WASHINGTON. MERRY- GO-ROUND e >2 lig ious san A :vVisit. vit ig isi LAKE CITY — ca “ele on David 0. McKay, president of the Church of “BY “DREW: PEARSON vision of the American peo- YY hakeine farming, ‘many | ple to withstand competi- - people work at ‘oud tion with communism, and| missile. factories. he feels that moral ‘stand- Be Jesus Christ of the Latter- ards in the United States are high. ay day: Saints—better known as the Mormons, who, | pushing west in the last ~ century, pioneered Utah and much of the Rocky Mountain | states he reported as good, tion for crowded cities was with Orne After smile, an amazing memory, and a deep. understanding of his fellow men. office just half a block from the great temple of the faith. and _... granite Mormon the famed egg- shaped tabernacle with its aluminum roof. President McKay was Brigham Young, the ea ted behind the old desk Mormon prophet, but. got and insisted ~ Up - there while ie other chair. | | that I sit. he sat:in an- s not lag- talking in the president’s office, we walked down the street to strong friendly hin in a modern T recalled that the late | and the Rocky Mountain me that. the future solu- — President McKay is 88, Hoe) a found ce Henry Ford had once told gin g. with a aa Hida Utah economy. eThe states. face, a contagious | © the Hotel Utah where I enjoyed the privilege of lunching with the head of the Mormon faith. talked We of many things, ranging spread of of from the faith among y | ag } * the Mormon the Negroes Nigeria to the farm problem here at home. President McKay still operates his family farm not far from Ogden and loves to spend the weekends there surrounded by his children and grandchil- to. establish | small tories in the fac- | adjacent countryside where men — could work during the day _ and work on small farms t in the evening. The cities, Ford thought, had pects top-heavy. | President that McKay Kennecott and U.S. Steel this. in Ulahs I looked out window at the that — waia ‘Copper were doing 3007. the picture | mountains | | surround Salt Lake | City, some of them snow- | covered in the distance. | They are mountains that Fave been conquered by Strong men, men of the strength and moral deter-_ mination of David. Ov er ; Kay, dren. “My oui was a friendly | visit rather than .an inter- _ view, so I am not. privileged to quote President McKay on some matters. _ However, he has great conie fidence in the ne and ey ag eae a ce et tas oy He sath aed however. T looked back at my luncheon host. I have met. that farming had been dwindling, and that the litmany of the religious leads | tle town of Huntsville - -ers of the world, butr none | nearby had dropped population in |. with more contagious hu- ~ from about. ap. 000° 2, Bes Instead of mor, practical good. sense and Home: poten: