MEDAL PRESENTED BY DR. JOHN H. FINLEY TO SCHOOL BOY TRAMPERS Twenty-five Cents a Copy Two Dollars a Year The Playground Published Monthly by the PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 1 Madison Avenue, New York City MEMBERSHIP Any person contributing five dollars or more shall be a member of the Association for the ensuing year TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE The World at Play. 119 The Making of a Recreation Center, by Florence D. Alden. 124 Second Year of the Neighborhood Playhouse 129 Omaha Solving the Housing Problem for Its Feathered Citizens, by C. H. English. 131 How One Playground Was Developed, by Jeanette M. Hornsby. 134 Results in a Country Playground, by Margaret T. Alexander. 138 Extending Field House Service in Racine, by A. A. Fiske. 140 Questions Asked in Civil Service Examinations 141 Civil Service, by George Ellsworth Johnson.. 149 Entered as second-class matter October 24, 1912, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 THE WORLD AT PLAY International Recreation Congress, October 2-6, 1916. Grand Rapids, Mich.-Subjects suggested for popular addresses at the big evening meetings A Great Discovery of the Twentieth Century-The Neighborhood Play Center The Importance of the Neighborhood Play Center in Any Program of National Preparedness for Defense Building a Civilization through Play Can an Indoor Nation Long Endure? Physical Vitality a National Asset Leisure Hours America's Greatest Wealth Changing Leisure Time from a Liability to an Asset Can America Maintain High Working Efficiency without Organizing Leisure and Promoting Recreation? Better Farming, Better Marketing, Better People through Better Use of Rural Leisure The Making of Men in America Resolutions of New York City Neighborhood Workers."Resolved, That the Association of Neighborhood Workers, although not opposed to the idea of self-support as the desirable goal of all community centers, believes that in their present stage of development few communities can offer sufficient resources and supervision of such a quality as to keep up the standard desirable for community center work. It is therefore highly inadvisable that they undertake for the present the responsibility of supervision, and such items as janitorial service, use, heating and lighting of building, these functions belonging, in the opinion of the Association, properly to the Board of Education." (Tuesday, April 4th) "Recent investigations of the Recreation Commission of New York show that there are 680,000 children under fifteen years of age in New York City who have to seek recreation outside of their homes. Public and private recreational agencies accommodate about one-third of these children in the summer and one-tenth in the winter. It is therefore plain that there is need of very much more recreation work, both public and private, and the Committee on Recreation recommends that the settlements make use of all available space and all possible facilities for increasing their recreation work." (Tuesday, May 2nd) "We believe that the work |