--- 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: 24 number: 12 published: 1921-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Passing Events," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 12 (October 1921): 1129–1132.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24012unse 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: improvementera24012unse start_page: 1129 end_page: 1132 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera24012unse publication_year: 1921 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 1921, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Passing Events A Disastrous Flood swept over part of San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 11. The dead and missing are estimated at 250, and the loss of property is said to be no less than $5,000,000. Members of the Russian relief commission were arrested, August 30, by the soviet government. They were charged with fomenting revolution against the government. Maxim Gorky was the leading spirit in the com- mission. One hundred and thirty-three years is the age claimed by "Uncle" John Shell, whose home is on Grassy Creek, Leslie Co., Kentucky. He says he was born in 1788. If his claim can be substantiated, he has the distinction, probably, of being the oldest man living. The Twelftlv-Thirteenth ward chapel, Salt Lake City, was dedicated at the regular ward services, Sept. 11. President Charles W. Penrose de- livered an impressive sermon, dwelling principally on the doctrine of resur- rection ahd life hereafter, and then he offered the dedicatory prayer. Serious riots in Belfast occurred on August 29 and 30. In the fighting that took place in the streets between civilians and the military, fifteen persons were killed and about 100 injured. As a result of representations of the Lord Mayor as to the necessity of affording protection to the city, the military assumed control of affairs!. Bounteous gifts for famine sufferers have reached the stricken districts in Russia from American sources. Word of the first shipment of food for children was received in New "York, August 23, by the American relief administration, from Walker L. Browne, its European director in Riga. One thousand tons of balanced rations were shipped from Riga August 20, to the Petrograd district and 2500 tons to the Moscow district. General Karl von Buelow, German field marshal, died at Berlin, August 31, at the age of 76 years. He was one of Germany's leading commanders during the war, and he was among the Germans whose surrender for trial was demanded by the treaty of Versailles. After his name was published, he declared that extradition was an ignominy to which "no German would voluntarily submit." The vast estates of the Hapsburgs, situated in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia, Poland, Rumania, and Italy and valued at $200,000,000 have been brought by an American syndicate of business men. The property includes the great steel works and mines in Teschen, partly in Czecho- slovakia and partly in Poland; also other industries such as the dairies near Vienna's sugar plantations, factories, apartment houses, palaces and other private properties in Vienna, castles, about 1,000,000 acres of land, and the Albertina museum in Vienna. The American delegates to the armament conference, appointed by President Harding, are, Charles Evan Hughes, secretary of state; Henry 1132 IMPROVEMENT EM. to organize. The situation has been aggravated by mutual antagonisms of long standing. On September 5, it was reported that quiet had been re- stored. The M. I. A. a Live Organization in England Elder C. Douglas Barnes, clerk of the Norwich Conference, England, writes under date of May 18: "This Conference is under the direction of William H. Wilson, and there are five other elders laboring in various parts of it. The photo shows the Y. L. M. I. A., one of the organizations carried on by the women during the war. It accomplished much in hold- ing the branch together. The leaders did much of the missionary work during that critical period and succeeded in gathering many new friends, who are now investigating the gospel. The Mutual is one of the live auxiliaries of the Norwich Conference." Back row: Frank Wilkin, Han- nah Crotch, Anna Wilkin, Arthur Crotch, Emma Howes. Center row: Ethel Wilkin; conference president William .H Wilkin, Edith Appleton, Mayble Moyses, May Wilkin, Elder C. Douglas Barnes, Elsie Wilmot. Front row: Frederick Tuttle, Edith Southgate, Beatrice P. Carey, Lily Crotch, Eva Wilkin, Rosa Wilkin, Herbert Browne.