--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Unknown collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 27 number: 10 published: 1924-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Unknown, “Mutual Work,” *Improvement Era 27, no. 10 (August 1924)*: 1007–1012." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera27010unse 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: improvementera27010unse start_page: 1007 end_page: 1012 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1924-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera27010unse publication_year: 1924 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 1924, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Mutual Work MUTUAL WORK 1007 II. The New Campaign for Membership General Board Member III. Presentation of Life Membership Pins General Board Member IV. Program for the Senior Department, Including M Men Stake Board Member V. Program for Junior Department, Including Boy Scouts -Stake Board Member IV. Qualities which Make for Success in Y. M.M.I. A. Workers —Stake Board Member VII. Three-Minute Testimonies (30 minutes) M. I. A. Workers Sunday, 4 p. m. Consultation of M. I. A. General Board Members with Stake Presidency, Bishoprics, Stake and Ward M. I. A. Executive Officers, and Members of Stake and Ward Committees on Recreation. Sunday Evening (Hour to be fixed by Stake Presidency) I. Opening Chorus ;.... Boy Scouts II. Prayer Member of M Men III. Chorus - Bee-Hive Girls IV. Scriptural Passage and Slogan The Assembly, Led by Stake Board Member ;. V. Plan for Putting Slogan into Action (10 minute address)... A Stake Worker 'VI. Instrumental Selection M. I. A. Group VII. The Slogan and the M. I. A. Work (10 minute address) The President of the Stake VIII. Quartet M Men or Gleaners i IX. Addresses Members of General Boards 1 X. Song, "Love at Home" : The Assembly XL Benediction General meetings at which the officers of the Y. M. M. I. A. are ex- pected to be in attendance will be held under the direction of the stake presi- dency and regular conference assemblies on Sunday, 2 o'clock and in the evening. M. I. A. Scout Jamboree, Hyrum Victor Lindblad, scout executive of the Cache Valley Council, Boy Scouts or America, sends three pic- tures taken of troop activities dur- ing the scout jamboree held at Hy- rum, Utah, M. I. A. field day of the Hyrum stake, May 10, 1924. Troop 23 of Hyrum, under the leadership of Scoutmasters James Wilson and James McBride, won the meet with a score of 860 points. The pictures show some of their most excellent work. This stake is doing good scout work, each troop being headed up with an un- usually strong boys' man. Small picture: Scout Wendell Al- len and Wallace Liddle, winning friction fire contest, by 1 min. 30 sec, at the scout jamboree, M. I. A., field day, Hyrum, Utah, May 10, Troop 23, James Wilson, Scout- master. Hb>* v 5 'r^HF^p- lj ' dwtfl 8p^ ^fBglh ■jpy Wm L. % ||| fc*Sj ■■jreH^Kp "ti* *^ 9^i*-. ?H2^**' 100! IMPROVEMENT ERA Top: Part of the fire demonstration. Bottom: Scout float No. 23 which took first place at Hyrum M. I. A. Day. Y. M. M. I. A. in Samoa In the Samoan mission we have six Mutual Improvement Assoeiations. consisting of an enrollment of 164 seniors, 105 juniors, a total of 295; with 21 officers. The average attendance for the year ending May 31, has been 135 seniors, 87 juniors; a total of 243, with 43 average number of visitors present; 287 meetings were held, 12 conferences, and 40 joint meetings. It will be interesting to our people to know the names of these six associa- tions which are branches of the Church, and the names of the elders presiding over them. Branches: Faleasi'u, Mapusaga, Matootua, Pago Pagor Pesaga and Sauniatu. Presidents; Lio, Sinapi, Afatasi- Pine, fld^r M- Q- Wag* MUTUAL WORK 1009 staff, and Jerome, in the order of associations named. In sending the annual report, Mission President E. L. Butler remarks that the Samoan mission field is almost entirely a proselyting one: "We have not many established branches of sufficient membership to justify regular Mutual Improvement organizations. Instead, in most of the branches, we conduct a weekly Sunday evening preaching service and get more of an out- side attendance than if we devoted the time of a fewer number to class work * * * The work of preaching the gospel here is being carried on effi- ciently by local and white workers." Champion High School Orator, Arizona Earl Merrill is the champion High School orator of Arizona, and repre- sented his state in the semi-finals of the national