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Show Dern Proclaims Fast Day For Relief of Unemployed Governor George H. Dern Thursday invited the citizens citi-zens of Utah to learn by personal experience what hunger hun-ger is, hoping, thereby, that those who may not already know, will have greater sympathy for tihose to whom hunger is common. In a proclamation, the governor designates Sunday, May 8, as Civic Fast day, inviting the citizens to eat nothing on that day, when they can possibly abstain from eating, and, as a beginning in good works, to de vote what they would have eaten, or a monetary equivalent equiv-alent thereof, to the relief of those compelled by ne cessity to suffer from hunger. The proclamation reads in part: "Todav America presents the paradoxical problem of millions in want through unemployment, while on all sides plenty exists. American citizens are asking only on-ly for work, yet there is no work for them. Much assistance for these unfortunate ones could be obtained if everyone in Utah who could do so should refrain for one day from partaking of food, donating the food thus saved, or its equivalent in money, to th -relief of suffering among the families of those in want; "Now, therefore, T, George II. Dern, governor of Utah, do hereby proclaim Sunday, May 8, as Civic Fast day, and I urge all persons who possibly can to observe this day conscientiously and give the food saved or its equivalent in money to their churches, lodges or what ever relief agency may be operating in their localities, that suffering may be somewhat alleviated." |