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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Dates for the June Conference It was a happy thought which suggested June as the month when the annual M. I. A. conference should be held. Salt Lake City is then at her best, and her best is something to arouse the admiration of the world. The date this year has been fixed for June 7, 8, and 9, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The General Boards have been busy pre- paring programs which will be instructive and interesting. Finals in the Church-wide contests will be seen and heard. This conference- will be no whit behind its predecessors in interest, and it is to be hoped that all M. I. A. workers who can make it possible to attend will be present. Sunday Evening Conjoint Program June. 1929 Where My Home Is The object of this lesson is to im- press upon us all the importance of ap- preciating the city or town where we live. The towns and cities of Utah are, as a rule, noted for their individu- ality and beauty. The pioneers estab- lished settlements in practically every vale and valley of the Great Basin. As a rule the nucleus of every city was a congregation of Latter-day Saints un- der the guidance of a leader, settled on some stream where water could be ob- tained for household use and irrigation. Rock and adobe houses were built: meeting and school houses were erected, and it was a rule for every family to plant gardens of roses and other flowers in front of the houses. All cities were patterned after Salt Lake City. Streets were laid out at right angles; water ditches ran parallel to the side walks, and shade trees were set out along the roads. The laws of the cities and towns required from their beginning the setting out of shade trees, and one of the first laws of Salt Lake City, Og- den, Logan, Provo, Cedar City, St. George, and other places required the people to beautify the grounds around their homes. Many of the old homes and public buildings remain to this day. It will be interesting for the student to com- pile a list of these and to find out some- thing concerning their history. Many of the old rock and adobe houses of Brigham City. Willard. Ephraim. Manti. Cedar City, Provo, Logan, as well as other cities and towns of Utah, are still standing. They show fine workmanship; and many of our homes today are patterned after them. For the program of your meeting, have the members find out something about the public buildings. The first meeting and school houses. Who built them? Under what directions were they built? In Salt Lake City

May. 1929 MUTUAL WORK 607 we have or have had the Old Council House, The Beehive House, The So- cial Hall, The Theatre, The Old Pack House in the Seventeeth ward where the University of Utah was first housed, The City Hall, The Deveceaux House, The Gardo House, The Taber- nacle, The Old Walker Homes, The Lion House, and many other beautiful buildings erected in the days of pioneer life. It will be a useful and interest- ing hour to tell something of these buildings, and others in your own vi- cinity. In Fillmore, there is the old State House; in St. George, Manti, and Logan, the temples. Every town and city has its places of worship known as the meeting house. For example, in Heber City, there is the stake house built many years ago, and in its reno- vated form, it still stands as one of the unique and fine examples of archi- tecture in early-day Utah. Do we appreciate the beauty of these rare old buildings? If we will find out something of the history of them, we will come to have a high regard for them. What is it that gives your town in- dividuality and character? Why do you love it as your native home? Interview some of the pioneers and find out its history. Tell about the mountains and streams; the trees and gardens. In the early days, trees were brought over the plains and planted along the streets and in orchards. Wild flowers were planted and domesticated. Catherine Fullerton Gerould, in her book called The Aristocratic West, has this to say about Salt Lake City: "Of all the people I have known who have been in Salt Lake City, none has ever taken the trouble to say that it is simply one of the most beautiful towns on the planet. * * "I was always wanting to drop into a newspaper office and beg the staff not to bother about pivotal centers and radii. The way to sell Salt Lake is to tell the truth about it; namely, that in itself it is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Short of San Francisco bay, I know of no urban setting in the United States to compare with this. * * * "Salt Lake is interesting; and there would be no sense in pretending that it is not the Mormon' Church which has given it its in- terest, as well as much of its beauty, situation apart. Brigham Young, unlike Joseph Smith, the Prophet, was not given much to revela- tions; but he was assuredly a great pioneer, and a man of powerful constructive mind. To Brigham Young it is due that the barren valley over which he gazed from the mouth of Emigration Canyon is now so densely green with trees; to him we owe the wide and noble streets of the city — never, from the first, allowed to grow up haphazard; he and none other was responsible for the first and promptest irrigation in the Western desert. God himself may have sent the sea- gulls (it is a penitentiary offense to kill a seagull in Utah) to save the crops from the locusts and the Saints from starvation; but it was undoubtedly Brigham Young who taught the people that their prosperity must come from agriculture. The gold rush of '49 followed close upon the first 'Mormon' exodus, and if the state was to prosper, they could not spare their young men to the California gold fields. So mining was forbidden to them — and, in consequence. Utah is very different from Nevada. * * * "Utah is a very hard-working state, and hard work has taught it what is worth work- ing for. Fine schools; good water supply; comfortable homes." Collier's Weekly a few years ago published the following: "There is no Rocky Mountain community that shows more growth and vigor than Salt Lake City. The streets laid out by the early Mormons' are broad and straight, and the modern buildings that are now going up will help to make the coming city one of the fore- most in the entire West. The streets are filled with crowds of busy shoppers and active business men. This city, in the heart of what was, a generation ago, the Great Amer- ican Desert, is now the common pride of Mormon' and Gentile. It is a monument, which will be enduring, to the spirit of the Far West and the wisdom of the Pioneers." — Colliers, March 11, 1911. Mr. Frederick Dellenbaugh, of New York, in his Breaking of the Wilder- ness, says: "It must be acknowledged that the 'Mor- mons' were wilderness breakers of a high quality. They not only broke it, but they kept it broken; and instead of the gin mill and the gambling hell, as corner stones of their progress, and as examples to the natives of white men's superiority, they planted orchards, gardens, farms, school houses and peaceful homes. There is today no part of the United States where human life is safer than in the land of the 'Mormons'; no place

608 IMPROVEMENT ERA May. 1929 where there is less lawlessness. A people who have accomplished so much that is good, who have endured danger, privation, and suffering, who have stood the obloquy of more powerful sects, have in them much that is commendable; they deserve more than abuse, they deserve admiration, no matter what may have been their shortcomings in the earlier stages of their career." So great was the work of the pio- neers of Utah that ex-President Theo- dore Roosevelt said of them on one occasion, in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: "Here in this State the pioneers and those who came after them took not the land that would ordinarily be chosen as land that yields return for little effort. You took a territory which at the outset was called after the desert, and you literally — not figuratively — made the desert blossom as the rose." From Founding of Utah: "Salt Lake City was typical of all the settlements of Utah, which were founded upon three leading principles. First, freehold land. All were encouraged to obtain their own homes and land to till. Private ownership was encouraged from the first, and further- more, says Brigham Young: 'Let all the brethren remember that agriculture is the highest safeguard to all good government, as well as the moral and intellectual develop- ment of our people'." In conclusion, it is well to remember that the city that was founded by the "Mormon" pioneers was founded on something else besides industry and commerce. It had a spiritual life; the religious spirit moved men to great sec- ular tasks, not only in colonizing these valleys but in directing their energies to the building of cities. So, it would be well to conclude your program with a statement of what the spiritual life of your town or city is. Musical Selections Recommended: "Make the Home Beautiful" — M. I. A. Songbook, No. 2. "Our Mountain Home so Dear." "Dearest Spot on Earth to Me." "Home, Sweet, Home." Or similar songs or instrumental selections. ADULT DEPARTMENT Mary the Third A Play by Rachel Crothers. Reviewed by Elsie Chamberlain Carroll In "Mary the Third" is given the attitudes of three generations toward love and marriage. Granny, Mary the First, 75, thinks the young people of today are "rip-snorters" and that they are in grave danger of being con- taminated by the things that are going on. Mother, Mary the Second, can- not accept modern views, but she rec- ognizes that the youth of today are thinking nearer the truth than she ever did, and that while they have some- thing dangerous and ridiculous in one hand they have something big and real in the other. Mary the Third, twenty, can't see what life is for unless it is to try things. She has about decided that free love is the only solution to the whole business. Mary is being wooed by Hal and Lynn — Hal the dreamer, the phil- osopher, the poet; Lynn the practical man with a dynamic personality. Both boys have qualities that attract her enormously. She tells Lynn that she thinks she'd rather he were the father of her children than any other man she ever knew, but that isn't every- thing— there are beautiful mystic, far- away things. She says if the boys were both mixed up together into one man they'd be pretty good, but as it is she doesn't know which she wants to marry.

