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COPY OF LETTER SENT TO STATE RECREATION CHAIRMEN

February 28, 1941

ALL ABOARD!13

Last year we carelessly used the heading “ALL ASHORE" for our Annual Report
letter. Some of you forgot you were crew signed up for the voyage and went ashore.
In other words, you sent in no Annual Reports. Hence the call this year of ALL ABOARD,
and the fervent hope that every one of you will send in a report no matter how meager
it may seem to you. In the broadest sense, what the national chairman is interested
in is very simple, that is, What are the evidences of parent-teacher participation
in recreation growth and advance in your state during the year? No matter from what
source you get the evidence. Are there any human interest stories that would inspire
other states? What are your problems, and what helps do you need? If you just write
an informal report on that simple basis it will enable us to present a picture to
the National Board. For those of you who like to check or to have suggested topics
I am enclosing a list of these. You will recognize them.

THE NATIONAL REPORT IS BEING ASKED FOR E:RLIER THIS YEAR
SO MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TO GET YOUR REPORT IN BY APRIL 15.

DEFENSE

It seems to your national chairman that probably the most difficult and
the most needed job that we have to do in all this talk and preparation for defense
is defense of the spirit and morale of our children and our homes -- an everlasting
alertness to leave nothing undone that will contribute to emotional stability and
sanity, At the same time there are definite needs that are arising, and definite
jobs in which we have a real stakes This has been set forth in the Statement on
Defense of the National Congress Executive Committee which I beg of you to read care-
fully and to use as your guide. One word of warning: Don't rush off and begin
making surveys until you find out what others are doing; don't waste strength in
duplication,

 

There is one other point I would like to make, and that is, the importance
of teamwork. In parent-teacher work we are accustomed to "gang up” with each other
and other agencies in the community for the common welfare of all. It seems to me
that one of the rich things we should get out of this preparation for defense is a
new, real democracy of spirit, a fresh sense of the intrinsic worthwhileness of each
individual, and a sense of interdependence and cooperation and a unified approach to
this whole job.

You will be interested in a bulletin prepared by Miss Bernice Moss, former
Utah Recrestion chairman. This and the Defense Statement are being sent direct
from headquarters.

Do not hesitate to write your national chairman for helpsyou hope or feel
he should be able to give yous HE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOUR ANNUAL REPORT ON APRIL
15. Best wishes,

Sincerely yours

Je We Faust
Enc. National Chairman ,Committee on Recreation

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