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96 IMPROVEMENT ERA correct them, and then to expect results by checking them up in their work. This he can do best by meeting with them regularly, in monthly gatherings; hence the necessity of regular monthly officers' meetings which are often held on Priesthood day so as to give the officers an opportunity both to attend Priesthood meeting and to attend to their Mutual Improvement Association instruction meeting. In giving reports and instructions, the subject matter should answer these questions: (1) What is being done? (2) What is undone that should be done? (3) Tell how to do it. Some matters that need immediate attention are the distribution of the manuals, the canvass of the ward for the Era, the arrangements for collecting the M. I. A. fund. It is presumed that preparations already have been made for class-work, conjoint programs, missionary work, debates, readings, preliminary programs, and other activities. But is it well to ask the officers the second question, in your November monthly meeting, on these subjects. New Members of the General Board On August 30, 1911, Elder Nephi Anderson, well-known to our readers as a frequent contributor to the Improvement Era, a writer of books and stories, and associate editor of the Utah Genoalogical and Historical Magazine, was sustained as a member of the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A. His experience in this work, as superintendent of the Box Elder Stake for a number of years, and his constant labors in the cause, will make him a valuable member, and will add to the efficiency of the labors of the General Board in the various stakes of Zion. On September, 20, Elder John H. Taylor was sustained as a member of the General Board. Elder Taylor is a young man of experience in Mutual work, and particularly interested in athletics and field sports. He is a member of the Athletic Committee, and will pay especial attention to the introduction of activities pertaining to this committee among the junior members of the associations throughout the Church. We bespeak for these brethren — new in the Board — the good will and assistance of the officers of the associations throughout the Church. Winfield Scott Schley, retired > rear-admiral of the United States Navy, and hero of the battle of Santiago de Cuba, in which Cervera's Spanish fleet was wiped out, July 3, 1898, died in New York, October 2, 1911, of apoplexy. He was born in Frederick City, Maryland, October 9, 1839. He was in all the naval engagements, March 16 to July 9, 1863; and was in command of the Greeley relief ships, Thetis, Bear and Alert, in 1884, returning August 1 to Portsmouth, N. H., having found Greeley at Cape Sabine, June 24. He was made rear-admiral, August 10, 1898. On visiting Utah, that year he was the object of continued ovation, and addressed the people in the leading cities.