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Show MATURE MEN TO BE CALLED ON L. D. S. MISSIONS The L. D. S. church presidency today had announced that effective effec-tive immediately only the more mature members of the church will be called for missionary duty. This order will apply for the duration dura-tion of the war. Only those men holding the office of-fice of Seventy or High Priest will be called for full-time missions. Formerly many young men who held the office of Elder have been sent. The statement by the presidency of the church said in effect that present world conditions and problems prob-lems which are arising that are vital to the nation and the church, "require the need in our missionary work for that experience, exper-ience, testimony and faith which is possessed by our mature brethren." bre-thren." During the last war the United States had to obtain 42 strategic materials from foreign sources. Research has contributed to national na-tional self-sufficiency to the point where today there are only 14 such materials on the list. An all-out war, as we are slowly slow-ly discovering, requires all-out patriotism. |