Show 39 Milage tax as financial support Although there are many sources of financial support of public recreation at the present time the trend is toward the millage tax as This may be augmented by bond issues appropriaa basis tions and gifts to take care of the temporary deficits and future development programs Increased emphasis on adult recreation Adult recreation is comparatively new and will be developed in the future for only recently have the leaders in recreation realized that they were ignoring the adults largely in their programs More and more they are trying to adapt their programs so as to include the adults as well as the younger generation most the Perhaps utility commodern to the contribution outstanding significant munity life in America has been the recognition that recreation is a public utility — as important as health education a public Recreation or safety— that it is a public necessity— a municipal function of government in that it certainly must provide playgrounds and recreation centers as it furnishes schools sewers and streets that it must provide for trained leader- 4 ship as it employ's' a superintendent of schools 4 Use Herbert (New York L A S and Dorothy Petgen Leisure and Barnes and Company 1928) pT 7 May Its |