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Show Some Confusion Manifest About Salvation Army Some local confusion, due to frequent fre-quent visits of supposed Salvation Army Solicitors can be cleared by th2 following statements of Envoy Tlics Y Ragsdale, Campaign Representative Rep-resentative of the Intermountain Divisio of the Salvation Army wit.i headquarters at Denver, Colorado, and which covers Utah as well as Colorado and Wyoming: "The Commanding Officer of this Division has control of all Salvation Salva-tion interests in the three states. Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. He controls methods of raising funds and their disbursements and has all appointive power within these bounds. "By authority of this officer, Sanpete County as well as the counties of Utah to the south were, beginning with 1930, placed under the plan whereby only one appeal, called the Annual Appeal could be authoritively made any given year. This appeal is made by credentialed person from the Division Headquarter Head-quarter that are in Denver, Colorado Color-ado (used in common by Utah, Colorado and Wyoming) who places his credentials an other evidence before the secretary of the local Lions club from whom he will each year secure a statement certifying their correctness. This forms a link between the local community and the Salvation Army. "As fuither precaution all contributions con-tributions of $1.00 and over will be given the duplicate receipt of same serial number as the one retained in the receipt book which is sent back to the Headquarters for filing. fil-ing. "This positive business-like method meth-od has been made necessary to rid this section of unofficial calls as well as of the activities of impos-ters impos-ters in uniform, and we beg cooperation coop-eration for the good of all concerned." con-cerned." "Envoy Ragsdale has been at much pains to establish... an understanding understand-ing and is well armed with evidence evi-dence of his appeal being authentic. authen-tic. He hopes that the people will see the wisdom of refusing to give to any promiscuous collection and await each year the Annual Appeal as he explains above. |