Show toy lending libraries are thriving in many cities throughout country it pays to borrow what the thousands of children think dhove been taking advantage of the toy lending libraries now thriving in 50 cities reveals a new york correspondent in the boston globe A downtown manhattan settlement house was the first distribution point of reconditioned toys collected soon after a brooklyn probation officer conceived the idea of lending toys to c hildren children who had few playthings at home she h had ad found that youngsters in her precinct were being arrested re sted for stealing toys and launched the t toy oy lending scheme to help stop the crime wave the new york office supported by personal contributions takes no money from its units but simply gives advice on organization and 0 occasionally ships some of its toys back and forth or th tor for other br branches to je usually UY 41 li baries arles are located in city settlement hous houses es or in sc schools h public school 28 in brooklyn for example ties up the toy anding sc scheme heme with its educational program toys are made mada in some manual training classes repaired and reconditioned in others students who have the best marks are rewarded by being made librarians to supervise the checking out of toys most of the 2000 students in this school come from underprivileged families with one toy the most thoy they have at home they are permitted to borrow one toy at a time ands and keep it a week their credit Is unlimited pr providing they return the toy in good condition A chicago toy library established by the park board in operation cooperation co with the prefers to have parents sign the borrowing cards this has an elaborate system of dis infecting the toys after each use |