Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1917 — Parks for All the People. [ARTICLE]

Parks for All the People.

The parks belong to all the people and should be so conducted that all will feel that a genuine welcome and variety of entertainment, - comfort and pleasure await them in every park. They should be made so attractive to the general populace that hundreds will flock there to where now the individual “flocks” in loneliness. Some parks are planned and planted as though they possessed an attitude, one of extreme austerity, seeking, to overawe the visitor and curb his natural exuberance. These cold and uninviting, Inhospitable parks should have introductions of bright flowers, tennis courts, swings, teeter-boards, sand boxes,, seats, arbors, picnic grounds, music, etc., and thereby become attractive to their owners —the public at large.—Exchange.