New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-28
FAIRGROUNDS HEAD
COMES TO NEW ULM
PUBLIC MEETING TO BE HELD
in HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING !
IN APRIL
FIELD SECRETARY DISCUSSES
GROWTH OF MOVEMENT IN
AMERICA ,

Charles E. Reed, field secretary of the
Fairgrounds and Recreation Associa-
zion of America, was in the city part
of Thursday and Friday, making ar
rangements for meeting to be held here
on Monday evening, April Is. The
primary object Of the meeting which will
be held in the High School building is
to present the plan for three days
conference, or rather three conferences
to be held in this state in May. One
will be in St. Fail, one in Minneapolis,
and the third in Duluth. The meeting
S. here will be addressed by Charles F.
Weller, associate secretary of the as
ISOLATION, and matters pertaining to the
movement so far as New Ulm is concern
ed will be discussed, as we'll as to work
up interest in the conference to be held
in the Twin Cities.
Interest In Conferences
The conferences are the outcome of the
work being done by the association in
!, some thirty cities of the state. Fourteen
1 towns in Minnesota, of $500 inhabitants
and. over, have already begun active
work in providing Fairgrounds for the
children and recreation parks for old and
young.
Discussing the growth of the play
ground and recreation movement, not
only in Minnesota, but throuout the
country, Mr.. Reed said:
- Gin 432 American communities,
supervised recreation is successfully I'M
der way. Play with Piayleaders is
no longer an experiment. While it's
quality and scope vary in the various
rammunities, organized recreation has
demonstrated its vital value in the up
building of community life.
For Small Towns Too
''Nor is it big-city movement solely.
It's benefits are not appropriate only to
"slums'' and crowded city regions. On
the farms; in rural towns; wherever life
needs to be re-created; wherever boys,
girls, men or women need opportunities
for self-development through wholesome
uzS of leisure hours there play with
Playleaders, or organized recreation, is
Observation-Disclosures that necessity be
appreciated or not. ~~
:.More than half of the 1872 communities
having Fairgrounds with playleaders
are cities of less then 10000 population.
There are 225 of these smaller cities.
OF communities with less than 10000
inhabitants, III have supervised play.
Fifty-four towns with less than 5000
people each, and seven with less than
1000, have organized recreation.
''The great central, promoting agency
for the whole play and recreation move
ment is the playground and Recreation
Association of America" with head
quarters at / Madison Avenue, New
York; local offices at 1901 E. 55th
Street, Chicago, and elsewhere. Mime
sofa headquarters are with the Mime
apolis Civic and Commerce Association,
1916 Mcknight Building, Minneapolis.
Endorsed BY Prominent People
''To help finance the large Minnesota
Nwork CT the Playground and Recreation
Association of America, C. C. Weber,
of>the Deere Weber Company, signed
appeals in Minneapolisjn 1916. Charles
P. .Noyes, president Of Noyes Brothers
and Cutler, has signed similar appeals in
1917 in St. Paul. Signed endorsements
of the Minnesota work have come from
225 influential people living in 33 Mime
sofa cen unities. One of these en-
dorsers, is Charles C. Stillman, secretary
CT tie United Charities Of St. Paul and
a lecturer at the University Of Minnesota.
Among the 225 endorsers of the As
sociation's Minnesota work are Rt. Rev.
James McGolrick, W. j. Olcott,
3McGonagle, F. w. Paine, Duluth:
Charles c. and W. H. Bovey, Mrs.
Elbret L. Carpenter, Franklin NJ Cros-
by, W. L. Harris, Joseph R. Kingman,
John Leslie, Pres. George E. Vincent.
Judge Edward F. Waite, Mrs. T. G..
Winter, Minneapolis; President Frank
A. Weld, Moorhead; John Munroe,
H. C. Theopold, Rt. Rev. F. A. Nc
EIwain Faribault; Rev. G. H. Ten
Brock, Mrs. C. L. West, Austin;
President C. H. Cooper, Mankato;
- A. E. Knickerbocker, Red Wing.
Minneapolis In Lead
Minneapolis, which began the
movement in 1915 is destined to lead
the large cities in the playground work.