The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-06
c. 5. WILLSTAY
IN PENSACOLA
Campaign For Funds Reaches
Goal and Program For 1925
Will Be Completed.
HAS DONE MUCH GOOD
Playground Work and Club For
Service and Ex-Service
Men Are Features.

Pensacola will continue to hold on
to another of her visible assets" the
recent campaign for funds to continue
the work of Community Service in
Pensacola having reached very nearly
to the mark set for it. The amount
necessary to carry on the work for the
balance of the year is $4,000 OF this
amount s4.555.32 was secured, and the
finance committee believes it will Sc
cure the balance of s4e4.6S.
THAT Pensacola wants Community
Service and appreciates its work was
evidenced by the almost unan nous
support of the service from every sec
tion of the city" said a Community
Service worker yesterday. The speak
er added: IF it had done nothing else
in its six months of existence in Pen
sacola but originate and operate the
splendid playground work, which is
not only instructive to the children
and grown ups as we'll, but is also con-
structive, making for health, fair play,
and physical and mental development
its continuance here would have been
necessary. =
But in addition to this activity,
Community Service operates a club
for service and ex-service men which,
by providing the right kind of atmos-
phere as well as the free use of read
ing, writing and. game tables, betters
the morale of the men, thereby lessen
ing the anxiety of the naval, military
and city authorities for the off duty
time of the men.
Naval and military officers have
stated very positively that they favor
those towns having such facilities as
Community Service provides, for the
war has taught us that the day of the
socially unprotected service man is
passed. The Army and Navy, or Com
munity club is a splendid movement.
At the community club there is an
information booth for strangers, rest
and recreation room for ladies', head
quarters for all non partisan, non-po-
Iitical organizations having no head
quarters, American library Associa-
ton headquarters, and club for service
and ex-service men, as well as the ao-
ministrative office of Pensacola Com
munity Service. The weekly COM
munity dance, attended only by those
ladies and gentlemen who have Com
uunity Service invitations is another
big feature of the work here. Before
an invitation is issued il is passed
upon by an invitation committee COM
posed of representative men ana wo-
men. After investigation the invita-
ton is either issued or refused. These
dances are practically sef-supporting,
nv subscriptions from the men VINO
attend and the sale of soft drinks at
the dance. They are carefully chaper-
oned and carefully conducted and nave
by their high character, done much TO
hettering the standard of dancing In
Pensacola.
Community Service, less than year
old in Pensacola, is the outgroWth OF
an idea formulated by Theodore Roose-
velt and a group of far-seeing men
thirteen years ago when the Pay
Ground and Recreation Association OF
America was started. 1t is the direct
asscendent of War Camp Community
service. which did much work during
the war. and is the only organization
Of IFS kind having been nationally en-
dorsed by the American Legion ana
organized labor.
There are 135 Community Service
orpa nfzations in the United STATES.
they are operated locally. but have the
privilege of calling upon nationai
beadauarters of Community Service,
IN New York, for any extra or outside
sneciaI.sts needed. Community ser
vice in a town has come TO be regarded
as lust as much a sign of the liveness
and progressivenes Of that town as
the presence of a chamber OF COM
merce. Rotary or Kiwanis Cluo, or
other business and social organiza-
tions.
The finance committee of Commun-
inv Service. which did much effective
work during the campaign for funds
was under the chairmanship of Chas.
| b. Hervey, who was assisted by a