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IMPROVEMENT 


JULY  1951 


PRESIDENT    STEPHEN    L    RICHARDS 


ALLTH/TC&  MEW//.,  and  silence  too! 

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By  DR.  FRANKLIN  S.  HARRIS,  JR. 

Chemically  the  hemoglobin  of  ani- 
mal blood  is  related  to  the  chloro- 
phyll which  is  the  circulatory  pigment 
of  plants  and  algae.  Hemoglobin  is 
characterized  by  one  atom  of  iron  in 
its  molecule,  but  the  simpler  molecule 
of  chlorophyll  is  built  around  an  atom 
of  magnesium.  There  are  some  arthro- 
pods and  mollusks,  such  as  snails, 
which  have  in  their  blood  a  pigment  of 
a  complicated  molecule  which  has  an 
atom  of  copper  instead  of  iron  or 
magnesium. 

*t»he  similarity  between  identical 
•*•  twins,  whether  raised  together  or 
not,  often  extends  to  unusual  details 
such  as  the  same  distribution  of  decay 
in  teeth. 

Evidence  now  indicates  that  the  Mis- 
sissippi River  has  not  measurably 
built  up  its  bed,  banks  or  alluvial  plain, 
in  the  last  1,500  to  2,000  years.  The 
four  hundred  million  tons  of  silt  and 
gravel  that  are  transported  downstream 
has  been  compensated  for  by  the 
earth's  crust  sinking  under  the  weight 
of  the  accumulated  sediment  load  along 
the  Gulf  instead  of  building  out  its 
delta.  The  Euphrates  and  Tigris  ad- 
vance their  joint  delta  into  the  Persian 
Gulf  160  feet  a  year.  Since  1765 
natural  cutoffs  have  shortened  the 
river  249  miles,  but  lengthenings  of  the 
river  have  amounted  to  five  hundred 
miles  between  Cairo  and  Baton  Rouge. 
Since  1932  artificial  cutoffs  have 
shortened  the  river  by  170  miles  and 
lowered  the  flood  stage  levels  from 
three  feet  at  Natchez  to  fifteen  feet 
at  Arkansas  City. 

rp he  use  of  titanium,  because  of  its 
■*■  lightness  combined  with  strength 
and  resistance  to  corrosion,  can  save 
a  ton  in  the  construction  of  heavy 
planes  such  as  the  B-36. 

To  reduce  beriberi  in  the  Philippines, 
a  large  scale  campaign  with  en- 
riched rice  saved  220  lives  in  twen- 
ty months  and  gave  immeasurably 
improved  health  to  3500  people  in  an 
experimental  area  on  Bataan  penin- 
sula. Beriberi  is  exceeded  only  by 
tuberculosis  as  a  cause  of  death  in  the 
Philippines:. 
JULY  1951 


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"THE  MAN  FOR  THE  HOUR" 


Chortly  after  the  American  Thanks- 
giving, 1921,  the  president  of  the 
European  Mission,  Elder  Orson  F. 
Whitney  of  the  Council  of  the  Twelve, 
sat  down  in  his  office  at  295  Edge 
Lane,  Liverpool,  England,  and  wrote 
his  weekly  editorial  for  The  Latter- 
day  Saints'  Millennial  Star.  On  Thurs- 
day, December  8,  1921,  it  appeared 
on  pages  776-778  of  volume  eighty- 
three  under  the  title,  "The  Man  for 
the  Hour,"  reviewing  the  personalities 
and  accomplishments  of  the  Presidents 
of  the  Church  from  Joseph  Smith  to 
Heber  J.  Grant.  The  editorial,  from 
the  hands  of  one  of  our  most  gifted 
writers,   concluded: 

Every  thoughtful   reader  of  this  article, 
if  a   Latter-day   Saint,   will   agree   with   its 
author   in   the   view   that   each   succeeding 
President    of    the    Church    ought    to    vary 
in   some   respects   from   all 
other    incumbents    of    that 
high     and     holy     position. 
For  this  reason:  The  work 
of  the  Lord  is  always  pro- 
gressing, and  consequently 
always    changing — not    its 
principles,     nor     its     aims; 
but    its    plans,     its    instru- 
ments,  and   its  methods   of 
procedure.    These  are  con- 
stantly  changing,   in   order 
to  meet  new  conditions  and  profit  by  them. 
Hence    a    variety    of    leaders    is    essential. 
To-day    is    not    Yesterday,    nor    will    To- 
morrow  be   To-day.      The   Lord   provides 
the  men  and   the   means   whereby   he   can 
best    work,    at    any    given    time,    for    the 
carrying  out  of  his  wise  and  sublime  pur- 
poses.     The    Man    for    the    Hour    will    be 
ready  whenever  the  Hour   strikes. 

Twenty-four  hours  after  these 
words  appeared  in  print,  Elder  Whit- 
ney had  the  pleasure  of  welcoming  to 
his  Durham  House  office  in  Liverpool 
the  man  for  whom  the  hour  struck  in 
1951— Elder  David  O.  McKay,  en 
route  to  his  home  with  Hugh  J.  Can- 
non, after  a  significant  world-wide 
mission  tour. 

As  the  ninth  President  of  the 
Church,  President  David  O.  McKay 
takes  the  helm  in  an  unusual  age.  The 
modern  state  system  has  collapsed 
under  the  pressure  of  industrial 
technology  and  twentieth  century 
wars.  The  interdependence  of  man- 
kind emerges  as  a  daily  matter  of  fact. 
The  search  for  an  organizing  principle 
for  human  society  and  individual  con- 
duct is  the  most  urgent  of  all  neces- 
sities, and  there  are  many  candidacies 
and  psuedo-candidacies  for  the  trial. 
The  individual,  the  family,  the  com- 
munity, individual  nations,  and  inter- 
national organizations  each  twist  and 
turn,    often    falling    backwards    upon 


482 


By  DR.  G.  HOMER  DURHAM 

Head  of  Political  Science  Department, 
University   of   Utah 


themselves,  in  the  search  for  the  or- 
ganizing principle.  George  Santayana, 
one-time  Harvard  philosophy  profes- 
sor, writing  in  his  eighty-eighth  year 
from  the  shelter  of  a  Roman  convent, 
says  that  perhaps  chaos  "is  at  the 
bottom  of  everything"  as  the  organiz- 
ing principle;  and  that  the  Soviets 
may  be  the  preferable  organizers  of 
the  future.  Such  views  merely  demon- 
strate the  futility  of  much  modern 
thinking  as  educated  pessimism.  It  is 
faith,  courage,  and  informed  inspira- 
tion that   the   modern   scene   requires. 

***** 

As  the  man  for  the 
hour  in  1951,  President 
McKay  builds  on  the 
platforms  reared  by  his 
predecessors.  To  the 
structure  now  comes  a 
man  not  only  with  faith, 
courage,  and  tremen- 
dous inspiration,  but  al- 
so the  first  of  the  line  to 
have  circumnavigated  the  globe.  To 
the  world-view  and  outlook  of  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith  is  now  added 
the  experience  of  a  man  who  has  him- 
self seen  much  of  the  world  and  its 
peoples:  Hawaii,  Japan,  Korea,  China, 
Tahiti,  New  Zealand,  Samoa,  Tonga, 
Australia,  Java,  Singapore,  and  the 
Straits  Settlements,  Penang,  Rangoon, 
Calcutta,  Delhi,  Agra,  Bombay,  the 
Middle  East  including  Syria  and  the 
Holy  Land;  the  Mediterranean,  and 
Europe.  It  was  at  the  call  of  Presi- 
dent Heber  J.  Grant,  in  1920,  that 
President  McKay  with  his  companion 
Elder  Cannon  undertook  this  world- 
wide mission.  A  few  months  after 
its  completion  he  was  called  to  replace 
Elder  Orson  F.  Whitney  as  president 
of  the  European  Mission,  where  for 
a  number  of  years  he  came  intimately 
to  know  the  lands,  peoples,  and 
problems  of  that  strategic  area. 


In  the  composition  of  the  new  quo- 
rum of  the  First  Presidency  it  is  also 
of  interest  to  note  that  President 
Stephen  L  Richards  within  recent 
years  has  undertaken  special  missions 
to  South  America  and  to  Europe. 
Completing  the  Quorum,  of  long  and 
distinguished  experience,  President 
J.  Reuben  Clark,  Jr.,  as  counselor  to 

(Concluded  on  page  523) 
THE  IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


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clothes;  another  for  dishes;  a  third  for  enamel  and 
>         paint.  Then  I  found  FELSO.  Now  'one  instead  of 
j  three'  saves  shopping  time  and  storage  space. 

"Best  of  all,"  she  says,  "my  wash  is  white  as  snow, 
I  my  colors  bright  and  gay.  China  and  glass  sparkle 

without  wiping.  Refrigerator,  stove  and  woodwork 
fairly  glisten.  FELSO  alone  does  all  my  washing. 

"Of  course  you  may  quote  me.  I'm  glad  to  say  how 
satisfied  I  am  with  white,  free-pouring  FELSO.  It's 
so  pleasantly  fragrant,  and  it  leaves  my  hands  soft 
and  smooth.  'One  instead  of  three'  makes  sense  to 
me  — when  that  one  is  all-purpose  FELSO." 

Reliable  Fels  and  Co.  perfected  FELSO.  It  isn't  a 
soap,  but  a  new,  different,  all-purpose  detergent. 

make  FELSO  your  "sud^madt" today  \ 


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VOLUME  54 


NUMBER  7 


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Editors:   DAVID  O.   McKAY     -     JOHN   A.   WIDTSOE     -     RICHARD    L.    EVANS 

Managing    Editor:    DOYLE    L.    GREEN 

Associate    Managing    Editor:    MARBA    C.    JOSEPHSON 

Manuscript  Editor:    ELIZABETH   J.   MOFFITT     -     Research   Editor:    ALBERT   L. 

ZOBELL,   JR.     -     "Today's   Family"    Editor:    BURL   SHEPHERD 

Contributing    Editors:    ARCHIBALD    F.    BENNETT     -     G.    HOMER    DURHAM 

FRANKLIN    S.    HARRIS,    JR.     -     HUGH    NIBLEY     -     LEE    A.    PALMER 

CLAUDE    B.    PETERSEN     -     SIDNEY    B.    SPERRY 

General  Manager:    ELBERT   R.    CURTIS     -     Associate  Manager:    BERTHA   S.    REEDER 

Business  Manager:    JOHN    D.    GILES     -     Advertising    Director:    VERL    F.    SCOTT 

Subscription    Director:    A.    GLEN    SNARR 


The  Editor's  Page 

Witnesses  to  the  Truth  David  O,  McKay  493 

Church  Features 

Evidences    and    Reconciliations:    CLVI — What    Does    Evolution 

Teach  Today?  - John  A.  Widtsoe  495 

Six  Appointed  to  General  Boards-.485       No-Liquor-Tobacco   Column    525 

The  Church  Moves  On  488       Presiding  Bishopric's  Page  526 

Melchizedek    Priesthood    524 


Special  Features 


An  Appreciation  of  Stephen  L  Richards  Gordon  B.  Hinckley  496 

Who  Penned  the  Declaration  of  Independence?  ....  Julia  W.  Wolfe  500 
Through  the  Eyes  of  Youth — "Those  Were  the  Two  Happiest 

Years  ♦  ♦  .      Xorna  Jolley  501 

"More-Religious-Reading"  Campaign  Sets  New  Records  in  Stakes 

and  Missions  John  D.  Giles  502 

Elder  Ezra  Taft  Benson  Receives  High  Scouting  Award 

Forace  Green  506 

Brigham  Young  and  the  Transcontinental  Telegraph  Line  

- L.  J*  Arrington  510 

The  Spoken  Word  From  Temple  Square  ... 

Richard  L.  Evans  520,  528,  541 


Exploring    the   Universe,    Franklin 
S.  Harris,  Jr 481 

These   Times — "The   Man    of   the 
Hour,"  G.  Homer  Durham  482 

Highlights  in  the  Life  of  President 

Stephen    L    Richards    490 

On  the  Bookrack 512 


Today's  Family  Burl  Shepherd 

Inexpensive  Hobbies,  Lydia  Lion 
Roberts 532 

Homemaker's    Bookrack    .....533 

Lessons      in      Eating  —  Summer 

Menus  534 

The  Technique  of  White  Sauce..537 
Your  Page  and  Ours  ____544 


ies,  Poetry 


Your  Need  of  Me,  Bertha  A.  Klein- 
man - -490 

Frontispiece,  Young  Explorer,  Eva 
Willes  Wangsgaard  491 


Heart  of  the  House  Jean  Anderson  508 


Poetry    Page    492 

Flashing  Wings,  Manfred  A.  Car- 
ter  494 

Artisan,  Beulah  Huish  Sadleir  528 


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THE  COVER 


Our  cover  this  month  features  Presi- 
dent Stephen  L  Richards,  first  counselor 
in  the  First  Presidency.  The  original 
photograph  is  the  work  of  Boyart  Studio. 
It  is  the  third  of  five  portraits  to  be  used 
as  covers.  Yet  to  be  published  are  four- 
color  portraits  of  President  J.  Reuben 
Clark,  Jr.,  and  of  President  Joseph  Field- 
ing Smith. 


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SIX  APPOINTED  TO 
GENERAL  BOARDS 


Six  new  members  have  been  ap- 
pointed  to   the   general   boards 
of  the  Mutual  Improvement  As- 
sociations. 

"pLDER  Ted  Bushman,  who  becomes 
a  member  of  the  special  in- 
terest committee,  was  born  in  Lehi, 
Utah,  the  son  of  Martin  I.  and 
Ruia  Holden  Bushman.  He  majored 
in  art  and  advertising  at  Brigham 
Young  University  and  attended  art 
schools  in  both  Los  Angeles  and 
San  Francisco.  He  has  recently 
returned  to  Salt  Lake  City  after 
spending  fourteen  years  in  Port- 
land, Oregon.  While  in  Portland, 
Elder  Bushman  served  in  the  Irv- 
ington  Ward  bishopric,  was  presi- 
dent -  of  the  Portland  Stake  high 
priests*  quorum,  and  for  six  years 
was  a  member  of  the  stake  high 
council,  serving  on  the  stake  Mel- 
chizedek  and  Aaronic  Priesthood 
committees.  Since  returning  to  Salt 
Lake  City  he  has  been  active  in  the 
leadership  of  Aaronic  Priesthood 
quorums  in  the  Bonneville  Ward, 
Bonneville  Stake.  He  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Dorothy  Lyman,  are  the 
parents  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 


TED   BUSHMAN 


L.  CLAIR   LIKES 


"p LDER  L.  Clair  Likes,  who  has  been 
assigned  to  the  drama  com- 
mittee, is  the  son  of  Dora  Ellis  and 
Agnes  Cunningham  Likes,  and  was 
born  at  Teton,  Idaho.  He  holds  a 
master  of  arts  degree  in  drama  from 
the  University  of  Utah,  also  having 
studied  at  Utah  State  Agricultural 
College  and  Ricks  College.  His 
dramatic  productions  include  Caviar 
and  Cabbage  and  The  Days  of  '47, 
the  latter  of  which  was  produced  at 
the  University  of  Utah  stadium. 
As  a  member  of  the  Nauvoo-to- 
Salt-Lake- Valley  centennial  memo- 
(Continued  on  following  page) 
JULY  1951 


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(Continued  from  preceding  page) 
rial  trek  of  the  Sons  of  Utah  Pio- 
neers in  1947,  he  was  co-author  and 
co-director  of  the  dramatic  sketches 
given  along  the  route.  From  his 
youth  he  has  been  active  in  ward 
and  stake  drama  festivals.  He  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  bishopric 
of  both  the  Wasatch  and  the 
Mountaire  wards  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  has  filled  a  two-year  stake  mis- 
sion. His  wife  is  the  former  Eula 
Waldram.  They  have  had  three 
children,  two  daughters  and  a  son, 
Jerry  Clair,  who  recently  was  killed. 

pLDER  Armond  F.  Carr,  who  has 
been  called  to  the  dance  commit- 
tee, was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  the 
son  of  Franklin  Gallard  and  Rebec- 
ca Hansen  Carr.  He  filled  a  mission 
for  the  Church  in  Australia,  organ- 
izing the  first  M.  I.  A.  festival  at 
Brisbane.  During  the  centennial 
year  of  the  Church  he  wrote  and 
directed  the  pageant  which  was 
presented  for  the  first  Australian 
conclave  of  elders  and  Saints  at 
Melbourne,  Victoria.  Returning 
from  his  mission,  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  stake  board,  and  then 
assistant  superintendent.  He  has 
filled  Mutual  and  Sunday  School 
assignments  in  the  Highland  Park, 
Stratford,  and  Imperial  wards,  and 
on  a  stake  level  in  the  Highland 
Stake.  He  has  studied  at  the  old 
L.D.S.  University  and  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Utah.  At  this  call  to  the 
general  board  he  was  speech  di- 
rector of  the  Wilford  Stake.  His 
wife  is  the  former  Grace  Kimball, 
and  the  couple  are  the  parents  of 
two  daughters. 


ARMOND  F.  CARR         MARGARET  R.  JACKSON 

|\Ars.  Margaret  R.  Jackson,  who 
is  assigned  to  the  Mia  Maid 
committee,  was  born  in  Colonia 
Juarez,  Mexico,  where  her  father 
had  been  called  to  preside  over  the 


L.  D.  S.  colonies.  When  a  small 
child,  she  came  to  Utah  with  her 
parents,  Junius  and  Gertrude  Stow- 
ell  Romney.  She  attended  the  Salt 
Lake  City  schools,  the  L.  D.  S.  Uni- 
versity, and  the  University  of  Utah. 
She  has  been  actively  engaged  in 
M.  I.  A.  work  for  the  past  several 
years  in  the  Bonneville  ( Salt  Lake 
City)  Stake,  most  recently  teaching 
the  Junior  Gleaners  in  the  Bonne- 
ville Ward.  Mrs.  Jackson  was  a 
member  of  the  Bonneville  Stake 
L.  D.  S.  Girls  committee  before  it 
was  incorporated  into  the  Y.  W. 
M.  I.  A.  program  a  year  ago.  She 
is  also  a  former  counselor  in  the 
Y.  W.  M.  I.  A.  presidency  in  the 
Yale  Ward.  Mrs.  Jackson  has  been 
especially  active  in  the  University 
of  Utah  Alumni  Association.  Her 
husband  is  Junius  M.  Jackson,  a 
counselor  in  the  Bonneville  Stake 
presidency.  They  are  the  parents 
of  a  daughter  and  three  sons. 

pLDER  Richard  L.  Gunn,  who  has 
been  assigned  to  the  M  Men- 
Gleaner  committee,  is  the  son  of  B. 
LeRoy  and  Fanny  Louise  Ensign 
Gunn.  He  is  a  professional  artist 
and  a  member  of  the  art  faculty  of 
Brigham  Young  University,  where 
he  did  both  his  undergraduate  and 
graduate  work.  He  filled  a  mission 
to  the  Hawaiian  Islands.  He  has 
been  active  in  Mutual,  Sunday 
School,  and  genealogical  matters 
in  the  wards  in  which  he  has  resided 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  Springville,  and 
Provo.  At  the  time  of  this  call  to 
the  general  board  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Sharon  Stake  Sunday  School 
board.  During  the  war  he  enlisted 
in  the  Engineer  Corps  of  the  Army, 
and  was  attached  to  the  first  B-29 
unit  in  Asia.  This  unit  became  the 
nucleus  of  the  twentieth  bomber 
command  for  the  headquarters  of 
the  air  offensive  to  China  and 
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THE  CHURCH  MOVES   ON 


May  1951 


2     Ted  Bushman,  L.  Clair  Likes, 
and  Armond  F.  Carr  appointed 
to  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment  Association   general   board. 

f\  Utah  spent  a  greater  proportion 
of  its  state  funds  for  education 
than  any  other  state  in  the  Union, 
figures  released  by  the  United  States 
Bureau  of  the  Census  indicated.  Utah 
school  and  college  costs  took  35.6 
percent  of  the  total  budget.  The  na- 
tional average  was  21.3  percent.  Dis- 
trict school  expenditures  from  local 
funds  were  not  included  in  that  figure. 

g  Elder  John  Fredrick  Hobson 
sustained  as  president  of  Summit 
(Utah)  Stake,  with  Elders  Roy  A. 
Richins  and  Amos  Eugene  Pace  as 
counselors.  Released  were  President 
Joseph  Edgar  Beard  and  his  coun- 
selors, Elders  W.  E.  Calderwood  and 
Leonard  Brown. 

Eager  Ward  chapel,  St.  Johns  ( Ari- 
zona) Stake,  dedicated  by  Elder  Del- 
bert  L.  Stapley  of  the  Council  of  the 
Twelve. 

(J  It  was  announced  that  three 
thousand  copies  of  President 
Stephen  L  Richards'  recent  Church  of 
the  Air  address  "Kinship  of  Spirits" 
were  being  sent  to  camps  and  navy 
bases  for  distribution  to  servicemen. 

2  The  First  Presidency  announced 
that  Elder  Arthur  Glaus,  now  a 
missionary  in  the  East  German  Mis- 
sion, had  been  appointed  to  succeed 
President  Walter  Stover  who  has 
presided  in  the  East  German  Mission 
since  1946.  President  Glaus  is  a 
former  bishop  of  the  Twenty-fifth 
Ward,  Pioneer  (Salt  Lake  City) 
Stake.     His  wife  will  join  him. 

Presiding  Bishop  LeGrand  Richards 
participated  in  ground-breaking  cere- 
monies of  a  new  $3,500,000.00  Mis- 
souri River  bridge,  to  be  named  "The 
Mormon  Pioneer  Memorial  Bridge," 
which  will  connect  Council  Bluffs, 
Iowa,  and  Omaha,  Nebraska,  in  the 
same  section  where  the  Pioneers  win- 
tered in  1846-47. 

On  this  and  the  succeeding  day 
faculty  members  of  Brigham  Young 
University  joined  General  Authorities 
and  members  of  the  Church  welfare 
committee  in  addressing  stake  confer- 
ence  sessions.     The   faculty  members 

488 


explained  the  advantages  of  Brigham 
Young  University  training.  B.  Y.  U. 
representatives  will  address  stake  con- 
ference sessions  throughout  the  sum- 
mer. 

5  Aaronic  Priesthood  restora- 
tion programs  were  held  in  sac- 
rament meetings  in  many  of  the  wards. 

Mother's  Day  was  featured  in  many 
of  the  Sunday  Schools  of  the  Church. 

Elder  Wendell  S.  Lambert  sus- 
tained as  president  of  the  Nevada 
Stake,  with  Elders  Clair  M.  Gudmund- 
son  and  R.  Scott  Haynes  as  coun- 
selors. They  succeed  President  Fred 
C,  Horlacher  and  his  counselors, 
Elders  C.  Layton  Galbraith  and  Wil- 
liam J.  Hemingway. 

President  Antoine  R.  Ivins  of  the 
First  Conucil  of  the  Seventy  dedi- 
cated the  chapel  of  the  Rangely,  Colo- 
rado,  Branch,   Uintah   Stake. 

Elder  Marion  G.  Romney,  Assistant 
to  the  Council  of  the  Twelve,  dedi- 
cated the  chapel  of  the  Piano  Ward, 
North  Rexburg   (Idaho)   Stake. 

I  \  It  was  announced  from  Phila- 
delphia that  President  David  O. 
McKay  had  accepted  an  invitation  to 
deliver  the  commencement  address  at 
the  sixty-seventh  annual  commence- 
ment at  Temple  University,  June  14. 
President  McKay  will  be  one  of  five 
prominent  Americans  to  receive  hon- 
orary doctorates  at  the  services. 

^  President  Fred  W.  Schwendi- 
man  of  the  Wells  (Salt  Lake 
City)  Stake  became  chairman  of  the 
Pioneer  Region  of  the  Church  welfare 
program.  He  succeeds  Carl  W.  Bueh- 
ner,  now  a  member  of  the  general 
committee.  President  Alex  F.  Dunn 
of  the  Tooele  (Utah)  Stake  is  first 
vice-chairman,  and  President  A.  Lewis 
Elggren  of  the  Liberty  (Salt  Lake 
City)    Stake  is   second  vice-chairman. 

[  {J  Appointment  of  LaVern  Watts 
Parmley  as  general  president  of 
the  Primary  Association  announced. 
She  succeeds  the  late  Adele  Cannon 
Howells,  whom  she  served  as  first 
counselor.  President  Parmley's  coun- 
selors are  Arta  Matthews  Hale  and 
Florence  Holbrook   Richards. 

The  Salt  Lake  Tabernacle  Choir 
received  an  award  from  the  National 
Federation  of  Music  Clubs  for  na- 
tional musical  service.  The  federa- 
tion was  holding  its  convention  in 
Salt  Lake  City. 


Richard  L.  Gunn  and  Wendell  E. 
Adams  appointed  to  the  general  board 
of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association. 

Margaret  R.  Jackson  appointed  to 
the  general  board  of  the  Young 
Women's  Mutual  Improvement  Asso- 
ciation. 

7  More  than  two  hundred  fifty 
dancers  from  the  Salt  Lake  area 
who  will  participate  in  the  M.  I.  A. 
Festival  on  June  16  gave  a  demonstra- 
tion to  the  delegates  of  the  National 
Festival  of  Music. 

[  $     Second  annual  All-Church  vol- 
leyball tournament  began  in  Salt 
Lake  City  under  the  direction  of  the 
Y.  M.  M.  I.  A. 

It  was  announced  that  President 
David  O.  McKay  would  give  the 
baccalaureate  address  at  Brigham 
Young  University  June  3  and  receive 
an  honorary  doctor  of  humanities  de- 
gree from  that  Church  university  on 
graduation  day,  June  4. 

[9  A  thousand-voice  M.  I.  A. 
youth  chorus  sang  for  the  Na- 
tional Festival  of  Music  in  the  Salt 
Lake   Tabernacle. 

Redondo  Beach  (southern  Cali- 
fornia) Ward  won  the  volleyball 
tournament  by  defeating  Hoytsville 
(Utah)  Ward.  Pocatello  Fifth 
(Idaho)  Ward,  was  awarded  third 
place;  Capitol  Hill  (Salt  Lake  City) 
Ward,  fourth  place;  Waterloo  (Salt 
Lake  City  Ward,  fifth  (consolation); 
Forest  Dale  (Salt  Lake  City)  Ward, 
sixth. 

It  was  announced  that  President 
David  O.  McKay  would  deliver  the 
commencement  day  address  at  the 
University  of  Utah,  June  9. 

2  (J  Fresno  Stake  created  from 
portions  of  the  Northern  Cali- 
fornia Mission,  with  Elder  Alwyn  C. 
Sessions  sustained  as  stake  president, 
and  Elders  Eldon  J.  Callister  and 
Ralph  A.  Macdonald  as  counselors. 
Chowchilla  Ward  formed  from  Chow- 
chilla  Branch,  with  Elder  Paul  J. 
Christofferson  as  bishop;  Fresno  First 
Ward  from  East  Fresno  Branch,  with 
Elder  Floyd  H.  Gibson  as  bishop; 
Fresno  Second  Ward  from  North 
Fresno  Branch,  with  Elder  Dallas  A. 
Tueller  as  bishop;  Merced  Ward  from 
Merced  Branch,  with  Elder  Arden 
Hutchings  as  bishop;  Visalia  Ward 
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job  for  me  in  every  way." 


After  a  50,000-mile  road  test  in  the  blister- 
ing heat  along  the  Mexican  Border,  with 
proper  crankcase  drains  and  regular  care, 
engines  lubricated  with  new  Conoco  Super 
Motor  Oil  showed  no  wear  of  any  consequence 
...  in  fact,  an  average  of  less  than  one  one- 
thousandth  inch  on  cylinders  and  crank- 
shafts. Factory  finishing  marks  were  still 
visible  on  piston  rings. 

AND  gasoline  mileage  for  the  last  5,000 
miles  was  actually  99.77%  as  good  as  for 
the  first  5,000!  This  test  proved  that  new 
Conoco  Super,  with  Oil-Plating,  can  make 
your  car  last  longer,  perform  better,  use  less 
gasoline  and  oil. 


"Time  is  the  element  in  my  business  of  buy- 
ing and  selling  perishable  produce,"  writes 
Hanley  H.  Payne,  Twin  Falls,  Idaho.  "In 
the  55,000  miles  I  have  used  Conoco  Super, 
I've  spent  no  money  for  engine  repairs,  and 
gasoline  mileage  has  sure  been  fine!" 


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potatoes.  And  I  get  so 
many  notes  and  letters 
asking  Why  can't  I  do 
this?  or,  Why  doesn't 
someone  come  up  with 
Faye  Baldwin  an  answer  for  that?  I 
Vano  Home  Adviser  hope  these  "Helps"  are 
some  help  to  you.  Particularly  I  hope 
they  smooth  your  houseworking  path  so 
you  can  find  a  little  more  time  to  enjoy 
yourself. 

TIE  THOSE 
APRON  STRINGS 

Does  your  washing 

come  out  looking 

like  a  lock-picker's 

nightmare?  You  can  save  many  minutes 

of  untangling  if  you'll  tie  apron  strings 

together  before  placing  them   in  the 

machine. 

BUTTONHOLES  LOST  THEIR  SNAP? 

You  can  keep  buttonholes  from  stretch- 
ing by  basting  them  together  before  you 
wash.  This  goes  especially  for  woolens. 
Next  time  you  wash  a  sweater,  use  two 
tablespoons  of  Vano  Powdered  Bleach. 
Then  add  soap.  Vano  is  safe.  If  you  can 
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PETITE  IVY  NEW 
STYLE  TREND 

Decorators  and  Home- 
makers  have  fallen  in 
love  with  a  new  member  of  the  versatile 
Ivy  family — the  petite,  small-leaf  type. 
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Dept.  A,  Los  Angeles  54.  Plants  are 
shipped  live,  ready  to  plant. 

HUBBY'S  SHIRTS 
LAUNDRY  STYLE! 

Before  washing,  rub  col- 
lars and  cuffs  with  a 
thick  lather  of  soap 
flakes.  Wash  thoroughly,  adding  two  ta- 
blespoons Vano  Powdered  Bleach  to  reg- 
ular wash  water.  Rinse  in  clear  water  of 
same  temperature,  then  in  clear,  cool 
water.  Do  not  put  folded  collars  through 
a  wringer.  When  shirts  dry,  starch  collars 

and  cuffs  with  Vano  Liquid  Starch use 

full  strength  for  stiff-starching. 


IF  YOU'RE  NOT 
USING 


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YOU'RE  WORKING 
TOO  HARD  I 


Highlights  in  the  life  of 

President  Stephen  L  Richards 


June  18,  1879 — Born  at  Mendon,  Cache 
County,  Utah,  the  son  of  Stephen 
Longstroth  and  Emma  Louise  Stayner 
Richards. 

1895-98 — Attended  University  of  Utah. 

February  21,  1900 — Married  Irene  Merrill. 

1901-02— Principal  Malad  (Idaho)  public 
school. 

1902-03 — Attended  University  of  Michigan 
Law  School. 

June  1904 — Graduated  cum  laude  from 
University    of    Chicago    Law    School. 

1904 — Admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  state 
of  Utah. 

1905-06— Murray  City    (Utah)   Attorney. 

1906 — Called  as  a  member  of  the  Deseret 
Sunday  School   Union   general   board. 

1908-1917 — Instructor,  University  of  Utah, 
School  of  Law. 

April  4,  1 909 — Sustained  as  second  as- 
sistant general  superintendent,  Deseret 
Sunday   School   Union. 

Secretary  Utah  State  Bar  Association. 

Vice  President  for  Utah  of  American  Bar 
Association 

Member,  Utah  State  Board  of  Corrections. 

January    17,    1917 — Ordained    an   Apostle. 

November  27,  1918 — Sustained  as  first  as- 
sistant general  superintendent,  Deseret 
Sunday  School  Union. 

May  9,  1919 — Called  as  Assistant  Church 
Commissioner  of  Education. 

July  16,  1919 — Appointed  member,  general- 
Church   board   of   education. 

1922-23 — President,  Beet  Sugar  Finance 
Corporation  (utilized  by  War  Finance 
Corporation  to  disburse  funds  to  save 
beet  sugar  industry  in  several  western 
states). 

October  31,  1934 — Released  as  first  as- 
sistant general  superintendent,  Deseret 
Sunday   School   Union. 

1934 — Adviser  to  general  board  of  Deseret 

Sunday  School  Union. 
1934— Utah  State  Chairman,  Civil  Works 

Administration. 

1939-41 — Member,  Board  of  Regents — Uni- 
versity of  Utah. 


