---
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: 13
number: 5
published: 1910-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Mutual Work: M. I. A. Reading Room and Gymnasium in Logan," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 5 (March 1910): 469.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  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: improvementera135unse
start_page: 469
end_page: 469
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  publication_year: 1910
  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 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Mutual Work: M. I. A. Reading Room and Gymnasium in Logan


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Mutual Work.

M. I. A. Reading Room and Gymnasium in Logan.
Active labors in providing the young people of Logan with a public
gathering place where they may find healthful physical exercise, social con-
verse, as well as intellectual diversion, in the way of good current reading
matter, has ended in most satisfactory results. The brethren and sisters
engaged in this work deserve commendation.                       Assistant Superintendent
Frederick Scholes, responding to a request, tells the Era of the efforts of
the M. I. A. to establish this enterprise in Logan:
'
'Our first active steps,   '
'   he writes, "were taken during the summer of
1908. At this time definite plans were agreed upon, and the approval of the.
Cache Stake presidency was obtained.  We received substantial encour-
agement from a number of leading citizens of Logan, but on account of
a feeling that our plans were inadequate for the needs of the town,                        we
were asked to desist our efforts for the time being.                 Notwithstanding this
setback, Superintendent A. E. Cranney,                    with undaunted energy,         ably
seconded by members of his board, took the matter of our needs up with
the General Board Y. M. M.                 I.    A., and the   encouragement we received
from that active and interested body gave us new courage, and through
their efforts we had placed at our disposal the spacious                       and substantial
building     known     as the Preston Block, situated in the central part of
Logan, close in to the business districts, an ideal location for our purpose.
Our aim      is   to provide an attractive rendezvous for the              boys, especially
those    who are     attracted from home influences to the alluring downtown
districts.        In our rooms     we
them not only good reading, clean
offer
and attractive games,                     more favorable environment,
associations under
but we endeavor in this way to encourage and help them to more fully
understand that, for       'a wise          and glorious purpose, we have been placed
here on earth,' and that 'The man who wins     is the man who does.'

"We have fitted up three large rooms, as reading room, game room,
and gymnasium, and have                    in   contemplation the    fitting    up of another