--- 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: 17 number: 4 published: 1914-02 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,\" *Improvement Era* 17, no. 4 (February 1914): 399–401." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1704unse 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: improvementera1704unse start_page: 399 end_page: 401 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1704unse publication_year: 1914 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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Mutual Work MUTUAL WORK 399 North Trip— Dr. John H. Taylor 9 1 £'?7 ol' t 5" ?V U- 5- F^. 16, 17, 18, Oneida. 2. Jan 26 27 28, B. Y. U. 6. Feb. 23, 24, 25, Fielding. I' SeK'o'?^4'nSn,?rWL 7- March 2, 3, 4, Cassia. 4. Feb. 9, 10, 11, Weber. 8. March 9, 10, 11, Ricks. South Trip — Oscar A. Kirkham 1. Jan. 19, 20, 21, Millard. 6. Feb. 24, 25, 26 Thatcher 2. Jan. 26, 27, 28, Murdoch. 7. March 2, 3, 4, Maricopa 3. Feb. 2, 3, 4, St. George. 8. March 16, 17, 18, Uintah 4. Feb. 9, 10, 11, Snowflake. 9. March 23, 24, 25, Emery 5. Feb. 16, 17, 18, St. Johns. y' DAILY PROGRAM For M. I. A. and Scout Leaders 8:30 to 9:00 — Enrollment, first day only. 9.00 to 9:50— Scout Work. 10:00 to 10:50— Athletics and Gymnastics. 11:00 to 11:50— First Aid. 12:00 to 1 :00— Luncheon. 1:00 to 1:50— Scout Work. 2:00 to 2:50 — Junior Manual study and methods in class work. 3:00 to 3:30 — Review and discussion of special Mutual activities. Recess. 7:00 to 8:00— Games and ward and stake social work. 8:00 to 9:00— Ball-room etiquette and new social dancing. SEPARATE Y. L. M. I. A. OFFICERS' MEETING I. Class Work. Select a lesson from the winter's course. Urge your officers to give it thorough preparation. 1. Assignment of lesson — 5-minute talk, 5-minute discussion. a. Give methods of making assignments that will create sufficient interest to cause home study. Illustrate each method. b. Illustrate best method of making assignment of the 1 sson prepared for this meeting. 2. Presentation of lesson — 30-minute talk, 15-minute discussion. Use the lesson prepared for this meeting to illustrate the following points: a. Value of review. b. Value of varying the methods of presentation. c. Necessity of keeping in mind the relative value of points. d. Summary — clinching of points. Note — See "To Senior Class Leaders," and "Lesson Work," on page 53 of Young Woman's Journal, January, 1914. II. Ethical Problems — 20 minutes. Have talks given on the ethical problems that most concern you in your wards and stake; for example: Proper Deportment in Public Places and Respect for Presiding Authority. IMPORTANCE OF THE MEETINGS These meetings and the work planned are of such importance as to demand your immediate and careful attention. Notify the General 400 IMPROVEMENT ERA Secretaries of the dates when these meetings will be held- so that' where possible, members of the General Boards may attend We are delighted with the reports of progress in the Mutual activities, that come from many of the stakes, and wish our Mutual workers great success and the blessings of the Lord upon their efforts. Joseph F. Smith, General Supt. Y. M. M. I. A. Martha H. Tingey, President Y. L. M. I. A. Mutual Improvement Work This was the topic for the teachers of the Le Grande ward, Salt Lake City, recently. A short sketch of the organization and its present activities was written out by the bishopric, and handed to the teachers of the ward, who were instructed to speak to the young people as well as to the old upon its importance, and to do what they could to encourage the attendance of the eligible young people at the meetings. Everybody was respectfully invited to attend, and the teachers through their instructions were able to tell in what respect the organization was worth while. It was shown that the officers of the associations are progressive, alert, refined and capable, and that their efforts are worthy of the best support of the people of the ward. MUTUAL WORK 401 Contest Music Some difficulty has been experienced in securing copies of the musical numbers for contest work. We now have assurance from the publishers that the mixed double quartets, "It is the Lot of Friends to Part," and "Tell Me Pretty Bee," may be obtained in any number 'Tell Me Pretty Bee," is published by Gamble Hinged Music Co., Van Buren street, Chicago. These mixed double quartet numbers are for sale by the Daynes-Beebe Music company, and by the Consolidated Music company, Salt Lake City, Utah. The Junior Boys' chorus, "The Morning Breaks," as published in the Era, and the Junior Girls' chorus, "My Soul is Full of Peace and Love," as published in the Journal, may be had at the Era Office; both numbers for 12 cents per dozen. Raise the Fund this Month Only by prompt and energetic work can this be done. The officers should act now. If it has not been done in the ordinary way, raise it by concert, entertainment, or other wholesale way. Your stake and ward should lead with 100 per cent. Prof. L. F. Moench, a well known and efficient teacher in the Church, who recently returned from a trip to New York, calls attention to a model town located about one hundred miles from Chicago called Hoopeston. It has 6,000 inhabitants, eighteen miles of paved streets, together with a college building costing $100,000, with many churches, a Carnegie library, and manufacturing establishments valued at $1,000,- 000, at which 1,500 hands are employed covering an output estimated at $3,900,000 a vear. The town is clean and beautiful. The village was settled in 1871, and at that time the saloon was allowed to flourish, resulting in drunkenness, debauchery and all other inevitable outgrowths of the saloon. This so disgusted the leading class of citizens that when the new charter was made for the city, in 1877, they decided to abolish the saloon and all its concomitants, and for thirty-six years the town has withstood all efforts to establish saloons within its limits. Prof. Moench lays the prosperity of the town, its beauty and healthfulness, and its ideal conditions to the fact that saloons have been abolished. Capitalists have therefore invested their money here, to operate their factories and to carry on the immense business that is being done in the place. Ine conditions now enable the working man to become reliable, sober and industrious. He spends his money for the comfort and improvement of his home, for the happiness and prosperity of his family, and for the betterment of his fellowmen. The city is not in debt, and the taxes are about one-half of what they are in cities of the same size where the saloon element predominates. One reason for this is that there is no need for spending large sums of money for police forces, as only one policeman is needed to enforce the law and keep order. Salaries are not required by the city officers. These contribute their time without pay, and hence there is no special political efforts or aspirations, and so the town is free from the villification and traducing so common in political campaigns. Prof. Moench thinks that some of the towns of Utah and Idaho and other western stat?s could prosper and profit by following the example of this town in Illinois.