YOUR   NEED    OF   ME 

By  Bertha  A.  Kleinman 

T)erchance    I    may   not   pass   again   this 
*•      way, 

And  yet  I   may,   for  who  of  us   can  say 
Where    trails    may    cross — the    high    road 

and  the  low, 
Or  what  re-tracing  byways  I  must  go? 
Just  this  I  know — the  crossroads  open  wide 
And  there  your  need  bestirs  me  to  abide, 
To   share   the   bounty    I   had   thought   my 

own, 
And  so   I   wend  no   more  my  way  alone. 


June  29,  1942 — Offered  the  invocation  at  a 
session   of   the   United   States   Senate. 

1943 — The  Church  in  War  and  Peace,  a 
book  which  grew  out  of  a  series  of 
radio    sermons,    came    from    the    press. 

1948 — Special  mission  tour  of  the  South 
America  missions. 

1950 — Special  mission  tour  of  the  Euro- 
pean  missions. 

April  8,  1951 — Sustained  as  first  counselor 
in  the  First  Presidency  at  a  special 
meeting  in  the  Salt  Lake  Temple. 

April  9,  1951 — Sustained  as  first  counselor 
in  the  First  Presidency  at  the  solemn 
assembly,  held  in  the  Salt  Lake  Taber- 
nacle. 

April  12,  1951 — Set  apart  as  first  counselor 
in  the  First  Presidency  by  President 
David  O.  McKay. 

April  1951 — First  vice-president,  board  of 
trustees,    Brigham    Young    University. 

President  Stephen  L  Richards  is  affiliated 
with  the  following  businesses: 

President  and  owner,  Wasatch  Land  & 
Improvement  Co.  which  operates  the 
Wasatch  Lawn  Memorial  Park 

Vice-president,  director,  member  of  execu- 
tive committee  Utah  First  National 
Bank 

Vice-president,  director,  member  of  execu- 
tive  committee,   Z.   C.    M.   I. 

Vice-president,  director,  member  of  execu- 
tive committee,  Granite  Furniture  Co. 

Vice-president  and  director,  Beneficial  Life 
Insurance  Co. 

Vice-president  and  director,  Zion's  Securi- 
ties Corp. 

Director,  member  of  executive  committee, 
Zion's  Savings  Bank  &  Trust  Co. 

Director,  member  of  executive  committee, 
Hotel  Utah  Co., 

Director,  member  of  executive  committee, 
Utah  Power  and  Light  Co. 

Director,  Utah-Idaho  Sugar  Co. 

Director,  Heber  J.  Grant  &  Co. 

Director,   Utah   Home   Fire   Insurance  Co. 

Director,  Utah  Oil  Refining  Co. 

Director,  Whitmore  Oxygen  Co. 


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I  may  not  cruise  again  this  restless  sea; 
And  yet  I  may,  for  should  you  beckon  me 
Like  some  wayfaring  pilgrim  of  the  night, 
I  shall  be  there  to  set  your  sail  aright, 
That  as  the  dusk  shuts  down  its  mystery, 
You  yet  shall  walk  by  faith  because  of 
me. 

I  may  not  tread  again  this  mundane  sphere, 
And  yet  I  may,  for  heaven  may  be  here, 
And    this    I    know    as    days    and    decades 

wane, 

And  earth  her  long-lost  Eden  shall  regain, 

Her    gardens    shall    my    lasting    refuge   be 

Only  as  you  shall  still  have  need  of  me. 

THE   IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


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Orlando 


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L^xpiorer 


By  EVA  WILLES  WANGSGAARD 


JsJay,  did  you  ever  lose  a  boy  and  search 

All  through  a  quiet  town   from  door  to 

door — 
His  tree  house  empty  in  the  silent  birch, 
His  open  book  discarded  on  the  floor? 
And  did  you  trudge  along  a  bank  where  grass 
Grew  tough  and  sharp,  and  part  a  willow 

screen 
While  blackbirds  screeched,  forbidding  you 

to  pass? 
And  clutch  a  supple,  leafy  branch  to  lean 
Above  the  water,  half  afraid  to  look 
And  yet  more  frightened  not  to?     Running 

back 

JULY  1951 


To  search  a  shed  or  some  remembered  nook? 
Or  check  a  thought  of  sleep  in  mow  or  stack? 
Then  hear  a  shout  releasing  fear's  taut  bands? 
Your   heartbeats   stop,    then   give   a   sudden 

jump 
Before    his    freckled    grin,    his    outstretched 

hands 
And  pockets  full  of  treasures  from  the  dump? 
He  is  aglow  with  new  experience. 
He  had  no  thought  of  disobedience. 
He  does  not  comprehend  his  own  demand 
To  know  the  world,  to  hold  it  in  his  hand. 
Your  fear  bewilders  him,  and  like  his  father 
He'll  wonder  all  his  life  why  women  bother. 

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FOREIGN   BORN 

By  Leone  E.  McCune 

["  saw  her  coming  down  the  street, 

■*■  Her  faded  coat  too  short  to  guard 

Her  limbs  against  the  cold.     Her  eyes 

Deep  set  and  shadowed,  holding  still 

The  images  of  suffering, 

The  desolation  she  had  seen. 

Her  lips  smiled  briefly  as  we  met. 

She  opened  up  an  old  cloth  bag; 

Her  trembling  fingers  lifted  clothes 

Discarded  by  another's  child. 

She  touched  her  purse,   "I've  money,   too, 

For  food.     I  work  for  lady  nice 

And  good."    Her  joy  had  made  her  young 

Again.    "I'm   glad,   so   glad   for  you," 

I  said.     And  went  my  way  along 

The  peaceful  street  and  thought  of  all 

Our  precious  gifts  accepted,  oh, 

So  casually — this  land  so  free. 

But  God,  let  each  one  be  aware 

Of  his  small  part  to  keep  it  so! 


— o    <ft»    ■ 


THE  ADOBE  CITIES 

By    Margery    S.    Stewart 

HPhere    is    much,    much    here    under    the 
-*-    Pioneer  soil,  under  the  lost  sage, 
The  sego  lilies  gone  .  .  .  the  outcast 
Sunflowers    taking    their   spurned    gold 
To    the    far   edges   of   the    towns.      There 
Is  a  crumbling  of  the  first  cities.  .  .  . 
Adobe  brick  breaking  under  the  iron 
Shovel's    teeth.      Granite    from   the    golden 
Hills    broken,    too,    cast    aside    for    cinder 
Block,   concrete,   and   steel.     Tomorrow   is 
Building   her  own  cities,   digging   past 
The  Indian  bones  and  the  wagon  wheels. 
Reaching    high,    high   above   the   sea    gulls 
And    the    radio's    antennae    and    the    tele- 
vision 
Towers.     There  is  a  stretching  here,   past 
The    plane's    stroke,    higher,    higher    still. 
There    is    a    running    of    the    finger's    edge 
Along   the  sky's  rim;   the  almost  touching 
Of  planets,  the  lengthening  Jacob's  ladder. 
There    is    much,     much     here    under     the 

pioneer 
Soil,  diamond  studded  dust  that  will  project 
Us     into     a     heaven     greater     than     they 

dreamed. 
They,    whose    cities    are   beginning    to    fall 
Small    chipped   edges    of   adobe   into    dust. 


TREES 
By  Thelma  Iceland 


SOME  folks  grow  trees  for  fruit  or  flower, 
For  shade  or  looks  or  shelter, 
But  I  like  trees  that  grow  themselves, 
No  purpose,  helter-skelter. 
For  that  kind  make  the  best  slingshots 
And  weiner  sticks  and  things, 
And  always  wear  a  welcome  sign 
For  tree  houses  and  swings. 


SWING  SONG 

By  Elaine  V.  Emans 

A    swing  with  no  one  in  it  must  be  lonely, 
■**  But  a  child  without  a  swing,  day  in, 

day  out, 
Misses  a  pleasure  granted  to  one  only 
Sitting  or  standing  on  a  board  the  stout 
Rope  holds  for  him,  and  swinging  into  air 
With  joy  which  he  cannot  put  into  words, 
But    shouts    instead!    Without    an    earthly 

care, 
He  enters  buoyantly  the  realm  of  birds, 
And  grows  more  rash  with   power   as  he 

pumps, 
Or   begs   someone   to  push  him   still   more 

high— 
Before  he  slows  a  bit  and  bravely  jumps, 
Or,  blessed  with  leisure,  lets  the  old  cat  die, 
Matching  his  mood  to  his  diminished  speed. 
A  child  without  a  swing  is  poor  indeed. 


FACES  IN  GRANITE 
(Mount  Rushmore) 

By  Hattie  B.  Maughan 

T  stand  before  thee  frustrate, 

*   Puny  with  fear  and  foreboding, 

Blatant  clang  of  battle 

Loud  in  my   ears. 

You   great  ones,   granite  hewn! 

You,  too,  knew  your  wars  and  rumors  of 

wars. 
But    now     the    brow    of    Washington    is 

calm; 
His  penetrating  gaze  imperturbable. 
Jefferson,     who     braved     the     formulative 

years, 
Seeing   the   tides  of  liberty  ebb  and   flow, 
Now  stands  immutable, 
The  wisdom  of  ages  on  his  sensitive  face. 
And   Lincoln — the   face   still   somewhat   in 

the  rough 
As  was  his  nature  in  the  flesh, 
Now  from  his  granite  mold 
Gazes  benignly  on  our  craven  fear 
The  sorrow  of  the  slave  chain  lifted  from 

his  brow. 
And,     jutting     out     between     his     mighty 

predecessors, 
The  aggressive  visage  of  Teddy  Roosevelt 
Even  he  content  and  seemingly  serene. 
I  bow  in  awe  of  your  detached  omniscience, 
Pondering   the  imponderable. 
What  see  you  in  the  past  you  helped  to 

build 
Or  in  the  future  yet  to  be. 
That  leaves  you  undismayed; 
Cloud-wrapped  or  sun-kissed 
Unchanging  as  the  seasons? 
In     this     morass     of     greed — this     lusting 

power-mad  world, 
Find  you  one  statesman,  worthy  the  name 
To   take   his  post  beside  you 
Forgetting    self   to   serve   his   fellow   men? 
Is  that  the  secret  of  your  tranquility? 
God  grant  it  so! 


COUNTRY  CUSTOM,  MEXICO 

By    Yetza  Gillespie 

**  A    blessing  on  the  house,  on  all  with- 

-^  in," 
The  stranger  at   the   door   calls  clear 
The  good  warm  words,  and  if  no  one  is 

there, 
They  are  not  lost.     The  angels  hear. 

Maybe  nobody   answers,   folk  or  angel, 

And   yet  it  is   a   thing   well-done, 

As   if   a   man   stepped    through   the   chilly 

night 
Into   the  morning   sun. 


ACCOMPANIMENT 

By    Catherine    E.    Berry 

TUfv  busy  hands  wash  dishes,  polish  glass, 
*■»*    Arrange  the  plates  to  best  show  off 

the  flowers; 
I  scarcely  notice  how  the  time  may  pass; 
These   simple,    homely    chores    fill   all   my 

hours; 
And    yet    my    mind    revolves    and    twists 

and  turns; 
A   thousand   subjects   leap   to   prominence; 
A   poem,   like   a   jeweled   star,    first   burns 
While  I  am  draping  rug's  upon  the  fence. 

I  cannot  hold  them  back,  these  words  that 

sing, 
They  beat  upon  my  heart  while  I  knead 

bread, 
Sweet,  simple  songs  or  lilting  lyrics  bring 
Triumphant    notes    that    whirl    around    my 

head. 
I   wash  and  iron  and  sweep  and  dust  all 

day, 
Accompanied   by   a    joyous    roundelay! 


GRATITUDE 

By  Angelyn    W.    Wadley 

"VT'es,   I  have  known  despair. 
•*■    She  took  me  by  the  hand 
And    led    me     through     desolate,    haunted 

hours 
Of  the  night. 

She  might  have  kept  me  where 
She    dwells   in    darkness; 
But  you  found  me  there 
And  brought  your  love  and   faith 
To   guide  me  safely 
Back  to  light. 


HOMESTEAD 
By  Queena  Davison  Miller 

HP  he  mind  may  travel  where  it  will; 
■*■     The  mind  may  roam  and  dally; 
The   heart  will   know   its   own   green   hill 
And  claim  its  own  green  valley. 


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THE   IMPROVEMENT   ERA 


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TRUTH 


HOW  MAY  we  know  God?  How  may  we 
feel  a  nearness  to  him?  Young  people 
are  earnestly  asking  these  and  other 
eternal  questions,  and  they  long  for  the 
answers. 

In  the  world  today  belief  in  Jesus 
Christ  is  too  perfunctory,  too  conventional. 
The  conviction  of  Christ  as  deity  does  not 
seem  to  possess  the  souls  of  men,  and  yet 
the  reality  of  God  the  Father,  the  reality 
of  Jesus  the  Christ,  the  risen  Lord,  is  a  truth 
which  should  possess  every  human  soul,  for 
God  is  the  center  of  the  human  mind  as 
surely  as  the  sun  is  the  center  of  this  uni- 
verse, and  once  we  feel  his  Fatherhood,  once 
we  feel  his  nearness,  once  we  sense  the 
divinity,  the  deity  of  the  Savior,  the  truths 
of  the  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  follow  as  natu- 
rally as  the  day  the  night,  and  as  night  the 
day. 

There  are  three  ways,  among  others,  in 
which  we  should  like  to  ask  the  young  peo- 
ple of  Israel,  particularly,  to  seek  their  God 
and  to  feel  his  nearness.  One  is  to  think, 
to  reason.  Though  reason  to  the  soul  may 
be  only  "as  the  borrowed  rays  of  moon  and 
stars  to  lonely,  weary,  wandering  traveler — " 
yet  it  is  a  guide  and  will  lead  us  to  him.  Too 
few  men  use  it  positively  with  a  desire  to 
know  the  truth. 

Another  pathway  is  to  accept  the  witness 
of  men  who  have  known  him,  who  have  seen 
him.  I  think  we  pay  too  little  attention  to 
the  value  of  these  witnesses.  The  very  first 
act  of  the  Twelve  after  Christ's  ascension 
was  to  choose  a  man  from  among  those  who 
had  been  eyewitnesses  of  Christ's  resurrec- 
tion. That  was  ^vhat  they  wanted  the 
Apostle  to  be  who  was  to  take  Judas'  place — 
a  witness  of  his  resurrection.  ( Read  in  the 
first  chapter  of  Acts. ) 

Mind  you,  many  men  in  the  world  today 
accept  Christ  as  a  great  teacher,  but  that  is 
not  the  fact  which  is  going  to  transform  their 
souls.     He  was  a  great  teacher,  the  greatest 


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teacher  of  men,  but  he  was  also  Jesus  the 
Christ,  the  Son  of  God,  the  divine  Redeemer 
of  the  world,  and  a  member  of  the  God- 
head— and  it  is  he  of  whom  I  speak  when 
I  plead  for  young  men  to  come  close  to  him. 

The  early  Apostles  were  to  be  witnesses 
of  the  resurrected  Christ  in  all  Judea  and  in 
Samaria,  and  unto  the  uttermost  parts  of 
the  earth.  And  let  me  here  say  that  we  ought 
not  to  question  the  integrity  of  these  men.  I 
believe  in  them;  I  cannot  believe  that  they 
wanted  to  deceive;  I  cannot  believe  that  they 
were  deceived — I  cannot.  In  the  measure- 
ment of  time  we  are  a  long  way  from  them, 
I  know;  but  if  we  study  carefully  their  lives 
and  their  histories,  we  shall  find  that  their 
testimonies  are  reliable  and  that  the  integrity 
of  their  lives  is  unquestioned. 

These  men  who  were  to  be  witnesses  de- 
clared before  their  enemies,  the  very  men 
who  had  put  Jesus  Christ  to  death  on  the 
cross,  that  they  had  seen  the  risen  Lord. 
Here  is  Peter's  testimony  given  immediately 
after  the  resurrection: 

"Ye  men  of  Israel,  hear  these  words;  Jesus 
of  Nazareth,  a  man  approved  of  God  among 
you  by  miracles  and  wonders  and  signs, 
which  God  did  by  him  in  the  midst  of  you, 
as  ye  yourselves  also  know: 

"Him,  being  delivered  by  the  determinate 
counsel  and  foreknowledge  of  God,  ye  have 
taken  and  by  wicked  hands  have  crucified 
and  slain: 

"Whom  God  hath  raised  up,  having  loosed 
the  pains  of  death:  because  it  was  not  pos- 
sible that  he  should  be  holden  of  it.  .  .  . 

"This  Jesus  hath  God  raised  up,  whereof 
we  all  are  witnesses."  (Acts  2:22-24,  32.) 
( Italics  author's. ) 

Ah,  but  the  doubting  critic  says,  and  he 
says  conscientiously,  if  we  had  absolute  proof 
that  this  was  Peter's  testimony,  it  would 
have  force.  But  the  author — Luke — received 
the  witness  personally  of  the  men  who  saw 
Jesus  Christ  after  he  was  resurrected.     We 

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know  from  authentic  sources  that 
Luke  was  in  Rome  with  Mark,  and 
also  that  Mark  was  in  Jerusalem  at 
the  time  that  these  great  events 
took  place.  We  know  that  Luke 
was  in  the  house  of  Philip,  the 
evangelist,  and  stayed  many  days 
at  Caesarea.  We  know  that  at  that 
time  he  went  to  Jerusalem  and 
conferred  with  James  who  presided 
over  the  Church  at  Jerusalem — 
James  the  brother  of  the  Lord,  who 
had  accepted  the  gospel  after  the 
resurrection.  The  testimony  of 
James,  Luke  heard,  and  in  all 
probability  the  testimony  of  Peter, 
because  Peter  was  there  as  one  of 
the  leaders  when  Luke  went  up  to 
Jerusalem  on  that  occasion.  Men 
were  living,  five  hundred  of  them 
at  that  time,  who  had  seen  the 
resurrected  Lord.  What  about  the 
integrity  of  these  witnesses?  What 
right  had  Luke  to  suspect  them?  He 
did  not;  he  accepted  their  testimony 
as  valid,  and  their  testimony  of  the 
resurrected  Lord  convinced  him  of 
the  divinity  of  the  work  of  Jesus 
Christ  to  which  he  subscribed  and 
of  which  he  became  a  member. 

He  heard  from  Paul,  day  after 
day  and  night  after  night,  the  testi- 
mony that  he  gave,  and  if  there  is 
any  question  about  the  direct  testi- 
mony of  Peter,  we  have  the  direct 
testimony  of  Paul.  Paul  testifies 
that  he  saw  the  risen  Lord.  With 
that  testimony  you  are  all  ac- 
quainted. He  further  testifies  that 
the  risen  Lord  was  seen  of  Cephas 
(Peter),  "...  then  of  the  twelve: 

"After  that,  he  was  seen  of  above 
five  hundred  brethren  at  once;  of 
whom  the  greater  part  remain  unto 
this  present,  but  some  are  fallen 
asleep. 

"After  that,  he  was  seen  of 
James;  then  of  all  the  apostles. 

"And  last  of  all  he  was  seen  of 
me  also,  as  of  one  born  out  of  due 
time/'  (I  Cor.  15:5-8.) 

I  cannot  doubt  that  testimony. 
Why  can  the  world?  This  testi- 
mony is  of  the  resurrected  Lord, 
not  Jesus  the  teacher,  not  the  Jesus 
of  Nazareth,  but  Jesus  the  Lord, 
the  Redeemer  of  mankind. 

Let  me  call  your  attention  to  an- 
other witness  nearer  to  us  than  the 
ancient  Apostles — the  testimony  of 
Joseph  Smith  the  Prophet  who  is 
practically  of  our  generation.  In 
494 


measurement  of  time,  Cephas,  Paul, 
Luke,  and  others  are  a  long  way 
from  us.  But  Joseph  Smith  testified 
that  the  risen  Lord  appeared  to  him, 
that  he  was  introduced  by  the 
Father,  who  said,  "This  is  my  Be- 
loved Son;  hear  him."  If  that 
testimony  stood  alone  it  would  be, 
as  Christ  said  his  testimony  would 
be,  of  no  avail  when  he  spoke  of 
himself.  But  Joseph  Smith  has 
other  witnesses  whose  integrity 
cannot  be  questioned.  Of  Joseph's 
wonderful  testimony,  I  am  merely 
suggesting  a  line  of  thought  that 
young  men  may  follow  and  come 
nearer  to  a  conviction  of  the  divin- 
ity of  Jesus  the  Christ  if  they  will 
be  conscientious  and  true,  and  not 
"play  pranks  with  their  souls,"  but 
be  honest  as  Joseph  Smith  was  hon- 
est, and  as  these  other  men  were 
honest  to  death  in  their  testimonies. 

Three  witnesses  corroborated 
Joseph  Smith's  wonderful  vision, 
and  in  that  testimony  which  they 
give  they  bear  record  of  another 
truth,  the  immortality  of  man:  For 
if  Jesus  Christ  lived  after  death, 
and  the  angel  Moroni  came  as  these 
three  witnesses  declared,  then  you 
and  I  will  live  after  death!  Man 
is  immortal.  Oh,  what  a  wonderful 
revelation,  what  it  means  to  men 
who  now  but  perfunctorily  and  in  a 
conventional  manner  accept  the 
gospel  of  Christ!  These  three  men 
testified: 

"Be  it  known  unto  all  nations, 
kindred,  tongues,  and  people,  unto 


FLASHING  WINGS 

By  Manfred  A.   Carter 

Tn  dreams,  I  harvested  the  summer  light 
r  And  walked  on  grass  but  never  bent  it 

down; 
My  moving   hands  were   swifter  than   my 

sight — 
I    mocked    the    sun,    like    some    immortal 

clown. 
Where  strange  bright  motion  on  a  flower 

bell 
Came  in  my  dream,  I  caught  a  humming- 
bird 
Above  that  gold  and  crimson  color  spell — 
Its  throbbing,  soundless  fear  could  not  be 

heard. 
Those  flashing   wings  lay   crippled  in  my 

palm, 
With   heaven's   shining   motion   weak   and 

slow, 
My  heedless  hands  had  brought  a  mortal 

calm; 
It  was  too  late  to  let  those  bright  wings  go. 
Then    slow    tears    washed    my    mournful 

soul   awake, 
I    knew    some    dreams    are    not    for   hands 

to    take. 


whom  this  work  shall  come:  That 
we,  through  the  grace  of  God  the 
Father,  and  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
have  seen  the  plates  which  contain 
this  record,  which  is  a  record  of  the 
people  of  Nephi,  and  also  of  the 
Lamanites,  their  brethren,  and  also 
of  the  people  of  Jared,  who  came 
from  the  tower  of  which  hath  been 
spoken.  And  we  also  know  that 
they  have  been  translated  by  the 
gift  and  power  of  God,  for  his  voice 
hath  declared  it  unto  us. 

"Oliver  Cowdery,  David  Whit- 
mer,    Martin    Harris." 

In  Palmyra  some  years  ago  I 
read  in  one  of  the  local  papers  a 
testimony,  or  memorandum,  given 
by  a  man  who  knew  these  three 
witnesses  personally.  He  never 
joined  the  Church,  but  in  that  local 
paper  I  read  this  testimony  of  the 
integrity  of  one  of  these  witnesses: 

John  H.  Gilbert,  on  September  8, 
1892,  the  man  who  set  the  type  of 
the  Book  of  Mormon,  says  this  of 
Martin  Harris: 

"Martin  Harris  was  a  good 
farmer  owning  a  farm  of  about  one 
hundred  and  fifty  acres  about  a 
mile  north  of  Palmyra  village,  and 
had  money  at  interest.  Martin,  as 
everybody  called  him,  was  con- 
sidered by  his  neighbors  a  very 
honest  man." 

Martin,  the  honest  man,  says  to 
the  world,  "God's  voice  declared 
to  us  that  the  plates  from  which 
the  Book  of  Mormon  was  trans- 
lated are  true;  an  angel  of  God 
came  down  and  he  brought  and 
laid  before  our  eyes,  that  we  beheld 
and  saw  the  records." 

"A  very  honest  man,"  bears  the 
witness;  why  should  we  doubt  it? 

In  Pittsburgh  years  ago,  I  heard 
President  B.  H.  Roberts  bear  wit- 
ness in  a  most  inspirational  meet- 
ing, that  he  heard  David  Whitmer, 
another  of  the  three  special  wit- 
nesses, testify  in  these  words: 

'Young  man,  if  that  book  (point- 
ing to  one  of  the  early  editions  of 
the  Book  of  Mormon)  is  not  true, 
then  there  is  no  truth  in  Ibis,  God's 
world." 

The  integrity  of  these  three  wit- 
nesses cannot  successfully  be  ques- 
tioned. 

But  there  is  a  greater  witness 
than  the  witness  of  men,  great  as 
that  is.     There  is  a  witness  of  the 

{Concluded  on  page  542) 
THE  IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


? 


What  Does  Evolution  Teach  Today? 

'  Dm  sjohn  ^r.     Widt&oe 


OF  THE  COUNCIL  OF  THE  TWELVE 


All  living  things,  plants  and  animals,  are  sub- 
ject to  change.  Every  observer  of  nature, 
certainly  all  plant  and  animal  breeders,  know 
this  to  be  true.  It  is  an  unchanging  fact  of  nature. 
Living  things  are  not  static.  This  is  the  law  of 
evolution. 

In  the  meaning  of  this  law,  Latter- 
day  Saints  are  the  foremost  evolu- 
tionists in  the  world.  They  believe 
that  the  immortal  spirit  of  man  may 
eternally  approach  the  likeness  of 
God    himself. 

The  theory  or  theories  of  evolu- 
tion are  man's  explanations  of  the 
multitude  of  changes  observed  in 
nature.  Such  theories  may  or  may 
not  be  correct.  They  are  always 
subject-  to  changes  as  new  facts  are 
discovered. 

Until  recently  one  of  the  theories 
of  evolution  based  largely  upon  the 
work  of  the  great  scientist,  Charles 
Darwin,  was  that  man  was  only  a 
product  of  changes  in  organic  life, 
throughout  long  periods  of  time.  So 
vigorous  was  the  battle  over  the 
proof  of  this  theory,  that  in  the 
minds  of  men  the  law  of  evolution,  a 
fact  of  nature,  and  the  theory,  man's 
explanation  of  the  fact,  became  as 
one.  An  evolutionist  in  those  days 
was  a  person  who  held  that  man  de- 
scended from  the  lower  animals. 

The  battle  over  the  evolutionary 
origin  of  man  became  so  unseemly 
that  each  side  looked  upon  the  in- 
telligence of  the  other  with  distrust. 
After  many  years  of  swaying  opin- 
ions, more  temperate  views  now  pre- 
vail in  this  field  of  science.  Leading 
scientists,  those  of 
unquestioned  author-  A  A 

ity,  have  expressed  ^sHvi  ^Vw 
their  views  upon  the 
matter  today.1  These  apear  to  be  quite  different 
from  the  views  of  yesterday.  Quotations  might 
be  made  from  other  numerous  students,  but  the 
following  from  distinguished  workers  well-known 
in  the  scientific  fraternity,  will  have  to  suffice. 

1.  Dr.    Clark  Wissler   of  the   anthropographic 
section,  U.  S.  Museum  of  Natural  History:2 

*Read  The  Improvement  Era,  July  1939,  p.  417;  or  John  A.  Widtsoe, 
Evidences    &    Reconciliations,    p.     149. 

1Most  of  the  quotations  were  assembled  by  Arthur  I.  Brown,  M.D., 
in    his    pamphlet,    Must    Young    People   Believe    in    Evolution.      Oak   Park. 

III.  ;'-,,,. 

2Clark   Wissler,    The  Case   Against  Evolution,    p.   344. 

JULY   1951 


Evidences 

AND 

Reconciliations 

CLVI 


mswer 


"As  far  as  science  has  discovered  there  always 
was  a  man,  some  not  so  developed,  but  still 
human  beings  in  all  their  functions,  much  as  we 
are  today.  .  .  .  Man  came  out  of  a  blue  sky  as 
far   as  we   have   been   able   to    delve  back." 

2.  Vernon  Kellogg,  eminent  biolo- 
gist, trustee,  Rockefeller  Foundation, 
and  other  philanthropic  scientific  and 
educational  organizations:1 

"The  fair  truth  is  that  the  Dar- 
winism selection  theories  considered 
with  regard  to  their  claimed  capacity 
to  be  an  independently  mechanical 
explanation  of  descent,  stand  today 
seriously  discredited  in  the  biological 
world." 

3.  Professor  L.  T.  More,  Dean  of 
the  Graduate  School  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Cincinnati:4 

"Unfortunately  for  Darwin's  fu- 
ture reputation  every  one  of  his  argu- 
ments is  contradicted  by  the  facts." 

4.  Dr.  D.  H.  Scott,  eminent  British 
botanist:5 

"A  new  generation  has  grown  up 
which  knows  not  Darwin.  Is  even 
then  evolution  not  a  scientifically 
ascertained  fact?  No!  We  must 
hold  it  as  an  act  of  faith  because 
there  is  no  alternative." 

5.  Dr.  Henry  Fairfield  Osborn, 
foremost  champion  of  evolution  in 
America:6 

"If  living  today,  Darwin  would  be 
the  first  to  modify  his  theory.  Darwin 
was  brave  but  wrong." 

6.  Douglas  Dewar,  zoologist,  In- 
dian Civil  Service,  Barrister,  South 
Eastern  Circuit:7 

"The  breeder,  no 
matter  on  what  ani- 
mal or  plant  he  ex- 
periments, after  he 
has  effected  a  num- 
ber of  minor  changes  in  any  given  direction,  is 
suddenly  brought  to  a  standstill.  In  a  compara- 
tively short  time  he  reaches  a  stage  at  which  he 
cannot  accomplish  more,  no  matter  how  much  he 
try.  .  .  .  This  fact  is  fatal  to  the  evolution  theory." 

(Continued  on  page  529) 

sVernon    Kellogg,     Darwinism     To-day,    p.     5. 
4L.    T.    More,    The    Dogma    of    Evolution,    p.    194 

5Arthur     I.      Brown,      "Must     Young     People     Believe     in     Evolution," 
p.    11,    Oak    Park,    III. 
oibid.,   p.    11. 
^Douglas   Dewar,   Difficulties  of  the  Evolution    Theory,   p.   91. 


to  the    io/ue^tlond   of   l/Jovith 


495 


Elder  Willard  Rich- 
ards, grandfather  of 
Stephen  L  Richards, 
was  second  counselor 
to  Brigham  Young  in 
the  early  orgvnization 
of    the   Church. 


Emma   Louise   Stayner   Richards, 
mother   of    President   Richards. 


OF  more  than  passing  interest  is 
the  fact  that  the  three  men  who 
today  stand  at  the  head  of  the 
Church  grew  up  in  small  Utah  farm- 
ing communities.  President  David 
O.  McKay  was  born  and  reared  in 
Huntsville.  President  Stephen  L 
Richards  was  born  in  the  village  of 
Mendon  and  spent  his  early  child- 
hood in  Farmington.  Grantsville 
was  the  birthplace  of  President  J. 
Reuben  Clark,  Jr.,  and  there  he 
lived  until  he  left  home  to  go  to 
school. 

Unquestionably  the  lessons,  im- 
pressions, and  habits  of  their  child- 
hood days  have  had  much  to  do 
with  the  later  achievements  of  these 
men.  Early  in  life  they  learned  the 
necessity  of  getting  up  in  the  morn- 
ing and  of  doing  a  day's  work. 
They  developed  a  kinship  with  the 
good  earth  and  the  honest  people 
who  make  it  fruitful.  They  be- 
came acquainted  with  nature,  her 
rewards  and  her  penalties.  In  the 
simple  but  stimulating  society  of 
those  communities,  their  souls  and 
minds  grew  with  their  strengthening 
bodies.  As  country  boys  are  wont 
to  do,  they  dreamed  dreams  that 
reached  to  the  blue  sky  above  them 
and  aspired  to  places  far  beyond 
the  mountains  that  surrounded  their 
valley  homes. 

It  is  not  within  the  province  of 
this  writing  to  recount  the  many 
engaging  and  at  times  trying  expe- 
riences that  led  them  by  various 
paths  to  the  high  positions  they  now 
occupy.  The  assignment  of  this 
article  is  a  sketch  of  one  of  them — 
President  Stephen  L  Richards. 
Space  permits  only  a  few  facts  and 
observations,  which,  it  is  hoped, 
will  give  some  indication,  though 
inadequate,  of  the  remarkable  char- 
496 


Dr.  Stephen  Longstroth  Richards, 
father    of    President    Richards. 


President  Stephen  L  Rich- 
ards, First  Counselor  in  the 
First    Presidency. 


