Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1932 — Page 10
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DEPRESSION IS FUN STIMULANT AT BROOKSIDE Children Seem More Active and Attendance Is Greater. Brookside park playground is one j > * those rare places where activity is greater because of the depression. Not only does the attend- j a nee promise to be greater this summer, but the children who swing, slide and play in the sand piles there seem to be more active When asked for the reasons for I this, Mrs. Desdemona Harryman, playground matron, replied: "There are more people who can not go out of the city on vacations this summer, so this is the best chance the children have for recreation. Because of unemployment, j more parents come here, too. The j children are more active, I imagine, ! because they can not afford so much candy and pop.” Agree With Him In agreement with these facts j was Miss Mary Elizabeth Search, I girls’ instructor, who with Mrs. j Harryman, must keep an eagle eye j on those children who insist on getting in dangerous places and positions. “We also see this year,” they went j on to explain, "more dogs without tax tags, and more children ; wearing old or torn clothes.” The playground opened last Wednesday, with the record crowd ' Sunday. Slides were packed, tiny hands kept construction work moving in the sand piles, and the swings were full all the time. The merit system, which again is j being used on the playgrounds this; year, is working out well at Brookside. For infractions of the rules, | which Mrs. Harryman stresses, ‘‘arc made by the city officials, and not by us,” the offender receiving a j black or “demerit.” Plan Busy Summer For certain good deeds the child receives merit marks and a sufficient j number of merit marks are reward- ; cd by a picnic or perhaps a ticket to a well-chosen movie. On schedule for the summer are ; several pageants 1 under the direc- j Lion of Mrs. Norma Koster, city playground supervisor, several sand ; pile contests or “sandcraft,” and! baseball games under direction of j Kenneth Payne, boys’ instructor. So j it's going to be a busy summer at 1 Brookside park playground.
CHILD SAFETY IS WATCHWORD Officials Always Strive to Eliminate Play Dangers. Indianapolis playground authorities have been busy erecting a high fence of safety measures, to prevent any child from being the victim of a serious accident at the public parks this summer. “The big problem about playgrounds is safety,” sajts H. W. Middlesworth, recreation director of the city park board. “To prevent accidents a crew will inspect each playground in the city every other day throughout the summer.” A general inspection is in progress today by a group consisting of Lieutenant Frank Owen, patrolman Timothy McMahon, H. W. Middlesworth, and Fred Mack, superintendent of shops. Every swimming pool is attended by life guards, and equipped with a filter system by which it is possible to renew the water three times in each twenty-four hours. Each pool is tested by the board of health at least twice a week. Most of the rules made for the instructors and matrons are safety measures. For instance, no child is permitted to use unfit equipment; no knives or dangerous articles are permitted on the grounds; no children are allowed to stand up in swings; hard baseballs or golf balls are not allowed on the grounds. And in case of accident, first aid equipment is always conveniently located for quick use. GIVE SWIM LESSONS Free Classes Are Held at Municipal Pools. Free swimming lessons are being offered at the municipal pools this summer. The classes which started Monday, June 20. with a large attendance, are in charge of the following instructors: Ellenberger pool, Marjorie Fowler; Willard, Lois Nelson; Garfield. Madeline Sander; Rhodius, Helen Hawkins. Francis T. Hodges, director of swimming and life saving for the American Red Cross, assists all the instructors. The Brink system of swimming is used at the pools. The learner, after first losing his fear of the water, is taught the fundamentals of the crawl stroke. After completing the course he is eligible to take the "beginners test” of the Red Cross society. FILM STAR WINS SUIT Barthelmess Gets Judgment of $62,672 in Stock Case. By l'Press LOS ANGELES, June 21.—Judgment of $62,672.91 was returned in favor of Richard Barthelmess, motion picture star, t>y a superior court jury Tuesday night. The judgment was directed against Barthelmess’ former busness agent, Dallas Squire, and the William Cavalier Company, brokerage firm. The actor sued Squire and the brokerage firm for $72,225, alleging Squire used his stock without permission. on margn transactions. Here's ali you have to do to win as much as 5100 in the TIMES SALES SLir Contest: 1. Save your sales slip. 2. Write 25 words. 3. Send them to us. Fatronzie TIMES advertisers'. They will APPRECIATE your patronage! And the Sales Slips may win you money!
