STATE'S RESPONSIBILITY TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

The article discusses the state's responsibility to local communities. Recreation as a function of state government is not new. The expanding use of state parks and forests for recreation, game-preserve regulations, hunting and fishing privileges, and camping facilities offer abundant evidence to substantiate state responsibility. It is argued that the state needs to manage authorities to cope with the growing field of community recreation in all of its aspects. In the urgent need to give recreation official status and prestige, there is increased evidence to favor the establishment of separate state agencies to do the job. A separate and independent agency can give full thought and attention to its responsibilities and duties. It is expected that recreation be recognized as an essential force in the life of the people of the state and be found in proper proportions and correlated with community organization. The state's responsibility to local communities is to assist in bringing more abundant and wholesome recreation to the masses of the people.