Passing Events

^Passin'k ILvents Earthquake shocks rocked Santa Barbara, Cal., Aug. 26, 1927, early in the morning. Two disastrous earthquakes have disturbed this city within the last three years. The airmail route, after ten years' successful operation by the govern- ment, passed into the hands of private operators September 1, 1927. Every airmail line in the country is now under private operators under contract with the government. Air racing is too expensive. It has been calculated that the first trans- oceanic race from San Francisco to Honolulu has cost seven lives and over $300,000, to win $35,000. It is not worth it. The only contribution it has made to our knowledge of aviation is, that an aviator who starts for Honolulu has the odds, four to one against him, that he will ever get there. Heavy loss of life and immense property damage in Japan was reported September 13, 1927, as the result of a typhoon and tidal wave combined. More than 100 persons perished in the Kumamoto prefecture, island of Kiushiu. | One thousand houses are reported to have been inundated and destroyed. The city of Nagasaki and nearby towns were struck by a typhoon that caused immense damage. President Coolidge arrived in Washington, September 11, 1927, after a three months' vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Politicians are still divided in their opinions as to the real meaning of President Coolidge's "I do not choose" declaration, and the president has, so far, not given any further explanation of that short, unadorned oracular expression. The president, it is said, has enjoyed his holiday and is in fine form to take up his work in Washington. Salt Lake has received another park. Mr. George Mueller, president of the Royal Baking Co., on the 14th of September, 1927, presented the city with a 1000-acre tract in Bountiful Canyon, on condition that t,he property be maintained .as a public park. Plans have been set on foot for the construction of a loop driveway, or boulevard, over which automobilists could motor from Salt Lake, through City Creek Canyon and the Bountiful Canyon park, and return to Salt Lake by way of the Bountiful road. Dr. G. Hodgson Higgins, prominent Churchman in England for many years, and a resident of Salt Lake since 1921, died Aug. 29, 1927. He was born May 19, 1853. He was a graduate of Royal College of Physicians. Leeds, and Royal College, Edinburgh. He had entertained more than a thousand missionaries at his home. He was organist in the Methodist chapel in Leeds for thirteen years, and in Utah had made many friends in pro- fessional and religious circles and especially in Richards ward, where he resided. A raging storm delayed ocean liners, due in Newark, Aug. 25, from 24 to 36 hours. Many passengers were injured and some fatalities were reported. One aged man leaped overboard from one of the vessels. The captain of Miracaribo, reported that the wind at one time had the velocity of 110 miles an hour. Twenty-five fishbig vessels were reported destroyed off the coast of New Foundland. The death toll over the coast of Nova Scotia was placed at 10, and the property loss of $2,000,000. In the Annapolis valley 200,000 barrels of apples were swept from the trees. The eighth assembly of the League of Nations convened at Geneva. Sept. 5, 1927, with 48 nations represented. Senor Alberto Guani of Uruguay, wa selected pernianent chairman. Uruguay is the smallest re-

1148 IMPROVEMENT ERA public in South America, having an area of only 72,000 square miles, being considerably smaller than Utah, although in 1916 its population was 1,378,800. It is quite an honor that has been conferred upon Senor Guani, to preside over the representatives of 48 nations, among which are Great Britain, France, Germany and Japan. Mrs. Mary E. Hullett Snow died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Owen White, in Provo, Utah, the 16th of August, 1927, at the age of 85. She was born in Hancock County, 111., Dec. 12, 1844, and came to Provo with her parents, Clark F. and Phoebe A. Bray Hullett, many years ago. Surviving are the following sons and daughters: Levi, Clark, J. C, Don, Arlington Snow, Mrs. C. H. Miller, Mrs. Charles Pealkey and Mrs. Owen White, all of Provo. Forty-three grandchildren, thrity-three great-grand- children, and two great-great-grandchildren also survive. Wasatch County Livestock show at Heber City, Utah, closed the 17th of August, 1927, with an attendance of 1000 visitors, many from other parts of the state. A feature of the horse department which attracted widespread attention at the show was two pairs of twin horses, considered one of the most remarkable cases in history. They are of the famous Grace-Clydesdale breed and are, by name, Fern