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Show Spent for Recreation More than $14,000,000 was spent fot public recreation last year by cities In the United States and Canada, according ac-cording to (he Playground and Recre- i ation Association of America, which has just compiled the returns from a questionnaire on community play. This sum Is more than twice the amount spent for the same purpose ten years ago. In a total of GS0 cities reporting community recreation leadership, 66C conduct 6,.r91 playgrounds and recreation recrea-tion centers under paid leaders. In 190R, when Theodore Roosevelt and others organized the association, only 41 cities had playgrounds and recreation recrea-tion centers with paid leaders. Approximately 1.200,000 was the reported re-ported daily average of children and adults at the summer playgrounds of the country in 1023. This figure Is four times greater than the 1913 attendance. |