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834 IMPROVEMENT ERA dowal, address same. Joseph ward, Sevier stake, Joseph William Parker succeeded Arnfred Christensen, address same. Blanding ward, San Juan stake, Wayne H. Redd succeeded Hanson Bayles, address same. Trout Creek ward, Bannock stake, Michael Mickelson succeeded Nephi Peterson, address same. Adams S. Bennion, a member of the Deseret Sunday School Union Board, and also associate professor of English in the University of Utah, and well known as a leading educator of the state, has heen appointed sueprintendent of the Latter-day Saints Church School system, to succeed Superintendent Horace H. Cummings, who has been honorably released from the office after serving long and faithfully therein. A new commission of education for the Church Schools was recently established and includes Elder David O. McKay, Commissioner, and his assistants Elders Stephen L. Richards and Richard R. Lyman, all well known educators and members of the Council of Twelve Apostles. Superintendent Cummings has been head of the Church schools since 1906, and has been a well-known teacher in the state for many years, having taught in the Brigham Young College at Logan, in the Eighteenth Ward Seminary, Central Seminary, at Mill Creek, the District schools of Salt Lake City, and in the University of Utah. He has been connected with the General Sunday School Board, since 1901, and with the Religion Class work since the same year. The new superintendent holds the degrees of Batchelor of Arts, and Master of Arts, having been a student at Columbia University, as well as at the University of Utah, where his under-graduate training was secured. Professor Bennion was for several years, principal of the Granite High school and was formerly an instructor of the Latter-day Saints University. He is a bright and active Church worker, and a man who will gain the love and esteem of the young people wherever he comes in contact with them. The Conference of Americanization Specialists and Workers was held in Washington, May 12 to 15 under the auspicies of the Department of the Interior. The subject of Americanization was gone into in great details by many speakers. Following is a selection from a speech delivered upon America's heritage, by Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane. It shows how utterly impossible the ideas and actions of the I. W. W. and Bolshevism are in this free land, America. It should be read and advocated by every American and every lover of America in the United States, and not only read and advocated, but religiously lived up to. We quote: "The right of revolution does not exist in America. We had a revolution 140 years ago which made it unnecessary to have any other revolution in this country because it was fundamental. One of the many meanings of democracy is that it is a form of government in which the right of revolution has been lost by giving the Government wholly to the people. Revolution means revolt. Against whom are we to revolt in the United States excepting the people of the United States? "If we Americans do not like officials, programs, policies, measures, systems, we can try others, but in Europe the right of self-determination as to domestic concerns has been denied, and therefore the right of revolution has been preached. "No man can be a sound and sterling American who believes that force is necessary to effectuate the popular will. As we have taken from the duelist his pistol and compelled him to seek redress in the law, so in the larger affairs of the Nation we have said, "This is your country. Make it what you will; but you must not use force, for when you came here and

became a citizen you gave over the right to resort to anything but public opinion and the methods of the law in the determination of national policies. If you are in a minority you must wait until you become a majority, and as a majority you must be content to prevail by processes which respect the rights of the minority.

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"Americanism does not mean that any one economic system is right, or that the United States a perfected land; it does not mean that any is one social philosophy must be accepted as the final expression of truth; but Americanism does mean that we have evolved for ourselves machinery by which revolution, as a method of changing our life, is outgrown and outlawed."

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© Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. WHERE THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN DELEGATES RECEIVED THE PEACE TREATY The famous Chateau Francois Premier at St. Germaine-en-laye, where the peace conference with the Austro-Hungarian delegates was held. Austria emerged from the conference, surrounded by quarrelsome neighbors, and threatened internally by bankruptcy and social upheavals. The New York Tribune summarizes the Austrian terms as follows: Under the treaty the area of the Austrian Empire is reduced from 240,935 square miles to between 40,000 and 50,000 square miles. Her population is reduced from fifty to between five and six millions. She must recognize the independence of Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, and Jugo-Slavia. She must renounce all extra-European rights. She must recognize and respect the independence of all Russian territory. She must agree to accept the League of Nations covenant and the labor charter. She must demobilize all naval and aerial forces. She must make compensation for all damages by personal injury to civilians caused by acts of war, including aerial bombardments,

