Passing Events

QassinQ Events The Utah Agricultural College Experiment Station, on July 7. issued a circular of very great import to farmers. Fall plowing of stubble land is the only known practicable means of controlling wheat jointworms, which have caused a ten per cent loss to the total wheat crop of Utah, amount- ing to practically 600,000 bushels. Fall plowing is the remedy. All fields should be Fall-plowed, it is urged. Congress adjourned on * July 3, after having enacted a total of 75 9 laws out of 17,812 introduced. Among the more important bills given presidential sanction were the $51,000,000 second deficiency bill, carrying the first year's public building program, with numerous other appropriations, and the veterans' compensation measure, which .authorizes the expenditure of $12,000,000 additional for former service men and their dependents. Why Americans are disliked is the problem that business men will undertake to solve, if a proposition made at the session of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World at Philadelphia, June 21, 1926, is acted upon. Bruce Barton, New York, suggested that the club members offer their services to the Chamber of Commerce to find out. He also suggested that the finding of the investigators be laid before the American people. Herman Harvard Green, senior member of the City commission, died, June 25, 1926, at St. Marks hospital, after an operation for gall stone. He was born July 7, 1868, at Independence, Ohio, and came west in 1895. At first he engaged in mining. Later entered politics, and in 1915 he was elected a member of the City commission to which position he has been re-elected twice, in 1919 and 1923. He has been commissioner of public affairs and finance. A protest against persecution of Catholics in Mexico is sent to the ambassadors of the Vatican throughout the world, by Cardinal Gaspari, on behalf of the pope. The "persecution," the Cardinal holds, is a disgrace to the country, since it is directed against the Catholics; if it were directed against the Latter-day Saints or against the Jews, would the Catholics sing, "Te Deum," as they did when French Protestants were assassinated by the thousands in 1572, in an effort to exterminate protestantism in that country?" The German people fail to support the proposition to expropriate the property of former rulers. In the general vote on the question 14,889,703 ballots were cast in favor of expropriation and only 542,311 against. But as the law required at least half of the electorate or about 20,000,000 affirmative votes, the proposition was lost, notwithstanding the overwhelming majority of those who voted were in favor of it. About 60 per cent of the voters stayed away from the polls. The ex- rulers will now have money for agitation against the people. John M. Weeks, former U. S. Secretary of War, died, July 12, 1926, at Mount Prospect, Lancaster, N. H., of angina pectoris. He was born April 11, 1860, near the place where he died. In early life he attended the naval academy at Annapolis, and served two years as midshipman. He served in the Spanish war as captain on the Atlantic navy force. In 1904 he was elected congressman from the 12th district in Massachusetts, and entered the Senate in the 63 rd congress. He was appointed secretary of war by President Harding.

1000 IMPROVEMENT ERA Clara S. Jacobs, a sturdy pioneer, born in Clinton county, Ohio, October 17, 1835 died at Sugar City, Idaho, May 16, 1926. In a poetic tribute to her, T. Leo Jacobs, a grandson, calls attention to her loving smile and to incidents of going with her across the snow on Thanksgiving and Christ- mas Eve, leaning on her arm; and' of playing by her old arm chair and receiving from her fresh doughnuts which she gave him with a loving pat. To him she was loveable grandma, always the same, through sunshine and shadow, no matter what her care. Eliza Allred Sheppard, oldest resident of Richmond, Utah, born October 2, 1826, at Richmond, Ray county, Missouri, died Sunday, March 21, 1926. She was a daughter of Isaac Allred and Julia Ann Taylor. Her father was a body guard to the Prophet Joseph Smith. She came to Utah with her parents in 1851; married Justin Sheppard May, 1855; lived at Farmington until 1859, and has since resided in Richmond. Three children survive her: James I. Sheppard, Mrs. George M. Thompson and Mrs. Joseph R. Thompson; also fifty-two grandchildren and forty-two great-grandchildren; two sisters, Julia A. Wilcox, Leon Smith Salmon; and a half-brother, Samuel Allred. Runic inscriptions are said to have been found at Seattle, Wash. Ac- cording to a translation by Prof. Oluf Opsjon, they commemorate a battle between Indians and Norsemen in the year 1010, A.-D. A band of North- men, consisting of 24 men and 7 women, camped at the place marked by the inscriptions. A party of Indians attacked the campers. Twelve of the latter and one woman were killed. Two men and six women were captured. Later, six survivors returned to the scene of the conflict, buried the dead and wrote the story on the rock. Mr. Opsjon was a university professor in Norway for several years and is the author of numerous articles on early Norse history. He came to America several years ago to search for Norse records and for the last two years has been hunting for traces of Norse expeditions in the Pacific Northwest. Five persons were burned to death in a U . P. tourist sleeper, and many were injured, near Crystal, Nev., June 16, 1926, when the sleeper caught fire, possibly owing to imperfect wiring. The fire was discovered at 5:13 a. m., by one C. E. Drummond from Glendive. Mont., who immediately notified the