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produce *the good works to correspond, the
accomplishment you have underlined. Did we
not see with our own eyes some of them already
begun and well advanced—wide and pleasant
areas in the illimitable outskirts, such as a
thousand-year city may not dream of possessing,
in process of conversion, under the technique
you recommend, into playgrounds for the body
and gardens for the soul; municipal golf courses,
we forget how many, and the newly-created
Zoological Parks where an elephant, a camel, a
tiger and a pair of buffaloes, sullen but acquiescent,
have already arrived, the vanguard of a complete
Noah's Ark procession now on order. Not so
bad for a city 43 years old! Judge nothing in
America by the point at which it has arrived.
Judge all things by the direction in which they
are moving.

In confirmation of which important principle,
the following table of expenditures on organized
recreation by " the more progressive cities of the
class of Oklahoma City " will be found to have
some value, as well as an interest of its own.

Expenditures for
Organised
Recreation
Name of City Population alone (1930)

Ft. Worth, Texas ... 160,892 $79>987-53

Youngstown, O. ... 170,004 $145,270.16

Hartford, Conn. ... 163,818 $64,850.00