is service club, PTA and his Chamber of Commerce . . . gives un- described by Albright, in The Biblical sparingly of his time to his Community Chest. He's a blood Archaeologist IX (1946), 2-4, see n. 15-16 above donor, too . . . and spends an evening or two each week work- 43:10-13; 44:1-30; ^Jerem, 46:11-26 ing on behalf of his church. "J. W. Jack, in PEFQ 1938, 177-9 -4 can all be thankful for Albright, op. cit., p. 4 We Joe, and the hundreds of good "'Id., p. 6. It was not until 1925 that it neighbors like him in the Intermountain West. For community became certain "that Tyre actually fell," responsibility belongs to everyone. according to Albright, "The Seal of Eliakim, etc." Jnl. of Biblical Literature We, too, work to make The Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram 51(1932), 94f pp. a good neighbor. Publishing newspapers is our job, and we "Jack, op. cit., p. 1 78 strive to do it as well as modern journalism knows how. But ""Such was the theory of D, L. Risdon, we, like Joe, have always acknowledged community responsibility. discussed by Sir Arthur Keith, "The Men of Lachish," PEFQ 1940, 7i That is why we do not measure in ink, newsprint, hours or ^J. L. Starkey, "Lachish as Illustrating dollars our endeavors to increase the happiness, prosperity and Bible History," PEFQ 1937. 177-8, notes well-being of our neighbors in the Intermountain West. from the findings "the confidence that the masses (at Lachish) had in the household We of The Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram will continue to gods of Egypt," and "the preponderance shoulder the responsibilities to the community of a good neighbor. of Egyptian thought" in general. For evi- dence of strong Egyptian influence, A. ." Rowe, "Excavations at Beisan . . PEFQ 1928, 73ff; R. D. Barnett, "Phoenician and Syrian Ivory Carving," PEFQ 1939, 4-6, noting, 7f, competition with Hittite and Mycenaean influences; J. W. Crowfoot & G M. Crowfoot, "The Ivories from Samaria," PEFQ 1933, 7ff: these ivories, found in the "palaces of the kings of Israel" (p. 22), and carved between 885 and 705 B. C. (p. 18). all show a marked "debt to Egypt," as does the earlier art of Solomon s type, which seems out and ult $akz fgfctegram out Egyptian, C. Torrey, "A Hebrew Seal from the Reign of Ahaz," BASOR 79, 271 Military dependence on Egypt as indicated in the Lachish Letters is confirmed by a find, new J. Bright. "A New Letter in JANUARY 1950 71 LEHI IN THE DESERT (Continued from preceding page) "The Letters of Ahmose of Peniate," Jnl. ""The Hittite names are all treated in of adequate excavation in Palestine and Eg. Arch. XIV, 304, line 10. To the names articles in JEA: Manda and Kumani in S. Syria." Albright, Jnl. Pal. Or. Soc. VIII, cited by me in The Improvement Era, 51 Smith, Kizzuwadna X (1924). 133 and 227 (Apr. 1948) p. 203, may be added the 108ff, resp.; Sandon and Akish in G. A. M D. G. Hogarth, "Egyptian Empire in Pa-nepi of the Greek inscriptions, which Wainwright, Keftiu XVIII 27-29, 43, 35, Asia," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology represents an original Nihpi, with a mov- 38, 40; Cadyanda is mentioned by La I (1914), p. 9. Egypt's dominion in Asia able "h" according to W. Spiegelberg, Mayer and J. Garstang, XI, 24 M fluctuated between second and third degree "The God Panepi," Jnl. Eg. Arch. XII E. O. Forrer, "The Hittites in Pales- empire and nothing at all, id., pp. 12-13 (1926) p. 35. The other names in the list tine," PEFQ 1937, lOOf, 114f ^The exact nature and degree of Egyp- may be found in Ranke, op. cit., Lieblein, 54 J. R. H. Pfeiffer, "Hebrews and Greeks tian control in Palestine in the later period Dictionnaire de Noms Hieroglyphiques before Alexander," Jnl. Bibl. Lit. LVI is still disputed, the subject is discussed in (Christiania, 1871), and scattered through- (1937), 91-94, 101; W. F. Albright, "A Breasted, History of Egypt, pp. 516, 518f, out the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. " 9 colony of Cretan Mercenaries on the Coast 526, 529 ("Solomon was evidently an H. Torczyner, The Lachish Letters, p. of the Negeb," Jnl. Pal. Or. Soc. I (1921) Egyptian vassal . . . "), 580, and by A. S. 198. We are following the spelling used 187-194; G. Milne, "Trade between Cook in the Cambridge Ancient History by Torczyner in his text rather than in his J. Greece and Egypt before Alexander the III, 250, 256, 257f, 261, 295-9 list Great," Jnl. Eg. Arch. XXV (1939) I78f. ^Hogarth, op. cit. I, 13-14: Egyptian ^R. A. S. Macalister, "The Craftsmen's F. B. Welch, "The Influence of Aegean cultural influence was "most active from Guild of the Tribe of Tudah," PEFQ 1905, Civilization on South Palestine," PEFQ the tenth to the seventh centuries B. C." 328ff. 51 1900, 342ff. "Egyptian civilization was one to be aped E. A. Speiser, Introduction to Hurrian, reAt Tel-el-Hesy, just west of Lachish, and admired," says Cook, CAH III, 257. in Annual of Am. Schools of Or. Research "the Greek influence begins at 700, and Even "the Davidic state owed its adminis- XX (1940), index. But D. C. Lieblein, J. ." continues to the top of the town . . trative organization largely to Egyptian Schiffarht am Rothen Meere, p. 143 finds W. M. F. Petrie, in PEFQ 1900, 235; D. models . . . "Albright, Archaeol. & Relig. the Anti name in the far south, and in G. Hogarth, "Alexander in Egypt and of Is., p. 108; the same writer discussed Videnskabs-Selskabet Forhandl. Aar 1910, some Consequences," Jnl. Eg. Arch. II the weakness of Egypt in the later period No. 1 (Christiania, 1911) shows that it Milne, 180f; in "Egypt and the Early History of the means "incense." Other Egypto-Hittite (1915) op. cit, p. Nelson Gluek, 80 (1940) p. 3; Negeb," Jnl. Pal. Or. Soc. IV (1924) names may be found in Jnl. Eg. Arch. X, BASOR BASOR 144ff 108ff, 113; XI, 20 (Cadyanda), 31; XVII, 83 (1941) 25-29 re "Though the statement seems to apply 27-29, 43 (Sandon); 35, 38, 40 (Akish). Meyer, Gd.A. 11:1, 553 to Syrians within Egypt, it illustrates the cultural contact and the cultural ascendancy of Egypt, H. Frankfort, "Egypt and Syria in