Passing Events

Charles N. Fehr is the name of the new Salt Lake City Commissioner, selected to succeed the late Herman H. Green, on July 22, 1926. He is the manager of an optical company and an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Ferguson, governor of Texas, beaten in the primary elections, de- clared on July 26 that she would quit. She accepts the defeat as a notice from the voters of the state that they have had enough. The successful Democratic candidate, Dan Moody, attorney-general of Texas, is only 33 years old. Later the lady announced that she would run against Mr. Moody. Hatred of the United States in Europe seems to grow in intensity. In Paris crowds on the boulevards have been attacking sight-seeing cars con- taining Americans. The anti-American feeling is formed by newspapers which denounce the American tourists. On the 24th of July there was some talk about the possibility of diplomatic protests against the anti-American demonstrations. A tornado that swept the Bahama Islands the last week of July caused damage estimated at $8,000,000. The death toll was reported as 126 on Aug. 1 . Thirty-five persons, half the population of the town of Adelaide, escaped death when they sought safety from- the raging hurricane in the village church. The islands of Exumu and Eluethera radioed they suffered heavy losses from the hurricane, but gave no details of casualties or of prop- erty damage. Shipping men reported, however, that two hundred per- sons were homeless on the islands. Miss Gertrude Ederle succeeded in crossing the English channel swim- ming on Aug. 6 She is the first, woman who has accomplished that feat, and her time is the shortest, being 14 hours and 23 minutes. The previous record is 1 6 hours 23 minutes, held by Sebastian Giraboschi, of Buenos Aires, who, on August 11-12, 1923, made 27 miles across, swim- ming, in the time mentioned. Miss Ederle's crossing is the sixth, and it is thought her record will stand perhaps forever. She is the 19-year-old daughter of a German-born butcher at Highlands, N. J. Election frauds in Illinois have been charged, and the charges have been investigated by a grand jury. On July 16, 1926, the jury named 44 election judges and clerks who served in Cook county's April primaries, including five women, in the indictments returned. They are charged with conspiracy and with making a false canvass. Eleven indictments had pre- viously been voted by another jury. The number of stolen votes is esti- mated at about four millions. Judge Edmund Jarecki has ordered a complete recount of all the votes in the Cook county primaries held last April. Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, the Los Angeles evangelist who has been missing and thought dead, turned up June 23, 1926, at Bisbee, Arizona, and was taken to a hospital. She related that she had been kid- naped at Ocean Park, May 18, by two men and a woman, and taken to a shack in Mexico, where she was held for half a million dollars' ransom. She had succeeded in escaping and making her way to Agua Prieta, where she was found by one James Anderson, an American. The sheriff, James F. McDonald, says her apparel gives no evidence of a flight over desert country. An open letter on the war debt of France to the United States, was published Aug. 9, by Georges Clemenceau, the war minister of France, also known as "the Tiger." The burden of his appeal is that nations are not

PASSING EVENTS 1121 business houses that can settle their accounts at the cashier's window. The debt in question is one of war and not of commerce, and should not be regarded as a financial obligation. France will never consent to mortgage her territorial possessions as security for the debt. "France is not for sale, even to her friends," etc. In other words the United States is a soulless creditor. The letter has caused a great stir in political circles in France, and indignation in this country. t An Indian congress was held at Spokane, beginning July 21, 1926, where the Indian interests were discussed. The older Indians complained of the failure of the government to keep treaty agreements, while the younger generation urged the Indians to appeal to the government for redress. "Hitherto," Levi Walker of the Klamath tribe said, "we have been silent parties in the administration of Indian affairs. Today we are intending to cooperate with the government." United States Senator Wesley L. Jones was among the few white men on the platform at the first session". He assured the Indians of the government's