Passing Events

(Passing Events Mrs. Mary Margaret Cherry Brandon, a pioneer of 1847, died in Centerville, October 3, 1925. Her husband died at Centerville in 1916. Trotzky predicts revolution in the United States in the near future. This is said to be the contents of a book, which reached London about the first of October. A statue of Kemal Pasha is to be erected at Constantinople. This is the first to be placed there since the city fell into the hands of the Moham- medans in 1453. Robert M. Lafollette, Jr., was elected a member of the U. S. Senate, September 29, 1925, with overwhelming majority. He is said to be the youngest man ever elected to that position. Germany is to enter the League of Nations, according to a dispatch from Lacarno, dated October 1 1 , on the understanding that article XVI of the pact be modified in accordance with German views. Chinese troops fired 200 shots at an American vessel in the Yangtze river, September 29, according to- a Shanghai dispatch. The American gun- boat Palos was ordered to the scene as a convoy to the attacked vessel. Chung- king, the place near which the attack was made, is a treaty port, 1,400 miles from Shanghai. Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown partook of the sacrament, October 11, in the church he repudiates and in memory of the Savior, whose divinity he denies. The indignation among his colleagues at this action was general. Some called it sacrilege. The bishop was unfrocked for heresy, at New Orleans, by the Presiding Bishop Talbot. The airship Los Angeles is useless, according to the declaration of army officers. Its covering fabric is rotten and its girders and keel are corroded. It will cost $3,500,000 to repair it. The Los Angeles is the Zeppelin No. 3, which crossed the Atlantic about a year ago, when new, having been built in Germany for the United States air service. The German government will meet the allies, to discuss a security pact, on condition that the right of Germany to strive for a revision of the peace treaties be recognized, according to a decision arrived at by the cabinet, Sep- tember 24. The entrance of Germany into the League of Nations is regarded as a logical sequence of such a security pact. Secretary of War Weeks placed his resignation from the cabinet in the hands of President Coolidge, October 12, 1925. Mr. Dwight F. Davis, the assistant secretary, has been acting secretary of war since Mr. Weeks, last March, was stricken with the illness, that incapacitated him for the work required. Assistant Secretary Davis was appointed to succeed Secretary Weeks A sharp earthquake was felt in Oakland, California, September 30, at 7:20 a. m. It paralyzed the telephone service for ten minutes. The people rushed out of their houses and filled the streets. The shock was also felt at Berkeley and other near-by cities. A shock was felt at Helena, Montana, at 2:30 a. m. the same day. It was violent enough to loosen the snow on many roofs and start diminutive snowslides. A speed of 302.3 miles an hour was the record of Lieutenant Alford Williams, U. S. N., September 18, in a new Curtiss aeroplane. The speed attained, although unofficial, breaks the world's speed record set by a French

PASSING EVENTS 89 aviator, Adjutant Florentin Bonnet, of 278 miles an hour. "I am sure that should I dive the plane 9000 feet, as I did in 1923," Lieutenant Williams said after today's flight, "I could attain a speed of 350 miles per hour." The war debt of France to the United States was the subject of dis- cussion by the commissioners of the two countries, who met at Washington, D. C, September 24, 1925, for that purpose. On October 1, it was evident that the commissioners could not reach an agreement satisfactory to both sides, but a temporary arrangement was made, provided the French parliament acepts it, for France to pay $40,000,000 annually for five years, and in the meantime resume negotiations for a permanent settlement. A disarmament conference wilt be convened under the auspices of the League of Nations, as soon as the Council of the League is convinced that security has been achieved. That was the agreement reached by leading dele- gates to the assembly at Geneva, including the delegates of Great Britain and France, September 21, 1925. A commission is to be formed for the purpose of studying the reduction and limitation of armaments, and on this com- mission, all countries interested in disarmament may be represented. A new steel process is said to yield steel forty per cent lighter than ordinary steel, and that 30 per cent can be saved in costs by using it for construction purposes. The steel was invented by a Swiss named Mosshard. A world-wide shakeup is predicted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. On the 17th of September, 1925, he announced that he had for some time been warned by the spirits of a coming disaster that might last for three years, from 1925 to 1928, because of the wickedness of the children of men. An Italian princess, Mafalda, was married, September. 