--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Unknown collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 27 number: 3 published: 1924-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "“Passing Events,” *Improvement Era 27, no. 3 (January 1924)*: 272–275." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2703unse 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: improvementera2703unse start_page: 272 end_page: 275 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1924-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2703unse publication_year: 1924 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 1924, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Passing Events The candidacy of President Coolidge for the next presidential election, was announced in Washington, Dec. 9, after a luncheon at the White House. It was also announced that Mr. Wm. Butler will be his campaign manager. The Republican convention will be held at Cleveland, Ohio, Chicago having withdrawn from the contest. American experts will co-operate with European authorities in an effort to solve the German reparations problem. President Coolidge, Dec. 1 1, issued a statement in which he said the administration would favor an unofficial representation of America on the proposed commission of inquiry. Koreans cruelly put to death during the recent earthquake in Japan is the charge made by Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins and filed with the American state department at Washington. Americans, it is claimed, witnessed the burning alive of 250 Koreans. (See p. 128, 2nd paragraph, Improvement Era, Dec, 1923. Two Utah Senators on the U. S. Senate Committee in finances, is the distinguished honor that came to this state, Dec. 10, when Senator Smoot was made chairman and Senator King a member of that committee. Seldom, if ever before, has any state had two members on this most important com- mittee. R. E. Shepherd, Jerome, Idaho, is the new head of the Western States Reclamation Association, elected at the annual convention of that body at the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, Nov. 19. He succeeds former Governor D. W. Davis, of Idaho, now commissioner of reclamation in the U. S. government. The Revolution in Mexico against the Obregon government seems to be gaining in force. The Mexican government began a campaign for recruits Dec. 11. On the same date a report from Paris said that there was talk in diplomatic circles of bringing "pressure" upon the United States to intervene in Mexico if the Obregon government is overthrown. Can acquired characteristics be inherited by children from parents? Dr. Paul Kammerer, biologist of the University of Vienna, who arrived in New York, Nov. 27, to begin an American tour, says this is quite possible. His opinion is that prohibition of alcoholic beverages will result in the pro- duction of a subsequent generation with no craving for intoxicants. The tomb of Tutankhamen, in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, was opened again, by Howard Carter, an American Egyptologist. Nov. 18. Mr. Carter is in charge of the expedition which has entered the valley to complete the work of discovery begun under the direction of the late Lord Carnarvon. Important historical information, it is hoped, will be found in the sepulchral chamber. San Juan stake presidency was reorganized, Nov. 25, owing to the death of President Lemuel H. Redd. Elder Wayne H. Redd was appointed stake president, with Alfred R. Lyman and Oscar W. McConkle as counselors. Benjamin D. Black was sustained as patriarch. The bishoprics of the Bland- ing and Monticello wards were also reorganized. President Rudger Clawson and Elder Melvin J. Ballard attended the conference. PASSING EVENTS 2 73 Dr. Wilhelm Marx was made chancellor of Germany, Nov. 29, to suc- ceed Herr Stresemann who resigned, Nov. 23. Dr. Marx is the leader of the Clerical party, and his cabinet is a three-party coalition. Herr Siegfried Hardorff was first invited to take the chancellorship. He failed to form a cabinet. Dr. Heinrich F. Albert then tried and failed. Dr. Marx, it seems, was more successful. Herr Stresemann entered the new cabinet as minister of foreign affairs. Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph S. Glass, Salt Lake City, celebrated the 25 th an- niversary of his appointment to the office of a bishop in the Church of Rome, Nov. 14, by gorgeous ceremonies. The festivities closed with a banquet at Hotel Utah, where toasts were made, first to the pope, then to the Presi- dent of the United States, and then to less prominent celebrities. A sermon was delivered by the archbishop of San Francisco, and congratulatory mes- sages were received from near and far. Elder Paul Henning, died at Oaxaca, Mexico, some day in the latter part of October, 1923, according to a notice in the Deutsche Zeitung von Mexiko, of Nov. 15. He was a native of the province of Brandenburg, Germany, and received a good education, having attended first the university at Berlin and then at Zurick. He was at one time connected with the University of Utah. His later years he spent in archaeological and ethnological research in Mexico and Central America, and has contributed many valuable collections to var- ious museums. Mrs. Mary Louise Crismon, pioneer of 1848, died in Salt Lake City, November 18, 1923. A daughter of Sydney and Louis Tanner, she was born in Clay county, Missouri, in 1837; entered Salt Lake Valley in 1848, moved to San Bernardino, California, in 1850, and married the late George Crismon, returning in 1858 to Salt Lake City where she has resided ever since. Funeral services were held in the Eighteenth ward chapel on the 20th of November under direction of Bishop T. H. Clawson. The death of George S. Moore, Provo, at the age of 93 years was an- nounced Dec. 9. Mr. Moore was born at Walsall, Staffordshire, England, April 6, 1830. When a young man he joined the Church and in 1861 im- migrated to Utah, crossing the plains with Captain Joseph Young's ox team company. He settled in Provo, where he lived for more than fifty years. For ten years he lived at Wallsburg, Wasatch county. For more than thirty years he was employed at the Smoot Lumber Company's mills in Provo. Mrs. Elizabeth Sharp Naisbitt died Dec. 9, at the family home, 465 Third Ave., Salt Lake City. A week ago her husband, Harry George Nais- bitt, succumbed to heart failure, and the demise of Mrs. Naisbitt is held by friends to have been due to the untimely death of her husband. Mrs. Nais- bitt was born March 16, 18 64, at Salt Lake and was a daughter of the late Jean Patterson Sharp and Bishop John Sharp, who was one of the first bishops of the Twentieth ward. Governor J. C. Walton, of Oklahoma was removed from office, Nov. 19, by unanimous vote of the state senate court of impeachment, after his trial on charges of corruption in office, neglect of duty, moral turpitude and general incompetency. No evidence for the defense was presented, the ex- governor having withdrawn earlier in the proceedings when the court declined to hear the statement of the defense, relative to the operations of the Ku Klux Klan. An appeal, it was stated, will be made. The Rhineland was visited by a wave of violence, Nov. 22, and hun- dreds of persons were reported killed or wounded. Communists, Separ- atists, anti-Separatists, peasants and police were involved in the fighting. 274 IMPROVEMENT ERA Looting and destruction of property followed. The rioting began at Hagen, in Prussian Westphalia, when a mob of half-grown men marched the streets shouting, "Hoch, Rosa Luxemburg!" Rosa was at one time the ringleader of German women communists. Many Separatists were clubbed to death. The Rhodes Scholarship has been awarded Mr. Harold Hess Davis, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Davis, 316 Douglas Av., Salt Lake City. This announcement was made Dec. 9 by Frank E. Holman, secretary of the state Rhodes Scholarship committee. Davis, who was graduated from Stanford University last year and who is at present teaching in a high school at Rigby, Idaho, will leave next summer for Oxford, England, where he will begin three years of study at the university. The scholarship carries with it a fi- nancial grant of £350 annually, or a total of about $5000. Former Bishop Henry B. Elder, Second ward, Salt Lake City, died at his home, Nov. 26, at the age of 60. Bishop Elder was born in Salt Lake November 18, 1863, and had lived in this city his entire life. He was an active worker in the Church. From 1902 to 1904 he filled a mission to the Southern states under the presidency of the late Ben E. Rich.. In 1919 he was called to the bishopric of the Second ward, remaining in this office until September 25, 1921, when he was released on account of ill health. He was one of the founders of the Lund school for boys. The Monroe Doctrine. A letter from President Coolidge was published Dec. 2 in which he expressed his approval of the celebration of the centenary of the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine. The letter, together with extracts from the Doctrine was read in the schools, Dec. 3. The so-called Monroe Doctrine was promulgated by James Monroe, President of the United States, Dec. 2, 1823. It declares the American continent closed for foreign colonization and also that foreign interference with any independent government would be considered as a hostile act against the United States. The time set for the submitting of peace plans to Mr. Bok's American peace award, expired Nov. 15. It was announced that 21,165 plans had been received, and that 21 foreign countries were represented in spite of the fact that only Americans are eligible for the prize award. The jury of award, of which Mr. Elihu Root is the chairman, had been at work for a month on Nov. 1 5 analyzing the plans, but