---
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, “Secretary Daniels and the Soldiers,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 3 (January 1918): 202."
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: 202
end_page: 202
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.
---

# Secretary Daniels and the Soldiers

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Secretary Daniels and the Soldiers

The Purity Congress, met at Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 8,

for the tenth season. Among the number of messages read at

the session that evening, was one from Secretary of the Navy,

Daniels, as follows.

"Today, as never before, American manhood must be clean.

We must have fitness. America stands in need of every ounce of

strength. We must cut the twin cancers of drink and prostitu-

tion, if we would quickly win this war. May America fear

moral disease more than German bullets! Those who do the

most for clean living and clean thinking, do the most for victory

that will make a better world."