Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — Pictures In Parks. [ARTICLE]

Pictures In Parks.

Before anybody comes forward with the suggestion that the park commissioner’s plan for “moving pictures” in the parks or playgrounds Is whimsical or that it would involve the city in extravagance it is to be hoped that the proposition will be studied from all Its aspects. The most extravagant course a city can pursue is to permit Its children to go wrong. There are the public schools, of course; but despite the existence of these safeguards there are large numbers of sadly unschooled children in the city—children whose parents appear to lack either the ability or the will to attract young people’s interests. Anything the city can do to attract the Interest of these children in harmless or wholesome things Is well worth doing. Children who are Interested in moving pictures are not contemplating mischief of any kind. Young people who are capable of realizing that the city is interested tn them are sure to become Interested in the city, if they are endowed with normal reasoning power.—St Louis Times.