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Show WEST IS PREPARED F0R SOCIAL ST1M Dcnwr. Feb. 17. Willi organisations organisa-tions ULrected In thirty four counties In tho Intermountaln province, to carry car-ry out tho social Btudles outlined horo In January as part of tho Salvation Sal-vation Army's 1920 homo sorvlce program Lieut. Col. John W. Cousins commander; of tho province, declared that tho hucccss of tho program In assured. A number or the county advisory boards havo already completed tholr studios. Their reportu are now In the hands of state advisory boards. A courso of procedure and crcom-mendatlonH crcom-mendatlonH for action will bo defined booro March 1C by tht state boanlH. "This study will bo, o lnestlmnblo viluo to the general public," Lieut. Col. Cousins said. "No moro com-pie com-pie to study of Boclal conditions had Rtcr been mado In tho wost than tho cue wo aro .now carrying on. The report will bo mado after all tho tbo reports havo been turned In from tbo county boards. It will be of value not only to us but to the Huclologluts of tho nation. "We oxpoct in Oils study to nill tho origin of ciimo, poverty nnd Incapacity. In-capacity. Society Is at fault becauso of a hick-a-dalslcal attltudo toward social questions. Tho national VulfC Is qulchenlug however. Thero Is no bolter ovldonco of thla than tho ro-oponso ro-oponso wo aro getting from all class-i class-i cs bankers, physicians, lawyer, merchants all Inteicsted and wovtc-ling wovtc-ling on our social program. This report re-port when complete will shock many western thinkers into action. It will vividly portray tho forced that aro working umlrr rover," |