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tit 


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acter  of  this  man  whom  God  has 
honored  and  whom  the  people  of 
the  Church  have  sustained  in  the 
Council  of  the  First  Presidency. 
For  forty-five  years  he  has  been 
one  of  the  general  officers  of  the 
Church,  for  thirty-four  one  of  the 
General  Authorities.  What  has 
qualified  him  for  the  important  and 
serious  responsibilities  he  has  car- 
ried over  most  of  half  a  century? 

First  and  foremost  of  his  virtues 
is  his  testimony  of  the  gospel  of 
Jesus  Christ.  With  him  spiritual 
knowledge  is  a  sacred  thing,  a  gift 
from  heaven  to  be  treasured  and 
guarded.     No  one  acquainted  with 


Sister    Irene    Merrill    Richards    about 
the    time    of   her    marriage    in    1900. 


Stephen 


his  life  can  doubt  his  assurance  of 
the  divinity  of  the  work  in  which 
he  is  engaged. 

That  testimony  came  young  in 
life.  Its  taproot  drew  strength 
from  the  faith  of  his  grandfather, 
Dr.  Willard  Richards.  He  it  was 
who  left  home  and  friends  and 
profession  when  the  Spirit  of  the 
Lord  bore  witness  to  his  soul  of 
the  divinity  of  the  Book  of  Mor- 
mon. Thereafter  his  lot  was  cast 
with   the   persecuted   Saints.      And 


Elder  Richards  shortly  after  his  marriage. 


THE  IMPROVEMENT   ERA 


Elder  and  Sister  Richards  in 
Brazil  in  1948.  Sister  Richards 
had  just  been  presented  with 
a  corsage  of  two  dozen  orchids 
by  the  Saints  in  the  Brazilian 
Mission. 


A  family  group  in  the  backyard  of  the  family  home 
on  218  First  Avenue,  taken  in  1920.  Reading  from 
left  to  right,  Baby  Richard  M.,  Lois  B.,  Louise,  Alice. 
Center,  Georgia.  Front  row,  Joseph  Albert  (dec), 
and  Philip  L.  Lynn  Stephen,  the  eldest  son,  was  at 
this  time  on  a  mission  to  the  Eastern  States. 


he  it  was  who  offered  his  own  life 
for    the    Prophet's    on    that    sultry 

L  Richards 


d5u   L/ordon  vJ>.  _Ar inch  lei 


f 


summer  day  in  1844  when  Joseph 
and  Hyrum  Smith  were  murdered. 
The  grandson  likewise  forsook 
the  advantages  and  emoluments  of 
his  own  chosen  profession  when 
the  prophet  of  the  Lord  called. 
Stephen  L  Richards  was  then 
thirty-seven  years  of  age,  a  suc- 
cessful lawyer,  with  an  even  more 


promising  future.  But  he  knew 
where  the  enduring  values  of  life 
lie;  he  knew  the  meaning  of  that 
call;  and  there  was  no  hesitancy  in 
his  response. 

He  regards  his  testimony  as  a 
personal  treasure.  He  does  not 
repeat  it  often,  nor  carelessly.  He 
does  not  thrust  it  on  those  who 
would  scorn  it.  But  on  those 
occasions — sacred  occasions — when 
he  has  shared  it  in  measured  words, 
his  listeners  have  known  that  he 
was  drawing  from  a  deep  well  of 
pure  and  living  truth. 

That  testimony  alone  might  have 
been  sufficient  reason  for  his  call 
into  the  Council  of  the  Twelve. 
But  added  to  this  were  remarkable 
qualities  of  mind  and  facilities  of 
expression  that  have  made  his 
services  invaluable  to  the  Church. 


Four  generations  of  the  Richards  family,  photo  taken  in  1931:  Lynn  Stephen,  son 
of  Stephen  L;  Emma  Louise  Stayner  Richards,  his  mother;  Lynn  Stephen,  Jr.;  and 
Stephen  L. 


The  children  of  President  and  Sister  Richards  greet  them  on  their 
fiftieth  wedding  anniversary,  February  27,  7950:  Georgia  Gill  Olson, 
Richard  M.,  Lois  B.  Hinckley,  Lynn  S.,  Louise  R.  Covey,  Philip  L., 
and  Alice  R.  Allen. 


The  gospel  cause  has  always  had 
need  for  able  advocates,  and  when 
his  call  came,  he  was  qualified  both 
by  native  endowment  and  training. 

He  is  the  product  of  a  good 
home,  one  of  those  "old-fashioned 
American  homes"  of  which  he  has 
spoken  often.  Without  intending 
to  reflect  any  personal  glory,  he 
has  said  that  "the  world  supply  of 
intelligence,  goodness,  and  beauty 
is  largely  a  matter  of  propagation." 
A  glance  at  the  home  of  his  parents, 
together  with  a  study  of  its  prod- 
ucts, confirms  the  truthfulness  of 
that  statement. 

His  father,  Dr.  Stephen  Longs- 
troth  Richards,  was  a  distinguished 
physician,  a  man  remembered  not 
alone  for  his  professional  skill,  but 
also  for  his  quiet  manner  and  his 
kindness  to  the  poor  and  distressed. 
It  was  in  the  tradition  of  his  father, 
and  of  fathers  before,  reaching  back 
into  the  earliest  days  of  New  Eng- 
land, that  Stephen  L  Richards 
studied  for  a  professional  career. 

It  is  likewise  probable  that  from 
the  spirit  of  his  father  grew  his 
own  sympathetic  understanding  of 
those  in  unfortunate  circumstances. 
With  remembrance  of  his  own 
childhood  and  of  his  father's  con- 
secrated life,  he  has  spoken  of  the 
days  when  periodic  epidemics 
wiped  out  entire  families,  and  even 
communities.  And  he  has  expressed 
gratitude  for  the  drugs  and  other 
curatives  not  available  in  his 
father's  day.  Obvious  it  is  that 
many  of  the  qualities  of  his  brilliant 
mind  and  his  sympathetic  spirit  of 
understanding  were  gained  from  his 
able  father. 

His  mother,  Emma  Louise  Stay- 
ner Richards,  was  a  gifted  woman 
in   her   own   right.      She   was    the 


{Continued  on  following  page) 


JULY   1951 


497 


Salt  Lake  Sunday  School 
workers.  May  7,  1905. 
Stephen  L  Richards  is  stand- 
ing   second    from    right. 


He     bears     no     scars    of 
"this    age    of    ulcers." 


STEPHEN  L 

RICHARDS 


(Continued  from  preceding  page) 
daughter  of  Arthur  Stayner,  a  man 
of  ability  and  perseverance,  who 
worked  for  years  on  the  chemistry 
of  sugar  refining.  He  made  an 
outstanding  contribution  to  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  western  beet 
sugar  industry  and  created  a  signifi- 
cant heritage  for  his  children  and 
grandchildren  after  him. 

She  carried  into  her  own  home 
that  same  spirit  of  doing  things,  and 
along  with  it  a  spirit  of  refinement 
and  culture.  Ten  children  came  to 
that  home.  They  were  bright, 
lively  youngsters  whose  parents 
had  the  wisdom  to  give  them  free- 
dom in  developing  their  natural 
talents  and  the  skill  to  direct  their 
impulsive  actions  into  worth-while 
channels.  But  they  were  not  "Little 
Lord  Fauntleroys."  Stephen  once 
had  his  leg  badly  cut  in  a  sleigh- 
riding  accident,  and  when  the  doc- 
tor was  about  to  sew  the  cut,  he  let 
go  a  well-directed  kick  that  sent 
the  man  across  the  room.  The  fact 
that  the  parents  knew  the  art  of 
homemaking  is  evidenced  by  the 
adult  lives  of  the  children.  Each  has 
succeeded  and  become  an  outstand- 
ing member  of  the  community  in 
which  he  or  she  lives. 

From  that  home  of  his  childhood 
he  has  drawn  inspiration  for  what 
is  perhaps  his  favorite  theme.  In 
speaking  of  the  families  who  grew 
up  in  such  homes  he  has  said: 
"What  families  they  have  been!  In 
days  of  privation  and  striving,  how 
they  have  stood  together!  The 
sacrifices  which  they  have  made, 
one  for  another!  The  love,  the 
498 


■'•'* 


service,  and  the  nobility  which  have 
come  from  those  great  homes  will 
probably  never  be  known  to  many, 
but  those  who  know  of  them  and 
speak  of  the  accomplishments  of  our 
Church  in  the  first  century  of  its 
existence  mention  first  the  noble 
fathers  and  mothers  who  in  log 
cabins  of  the  frontier  or  mansions 
of  luxury  have  served  faithfully  as 
priests  and  priestesses  in  the  tem- 
ple of  the  home." 

It  was  in  that  spirit  and  with 
that  ideal  before  them  that  he  and 
his  bride  began  life  together  more 
than  half  a  century  ago.  Irene 
Merrill  was  the  daughter  of  pio- 
neer people,  Clarence  Merrill  and 
Bathsheba  Smith,  and  the  product 
of  another  "old-fashioned  American 
home."  She  had  been  a  member  of 
the  Tabernacle  choir  and  was  a 
student  of  the  University  of  Utah, 
a  beautiful  and  gracious  young 
woman  of  artistic  taste. 

They  were  married  February  21, 
1900  and  left  for  the  Malad  Valley 
of  Idaho.  That  was  a  challenging 
and  lusty  country  and  the  experi- 
ence proved  a  valuable  test  of  in- 
dustry and  resourcefulness. 


The  young  husband  felled  and 
hauled  the  logs  which  became  their 
first  dwelling,  and  the  young  wife 
made  it  into  an  attractive  home. 

They  have  since  lived  in  larger 
and  more  comfortable  houses,  but 
each  has  been  hallowed  by  the  same 
cultivated  spirit.  Nine  children  have 
come  to  them,  each  one  welcomed 
and  cherished. 

The  son  of  one  large  family  and 
the  father  of  another,  President 
Richards  has  deplored  the  modern 
selfish  tendency  to  short-circuit  the 
purposes  of  marriage.  Listen  to 
this  quietly  eloquent  appeal  to  the 
young  fathers  and  mothers  of  the 
Church: 

"If  it  shall  please  the  Lord  to 
send  to  your  home  a  goodly  number 
of  children,  I  hope,  I  pray,  you  will 
not  deny  them  entrance.  If  you 
should,  it  would  cause  you  infinite 
sorrow  and  remorse.  One  has  said 
that  he  could  wish  his  worst  enemy 
no  more  hell  than  this,  that  in  the 
life  to  come  someone  might  ap- 
proach him  and  say,  'I  might  have 
come  down  into  the  land  of  Amer- 


To  President  Stephen  L  Richards,  no  picture  is 
more  inviting  than  smooth  water  cut  at  the  bow  of 
a  trim  boat.  Above  picture  was  taken  on  the  Provo 
River  in   1937. 


ica  and  done  good  beyond  computa- 
tion, but  if  I  came  at  all,  I  had  to 
come  through  your  home,  and  you 
were  not  man  enough  or  woman 
enough  to  receive  me.  You  broke 
down  the  frail  footway  on  which  I 
must  cross  and  then  thought  you 
had  done  a  clever  thing!' 

Hay  in  the  Malad  Valley  brought 
three  dollars  a  ton  and  grain  forty 
cents  a  bushel  when  delivered  to 
the  shipping  point  at  Collinston, 
Utah.  But  the  small  family  lived 
comfortably,  if  modestly,  from  the 
ranch  and  from  supplemental  earn- 
ings Brother  Richards  made  as 
principal  of  the  Malad  public 
school. 

THE  IMPROVEMENT   ERA 


After  two  years  on  the  farm,  they 
left  for  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan. 
Brother  Richards  had  spent  three 
years  in  the  University  of  Utah 
and  now  determined  to  get  a  law 
degree  from  an  eastern  school.  One 
year  was  spent  at  Ann  Arbor,  and 
then  he  transferred  to  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  where  a  law  school 
had  recently  been  opened. 

In  1904  he  was  graduated  with 
the  first  class  from  the  University 
of  Chicago  Law  School  and  re- 
ceived the  coveted  cum  laude  cita- 
tion. 

Ernest  L.  Wilkinson,  now  presi- 
dent of  Brigham  Young  University, 
tells   the   story  that  when  he  was 


The  Superintendency  of  the  Deseret  Sunday  School 
Union  between  the  years  1918-1934.  Left  to  right, 
Stephen  L  Richards,  first  assistant;  Superintendent 
David  O.  McKay;  George  0.  Pyper,  second  assistant. 


studying  at  Harvard,  he  roomed 
with  a  son  of  the  man  who  had  been 
dean  of  the  Chicago  School  of  Law. 
One  day  Dean  Hall  visited  his  son 
and  was  introduced  to  his  Latter- 
day  Saint  roommate.  The  father 
responded  by  saying  that  the  best 
students  he  had  taught  were  Mor- 
mon boys  from  Utah  and  that  a 
young  man  named  Stephen  L  Rich- 
ards was,  in  his  judgment,  the  most 
capable  student  he  had  met  during 
all  of  his  years  as  dean. 

Back  in  Utah  the  young  lawyer 
began  his  career  as  Murray  City 
attorney,  as  instructor  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Utah  Law  School,  and  as 
successful   private  counsel. 

One  of  Salt  Lake  City's  eminent 
lawyers  (not  a  member  of  the 
Church  and  now  deceased)  once 
JULY  1951 


A  group  of  General  Authorities  and  their  wives  gathered  at  the  Richards  home  for 
a  social  evening  in  the   1920' s. 


told  the  writer  that  he  regarded 
Stephen  L  Richards  as  the  ablest 
young  man  practising  before  the 
Utah  bar  up  to  the  time  he  dis- 
continued his  legal  work. 

Apparently  the  Lord  had  need 
for  such  a  mind,  and  by  interesting 
means  he  brought  him  into  the  lead- 
ing councils  of  the  Church. 

As  a  boy  Stephen  L  Richards  had 
been  active  in  the  Sugar  House 
Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City,  where  his 
parents  had  moved  from  Farming - 
ton.  He  taught  in  the  Sunday 
School  and  M.  L  A.,  served  as  a 
ward  teacher,  and  sang  in  the  choir. 
He  today  excuses  his  musical  judg- 
ment on  the  basis  that  he  never 
got  beyond  the  ward  choir  and 
refers  such  matters  to  his  trained 
and  talented  wife.  But  he  has  also 
commented  on  a  love  for  the  songs 
of  Zion,  developed  as  a  young  man 
while  singing  in  Sugar  House 
Ward. 

He  also  served  as  a  member  of 
the  Salt  Lake  Stake  Sunday  School 
board,  and  in  a  similar  capacity  in 
Granite  Stake.  Then  in  1906,  when 
he  was  twenty-seven  years  of  age, 
he  was  called  to  the  general  board 
of  the  Deseret  Sunday  School 
Union.  There  he  became  acquainted 
with  a  young  school  principal  from 
Ogden,  a  man  who  six  months 
earlier  had  been  sustained  a  member 
of  the  Council  of  the  Twelve  and 
who  now  was  named  a  member  of 
the  general  superintendency  of  the 
Sunday  School  Union.  There  and 
then  commenced  a  David-and- 
Jonathan  friendship  which  has 
lasted  and  strengthened  during  all 
the  intervening  years,  and  which 
culminated  in  April  1951  when 
President  David  O.  McKay  chose 
Stephen  L  Richards  to  be  his 
counselor  in  the  First  Presidency. 
It  is  a  tribute  to  both  of  them  that 
they  have  worked  together  so  long 


and  under  such  a  variety  of  circum- 
stances and  that  their  love  and 
appreciation  for  one  another  has 
grown  steadily  over  the  years. 

Appointment  to  the  Sunday 
School  board  put  Brother  Richards 
in  close  association  with  another 
great  man.  President  Joseph  F. 
Smith  was  then  President  of  the 
Church  and  also  served  as  general 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
School  Union.  He  soon  recognized 
the  brilliance  of  the  young  lawyer 
board  member  and  appreciated  his 
loyalty  to  the  Church  and  its  lead- 
ers— at  a  time  when  there  was  much 
bitterness  and  considerable  dis- 
loyalty. 

When  George  Reynolds  died  in 
1909,  President  Smith  filled  the 
vacancy  in  the  Sunday  School 
superintendency  by  calling  Stephen 
L  Richards  as  second  assistant  and 
advancing  David  O.  McKay  to  the 
post  of  first  assistant.  Brother  Rich- 
ards was  then  thirty  years  of  age. 

Under  this  close  association,  the 
kinship  of  three  strong  spirits 
strengthened.  President  Smith  be- 
came familiar  with  the  uncommon 
ability  and  the  deep  worth  of  his 
lawyer-assistant.  In  1916  Francis 
M.  Lyman,  President  of  the  Coun- 
cil of  Twelve,  died.  And  on  Janu- 
ary 17,  1917,  President  Smith  pre- 
sented the  name  of  Stephen  L 
Richards  before  the  Council  to  fill 
the  vacancy  that  existed  in  the 
quorum.  He  was  accepted  and 
ordained  that  same  day,  a  young 
man  of  thirty-seven,  and  the  fol- 
lowing April  he  was  sustained  by 
the  membership  of  the  Church. 

He  terminated  his  law  practice 
and  dedicated  himself  to  the  work 
of  the  Lord.  That  work  has  since 
brought  him  many  serious  responsi- 
bilities. Because  of  his  tact,  his 
persuasive  ability,  his  knowledge 
(Continued  on  page   514) 

499 


WHO  PENNED  THE  DECLARATION  OF  INDEPENDENCE? 


Everyone  knows  that  Thomas 
Jefferson,  with  suggestions  from 
John  Adams  and  Benjamin 
Franklin,  was  the  author  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence.  But 
how  many  know  who  penned  the 
letters  on  the  great  piece  of  parch- 
ment that  the  members  of  the  Con- 
tinental Congress  signed?  It  is  one 
of  the  largest  official  papers  in  ex- 
istence— one  skin  of  parchment 
nearly  three  feet  long  and  more 
than  two  feet  wide. 

And,  of  course,  we  know  that 
the  Declaration  was  not  officially 
written  and  signed  until  July  19, 
1776,  and  that  it  was  not  placed 
on  the  table  to  be  signed  until 
August,  that  is,  by  men  who  were 
not  members  of  the  Continental 
Congress  in  July  1776.  But  it  was 
passed  on  July  Fourth.  Jefferson 
later  wrote  that  the  weather  was 
very  hot  and  that  the  members 
were  glad  to  get  out  of  the  hot 
room  but  that  he  ordered  the  secre- 

500 


B,  Julia    W.    Wolf 


a 


tary  ( Charges  Thomson )  to  have  the 
declaration  printed  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible, and  when  this  was  done,  the 
message  was  proclaimed  from  the 
street  in   Philadelphia. 

Charles  Thomson,  who  had  been 
a  principal  of  a  school  in  New- 
castle, Delaware,  was  an  ardent 
patriot,  and  the  first  Congress  chose 
him  as  secretary  in  1774.  He  held 
that  office  for  fifteen  years.  Al- 
though there  were  fifteen  presi- 
dents of  the  Continental  Congress, 
there  was  but  one  secretary.  Thom- 
son wrote  the  very  last  entry  in 
the  famous  journal  in  1789.  (He 
lived  to  be  ninety-five  years  of 
age. )  Thomson  had  a  clerk  in  his 
office  by  the  name  of  Timothy  Mat- 
lack,  from  Holmesburgh,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  it  was  he  who  became  the 
famous  penman  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence. 


Matlack  was  a  Quaker  by  birth, 
but  he  was  an  open  advocate  of  a 
"Fight  if  we  must"  policy,  and  in 
1 776  was  elected  captain  of  the 
famous  band  in  Philadelphia, 
known  as  the  "Shirt  Battalion."  So 
the  Quakers,  who  were  opposed  to 
war,  formed  what  was  known  as 
"Free  Quakers."  Matlack  joined 
them.  Besides  being  in  the  Conti- 
nental Congress,  he  held  a  number 
of  important  offices  under  the  state 
of  Pennsylvania  and  the  city  of 
Philadelphia. 

Congress  had  ordered  Thomson 
to  get  out  a  score  of  copies  of  the 
declaration.  Of  course,  he  had  to 
send  one  to  each  state  and  one  to 
the  army.  He  had  Dunlap,  the 
famous  printer  of  the  Congress, 
print  these  copies.  It  is  recorded 
that  the  copies  were  eighteen  inches 
long  and  fourteen  inches  wide — 
called  "broadsides"  in  those  days. 

One  of  the  copies  was  the  official 

(Concluded  on  page  540) 
THE  IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


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YOUTH 


"Clearness,  discouragement,  and  doubt  sometimes  come 

unbidden  into  the  thoughts  of  young  and  inexperienced 

missionaries  in  the  field.    How  one  girl  missionary  over' 

■ came    this    condi-    

tion  is  graphically 
told  in  this  poign~ 
ant  story. 


^Jkose  were  the  t 


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HAPPIEST  YEARS..." 


Dm  c=>Loma  sjolle 


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Iaurie  looked  over  her  missionary 
I  diary.  A  scowl  covered  her 
face. 

The  reading  was  dull,  not  a  bit 
like  she  had  imagined  a  missionary 
diary  would  be.  Even  her  letters 
she  wrote  home  so  diligently  every 
week  were  boring,  not  at  all  in- 
spiring and  full  of  enthusiasm  for 
the  gospel,  the  way  everyone  had 
told  her  they  would  be.  It  was 
discouraging,  and  Laurie  let  her 
mind  follow  the  old  natural  course 
of  wishing  she  was  home  and  earn- 
ing money  instead  of  spending  her 
time  trying  to  convert  a  lot  of  folk 
who  didn't  wish  to  be  converted  to 
anything. 

Her  gaze  wandered  over  to 
where  her  companion  was  indus- 
triously studying  the  Bible. 

Wish  I  could  be  like  her,  she 
thought.  She's  so  happy  and  loves 
the  gospel  so  much.  I'll  bet  her 
diary  is  full  of  faith  and  conver- 
sions; seems  like  everything  hap- 
pened before  I  came  out.  Laurie 
mused  that  her  companion  was  al- 
ways eager  to  go  tracting  and  to 
street  meetings,  but  many  times 
she  herself  would  feign  a  headache 
because  she  didn't  think  anyone 
would  talk  to  them  anyway.  How 
can  anyone  say  that  these  are  the 
two  happiest  years  of  one's  life? 
she  thought. 

Sister  White,  Laurie's  compan- 
ion, looked  at  her  and  smiled.  "Is 
there  something  wrong?"  she  asked. 

"No,   just  thinking." 

"You  know,  I  was  thinking  to- 
day that  maybe  we  should  finish 
tractmg  the  street  that  Sister 
Carlysle  and  I  started  while  she 
was  here.  Tonight  would  be  a 
good    time   since    more    people    are 

JULY  1951 


^-Photograph    by    Harold   M.    Lambert 

home  at  night  than  in  the  day. 
What  do  you  say?" 

"Well,"  Laurie  mused,  "I  guess 
so."  She  turned  her  attention  back 
to  her  diary,  which  in  scrawling 
words  said — 

"We  tracted  for  about  an  hour 
today,  but  no  one  would  even  open 
the  door.  It  was  disappointing, 
but  I  expected  it." 

If  there  was  anything  that  Laurie 
didn't  want  to  do,  it  was  to  go 
tracting.  It  certainly  seemed  like 
a  waste  of  time  to  go  pounding  on 
someone's  door  and  have  people 
shun  you  as  if  you  had  the  plague 
or  else  announce  that  they  belonged 
to  a  church  already. 

After  dinner,  the  two  girls 
dressed  in  warm  clothes  and  set 
out  to  finish  tracting  the  street  near 
where  they  lived.  It  was  cold,  and 
the  moist,  cold  air  penetrated 
through  their  coats.  Complaining 
noisily,  Laurie  trotted  after  Sister 
White  who  boldly  approached  the 


first  door  and  rang  the  bell.  A 
well-fed  man  came  to  the  door  and 
opened  it  far  enough  to  see  who 
was  there. 

"We  are  missionaries  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter- 
day  Saints — " 

"Don't  have  any  change,"  the 
man  said  gruffly  and  started  clos- 
ing  the   door. 

"We  aren't  here  after  dona- 
tions," Sister  White  quickly  an- 
nounced. "We  would  like  to  ex- 
plain to  you  a  few  of  our  beliefs, 
and  if  we  could  just  have  a  min- 
ute— ' 

"I  already  belong  to  a  church, 
and  I'm  not  interested,"  he  said, 
as  he  slammed  the  door. 

"Just  what  I  expected,"  Laurie 
said  in  a  knowing  tone,  her  face  as 
long  as  a  hoe  handle. 

"I  believe  that  we  don't  have  the 
proper  spirit  with  us.  Why  don't  we 
ask  the  Lord  to  guide  us  to  those 
who  are  searching   for  the  truth?" 

The  two  girls  stopped  in  the 
shelter  of  the  porch  and  prayed 
fervently  to  their  Father  in  heaven 
that  they  would  be  guided  to  the 
door  of  someone  who  was  searching 
for  the  truth.  The  air  was  still 
cold  and  damp  when  they  stepped 
out  of  the  shelter,  but  both  girls 
felt  warmer  inside  as  they  started 
up  the  street.  They  stopped  at 
several  houses,  but  no  one  seemed 
to  want  to  hear  the  message  the 
girls  had  brought. 

"If  only  someone  would  listen 
to  us,  I  would  know  the  Lord  had 
directed  us,"  Laurie  said  as  they 
started  up  the  front  walk  of  one  of 
the  houses. 

The  girls  rang  the  bell  and 
waited.  When  the  door  opened, 
Laurie  was  sure  that  they  would 
be  rejected  again,  but  motion- 
ing for  them  to  come  in  was  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  women  she 
had  ever  seen,  very  stylish  and 
definitely  of  the  upper  class.  Inside 
the  house,  Laurie  noticed  that  the 
furniture  was  exquisite,  and  she 
felt  very  humble  as  they  started 
{Concluded  on  page  541) 

501 


TOTAL    SUBSCRIPTIONS 

Two  former  Church  leaders,  had 
they  been  living  to  hear  the 
results  of  the  "More-Religious- 
Reading"  campaign  of  The  Im- 
provement Era,  would  have  re- 
joiced greatly.  If  they  could  have 
been  told  that  for  the  first  time  in 
the  history  of  any  Church  maga- 
zine, more  than  one  hundred  thou- 
sand copies  of  a  single  issue  had 
been  printed,  it  would  make  them 
very  happy. 

These  two  leaders  were  President 
Heber  J.  Grant,  founder  of  this 
widely-read  magazine,  and  Presi- 
dent George  Albert  Smith,  who  was 
responsible  for  its  enlargement,  ex- 
pansion, and  development  into  one 
of  the  leading  church  magazines  of 
the  world. 

In  the  recent  campaign  the  Era 
was  carried  into  more  homes  than  in 
any  previous  campaign  of  its  fifty- 
three  year  history.  New  marks  were 
set,  and  all  through  the  Church  sub- 
stantial gains  were  made. 

These  were  some  of  the  new 
records  set: 

Highest  total  subscriptions  for 
stakes  or  missions  by  Southern 
States   Mission — 4,627. 

Highest  percent  of  quota  for 
502 


YELLOWSTONE  STAKE, 
left  to  right,  first  row: 
President  William  J. 
Lewis;  Royal  S.  Jensen, 
Y. M.M.I. A.  superinten- 
dent; Myrtle  W.  Rudd, 
Y.W.M.  I.  A.  president; 
George  J.  Kidd,  Y.M. 
M.l.A.     "Era"    director. 


RIGBY  STAKE,  second 
row:  President  Christen- 
sen;  Harold  Ball,  Y.M. 
M.l.A.  superintendent; 
Grace  Petersen,  Y.W. 
M.l.A.  president;  Martin 
Harris,  Y.M.M.l.A.  "Era" 
director;  Mrs.  Katherine 
V.  Warner,  Y.W.M.I.A. 
"Era"    director. 

NORTH  DAVIS  STAKE, 
third  row:  President 
George  Harold  Holt; 
Wilmer  S.  Barlow,  Y.M. 
M.l.A.  superintendent; 
Mrs.  Cora  L.  Kilfoyle, 
Y.W.M.  I.  A.  president; 
Mrs.  Delbert  E.  Wilcox, 
stake    "Era"    director. 

OGDEN  STAKE,  fourth 
row:  President  Laurence 
S.  Burton;  C.  Austin 
Seager,  Y.M.M.l.A.  su- 
perintendent: Isabel 
Ririe,  Y.W.M.I.A.  presi- 
dent; Joseph  Van  Drim- 
melen,  stake  "Era" 
director. 

LETHBRIDGE  STAKE,  fifth 
row:  President  Octave  W. 
Ursenbach;  A.  Delbert 
Palmer,  Y.M.M.l.A.  su- 
perintendent; Mrs.  Thelma 
W.  Merrill,  Y.W.M.I.A. 
president;  Mrs.  and  Mrs. 
Job  Llewelyn,  stake 
"Era"    directors. 


SOUTH  LOS  ANGELES 
STAKE,  first  row,  left  to 
right:  President  William 
Noble  Waite;  Clifford  B. 
Wright,  first  counselor; 
and  Harold  F.  Whittier, 
second  counselor;  Marvin 
E.  Jacobson,  Y.M.M.l.A. 
superintendent;  Edna 
Harris,  Y.W.M.I.A.  Pres- 
ident. 

LONG  BEACH  STAKE, 
second  row:  President 
Virgil  H.  Spongberg; 
William  C.  Price,  Y.M. 
M.l.A.  superintendent; 
Mrs.  Dorothy  M.  Barnes, 
Y.W.M.I.A.  president; 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Rodney  Price, 
"Era"   directors. 

INGLEWOOD  STAKE, 
third  row:  President  E. 
Garrett  Barlow;  Reldon 
G.  Pinney,  Y.M.M.l.A. 
superintendent;  Mrs. 
Marian  V.  Peterson, 
Y.W.M.I.A.  president; 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  E. 
DuBois,    "Era"    directors. 

MT.  OGDEN  STAKE, 
fourth  row:  President 
Olin  H.  Ririe;  James  T. 
Underwood,  Y.M.M.l.A. 
superintendent;  Lucille 
Stratford,  Y.  W.  M.  I.  A. 
president;  D.  Lyle  Wynn, 
counselor  and  Y.M.M.l.A. 
"Era"  director;  Reba 
Hendricks,  Y.W.M.I.A. 
"Era"  director. 

MOAPA  STAKE,  fifth 
row:  President  Bryan  L. 
Bunker;  Joseph  W.  Wen- 
dell, Y.M.M.l.A.  super- 
intendent; Mrs.  Lueen  J. 
King,  Y.W.M.I.A.  presi- 
dent; Mr:  &  Mrs.  Jereld 
H.  Cameron,  "Era"  di- 
rectors. 


"More— Religious— 

Sets  New  Records  in 


stakes  or  missions,  by  Southern 
States  Mission — 707%. 

First  mission  in  the  Church  to 
win  Leader  of  Leaders  Award  with 
every  mission  district  and  miscel- 
laneous area  in  the  Hall  of  Fame 
with  the  Era  in  every  home,  by 
Southern  States  Mission. 

First  stake  to  qualify  every  ward 
in  the  Hall  of  Fame  for  the  second 
consecutive  year — -by  South  Los 
Angeles  Stake. 

Highest  total  subscriptions  (all- 
Church  record )  by  any  stake  in  any 
year — by  South  Los  Angeles  Stake. 

Leader  of  Leaders  citation  for 
every  ward  in  the  Hall  of  Fame, 
with  the  Era  in  every  home  for 
the  second  year — by  Young  Stake. 

Greatest  gain  over  last  year  in 
both  total  subscriptions  and  per- 
cent of  quota  by  South  Davis  Stake. 


TOTAL    SUBSCRIPTIONS 


Ji  Si  A  V  l  IN  ll       L^ampaicfn 

Stakes  and  Missions 

tulles, 


BUSINESS  MANAGER 


Establishment  of  a  record  in 
Laraanite  gift  subscriptions — 721 
by  South  Davis  Stake. 

Other  stakes  and  missions  made 
outstanding  records,  but  those  listed 
above  are  the  new  goals  that  have 
been  reached.  A  refreshing  and 
impressive  missionary  spirit  per- 
meated the  campaign,  and  good- 
natured  rivalry  for  leading  honors 
added  interest  and  spirit  to  the 
effort. 

Citations  Extraordinary,  out- 
standing honors  reserved  for  out- 
standing accomplishment,  were  won 
again  by  both  South  Los  Angeles 
Stake,  leader  of  all  stakes  by  wide 
margins,  and  Southern  States  Mis- 
sion, which  set  new  all-Church 
marks  in  both  classifications. 

