Show 9 detail in Chanter V of this thesis Selection of representative c i tl e s Cities ranging from 3000 to 146000 in population and geographically distributed throughout the State of Utah were arbitrarily selected as representative of existing conditions in 3 the recreational field These cities were Nephi Cedar City Brigham City Logan Provo Ogden and Salt Lake The first three had a population of from three to five thousand the next two Logan and Provo with a population of from 10000 to 16000 were representative college towns the last two Ogden and Salt Lake were the larger cities with po- pulations of from 50000 to 146000 set of criteria definitely set up as a basis the writer made a survey and collected data by personal visits to each of the communities selected With the desired Organization of the remaining chapters The second chapter of the thesis deals with the related investigations and reports which were used as general source material in v the investigation It is essential that the general public be educated to believe in the necessity for recreation therefore the third chapter deals with the necessity and justification of public support for recreation fourth chapter presents community recreation movement The a brief survey of the |