The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-09
FAIRGROUNDS
ASSOCIATION IS
hOWIN SESSION
Gathering of Workers in
Great Movement for the
Good of Children.
CONGRESS DIVIDES
INTO COMMITTEES
Addresses by Leaders in the
Movement to Provide
Healthful Amusement For
Children - Miss Amelia
Hofer and Chas. A. Nc
Call, Speakers.
BY Associated Press.

New York. Sept S.-The second
annual congress OF the Playground As
sociation of America, opened here in
the American museum of natural lis
tory. today. Miss Amelia Hofer, oi
Chicago Commons, addressed the dele
gates today.
The survival of the national spirit
among the foreign races from which
the citizenship OF the United States
is derived each year, to greater eX-
tent. was made the subject of Miss
Amelie's Hofer's address today be-
fore the congress of the Playground
Association of America, now in Ses-
sion here. After outlining the vari-
GUS racial characteristics displayed
by the alien races OF Chicago in their
annual national festivals, Miss Hofer,
who halls from Chicago, drew a
moral to the effect that loyalty to
the mother country, far from being
treason TO the state of adoption, is a
strong guarantee of patriotism to-
wards both, and as such is to be en-
couraged.
"One of the greatest means to that
end" she said. is the celebration Of
such fixed national festivals as the
Norwegian Frihedsdag, the Sewdish
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. The Hungarian festi-
val of St. Stephen. the Irish anniver-
sary of yellow Ford, the Welsh Els
teddfod festival and the many other
regionary fiestas of Old Europe. All
of these are celebrated each year in
Chicago by the eXpatriates of twenty
nationalities OF the Old World.
THE national festival concludes
Miss Hofer. ''has to do with the heart
history of people, and centers about
such events as lift the deeper pas
sions of a race into united, heroic
action. 1t is a recurrent manifesto
ton of these deeper feelings and de-
velops the national and patriotic
spirit. For three hundred years,
America has been the Bethel for
groups that emigrated and sought its
shores because of loyalty to some
deeply ingrained human principle.
In this new national entity TO grow
from the alloy of SO many distinct and
different races. what traits and ten
denotes should be allowed to survive,
and what eliminated"
Charles A. Mccall was another
speaker.
Newark's municipal camp. showing
what the city of Newark y. J. has
done for the we'll being and physical
Improvement of its Juvenile popula-
5ion. was described by Charles F. Nc
SoAl- lSUH-
when the aldermen passed an appro-
priation of $4,000 to be used in pro-
Viding a days outing in the country
for seven thousand mothers and chill
dren to the present ownership and
operation by the municipality of its
farm of eleven and a half acres near
-Avonsbysthe-Sea- The initial appro-
priation of $4,000 was followed by one
of $4,000 the succeeding year. and il
was then that the camp idea took
definite form.
tract was selected on a hillside
near Dover. n J., and an agreement
was entered into with local farmers
TO supply a hundred children with
Wholesome food during the months of
July and August. All the workers of
this camp were volunteers. Two
kindergarten teachers and a physi-
clan volunteered their services for
the entire season; and attendance of
flcer was detailed each week by the
board OF education. and a trained
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