The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-05
.1,OOO ENGLISH GIRLS NbME 10
 G0 10 UTAH
Have Been Won By Propa- gand2 of NIormons Tn
 Their Country.

 tlring. Three young girls, rcrontly op- preached by Moruous. throw some light on tho Mormon methods ycs- tcrday in describing 'hoIr experiences.
 'I novvr thought I should eyer become iutercztrJ tn Nrormr r~f=rn. DO said one girl. 'Eut one day a young man came to the door dclivrriuG tracts and he said Inc used fo know my pgo- pie.
 "Ou tha strength of that Inc asked me Go meet him and he used Co take mo Co theatres and tn tho uu=Ic hall He said he v-as over her. on a mis- sion from America. and then he told mo a lot of noauuful things about TO- ligion which I had never heard be- fore.
 "ITe told mo women had a sacred duty in this llto. which was Co raise up a raco of people Co pop '1re the new city of Zion.
 'rtIe s7id God had chosen spot where this new city was to stand and which in time must domiuate the whole world. It was called Utah. Beautiful ceremonies were perform ,-d and tho women were tho most favored and tho most wOr@hippCd class. They had plenty of money and wore beautifII dresses and were al- ways diviuoIy beloved by thclr hus- bands
 "I never said anything about this to anyone until formed a resolution that I vvou1d go Co Utah Then l told my mistress. Sho was horTifcd, and what she told mo made me change my mind"
 ''I went to Mormon meeting just for the fun of the thing saId an other youug girl "'Tle uIeetinS-house door was shut and when J knocked it was opened ny a sEirl- she toeE mo 10 a dimly lit han, where thore were q about a dozen men and nearly 200 women and rlrIs Several of the zlrls rsve little addresses and talked about tho wonderful city of Zlon- which l took to he I-Jah.
 ''I began to set nervous and at mo first chance I left Inc hall Al tho door l was ovCrta-kcn by a man. who pressed mo to go yvith him into an adjniufnE room. IIo told mc au about the Mormon religion and begged mo do let him see me aEala- ] agreed but stipulated thot it ugls not be in that bui1dinE -,N @#
 @A vour- Mormon girl came 10 work tn Ino slmc ofIro with me- said one Of tho girls -'SrN seemed no have a sweet. gentle disposition and would sometimes dlsruss reli g1ol- Then sha revealed 1hc faC- That she was a Mormon. and tried to 7ersua - lD ro attend -a It-la uectinE. In a privato housc-
 4aEvhc1 T went -hcrD I ans 1nrro- durod to a ban6=o-o EounE man who talked about -s-frituaT thiuEs, tho un- .enrf-hrennent a- inc people lu this
 fem ss which v1alfc7 thr faVwrcd ones ln 1-tgh. Then T rt- frl=htenrI and decided not co go to any more AIor- mon meetings
 -'I subsequently met him several rir-cr. and he tried ro sh0T me how tho Mormon ra1izion was moro beau 4ffu1 fua- rha Cr1-lEallu re3irfol as 1rnderzruu.d IL IIa roId mo Utah was a dnH-htfuI place When ! told him I had hoard terrible Elu-f-7 strr',r- Mormon d1tnEs. he sal3= -lhog arc not truc= 1T they were rar police would iuturfere-'
 Why arc girls onticed t1 T.ah2
 The question was ansvurr- r'y --r. Taruea Gunn Nfacl-ly- President or t1c London Conference of the Mormon Society at south Toreuhanl-
 eve Go not asE ~7vr- 70 go to Utah he said -lf they wish to go that is their choice We do not per suade them to go. and 1T they are under ago they arc obliged -u nave their parents consent before they are received fin the Church
 ''Thcre are over 1000 MUrmous in London. and we have branches in different parts of the metropolitan area. We are engaged in missionary work. and in spreading the truth as we see it.
 "Slnce we became established in England we have had at least 200, 900 converts to our religion and a very great proportion of these remain in this country in order 10 carry on mis- sionary work
 "We have gained converts among the leading generals in the Army and commanders in the Navy"
 An official of the anti-MorTnon lea gue said yesterdray that Mormon ac- tNity was spreading slowly but sure Iy all over the country.
 "'Erauchcs exist said this official a'in the following places in or near IondOn3---
 Stoke Ecw1nEton. Croydon. Erik ton. Holloway. Enfield, St. Albans. Camden Town, F'insbury.
 ''1n some of these places branches are formed by small meetings held in private houses. Every Mormon group of ten persons is domino ad by an elder. whose duty if is personally to visit every member of his group.
 ~WiCh Liverpool as the European centre active branches have been es- tablaslaed in Portsmouth. Brighton. southend, Canterbury. Watford. Read ing
 f~rhey do not employ the crude method of persuadfnB girls 10 20 70 Utah; they employ the more insidious method of painting their religion in glowing colOrs, of appealing Co the romantic and imaginative instir ct of girls and women, and then sul y dwelling on the sylOriss of Utah, where they can enter into celestial maria ge v,-ttn the man of their choice.
 ssThe success of fhfs method IS seen in the fact that in one year Aust before the war I,5o0 girls sail ad for Utah, and we have definite knowledge that at the present time there are more than 1000 English girls waiting for Bn opportunity to book their passage.
 "Provided these girls are over 2l there is very little difficulty in their obtaining the necessary passport fac itifieS"