the First Intermediate Period," Jnl. THE MISSIONARIES Egypt Archaeol. XII (1926), 96 ^A. Moret. Hist, de I'Orient II, 787, cit- {Continued from page 26) either Latter-day Saints or on a ing his Ergs, des Maximes d'Ani hunger, and homesickness for the mission, but I am convinced that "^Meyer, op. cit., II: 1, 132; this was under life from in- Amenemhet III "the initiation of an attempt things that make for the rest of greater pain comes more to assimilate the Syrians to the Egyptians us stable and comfortable and sidious foes. through the education of the princely youth secure. They cannot possibly know Most missionaries seem to come of the former on the Nile," Hogarth, before starting forth from families that have unusually Jnl. Eg. Arch. I, 12 just what an *°We shall deal with Wenamon below temptations, difficulties, and hard- closely knit relationship. Separa- Albright, "King in "W. Joiachim Exile," ships they will meet. Talking with tion from such a home, where Biblical Archaeologist V (Dec. 1942), p. 51 **CAH III, 256 returned missionaries can but give sheltering love has encompassed ^Meyer, op. cit., 1:2, 156 faint indication of what may be them from birth, is not easy. Neither ^See note 20 above. The only other source ahead; for one thing, conditions is the absence of the expression of of great wealth in Israel would be money- changing or banking, but to engage in that vary in different parts of the close human affection to which they Lehi would have to have lived in the city country and the world, and no two have been accustomed. It is all itself, which he did not (above, n. 9). 45 missions are alike. Circumstances part of the security and happiness, Meyer, op. cit., 1:2, 297. The contact of the two languages produced the phenom- vary with each missionary who sets along with music and books and ena which are the subject of W. F. Al- forth; for another thing, certain dates and sports, that they have left bright, The Vocalization of Egyptian conditions of living, certain rebuffs behind them. At times the tug Syllabic Orthography (New Haven, Am. Or. Soc, 1934) and frustrations are infinitely more of everything represented by the ^"Yahuda, Language of the Pentateuch, trying and exhausting for some than word "home" is not easy to with- etc., p. 51. This double usage of the word for others. If a new missionary stand. Then, too, there is a "language" does nor occur in Hebrew, new and its frequent occurrence in the Book of kneels in prayer at the sacrament discipline and a new arduousness to Mormon is plain indication that Egyptian meeting on Sunday with strain life. There is constant study, all and not Hebrew is the language of the plates. showing in his face and voice and along one line. '"The clause in I Ne. 1:2 which begins drops of perspiration on his fore- They learn, finally, what we all "which consist of ... " does not refer head, you may be sure there is an must learn—that there are many back to "language" or '"father," of course, but to "record." The other two are inner cry for strength going up that things that cannot be evaluated in syntactically possible but don't make sense: is desperate and real. If these definite terms, and that this is a language does not consist of a language, sensitive boys can be made strong especially true in the matter of but a record does. The sentence is awk- ward English, but like hundreds in the in the Lord their God, as they can Christian influence; that where one Book of Mormon is a perfect parallel to be, they in turn will be especially sows another reaps is just as much the familiar Semitic hal construction. The cognizant of the needs of others. a fact today as in the days of Paul. ordinary construction in almost any ancient classical language would be "I make an Growth comes to these missionaries With some people God seems to in-the-language-of-my-father record, which in hard and proving ways. Some work slowly—with others it is as consists, etc." the if "Hermann Ranke, Die aegyptischen Per- may suffer from the rudeness, an instant miracle came to pass. soennamen (Hamburg, 1934) 412, Nos. 8 bitterness, the lack of comprehen- With some, only a light veil seems and 9 part of meet the truth 48 sion on the those they to come between them and Not heretofore noted is Nfy, borne by an Egyptian captain, S.K.R. Glanville, concerning the reasons why they are of God. With others, it is as if 72 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA a heavy curtain hung before their a powerful sense of steadiness is lightning or touches of soft and faces, making them wish that they given to us in the knowledge that tender color. So it is with these could take it in their hands and rend we have eternity both behind and missionaries. In them the sunshine it asunder. before us—that we are in the midst of joy and the shadows of suffering, We realize that against the back- of a great, sweeping portion of time. and the qualities of humility and ground of eternity our span of life This, then, is a glimpse, almost a utter sureness of faith, of gentle- here is exceedingly short. That composite picture as it were, of ness and a strength that is power- fact on the one hand makes for tre- some twenty missionaries of a great ful, are intermingled. Along with mendous urgency — on the other, and living church. More of gaiety, a passion for the Lord their God for great patience. Somewhere be- more of charm should have played they have compassionate love for tween, the balance must be main- through the sentences I have writ- all his children. Our hearts are tained. If God directs and guides ten. Against the beauty of the sky grateful for these our brothers in us in all our ways, it will be. What at sunset one often sees flashes of Christ. JOSEPHINE DONNA SMITH—INA COOLBRITH {Continued from page 27) beautiful lyrical poetry, and to kind- 1924. She was twice elected to California. Their guide over the ly and quietly advising and helping write a commencement poem for the high Sierras was the famous west- others. She was of that reserved University of California. When ern Indian