New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-09-29
At the meeting which was held Mon

Hall, dDuUI twenty-five Illeil anu WOMEN
were present. Mr.. Weller explained
the plan of recreation direction a little
more fully and outlined the cost of
getting man frog the National Play
ground Association to start the work.
| To secure such man it would be
necessary to pledge between six and
seven hundred dollars and to carry out
the work effectively recreation expert
would need to be employed who would
remain on the job twelve months out
of the year and keep constantly before
the public the necessity of spending its
recreation hours in healthful forms of
amusement.
1t was suggested that the school board
might hire such an expert for the public
schools but Mr.. Weller said that such
plan would not be inclusive enuf since
that would not provide for the parochial
school children Of whom there are nearly
as many as there are in the public schools
and besides no provision would be made
for the half grown men and women
who really are the ones who most need
expert guidance in choosing their
pleasures. Then, too, the Community
Plan provides for getting the adults
| interested in healthy recreation. Since
! the schools could not take it upon them
selves to provide an instructor for the
general public the better plan would
be to hire Community man who would
have the entire matter in charge and
this would mean putting the matter
of the expense of maintenance up to the
taxpayer. When Mr.. Weller stated
that it would probably cost from three
to six thousand dollars annually to
maintain the system, it was suggested
by Capt. Albert Steinhauser that It
would be almost useless to ask the tax
payers to consent to such an expendi-
ture at the present time because of the
present Indebtedness for the new school
buildings, etc. Rev. Holm then said
that he felt that there should not be
word of remonstrance from the tax
payers considering what they have been
accepting for the past fifteen years from
the Turnverein which has practically
supplied gratis just such work as is now
contemplated. He felt quite certain
!. that the amount could be raised in some
fashion without too much difficulty.
Mr.. Ottomeyer felt that the present in
structor of the Turnverein classes could
be secured and the expense handled in
such a way that it could be possible to
meet it without too great a strain.
To bring the matter to focus, COM
mittee was appointed to take the
matter up, to find out whether it would
be possible to secure the funds for the
initial expenditure of approximately
100000 and the matter was left in their
hands. The committee consisted of L.
B. Krook, G. A. Ottomeyer, Rev. C. G.
Holm, Supt. H. C. Hess and H. L.
Beecher. They Immediately held a
session with Mr.. Weller and finally
agreed to call an informal meeting of
the City Council and the School Board
for the purpose of seeing whether they
could arrange some satisfactory method
of providing for the initial expense con-
jointly. This meeting was held Tuesday
and some question was raised as to the
legality of making any appropriation so
there will be nothing further done noW1
j During the afternoon, the women
!! delegates to the convention got busy
to find out what the chances in New Ulm
are for starting campaign for votes for
women. They had but little time to
work but number of the Club women
of the city got together at the Hall early
in the evening and talked over the
question of having an agitator come here
/ to see what can be done. This will
probably be done some time in the near
future but it is a question whether the
busy housewives of New Ulm will be
interested. They have not usually been
in the past. 1t would be surprising if
they should suddenly wake up now.
Nothing definite was done at the Suffrage
meeting.
At the evening session Sunday, the
chief speaker was C. C. Carstens of the
Massachusetts Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children. Mr.. Car
stems said this is an adult world,
one which as yet has taken but little
thought for the child. He related
stories of homes in which parents have no
sense of responsibility for the lives or
welfare of their children and the little
ones are growing up amid conditions
of the utmost horror. Where parents
fail to realize their responsibility society
must accept the burden and provide for
the lack in the lives of the dependents.
There must be proper medical inspection
in schools, child hygiene and sex hygiene