23, to a German prince, Philip of Hesse, at Raconidi, Italy. The bride is a daughter of the king and queen of Italy. The bridegroom is a nephew of the ex-emperor of Germany and a second cousin of King George V. Members of nine royal houses attended the wedding, and two, England and Spain, sent representatives. The bride is a Roman Catholic and the bridegroom a Protestant, but the pope had given his consent to the union, on condition that the children, if any, should be Catholics. The newlyweds went to Germany for their honeymoon. Mrs. Johanna Herting Christenson, Gunnison, Sanpete Co., Utah, an- swered the final call, October 8, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nephi Gledhill, 85 years of age. She was a native of Sweden, and came to this country in 1862. .The following year she was married to John Christenson of American Fork. Surviving are the following sons and daughters: Bishop Joseph Christenson, recorder in the Salt Lake temple; Miss Emma Chris- tenson, Mrs. Hannah Lundberg and Hyrum A. Christenson, all of Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Anna Gledhill of Gunnison. Eighteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also survive. Future disarmament and economic conferences will be held under the auspices of the League of Nations, according to resolutions adopted by the Assembly at Geneva, September 22, 1925. The Council is authorized to make the preliminary studies necessary, and. as soon as general security is obtained, a conference will be convened for the purpose of effecting limitation and disarmament. The British delegates pointed out that arbitration, security, and disarmament was the road to peace, thereby accepting in principle the dis- carded Geneva protocol. The Assembly adjourned September 27, having decided to erect a new Assembly Hall. Alien communists are to be deported from the United States according to an announcement by Secretary of Labor Davis, September 20, 1925. The law, the Secretary says, is unequivocal on this subject. 'There is no place in America for any one who believes in force or violence or the destruction of property as agencies for the overthrow or changing of forms of organized

90 IMPROVEMENT ERA human society. Whether arriving with or without passports or other docu- ments, a member of any communist organization would have to be excluded under the law." Secretary Davis designated a communist as a member of the communist Internationale or of one of its affiliated bodies. Dr. Charles Hardy Carroll passed away, September 30, at his home in Provo, Utah, after two weeks' illness caused by septi-cemia. He was a well known physician, surgeon, and medical director of the Brigham Young Uni- versity. Dr. Carrol was born at Orderville, Utah, November 6, 1880, the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Carroll. In 1901, he married Miss Elsie Chamberlain, who has written many stories for the Era and who accompanied him to Ithaca, N. Y., where he entered Cornell university and was given an assistant pro- fessorship. In 1914, Dr. Carroll entered the Rush Medical college, from which institution he was graduated with an M. D. degree. After spending one year of intern work he came to Provo in 1920, and engaged in the practice of medicine. The Utah State Fair was open from the first to the seventh of October, 1925. It was undoubtedly the most successful Fair ever held in Utah. The attendance, about 125,000 people, including free admission passes, was the largest ever. The number of exhibitors exceeded any heretofore, and the quality of the exhibits set a new mark in Utah fairs. The general opinion expressed by all who visited the grounds was that it was the biggest, the best and most interesting that Utah has ever held and was a success from all standpoints. The labor put upon the displays was prodigious. The paid admissions for the first six days of the Fair totalled $65,000. The best educational booth was won by the State Industrial School, E. J. Milne superintendent. The agricultural, art, educational, and animal industry in- terests were extremely interesting and the display all that could be expected. Homer P. Christensen, born in American Fork, May 3. 