May. 1929 MUTUAL WORK 609 She will not be satisfied with the kind of love her grandparents had or that satisfied her father and mother. She wants "Something that is beauti- ful— and beautiful all the time." In order to find out the fundamental things they need to know about each other, and just what kind of love they have, Mary and Hal and Lynn and some of their friends who are also in love have decided to go on a camping trip. Mary explains it to her mother: "We'll do our own cooking and cleaning up and see how really well and decently we can do it. We think, we know in fact, it's the best way in the world to know each other — to see each other all the time in a sort of messy way- — doing things we don't like to do — and sort of getting right down to realities." There are to be no chaperones to keep them from being absolutely nat- ural. Granny is scandalized at the plan. She says it's a disgraceful and immoral idea even to have come into a nice girl's head. Mother insists that she must quit thinking about it since decent people don't do such things. But Mary thinks it would be a good thing if they did. She says: "People don't know each other before they are married. That's why most marriages are merely disappointing experiments instead of life-long matings. That's why the experimenting ought to be done before marriage. Mother tells her she can't try things with nothing but danger and disaster in them. She says: "There's nothing new about the relations between men and women and nothing true or right but the same old things that have al- ways been true; and nothing is beauti- ful all the time." Mary, however, feels that she must go on with her plan, because what she wants to find out is so vitally im- portant. The boys come and Mary tells them her mother's reaction. Lynn says he's not so crazy about their scheme any- way. He says if it never should be understood or accepted, it would be awfully hard on the girls. Hal complains that Lynn is not really in with the rest of them. That he's only going because he doesn't want to be left out, and doesn't see it as something important to the whole question of love and marriage. He claims that if they haven't courage to live their own lives regardless of other people's moth-eaten opinions, they will never get anywhere, or be any farther along than their parents; and that wreckage of the individual doesn't count in the world's work. Mary thinks its so simple to go off and live naturally for two weeks — doing a thing they know in the bot- tom of their souls is right, and know- ing the town will explode with horror, and then marching back with their heads well up and proving that they are finer and more intelligent people than before they went. It's a mag- nificent test. She warns the boys, however, that they must not make love to her while they are gone — "It's going to be a square deal for all," she says. "And don't forget this — I may not want to marry either of you, and you may not want to marry me." They decide to go that night after a party, without letting their folks know. When Mary is ready for the party her father and grandmother insist that she wear something on her head. Her mother gives her a scarf. When Granny asks how mother knows that Mary won't take it off the minute she is out of sight, mother holding Mary close and looking into her eyes answers: "Because I trust her — always — any- where." And it is those words that save Mary and bring her back, as she explains to her brother Bobby at four o'clock the next morning after she has pre- tended to have appendicitis in order to get the young people home. Bobby has fallen asleep on the sofa and is not seen by Mary while she is explaining to Hal and Lynn and the others that

610 IMPROVEMENT ERA May. 1929 she didn't have appendicitis at all. She says: "I suddenly knew we'd been all wrong. The whole world and life and what it means suddenly flashed before me and I knew we were wrong; that we were destroying something. All at once I saw it the way father and mother would and knew how it would seem to them." To Bobby when the others have gone — all of them but Lynn horribly disappointed in her — and Lynn happy in the assurance that it is he she loves — to Bobby she confides: "I came back for mother and father. I wanted to do this thing more than I ever wanted to do anything in my life — but just as I was the happiest and the surest, I heard