Show ST PATRICKS AND RELIEF SOCIETY DAY not alone in ireland but in every land where erins sons have sought refuge from the oppre oppression sion in their own country st patricks lay day march 17 is celebrated in commemoration of the irish apostle st SL patrick born bom about in the british roman province of valentia probably at nem thur on the clude where dumbarton now is at the age of sixteen he was carried from his fathers farm on the solway by a band of marauders and sold a slave to the irish pacts of county antrim six years later he escaped and then began his study as a priest probably at the monastic institution m a founded by st ninian at candida casa in Gal galloway lovay having gained the ministry he was active in founding in ireland over churches and baptized more that per or ons through song son and story st patricks career has become familiar to every school child and the wearing vearin g of the green st patricks colo colors once forbidden in the emerald isle by the english rule is now heralded not only by ehg united states but by great britian who as an outcome of hundreds of year of struggle and uprisings in ireland has relinquished her overruling power of the irish free state to the people of the state of utah and wherever a branch of the L D S church is organized the celebration of march 17 is a joint celebration of st patricks lay day and of the organization of the relief society at nauvoo march 17 1842 aside from great achievements to be attributed to other organizations organization the relief society is recognized as the first duly organized body of women in modern times women organized into an independent self governing body for cultural and benevolent purposes six years after its organization in 1848 at seneca falls N Y there gathered that brave group of three women who named themselves the ri rights ts association others followed in in quick and bewildering bucce succession sion but the relief society was the pioneer the hathmaker path maker the foundation stone of womans comans modern evolution it is a happy thought says the relief society magazine of mareb march 1917 that of commemorating these anniversaries ver saries by celebration in speech in retrospect and in general rejoicing human memories are so treacherous human life is so transient that we would forget friend teachers parents prophets leaders and all great world events were it not for memorial lays days history books portraits or statues out of our lives these would fade and out of the worlds great hall of fame they would all pass away but for some natural and human devised methods of preserving their memory for posterity the of great events and lives would live true but not the human recollection of them the relief societies of richfield are joining in commemorating the day by giving an appropriate program this evening in the high school auditorium which will bo be followed by a lance dance in the gymnasium thus fittingly commemorating mem orating ing both occa occasions |