---
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: 5
published: 1920-03
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. 5 (March 1920): 460.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2305unse
  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: improvementera2305unse
start_page: 460
end_page: 460
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2305unse
  publication_year: 1920
  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 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Mutual Work

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460                             IMPROVEMENT ERA
    The address, "What has resulted from the Vision," may be divided
if necessary into two or three short talks. •
     It is probable that a souvenir card of the day may be prepared
by the General Boards, and distributed through the stakes to the wards,
and that each person who attends the exercises shall be presented with
one of these souvenir cards.
    The young people should attend the regular fast day services on May
2, and we suggest that our stake and ward officers use extra diligence in
persuading our young people to attend these meetings and bear testimony to their faith in the divinely appointed mission of the Prophet
Joseph Smith.

           A Three-days' Course in Scout Leadership Training
      Stakes wishing to avail themselves of this course must be prepared:
      1.  To guarantee attendance of:
          a.  Candidate for position of special deputy scout commissioner
              for stake supervision of scouting.
          b.  A prospective scout master from each ward who must be ai
              least 21 years old.
          c. If possible an assistant scout master from each ward, who must
              be at least 18 years old.
      2.  To provide a comfortable place for meeting, sleeping, and eating.
          a. An amusement hall preferable where scout activities and camp
              fire scenes may be conducted.
          b. Sleeping for the two evenings may be provided by having
              local people furnish cots, delegates to bring their own bed-
                ding.
           c.   Mealsto be provided by local people or at some restaurant
               or hotel at a minimum price.
      3.   Each man to pay $1 for which he will receive:
               (1)  One copy of the 20th edition Boy Scouts of America,
                   Hand Book jor Boys.
               (2)  Rope and twine.
               (3)  Roller bandages.
                (4)     Triangular bandages.
                (5)     Printed bulletins coveiing the entire course.

     Every person attending the course will be expected to take all of the
work, and on returning home, will be expected to organize a troop, and
to lead the boys in scouting.
     The General Board will furnish an efficient leader (Dr. John H.
Taylor) who will conduct this course, and lead the men in their work.
Because of the careful preparation for this course in intensive leadership for Scouting, we feel sure that you will be more than repaid for making the necessary effort in providing the above requested items.   This is
your opportunity to start scouting right in your stake.
     Write to Oscar A. Kirkham, Executive Director, Room, 406, Church
Office Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, for further information, and
                                                                        for
arrangements for dates. Wasatch, Woodruff, Uintah, and North Sanpete
stakes have already made dates for this course.

            Y. M. M. I. A. Efficiency Report, January, 1920
      The following stakes reported a full quota in the department3 named:
      Membership: Taylor, Maricopa, Raftriver, Kanab, Jordan, Yellowstone,
Uintah, Union, Cottonwood, Deseret, Ogden.