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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH FASCISTS SENT THOUSANDS INTO EXILE WITHOUT TRIAL ft of Former Italian Premier Charges Government With Inhuman Treatment. Nephew New York. Charges that the Fascist government has Imprisoned and exiled thousands of its political opponents without trial, subjecting them to extreme inhuman treatment are made by Francesco F. Nitti, nephew of the exiled former premier of Italy, and himself an escaped prisoner from the rocky penal islands off the north African coast in an article in the North American Review. Nlttis article is presented as a part of his forthcoming book, the announcement of which has aroused vigorous Fascist opposition to its publication and caused the offices of the publishers both in London and New York to be put under police guard. Nitti. once a Rome bank executive, was arrested, he says, with 3,000 other in Rome during the first two weeks of Fascist power In 1928. He was never shown a warrant for his imprisonment and never brought to trial. Within two weeks he was ordered deported to the penal islands for five years, although no specific charge was ever filed against him. At least 29 members of the Italian chamber of deputies suffered the same fate, he says, before the entire body of 200 deputies was summarily ousted from their elected positions. The entire body of political prisoners was subjected to innumerable hardships, he declares. On occasions. 20 prisoners were crowded into cells built for six or seven. We lacked even sufficient water for washing," he says. The food was beyond Imagination putrid macaroni, cooked in water and mixed with boiled worms. By paying outrageous amounts we were able to obtain dried figs and onions. We slept on the floors, on mattresses stuffed with wood shavings, two of us on each mattress. anti-Fascls- ts anti-Fascf- st Bad Health in Rural Areas Costs Billion Washington. The United States suffers an annual economic loss of because of lack of adequate health services In the rural communities, stated ' Surgeon General H. S. Cummlng in a recent report to congress. At the present rate of progress It will take fifty-on- e years before all the rural communities will be receiving the necessary health service, he said. During the fiscal year just completed, in the public health service 204 counties located in 17 states. The establishment of county health organizations provide the machinery through which all public health services may be conducted In proper sequence and proper relation one to the other. These organizations Insure to communities a well balanced, comprehensive and general program of public health work adapted to their needs. They also serve as the most practical means for preventing the Intrastate and interstate spread of disease. It was such organizations as these which were established In the areaB affected by the Mississippi flood of 1927 that were largely instrumental in averting outbreaks of disease which threatened to follow the wake of flood. $1,000,-000.00- 0 14 Old Wooden Ships Come to Strange End Baltimore. Fourteen wooden vessels built during the World war for the United States shipping board will be used in the construction of a bulkhead for a chemical company, opposite the company's land on the Patpsco river and east of its plant on Mar-le- y Neck, Curtis Bay. The work is expected to require about three months. A dredge Is at work, preparing a channel for the reception of the hulks which have been dismantled and stripped of machinery. When this has been completed the vessels, filled with rock and sand, wjll be sunk in the channel. The plans Include the interlocking of the hulks at bow and stern to form a continuous bulkhead about 3.500 feet long. When completed an area of about 30 acres will have been reclaimed The topsides of the sunken ships will be burned off for leveling purposes, it was said The ships are approximately 300 feet long and are lying ofT the companys property. Tibetan Woman a Worker married woman in Tibet not only manages tier household and' does the light housework, out jhe even helps erect her house. Cooking, sweeping and water carrying do not encompass her talents. Site helps the men sow, reap and plow, and develops her mu cles by curting firewood and carrying ' huge bundles to ber abodei A cago. Thousands of visitors will attend the major celebration to be held in Salt Lake that week, coming from all over the Union, from Canada and from Mexico, while representatives of congregations of the church in foreign lands will also be present. Daily sessions will be held In the great Salt Lake tabernacle, and every evening a pageant will be given there, depicting the rise and progress of the church. Taking part In this pag-:will be a oast of scores, and the tabernacle choir of "59 voices, heard during the winter over national radio broadcast, will sing under the direction of Prof. Anthony C. Lund, accompanied by the great tabernacle organ, played by Prof. Tracy Y. Cannon. This pageant will be repeated nightly until all who desire to see It have seen it The tabernacle will accommodate about 9,000 each night. On the opening clay of the celebration, April 6, Saint community In the world, every Latter-Daincluding those In all European countries, in North and South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, the South Sea Islands, and the Orient, will hold simultaneous gatherings celebrating the event. At each of these gatherings will be heard read a message from the presidency of the church. In order to accomplish this, the message will be translated Into a score of languages. One feature of this world-wid- e celebration will be the illumination by use of huge flood lights of the seven temples of the church. Most of these structures are situated on the highest or most prominent parts of the cities in which they stand, md when illuminated thus at night will be visible for miles around. These temples are located at Salt Lake, Logan, Manti and St. George, Utah ; at Mesa, Ariz. ; Cardston, Alberta, Canada, and Hawaiian Islands, President Heber J. Grant will be in general charge of the celebrations. On April 6, 1830, six men assembled on the farm of Peter Whitmer, near Fayette in Seneca county. New York, and there formally organized the Ghnrch of Jesus Christ of Latter-DaSaints. The men who signed the paper which legalized the church as a religious body in that state were toreph Smith, Jr., Oliver Cowdery, Hyrum Smith. Peter Whitmer, Jr., Samuel H. Smith and David Whitmer. In December, 1830, the founders of the church decided to move to Ohio and they settled near Klrtland In that state where the first organization of a first presidency took place on March 18. 