The Brunswick news., 1919-05-15
ENDOWMENT Of
LASTING KIND
|SSOONTOCOME
War Camp Community Service
Will Soon Begin Real
Activities.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
LOCAL ORGANIZATION MET
Fosdick Commission, Which
Has Charge of This Work,
Has Invited Participation of
Y. M. C. A., K. of c., Jewish
Workers, Salvation Army.

Far-reaching possibilities in the way
Of permanent endowment of communi-
ty activities running into the expendi-
ture of many thousands from the
treasury of the incorporation Of the
War Camp ommunity service were in
it;ated at the meeting of the executive
committee of the local organization
last night.
A proposition to endow swimming
pools and community houses of the
organization in Brunswick and to ap-
portion part Of the large slice of the
sso million dollars of organizing fun6
Low in the central treasury of the
Evaporation was submitted in their be
bali.
81 The importance of securing the sup
Fort of the city of Brunswick in estab
Mishing centers of the service work
#As war work is soon to expire ann
devote it's funds to permanent i'm
ss,l ovement was the subject of an ad-
N&iress by Harry Allen, of New York.
h Mr.. Allen is establishing centers
8fcr endowment of the work and has
!, s,t.sen sent to Brunswick as one of
1.-THE important Industrial centers OF
<ahe South. He told the committee last
EeJening the original idea was fathered
#Ey Raymond B. Fosdick of New York
NCity, at the time when the expedition
Ito Mexico was merely cloak to cover
ssthe anxiety felt in this country ovel
Il the condition of Europe.
u The meeting was held at the Elke
& Home and members of the committe,
were invited to the conference by V
AK Brown, the executive secretary TO.
Brunswick. There were present ]. T
Abrams, c. T. Walker, A. R. Shelan
Ger, NJ w. Krieger, Mrs. George P
Smith, C. w. Irwin, A. M. Way, George
p Mccullough, Fred M. Decker, Mrs
Albert Fendig, F. S. Mann, G. p. Dus
cnhnry, j. M. Jones, e. H. Sheldon
Dr.. j. w. Simmons.
In outlining the proposition to sc
cure permanency to the organization
Of the War Camp Community service
Mr.. Allen said originally all authorized
recreation and welfare work was turn
ed over to the Fosdick commission
and they invited the participation o
the Y. M. G. A., the Knights Of Co
lunlbus, the Jewish Welfare Workers
and the Salvation Army
The Playground and Recreation as
snciation of America. was arranged
by the Fosdick commission, in add
tion to their activities, az an adjunct
1t was the extension of the worl
of the commission outside of the wa
zone
"A good MANY communities hav
gotten together" he said, land start
ed things in connection with thi
movement They felt they did no
want all these features to discontinue
with the rehabilitation OF the al
my
"The biggest city development /
seen an the city of Chicago in the sy
tenn of playground centers. Chicag
has thirty recreation centers and tn
acreage of all of them runs from si
to eighty acres.
I'm Chicago the decrease of juveni'
crime. has been twenty-sx per cen
in the last nine years. Within a re
dius of half mile of the playground
zone, the decrease of Juvenile Grim
is thirtyfour per cent. Taking tn
immediate neighborhood into accoun
records collected do not show s!r
gle case of juvenile delinquency"