mother say 'I trust you — always — anywhere' - — and she stayed right there with me, nearer than she's ever been before, and — well I came back." Bobby tells her it's a darn good thing she did because Granny has told father about her plan and he is furious. Mary says it makes her sick the way her parents always think everything she wants to do is wrong. She says: "I don't say anything to them about the things they do — but wouldn't I like just to let go and tell them a few. But they are always right." Bobby and Mary agree, however, that their parents are mighty fine after all. Mary says, "Home and family and you and I are the most important things in the world to them — and they love each other — and a really truly home like ours is wonderful." They are about to go upstairs to bed when they hear their parents com- ing and hide. Father blames mother for what has happened. He says she has failed in her job of taking care of the children. She is so soft and easy with them that Mary has gone off on this wild escapade right under her nose. He is disappointed in her. She hasn't come through as he expected her to; she doesn't seem like the woman he mar- ried. Mother, very much upset, de- clares that he doesn't seem like a man she ever could have married. In the midst of their quarrel mother sees Mary's suit case, which wasn't in the room before. She rushes out to see if Mary is in her room. Father follows and the children come from their hid- ing, white and stricken over the quar- rel. They had always felt there was something sacred and holy in the re- lations of their father and mother. Now they decide that since their parents really hate each other they must get a divorce. When the parents return and the father begins to accuse Mary of defy- ing all the standards of the home and everything they have held sacred, Mary and Bobby tell him they heard the quarrel and it is the parents who have smashed up the sanctity of the home and the ideals of marriage. Mary says she doesn't see that it matters now what happens to her and Bobby since everything is wrong with them. The parents try to make them see that they are taking the quarrel too seriously. They were worried and up- set and not themselves. But the chil- dren insist that it is wrong for them to live together if they feel as the quar- rel showed they do toward each other. Granny tells them they ought to be thankful their parents get along as well as they do. She says: "Life's not all 'skittles and beer' let me tell you. It's modern selfish- ness, that's the matter. A man and woman have no right to expect to be happy all the time — every minute day and night. Women now-a-days don't know how to manage men. Of course they get the best of you because you're trying to make them think you know as much as they do and they won't stand for it. You oughtn't ever to let them see how smart you are." Mary maintains that her father and mother undertook the greatest rela- tionship in the world and it hasn't been a success, so now they must separate and start another kind of life.

May. 1919 MUTUAL WORK 611 She says to her mother: "Women will have to change marriage — men never will. At least you come a long way ahead of Granny. Her marriage was on a very low plane. But the in- teresting side of you as a person, you haven't given to father at all. A wom- an can't afford to be dependent on a man. She should be able to take care of herself and her children if necessary. She should live with a man only be- cause she loves him. Anything else gives him a horrible advantage. It makes her a kept woman. The biggest, fairest and most chivalrous man on earth can't feel the same towards a woman who lives with him only be- cause she has to be taken care of, as he does to one who lives with him be- cause she loves him." When Lynn comes to tell Mary's parents that he wants to marry her she declares that she doesn't believe in marriage. She says: "When I got home last night I told Lynn that I loved him — and I do. I love him so much that I can't live without him. But now I wouldn't marry him for anything on earth. I know now that if I'd gone off with Hal and Lynn each alone for a year, we wouldn't have known each other. It takes most of a lifetime. Marriage is a disgust- ing, sordid affair that I wouldn't go into for anything. If mother and father couldn't make a go of it, I don't know who can." Her mother says: "It isn't our