The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-06-14
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE REDWOOD FALLS MINI
The Playground Movement
and Physical Dire ctorship
(By Chauncey Welch.)


started by private people and less than decade nine
enths of them carried by private organizations Today
more than half are under the city supervision
There three kinds of play grounds the athletic fields in
ermedate pay grounds and sand gardens The first public play
The number Of cities Play Play has grown O
II 1s ise ess S e
associations.
The early public play grounds located the school
yards Of them being small and being
half day weeks during the Today
play grounds year many
open d a nave been adde
been added for the entire field and they
number of assistants to work with them:
We need the play the Fairgrounds for the children the
large cities who Shut from the fresh air The children who
orchard meadows brooks swimming holes the nearby
wood WI which Th6 M large d e Children order that
the health of people, great deal is being
hospitals institutions given familiar with
precaution What need whereby
ane against disease The sures stamp disease to
save the physca strength 9 of the Ghdren m moral. q
The playground keeps the children better and
The best way boy right
him into tears about his dongs but to show him the
Above all else the Fairgrounds aid in the DEVELOPMENT Of the
sentiment Of honor The best teach boy to act right to
he learns without suggestions rebellion against sruc
want any one to cheat him and on the other hand he down on
the boy that does not play fair # there anything that want
As regards to the general opportunities in playground pub
lie athletic activity, there limitations and possibilities
everywhere and kind associations today big and
equipment yet go ahead becaase we lack
trained supervisors and sufficient funds are not yet avasb
tain condc active campaigns to acquire the
gans ninety in 1907 that have established sta play
November 1910 one hundred and eighty four cities supporting
hundred forty play grounds expended three
lion dollars that hrtywo cities alone employed six hundred and
their school houses used recreation cente and that thirty
Seattle Cincinnati Pttsbgh and the West Side Of Chicago nave
each voted million dollars for public recreation Grand Rapids
There has been regular Playground association of America
in this country The task this association has doubled
the New England States for Washington Cafor
m Oregon and one for the other e States In this
supervisors Under these there assistants such
scans librarians Undergraduates swimming teachers and story
The cities of the north south east and west big and
for help to send them lecturers organizers workers and
cities which have recreation enes seek nep in
tons help them solve the hall problems and also adj
serious problem considering that the daily attendance in this
country IS estmatsd at two ana quarter Million -
development that opportunities in this vocation will be practically
he must have particular administrations physical and mental
recognition Individual accountability Cod
personal in influencing the lives of those under
athletic and gmnastic ability to bringing Gods Kingdom
here and the lives Of men-body mind and spirit Men
from whose personality religion caught we'll
taught In the second Place should be healthy alert Wig
mstc individuals not wanted His interest in knowledge
should be- in general related and boys rather than things
interests should center around the living problems of and
boys not absrac but in sympathetic desire help them He
should study Biology sociology and religion because they deal
closely with distinctly human problems Books should be used
an aid in the study human beings not end themselves
ness of interest.
AS to his social qualifications the social instincts should be
well developed General community rather than indvduasc
qualities demanded The prospective teacher should best
joy being with and boys rather than books In word he
should be good mixer"
This vocation provides very comfortable living The salar
les for chief directors thousand four thousand