--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 11 published: 1920-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Mutual Work," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 11 (September 1920): 1032–1034.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23011unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera23011unse start_page: 1032 end_page: 1034 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera23011unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Mutual Work 1036 IMPROVEMENT ERA of honor. It is democratic in nature, and the richest man's son learns to wash dishes beside the poorest. All the boys returned better physically, mentally and morally. Raising Funds by Recreation A. D. Brown, R. D., No. 2, Ogden, Utah, writes under date of July 18, giving an account of an annual M. I. A. field day or outing of the North Weber stake, held at Plain City, Utah, on May 30, 1920. The object, among other things, was to raise means to defray the expenses of the officers visiting the wards during the year. Refreshments were sold and there was an evening dance, besides many events by which all were entertained during the day, old and young. These consisted of races of all kinds, high jump, pole vault, ball games, picture shows and boxing contests. The picture is a photo of eight-year-old twin boys in a boxing contest.The names of the boys are Lee Brown and Dee Brown, sons of Jethro and Emma Brown of Farr West ward. The day was a sucess in every respect. A Rousing M. I. A. Rally A rousing M. I. A. Rally was held on Tuesday evening, July 27, on the Academy grounds at Preston, Idaho. The program was enlivened by sing- ing, folk dancing, and Irish pieces. Different wards of the Franklin stake took part. Dr. Geo. R. Hill of Logan spoke on the subject: "Who Is My Neighbor," giving a splendid talk that appealed to the people, especially the boys and girls to whom it was directed. Mrs. Wm. Shumway led in community singing. The Franklin County Citizen pronounces the occasion a splendid one, and one that will be the means of drawing the Franklin stake closer together. '"" ivi .X If ; v. \ !> The publication of the Salt Lake Herald was suspended with its issue of July 16.It is understood that the interests of the Herald and Telegram were combined under one management. Francisco Villa, the noted Mexican outlaw, surrendered, July 28, to representatives of the Mexican government. It is announced that he intends settling down to a quiet and peaceful life as a rancher. Prince Joachin, youngest son of the German ex-emperor, Wilhelm, committed suicide at Potsdam, July 17. His wife left him last year and subsequently began suit for divorce. Sensational revelations', it is said, had been threatened. Elder O. K. Winters, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Winters of Garland, left,July 10, for Switzerland, where he is to take the position of secretary of the Swiss and German mission, under the direction of President Angus J. Cannon. The death of Mrs. Matilda Price Spencer, widow of Claudius V. Spencer, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Isabel P. Kinkel, Salt Lake City, occurred July 16. She was born in Birmingham, England, February 26, 1843, and came to Salt Lake valley with the Homer Duncan company in 1861. She married Claudius V. Spencer February 7, 1863. The Beehive House, of historical fame, was opened, July 13, 1920, as a home for young women, under the auspices of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. The home is intended for the temporary accommodation of working girls of the city and young women under 25 years of age who are visiting Salt Lake. Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer arrived in Nome, Alaska, July 27, from the Arctic Ocean. He left Norway in 1918, and for nineteen months he was not heard from. In April, this year, members of his crew visited Anadir in Siberia, leaving the vessel while waiting for the ice to break up. Amundsen has come to Nome, it is thought, to fit out for an expedition to the North Pole. The combined condition of all crops in Utah, July 1, as estimated by the United States bureau of crop estimates, was 106.3 per cent of the tenyear average for this state. The condition had declined eight-tenths of 1 per cent during June. For the United States as a whole, the combined condition of all crops on that date was 99.7 per cent of the average. This was an increase of 4.9 per cent during ths month. Bishop C. Clarence Neslen, member of the Salt Lake City commission, was appointed mayor-commissioner, July 27, by unanimous vote of the members, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mayor Bock, as a consequence of defalcations while he served as city auditor. Under 1038 IMPROVEMENT ERA this appointment Mr. Neslen will have 3 years and five months to serve the City as mayor. Another rebellion is reported from Mexico. On July 30, federal forces numbering several thousand men were being mobilized f»nd moved against Lower California to put down the rebellion against federal authority, of Governor Esteban Cantu. Orders stopping all official communication between the Mexican federal government and the territorial government of the northern district of Lower California have been issued by the governor of the district. Advices from Poland, Aug. 4, indicate that the position there is extremely critical. The Russian Bolshevik armies were only 60 miles from Warsaw, and a soviet government has been proclaimed in the portions of Poland occupied by the Russians. Brest-Litovsk, the last of the great fortresses guarding the capital of Poland, was reported taken by the Russians on Aug. 3. On Aug. 16, a great battle for Warsaw was raging along the river Bug. The Poles were making a brave defense. On Aug. 20, the Russians were reported routed, and Warsaw was saved. Two battalions and headquarters of the Thirty-second infantry at Camp Kearny, Calif., July 16, were ordered to Fort Douglas, Utah, for permanent station, replacing the Third battalion Twenty-first infantry, which is ordered to Fort George Wright, near Spokane. The remaining battalion of the Thirty-second infantry will go to Fort Missoula, Mont. These orders practically double the garrison at Fort Douglas, and it is stated at the war departmnt the new detail is intended to be a permanent garrison at that post. The opening session of the Council of the League of Nations began at San Sebastian, Spain, July 30. Many important international questions are on the program for discussion. "We must have an economic blockade," declared Arthur J. Balfour, British representative on the league of nations' council, in a talk with newspaper correspondents on the program of the council. If an economic blockade was applied to a nation which defied the league, Mr. Balfour said, he could not believe that nation would be able to resist for long. David Ellsworth Burley, former general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line, died Aug. 2, 1920, at St. Mark's hospital, at the age of 71 years. He had been sick for two months. Mr. Burley entered the employ of the Union Pacific in 1879 as traveling passenger agent in the Baltimore, Md., territory. He was transferred to Salt Lake as general agent of the passenger department in 1890 and, when the Oregon Short Line was segregated from the Union Pacific in 1897, Mr. Burley was made general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line, with headquarters in Salt Lake, which position he held until he retired May 1, 1916. About fourteen years ago the town of Burley, Idaho, was named for him. James McGhie, 86 years of age, a resident of Salt Lake for sixty-four years, died, July 16, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. A. Alkire, 1843 Eleventh East Street. Mr. McGhie was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, December 1, 1834. He spent the early years of his life there, and came to Utah in 1861. Since that time he has resided in Salt Lake, where he took an active part in the affairs of the Church, being a partiarch of Granite stake. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. H. F. Egbert and Mrs. Alkire. and one son, James McGhie, Jr. He is also survived by fortyone grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held July 18 in the Sugarhouse ward chapel. The death of John H. Seely, one of Utah's well known cattlemen, oc-