marriage that's wrong, it's what we've done with it." At the end of the play Lynn re- peats the mother's words. "Your mother said it, Mary. There's nothing the matter with marriage — it's what people do with it. What's the use of trying to get rid of the best thing we've got? Why don't we try to make marriage better instead of chucking it? Why don't we make it honest and decent and fair?" And Mary, agreeing, voices the old, old feeling that has kept marriage go- ing through the centuries — the feeling expressed in almost the same words years before by her grandmother, then by her mother: "But Lynn, I wouldn't marry you, if I didn't know that our love is the love that will last forever. It's dif- ferent. There can't be any doubt about a love as great as ours — we must make it the most wonderful love in the world." COMMUNITY ACTIVITY DEPARTMENT Home Recreation Of the agencies which affect moral values there is none more powerful than those of recreation; amusements, both make and unmake character. The vices of our generation grow out of un- controlled amusements. The school, the church and the home are in a posi- tion to give moral direction to recrea- tion, and of those the home is the most effective. A favorable condition for character development in the home is provision for play and recreation. In the light of competing attractions outside the home, which are often unwholesome, it seems imperative that our attention should be focused in this direction. A promiment psychologist, Groves, writes: "Commercial and mechanical reaction have not only robbed the family of a part of its former function, they have also affected the family life by their influence upon conduct. No form of public amusement has ever rivaled

612 IMPROVEMENT ERA May. 1929 the moving picture in the intensity and cumu- lative effect of its influence." Wright, a well-known writer of our country, speaking of democracy, says: "For no present social fact seems to demon- strate in so signal a fashion the defects and drawbacks of democracy as the banality and vulgarity of popular amusements when uncon- trolled by an authoritative social and moral tradition. The artificial and senseless excite- ment of the amusement park, the degradation of the theater, the sensationalism of the movie, the demoralizing accompaniments of profes- sional baseball, boxing and wrestling, stand out in contemporary civilization as convincing evidence that the advance of democratic ideas has meant no improvement or elevation of the popular taste in the matter of amusements." According to statistics obtained by Harold O. Borg, on one week's attend- ance of children at motion picture en- tertainments in one city, almost one- half of the children attend the movies more than once a week, and almost three-fourths of these attend unaccom- panied by parents or other adults. This is serious, for careful scientific investi- gation shows that the tendency toward dishonesty is slightly greater among children who attend movies more than once a week than among children who attend occasionally but less than once a week. If the home is to offset the tendency toward unwholesome public amuse- ments and avoid the accompanying vices, it must provide the proper recre- ation. It must provide playrooms and playgrounds. It must provide for the expression of the desire for music, songs and dances. It must satisfy the love of companionshi p — father, moth- er, brother, sister, friends. It must satisfy the need for variety by way of toys, pictures, books, visitors. And it must give opportunity for expression — ■ a home library, radio, — intellectual as well as social companionship. No matter how adequate public or church organizations may be, the fact remains that the home has the major task in determining the life of the child. The newer and more scientific knowl- edge of child life places the responsi- bility for a large portion of growth potentialities, physical, emotional and mental in children on their environ- ment during the pre-school period. Nothing perhaps is a more vital need in the lives of parents than the power to vision the importance and signifi- cance of play in the growth and de- velopment of children. After the childhood stage the youth's attitude towards play, the game, and his formation of habits in the right use of leisure depends in part, at least, on the attitude of parents towards agencies that furnish