Scout, James Beckwith, or New England type that does not Whittier published his Songs of as some California historians' pre- waste words. She refused to talk Three Centuries, he included her fer to spell it, Beckwourth. He led of herself or her work. Her poems, poem, "When the Grass Shall them over a pass discovered and her constant kindness and helpful- Cover Me." Later he found that explored by him which still bears ness, her beauty and majestic ap- Ina Coolbrith was the author and his name. Their train is said to pearance spoke for her and insured invited her to visit him in New Eng- have been the first to travel over her advancement. land. this pass, which lies north of the She taught school for a time. She Professor Charles Phillips of present main highway, from Reno was librarian in the Oakland city Notre Dame University, after her to Sacramento, and appears on road library for eighteen years and as- death, published a small volume of maps of California as Beckwourth sisted and encouraged many young her poems. He said she was a true Pass. people to read good books and build artist—a true poet, who accepted As they crossed the divide and good character. her talents as God-given and used came in sight of Sacramento valley, In San Francisco her home be- them delicately and purposefully. the poetic Beckwith placed the came the gathering place of poets He praised the beauty of two groups golden-haired Ina on the horse in and authors, educators and scien- of her poems, Wings of the Morn- front of him, so that she might be tists, not only from California, but ing and Songs of the Golden Gate. the first white person to enter also from all over the globe. She During the Panama Pacific Expo- California over this pass. Then, as was an editor of the Overland sition in San Francisco in 1915, she they gazed at the distant valley of Monthly. She was the close asso- was elected president of the Inter- the Golden state, he said: "There, ciate and adviser of those who made national Congress of Authors and little girl, lies your kingdom/' the Golden Age of California litera- Writers, which she had been How prophetic were his words! ture, such as Bret Harte, Mark organizing for four years, and dur- Did he know that this small, penni- Twain, Joaquin Miller, C. W. Stod- ing that congress she was formally less girl, entering the Golden State, dard, John Muir, Prentice Mulford, crowned with laurel, as were the practically as an exile, was destined Jack London. State and city offi- Greek heroes of old, by the famous to become a highly honored lady cials came to her evening assemblies. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of California? She was elected to membership in of the University of California. The Ina Coolbrith remained with her many exclusive clubs and societies. state legislature had elected her family for a time at Marysville, One of these was the Society of poet laureate of California—the first along the Sacramento River, about Authors and Journalists of London, time in American history that the forty miles north of Sacramento. England. title of poet laureate was conferred After one year they removed to In the 1906 earthquake and fire, on any person. She was then the village of Los Angeles, now her home was destroyed, and with seventy-four. the great southern metropolis, and it many of her manuscript poems She passed away on February lived in an adobe cottage, shaded and her unpublished History of 29, 1928. After her decease, the by Peruvian pepper trees. Western Literature. Many price- legislature of California honored She grew to be a tall, slender, less mementos were burned, such her memory by naming a prominent beautiful woman. After a short as letters from Tennyson, Whittier, peak in the high Sierras, six miles marriage and the death of her only and other noted authors and states- south of where she entered Cali- child, she went north and estab- men. She did not let this discour- fornia, Mount Ina Coolbrith. lished herself in San Francisco. She age her; she went right on with grandson of J. Winter Smith, a had lost a wonderful father, a kind her work. the Prophet's brother, Samuel Har- stepfather, and her only child. In Mills College conferred the de- rison Smith, is vice president of her grief she turned to writing gree of Master of Arts on her in (Concluded on following page) JANUARY 1950 73 JOSEPHINE DONNA SMITH—INA COOIBRITH (Concluded from preceding page) Samuel H. Smith, and both married Life is not ours to shame nor ours the Ina Coolbrith Circle, an associa- brothers of the Prophet. Mary to play, tion of authors who organized in Bailey married Samuel H. Smith Not ours in idle ease to dream her honor and now meet monthly who has many descendants in the away; in the Sutro Library, San Francisco. Church today. He is a grandson of Mary Bailey, A verse by Ina Coolbrith en- But ours for whatsoever work God the close friend of Agnes Coolbrith. titled, "Life's Purpose," sums up sends, Both of these girls were baptized by her philosophy: For faithful service unto noble ends. {Continued from page 35) I am now enjoying good health, the MISSION TO POLYNESIA Church leaders had to meet but when I boarded with Brother Lin- every day. Could he have fully coln at Papeete he set a good table in my daily prayer, and I will not cease understood these things, he would American style. The food was most till I see them. have understood why so few letters foreign. I enjoyed my food least came. while there than I have any portion The following day Addison or- In Tahiti, Addison again went of time since I left home. Native ganized a branch of the Church at to work in earnest, determined to food agrees with me far better. While Tiarai and ordained a priest and I was there I was troubled with devote every free minute to the much two deacons. branch The was indigestion and heartburn, and I lost preaching of the gospel until a made up of twenty-six persons. All flesh, but now I am gaining it again. passage home could be secured, but of this work was accomplished in How little man needs to make him he was