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Author of Democracy and Social Ethics
Newer Ideals of Peace, etc.
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1930
Copyright, 1909,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1909
Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO MY DEAR FRIEND
WITH SINCERE ADMIRATION FOR HER UNDERSTANDING
OF THE NEEDS OF CITYCHILDREN AND WITH WARM
APPRECIATION OF HER SERVICE AS PRESIDENT
OF THE JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
OF CHICAGO
Much of the material in the following pages has appeared in currentpublications. It is here presented in book form in the hope that itmay prove of value to those groups of people who in many cities aremaking a gallant effort to minimize the dangers which surround youngpeople and to provide them with opportunities for recreation.
Nothing is more certain than that each generation longs for areassurance as to the value and charm of life, and is secretly afraidlest it lose its sense of the youth of the earth. This is doubtlessone reason why it so passionately cherishes its poets and artists whohave been able to explore for themselves and to reveal to others theperpetual springs of life's self-renewal.
And yet the average man cannot obtain this desired reassurance throughliterature, nor yet through glimpses of earth and sky. It can come tohim only through the chance embodiment of joy and youth which lifeitself may throw in his way. It is doubtless true that for the mass ofmen the message is never so unchallenged and so invincible as wh