Show REYTERYJS EN1iE I Demand Upon Dr Wish ard to Remain in Utah lr CALLED TO THE COAST No Action Taken on the Mormon Mor-mon Question r i Strong Demand for a Bureau of Information In-formation That Will Give Gentile nnd Not Mormon Information At 5 1 j oIOCk yesterday afternoon the Presbytery or Utah closed Its annual meeting after an alldays session The closing hours were devoted to the usual routine matters among them the resolutions reso-lutions of thanks for courtesies whIch had been extended There seems to have been a suspicion that action would be taken affecting the Mormon question but nothing of this sort transpired The principal topic to be discussed yesterday was the resignation of Dr Vishard superintendent su-perintendent of Presbyterian work In UtahDR DR WISHARD MUST STAY Dr Wishard has received a call from Ontario Cal near Los Angeles and he made a request to be dismissed by the Utah Presbytery The mutter was the subject of considerable discussion by I the Presbytery but the members refused i re-fused to entertain the Idea of his withdrawal with-drawal to another field and the discussions discus-sions were directed to his efforts here and the need of hIs continuing the work It was the general sentiment that his release would mean a loss In this field and that It would be difficult to replace Dr Wishard with a superintendent as capable to carry on the work Resolutions Resolu-tions were passed denying his request to withdraw The discussions took up the most of the afternoon The meeting adjourned journed at C i j oclock subject to the call of the moderator Rev John Rlchelsen The next meeting will be at Nephl BUREAU OF INFORMATION There has been some talk of a bureau of Information for the benefit of tour sts who visit this city but the matter was not taken up by the Presbytery The subject was discussed by some of the delegates both before and after the neeilng but for obvious reasons it was not Indorsed nor even talked of during the regular sessions It Is believed that need of a nonsectarian bureau of Information Infor-mation Is urgent One of the members of the Presbytery said yesterday GETS MORMON SIDE At the present time the tourist who comes here Is able to find out the Mormon Mor-mon situation from the Mormons only I That is he is able to learn only the Mormon side of the situation lie Is met at every turn by Mormon guides regaled with Mormon statistics and supplied sup-plied with Mormon literature which presents pre-sents the Mormon situation from the Mormon viewpoint which Is all right I as far ns Mormons go The activity of the Mormons in Impressing upon the traveler the virtues of Mormonism Is veil known to Salt Lakers SHOULD GET GENTILE SIDE There is a sentiment in favor of presenting pre-senting the Mormon situation from the Gentile standpoint that this bureau of standpoint of the 50000 Christians who ire living In Mormon territory and are familiar n 5th the situation At present 0 them IR nothing of this kind und ifthe tourist Wants to get such Information he Is apt not to get what he wants Half of the tourists do not realize there Is a Christian minister In the town The editor is too busy and the merchant wont take the trouble The result Is that the stranger gets the Mormon situation sIt-uation from the Mormon and It Is usually usual-ly colored in favor of the Mormon or I the real facts are concealed and kept l in the background This is true regarding the political and other phases of the question HIDE TIIIC SKELETON In short the tourist Is saturated with Mormonism from the time lie lands at the depot until he leaves the city He Is regaled with Information and statistics statis-tics which conceal the facts that would be repulsive to an Easterner and the attractive side of the situation Is held up The Mormon questions which have disturbed the nation are withheld or kept In the background and the stranger goes away with the belief that Mormonism Mor-monism is the most abused and vllllfied faith in the universe this side of Turkey Tur-key JOHNNY ON TUE SPOT The Mormons are always on hand to supply any Information that the inquisitive in-quisitive traveler may seek and few In the city realize the amount of missionary mission-ary work they are doing within the temple grounds If a person were to Investigate the criminal tide of a question ques-tion they would not go to the Inmates of the penal Institution yet this Is just the absurd way the traveler gets his Information about the Mormon question and It Is to expose the matter from a Gentile standpoint that Is from the Information question is being agitated agi-tated |