able to accomplish little spite of the fact that a "continual more happy, when he once knows it, because of the war still in progress stream of evil reports" against the than he can be with much. While between the French and the natives. Church continued to pour in to the there a mahogany table was spread October passed, and November and island through American news- with every necessary dish filled with December. On January 1, 1847, various kinds of meat, puddings, cakes, papers. Commenting on his health the natives of the island began pies, and sweet meats; but my appetite and general situation during this laying down their arms. In an was so poor that many times I could period, Addison wrote: address to a large number of them not go to the table to taste of it. But assembled in front of the council here a knife, fork, and spoon with house, the French governor prom- some coconut shells on some leaves Evidences and Reconciliations spread on the hay that is in place of a ised that the natives would be free floor composes my whole table furni- to embrace the religion of their (Concluded from page 42) ture. choice and that he would protect The relative location of Indepen- them from persecution from any dence and that of Adam-ondi-Ah- There seemed to be no question source. Immediately afterwards man corroborate the Bible. After in Addison's mind as to where he natives from several parts of the the so-called "Fall," Adam and Eve should return. Since many of island invited Addison to preach were driven out of the garden and the Saints, he had learned, were to them. On January 9 he left for a flaming sword "placed at the East in "California" he concluded that 9 the Tiarai district, forty miles east to keep the way of the tree of life." he must look for his family there. of Papeete. There he stayed most Apparently Adam and Eve entered So when an opportunity arose to of the month, made many friends, the country east of the garden. sail for Hawaii and perhaps to San and baptized more natives into the Now Adam-ondi-Ahman is about Francisco, he eagerly accepted it. fold. seventy miles northeast of the city The captain was his old friend, On February 6, he wrote: of Independence. If our first pro- Sajot, with whom he had sailed in genitors settled at Adam-ondi- the islands. The boat was the This is the birthday of my dear Ahman, it is more than likely that Providence, the passage was fifty daughter, Ellen Sophronia. This is the people as they increased settled her fourth birthday that has passed dollars to Hawaii. Fourteen per- along the course of the Mississippi away since I saw her last, nor have sons made up the party. The cap- basin. Noah probably built the I had word from her since August Ark tain, two mates, an Englishman, an 1844 and whether she or any of the near the river. When the flood Italian, two Sandwich Islanders, other members of my family are now came, it floated easily into the ocean, and two Tuamotu natives com- living is all unknown to me. By the to the Asiatic continent where Noah prised the crew. There were five last accounts from Nauvoo, a part of and his family began again the passengers. Most of the day of the Church had been butchered, and work commenced by Adam. the 28th of March, 1847, the party the rest were obliged to flee to Cali- Joseph Smith probably gave final spent on board the ship, waiting fornia to safety. A part of it, I hear, answer to the question concerning for favorable wind. At three o'clock has arrived there; but whether my the location of the Garden of Eden. in the afternoon the wind from the poor fatherless family are among them Scientific men are divided in their ocean ceased, a brisk land breeze or not the Lord knows, and as I have opinion as to where the human race up, and the Providence sailed trusted them in his hands I will try came began; but their increasing to be reconciled. But my heart aches evidence out through the pass in the reef. to at the thought of their probable situ- seems lean towards America, as Addison was at last on his way revealed to Joseph Smith. /. A. ! ation, and may he soon open the way — W. home. \ that I may be on my way to them is ;l G':nesis 3:24 { To be continued) 7* THE IMPROVEMENT ERA The Handout Diet (Continued from page 37) NU W' • !•]» superior to pasteurized milk, raw milk from an unknown or ques- BOARD—TILE—PLANK tionable source should not be used. The same applies to KOLOR FAST TAN cheeses. Milk products from cows fed on fresh pasturage are AND best. STA-LITE WHOLE GRAINS: Whole grain bread and cereals should be used Just what you need to furnish that room in the attic or remodel exclusively. White flour is the end-product after having milled the basement for a Rumpus Room. out of the wheat berry virtually all of its vitamin, mineral, and SEE YOUR FRIENDLY LUMBER DEALER superior protein content, as well He will be pleased to help you with all the details. as its roughage. All of these are most necessary for adequate TM6 MARK 0£ MORRISON-MERRILL & CO SALT LAKE CITY nutrition, especially since nearly DIAL 3-2611 MilM CATELLOJDi 50% of our national dietary iTI-eERROCKPAFEft PHONE 334 PRODUCTS BUILDING MATERIAL DISTRIBUTORS 1 FOR ENO. NEVADA comes from grain products. ('En- 1 IBULONC PURPOSES I OlAt 3-3194 REL.IABIL.ITY riched' flour is not a substitute.) For best results whole grain flour should be used within forty-eight hours after it is ground. It should be fresh. What has been said about the wheat pertains also to other grains. Home-size flour mills are now available. MEATS: These should be used sparingly, especially during the warm months of the year. As a rule, the organs (such as the liver), are superior to the ordi- nary muscle cuts of the animal, 'i he fresh product is best. Frozen products are preferable to proc- essed and canned meats. Usual- ly meat is better broiled than fried. FISH is a desirable meat food. NUT MEATS and NUT BUTTERS likewise are desir- able. Vegetable proteins—-peas, lentils, beans, and especially soy beans are excellent protein foods. Protein must be eaten daily for body building. Since 1892 TOTAL ABSTINENCE from alcoholic beverages, caffeinated beverages (including all cola IlM USE for OVER FIFTY YEARS WE OFFER... A COMPLETE drinks) and tobacco cannot too Aids in treatment of Canker, simple ENGRAVING SERVICE strongly be urged. And in light sore throat and other minor moxith From Missionary Portraits to the Largest of recent nutritional research we and throat irritations. Catalogues. Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention may well include many highly UTAH ENGRAVING CO. refined food products in this same HALLS REMEDY 113 Regent St. Salt Lake City, Utah category. Highly seasoned foods Salt Lake City, Utah also should be avoided. The foregoing diet may be For Pleasure adjusted to the needs of almost all Your Reading patients. For example, 'for those Each Month of the Year requiring a "smooth" diet, (tempo- THE IMPROVEMENT ERA 12 Issues, $2.50 (Concluded on following page) JANUARY 1950 75 THE HANDOUT WET Davidson, M.D., University of {Continued from preceding page) The Word of Wisdom, Dr. John A. J. R. Medical School rarily or more permanently), one of & Leah D. Widtsoe Manitoba, ** In Uterine Science Education and the Future of Thiamine Deficiency* the liquefiers on the market may be Ernest Ayre & W. A. Man, A. Carlson, M.D. Cancer***, J. used to finely triturate foods before J. G. Bauld, Royal Victoria Hospital, Bleaching of Flour, North Dakota serving . . . such as vegetables, McGill University, Montreal Agricultural College Bulletin No. 72, Vitamin F and Carbamide in fruits, nuts, and even meats, by E. F. Lad, B.S., & R. E. Stallings, Calcium Metabolism, Royal Lee, whether these be served raw or MA. D.D.S. cooked. Incidentally, these lique- "Vitamins and Deficiency Diseases "Quotations on Vitamins" from the A. fiers are most useful in preparing of the Alimentary Tract," Edward U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Yearbook Johnston, M.D., in Journal of the Foundation for Nutri- baby foods, making it possible to for 1939, Lee American College of Proctology tional Research get away from canned foods in Maintenance of Nutrition * * And Soil: A Foundation of Health. baby's diet. This is a financial as its Relation to Heart Block, Cyril Wil- Arnold P. Yerkes, Supervisor Farm well as a nutritional advantage. liam Carter, Dept. of Biochemistry, Practice Research, International Har- For the "reducing" diet, skim Oxford University vester Company Recent Conclusions in Malnutrition, milk and cottage cheese may be Why We Need Vitamin E, August Pacim, Ph.D. Royal Lee, D.D.S. prescribed instead of whole milk J. Lithogenesis and Hypovitaminosis, The Need for Vitamins, L. Stam- and cream cheeses. The intake of M.D., Toronto, boosky. W. J. McCormick, grain products may be adjusted to Canada Current Thinking on Nutrition, Forman, B.A., M.D., F.A.- the caloric allowance, and such Abstracts on Relation of Vitamin Jonathan Deficiencies to Heart Disease, Lee C.A., Ohio State Medical Journal, products as nuts, raisins, figs, dates, Foundation for Nutritional Research, 1945 Simi- etc., and honey, be curtailed. Milwaukee, Wisconsin "Fundamentals of Nutrition for lar restrictions may be made for Calcium, Wm. A. Albrecht, Uni- Physicians and Dentists," N. Philip the "diabetic" diet. Adjustments versity of Missouri, College of Agri- Norman, M.D., American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery. in the opposite direction meet the culture ' Vitamin vs Wheat Germ Oil, November, 1947. needs of the "High Caloric Diet. E Ezra Levin, MA. "Nutrition and Dental Disease," Al- adjustments will result in Similar Advertising and Food, Jos. Rorty, lison G. James, D.D.S., Annals of the "high protein" diet, the "low "Nutrition in Review" Western Medicine & Surgery, Sep- 1947 protein" diet, etc. Foods to which Natural vs. Artificial Nitrates, Sir tember, Albert Howard, CLE., MA. Vitamines in our Food, A. E. Mur- the individual is allergic are to be Food Thought, Rev. Henry neek. University of Missouri, Colum- occasion be for avoided, but should on Retzek bia tried again, especially after fol- The Physiology of Vitamins A and Using Whole Grains in Family Letha K. lowing this diet. Allergies may, E, Royal Lee. D.D.S. Meals, Flora L. Carl & Recurrence in Jopling and do, change when the body is The Prevention of Peptic Ulcer, D. T. Quigley. M.D. How to be Well, Leah D. Widtsoe properly nourished. It is thought L. Rodale Cancer: A Nutritional Deficiency, The Healthy Hunzas, J. .that but few dietary prescriptions cannot be met by the use—with necessary modifications as indi- cated—of the "handout" diet, and TWENTY YEARS IN THE CZECH0S10VAKIAN MISSION that its simplicity is its true and greatest value. (Continued from page 33) Christ of Latter-day Saints mission in Finally, it is felt that the "hand- Czechoslovakia said Wednesday night message in Czechoslovakia was dis- eleven American Mormon missionaries out" diet, if adopted as a perma- the twentieth anniver- cussed. Of have been ordered out of the country by nent pattern of dietary regimen, will sary meetings, President Toronto the Communist-led government since May, restoring go far toward not only said: five of them in recent days. indi- a state of good health in the Six already have gone. The other five experience in vidual, but protecting and preserv- I do not recall in my are still in the country awaiting a decision Czechoslovakia that we have ever had the minister of the ing it as well. on their appeal to a richer outpouring of the Spirit of the interior. BIBLIOGRAPHY Lord. It was truly a glorious time for all who had the opportunity to partici- Five days later, the United Press Nutrition & Physical Degeneration, pate. said: Weston A. Price, D.D.S. Even then there was a shadow National Malnutrition, D. F. The PRAGUE, November 21: The Czech F.A.C.S. in the background of things to come Quigley, M.D., government has expelled four more Ameri- Special Nutritional Qualities of for the missionaries laboring in The can Mormon missionaries, Wallace Toron- Natural Foods, Royal Lee, D.D.S. , & Czechoslovakia. More