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Show V- -. j gsuiTtg?) - i ; ' - r ;. . i GEMS t . Gospel Teaches .Reality Of Life After Death ) . w: , ffiirWill'-ECilLYbut- Of THOUGHT ,1! PAGE r - I. j'i'' ; f EDITORIAL . i v. .V'r . 1 k he National Tuberculosis Society is passing out woman. The posters showing a cigarette-smokin- g caption under it says: My dear, thisll kill you. . . It is part of a new national drive against the Lise of tobacco. The momentum is growing so fast that the Cigaret manufacturers are more worried than they have been since the Surgeon Generals report on the dangers of smoking. As the Wall Street Journal explains: To hear the tobacco companies tell it, everyone is out to get them. Tobacco critics are at work across the land, says Joseph H. Cullman HI, president of Phillip Morris Inc. Says Edwin J. Finch, president of " Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.: The tobacco industry is under attack by powerful enemies. Adds Michael Harris, president of Liggett & Myers Tobacco 'CoT'Antf-tobacc- o activity continues to threaten us. We are all part of a beleaguered force that is h being attacked on one hand by on the other hand by charges and countercharges and S. Fred Royster of Henderzealotjs, says of the director son, N.C.,' managing Bright Belt Warehouse Association and president of the Tobacco Tax Council, a trade group. THINGS COULD be worse. In 1964, the year of the report to the Surgeon General linking cigaret smoking with health hazards, cigaret' shipments felT 2.4 per cent; in 1965 they rose 2.8 per cent; in the first 10 months of 1966. they rose 2.5 per cent. Domestic consumption in 1966 was a reconi, the Agriculture Deuse was below partment estimates, though the record of 1963. Whats more, the HS. tobacco industry, whose annual sales are more than $5 billion, spends $300 million a year to advertise. Its opponents have a total cash budget of less than $3 million a year. " Why, then, is the tobacco Goliath so concerned o David? about the are There already indications, in fact, that more of the nations young people are scorning cigarets. Only 7 per cent of this years freshyian class at Princeton University said they smoke cigarets, fhe lowest percentage since the school started keeping track irfl948. r At'Kelvyn Park High School In Chicago, more than Excerpts from an address hy Elder Aim Sonne delivered et one session of the General Conference of the Church, October 1966. 1,000 students have Voluntarily, pledged either to quit or never to start smoking. EVIDENCE of the campaign is everywhere. In Maine, 30 large billboards in major cities carry a blunt message from the states health department: "Cigaret smoking is bad for your health. .On the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, signs on the median ask, Are you dying for a smoke? Some 800 anti-smoki- ng Those who live die Gospel and Introduce it into their daily lives will find no reason to deny its power to save and uplift mankind. The Gospel teaches that life after death is a reality. There iS a spirit world. The were there when Jesus introduced the Gospel among them. It is a place of reunion when mortal life is ended. We will meet our loved ones there, and I believe we will recognize them and mingle with them. Death is not the end. It is a forward step in the program to bring us back to God, who is our Father. I was sixteen years old when I first read the Book of Mormon, and 1 have read it many times since. Each time it was more appealing and more satisfying, and was always reassuring about the mystery of life and death and the purpose and objective of our sojourn in mortality. The Gospel plan is in operation in the world. It is being presented as it was 1900 years ago with similar results and manifestations. From the beginning! to the end the Book of Mormon, which is at your disposal and mine, is a builder of faith in the true and living God and in his son, Jesus Christ. All of us need to strengthen our faith. It has given to the world a clearer concept of the Savior, His mission and His position in the nal plan to save and exalt Gods children. Nothing has been brought forth during my life which has weakened my faith in that divine plan and in the story told by Joseph Smith, the Prophet. Slowly but surely prejudice and antagonism are breaking own and the light of Gods truth is penetrating the dark places of die earth. , radio stations now run free anti-cigar- et vided by the Government. ante-deluvia- messages pro- The Federal Government has allotted $2.8 million this fiscal year for the Public Health Service to use in campaigns." Of 'this, $200,000 is being used in the Syracuse and San Diego areas for community laboratories aimed at changing attitudes toward anti-smoki- smoking. The UPI recently reported: The California Medical Association has asked all physicians to quit smoking and urged the doctors to advise their patients against cigaret smoking. Surveys of physicians indicated that the majority accept the scientific evidence as a guide for personal behavior, and as a basis for giving advice