1S83, with Joseph Smith as president and Sidney Rigden and Frederick C. Williams as counselors. In June of that year the first temple of the church uas begun at Klrtland. The history of the church has been one of steady growth and repeated moves westward Soon after building the temple at KirtlAnd and the body of the church was moved to the Missouri-Illinoiregion with headquarters In the town of nuvoo. III., a city which the Mormons practically built up themselves and in which they erected their second temple. But religious persecution forced them to move westward again and In 1848 the movement to the Rocky mountains was projected. In the spring of 1847 the Mormon Pioneer company was organized by Brigham Yonng and on April 14 of that year set out for the Rocky mountains. The party consisted of 73 wagons, 143 men, three women and two children ; 148 persons in ail. ifter a trying journey of three months across :lie great plains this party arrived in Salt Lake valley on July 24, 1847, and camped on the present site of Salt Lake City. Word was sent back .o the1 other traveling camps that a resting place had been found and the site for a new temple selected. nt y y s This is a view of the famous Salt Lake temple which is in the grounds where the centennial celebration of the Latter-Da- y Saints church will be held. This structure was built In pioneer days and required 40 years In the construction. It was built at a cost of $4,000,000. 2. This Is the interior of the Salt Lake tabernacle. Its seating capacity la 9,000. At the far end Is shown the great organ, one of the most famous organs of the world; an Instrument that has been frequently heard on national radio 1 broadcast. 3. This exterior view shows the tabernacle at Salt Lake City, the building in which the principal gatherings of the centennial celebration of the Mormon church will be held. This structure Is 250 feet long and 150 feet wide, and has a d roof. self-supporti-ng dome-shape- . A During the next few years, u.e wui oi .. o.u.. tlon went forward rapidly. In 1855 and 1858 hun dreds of Europeans were fleeing from their native lands because of the Crimean war and the high cost of food. Among them were many wile had joined the Mormon church and who wanted to reach the "Zion which had been established in the western wilderness. Ittsoon became a serious problem for Brigham Young how to get ,thes'' people from the Missouri river to Utah. Most ol them were poor and had no money with widch to buy wagons and oxen. So he devised the plan or and use those to having them build hand-cart- s transport their belongings across the plhinsf T e "Hand-car- t em - ' result was the tlon," an epic in American history of heroism, pathos and loyalty to an ideal. If this migration is an epic, no less a one is the story of the colonizajtlon of the intermountuin region by these people In a wilderness filled with savage tribes of Indians of uncertain temper, and carried on amid all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. But their triumph over all difficulties is written in the history of the state of Utah and it was aptly summed up by Theodore Roosevelt when he once said: Here in this state the pioneers and those who came after them took not the land that would ordinarily be chosen as land that yields return for little effort. You took a territory which at the outset was called after the desert, and you literally not figuratively made the desert blossom as the rose. So It is this achievement, as well as the annl versary of the founding of a religion, that is being celebrated in Salt Lake City in April. There is also being celebrated a social order which Is, perhaps, unique In the history of mankind. The Mormon church has always held the principle that people who are contented vocationally make bet ter citizens and church members. In order to assist its membership to be con tented in its various vocations, trades and Indus- tries the church has fostered several industries, and promoted agriculture and manufacturing aqjt now-famo- s means of Insuring profitable employment for its members, and to help build up Industrially the localities where the church members settle. This policy. )as resulted in occasional charges being hurled at the church that it is being commerbut the church, in carrying out the cialized, ibove mentioned policy, has had only the welfare of its members at heart. As a result of this "business policy of the church, the leaders of the church have assisted its members in the construction of many miles of Irrigation canals, In the building of railroad lines, and In the establishment of factories. Before telegraph lines were well established in the mountain districts by commercial companies, the church built its own telegraph lines to serve Its members and other pioneers of the region. Among the kinds of factories established by the church are several woolen mills; 'it has assisted In opening up the sugar beet business in the mountain regions, and assisting In the financing of construction of several large sugar factories and beet grinding plants. Flour mills were established with church assistance even in pioneer days, and at least one ralroad line was partially financed with church funds because it was being built through a region where members of the church "Would be greatly benefited by each construction. Two of the largest and finest hotels In "sit Lake City were built by the church, and one of them is operated by the church today, Not only have these projects been encouraged In the Rocky Mountain area, but in other states as well. Also in Hawaii, the sugar cane and other plantations have benefited by Latter-Da- y Saints church assistance. A large part of the Hawaiian island population Is Mormon. All money spent by the church in industrial activity such as here mentioned comes right back to members of the church who are the principal beneficiaries, the church Itself not participating to accumulate profit for itself. Proselyting through a large missionary system has been a feature of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Da- y Saints ever since Its organization. The system as at present carried out Is as folJ lows: Young men and women are called by the presidency of the church to go to some of tle various missions of the church. These missions are to be found In all parts of Europe, In North and South America, In South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii, Samoa and other South Sea islands, in Palestine, Armenia, and missionary work has been carried on in Japan and China. The time length of missions fulfilled by the men and women called as above mentioned varies from two to five years, although recently a six mouths' missionary term has been inaugurated for persons having previously filled a linger term million. ' |