Passing Events

Dr. Hubert Work took the oath of office as U. S. postmaster general, March 4, succeeding Wm. H. Hays. The Nineteenth amendment to the constitution was declared constitu- tional by the supreme court, Feb. 27. It is the woman suffrage amend- ment. Mrs. Eleanor R. Moore, a former resident of Provo, died in Salt Lake City, March 1. She was born at Quincy, 111., Aug. 26, 1838, and came to Utah in 1848. The airship "Roma" exploded, Feb. 21, during a trial trip near the naval base at Norfolk, Fla. The ship was built in Italy. There were over fifty persons on board. Mrs. Martha Day died at her home n Richmond, Idaho., Feb. 15. She was born in M souri, March 12, 1831, and was personally acquainted with the Prophet Joseph. The first issue of the Free State, the official organ of the new Irish commonwealth, appeared Feb. 25. Its Irish name is An Saorstat. It is a weekly, published at Dublin. A crime commission filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, Sacramento, Cal., March 8. Its purpose is to combat organized crime in southern California. Pope Pius XI was crowned in the basilika of St. Peters, Feb. 12, in the presence of 60,000 persons. Cardinal Lega, in the absence of Cardinal Bristate, placed the tiara on his head. The first German liner, since 1914, arrived in New York, Feb. 26. It was the North German Lloyd steamer Seydlitz. It flew the black, white, and red flag and carried 117 passengers. Food shortage in Michigan v as feared in many districts, March 1, owing to the interruption of communication by huge snowdrifts. Relief was sent by airplains from Grand Rapids. An Anti-American resolution was passed, Feb. 13, by the Ministerial Association at Syracuse, N. Y., demanding that the Mayor refuse to per- mit "Mormon" missionaries to preach in that city. The severest blizzard of the season was experienced in the intermoun- tain region, Feb. 27. In Salt Lake City the temperature fell 30 degrees and the wind was blowing from 37 to 50 miles an hour. Ten million dollars for schools was the expenditure of the state of Utah during the year ending June 30, 1921. The exact figures are $10,- 768,859.26, as compared to $8,353,534.15 .he preceding year. The soldiers' bonus bill, carrying a bank loan provision instead of a

568 IMPROVEMENT ERA sales tax clause was introduced in the house of representatives, March 7, by Chairman Fordney, of the Ways and Means committee. Judge K. M. Landis, Chicago, announced his resignation, Feb. 18. He will devote his time to baseball. Some time ago he accepted the po- sition of baseball commissioner at a salary of $50,000 a year. British protectorate over Egypt is terminated, according to an an- nouncement made by Lloyd George in the house of commons, Feb. 28. Egypt will be free to work out her own national aspirations. The cost of the public schools in Utah for 1920-1, was $82.54 per capita of school population as shown by statistics published March 8. This is an increase of $17.71 per capita from the cost the preceding year. Thomas Carlos died at his home at Kaysville, Davis Co., Feb. 22, after a long illness. He was born in Lancashire, England, in 1833, and came to Utah in 1849. He was one of the earliest settlers in North Davis Co. The cost of the government of the State of Utah for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1920, was, according the census figures, $9,793,465 or $21.64 per capita while the total receipts were $7,233,506, or $15.98 per capita. Princess Mary was married to Viscount Lascelles, Feb. 28, with all pomp and dignity usual on the occasion of royal weddings. The bride is the only daughter of King George and Queen Mary, the British sovereigns. The first woman in the house of lords of the British parliament will be Lady Rhonda, whose petition for a seat in that body was granted by the committee on privileges, March 2. Lady Asquith was the first woman in the house of commons. Kuklux Klan letters have been received by half a dozen residents of Salt Lake City, threatening a coat of tar, according to a report published March 9. An investigation was started by agents of the department of justice and post office inspectors. Wealth in corn cobs, according to a statement made by Elton R. Dar- ling, professor of chemistry at the Milliken university, Decatur, Illinois. They can be made into syrup, cattle feed, motion picture films, sound- proofing, or the base for nitro-glycerine. Jethro Whitney died of pneumonia, March 5, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Olive Daly, Salt Lake City, at the age of 73 years. He was the youngest son of Bishop Newel K. "Whitney, born at Winter Quarters, May 8, 1848. He has four daughters and three sisters living. Appointments for the naval service have been made, as announced Feb. 11, by Senator ¥m. H. King, as follows: John K. Wells, Salt Lake City, a son of former Governor Heber M. Wells, and Hugh Sidney Beatie, also of Salt Lake City, to the U. S. naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Robert S. Joyce, of Ogden, died Feb. 21, at the Dee hospital. For several years he has been chief division surgeon for the Southern, and Union Pacific railroads, and for the Oregon Short Line, Denver & Rio Grande, the Utah-Idaho Central, and the Utah Rapid Transit company. Senator Smoot was honored, Feb. 21, by being selected as a member of the commission that will handle the refunding of the debt of the Allies to the United States. The other members of the commission are Seqre-

