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Show TheKattLakeTribune SETION, Ca FAITH INACTION, C-2 SATURRAY HCOMICS, C4 MITELEVISION, C-5 JUNE 10, 2000 > SPIRITUALITY & ETHICS ClaTem-UnaY ked no Brooke Adams. Faith & Learning Editor Baerga ele La BeehiveStill Buzzing for LDS, Utah SCX ea Clie Salt Lake City, UT 84111 BY PEGGY FLETCHERSTACK THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Beehive Contest Entry Form Name: Address: For manyChristians, salvation is a personal,often solitary journey. Mormons, however,join a caravan toeternity. Phone Number: Write your answers onthe lines below.Clip this entry form and mail it to the addresslisted above. Mustbe postmarked by Friday, June 16. from time pastand future are integral parts of their heavenly future. Enter the enduring emblemofafaith andthestate of Utah: the beehive. From the 19th century, when beehives adorned every a 1. Mormonbusinessin the Salt Lake Valley, to today’s Conference Center, where beehives are carved into the podium, the symbol expresses the Mormonvirtue ofcollective action — busy creatures working furiously and in concert toward a commongoal. SENMnaEwp Membersof The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe spouses, children and their extended families Nowthatnotion is being celebrated in an exhibit, “The Beehive Image: Symbolof Industry and Cooperation,” on display at the LDS Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City until Nov. 12. The exhibit includes 307 items, everything from business signs, banners, coins, books, medals, jewelry, commemora- tive spoonsand souvenirsto furniture andfolk art that spans the church’s 170-year history. After his famous 19th-century visit to Utah, Mark Twain wrote in Roughing It that the “Golden Beehive” was a perfect crest for the down-to-earth Mormons: “simple, unostentatious, anditfitted like a glove.” In 1915, the church created its “Beehive” program forgirls 12 andolder; it was consciously modeled after the Boy Scouts. The girls were orga- nized into “swarms” of about12 and could earn the rank of“Building in the Hive,” “Gatherer of Honey” or “Keeper of Bees”byfilling certain merit-badge-type requirements. To earn these awards,called cells, the girls could do such things as “exterminate all mosquitoes from an area of a half mile square twice each month during April, Mayor June,” “make two articles of underwear by hand,” “cover 25 miles on snowshoes in any six days” or “successfully put a new washerona faucet.” The Beehive girls’ From LDS Museum exhibit, hairbrush with inlaid beehive, 1895. program Sieplace, Bottles from Beehive Bottling of nave Gaged up Brigham City, 1955. significantly. There is, of course,irony in the Mormonuse ofa hive as the ultimate symbol: Hives are ruled over by a queenbee, while the LDS Churchallowsonly malesto its highest leadership. The symbolism of honeybeesand beehives is not unique to Mormons, but has been handed down from ancient mythology. To primitive cultures, the bee was “at once a docile provider of sweetnessand a stinging enemy,” wrote Hal Cannon in the catalog for a 1980 exhibit, “The Grand Beehive,” at the Salt Lake Art Center.A version ofthe exhibit eventuallyanade its wayto the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,DC. Egyptians idolized the honeybee, its life and products (honey and wax) andits harmonious community life. In Greek literature, the god Zeus suggested bees ould foretell the future. The Greeks admired the symmetry dfid efficiency. of beehives and believed honey was “not only the mostpleasant of food and a potent medicine, but which, when fermented and drunk,freed the soul with some unknown magic,” Cannon wrote. Even the philosopher Aristotle concluded that the heneybee — unlike wasps or hornets — must be of divineorigin. In the Koran, the Prophet Mohammed said God spokedirectly to the bee, something he never did with any other ani- mal. And beehives were found on the vestments of ancient Jewishpriests. Bees symbolized “the chaste and the wise, the foreteller of the weather,the future,andthe fate of armies,andalso as the embodimentofthe soul of man,” Cannon wrote. CTT ene Lee Tr CCE TT TraS ste eC MLCT From Napoleon's army to the Catholic Church, the hive has See THE BEEHIVE,Page C-8 They Can Change ‘Pet Owner’ to ‘Animal Guardian,’ But Fido and Fluffy Will Always Own You government it. ‘This is not as far-fetched as it sounds, People who can actually spell are apparently thinking this way, too, among them the City Council in Boulder, Colo. The Boulder City Council is entertain- ROBERT KIRBY lieve that words have real power andthat the switch will encourage peopleto treat Furthermore, pet owners who don't see it this way aren't going to their minds just because some social hall monitorfiddled with the wording.If Wiggles chews a hole througha $4,000 sofa, It's only a matter of time before affirmative action hits pet ownership. You may want a hamster, but the government will give you a hippo. If the government wants to redefine the pet-human relationship, then I want their pets more like family members and they won't stop andredefine their rela- tax exemptions, vouchers and anything less like property. Right now you are probably thinking, “Huh?”Me,too. “Wait, I'm technically a guardian of ing the idea of replacing all references to “animal owner” in municipal codes with the term “animal guardian.” People behind the idea say they be- Maybe we need a second opinion on this animal guardian idea. If 80, we should getit frum a word expert, a person who knows exactly how words impact the tionship before booting him across the room. © 2000, The Salt Lake Tribune public. Someone like, oh, I don’t know ownpets. Their pets own them. This is true in 78 percentofall cases involving me, dogs, 83 percent involving bears and 101 Thank you. I worked through the night, and this is what I came up with for the Boulder situation. It’s a stupid idea. Doesn't Boulder have bigger issues?? In the first place, most people don’t photos ofLassie. percentof all cats. ‘There are two dogs and a cat in my house. I pay the mortgage, but they run the place. In order to write this, I had to wait my turn at the computer until they were done searching the Webfor nude 4 this animal. I must therefore take him to court for redress, Some form of house arrest or expensive counseling,I'm thinking.” Changing other terms hasn't altered the way people think. Any guy who stopped thinking “babe” about a highly attractive womanjust because she prefers going by “Ms.”instead of “Miss,” raise your hand, OK,Al Gore and a couple of guys over in Berkeley, Calif. But that's all. else I can get. Onthe other hand,if times really are changing, then maybe I should change with them. Here I've been thinking that I owned that chicken I had for dinner. Maybe I should have simply rented it. If you have $5 million and would like to investin a little something I call Flookbusters, please contact me immediately. Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby lives in Springville. He welcomes mail at P.O, Box 684 Springville, UT, 84663, or e-mail at dark@ai ° A sgnn After Tuesday'slist of summertips for pet owners,I received a communiqué from the International Creature Freedom Front (ICFF). Among some otherstuff that the editor refused to let me quote verbatim, it said: “Thats [sic] what you think because your [sic] a sutpid [sic] flesh-eater that helps keep animals in slavrey [sic].” Actually,I'm just guessing thattheletter came from the ICFP.It may simply have been the workof a lone loon. ‘The restof the letter predicted that times are changing for pet owners, Pretty s00n you won't be able to own an animal. You will have to borrow one from the |
