Excerpt from A Public Recreation System for Newark: Suggestions and Recommendations Newark needs a complete public recreation system. The Board of Education, Park Commission and Playground Commission are doing all they can, under present conditions and limitations, each in its own field. Their work for recreation should he united and generously supported. Ample recreation facilities properly controlled are absolutely essential to the making of a healthy, law-abiding and efficient city. Recreation is simply the wise use of hours of leisure. Homes can not provide for this use. Schools can not, though by a wider use of their buildings they can greatly help. The city can furnish supervised play for only $2.50 to $4.00 per year per child, while school training costs $30 and up. Our present parks can not provide for wise use of leisure. They are nut enough in number; they are not centrally located. Some of our congested wards are as populous as full grown cities; the cities have many parks, while, these congested wards have none! The parks are not equipped For all-year recreation and they are closed to play on Sundays. Churches and societies can not provide for wise use of leisure. By a wider use of their respective plants they can help. Commercial bodies and industrial corporations can help a little; and they do more and better work in this line each year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.