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Show J elder BOX JfRE "This 4 ' yjew U t v; i STORV OF WHAT 1947 ITS a hundred these excursions generally wind f'hilgmg an inch." up in eaily marriage. Meaning, as you discover soon 11 most of us were brought enough, that the Mormons thought moie than cities and up like the Saints," a lmgatiun and ichgion to the psychiatrist in one of Salt Gieat Basin aiea They Lake's Army told me, brought a "there'd be little future in distinctively way life unlike sis. anything this In vvoik as in play, the Morand rambunctious repubiung lic had ever known. mons show an uncanny ability They stuck to the essentials to reconcile religion with the 01 it through persecution and common sense. Snowflake is a ridicule, through poverty and pretty little town ill Northern near famine', even Aiiona. (The name is less poethrough an tic than it is Mormon: it honors abortive "war" with the United Slates Today nearly a million Elder Snow and Elder Flake, Mormons still live for all the both eaily stalwarts of the world as if 1947 demanded the church. L,ast Easter, of all faiths were invited same hiand of industry and cooperation their gieat grand- to contribute to a display of refathers found necessary for sur- ligious paintings in the Ward Sunvival in IS 47. Its not a bad life House, one non Mormon at that day school teacher submitted a A few weeks her after moving to pictuio of Heaven by one of Lattermost talented pupils. The Balt Lake City, -day Saint in charge of the Hubert asked his mother if they couldn t please join the Church display was obviously embarrassed of Jesus Christ of Latter-daI'm tenibly sorry, she said, Saints His mother wanted to but know why, Well, gee, said Moi it won't quite do. You see, dont have Bobbie, angels the Saints have all w moil the lun!" mgs!" Wings would only be in the Strict, But They Like It way of angels who passed their It wasn't necessary to change earthlv years in a Mormon comchurch aflihations to let Bobmunity. Haul vvoik is revered bie play with the Saints. All as the of moral virtues, failhs are welcome in the com- idlenessgreatest as the source of sin. munity activities of a people "Pitch In Or Get Pitched Out" who built schools even before Emm childhood on, no good they built chuiches, have never Moimun ever has time on his had a delinquency problem, hands After his own jobs are and have managed to make one finished, as family bieadwinner of the strictest moral codes on or dependent, the church lias earth not only toleiahlcbut countless community projects downright tempting. that require ins voluntary labor. the Great Basin- -in For this, the Mormon not only Thioughout I'tah and adjacent areas of expects no pay, he donates 10 Wyoming, Nevada. Colorado, percent ot his income for the Atizona, and New Mexico you privilege. Out of the thousands can always spot a Mormon com- ot chuich misadministrators, munity by the long, straight sionaries, bishops and vvoikers rows- ot Lombardy poplars the in various agencies of the pioneers hiought West in the chuich, less than a hundred are handcarts and covered wagons, paid salaries. It all goes back and by the big Church with its to the pioneering days when a you either pitched in for the adjoining Ward House" combination social hall, dance! common good or wore pitched floor, basketball court, concert out by common consent. hall, and little theater. There "Deseret, the Mormons called is more singing and laughter in their Promised Land in the Heaven than in Hell, reason- West. In the Book of Mormon, ed Brigham Young; and the ro- it means "honey-beea symbust Saints who followed him bol ol the selfless, knew inrlustriousness by which the through the wilderness their values as morale builders. Saints t o sustain managed pro- themselves while spreading the Hardships? Nonsense! tested a Mormon woman in her gospel. nineties who made the trek Wherever they settled, their soon after the original settlers. practice of thinking and acting We children had the time of as a group early gave them a our lives on the trail. The cov- local political and economic ered wagons were clean and a power that aroused the hostillot steadier than the trailers ity of the Gentiles, meaning you see swishing around the those of other faiths. Driven highways today. And every in turn out of Ohio, Missouri night when vve stopped, there were entertainments and rejoicings for all. In Mormon communities today, youll find the same entertainments and rejoicings for