Let us then, apply the abstract program for
park development concretely to Columbus.

It was said that there should be playgrounds
for little children. Such there has been the need of
these, and such is the appeal of childhood, that
some have been already established and are do-
ing a work that makes a stronger argument for
anything which the Commission could say. In
a city ideally developed no home would be more
than half a mile from a playground, that being
about the limit of their effective radius for young
children. In Columbus this would mean a greater
number of playgrounds than can now be looked
for with the other park needs that are
that must be satisfied, for the modern conception
of a playground is not a bare crude space where

children, left to their own devices, exemplify the primitive law of survival of the fittest. It is a space adapted perfectly to its use, and made beautiful, where directed play has such value educationally that the playground supplements the school. As was noted in Part I, the commission proposes an extension of schoolyards and much more of them that a full complement of multipurpose playgrounds need not be at once demanded. But the playgrounds that are established should be of the best, that they may confer the maximum of benefit.