This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...to the amount of $10,000 are imperatively needed within the next month. The Playground Assoc1at1on Of Amer1ca, 1 Mad1son Avenue, New York C1ty. September 1, 1910. Publinbed Monthly by tbe PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 1 Madison Avenue, New York City PURPOSE: To promote normal wholesome play and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...to the amount of $10,000 are imperatively needed within the next month. The Playground Assoc1at1on Of Amer1ca, 1 Mad1son Avenue, New York C1ty. September 1, 1910. Publinbed Monthly by tbe PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 1 Madison Avenue, New York City PURPOSE: To promote normal wholesome play and public recreation Sunday Play, by Joseph Lee--221 Moving Pictures, Their Function and Proper Regulation, by John Collier 232 The Dance Problem, by Mrs. Charles Henry Israels 242 SUNDAY PLAY. Joseph Lee, 'Boston, Mass. President Playground Association of America I believe our Sunday laws forbidding, play and sport are in the main an evil. I believe that they do much harm and prevent a great deal of good. I believe that games and play on Sunday, under proper restrictions as to time, place and noise, should be not only permitted but encouraged. I believe that the provis1on in our game laws forbidding fishing and shooting on Sunday is wrong. It is a rich man's law. It would be better to forbid these forms of sport on any day except Sunday, so as to reserve the game for the one day in the week when the average citizen can go after it. That Sunday is to a great extent, for city children at least, a day of lawlessness and demoralization cannot, I think, be successfully disputed. There are, so far as I am aware, no statistics upon the point, but I have gathered a considerable amount of testimony from social workers to the effect that Sunday is at present the especial day for the planning and carrying out of mischief and lawbreaking in various forms, and that in particular it is, among city boys, very largely devoted to gambling. Whatever the explanation may be, Sunday is as a matter of fact, for great numbers, if not for the majority of our children, a...
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