Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1919 — PLAY PARKS TO FOLLOW WAR [ARTICLE]

PLAY PARKS TO FOLLOW WAR

Splendid Idea Which Has Arisen In Canada Might Welf Be Emulated in This Country. Play parks for children, which will stand for all time as peace memorials, will be established in all the principal cities of Canada if plans of the Ottawa Horticultural society, supported by the Ottawa playgrounds association, are carried out. The purpose of the parks will be: “To help make impossible for coming generations the reality of another w T ar; to hold up for emulation for all time that spirit of unselfishness which stirred those of this generation and enabled them to secure for mankind the advantages of peace; and to encourage all those who enjoy the first fruits of peace to dedicate to the ideals of civilization a memorial which shall have the significance of a guaranty that life in the future shall have a fuller measure of joys and rewards.” The parks, according to plans, wdll enable children to enjoy summer and ■winter sports and recreations. They will be centers for holding annual peace celebrations. In them some memorial will be erected —a tablet, perhaps—on which will be recorded each year some of the dominant benefits peace has conferred Upon the world.