--- 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: 25 number: 10 published: 1922-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Lessons from the Efficiency Report", *Improvement Era* 25, no. 10 (August 1922): 927–928.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera25010unse 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: improvementera25010unse start_page: 927 end_page: 928 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1922-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera25010unse publication_year: 1922 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 1922, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Lessons from the Efficiency Report LESSONS FROM THE EFFICIENCY REPORT 927 proper time to the stake secretary. Every stake secretary is required to report to the general secretary no later than the 10th of each month for the month preceding. We learn from the reports that we can improve in these two items very materially. It is no more difficult for every ward to report than it is for one ward to report; nor for all stakes to report than for one. "We learn that the canvass for the Improvement Era has not received the attention in the stakes that it should have; that few stakes reported all the families visited. This can easily be remedied by a little activity on the part of the Finance and Publication committees who have this matter in hand, and should see to it early — say in September and October. We learn that the Slogan) last year did not receive the attention in each ward and stake that it should have. In January there were only 35 stakes out of 83 that reported efficiency on the Slogan, and some made very low points in the work. The membership can be improved in many of the stakes and wards, in some of which it was as low as 6 and 9 points; while a number of the stakes went over their proportion of enrollment. We learn that little attention in many of the stakes is paid to teacher-training work. In January, out of 83 stakes, only 4 stood 10 in the matter of monthly meetings and teacher-training work. The published reports in the Improvement Era monthly should be studied carefully by every stake officer. The compilation of the monthly report of the stake should be prepared in like form and furnished each month to each of the wards in the stake. (See January Era, 1922, page 277, for a sample of compiled efficiency report fort the stake.) Life Memberships Life memberships of the Y. M. M. I. A. up to May 31, 1922, numbered 460, as follows: Alberta 5 Alpine ~ 6 Bear Lake 3 Bear River 11 Benson 14 Big Horn 7 Bingham 18 Blaine 1 Boise 5 Box Elder 17 Cache 5 Carbon 8 Cassia 10 Cottonwood 1 Curlew 2 Deseret 13 Ensign _ 14 Franklin 1 Fremont 16 Granite 4 Hyrum 25 Jordan 2 Juab 8 Lethbridge 4 Liberty 5 Lost River 5 Malad 7 Maricopa 74 Montpelier 3 Morgan 2 Missions 2 Nebo 4 North Davis 6 North Sanpete 6 North Sevier 11 Ogden 2 Oneida 5 Panguitch 1 Parowan 2 Portneuf 2 Rigby 10 Roosevelt 1 St. George „. 1 St. Johns 10 St. Joseph 6 Shelley 17 Snowflake _... 2 South Davis 7 South Sanpete 1 Taylor 4 Tintic 10 Uintah 4 Utah 7 Wasatch 25 Wayne 1 Woodruff 17 460 The Improvement Era The subscription for the Improvement Era was somewhat behind in total last year compared with the year preceding, as a number of the 928 IMPROVEMENT ERA stakes failed, as will be seen in the efficiency report, to complete the canvass: (See Efficiency Report, March Era, 1922.) In the stakes of Zion there were 14,191 In the domestic missions 568 In the foreign missions „ 112 Complimentaries, including exchanges, schools, and Carnegie and other libraries throughout the country.... 266 Sent to missionaries in the field 1,589 Sales and miscellaneous 300 Total 17,026 subscribers The following stakes obtained the required 5% of the Church popur lation and over, as subscribers for the Improvement Era: Kanab 7.57 Union 7.17 Blackfoot 6.72 Moapa 6.68 Raft River 6.44 Box Elder 6.12 Snowflake 6.09 Young 6.06 Alberta 5.95 Juarez 5.77 Lethbridge 5.68 Bear Lake 5.67 Bannock 5.45 Juab 5.45 Idaho 5.43 Logan 5.43 Morgan 5.23 Wasatch 5.10 Taylor 5.03 Cassia 5.00 The officers of the associations are invited to finish the canvass for the coming season during September and October. A list of present sub- scribers will be furnished by the general office through the stake super- intendents. The General Improvement Fund The stakes which paid 100% or more on the general improvement fund, are as follows: Bannock, Bear Lake, Blackfoot, Curlew, Ensign, Hyrum, Idaho, Juab, Juarez, Liberty, Lost River, Moapa, Salt Lake, Shelley, Uintah, Union, Utah, Wasatch and Weber. General Superintendency and Officers of Y. M. M. I. A. As sustained at the June Conference are: George Albert Smith, General Superintend- ent Richard R. Lyman, 1st Asst. General Supt. Melvin J. Ballard, 2nd Asst. General Supt. Oscar A. Kirkham, Executive Director Moroni Snow, General Secretary John H. Taylor, Field Secretary Brigham H. Roberts Junius F. Wells George H. Brimhall Edward H. Anderson Thomas Hull LeRoi C. Snow Rulon S. Wells Joseph W. McMurrin Bryant S. Hinckley Brigham F. Grant Lewis T. Cannon Benjamin Goddard Lyman R. Martineau Charles H. Hart John A. Widtsoe James H. Anderson Oscar A. Kirkham Moroni Snow George F. Richards Nephi Anderson John H. Taylor Hyrum G. Smith Henry C. Lund George J. Cannon Nicholas G. Morgan Claude Richards John F. Bowman Levi Edgar Young Preston D. Richards B. Cecil Gates Ernest P. Horsley Preston Nibley Arthur L. Beeley German E. Ellsworth James Gunn McKay Thomas A. Beal Nicholas G. Smith Axel E. Madsen Heber C. Iverson Ephraim E. Erickson