| Show ano SON DOW BE TURN FROM FOREIGN TRIP ano MISSION president T clark Calf callaster Cal llster lster and his son elder duane callister Cal llster returned home monday from europe mrs airs callister Callb ter met them in salt lake city where they stopped to attend the june conference of the L D S church and she returned to fillmore with them elder callister Cal llster left here in october 1932 to fulfill a mission in and labored in that capacity for or over thre and a halt half years ile he states that he has never enjoyed anything as much as hla his experience in the mission field there and during his travels with his father during the past few months air callister Cal llster was branch president most of the time he was in the mission field ile he labored in prague the capital of the country and a city of over a million population also in other large cities and in the villages ire ile also made iva five trips over into germany prior to president callis arrival visiting oberhammer gau to see the famous passion play in 1934 on one of these trips he learned the czechoslovakian language and also german Is a republic perhaps the largest single crop Is sugar of which they export a large quantity the people there are also noted tor for their cut glass their tine fine needle work and the country boasts one t tho the largest shoe factories in the horld orld the mission president there Is arthur gaeth from 8 to 14 missionaries ion lon aries of this church labor there all of the time president callister Cal llster left here during february crossing the atlantic on the S S manhattan he mot met his son at hamburg on march C G and the two oi of theia have spent a three months since that time touring europe egypt palestine and england they went first to norway sweden and denmark in this latter country they located the birthplace of elder Gal canisters listers grandfather peterson which was at Ecta ved there they were entertained by the editor of the local newspaper who had visited the united states and by the manager and owner of a large fish hatchery both ot of these gentlemen spoke english and entertained the callis in a most hospitable manner they next came down through germany into visiting prague and going from there to vienna austria of course they visited many cities along the way that will not be mentioned here thence to salzberg austria and through the famous bremer pass into italy this pass is very important from a military standpoint and is strongly fortified on both sides particularly the italian according to the returning visitors after a short sojourn in italy they loft left genoa on a pleasure cruise which took them first to naples where they visited vesuvius in action actually walking over hot lava erupted just twelve days before it was still soft and italian coins were pressed in pieces of it ft tor for souvenirs they crossed sicily and again took passage on the ship which called at port said from this point they visited the pyramids and other places of at interest in egypt traveling down the suez canal sailing down the canal they saw four italian transport ships carrying men to ethiopia these theae men took part in the last battles of the ethiopian an war which were about ten days later one of interesting er esting things seen in egypt was wais a citadel at which napolean had tired fired cannon balls during his bis egyptian campaign the cannon balls were still lodged in the citadel from port said their cruise took them to palestine where they visited jerusalem and other biblical cities from jerusalem they motored down to tela viv the new jewish city which Is being built they say it Is a very beautiful place and now has a population of 0 about on the way down they passed hordes ot of araba on toot foot in wagons on horbes and mules all traveling toward jerusalem duane said they thought they must be going to a celebration but later heard beard that they had attacked the city of tela viv killing SG ot of the inhabitants also loosing many of their own number leaving port said they next neu visited two small islands just oft the coast of 0 greece going from them to athens which Is an interesting old city tilled filled with ancient lore not far from hero here Is du Bro brovall valk an important submarine base of the they ended their cruise at venice in italy about the time the capture of 0 ethiopia was wag being celebrated they say the people seemed to go into a wild frenzy 0 at marching shout ing and rioting continuing on through italy they switzerland then back to germany where they went by br boat down the river rhine to cologne and to brussels belgium in this city they spent some time going through the war memorial which preserves manuscripts posters maps etc ate of at all the countr leu engaged la in the world war in holland they waited visited rotterdam and amsterdam and then returned to brussels the last country visited on the continent was france and paris ot of course occupied an important place on the itinerary ot of this country in the american cemetery near chateau thierry they located the grave of their cousin grant lyman who was killed in action visiting the battlefields they were surprised to find that so little had been done to clear away the debris ot of the last war the trenches the barbed wire entanglements entangle ments the huge shell hole bolea a and the trees barren at 0 foliage were still there as it to remind the thousands of yearly visitors of the horrors ot of war leaving france they crossed the channel to england stopping fo for a while la in london in the irish sea Is an island called the isle ot at mann and here again they investigated the genealogy at 0 their family this time it was on the callister Cal llster side aide they had bad the pleasure of meeting several who were descended from roro the same family tree that president Cal callispers listers grandfather took his lineage As they boarded the S S washington at southampton they saw the queen mary preparing tor for her maiden voyage the day they arrived in new york the queen mary set sell sail and they had bad the privilege of seeing her as aa she entered now new york harbor they spent several days in now new york then groveled treve trove led to detroit by train stopped on the way to visit points of interest in the early history ot at the church they drove on home from detroit in a new car asked about the political and financial condit condition lon ot of various european countries elder Calli callester Cal llster ater replied that the mid european countries seemed to be emerging from the depression that the people in northern italy were apparently quite prosperous but that southern italy was reeking with poverty in france and germany the visitors were impressed with the war propaganda everywhere in the latter country the people seemed to be always marching marching with the very young it seemed more like a school rally only the motive for or the great display ot of enthusiasm was nationalism war etc rather than the winning ot of a football boot ball game class clan elee election tion or what not in france there so much marching but the idea ot of war was waa carried into the goods ot of the country all the toys were militaristic the advertising the placards and the displays seemed to built around the military idea elder callister Cal llster says that while the time passed very quickly while be was away he Is vm very glad to be home borne again |
