The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-16

heavy dirt and stirring up the lighter
dust to settle again in the ROOM"
Scientific research has proved that
dust is the greatest carrier and dis
tributor of disease germs known" -
American School Board Journal
The movement for playground ap-
paratus has taken firm hold upon all
classes of our community and the re-
Spouse to the efforts of the children
and teachers has been generous in
deed. In fact parents and others in
terested in the welfare of the children
have made many valuable suggestions
and have donated literally in time, eff
fort and money, for the cause of play
ground apparatus. We have come to
the time when it is recognized that
outdoor activity is far superior to in
door gymnasium work. The latter
form of physical activity is valuable
but cannot be said to equal activity
out of doors with pure air to breath
and freedom of initiative which it
should and usually does mean. The
apparatus will be installed as soon as
plans can be completed and the work
done. As far as possible all the ap-
paratus and work will be the product
of home people. Investigations and
correspondence has shown that the
work and apparatus can be done more
cheaply by home people. At the same
| time it is the intention to spend this
money in the community which has
made the playground apparatus pos
sible
! The playground movement is taking
such firm and widespread hold every
! where, especially in cities, that we
give herewith the expression of some
of the leaders in the movement with
regard to it. We may say parentheti-
cally that in Massachusetts 90 cities
have followed with reference to play.
ground provisions and of this number
| % have been overwhelmingly in favor
Of it.
"Play counts for morals; for it is in
our play that we choose things ac.
cording to our character, and by
choosing we make our character
Elmer Ellsworth Brown, T.. S. Com
missioner of Education.
! 1.-THE playground proves to be an
economy to the city in that it lessons
crime among children. Benja.
min Lindsay.
/ "If we attempt to solve the problem
of poverty we must provide industrial
schools and public Fairgrounds" -
| Miss Ella J. Mason.
81 hope that soon all our public
schools will provide in connection
with the school buildings and during
school hours the place and time for
the recreation as we'll as the study Of
children. "-Theodore Roosevelt.
"The child without playground is
father to the man without job" -
Joseph E. Lee.
! "The thing that most needs to be
understood is that it is not luxury,
! but a necessity. 1t is not simply some
thing that child likes to have; it is
something he must have If he is ever
to grow up. 1t is more than an es-
sential part of the law of his growth,
of the process by which he becomes a
man at all."-Joseph Lee.
! "There is no better way to teach a
! boy to be honorable and straight than
to give him an opportunity to play
normally with his fellows. "-Governor
Charles Evans Hughes.
1T is the gravest kind of wrong.
not only to the children, but to the
whole community, to turn out the
boys and girls, especially in congested
parts of the city, with no place but in
the streets. Theodore Roosevelt.
I'm fact, ! think it would be diff.
cult to find any point at which, in our
large cities, a dollar will go further
in making those things for which the
city exists than in the provision and
maintenance OF Fairgrounds. Elmer
| E. Brown.