wholesome activities for youth and the assistance on the part ol parents in organizing the boy and girls' day so they have time for play as well as work, and their help in the selection of play opportunities that are of the type the youth needs. The parents' attitude in these earli- er life-periods is reflected and augment- ed in early and later adolescent and adult life. If the family members play together when children are young, they are likely to play together the rest of their lives. A family re-union and home-comings will be an individual necessity for each member of the fam- ily. "The family that plays together, stays together." The home is the place where ideals are developed and the fam- ily made the basic unit of our American institutions. There should be in the daily home program a regular time for work and for chores, a quiet period for study, and in a properly regulated home a time for family recreation. Theodore Roosevelt had a sacred hour each day set aside for his family associ- ation, and it was his habit to read to his children, and then to walk with them through the gardens of the White House or to play with them on the lawns. The home is the oldest recreation hall, and the family group, grown-ups and children, was probably the group that first learned to work and play and study together. Sheltered and fed un- der the same roof, loving and learning and living together, there developed within the group a feeling of com-

May. 1929 MUTUAL WORK 613 radeship, loyalty, fair play and co- operation that resulted in the beauti- fying of the family life and dwelling- place. Social Life in the Home The wise parent welcomes friends of the children into the home, and tries to create an atmosphere of sociability which will draw the young folks to- wards home, rather than send them out for pleasure. Candy-making, corn- popping, games and music all help to make of the home a social center not easily duplicated. Music in the Home Perhaps more vital than any othei thing is the social atmosphere born oi music. The family which co-operates in planning and saving for the purpose of buying musical instruments will find therein harmony of spirit and purpose. Listening to fine music elevates the soul. It lends an influence of gentle culture, and is a great factor in one's education. Dietitians have advocated the use of music in the home to relieve tension, and bring about the well-be- ing which follows good digestion. There should be in the home simple but good music with marked rhythm to which children might play or dance. Many musical stories might be drama- tized. Songs should be sung with con- tents within the child's grasp, that they might understand and learn to sing and appreciate them. The toy symphony is one form of entertainment which affords musical expression in which the children can participate. Simple equipment is ne- cessary: two sticks with sleigh bells attached, small bells, small tin-head drum, kettle lids, small xylophone, and warbler whistle. Steel triangles or bars, tambourine, and hard-wood sticks might be added, the first men- tioned to be struck with pieces of metal. Someone who plays the piano should lead the orchestra. The children learn the rhythm of a piece by humming it, and keeping time with hands and feet. Then they strike or ring their instru- ments, and the thing is accomplished. Contests and musical games, music memory training, study of composers and their work, opera given with the help of the victrola, and other inter- esting variations of musical activities lend spice to home recreational features which cannot be surpassed. The radio is becoming increasingly significant in home recreation, but.it may be harmful as well as beneficial unless care is exercised. By emphasiz- ing the fine musical offerings, and pointing out their beauties, a taste for the better things in this field might be cultivated. All forms of spontaneous and na- tural responses to music are desirable. Encourage the young people in the home to discuss their ideas of certain musical phases, and to use their imagi- nation in interpreting the meaning the composers have put into their work. One author speaks of creative listen- ing, by which he means listening to music and at the same time building in his mind the pictures which inspired the composer to his art. As music which goes out over the radio must be converted into electrical waves, and