PLAYING BALL IN THE ANDREW COMMUNITY CENTER, This center was formerly a bar-room and gambling dive. It was given to Community Service by Mr. Joseph Andrews, President of the Newport Steel Mills In this handbook have been brought together the experiences and best thought available on neighborhood and community theatres, children's theatres and other dramatic centers, the production of pagcants, the selection of plays and similar data. Classified lists of plays and similar material add greatly to the practical value of the booklet which will prove a mine of information to community groups interested in establishing a non-professional dramatic center. The booklet will be available at an early date. -So many rural workers have written us how much real practical assistance they have received from owning a copy of our new handbook, RURAL AND SMALL COMMUNITY that we believe you will be glad to know about it. Although small in size it contains a tremendous amount of material of practical value. Within its pages will be found many instances of ways in which other small communities have utilized their resources as well as suggestions for game programs, social evenings at the school house and at similar rural community centers, outlines of special holiday celebrations, detailed suggestions for conducting field days and play picnics, lists of plays and dramatic material. Copies at 50c each may be secured from COMMUNITY SERVICE NEW YORK CITY JANES MONTGOMERY TLAGG Father Knickerbocker says: If you want to know what the New York charitable organiza tions are doing, read Better Times BETTER TIMES is a new illustrated publication which reports the most important activities of the 2,000 New York charitable and public welfare organizations. It serves philanthropy in New York City as a trade paper serves business. BETTER TIMES will keep you informed of the latest phases of social work, including the activities of hospitals, schools, and settlements and the problems of Housing, Americanization, and Public Health. BETTER TIMES is not a commercial enterprise, but is published to help make New York a better place to live in. Herbert Hoover is chairman of the publication's Board of Advisors and Sponsors. Ten Issues, per year, $2.00 Better Times, Inc., 70 Fifth Avenue, New York: Send me BETTER TIMES for the coming year. I enclose $2.00 in payment. Name.. Address For Women Frances Musselman, Principal Established 16 yrs. TWO YEAR NORMAL COURSE FOR PLAYGROUND SUPERVISORS and Directors of Physical Education in all situations. Our graduates are filling the most responsible positions in the country. Chicago is the best place in the world to prepare for playground work as it affords opportunity to study the largest and most successful playgrounds systems in the world. Fine dormitory for non-resident students. REGISTRAR Box P. G. For catalogs and illustrated book address 430 South Wabash Ave. Community groups or individuals wishing suggestions for activities for social evenings will find in What Can We Do, published by Community Service, One Madison Avenue, New York City, an invaluable aid Games, stunts, mixers and activities for small and large groups are described in detail. No one who has this inexpensive publication which may be secured from Community Service for 25c will be at a loss for things to do. The American Physical Education Association WITH OVER 2000 MEMBERS IS PROMOTING HEALTH INSTRUCTION and HEALTH HABITS MEMBERSHIPS Regular Membership, $3.00 per year. Open to Physical Directors, Educational Administrators, Recreation Sustaining Membership, $10.00 per year. Open to Institutions and Individuals Wishing to Co-operate with Patrons, $500 per year. Any Individual or Institution May Become a Patron of the Asso- "The physical welfare of the child is of first importance in his development, not only for the body and the intelligence, but as an agency of the highest importance in moral training."-J. A. Churchill, Supt. Public Instruction, Oregon. The American Physical Education Association offers to its Write for further Information to J. H. McCurdy, M. D., 93 Westford Avenue, Springfield, Mass. |