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PASSING EVENTS 1013 H. A. C. Cummins, British representative in Mexico, was ordered to leave, June 15, because be is no longer considered "persona grata." He barricaded himself in the Mexican legation, having laid in supplies for several days. The Mexicans flhen surrounded his place of refuge, hoping to compel him to sur- render after a while for lack of food. The Washington government has taken the matter up with a view of reconciliation. The charges against Mr. Cummins is that he has sent false reports to his government concerning con- ditions in Mexico and the Mexican government. Nationwide agitation was in evidence in Japan, July 1 , as a protest against the exclusion clause of the U. S. immigration law. Prayer meetings were held and the ancient deities were supplicated for aid and comfort in the present crisis. The diet passed tesolutions of protest, placards were put up in public places, exhorting the people to hate everything American and to boycott American churches and missionary institutions. The American flag was hauled down from the flagpole of the embassy by some zealot whom the police later arrested. The government promptly expressed regret at the incident. Calvin Coolidge, Jr., son of President Cootidge, died at the Walter Reed hospital, Washington, D. C, July 7, of the effects of blood poisoning. He was born April 13, 1908, at Northampton, Mass., and went through the grade schools of that city. He was a good student, and is said to have had a remarkably sweet disposition. Everything human skill could suggest was done for him, but after days of hard struggle the end came. President and Mrs. Coolidge bore up bravely during the trying ordeal. Simple funeral services were held at the White House, and then the body was taken to Plymouth, Vermont, where it was interred in the family burial ground. The Fourth Annual Convention of the Disabled American Veterans of the War held its first session in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, June 23, Mme. Schumann-Heink rendered the Star Spangled Banner. Among the greet- ings that were read to the delegates was one from President Coolidge, who re- gretted his inability to be present. The commander, James A. McFarland, in his opening address took occasion to assure his audience: "We will con- tinue to fight the pacifist organizations composed of long-haired men and short-haired women, such as make up the National League for Peace." The convention was largely attended and the members were highly pleased with their reception and treatment in Utah. A destructive tornado swept the shore of Lake Erie between Cleveland, Ohio, and Sandusky, June 28, resulting in great loss of life and destruction of property. A large portion of Lorain was wrecked. The property loss there is estimated at $30,000,000. At Sandusky, the loss is $2,000,000. At Cleveland, Pittsburg, Mantua, and many other cities', the hurricane found its victims. The wind tearing along at the rate of 85 miles an hour, blew cars from the tracks, hurled automobiles to the curb, bent and twisted steel telegraph poles like wire; snapped off wooden poles at the ground and hurled them across streets and onto building roofs. A local contractor observed: "The best way for us to do is to take everything away from the wrecked sections and build from the ground up again. What is left is really beyond repair." Joseph H. Richards died in Joseph City, Navajo county, Arizona, on the 3rd of July, at the age of 82. He was a native of Canada, and was brought as a baby by his parents to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842. With his parents he came west in 1852, and lived in Great Salt Lake City until 1859 when the family moved to Mendon, Utah. In 1876 he was sent to assist in settling the Little Colorado River, and was the first bishop of St. Joseph, Arizona (now Joseph City), when the ward was created in 1878. He later served as a

