Playground Magazine
1926

(Two issues in their entirety)

Published monthly by the Playground and Recreation Association of America. Subscription $2 a year. Professional journal. Contains articles and advertisements, as well as photos. (Notes: Leisure, Home.)

March issue (pp. 641-693)

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Highlights:

The issue focuses on "wholesome" adult leisure (neighborhood recreation centers, the arts, paddle tennis, recreation and labor unions) for both whites and African Americans. (For African Americans and recreation, see especially the articles on pp. 651, 652, 657, 672, and 684.)

An important essay by Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover (p. 667), delivered originally before the 42nd International Convention of the Y.M.C.A.'s of North America, Washington, D.C., October 25, 1925, concerns the anxiety that increased wealth and decreased working hours potentially pose a moral danger to society.

Ad for Henry Ford's old-time orchestra recording on Victor Records (p. 641)

Ad for Patterson-Williams, a manufacturer of playground equipment, features the slogan "A child's principal business is play" (p. 686).

December issue (pp. 473-528)

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Highlights:

Focuses on leisure and the home, forms of recreation that promote the family.

Autobiographical essay on leisure and family life by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (p. 487)

Article on leisure and parks in a city setting (specifically, in New York City, p. 519)

A meeting of recreation professionals -- the administrative side of the movement (p. 497)

Article on "the vacation habit" and the need to exercise it in a healthy way, avoiding "energy wasted in hectic pleasures" (p. 518)

The 13th Recreation Congress (p. 479), which addressed the need to "slow down the jazz age environment" and cultivate "the wise use of leisure."

Article on leisure and the home that touches specifically on motion pictures (p. 496).