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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle Openings 1978 Page Fifteen Have a Close Encounter J Golden with the PLACEMENT AND CAREER INFORMATION CENTER Kimb If you need v a He was tall and skinny, His shrill, voice left some with the impression he was shoutine His preching style has been compared to the rapid fire tones of a Southern Baptist, and when his emotions got out 01 control, tne vocabulary he learned as a freigh ter ana logger in tne woods would spill out. The Salt Lake Tribune reported the following from the October 1923 session of General Conference: "The genuine sensation came when Mr. Kimball, bearing testimony to tne truth ol the Mormon faith said: 'I know the Mormon gospel is true, that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and when I know a thing, I know it. Why worry about what the other fellow S says? As far as -I'm concerned, 1 J they can go to i hell, and tha t sV jf 11 where most ofV5 C them belong 11 Kimball 'Mr. took his seat without the usual 'in the name of Jesus won him many friends and helped give life to the many stories about him. According to one J. Golden Kimball story someone asked him if he had ever had a vision. "Hell no," heanswered. "But I've had some damn good nightmares." The Tribune recorded another story at the time women's makeup was , be r . I ........ Information about possible Career Fields Resume WritingInterview Skills Workshops 21 80 Annex Bldg (excellent parking) 581-618- 6 Hours 8-- 5 Monday-Frida- y , i 1 couia not compete with Kimball s blunt manner. Kimball once screeched at a Mormon congregation, "Go to hell! Go to hell! Go to hell and you'll find people who don't live their religion!" At another meeting he allegedly said: 'They say that the Lord sees the sparrow fall.and I guess he does, and they say he sees everything you do, but you can't tell me the Lord's watching you all .tHf tim WHv tnmp rf fK rhinnc Asirrr if iKa Lord didn t turn his head, he'd have sent the lot of ou to hell long ago." Kimball was aware of his own eaknesses. He once said that he never felt so cheap as when someone v would shake him by the hand and call him a good man Some of his weaknesses, however, had their 1MB i IT'S r ifflE! Will humorous side. His biographer, Claude Richards, says that while he was traveling with one of the church apostles he felt the need for a little stimulant. While eating breakfast that day, he whispered to the "V waiter, "Put a little coffee in my pos- - v ? desire that MINOLTA THE WORLD'S ONLY COMPACT. t I cially mean to swear, it was just that he had been conditioned to it as a 6 young man. His father, Heber C. Kimball, first counselor to Brigham Young, used language that shocked even the third California volunteers at Fort Douglas and prompted at least one Deseret News editorial on the evils of profanity. When his father died in 1868, J. Golden Kimball hired out first as a freighter, then later moved to Bear Lake where he labored as a rancher and logger. He simply absorbed the language used in these areas. When he was 80 years old, Kimball commented, "Those words you speak of are what's left over from the cowboy days. They used to be my native language and I don't seem to be able to shake them. Really they come from a much larger vocabulary, only I've gotten rid of the others." When the early radio broadcasting days of General Conference began, swearing over the air was not permitted and censors were duly installed. There is a story about how President Heber J. Grant tried to prevent any slipups in Kimball's language while they were broadcasting. President Grant wrote out a complete talk and all Kimball would have to do was read it. The appointed day came and all was going smoothly. Each speaker spoke his piece and sat down. Finall, Kimball got up and began reading his talk; all was going according to plan. Then suddenly Kimball stopped, turned and looked at President Grant, and squawked, "Hell Heber, I can't read this damn thing." During the Depression of the 1930s, Utah sufferred badly. Banks were failing left and right. During this time a banker accosted Kimball on the street one day and said, "Brother Kimball, you shouldn't use such language as you employ in our church gatherings." To this Brother Kimball dryly replyed, "I don't think this is the time for bankers to be giving advice to anybody." Kimball's practical approach to life almost seemed contradictory to the exalted position he held as the senior of the Council of Seventy. His occasional slips in fresident and loose observance ol the Word of Wisdom made anguage him almost human and sharply contrasted him to the drab image of the other general authorities. His simple doctrine V " 7 ttuh Suit Historical Society When the waiter re- i turned he had forgot- ten who or dered the doctored postum and not knowing any better, blurted out, "Which Ol you gentlemen ordered coffee in his Postum?" A similar story relates how he was eating in a large downtown restaurant with a group of friends. The waiter came around to take orders. When asked what he wanted to drink, Kimball answered weakly, "water." One of the men sitting next to him said to the waiter, "Oh bring him coffee, he likes coffee." The waiter made the change and went on. Kimball didn't say anything until the waiter had gone away, and then he intoned, "The Lord heard me say 'water'." Of the many stories told about Kimball, one of the best known tells how he was preaching the funeral sermon of an aquaintance. Midway through his speech he noticed the "dead man" sitting in the corner of the chapel smiling at him. Turning around he exclaimed, "Bishop, who the hell's funeral is this?" If Kimball stories have continued to thrive, it is partly due to the fact that people have ignored everything else he said. He was more pious than people have come to picture him today. His recorded talks are gems, but in his own lifetime he knew what would be remembered of him. him." D desianed (or multi- - mode operation All other Minolta lenses operate in both aperture-priority and manual modes Switch from aperture to shutter-pnontto me- operation Override automatic exposure system plus or minus two (ull stops Smallest, lightest, quitered-manu- al etest auto winder you can own! Optional Auto Winder D advances dim tor single shots, sequences as fast as 2 frames a second Winder and flash extra QQQ00 5 Year Warranty Student discount on darkroom He once declared, "I realize, my brethren and sister, that during the past 30 years I have said some foolish things. I have, in my own way, given the people a good deal of chaff to get them to take a little wheat, but some of them haven't got sense enough to pick the wheat out from the chaff. If a man in this church ever does say a foolish thing, they will remember it to the very day of their death; and it is the only thing some of them do remember." Although he suffered from several illnesses in his life, including the malaria contracted on his first mission, Jonathan Golden Kimball died in an automobile accident, Sept. 2, 1938. He was 85 years old. Of all the tributes ever paid him the best was given during his lifetime. "His is a unique personality. When he is gone there will never be another like Electrotlash 200X y L thing." X 35mm SLR. E XD-1- 1 say any- by the MULTI-MOD- 1 Auto morning, and don't official Conference Report of 1923, of course, varies quite a bit with the story XD-1- (optional) can (ire in synch with Auto Winder An exclusive1 MD Series lenses, spe- tum this laughter be provoked in our worship'." The Kimball didn Job fir! i fn ( lrl ir sic 'mi iK rm i lo-- 'it :i Yiri it. The preaching style of most church leaders President Grant at 1 once arose and said: 'Pardon me, but I do Tribune. or Temporary e some church leaders, Kimball was asked what he thought of women using rouge. He said, "We paint our houses, don't we? I guess a Christ, Amen.' published Part-Tim- Job f " not . bv high-pitche- d ? . a Career all can go to Hell!' They by WILLARD C. SMITH Chronicle staff of the one most colorful figures of I'tah historv Perhaps was J. Golden Kimball, a Morman Church general authority. Although a general authority, he could horrify the more refined elements of the church bv swearing during the i.enerai uonierenie sessions ol the Latter-daSaints, the church began emerging into an urban setting after War I. J. Golden Kimball seemed to represent the old rougher image of Mormonism. He could sum uniust about any situation that came along in a humorous way. Many came to hxk upon hirn as a Mormon version of Will Rogers. . supplies E nan |