recently, to, president of the mission here disclosed Jerome S. Stolzoff newspaper clippings have brought Monday. A Discussion of the Forms of Blood the welfare of these missionaries to That brought to ten the number of Mor- Calcium, Royal Lee, D.D.S., & Wm. mons ousted since last spring. Twenty- A. Hanson the minds of the Church member- one remain. A Survey of Vitamin F ., Harold ship generally. Arlenfein, B.S., MA. The Associated Press, in a news The Wheel Health, T. Wrench. President David O. McKay of of dispatch dated Prague, November M.D. the First Presidency was immediate- Health, Henry C. Sherman 16, reported: Food & ly informed as these news dis- What Price Alcohol?, Robert S. teletypes. Carroll, M.D. The president of the Church of Jesus patches came from the On 76 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA a . seeing the Associated Press report, partially printed above, he said: with an eye toward the future Owing to the misunderstanding on the part of some officers of the true purpose we're proud to announce of the missionaries in Czechoslovakia, two or three of our elders have had their applications refused for renewal on their permits to remain in the country. How- WINTER TERM ever, several missionaries have received permits valid to 1951, and others have The Winter Term at L.D.S. begins Janu- been given temporary permits until per- ary 3, 1950. Keep that date in mind be- manent ones can be issued. Our mission- cause many new classes will be offered then. aries are instructed to take no part in you Classes such as: political controversies. • Shorthand . . . beginning, intermediate, Write or call for further advanced After reading the later dispatch, information • Accounting . . . beginning, intermediate, advanced he said: • Economics Because of the difficulty in getting any- You may register for either day or evening classes the week of January 3-7. thing out of Prague, we have not suf- ficient data on which to base any decision until further information is received. BUSINESS COLLEGE L. D. S. 70 North Main Salt Lake City On December 18, the Associated Press reported from Prague the L.D.S. training doesn't cost it pays "expulsion" of the twelfth L. D. S. missionary. Be Your Own Understanding Youth MUSIC (Continued from page 29) Teacher with other youths, driving a car, Learn at Home and taking care of finances and by wonderful improved meth- Simple B. handling all preparations and ar- od. as A. C. — child can learn it. Your rangements. He may want to launch lessons consist of real selec- tions instead of tiresome ex- out into business ventures, with lit- ercises. When you finish one of these delightfully easy lessors you've added a new tle experience. may fail or no He "piece" to your list. You read notes, too—no "numbers" financially, but the value accrues in or trick music. Method is so thorough that some of our 850,000 students are band and orchestra LEADERS. the experience gained. The soli- HOW LONG HAS Everything is in print and pictures. First you are told what to do. Then a picture shows you how to do it. darity and cooperative spirit of the Then you do it yourself and hear it. 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KOLOB AGENT today to analyze your I am interested in music will often prefer to be with their study, particularly in the in- coverage to see if you have enough strument checked below. Please send your free illus- friends. The family car, which form- protection to meet today's increased trated booklet, "How to Learn Music at Home," and values. the free Print and Picture Sample. drive for all erly meant a members Piano Piano Accordion Tenor Banjo of the household on a Saturday Guitar Saxophone Modern Elemen- Hawaiian Guitar Trumpet, Cornet tary Harmony afternoon, may leave the premises Violin Reed Organ Clarinet minus the adolescents. Parents need Name (PLEASE PRINT) to prepare themselves for this and Street accept with as much poise as pos- A GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY Frank Salisbury, Mgr. City sible the fact that at times Jane 330 Judge Bldg. Salt Lake City State and Jimmy actually prefer the com- panionship of their teen-age friends. The parents are the vulnerable par- HOTEL LANKERSHIM WEDDINGS BANQUETS ties in this instance because of the 7th ft BROADWAY ALL SIZE PARTIES habitual attitude of having their ROOMS WITH GOOD FOOD offspring within arm's reach. The supper rooms twinges of pain, disappointment, or :;: LOS ANGELES MA'S & PA'S PLACE alarm which the parent first feels 'TWO PERSONS ~ OHI CHARGED Ogden-Salt Lake Highway U.S. 91 PHONE 2-0824 (Continued on following page) JANUARY 1950 77 ) UNDERSTANDING YOUTH ( Concluded from preceding page Associations are planned with the helps to foster maturity; it is the should be salved over with new needs of youth in mind, and the ac- wise father who gives and expects interests; and when the personally tivities are wholesome and effica- responsibility. Parents must learn satisfying childhood dependence is cious in socializing the maturing to stand aside, allow mistakes to be no longer called upon, the under- individual. made without repeated reference to standing parent will have some hob- Last, the adolescent "must effect them. One adolescent girl stated by or long-deferred activity in an integration in his personality for to a counselor that she was thrilled which to busy himself. Parents mature responsibility." The inte- to be asked to choose her own bed- may cling to their children too long gration mentioned actually has to room decorations and furnishings: and hamper the personal develop- be effected by the youth himself, "I was hasty in some decisions adult- ment so needed for successful I learned that is, unless his efforts are hamp- about color schemes, and hood. Dr. Reynold Jensen, famous ered by too much parental help. more, living in that room, than if it child psychiatrist, says there is Many mothers, through zeal and had been arranged by the best in- usually trouble if the parent "holds desire for their children's success, terior decorator in the city. ... I