--- 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: 21 number: 3 published: 1918-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Man of Tomorrow,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 3 (January 1918): 265–267." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2103unse 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: improvementera2103unse start_page: 265 end_page: 267 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2103unse publication_year: 1918 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 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Man of Tomorrow The Man of Tomorrow' A new vocational guide designed especially for boys and joung men, and for the instruction of vocation counselors of the Y. M. M. I. A., is just off the press. While its telling message is written to young men generally, and not especially to those of any particular locality, it will serve a valuable purpose, both locally and wherever it may be read or circulated, One of the urgent needs of the time is vocational guidance, because of the fact that only about 25 or 30 per cent of the world's workers are in the right occupation; few men are trained for their work. Fifty per cent of those who work admit that they are in the wrong vocation, and less than half of our young men are said to remain at school until they have com- pleted the eighth grade. The result of this mal-adjustment is discontent, poverty and failure. Hence the need of vocational guidance to direct the youth of the land to success, through 266 IMPROVEMENT ERA intelligent choice of, and thorough preparation for, their life's work. The Man of Tomorrow fills this need. Mr. Claude Richards, the author, was especially appointed by the General Board of the Y. M. M. I. A. to write the book, 'and has spent two or three years of his extra time in performing the labor, having first made a complete study of many of the best works on vocational guidance. As far as we know, it is the first book of the kind written by an author in the intermountain region. The work is especially suitable and adaptable to young men, but is also of value to young women who seek reliable knowledge concerning the selection of, and preparation for, their life's labor. It may also be read with profit by persons who have already found their calling, and by all who are co-oper- atively interested in our country's youth. The book consists of nearly three hundred pages, richly illustrated and nicely bound. It is especially desirable that every vocation supervisor and counselor in the M. I. A. organization shall study its con- tents, that he may the better prosecute his work among the young men of the organization, and with necessary efficiency. Price, net $1.00; postpaid, $1.10. Send to the Improvement Era, or the book stores, Salt Lake City, Utah. Books Pioneering the W est is a new book recently is ;ued from the press of the Skelton Publishing Co., Salt Lake. It consists principally of the diary of Major Howard Egan, a pioneer of 1847. The record extends from Thurs- day, April 8, 1847, to Tuesday, September 7, 1847, and covers, in very inter- esting detail, the events of every day between the dates named, and includes the trip from Winter Quarters, now Florence, Nebraska, to Great Salt Lake Valley, also a period with the first settlers in the valley, and a return to Sweetwater. The divisions cover the trip to Salt Lake Valley; the hap- penings while Major Egan remained in the Valley; the minutes of the noted Pioneer Conference, Sunday, August 22, prior to the return across the plains; and the incidents of the return trip, including the personnel of the company and their meeting the second emigrant train in early September. Major Egan's second trip with his family from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake City is also given in story form. The famous sermon to the original pioneers on the plains, by President Brigham Young, the great leader, on the 29th of May, 1847, is copied in full from William Clayton's diary. Major Egan's trip to California, in '49 and '50, is recorded, with thrilling experi- ences of frontier life among the Indians, and their traits, civil and savage. For practical, everyday happenings, told in a straightforward, simple and frequently blunt way, this book is an unusual collection of interesting, entertaining and historical annals, many of which add new perspective to pioneer life and occurrences. It places one in an atmosphere of familiarity with the actual life of the first settlers of Utah more nearly than any other published book has ever done. One reason for this is that it consists mainly EDITORS' TABLE of original notes which have not been over-edited, and which were written on the day when the events happened. Price postpaid, $1.75. The Secret of Typewriting Speed, by Margaret B. Owen, the world's champion typist, is a remarkable book on that subject, recently published by Forbes & Company, Chicago. The book covers the whole subject of typewriting. It is designed to make the work of typing easier and speedier, and to enable those who are interested in this very important labor to at- tain the highest possible efficiency. Miss Owen has three times won the world's typewriting speed championship, and is, therefore, authority on the subject. Price, $1.