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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936 ed by it with a large operative marketing scheme. MORMONS OFFER THE NATION AN Mormon Fast Day. Once each month "Mormons" fast that is, they abstain from eating or drinking for a period of several hours two meals. It is their contention that such a practice, aside from being scriptural, is good for the body as well as for the soul. The equivalent in money of the two meals thus saved is paid over to the bishops as a fast offering. If all members of the chuKh would contribute but $1 a year as such an offering, there would be a fund large enough to promote all direct relief activity. That is the aim $1 per "Mormon,' per year. As a matter of fact, many "Mormons" have long contributed far more, and now that the need has been emphasized by church authorities, thousands more will probably contribute a dollar a month and up. This offering is voluntary and goes into a general fund from which relief expenses will be met Thus, the right hand of the donee will never know what the left hand does and this, according to "Mormons," is the true theory of EXAMPLE OF COOPERATIVE RELIEF (Continued From Page Two) the Citholic faith, embracing about 10,000 members each, and presided over by a stake president, his two counselors and a high counsel of several men: more than 1,100 "wards," comparable to the congregation or parish of other churches, each numbering around 1,000 members and governed by a bishop, his two counsellors, and a priesthood group which, in turn, may enlist the aid of any "teachers" Relief number of Society women or others who are capable to act as social workers in the plan, and 30 or more missions located in all parts of the United States and abroad each of which is divided into several districts. In each ward there are several auxiliary organizations which afford an opportunity to serve, to virtually every member of the church, young or old. Commentators have said that the genius of Mormonism lies in its ability to put all its members to work. I should add that the real genius is getting them to work for nothing. No Salaries Are Paid. There is no such thing as a paid ministry in the. church, nor will any officer accept remuneration for the added work and responsibility placed upon his shoulders incident to the relief plan. Religion among the Latter-Da- y Saints has always been a pracsort of philosophy. tical, every-da- y They accept literally the Biblical definition that "pure religion and before God the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." The bishop, who may be a farmer, a business man, a plumber or a miner, or any other honorable worker by trade or' profession, is responsible for the temporal as well as the spiritual welfare of his flock. So that now, as it used to be before the Government took over the "burden of local relief," needy Mormon families can expect to see, instead of a salaried Government investigator knocking at their door, one of their own brethren who will take their "case history" with a sympathetic ear divorced from all politics or favoritism and report to the bishop who will extend aid based on soundly ascertained needs and only if the recipients are willing to do their part. Specifically, how will all this be done? Well here are some instructions in point on but one phase of the plan, emanating from the highest authority or tne church, which will explain the how of the plan to the skeptic: "The bishopric of each ward is requested to select and secure at once 100 or more acres of land suitable for sugar beets from the various farmers of the ward in tracts of not less than one acre for each farmer and more where possible and suitable that would not otherwise be planted in beets, for which the farmer is to receive as rent on the land $1 for each ton of beets raised and a minimum of not less than $10 per acre for the use of the land and water. (Incidentally, this is more than farmers can hope to realize from renting the same land to the Government for soil conservation purpose). Farmers Donate Time to Planting. Just as soon as the land is selected, a day should be set apart at once for the farmers with equipment to donate one or more days to properly prepare and plant the beets . . . when the beets are ready to cultivate, the farmer with a suitable cultivator, and who is used to work, should be selected to cultivate about ten acres of those beets as many times during the season as necessary He is to donate this part of the work . . . When the time comes to harvest, another day should be set apart for the farmers ed co- of the ward (a sufficient number) to plow out and haul the beets to market, free gratis . . . Then the bishopric could divide up the acreage, ranging from five to ten acres to a family, according to the size of the family, to do the hand work . . . The laborers should receive an advance payment at the time of thinning, hoeing and irrigating and when the work is done so that they may be able to live during the summer while the crop is growing . . . The laborer should have both the church and its people, gen erally speaking, among the most prosperous in the land, not to mention the vast benefits that have been accrued to the character of the insti- tution and its adherents. Tithe Not A Tax. "Mormons" claim that the tithing system would break down if looked upon as a tax measure or if read into the secular law, as .was done in the days of Charlemagne, who undertook to collect the tithe by force, and in England where the tithe was imposed by authority of the civil law, for the reason that its genius lies in the voluntary nature of the offering and in PAGE