--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 1 number: 3 published: 1898-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Editor’s Table: Best Thought Symposium," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 3 (January 1898): 207.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera13unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera13unse start_page: 207 end_page: 207 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera13unse publication_year: 1898 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Editor’s Table: Best Thought Symposium EDITOR'S TABLE. 207 gan to be known, it was at once pronounced a good thing, a proper thing to do, the missionaries would now be able to subscribe for the Era and in the magazine would have an efficient helper in their work; and at the same time — and this is important, since most of them are members of the improvement association — they would keep imbued and in touch with the spirit of mutual improvement work going on at home; and would be prepared to join right in that work when they returned home. But it was the purpose of the management of the Era to do something more than make it easy for the missionaries themselves to subscribe, it was decided to do very much towards sending the magazine to our brethren in the missionary field free; and therefore we invited all who desired to join us in this good work to do so. Such has been the response to that invitation that we are able to say now that we are sending to the elders in various missionary fields SIX HUNDREDS COPIES OF THE ERA FREE FOR ONE YEAR. That is what we are doing now, and we are confident that we shall do more than this in a few weeks. Six hundred copies of the Era free to missionaries ! But there is no reason why that should not be increased to one thousand, and we have faith to believe that our free list to the missionaries will be increased to that number before long. The magazine will be distributed in the several missions in proportion to the number of elders traveling in each. Residents of Utah having relatives and friends living abroad should also remember that the Era can be mailed from this office to such parties at the same rates allowed missionaries. BEST THOUGHT SYMPOSIUM. In the February number of the Era, we desire to open a "Best Thought Symposium. " That is, we invite all who have promised to contribute to our pages, and all officers and members of the associations, to give us their very best thought in a few words, in no case to exceed one hundred words. The writers are requested to confine themselves strictly to one idea, to one thought, and to put that in clear, terse language. In