--- 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: Free Eras for Missionaries," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 3 (January 1898): 206.' 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: 206 end_page: 206 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: Free Eras for Missionaries the mails as second class matter, or pound rates, the statement was made that the circulation was 2,000 at that time, Nov. ist. A few weeks later the postmaster requested the assistant business manager to call upon him in relation to a letter he had received from the third assistant postmaster general at Washington. Upon calling on the postmaster he was informed that the third assistant desired to have the statement in regard to the subscription list of the Era verified. The postmaster at Salt Lake stated that they could not understand at Washington, how a magazine could start out in this country with a subscription list of 2,000, as usually magazines commenced with a circulation of a few hundred only. Had it been known by the post office officials in Washington that the Era had started without one dollar of capital; that not one dollar of indebtedness had been incurred in launching this enterprise, their astonishment would no doubt have been increased considerably. But however great their astonishment may be such are the facts in the case. We refer to these matters not for the purpose of gratifying any feelings of vanity — though we do not hesitate to say that the publishers have a reasonable pride in the success with which the Era is meeting, and that pride will, we have no doubt, be shared by the young men of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose response to the call to bring into existence an organ of the improvement associations has been at once so prompt and liberal; and made possible this success. We do not refer to this success, we repeat, to gratify any feelings of vanity, but we refer to it in order to call the attention of our young brethren to what they can accomplish — the power within their hands — when they unite for the accomplishment of any purpose; and we want the success that is attending our united efforts in this present enterprise to be both an inspiration and an assurance of success for future undertakings. FREE ERAS FOR MISSIONARIES. When the publishers of the Era concluded to make a one dollar subscription rate to missionaries, as soon as it be-