Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-07-29

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congested centers of population, the
Red Cross rural service at the national
headquarters Of the American Red
Cross has issued a bulletin Of prac-
tical suggestions for Red Cross work
,ers in establishing and carrying on rec
reation in the smaller communities and
in the rural districts. The bulletin was
prepared by the chairman Of the COM
mittee on recreation Of the American
Country Life association at the request
of the Red Cross.
Meeting demands from communities
throughout the nation, the Red Cross
rural service is furnishing field work
ers and chapter executives to assist In
the development of recreation. One Of
the difficulties which stand in the way
of adequate recreation for the resi-
dents of rural communities, villages
and small towns, the Red Cross says,
is the lack of understanding in regard
to the real purpose and function of
play in modern life and that the mes
sage of the play movement has been
very largely confined to the cities and
now must be carried to the non-urban
population.
Because Of large expenditure for city
recreation systems, paid leadership.
buildings and equipment, and for prop
erty used for Fairgrounds, many have
been prone to look upon recreation as
modern luxury.
Some of the Difficulties.
Many people regard play as merely
exercise, and as the daily work of the
farm and home furnish exercise it is
difficult for parents to see the need for
play. The pioneers in this movement
also have found that it is more diff
cult. for rural people to engage in
spontaneous recreational activities be-
cause Of the individualistic aspects OF
rural life. These are some Of the diff
culties which face the establish
ment of a rural recreational program.
The opportunities, however. for de-
velOping such a program are indicated
by number Of conditions, to which
reference is made as follows:
"In spite of the increasing disparity
between city and rural population the
country still has within It's communi-
ties the larger number of children. 1t
has resources in nature and environ
ment, now lost to the cities, which
may be constructively used In a recrea-
ton program. The rural family has
not suffered as much disintegration as
the city family. 1T is still unified. Also,
there are no sharp lines Of class cleav-
age In the country; the rural popula-
ton is homogeneous and the people
have an inherent instinct for fellowship
and sympathy for their fellow men, to
which dormant trait recreation will
give wholesome expression.
Before the advent of the machine
play was part of work. Each vaca-
ton had its special play accompani-
ment. Spontaneous song and play went
out of work when the machine came
in. We must now secure our recrea-
ton during the leisure hours. AS life
continues to grow more complex and
artificial play assumes an increasing
Importance. But 1t must be the right
kind of play. Mere amusement is not
recreation. Commercialized amuse-
ment may defeat the very function Of
play.
To Recognize Genuine Paper Money.
Paper money may now be rec
Ognized as genuine or counterfeit
without expert knowledge of the
currency. A little general knowl-
edge of the design, a little application
of the memory, and your bankroll, re-
CARELESS of the size of the bills, is
safe.
For many years the United States
treasury has been considering a gen
eral revision of the currency designs,
and finally it has deemed it important
to take this particular step without
awaiting further elaboration on the
general subject. The UNCONVENTIONAL
portraits on federal reserve notes and
federal bank notes, and which now
have been prescribed for future issues
of all kinds of currency, are as fol-
lows:
One-dollar bill, Washington; two
dollar bill, Jefferson; fve-dollar bill
Lincoln; ten-dollar bill, Jackson; TWEEN
ty-doIlar bill, Franklin; five-hundred-
dollar bill, Marshall; one-thousand.
dollar bill, Hamilton; five-thousand
dollar bill, Madison; ten-thousand-dol.
lar bill, Chase.
One of the greatest dangers to the
treasury and to the public in connec.
ton with the question of counterfeit.
ing has been the multiplicity of de,
signs of the various forms of currency
To obviate this, the treasury has un.
dertaken TO adopt distinctive char
acteristic for each denomination of all
forms of currency in circulation. The
bureau Of engraving and printing has
prepared a uniform portrait that will
represent each denomination of all is.
sues of paper money, and so the
money that is in circulation today is
standardized in appearance.
J VIII Serve as Safeguard.
AS federal reserve notes and federal
reserve bank notes are now largely in
circulation, it was decided to adopt for
} all forms of currency the portraits
that appear on those notes. This
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