Arizona republican., 1919-09-19
SAINTS TRAIN YOUNG
 MEN IN EVERY WAY; TEACH CLEAN THOUGHT
Young Mems Mutual I'm provement Association Trains Youth for Life and Inculcates Truth

The Young Mems Mutual Improve ment Associations of the Church of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were first begun in the year 1875, the first organization having been affected in the Thirteenth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the tenth day of June, that year, by Junius F. Wells, under the immediate instruction and direc- tion of President Brigham Young.
 The Young Mems Mutual Improve ment Association are supervised by a general board, which has jurisdiction over all the associations in the church Each of the seventy-three stakes or ecclesiastical divisions. has q general or central organization, consisting of a superintendent, two assistants, a sec retary and a treasurer, and a number of aids. This organization is known as the Stake Board Y. NJ. M. l. A., and has general supervisory control over the associations of it's stake under the general board of the church.
 Organization.
 Each ward has an organization. of ficered by a president, two counselors a secretary, a treasurer. librarian music director, besides class leaders a scout master, a vocation counselor and an athletic director. These of ficers have a general supervisory con trol of the association in their ward under the stake organization. Bott the stake and ward organizations have standing committees that look after the special division of their work, muct after the order of the committees o the general board.
 The founder of the Y. M. NJ. I. A. among other things, stated the gen. eral purpose of this organization 1T these words:
 Let the keynote of your work b. the mutual improvement of the youth The establishment in the youth of al individual testimony of the truth an, magnitude of the great latter day work the development of the gifts within them; cultivating a knowledge ant an application of the eternal prin ciples of the great sciences of life . And, furthermore. that they may hay an opportunity to be encouraged i bearing their testimony to and speak ing the truths of our holy religion."- Brigham Youn.
 Organization Objects.
 The aim of our organizations i, therefore, not only first, to impress the youth with a testimony of the gos pei of Jesus Christ; but, secondly, | aid them in obtaining all useful knowl edge; to each the young people to pro side over public assemblies; to expres themselves before the public; to enabl them to study and practice religious civil, vocational, social, scientific an educational affairs; and also to trai them in all that pertains to religious moral physical and intellectual ad Nancement. There is no laudable ex cellence or enjoyment that the churc does not foster and desire to promot among the young men of our commu nity. and it's purpose in sustaining Mu tual Improvement associations an charging them with the care of ou young men. is 10 answer every desiI of this nature. and to provide for tt qualification of every legitimate am hition and impulse to excel in thes fields, without having to seek oppoI tunty elsewhere.
 Mutual Slogans.
 The official organ of the Y. NJ. M.