Show stake quarterly conference at the quarterly conference of the san juan stake held saturday and sunday at blanding milton LI ilton R hunter of the first council of seventy presided representing the first presidency of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints at the session saturday night two films depicting the methods and progress of the church welfare pi plan an were shown one film titled the welfare plan in action illustrated the comprehensive scope of the program showing the many industries and fields of activity that are embraced by the plan dairying beef farming chicken and turkey ranches farming canning and manufacturing are all carried on successfully as projects of this widely heralded program of self help the large buildings and store rooms roams at welfare square and the huge elevators at kaysville Kays ville were shown in the picture the second film strip the lords way pictured the practical application of the plan in op aeration pe ration reaching out to its needy me members abers and helping them in times of need the growth of the program from its inception in 1933 to the shipment of carload after carload of goods to its impoverished members in war torn europe were featured in the picture the division vision and wisdom of its founders were amply illustrated in the pictorial story showing the real function of helping the participants to hc ha p Chem themselves selves the program is intended to make the members of the church of acle agencies 0 ond of old age pensions by opening the way for them to become again producers and giving them something constructive to do that will help them establish themselves as self sustaining it works on the premise that dang for others what they can do for themselves benefits neither the doner nor the person it is intended to help Und under erthe the welfare plan self respect and a feeling of independence are maintained by provision being made to help the needy help themselves of course in cases of incapacity the plan calls for outright gifts and its warehouses are full of the commodities that are most commonly needed in cases of emergency the two conference sessions sunday featured several speakers and music by the combined choirs of the blinding blanding and grayson wards under the direction in the morning by mrs reva redd and rowan taylor in the afternoon elder hunter was the principal speaker a at L both sessions expounding the principles of the gospel in a most able manner |