A  new  award,  a  citation  for  the 


BIG  HORN  STAKE,  first 
row,  left  to  right:  Presi- 
dent Frank  H.  Brown; 
Robert  Yorgxison,  Y.M. 
M.I. A.  superintendent; 
Gladys  Emmett,  Y.W. 
M.I. A.  president;  Mrs.  & 
Mrs.  Wallace  Baird,  stake 
"Era"   directors. 

MINIDOKA  STAKE,  sec- 
ond row:  President  Davis 
Green;  James  H.  Wil- 
liams, Y.M. M.I. A.  super- 
intendent; Lamona  Hymas, 
Y.  W.M.I. A.  president;  Mr. 
&  Mrs.  Horace  M.  Hatch, 
stake  "Era"  directors. 

LOS  ANGELES  STAKE, 
third  row:  President  John 
M.  Russon;  Varnell  R. 
Rozsa,  Y.M. M.I. A.  super- 
intendent; Erma  Nielson, 
Y.  W.  M.  I.  A.  president; 
Harvey  H.  Sessions,  stake 
"Era"   director. 


SOUTH  CAROLINA 
STAKE,  fourth  row:  Presi- 
dent W.  Wallace  Mc- 
Bride;  Dewey  D.  Messer, 
Y.M. M.I. A.  superintend- 
ent; Alice  D.  Timmons, 
Y.  W.  M.  I.  A.  president; 
Archel  D.  Sanders,  Y.M. 
M.I. A.  "Era"  director; 
Bertha  N.  Cook,  Y.W. 
M.l.A.     "Era"    director. 


SOUTH  IDAHO  FALLS 
STAKE,  fifth  row:  Presi- 
dent Cecil  E.  Hart;  Loran 
P.  Summers,  Y.M.M.I.A. 
superintendent;  Mrs.  Flor- 
ence Orme,  Y.W.M.I.A. 
president;  Mode  Wright, 
Y.M.M.I.A.  "Era"  direc- 
tor; Becky  Lenzi,  Y.W. 
M.l.A.    "Era"   director. 


PERCENT   OF    QUOTA 


PERCENT    OF    QUOTA 


SOUTH     DAVIS     STAKE, 
first    row,    left    to    right: 
President    Thomas    Amby 
Briggs;     John      Theodore 
Arbon,     Y.M.M.I.A.     su 
perintendent;      Alice     R 
Glissmeyer,       Y.W.M.I.A 
president;        Irving        P 
Beesley,  Y.M.M.I.A.  "Era' 
director;   Mrs.    Don    Bea 
zer,      Y.W.M.I.A.      "Era 
director. 

PHOENIX  STAKE,  second 
row;  President  David  E. 
Heywood;  Dow  Ostlund, 
Y.M.M.I.A.  superintend- 
ent; Mrs.  Edna  K.  Lar- 
son, Y.W.M.I.A.  presi- 
dent; L.  Lynne  Driggs, 
stake  "Era"  director. 

FLORIDA  STAKE,  third 
row:  President  Alvin  C. 
Chace;  Thomas  A.  Hill, 
Y.M.M.I.A.  superintend- 
ent; Elsie  Starling,  Y.W. 
M.l.A.  president;  Mrs. 
Harvey  D.  Avery,  stake 
"Era"    director. 


MARICOPA  STAKE,  fourth 
row:  President  L.  Harold 
Wright;  L.  Blaine  Cum- 
mard,  Y.M.M.I.A.  super- 
intendent; Mrs.  Ethel 
Newell,  Y.W.M.I.A.  presi- 
dent; Dilworth  C.  Brinton, 
stake   "Era"   director. 

UNION  STAKE,  fifth  row: 
President  Milan  D.  Smith; 
Donald  K.  Nelson,  Y.M. 
M.  I.  A.  superintendent; 
Lillian  H.  Blaires,  Y.W. 
M.l.A.  president;  Derrell 
A.  Lindsay,  Y.M.M.I.A. 
"Era"  director;  Winona 
Veal,  Y.W.M.I.A.  "Era" 
director. 


greatest  gain  over  last  year,  was 
won  by  South  Davis  Stake,  with 
margins  to  spare. 

The  twenty  citation  winners  in 
the  stakes  and  the  eight  in  the  mis- 
sions included  some  new  names. 

:  Some  have  been  honored  in  other 
years,  but  not  in  this  group  a 
year  ago.  Included  this  year  are 
South  Davis,  a  real  newcomer; 
Long  Beach,  many  times  a  citation- 
winner;  Inglewood,  which  has  rare- 
ly missed  in  recent  years;  Moapa, 
not  yet  seasoned  in  this  company; 
Yellowstone,  long  a  leading  Era 
stake;  Big  Horn,  which  is  serving 
notice  of  intention  to  stay;  and 
Maricopa,  traditionally  near  the.  top 
in  Era  campaigns. 

In  the  mission  lists,  Eastern 
States  claimed  double  citations  ( not 
in  any  way  a  new  experience),  and 
New  England,  a  surprise  mission, 
joined  the  top  group. 

Citation  winners  will  all  receive 
the  attractive  Perma-plaques,  which 
as  the  name  indicates  are  permanent 
awards.  New  combinations  will 
make  this  year's  awards  different 
from  those  of  1950. 

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SOUTHERN  STATES  MISSION,  first  row,  left  to 
right:  Albert  Choules,  mission  president;  D.  Homer 
Yarn,  first  counselor;  Kenneth  F.  Bowthorpe,  sec- 
ond counselor  &  "Era"  director;  Loren  Graver, 
mission  secretary,  Jayne  Timmons,  M.I. A.  super- 
visor   and    "Era"    director. 

CENTRAL  ATLANTIC  STATES  MISSION,  second 
row:  J.  Robert  Price,  mission  president;  Kenneth 
L.  Duke,  Y.M.M.I.A.  superintendent;  Lucretia  Duke, 
Y.Y/.M.I.A.  president;  F.  M.  Henderson,  "Era" 
director;  Jane  T.  Henderson,  "Era"  director. 

GREAT  LAKES  MISSION,  third  row:  Carl  C. 
Burton,  mission  president;  Norene  Macay,  M.I. A. 
supervisor. 

EASTERN  STATES  MISSION,  fourth  row:  George  Q. 
Morris,  mission  president;  Georgia  R.  Livingston, 
"Era"   director. 


"MORE-RELIGIOUS- 


Ward  and  Branch  Citation 
Winners 

Spectacular  records  were  made 
by  wards  and  branches  widely 
scattered  over  the  Church.  Here 
are  the  winners: 

Mission  Branch  Citation  Winners 

Group     "A"     Branches — Percent     of 

Quota 

*  1 .  Saskatoon,  Western  Canadian, 
2763%;  2.  Abbeville,  Southern  States, 
1233%. 

Group     "B"     Branches — Percent     of 

Quota 

1.  Jackson,  Southern  States,  1094%; 
*2.  Atlanta,  Southern  States,  874%; 
3.  Elizabeth  City,  Central  Atlantic 
States,  871%. 


(Continued  from  preceding  page) 

Citation  Winners — Stakes 

Total  Subscriptions 

*1.  South  Los  Angeles,  2262;  *2. 
South  Davis,  1998;  *3.  Long  Beach, 
1242;  4.  Inglewood,  1214;  *5  Phoenix, 
1212;  6.  Mt.  Ogden,  1043;  7.  Moapa, 
907;  *8.  Yellowstone,  895;  *9.  Big 
Horn,  892;  *10.  Maricopa,  860;  11. 
Rigby,  811;  12.  North  Davis,  805;  13. 
Ogden,  798;  14.  Lethbridge,  791. 

Percent  of  Quota 

*1.  South  Los  Angeles,  458%;  *2. 
South  Davis,  357%;  *3.  Phoenix. 
317%;  4.  Florida,  304%;  *5.  Long 
Beach,  291%;  *6.  Maricopa,  288%; 
7.  Union,  278%;  *8.  Yellowstone, 
242%;  *9.  Big  Horn,  240%;  10.  Mini- 
doka, 230%;  '11.  Los  Angeles,  228%; 
12.  South  Carolina,  226%;  13.  South 
Idaho  Falls,  226%. 

Starred  stakes  won  double  citations. 

Citation  Winners — Missions 

Total  Subscriptions 

M.  Southern  States,  4627;  2.  Cen- 
tral Atlantic  States,  1010;  3.  Great 
Lakes,   912;    M.   Eastern   States,   878. 

Percent  of  Quota 

*1.  Southern  States,  707%;  2. 
North  Central  States,  524%;  3. 
Western  Canadian,  391%;  M.  East- 
ern States,  314%;  5.  Canadian,  291%; 
6.  New  England,  236%. 

Both  Southern  States  and  Eastern 
States  missions  won  double  citations. 

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44;  3.  Athens,  Southern  States,  44. 

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scriptions 
1.  Cincinnati,  Great  Lakes,  203;  *2. 

Atlanta,  Southern  States,  192. 

Ward  Citation  Winners 

Group  "A"  Wards — Percent  of  Quota 

1.  Stibnite  (branch)  Weiser,  640%; 

*2.  Ridgeway,  South  Carolina,  565%. 

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Angeles,  743%;  2.  Bountiful  6th,  South 
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first  row:  John  B.  Hawkes,  mission  president;  G. 
A.  Matson,  first  counselor;  William  R.  Siddoway, 
second  counselor;  Mabel  Wahlquist  "Era"  director. 

WESTERN  CANADIAN  MISSION,  second  row:  Glen 
G.  Fisher,  mission  president;  Melvin  C.  Graham, 
second  counselor  and  "Era"  director;  Marva 
Johnson,  "Era"  director;  Valena  Ballard,  "Era" 
director. 

CANADIAN  MISSION:  Floyed  G.  Eyre,  mission  presi- 
dent;  Wendell   Wagstaff,   "Era"  director. 

NEW  ENGLAND  MISSION,  fourth  row:  S.  Dilworth 
Young,  mission  president;  Clo  Dean  Munk,  auxil- 
iary  secretary    and    "Era"    director. 


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*2.  Ridgeway,  South  Carolina,  96;  3. 
Hazelton,  Minidoka,  95. 

Group   "23"    Wards — Total   Subscrip- 
tions 
1.    Long    Beach    1st,    Long    Beach, 

414;  2.  Manchester,   So.  Los  Angeles, 

345. 


The  Hall  of  Fame 

The  most  gratifying  feature  of 
the  campaign  was  the  remarkable 
gains  in  wards  and  branches  win- 
ning honors  in  the  Hall  of  Fame. 
This  recognition  is  reserved  for 
groups  reaching  the  goal  of  all 
Era  campaigns — the  Era  in  every 
home.  This  year  twenty-eight 
wards  and  102  mission  and  stake 
branches  carried  the  Era  into  every 
L.D.S.  home  in  their  areas.  In 
addition,  for  the  first  time  twelve 
miscellaneous  areas,  all  in  the 
Southern  States  Mission,  are  listed 
in  the  Hall  of  Fame.  Miscellaneous 
includes  Church  members  who  live 
too  far  from  organized  branches  to 
be  listed  as  branch  members.  In 
the  past  these  areas  have  not  bean 
listed  in  Era  campaigns. 

The  Scroll  of  Honor  joined  in  the 
record-breaking  experience.  While 
it  was  not  as  high  in  percentage  of 
stakes  and  missions  as  in  at  least 
one  other  year,  in  total  number  it 
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Colder 


C^zra 


Daft  & 


"evi5ovi 


When  the  orange  and  white 
ribbon  from  which  hangs  the 
Silver  Antelope  was  placed 
around  the  neck  of  Elder  Ezra 
Taft  Benson  at  Long  Beach  on 
April  24,  a  milestone  was  reached 
in  one  of  the  most  active  yet  un- 
publicized  careers  in  scouting. 

Many  men  in  the  Church  have 
been  well  known  for  their  activi- 
ties through  the  years  of  the  scout- 


Elder  Ezra  Taft  Benson  received  the  Silver 
Antelope  at  the  annual  meeting  of  Region  72 
held  April  24  in  Long  Beach,  Calif.,  from 
Kenneth  K.  Bechtel,  vice-president  of  the 
National  Council,  Boy  Scouts  of  America, 
and    former    chairman    of    Region    12. 


ing  program.  Elder  Benson  started 
as  an  assistant  Scoutmaster  in  1918 
and  has  been  connected  with  the 
program  ever  since.  Because  he 
has  spent  most  of  this  time  outside 
Utah,  he  has  not  gained  the  repu- 
tation as  a  scouter  that  has  come 
to  such  men  as  President  George 
Albert  Smith,  President  Oscar  A. 
Kirkham,  President  S.  Dilworth 
Young,  and  others.  Yet  when 
someone  was  needed  to  follow  in 
the  footsteps  of  President  Smith  to 
carry  on   the   program   of  scouting 


/jamboree    Convocation    ^Jatk    bu 
Colder    (L.zra    -Jan    @->e, 


Benson 


Surely  Sir  Baden-Powell  was  inspired  of  the  Lord  when  he 
founded  this  great  scouting  movement.  He  would  be  thrilled, 
as  I  am  now,  could  he  but  stand  on  this  platform,  look  into  your 
faces  and  know  that  you  are  here  to  practice  scouting,  to  proclaim 
liberty,  and  to  worship  God. 

More  than  the  wisdom  of  this  world  was  written  into  the  Scout 
oath. 

"On  my  honor  I  will  do  my  best  to  do  my  duty  to  God  and  my 
Country" 

These  few  short  words  embrace  everything  we  stand  for  here 
tonight.  Our  liberty  crusade  is  for  God  and  Country.  It  is  for  free 
men  in  free  nations  to  worship  as  their  conscience  dictates. 

It  is  this  faith  in  scouting  and  its  ideal  that  has  made  it  an 
important  part  of  the  program  for  young  men  in  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter-day  Saints,  Scouting  constitutes  a  major  part 
of  the  program  for  boys  eleven  to  seventeen  in  the  Young  Men's 
Mutual  Improvement  Association,  the  auxiliary  of  the  Mormon 
Church  that  looks  after  the  cultural  and  recreational  activities  of 
its  youth.  It  was  to  this  organization  that  the  National  Council  on 
June  9,  1913  issued  its  first  charter  to  a  religious  body. 

Today  eighty-five  percent  of  the  Mormon  boys  of  this  age  are 
registered  as  Scouts  or  Explorers.  This  compared  last  year  to  a 
national  registration  of  32.5  percent  for  Scouts  and  2.9  percent  for 
Explorers. 

One  other  fact  will  be  of  interest  to  you.     We  have  a  large 

group  of  Mormon  boys  at  this  Jamboree.  No  other  religious  group 
as   a  higher  percentage  of  its  boys  participating   in   this   encamp- 
ment. 

These  young  Mormons,  perhaps  as  well  as  any  other  Youth 
group  in  America  today,  except  possibly  our  visitors  from  foreign 
lands,  know  the  real  meaning  of  religious  liberty.  Only  106  years  ago 
last  Tuesday,  right  here  in  the  United  States,  their  Prophet  and 
Patriarch  were  martyred.  Many  of  their  grandparents  and  great- 
grandparents  gave  their  lives  for  their  faith.  Others  were  perse- 
cuted and  driven  west.  In  the  Rocky  Mountains  they  found  a  place 
where  they  could  worship  God  "according  to  the  dictates  of  their 
own  conscience." 

Now  from  out  of  the  west  these  youths  return  to  join  with  you 
in  a  prayer  to  the  God  of  all  good  Scouts  to  help  us  preserve  the 
liberties  their  forefathers  and  yours  worked  for — and  fought  for — ■ 
and  died  for — and  secured. 


HIGH 


THE    SILVER    ANTELOPE 


506 


both  inside  and  out- 
side the  Church,  it 
was  Elder  Benson 
who  received  the  job. 

There  is  much  of 
the  story  of  Elder 
Benson  in  official 
scouting  records.  But 
many  of  the  impor- 
tant items  do  not 
show  on  the  books. 
Some  will  probably 
never  be  written  about  because  they 
involve  behind-the-scenes  discus- 
sions and  actions  where  only  the 
decisions  have  been  made  known. 
Because  he  has  always  had  a  strong 
feeling  that  scouting  is  an  inspired 
program  well  adapted  to  the  needs 
of  Latter-day  Saint  boys,  he  has 
always  championed   its   cause. 

It  was  for  this  reason  as  much  as 
any  other  that  Region  12,  com- 
prising the  states  of  Utah,  Arizona, 
Nevada,  and  California,  and  the 
Hawaiian  Islands  selected  Elder 
Benson  to  receive  the  Silver  Ante- 
lope. It  is  the  highest  award  that 
can  be  bestowed  by  a  region  and  is 
topped  only  by  the  Silver  Buffalo, 
which  is  given  by  the  National 
Council,    Boy    Scouts    of    America. 

Elder  Benson  started  his  scout- 
ing career  as  an  assistant  Scout- 
master in  the  Whitney  Ward  of  the 
Franklin  Stake  in  Idaho  in  1918. 
Here  he  served  as  an  assistant  and 
as  Scoutmaster  of  Troop  37  until 
1921,  and  from  1924  to  1929. 

As  a  Scoutmaster  Elder  Benson 
ran  an  outdoor  troop;  his  Scouts 
always  knew  that  they  would  get 
their  share  and  more  of  hiking, 
camping  and  outdoor  life.  The 
young  Scoutmaster  wanted  to  get 
close  to  the  boys  and  near  to  God 
in  the  out-of-doors.  So  they  took  to 
the  hills  as  often  as  possible. 

From  1929  until  1934  he  worked 
in  the  Mutual  in  the  Franklin  and 
Boise  stakes,  always  promoting  the 
scouting  program.  From  1934  to 
1937  he  was  a  member  of  the  Boise 
Stake  presidency  and  from  1938  to 
1939,  the  stake  president.  He  con- 
tinued his  active  support  of  the 
boys'  program.     From  Idaho,  Elder 

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SCOUTING  AWARD 


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OF  THE  Y.M.M.I.A.  GENERAL  BOARD 


and   national  annual  meetings  and 
national  committee  meetings. 

These  activities  have  been  im- 
portant and  have  helped  build  Elder 
Benson  as  a  scouter.  And  it  is 
Benson  moved  to  Washington,  D.  partly  because  of  this  fine  record 
C,  where  he  became  the  first  presi-  that  he  wears  the  Antelope.  But 
dent  of  the  new  stake  organized  the  really  important  phase  of  his 
there.  Scouting  grew  in  the  new  activities  has  been  the  "extras":  the 
stake  under  his  guiding  hand.  kind  word,  the  winning   smile,  the 

In  July   1943,  Elder  Benson  was      right  idea,  and  the  ability  to  have 
chosen  a  member  of  the  Council  of      it  accepted. 


Every  L.  D.  S.  Stake  in  southern  California  was  represented  at  the  annual  Region  12  meeting. 
Here  Elder  Benson  is  congratulated  on  receiving  the  Silver  Antelope  by  (left)  Dr.  Pliny  H.  Powers, 
Deputy  Chief  Scout  Executive  of  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  Dr.  Ray  O.  Wyland,  director  of  the  National 
Relationships  Service,  and  nine  L.  D.  S.  stake  presidents,  standing,  left  to  right:  E.  Garrett  Barlow, 
Inglewood;  William  Noble  Waite,  South  Los  Angeles;  Edwin  S.  Dibble,  Glendale;  Virgil  H.  Spongberg, 
Long  Beach;  Vern  R.  Peel,  San  Bernardino;  Howard  W.  Hunter,  Pasadena:  John  M.  Russon,  Los 
Angeles;   Dale   Brown,    representing   East  Los  Angeles;   and  John   C.    Dalton,   East   Long   Beach. 


the  Twelve.  At  that  time  he  was 
made  a  member  at  large  of  the  Na- 
tional Council  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  he  was  named  on 
May  22,  1949,  to  take  the  place  of 
President  Smith  on  the  national 
executive  board.  In  October  of 
that  year  he  was  made  a  member  of 
the  national  committee  on  program, 
the  committee  on  relationships,  and 
the  rural  service  committee.  He  is 
still  active  on  all  three  committees 
and  has  been  given  many  other  spe- 
cial assignments.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  national  nominations 
committee  and  of  the  Old  Scouts 
committee,  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  Region  12,  and  of  several 
other  region  committees.  Many 
times  he  has  been  moderator  for 
discussion  sessions  at  both  regional 

JULY  1951 


Offering  a  prayer  in  a  meeting 
is  a  commonplace  event.  All  good 
scouting  activities  are  opened  and 
closed  with  prayer.  So  it  wasn't 
out  of  the  ordinary  for  Elder  Ben- 
son to  be  called  on  to  pray  at  one 
of  the  sessions  of  the  annual  meet- 


ing held  in  Philadelphia  last  year 
just  prior  to  the  National  Jamboree 
at  Valley  Forge.  The  prayer 
wasn't  out  of  the  ordinary  for  him. 
He  had  given  many  like  it  before 
and  would  give  many  after.  But 
there  was  a  ring  of  sincerity,  a 
feeling  of  actually  calling  on  our 
Father  in  heaven  that  impressed  the 
editor  of  Philadelphia's  leading 
newspaper.  He  had  five  full-time 
reporters  covering  the  jamboree.  He 
assigned  the  man  in  charge  of  this 
staff,  his  best  writer,  to  cover  the 
activities  of  Elder  Benson  at  the 
big  event. 

At  the  Sunday  evening  convoca- 
tion service  at  the  jamboree  nearly 
one  hundred  thousand  people  were 
gathered,  about  half  of  them  Scouts 
and  scouters  in  uniform.  Four 
men  were  to  speak,  representing 
the  four  religious  divisions  of  scout- 
ing in  America:  Catholic,  Jewish, 
Protestant,  and  Latter-day  Saint. 
A  few  short  years  ago  there  would 
have  been  only  three.  The  Latter- 
day  Saints  would  have  been 
grouped  with  the  Protestants.  It 
was  Elder  Benson  who  had  played 
a  leading  role  in  convincing  those 
concerned  that  the  Latter-day 
Saints  didn't  belong  with  the 
Protestants.  In  doing  this  he  could 
not  have  seen  that  one  of  the  many 
fine  ramifications  would  be  that  he 
would  be  given  a  chance  to  tell 
about  L.D.S.  scouting  at  the  jam- 
boree. But  it  was.  And  there  will 
be  no  end  of  good  come  to  the 
Church  from  this  important  move. 

Following  his  address  at  the  jam- 
boree convocation,  there  were  tears 
in  the  eyes  of  many — especially  the 
old-timers  who  had  been  close  to 
the  founding  of  the  scouting  pro- 
gram. Elder  Benson  had  been  the 
first  at  the  great  jamboree  to  pay 
tribute  to  Lord  Baden-Powell, 
father  of  scouting.  He  did  it  in  a 
few  direct  and  simple  words.  But 
he  left  no  doubt  in  the  minds  of  the 
(Concluded  on  page  543) 


CHURCH    SCOUTERS    WHO    HAVE    PREVIOUSLY    RECEIVED    SILVER    ANTELOPE    AWARD 


OSCAR    A.    KIRKHAM 


GEORGE   R.   HILL 


GEORGE    Q.    MORRIS 


JOHN    D.    GILES 


507 


^^hen  the  happiness  of  two  of  your  dearest  friends 
seems  headed  for  a  sudden  breakup,  you  think 
fast.    Out  of  the  memories  of  the  past  may  [lash  a 
sudden  inspiration  for  a  solution. 


"C 


Ian't  we  do  something  about 
Jim  and  Judy?" 

"If  you're  wise,  lovable 
meddler,  you'll  not  interfere  in 
neighborhood  quarrels,"  Dan  re- 
plied. 

"But  they're  our  closest  friends." 
"They'll    not    remain    that    way 
long  if  we  try  to  order  their  lives," 
said  Dan,  sprawled  out  over  wing- 
chair  and  hassock. 

"So  many  marriages  break  up 
because  of  arguments  over  trifles," 
I  continued. 

Dan  nodded.  "I'll  admit  that 
loud  yapping  we  heard  through  our 
open  window  didn't  suggest  a  love 
song." 

"But  Dan,  we  just  can't  stand  by 
and  let  their  marriage  split  up — 
the  Robbinses  are  such  grand  peo- 
ple." 

"Remember,  Helen,  if  you  insist 
upon  thrusting  your  pretty  little 
nose  into  this,  it  will  be  your  indi- 
vidual problem.  Jim  is  a  guy  I 
want  to  keep  as  my  friend.  So 
bear  in  mind,  I'm  warning  you  not 
to  meddle." 

In  the  morning  Dan  asked,  "Are 
we  celebrating  today?" 

"Of  course.  Let's  have  one  of  our 
quickie  parties  tonight.  What's  a 
wedding  anniversary  without  a 
party!" 

"Okay,"  Dan  said  as  he  kissed 
me,  "but  don't  do  a  lot  of  work." 

"You  know  me,"  I  called  after 
him.  "I  wait  till  the  party  is  over 
before  I  do  the  cleaning— well,  most 
of  it,  anyway." 

I  could  hardly  wait  for  Dan  to 
turn  the  corner.  Unknowingly,  he 
had  suggested  the  solution  of  my 
problem. 

Without  even  stacking  the  dishes, 
I  found  myself  at  the  Robbins' 
kitchen  door.  Knocking  and  at  the 
same  time  turning  the  knob,  I 
called,  "First  invitation  to  our  party 
tonight."  But  on  seeing  Judy's 
rebellious,  unhappy  face,  my  feet 
glued  themselves  to  the  spotless 
linoleum.  My  throat  became  sud- 
denly dry. 

508 


Judy  was  the  first  to  find  voice, 
all  barriers  removed  by  my  sudden 
appearance.  "You  might  as  well 
know  right  now.  It's  not  some- 
thing that  happened  overnight.  The 
domestic  barometer  here  has  been 
low  for  some  time.  Today  the 
storm  broke.  You're  now  viewing 
the  debris."  Then,  with  sarcasm 
ebbing  fast,  she  added:  "Anyway, 
I'd  rather  it  was  you  that  learned 
about  it  first." 

Still  weak  from  the  shock,  I 
ventured,  "I  thought  this  was  an 
anniversary  for  you,  too — you  and 
Jim  have  been  married  five  years." 

"That's  true,  Helen,  but  it 
doesn't  mark  years  of  happiness 
like  yours  and  Dan's.  He  always 
gives  you  whatever  you  ask  for, 
while  I've  had  to  fight  continually 


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Heart 


OF  THE 


for  everything  I've  ever  had  for 
my  home.  I'm  fed  up  on  that  kind 
of  diet.  I'm  through.  This  ends 
five  years  of  existing^it's  our 
special  kind  of  anniversary,"  Judy's 
dark  eyes  were  challenging. 

My  thoughts  were  forked  light- 
ning: I  was  remembering  Aunt 
Kate  who  almost  wrecked  the  hap- 
piness of  her  home  because  of  her 
demanding,  ways.  If  only  I  could 
tell  Judy  about  Aunt  Kate. 

"Judy,  you're  mistaken  about  Dan 
giving  me  everything  I  want.  It's 
quite  true  he  does  plan  some  nice 
things  for  our  home,  but  I  can't 
remember  ever  asking  for  any  of 
them.  And,  anyway,  his  salary 
doesn't  allow  much  of  a  margin  for 
sudden  demands  upon  it." 

"I've  been  wanting  an  American- 
Oriental  rug  ever  since  we  were 
married,"  said  Judy,  trying  to  hold 
back  the  tears.  "It  seemed  to  me 
that  our  fifth  anniversary  would  be 
the  logical  time  to  at  least  make  a 
down  payment  on  it.  You'd  have 
thought  I  was  asking  for  a  private 


plane.  Did  he  tell  me  off!  Then 
a  storm  of  gale  proportions  pushed 
open  the  door,  and  he  was  gone." 

"I'm  sorry,  Judy.  I'm  pretty 
sure,  though,  that  Dan  could  be 
just  as  explosive  if  I  suggested  right 
now  the  landscaping  and  planting 
of  our  lot  by  an  expert  gardener. 
Shortly  after  we  were  married, 
Judy,  I  overheard  Dan  laughingly 
remark  to  a  friend  that  he  was  the 
head  of  his  house.  That  reminded 
me  of  Aunt  Kate's  recipe  for  mar- 
ried happiness.  Applied  with  a 
sense  of  humor,  it  gets  results." 

"You  may  be  right,  Helen,  but 
I'm  in  no  mood  for  experimenting," 
replied  Judy. 

Not  at  all  certain  that  I  could  be 
of  any  help  to  Judy  and  Jim,  I 
returned  to  my  own  gay  kitchen.  It 
always  supplied  inspiration  and 
comfort.  I  was  recalling  the  warm, 
friendly  look  of  Judy's  dark  eyes 
when  we  first  met;  that  was  the  day 
we  moved  into  the  little  white  cot- 
tage next  door  to  the  Robbinses.  I 
was  thinking,  too,  of  the  fine  recipes 

THE  IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


Jn  the  Robbins'  household  the  domestic 
barometer  had  been  low  for  some  time. 
Today  the  storm  broke. 


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she  had  given  me  when  my  own 
were  in  the  "trial-and-error"  stage. 
Quite  recently  my  cooking  skill  had 
been  put  to  a  real  test.  I  had  asked 
Jim  to  have  dinner  with  us  one  day 
when  Judy  was  out  of  town.  I  kept 
hoping  everything  would  turn  out 
well;  Jim  was  not  used  to  amateurish 
cooking.  What,  then,  should  I 
serve?  Why,  the  fool-proof  dish, 
of  course;  English  pasties  was  the 
answer.  None  of  our  friends  ever 
served  them.  So  Jim  would  be 
tasting  for  the  first  time  a  brand 
new  way  of  serving  meat.  Then, 
if  by  chance  it  didn't  measure  up  to 
my  expectations,  at  least  Jim  would 
have  nothing  with  which  to  compare 
it.  However,  as  I  piled  the  savory 
pasties  on  the  platter,  I  had  no  fear 
of  Jim's  verdict — they  were  an 
epicure's  delight.  Jim  said  I  was 
now  in  the  class  of  professional 
cooks    along    with    Ju«ly.      What's 

JULY  1951 


more,  he  hoped  I'd  give  her  the 
recipe  sometime  very  soon. 

By  early  afternoon  the  party 
plans  were  almost  complete.  I  was 
arranging  sweet  peas  and  baby- 
breath  in  a  vase  when  the  Robbins' 
solution  finally  took  form.  Thought 
and  action  were  simultaneous. 
Snatching  a  card  labeled  ENG- 
LISH PASTIES  from  the  recipe 
file,  I  ran  over  to  Judy's.  There 
was  another  recipe  on  the  back, 
which  I  had  used  countless  times 
during  our  marriage.  "Judy,  I've 
been  thinking  about  us  ever  since 
this  morning — you  and  I,  Jim  and 
Dan.  You  and  I  are  not  too  dif- 
ferent. Jim  and  Dan  are  just  aver- 
age husbands,  devoted  to  their 
wives.  ..." 

"I'll  agree  wholeheartedly  on  the 
angle  of  average  husbands,  but  I 
wish  I  could  say  as  much  about  the 
devotion,"  interrupted  Judy. 

"I  guess  I  was  just  plain  lucky  to 
get  my  recipe  for  married  happiness 
early  from  Aunt  Kate,  but  then  any- 
time you  get  it  is  not  too  late.  The 
important  thing,  of  course,  is  to  use 
it  after  you  find  it." 

"You  seem  to  be  a  great  sage," 
conceded  Judy. 

"I  know  it  works.  In  the  first 
place,  you  must  believe  that  Jim 
loves  you  dearly." 

There  was  a  faraway  look  in 
Judy's  eyes  that  made  my  heart 
ache.  "Does  he?"  she  asked  skepti- 
cally. 

I  continued:  "Then  too,  a  little 
dust  or  an  occasional  cobweb  won't 
change  your  home  to  a  hovel.  Men 
ravel  in  being  able  to  relax  in  the 
biggest  and  best  chair  in  the  living 
room.  Sometimes,  Judy,  I  think  we 
put  too  much  stress  on  house- 
keeping. The  accent  should  be 
on  homekeeping  instead. 

"Thanks  for  your  suggestions, 
Helen,  but  I  prefer  to  work  it  out 
my  own  way." 

"Frankly,  Judy,  I  didn't  mean  to 
preach.  What  I  started  out  from 
home  with  is  a  recipe — something 
I  cooked  while  you  were  away,  and 
Jim  liked  it.  It  can  be  made  in  a 
jiffy   with    prepared   pastry    flour." 

"Thanks  a  lot,  Helen,"  said 
Judy,  glancing  at  the  recipe  card. 
"I  may  try  it  sometime." 


