ABSTRACT
The Play-ground and Recreation Association of America employs field secretaries to tour the country and give advice in matters of organization. Many of the universities have opened special courses for the training of play leaders. The public attempt to gain adequate playing facilities for the people has appeared in England nearly twenty years later than in America. To get the full benefit from the playing fields and play-grounds supervision will be required. The provision of play-grounds and apparatus alone, however, has been proved to be inadequate ; the play must be guided. In every park or public play-ground a superintendent or leader is needed for the purpose. The work was encouraged by the allotment of municipal grants towards public play-grounds, and by the fact that the educational bodies combined with the Play-ground Association to further the movement.
