Show EW PLAN oy L do so CHURCH DISCUSSED I 1 the social security plin of the th y 1 L D H S church as by bi president Prea klent wini R palmer Heg lonal oual I 1 Is as a kollowa folloW tol lowa 8 by pr pres wm jt jl Pal palmer itier regional chairman perhaps no movement to tile the beiter betterment ment of the dr kd people bt bf our bur country has nieU suell universal ai acclaim elala a ns s the recently announced L D S church security plan set get up primarily pria mrily for operative cooperative co security emhe of the mormon people it yet has attracted nation wide interest and lias bas biad the most I 1 cordial and ana complimentary publicity tit in many anany newspapers and with nation wide circulation it is hailed balled even among mormons cormons Mor mons as a new plan plait yet there Is lit in reality nothing new about it vo no principle ts Is invoke d th that athas haa not been in operation in the church since its early dalys the old familiar L D I 1 8 system Is now being givert given a wider application to social problems that iball Is all it lids hits been quite generally recognized that inefficient distribution rather over production Is tit it tile the root of the depression under i which we te have suffered suM surf cred ered vast surpluses were created pile causel d up and markets stagnated because be there seemed to ibe be no adequate system I 1 by which these 1 could bo be gotten over into the hands hand of those who needed them the re 1 sult suit haa baa been that we ha have P deenon seen on the one liand band vast last waste dell deliberate I 1 destruction of food and fa fabrics to to I 1 create artificial shor shortage and alli government govi ament fostering curtailment of production and on the other hand band more hunger more misery in isery want and insecurity than evev eer before bedfor e A long trail trall of cla have followed in the wake tarl the church delleves lel leves thado lh atso far its as its ita in member embers 8 are concerned 1 l they will cooperate the distribution 4 I 1 problem will resolved be s solved till this a ts I 1 c er ahro i clew cirii plan of church wide i 1 i aiom most of which we weli awe ave alway had I 1 the coraler ston stones es of this structure are area the ward bishops with I 1 thou their bishops storehouses the duty of the blahos lias IM always leen been to I 1 handle bandle the temporal affairs of the church chure ii with this we are familiar assisting him Is the relief Relied 1 society and the priesthood thus in this plan its as in every other phase of oc church activity the ward Is the unit of 0 organization the tha plan contemplates no c curtail artall ment of production let every man woman and child produce every useful article service or commo commodity that they can and thus employ i 1 themselves of the fruits of 0 their own labors they first Bupp auprly lythe their ir own needa and the surplus above that they may bring to abs tbs stora toe house here they ean can exchange their for or other com commodo ties or 0 serviced eg that they need in order that thore there may be always on handa good elook of 0 tha necea cities of life every church member A is a naked asked to donato as Ubo rally 00 i he can of bla bill time hla money or hla his commodities for mix he receives the assurance that it over overtakes him and lie he la IS in I 1 I 1 need his needs are an to be from f r ont the storehouse this in 13 his security and the pledge to him Is s backed by the whole church if after the people of the wards have through trading or labor supplied their needs there Is still a surplus surp lus of any given commodity in fil the ward storehouse it to t the stake intake storehouse through this malum the wards ivi within thin the stake may ra inter exchange their surpluses pill or any ward may draw araw to meet Us its needs the stake warehouse Is supervised by an executive council composed of all the ward bishops with n member of the stake presidency ns its chairman in tile the president lamont B D holds that position above this groups of stakes lave chave llean can organized into regions refi long and surpluses within stakes overflow flowra to tho the regional storehouse the heglon Is governed ly by a board com cova posed of nil all the within tile the region one of these 18 appointed to net act as regional chair chair man the carowan parowan Fa rowatt state stake Is grouped with the kanab zion park st bt george dinki tinki aloan takes in ili the st george acore region pread pre president ad ent veto liam it K rilmer palmer acting in the capacity of executive chairman this hoard board nota acts within alio brogton to move surpluses from where they ibey origin originate nto to here the are pre needed through it simple system of weekly mid at monthly inventories this board la Is bif informed ormed always ot of whai Is on hand and where and it also receives regular lists of items needed throughout the whole church within the region exchanges and grants between the stakes i la Is encouraged and facilitated in evory way there Is little or orno no red tape taix above the region stands the general church with elder 1161 melvln vin J bollard ballard III at the head tills plays the checkers between all the regions ot tho the charch through thin tho the markets of tile the entire church are opened to the ino inot t remote producer pro dwer and the diversified products from canada to mexico exico ore fire made available everywhere As a concrete example of the way it works work 9 one stake president in tit nl anost midst despair said to the general t we are a little airl cultural stalie stake and the drouth has burned us its up tit we will not produce enough to feed ourselves to say nothing alxxia surpluses to trade on to tell the truth he said there Is nothing left of us but sand and gravel all right answered president lee ot the general you have sand and gra vel el sand and grav gravel elari i a ra in ili demand how many men and hov lio v mit inana trucks can you put to wol work k ha hattling tiling sand and gravel we will find yon the iri arket 1 to till all church members who are unemployed wo we say look around you vou fuld and seo see if there is not something you can take hold leold of on your you r on own it initiative if you have the ability to io make or to produce any useful thing go to work on it ond the church will see that it reaches a ii business spends millions of dollars to open to you through a abc ic operative social security plan ilan and almo ii without cost t this in brief Is the background of the plan through which the cwych e efta t 4 0 acie wc ie economu for a nil in m who will coop loprate oo prate fate those who do not cooperate sot of course couise will have no lie claim upon it the actual operation involves the use of such funds off the tita fast offerings and voluntary donations of time money and ana produce but to outline this phase of tile the plan would require more space apace than la is 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