--- 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: 23 number: 2 published: 1919-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Mutual Work,\" *Improvement Era* 23, no. 2 (December 1919): 179." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2302unse 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: improvementera2302unse start_page: 179 end_page: 179 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2302unse publication_year: 1919 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 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Mutual Work — First Stake with Full Fund Cache stake was the first in the Church to send in the full quota of Y. M. M. I. A. general fund, $251.25, which was received October 6, 1919. We congratulate Superintendent L. R. Humphries and his associates on the quick and successful work accomplished. Our sincere appreciation goes with our congratulations. Arco, Idaho, to the Front From Soren Jensen, Blackfoot stake, Arco, Idaho, we have received a list of subscriptions for the Improvement Era for the Arco ward number- ing 50, and he says that he will yet be able to add a few more to the list. The ward has a population of only 424, and we consider this a most splendid record for this small ward in subscriptions for the magazine. We believe that every subscriber will be satisfied with the Era, and congratu- late the ward upon its success in obtaining so many subscriptions. The Salt Lake Stake Guide The Era has received from the Salt Lake stake Mutual Improvement Association officers, the Mutual Improvement Activity Guide, for 1919-20. It contains on the front page the M. I. A. slogans, the stake officers, the high council, stake superintendency of the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations, members of the board, and the various comittees, also the names and addresses of all the ward presidents of the two organizations in the stake. It has the dates of the monthly stake officers' meetings, and the monthly stake and ward officers' meetings, a list of the Reading Course books, the M. I. A. activities; including declama- tions, junior choruses, dramas, — the latter with the basis for scoring, as — — follows: 10 characterization; 10 proper costuming and make-up; 10 staging of plays; 15— — support or team work; 15 familiarity with lines; 20 action; 20—voice and delivery. The Guide also contains the basis for the judgment of debates, the ward association record for scoring, besides a list of dates of interest for inter-ward events, social work, scout notes, mem- bership drive, preliminary programs, for the whole season, as well as spe- cial occasions; the dates for ward trv-outs, in declamation and junior chorus work, and a number of special announcements. The book is very handy for all members and officers of the associations, giving them, as it does, the advantage of a knowledge of what is to happen in Mutual Im- provement work. Home Evening Program — Ogden Stake, December, 1919 Tithing Observance Commanded of God. 2. A Story About Tith- 1. ing. A Song. 4. A hymn, "As the Dews from Heaven Distilling.'' 5. 3. Popcorn. 6. Prayer.