all. Every age group has its special activities; and for the weekly Ward dances, the whole community turns up. The thing that surprises outsiders is the way the teen-aggroup cavorts among the elders without the least apparent Here, square dancing alternates with something very close to jitterbugging all on the same dance floor to the same modern jazz. inStimulants of any kind, cluding tea and coffee, are not sanctioned the Mormon by "Word of Wisdom, and even cosmetics arc frowned on. But tor glamour, a girl can hardly come do better than to out flushed and laughing from a swirling square dance. Outside an occaduring intermission, sional couple may sneak a cigarette or even a drink of something stronger than grapefruit MORMONS Week" Magazine Carries Outsider's Of Utah People And How They Live l 1 a first glance, it may look preit's lLe to be was sumptuous, but dont get 'the recently million Sunday wrong idea. It wasnt cooked severa up by a publicity expert to drum ipaper u p tourist trade. s. Brigham doling, Mek with mountain fevappearing er and lying on the back of a magazine Sunday dement to a number uf me buckboui d wagon, spoke the daiH newspapers. words a Ir.undred years ago July 24 when ho took his first look it was explain-tha- t at the Promised Land the glarfol-,r- s Brigham Youngs iVhat 2fr4" ?T Friday, August IS, TELLS ABOUT KE MC; u- ourncif City. Utah gbo vt vu Mormons, but to the nation that punch cm the sideboard table produced a heartening modern but they are the exception muaele a persecuted When the young Saints disapminority 'hat made good its generally toNouve got to hand it to the pear euilv, comspoon and in Mointon ormuns, says the business-hun- t inanities where a puritanical sitting hesnl, marohty is grounded on frank plane "Theyve education in t Lie facts of life, for I ' - ing desert when-chil-die- of Great Salt Lake stopped practicing poly100 Valley where the homeless and ago, but for penniless tiibe of Latter-da' Ye preserved the se-- Saints had conn usd ofthey Here's ' successful living. v ilderness i life story of the Jerusalem. ft amazing y 4 'Si ms. seven-year-ol- as others Seeing oui selves f us has been a frequent and Utah people Mon limbers ot the L. D. S. church well publicized Centennial is iarmer, ami an opportunity fiom vet another point "Giew in t lie magazine arti-hJohn Kurd Langemann, Flying over the snow-cappeWpsatch Mountains. you see pavt of their handiwork in the great modern city of Salt Lake. Dirowtly below as you cross the mouth of emigration Canyon is the .shining bron.e and granite Centennial Monument on the spot vvheie Brigham Young paused to suivey the job ahead. I. tali license Utah is dedicating the MonuThe Place." At ment July 21, not Lilly to the di-o- y kh follows. s on ev el y This Is if WE HAVE'NEW 6 HD. - idei ss. COMPETITIVE IN PRICE then piophet, rum jail by murdeied forced to alu inlon most of their worldly possessions at eveiy slop, the Luttei day Sail its vveie picpured for any sacnlice to achieve collective self sufficiency in tln tally "divine levelu-ton1 he ever claimed, Bngluim Noung laid down the law If any man shall seek to build huiiscif up and secketh not my (the Lord's) counsel, lie shall have no power, and his folly shall ho made manifest " "Do. sent'' in those early days was about as close as the country has ever come to a Communist dictatorship. Today, the Mormons are to lie found in the con-s- i native camp in both the and Democratic parties The last traces of collectivism gave way long since to pi iv ate enterprise, and as businessmen the Saints have been able to compete with the best. Non see where Brigham Young is pointing, one of laughed the statute them, indicating on Salt Lakes Temple Square, not tiack toward the temple i't.t stiaight acioss the street to the Zion Savings Bank. They Stick to In eaily days, the Saints were quick to seize any opportunity of mining an honest dollar lor the cause. When the Mormon Wai" of 1N57 threatened the young colony, the Saints were ready to defend it with their lives; hut when President Buchanan called otf the war, the Moimons were not unprepared lor that either. The army needed piuv lsions, records t tie church history, and these the Moimons furnished at good puces"' fontnined capitalists as they now ate, they still cherish as zealously as ever the ideal of self suiticieney both as individuals and as a group To achieve il the Mormon rhurch now runs the largest single mutual benefit association in the world I t