conductor, and an attempt was made to put out the flames. It was thought that this was done, but when the train was again set in motion, the flames were again fanned up and in a few minutes the car was a raging furnace. Five bodies were later removed from the car. Among these were Mrs. J. ,G. King of Drummond. Mont., a young bride, who, with her husband, was returning home from their honeymoon. Mr. King had thrown him- self out through a window, and Mrs. King, believing that he was in the car, went in search for him, when she was overcome by smoke and fumes. Mr. King sustained a badly bruised knee and sprained back. Earthquakes caused damage in most of the islands in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, June 27, 1926, but mostly in Rhodes and Crete. The famous archaeological museum at Candia was destroyed. The quake was felt all over Greece and the Dodecanes islands. A late dis- patch states that serious damage was done at Rhodes. The most serious damage thus far reported was in the southern extreme of the island of Rhodes, where a lighthouse was destroyed and one person was killed and several were injured. Shocks were also felt in the other islands of the Dodecanese. An earthquake was registered in Egypt, and at the Helwan observatory. It was announced that the shock came so suddenly and with such force as to put the seismograph out of commission. At Cairo, Port Said and other towns the earthquake caused consternation among the inhabitants, who fled from the houses and ran into the streets shouting. The damage, however, was not serious.

PASSING EVENTS 1001 An earthquake shook southern California, June 29, the anniversary of the Santa Barbara quake a year ago. The center of the disturbance was again a Santa Barbara where chimneys were toppled over, windows broken, and the telephone service was interrupted. Colin Orr, a 3 -year-old boy, was killed when a chimney toppled over on him and crushed him to death. The shock occurred shortly after 3 o'clock and extended southward along the coast, apparently ending in the vicinity of Long Beach, the most southern city to report having felt the shake. The earth disturbance apparently extended only a few miles inland, it having not been felt in San Bernardino, sixty-five miles east of Los Angeles, nor in Calexico, inland, and to the south, in Imperial valley. In the Los Angeles area the principal effects of the quake were rattling of dishes and swaying electric light fixtures. At the weather bureau two pendulum clocks, swinging on a north and south axis, were stopped by the tremor at 3:22. The naval depot at Dover, N. J., was wrecked, July 10, by an ex- plosion in which many people perished. At midnight flames still roared through the depot and repeated smaller explosions made it impossible foi rescue workers to enter the danger area to remove the dead and assist 'the injured. Soldiers and marines formed a guard around the depot, allowing no one to pass. Hundreds of persons living in a radius of a few miles of the depot were injured when the blasts leveled their homes. Most of the dead were marines stationed at the depot. A bolt of lightning late in the after- noon struck an arsenal, which exploded. The entire force at the depot — seventy men — was called out to fight the fire which followed, and a second and great explosion caught them, leaving them dying or injured. On July 12 the flames were again fanned into a flare and caused further explosions. Parts of seventeen bodies were found in the day's first exploration of the shell- torn naval reservation, bringing the total number of known dead to nineteen. The bodies and remains brought out the first day were sent to the naval hospital in Brooklyn. Bishop James Devalston Cummings, president of the high priests' quorum of Grant stake, and who was bishop of the Wilford ward from 1900 to 1924, died Thursday, June 11, at his home, Salt Lake City, Utah, after a brief illness, at the age of 67. He was born at Willard, Utah, September 30, 185 9, the son of Benjamin Franklin Cummings and Mary Jane Yearsley Cummings. In his early life, he attended the University of Deseret. after which he followed the school teaching profession for sixteen years, and also served the Thirty-sixth school district as trustee for ten years. He filled a mission for the L. D. S. Church in California in 1893-4; and one in the Northern States in 1898-1900, where he acted as president of the Wisconsin conference. Despite his many other activities and duties, both church and civic- he was a most untiring and persistent worker in the temples of the Church, a labor in which he took keen interest and which he appeared to love sincerely. On March 4, 1880, he married Louisa Cufley, who, together with four sons, one sister and nine grandchildren, survive him. His sons are: William D. Cummings, Brigham City, Utah; and Franklin D., Clarence and Clifford R. Cummings of Salt Lake City. The life and character of Bishop Cummings snriched the lives of hundreds of young people, men and women, upon whom he left impressions for good by his associa- tion and leadership; and his passing means a loss to the community in which he resided. During his life he was held in high esteem by all who knew him, and his memory will be cherished and honored both by posterity and friends. The twenty-eighth international Eucharistic Congress of the Roman church opened in Chicago, June 20, 1926, with all the pomp and glory which that church adopted from pagan Rome. John Cardinal Bonzano, the special papal legate, was installed as the representative of Pope Pius XI. There were present 12 cardinals, 400 bishops, 3,000 priests, 10,000 nuns.

