Show STILL BELIEVES IN THRIFT AND HARD WORK I 1 president heber J grant of 0 the L D S chu church churell relf who last thursday NoN november ember celebrated ills his birthday the day following his birthday just 16 years ago he became church president succeeding the late president joseph if smith president grant still belle belie es that thai people cannot borrow V car selves out of debt and refuses to take a double somersault from his old idea that fru frugality allty thrift and paying as you go constitute the best economic policy ile Hs declares the only way lo 10 0 o success is thi through h hard work early and late to expect to achieve success in any other way is to hope to pick fruit from a tree that been baen planted respected and revered as church head bead by nearly a million latter day saints the leader has hag seen his churchs churche membership more than treble itself from the approximately members in october 1882 when at the age of 25 he was first sustained an apostle of the church recalls changes there were only about thirty in those days now we wa have well over he said rexburg Rex bur burg idaho then own had nothing but log g ca cabins bing and viere there were nvere about 1300 members of the church living north of cache valley now we have mor more than members living north and west of cache valley keenly aware of the many changes that have come since the days of the ox cart at the time of his birth nine years after tho the pioneers came to salt lake valley president grant recalled vividly bially events in liis bis busy life many of the jou journeys orneys which took tour four days when I 1 I 1 was a young man inan I 1 have accomplished by automobile recently in two and a half hours lie he said the church lead head at a conservative estimate has traveled more then miles during the past year speaking at quarterly quart eily stake staka conferences dedi dedicating dedication catin new chapels and personally attending to mandof many of the problems incident to his position loves good books A cicat lover of 0 good literature Preg president ident grant has tor for many years given away from several hundred to several thousand books annually 1 I see people all day long study out various lanis and all in ill all have thoroughly enjoyed my 51 years ot of association so in church work I 1 would hate to confess how little time lime I 1 set get for reading he con but president grant active and vigorous at 78 still follows many of the habits babits lie he acquired as a youth supporting his widowed mother eighty five per cent ol of my work in the way of personal letters and so on is written or dictated between the hours of and 7 a in he be said president grant has nine living daughters 46 living grandchildren and eight grande grandchildren hildien ills his two sons both died in infancy |