---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Meldrum, G. G.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 20
number: 6
published: 1917-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'G. G. Meldrum, "A Tardy Season: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 6 (April 1917): 547.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2006unse
  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: improvementera2006unse
start_page: 547
end_page: 547
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2006unse
  publication_year: 1917
  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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# A Tardy Season: A Poem

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Instructions        on Social Work
                  Organization and Dancing

     By request of the General Authorities of the Church, the
General Boards of the auxiliary organizations have unitedly
prepared the following instructions on social work. These have
been approved by the First Presidency and are now submitted
to presidents of stakes, bishops of wards, and auxiliary organizations, with the request that they be adopted in the stakes and
wards throughout the Church.
                        Social Committees
     1. Organization.    In stakes and wards social committees
composed of men and women shall be appointed by presidents of
stakes and bishops of wards to take charge of all social activities.
The members of these committees should be selected with a
view to their particular   fitness for social work, it being suggested for the consideration of the authorities in the appointment of stake and ward committees that it might be well to have
the auxiliary organizations represented on such committees.
These committees should act in harmony with the Priesthood
and carry out their wishes. All social gatherings should be
under their direct supervision.
    2.     Meetings and Order of Business. All committees having social work in charge shall have definite times of meetings.
The following order of business for these meetings is suggested:
     ( a )   Prayer.
     (b)   Roll call.
     (c)   Reports of work previously assigned.
     (d)   Consideration of general regulatory suggestions       received.
     (e)  Consideration of local social problems, and determination upon definite ways and means of their solution.
     (f) Definite assignments of members of the committee to
the execution and supervision of the plans agreed upon.
     (g)  Benediction.
            Priesthood Approval and Public Sentiment
    All decisions reached by the social committees should be
approved by the presiding authorities in the stakes and wards.
The cooperation of all Priesthod and auxiliary organizations,
and of all other helpful sources, should be earnestly sought.
    The decisions should then be brought before the general
public with a view to creating sentiment in their favor. It must