1886, the basket ball and track coach at the West High, died in Salt Lake City, October 13, 1925. He had devoted practically his entire life since completing his schooling to the physical development of youth, being associated with various high schools. He had inspired many young people to a better and cleaner life by his high ideals and words of wisdom. He made many friends. His college days were spent at the Brigham Young University at Provo and he was an athlete of more than ordinary prowess. Last year he was made the State Arbiter t>f basket ball by the colleges of Utah. His passing is a distinct loss to the state. He leaves, besides his widow, the following brothers and sisters: Bernard Christensen of American Fork, John S. Christensen of Cedar City, Mrs. Edith C. Anderson, Mrs. Mabel E. W. Reese and Mrs. R. Kendall Thomas of Salt Lake. Massacre of Druses by the hundreds was reported on the 18th of Sep- tember, 1925, as an incident of the war operations in Syria. Ignorant of the barbed-wire, the Druses charged the handful of Frenchmen. The tribesmen and horses were soon tangled in the triple stranded wire, whereupon the French machine guns opened up a cross fire, causing a revolting, hellish scene of carnage, the men, horses and blood mingling amidst the stones and barbed-wire. Undeterred, the savages withdrew, circled and charged the garrison from another front, where the same slaughter was repeated. From 4 until 10 o'clock the Druses charged, ahorse and afoot, each time retrieving dead and wounded. At 10 o'clock the thermometer was 100 degrees, and the French gunners were dripping with sweat and blood and caked with dust. The last volley saw the remnants of the Druses riding off. There were practically no French dead. Funeral services for Mrs. Louise Elizabeth Lusty Penrose, widow of the late President Charles W. Penrose, who died Saturday, October 3. were held in the Twenty-first ward chapel, October 7, under the direction of the

PASSING EVENTS 91 Eleventh ward bishopric in the presence of numerous friends and relatives. The services began with an organ prelude by Professor Tracy Y. Cannon. The song, "The End of a Perfect Day," was rendered by a male quartet. The opening prayer was then offered by Lorenzo N. Stohl, and the solo, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought," was sung by Charles R. Pike. President Charles W. Nibley told of her long life of faithful service to her family and Church. Other speakers were President John M. Knight, of the Western states mission, John Cameron, and D. H. Livingston. Henry Wallace pro- nounced the benediction. The grave in the city cemetery was dedicated by Bishop C. Clarence Neslen. The pallbearers were six grandsons of Mrs. Pen- rose. Mrs. Penrose was a native of Cheltenham, England, where she was born June 20, 1843. It was there that she met President Penrose, who was laboring as a missionary for his church, and heard him preach. She joined the Church there and emigrated to this country at 1 9 years of age. Mrs. Penrose was the only member of her family to come to Utah at that time. The Presidency of the General Primary Association was reorganized on Tuesday, October 6, 1925. Mrs. Louie B. Felt, the first and only president of the Association, was released at her own request with a vote of thanks ; and Miss May Anderson, first counselor to Mrs. Felt, was sustained as the new president. She chose as her counselors, Mrs. Sadie G. Pack and Mrs. Isabel S. Ross of Ogden, both members of the General Board. Mrs. Felt has been in the service of the Primary forty-seven years, and with her was released Mrs. Clare W. Beebe, second counselor, with a vote of thanks. Miss Anderson announces that she will continue the policy and methods of ex- tensive service introduced by Mrs. Felt. Miss Anderson has been with the organization from October 5, 1890, and is now the oldest member of the General Board. She is the first and only editor of the Children's Friend, published since 1902, and the originator of the plan of taking care of crippled and sick children, which led to the establishment of the Children's Con- valescent Hospital at North Temple street. Mrs. Pack and Mrs. Ross have been active workers in the organization for many years. Mrs. Beebe who continues with the Board has been a member since May, 1904, and was selected second counselor December 29, 1905. She has rendered splen- did work in connection with the Civic Center Milk Fund, and welfare work in prominent societies for children. The General Board of Primary was organized June 19, 1880, at which time Mrs. Felt became president. She had labored two years prior to that time as president of the Eleventh ward Primary Association, Salt Lake City. Cast Thine Eyes In walking o'er life's troubled sea, O look not at each wave. But cast on Him a steadfast gaze Whose power alone can save. Had Peter gazed upon the Lord Instead of on the sea, The Omnipotence of His word Had borne him gloriously. O, heavenly Father, grant us faith, That we may walk full brave, And by the power of thy great love Surmount each threatening wave. Oakland, California ANNIE G. LAURITZEN