Show Modern o ern Mormon ormon Ba Battalion Sta Started I I The Tho first platoon of the modern Mormon Battalion having haying entrained entrain entrain- e ed for Cor San Diego O on ou l July 10 recruiting recruiting re re- has commenced for tho the second of oC the three platoons to be enlisted Major Con COlI D. D ro ro- director for tho the U. U S. S Marino Marine Corps announces from hl his office in tho the Federal building at Salt SaIt Lake City Twenty applicants thronged his office the day dar the tho first 63 left for and Major Ma Mai jor Jog Shard expressed the hope hOlO that tilt tho full battalion ot or men mon would soon coon bo be In In- uniform I Organized to commemorate the tho service to its country of or the famous ramous I Mormon Moulton Battalion of 1816 the tho now new Mormon Battalion accepts only men of or tho L. L D. D S S. S faith in good od standing In tho the church Major SI SU jard lard commenting on oil the fact that three among tho the first group ot of recruits were descendants of or tho the original Battalion members noted that Battalion mon men labored after their return to Utah to build up almost every cry colony established by hy bythe bytho tho the mormons an and observed observed that recruits from the small towns of or ortho tho the into Intermountain region are aro tally lally desired to reflect t In the be bemo modern modern modern mo mo- mo- mo dern generation family traditions of tho the p past t. t |