My  heart  was  heavy  as  I  went 
home  to  check  over  the  final  details 
for  the  party.  How  could  I  enjoy 
our  anniversary  when  Judy  and  Jim 
were  so  far  apart?  .  .  . 

Nine  o'clock!  I  tried  to  chat  gayly 
with  our  guests.  I  was  thinking, 
we'll  play  charades  and  other  games 
for  awhile.  Maybe  they'll  come, 
but  no — there  was  a  tone  of 
finality  in  Judy's  voice  today  that 
gave  no  hope  for  a  kiss-and-make- 
up  solution.  Turning  to  Dan,  I 
said  in  a  low  voice:  "You  might 
just  as  well  set  up  the  tables  now. 
No  use  waiting.  .   .  .  ' 

Constantly  alert  tonight  to  every 
sound  from  outdoors,  I  was  sure  I 
heard  steps  on  the  walk.  Then 
voices — gay,  familiar  voices.  To- 
gether Dan  and  I  were  at  the  door, 
beaming  happiness  at  Jim  and 
Judy.  The  Robbinses  were  soon 
mingling  with  the  others,  gaily 
chatting  about  daylight  saving  time 
— how  it  gave  them  an  extra  hour 
to  prepare  for  the  party. 

"They're  putting  up  a  brave 
front,"  I  thought. 

In  quick  response  to  my  ques- 
tioning glance,  Judy  separated  from 
the  others  and  moved  toward  the 
kitchen,  giving  my  hand  an  extra 
squeeze  as  we  entered. 

"Judy,   did  you   try  the  recipe?" 

"Yes,   I  did,"  answered  Judy. 

"Did  Jim  like  it?"  Judy  didn't 
answer,  for  just  then  Dan  and  one 
of  the  other  men  came  into  the 
kitchen  for  an  extra  table.  We 
rejoined  the  others  in  the  living 
room.  I  kept  thinking,  at  least  for 
this  evening  I  can  be  thankful. 
They  seem  happy  even  though  it 
may  prove  only  a  short-lived  bliss. 
If  only  Judy  doesn't  start  demand- 
ing something  new  right  away! 

At  midnight  the  guests  began  to 
leave,  congratulating  us  upon  our 
successful  three  years,  and  suggest- 
ing that  >ve  give  them  a  copy  of  our 
success  formula  as  a  party  souvenir. 
The  Robbinses  were  the  last  to  leave. 
Judy  pulled  me  aside.  "Helen,  when 
I  began  to  assemble  the  ingredients 
for  the  pasties  this  afternoon — lean 
beef,  potatoes,  onions,  shortening, 
flour,  and  seasoning,  I  found  I  had 
neither  shortening  nor  pastry  mix, 
so  I  turned  the  card  over — I'll  never 
know  why — and  found  another 
recipe,  but  not  for  pasties.  I  de- 
cided to  try  that  one  immediately. 
You  can  see  for  yourself  the  result 
of  that  trial.  I  shall  keep  this  tested 
(Concluded  on  page  514) 

509 


Brigham  Young 


UTAH  STATE  AGRICULTURAL  COLLEGE 


A  LITTLE-KNOWN  contribution  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter-day  Saints  was  the  as- 
sistance it  rendered  in  the  construc- 
tion and  protection  of  the  trans- 
continental telegraph  line.  It  fur- 
nishes a  telling  example,  not  only 
of  the  loyalty  of  the  Saints  to  the 
Union,  but  also  of  the  type  of  em- 
pire building  at  which  the  Saints 
were  so  adept. 

Soon  after  the  first  Mormon  set- 
tlement in  Utah  in  1847,  agitation 
began  for  the  construction  of 
a  transcontinental  telegraph  line 
which  would  connect  Great  Salt 
Lake  City  with  the  outside  world. 
The  Territorial  Legislature,  in  Janu- 
ary 1 853,  memorialized  Congress  as 
follows : 

The  inhabitants  of  this  Territory  are 
situated  in  the  Great  Basin  of  North  Amer- 
ica, occupying  an  intermediate  position 
between  California  and  the  States  on  the 
Mississippi;  and  being  shut  out  by  their 
isolated  position  from  a  ready  intercourse 
from  their  mother  States;  the  roads  pass- 
ing over  arid  plains,  rough  and  desert 
mountains  taking  a  term  of  thirty  days  in 
the  best  seasons  of  the  year  for  the  mails 
to  pass  through  from  the  confines  of 
civilization  to  this  Territory;  and  con- 
sidering the  obstructions  arising  from 
storms,  floods,  and  the  depredations  of 
hostile  Indians,  all  combining  to  render 
our  means  of  intercourse  extremely  limited 
and  precarious. 

The  petition  then  strongly  urges 
that  a  telegraph  line  from  the  East 
be  built  by  way  of  Salt  Lake  City 
to  San  Diego,  San  Francisco,  and 
Astoria,  Oregon,  and  concludes: 

No  movement  of  Congress  could  be 
better  calculated  to  preserve  inviolable 
our  glorious  Union,  than  to  bind  the  East 
and  West  by  an  ELECTRIC  stream, 
whereby  intelligence  and  instaneous  inter- 
course from  the  eastern  to  the  western 
limits  of  our  wide-spread  country  will 
annihilate  the  distance,  and  make  the  free 
men  of  Maine  and  Oregon,  Florida  and 
California  immediate  neighbors.1 

This  transcontinental  line — or 
Overland    Telegraph,     as    it    was 

iYoung,     Levi     Edgar.     The     Founding     of     Utah. 
Charles  Schribner's  Sons,  New  York,  1923,  pp.  403-4. 

510 


called — was  finally  completed  in 
1861.  Hiram  Sibley,  president  of 
Western  Union  Telegraph  Com- 
pany, and  Edward  Creighton,  con- 
tractor for  the  company,  played  the 
principal  roles  in  promoting  the 
construction  of  the  Overland  line.2 
After  repeated  failures  by  the  tele- 
graph industry  to  unite  behind  a 
scheme  to  build  the  line,  Sibley 
finally  interested  officials  of  the 
federal  government.  The  outbreak 
of  the  war  between  the  states  in 
1860  was  a  causal  factor  in  this 
stepped-up  interest.  Congress  final- 
ly approved  the  Pacific  Telegraph 
Act  which  became  law  June  16, 
1 860.  This  act  provided  a  ten-year 
subsidy  of  $40,000.00  per  annum  to 
the  company  completing  a  line  from 
the  western  boundary  of  Missouri 
to  San  Francisco.  Land  and  rights  of 
way  were  also  a  part  of  the  subsidy. 
With  the  $400,000.00  guarantee  in 
his  pocket,  Sibley  made  arrange- 
ments with  the  newly-organized 
California  State  Telegraph  Com- 
pany to  run  a  line  east  from  Carson 
City,  Nevada  (to  which  point  a 
line  had  previously  been  built), 
while  eastern  companies  would  co- 
operate in  running  the  line  west 
from  Omaha  (to  which  point  West- 
ern Union  had  just  finished  a  line). 

Creighton  was  commissioned  to 
take  the  stagecoach  west  from 
Omaha  in  the  latter  part  of  1860  to 
survey  and  make  plans  for  the  lo- 
cation of  the  line.  He  stopped  over 
in  Salt  Lake  City  in  December. 
The  Journal  History  reports  under 
date  of  December  20,  1860  that, 
"Mr.  Creighton  (sometimes  spelled 
"Craton")  .  .  .  agent  of  the  Over- 
land Telegraph  .  .  .  called  on  Brig- 
ham  Young  and  wished  him  to  take 
the  oversight  and  superintendency 
of  the  telegraph  line  across 
the  continent."  One  week  later 
the  Journal  History  records  that 
Creighton  wanted  the  Saints  to 
supply  and  erect  telegraph  poles  for 
some  five  hundred  miles  of  the  line.8 
Brigham  Young,  who  was  anxious 
to  support  the  enterprise,  promised 


Thompson,  Robert  Luther.  Wiring  a  Continent: 
The  History  of  the  Telegraph  Industry  in  the 
United  States  1832-1866.  Princeton  University  Press, 
Princeton,    New    Jersey,    1947,    p.    349. 

SL.  D.  S.  Journal  History,  27  Dec.   1860 


and 


Timber  for  the  poles  was  obtained  from 
Echo  and  Weber  canyons  and  transported 
by  ox  team  to  points  on  the  line  as  needed. 


aid  in  securing   poles,    subsistence, 
and  transportation. 

Upon  his  return,  Creighton 
recommended  that  the  junction  of 
the  eastern  and  western  lines  be 
located  at  Salt  Lake  City.  Sibley 
and  other  promoters  organized  the 
Pacific  Telegraph  Company,  with 
a  capital  of  one  million  dollars  to 
construct  the  eleven  hundred  miles 
of  line  from  Omaha  to  Salt  Lake 
City.  Creighton  was  superintendent 
of  the  construction  of  this  division.* 
In  California  the  Overland  Tele- 
graph Company,  with  a  capital  of 
$1,250,000.00,  was  organized  to  run 
the  five  hundred  odd  miles  from 
Carson  City  to  Salt  Lake  City. 
James  Gamble  was  appointed  con- 
struction superintendent  of  the 
western  division.5  Construction  be- 
gan in  July  1861   at  both  ends  of 

4Thompson,    op.    cit.,    pp.    360-1. 
"Thompson,    op.    cit.,   p.   360. 

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the  Transcontinental  Telegraph  Line 


the  transcontinental  line  and  also 
in  both  directions  from  Salt  Lake 
City. 

Latter-day  Saints  aided  mate- 
rially in  the  construction  with  poles, 
labor,  and  food  supplies.  The  chief 
construction  problem  was  securing 
the  necessary  poles  for  the  line.  The 
Overland  route  west  from  Omaha 
was  comparatively  treeless,  and  this 
was  even  more  true  of  the  desert 
route  between  Salt  Lake  City  and 
Carson  City.  A  large  share  of  the 
poles  was  supplied  from  Salt  Lake 
City,  under  arrangement  which 
Creighton  had  tentatively  made  the 
preceding  December  with  Church 
leaders.  Poles  for  750  miles  of  the 
eastern  line  were  supplied  under  a 
contractual  arrangement  with  Brig- 
ham  Young,  whose  son,  John  W. 
Young — a  lumber  dealer — seems  to 
have  handled  it.  Poles  for  the 
western  line  as  far  as  Ruby  Val- 
ley— some  two  hundred  and  fifty 
miles — were  furnished  by  the  Mor- 
mon firm  of  Little  and  Decker  of 
Salt  Lake  City.6  Timber  for  the 
poles  was  obtained  from  Echo  and 
Weber  canyons  near  Salt  Lake  City 
and  transported  by  ox  team  to 
points  on  the  line  as  needed.  The 
Journal  History  of  the  Church  notes 
several  instances  in  which  this  ac- 
tivity was  carried  on;  for  example, 
on  the  second  of  September  1861, 
seven  loads  of  telegraph  poles  were 
seen  near  the  Jordan  River.  They 
were  being  hauled  by  the  ox  teams 
of  Brigham  Young. 

A  story  is  told  in  relation  to  the 
pole  contract  entered  into  between 
Creighton  and  Brigham  Young's 
son.      Sometime  after   the   contract 

was  signed, 

The  son  informed  the  contractors  that 
his  bid  on  the  poles  had  been  too  low, 
and  that  he  was  losing  money  on  the 
job.  A  new  contract  was  at  once  made 
at  a  higher  figure.  Not  long  after  the 
new  contract  had  been  drawn  up,  a  mes- 
senger came  saying  that  Brigham  Young 
wished  to  see  the  telegraph  contractor. 
With  considerable  apprehension  Creighton 
went  to  the  home  of  the  Mormon  leader. 
Upon  being  ushered  into  the  library,  he 
introduced  himself  as  the  representative 
of  the  telegraph  company. 

cNeff,  Andrew  Love.  History  of  Utah  1847  to 
1869.  Edited  and  annotated  by  Leland  Hargrave 
Creer.  Salt  Lake  City:  The  Deseret  News  Press, 
1940.    p.    730 

JULY   1951 


"Is  it  true  that  my  son  entered  into .  a 
contract  with  you  to  furnish  poles  for  the 
telegraph?"  inquired  Young. 

"Yes,  sir,"  replied  Creighton. 

"Is  it  also  true  that  the  price  agreed 
upon  in  this  contract  was  subsequently 
raised?" 

Creighton   nodded  his   assent. 

"Let  me  see  those  contracts,"  said 
Young. 

Creighton,  taking  the  documents  from 
his  pocket,  handed  them  over. 

After  careful  scrutiny  Brigham  Young 
crushed    the    new    one    in    his    hand    and 


PUTT  I  IK  urTrTLEGRArH  YW&^~ 

From    an    old    print    in    Harper's    Weekly,    1861. 

threw  it  into  the  fire.  "The  poles  will 
be  furnished  by^my  son  in  accordance  with 
the  terms  of  the  original  contract,"  he 
said.7 

President  Young  received  eleven 
thousand    dollars    in    gold    for    the 

7Wilson,    B.    H.,    "Across    the    Prairies   of    Iowa," 
Palimpsest,    August    1926,    p.    249. 


telegraph  poles  he  had  delivered 
and  erected.  After  payment  was 
received,  Brigham  made  the  follow- 
ing statement,  "I  did  not  touch  that 
gold  with  my  fingers  or  flesh  until 
it  was  all  paid  in.  ...  I  then  deliv- 
ered every  dime  of  it  over  for  tith- 
ing. I  have  not  used  one  farthing  of 
it  for  my  own  use."8 

President  Young  also  received  a 
gift  of  $10,000.00  in  stock  in  the 
Overland  Telegraph  Company  from 
its    President,    H.   W.    Carpentier." 

Indicative  of  the  importance 
which  both  eastern  and  western 
divisions  of  the  transcontinental 
line  attached  to  the  assistance  ren- 
dered by  President  Young  and  the 
Church  were  their  requests  that 
the  Church  President  make  the  first 
communication  upon  the  comple- 
tion of  each  line  in  October  1861.10 
The  eastern  line  was  completed 
October  17,  186111  and  the  western 
line  one  week  later.  The  first  Salt 
Lake  City  office  was  a  small  adobe 
house  on  the  east  side  of  Main 
Street  between  First  and  Second 
South  Streets.  John  Clowes  was 
"imported"  to  Salt  Lake  City  to 
manage  its  first  office,12  and  it  is 
interesting  to  note  that  he  was  so 
impressed  with  the  Latter-day 
Saints  and  their  religion  that  he 
joined  the  Church  and  became  a 
staunch  member. 

An  important  service  of  the 
Church  to  the  Union  during  the 
war  between  the  states  was  ren- 
dered in  1862  when,  upon  the  tele- 
graphic request  of  President 
Lincoln,  April  28,  1862,  a  com- 
pany of  ninety  men  was  raised  to 
protect  the  property  of  the  Over- 
land Telegraph  and  Overland  Mail 
Companies  between  Fort  Bridger 
and  Fort  Laramie,  Wyoming.  With 
the  blessings  of  the  Church,  this 
company,  under  Captain  Lot  Smith, 
was  raised,  outfitted,  and  on  its  way 
within  three  days.13 

(Concluded  on  page  529) 

8 Journal   History,    15    Dec    1861. 

B  Journal    History,     16    August    1861. 

10Copies  of  these  communications  may  be  found  in 
the  Journal  History  under  the  dates  of  18  and  24 
October    1861. 

"Though  Thompson  says  19  October.  Op.  cit.,  p. 
366. 

^'Daughters  of  Utah  Pioneers.  Heart  Throbs  of  the 
West,  Vol.  1.  Compiled  by  Kate  B.  Carter,  Salt 
Lake  City,   Utah,    1947,  p.   185. 

^Journal  History,   28  April,   1     May   1862. 

511 


TIN 


JL  kS  ^^^^^"^ 


WAKE  UP  OR  BLOW  UP 
( Frank  C.  Laubach.  Fleming  H.  Revell 
Company,    New    York.      1951.      160 
pages.  $2.00.) 

HThis  work  with  its  challenging  title 
is  sub-titled:  America:  Lift  the 
World  or  Lose  It!  It  is  a  provocative 
and  earnest  utterance  by  a  man  who 
has  lived  among  the  world's  "back- 
ward peoples."  Frank  C.  Laubach, 
who  is  Special  Counselor,  Division  of 
Foreign  Missions,  National  Council 
of  the  Churches  of  Christ,  U.S.A.,  has 
worked  with  the  educational  depart- 
ments of  sixty-three  countries  and  has 
come  up  with  some  definite  conclu- 
sions concerning  the  practical  applica- 
tion of  an  age-old  ideal:  Men  are 
going  communistic,  he  says,  because 
they  are  terribly  hungry  and  unhap- 
py— and  not  because  they  have  com- 
munist convictions.  They  are  not 
satisfied  with  old  clothes,  surplus  food, 
and  loaned  money.  They  want  us  to 
teach  them,  without  ulterior  political 
purpose,  how  to  lift  themselves  toward 
our  level  of  life.  This  is  a  book  with 
a  message  that  cannot  be  ignored — ■ 
not  even  by  those  who  may  not  al- 
together agree. — JR.  L.  E. 

BEFORE  AND  AFTER 
(By  Carl  I.  Edvalson.  Stevens  & 
Wallis,  Inc.,  Salt  Lake  City.  1951.  30 
pages.  50c — 40c  for  missions.) 
An  interesting  and  well- written 
Biblical  answer  to  the  argument 
for  "soul  sleeping,"  as  advocated  by 
some  searchers  after  truth. 

The  pamphlet,  which  is  strictly 
Biblical,  should  be  of  use  to  mission- 
aries in  the  field  who  frequently  have 
to  meet  this  very  erroneous  doctrine. 

— /.  A  W. 

AMERICAN  INDIANS  OF 
YESTERDAY 

(Ruthe  M.  Edwards.  The  Naylor 
Company,  San  Antonio,  Texas.  133 
pages.  $5.00.) 

"T'his  book,  written  and  illustrated 
by  an  understanding  author,  is,  as 
she  wished  it  to  be,  "a  monument  to 
the  Indian  tribes  of  North  America." 
The  book  includes  the  history,  legends, 
and  also  sketches  of  leading  Indians, 
whose    biographs    are    also    included. 

— M.  C.  /. 

PITCH  PINE  TALES 
(Howard  R.  Driggs.  Illustrated  by  L. 
F.  Bjorklund.  Aladdin  Books,  New 
York.  101  pages.  1951.  $2.00.) 
TJToward  R.  Driggs  has  long  endeared 
himself  to  young  and  old  as  a  teller 
of  Western  pioneer  tales. 

512 


His  language  is  simple,  colorful, 
readable.  His  sense  of  the  interesting 
and  the  dramatic  is  always  in  evidence, 
and  this  book  of  twelve  Pitch  Pine 
Tales  makes  engaging  reading  for 
young  people,  and  even  for  those  who 
must  have   others  read  to  them. 

Howard  R.  Driggs  is  himself  a  color- 
ful character,  and  his  writings  reflect 
him  and  the  colorful  West  from  which 
he  comes. — R.  L.  E. 

RECREATION  ACTIVITIES  FOR 
ADULTS 

(National  Recreation  Association.  As- 
sociation Press.  New  York.  1950.  178 
pages.  $3.00.) 

T^rom  the  first  chapter  on  How  To 
Do  It,  the  book  holds  valuable  in- 
formation for  Mutual  people  who  may 
wish  to  supplement  the  Recreation 
Handbook.  In  addition  to  the  material 
included  in  the  book,  each  section  is 
further  enhanced  by  the  selective  biog- 
raphy which  follows  the  text.  The 
book  abounds  in  games  both  for  out- 
door and  indoor  use  and  for  quiet  and 
active  games;  it  even  has  suggestions 
for  hobbies.  The  book  will  prove  valu- 
able in  the  home  as  well  as  in  the 
Mutual.— M.  C.J. 

THE  MORMON  MIRACLE 
(Grace  Johnson.  Deseret  Book  Com- 
pany, Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  1950.  30 
pages.  50  cents.) 

HHhis  moving  lecture,  now  available 
in  printed  form,  will  serve  to  make 
many  people  trace  relationships  from 
cause  to  effect — and  from  truth  and 
faith  to  satisfying  action.  Telescoped 
into  pages  that  are  packed  with  sig- 
nificance, the  miracle  gains  by  its  very 
succinctness.  Beautifully  published,  it 
will  make  a  welcome  and  worthy  gift 
item.— M.  C.  J. 

BOWER  OF  QUIET 
(Ethelyn  M.  Kincher.     Big  Mountain 
Press,    Denver,    Colorado.    1950.    47 
pages.  $2.00.) 

HThose  who  love  poetry  will  find  this 
slender  volume  extremely  satisfy- 
ing and  stimulating.  The  author  varies 
the  kind  of  verse  to  the  theme  she 
develops.  While  it  is  natural  that 
some  poems  will  always  appeal  more 
to  one  reader  than  to.  another,  it  is 
only  fair  to  state  that  the  author's 
ability  is  of  an  even  quality  and 
shows  her  knowledge  of  poetry.  One 
that  all  would  do  well  to  read — and 
ponder — is  titled  "What  of  Leisure." 

— M.  C.  J. 


JOHN  C.  CALHOUN 

(Margaret  L.  Coit.  Houghton  Mifflin 

Company,    Boston.    1950.    593    pages. 

$5.00.) 

"\T7'inner  of  the  Pulitzer  prize  for 
biography,  Margaret  L.  Coit 
should  be  complimented  on  the  schol- 
arly and  at  the  same  time  intensely 
human  work  she  has  done  in  recreat- 
ing a  period  as  well  as  the  man  in  his 
period.  Colorful  men  moved  across 
the  stage  of  our  national  history  in 
the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury: Daniel  Webster,  Henry  Clay, 
Andrew  Jackson,  John  Randolph,  and 
opposed  to  them,  yet  in  spite  of  great 
differences,  friends  with  them — John 
C.  Calhoun  of  South  Carolina. 
Through-  the  passionate  struggle  of 
Calhoun  the  reader  comes  to  under- 
stand more  fully  the  background  for 
the  Civil  War.— M.  C.  J. 


TWO  SIDES  TO  A 
TEACHER'S    DESK 
(Max   S.  Marshall.   Macmillan  Com- 
pany,   New   York.    1951.    284   pages. 
$3.00.) 

HPhis  delightfully  refreshing  book  in- 
dicates that  not  all  is  perfect  from 
the  teacher's  side  of  the  desk — and 
indicates  no  one  is  perfect.  From 
a  long  experience  as  teacher  Dr.  Mar- 
shall brings  light  and  at  the  same  time 
challenge  to  this  defense  of  the  demo- 
cratic method  in  the  teaching  profes- 
sion.    As  the  author  states : 

"Teaching  is  viewed  from  the  stu- 
dent's point  of  view;  students  are 
viewed  as  the  teacher  sees  them.  Be- 
cause teachers  hold  so  much  authority, 
along  with  the  prestige  of  age  and 
experience,  education  has  become  one- 
sided; yet  from  the  schoolrooms  come 
the  teachers  and  parents  of  the  fu- 
ture. .  .  .  The  conclusion  is  reached 
that  perhaps  students  have  ideas  worth 
hearing  and  that  the  ideas  of  some  of 
the  teachers  are  not  worth  as  much  as 
is  often  assumed.  Teaching  prince 
pies,  evaluations,  training  of  teachers, 
administration  of  schools,  most  of  the 
educational  program  is  inspected  in  its 
relationship  to  a  balanced  whole  com- 
munity. .  .  .  Perhaps  after  all  we  can 
find  a  good  balance,  between  teaching 
as  a  cooperative  endeavor  and  teach- 
ing as  a  form  of  caretaking  and 
discipline,  a  balance  m  which  neither 
the  practical  and  moral  significance  of 
discipline  nor  the  necessity  for  deal- 
ing with  students  as  persons  is  ig- 
nored."—M.  C.  /. 

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STEPHEN  L  RICHARDS 


( Concluded  from  page  499 ) 
of  the  law,  and  his  sound  judgment, 
he  has  filled  many  delicate  assign- 
ments before  leaders  of  government 
and  business,  of  which  the  Church 
as  a  whole  generally  has  never 
heard.  He  has  verily  been  its  am- 
bassador-at-large  to  pave  the  way 
for  many  understandings  which 
have  since  been  of  great  conse- 
quence. 

In  the  interest  of  missionary  work 
he  has  traveled  over  the  earth, 
visiting  not  only  all  parts  of  the 
United  States,  but  also  South 
America,  Europe,  and  Palestine. 

For  years  he  has  sat  as  a  member 
of  the  missionary  committee  through 
whose  hands  pass  all  matters  of 
appointment  of  mission  presidents 
and  missionaries.  And  since  its 
inception  in  1935,  he  has  served  as 
chairman  of  the  Church  radio,  pub- 
licity, and  mission  literature  com- 
mittee. In  this  latter  capacity  he 
has  directed  the  manifold  radio 
activities  of  the  Church,  which  in 
the  last  fifteen  years  have  multiplied 
by  well  over  a  hundred  times.  The 
tools  of  missionary  work  have  been 
greatly  expanded,  and  missionary 
labors  generally  have  been  made 
more  efficient. 

He  has  represented  the  Church 
on  the  boards  of  important  business 
institutions,  and  in  numerous  other 
ways  his  good  judgment  has  pro- 
tected its  trust  funds  and  invest- 
ments. 

He  is  respected  wherever  he 
goes,  and  he  reciprocates  that  re- 
spect. Perhaps  this  is  one  of  the 
secrets  of  his  great  success.  His 
courtesy  is  unfailing.  If  I  may  be 
pardoned  a  personal  observation,  I 
have  worked  under  his  immediate 
direction  for  more  than  a  dozen 
years,  in  a  room  adjoining  his. 
Though  he  has  been  my  chief,  and 
I  his  subordinate,  he  has  never 
come  through  my  door  without 
knocking.     That,  in  my  judgment, 


speaks  volumes  for  his  uncommon 
courtesy  and  other  remarkable  qual- 
ities of  character. 

Though  his  load  has  been  heavy, 
and  his  health  not  too  robust,  he 
has  been  able  to  keep  up  his  sched- 
ule because  he  knows  how  to 
relax.  He  bears  none  of  the  scars 
of  this  "age  of  ulcers."  No  picture 
to  him  is  more  inviting  than  smooth 
water  cut  at  the  bow  of  a  trim  boat. 
He  can  talk  with  expert  knowledge 
on  hulls,  engines,  and  propeller 
pitch.  He  loves  the  pulse  of  a 
motor  set  at  trolling  speed  and  the 
tug  of  a  line  grabbed  by  a  lively 
fish.  He  is  familiar  with  the  waters 
of  Great  Salt  Lake  and  Fish  Lake 
in  Utah,  of  Lake  Mead  in  Nevada, 
and  of  the  Hebgen  Dam  and  Yel- 
lowstone Lake  in  Montana. 

Always  carefully  attired,  you  will 
find  him  of  a  summer  day  in  soft 
wool  shirt  and  trousers,  both  neatly 
pressed,  but  casual,  walking  where 
sunlight  filters  through  tall  Douglas 
fir  or  sitting  before  the  snug  fire 
that  burns  in  the  grate  of  a  modest 
mountain  cabin. 

With  him  always  will  be  his 
life's  companion.  For  fifty-one 
years  this  strong,  able  man  and  this 
lovely,  gracious  woman  have  shared 
sorrow  and  triumph.  Together  they 
have  buried  a  baby  daughter  and  a 
promising  son,  both  killed  in  tragic 
accidents.  Together  they  have 
ridden  a  jeep  over  the  rough  roads 
of  Brazil  and  stood  at  the  site  of 
the  Savior's  birth  in  Palestine.  To- 
gether they  have  worked  long  hours 
at  difficult  tasks,  and  together  they 
have  mingled  at  ease  with  wealthy 
and  important  society.  Hand  in 
hand  for  more  than  half  a  century 
these  two  have  walked  the  road  of 
life,  enjoying  its  beauties,  meeting 
its  burdens,  loving  its  adventure, 
and  helping  others  along  the  way. 

The  Lord  has  selected  and  pre- 
pared his  leaders  well.  Stephen  L 
Richards  is  an  affirmation  of  that 
fact. 


HEART  OE  THE  HOUSE 


(Concluded  from  page  509) 
recipe  on  the  very  top  of  the  file 
for    daily    use    as    long    as    I    live, 
Helen." 

"Oh,  you  mean  the  little  verse: 

'I  am  the  head  of  this  house,'   he 
said, 


514 


Thinking  that  the  greater  part; 
But  she  was  wiser  far  than  he: 
She  was  content  to  be  its  heart.' 

That   was   Aunt   Kate's   recipe   for 
a  happy  marriage." 

THE  IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


Time  was  when  only  natural  pres- 
sure lifted  oil  to  the  surface.  Wells 
often  "went  flat."  We  now  use  huge 
systems  to  pump  pressure  back  in, 
recovering  much  oil  formerly  lost. 


And  research  in  refining  helps. 
In  1920,  Western  refineries  were  get- 
ting less  than  7  gallons  of  gasoline 
from  each  barrel  of  crude.  They  now 
get  20  gallons  of  far  better  gas. 


"What  are  you  doing 
to  save  our  oil  resources?" 

People  are  Concerned  these  days  about  America's  supply  of  crude 
oil.  They  say,  "If  petroleum  resources  are  beginning  to  run  out,  we  ought 
to  be  careful  to  make  them  go  as  far  as  possible.  What  are  you  big  companies 
doing  to  save  our  oil  resources?" 

Here's  the  answer  to  that  question.  Known  crude  oil  reserves  are 
actually  30  %  greater  today  than  in  1940.  And  in  addition  to  making  new  dis- 
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others — is  making  each  well  and  each  barrel  of  oil  yield  more  and  more.  Competi- 
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Remember  the  gusher?  Years  ago 
new  wells  were  allowed  to  erupt.  But 
oil  men  found  ways  to  stop  this  waste. 
And  now  they  extract  three  new 
fuels  from  the  gas  mixture. 


We  also  prevent  waste  by  tapping 
oil  pools  which  used  to  be  out  of 
reach.  Through  research  into  drilling 
techniques  we  make  holes  curve,  to 
reach  under  mountains,  for  example. 


Latest  techniques  help  us  in  war- 
ring on  waste.  Standard  uses  a  new 
"electronic  brain"  to  compute  best 
way  to  drill  oil  fields  for  greatest 
yield  25  years  or  more  into  the  future. 


Natural  gas,  a  by-product  of  oil 
production,  was  once  merely  wasted. 
But  oil  companies  long  ago  learned 
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"More-Religious-Readinf 
Campaign 

{Continued  from  page  505) 

exceeded  any  previous  year.  This 
listing  indicates  that  the  stakes  or 
missions  have  reached  or  exceeded 

their  qualifying  quotas. 

The  missions  reached  a  new  high 
mark  in  homes  receiving  the  Era. 
A  total  of  nearly  fifteen  thousand 
homes  in  the  missions  of  United 
States,  Canada,  Mexico,  and 
Hawaii  have  the  "Voice  of  the 
Church"  each  month. 

Servicemen's  Subscriptions 

Contributing  substantially  to  the 
total  subscriptions  in  the  campaign 
were  those  sent  to  servicemen. 
While  subscriptions  lagged  for  sev- 
eral months,  they  came  in  at  a 
generous  rate  near  the  end  of  the 
campaign  and  finally  exceeded  the 
three  thousand  mark.  While  this 
reflects  a  commendable  increase,  it 
still  leaves  a  large  number  of  serv- 
icemen for  whom  subscriptions 
have  not  been  entered.  Southern 
States  Mission  led  the  Church  in 
servicemen's  subscriptions,  while 
Inglewood  led  all  the  stakes. 

Stake  Servicemen's  Subscriptions 
(Stakes  with  50  or  more) 

1.  *  Inglewood,  94;  2.  *North  Davis, 
93;   3.    *Juab,   88;    4.    *Rigby,    88;   5. 

*  South  Davis,  86;  6.  West  Jordan,  86; 
7.  Yellowstone,  86;  8.  *Glendale,  85; 
9.  *  South  Los  Angeles,  81;  10.  *Big 
Horn,  79;  11.  Blackfoot,  72;  12.  *  South 
Idaho    Falls,    70;    13.    Nebo,    66;    14. 

*  Alpine,  65;  15.  Kolob,  65;  16.  *Long 
Beach,  65;  17.  Pocatello,  62;  18.  *  Bea- 
ver, 61;  19.  *  Liberty,  61;  20.  *  Millard, 
59;  21.  East  Jordan,  58;  22.  Murray, 
58;  23.  Palmyra,  56;  24.  Mt.  Ogden, 
54;  25.  *Park,  54;  26.  San  Diego,  54; 
27.  Ogden,  53;  28.  Millcreek,  51;  29. 
Star  Valley,  50. 

