Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — SEE VALUE OF PLAYGROUNDS [ARTICLE]

SEE VALUE OF PLAYGROUNDS

No Community Is Now Considered Complete Without Properly LaidOut Breathing Places. O ■ It is a fact which ought to beof intense interest to the people of this city that during one week the attendance of children at the public playgrounds of Charleston reached the unprecedented figure of 10,575. It is estimated that about 2,509 different childi>en visited and made use of the playgrounds during this period. That ought to give the people of the community a clearer idea than they have heretofore possessed of the immense value of the playground system and of the effectiveness of the system as it is being applied in Charleston. Probably a majority of the Charleston readers of this newspaper have not been aware all this time of the importance which the few playgrounds now available have assumed as a factor in the life of the children of Charleston. That these grounds have been made use of in one weekby something like 2,500 different children and that these children have resorted to the playgrounds so constantly and so regularly that the total attendance during the week has been over 10,500 are facts which furnish convincing proof of the value at these places of outdoor recreation.—Charleston News and Courier.