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Show Wm Expert Arrives To JH Play Jolly Games (fl With Ogden Children, KjH I' "With the arrival of Miss Josephine f" ' Randall, play expert? and leader in pastlmo club work, the first of the alms of the local Community Service Workers is reached," said John Edward Ed-ward Carver last evening In speaking of the announcement or organized grass play for the children of Ogden. "For six months we have been working work-ing and planting for renewed community com-munity activities and each time we ncared the goal something happened to intervene. Now we can hardly realize real-ize that we really have a worker of almost national prominence here to give us her entire time for an Indefinite Indefin-ite period, but such Is the fact. "What . Is of added encouragement we will have another national worker here ' this week to givo still more aid to ' local community work. Mr. Darbney, ! who has had the work in Portlr.nd In charge and has made a marked success of it will spend much of the eummer here In actlvo work. "Moreover, Mr. Bradford, a Utah boy, who Is the acknowledged song leader of the entire country and who was placed In charge of the national community singing by the government during the war period Is promised from Now York for a song festival right here In Ogden this summer too. It looks very good right now for Community Com-munity Service in Ogden. Want Ogden Women. "Miss Randall graduated from . Leland Stanford in 1912, where she was a member of tho Siga XI sorority. soror-ity. It is hoped that there will bo ' ' several womon in Ogden who desire to take a course in pjajleadej-shlp., Miss Randall ""will "givo tnem"Vh"e same training she has given in San Francisco Fran-cisco and San Diego and more recenrly in Sacramento. This course will cm-brace cm-brace Instruction and demonstration in the following: j "Plays and games. i "Practical conduct of playground activities. ac-tivities. "Practical play ground demonstration. demonstra-tion. "Organization and management o play grounds and rooms. "Community pastime activities and club work. "This work will commence the first day of July. It will all bo outdoor work the classes if any meeting out of doors, and there will be no foe whatever. what-ever. Tho only requirement Is that those who attend be regular and fairly prompt. Tho training will be of real value to all who have any work to do with children, and mothers have found It of assistance in other cities. Moreover More-over there Is some opportunity of advancement ad-vancement for a few who wish to make play leadership a life work. Cities are finding It Impossible to secure se-cure enough young men and women, who have had any training to supervise super-vise grass play and the demand la growing rapidly." Opportunity on Wednesday.1 "There will bo opportunity for thoso Interested to meet Miss Randall Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The play on City and Lester parks will commence Thursday tho first of July. The children will be taught a constructive course of grass play, but for them it Is fun of the purest and most fascinating type. There is no fee for this but regular attendance Is asked. In tho coast cities the grass play hours under Miss Randall have been so attractlvo that children have beon turned away for gant -9yC j.pmAft;en JlnMthtupar Its. - Tho gamcs"are open free to all children who will attend regular nnd there is a- much healthy instruction In the hour? as there Is mirth and fun and that Is saying a whole lot. Tho play hours commence Thursday and the hour and placo will be announced Wednesdav." |