*  Starred  stakes  report  sending  the 
Era  to  every  serviceman.  North 
Jordan  Stake  also  reports  one  hundred 
percent. 

Mission  Servicemen's  Subscriptions 
(Missions  with  10  or  more) 

1.  Southern  States,  187;  2.  Northern 
California,  47;  3.  Central  States,  38; 
4.  Northwestern  States,  24;  5.  Texas- 
Louisiana,  21;  6.  Central  Atlantic 
States,  19;  7.  Eastern  States,  19;  8. 
North  Central  States,  15;  9.  California, 
14;  10.  West  Central  States,  14;  11. 
Great  Lakes,  10. 

{Continued  on  page  518) 
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"MORE-RELIGIOUS-READING"  CAMPAIGN 


(Continued  from  page  516) 

Citations  Extraordinary  to 

South  Los  Angeles  and 

Southern  States 

Records  made  last  year  by  South' 
ern  States  Mission  and  Los  Angeles 
Stake  which  won,  a  citation  ex- 
traordinary for  each  group  and 
which  many  thought  would  not  be 
reached  again  were  exceeded  in 
both  instances  in  the  "More-Re- 
ligious-Reading"   campaign. 

This  is  the  almost  unbelievable 
record  of  South  Los  Angeles  Stake 
which  won  for  it  for  the  second 
consecutive  year  the  highest  award 
given  in   Era  campaigns: 

Every  ward  in  the  stake  in  the 
Hall  of  Fame — The  Era  in  Every 
Home 

Leader  of  Leaders  Citation 

All-time  record  for  stakes  in 
total    subscriptions — 2,262 

Leader  of  all  stakes  in  percent  of 
quota 

Only  stake  to  win  Leader  of 
Leaders  honor  for  two  consecutive 
years 

Winner  of  Double  Citations 
(first  place)  for  percent  of  quota 
and   total    subscriptions 

Double  Honors  in  Leaders  of  the 
Church   (first  place) 

The  Era  to  every  Serviceman 

One  hundred  seventy-two  La- 
manite  gift  subscriptions. 

Southern  States  Mission  great- 
ly exceeded  its  record-breaking 
achievement  of  last  year.  In  dis- 
tricts and  branches  with  perfect 
records,  with  the  Era  in  every 
home,  in  total  subscriptions,  in  per- 
cent of  quota,  and  in  servicemen's 
subscriptions,  it  led  the  entire 
Church.  In  addition,  a  new  mark 
was  set  by  including  the  miscel- 
laneous areas  of  the  mission  in  the 
campaign  and  making  perfect  rec- 
ords there  also.  Here  is  the  im- 
pressive record  of  the  Southern 
States  Mission: 

Every  mission  district  and  mis- 
cellaneous area  in  the  Hall  of  Fame 
— the  Era  in  Every  Home. 

Leaders  of  Leaders  Citation 

All-time,  all-Church  record  for 
total   subscriptions — 4,627 

All-time,  all-Church  record  for 
percent  of  quota — 707% 

Double   Citation   Winner 

Double  Honors  in  Leaders  of  the 
Church 


The  Era  to  Every  Serviceman — 
Highest  number  for  missions  or 
stakes — 187 

Young  Stake,  by  again  placing 
every  ward  in  the  Hall  of  Fame 
with  the  Era  in  every  home,  shared 
honors  with  Southern  States  Mis- 
sion and  South  Los  Angeles  Stake. 
Here  is  Young  Stake's  record: 

Leader  of  Leaders  Citation 

Every  ward  in  the  Hall  of  Fame 
— The  Era  in  Every  Home 

One  of  the  two  stakes  of  the 
Church  ever  to  win  Leader  of 
Leaders    honors    twice 

This  is  the  record  which  won 
multiple  honors  for  South  Davis 
Stake : 

Special  Honor  Citation  for  great- 
est gain  over  last  year — 266% 

One  Hundred  Percent  Citation — 
the  equivalent  of  the  Era  in  every 
home 

Leader  of  the  Church  in  Laman- 
ite    gift    subscriptions — 721 

Double  Citation  Winner  (2nd 
place)  Total  subscriptions  1998  and 
Percent  of  Quota — 357% 

Double  Honors  in  Leaders  of  the 
Church  (2nd  place) 

Other  stakes  and  missions  with 
outstanding  campaigns  include: 
Phoenix  Stake  with  a  consistent 
campaign  that  won  double  citations; 
Long  Beach,  which  threatened  the 
leaders  right  up  to  the  last  day; 
Florida,  which  led  in  the  early  days 
of  the  campaign;  Inglewood,  with 
fresh  enthusiasm  resembling  other 
days;  Maricopa,  which  finished  sec- 
ond among  the  Arizona  stakes  and 
won  two  citations;  Mt,  Ogden,  with 
conversion     campaign     coupled 


a 


with  subscription-getting;  Moapa, 
not  to  be  denied  its  place  with  the 
leaders;  Union,  which  will  bear 
watching  next  year;  Yellowstone, 
entrenched  in  eighth  place  on  both 
lists  after  a  spirited  campaign;  Big 
Horn,  home  of  Lovell  Ward,  one 
of  the  earliest  Hall  of  Fame  wards; 
and  Minidoka,  which  year  after 
year  with  little  publicity  conducts 
a  consistent  campaign  and  finishes 
with  a  citation  to  crown  its  efforts. 
Space  limitations  make  it  impossible 
to  tell  of  the  original  and  interest- 
ing plans  used  in  these  and  other 
stakes. 

Lethbridge  Stake  in  Canada  and 

Juarez   Stake   in   old   Mexico  were 

the  hardluck  stakes  of  the  year.  In 

(Continued   on   page  520) 

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(Continued  from  page  518) 
the  early  days  of  the  campaign 
Lethbridge  appeared  to  be  a  cer- 
tainty for  double  citations.  In  the 
face  of  very  active  competition  a 
citation  was  claimed  in  total  sub- 
scriptions. Juarez,  one  of  the  lead- 
ing gainers  during  its  special  cam- 
paign period,  made  a  strong  bid 
but   failed. 

Los  Angeles  Stake,  high  on  the 
list  last  year  with  double  citations, 
held  a  place  on  the  percent  of  quota 
list.     Chicago,  Snowflake,  Ben  Lo- 


mond, and  San  Deigo,  familiar 
names  as  citation  leaders,  are 
missed  this  year. 

In  the  missions,  North  Central 
States  maintains  consistently  high 
positions,  while  Central  Atlantic 
repeated  its  splendid  performance 
of  last  year.  Great  Lakes  kept  up 
its  steady  pace  with  some  groups 
making  remarkable  showings. 

Western  Canadian,  following  a 
success  formula  established  some 
time  ago,  claimed  its  usual  citation, 
while  Eastern  States  came  back  on- 


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\K7e  are  deeply  grateful  for  all  our  material  blessings  and 
for  the  personal  freedom  which  is  so  essential  to 
human  happiness.  But  in  all  that  we  are  or  have  or 
hope  to  be,  there  is  one  essential  element  without  which  all 
else  would  be  as  nothing,  without  which  there  can  be  no 
peace,  no  protection,  no  permanence.  And  this  indispensable 
element  is  individual  integrity.  To  paraphrase  the  old 
proverb,  "Pride  goeth  before  a  fall,"  we  offer  another 
one,  less  euphonious,  but  equally  true:  "Dishonor,  dis- 
honesty, and  immorality  go  before  a  fall."  And  one  of 
the  greatest  threats  to  freedom  and  to  individual  enter- 
prise is  indifference  to  dishonor  and  dishonesty,  both  in 
public  and  private  places.  We  have  become  too  familiar 
with  crime  and  corruption — and  too  indifferent  to  it  at 
times.  Of  course  sometimes  when  we  suddenly  see  its 
insidiousness,  with  shocked  sensibilities  we  rise  in  wrath 
for  a  brief  time,  and  then  too  soon  relax  and  let  it  "leech" 
upon  us  again.  In  weighing  and  measuring  material 
things,  we  are  not  satisfied  with  mere  appearance  or 
approximations,  but  we  rigidly  refer  to  fixed  standards. 
And  in  matters  of  morals  and  of  honor  and  honesty,  in 
matters  of  public  and  private  trust,  there  must  likewise  be 
adherence  to  firm,  fixed  standards — or  we  are  utterly  lost. 
Indeed,  none  of  the  things  we  most  cherish  in  our  way  of 
life  can  survive  without  individual  integrity.  Efficiency  is 
futile  without  integrity.  Ability  is  but  dross  without 
integrity.  Talent  is  tragic  without  integrity.  All  the 
products  we  can  produce,  all  the  men  we  can  muster,  all 
the  forces  we  can  put  forth  are  unavailing  unless  we  can 
trust  ourselves.  It  costs  much  more  than  money  to  uncover 
acts  of  disloyalty  or  dishonesty.  It  costs  confidence.  And 
without  confidence  there  is  no  peace  or  protection.  It 
isn't  only  a  public  problem.  It  is  a  personal  problem.  In 
the  words  of  Montaigne:  "The  corruption  of  the  age  is 
made  up  by  the  particular  contribution  of  every  individual 
man.  .  .  .  There  is  no  substitute  for  individual  integrity. 
And  without  it  there  is  no  peace  or  safety  or  assurance. 

2Jke    Spoken     Word     FROM   TEMPLE  SQUARE 
PRESENTED    OVER   KSL   AND    THE    COLUMBIA    BROAD- 
CASTING   SYSTEM,    MAY    6.    1951 

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to  both  lists  where  it  has  been  many 
times  before.  Central  States,  the 
new  West  Central  States,  North- 
ern California,  Northern  States, 
and  Northwestern  States  all  were 
near  the  citation  lists  but  were 
crowded  out  at  the  end. 

Lamanite   Gift   Campaign 

For  the  first  time  in  Era  cam- 
paigns the  Lamanite  gift  sub- 
scription plan  made  a  sizable 
contribution  with  a  total  of  2814 
gift  subscriptions.  In  the  first  cam- 
paign which  included  Lamanite 
gift  subscriptions,  a  few  less  than 
seven  hundred  were  received.  More 
than  that  total  came  this  year  from 
one  stake — South  Davis. 

The  record  in  the  Lamanite  gift 
subscription  plan  in  this  campaign, 
a  most  gratifying  one  even  though 
only  a  few  stakes  participated, 
shows  these  results: 

Stakes 

1.  South  Davis,  721;  2.  Rigby,  198; 
3.  South  Los  Angeles,  172;  4.  Yellow- 
stone, 160;  5  Los  Angeles,  90;  6.  South 
Carolina,  87;  7.  Long  Beach,  83;  8. 
North  Rexburg,  83;  9.  Minidoka,  78; 
10.  Moapa,  78;  11.  Teton,  76;  12. 
South  Idaho  Falls,  71;  13.  Maricopa, 
62;  14.  Timpanogos,  57;  15.  North 
Davis,  55;  16.  East  Rigby,  44;  17. 
Millcreek,  43;  18.  Lethbridge,  42;  19. 
Young,  39;  20.  Murray,  37;  21.  Flor- 
ida, 36;  22.  Star  Valley,  35;  23.  North 
Idaho  Falls,  28;  24.  Idaho  Falls,  26; 
25.  New  York,   23;   26.   Oquirrh,   21. 

Missions 

1.  Central  States,  26;  2.  Eastern 
States,  13;  3.  Southern  States,  3;  4. 
Northern  California,  2;  5.  West  Cen- 
tral States,   1. 

Stakes  with  Highest  Gains 
Over  Last  Year 

With  the  announcement  of  a 
Special  Citation  to  be  awarded  this 
year  for  the  first  time  to  the  stake 
with  the  highest  gains  over  the 
preceding  year,  the  following  list 
becomes  especially  interesting: 


Percent 

Gain 

Gain 

1. 

South  Davis 

1,518 

266   (1) 

2. 

Long   Beach 

581 

126  (4) 

3. 

Inglewood 

565 

84    (10) 

4. 

Maricopa 

519 

169   (2) 

5. 

Yellowstone 

506 

136   (3) 

6. 

Moapa 

398 

95   (9) 

7. 

Pasadena 

338 

121    (6) 

8. 

East  Los  Angele. 

5    312 

74   (11) 

9. 

Florida 

207 

125   (5) 

10. 

South  Carolina 

181 

103   (8) 

11. 

Union 

164 

104   (7) 

( Concluded 

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"MORE-RELIGIOUS-READING"  CAMPAIGN 


(Concluded  from  preceding  page) 

The   Era   One-Thousand   Club 

Another  new  mark  was  estab- 
lished in  stakes  exceeding  one  thou- 
sand subscriptions.  Such  stakes  be- 
come members  of  the  mythical  Era 
"One-Thousand  Club."  The  offi- 
cers and  members  for  1951-52  are 
these: 

Subscriptions 

President,  Southern  States  Mission, 
4,627;  First  Vice  President,  South 
Los  Angeles  Stake,  2,262;  Second  Vice 
President,  South  Davis  Stake,  1,998; 
Third  Vice  President,  Long  Beach 
Stake,  1,242;  Secretary,  Inglewood 
Stake,  1,214;  Assistant  Secretary, 
Phoenix  Stake,  1,212;  Treasurer,  Mt. 
Ogden  Stake,  1,043;  Assistant  Treas- 
urer, Central  Atlantic  States  Mission, 

i,oio! 

The  Five-Hundred  Club 

With  far  too  many  names  to  list, 
the  Era  "Five-Hundred  Club"  also 
reached  a  new  high  in  membership. 
Fifty-five  stakes  and  missions 
reached  or  exceeded  five  hundred 
subscriptions.    The  officers,  all  with 


more  than  eight  hundred  subscrip- 
tions, are  as  follows: 

Subscriptions 

President,  Great  Lakes  Mission, 
912;  First  Vice  President,  Moapa,  907; 
Second  Vice  President,  Yellowstone, 
895;  Third  Vice  President,  Big  Horn, 
892;  Secretary,  Eastern  States  Mis- 
sion, 878;  Assistant  Secretary,  Mari- 
copa, 860;  Treasurer,  Rigby;  811; 
Assistant  Treasurer,  North  Davis, 
805. 

Members 
Ogden,  798;  Lethbridge,  791;  South 
Idaho  Falls,  772;  Los  Angeles,  771; 
Blackfoot,  728;  Western  Canadian 
Mission,  722;  North  Central  States 
Mission,  713;  Bonneville,  695;  Weber, 
690;  Central  States  Mission,  667; 
West  Central  States  Mission,  664; 
Liberty,  654;  Mesa,  645;  San  Diego, 
640;  Hillside,  637;  Minidoka,  630; 
Ben  Lomond,  619;  Park,  613;  North 
Idaho  Falls,  612;  East  Los  Angeles, 
608;  Northern  California  Mission,  606; 
South  Ogden,  586;  West  Jordan,  585; 
Ensign,  584;  Northwestern  States  Mis- 
sion, 582;  Kolob,  576;  East  Central 
States  Mission,  576;  California  Mis- 
sion, 574;  Texas-Louisiana  Mission, 
573;  South  Salt  Lake,  571;  Pocatello, 
568;  Murray,  564;  Pasadena,  561; 
Star  Valley,  556;  North  Rexburg,  535; 


Glendale,  528;  Seattle,  526;  Sugar- 
house,  523;  Florida,  517;  Wilford,  513; 
Union,  511;  Grant,  504;  North  Jordan, 
502;  Tooele,  502;  Boise,  500;  Idaho 
Falls,  500;  Wells,  500. 

A  word  of  explanation  is  in  order 
here.  Citations  in  the  recent  cam- 
paign were  announced  for  the  ten 
highest  stakes  in  each  category — 
total  subscriptions  and  percent  of 
quota.  Also  it  was  announced  that 
ten  stakes  in  each  group  would  be 
honored.  When  a  stake  wins  cita- 
tions in  both  groups,  both  awards 
appear  on  the  one  citation.  In 
order  that  a  total  of  ten  stakes 
shall  receive  citations  under  the 
established  plan,  for  each  double 
citation  winner,  another  stake 
moves  up  and  receives  a  citation 
even  though  it  may  not  have  been 
among  the  ten  highest  on  either 
list. 

This  same  rule  applies  in  the 
missions,  but  because  of  the  smaller 
number  of  missions,  only  four  in 
each  group  are  awarded  citation 
honors. 


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Board  Members  Appointed 

(Continued  from  page  486) 
Japan.  His  wife  is  the  former 
Jeanne  Wright.  The  couple  have 
two  daughters  and  a  son.  Elder 
Gunn  will  be  subject  to  call  from 
the  other  committees  to  assist  them 
with  their  art  problems. 

pUDER  Wendell  E.  Adams,  who 
becomes  a  member  of  the  Scout 
committee,  was  born  at  Layton, 
Utah,  the  son  of  Elder  and  Mrs. 
J.  S.  Adams.  He  is  a  graduate  of 
the  University  of  Utah  and  holds 
his  master  of  business  administra- 
tion degree  from  the  Stanford  Uni- 
versity Graduate  School  of  Busi- 
ness. His  Church  activities  have 
been  in  Layton,  Berkeley  (where 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  ward 
M.  I.  A.  superintendency,  and  later 
as  a  member  of  the  Mutual  super- 
intendency of  the  Oakland  Stake), 
and  Salt  Lake  City.  He  is  now  a 
member  of  the  East  Ensign  Ward, 
Ensign  Stake.  His  wife  is  the 
former  Ramona  Shepherd,  and  the 
couple  have  three  sons  and  a 
daughter. 


These  Times 

( Concluded  from  page  482 ) 
the  Department  and  Undersecretary 
of  State,  and  as  Ambassador  to  Mex- 
ico is  well-known.  Should  three  such 
men  as  Presidents  McKay,  Richards, 
and  Clark  appear  in  the  leadership  of 
any  modern  nation,  business  organiza- 
tion, or  other  society,  the  wisdom  of 
the  choice  would  be  apparent.  What 
the  future  can  or  may  bring  no  man 
knows.  But  as  Elder  Whitney  wrote 
thirty  years   ago: 

The  work  of  the  Lord  is  always  pro- 
gressing, and  consequently  always  chang- 
ing^— not  its  principles,  nor  its  aims;  but 
its  plans,  its  instruments,  and  its  methods 

of-  procedure. 

*      *      *      *      * 

In  these  times  the  men  of  this  world, 
searching  for  an  organizing  principle, 
may  be  well  advised  to  say: 

.  .  .  Come,  and  let  us  go  up  to  the 
mountain  of  the  Lord,  and  to  the  house 
of  the  God  of  Jacob;  and  he  will  teach  us 
of  his  ways,  and  we  will  walk  in  his 
paths:  for  the  law  shall  go  forth  of 
Zion,  and  the  word  of  the  Lord  from 
Jerusalem.    (Micah    4:2). 

All  our  hours  are  constantly  strik- 
ing. We  can  help  the  new  Presidency 
in  being  ready;  for,  "The  Man  for  the 
Hour  will  be  ready  whenever  the  Hour 
strikes." 

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Sevier  High  Priests  Complete 
1,081  Endowments  in  Single  Day 

Early  last  May  the  high  priests 
of  the  three  Sevier  stakes, 
North  Sevier,  Sevier,  and  South 
Sevier,  sponsored  a  full  day  of 
endowment  work  at  the  Manti 
Temple.  Their  goal  for  the  day  was 
one  thousand  endowments.  The 
widows  of  high  priests  in  those 
stakes  were  invited  guests. 

It  took  a  great  deal  of  coopera- 
tion and  coordination  between  the 
ward  genealogical  committees,  the 
priesthood  quorums  officers  and 
committees,  the  temple  presidency, 
and  the  temple  officiators.  And 
everything  went   as   planned. 

The  day  was  a  memorial  for 
President  John  R.  Stewart  of  the 
North  Sevier  Stake  high  priests' 
quorum.  With  the  priesthood 
leaders  representing  the  other  two 
stakes,  he  had  done  much  of  the 
groundwork  for  this  day.  He  suf- 
fered a  heart  attack  and  died  be- 
fore the  excursion  day.  His  first 
counselor,  William  G.  Mason,  who 
has  since  succeeded  him  as  presi- 
dent of  the  quorum,  completed 
North  Sevier  Stake's  share  of  the 
arrangements. 

To  accommodate  these  Saints, 
President  Lewis  R.  Anderson  of 
the  Manti  Temple  arranged  for 
eight  endowment  sessions  that  day. 
These  sessions  were  so  arranged 
that  three  sessions  could  be  com- 
fortably taken,  still  leaving  time  in 
the  day  for  the  people  to  return 
to  their  homes  in  the  agricultural 
districts  for  chore  time.  Between 
three  hundred  and  fifty  and  four 
hundred  members  of  the  three  stakes 
came  to  the  temple  that  day.  Many 
enjoyed  the  spiritual  feast  so  much 
that  they  stayed  for  four  endow- 
ment sessions.  A  total  of  1,081 
endowments  were  done. 

All  agreed  that  it  was  a  joyous 
occasion,  one  which  will  not  soon 
be      forgotten. 

524 


WEBER  ELDERS  HAVE  WORKABLE  TEMPLE  PROJECT 


Members  of  the  third  quorum  of 
elders  of  the  North  Weber 
(  Utah )  Stake  residing  in  the 
Wilson  Ward  are  justly  proud  of 
the  accomplishments  of  their  temple 
work  project,  which  has  been  in 
operation  for  over  eleven  years  and 
was  directed  by  four  quorum  presi- 
dencies during  that  time. 

Elder  S.  R.  Cunningham,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  North  Weber  Stake 
high  council  in  January  1940, 
charged  the  quorum  presidency  and 
members  with  the  responsibility  of 
doing  temple  work,  while  he  was 
visiting  the  quorum.  Quorum 
President  Rulon  Walker  promised 
Brother  Cunningham  that  an  excur- 
sion would  be  made,  even  if  he  and 
his  wife  were  the  only  ones  to 
attend  some  months.  ( Brother 
Walker  is  now  the  first  counselor 
in  the  ward  bishopric. ) 

So  was  the  humble  beginning. 

Over  the  years  the  quorum  has 
sponsored  a  monthly  temple  excur- 
sion to  either  the  Salt  Lake  or 
Logan  Temple.  Quorum  members 
have  provided  transportation  in 
their  cars  for  all  who  cared  to  go 
to  the  temple  on  the  appointed  day. 
As  many  as  forty-five  persons  have 
joined  in  the  activity  some  months, 
including  members  of  the  ward 
bishopric,    stake    presidency,    high 


council,  and  friends  of  the  quorum. 

There  have  been  times  when  it 
has  been  rather  difficult  to  keep 
this  fine  record  unbroken.  Especial- 
ly was  this  true  during  World  War 
II  when  gas  rationing  required  care- 
ful planning.  Except  for  three 
months,  an  excursion  was  made,  al- 
though on  two  other  occasions,  one 
couple  only  went  to  the  temple. 

Temple  ordinances  have  been 
done  for  over  ten  thousand  persons 
during  the  eleven  years  of  quorum 
activity.  Included  in  this  total  were 
endowments  for  their  own  kindred 
dead,  names  furnished  by  other 
members  of  the  ward,  and  names 
taken  from  missionary  lists  at  the 
temple.  Many  of  the  quorum  mem- 
bers and  their  wives  received  their 
own  endowments  while  participat- 
ing in  these  excursions. 

The  project  has  brought  a  spir- 
itual uplift  to  the  quorum  and  has 
been  a  great  joy  and  satisfaction  to 
those  who  have  participated,  espe- 
cially to  the  members  of  the  respec- 
tive presidencies  who  have  guided 
the  work  over  the  years.  Indeed, 
it  has  been  a  source  of  strength  in 
the  work  of  the  quorum,  in  addi- 
tion to  rendering  a  great  service  to 
those  who  have  passed  to  the  be- 
yond without  opportunity  to  accept 
the  ordinances  of  the  gospel  while 
in  mortality. 


A  SEVENTY  FOR  OVER  SIXTY-FIVE  YEARS 

This  letter  has  come  to  our  attention: 

"Colonia  Juarez,  Chihuahua,  Mexico 

"While  I  was  living  in  Pima,  Arizona,  in  1886,  Dr.  Seymour  B.  Young,  one 
of  the  presidents  of  the  First  Council  of  the  Seventy,  came  and  organized  the 
89th  Quorum  of  Seventy  in  the  St.  Joseph  Stake.  I  was  ordained  a  seventy 
on  March  21,  1886  by  James  R.  Welker  of  that  quorum.  I  was  not  yet  nineteen 
and  the  youngest  one  in  the  quorum. 

"In  1889  our  family  moved  to  Colonia  Juarez  in  Mexico  and  a  few  years 
later  Elder  Brigham  H.  Roberts  came  and  organized  Quorum  99  in  the  Juarez 
Stake. 

.  "I  became  a  member,  and  now  at  eighty-four  years  of  age  I  am  still  a 
member  of  the  99th  Quorum  and  have  lived  in  this  stake  over  sixty  years.  I 
have  been  a  seventy  for  over  sixty-five  years. 

Sincerely,  "Joel  H.  Martineau" 

THE  IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


GOOD  FOR  IDAHO! 

"pROM  the  May  issue  of  The  Idaho 
Challenge  we  learn  that  a  new 
liquor  education  set-up  is  created  in 
Idaho.  Mr.  Mahlin  S.  Hansen  is  the 
governor's  appointed  head  of  the  new 
set-up.  He  is  director  of  Exceptional 
Education  in  the  administrative  De- 
partment of  Law  Enforcement.  He 
has  outlined  what  The  Idaho  Chal- 
lenge says  approvingly  is  an  ambitious 
program  directed  at  the  prevention  of 
alcoholism  and  narcotic  addiction  by 
community  education.  The  Alcoholics 
Anonymous  program  will  be  used  for 
rehabilitation.  He  is  said  to  be  well 
qualified  to  direct  successfully  such  a 
program.  Thus  Idaho  takes  an  im- 
portant step  forward. 

WHAT  THE  KEFAUVER 
COMMITTEE  FOUND 

Public  interest  was  greatly  aroused 
by  the  findings  of  the  U.  S.  Senate 
Crime-investigating  committee,  led  by 
Senator  Estes  Kefauver  of  Tennessee. 
The  Clipsheet,  quoting  from  The 
Christian  Advocate,  published  an  in- 
terview with  the  senator  in  which  he 
made  surprising  statements  relative  to 
his  committee's  findings.  He  is  reported 
to  have  said  that  the  investigations 
show  that  there  is  an  appalling  amount 
of  gross  income  from  immoral  activities 
in  the  United  States  today.  Much 
of  this  enormous  income  is  derived 
from  those  least  able  to  participate 
in  gambling  and  other  illegal  activities. 
Estimates  of  the  annual  income  from 
such  illegal  activities  run  as  high  as 
thirty  billion  dollars,  which  is  about 
three-fifths  of  the  national  budget. 
The  committee  found  much  corruption 
of  public  officials  by  the  underworld 
element.  Further,  the  committee  found 
all  too  little  interest  on  the  part  of 
local  people  in  seeing  to  it  that  their 
laws  are  enforced. 

The  senator  said  there  is  no  doubt 
that  the  criminal  element  is  becoming 
increasingly  interested  in  politics  and 
is  acquiring  greater  influence  in  politi- 
cal circles,  both  local  and  national. 
However,  the  great  responsibility  for 
clean  government  devolves  upon  the 
local  communities.  It  is  there  that 
honest  and  effective  law  enforcement 
officials  must  be  placed  and  kept  in 
office,  supported  by  the  good  people 
of  the  community  and  continually 
scrutinized  to  see  that  the  laws  are  en- 
forced in  the  best  possible  manner. 

The  senator  went  on  to  say  that 
most  of  our  good  people  who  want 
proper  law  enforcement  are  also  mem- 
bers of  our  churches.  If  these  people 
do  not  become  aroused,  very  little 
will  be  done  at  the  local  level.  He 
thinks  it  is  upon  such  people  that  we 
must  depend.  Certainly  he  thinks  they 
should  be  actively  interested.  We 
JULY  1951 


N0- 

LIQ10R- 
TOBACCO 

COLUMN 


CONDUCTED  BY 

DR.  JOSEPH  F. 
MERRILL 


think  so,  too.  Religion  and  morality 
should  be  inseparable.  They  are  in- 
volved in  the  conduct  of  good  govern- 
ment and  good  business  and  in  the 
maintenance  of  high  standards  in  the 
political  and  economic  life  of  the  coun- 
try. Let  all  good  people  wake  up  and 
do  whatever  is  feasible  to  eliminate 
the  influence  of  the  underworld  in  our 
economic  and  political  affairs. 

ALCOHOL,  HOME,  AND  MOTHER 

Under  this  heading  The  National 
Temperance  Digest  publishes  a  timely 
short  article  by  B.  E.  Ewing  which 
we  herewith  summarize: 

The  home  has  more  to  do  with 
community  and  social  welfare  than 
anything  else.  Nowadays  volumes  are 
published  about  the  great  encompass- 
ing institutions  and  movements  of  so- 
ciety, relative  to  the  field  of  economy, 
political  ideologies,  peace,  and  -war. 
But  the  home  does  more  to  mold  so- 
ciety than  all  other  institutions  com- 
bined. 

While  the  home  is  kept  pure,  the 
nation  is  kept  sound. 

If  America  goes  down,  the  real 
cause  will  be  the  demoralization  and 
breakdown  of  the  American  home. 

Formerly  Dad  pursued  his  wayward 


A  famous  doctor  said: 

Tobacco-smoking  induces  a  dreamy, 
imaginative,  and  imbecile  state  of  mind, 
produces  indolence  and  incapacity  for 
mental  exertion,  and  sinks  the  victim 
into  a  state  of  careless  or  maudlin  in- 
activity and  selfish  enjoyment  of  his 
vice* 


career  to  the  detriment  of  the  family. 
Income  suffered  and  necessities  were 
denied.  "Pop"  set  a  bad  example  for 
the  boys,  but  usually  Mother  could 
be  counted  on  to  keep  things  straight. 
What  a  heroine  she  was! 

But  repeal  homes  are  different.  The 
hand  that  rocked  the  cradle  clutches 
the  cocktail  glass.  Arrests  of  women 
for  drunkenness  have  multiplied  under 
repeal.  The  alcoholic  wife  and  mother 
is  a  far  too  common  sight. 

A  police  chief  saw  a  fifteen-year-old 
girl  leave  a  tavern.  He  knew  her  and 
her  family.  Shocked,  he  brought  the 
intoxicated  girl  home  to  her  mother  at 
two  o'clock  in  the  morning.  Mother, 
having  just  come  in,  berated  the  chief 
for  the  indignity  he  had  heaped  on  her 
daughter  in  bringing  her  home.  The 
mother  insisted  the  girl  should  be  al- 
lowed to  learn  about  life  herself. 

Mix  together  the  lack  of  discipline, 
the  irresponsible  attitude  of  thousands 
of  parents,  and  the  social  acceptance 
of  liquor  in  the  home,  and  you  have 
a  sickening  combination  almost  im- 
possible for  youth  to  beat. 

But  not  all  homes  are  in  that  cate- 
gory. There  are  thousands  of  Christian 
homes  where  sobriety,  virtue,  honesty, 
goodwill,  obedience,  and  non-use  of 
narcotics  are  taught  and  practised. 
Pray  that  they  will  multiply  and  thus 
continue  to  be  the  seasoning,  saving 
element  in  America. 

READABLE  QUOTES 

Dr.  Joy  Elmer  Morgan,  editor  of  the 
Journal  of  National  Educational  As- 
sociation, says,  "Drinking  in  modera- 
tion is  not  the  solution  of  our  liquor 
problem.  It  is  the  main  cause  of  that 
problem.  .  .  . 

"The  Christian  who  takes  his  liquor 
in  moderation  is  pretty  apt  to  take 
his  religion  in  the  same  way.  .  .  . 

"Alcohol  takes  the  equivalent  of 
1 1 ,500  persons  off  the  job  for  two 
hundred  days  a  year.  .  .  . 

"Throughout  the  campaign  for  the 
repeal  of  prohibition,  advocates  of  re- 
peal promised  solemnly  and  repeatedly 
that  the  evils  of  the  old  saloon  would 
never  be  allowed  to  come  back.  View- 
ing conditions  today,  it  goes  without 
saying  that  No  Promise  Has  Ever 
Been  More  Completely  Disre- 
garded! .  .  . 

