---
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: 29
number: 5
published: 1926-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Thing That Counts,” *Improvement Era* 29, no. 5 (March 1926): 490–491."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2905unse
  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: improvementera2905unse
start_page: 490
end_page: 491
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1926-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2905unse
  publication_year: 1926
  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 1926, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Thing That Counts

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