Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-30
Committee Appointed by Secretary of War to
 Provide Recreation,
ELABORATE FORM
 OF ENTERTAINMENT
List Includes Auto Rides, Sunday Dinners. Dances, Entertainments at C1ubso Theatres, Moving Pie.
 ture Shows, Pool Rooms.
Correspondence Associated Press)

n Correspondence Associated Press) ! Washington, Sert. 2G, - Commun , lty recreation for soldiers and sailor . Tn camp ln training for the new Am l er1can army, and the manner in whjc} . 1t IS to be carried on, is explained ir ; report made public today by Ray.
 mond 5. Fosdick, chairman of the war
 and navy department commissions on
 training camp activities. The renort
 was made to MT. Fosdick by Victor R.
 Manning. one of the field secretaries
 of the Playground and Recreation as
 soclatlon of America, through whose experienced workers provision is be-
 ing made for furnishing recreation for
 the men in uniform at the eighty or more camps.
 1 Three dollars for each soldier and
 sallor-a total of $3,75O, ,OOO-is to he raised for this purpose. A National committee, on which prominent men and women are serving, has been nam ed by Secretary Baker to conduct the
 campaign for the War Camp Commun-
 lty recreation fund.
 MT. Manning shows the relation of
 the War Camp community recreation fund to the work which is being done inside the camps by such agencies as the Young Mems Christian association and In the exclusion of vice and vic- lous resorts from the camp neighbor- hood. 'i'oi
 lie shows also how the Playground ana Recreation Association of Amer l ca through work done by it's repre- ( ;entatlves, already has demonstrated 1 he need of building up all sorts of r 'ecreatlon and amusement for estah- lshlng camp and community on tho 6 test basis '''o ,,
 The community organization york" says the report, (which is that A interpreting the adjacent comn1un- k y to the boys in camp and of inter- e, :retlng the life of the soldier to the ,l ltlzens, is to be done by the Play '' round and Recreation Association of ~ through it's trained workers c' SpeEenced in this field What this pl 'rvlce means IS explained by one of ~, lr lese community organizers, Ira w Cl ayne, y,n,, of Detroit, as follows: Ill
 me obJect In each community is m uch the same-to convince the citi- de ms that this boy in uniform is still human being, that he has been up- osed suddenly from his native soil. ! F1pped of every social prop and safe ard-his family ties, his friends. his urch, his neighborhood, his fraternal ! cups: hls business connections and { lnIiuence of women of his kind and ! suddenly transplanted without their I tess; that they should become inter ed In hlm as an individual as 'son, helping him to re-establish
 'se social connections with this com n1lty upon which he was accustomed J depend at home; that he should he off thor patronlzeo nor exploited; that e..4 was a civilian yesterday, as they out are and that he will, let us hope. A arn to his home civilian tomor- ere, 1T. Manning reports that in each '."u .
 near a camp, social and re-cre- "A: t:.n. nal forces will be brought together t1 tany 'ne commlttee-representatives of yer! yer! fches, clubs, lodges, schools, col ply 's, recreation centers, parks, nov i,i" Ipo
 picture agencies, woman's agen- JUS. rus. Tn fact, every force for good in as ness ss
 community that can be used in an.u anol klng for the highest welfare of corn cor. enlisted men. A census will show Sou mems church preference, trade OF Fl esslon of what societies they are 1t al lbers, what their special ;ntar- not
 in dramatics. athletics n,,s;o nr callu r amusements or recraat;on ,,, with ana what other special interest the
 have H. r. Manning's report explains that or ce community work is of two broad as 5, that of large cities and that of fuses communities. He says that "one IS no le great problems is how to pro- No $ ,, recreation in the city of small shoul
 ana points to one western camn CT an :OOO men. located near a town of Adv. than 5000. At this place the
 Camp recreation fund committee ISAI
 to spend over $5O,0OO, in clubs o1 auoltorlums needed for the en- VI of soldiers in the nearby
 lunlty. The report shows what San cen done at the Newport (Rhode in ou 1) Naval training station. the Ia , ann Tn every community, the were says, Is to make the soldier ar who ,
 acquainted with families or ;n- vaar 'als who will be his friends. Ac- " waste, IS for entertaining the men in- poI;oa auto rides, Sunday dinners. ath- ot,ue an,, ana field events, dances, enter N s, icture honses +hn ,es co anu nov street winning nools ;n nI,slo eo of liq d and pool rooms ond othn 1I police ies-ln fact, to provide for the Deen I'd men every form of rocroa+;n them the civilian enjoys. mornil
 giving themselves to tbe bovs the DO .orm," MT. Manning savs ;n oon ferred P his report, "citizens and cit;as Sims ndlng their own souls and. after charge ar a new Snirit of o;+;,on,L: year i,