gen-eiall- is sick or in trouble or out of who feel left out. It's land to the chuich stands ready see how a Mormon could ijs-stillto feed his family and set lum fqel nobody cared hack on his feet. Veiy little Fveiy activity m which the i in Id or adult can Join is tie-cash .changes Inti ids m the a shopcess. Instead of signed fco bung him into con-- ' ping list, signed by the Bishop tact vvilti tlie rest of the com-- I of a man's Ward, is good for nuimty. It a lamily has sickanything in the big Wellaie ness or trouble, the whole Ward stores. knows it and stands ready to The same deep uige to help. At least once a month, that created ttie every family in a Mormon town Church Relief Plan can be found can expect visits not only from in thousands of prospeious the Bishop of the Ward and a homes throughout the Mormon member ol the Womens Relief country. In their basements, .society, but from members of deayou'll olten find food stocks the Aaronie piiestliood sufficient to last the family for cons at 12, teachers at 1 J, priests years not only the usual can- at 17 and of the higher priestned goods but such items as hood. All this is in addition to that bins of unmilled wheat and the informal dropping-icorn. Mormons seem less gloomy goes on in any friendly neighthan most about the atom borhood Every day is But like their bomb. grand- day" in a Mormon household. a job, told tlatly by J. Reuben Clark, Ji.. who helped establish the Church Welfare Plan In its facthis tories, mine's and farms, great corporation produces almost all the goods required for living. In addition, the Church deowns and operates banks, stores, newspapers, partment ami insurance companies. Coal for fuol comes from church-ownemines. Meat, fish, dairy and pou lity piodiicts, flour and cereals, canned goods of every even kind, clothing, furniture, medicines, are produced by church-ownefarms and factories. Out in the competitive world, t he individual Mormon is strictly on his own. But when a Saint "at-hom- that plural marriage had been commanded by God Himself. Back m lHbO, when the Church bowed to tlio Supreme Court decision against it, a few devout Saints rebelled and suffered c eomrnumeauon and imprisIt still onment. occasionally crops out in some remote mountain village like Short Creek, An., where former Governor Hunt, alter investigating it in person, declared; "If I had to live in tiiis place, I'd want more than one wife myself. But the overwhelming majorMormons ity of male sighed with relief at the ban. Polygamous Mormons had to support not just one household but as many as they had wives. At best, only three percent of the men ever practiced it. Today, however, some 57 years since its abandonment, polygamys after-matstill complicates the Mormons extensive family relationships. "Were Half Twins We're twins on my fathers side," one mormon introduced me to his half brother with a birthday the same day. In a bus out of Salt Lake, an elderly Mormon lady told me shed newer bothered to keep track of all her relatives. "After all, she said proudly, my mother was the first. To an even greater extent than in rural New England, everybody is remotely related to else and a good many (Continued on Fallowing Page) Bachelor Angels? In its basic organization, the Church is a larger counterpart of the home, and marriage is something Mormons are taught to take very seriously. In the Heavens are parents single? asks a Mormon hymn, and anBecause the Mormons kept the swers: No, the thought makes essentials of their way of lile, reason stare. they've been able to contribute Mormon divorce still only all the more to the rest of the country. In the war, 2,500 of half the national ratio is sanctheir sons died in action. Among tioned only for causes considthose who came back, the case ered to make a secure home Forces of Air Vetcian Petot life impossible. Otherwise, a Nelson Hansen is not unusual; man and wife must lie prepared Captured by the Japanese on to live together through every Corregidor, Hansen went through stage of eternity. Before the Mormons moved to 42 months of hell. When rescued in September, 1IU5, he Utah, their Prophet announced was down to 120 pounds, hardly Ii is more than half normal weight. Returning to Salt Lake City after testifying in the Wart Climes trial, Hansen visited his church authorities with a rein ease they found him quest worthy. Two weeks later, he is answer the "call" to, had accept a foreign mission. 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