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Show SINGING AND SPEAKING IN OGDEN. There Is a movement on in many cities cit-ies to establish "community service," the purpose of which Is to gue to :he reople wholesome entertainment and recreation. Wilmington, Delaware, has "Community "Commu-nity Service." which was inaugurated in this manner To discover what interests all the people had in common questionnaires v, ere sent out by thousands Everyman Every-man and woman in the slty, ;n shop, factory, or business place was requested request-ed to give name, address, occupation, nationality, church or club affiliation, and the activities he or she would be Interested in having promoted. The questionnaire cards rhowed requests for the organization of tennis, swimming, swim-ming, basket ball, baseball, dancing. dramatics, and dozens of other forms of recreation. School centers, factory club centers, playgrounds, nnd all sorts of available space in and outdoor out-door were requisitioned. Supervised play and game sessions for young children mu school children rnd recreation for older people were started. The high school gymnasium, I.,,- Ik., flr-el (r If o klan thrown open and u.ed as an athletic recreation club Baseball clubs and other athletic diversions were to popular popu-lar among the boys of school and factory fac-tory that an athletic director was brought in, and novs there are Inn r-factory r-factory as well as inter scholatlc t.th-letlc t.th-letlc leagues. An industrial center park has been turned into a play field. The 12,000 Italians, 16,000 Spaniards, I and the almost equally large numbers (of Poles. Lithuanians, Russians, and other peoples, live for the most part in districts by themselves An Amen-zation Amen-zation settlement alreadj existed, and .hi Italian settlement house. The organisation or-ganisation Of a Spanish club was onS of the first community activities anions; loi , i.. . and other : in li or I ganizations followed. Already the Italian orchestra (made up of Italian union barbers), has made an excellent contribution to community entertainment. entertain-ment. Recently an international sing, conducted by the communi'y song lead er, brought together the various peoples peo-ples In a comraunlty-oized prog am. A colored orcanizer, with the aid of local colored lenders, includlnc the Clergyman, has established fifteen neighborhood centors and clubs whose Lnterests range from baseball to sewing. sew-ing. Dances, homo portles, church and i school center parties, piencs alnd out of-door entertainments have been .-larie,!. Public forumr brine the pen pie together weeklv for discussion of I Hielr nnol Ogden Is in need of "Community Service." although this ePy has none of the complex prob'ems of n placo of the mixed population cf Wilmington. In the wpfit we are not keenly alive to the fact that this country has a big foreign element yet to be assimilated, and when we get figures on the makeup make-up of the population of the larger eastern cities, we are astounded. Think cf Wilmington with 15 000 Spaniards a people almost unknown to this conn try up to twenty years ago, except on th( Pacific coast where Spanish blood j was represented In the Mexican set- I lenient It is not surprising th.it emphasis is being placed on Americanization nnd "Community Seivlce" s being -m-ployed to properly direct those alien I masses. Ogden has made one or two efforts at community singing, bui the uplift mg work should be constantly pre. ent. in wlntt r the public forum should be : promoted, and in summer Ogden i hould have street speakers, devoting their time to subject of interest, What could be more enter'jiinlng tc those who gather at the city hall par!, during e delightful summer evening than a j talk on astronomy by one well informed? in-formed? There arc a dozen different subjects which wou'cl hold the attention atten-tion of the great body of the people in their hours of leisure and prove helpful. help-ful. nrt |