Character Builder.
For Home and School. A Magazine devoted to Physical, Intellectual, Social, Moral and Spiritual Training / A Journal of Human Culture and Hygeio-Therapy / An Educational Journal for Everybody / A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Health, Human Nature and Personal Purity / A Monthly Journal devoted to Character Analysis applied to Efficiency, Vocational Guidance, Health Culture, Social Hygiene, Eugenics, Criminology, Mental Medicine and other phases of Human Culture.
Personal and Social Betterment
1902--1940s?
Monthly, varies
Salt Lake City; UT, Independence, MO; Los Angeles, CA.
Editor: John T. Miller, D.B., D.S., D.Sc.; Nephi Y. Schofield, F.A.I.P., and Mrs. M.K. Miller, associate editors.
Publisher: Human Culture Company; Character Builder League.
Succeeds: Journal of Hygeio-Therapy and Antivaccination (Dr. T.V. Gifford, Kokomo, Indiana, 1888-1902, absorbed); The Vegetarian-Fruitarian-Humanitarian (absorbed)
Succeeded by: Human Culture Digest
1/1, May 1902.
$1.00 a year, 36 pp.

Originally two volumes a year were issued beginning with volume 1 in 1902, and then the volumes were numbered sequentially with the numbering (1-16) of the Journal of Hygeio-Therapy and Antivaccination of Kokomo, Indiana, started in 1888, which this journal absorbed. The journal was "reformed" in every way, including spelling, always ready to improve and correct from the superior, elevated position of "science" and phrenology. It offered uplifting articles of general interest and progressive views on diet, education, current fashions, "drugless medication," "prenatal culture," court reform, and most other matters that it felt called for rationality and improvement. It was a Mormon version of Fowler and Wells' Phrenological Journal, and had a close connection with the Latter Day Saints until the 1940s. Schofield was a graduate of their American Institute of Phrenology. Miller was a "first-class Scientific Phrenologist" of the Haddock Institute of Phrenology in San Francisco and a Professor of Physiology in the L.D.S. University. He was later the executive secretary of the Los Angeles Society of Social Hygiene, whose goals were: "To help establish the single standard of morals. To aid parents and teachers in preparing themselves for the proper instruction of the young in sex knowledge. To enlighten the public regarding the prevalence and seriousness of venereal diseases." Miller wrote a regular column for the Kalpaka and contributed to the Occult Digest and other journals. The journal published regular excerpts from the writings of J.H. Kellogg, and others, and sketches of prominent reformers and phrenologists like Newton N. Riddell. As did many of its contemporary journals, the Human Culture Company offered its subscribers a discount book-buying Character Building Club, a Human Culture Institute, a Human Culture League (promoting "psycho-diagnosis"), and the like, and also promoted its own stock. Noted in William C. Hartmann's Who's Who in Occult, Psychic and Spiritual Realms (1925).

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