Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-05-10

mates play is impossible. The play
! ground is the clearinghouse for the
supply and demand of companions.
Why We Want Fairgrounds.
/. Because they promote the growth
and development of the body. Fresh
air and exercise, best combined on
tho playground, mean Drawn and
sinew, tall and strong youth. They
are the foes of undersize and de-
formity. What is more, Fairgrounds
mean healthy growth. Anemia and
tuberculosis are thus prevented. 1t
is significant that the National Tu-
berculosis Association at a recent
meeting passed resolution advoca-
ton Fairgrounds as one of the most
important agencies wherewith to
forestall susceptibility to the White
E, Plague. All disease is warded Off
more easily when the body is en-
dawed with resistance through healt-
full playing. Furthermore, not
only growth but graceful
and beautiful growth is promoted
by Fairgrounds. Awakwardness and
ungainliness disappear in proportion
as the boy learns how to climb and
jump and swing and the girl learns
how to move about with grace and
charm These qualities, besides be-
ing esthetically pleasing, now have
: even commercial value. The boy
: without a play ground is father to
the man without a job
2. Fairgrounds serve as valuable
agency in reducing crime. They make
for law and order. The boy will
: find vent for his instructive craving
{ to d, something in a destructive way
l if legitimate channel be not provi-
: ded. To quote again from Joseph
l. Lee: "The boy is all right. He
Il breaks our laws, but he does So in
y obedience to law that is older than
ours. law that has never failed to
: get its way or else to impose a peAal-
ty-and to collect it. The penalty
as is the way with such penalties
u is collected of the victim II is be-
'e ing collected now in our jails and
T. penitentiaries in weakened and per-
y verified lives: the normal and inevi-
&c table result of allowing the best
'e force that Nature has put into the
child, the force that was meant to
i build him up and make a man of him.
y to go to waste or be turned into
'o abnormal pr, anfi-social channels y
y The conviction that there is close
< connection between playground op-
l. portunities and diminution of crime
80 is confirmed by an investigation
&c made by Allen Burns, Dean of the
IS Chicago schools of Civics and phil
10 anthropy, under the auspices of the
,r Russell Sage Foundation. 1t wa.
8. shown that in the years Immediately
Sc following the establishment of play
SiooiioS III SHiSoSo JuNSullS ueilu
OF quency decreased by per cent NOR,
IN in the neighborhoods affected thar
W the rest of the city. And as for NOR,
al remote Influence fer good on tn
ry children when they shall reach man
:. hood and wIomanhood, that as We
ag cannot be estimated; but it will n
d. doubt be deepseated and abiding.
Vt 3. Fairgrounds inculcate indirectl
We the lessons of citizenship The chill
as must subordinate his individual de
'e- sires to the interest of the group, b
oy 1t the nine Or the eleven or what
sly ever the size of the team. In thi
ne age of selfish scrambling. of indivi
dulism gone riot, what valuabl
e. lesson i'm collective welfare, /
no patriotism. To use the terms of base
lie Dali, he learns. that he must make
ms sacifice in order that the who]
I've team may advance Furthermore. til
lb- child will become inbued with graf
re. tude to the city that gives him fire.
me that which he most likes.
The, 4. Fairgrounds instil high sent
her mentr of honor. Former Gayerno
md Hughes. Of New Yark, emphasize
az this point in a recent address uads