intention to treat them fairly and eventually to grant them full rights of citizenship. Robert Todd Lincoln, was found dead in his bed at his Summer resi- dence at Manchester, Vt., July 26, 1926. He was the only surviving son of President Abraham Lincoln. Servants found him dead in the morning. On Aug. 1, he would have been 8 3 years old. One of his two daughters, Mrs. Charles Isham of New York, has her Summer home near. Two of his three grandchildren, Mary Beckwith and James Beckwith, the children of his other daughter, Mrs. F. E. Johnson of Washington, came to Hildene a few days ago. He is survived also by his widow and a third grandchild, Lincoln Isham of New York City. Mr. Lincoln had served as secretary of war, minister to Great Britain and for years as president of the Pullman company, Of late he has been in feeble health. Around the world in 28 days, 14 hours, 3 6 minutes, 51 seconds is the record made by Edward S. Evans and Linton O. Wells, who arrived in New York, July 15, 1926, at 4:10 p. m., having traveled 20,100 miles over land and sea, by train, steam boats, airplanes and automobiles. The two travelers started from Park row at 1:30 a. m.. June 1 6 in dinner clothes, following a farewell banquet given in their honor at the Ritz Carlton. They sped to the battery in an automobile, took a coast guard speed boat and over- took the Aquitania, which already had sailed, down the bay. They arrived today in grimy khaki overalls, their faces burned by the winds of eight countries through which they have passed and smeared with the grease of the planes in which they made their final sprint across country today from Rantoul, 111., to Mitchell field, Long Island. Israel Zangwill passed away at a Midhurst, Sussex, England, hospital, Aug. 1, 1926, of pneumonia. He was a famous playwright and novelist, an ardent Zionist and exponent of modern Judaism. He made his reputation in 1892 with his novel, "The Children of the Ghetto." He was born in London, Feb. 14, 1864. He became the founder of the literary journal Ariel and the London Puck. He was an enthusiast for the gathering of the Jews. Long before the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, Zangwill had made several efforts to create settlements abroad for his race, suffering from persecution under the czarist regime in Russia. At the Zionist congress in Basel in 1905, he urged acceptance of a British proposal regard- ing a Jewish settlement in British East Africa. Later he advocated a plan to settle Jewish families in Galveston, Texas, and, in 1908, he urged Meso- potamia as the place for a Jewish homeland. Mrs. Sarah Jane Rich Milter died at a Salt Lake hospital, Aug 5, at the age of 87 years. She was the daughter of the late Elder Charles C. Rich, of the Council of Twelve, and Mrs. Sarah de Armon P. Rich. She was born at Quincy, 111., March 4, 183 9. At Nauvoo she knew the Prophet Joseph Smith, who was an intimate friend of her parents. At the age

1122 IMPROVEMENT ERA of eight, she was baptized by her father in the Missouri river, near Winter Quarters. With the company of emigrants headed by her father, Mrs. Miller arrived in Salt Lake valley in October, 1847. She married John Tobin, by whom she had one daughter, Ella, who now lives in Salt Lake. Following the demise of Mr. Tobin, she married Thomas R. .Miller, who wrote for the Salt Lake Herald under the name of "Plus Ultra." Mrs. Miller was an earnest Church worker all her life, and was president of the Young Ladies Retrenchment Society, forerunner of the Y. L. M. I. A. in the Seventeenth ward in 1870. \ Mrs. Martha Alice Goddard, the wife of Elder Benjamin Goddard, of the Church Bureau of Information, died at a local hospital Aug. 1. For years Mrs. Goddard was known as "Aunt Allie," dear to the hearts of hun- dreds of children and grown-ups who had partaken of her hospitality. She was born in Lancashire, England, Jan. 14, 1855, and emigrated to Utah in 1879. Her services in the Primary Association and Relief Society extended over 40 years and were only discontinued during the past few years due to ill health. As a member of the Relief Society she gave much of her time to ministering to the sick and distressed, to comforting and assisting at times of death. For many years she was a member of the Tabernacle choir. Her home was always a center of social activity and hundreds of friends will recall the genuineness of her hospitality. Surviving Mrs. Goddard, in addition to her husband, are one son, J. Percy Goddard; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Goddard