Salt Lake City "Plan" For Central Pacific
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Central Pacific.
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, Feb. 27.
SOME South Seas islands may shortly see an American social security programme in operation.
Elder George A. Smith, of the Church of Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, passed through Honolulu on the “Mariposa” for Australia and New Zealand. He will visit Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, and the Tuamotus to teach his
church’s parishioners the rudiments of the plan which has proved so successful in Salt Lake City.
Said Mr. Smith in explaining his pro gramme: “Foods are stored in the bountiful months and drawn upon in the lean periods. Everybody joins what is more or less a community effort which involves improvement and main tenance of homes, etc. We do not anticipate that the security programme vfrill be necessary in many of the Pacific centres, as the South Seas people usually are self-sufficient; however, in places where it is necessary, relief work will be undertaken”.