contest held at Los Angeles, May 16, 1924. In this contest Earl was awarded third place among the six contestants who represented eight western states. Don Tyler, who won first place in Los Angeles, won the first place in the grand final contest held at Washington D. C, on June 6. While in Los Angeles, Earl Merrill delivered his oration on "Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution," at the L. D. S. conference, Sunday afternoon, May 18. He has also delivered it before several of the prominent Rotary and Commercial Clubs of Arizona. He is a son of Orlando Merrill and Lucy Schwarz, is seventeen years old, and graduated from the Mesa Union High School, May 29 of this year. 1010 IMPROVEMENT ERA He was president of the M Men of his ward 1923-24, and has always been a faithful worker in the Y. M. M. I. A. He won many honors in his school, being senior class president, student body president, and leader in literary, debating and oratorical work. He was graduated in May, 1923, from the L. D. S. Seminary of Mesa, and there delivered the valedictory address. — Mrs. L. M. M. National Champion High School Mile Runner Mr. Burke is the cham- pion mile runner of the United States. He won the high school champion- ship in the mile race re- cently run in Chicago. Young Burke is a typical "Mormon" boy who pays his tithing, observes the Word of Wisdom, and is a genuine, obedient fellow. He is a life member of the M. I. A., and is secretary of the Honeyville ward, Box Elder stake. His winning is a good score for clean athletics and real manhood in track work. — Ernest P. Horsley, Brigham City, Utah. Mdvin Tolman Burke. Honeyville, Utah Boise M. I. A. Day In the M. I. A. Bulletin of Boise City, which was issued in its new dress consisting of attractive multigraph machine type, we find an account of the celebration of M. I. A. Day of that stake on Tuesday, June 17, which, it is declared, eclipsed any similar event ever attempted in the Boise stake. Cooperation by the stake boards and ward officers was a big factor. Fully 600 people attended the evening program and the Haangi, which was a Pacific Islander's demonstration of a feast, conducted by Mrs. Mary Bean, born and reared in New Zealand. She placed the meat and potatoes in the ground at 1 o'clock, and when removed at 7:15 p. m., the whole park was filled with delicious, savory roast beef odors. One hundred fifty pounds of meat and 200 pounds of potatoes were cooked as they were never cooked before. Elder O. M. Bates, formerly a missionary to Maori, spoke in that MUTUAL WORK 1011 language, opening the feast. Five hundred people enjoyed the great feast which will not soon be forgotten. It preceded immediately the evening program. Athletic contests were held, and at the close of the contests when the points were summed up, the standing of the associations was found to be: Nampa, 1st, 61 points; Boise, 2nd, 58; Emmett, 3rd, 25; Boise First, 4th, 11 points. There were races, including 50, 100, and 25 yard dashes for men and women; women's relay race and chariot race, tug o' war, besides a tournament of quoits in which Nampa won by a score 11 to 2. Four teams of two men each entered the contest. In the evening there was a big community program in which a pageant of eight episodes depicting the history of the American Indian from the time Lehi and his family landed in South America up to the time the "Mormon" missionaries presented to them the teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith. This was presented outdoors under the giant elm trees and was given in narrative, pantomime and song, under direction of Charles B. Borup. The Bulletin pronounces it a mighty sermon. Member of American Olympic Swimming Team Elder Elton L. Taylor, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, reports the following in relation to one of the members of the American Olympic Swimming Team which left on Monday, June 16, from New York on the steamship America, for Paris: "Brother Harry Glancey, son of Jerome and Ester Glancey of Pittsburg, members of the Church, has recently been given an honor which has perhaps come to no other Latter-day Saint boy here in the East. Harry is 1 9 years of age and at the recent tryout held at Indianapolis, Ind.,he was successful in winning a place on the American Olympic Swimming Team and left with the other athletes who went to the great tournament on June 16 from New York. He expects to be gone until the middle of August when he will return to Cincinnati to take up the study of law. He attended the public schools in Pittsburg and later the Schenby