"The  welfare  of  our  nation  has  been 
sold  down  the  river  by  the  greedy, 
profit-hungry  liquor-trust.  Not  only 
has  the  saloon  returned,  but  it  has 
been  brought  back  in  greater  numbers 
and  in  a  treacherous  new  design  which 
serves  to  broaden  its  corruptiveness. 
The  drab  swinging  doors  and  sawduat 
floors  have  been  replaced  by  be- 
dazzling neon  lights,  plush  carpeting, 
and  modish  interior  decorating— all 
of  which  is  calculated  to  entice  new 
victims    into    alcoholic    addiction." 

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Challenging  Records 


JAMES 
NELSON 


James,  recently  ordained  an  elder  and 
filling  a  mission  in  New  Zealand, 
established  the  very  best  attendance 
record  possible  while  coming  up 
through  the  quorums  of  the  Aaronic 
Priesthood. 

Since  James  was  ordained  a  deacon 
at  twelve,  and  until  he  became  an 
elder  at  nineteen,  he  maintained  a 
perfect  attendance  record  at  priest- 
hood meeting,  sacrament  meeting,  Sun- 
day School,  and  Y.  M.  M.  I.  A. 

Elder  Nelson  is  a  member  of  the 
Glenwood  Ward,  Alberta  (Canada) 
Stake, 


DARRELL 

V/ELBY 

WARREN 


k 


Darrell  is  well  on  his  way  to  an- 
other "very  best"  attendance  record. 
Since  he  was  ordained  a  deacon  in 
September  1947,  he  has  had  a  one 
hundred  percent  attendance  record  at 
priesthood  meeting,  sacrament  meet- 
ing, Sunday  School,  and  Y.  M.  M.  I. 

a! 

Darrell  is  loyal  to  his  presiding 
father,  Bishop  Welby  S.  Warren, 
president  of  the  Aaronic  Priesthood, 
Mapleton  Ward,  Kolob  (Utah)  Stake. 

These  are  two  remarkable  records, 
and  we  commend  these  two  young 
men  for  their  faithfulness  and  for  their 
good  example  in  attendance  at  Church 
meetings. 

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How  to  Keep  Up-to-Date  in  Aaronic  Priesthood,  Adult  Members 
of  Aaronic  Priesthood,  and  Ward  Teaching  Programs 


Curveys  and  observations  reveal  the 
disappointing  fact  that  a  great 
many  leaders,  both  stake  and  ward, 
in  the  Aaronic  Priesthood  program,  in 
the  program  for  adult  members  of  the 
Aaronic  Priesthood,  and  in  ward 
teaching  are  working  with  committee 
organizations  and  procedures  out-of- 
date  years  ago. 

In  the  Aaronic  Priesthood  program, 
for  instance,  some  leaders  come  forth 
with  the  handbook  issued  in  1941. 
Others  still  go  by  the  1943,  1947,  1949 
handbooks.  The  latest  handbook  was 
published  January  1,  1949,  revised 
January    1,    1950. 

Is  it  any  wonder  there  is  difficulty 
with  the  programs  in  some  areas? 

There  is  a  remedy  for  this  unfor- 
tunate situation.  However,  as  with 
the  medicine  prescribed  by  the  physi- 
cian but  never  taken,  so  with  the 
remedy  for  this  "out-of-date"  illness — 
if  never  "taken,"  how  can  the  patient 
recover? 

Notice  of  program  changes,  suc- 
cess ideas  from  all  over  the  Church, 
announcements  of  new  or  revised  sup- 
plies are  published  each  week  on  the 


Presiding  Bishopric's  page  in  the 
"Church  Section"  of  The  Deseret 
News,  and  each  month  on  the  Pre- 
siding Bishopric's  page  of  The  Im- 
provement Era.  Every  stake  and 
ward  in  the  Church  could  keep  up-to- 
date  on  every  feature  of  these  three 
programs  if  committees  on  both  levels 
would  follow  the  order  of  business  for 
their  respective  meetings  which  sug- 
gests full  consideration  of  all  such 
information. 

Thus  items  and  procedures  in  hand- 
books due  for  revision  would  be  im- 
mediately recast  if  leaders  would  read, 
study,  and  adopt  the  suggestions  and 
information  currently  appearing  in  the 
above-mentioned  publications. 

Unified  procedure  in  all  three  pro- 
grams suggests  that  each  stake  com- 
mittee consider,  in  its  respective  coun- 
cil meeting,  the  items  in  which  it  is 
interested,  and  determine  what  should 
be  done  in  each  case,  then  go  before 
ward  leaders  prepared  to  set  the  sug- 
gestions in  motion. 

We  cannot  overemphasize  this  mat- 
ter. We  are  depending  upon  stake 
and  ward  leaders  to  follow  through 
on  these  suggestions. 


Leaders— Adult  Members 

Tuning  the  Soul  for 
the  Master's  Touch 

TPhe  soul  of  man  is  the  greatest 
instrument  in  the  world.  It  is 
capable  of  producing  the  sweetest 
music,  the  richest  and  loveliest  chords. 
It  is  more  sensitive  than  the  finest 
Stradivarius.  When  properly  at- 
tuned, it  becomes  the  instrument  of 
the  Master  and  when  He  plays  upon 
it,  the  harmonies  are  so  divinely  sweet 
and  tender  that  the  hosts  of  heaven 
stop  to  listen.  The  same  instrument 
in  the  hands  of  the  enemy  of  right- 
eousness produces  terrifying  results 
and  fearful  discords. 

The  objective  of  the  program  for 
the  adult  members  of  the  Aaronic 
Priesthood  is  to  lift  the  human  soul 
from  him  who  delights  in  discord  and 
prepare  it  for  the  Master's  touch.  It 
is  the  duty  of  those  who  work  with 
adult  members  to  consider  each  soul, 
each  fine  instrument,  to  brush  from 
it  the  dust  of  despair  and  procrastina- 
tion;   to    take    away    the    strings    of 


Think  it  Over 

If    you     would    lead 
Be  the  kind  of  leader  yo 

boys- — 
u  loved 

when  you  were  a 

boy. 

-L.   A.   P. 

doubt,  fear,  envy,  and  jealousy  with 
their  resultant  discords  and  replace 
them  with  those  of  faith,  hope,  hu- 
mility, and  love;  to  adjust  the  tuning 
keys  of  prayer,  service,  and  diligence, 
that  the  soul  may  be  in  perfect  at- 
tunement  and  then  to  put  it  in  the 
hands  of  the  Savior,  its  rightful 
owner. 

When  the  soul  of  man  is  in  tune, 
the  Master's  touch  produces  magic 
strains  of  divine  music  which  lifts 
it  and  guides  it  upward  to  exaltation 
in  the  kingdom  of  God. 

There  are  many  noble  instruments 
awaiting  the  loving  service  of  you 
who  are  advisers  to  the  adult  members 
of  the  Aaronic  Priesthood.  You  are 
the  master  tuners.  Great  souls  await 
your  loving  ministrations  that  the 
Master  may  play  upon  them  the  beauti- 
ful harmonies  of  life. 

THE   IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


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Adult  Leaders 

Vision,  Purpose,  Objectives 
Essential  to  Success 

T/'now  where  you  are  going  and  then 
go  there.  A  man  who  doesn't  set 
his  course,  like  a  ship  that  has  no 
destination,  is  liable  to  end  upon  the 
reefs.  People  are  not  generally  im- 
pressed or  moved  to  action  by  the 
meanderer  whose  course  is  altered  by 
every  gentle  breeze,  who  sets  out  to 
ski  at  Sun  Valley  and  somehow  ends 
up  picking  oranges  in  Florida. 

The  purpose  of  any  interview  or 
speech  is  to  get  a  desired  reaction  or 
reactions  from  the  listener  or  the  one 
interviewed.  Generally,  the  purposes 
of  speech  are  to  inform,  impress,  con- 
vince, persuade,  or  entertain.  The 
group  adviser  should  have  in  mind 
what  he  wants  to  accomplish  over  a 
long  period  of  time  and  what  he  wants 
to  accomplish  with  the  specific  visit, 
and  plan  the  interview  or  the  les- 
son accordingly.  He  should  decide 
which  purpose  or  combination  of 
purposes  should  be  aimed  at,  and 
plan  his  presentation  to  get  the  desired 
reaction. 

Having  the  goal  in  mind  is  not  the 
only  important  thing.  The  power,  the 
force,  the  determination  to  reach  it 
are  just  as  essential.  It  is  just  as  profit- 
less to  aim  carefully  and  try  to  shoot 
with  an  empty  gun  as  to  shoot  aim- 
lessly with  force  at  the  side  of  a  moun- 
tain. 

Group  advisers,  don't  let  your  inter- 
views be  aimless,  haphazard  conversa- 
tions, but  plan  your  work  and  work 
your  plan.  Get  worthy  objectives  in 
mind  in  making  your  contacts  with 
adult  members  of  the  Aaronic  Priest- 
hood and  then  give  the  firing  force 
and  power  necessary  to  penetrate  the 
shells  of  indifference  and  lethargy,  and 
lift  the  souls  of  those  with  whom  you 
work. 


A  CHALLENGING  TEACHERS  QUORUM  RECORD 


TEACHERS    QUORUM,    DOUGLAS    WARD,    BONNEVILLE    STAKE 

It's  something  to  be  proud  of  when  fifteen  out  of  sixteen  teachers  qualify   tor  the   Aaronic   Priesthood 

Individual  Certificate  of  Award:  The  sixteenth  member  came  into  the  quorum  too  late  in  the  year 
(1950)   to  make  it  a  perfect  individual  award  record. 

Robert   C.    Dean    is    president    of    the    quorum    with    Carl    P.    Worlsey  and    Stanley    T.    Hammond    as 

counselors.  Ralph  Lee  and  Joseph  S.  Savage  are  the  energetic  and  faithful  quorum   advisers. 

From  this  group  of  young  men  came  the  Explorer  basketball  team  which  won  the  desirable  All- 
Church  Sportsmanship  Trophy  for  1950. 


SMITHFIELD   STAKE   PRESIDENCY   RECOGNIZES    PERFECT  ATTENDANCE  AT  PRIESTHOOD  MEETING 

Thirty-seven  bearers 
of  the  Aaronic  Priest- 
hood from  the  Smith- 
field  Stake  were  re- 
cently recognized  and 
honored  by  Stake  Presi- 
dent George  L.  Rees 
and  his  counselors, 
Stanley  F.  Griffin  and 
Morris  L.  Hansen,  tor 
having  maintained  a 
perfect  attendance  at 
priesthood  meeting  dur- 
ing the  year   1950. 

The  stake  presidency 
inaugurated  the  pro- 
gram in  January  1950, 
and  thirty-seven  per- 
fect attendance  records 
was  the  result. 

Seven  boys  were  ab- 
sent when  the  picture 
was   taken. 

Here  is  more  proof 
that  "it  can  be  done" 
when  leaders  lead. 


INGLEWOOD   STAKE   ENTERTAINS 

ADULT  MEMBERS  OF  AARONIC 

PRIESTHOOD 

One  hundred  and  fifty  adult  members  of  the 
Aaronic  Priesthood  (below)  were  recent  guests 
of  the  Inglewood  (California)  Stake  committee  in 
a  social  which  still  calls  up  special  memories  of 
the  lovely  evening  of  fellowship  and  entertain- 
ment. 

The  program  consisted  of  the  showing  of 
films  depicting  the  trek  of  the  Mormon  pioneers 
across  the  plains  in  1847  and  highlights  of  the 
7950  football  classic  of  the  Los  Angeles  Rams, 
addresses  by  members  of  the  stake  committee, 
duet  by  Bishop  and  Mrs.  Fay  X.  Bybee  (right), 
Centinela  Ward,  and  the  ever  popular  refresh- 
ments. 

Another  worthy  example  that  "It  can  be  done" 
when   leaders   lead. 


JULY  1951 


527 


"MYP/US/" 

White  SterTtiia 

mano    • 

ana 
ajar  ofmayo/matse/ 


With  a  jar  of  mayonnaise 
and  several  cans  of  White  Star 
Brand  tuna  in  the  cupboard  ...  a 
gal's  ready  for  scores  of  delicious 
mealtime  salads,  lunch -time 
sandwiches  or  jiffytime  party 
"whip-ups."  White  Star  Brand  is 
the  tuna  high  in  body- building 
protein,  rich  in  fluorine  and  other 
vital  food  elements.  "Bite  Size" 
(Green  Label)  tuna  is  ideal  for 
many  recipes.  For  solid  pack  style, 
get  White  Star  Brand  (Blue 
Label)  tuna. 

CoronadoTuna  Salad  Bowl 

2  cans  White  Star  Brand  Tuna 
3  tablespoons  lemon  juice     Vh  teaspoons  salt 
V»  teaspoon  pepper  Dash  Tabasco  Sauce 

1  cup  of  sliced  celery  3  or  4  ripe  tomatoes 

Vi  cup  mayonnaise  Salad  Greens 

Marinate  tuna  in  lemon  juice  and  seasonings. 
Arrange  tuna,  celery,  tomatoes  which  have 
been  quartered,  and  mayonnaise  on  a  bed  of 
salad  greens  in  a  salad  bowl.  Before  serving, 
toss  all  ingredients  together  lightly.  Garnish 
as  desired.  Serves  6  or  more  . 


VAN  CAMP  SEA  FOOD  COMPANY,  INC. 
Terminal  Island,  California 


^Jsfou/  fv/vick    l/i/e  (Lxpect 
of  WlotLi* 


RICHARD  L  EVANS 


Tt  is  amazing  how  much  we  expect  of  mothers,  and  how 
much  they  are  of  all  that  we  expect.  There  is  no 
career  so  demanding,  no  profession  so  filled  with  diverse 
duties.  First  of  all  they  offer  themselves  as  sacrifice  to 
bring  us  into  the  world.  We  expect  them  then  to  nurse 
and  nurture  us,  to  be  our  first  teacher,  to  tell  us  of  life 
and  of  its  moral  and  spiritual  and  material  truths.  We 
expect  them  to  clothe  and  feed  us,  to  guide  us  and  guard 
us,  to  listen  to  our  long  stories,  to  cherish  our  hopes,  to 
keep  our  confidences,  to  fall  in  with  our  moods,  to  take  on 
our  troubles,  to  understand  our  sorrows;  to  be  the  buffers 
between  us  and  our  misunderstandings  with  others;  to 
be  the  restrainers  of  our  over-enthusiasm,  and  the  en- 
couragers  of  our  days  of  despondency,  and  to  have  the 
answer  to  all  our  problems.  We  expect  them  to  beautify 
our  homes,  to  welcome  our  friends,  to  be  the  gracious 
hostess,  the  lovely  lady,  to  be  cateress  and  shopping  con- 
sultant, to  know  the  price  and  the  value  of  almost  every- 
thing— and  to  be  all  this  and  to  do  all  this  on  a  limited 
allowance.  We  expect  them  to  be  young  and  modern,  yet 
wise  with  the  wisdom  of  age;  to  set  before  us  an  example 
of  virtue  and  patience  and  high  qualities  of  character, 
and  to  live  a  life  of  unselfish  service;  to  be  doctor  and 
nurse,  the  seamstress  and  the  servant  in  the  house;  to  do 
the  menial  and  manual  things  and  yet  stay  lovely  and 
alert — to  do  all  this  with  their  hands  and  with  all  their 
hearts.  All  this  and  much  more  unmentioned  we  expect  of 
mothers.  Sometimes  we  take  them  for  granted  in  the 
years  of  our  youth.  It  seems  that  they  have  always  been 
there,  and  we  assume  sometimes  that  they  always  will 
be.  But  for  most  of  us,  before  we  have  lived  through 
life,  we  see  still  hands  that  once  were  seldom  still  and 
listen  for  sounds  that  are  silenced,  for  sounds  that  once 
softened  every  pain,  and  for  songs  that  once  were  sweetly 
sung.  And  then  there  grows  upon  us  an  awareness  of 
how  much  we  have  expected  of  mothers.  Some,  for- 
tunately, have  mothers  with  them  yet,  to  show  them  love 
and  appreciation  in  the  present.  But  some  of  us  must 
now  remember  "the  still  sweet  fall  of  music  far  away" — 
with  faith  that  there  shall  come  a  time  when  we  can  see 
and  say  to  them  once  more  what  we  have  been  holding 
in  our  hearts. 


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A  GARDEN  spider  wove  a  web  of  dainty 
filigree; 
It  was  a  lacy  ladder,  from  rose  to 
Crabapple  tree. 


528 


All  day  he  spun  it  back  and  forth — 
While  the  sun  made  golden  fire. 
His  was  incredible  craftsmanship, 
And  he  built  from  his  hearts  desire. 

THE  IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


Brigham  Young  and  the 
Transcontinental  Telegraph  Line 

(Concluded  from  page  511) 
The  high  cost  of  telegraphic  serv- 
ice prohibited  its  widespread  use  for 
commercial  purposes  at  first.  A 
ten-word  message  from  Salt  Lake 
City  to  New  York  City  cost  $10.00 
during  the  first  week  of  operation, 
$7.50  for  the  next  year  or  two,  and 
$6.75  until  1869,  after  which  the 
prevailing  rate  was  $5.50.  The 
charge  had  declined  to  $1.50  by 
1880.14 

The  contributions  of  the  Church 
and  its  members  to  the  telegraph 
industry  did  not  end  with  the  con- 
struction of  the  transcontinental 
line.  On  the  very  day  communica- 
tion was  opened  between  Salt  Lake 
City  and  the  East,  Brigham  Young 
and  the  Church  leadership  were 
planning  the  construction  of  a 
north-south  territorial  line  connect- 
ing all  settlements,  which  was  to 
run  more  than  a  thousand  miles. 
This  line  became  the  Deseret  State 
Telegraph.  It  was  a  Church- 
sponsored  cooperative  project  in 
which  thousands  of  "temporal  mis- 
sionaries" played  an  important  part 
in  its  creation  and  operation.  It 
remained  in  the  hands  of  the  Saints 
until  February  1900  when  it  was 
sold  to  Western  Union. 


"Bancroft,  Hubert  Howe,  History  of  Utah,  1540- 
1886.  San  Francisco:  The  History  Company,  Pub- 
lishers, 1889,  p.  771.  Also  Neff,  op.  eft.,  p.  730; 
Thompson,  op.  cit.,  p.  369;  Deseret  News,  28  Sept. 
1869. 


Evidences  and  Reconciliations 

{ Continued  from  page  495 ) 

7.  Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan,  first 
President  of  Stanford  University, 
educator,    author,    and    naturalist:8 

"None  of  the  created  'new  spe- 
cies' of  plant  or  animal  I  know  of 
would  last  five  years  in  the  open; 
nor  is  there  the  slightest  evidence 
that  any  'new  species'  of  field  or 
forest  or  ocean,  ever  originated 
from  mutation,  discontinuous  varia- 
tion or  hybridization." 

8.  Sir  Ambrose  Fleming,  inter- 
nationally famous  physicist,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Philosophical  Society 
of  Great  Britain:9 

"Note    certain    qualities    in    the 

human    species,    not    the    smallest 

trace  of  which  appears  in  the  animal 

(Continued  on  page  530) 

8David    Starr    Jordan,    Science,    October    22,    1922, 
p.   -H8. 

>  9Sir     Ambrose     Fleming,     Evolution     or     Creation? 
London,    p.    75. 

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Evidences  and  Reconciliations 

(Continued  from  page  529) 
species.  Thus,  no  animal  has  ever 
made  any  weapon  or  tool  to  help 
its  bodily  endowments.  It  fights 
with  teeth  and  claws,  horns,  tusks, 
or  hoofs.  But  it  makes  no  military 
weapon  of  any  kind.  Nor  has  any 
animal  made  a  tool — spade,  rake, 
knife,  hatchet,  axe,  or  saw.  No 
animal  makes  itself  any  artificial 
dress,  hat,  or  coat,  shoes,  or  orna- 
ment to  improve  its  appearance;  nor 
does  it  dress  or  arrange  the  hair 
on  its  head.  But  all  of  the  very 
earliest  humans  do  these  things. 
No  animal  had  discovered  how  to 
produce  fire  or  even  to  maintain 
it.  .  .  .  The  animal  mind  or  intel- 
lect is  static  or  limited.  It  never 
progresses  beyond  a  certain  point. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  human  mind 
is  extremely  progressive,  self-edu- 
cative, and  assimilative.  Uncul- 
tured races  of  men  brought  into 
contact  with  more  advanced  races, 
quickly  adopt  their  achievements, 
customs,  modes  of  thought,  and 
habits.  ,  .  .  Animals  have  not  de- 
veloped the  powers  of  speech  or 
rational  thought." 

9.  T.  H.  Morgan,  zoologist,  edu- 
cator, and  a  member  of  the  Nation- 
al Academy  of  Sciences,  and  nu- 
merous other  organizations:10 

"It  seems  to  me  that  the  idea  that 
ancestral  stages  have  been  pushed 
back  into  the  embryo,  and  that  the 
embryo  recapitulates  in  part  these 
ancestral  adult  stages,  is,  in  princi- 
ple, false." 

10.  Dr.  Karl  Vogt,  of  Geneva, 
German  zoologist;  associated  with 
Agassiz  in  preparation  of  his  work 
on  fishes:11 

"This  law  which  I  long  held  as 
well-founded,  is  absolutely  and 
radically  false." 

11.  Professor  Adam  Sedgwick, 
eminent  embryologist  of  England:15 

"After  fifty  years  of  research  and 

close     examination     of     the     facts 

of    embryology,    the    recapitulation 

theory  is   still  without   satisfactory 

. 

12.  Sir  Arthur  Keith,  President, 
Royal    Anthropological    Institute:13 

"Now  that  the  appearance  of  the 
human  embryo  at  all  stages  is 
known,  the  general  feeling  is  one  of 

1UT.  H.  Morgan,  Evolution  and  Adaptation, 
p.    83. 

^Arthur    I.     Brown,    op.    cit.,    p.     17. 

12Adam  Sedgwick,  Darwinism  and  Modern  Science, 
p.    174. 

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disappointment;  the  human  embryo 
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pearance." 

13.  Herbert  Spencer,  philos- 
opher:14 

"The  facts  of  paleontology  can 
never  suffice  either  to  prove  or 
disprove  the  developmental  hypoth- 
esis." 

14.  Professor  L.  T.  More,  al- 
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win:15 

"The  belief  in  natural  selection 
must  at  present  be  grounded  en- 
tirely on  general  considerations. 
When  we  descend  to  details,  we 
can  prove  that  no  species  has 
changed:  nor  can  we  prove  that 
supposed  changes  are  beneficial, 
which  is  the  groundwork  of  the 
theory." 

In  his  Origin  of  Species,15  Darwin 
wrote: 

"Geology  assuredly  does  not  re- 
veal any  such  finely  graduated 
organic  chain;  and  this,  perhaps,  is 
the  most  obvious  and  serious  ob- 
jection which  can  be  urged  against 
the    theory    of    natural    selection." 

15.  William  Bateson,  English 
zoologist:115 

"So  we  went  on  talking  about 
evolution.  That  is  barely  forty 
years  ago;  today  we  feel  silence  to 
be  the  safer  course.  .  .  .  Discussion 
of  evolution  came  to  an  end  be- 
cause it  was  obvious  that  no  prog- 
ress was  being  made.  .  .  . 

16.  Dr.  J.  A.  Thompson,  scien- 
tist, educator,  and  author:17 

"We  are  more  keenly  aware  than 
in  Darwin's  day  of  our  ignorance 
as  to  the  origin  and  affiliation  of  the 
greater  classes.  ..." 

Clearly  the  theory  of  evolution 
has  added  nothing  to  our  under- 
standing of  the  beginning  of  things. 
The  ancient  view  that  God  is  the 
Creator  of  all  things  is  still  the 
best,  because  it  is  true. 


"Herbert  Spencer,  Illustrations  of  Universal 
Progress,    p.    376. 

15Major  E.  C.  Wren,  Evolution  Fact  or  Fiction? 
London,     pp.    93-94. 

™Ibid.',   pp.   91-92. 

"Ibid.,    p.    89. 


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["OBBIES  are  so  expensive!" 
said  a  friend  of  mine. 
"Either  the  cost  of  materials 
is  too  high  or  books  and  courses 
for  training  take  more  time  and 
money  than  I  can  afford." 

But  her  best  chance  for  a  hobby 
was  growing  right  under  her  eyes, 
if  she  had  realized  it.  The  owner 
of  a  greenhouse  had  given  her  a 
plant  which  was  considered  diffi- 
cult to  raise,  and  here  it  was,  bloom- 
ing on  her  window  sill.  Here  was 
her  opportunity  for  an  exciting  and 
inexpensive  hobby  of  almost  un- 
limited uses.  This  woman  was  the 
kind  who  could  tuck  a  little  shriv- 
eled stick  into  a  bottle  of  water,  and 
after  she  gave  it  a  few  tender  pats 
and  a  daily  word  of  encouragement, 
the  twig  would  perk  up  its  little 
head  and  grow.  It  was  so  easy 
for  her  to  grow  plants  that  she 
overlooked  the  possibilities  of  this 
real  talent.  By  talking  to  friends 
and  greenhouse  attendants  con- 
cerning plant  problems  she  might 
have  built  a  worthwhile  hobby  of 
first   aid   to    ailing    plants. 

The  problem  of  an  inexpensive 
hobby  was  tackled  in  a  successful 
way  by  a  woman  who  wished  to 
study  something  about  house  plans 
and  interior  decoration  but  found 
books  and  training  on  the  subject 
would  exceed  her  slender  budget. 
Rather  than  give  up,  she  put  her 
mind  to  the  problem  and  began  to 
make  a  self-help  library  by  sending 
for  government  pamphlets  and  bul- 
letins available  free  or  for  a  small 
cost.  Also  she  watched  the  maga- 
zines for  articles  pertaining  to  build- 
ing and  decorating  and  filed  these 
away  by  subjects  in  folders.  Ad- 
vertisements often  offered  free , 
booklets  and  advice  on  her  hobby, 
and  she  took  advantage  of  many  of 
them.  Before  long  she  was  taking 
her  own  course  on  interior  decora- 
tion and  trying  out  many  of  the 
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friends  in  practical  ways. 

Hobbies  are  fun  if  built  upon 
simple  materials  at  hand.  Simple 
materials  like  shells  and  stones, 
seeds  and  sticks  have  been  mixed 
with  ideas  and  ingenuity  with  sur- 
prisingly successful  results.  In  a 
seaside  town,  a  young  woman  col- 
lected shells  of  various  kinds  and 
sizes  and  began  to  make  little 
scenes  with  them  for  table  and 
mantel  ornaments.  The  trunks  of 
trees  and  stems  of  tiny  shell  flowers 
were  made   from  white  or  colored 


pipe  cleaners.  The  base  of  a  tree 
was  a  large  shell,  and  on  it  stood 
tiny  figures  of  animals  and  people 
made  from  other  shells.  Bits  of 
cardboard  were  added  for  heads 
or  tails,  with  features  painted  on 
for  faces.  Miniature  airplanes  also 
were  made  entirely  from  different 
sizes  of  shells.  Her  unique  and 
funny  scenes  and  figures  attracted 
such  attention  her  hobby  became  a 
business. 

A  different  way  of  using  shells 
was  found  by  another  girl  who 
liked  to  take  camera  pictures.  She 
began  specializing  on  still  life  pic- 
tures, but  grew  tired  of  using  ordi- 
nary things.  One  day  she  was  ad- 
miring a  large  shell,  and  the  idea 
came  to  her  that  a,  picture  of  it 
enlarged  would  be  beautiful.  She 
began  to  study  how  to  make  close- 


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Later  her  unusual  pictures  became 
noted,  and  she  found  her  hobby 
held  unlimited  satisfaction  for  her. 

The  daily  newspaper  may  be  the 
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very  small  cost.  How  many  people 
know  anything  about  the  hundreds 
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cities,  states,  and  nations?  An  ex- 
change of  these  dailies  or  weeklies 
might  enlarge  anyone's  contacts 
and  interests.  A  visit  to  the  news- 
paper room  of  a  public  library 
would  give  addresses  of  publishers, 
and  a  few  cents  would  be  the  only 
cost  for  an  unusual  home  library 
covering  hundreds  of  places. 

An  amusing  hobby  was  built  up 
by  one  person  who  watched  maga- 
zines and  papers  in  a  public  library, 
reading  through  them  to  find 
"breaks"  or  mistakes  that  occur  in 
print  and  make  ridiculous  or  funny 
reading.  Eventually  she  not  only 
had  a  scrapbook  full  of  these  which 
she  had  copied  down,  and  always 
had  a  joke  to  tell,  but  she  also  found 
a  market  for  some  of  these  humor- 
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The  common  pot  holder  found 
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holders  were  lovely  patterns  of 
crocheting,  patchwork,  sewing,  em- 
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and  a  much  prized  one  was  an  heir- 
loom from  a  great-great-grand- 
mother. It  was  made  of  tiny 
scraps  of  silk  and  satin,  feather- 
stitched  together  and  bound  with 
ribbon.  Eventually  this  hobbyist 
had  a  collection  of  over  a  hundred 
pot  holders,  all  numbered,  with  a 
corresponding  number  in  a  note- 
book and  a  brief  note  about  their 
associations.  This  inexpensive  hob- 
by led  to  many  interesting  contacts 
and  letters,  even  to  a  new  trail 
across  the  ocean. 

When  there  is  the  time  and  in- 
clination for  a  hobby,  don't  look  in 
your  pocketbook  but  look  into  your 
mind.  It  is  more  fun  to  use  common 
things  in  uncommon  ways,  or  to 
take  little  journeys  around  the  yard, 
dig  into  a  junk  pile,  or  experiment 
with  using  pins,  paints,  pictures,  or 
pans  in  clever  combinations.  These 
simple  hobbies  often  bring  interest- 
ing adventures,  and  enlarge  one's 
world. 


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Bookrack 

TO  PROSPECTIVE  MOTHERS 

(William  E.  Hunter,  M.  D.,  and 
Bernard  H.  Smith,  M.  D.,  Bruce 
Humphries,  Inc.,  Boston.  1950.  $2.50.) 

'"The  physicians  who  wrote  this 
book  believe  that  women  who  are 
given  a  proper  understanding  of  the 
physiology  of  pregnancy  and  childbirth 
are  much  more  capable  of  approach- 
ing the  experience  without  fear  than 
those  whose  understanding  is  limited 
or  vague.  With  this  in  mind,  they 
have  prepared  a  complete  and  practi- 
cal handbook  on  pregnancy,  discussing 
the  development  of  the  fetus  from 
conception  through  childbirth.  They 
discuss  mental  as  well  as  physical 
reactions  of  the  prospective  mother 
and  offer  professional  advice  on  these 
matters  and  on  personal  hygiene  and 
diet.  Their  work  is  complete  with  a 
discussion  of  post-natal  care  of  mother 
and  baby  and  the  characteristics  of  a 
healthy  baby. — B.  S, 
JULY  1951 


533 


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everyone  is  that  little  touch  of 
"TANG".  .  .  whether  on  cold 
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Summer  Menus 


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r  is  estimated  that  the  average 
person  requires  between  sixty 
and  seventy  grams  of  protein 
a  day,  or,  to  be  specific,  one  gram 
for  every  2.2  pounds  of  body 
weight.  These  menus  for  summer 
are  compiled  to  be  adequate  in 
protein  without  meat  by  the  gener- 
ous inclusion  of  milk,  eggs,  cheese, 
peas,  beans,  and  nuts.  Those  who 
wish  to  include  meat  will  likely 
make  substitutions  for  some  of  these 
foods. 

The  menus  are  given  without 
regard  to  calorie  (energy)  needs; 
increased  servings,  additional  but- 
ter, and  perhaps  some  sweets  will 
need  to  be  added  for  many  people. 
The  menus  are  intended  only  as  an 
indication,  not  a  rule. 

Protein  intake  in  summer  meals 
may  be  increased,  if  desired,  with- 
out adding  meat.  One  way  of  do- 
ing this  would  be  to  add  powdered 
milk  to  many  baked  dishes,  soups, 
and  sauces.  Powdered  soybean 
milk,  where  available,  is  also  an 
excellent  protein  and  may  be  used 
to  make  delicious  drinks  or  added  to 
baked  goods.  Brewer's  yeast  fur- 
nishes three  grams  of  protein  in  a 
tablespoon,  (as  well  as  being  an  ex- 
cellent source  of  B  vitamins)  and 
may  also  be  used  as  a  supplement 
in  food  preparations;  however,  it 
has  a  distinctive  flavor  and  cannot 
be  used  in  large  amounts.  Generous 
use  of  fresh  fruit,  greens,  whole 
grains,  legumes  (and  using  raisins, 
prunes,  molasses,  etc.,  in  place  of 
white  sugar)  will  insure  adequate 
iron. 