and Fawn, three-year-olds, and Bert and Barney, one-year-olds. All four horses are comparatively perfect and were born within a period of twenty-five months. They are owned by Clyde and Charles E. Webster of Charleston. The world peace cause has gained a notable victory, at the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, in the declaration of Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Sept. 9, 1927, that Germany would accept the compulsory arbitration clause of the World Court of International justice, and be a pioneer in everything that pertains to peace. The carrying out of this policy gives France the "security" her belligerent politicians have demanded all these years. It removes every excuse for expensive military preparations for alleged "defense." It gives Gerrnany the leadership among all the smaller nations that demand peace guarantees, and it brings the cause of world peace nearer its victory. A cyclone of intense severity and a tidal wave struck the Mexican Coast, September 7, 1927. It is believed that hundreds of human lives were lost, and that thousands were rendered homeless. Three of Mexico's greatest seaports — Guayamas, Salina Cruz and Manzanillo are reported to have suffered heavy property loss, while two vessels of the .National line, the Jalisco and Navajoa, are missing. Mazatlan, fourth important west coast port, is believed to have been damaged least of all. The storm, described as one of the worst hurricanes in the history of west Mexico, headed up the coast from the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, and swept northward as far as Guayamas, Sonora, within 300 miles of the American border. Territory several hundred miles inland was reported affected. The Dole prize of $25,000 for being the first to fly from the American mainland to Honolulu, after August 1 2, was won by Arthur Goebel of Los Angeles, in the Woolaroc, navigated by Lieutenant William Davis. Mr. Goebel alighted at the Wheeler field, H. T., on Aug. 17, 1927, at 12:23:33 p. m. (2:58:33 San Francisco time), after having been in the air 26 hours 17 minutes and 33 seconds, through fog, moonlight and sunshine. He started from Municipal Airport, Oakland, Cal., on Aug. 16, at 12:36 p. m. The second prize, $ 1 0,000, was taken by Martin Jensen in the Aloha. He started Aug. 16, at 12:34 p. m. and arrived at the Wheeler field, Aug. 17, at 2:20 p. m. (4:50 San Francisco time). There were eight entrants for the race: Bennett Griffin in the Oklahoma hopped off but returned.. Lieutenant Norman Goddard in the El Encanto crashed. A similar fate overtook Living- ston Irving in the Pabco Flier. William Erwin in the Dallas Spirit had to return. No news was received from Jack Frost of the Golden Eagle and John A. Pedlar of the Miss Doran.

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1150 IMPROVEMENT ERA An earthquake visited Palestine and Trans jordania, July 11, 1927, and caused damage estimated at $2,000,000. The number of lives lost is evidently not known. The first report placed it at over 600; later accounts say about 200. The city of Nablus, the ancient Sichem, situated in the narrow pass between Mt. Ebal and Mt. Gerizim, near the gate of which our Lord, one morning early, after having walked from Jerusalem, seated himself to rest, and held the memorable conversation with the Samaritan woman, was almost entirely wiped out. In Jerusalem some public buildings, in- cluding the new university, were damaged. Hebron, the city of Abraham, one of the oldest on earth, felt the quake, and what was left of the ruins of Jericho was destroyed. Rabbi Ehrenpreis, of Stockholm, notes the fact that the country where the Zionists dwell was almost entirely untouched by the destroyer. The quake occurred on a line southward from Jerusalem towards Jericho and the Dead Sea. Nablus was inhabited mostly by Mohammedans and Samaritans. Martin Christopherson. a pioneer landscape gardener, died Aug. 24, 1927, at his home in Salt Lake City, of pneumonia. On Jan. 1, 1926, he left Salt Lake City to preside over the Norwegian mission. During the winter months, shortly (after his arrival in Oslo, he took sick and was confined to his bed for several weeks. He returned home on July 28, 1927, and has been ailing ever since. Elder Christopherson has performed four missions and has always been active in Church work at home. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Janet Leddingham and the following children: M. E., Dr. Willard, Victor, Jessie Rigby, George W. Christopherson, Ella Burton, Norma Mackay, Dr. Alvin Christopherson, and Edna Mackay; also 27 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The funeral services were held August 28, in the 27th ward chapel, under the direction of Bishop Joel Richards. The chapel was filled to overflowing. The speakers were Elder Oluf Andersen, Castle Gate, D. T. F. Hardy, President Anthony W. Ivins and Bishop Joel Richards. The grave was dedicated by Elder J. M. Sjodahl. Old Glory, the monoplane that took the air at Old Orchard, Maine beach, on September 6, 1927, at 1:23 p. m., for a non-stop flight to Rome, was found in the Atlantic, Sept. 12, a water-logged wreck, about 600 miles north- east of St. Johns, by the S. S. Keyle, a Canadian vessel that left St. Johns on Sept. 10, to search for the missing plan/2. No trace was found of the aviators, Lloyd Bertaud, J. D. Hill and Philip A. Payne, but the hope is feebly expressed that they were picked up by some small vessel that carried no radio. They were last heard from Sept. 8, at almost 4 a. m., when they sent out the S. O. S. signal of distress. A rudder and part of the wing of an unidentified plane were found, about the same time, on the beach of Newguay, Cornwall, England, and a French fishing schooner reported having sighted airplane wreckage 300 miles east of Halifax, N. S. These discoveries, it is supposed, may account for the fate of Charles Nungesser and Coli, who left Le Bourget for New York, May 8, and for Frederick C. Minchin, Leslie Hamilton and Princess Loewenstein- Wertheim, who left Upavon, England, Aug. 31, for Ottawa, Canada. Joseph Marion Tanner passed away, August 19, 1927, at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 68 years of age. Mr. Tanner was born in Payson, March 25, 1859. He was the son of Myron Tanner of the Mormon battalion and of Mary Jane Mount Tanner. He was educated at the public schools of Provo and the B. Y. U. of that place. He also attended Harvard University and graduated from that institution. In 1879, he was employed as engineer for the Rio Grande Western Railroad company and three years later became surveyor for Provo city. The following year he went on a mission to Germany and spent three and a half years there and in Turkey. He became the first supreme court reporter for the state of Utah in 1896.

PASSING EVENTS 115 1 For a number of years he was also engaged in the practice of law in Salt Lake. For some years he was superintendent of the Church schools and member of the Church board of education. He served four years as president of the Utah Agricultural College, being elected to that position in 1896. In 1888, he was president of the Brigham Young College at Logan. For the last twenty years Mr. Tanner was engaged in farming in Canada. He contributed many articles to the Improvement Era. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh honored Salt Lake City with a visit on Sept. 3, 1927, in the interest of the Gugenheim aviation foundation. He arrived promptly at 2 p. m., at the Woodward flying field, after having circled over the city fora few minutes, at times at such an altitude as to be almost invisible to most of the spectators. The city was gaily decorated with flags and bunting, the shop windows displayed pictures of the flier, in all possible and impossible poses. Thousands of admirers, male and female, thronged the flying-field, the streets. Liberty Park, and the Taber- nacle, to see and hear the famous bird-man, who gave the impression of being tired of all the fuss, not to say bored by it. However, the Colonel acknowledged the enthusiasm of Salt Lake City's population, and suggested that some of it be spent on the development of aviation. The flying-field, he thought, could stand some improvements. Colonel Lindbergh is neither an orator nor a society lion, as yet, but he is a clean young man, with un- usual strength of character and unsurpassed courage and skill in his line of activity, and with these admirable qualities he has the graceful tact and modesty that win hearts, because they are as rare in our day of "brass" as the most precious jewels. The Path I Love To Travel There are paths that lead us onward, The lure of which is bright; There are paths that lead us onward, With a promise of the right; There are paths in all directions, As on through life we roam, But the path that gives me pleasure Is the path that leads to home. There are paths that beckon onward, With promise of pleasures rare; There are paths that beckon onward, With the hope of fortune fair; There are paths to right and left of us, As we ride life's billowy foam; But the path I delight to travel Is the path that leads to home. It is there the greatest pleasures For me can e'er be found; It is there the greatest wealth exists, If children but abound; It is there I'd rather spend my days Than o'er the earth to roam ; It is the path I love to travel, The path that leads to home. St. George, Utah. H. L. REID.