dicates, 'the beautiful,' the women had lovely homes, decorated with flowers and enriched with choice trees, just beginning to yield To these homes, plentifully without lease or sale, they had just bade a final adieu, and with what little of their substance as could be packed into one; two, or in some instances three wagons they started out, westward, for where? To this question the only response at that time was God knows." ... The Sunset Trail. The trail led westward. An outpost was established on a hillside overlooking what is now "Omaha, Nebr., at Council Bluffs. Iowa, then called Win ter Quarters. Six hundred graves of "Mormon" pioneers mark this spot, for it was there that 3,000 of the Saints established themselves in rude log cabins and dugouts in the earth during the severe winter of 1847. It both took and gave courage to singi in those days their favorite hymn: Come, Come ye Saints, no toil nor labor fear, But with joy wend your way; Though hard to you this journey may appear, Grace shall be as your day, Tis better far for us to strive Our useless cares from us to drive. Do this, and joy your hearts will the fact that the tithe reaches to the widow's mite as well as to the rich per acre, or $150 for the hand work on five acres . . . man's millions. As a matter of fact, where the team work has been doeven the donees of relief under the nated . . . This work will "Mormon" plan would be requested be helpful both to the people who doto pay a tithe thereon. nate the team work and the people On the other hand, "Mormons as who receive the benefit of the same sert that if this divinely ordained means of raising revenue could be ap through this plan of cooperation." The church, owning as it does a plied universally there would be no need for taxation. "It is essential controlling interest in several sugar that man learn to give," according factories, will be able to guarantee Drocessiner of the heta which nf if. to "Mormon" philosophy, "for without self will provide work for a target charity. provision for this training, the curriculum in the school of mortality numDer or unemployed, because of the Aurelius was who said: Marcus It increased production or beets, sev- "One man when he has done a service would be seriously defective.'" eral intermountain sugar companies, to another is ready to set it down to Human wisdom they assert has in keeping with the spirit of the his account as a favor conferred. An- failed to devise a more equitable swell plan, have already offered to pay a other is not ready to do this, but still means of individual contribution for All is well! All is well! bonus of $1.00 a ton on all beets rais- in his own mind he thinks of the man church of community needs than the ed on relief acres. Such is the spirit as his debtor, and he knows what he simple plan of the tithe. The plan Into the of the people. has done. A third in a manner does obviates the necessity of taking up Unknown. not even know what he has done, but collections and the payment of the Politics Will Not It took courage also to press on into he is like a vine which has produced tithe is made with the assurance that Hinder the Plan. grapes, and seeks for nothing more not one cent is used for any purpose the unknown, but onward led the once produced its proper that will not directly or indirectly trail. On April 14, 1847, Brigham One wonders in passing how the after .it. has . Must a man then be one of benefit tithe payers in general and not Young and 148 followers, fruit including church will reconcile the increase to these, who in a manner acts thus with privileged classes three women and two children, left only. sugar production with the AAA (now out winter quarters for a "haven in the it? Yes. What more Soil Conservation) acreage reduction dost observing Their journey thou want than thou hast done Bishop's Storehouse Rocky Mountains." program. It has been observed by man a service? Art thou not con- To Be Revived. across the plains will always remain some commentators that the plan is tent that thou hast done something The "tithing yard" and the "bish an American saga. Fifteen hundred loaded with political dynamite in that comfortable to and dost nature, thy be miles they treked over turbulent rivit does run counter to Government thou seek to be paid for it, just as if op's storehouse" will undoubtedly xne ers, parching deserts and trackless In one form or another, sugar quotas and acreage reduction the eye demanded a recompense for revived was Some days they moved mountains. the used an institution former by policies. It has also been suggested seeing, or the feet should demand a Latter-Da-y not more than 5 miles. Indians harwhen in Saints days early that the Chamber of Commerce of recompense for walking." As near as assed them; discouragement seemed Salt Lake City will raise particular I can gather, this is the spirit that the people had no money with which part of the very air they breathed. To the to "yard" they Cain if the plan stops the flow of Gov actuates the "Mormon" fast pay tithes. In what is now Wyoming they met offering. would come, like the Israelites of old, ernment money in Utah. But the! Jim Bridger, famous Western scout, cat with their tithe in pigs, chickens, "Mormon" leaders, it seems, are re- - The Lord's and told him of their intention to set had or which tle, sheep, horses, they Tenth. soivea not to let politics or policies tie in the "great basin," wherever tha stand in the way of feeding their separated by running "under the rod." was. The scout was aghast "HI give ana will of wouia ieea The the And the larger aspects plan yard keepers hungry and employing their idle and be financed $1,000 to the first man who can raise under the present tithing care for the stock until it was either an above all, of bringing about a renaisear of corn in that valley," he is exin or to converted into cash given sance of their morale. "What we system of the church, pursuant to have said. But, despite reported commodities. want is work," said President Grant which the members are supposed to change for other tithing news such leaving messages on bufat one of the regional plan meetings, contribute 10 per cent of their in- The "Bishop's storehouse" was just falo skulls for those who were to fol "we don't want doles among the Latter- crease and earned income annually, what the name implies a veritable low, the caravan pressed forward. kind" or "in laraer in storehouse either the for the -Day is, poor, money (that Saints ... No man should ask On July 24. 