1002 IMPROVEMENT ERA and an immense throng of "pilgrims." The official welcome was tendered the cardinals in the Coliseum, June 18, in the presence of an immense throng, by Mayor Wm. E. Dever, Gov. Len Small, and Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, as the representative of Pres. Coolidge. Mr. D. F. Kelly, knight commander of St. Gregory, presided and introduced "the dis- tinguished representative of Christ's vicar on earth. John Cardinal Bonzano, apostolic legate of his holiness, Pope Pius XI." The ceremonies at the Cathedral began with an ecclesiastical procession headed by Acolytes, carrying golden crucifixes, and ending by the cardinals in the scarlet robes and trains. Then a papal brief was read, first in Latin then in English. The pope charged his legate "to urge upon the charity of all" the "return to the Roman church of our separated brethren which must be sought" and furthered that "all may be one." Cardinal Bonzano greeted the assembly, concluding with a prayer for "the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ, the reign of good will under his dominion, the freedom of the spirit and the cheerful subjection to his law." Cardinal Mundelein, in a sermon, pointed out that "no king on earth, no emperor of Rome, was ever honored as Jesus Christ is honored today in the city of Chicago." The sessions of the Eucharistic Congress closed on June 2, with these words of dismissal: "he, missa est." (Go. it is the dismissal.) But the following day there was a gathering at the grounds of the seminary of St. Mary of the Lake, where Cardinal Bonzano uttered the word of the papal benediction. The Crown Prince Gustaf Adolph and the Crown Princess [Louise, «fl Sweden, on July 9, 1926, spent a day in Salt Lake City, on their trip through the United States, to the Pacific coast. An organ recital was given in the Tabernacle, which was very much enjoyed by the visitors. Receptions were given in the Capitol, at Fort Douglas, the University, the Country Club, and at Liberty Park, where probably 10,000 people were gathered to see and hear the royal couple. In his address at the Park, the Crown Prince, deliberately made use of a truly remarkable expression. Governor Dern had paid a fine tribute to the excellency of the Swedish element as pioneers, home builders, citizens- etc. The Crown Prince replied in part: "We are indeed glad to know that my country has been given an opportunity to contribute to the development of Utah." The royal travelers left the City in the evening for Cedar City. On July 11, they visited Zion National Park and beheld the natural wonders of that region. A surprise awaited them there, when they were invited to open a new trail which was to be named the "Royal Trail" in their honor. The prince, on being informed of this, dismounted from his horse and swung along the trail on foot with the remark: "Since my country, the crown princess and myself have been so honored, I must break the trail myself. This is a great honor and I thank you all for this great kindness." The Crown Prince and his party left Utah, July 13. It was the 37th an- niversary of the birth of the Princess, and the day was celebrated with a picnic and a birthday cake, baked by the Bryce Lodge cook, and frosted in the Swedish colors, blue and yellow. The lunch was enjoyed under the pines on a beautiful spot, overlooking the clear, sparkling waters of three lakes, north of Kanab. To a newspaper correspondent the Crown Prince volunteered the statement that his visit in Utah had been very enjoyable. He said: "You have alt been so kind and courteous, and will you express the appreciation of the Crown Princess and myself for the very kind treatment and friendship shown us, not only in Salt Lake, but all through our trip in your State. Our Utah visit has indeed been most pleasant and will be remembered as one of the best and most interesting parts of our journey." His final words were: "/ will remember Utah and its people, its scenery and attractions, and I hope I will be able to come again and see more of your wonderful State."