--- 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: 20 number: 8 published: 1917-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Priesthood Quorums’ Table," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 8 (June 1917): 748.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse 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: improvementera2008unse start_page: 748 end_page: 748 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse 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. --- # Priesthood Quorums’ Table IPRIESTHOOD quchCe -RUMS' TABLE © row Teaching for April According to the bulletin issued by the presiding bishop's office for the months of April, 1917, Bear Lake, Bighorn, Box Elder, Millard, North San- pete, Oneida, and Weber had 100 per cent of the families visited by the teachers in those stakes. Other stakes range as low as from 12, in Parowan, to as high as 99.8 in Ogden. The Ogden stake had 36 per cent of the priest- hood attending the weekly priesthood meetings; the next highest being Granite, with 30 per cent. The others ranged from as low as 4 per cent in Idaho, to 29 in Alberta. Reform in Dancing and Dress The Presiding Bishopric of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have recently sent the following communication to the ward bishops of the Church: Dear Brethren: Several months ago the General Boards of all the auxiliary organizations were requested by the First Presidency to give con- sideration to the matter of improvement in the dancing and dress of our young people. A committee representing all of the General Boards, after spending a long period of time in study and investigation of the subject, has rendered its report. This report has been approved by the First Pres- idency and all of the General Boards, and has been prepared for distribu- tion in the form of a small pocket pamphlet convenient for use and preser- vation. We are sending you under separate cover a number of copies of the pamphlet and the communication, estimated to be sufficient so that you may cause to be delivered to every officer and teacher, both male and female, of all priesthood quorums and all auxiliary organizations within your ward a copy of the pamphlet and to all women officers and teachers a copy of the communication on dress. If the number of copies sent to you should prove to be insufficient, you may obtain additional copies by writing to this office. We heartily approve and endorse the suggestions contained within the report so sent to you and we urge that you adopt the recommendations therein contained and give to the movement thus begun the whole-hearted support of all the forces at your command. Similar communications were sent from the First Presidency to the presidents of stakes, with instructions to distribute the pamphlets and cir- culars to the stake authorities, high councilors, presidencies of elders and seventies quorums, etc. The General Boards of all the auxiliary organiza- tions have also sent instructions accompanied by the pamphlets and circu- lar to their stake officers. The pocket pamphlet and the communication on dress were printed in the Improvement Era, Young Woman's Journal, Ju- venile Instructor, Relief Society Magazine, and Children's Friend for April. It is believed that a united effort on the part of all concerned will con- vince our young people of the propriety of the recommendations, and that their adoption will thus be made universal throughout the Church.