4 JUNE 1927, Page 3

We publish elsewhere an article on the appeal of the

National Playing Fields Association, which aims at bringing its funds up to £1,000,000. The ideal is that every child should have somewhere to play besides the Street or the open road. A magistrate said. the other day : " My heart goes out to those boys who come before me for playing football in the street, for I can scarcely keep my feet from the ball myself. . . . The very best material for citizenship is contained in the boys who err in this way." The deplorable shortage of playing fields for poor children all over the country tilts the balance against the poor more visibly than any of the other differences between the classes.