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THE MAN OF THE MONTH
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homburg welcoming Lord Halifax to Kansas City; spading earth to dedicate new play-fields; initiating improvements at the Swope Park Zoo; forcing the Park concessionaire to reduce the price of pop from a dime to a nickel (nobody cares much that it is 15c a bottle, nowadays); installing a train as a kiddie-ride in Swope Park; putting baby ducks on the lake in Loose Park at Easter and giving them to Mercy hospital when fat and full-grown at Thanksgiving.
"Cleaning up" the lax business practices of Park Board machine-appointed employees was the first order of business — leading June into many a bitter fight. Under his administration, William Cully was appointed as Zoo-keeper, with resulting savings to the city of 50% on food bills for the animals. June had the idea for open animal pits and development of a veldt at the Zoo— ideas capably executed by Cully. To procure a modern swimming pool for Swope, Moore obtained a $250,000 W.P.A. appropriation, plus $25,000 of city money. He visited every big municipal pool in America to get ideas for design. Prior to the closing of the pool last summer as a result of race-problem arguments, the city had more than received its money back from fees paid by swimmers.
At Loose Park, there were difficulties about the picnic ovens, resolved only after Mrs. Jacob L. Loose, who gave the land to the city in memory of her husband, had changed her ideas and wanted to permit ovens on the grounds. Mrs. Loose loved that park; and the ducks; and the ovens — and used to keep a watchful eye on
activities there with the aid of binocu' lars, from her apartment window in the Walnuts across Wornall Road a block away. If she saw a picnic she thought she'd enjoy, she joined the picnickers! Matters of conduct in the Park were discussed by the Park Board members at her apartment, over cocktails — with LooseWiles biscuits served as hors d'oeuvres.
There were arguments with Park Board members and city officials over "playgrounds" and "play-fields," too. "A playground," says Moore, "is any place a supervisor supervises kids at play. A play-field is a permanent facility of ten acres or more, where children and their elders engage in sports of their own free-will, unregimented." Moore feels rather strongly about supervised play. "When it is not organized, it is recreation," he says. "When it is supervised, it tends to become regimented — and regimentation is the Nazi philosophy."
THE story of Moore's effort in behalf of the Starlight Theatre was told in Swing, June, 1951:
"As president of the Park Board, Moore got interested when the Board in 1943 wanted to build a $10,000 band shell in Swope Park. Moore brought Edward Buehler Delk into the picture as architect. And the first thing they discovered was that outdoor musicals were a bigger attraction in many cities than band or orchestra concerts. But you couldn't stage such productions in a band shell! However, if an outdoor stage suitable for theatricals were built, a portable band shell could easily be placed on such a stage. That idea did it!
"When Moore resigned from the Park Board in 1945, he was made chairman of the outdoor theatre com