"There have been infrequent articles on zoophily in the Improvement Era, which was the official publication of the Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church until 1971. Two articles in 1920 and four in 1921 was the most concentrated coverage during the Era's history. The sentiment expressed in a short paragraph dealing with animals was that the time would come when 'the nation's thinkers' would see that the only way 'under heaven' to teach men to be merciful would be to do 'kind acts a hundred times a day to the dumb creatures' that surround them."