then back into sound waves, so must the message of a musician be carried into the mind of the hearer and inter- preted. The artist transposes his feel- ing by means of notes and harmonious combinations. The listener has the delightful privilege of transposing it back into feeling again. Conversation, Reading and Story Telling Conversation is one of the finest of arts, and should be cultivated with care and tenderness. Only through prac- tice can one become an interesting con- versationalist, and the home is the place where this training should be given. The family meal-time gives excellent opportunity for stimulating and wholesome conversation, and the old saying, "children should be seen and not heard," is becoming obsolete. If

614 IMPROVEMENT ERA May. 1929 children are never heard at home, it is quite certain that they will not be heard to any advantage when they are away from home. Reading is very important in the development of proper leisure-time proclivities, and should command the consideration of every thoughtful par ent. By providing desirable reading material for children, it is reasonably certain that their taste in literature will be on a higher plane than if they are left to chance influences to guide their choice. The love of stories is an integral part of almost everyone, young and old, and through this medium many fine ideals may be pictured, and strong points made. There should be no moralizing, but fairies, nonsense, his- tory, nature and people can all be made to live in the minds of children through stories. Many excellent lists are ob- tainable, and library associations are delighted to furnish names of good story books. Drama in the Home Drama carries story-telling one step further, for it gives the participants a chance to put their individual interpre- tation into the actions of other people. Dressing up, dramatizing stories, back- yard circuses, and inventive games all are valuable, and children should be allowed fairly free rein in working out their dramatic aspirations. Grown- ups need offer very little suggestion, as the children will feel quite capable of carrying on these affairs if adult ap- proval is present. Many ideals of loy- alty, courtesy, generosity and friendli- ness may be established through the glorifying of these qualities in home dramatics. Hobbies and Pets A hobby is an uplifting and bene- ficial influence in the lives of all the members of a family. "The child who is starved for the lack of pets has failed to that extent in developing his own personality. * * One great source of social play has been amputated," says Dr. Wm. G. Vinal, and in a survey which was made for the purpose of determining the vital home influences in the lives of several hundred young men and women, it was interesting to note how many classed the keeping of pets among the very important. This form of recre- ational activity tends to develop the protective instinct, and also the instinct of companionship. No young person should be denied this joy. Gardening is a natural interest, and one which should be cultivated. The nearness to nature, and the wonder of her processes which result from this activity are invaluable in the education of young people. Physical Activities That active games and pastimes are popular is made evident by every group of children turned loose to play, and that this form of activity is beneficial is beyond question or doubt. The sad fact that the games of young peo- ple are sometimes destructive to prop- erty is due in part to the fact that no proper facilities are supplied them, and they have to do the next best, which frequently is not all it should be. By expending a little time, thought and money, excellent equipment may be provided for the playing of outdoor games, and the unquestioned value of this type of sport be increased. Constructive Play Equally important in the leisure life of people is the desire to make things. Give each member of the family an op- portunity to satisfy this urge, and many problems will be solved. While it is sometimes much more taxing for a parent to teach a child to do certain tasks, and make certain things than to do it alone, it is far more satisfactory in the long run to give the child an opportunity to do these things for him- self.

