PLAY THE REAL LIFE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1189, 26 July 1911, Page 11

PLAY THE REAL LIFE.

The right to play is more important and fundamental than is the right to go to school (says an American writer). Without education, the child may grow up healthy, good, and happy. Without playj he will be none of these. In every juvenile court the most common offence which children are accused of committing, against the majesty of the law is that of playing ball when and where they should not do so. Despite the millions of dollars spent the sum has not been adequate to provide playgrounds tor tue children. We demand a seat in school for every child. The time will soon bo here when wo will, as a matter of fundamental right, provide play space adequate to the needs of every child.

The greatest obstacle to tho -progress and development of. the playground movement is the discontinuity of memory. Few persons over thirty remember the feelings, thoughts, and motives which governed them when they were ten. Childhood has to most persons become a closed book. Most adults think of play as rest and recreation. They can no longer remember that play is life to the child, and that a qhild, playing intensely, needs rest and recreation as much as anyone. Wβ keep thinking of play as a by-actiyity, whereas play is the real life. It is school work, and tasks in general, that are the by-activities. Play is the main business of lifo to the child. IS is this which engages his passionato devotion 'and every atom of strength at his command. Play is to the child what ''intense,! absorbing work is to tho adult.' Not until wo get and keep this point of view will play and playgrounds lave for us their real meaning and message.

•It is necessary that every child shall have a place to play as that every child shall have a place to go to school. Wo must map the city, show where the children are, and then provide adequately for them. One playground may be useful as a demonstration, but it is not a solution, nor anywhere near a solution, of the whole problem. That is like one splendid meal a week: good so far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. Communities deceive themselves exceedingly iv hen, in providing playgrounds, jpen-air classes, and even food, they.do not take into , account that word "adequate." A city will report that it has playgrounds, and will feel that it is meeting the need's of tho situation, when in reality the provision will accommodate only one out of a hundred that need the playground. This is true to-day in most of our large cities. There are not playgrounds enough—not nearly enough.

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