The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-21
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1920
MAKING PLAY OF WORK

be comparatively easy solve, The have comfort plenty luxury if only considerable num- they enjoy play
 To sure, there have been always and women play work individuals who have ferred industry recreation Such and the real forces among the people, that make the world They contribute nearly all of the progress is what such persons have done that makes the socaed efficiency of civilization in which included the machinery that essens drudgery and the things that make life productive more peasuae and useful.
 Everybody knows that Thomas A. Edison finds work so much like play that he isn't willing to stop long to sleep He doesn't like to home to dinner when the whistle blows
 This last fact proof that work to Edison play Every body knows that the mother of boy who is playing hard has to call him several times before he will come into dinner
 Probably there great, useful man, who did not make play his work Most really successful play They successful very often because upon me they young they became interested in useful and serious activity which they preferred to baseball up croquet.
 All know of the occasional who makes play of work, but H. Benson famous instructor down from Spring field yesterday to say to Bridgeport business that boy girl properly trained that boy girl will turn work the world and himself,
 believes goes quite distance in proving that the world has gone mad over play mere play which works little improvement which leaves benefits worth speaking about and which often is positive injury.
 To there sorts of pure recreation essary the child which do with the development his muscles and the promotion of active and healthy body for him. These recreaons must by no means be abandoned The baseball the football the the hke all have their place.
 the this Benson it. men are creatures of habit If teach them nothing but play they will ire queny desire to do nothing but play Benson and he has proved assertions by work in Springfield that ii is just to teach boys and girls to play at york; it is to teach them to play at play.
 The methods uses are founded upon boy psychology which is like psychology He interest useful work He contests competition public prizes and public congratulations the victor
 They cheer baseball eams prize fighters hero of football but who asks Benson with pertinence cheers the boy the gr who has achieved something work?
 All boys shoes and some wear low shoes button shoes Who knows what of the parts of the shoe about the shoe to the foot? Benson will start contest three four hundred boys, to who take off and put shoes the fastest speed accuracy and neanes counting toward victory.
 way to lace shoe way to tie the laces wher the work done and in such contest ths simple may seem group Of highly endowed boys will be separated from the rest and the boys will fall into groups according the gree of their present training their natural ability.
 From this simple beginning is born training the whole art of making and selling and caring for shoes The structon triangular It includes the principles produc ton, the of distribution conservation of the product when it reaches the
 By this understandable method which Benson st successfully supplied young people of city soon get t habit of making work into play They times they learn how do things that help mankind in agriculture and manufactures
 The competition between the boys and girls tha work and play convertible terms national Many communities training which state com petitions, from which national competitors the winners ol hee contests come Dack to the home folks they greeted with band, and reception people to hem because is right that cognzed and rewarded
 thinks about Benson and his method for mak work into play will depend the other things For instance the who occupied then the colony settled years ago. tougb work undgnfed, and they did very little of it. Tn did more but not much and there for they too lazy to do those things necessary to the support of large populations.
 is the civilized alone who appreciates nobilit of work.
 The ability of a people work with foresight and d gence, with provision and skill the exact sur of their separation from the condition savage men,
 America is the strongest military power world be America does any other country an honors work more than other
 The state of work in America what it ought to b flags, Benson says, should fly for worl Ther need not be less honor for heroes sports there oul