the child too close, too tight, too over-emphasize routine matters. An suppose everything, even wallpaper, long." plan- instance of this is the mother who needs some forethought and The third concept, that of bring- — assumes the responsibility herself ning!" Adult integration was tak- ing about a satisfactory relationship eighteen-year-old ing place, but without the opportu- of getting an I also finds with the opposite sex, : young man out of bed and to a col- nity it never could have come about. some parental fears in the picture. patience, for- lege class on time. An exhausting ! We see then, that Boys and girls should be given the ritual of calling, pleading, and urg- I bearance, amusement, exasperation, opportunity to mix socially with one ing goes into the morning routine. enthusiasm all these and more go j — another in well-planned and well- Will he ever assume adult respon- into our attitudes toward adoles- supervised dances, parties and else fails If, on personal exam- sibility if someone never | cent youth. entertainments. The settings for to do it for him? If mothers would I ination, we recognize that we have contacts can be fairly well these condemnation than accept- allow boys and girls to accept the I more provided our religious institu- by ourselves. day's challenge, by doing the simple i ance, let us look at We if are alert to the tions, they yet once, love each young man, and we needs of youth. The Sunday task of calling them much fear him; we condemn him, yet we Schools of our Church offer com- irritation would be avoided. admire him. Let us give him the prehensive classes with course con- to become an adult. He is, tent geared to the modern concepts HpHE confidence of the father in a chance the future. of youth. The Mutual Improvement youth is another factor which after all, the hope of THIS TIME—OR NEVER (Continued from page 25) had a special medal struck for the stream three times before he could a veteran of thirty-three months' youth. It was presented during manage to reach and rescue the service in the Pacific during the last ceremonies planned for the occa- drowning man," he said. war. "I have never seen a nar- sion. Additional honor came in the rower escape or a more thrilling "The more than eleven thousand form of a commendation from Presi- rescue," he said. Scouts and Scouters of the Salt dent George Albert Smith: "We Because Wayne was a Scout, Lake Council salute Explorer are proud whenever our boys do a word of the rescue soon reached Wayne Freckleton," said D. E. thing of this kind and are grateful the National Council, Boy Scouts Hammond, Scout Executive, when that Wayne succeeded and that a of America. They investigated. he first received word that the life was not lost. that this one of They found was honor had come to the local Scout. "The training that is given in recorded in all the bravest rescues "He has brought honor and distinc- scouting is intended to qualify our the annals of scouting. tion to Utah through this act of young men for performing just such In thirty-nine years the National great heroism shown in the thrilling heroic acts and always to BE PRE- Council had awarded only four rescue. His Scout pals and friends PARED whenever an emergency Gold Medals with Crossed Palms. enthusiastically and admiringly con- arises." gratulate him for this achievement. They decided to give the fifth one Wayne gives this Boy Scout congratulate his parents. He to Wayne. The award was pre- We training full credit for his success truly lived up to the tenth Scout sented to Wayne in behalf of the in the rescue effort. He started in law. National Court of Honor by Elder the program as a tenderfoot at the Ezra Taft Benson of the Council "In spite of fear, for surely he age of twelve, became progressively of the Twelve, at the annual meet- must have faced the danger of the a second class, first class, star, and ing of the Salt Lake Council. treacherous river with penetrating life Scout. At the present time Shortly after the rescue, Mayor fear, he had the courage and train- he has thirteen merit badges, in- required ones for Earl J. Glade of Salt Lake City ing to plunge into this onrushing cluding ten of the 78 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA ! the eagle badge, and he is still working to attain that rank. In the Exploring program he has The Hammond Organ Will Give reached the rank of Woodsman. He is' active in the leadership of scout- Your Chapel The Music of ing in the Edison Ward of the Pioneer Stake. Cathedral Quality Hunting, fishing, and chess are That is one of the many reasons why so the principal hobbies of this young m*<- man. He owns a shotgun, a deer many L.D.S. Wards are enjoying their If rifle, and his father says he owns, Hammond. Other reasons are: by virtue of possession most of the The only organ in the World you never need to tune. time, the family .22. He has a Cost of upkeep is very small. complete fishing outfit and loves Can be placed anywhere and moved at will. fishing as much as hunting. Easy to play. While the saving of a life was the important phase of this incident, as Costs less than any comparable organ. also was the act of bravery demon- Write us or call in for full information strated in the rescue, the national recognition received by the young GLEN - BROS. MUSIC CO. man from Utah is also significant. SALT LAKE CITY Established 1907 OGDEN The citation written by the world- famous men on the National Court of Honor is something of which all members of his state and Church can be proud. Because only five Scouts in fifteen IMMEDIATE DEUVERY1-SEE IT TODAY! million have been awarded this medal, Wayne became not only one THE NEW DODGE WAYFARER in a million but literally one in three million when the Gold Medal with Crossed Palms was pinned on him by Elder Benson. What Shall I Talk About? (Concluded from page 17) 6-PASSENGER SEDAN sermon in sacrament meeting, we'll probably have time to trace its en- Do not be satisfied with just a look. Take a drive in the sensational tire history as the instrument of car everyone is talking about. God's authority here on earth. But DELIVERED IN SALT LAKE CITY FOR ONLY if we're giving a two-and-one-half minute talk in Sunday School, such $196950 a topic would be impossible. 