---
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: 12
published: 1918-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Cover, Masthead, and Contents,\" *Improvement Era* 21, no. 12 (October 1918): 1028–1107."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21012unse
  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: improvementera21012unse
start_page: 1028
end_page: 1107
curator_note: This Archive scan includes unpaginated advertisements and the bound-volume title/index before the October issue. Those nonissue leaves (PDF pp. 1–19) are omitted. Visual inspection establishes the October issue at PDF p. 20 (the p. 1028 Hog Island illustration) and the first prose article at PDF p. 21 (p. 1029); the explicit leaf-to-printed-page ledger is retained in /tmp. Advertising after the editorial run is omitted.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21012unse
  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.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*, vol. 21, no. 12 (October 1918), published monthly at Salt Lake City by the General Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations.

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## Editorial contents

- Mormonism and the War, 1029.
- The Cause of the War, 1032.
- The Shepherd of the Range, 1038.
- God’s Way, 1042.
- The Meaning of Education, 1048.
- Some Fundamentals of Health Conservation, 1051.
- Problems of the Age, 1057.
- Healing and the Emmanuel Movement, 1065.
- Utah’s Brigadier Generals, 1074.
- Teachers’ Training Classes, 1080.
- Editor’s Table, 1094.
- Mutual Work, 1100.
- Passing Events, 1103.