and Mrs. Hannah Stott, Meadow, Utah, and the following grand- children: Norma, Orson, Harold and Alice Ruth Goddard. Mrs. Sally Allred Hyde died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Caroline Turner, in Logan, Sunday, Aug. 1. She was at the time of her death one of the few then still living who had been personally acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith. Her grandfather's home was in the same block in Nauvoo as that of the prophet and her grandfather was one of his body guards. She remembered seeing the prophet pass and of his placing his hand upon her head; of her brother sitting often on the prophet's knee. She also remembered him riding at the head of the Nauvoo Legion. Mrs. Hyde was born, Dec. 31, 1834, near Salt Creek, Monroe county, Missouri, the daughter of Martin C. and Polly Heskett Allred, both of whom died in 1839, leaving Sally and her three brothers and two sisters who were taken into the home of the grandparents, James and Elizabeth Allred. When the call was made for the Mormon Battalion her brothers and uncle joined, taking with them their wives. Sally accompanied them to Salt Lake on Aug. 28, 1849, where she lived with her sister-in-law and sister at the old fort. She was married Sept. 1, 1850, to William Hyde by President Brigham Young. Shortly after this a home was mai> for her in Big Cottonwood when her husband was called on a mission to Australia. Upon his return they moved to Salt Lake, thence to Lehi, then up to Cache valley, settling in what is now known as Hyde Park. S U. S. Senator Albert B. Cummins passed away, July 30, 1926, at his home in Des Moines, Iowa, of heart disease. Born on February 15, 1850, near Carmichael, Pa., Mr. Cummins was a son of Thomas and Sarah Cummins. His father was a carpenter and the son picked up the elements of that trade as an odd-time helper to his parent. He attended public school and later entered college at Waynesboro. Early in his college career he felt the call of the West, and set out for the territory beyond the Mississippi. Here he became interested in railroad construction and was offered a position with the Rio Grande. So he started for Denver, but while waiting for his train in Chicago a friend suggested that he remain and study law, which he did. After being admitted to the bar in Chicago, he moved to Des Moines, where he worked his way to the front rapidly. In 188 7, some Republicans bolted their party and named him as an independent candidate for the legis- lature. He was elected and served one term. Five years later he was made chairman of the Republican state convention. Soon afterward Mr.

PASSING EVENTS 1123 Cummings made his first fight for a place in the United States Senate, but was defeated by a narrow margin. He rallied to his support many young men, and the party divided into Cummins and anti-Cummins elements. In 1901, after a stormy campaign, he was elected governor, a place he held until his election to the senate. He was a member of three senate committees — judiciary, of which he was chairman ; interstate commerce, of which he formerly was head, and territories and insular possessions. At the primary election June 7, 1926, he was defeated for re-nomination. Mrs. Priscilla Jennings Riter died suddenly in Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 4, 1926. For some time she has been in poor health and thought a voyage would benefit her. In company with Mrs. Walter P. Jennings, Miss Lucy Van Cott, and Mrs. Ann M. Cannon, she had visited Sweden and gone over to Denmark, and that ended her earthly journey. She was the widow of W. W. Riter, the prominent pioneer and business man, and the daughter of Wm. and Priscilla P. Jennings. She was born in Salt Lake City, July 19, 1860. Mrs. Riter was one of the charter members and the first president of the Utah chapter of the American Red Cross society, organized in May, 1898, by the late Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells. Mrs. Riter was also an active member of the Authors' Club, which she joined about twenty- nine years ago. As a wife of a member of the board of regents of the Uni- versity of Utah, Mrs. Riter was a member of the Women of the University of Utah and always supported its interest. Women's Church organizations also claimed Mrs. Riter's loyal cooperation. She was a member of the Relief Society and Mutual Improvement Association and the Friendship Circle of the Church. She was married to Mr. Riter in April, 1883. Both her father and her husband were pioneers