May, 1919 MUTUAL WORK 615 Small children are quite happy when supplied with scissors, paints, paste and cardboard, with which they can make houses, furniture, dolls, trees, etc. Older girls enjoy doll-clothes, basketry, bead work, stenciling, embroidering, weaving, and such things. Boys begin early with soap-carving and cork and wood whittling, from which they pro- ceed to sawing, and making toys from wood. Among the many articles which can be made by the average boy are the following: bird-houses, kites, scooters, pushmobiles, stilts, and such playground equipment as bean-bag board, basketball goals, swings, teeters, slides, and pet-houses. A tremendous amount of energy may be expended in making these things, and as a result much mischief and destructive play is eliminated. The fact that every normal human being has been endowed with similai interests and urges is in itself conclu sive that these are fundamental and right. The responsibility of parents includes the obligation to recognize and understand these tendencies and desires, and to provide the natural and bene- ficial means for putting them into ac- tion. The comradeship of parents and children is of inestimable importance in rounding out and perfecting the lives of both, and through no channel can this relationship be more beautifully estab- lished than through the channel of sympathetic understanding of the leis- ure-time activities of both. Y. M. M. I. A. Efficiency Report for March, 1929 STAKE 00 c c o n .a B •a 00 > <: be c rs.s 3 O a CO OO •£••§ J3 S SO CJ O n 2 til *~ c s E § o Li -o u a E 3 PL, 10 7 14 16 13 20 8 19 8 18 12 17 16 4 1 8 14 16 8 11 5 5 6 12 12 14 6 8 10 20 6 4 4 6 8 16 3 2 3 11 o a, o h Alpine Bear River . .. Box Elder Cottonwood - Deseret .... East Jordan . Ensign Granite Kanab Lehi _ Liberty Millard „ Nebo North Davis _ North Sanpete North Weber Ogden Oquirrh Palmyra Parowan Pioneer 15 21 17 18 20 19 19 19 14 17 15 20 20 19 11 13 22 21 14 16 22 18 9 11 19 17 16 20 16 18 15 15 15 13 14 12 16 15 4 7 16 16 13 13 16 12 17 12 11 7 9 15 13 7 17 14 10 11 7 13 14 4 11 13 11 19 13 12 13 14 8 14 12 15 6 10 10 13 15 13 11 12 3 11 15 16 18 18 12 14 17 12 10 13 20 5 13 16 12 11 13 8 10 2 8 10 10 10 10 9 9 10 7 10 10 10 5 10 9 8 10 7 7 7 3 9 10 9 12 15 10 12 10 12 12 6 16 3 6 13 12 4 9 1 13 22 26 21 32 27 18 27 16 36 7 34 12 21 30 26 17 24 17 25 10 20 136 150 168 164 144 125 161 91 142 123 167 68 131 149 125 137 114 96 132 39 118

616 IMPROVEMENT ERA May, 1929 a ex «l U d to BO a 'a a ga B0 M O S c w STAKE m bo a 3 s N '5 BO U O s u G 2 w *-> < > < u < "o a C/3 !>■ = a s 1.2 3 O CO1-! a a "•5't; rt - Jh w a a a B S o u a E •a B 9 P-, C '3 a, 'n O h Salt Lake 17 16 10 14 14 1 ' 9 10 25 7 10 132 Sevier - - 30 22 21 20 14 15 17 13 20 20 1 10 10 10 20 32 37 7 9 8 20 169 South Davis 186 South Sanpete 19 70 14 9 17 10 6 7.5 6 8 134 Timpanogos 10 18 17 11 7 10 11 24 25 23 156 Uintah 9 10 5 10 12 7 7 13 7 9 89 Wasatch _ _ 12 12 10 9 9 7 8 15 15 10 107 Weber _ - 18 16 11 12 14 10 15 25 8 15 144 Blaine 5 17 5 12 6 12 11 10 2 16 3 8 8 5 21 1 10 4 10 4? Boise . _ _ 124 Cassia .. 12 16 14 11 7 7 5 15 11 15 113 Franklin 15 15 14 9 11 8 5 22 19 17 135 Fremont 16 18 15 13 17 10 10 25 13 11 148 Idaho — 16 14 15 12 15 10 13 10 10 115 Idaho Falls 14 8 15 17 12 16 12 7 30 12 11 24 18 8 10 8 6 5 5 4 5 21 13 18 12 8 9 11 10 8 130 Minidoka 87 Oneida 140 Riebv 4 7 9 5 4 5 3 8 4 5 54 Shelley 9 12 9 16 6 8 3 12 5 7 87 Teton 6 12 1 11 5 5 5 1 10 56 Yellowstone _ 8 9 8 8 7 6 7 12 6 10 81 Big Horn 7 7 3 7 5 3 3 8 7 6 51 Hollywood 17 13 16 11 14 8 11 14 7 11 122 Los Angeles 19 17 19 13 17 9 14 31 14 19 171 Maricopa __ __ 18 18 15 13 70 10 8 77 1 1 14 154 San Francisco 17 12 10 12 15 8 13 19 22 16 144 Star Valley 7 14 9 5 7 5 2 8 5 11 73 Taylor „ 15 ?n 19 1 1 15 8 ~ 8 29 15 11 151 Woodruff ._ 15 18 7 12 10 10 5 17 10 10 114 California Mission __ 15 14 17 13 17 10 4 16 17 22 145 Central States Mission— 15 9 27 15 6 9 3 9 2 16 111 N. W. States Mission.— 16 16 33 14 | 13 8 8 19 13 12 152 The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker. — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty, too. It sails the ocean, driven by the winds of heaven, breaking the level sea of life into beauty where it goes, leaving behind it a train of sparkling loveliness, widening as the ship goes on. And what treasures it brings to every land, scattering the seeds of truth, justice, love and piety, to bless the world in ages yet to come. — Theodore Parker. "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."— Washington Irving.