1847. the pioneers saw for charity from the Government . . . in hard times when cash is not avail and clothes bags of which were re- below them a valley bleak and uninkind." "in in be made the offering may plenished from tithing paid I am sorry that some of our men able, A great salt sea gleamed in The tithing system is linked to Fed- viting. would not' work for $30 per month eggs, butter, wheat, services, silk, or A stubby growth of the hot in that greasewoodsun. when they could get $35 per month what have you). "Mormons" look up- eral and State taxation only and sage covered the floor as on this 10 per cent as "The Lord's income tax computation allow us for lying down and being lazy." of the valley. There were no trees, Tenth." They believe In every deed exemptions all charitable donations. no lakes, no "green pastures" Other Projects that "the earth is the Lord's and the Otherwise, of course, in addition to onlyfresh and yet from their desolation, are acknowl in fulness and ai "Mormons" that tithe thereof," payers, Outlined, being there the command: "This leader rang His so tax pavers. supreme possessorship edging on!" And the se- is the drive place, whether as to which discover will employ they should, Mining projects faithful tenants, pay The best wav same land of this well, quel today in upwards of a thousand have been out a rental of their time and substance the plan will work is to examine it of the scrip desolation like the desert lined with thoroughness equal to the being commanded to devote one day the light of the history 01 uus tures, "blossoms as the rose." Deoole. This much is certain sugar beet program; dther hundreds in seven to His exclusive service and No Resettlement Administration will be employed in logging,, sawing of their substance a tenth or tithe. If the refining influences of personal plotted and protected the daily lives out how was and making lumber; women are being Abraham nrivation. They point sacrifice, hardship, misery a tithe payer and that under the and persecution and the courage to included in sewing; canning and stress of economic which One stake has devised plans rise above it all have been passed on depression, to have its members who have sheep overwhelmed the children of Israel in from one "Mormon" generation to the camps and ranches in the mountains the days of Moses, the Lord "con- next, there will be no question as to bring loads of coal from the mines on tracted" with the Law Giver to take the ability of the' living generations their return trips to the cities. Sheep the wandering Israelites into the to face the problems of today with raisers are donating fleeces, the wool promised land if in return, among equanimity, for they are trivial and of which will be utilized by the Relief other things, they wouia consecrate inconsequential by comparison, as the Society women for making blankets "a tenth of whatsoever passeth under following historical dramas rrom tne and quilts. A concentrated effort is the rod" to the Lord of hosts. So "Mormon Cavalcade" inaicate: Lat-- I Unwelcome in New York, banished being made to provide every relief strong are the convictions of the to y that from Ohio mv social and political os. relative Saints antithing a Still with family garden plot. other stake plans to set up a shoe re- they feel it a privilege ana not a pen tracism, the Saints in 1834 had settled thereof. in Missouri and there by dint or co. building shop, with equipment and alty to make payment Their leaders in times past have af operation and brotherhood had foundskilled labor to recondition shoes that p ter the manner of Malachi, command ed a DrosDerous community life. Like are donated, and to provide a service for the needy for miles ed: "Bring ye all the tithes in the a bolt of destructive fire from a lownotorious "exteraround and so on ad infinitum. Such storehouse, that there may bemeat er region came the house, ana prove me now minating" order of Gov. L. W. Boggs a wave of enthusiasm has swept over In mine saith the Lord of hosts, if I of Missouri to Gen. Clark of the State the people that they are taxing their herewith will not open up the windows of hea militia in October 1838: imaginations to devise new means to ven and pour Your orders are to hasten you out a blessing, that foster the plan. operations . . . The Mormons must In addition to the foregoing, the there shall not be room enough to be treated as enemies and must be church will inaugurate an extensive receive it. And I will rebuke the exterminated or driven from the for and shall he a sort miniature of your sakes, building program, cent not 60 of the fruits advance State, if necessary, for the public will per and destroy your ground; PWA, of the cost to all wards desiring to neither shall your vine cast her fruit good." The dastardly way in which this build new chapels, amusement halls, before the time in the field . . . And all nations shall call you blessed." The order was executed is one of the black etc. The permanency of the production plan is to be assur response has been such as to make pages in American history. Forced to their dead flee from Missouri, s mTrrrniiiOffil ignmrriiuroll lammuninfl and their homes andleaving property behind, p ammmngiu.Miiii.ii.mil bu.liji,illllli"b the Saints sought refuge, by invita tion, in Illinois. There also they built cities (Nauvoo at one time having ? 