The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-06
SCORES SAL TA|R
IN TABERNACLE
Mrs. Tingey Says Young Girls
Go There and Drink Too
Much Liquor.
PRESIDENT SMITH DEFENDS
THE YOUNG MAIDENS
Says MormOns Are as Good a
People as You Can Find
Anywhere.

Some six or seven thousand saints,
members of the YOUNG Ladies and Young
Mems Mutual Improvement associations,
assembled at the tabernacle Sunday
afternoon and received most severe
castigatIon from Mrs. Martha II. Tineey.
president OF the general board. y. i" M
/, \. Mrs, Tingcy said, II WAS horriticd
lu hear that many of our girls-I mean
the girls OF Salt Lake--havc had TO be
locked up at Snltalr because of over-in-
diligence In strong liquor, II Is bad
enough FOR our boys 10 do such things,
but IL Is terrible Tor our girls
President Joseph +. Smith, however,
desired TO turn the current OF thought
into another channel. and. addressing the
congregation shortly after Mrs. Tinsey
had concluded he suid. Il feel compelled
10 say that Notwithstanding all the ref
crcnces We have heard to the misdocds
Of somc against the laws OF health, of
life. of morality, against all the laws of
God and human propricty. l believe thcTe
is not any people OF the same magnitude
That can produce as large n percentage
OF uprighteous. honest, purity and honor
as this people can do. We do not look
for absolute perfection In man. Never
theless. IL is given us 10 be as perfect
In the sphere In which we arc called TO
act as 1t is for the Father In Heaven TO
be pure and righteous In the moro |
exalted sphere in which he acts
Duty Of the Saints.
1T is the duty OF Latter-day Saints.
President Smith continued. and the |
leaders of the mutual Improvement work
ness and puruy OF life. Of honor and up
rightncss and of humility wlthal. When
they looked at some individual in the
church with whom they were ately
acquainted who treated lightly those
things which are more sacred than life
itself, ii made theR more earnest In the
peen called upon to perform. II will not
be long. said the speaker, that tho
name OF the Prophet Joseph Smith Will
be coupled with that OF Jesus Christ;
that Joseph was the angel of Christ on
earth, that he was set apart TO lay the
foundations anew OF the church of Jesus
that ana standing among as good a peo-
ple-and ] am not boastlng, when l say
better people-than there is in the
world" concluded the president.
Many Ice Cream Sodas.
Mrs. Tingcy, in her address, said that
She believes that parents ought 20 have
their children baptized before they arc
years old. She deprecated the cigarette
habit A. INDUCED In by boys and and said tll that
rinscy said that there is too much fol-
lowing after fashion, both by boys and {
girls, and that some OF the young people
of Zion today are selling their good name
Tor dress, She deplorcd the fact that
young people are visiting cafes and soda
fountains. and especially the treating Of
each other. Some of the young ladies, '
she asserted, have ten or a dozen dishes
OF ice cream lii an afternoon because Of
the trentinS habit. /
Ieber j. Grant paid q tribute TO the
of John Hafen, the Utah artist. $
who died in Indianapolis few days ago. | |
and Emma Ramsey Morris gave report
Of the work OF the primaries, and con-
demned the teaching OF coon songs, rag
time and all foolish music to the children
The "resent officers Of the various as J
sociations were sustained OF course.
AT the morning session the following G
programme was carried out: '
Singing High on the Mountain Top" n
congrega tion. singing, male quartette OF $
chorus; addresses on con nJolnt worlS-De h
bates. DR.. John a. Widtsoe; music Oscar v
A. KirlSham; drama Alice G. Tudden- a
ham: reading and story telling, Emma :
Goddard. Speeches limited to from five ,
10 ten minutes with discussion after each
subject. Singing, ladies' double trio.