--- 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: 9 published: 1914-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "A Wonder-Spot in the Rockies," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 9 (July 1914): 886.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1709unse 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: improvementera1709unse start_page: 886 end_page: 886 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1709unse 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. --- # A Wonder-Spot in the Rockies — 886 IMPROVEMENT ERA — — way as to make him see that I was you know really interested in him, not merely curious about his own affairs. Quite casually, as I might have asked him if he liked to go to the theater, I inquired if he drank. Well, that young fellow was frank and above-board about it. Said lie took a drink once in a while— a glass of beer occasionally, some- — times a whisky; but almost always he drank to be sociable to be a "good fellow!" "Do you ever go a while without drinking?" I asked him. "Sure!' he exclaimed. "Sometimes I go two weeks or a month without taking a drink." "Don't you miss it?" I asked him. "Not a bit! Never miss it at all." I kept quiet a few minutes. Then I came at the youngster this — way: "Of course, I understand I know your drinking doesn't amount to anything. But if anybody was to ask me about you, of course, I couldn't ring in exceptions — I'd have to say you drink." Here I stopped to let it sink in; then I went on: "Now, so long as you don't miss it when you're not taking it, if I were you I'd think it over and decide whether the drinking is worth — classing yourself with those who do drink with those who can't get along without the stuff." — Say in two days that youngster came to me and said: "Mr. Mack, if anybody asks you whether I drink, you tell 'em I — don't for I do not drink." Perhaps there*s something like a tip in that," commented Mack. "Any business man who has to handle men can take it for^what it's worth. I haven't any patent on it, although it's my method." "To have the greatest baseball trainer in America declare that drink destroys a man's capacity for ball playing, may appeal to some of the boys, and prevent them from ever contracting the evil habit," writes Elder Heber J. Grant, in asking that this subject be mentioned in the Era. Since the Y. M. M. I. A. are working dil- igently to establish baseball and other clean athletic sports among the young people in our community, the ideas of Connie Mack on "clean living and quick thinking," brought about by temper- — ance a strict observance of the Word of Wisdom, if you please are appropriate and in harmony with our efforts. Sixty-eight years ago, June 19, the news reports recently announced, the first match game of baseball on record was played, at Hoboken, N. J. There are now 5,000 professional ball players in the United States, in 50 or more major and minor leagues, earning more than $6,000,000 a season. Hence, when the baseball world talks it is worth listening to. It is not only a national game but is fast becoming inter-national. A Wonder- Spot in the Rockies In this number of the Era is a combination frontispiece of a wonder-spot in the Rocky Mountains where so many marvels of nature are to be seen. When Star Valley, Wyoming, was first