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You'll be a competent beautician when not the simple process that many graduated. QUISH pro- NICO-STOP vides you with technical people think it is. We must con- ENROLL skill and knowledge gained NICO-STOP, BOX 193, ST. HELENA, CALIF. in 25 year3. SEND FOR sider our interests train- NOW Please send me further information about Nico- own and FREE CATALOG TODAY1 Stop. ing, beliefs, interests, training, and Name objectives of our listeners, as well Address as the time limits, purpose, and atmosphere of the occasion. City State. JANUARY 1950 79 — . ^Itt <-£">V?~. v^^-^'^x,^^.^^)^^^^^ § "Speak the Speech" ADDRESSES OF L.D.S. SERVICEMEN'S HOMES AwToTHiNG reflects one's culture quite so readily as the ^ 1104 24th St., Cor. 24th & "C," San Diego, Calif. § ^ language one uses—and the voice one uses to express 615 "F" St., Marysville, one's ideas. Not long ago the word massacre was pro- Calif. 1594 So. Beretania St., Honolulu, T.H. nounced as if the ere rhymed with the word free. This word § and sepulchre and theatre— if it is spelled that way—are all pronounced as if they were spelled er. M. C. J. THE LIGHT TOUCH November 15, 1949 Salt Lake City, Utah A disgruntled schoolteacher resigned after making this Dear Editors: comment: "In public schools today the teacher is afraid of principal; [y foster son, Eagle Scout Don Lee, and I wish to thank the the principals are afraid of the superintendents; the superintendents are afraid of the school you for allowing space in the October Era for the story board; the boards are afraid of the parents; the parents are afraid of the children; "The Summit Was His Goal" by Forace Green. Also I and the children are afraid of nobody." wish to quote from a letter received by Don from Mrs. Leon D. King, Ogden, Utah. "The South Ogden Stake is present- ing its speech festival the evening of December 4th. One of Imitation is the sincerest form of robbery. the features of this festival will be the retelling of your <.? story, as it appeared in the October Era." § Then follows The trouble with a man who has an open mind is that an invitation for Don and myself to be present at the festival he doesn't usually keep a closed mouth. which we hope to do. » Lee and I other's Don have shared each joys and sorrows A successful author is one who can make glaring mistakes for many years, and I hope to be able to carry on and in grammar and thereby cause them to come into good usage. help this boy until he becomes self-sustaining and can lead a happy normal life. A good way to widen out the old "straight-and-narrow Anna Rosenkilde path" would be for more people to walk on it. — » Don't keep telling the lady you are unworthy of her. Let it be a complete surprise. Marjorie Somers Scheuer has called to the attention -t>.- . - I of the Era editorial staff the error in the spelling of her name in the November issue. Her contribution was the The absent-minded professor's physician advised him to lovely and stirring poem "Michelangelo" which was featured "look out for yourself." So each day the professor went as a frontispiece. We are deeply regretful that this error to the window at about four o'clock and looked out, because occurred. he usually came home about that time. RECREATIONAL SONGS READY FOR CHURCH USE How delightful and essential to have a recreational songbook that will the more than two hundred songs included in it. The book fills a long- bring variety and fun to the auxiliary organizations of the Church! On felt need in the Church. Fun and opportunity for the development of October 19, 1949, in Barratt Hall, the new "Recreational Songs" was intro- imaginative play can take place in a thoroughly cultured manner. Elder duced to the field in a thrilling manner by J. Spencer Cornwall, who has Cornwall showed how the songs could be used dramatically, combining done a tremendous job in gathering, editing, harmonizing, and presenting the effective use of community singing and solo, duet, or quartet work, using costume effects to enhance the interest. "Recreational Songs" includes almost any known variety of song; for instance, there are folk songs from Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hawaii, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Russia, Sweden, Scotland, Spain, Mexico, Switzerland, and Wales, as well as Western and Negro folk songs; there are also songs for Christmas, songs of master com- posers, favorite old songs, Gilbert and Sulli- van airs; there are, moreover, nonsense songs, barber shop songs, and songs that particular- ly lend themselves to community singing; there are in addition pioneer songs and M.I. A. songs. And in each of these classifications there is infinite variety of the kind of song— and with imagination the music director can make this book the basis for many stirring experiences in the lives of those who come to him for leadership. —M. C. J. Tlow y&jcvL io OIL 80 THE IMPROVEMENT ERA . •* Don't Stall - S TART! with PHILLIPS 66 Stepped-up Volatility means faster warm-up . . long mileage . . . less wasted gas! Winter-Blended Phillips 66 Gasoline is blended differently for cold weather. It's "pepped up" by adding more of the valuable high-volatility elements your car needs for winter driving. These high-volatility elements assure faster warm-up. They help prevent fuel waste. You enjoy better all-around performance under the conditions of winter driving. Fill up today with Winter-Blended Phillips 66 Gasoline. WHEREVER YOU SEE THESE SIGHS, STOP FOR PHILLIPS 66 GASOLINE jfiiM*" ar* * ' lr 1 yw p i BHH A church where men may worship God without m r ^ restraint; a peaceful countryside in winter's quiet repose; a stack of firewood stored against the day of future need: these fare symbols of things we cherish at this most festive time of all the year. MPAUT Salt Lake Gty, Utah George Albert Smith, President