20,000 population and showing far more promise or development man Chicago) and became once more a prosperous and contented people. at least about $30 j i r -- un-defil-ed quilt-makin- j ZYKN of these people. No Federal Hooainr Administration erected their homes, No Farm Credit Administration it vided seed and fertilizer. Nor, indeed, did the thought occur to them In those days that the Government was meant to succor the people. They seemed content in the doctrine that the people were the government and that to "bleed" the government was to "bleed" the people. Should new occasions teach new duties? Should time make this ancient good uncoum: pro-fru- ! j ed i Their Success. Gradually the "Mormons" commonwealth took on prosperity and proportions as if to prove to the world that the moral fibre of the people vrm not broken bv the hardships of the trail. Other thousands followed tre getting sun, pushing handcarts owr the long, weary way. Wherever the "Mormons" paused lone enough to e make a settlement their enterprise asserted itself. A plan nm-ilto the one they have now projected to meet an emergency wae effected. A large part of the West was colonize ) on '" such a basis. The results are apparent for all to see who now v'it "Mormon" communities, of which the present Assistant Secretary of Agriculture has said: "The most significant thing in the United States today is the Mormon village. When Brigham Young took his band across the plains and settled them in the valley of Salt Lake, it was necessary that they settle in villages for protectoin from the Indians. Brigham Young-wahot a city planner. The only way that he knew of laying out a village was by means of conventional streets and square town blocks, and so he planned the villages. Each block consisted of two acres, but he made this very fundamental change.-- He did not cut the village blocks into lots; therefor, each villager, instead of living on a lot, lived on a block of two acres of land. Nowhere in the United States will be found as high standard of living in relation to income as obtains in the Mormon villages today." Critics of the plan have said that the blood of the pioneers has .been thinned out and the "Mormon" youth will prove unequal and unwilling to the task. But Mormops are con vinced that, even though their young people have, comparatively speaking, been rocked in the lap of luxury, "they will respond to the call. Those of a scriptural turn of mind among the "Mormons (and this is about 99 per cent), even go so far as to say that their temple in the hills is the "house of the Lord established in the top of the mountains," according to Biblical prophecy, and that if (only they say when) their plan succeeds, "many nations shall come and say, Let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths . . . and they shall sit every man under bis rig tree and none shall make them afraid." ar later-mounta- in s -- -- g. ter-da- shoe-sho- "... er ... larmirimrmlsl You arrive refreshed wKen you travel BY TRAIN The Martyrdom of The Mormons. Then in a villae-- eoal at dawn on June 28, 1844, another bloody scene alor.fr the "Mormon trail" was enact ed. A mob stormed the prison, where the "Mormon prophet," josepn amiui and his brother Hyrum had been incarcerated pending an investigation rising out or a political cuarge, uui with the assurea protection oi wv. Ford, and murdered the two in cold e 5r 1 HI 1 Iral IOOI YOUR HOME COMES FIRST Mam YOUR HOME IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING you own. In your home, you and your family spend count-- , make them happy, comfortable, enjoyable hours.... We are ready to help you. Come in and look around before you buy! Everything for your home and less hours so, IT COMES FIRST! FELT BASE RUGS 9 x MOJN 12 AKUH KAJN SPARTON REFRIGERATORS PHILCO RADIOS PHILCO AUTO RADIOS : . $5.49 $76.50 $129 50 $22.90 $39 95 111 Time marched on for the cnurcn and its reotle. Tragedy by this time was their common lot. February 4, 1846, found them abandoning tneir TiiinMs hnmoq for sanctuarv Heaven onlv knew where. The fleeing saints omasoH the Mississirmi on the ice. Eliza R. Snow, their poetess, (later t huinna nno nf the preat woman suffrage leaders of the country) wrote of this event: "As we loumeved onward, moth ers gave, birth to offspring under almost every variety vi to stances imaginable except-thosthou had been accustomed; ,hh some in tents, others in wagons in rainstorms and in snowstorms. heard of one birth which occured under the rude shelter of a hut, the mm nt which where formed of Monlufa tnsrtnAd to DOleS StUCk in the ground, with a bark roof thru which the rain was dropping. "Kind sisters stood holding dlsh- tn natoh the water as it fell, thus protecting the new comer and its motner rrom a snoweroavu little innocent first entered on the stage of human life; and through faith in the "Great Ruler of events, e u grjooaorjoo laaniaiimDBl ammiflmBl ignmmiiD..i g ... In no harm resulted to either making Nauvoo what its name in Smooth, swift, lafe travel! And, in addition, many ntw. features for your comfort on Union Pacific trains! 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