---
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: 16
number: 3
published: 1913-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Utah's Sons the State's Great Pride,\" *Improvement Era* 16, no. 3 (January 1913): 226–227."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1603unse
  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: improvementera1603unse
start_page: 226
end_page: 227
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1603unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Utah's Sons the State's Great Pride

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Utah's Sons, the State's Great Pride.   — From the men trained in
Utah colleges the native state is receiving continual praise, and these
men are doing as much as any other one factor to make Utah a most
honored state. The Utah Agricultural College, alone, has sent constructive citizens into ten states of the Union, and into many federal offices
at Washington, who are leaders in the agricultural industry of these
states.     They are
                  soil experts, foresters, reclamation engineers, irrigationists,agronomists, animal husbandmen, and investigators and
managers in crop production and dry-farming. Into the states of
Kansas, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, California,
Minnesota, Missouri, and New York, she has sent these men. In the
United States Department of Agriculture, Utah-trained men are gradually forging to leadership, and in their good work are building a
veritable monument to the state's great citizenship.       They are all champions of the dignity of intelligent labor which       is    in   reality the heritage of Utah.

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Liberty of the Press

  BY JAMES H. ANDERSON, OF THE GENERAL BOARD Y. M. M. I. A.

                                 II.

                                       —
    Press Censorship in History. From a very early period,
books supposed to be hurtful to the interests of government, of
religion, or of morality, have been condemned to the flames, or
sometimes censored by particular tribunals, and often suppressed.
Frequently the death sentence was imposed upon writers and dispensers of books that came under the ban of ecclesiastical or
secular authorities.   Heathen antiquity supplies some instances of
the burning of obnoxious books Tacitus mentions a history of
                                   ;

Crementius Cordus which the Roman Senate, to flatter Tiberius,
condemned because it designated Caius Cassius as the last of the
Romans; Eusebius records how Diocletian caused copies of the
Scriptures to be burned.
     The early churches which succeeded the primitive Church of
Christ, in the garb of Christianity, displayed intolerance equal to
that of the heathen, to say the least.     The charge of heresy was
a ready instrument in destroying or preventing the publication of
works alleged to be injurious to the faith. Writings continued
to increase among the people, and church councils began the
issuance of lists of prohibited books. The Council of Nicea condemned to the flames the works of Arius the writings of Nes-
                                              ;

torius met the same fate at the Council of Ephesus pagan works
                                                      ;

were prohibited at the Council of Carthage in 400 A. D. in 494
                                                            ;

a list of forbidden books was issued in a decree of a council at
Rome in the 13th century the works of Aristotle were condemned
       ;

by the Romish church.       These are a few of a vast number of
similar instances.
     With the acquisition of more convenient and cheaper materials for bookmaking prior to the 15th century, there was awak-

ened a persistent demand and effort for liberty of the press, which
grew stronger as the means for expressing thought in written