We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
AMUSEMENT IX TOLEDO, OHIO 59 be kept up when an interruption occurs every few seconds. The facts which this little survey disclosed de- serve serious consideration. When so many chil- dren are found to be on the sidewalks it becom necessary to investigate very carefully to see what they are getting- there. It seems entirely possible that the pointless ''fooling'' may lead directly to the btill more unprofitable "loafing" which is so com- mon, especially in the vicinity of corner drug stor and pool rooms, in the long evening hours. At one corner a group of boys was observed nearly every pleasant evening during the summer. The sole business of these bovs seemed to be making com- ments on the passers-by. They usually gathered before 7 o'clock and often staid until after 10 in the evening. It hardly seems possible that any live American boy could have endured the monotony of such a procedure, yet the same condition prevails in many parts of the city. When so many children loaf upon the streets and so few seem to be inter- ested in active, constructive games or occupations, it seems timely to take heed of Jacob Riis' warning —"Street corners and alleys develop bums, tramps and ruffians." Mr. E. B. DeGroot. who recently made a recrea- tion survey of many cities in the country, calls at- tention to the general us of the street as a play- ground, and follows it with the statement, "Play and loafing upon the street nullify the cultural ef- fect of the school. Bad manners, vile language, the development of cunning, and of disrespect for law,