the decision will not be announced before January 1. In January the award policy committee will conduct a referen- dum in which the nation-wide "yeas" and "no" vote will be obtained on the plan selected. Patriarch Israel Barlow died at his home, in Salt Lake City, Nov. 26, at the age of 82 years. He was one of the early pioneers of Utah. He was born in Nauvoo, 111., in 1842, and arrived in Utah six years later, in the company led by Horton Haight. He filled three missions and three of his sons filled two mission each. Ten years after the death of his wife, Annie Yates Barlow, in 1901, Mr. Barlow married Miss Mary Beebe, who sur- vives him as do eight daughters, four sons and 150 other descendants. Funeral services were held Wednesday, November 28 in the East Bountiful tabernacle. The first payment of the sugar companies to the farmers on the 15 th of November netted the latter about $4,500,000. This was the first pay- ment of $5.50 a ton. The farmers will also share on a profit-sharing basis of 48-5 2 division. If the sugar continues at its present price throughout the coming year the sugarbeet farmers of Utah and Idaho will receive approxi- mately $12,500,000 for their share, it is stated. It is estimated that about 4,500,000 one-hundred-pound bags of sugar will be manufactured by the PASSING EVENTS 2 75 various companies during the present season, an estimated increase of about 25% over the production last year. Congress convened Dec. 3. On Dec. 5, Representative Frederick H. Gillett of Massachusetts, was re-elected speaker of the House, an agreement having been reached between the leaders of the "insurgent" Republicans and the regulars. On the 6th, President Coolidge delivered his first message to Congress. He defined the foreign policy of the United States, recommended adherence to the World Court with reservations; did not favor cancellation of war debts owed to the United States; urged economy in governmental expenditures, disapproved war taxes; argued against tariff revision; asked for "adequate" military legislation; declared against a bonus; supported tax reduction, and discussed a number of other questions. William Burdette Folsom, passed away, Nov 27, at his home in Salt Lake City. He was born in Nauvoo, 111., and came to Salt Lake City in 1860. For sixty years he has been a member of the Fourteenth ward. He worked as a carpenter during the construction of the Salt Lake theatre and did special work in the building of the Manti temple. He was of an inventive mind and patented several devices. Mr. Folsom was the son of William H. Folsom and a brother of Amelia Folsom Young, Hyrum P. Folsom, Hin- man D. Folsom, Mrs. L. J. Brown and Mrs. George Wallace. The following sons and daughters survive him: Daniel E., Mrs. J. B. Ferguson and Miss Catherine Folsom of Salt Lake; Mrs. E. T. Hatch and Mrs. David Moss of Wood Cross and J. B. Folsom of Kansas City, Mo., Funeral services were held in the Fourteenth ward, Sunday, Dec. 2. Mrs. Hannah B. Winter passed away Dec. 6, at the family home, after an illness of eight weeks, 52 years of age. She is the wife of Arthur Winter, who is well known having been connected with the office of the First Presidency in various capacities for a number of years. He is at present secre- tary of the Church board of education, in addition to other important posi- tions in the Church. Sister Winter was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bytheway and in 1883 came to Salt Lake, where she had lived ever since. She is the mother of eight children, two of whom survive her — Miss Rose Winter and Mrs. Ruth McDonald. She also is survived by her husband and two brothers and four sisters — Benjamin Bytheway, Thomas Bytheway, Mrs. Maria Fellows, Mrs. Alice B. McDonald, Mrs. Rebecca Wilson and Mrs. Sarah Jane Charvoz. Funeral services were held in the Eighteenth ward chapel, Dec. 9. Dr. Martin Perry Henderson, of the B. Y. U., Provo, passed away, Nov. 8, at his home in that city. He was born at Clifton, Idaho, Dec. 29, 1874, the son of Martin and Susan Henderson, both of whom still reside in that city. He attended the Oneida stake academy at Preston, Idaho, the Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah. He graduated from the latter institution in 1911 with the degree of bachelor of arts. He continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin, receiving a Ph. D. degree in 1914. He accepted an instructorship in the faculty of the Oregon Agri- cultural college, and one year later came to the Brigham Young university, accepting the chair of professor of biology. He was chosen dean of the college of arts and science when it was created, and he held this position until his death. In Church life Dr. Henderson was a leader. He filled a mission in Germany, and was an active worker in the affairs of the Manavu ward. He is survived by his wife, Ellen Clark Henderson; two sons, Clark and Irwin and two brothers and four sisters.