Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1934, Page 27

THE EVENING DISTRICT ATTITUDE ON RECREATION HIT Weir Says Constructive Pol- icy, Funds and Men Are Lacking. This is the fourth of a serics of articles on the report of L. H. Weir, erpert of the National Recreation Association, who has suggested four plans for reorganization of the Dis- trict's recreation system. | an adequate caretaker | years.” | + L. H. Weir, recreation expert re- tained by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to study Washington's recreational puzzle and make recommendations, in his report | thus Indicts the city heads: “Apparently the District govern- ment has not taken a forward-look- ing, dynamic, constructive attitude toward the (Playground) Department, under which it has labored would have been ironed out long ago.” The Playground Department. he says, “has been so handicapped by lack of funds that few of the grounds under its own jurisdiction are fully improved and the mainte- nance on none of them is of a high standard.” “The department transportation facilities, and tools,” he continued. adequate store house an ties. It has been forced to combine caretaker and supervisory service. This means that the department does not have either an adequate staff giv- ing full time to pro activities nor ervice, “At the present time several of the lacks proper machinery “It lacks | municipal playgrounds are under the | supervision of assistant directors or assistants. This is because no pro- motions have been allowed for several AttenGance Excellent. Declaring the Playground Depart- | ment’s attendance is “very varied, that it is reaching both children and adults, and that the record of at- tendance is excellent,” Weir says: “The program includes kindergarten activitics, handicraft, music, dra- | matics, athletic sports and games, | swimming and paddling, hiking, con- duct of festivals and tournaments, and special community programs. A special picnic service is maintained. re is apperently some confusion as to the true functions and activities of the Playground Department. This apparently arises from the name of the department. The name in the popu- lar mind conaotes service to chil- dren, whereas in fact the program of the .epartment includes activities for | children, young people and adults.| The plans and policies in program- ming are projected along lines of a ! full-fledged recreation department, but | |in the attempt to realize this ideal, | caps. | “Among the first of these handi- | caps is lack of -space and facilities. It has had to depend on the use of | areas and facilities controlled by other | public agencies to a considerable ex- | tent. It has already been shown | what a comparatively small acreage | of ar2as it controls and that a com- paratively small percentage of this| acreage is actually controlled in its |own right through the District gov- | ernment, Relations Dissatisfactory. | “Satisfactory working relations have not been established with the National Capital Parks Cffice or the Board of Education. Certain very small areas | and a few facilities belong, to the | National Capital Parks system have been turned over to the Playground Department, it is true, but in order | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1934, or permits for each separate facil- ity for each scparate use-time just as a private citizen “Lik2wise, in securing the use of school areas, the department is re- quired to make out a permit form for cach of the 40 to 50 grounds so used as well as for such indoor fa- cilities as may be required in con- nection with the school playground. Under such conditions, it has not been possible tor the department to d shop facili- | it has operated under several handi- | function as the central, unifying and co-ordinating recreation agency in the District.” Weir submitted figures to show the Playground Department uses 39 acres owned by the Federal Government, 21 acres owned by the District gov- ernment and 6 acres under jurisdic- | tion of the Board of Education, as | year-round playgrounds. Bride Learns She Is No. 2. Just after Ellen Hickey had become the bride of John Leahy at Dublin, Irish Free State, she received a letter | stating that Leahy's first wife was alive. She left Leahy immediately, and Leahy was charged with bigamy. Wife | No. 1 appeared and said that she had married Leahy in 1922 and lived with him for four years, until she obtained CHRISTMAS SEAL MAIL SALES LARGE :Response Has Been So Great, Clerical Force Is Behind in Counting Money. More than $7.000 has been counted, representing the sale of some 700,000 ‘Tuberculosis Association, while other cash already on hand is yet to be counted by the regular and volunteer terday at the offices of the associa- tion. in through the mail from the seals sale that the force has fallen behind in counting it. The sales by mail have been further augmented by the opening Monday of two downtown sales stations, one conducted by the Junior League vol- |, unteer team at the F street entrance to Woodward & Lothrop’s depart- ment store and the other in the Woodward Building, 700 block of Fit- to securz the use of any of the large | employment at Rathgar, and that they | teenth street. Both of these reported array of facilities under control of the | Parks Office, the Playground Depart ! ment is required to secure a permi had corresponded until after last Christmas. Leahy was sentenced to | X months with hard labor. | many sales. The Junior League booth is under the supervision of Mrs. John Pershing, Christmas Seals under auspices of the | clerical force, it was announced yes- | So fast has the money been coming | | chairman of the booth team. She | plans to have the booth in operation every day until Christmas. At the play is being shown under the direc- tion of Miss Ernestine Strother of the association’s staff of nurses, as- sisted by Miss Winnie Hamilton. ACADEMY OF ECONOMICS ANNOUNCES SPEAKERS Lothrop Stoddard and Dr. Charles Hodges on Program Dr. | for Sessions. Dr. Lothrop Stoddard, author and | traveler; Dr. Charles Hodges. professor | of political science at New York Uni- versity, and Francis R. 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