--- 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: 28 number: 3 published: 1925-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Unknown, “Passing Events,” *Improvement Era 28, no. 3 (January 1925)*: 307–308." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2803unse 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: improvementera2803unse start_page: 307 end_page: 308 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1925-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2803unse publication_year: 1925 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 1925, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Passing Events PASSING EVENTS 307 Interior Decorating; Reading for the Home; Training for Parenthood; Psychology of Childhood; Play Production. Other courses will be as fellows: Social Welfare; Community Planning; Vocational Guidance; Scout Leadership; Music; Religious Education; Principles and Methods of ference; Recreation; F ods and Nutrition; Clothing and Textiles; Home ference; Rreacreation; Foods and Nutrition; Clothing and Textiles; Home Health and Sanitation. Patriarch Adolph Madsen passed away at his home in Brigham City, Utah, Dec. 5, 1924, of general debility, being S3 years of age. He was Danish by birth, but has lived in Brigham City for 60 years and taken a prominent part in Church and civic activities. He was bishop of the Third ward for many years, and the first counselor to Stake President Rudger Clawson. Later he was ordained a patriarch, a position he held at the time of his death. He filled a mission to Scandinavia, in 1889-91, and for a time presided over the Norwegian Conference in Christiania. He worked for twenty-three years in the Salt Lake temple, until 1916, when he was compelled to give up that work on account of ill health. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Eli H. Pierce, Salt Lake; Mrs. C. W. Richards, Mrs. Alice M. Johnston, Mrs. Mary M. Olsen, Misses Phoebe, Sevena and Daisy Madsen, all of Brigham city. The Centennial anniversary of Dr. Harvey C. Hullinger was observed at Vernal, Utah, Dec. 2, in the Orpheus hall, which was filled to capacity. Talks, music, and dancing made up a very enjoyable program. He was given a handsome leather chair by the city. Telegrams were received from President Heber J. Grant, President Calvin Coolidge, and many others. President Coolidge telegraphed: "My congratulations to you on this re- markable anniversary occasion. You have my sincere wishes that you may celebrate many returns of the day." Dr. Hullinger was born fourteen years after Lincoln and was two years of age when Thomas Jefferson died. He came to Utah from Iowa in 1859 and served in the Civil war as a physician. He has practiced medicine in Ashley valley for forty-two years and per- formed valuable service to the people here during pioneer days. Recent inventions. Germany is interested in a number of new in- ventions. One is a system for central heating for a whole city. The system is already working in Hamburg, and a beginning has been made in Berlin. Another is a machine insuring secrecy in radio. The radio invention is by Professor Bruevitch, who has completed a sender which works only with a receiving machine which also he has built. The sender is claimed to use a wave length in such a manner that only a similar receiver can hear anything, and Russian papers describe successful tests. A new color camera claims to remedy all previous faults. It takes pictures in one-fifth of a second on the same lens, with three color plates. The gelatin papers used are not sensitive. Each plate prints its own color on the paper, resulting in perfect, lifelike pictures. There is also a contrivance which, it is claimed, dispenses with the motor in the aeroplane and can be run by manpower alone. The inventor is Major Pilarski. of Vienna. His propeller is called a "wing propeller," the wings being supposed to vibrate and grip the air much more effectively than the rotating blade propeller. The new propeller is being tried out on a motor boat at Vienna and shows effectiveness in water which is too shallow for regular propellers or wheels. The Kolob stake was organized, Nov. 23, 1924, at the regular quartely conference of the Utah stake. President Rudger Clawson and Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, of the Council of the Twelve, were present. 308 IMPROVEMENT ERA George R. Maycock, bishop of the Springville Fourth ward, was sustained as the president of the new stake, with J. Frank Bringhurst, bishop of the Springville Second ward, as first counselor and Edwin M. Snow, for twenty-one years a member of the Mapleton ward bishopric, as second counselor. The bishops of the four Springville wards were released and in their places were sustained J. Emmett Bird in the First ward, William Wainwright in the Second ward, H. Ralph Smart in the Third ward and Hilton A. Robertson, recently returned president of the Japanese mission, in the Fourth ward. Three bishops in the Utah stake also were released as follows: George Powelson from the Provo Third ward, Alfred L. Booth from the Provo Fourth ward, and Albert Mabey from the Provo Fifth ward. All three of these former bishops were sustained as alternate high counselors in the Utah stake. To take their places as bishops of the respective wards were sustained Henry Aldous Dixon, Royal J. Murdock and Professor Clawson Y. Cannon. Major General Sir Lee Oliver Stock died at a hospital in Cairo, Nov. 20, as a result of wounds received in an attack by assassins. Great Britain immediately made demands on the Egyptian government for an apology, and indemnity of £500,000, punishment of the assassins, guarantee for the safety of foreign officials, and concessions regarding increased irrigation in Sudan. The Egyptain government accepted the demands regarding apology, punishment of the assassins and indemnity, and promised to prevent dis- turbances of the peace, but the demands regarding Sudan and the irrigation project, it considered contrary to the constitution and "premature." Viscount Allenby who has full charge of the negotiations replied that in view of the re- fusal of the Egyptian government to comply, the Sudan government would be at liberty to increase the irrigation area to any extent, and that further notice would be given as to what action would be taken in view of the refusal to protect foreign interests. Zagloul pasha, the Egyptian premier, resigned, Nov. 24, and the situation became less tense. On Dec. 1 it was an- nounced from Cairo that the crisis was past because the new Egyptian gov- ernment had acceded to all the demands of Great Britain, after the shooting down of a number of Sudanese troops, declared to be in revolt. The first radiocast service under the auspices of the First Presidency was held Sunday evening, Nov. 16, 1924, at 9 p. m., at the station K F P T. Letters and telegrams from Canada and many places in western America have been received expressing appreciation of the service. In his address. President Heber J. Grant discussed the Articles of Faith. He took up each article separately and presented a graphic interpretation of its significance. Supplementing his discussion with numerous episodes out of his own rich experience, he made clear the distinctiveness of the "Mormon" point of view. The service was opened by an instrumental trio by the Lindsay sisters, with Mrs. Melba Lindsay Burton in charge. The singing was under the direction of Arthur McFarlane, music director of Grant stake. He presented a mixed double quartet from Whittier ward. They sang Stephens' "Let the Mountains Shout for Joy!" and the anthem "Lord of Heaven," with in- spiring effect. Arthur McFarlane and H. C. Mortensen sang "The Morning Breaks," by Stephens. Mrs. Minnie Eckhardt rendered the sacred solo, "Blessings." In response to demands from Magna and various other parts of the country, Mrs. Eckhardt also sang, "Oh My Father" with a violin obligato played by Mrs. Melba Lindsay Burton. The piano accompaniments were played by Miss Marjorie Dahlen. President Grant spoke also on the 23rd with an appropriate musical program. President Seymour B. Young passed away early in the morning of Dec. 15, at his home in Salt Lake City, after an illness of about a week. For some time he has been feeble, but up to a little over