PASSING EVENTS 569 tary Mellon, Secretary Hughes, Secretary Hoover, and Representative Burton. Greek approach tj Rome. Fuv the first time in 1000 years, representa- tives of the Greek Orthodox church in Constantinople have acknowledged a representative of the Roman Catholic church. This information was sent to Pope Pius by Monsignor Dolci, apostolic delegate in Turkey, Feb. 14. Mt. Vesuvius was reported in eruption March 5. The phenomenon began with two shocks of earthquake, followed by the collapse of the eruptive cone inside the crater. Liquid lava poured out and covered a wide area. The temperature of the molten mass was 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The first trainload of corn for famine-stricken Russia, bought with money appropriated by the U. S. congress, reached Tsaritsyn, Saratov, Feb. 25. Twenty-five trains were at that time moving from Novorosaysk, on the Black Sea, toward the interior. Eight ships had arrived at Black Sea ports since Feb. 6. "The Brigham Young University, by winning the state championship in debating and basketball, exhibited a proper correlation between the in- tellectual and physical activities," writes a correspondent. "The B. Y. U. won first place, the U. of U.. second place, anJ the U. A. C. third place in both forms of activity." Senator Smoot is eligible to serve as a member of the allied debt fund- ing commission, although he is a U. S. senator. That was the decision of Attorney General Daugherty, rendered March 8, who was asked for an opinion, by President Harding. The same decision holds good in the case of Representative Burton of Ohio. Wives and cluldren of ministers are immune from the immigration quota law, according to a ruling, March 4, by Judge Mack, New York. As a consequence, Mrs. Gottlieb, wife of Rabbi Gottlieb, and their infant son were released from the custody of the immigration authorities who had detained them since their arrival from Palestine. A campaign against the Darwinian evolution tlieory has been started by the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, New York, who demands the ex- clusion from the schools of text books supporting that theory. A majority of the men in the science department of St. Stephens College (Episcopal) thin^ that one can be a Christian and yet believe in the D rwin theory. A dynamite explosion in Chicago, Feb. 24, caused a damage of $1,000,- 000 in that city and suburbs. Thirty tons of dynamite went off at a stone quarry southeast of the city. The following day an officer who was guard- ing the damaged Summit State bank building at Argo, 111., was shot at and wounded in the head. Mt. Rainier was climbed for the first time, Feb. 13, by Jean and Jacques Landry and Jacques Bergues, mountaineers, and Charles Perryman, a mo- tion picture camera operator. The quartet left on their final dash from Anvil Rock, their base, !.0,000 feet high, at 4 o'clock a. m. They returned fifteen and onejhalf hours later, exhausted and numbed by the chilling Arctic winds. Mrs. Catherine Curtis Spencer Young, widow of the late Apostle Brigham Young, Jr., died Feb. 19 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Rogers. She was nearly 86 years of age, having been born in Middle- field, Mass., October 2, 1836. Mrs. Young came to Salt Lake in 1848 and

