---
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: 10
number: 10
published: 1907-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Mind Your Own Business," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 10 (August 1907): 812.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10010unse
  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: improvementera10010unse
start_page: 812
end_page: 812
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10010unse
  publication_year: 1907
  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 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Mind Your Own Business

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MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. "Never be contentious. Concern yourselves with your duties, and your rights will take care of themselves." A bit of parting advice from a general to the graduates of West Point, but applic- able to all men, young or old, college graduates or not.
