Show division of labor leisure for all specialization andhumanitarian ideals limits for the working day legal of some of our industrial leaders recreational o- by employers more fequent holipportunities provided days dramatics musical activities and other cultural interests are all3 indicative of the trend toward increased leisure Not only the problem of recreation for a vast majority is made greater but many other additional problems are created At the Twentieth National Recreational Congress it reported by the summarizer that some nine hundred delegates grappled with these additional problems of recreation: (l) the swiftly declining birth rate causing the nation to have a larger population of older people (consequently adult recreation must be increased) (2) the was plight of thousands of young people out of schools and colleges and unwanted in industry (3) the idleness of millions of unemployed and (4) the changing interests of Americans in their leisure No city state or nation is adequately solving all of these or similar problems but this great body of delegates were not discouraged They knew that a conscientiou was attempt being made so that leisure might be enjoyed by all importance of a planned program of leisure time is emphasized by the fact that the use made of The activity Carrol D Champlin "Educational Uses of Play School Executives Magazine 53:345-4- 9 July 1934 |