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Show FILM SHOWS CHURCH PLAN FOR RELIEF With unemployment and relief re-lief still the gravest problem facing fac-ing America, the new March of Time, opening Sunday at the Rivoli theatre, turns to the Mormon Mor-mon church and its far-reaching experiment in putting its own jobless back to work. An eminently newsworthy picture, pic-ture, the film reveals that the church's governing body in Salt "Lake City, has begun a unique public works program which has already taken more than 20,000 members off state and federal relief re-lief rolls throughout the nation. Strikingly photographed and skillfully edited into a brief buL comprehensive history of the religion re-ligion established by Joseph Smith and made famous by Brigham Young, this March of Time episode epi-sode includes the singing of the 300-voice tabernacle choir and exclusive ex-clusive candid camera studies of the Supreme Mormon Pontiff, 80-year-old Heber Jedediah Grant, discussing his relief project with his advisors. A fundamental doctrine of the Mormon faith is that every member mem-ber shall be self-sustaining. Thus, at the depth of the depression, Heber Grant, alarmed that one-sixth one-sixth of all TJ. S. Mormons were idle and on relief, devised the ecclesiastical public works plan whose results now appear on the screen Mormon stores from coast to coast where workers are paid, not in cash, but with all the. food, medicines and fuel needed by their families; Church workshops work-shops where Mormon women repair re-pair old "clothing and make thousands thou-sands of new garments; crops harvested and stored in community communi-ty barns, with other Mormon women, wo-men, working by hand to cresite more jobs, preserving half a million mil-lion quarts of food. And, as more and more Mormons Mor-mons leave the nation's relief rolls, the March of Time points to other denominations, impressed by the results of the experiment and considering the adoption of similar programs as a means of restofTTY prosperity to the nation. Yet, today, with one hundred new employment projects under way, Mormon relief administrators, administra-tors, like those in the federal government, gov-ernment, are finding thcmsclvcu confronted with the vexing problem prob-lem of dealing with families who prefer to remain on the dole. But Mormons are confident that they will soon overcome this newest problem, preserve the. rugged individuality in-dividuality which in a single century cen-tury has transformed their struggling strug-gling pioneer band into a rich and mighty church. |