Are These In Your Library? Building and Flying Model Recreational Games and Aircraft A fascinating book for the model airplane enthusiast, and in view of the growing interest of boys in making airplanes, an indispensable aid. Detailed information and instructions are given and there are two hundred diagrams, plans and working drawings to help the model maker. Price $2.25 Play Areas Their Design and Equipment An ever present problem is that of laying out play areas to serve the ends of usefulness, beauty and economy. This book is an attempt to answer the many troublesome questions the recreation official has to meet, through chapters on essential features, common types of apparatus and suggestions for their use, general equipment, facilities and supplies, areas for games and sports, the children's playground, neighborhood playfields, the athletic field, playground beautification, preparation of play areas for winter use and homemade apparatus. Many illustrations, plans and diagrams are introduced. Price $1.50 Independence Day Many suggestions for the celebration of Independence Day and accounts showing how various communities have observed the day are to be found in this pamphlet. A helpful section is that which lists material for Fourth of July Celebrations, including pageants, festivals and ceremonials, recitations and drills, music, favorite band selections, athletic games, picnics and special activities. Price $.10 Programs Compiled by John Martin Marching figures, introductions and mixers, active games and relays, quiet games, musical games. classroom games and suggestions for progressive game parties make this booklet invaluable to all who are conducting social recreation. Price $.50 Parks A Manual on Municipal and County Parks The result of several years of study of existing park systems, this manual, in scope, content and illustrative material-and there are over hundreds of illustrations and plans is the most comprehensive publication which has appeared in the field of park literature. Its twenty-one chapters deal with such practical subjects as construction of play areas, design of unit elements, financing, administration. organization, sanitation, and park policing. Recreation executives as well as park superintendents and boards should have this report. In set of two volumes-$15.00 Children's Playground Theatre By Mabel F. Hobbs How can the drama come into its own on the playground? How is it possible to utilize the shady corner? What is the procedure of the play leader? What plays are suitable? Drama on the playground is becoming increasingly important; consequently, the answers to these questions are pertinent. They are to be found in this twelve page illustrated article. Price $.10 88 Successful Play Activities As summer approaches this book takes its place as "first aid" to the playground worker. With its suggestion for tournaments in marbles, hopscotch, jackstones and similar games, and for musical, dramatic and art activities, it greatly facilitates playground program planning. Price $.60 Camping Out Not one of this year's publications, but up-to-the minute in the practical information it has to offer on the selection of the camp site, the plan of the camp, equipment, sanitation, organization, leadership. program making, diet, camp accounting and similar features. Price $2.00 Home Play Children's play rooms, the games the family enjoy together in the home, games for rainy days and for convalescent children, social, musical and dramatic activities-all these are described in this illustrated booklet. There are, too, suggestions for backyard play, for constructing apparatus and laying out game courts for outdoor games. Price $.50 Nature Play By William G. Vinal "Why do children need nature play and how can they satisfy their desire for it?" Professor Vinal answers this question most interestingly in this pamphlet. Price $.10 PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 315 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Please mention THE PLAYGROUND when writing to advertisers Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared H. S. Braucher, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor of THE PLAYGROUND, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411. 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These included singing by 650 school children, concerts by school bands, a patriotic program, a sacred concert attended by 3000 people, and entertainment supplied by the Business Men's Association, the Kiwanis Club and similar groups. Please mention THE PLAYGROUND when writing to advertisers MITCHELL MITCHELL Merry Whirl Provides Exercise and Amusement There are many times when a large number of children are to be accommo- In operating the Merry-Whirl, children obtain not only amusement but unconsciously derive from it the best of exercise to their limbs, backs, chests and shoulders. Another valuable feature of the Merry-Whirl is that it gathers children in a large group, thereby preventing any antagonism. Prospect Lake on the southeastern limits of Colorado Springs is part of the reserve supply of water for domestic The Playground VOL. XXII, No. 4 The World at Play San Antonio Carries Bond Issue-On May 19th, San Antonio, Texas, was to hold an election. for a bond issue containing ten different items, each to be voted on separately, and totaling $4,755,000. Of this account $400,000 was for public parks and playgrounds. The Lions' Club of San Antonio, while standing back of the entire bond issue, was particularly interested in the playground item, the Club having some years ago expressed its interest in recreation by a gift of a large playfield known as Lions' Field. The bond issue, it seemed to the Lions' Club, offered an excellent occasion to conduct a campaign of education in interest of community recreation and so the club took prompt action. On May 7th a field secretary of the P. R. A. A. arrived in the city and from that time until May 16th, when the campaign closed with a large mass meeting, he made twenty addresses at such varied gatherings as Chamber of Commerce meetings, meetings of the Federation of Labor and Christopher Columbus Club, negro mass meetings and neighborhood meetings called in particularly difficult districts. At these meetings the entire bond issue was discussed and commended, but the importance was particularly stressed of the need for more parks and playgrounds in a city which had had San Antonio's rapid growth-from 53,000 population in 1900 to nearly 300,000 in 1928. The newspapers were very generous in their publicity and the city officials and other groups cooperated splendidly. The result was that the entire bond issue carried, the item for parks and playgrounds receiving one of the highest majorities. Out of eighty precincts voting, seventynine gave a majority for parks and playgrounds, one voting against it by a small majority. In addition to the $400,000 which is to be used directly for parks and playgrounds, the city voted $250,000 to acquire the present fair grounds of 190 acres. The Fair Grounds Association plans to will the entire acreage to the city and it will be JULY, 1928 maintained as a park athletic field and playground ten months of the year when the exposition is not being operated. A Bond Issue in Austin-Austin, Texas, has passed a bond issue for $750,000 for parks and playgrounds. Funds for Recreation in Pittsburgh-On April 24th the city of Pittsburgh voted a bond issue of $300,000 for the acquisition and improvement of additional recreational facilities in this city. With the $750,000 bond issue voted in 1926 the city has had in the past three years something in excess of $1,000,000 for the securing of facilities. During this same period there have been actual appropriations of from $200,000 to $300,000, making a total of approximately $2,000,000, allocated for recreation purposes. Winter Haven, Fla.-An interesting activity of the Recreation Department at Winter Haven is the Tourist Club. There are splendid programs given every Friday evening. A weekly paper is published by the Recreation Department, called "The Tourist Tatler," and it is a real part of the recreation program of that city to provide adequate recreation for the tourists. Lions' Club Secures Park for Abilene.During 1925 a public spirited citizen of Abilene, Texas, offered the city 16 acres of land to be used as a public park, the only condition being that the property be improved and kept in condition. At that time no municipal funds were available, but the Lions' Club came to the rescue, cleared the dense covering of brush, trimmed the trees, dammed a small stream forming a lake and laid a water line through the greater part of the ground. In 1926 the Lions' Club interested other luncheon clubs and the development of the property continued. Playground equipment has been |