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Show SALVATION ARMY'S HOME SERVICE PLAN Calculated to Benefit Every Community Com-munity in Utah, However Isolated It May Be. Every community in Utnh, no matter mat-ter how small or how isolated, will be benefited by the Salvation Army's home service program which will be launchtd thruout tho United States during the week of Mny 12 to 20. This expnnsivo movement aims at a curtailment cur-tailment of those evils, the results of which tho Snlvntion Army hns been correcting in city slums over n period of more thnn fifty years. The great mnjority of underworld recruits aro lured from smnll towns by the -bright lights, of the city, nnd the present movement is aimed as a preventative of that supply. Tho most representative men in this country , regardless of religious or political po-litical creed, have instigated' and arc sponsoring this movement, becnuso of the recognized ability of tho Salvation Salva-tion Army to cope with certnin social phases. Vice-President Marshall in a recent re-cent address at Phoenix, Ariz., snid: "I myself nm an old-fashioned, bluestocking blue-stocking Presbyterian, but I nm a far better Presbyterian than I nm a Christian, nnd there are a lot of others in the same boat Is is my deliberate judgment thnt there is I not anything in the world today thnt is comparable to what the Salvation Army is doing. I do not want you to think that I nm disloynl to my own church, nnd I do not mean this should lessen your zeal for your various var-ious church denominations, but I do .mean that this organization fills n ,grent need in the world todny." j In currying on its vice proventntivc program tho Salvntion Army will rely for guidance on ndvisory boards so. lectcd from the best elements in ench community public spirited citizens jwho will co-operate with the central organization in this importnnt work. Hamilton Gnrdner, Commnndcr of I the American Legion in Utnh, is t chairman of the Stnte Advisory Bonrd; nnd John E. Holdcn, Stnte Adjutant, will shortly enrry the Saltation Sal-tation Army's message to every Legion Le-gion post in tho stnte, nccording to ! announcement mnde nt Snlt Lnko hendqunrtcrs. "Holdcn, like every other Utahn who was overseas, has an intimate (Personal knowledge of that wonderful wonder-ful organization which is the Snlvn-Ition Snlvn-Ition Army," said Mr. Gnrdner. "Utah's service men nre supporting jthe present movement ns one of in-( in-( calculable vnlue to the community." This homo service program will become be-come a permanent feature of tho Sal-1 ,vation Army's future. By co-ordinnt-j i ing this work of aid and comfort with , existing institutions through tho local lo-cal ndvisory boards, a great service , i will be done the country, declare those who are behind tho movement ' |