Show S SPORTS P 01 P T S AND PLAY REPLACE POLICE AND JAIL I 1 e IN DRIVE TO SAVE YOUTH FROM CRIME CRIK AN z vi 11 C CHICAGO sports equipment instead of the club ind and play areas in place of jails comprise the newest approach to the problem of combating juvenile crime and general moral disintegration municipal recreation leaders of chicago are saying it with ice skating skiing and other outdoor sports and badminton table tennis and similar games for indoor recreation in their winter program of winning youth from waywardness speaking before the recent conference of the chicago recreation commission Hor homera rainey director of the american youth commission of the national council of education stated that the country is filled with young men and young women out of school and out of work who have time on their thein hands and nothing to do othere there are youths between the ages of 16 and 25 who are idle even those who are employed have shorter work periods and longer spare hours than for merly satisfying recreation there A v fore becomes a problem for young folk and an item of consideration for the socially minded on a par with education health and employ m ent 11 chicago is meeting the problem with steadily expanding recreation facilities for young and old in addition to the regular ice skating rinks the municipality has converted vacant lots into rinks is s encouraging skiing and other outdoor outs winter sports and providing indoor play places for badminton table tennis ping pong and other healthful recreation six hundred vacant lots were converted into playgrounds during the past year municipal authorities and social workers believe the play program will do more to reduce crime than thereat e 1 reat ot of the emans club and jail A the the national sports council established to operate cooperate co in the extension of more health building play by all age groups will aid municipalities pali ties in i their recreation slon sion programs j t ic i c r afi J as where he has been employed he had to come from the highway on horseback |