836 IMPROVEMENT ERA She must assure complete protection of life and liberty to all inhabitants of Austria. She must agree not to impose any restrictions on the use of any language. She must abandon all financial claims against Allied or Associated Powers. The Susan B. Anthony amendment, to the United States Constitution, providing for woman suffrage, was recently passed by the United States Congress and was received on June 16, by Governor Bamberger of Utah, the document being forwarded by Frank L. Polk, acting Secretary of State, who requested that it be submitted to the Utah Legislature for whatever action it may take. The letter quotes from the section of the United States law which provides for publication of amendments and for their going into effect as soon as they are ratified by two-thirds of the states. Whether or not the Utah Legislature will be called in special session to consider the amendment, is not now known, although there is a probability that about the time of holding of the state fair, a special session may be called, particularly if it should turn out at that time, that Utah's legislative vote would help to ratify the amendment before the next presidential election. The amendment, passed the National House of Representatives during the latter part of May, and the Senate of the United States, on the 4th of June, 1919. It was ratified by the Wisconsin legislature June 10. The battle forthe equal-suffrage amendment in the United States was begun by Susan B. Anthony, and the first amendment was drafted by her in 1875. The proposed amendment to the Federal Constitution to give the right of the ballot to women reads: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This amendment is practically the same as the one proposed by Susan B. Anthony in 1875. The amendment was first introduced by Senator Sargent, of California, January, 1878. It was voted on in the Senate four times, as follows: In 1887, yeas 17, nays 34; in 1914, failing by 11 votes; in 1918, failing by 2 votes; February, 1919, failing again by 1 vote. In the House it was voted on in 1915, failing by 78 of the necessary two-thirds vote. On January 10, 1918, it passed by 1 vote over the necessary twothirds majority. The 28 States in which women now have presidential suffrage, control about 55 per cent of the Electoral College, over one-half of the Senate. 45 per cent of the House, and 55 per cent of the votes in the parly conventions. Full suffrage was granted to women in the following States: Wyoming, granted 1869. Colorado, granted 1893. Utah, granted 1896. Idaho, granted 1896. Washington, granted 1910. California, granted 1911. Kansas, granted 1912. Arizona, granted 1912. Nevada, granted 1914. Montana, granted 1914. New Yoik, granted 1917. Michigan, granted 1918. Oklahoma granted 1918. South Dakota, granted 1918. Texas, granted 1919. Tennessee, granted 1919. School or tax suffrage in the following States: Kentucky, granted 1838. Minnesota, granted 1875. New Hapshire, granted 1878. Massachusetts, granted 1879. Mississippi, granted 1880. New Jersey, granted 1887. Connecticut, granted 1893. Iowa, granted 1894. Ohio, granted 1894. Delaware, granted 1898. Louisiana, granted 1898. Wisconsin, granted 1900. New Mexico, granted 1910. Foreign countries in which women have full suffrage are as follows: Isle of Man, granted 1881. New Zealand, granted 1893. Australia, granted 1902. Finland, granted 1906. Norway, granted 1907. Iceland, granted 1913. Denmark, granted 1915. Russia, granted 1917. Canada, granted 1918. Austria, granted 1918. Czecho-Slovakia, granted 1918. England, granted }9}8. Germany, granted 1918. Hungary, granted 1918. Ireland, granted

