Mutual Work

Mutual Work," by an officer of the Young Men's, and an officer of the Young Ladies' M. I. A. a. When to begin, and how. b. What is it? (Class study, special activities, thrift stamps, scout and bee-hive work, etc.) 7. "The Service of the Red Cross" (Short explanation by young lady in costume). ,

(Select such as "Joan of Arc, Liberty Bell, 8. Patriotic Song. "The Flag Without a Stain," etc.) 9. Recitation (Such as "Our Country's Call," Wm. Cullen Bryant; "Hats off;' the Flag Goes By," Henry Holcomb Bennett; or My Country," James Montgomery. pictures, games, drama, or 10. Refreshments, entertainment by moving

930.) 11. Dismiss by prayer. (Date Oct. 8, See Era August, 1918, p.

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On Ensign Peak r%. patriotic rally under the auspices of the Y. M. and Y. L. M. I. A. of

the Ensign stake of Zion was held on the summit of Ensign Peak on the evening of July 26, in commemoration of the first visit made by the pio- neers. The explorers of the first party consisted of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, Wilford Woodruff, George A. Smith, Ezra T. Benson, Albert Carrington and William Clayton. The party climbed the hills west of the canyon and proceeded northward, the president still riding. "A good place to raise an ensign," he remarked, as they viewed the pros- pect before them when the summit was reached. Ensign Peak, the moun- tain was accordingly named, which title it still bears. From the top of Ensign, the view is sublime. In the evening of July 26, 1918, Orson F. Whit- ney was present and delivered a patriotic historical speech to the audience there assembled. The program besides consisted of the raising of the Stars and Stripes by £cout Troop 29, of the Ensign stake, patriotic music by the United States Military Training Detachment Band, of the University of Utah, which here made its first public appearance. There was also singing of pio- neer songs. Six hundred people were in attendance and took part, and listened to the exercises of this patriotic rally in commemoration of the naming of the peak, seventy-one years ago. The visitors were amplv repaid for their climb, not only by the excellent program, but in viewing the glorious sunset over the lake and in beholding Salt Lake City in the fading day, when thousands of electric lights sparkled among the million trees, and the valley lay in the twilight before them, beautiful and sublime in the extreme, surrounded as it was by the clear atmosphere of the mountains so clear that Mt. Nebo, south of Utah valley, could easily be distinguished with the naked eye. It is intended that the rally shall be observed hereafter annually. Superintendent John D. Giles and his co-laborers of the Y. M. and Y. L. M. I. A. are congratulated on the success of the rally; in the face of what some people had predicted that not enough people could be in- duced to climb the peak to hold a rally , it was a grand achievement.

Annual Pioneer Trail Hike, 1918 The Over-the-Old-Pioneer-Trail Scout hike for 1918 consisted of an over- night camp on the property of President Heber J. Grant, at the mouth of Maple Canyon, near Little Mountain, in which some seventy-five boys took part, who had hiked from Salt Lake on the morning of the 23rd, with their scoutmasters and a considerable sprinkling of visitors from the city, and the camps in the neighborhood. The boys walked from their camp to the summit that evening, making a splendid hike, passing up nearly to the head of Maple Canyon. A bonfire was built on the summit of Little Mountain, around which the company gathered and heard short pioneer talks, Scout stories and songs. Junius F. Wells, the founder of the Y. M. M. I. A., under President Brigham Young, delivered the principal address, explaining in a language which held the Scouts' attention from start to finish, the celebra- tion of the Twenty-fourth in Big Cottonwood Canyon, sixty-one years ago, and which he attended as a boy three years of age. He remembers the raising of the Stars and Stripes on the great, tall pine tree and the stunt made by the man who raised the flag of standing on his head on the top of the tree. Proof of the loyalty of the Latter-day Saints brought forth by the speaker was an inspiration to the assembled crowd and was loudly ap- plauded. Other speakers who told stories of the pioneers and pioneering were William A. Morton, Bryant S. Hinckley, Jane B. Anderson of the Y. L. M. I. A. General Board, and Edward H. Anderson. Thomas Hull opened

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the exercises with an inspiriting prayer. A short talk was also given by Mr. Thomas E. Farrish, state historian of Arizona and an early pioneer. Other exercises were held at camp that evening at which Pioneer W. C. A. Smoot told the Scouts of the first journey across the plains. On the morn- ing of the Twenty-fourth, before the return of the Scouts on foot to the city, Mr. Smoot again spoke, urging the boys to be loyal to country, to Brigham Young and the Pioneers. Some of them, under the direction and leader* ship of Scout officials, were permitted to visit the canyon. The distance from the east side High School where the boys started, to the place at the foot of Little Mountain, where they camped, is eight miles. A number of the boys hiked both ways, after sleeping on the refreshing hills over night.

Dr. Taylor and Scoutmasters, and Pioneer Smoot in the Center

Junius F. Wells, Edward H. Anderson, Thomas Hull, Bryant S. Hinckley, Lewis T. Cannon, Nephi Anderson, George J. Cannon, and LeRoy C. Snow were the members of the Geenral Board in attendance. The company wer? in charge of Dr. John H. Taylor, scout commissioner. Everybody voted it one of the pleasantes' times they had ever experienced. One of the prettiest sights in the world was the rising of the full moon over the mountains while the company were on the summit. Pioneer Smoot, some eighty-six years of age, refused a special bed and insisted on sleeping on the ground with the boys. He said he is :he last re- maining member of the Nauvoo Legion.

Suggestive Preliminary Program

For October — Courage Declamation, Paul's Defense Before Agrippa," Acts 26. Address, "Courage to Defend the Gospel." The 'Marseillaise." Any good edition, to be sung in two parts, key of G.

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