The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-21
KEEP To EARTH
AND KEEP YOUNG
ARDENT ADVOCATE OF Chill
DREN'S FAIRGROUNDS SPOKE
BEFORE WOMAN'S CLUB.
Sidney Teller o. Pittsburgh leila
Wheeling Women Who Are Inter-
ested In the Movement Its
Meaning to the Child.

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That Wheeling hms the embryo "t
Sums. hut that the steps 10 Il local
playground made Of grav"sion"s inGl- !
Gates that there is some appreciation |
of the child being the main aFsUt of /
the city were remarks made ycstei'2
day by Mr.. Sidney A. Teller Of Pitts |
burgh.
Mr.. Teller spoke before tho civic |
department Of tho WumunB club NJ
the Hotel Windsor on play md Rc;-
ter Citizenship" and was one of Tho
most earnest speakers appearing b"-
fore the club this year He WAS 80
intensely full OF his subject and knox
SO thoroughly ull avenues OF itH np-
preach thai Ms close relationship Il"
the Child Welfare Work which club
women are just HOW engineering 30
skIllfully WIS very valuable in It's SCI
cral aspects.
4 Mr.. Teller is resident director Of he
Irene Kaufman Settlement House At
Pittsburgh and had much 10 tell VI
American cities have Fairgrounds kept
up BY mill assessment ON It's popu'
lation and providing recreation faC!ll-
ties for two million children. said Mr..
Teller. The development OF the Child
must come about through play. and
that delinquency, disease and The
foundations OF bad citizenship may be
eliminated IN giving the city child the
Proper environment for play under
correct supervision. Boys are insllnc-
lively great imitators, said MIR. Teller,
and it is always the truly great and
brave things they seek to initiate.
This should be foStcrGd TO its fullest
extent: there is much surplus energy
they must rid themselves. OF. This
must have an outlet in either 4 con-
Slructive or destructive manner. and
it lies wholly with the city whether
or not the hest in the future citizens
is aimed for. IL costs the state $500
to send one boy through the reform
school, and that sum OF money would
80 Il long way in providing Il. plaCr
III air. space and sunshine, where
countless Youngsters might frolic and
play, find wholesome recreation in ac-
tivilies that will make Them fine.
sturdy, healthy boys. Mr.. Teller, says
he finds the children who play to-
gethcr vieing with each other in Il
clean, sportsmanlikr way, come %
work together in later years, making
for civic brtlrrm"nt and having a
beautiful community spirit. TIL" jul
vcnile court does not solve problems
OF delinquency. said lhr speaker. The
snri is 70 nrcveut their beginning.
ChiIdhoods Right to play.
4 Where children HAY" been crowded
in,n srrecis to uluy in ruuSraur dali
,,t,. IF mir sliv,s nrH ib.ir ,l1y MI
S,,,er,.is"J ,hnra cam nnIhinu; hui mn
mGra,iiy rnsu, ONLY uur-uIrlrth III
,hn rhiid ,.nn,,,,ri0, If Ehernn. can
rnv nn r...,rhnJ by The nlaygrOun,;s
.vaiI,hlc asserted; I'm, sneaker Ii is
rho ri,,bt nr chilIhpud In uIuv, ana a
,uhlir NECESSITY INN, y pror,rr place
g., nrnvidrd One hYs Ihn rirhi ,n ask
If = civ Said Nr 'TrIlrr thnI. when
makes for Ihr hrr1rrurnt. of lis clll-
Ems
/, ali school buildings should be
onrnnd as community Crntrrs. uubl.c
hr;hs buiII far the Industrial uupularr,
iva rhiidhood y chance m NAV ntIlr
>, dem.n'Ied ~ make children nanny,
mi, - ninr>. ~ niav within ,Inan and
UhoIc S snrrnIIndinns SOM snrr oI
apnaratus FOR contrSiing with rhrlr rrl.