--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Douglas, Alice May collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 8 number: 6 published: 1905-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alice May Douglas, "Faithful Boys," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 6 (April 1905): 435.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0806unse 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: improvementera0806unse start_page: 435 end_page: 435 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0806unse publication_year: 1905 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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Faithful Boys FAITHFUL BOYS. There is a greater demand for faithful boys than for smart boys. There is nothing that one more appreciates in one under him than faithfulness. I once heard a gentleman say that he asked a friend why ha paid his secretary such a very large salary when he could secure one for a much smaller sum. He replied that he could secure one for a less amount, but not one who would do the work as did this one. "When 1 am gone." said the friend, "everything goes on just as if I were here.'- Now if this secretary had been smart, rather than faithful, his employer might not have been able to say of him what he did. He might have been obliged to have said, "I can't leave him, for when I'm gone he tries to run matters to suit himself and to improve upon my methods, and it is not a partner that I want, but a secretary." Where one succeeds because of his smartness, ten succeed because of their faithfulness.—Alice May Douglas.