in the industrial development of the state. She is survived by the following sons and daughters: Levi J. Riter. Mrs. Maude R. Cannon, Mrs. May R. Gam, all of Salt Lake; also the following brothers and sisters: Frank W. Jennings, Joseph A. Jennings, William C. Jennings, James E. Jennings, Walter P. Jennings of Salt Lake; Harry Jennings, Los Angeles; Harold P. Jennings, Oakland, Calif.; Mrs. James Eldredge, Bountiful, and Mrs. W. S. Crismon, Los Angeles. *The war in Mexico between the Catholic church and the government entered a critical stage on July 25, 1926, when the archbishop of Mexico, Moray del Rio, and associated archbishops and bishops, by order from Rome, issued a pastoral letter suspending all religious services requiring the administration of priests, in the Catholic churches in Mexico, after July 31. That was done as a protest against the enforcement of the law of 1917, aimed against the political propaganda of the clergymen. The evident object of the suspension of Catholic services was seemingly to set the population against the government and thus compel it to submit to the pope. In addition to suspending the services, the pastoral letter prohibits parents from sending their sons to non-Catholic schools, and threatens all who aid in the en- forcement of anti-Catholic laws and all informers with excommunication. According to a report from the City of Mexico, dated July 27, the mayor of Nochistan, Zacatecas, was murdered by a mob. Several other cases of fatal violence have since then been reported. The Mexican Federation of Labor, on July 29, issued a manifesto declaring its intention to stand by the government in this struggle for freedom. On July 26 an announce- ment was made at the President's office to the effect that Latter-day Saint missionaries had been recalled from that country, because the Church desires to comply with the present requirements of the government in Mexico as in every country. It is unlawful now in Mexico for foreigners to do mis- sionary work there. But the work of the Church is therefore not at an end in that country. There are local ciders, who can take care of the Saints and their spiritual interests- and they will shoulder the responsibility. Pres- ident Anthony W. Ivins explains that the withdrawal is purely voluntary upon the part of Church officials and is a part of the compliance with Mexico's alien religious law, which affects all creeds in the country and

1124 IMPROVEMENT ERA does not permit religious instruction by any but native teachers. It is estimated that there are about seventy elders in the Mexican mission, but many of these are not stationed in Mexico but in the southern parts of the United States, which belong to the Mexican mission. On August 13, the pope sent out protests against the policy of the Mexican government to all papal nuncios and other representatives of the Vatican abroad, with the re- quest that these documents be communicated to the Catholics in all the world. The pope says that the decrees of President Calles are illegal on a juridical basis; that the application of these laws are barbarous, and that they are not sound theology. On the same date emissaries of the Knights of Columbus, in a conference with Secretary Kellogg, urged that the United States interfere in Mexico on behalf of Rome. The secretary, shortly after- wards, started for White Pine Camp, where President Coolidge is passing the Summer months. The present policy of our government is to let Mexico settle her own internal troubles. At the same time American lives and interests will be protected. Sunrise From the Top of Mount Timp A long, hard climb in the gray of dawn, The summit attained at last; The sleeping world in peace at my feet. In a haze of soft blue mist. The blush in the east grows rosy and deep; Heralded by an up-shooting ray, A ball of gold in glory appears. A miracle! The birth of a Day! The endless stretching away of the earth, The wide dome over me bent, An inexpressible soul-stirring within, And I return to my home content. For the sordid round of daily tasks Will not be the same to me, Since standing on top of the world, I caught A glimpse of eternity. St. George. Utah. JUANITA. PULSIPHER. Mother Dear Out of the Garden Eternal was chosen % A Flower which makes of this earth a heaven, And each blossom a royal shrine. "Tis the love of a Mother Full of faith and devotion, Which is loyal, everlasting and true; And if God ever made a flower divine 'Twas the spirit of you — Dear Mother o' Mine Springoille, Utah CAROL BIRD