The Playground, Vol. 18
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Excerpt from The Playground, Vol. 18: April, 1924; Year Book Number Some people when they read annual reports are interested in nothing but facts. Others care more about the human side of the work. This story of the year´s work of the Playground and Recreation Association of America has been written for both groups. We shall use some facts and figures but only as dummies to be clothed with social feeling, impulse, aspiration and action for the work of the Association and its various departments is to liberate social instincts and forces which are essentially too human, too spiritual, to find adequate expression through statistics alone. Facts and figures available will, unaided, clearly mark out the pathway of progress, of distinct advance by the community recreation movement during the year just closed. But its deeper significances, its richer values, its ultimate reaches are not such that "he who runs may read." Carrying On Just what has resulted during the last year and during the last ten years from the work of the members and friends of the Playground and Recreation Association of America? In 1923 alone about four hundred individuals in more than three hundred and fifty cities helped in raising money to make the national work possible. Is this effort worth while? What is happening as a result of all the labor of Board members, volunteers, and the national staff? The friends, members, and contributors have seen the local work grow continuously from year to year. From 1913 to 1923 the number of employed workers has doubled, increasing from 6,000 to 12,000. The number of cities with community recreation leadership has increased from 342 to 680 and the number of playgrounds from 2,402 to 6,601. The money expended locally has grown from $5,700,000 to more than $14,000,000. The number of persons sharing in the support of the national work has grown from 3,200 in 1913 to more than 15,000 in 1923. First Aid to Injured Digging into the reports of field workers - like delving into King Tut´s tomb - brings to surface many rare gems, not of mineral beauty but of social experience. It may be a round table session with city fathers who are about to inaugurate a policy of "economy" by lopping off the appropriation for playgrounds. Or some enterprising politician is trying to oust the trained director to make a place for a home man whose knowledge of play and games is limited to playing the game of politics. The service trail has even led to the courts, for irate neighbors across the street from a playground got an injunction and temporarily stopped the bedlam of noise the children were making. At the hearing a field representative convinced the court - and even the complaining neighbors - that the remedy was to be found not in closing the playground but in providing trained leadership. The gates were re-opened, the children came trooping in after the Pied Piper of Play, and the youngsters and neighbors "lived happily together ever after." Dead towns - recreationally dead - have come to life through the help of a field representative in reviving or planning a program of leisure time activities. Now the children, the youths and many of the grown-ups are finding places to go and things to do, and life in the old town is no longer drab and dull. Or it may be that the community had a sort of recreation system but without trained leadership. Our representative has been able to help them see the need for such leadership, and then has come development of program and greatly increased participation by youngsters and oldsters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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