Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-08-17

the only salvation, If human beings
are to be conserved as human beings,
must come outside Of industry
namely, through leisure time pursuits
that restore balance, build on natural
talents, satisfy inner longings for IN
tellectual, ply sical. social and art ex=
preston, all of which means reefea-
ton in the broadcast sense and this
implies the need OF adequate com
munity provision Of opportunities
along all these lines.
Workers Must Get Into Game"
But, somebody points out that We
have amusements galore IN our cities
and towns. Yes, commercial amuse-
ments in the United States today
form probably the largest line of
business agoing. Twenty million trek
to the movies every day. Twenty
five thousand to seyenty-fiYe thou
sand attend a single big league ball
game. But, listen men, not a muscle
of these baseball fans wiggle OF
stretches a. they watch the other
fellows play-eXcept possibly IN the
seventh inning!
o, we would not decry attendance
all. What we are urging Is the get
ting into the game" participation,
activity, expression. eXpression-ph
steal to stir up the blood, squeeze the
liver, fill the air pipes, beat the other
fellow; eNpressi0n-s0clal IN fun-
games to mellow our nerves, enrich
personality, make friends; expression
intellectual to broaden our minds,
clear understanding. get the relation
and meaning of our world and all
that therein is; eXpression-e sthetie to
stimulate our imagination, make
something beautiful in form and
color, satisfy our creative art desires.
| submit, doesn't all this mean more
man, the life more abundant?
Isn't that, after all, what we are
struggling for on this earth? Money,
yes, but to make possible this kind
of life. Shorter hours, yes, but to
give US necessary time In which to
live this richer life.
Now, what's the best word to or
ganized labor on this whole subject F.?
Just this: Get into the game your
self. Keep and develop the play
spirit. Keep it in your homes. Play
WIN the cnllufen.
Organize athletic teams in your
union, stimulate the other unions to
do likewise, develop competitions be-
tween them. Start bands, vocal
quartettes, put on shows, bring out
the talent among the members.
start Something" in Your Town.
Look around the town and see
what it has and what it needs in the
way of public Fairgrounds, athletic
fields, school and other community
centers. Start something which will
fire the people up to make demand for
the best and most adequate commun-
ity program of recreation. Great
oaks from little acorns grow. The
ideas here presented may be your
acorns. Take 'em, you're welcome.
Think of the great public service
you can render to the boys and girls
of America by undertaking com
munity effort of the kind indicated.
And finally, remember that this
whole scheme of things and the phil
osophy underlying it is part of a
plan presented by the Community
Service Department of the Play
ground and Recreation Association
of America to the American Fedora
ton of Labor Executive Council in
February, 1928, and approved by it.
This article, therefore, is written to
further the common cause. Our As
ISOLATION is prepared to help with
literature, counsel by correspondence
and field service in the larger cities
and under certain conditions. The
address of the headquarters is 315
Fourth Avenue, New York, and the
secretary is Howard S. Braucher.
Let's pull together, workers, for
we are striving toward the same ulti-
mate human end-a better, richer
kind of existence here in our be-
loved America.