Show I Church Head to Celebrate On Eve ve o of f Birthday Pres Smith Still iBB 11 Active A A JL tf iriT L A V I id President nt Joseph F. F Smith IJ I J a 1 v t Saw k M t t s s i y Aa AaM j k kt n aa t- t a 4 r h 4 y s a F as o oAd Ad s x Y A 1 C r A Y i 1 1 Y Lr o a 3 C Y t w d dc c Q 6 y Distinguished Religionist Will Be Surrounded by Family and Friends Tomorrow IT II the same devotion to W WITH the little children that has been characteristic of ot his life and with the tae same hearty handshakes he gives everyman every everyman everyman man and woman who enters his home President Jospeh F F. o Smith of the Church of ot Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter Saints will welcome his sons and daughters his grandchildren dren and his great grandchildren tomorrow afternoon at the Beehive house where they will celebrate the seventy-ninth seventy anniversary of his birth Although 79 years of ot sorrows and privations which have been crowne crowned by success in making the church of the Latter-day Latter Saints a veritable rock of strength in the great mountain intermountain r region lon have all been crowded Into his life his step is as elastic as in the the days of his young manhood and his love of ot humanity is Just as str strong ng President Smith is the son of oC Hyrum Smith tho brother of the martyred prophet Joseph and was born In Far West Vest Missouri November November November No No- vember 13 1838 at a time when prosecutions of ot the followers of the Prophet Joseph were more se so- so vere ere After the death of or his father Hyrum President Smith then Ulen at atthe atthe atthe the tender age of 8 years started from Winter Quarters Mo with his mother in company with other Latter-day Latter Saints bound for tor the new Zion of ot the tho West Vest While crossing the plains he drove a double yoke roke of ot oxen for his mother all the wa way and at this tIlls early age displayed ed a perseverance and a re reliability reliability re- re liability which remained with him through his life At his mothers mother's knee at the camp campfires campfires campfires I fires the boy Joseph listened to the stories of the Bible from his mother and learned to love 6 and re revere revere revere re- re vere them Upon reaching the valley aIlEY he tended his mothers mother's cattle and BO so careful was he with them for tor his mothers mother's sako sake that he never never lost a hoof althou although h there was as trouble with the Indians and a ft scarcity s of food for them in the alle valleys valley At the age aFe of or 15 16 he was vas c called to togo togo too go o on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands which he performed ex exceedingly exceedingly ex- ex well for tor one of or his age Upon the advance of Johnstons Johnston's army upon the Mormon settlements here President Smith was recalled from the tho th 5 islands but several years later 1 lie e went there on a a. second mission In 1860 be was he wa called callett to go on a mission to Great at 1 three years ears later went there second one one While in Europe he she i visited l France German Germany Scandinavia and Belgium In 1901 he was chosen president of the church oy ret revelation re He Ito has held that office tny n other president excepting Brigham Brigham Brigham Brig- Brig ham Young jf |