Milford chronicle., 1928-05-18
MILFORD, FRIDAY, MAY 1S, 1928

MANY CONSERVATIVE old tim
ers look at facilities for recreation
as more or less unnecessary. The!
have thought that the money spen
on sports like baseball, tennis an(
golf was largely wasted.
This point of view did not take
due account of human nature. Mod
ern social students have learned
that the amount of crime and mis-
conduct in city or town, has a
direct relation to the failure of such
city or town to provide adequate
recreation.
A subcommission of the New
York state crime commission re-
Gently stated, after study of certain
congested districts in New York
city, that less than two out of five
children in those districts have an
adequate chance for wholesome re-
creation. The remaining three
children out of each five are full of
energy, which must find outlet
somewhere, and frequently that out
let is in the direction of lawbreak-
ing.
While conditions are far better
than that in towns like Milford and
others in Delaware, yet there are
few communities that have fully ad-
equate Fairgrounds or athletic
fields. Every time you open up
such facilities, and provide for
well conducted activities there, you
save boys and girls from the temp
tation to go wrong. They are not
going to get dangerous ideas in
their heads while they are playing
baseball or tennis, nor will they de-
teriorate mentally and morally as
they do when loafing around idly
with undesirable associates.
In former days, children could
play in many of the streets without
any great danger. But when auto
mobiles became common, that habit
became extremely dangerous. If
we want both to use our automo-
biles and save our children, we
must provide play spaces in every
sufficient to accom-
modate all the children.
Se@
MODERN civilization knows of
only one game which all may play :
md in which all players are win
lers. That game is cooperation.
n an era where the many are work. :.
ng for self, the exceptional who :.
york for others may deprive self. !.
Jobody is deprived who works with Il
theirs. Il
The stage driver who declined to u
xhibit his skill with the whip on q
roadside hornets nest knew the %
over of cooperation. Without CO. ~
peration the huge American war
'ans could never have been sub -
1ribed. With cooperation they -
ere all oversubscribed. Coopera- ~
on among the allies under Marshal 20 =.
och stemmed the advance of the ~ -
erman army. ~
Hornets work together. So do .
ees. A bee hive is a wonderful ~
to what working to- w
ether - each for all and all for
lch-can accomplish. Ants are
so coOperators and every ant hill
stifies to the result-getting pow a. a,
s of cooperation. A wise man III
as once asked which is the most us
lportant-labor, capital or man w
cement. He answered with a q"
7inkle: (Which is the most i'm ~
'rtant leg Of three-legged stool?" W.
Cooperation is the key word in
lsiness. 1t is the one direct road wv
prosperity, both for individuals ~
i'd large groups. If man is to iu'
a leader, he first learns how to .l'
a good cooperator-a worker -
Ith others; not a worker against W
II for, but WITH. :"
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Se& ize
THE WOMAN who knows her pa nu
r from the date line to the want tul
s can pick an argument with her WI
sband about blondes becoming thu
tinct, or a candidates chances, :
d the result is that she gets all str
e argument she wants without in del
'fering in the least with her do fin
sstic happiness. sol
Instead of panning one of her hus- the
nd's associates wives she can to
NIB the harpoon into some dame or
10 is dragging her husband thru of
2 divorce courts, or she can grill
, dramatic critic who doesn't like gel
certain show as much as she s
es. She can voice an opinion of
out bit of news and throw more ]
a scare into her husband than if ent
? tried to crown him with the sal
Idfish bowl. Dol
Women read the papers more so
'efully than men do. At least ula