Show church leaders outline achievements of security plan at conf conference arence saints saint U urged to live in unity and peace prepare for future and nd strive against class feeling sit down strikes are illegal and dangerous david 0 mckay second counselor to the first presidency told delegates to the semi annual general conference of the church of latter day saints t other cli church leaders joined apostle mckay in denouncing idleness condemning use of liquor and tobacco as more than delegates jammed th the e huge tabor tabernacle while other thousands stood in the open air to hear talks through amplifiers the illegal possession of corporate property is a new menace mckay said venerable 80 year old heber J grant first Dres president ident of the church and nominal head of more than three quarters of a million cormons mormons Mor Alor mons lashed out sharply against use of alcohol and tobacco recalling that he had warned churchmen and utahna gene generally raily against repeal of the amendment predicts war or depression J reuben clark jr first counsellor to grant and president of the council of twelve apostles predicted imminence of a new war in europe or a worldwide world wide depression should war fail to come the nations of the world clark said are piling up huge armaments they are spending eleven billions of dollars a year on military armaments raw mater tr 12 k leof all warlike ivari ike sor sorts is now accumulating are arc many times greater than were gathered together at the end of the world war there will be in the immediate future a period of prosperity or inflation in which the costs ot of living will go up this prosperity period will aiu be over some say it two years some say in ten that hat if war shall come the period will last till the end of the duration of the war but that if war does not come then this prosperity period will end so soon as the nations feel reasonable security in a 1 period of peace if war shall come its ending will leave the world in a state of exhaustion heretofore unknown to modem times that the depression from which we are now emerging will be but as a shadow of the real hard times which will then come european countries feel that the next world depression will be b a chaos which will threaten the very existence of government of property of h human u man rights of liberty even oven of the family itself using imminence of another war or depression to show value of the church security plan dark clark urged mormons cormons to follow church doctrines warning them to avold avoid debt like a plague eight million spent A church financial statement made by apostle mckay showed total expenditures topping pS lT during the fiscal year 1936 more than ol 01 01 this amount went to missions throughout the world in the first complete report on i achievements of the church security plan adopted a year ago when church leaders undertook to assure governmental authorities that no cormons mormons Alor mons would be added tc relief rolls mckay listed more than persons as having received aid from the program me he acknowledged receipt and expenditure of in dona eions to the programs fund as well as receipts of thousands of i cans and bottles of fruit and vegetables tons of hay bushels of wheat and other grains fuel and other necessities distributed to the needy in return for labor new officers sustained in the closing general session of the conference held tuesday afternoon president heber J grant announced the appointment of albert i ernest bowen former superintendent of the young youn g mens mutual improvement association to the exalted position of apostle to fill the vacancy left by the death of alonzo A hinckley more alore than members of the church present in the tabernacle at tuesdays session unanimously approved the selection of mr bowen to the council of twelve mr air bowen boven is a member of a prominent law firm in salt lake city and has always been active in the church especially in for young people george organizations Q clr mi succeeds him as general superintendent erin crin of the |