The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-30

in this country is being urged i'm mediately on the Government.
 Initiative in the matter is being taken by the British Anti-AIormOn Society, following the recent case of Edith Florence Papworth, a pretty English girl who, it was found, had been receiving secret correspondence from a married Mormon elder in Salt Lake City, urging her to "com out to Utah." and offering to provide her with passage money, and also because t has been discovered that:
 4 secret and renewed cam
 paisn, engineered from the Nor
 mon world headquarters in Utah,
 is to be launched in this coun-
 try very shortly.
 It has been known that the ATor- mons have been carrying on an active propaganda here during the war, with certain measure of sue cess.
 The centre in South Tottenham, for example, claims to have collected over 400 converts, chiefly women, in that district alone, and there are more than a dozen other branches scattered over London. Nightly meet
 
 The coming campaign, however. will be distinguished by new features and more subtle methods are to be employed to secure converts.
 \ Woman Detective. Evidences is to be offered to the Government in proof of the existence of this campaign, together with proof of the Mormon methods of securing girl converts with the object of in ducing them to go to Utah. Other testimony to be offered includes secret Mormon documents and correspond ence.
 A portion of the evidence to be adduced will consist of discoveries recently employed by Miss Winifred Graham tAIrs. Theodore Cory) to in vestigate Mormon activity here. The narrative, full of mysterious adventure, puts fiction to the blush. T engaged this lady detective," she said, ''to collect whatever fnfor- nation she could at first hand, and also as far as possible to obtain doc umentary evidence against the Nor mons.
 What Miss A." Did. Miss A-to call her that-asso- ciated with the Mormons in every part of the country and in Lon don.
 she did her work well, first in the guise of a simple, lonely girl, who had wandered into the meeting be- cause she had mistaken it for a 1 Methodist chapel, and also as a friendlcss young woman. Later. and without showing undue haste, she | displayed q willingness to become a 1 convert and to enter into full mem l bership by baptism.
 Finally she was regarded by hun drcds of Mormons and by the Nor ! mon priests as a full member and Q faithful follower.
 This accomplished she was ire quently summoned before a meet ing of so-called priests and urged to . consent to go to Utah.
 Her experiences among the Nor mons here in England, if fully de- sCribed, would take rank among books of the most exciting fiction. ex- ! cept that in her case it was actual | experience.
 Miss \. recently resigned because. to use her exact words to me. T have . become so terrified that I could not 1 continue the investigauons if I were to be paid S5O,OOO to go on Mormon Figures. Much valuable data has been col leCtcd. For example we have the actual statistical report prepared by ! the Mormons in England and sent to Utah, which contains Illuminating i'm formation of Mormon activity in this country.
 Here are some figures; they relate to the position at the beginning of this year:
 1 Present mem bershiD 6,21O | Meetings held during 1918 1O,925 New converts during 1918 PAS Priests sos i Female missionaries 499 Tracts distributed 9OO,166