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OUR WORK. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Number 1, Volume X, Improvement Era, has been reprinted and mailed to every subscriber who had not received one. In case any subscriber has failed to receive number one, a postal card to this office will bring it by return mail. ANNUAL M. I. A. FUND. Officers are reminded of the importance of making remittance of the annual M. I. A. Fund to the General Secretary, 214 Templeton Building, Salt Lake City, before May 30, as any money received after that date can not be included in the report for 1907. APPRECIATING DIFFICULTIES. One of the stake superintendents, in his monthly report, strikes a keynote to progress that should awaken thought in the minds of all Mutual Improvement workers. He evidently thinks that there is more danger when officers of the associations find no difficulty, and when they think that everything is working just right, than when they are continually beset with perplexing problems. He savs: ' 'The chief difficulty reported is lack of interest, but the most discouraging report is from the wards that say they have no difficulties at all, when that, as well as every other item of their report, indicates that they are completely snowed under with difficulties that they do not appreciate." ANNUAL REPORTS. Early in March a sufficient number of blanks for the annual reports of the Y. M. M. I. Associations for the wards and stakes, were sent with a letter of instructions to the stake superintendents, and the ward reports no doubt have been distributed to the presidents of the associations. Considerable difficulty has been experienced heretofore in getting prompt returns from the ward presidents. We, therefore, urge these officers and their secretaries to be more prompt this year in making out their annual reports and forwarding same as early in April as possible to the stake superintendents of their respective stakes. We urge the stake officers to report promptly early in May—no later than the 10th—to the general secretary. Officers generally are urged to make the reports as full and correct as possible, so that we may have a complete report for our annual conference in June.