The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-09

, Of the camps 5 SVV, LiLlcN [ dlhSh Lee of North Carolina. A Village of Tents
 Each Housing Six Youths
 There are 40 brown army tents in an. Most of the equipment used and issued to the men is of war time vintage but serviceable. The tents have wooden floors. In each tent six men live. They have duffle bags, hanging from the center pole, and cross-afm of timber nailed to the center pole from which sus- pend numerous articles of clothing. An inverted, cone-shaped stove I is set in the middle of each tent with a stove-pipe from the small end of the cone leading out through the middle top of the tent. x The bottom of the cone rests in box of sand. Wood fires burn mornings and evenings and are allowed to shoulder out dur ing the day.
 We are supplied with canvas cots and straw ticks, which are comfortable after the body has packed down the straw At the front of the camp are a canteen. a headquarters build ing, the mess hall and cook shacks, and recreation hall. All of these buildings are of wood and were constructed by the men in the camp. Shale and rock has been used to make the grounds about the camp clear.
 Discipline Survives the
 Rockies Early Hardships New health and vigor has flow months-even years-of enforced idleness. Happy days are here again, in the estimate of nearly all of the "enlisted men" in camp. But all has not been sweetness and light.
 Rains, steady and soaking, have been the bane of the camps exis- tence. Brooks have repeatedly flooded bridges, water has soaked the tent floors time and again. Generally, discipline has been excellent. During the first few days of the camps life, when con tinued rain, sleet, and snow caused havoc throughout the camp and men were grumbling, even threatening, the experiment to some seemed doomed to failure. But with the resumption of clear | weather, most of the personnel
 have become contented. Sickness and Injuries
 Kept at Q Minimum
 | Sickness and well-nigh open rebellion were prevalent during the
 first week of the camp. Many of the men threatened and others l did leave. They complained con-
 tinuously. The weather was the worst imaginable. It not only pre- vented the men from doing any 1 work, but made the camp such q disagreeable place in which to live that all were badly discouraged.
 The camp doctor and his assist
 ants werc kept busy. One large
 tent is used as a hospital. An
 other is a dispensary.
 Several minor accidents have oc-
 cured. Probably the only serious
 case resulted from fall into a ra-
 vine when boy was precipitated
 to it's bottom from a hanging vine.
 His jaw and skull were fractured.
 However, he is reported we'll and
 able in a government hospital. 1 oAfy OHC OIiCi IlOoPitai SooO VI
 cured in the camp during the first few weeks since it has been opera
 ting. It was a case of stomach ul-
 cers, which had been apparent long
 before the boys enrolment. How
 ever. he too, was given government | treatment.
 The men are well cared for when ill. Some 20 cases of influenza
 broke out the first week of in-
 element weather. These cases were aggravated because the camp
 was not then prepared with any
 place dry and clean. However,
 they weathered the storm. and
 temperatures running as high as
 1O3 failed to result seriously. Sunshine works many wonders
 and it was but few days before
 the men were in good humor. The
 camp was in order. The work was well under way. Surly discontent
 disappeared.
 The sun drove away the clouds
 both in the camp and in the air.
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