Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-29
PLAY week TO
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elimination of Summer Of Superyis.
ed Play and Story Telling for
Children Will be q big
" "Play Week"
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PLANNING FINE RECREATION
A Patriotic Play Week in Fall viii
Show Community What rs
I Been Accomplished.
PLANNING FINE RECREATION


Children's Year-is developing
movement for the protection sfy all
children that is cementing the inter.
ests Of every mother, woman and
girl. Here in Webster City interest
has crystalized into service. The lat
est addition ito the workers is a
, group of fifteen young girls, who Will
/ devote two hours of every week day
/ to leading the play and story telling
in the children's play park.
The children's bureau OF the U. S.
department of labor announced today
that plans are under way to carry
out the part of the war time Chill
drens Year program which urges
that recreation abundant, decent, pro-
fected from any form Of exploitation
be provided for children and youth.
Recreation is a means of relieving
the nervous tension of war, OF keep.
ing the sanity and balance which are
| essential now. Play for children is
! especially urgent in order to keep
them as protected as may be under
the disturbed conditions inevitable
when nation is at war. The increase
of Juvenile delinquency repUr.ed in
European countries since the war
testifes to the need in every warning
country to guard the children's leis.
mre by giving them wholesome play
and interesting, worth while activi'
ties. 49,
Play Week In Fall.
The recreation plans will be car
ried out by the child welfare depart.
tent tof the woman's committee OF
,e council OF national defense. They
3ntemplate summer Of play and
seful leisure time activities, culmin.
Ting In the autumn in a patriotic
bay(week which will afford everyone
nd every organization an opportun.
" to show what has been done to
take the children's vacation time
appier and healthier.
It is suggested that play week be
.eld in connection with other COM
nunity gatherings especially county
airs, at which the exhibits of chill
lren's play would be an added attrac'
ion. Exhibits of the work Of the
'arious athletic organizations for out
loor play-drills and camp activities
II the Boy and Girl Scouts and the
camp Fire Girls will be held. For
he children who like especially to
get together and sing there will be
glee clubs and song contests, and for
he ones who can play various must.
sal instruments or want to learn to
play them will be bands and orches-
(ras.
Exhibits in Connection.
Important work in conserving food
Tor our allies is being done by the
boys and girls in the war gardens of
the U. S. bureau of education and in
canning, stock, and poultry raising
clubs of the u. S. department of agri-
culture. Exhibits of their work will,
1t is expected, be held in connection
with patriotic play weeks i'm many
parts of the country. in order to make
the week an exhibit of all that the
children are doing with their vaca-
ti0n-to show what they are doing
TO help win the war by raising and
saving food as well as how they are
keeping themselves eft" And one
pf the chief aims OF the play week
must be to make the children realize
Nhat they are serving their country
when they are increasing their phys
zeal strength, and that keeping them
selves fit and cheerful is patriotic.
Folk dancing, community singing,
twhistling clubs-all will contribute
ITO the strength Of the community by
Igiping children reason for getting to-
tgether and increasing the spirit of
teamwork.
Patriotic play week will show what
the community has been doing all Il
summer long for the children, and at
the end of the weeks demonstration |
the whole summers effort will in |
many places be summed up in a pa
triotic pageant, dedicating to the ser
vice of the country all that has been
done. For this purpose a patriotic |
play week pageant has been especial
| ay prepared through the Drama
League of America.