High School where he won many honors in swimming. Recently he attended the Mercersburg Academy where President Coolidge's sons are attending. Harry was the scho- lastic champion of the United States for two years. He trained for the Olympic meet in Cincinnati under Coach Braninger and is a winner in many events and honors in swimming. He has a wonderful phy- sique obtained from clean living and from a life that our Latter-day Saint boys lead, and hence, excel in various activities. He is the 220-meter National champion, and the Pittsburg branch is proud of their respresentative on the Olympic Team." White Indians are Welshmen. That is the opinion of Dr. J. Howard James, an anthropologist, as regards the white Indians found by Professor Richard O. Marsh, of the Smithsonian Institute, on a recent expedition into the interior of Panama. Tradition has it that a Welsh prince, Madoc, left the country, on account of disturbances, with three small vessels, and eventually landed in America in the year 1170. Here he lived for some years and then returned home to tell his friends about the new world. Soon a large following was gathered. With them he emigrated for the second time, and has never since been heard from. Professor Marsh has found his descendants, Dr. James thinks. President and Mrs. Anthony W. Ivins, their daughter, Fulvia, and Dr. and Mrs. Richard R. Lyman left, July 7, for the Sandwich Islands, where they intend to inspect the sugar plantation at Laie. LaFollette of Wisconsin was indorsed for the Presidency, by the Socialist convention at Cleveland, Ohio, July 8. He is also the candidate of the so-called "Progressives." President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for the Presidency, June 12, by the Republican convention at Cleveland, Ohio, by the largest majority ever given a candidate by a Republican convention. The vote was: Coolidge, 1065; LaFollette, 34; Johnson, 10. Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes, was nominated for the Mice-presidency. Both are very strong candidates. The reply of our government to Japan's protest against our immigration law is said to be friendly in tone, but firm. Secretary Hughes points out that the exclusion provision in no way trespasses upon any obligation of the United States. The reply was published simultaneously in Tokio and Wash- ington, June 18. President Millerand of France was forced to resign, June 11, by an ad- verse vote in the Chamber of Deputies. Gaston Doumergue was elected president, June 13, to succeed Millerand. M. Herriott, the new premier, selected a cabinet from the radical and socialist parties, and this new government is committed to a conciliatory policy towards Germany. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes left for London, July 12, in com- pany with 850 distinguished lawyers and their families, to attend the conven- tion July 20. In addition to those on the Berengaria, another party of American lawyers, numbering 400, sailed July 12 from Quebec, 300 others on the Laconia, July 11, and 300 members of the association on the Aquitania July 10. A parachute leap in the dark was made on the evening of June 1 8 by Lieutenant John A. MacReady, at an altitude of 1800 feet, and the aviator landed without a scratch. His motor, it seems, went dead and started to fall. Then he loosened his safety belt and jumped. The parachute worked, and he reached the ground in safety. The plane crashed to the earth and caught fire. MacReady is thought to be the only person who has ever made a parachute leap at night. Frank G. Carpenter, the noted newspaper correspondent, died at Nan- king, China, June 18, after a few days of illness. He was born at Mans- field, Ohio, May 8, 1855. In 1879 he began his literary career as legis- lative reporter for the Cleveland Leader at Columbus. Later he spent the greater part of his life as traveling correspondent for various publications. For many years he wrote a daily article, working as he traveled. He was also author of a number of books, several of them for children. The first flight of the coast-to-coast mail service, July 1 — traveling day and night — was a great success. The accomplishment of flying mail in the darkness is considered by aeronautic experts and postal officials direct- ing the service as putting America far ahead of other nations, few of which, they say, have attempted the transportation of mail by airplane in daylight. A letter, mailed in New York, Tuesday, July 1, at 9:30 a. m., was received by the business manager of the Deseret News at 1 1 o'clock, Wednesday, July 2.