( Abbreviations :  T. — tablespoon; 
t. — teaspoon;  c. — cup;  02. — ounce; 
si. — slice;  half  &  half — half  milk, 
half  cream. ) 


MONDAY 


Breakfast: 

fresh   grapefruit  juice 
whole   grain  waffles 
butter 

brown-or  raw-sugar,1* 
syrup,  or  honey 

egg 

milk  or   milk  Postum 


Ami. 
8  oz. 
2 
1  T. 


1 
8  oz. 


Grams 
Protein 
1.2 
14 
.1 

0. 
6.1 

8.5 


29.9 


Lunch: 

toasted    cheese    sand- 
wich   on    whole 
wheat 
cheese 
bread 
green  pepper  wedge 
fresh  fruit  cup 

(apple,     banana, 
orange) 
milk,    buttermilk,    yo- 
gurt2 


1"  cube 

2  si. 


1   c. 
8  oz. 


TOTAL  DAILY  PROTEIN 


'Numbers     refer     to     footnotes     at     end     of     article. 


TUESDAY 

'Breakfast:  Ami. 
fresh   orange   juice  8  oz. 

cracked  wheat  %  c. 
raisins  2  T. 

half  &  half  V2  c. 
toast,    whole    wheat  1   si. 

butter  1  t. 

milk  8  oz. 


Lunch: 

salad:  avocado  Y  pear) 

tomato  3^2  ) 

cheese  2  T.  ) 
watercress 

French  dressing  3  T. 

rye  krisp — butter  2  si. 

milk  8  oz. 

prune   whip  Y  c. 

Dinner: 

cream  tomato  soup  Yi  c. 

egg  omelet  1   egg 

peas,   fresh   green  Yl  c. 

carrots  Y  c. 


7.1 

4.2 

.3 


1.4 
8.5 


21.5 

Dinner: 

green  lettuce-parsley- 

tomato   salad    (half 

tomato) 

.8 

lemon  juice-vegetable 

oil   dressing 

3  T. 

.2 

cottage  cheese 

3  T. 

8.1 

potato  in  jacket 

1 

2.4 

green  beans,  creamed 

Y  c 

4.4 

cauliflower 

M  c 

1.4 

fresh  peaches 

y%  c 

.4 

cream 

34  c. 

1.6 

19.3 

70.7 


Grams 
Protein 
2.0 
4.4 
.4 
3.9 
2.1 
0. 
8.5 

21.3 


7.4 


.3 
1.6 
8.5 
1.9 

19.7 

4.1 

6.8 

3.9 

.3 


534 


THE   IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


coleslaw  with 

almonds 
pumpkin  pie 


v2  c. 
1  T. 


4"  wedge 


TOTAL  DAILY  PROTEIN 

WEDNESDAY 
Breakfast: 

tomato  juice  %  c. 
shredded    wheat    bis- 
cuit 1 
half  &  half  y2  c. 
dates,  chopped  J4  c- 
egg,  scrambled  1 
toast,  whole  wheat  1   si. 
butter  1   t. 
milk  8  oz. 


Lunch: 

fruit  salad:  apricots  3 

banana  Yz 

pineapple         1   si. 
romaine 
peanut    butter    sand- 
wich 

peanut  butter  \y2  T. 

w.   w.   bread  2  si. 

milk  8  oz. 


Dinner: 

salad:     l/2    tomato,    3 

slices    cucumber,    3 

small  green  onions, 

1  leaf  lettuce 
sour  cream  dressing 
corn   on   cob 
turnip      greens       (or 

other) 
sweet    potatoes 
cheese,    cheddar 
strawberries 
oatmeal   cookie 


T. 


/2  c. 

1 

1"  cube 
Yi  c 


TOTAL  DAILY  PROTEIN 

THURSDAY 

Breakfast:  Ami. 

grapefruit  Yi 

brown  rice  with  %  c- 

wheat  germ  1  T. 

chopped  figs  3 

half  &  half  y2  c. 

toast,  whole  wheat  1  si. 

pear  y2 

milk  8  oz. 


Lunch: 

tomato-egg    salad   on 

watercress:   tomato  1 

egg  l 

mayonnaise,       home- 
made 1  T. 
toast,  whole  wheat  1   si. 
stewed  plums  3 
oatmeal   cookie  1 
milk  8  oz. 

Dinner: 
pineapple-cottage 

cheese-lettuce 

salad:   pineapple  1   si. 

cheese  3  T. 

JULY  1951 


.8 

lima  beans 

He. 

1.6 

summer   squash 

Yt  c. 

5.5 

broccoli 

fresh  fruit-nut  dessert: 

Yi  c 

23.0 

raspberries 

Yi  c 

64.0 

dates,    chopped 

1  T 

Brazil  nuts 

3 

cream 

3  T 

1.6 

2.9 
3.9 
.9 
6.1 
2.1 
0. 
8.5 

26.0 


1.1 
.6 
.5 

0.3 


6.3 

4.2 
8.5 

III 


1.7 

.6 
2.7 

2.1 
2.6 
7.1 
.6 
2.3 

T97" 

67.2 


Grams 

Protein 

.9 

3.0 

1.0 

2.4 

3.9 

2.1 

.5 

8.5 


22.3 


1.5 
6.1 

.8 
2.1 
1.2 
2.3 
8.5 

22.5 


.5 

8.2 


TOTAL  DAILY  PROTEIN 


FRIDAY 


Breakfast: 
fresh    peach 
oatmeal 
raisins 
half  &  half 
French   toast: 

bread 

egg 

milk 
milk 


Lunch: 

cream  asparagus  soup 

powdered  milk  added 

crackers,  w.  w. 

carrot  sticks    ( Y2  car- 
rot) 

peanut  and  pear  salad 
on   green   lettuce: 
nuts 
pear 

fruit  dressing 

molasses    cookie 


Dinner: 

vegetable   pie 

kidney  beans 

raw    cauliflower    sec- 
tions 

French    dressing 

fresh  apricots 

banana  milk  shake 
milk 
banana 


Amt. 
1 

Vs  c 
2  T. 

Yi  c 
1   si. 


/2 

2  T. 

8  oz. 


2 


c. 
T. 


2  T. 
1 
2  T. 

1 


c. 
c. 

c. 
T. 


8  oz. 

Yi 


TOTAL  DAILY  PROTEIN 


carrot  juice  (2  car- 
rots, rough  esti- 
mate) 


4.0 
.6 

2.5 

.7 

.2 

2.0 

.9 

19.6 
64.4 


Grams 
Protein 

.5 
3.6 

3.9 

2.1 
3.0 
1.0 
8.5 


23.0 

7.1 

5.4 
1.6 


.5 
.5 

21.3 

4.8 
7.3 

.8 

.2 

1.1 

8.5 
.6 

23.3 

67.6 


SATURDAY 

Grams 

Breakfast: 

Amt. 

Protein 

fresh  blackberries 

Yl  c. 

.8 

cream 

%  c. 

1.6 

pancakes,  w.  w. 

3 

7.5 

butter 

1  T. 

.1 

apple   butter 

Ya  c 

.4 

milk 

8  oz. 

8.5 

18.9 

Lunch: 

split  pea  soup 

1  c. 

6.4 

crackers,  w.  w. 

3 

1.6 

apple-banana-nut 

salad      on      water- 

cress:  apple 

Yi 

.2 

banana 

Yi 

.6 

pecans 

2  T. 

1.4 

fruit  dressing 

2  T. 

.5 

cornmeal  muffins 

2 

7.0 

6  oz.  1.2 

18.9 
{Concluded  on  following  page) 


Delicious 

Sandwich  Filling 

you  make  in 

4  minutes 


The  flavor  lift 
comes  from 
chopped  ripe 
olives! 

Some  morning 
soon  when  you're 
faced  with  a  lunch 
box  or  two  to  fill  —  and  not  much  time — 
try  this  sandwich  idea.  It's  simple  as  can 
be,  and  so  quick  to  fix!  Usually  makes 
a  hit  with  youngsters  and  grown-ups 
alike.  Here's  how  to  make: 

4-Minute  Sandwich  Filling 


1  (3-ounce)  package 
cream  cheese 

1  to  2  tablespoons 
milk  or  cream 


y3  cup  chopped 

ripe  olives 
Dash  Tabasco  sauce 
Salt  to  taste 


Soften  cheese  and  gradually  blend  in 
milk  to  make  spreading  consistency. 
Blend  in  olives  and  seasonings  to  taste. 
Makes  about  1  cup. 

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Did  you  know  you  can  now 

buy  ripe  olives ( 
I       ready 
§       chopped? 


I       Yes,  your  grocer 

I       has    them    this 

I       convenient    way 

I       now.  Chopped  ripe 

I       olives,   ready   to 

use,  come  in  small  cans  that  cost      | 
only  a  few  pennies.  They're  so      | 

I  easy  to  use,  so  versatile,  you'll  | 
probably  want  to  keep  several  | 
cans  on  your  shelf  always.  _ 

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The  Magic  Ingredient 


You  know  how  a 

favorite  seasoning 

or    one    of    your 

very  own  "secret 

ingredients"  often 

makes   the   dish. 

You'll  find  chopped 

ripe  olives  do  that 

very  thing,  too,  for  a  number  of  "basic 

recipes."  You  add  a  sprinkling  of  these 

morsels  and  presto !  —  it's  like  magic ! 

Try  chopped  ripe  olives  with  seafood, 

with  meats,  and  with  cheese  and  egg 

dishes;    add  them  to  meat  loaves  and 

to   spaghetti   sauces   and  to   Mexican 

dishes.  And  of  course,  to  appetizers ! 


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and  whole  — send  for  "Elegant 
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nia Ripe  Olives."  It's  full  of 
practical  ideas  and  it's  free. 
Write  Olive  Advisory  Board, 
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Francisco  5,  California. 


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Dinner: 

Welsh       rabbit       on 

toast : 

sauce 

Yi 

c. 

8.2 

toast 

l 

si. 

2.1 

beet  greens 

Yi 

c. 

1.4 

baked   potato 

l 

med. 

2.4 

carrot-raisin    salad 

Yi 

c. 

.6 

lemon-honey  dressing 

3  T. 

.2 

custard 

Yi 

c. 

6.5 

powdered  milk  added 

2 

T. 

5.4 

26.8 

TOTAL  DAILY  PROTEIN 

64.6 

SUNDAY 

Grams 

Breakfast: 

Amt. 

Protein 

pineapple  juice 

8 

oz. 

.7 

yellow   corn   meal 

Vi 

c. 

1.3 

half  and  half 

H 

c. 

2.6 

toast,  whole  wheat 

i 

si. 

2.1 

milk 

8 

oz. 

8.5 

egg,   soft-boiled 

1 

6.1 

21.3 

Lunch: 

lettuce-tomato   sand- 

wich 

1 

5.2 

milk 

8 

oz. 

8.5 

banana-nut  salad: 

banana 

Yt 

.6 

nuts 

2  T. 

2.2 

lettuce 

1 

leaf 

.3 

mayonnaise 

1 

T. 

.8 

17.6 

Dinner: 

nut  roast,*  small  serv. 

10.0 

cream  sauce 

M 

c. 

2.6 

steamed  collards 

Vi 

c. 

3.7 

potato  cakes   ( 1  med. 

potato ) 

2.8 

grapefruit-avocado- 

date    salad   on   en- 

dive: 

grapefruit 

Y 

.45 

avocado 

Ya 

c. 

.6 

dates 

l 

T. 

.2 

bran  muffin 

l 

4.5 

raspberry   whip: 

berries 

34 

c. 

.4 

egg  white 

K 

.8 

cream 

2  T. 

.3 

whole  wheat  cake   (1 

medium  piece) 

3.5 

29.8 

TOTAL  DAILY  PROTEIN 

68.7 

*nut  roast:   lentils 

H 

c. 

4.6 

filberts 

2  T. 

2.6 

celery 

4  T. 

.3 

egg 

Vk 

1.5 

milk 

2  T. 

1.0 

10.0 

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1When  sugar  is  used  in  very  small  amounts,  there 
is  perhaps  little  advantage,  except  for  flavor,  in 
choosing  the  natural  product.  Dark  sugar  con- 
tains small  amounts  of  calcium,  phosphorus,  and 
iron     not     found     in     white     sugar. 

2The  case  for  yogurt,  a  fermented  milk  product, 
has  yet  to  be  established  in  this  country.  Many 
European  authorities  present  it  as  a  superior  milk 
food  in  maintaining  intestinal  health.  It  will  be 
discussed     in     future     articles. 

THE  IMPROVEMENT  ERA 


THE  TECHNIQUE  OF  A 
WHITE  SAUCE 

Creamed  eggs — creamed  soups — 
cheese  rarebit — vegetable  souf- 
fle— these  are  all  simple  dishes 
to  make,  and  afford  much  opportu- 
nity to  vary  the  menu. 

Here's  how: 

For  a  thin  sauce:  1  tablespoon 
flour,  1  tablespoon  fat,  1  cup  milk, 
34  teaspoon  salt. 

For  a  medium  sauce:  2  table- 
spoons flour,  2  tablespoons  fat,  1 
cup  milk,  34  teaspoon  salt. 

For  a  thick  sauce:  3  tablespoons 
flour,  3  tablespoons  fat,  1  cup  milk, 
34  teaspoon  salt. 

Method  I:  Melt  the  fat  (butter, 
oleomargarine,  or  shortening )  in 
saucepan.     Blend  in  flour  and  salt. 


Add  cold  milk  all  at  once,  place 
over  low  heat  and  stir  till  the  sauce 
thickens.  Lumps  will  disappear  as 
the  milk  gets  hot. 

Method  II:  Mix  the  flour  and 
salt  with  two  or  three  tablespoons 
milk.  Add  this  mixture  to  remainder 
of  milk,  add  fat,  and  cook  over  low 
heat  until  thickened.  Stir  con- 
stantly. 

Cheese  Sauce: 

Add  x/i  CUP  grated  cheese  to  the 
sauce  after  it  is  cooked.  This  is 
most  effectively  done  by  removing 
white  sauce  from  direct  heat  and 
adding  cheese  gradually,  stirring 
constantly.  The  cheese  will  not  go 
stringy  unless  the  sauce  is  too  hot. 
Return  to  heat,  if  necessary,  to  com- 
pletely melt  cheese.  Serve  on 
cauliflower,  broccoli,  or  other  green 
vegetable. 

(Continued  on  following  page) 
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The  Technique  of  a  White  Sauce 

(Continued  from  preceding  page) 

Parsley  Sauce: 

Add  2  or  3  tablespoons  chopped 
parsley  to  white  sauce  after  it  is 
cooked.  Season  with  a  little  onion 
juice,  if  desired.  Pour  over  cooked 
potatoes. 

Cream  Gravy: 

Substitute  meat  drippings  for 
other  fat  used  in  the  white  sauce 
recipe.  Use  method  I,  allowing 
flour  and  fat  mixture  to  brown  be- 
fore adding  milk. 

Tomato  Cream  Sauce: 

Cook  together  1  cup  canned  to- 
matoes, x/2  cup  chopped  celery,  2 
tablespoons  minced  onion,  and  */£ 
teaspoon  salt  for  about  20  minutes. 
Add  gradually  to  white  sauce,  stir- 
ring constantly.  Two  or  three 
slices  chopped,  crisply-fried  bacon 
will  add  flavor. 

Creamed  Soups: 

Pour  1  cup  cooked  vegetable  pulp 
and  juice  into  1  cup  thin  white 
sauce  and  stir  until  blended.  Some 
vegetables  which  make  good 
creamed  soups  are  tomatoes,  car- 
rots, potatoes,  peas,  onions,  celery, 
string   beans,   spinach. 

Vegetable  Souffle: 

1  tablespoon  each  minced  onion, 
chopped  green  pepper,  chopped 
celery 

2  tablespoons  each  melted  fat  and 
flour 

1/2  teaspoon  salt 
%  cup  milk 

3  eggs,    separated 

1   cup  diced,  cooked  vegetables 
34  cup  dry  bread  crumbs 

Brown  the  onion,  green  pepper, 
and  celery  lightly  in  melted  fat. 
Mix  in  the  flour;  add  milk.  Cook 
over  low  heat,  stirring  constantly, 
until  thickened.  Pour  this  mixture 
into  beaten  egg  yolks.  Then  add 
vegetables,  salt,  and  bread  crumbs. 
Beat  egg  whites  until  stiff  and  fold 
into  first  mixture.  Pour  into  an 
oiled  baking  dish  and  bake  in 
medium-slow  oven  (325°  F.)  about 
50  minutes,  or  until  set.  Serve 
with  tomato  sauce  or  white  sauce. 
( For  cheese  souffle,  omit  vegetables 
and  bread  crumbs  and  add  1  cup 
grated  cheese. ) 

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hard-cooked  eggs,  quartered,  % 
teaspoon  salt,  and  1  cup  cooked  or 
canned  fish.     Serve  hot  on  toast. 

Cheese  Rarebit: 

2  cups  medium  white  sauce 
1    tablespoon  minced  onion 
34  teaspoon  dry  mustard 

\]/2   cups  grated  cheese 
1   egg,  beaten 

Add  onion  and  mustard  to  the 
flour  and  fat  mixture  when  making 
the  white  sauce.  When  sauce  is 
thickened,  remove  from  heat  and 
stir  in  cheese,  gradually.  Pour  a 
little  of  sauce  into  the  beaten  egg, 
stir,  then  pour  all  back  into  the 
sauce.  Stir  and  cook  over  low  heat 
2  or  3  minutes,  until  cheese  is 
melted.  Serve  on  toast  or  crackers. 
(Add  two  cups  cooked  kidney 
beans  for  kidney  bean-cheese  rare- 
bit.) 

Egg  and  Potato  Scallop: 

2  cups  medium  white  sauce 

2  tablespoons    minced    parsley    or 

watercress 
6  medium-sized     cooked     potatoes, 

sliced 
4-6  hard-cooked  eggs,   sliced 
1    cup     soft     whole   •  wheat     bread 

crumbs 

Add  parsley  or  watercress  and 
salt  to  thickened  white  sauce.  Place 
alternate  layers  of  potatoes  and 
eggs  in  oiled  baking  dish  and  pour 
white  sauce  over  the  top.  Sprinkle 
with  bread  crumbs.  Bake  in  moder- 
ate oven  (375°  F. )  15  or  20  min- 
utes, or  until  crumbs  are  browned. 
Serves  6. 

Carrot  and  Orange  Souffle: 

1    cup  thick  white  sauce 

4  eggs,  separated 

1    cup    raw     grated    carrot,    firmly 

packed 
1    tablespoon  minced  onion 
1    teaspoon  orange  rind 

Beat  egg  whites  until  stiff. 
Slightly  beat  egg  yolks  and  mix 
with  carrot,  onion,  and  orange  rind. 
Pour  white  sauce  slowly  over  yolk 
mixture,  stirring  constantly.  Fold 
yolk  mixture  into  whites.  Pour  into 
oiled  casserole.  Set  in  pan  of  hot 
water  and  bake  in  moderate  oven 
(350°  F.)  about  45  minutes,  or 
until  set.     Serves  6. 

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The  Church  Moves  on 

{ Concluded  from  page  488 ) 
from  Visalia  Branch,  with  Elder  Louis 
W.  Jones  as  bishop.  Branches  and 
their  presidents  are:  Avenal,  Elder 
Henry  Ihnen;  Coalinga,  Elder  Reed 
J.  Beckstrom;  Dinuba,  Elder  Carlos  O. 
Beckstead;  Exeter,  Elder  Darwin 
Gubler;  Los  Banos,  Elder  Kent  M. 
Crosby;  West  Fresno,  Elder  Fran- 
cisco Carrillo;  Tulare,  Elder  Paul  J. 
Hixon,  and  Hanford,  President  L.  R. 
Parker.  The  stake  has  a  membership 
of  over  2750.  Elders  Harold  B.  Lee 
and  Henry  D.  Moyle  directed  the  or- 
ganization of  the  stake.  There  are 
now  185  stakes  in  the  Church. 

Lawndale  Ward  formed  from  por- 
tions of  Centinella  Ward,  Inglewood 
(California)  Stake,  with  Elder  Wil- 
liam Woodrow  Bullock  as  bishop. 
New  bishop  of  Centinella  Ward  is 
Elder  Bud  A.  Layne.  Both  bishops 
were  counselors  to  the  retiring  bishop 
of  Centinela  Ward,  Fay  X.  Bybee. 


Who  Penned  the  Declaration 
of  Independence? 

(Concluded  from  page  500) 
copy  that  Thomson  had  to  place  in 
the  journals  of  Congress.  He 
fastened  it  in  with  red  sealing  wax. 
At  that  time  it  had  been  signed  only 
by  John  Hancock,  then  President 
of  Congress,  and  countersigned  by 
Thomson,  the  secretary. 

Thomson  knew  that  Matlack  was 
a  penman  of  an  engrossing  hand. 
There  were  not  many  his  equal. 
Washington's  secretary  was  a  fine 
penman,  Richard  Varick  by  name. 
Alexander  Hamilton  wrote  a  finer 
hand  than  any  one  of  them,  but 
there  was  beauty  in  Matlack's  capi- 
tal letters,  and  his  penmanship  was 
clear.  So  Thomson  called  upon 
Matlack  to  copy  the  declaration 
for  signatures.  He  copied  from  the 
broadside  in  the  journal. 

Matlack  made  many  famous  en- 
tries in  the  journal;  one  of  them 
General  Washington's  commission 
to  be  commander-in-chief  of  the 
army.  Authorities  have  compared 
both  documents  and  know  they 
were  written  by  Matlack. 

Matlack  lived  to  be  ninety-nine 
years  of  age.  His  handsome  handi- 
work has  been  admired  from  1776 
to  the  present. 


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( Continued  from  page  501 ) 
explaining  their  mission.  While 
Sister  White  was  talking,  she 
prayed  that  the  Lord  would  direct 
them,  and  while  she  talked  she 
knew  that  Sister  White  must  be 
praying  because  words  flowed  from 
her  mouth  before  she  had  time  to 
think  what  would  come  next.  As 
they  talked,  the  gracious  lady  be- 
came serious,  tears  started  stream- 
ing down  her  face. 


"You  are  an  answer  to  a  prayer," 
she  said.  "I  have  been  praying  that 
I  would  know  which  religion  was 
true,  and  I  believe  that  God  has 
sent  you  to  me." 

A  feeling  of  joy  and  gratitude 
swept  over  Laurie  that  she  had 
never  felt  before.  The  many  re- 
jections that  they  had  had  previous- 
ly were  forgotten,  and  Laurie  knew 
that  from  now  on  she  would  strive 
(Concluded  on  following  page) 


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N  this  question  again  of  personal  integrity,  as  one  of 
the  ancient  philosophers  observed:  "Where  we  wish 
to  judge  of  weights,  we  do  not  judge  at  haphazard;  where 
we  wish  to  judge  what  is  straight  and  what  is  crooked, 
we  do  not  judge  at  haphazard."1  We  use  standards.  And 
if  we  wish  to  judge  honesty,  including  our  own,  we  must 
not  judge  haphazardly.  There  is  a  line  of  demarkation 
between  what  is  and  isn't  honest — and  the  difference 
between  the  two  isn't  merely  a  matter  of  prevailing  prac- 
tice; it  isn't  merely  a  matter  of  what  other  men  do  or 
don't  do.  And  yet  it  seems  we  sometimes  seek  to  justify 
ourselves  in  doing  what  we  know  we  shouldn't  do  on 
the  grounds  that  others  are  doing  what  they  shouldn't  do. 
It  seems  we  sometimes  set  about  to  blind  our  own  eyes 
to  our  own  weaknesses  by  watching  the  weaknesses  of 
others.  In  the  words  of  Thomas  a  Kempis:  "We  often 
do  a  bad  act  and  make  a  worse  excuse."  Example  is 
contagious,  but  if  the  bad  example  of  others  were  to  justify 
us  in  our  own  adverse  actions,  we  could  justify  ourselves 
in  almost  anything  simply  by  selecting  the  example  we 
want  to  watch.  We  could  justify  ourselves  in  lying,  cheat- 
ing, swindling,  betraying,  deceiving,  simply  by  saying  to 
ourselves  that  others  are  doing  as  bad  or  worse,  so  why 
shouldn't  we?  We  can  always  find  a  bad  example  to 
follow  if  we  will.  But  there  are  also  honest  and  honorable 
examples.  And  how  can  we  condone  following  the  wrong 
ones  when  we  could  just  as  well  be  following  the  right 
ones.  The  fact  that  wrong  things  are  being  done  offers 
no  actual  excuse  for  any  of  us.  The  things  we  shouldn't 
do,  we  somehow  know  we  shouldn't  do — and  there  is 
ample  evidence,  from  the  present  and  the  past,  that  it 
doesn't  matter  who,  or  how  many,  engage  in  popular  or 
prevailing  malpractice,  following  a  bad  example  offers  us 
no  peace  or  protection — or  justification.  "Life  is  short, 
and  truth  works  far  and  lives  long:  let  us  speak  the 
truth"2 — and  live  the  truth  and  not  seek  to  justify  our- 
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of  others  who  have  done  things  the  wrong  way. 

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Those  Were  the  Two 
Happiest  Years" 

(Concluded  from  preceding  page) 
diligently    to    serve    her    Heavenly 

Father  to  the  best  of  her  ability, 

for  she  remembered  the  passage  in 

the   Doctrine   and    Covenants    that 

reads: 

And  if  it  so  be  that  you  should  labor 
all  your  days  in  crying  repentance  unto 
this  people,  and  bring,  save  it  be  one  soul 
unto  me,  how  great  shall  be  your  joy  with 
him   in   the   kingdom  of  my   Father! 

And  now,  if  your  joy  will  be  great  with 
one  soul  that  you  have  brought  unto  me 
into  the  kingdom  of  my  Father,  how  great 
will  be  your  joy  if  you  should  bring  many 
souls  unto  me!   (D.  &  C.  18:15-16.) 

Her  prayers  had  been  answered, 
and  that  night  was  the  beginning  of 
her  spiritual  diary,  and  she  knew 
that  this  was  the  beginning  of 
her  "two  happiest  years.  .  .  . 


The  Editor's  Page 


(Concluded  from  page  494) 
Spirit.  God  does  reveal  today  to 
the  human  soul  the  reality  of  the 
resurrection  of  the  Lord,  the  divin- 
ity of  this  great  work,  the  truth, 
the  divine  and  eternal  truth,  that 
God  lives,  not  only  as  a  power,  an 
essence,  a  force — as  electricity — 
but  as  our  Father  in  heaven.  Oh, 
why  do  men  try  to  make  that  power, 
recognized  by  science  and  religion 
everywhere,  a  mere  "force!"  I 
sometimes  wish  that  such  men 
would  kneel  down  and  try  to  pray 
to  electricity.  Imagine  trying  to 
pray  to  electricity!  You  can  not  do 
it,  and  yet  this  is  one  of  the  greatest 
known  forces.  You  can,  however, 
pray  to  God  the  Father,  a  Personal 
Being.  God  reveals  to  the  soul 
his  existence.  He  reveals  the  deity 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who  came 
to  earth  to  give  to  men  the  great 
reality  of  the  existence  of  God  and 
his  Son;  and  in  that  spirit  and  with 
such  witness  in  my  soul  I  bear 
testimony  today  that  Jesus  Christ 
is  the  Redeemer  of  the  world. 

God  help  us  and  all  the  world  to 
sense  the  reality,  that  the  gospel 
of  Jesus  Christ  is  established  among 
men,  and  through  obedience  to  it 
the  Fatherhood  of  God  and  the 
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realities  to  every  son  and  daughter 
of  Adam.  God  hasten  the  day 
when  that  testimony  will  be  real 
in  every  heart. 


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( Concluded  from  page  507 ) 
multitude  that  he  thought  the  pro- 
gram was  divinely  inspired.  And 
he  took  advantage  of  the  excellent 
opportunity  to  tell  briefly  what  the 
Church  is  doing  with  scouting. 

For  some  time  Elder  Benson  felt 
the  need  of  a  professional  scouter, 
hired  and  paid  by  the  national 
council,  to  direct  the  L.D.S.  Rela- 
tionships Service.  He  worked  per- 
sistently with  the  national  officers 
until  their  approval  for  such  a  posi- 
tion was  secured.  Then  he  worked 
with  other  Church  officials  to  select 
and  recommend  the  man  for  the  job. 
After  considering  every  professional 
L.  D.  S.  scouter,  D.  L.  Roberts, 
executive  of  the  Ogden  Area  Coun- 
cil, was  chosen.  Scouter  Roberts 
had  already  been  considered  for 
another  position  on  the  national 
staff  and  his  record  was  well-known. 
His  recommendation  was  imme- 
diately approved.  And  another  big 
step  forward  in  scouting  in  the 
Church  was  taken. 

There  is  much  more  to  tell  about 
Elder  Benson  and  what  he  has  done 
and  is  doing  both  for  scouting  and 
for  the  youth  of  the  Church.  But 
there  is  no  finer  example  of  the 
spirit  he  has  for  the  program  than 
that  displayed  by  his  family.  He  is 
married  to  Flora  Smith  Amussen. 
They  have  six  children,  four  girls 
and  two  Eagle  Scout  sons.  Reed  A. 
and  Mark  A.  are  following  in  the 
footsteps  of  their  father.  They  had 
the  advantage  of  getting  into  the 
scouting  program  as  boys,  the  op- 
portunity that  never  came  to  Elder 
Benson. 

Sister  Benson  goes  to  many 
scouting  functions  with  her  hus- 
band, proudly  wearing  two  mina- 
ture  eagles.  But  on  many  of  his 
trips  it  is  necessary  for  her  to  stay 
at  home  with  the  family. 

"The  Church  and  its  program, 
including  scouting,  means  more 
than  anything  else  to  us,"  she 
explains.  "We  like  to  have  Brother 
Benson  home  with  us,  but  we  know 
that  when  he  is  away  he  is  working 
for  the  good  of  others.  So  we 
carry  on  as  a  family  as  best  we  can 
and    wait    for   his   return." 

It  is  because  Elder  Benson  has 
spent  his  life  "working  for  the  good 
of  others,"  and  especially  the  youth, 
that  he  now  wears  the  Silver  Ante- 
lope. 

JULY   1951 


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Dear  Editors:  APO,  San  Francisco,  California 

Tt  was  a  pleasant  surprise  to  receive  copies  of  The  Improve- 
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zines offering  spiritual  guidance.  Often  I  have  scanned 
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appear  in  this  wonderful  magazine,  but  to  no  avail. 

Since  the  arrival  of  mail  this  afternoon,  I  have  never  laid 
the  Era  aside  until  just  a  moment  ago  when  I  began  to  write 
this  letter  of  appreciation.  I  find  so  many  familiar  names  and 
places  mentioned  that  it  is  just  like  being  home  and  talking  to 
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THE  LIGHT  TOUCH 

MATRIMONY:  One  state  that  permits  a  woman  to  work 
eighteen  hours  a  day. 

One  Sure  Thing 

"I  hope  you  don't  think  me  too  young  for  marriage  with 
your  daughter?"  said  the  young  man  anxiously. 

"That's  all  right,  my  boy,"  was  the  cheerful  reply.  "You'll 
age  fast  enough." 

High  Cost  of  Living 

A  young  father,  watching  his  son  gazing  into  space,  said, 
"A  penny  for  your  thoughts,  Son." 

"Well,  to  be  honest,  Daddy,"  he  replied,  "I  was  thinking 
of  a  dime." 

Something  to  Cry  Over 

A  little  boy  at  school  for  the  first  time  was  sobbing  bitterly. 
The  teacher  inguired:  "What's  the  matter,  Tommy?" 
"I  don't  like  school,  and  I  have  to  stay  here  till  I'm  four- 
teen," sobbed  Tommy. 


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'Well,"  said  the  teacher,  "don't  cry.     I  have  to  stay  here     6) 
until  I'm  sixty-five." 

Point  of  View 

One  man  said  television  is  all  right  if  you  like  to  look  at  the 
world  through  a  waffle  iron. 

Wanted — New  Invention 

A  housewife  wants  to  know  why  somebody  doesn't,  invent 
a  hollow  cake  of  soap,  so  that  when  the  bar  is  used  up  there 
won't  be  those  annoying  little  pieces  left. 


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Bee  Hive  Girls,  Mia  Maids,  and  Junior  Gleaners  of  the  Snowflake  Stake  with  Stake  Y.W.M.I.A.  president  examine 
their  display  of  handicraft.  From  left  to  right  seated,  Sherre  Rogers,  Gussie  Schenider,  Joycelynn  Hatch,  Delia  Warner, 
Standing;  Nena  Flake,  Mable  Porter,  Marie  Jackson,  Carma  Smith,  Annis  J.  Flake,  and  Sandra  Hatch. 


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