to patients, the council said. Physicians have stopped or changed their smoking habits more than any other group. -- THE AMERICAN MEDICAL Associations AMA News reported: Smoking Warning: The National Advisory Cancer Council blamed cigaret smoking for an enormous e epidemic of lung cancer. It estimated that 42,000 men and 8,000 women will have died during 1966 from lung cancer. In England smoking has developed into a hot issue in Parliament. Health Minister Kenneth Robinson is planning curbs on smoking in all public places. He told the House of Commons that the lung cancer epidemic is now out of control. Nearly 200 British people die of lung cancer every day. In the past the public has been slow to accept scientific findings about tobacco. But it is now being aroused, and everjs jpy more and more see that they may Be dying for a cigaret. f - tobacco-and-healt- anti-tobac- co per-capi- ta man-mad- anti-tobacc- . THIS WEEK IN CHURCH HISTORY: The.Case Of Jackson Co. Temple March 15, 1S92 An examiner of the US. Circttit Court for the V'esten District of Missouri began hearings in Salt Late City on the Temple Lot Case. At the Templeton Hotel within view of the nearly-complete- d Salt Lake Temple, lawyers, witnesses and a federal court examiner were grimly pressing an inquiry into the matter of a temple that had never been built. There were some, but not many persons left in Utah who had personal knowledge of the events of 61 years before when on a sultry August day, the Prophet Joseph Smith had dedicated a temple site at Independence, Mo. e It was a beautiful wooded tract of state land a west of the towns rustic courthouse. Before the Church could raise money and buy the land, Jones H. Flourney, purchase at 2 an acre. grabbed it in an A week later, he cut off a piece of pie and sold it to Bishop Edward Partridge for $130. Bishop Partridge and other members of the Church built cabins on the tract. They also built a log schoolhouse, the first in the area. In good weather, the saints held outdoor meetings among the trees. During the winter, they met in the schoolhouse. When the Jackson County Mormons were driven from their homes in the fall of 1833, a number of them camped on the temple lot for three days prior to moving into Clay County. After they left, the cabins were burned or torn down. By 1838, the trees had been ' cut down and the area converted to pasture land. . For a time, the Church attempted to retain title to its Jackson County holdings in the hope of returning to occupy them. But after the Mormons were forced to leave Missouri and settle in Illinois, a revelation to the Prophet released them from their obligation to build the Jackson ' County Temple. Hed-rickit- half-mil- re - 4- Id t q CHURCH WEEK' ENDING ' MARCH y temple tract was sold to one James Pool the lots. In the meantime, the Church moved far away to the West, but various dissident dements that had refused to follow the leadership of the Council of Twelve were scattered from Michigan to Texas. One such group led by Granville Hedrick decided to return to Jackson County in 1866, leaving their homes in Illinois. They began buying lots in the area they ascertained to be the actual site of the proposed temple. By The who subdivided the land and - 18, 19$7 they had acquired all of what theyconsidered to be the temple site though it was only a fraction of the original 63 acres. They fenced the land, planted trees and, by 1887, had a small frame meetinghouse on the property. The total cost of their land purchase had been $1,175. Meanwhile, another group known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints had begun to move into Independence. They soon outnumbered the who experienced little growth. The Reorganized group completed a stone meetinghouse at Independence and began casting covetous eyes across the road toward the Hedrickite temple lot. Claiming to be the true successor of the Church founded by the Prophet, the Reorganized Church served notice on the Hedrickites or Church of Christ to vacate the temple lot. The Hedrickites paid no attention until Aug. 6, 1891, when the Reorganized Church filed a suit to gain possession of the disputed land. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints was not a party to the dispute, but since some of its members in Utah were familiar with the events that took place in Missouri and Illinois, a hearing was held in Salt Lake City, In the Missouri trial held later, the judge ruled in favor of the Reorganized Church, but the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed his decision, leaving the Hedrickite Church of Christ in possession of its land. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints acquired 25 acres of the temple lots original 63 in a 1903 purchase. Other smaller parcels since have been purchased by the Church. The Reorganized Church also has acquired a part of the original tract and has erected a large auditorium there. Arnold Irvine. 1877, , . re-sol- d - sourc BIIIHsr, Julius C, Principal ZJon'a Printing and Publishing Ca 1946,.. " V 4 - t i "Hu Tsmpl at Promts." m |