570 IMPROVEMENT ERA has lived here since that time. She was the mother of eleven children, nine of whom survive her. Chief Wanroades, a Ute Indian, died at Mountain Home, Feb. 17, at the age of 104 years. He was born near the present site of Heber City and, as a young man, met the Utah pioneers as they entered Salt Lake Valley. He was baptized and set apart as a chief by President Brigham Young. He was buried in Navajo blankets of rare designs, and pistol, knife, cart- ridge belt, etc., were placed in the casket. One hundred and eighteen years was the age of Mrs. John Whalen, a member of the Chippewa tribe, whose Indian name was Wahsaya Oge- bayanqu and who died in her 119th year at her home on Sugar Island, near Sault St. Marie, Mich., March 4, within a few yards of the rude hut in which she was born in 1803. Mrs. Whalen had never been more than 100 miles from home, although she was very active until four or five years ago. The United States will not be represented at Genoa), where the European powers will meet, April 10, if the present program is carried out. Secretary Hughes, in a note to Signor Vittorio Rolando Ricci, Italian ambassador in Washington, declined the invitation, March 8, ostensibly for the reason that questions had been excluded from the agenda, the settlement of which were essential to the amelioration of European con- ditions. A new political party will, it is expected, grow out of a meeting held at Chicago, Feb. 20, of representatives of farmers, labor union leaders, and clergymen. Some of the delegates were members of the Socialist and Farmer-labor parties. The meeting was called for the purpose of dis- cussing ways and means of getting men and women of the working class into the legislative halls of the country. The new party, it is predicted, will be in the field in 1924. "Deseret" was assailed recently by a mob and all the windows in the building were broken, according to word received in Ogden from Presi- dent Orson F. Whitney, of the European mission, and published March 8. "Deseret" is the mission headquarters in London, where thousands of Londoners found a welcome refuge during the murderous air raids of the war. The "yellow" press hopes to induce the government to expel the mis- sionaries, by inciting the mob to riots. The Eleventh Annual Hike to the top of Mt. Timpanogos, which will take place some time late in July has been arranged for by the Brigham Young University. By that time, the new government trail, which was begun last fall at Aspen Grove, will be completed to the summit, making it possible for hikers of ordinary strength to make the climb to the top of Utah's famous mountain. When the new trail on the Aspen Grove side is connected with the Community Flat trail, a hiker of ordinary ability can make the trip completely over the great mountain in a single day. The Y Winter Walkers, a club organized at the Brigham Young Uni- versity to foster winter sports, made a trip to Vivian Park, Provo Canyon, recently. Mr. Joseph T. Hazard, famoub Mt. Ranier guide and member of the Mountaineers' Club of Seattle, was the special guest. Director E. L. Roberts, of the Physical Education Department of the University, an enthusiastic out-door man, encouraged the trip, hoping that it would be the beginning of a long line of annual winter cutings. The excursion proved beyond doubt that winter sports can be made as interesting and healthful as those of summer.

PASSING EVENTS 571 P. W. Madsen died suddenly at Stockton, Cal., Feb. 23. He was a native of Fredericia, Denmark, born, Nov. 4, 1852, and, after having joined the Church came to Salt Lake City in 1875. For many years he has been prominent as a successful business man and as the head of the "Western Loan and Building Company he became well-known throughout the inter- mountain states. Mr. Madsen leaves his widow, Elise Christine Larsen Madsen, also a native of Denmark, who came to Utah the same time as he, and to whom he was united in marriage in Salt Lake City, August 2, 1875; also four sons and three daughters, and twenty-one grandchildren. The permanent Court of International Justice held its inaugural ses- sion in the Peace Palace at The Hague, Feb. 15. The representative of the United States is John Bassel Moore, and the others present in The Hague for the meeting are: The president, or chief justice, Bernard Cornelius Johannes Loder, Holland; Dr. Raffael Altamira Crevea, Spain; Com- mandatore Dionisic Anzilotti, Italy; Viscount Robert Finlay, Great Britain; Dr. Max Huber, Switzerland; Didrik Nyholm, Denmark; Dr. Yorozu Oda, Japan, and Dr. Andre Weiss, France. The other two judges, Dr. Ruy Barbaso of Brazil and Dr. Antonio S. de Bustamente of Cuba, were un- able to attend. Peter Andrew Lofgreen, former bishop of St. David, Arizona, for twenty years, and a patriarch for a number ot years, died at his home in St. David, Arizona, March 6, 1922. He was born in Billeberga, Sweden, January, 1847. He came to Utah in 1862 and returned later to St. Louis, where he was connected with the Globe Democrat, and where he also made a study of medicine. Ho lived there for about ten years when he returned to Huntsville, Utah, and in the fall of 1883, went to Arizona, where he has resided ever since. He married Johanna Antoinette Sand- berg, and with her had four children. She died and he married Zipporah Nielsen, in 1880, with whom he had thirteen children. He has two sons and a daughter living in Salt Lake City, one daughter in Montana, one son in Ogden, and one daughter in southern Utah, all the others residing in Arizona. He has had 56 grand-children, 50 of whom are living. He has been a leading character in St. David for many years, having acted as postmaster, and in other responsible positions. He was an active worker in the Church, and was well and favorably known for his kind- ness to the sick and for his integrity as a father and a worker among the people. Notice to Officers Y. M. M. I. A. The Advanced Senior classes will continue their work for April and May, the text being printed in the Era and Journal. The Senior classes, where desired, are permitted to form joint classes, and for those two months, study "Gospel Fundamentals," as printed in the March Era and Journal. Outlines for summer work beginning with June are prepared in a circular, and are noted further in this number of the Era. Annual re- port blanks will be sent out to the officers in ample time for return early in May, for the annual report, and we expect a complete annual report from every stake in the Church. Superintendents and secretaries will please be prompt in this matter. The special activity for April is a Musical Festival. We trust that all the wards of the various stakes are prepared to give this exercise. We should like to see this part of the special activities program faithfully carried out in all the wards.