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1918. Poland, granted 1918. Scotland, granted 1918. Wales, granted 1918. Holland, granted 1919. Sweden, granted 1919. George Huskinson. a prominent Church worker, and member of the quorum of seventy, in Teton, Idaho, died at that place on Friday, May 23, 1919. There was perhaps not a man in the entire ward that was more highly respected than he was. George Huskinson was born in Salt Lake City, May 27, 1870, and was a son of William and Janette Cusins Huskinson. He was baptized at the age of eight years, and received his education in the public schools of Salt Lake City. At an early age he entered the sheep business with his brother John W. in which they were eminently successful. In the fall of 1899, both brothers moved to Teton, Idaho, and located upon a farm where they lived at the time of the death of George. George Huskinson was married July 20, 1904, to Louisa Bush, both of whom at the call of the Church, went to the Southern States on a mission, November 20, 1908, laboring with gratifying success in Florida, South Carolina, and Ohio. They returned in the spring of 1911. Soon after his return he was ordained a seventy and set apart as a member of the Council of the 159th Quorum, which position he held at the time of his death. Aside from serving as a ward teacher, and superintendent of the Sunday school, he has held other positions in Church work, all of which he filled with honor and success. He leaves a wife, mother, three brothers and three sisters. The cause of his death was rupture, for which he underwent an operation in March. He was later stricken with pneumonia, and had scarcely recovered when he was taken with influenza. To intensfy the sadness of his departure, Irvine, the oldest son of John W., died from the in- fluenza in the mission field last December, and Ethel M., John's daught- er, died of the same dis- ease just a inontii ago. R. W. Riggs. Crossing ocean the in aircraft, fewin a years will not be looked upon as an adventure, so it is declared by the United States weather bureau ; which bureau has predicted that the time is not far distant when flying the across seas will be necessary a feature of the world's daily routine. But nav- igating the air will not be practiable until vital improvements in aircraft will make them more in- dependent of air condi- tions, which improve- ment's are bound to come. Captain Alcock's feat of crossing the water in sixteen hours, not- withstanding, is a mar- velous and significant George Huskinson and Wife achievement.

James H. Wallis, editor and manager of the Vernal Express, Vernal, Utah, writes of the Era: "You certainly have developed a wonderful book of the Improvement Era, and it should be in every home in the Church. I wish you continued success."

At Dawson, Yukon, and other Alaskan towns in the northern part of the continent, the festival of the Midnight Sun was celebrated, on June 21, the longest day of the year, when the sun during the entire twenty-four hours does not drop below the northern horizon. Large numbers of Midnight Sun excursionists from the United States and Canada had come by steamer to Fort Yukon to witness the forty-eight hours i>r more of sunlight.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Portrait of President Charles W. Penrose Frontispiece Present Prospects. A Poem Charles W. Penrose 745 The First-Born, the Resurrection and the Life Prest. CJwrles W, Penrose 747 My Valley George Gardner 756 The Cost William Halls 761 Bear Lake, the Beautiful. Illustrated Ezra J. Poulson 763 Their Children's Children. A Story Annie D. Palmer 765 The Tired Mother: Pioneer Recollections. Illus- trated Betsey Smith Goodwin 774 They're Coming Home. A Poem 781 How Private Neibaur Won the Congressional Medal of Honor Bishop Charles W. Nibley 782 Mission Leaders. With Portraits Edward H. Anderson 791 The Seer. A Poem Ezra J. Poulsen 800 Natural Phenomena Related to Human History Dr. James E. Talmage 801 Irrigation and Education V — Prof. O. W. Israelsen 803 La Sierra Madre. A Poem Joel H. Martineau 804 An Adventure in the Life of Mr. Horatio Algerion Hardcastle, Burglar. A Story Everett Spring 805 The Sum of Life. A Poem Grace Ingles Frost 812 July, 1919 Alfred Lambourne 813 Zion and Jerusalem Joseph Fielding Smith v 814 .

The Fruits of Good and Evil. A Poem Charles W. Penrose 816 The Assignation. A Story Elizabeth Cannon Porter 817 Thoughts Albert R. Lyman 820 — Editor's Table -The Solemn Assembly j..*:... 821

President Heber J. Grant's Pledge of Service and Action 823 Church Statistics 825 The Task of the M. I. A _ 826 Messages from the Missions 827 Passing Events 832