Show public c recreation r N costs U S milli playgrounds found to be good investment new york more than was spent for public recreation last year by cities in tho the united states and canada according to the playground and recreation association of america which has just juat compiled iho returns from a questionnaire on community play this sum Is more mor e than twice the amount spent for the same purpose ten years ago in a total of cities reporting community recreation leadership conduct playgrounds ait tion centers under paid let 1 1000 when theodore bloos others organized the associate 41 cities had playgrounds piny grounds aai tion centers with pala paid leaden C approximately wb ported dally daily average of chagi chtiej adults at the summer elal or tile the country in f 1023 this fl flam t times greater than tile I 1 anco ance the reason for the steadily ste adIll lj ing expenditure for reccea time when municipalities are economy the association that playgrounds and ric rebra recognized as a good invests delinquency and crime casu deuced chlof chief of police 0 leominster mass says th quency cases in leominster Leom lnater 01 a year prior to the orga community service tho the loci 0 tion agency in utica N Y atina anna D chief probation officer at ate tho the efficiency of playground that not a single child was 1 bation during the month of the childrens court judge 0 penny of miami credit to the supervised ph for the fact that while pre pim had had twenty or twenty t of delinquency in his court in 1 in the six months after grounds opened ho he had only topeka kan found that tha decreased when playgrounds playground i stalled near the sebil schools defiance 0 centralia other cities reported the elimination of mischief and destruction by boys boya at galloi dilallo to the organized community eions of the city recreation tees many anny 0 other ier c cities es lepor reported e i in delinquency attributed lj by probation off officers leers and othern othen to organized play |