Evening star., 1933-09-24
S2O0,010,0DO SET
!: AS COST OF c. c. c.
Estimate includes Second
! Six Months Period to
! Open in October. ~

With the administration preparing to
launch the Civilian Conservation Corps
on its second six-month period in Octo-
Der, officials yesterday estimated total
cost between S2o0,OO0,00O and $780,
100000 to American taxpayers in
maintaining these 350.000 men in forest
camps for the full year.
For five months: up to the end of
August, the Civilian Conservation Corps
has poured a steady stream of about
$20,000,000 a month into the channels
of business, industry and public relief.
Robert Fechner. director of Emergency
Conservation Work, estimates that
nearly $4,000 persons are benefting
directly from allotment checks sent to
dependents of forest recruits and
workers.
The most conservative estimate of the
cost of maintaining the .440 camps of
the c. C.. C. Is placed at S93 900 900 up
to August 81. Due to delay in receiv-
ing records from distant points, accu-
rate compilations are impossible. Based
on available figures, however it is rea-
scnably certain the total cost of opera
tion for the first six months will ap-
proach $4,000, ,000
Put Back Into Circulation.
More than nine-tenths of the funds
expended on behalf of the C. C. c.. it
was claimed. is being put back imme-
diately in circulation throughout the
country.
At the head of the gigantic force of
disbursing officers necessary to admin
lister these funds is Maj. Gen. F. w.
Coleman, chief of finance of the Army.
BY utilizing the existing machinery of
the Army. possibly millions of dollars
in administration costs have been saved.
Gen. Coleman said the cost Of admin
1stering the finances of the c. c. c. is
one-tenth of l per cent. Figured on
an expenditure of s2O0.0O00O0 for the
year, the total expense of handling this
huge relief sum will be mere 5000 900.
BY working his staff overtime at
high pitch of enthusiasm for the job,
Gen. Coleman has had to employ only
a small number Of temporary pay
reservists.
S40,G00,000 for Equipment.
Official figures show purchases of
materials, including foodstuffs. equip
ment and clothing for the conserva-
ton corps program had injected more
than $40, 1000, 900 during the first five
months into industrial, manufacturing
and business channels. Expenditure of
these funds has aided in stimulating
business. it was said, and in improving
indutrial conditions Another So 600 900
has gone to the railroads for transpor-
tation
These purchases of equipment. food
and clothing will be duplicated during
the next six months of the C. c. c.
In transporting discharged forest re-
crults to their homes and others to
I< Lo %,I -
snare in another S8,0000 900 before the
job Is done.
With the c. c. c. preparing to dig
In Tor the Winter, the center of its
population will shift fro mthe Pacific
Coast and Northwest to the South, Mid
die West and East where fewer camps
have been maintained during the first
enlistment period. There is expected to
be maintained about the same number
OF camps. This shifting program will
necessitate the construction of hun
dreds OF new camps and purchase of
much new equipment with a result that
additional millions of dollars will be
made available for industry.
$4,000 on Pay Rolls.
Director Fechner said that the
monthly pay checks of the C. C. C. 90
out to 350,000 persons, including 240,-
OUO recruits, 10000 experienced forest
ers, $4,000 war veterans and 10000 su-
pervisors and civilians needed at the
camps.
On August 81 ss,75o,ooo was paid
out in checks to forest recruits and
their dependents. Of this amount,
S7,50O,000 went direct to their families,
and to that extent helped the relief
situation in hundreds of communities.
More than S33,O0O,OOO had been issued
up to that time. it was said, in allot-
ments and salaries.
Reports from individual States Fech-
ner claims, indicate how these cash al
lotments sent home by the men of the
Civilian Conservation Corps have lifted
the public relief burden.
In Kansas, for example, 3.693 men
are enrolled in the camps They con-
tribute to the support of 1888 families.
or an estimated 1854 dependents. By
SO doing they have subtracted S47,644
from the public relief budget.
Figures for New Jersey show 1862
men in camps. which means a total
allotment Of S199,050 a month to de-
pendent families. What is being done
IN these States is being duplicated,
more or less, in each State.