1014 IMPROVEMENT ERA member of the stake presidency of the Snowflake stake for 20 years. He was once a county supervisor of Apache county, Arizona, and once treasurer of Navajo county. He was the last of those who were prominent in the Church leadership of the Little Colorado stake which was put out of existence thirty-seven years ago. Elder Arnold H. Schulthess died, July 7, at his home in Salt Lake City, leaving his widow, Louise B. Schulthess, and ten children. He was born in Neukirch, Canton Thurgan, Switzerland, June 9, 1865. In 1879 he came to Utah and five years later filled a mission to his native land. On his return to Utah in 1886, he presided for 11 years over the German meet- ings of the Salt Lake stake, which comprised the whole of Salt Lake county. Responding to another missionary call, Mr. Schulthess had charge of the German mission from 1899 to 1901, doing splendid work. On the organ- ization of Liberty stake in 1904 he was selected first counselor to President Hugh J. Cannon, serving in that capacity until sickness made it necessary to release him. February 22, 1918, he suffered a stroke of paralysis, from which he never entirely recovered. Roland B. Ballantyne, a popular young business man of Ogden, passed away, June 25, in the Dee Hospital from the effects of an appendectomy, which, according to physicians, was performed after appendicitis had ravaged Mr. Ballantyne's system. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ballantyne. now residing in Long Beach, Calif. The father was leader of the Ogden tabernacle choir for many years and a well known Ogden resident. Roland Ballantyne, born in Ogden, September 6, 1891, was reared and educated there. He married Miss Ella O'Neill, who arrived from a trip to Alaska in time to talk with her husband before he passed away. They have two children, Betty, 5 years of age, and Richard, 3 years of age. He is survived by his parents, one brother, J. Earl Ballantyne, now living in New York, and Gladys Ballantyne Thomas, of Long Beach. John W. Davis, a West Virginian, was nominated for the Presidency by the Democratic national convention in New York, July 9, after a long contest between McAdoo and Governor Al Smith, of New York. The nomination was accomplished on the 103rd ballot, which ended the most extended deadlock that ever existed in any large political convention in this country. No less than sixteen candidates were voted for, the principal ones being McAdoo, Smith, Davis and Underwood. The convention convened in Madison Square Garden, New York, June 25. Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska was nominated for the vice-presidency on the first ballot. He is a brother of Wm. Jennings Bryan. Mr. Davis was the ambassador of the United States to Great Britain in 1918 and following years, and is described as an unusually brilliant statesman. He is a lawyer and has held many offices of importance. Mrs. Maynetta Bagley King died Wednesday, June 1 1 , in Washington, after an attack of influenza, which developed into pneumonia. She was the wife of Mr. Samuel A. King, a well known Salt Lake attorney, and a brother of U. S. Senator Wm. H. King. Mrs. King was on her way to Europe, where she intended to visit her son who is on a mission in Ger- many, and her daughter who is studying music and languages in Italy. She stopped over at Washington in order to spend a few days with Senator King's family, when she was taken ill. Her condition was not regarded as serious but she was removed to a hospital for better care. Her illness be- came complicated with pneumonia and late Tuesday night her case had taken on a serious aspect. Later that night she began to sink and the end came the following morning. Mrs. King was born in East Mill Creek, November 19, 1869, the daughter of the late Charles Stewart Bagley and Julia Hansen Bagley. She had studied at the Brigham Young University at Provo, the University of Utah, and the University of Michigan.

IMPROVEMENT ERA, AUGUST, 1924 Two Dollars per Annum Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, as second class matter Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917 , authorized on July 2, 1918 lieber J. Grant. j P ,• Melvin J. Ballard, Business Mgr. Edward H. Anderson, \ Moroni Snow, Assistant. CONTENTS Mountains, Hillsides, Woods and Valleys 1 Frontispiece Upon the Hillside. A Poem Alfred Lambourne 893 Use Simple Words Elder Orson F. Whitney 895 A Rose to the Living. A Poem Nixon Waterman 898 Progress of the M. I. A. — Thsir Slogan Supt. George Albert Smith... 8 99 Father's Gifts. A Poem Carrie Tanner 904 A Navajo Indian Fire Dance. Illustrated Lucy G. Bloomfield 905 A Tryst. A Poem Alan C. Reidpath 911 Seen by the Eye of Faith Albert E. Bowen 912 A Sabbath Reading. A Poem Joseph Longking Townsend 919 The Silver Disc. A Story David Horatio Morgan 920 Joe's Experience With Jean d' Arc O. B. Peterson 926 "He who Hesitates is Lost" Glen Perrins 929 I am the Mountains. A Poem Glenn Dickson 930 The Mission of the M. I. A Elder Melvin J. Ballard 931 Let Me Be a Friend to You. A Poem Bessie Stewart Lindsay 943 The Worth While. A Story George Lee Sharp 944 Madame's Motto. A Story John Garret O'Brien 949 Radio Waves Dorothy C. Retsloff 953 Much Cry and Little Wool '. H. L. Johnston 954 How Wonderful Are Thy Woiks, O Lord! A Poem J- H. Martineau... 955 Cathedral Gulch. A Western Wonder Spot. Illustrated Prof. Thomas L. Martin 957 The Bandit of the Yellowstone. Illustrated Elizabeth Cannon Porter 961 Things Worth While. A Poem Alice Morrill 967 Messages from the Missions. Illustrated 1 968 A Violin Shop. Illustrated D. W. Parratt 977 The Victory of Love. A Story Henry Nicol Adamson 982 Church Music Committee Edward P. Kimball 988 A Latter-day Saint's Idea of Success in Life Arthur Manwaring 9-90 Communism in America Carl Pingree Tanner 991 Heroes of Science Dr. F. S. Harris and N. I Japan Mission Closed 992 Butt 993 The Road to Happiness. A Poem J. S. Bingham 995 In Zion Canyon. Illustrated 996 Does Nature Speak to You? A Poem S. Schwendiman 997 Y. M. M. I. A. Officer Spans the Continent in One Day 998 Let Me Be True. A Poem Evelyn Mae Birk 1001 Editors' Table — Just a Word About the Era 1002 Humor and Simplicity 1 003 Y. M. M. I. A. Champions 1003 The Atheists Confession. A Poem O. F. Ursenbach 1004 Mutual Work 1 005 Passing Events , „ - , _~, , 10 1 2

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