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Show The Dreams of My Heart 207 encountered, spent time with many of the young missionaries, sights by them, and participated in ceremonies, banquets, luaus, and other festivities-sometimes as observers and sometimes as participants. They began with a flight to Hawaii, then Tahiti, the Fiji Islands, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, japan, Hong Kong, Siam (Thailand), India, and Pakistan. Madelyn's trip diary is filled with descriptions of villages, buildings, museums, and comments about the people, their customs, their dress, and their behavior. Many of the natives they met, of course, were Latter-day Saints. In Tahiti they were overwhelmed by leis, lilies, cannas, frangipanni, and beads; the countryside had a jewel-like quality, heavily green with vegetation framed by brilliant coral reefs. A "veritable Garden of Eden," she wrote. They took many photographs. She wrote about the versatility of the coconut, pandanus, and the purau tree and described the mak ing, wearing, and use of tapa cloth. The LDS missionaries they met seemed to be happy and eager. She had a special interest in them as their son, Barnard, was serving as a missionary in British Columbia. She wrote him regularly from each major location they visited. Their journey included a week each in Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, The Philippines, japan, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, Singapore, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Turkey, Italy, and Paris. Madelyn's interest in Planned Parenthood peaked in japan were shown the where she and Harold had memorable conversations with Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, about limit ing families. Sanger was a public health worker in New York who became convinced that family limitation, especially among the poor, was important to the health and welfare of women. Having studied in England with pioneers in her field, she returned to the United States to campaign for birth control. She opened birth control clinics, organized birth control confer ences, and visited many countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia to lecture and establish clinics. In 1942, she organized the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and when a chap ter opened in Denver, Madelyn became an active member. |