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Announce Regulations for City's Playgrounds Here is a list of rules which the city playground officials have outlined for use of instructors at various parks, to guarantee the greatest amount of safety for children. To prevent misunderstandings, playground directors said the rules were made by the decreation department and not by the ground instructors. The rules: Inspect all equipment immediately when you come on the playground in the morning. All equipment unfit for use report to city hall and do not let children on it. " Have boy instructor or custodian rake tan bark back in place when it becomes scattered. Matron and instructors must divide the equipment among themselves. No dogs, knives or articles which are dangerous are allowed on playground. No hard baseballs or golf balls allowed on any part of the playground. Send all children home when ground is closed. No smoking or swearing on playground. No standing up in swings. No pushing of the large swings. No children over 6 allowed in baby swings. % Do not allow crawling up slide. No paper allowed on slide. No throwing of sand in sand box. The playground age for children is under 17. No bicycles allowed on playgrounds. Do not allow playing of indoor baseball near equipment. No gambling on playground. Allow no equipment out unless under supervision. Do not leave the playground when it rains. In case of accident, administer first aid and make report to city hall office.
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Charlotte Harter, Dorean Suitor, T rances Sullivan, Anna Corbin. Second Row—Rosemary Spragg, 'orothy Falvey, Frances Roberts, tary Beasley. Christina Vance, dice Swinford. Third Row Willis Barrett, 'ugene Benefiel, Harry McCrady, owell Hammil, Cecil Hensler, William Clouse. Fourth Row—Louise Larison. Mary Adams, Vivian Symmes, 4
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Wonder who started the first swings? Here are odds that it wasn’t many generations from Adam that some lad found that a couple of limp vines hung from a tall, shady tree, provided a thrill. We can't go back that far on personal testimony about swings, but we do know they’ve been a great boon to childhood for a long, long time. And no more appealing were they to us in our school days than to this group on the swings at Rhodius park. One girl's up, one girl’s back, and between them there half dozen others trying to reach their companions’ high rides. Thirteen months ago little Jerry Marek, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Marek, Lafayette Heights, didn’t think much about swimming pools. But then, thirteen months is a long, long time, and in her baby jargon Jerry will tell you that it’s just about her whole life. At any rate now she’s an enthusiastic visitor at Rhodius pool. And mind getting wet or splashed by others in the pool when her mother carries her out into the water? Not a bit. She’s got a happy gurgle for every drop that lands in her vicinity. Man first dug his home in caves in the ground and sides of mountains. Then he built houses. These two youngsters in the lower right picture have just reached the digging stage. In the background one has created a mound to hollow out. In the foreground another lad has dug pretty well into the shaded sandpit that is a summer haven to tots in the vicinity of Rhodius park.
Catherine Cordell, Louise Freije, Margaret Terhune. Fifth Row Ho,-ace Lathrop, Robert Thomas. Mack Dobkins, Luther Shackelford, Eugene Edwards, Charles Whitcomb. Sixth Row Stanley Hutton, Keith Haines. William Cox. Clifford Wellman, Robert Crouch, Gene Hesterberg. Bottom Row —James Buffington, Robert Buffington,
OPEN ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES AT PUBLIC PARKS Indoor Baseball Teams From All Sections Start Action. Athletic activities at the public parks open today with indoor baseball teams from the north, south, east and west parts of the city meeting opponents from the same sections. Throughout the summer there will be a number of indoor baseball games leading up to the semifinals at Perrys Stadium, Aug. 19. In charge of all indoor baseball and volley ball will be Robert Nipper of the city recreation department. Winner to Get Gup The junior teams, composed of boys under 14 years of age, play in the mornings of the scheduled days, and the seniors, composed of boys from 14 to 17, will play in the afternoons. The winning team in the finals will receive a cup donated by the Em-Roe Sporting Goods Cos., and a medal presented by the city recreation department. A medal will also be presented to the boy who has displayed the best all-round sporting spirit during the summer. Boys’ track and field activities will be in charge of J. C. Courtney. Plan Sectional Events Sectionals will be held for participants from the south side of the city at Manual Training high school and for those from the west side of the city at Washington high school on Aug. 5. Players from the east side will meet at Willard park on Aug. 8, and from the north side at Butler university stadium Aug. 10. The final track meet will be held at Willard park on Aug. 12. Girls’ track events are in charge of Ruth Emhardt. The dates for the track meets coincide with those of the boys’ meets.
