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Sinai. Announcing that Joseph Smith Jr. had made enough revelations to last 20 years, the Yankee Moses put his faith in hard work and sermonizing. He laid out his city, instituted communal economics, established a stream of immigration from the East and Europe by steamship and handcart caravans, drove the Mormons to make their wilderness blossom as a rose with a plentiful mixture of hard sense, humor, reproach and simple sincerity. He made friends with the Indians and fenced successfully with Washington. Under him, polygamy, previously furtive, became a public duty. Men took crones and pining spinsters as well...
...particular profession. The practicality of college training will receive genuine endorsement when college men take an active, personal interest in public affairs through the exercise of the ballot, after sound appraisal of candidacies and platforms, as well as through participation in various civic and social activities inuring to communal betterment...
...leather, the inevitable dice, beads of turquoise and shell. The pottery, white or light-colored with black designs, was made without potters' wheels. There were chipped stone implements. The living chambers of the houses uncovered were small - only about six by eight feet, a contrast to the large communal houses of the later tribes...
...idea", he said, "has been a great success. The people are living under a communal government and devoting all their interests to the common ideals of the state. They are deriving the happiness which comes from the realization of entire cooperation toward a common goal...
...direct opponent. Other prominent Jews, such as Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, while favorable to the movement, have not approved of the policy of the Foundation Fund, believing that the movement should be financed by private initiative rather than by the Fund's communal methods...