GIVE THEM A PLACE TO PLAY.
I’lent) of room for dives and dens (glitter and glare and sin), Plenty () f room for prison pens (gathei tlie criminals in), Plenty of room for gaols and cuuits (willing enough to pay). But never a place for the lads to race; no, never a place to play!
Plenty o( room for shops and stores (mammon must have tl\* best), Ph nty of room for the running sores that rot in tin* city's breast! Plcntx of room for the lures that lead the hearts ot our youth astray. But never a cent on a playground spent; no, never place to play !
Plenty of room for schools and halls, plenty of room for an : Plenty of room for teas and balls. platform, stage, and mart. Proud is the city she finds a plate for many a fad to-day. But she’s more than blind if she fails to find a place for the boys to play!
(»ive them a chalice foi innocent spoil, give them a chance for fun Better a playground-plot ihan a com* and a gaol when the harm is done! I live them .1 chance—if you stint them now, tomorrow you’ll have to pa\ A larger hill for a darker ill, so give them a place to play ! Denis A. McCarthy, in “The Journal of Education.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 289, 18 July 1919, Page 7
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223GIVE THEM A PLACE TO PLAY. White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 289, 18 July 1919, Page 7
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