SAND IS SOLUTION TO PLAY PROBLEM
Children Can Mould Polar Bears and Eskimos When It’s Hot. While their parents swelter in the sun this summer, little Oswald and Gwendolyn will be living in a land of Eskimos, poiar bears, seals and igloos. In fact, they will create all the animals and Eskimos they need to populate their icy world out of sand.! and paper torn into various shapes, at the sand piles at the city playgrounds this summer. And if too many cold shivers run down their 6-year-old spines they’ll just push their icebergs and igloos over and start creating a desert with pyramids and palm trees. And across the hot sands will dash paper Arabs on fiery steeds, made out of whatever material best serves the purpose. According to Norma Koster, public playground superviser, if the children are left to play in the sand and somebody takes more than his share of sand and space, a fight is likely to follow, with sand down everybody’s neck and in everybody’s hair. So ’’sandcraft,” with supervision by the instructor, and group projects, is primarily an answer to that difficulty. Miss Koster points out the advantages to the child of the use of these schemes. “They develop a child’s imagination,” she states, “teach him something of the customs and conditions of the land in which the project is laid, help him to co-operate with others, make him dextrous, and furnish a good playtime for very hot weather.” PLAY LEADERS TO MEET AT ‘CLEARING HOUSE’ Instructors Will Gather Once a W r eek to Discuss Problems, Like Everybody, instructors at the city playgrounds must have somewhere to iron out the difficulties that arise in their work. They will bring the problems that puzzle them and the particularly effective solutions they have found to other difficulties to a clearing house when they meet in the council chambers at the city hall each Saturday morning during the entire summer.
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GIRLS ARE ALLOWED ‘FREE PLAY PROGRAM’ They Can Select Favorite Games at City Playgrounds. The "free play program” will be followed in connection with girls’ athletic activities at the city playgrounds. “It is the system of permitting the girls the greatest amount of freedom possible in the selection of their athletics,” explains Miss Ruth Emhardt of the city recreation department. “It has been tried before during two or three summers; the children like it because of the freedom, and it has the parents’ approval, so it will be in effect again this summer.” Come on you Contest enthusiasts. If you want to get part of the SSOO that is going to be GIVEN AWAY, this is the easiest money you ever had a chance to win. Complete details in this paper today.
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Hoosier swimmin’ holes are somewhat different these days from the quiet pools that inspired James Whitcomb Riley to immortalize one of those boyhood havens in verse. And they’re much more populous, as evidenced by these two photographs, taken at the Rhodius park pool shortly after it was opened by the city. From the many steps of the diving tower in the deep end of the pool lithe forms flashed simultaneously through the air to knife the cool water below, just as the camera lens snapped. And then the photographer found himself at the other, the shallow end of the pool, where the non-swimmers played in water and on the slides. Down one slide came youngsters, each close behind the other. At the bottom there’s a big splash . . . and is it fun on the way down. Ask any one of the grinning faces you see in the lower picture. The average human body loses weight at the rate of one pound every eight hours by the evaporation of moisture through the lungs and the pores, and through exercise.
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PLAYGROUNDS HUM Attendance Heavy Since Opening Day. All city playgrounds, since their opening last Wednesday, have been attended by unusually large numbers of children. Among the playgrounds showing the largest attendance are Willard park with about 3,000 boys and 4.000 girls on the grounds Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week; Riley playground with 2,600 boys and 530 girls for the same three-day period; Brightwood playground with 1.700 boys and 2,000 girls, and Fall Creek playground with 1,254 boys and 400 girls. The swimming pools showing the largest attendance are McClure beach with 12,832 persons in the pool for the period from Wednesday to Sunday; Willard park with 8,928 for the same period; Garfield park, 7,143, and Ellenberger park, 6,481.
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