Evening star., 1933-05-03
BY WILLIAM w. CHANCE.
staff Correspondent Of The Star.


CAMP ROOSEVELT, George Wash
ington National Forest, Page County,
Va, May $50 anxious were many OF
the youths in this forestry camp to get
Jobs that they are donating large por-
tions of their $50 monthly salary to
families and charities in which they
have no real interest.
One of these Good Samaritans' Is
w. H. Remkin, Pittsburgh man, who
claims he is under the age limit of Is,
hut looks 80. Remkin, who is the camp
funny man, enrolled in the Civilian
Conservation Corps in Washington.
Here's the way he tells the story:
They told me I'd have to give at
least $40 of my pay to needy Wash
ington family when I applied at a
charity organization for an applica-
ton for this mans army.
well said to the man. if give
$40 to somebody, I'd still be making $40
a month more than I am now, so sign
me up
The charity people picked out
family with IL kids. The father is a
painter, but can't find anything to paint.
IOKd the donation to them, figuring
that any man who can raise IL kids
ought to get a reward.
80 here am, paying $40 month
for the privilege Of working, and my
own family in Pittsburgh needing the
by the way, you can't find a job for
that painter, can you?"
Other Similar Gases.
The company clerk, who keeps the
files or who's who and where the money
goes, said Remkin's case is duplicated
many times.
Most of these fellows have been out
of work so long that S. or $40 a month
and their keep is like godsend," said
the clerk. ANY number of them wrote
off their money to charities in cases
where families could not be picked i'm
mediately."
A North Carolina youth is representa-
tive of the latter class. Although he is
one of 13 children and his family, farm
folk. is in Strengthened circumstances
back home, he cheerfully gave his
money to Washington charity.
II been out of steady work for more
than a year." he drawled, 'and heard
about this here C. c. c. back in Rich
mond, where I was hunting a job.
Three years ago I was married and
happy, had a good job in Atlanta, Ga,
and was buying home and had car.
Then my boss was replaced and I got
fired. My trouble started.
Il sent my wife back to her folks in
Petersburg, Va, and started looking for
job. Man, hunted all over the
South, riding freights and hitching
in O soldiers hospital in Roanoke, Va.
That Just suited me fine, cause it was
close enough to Petersburg so could go
over and visit my wife"
Divorce Follows.
But when he went to visit his wife
he found out she had been running
around with lawyer"
lone day." he continued, II got of
for the week end and went over to see
her About half a block from her
drive away. So, when I went in. I
asked when she had seen him last. She
said, not for over MONTH told her
she was lying. told her I never wanted
to see her again, wanted a divorce.
"She said she never would have done
me that way but I never sent her
money, and she wanted to dress up.
I couldn't send her money, I didn't
have it to send. But we split up, any
way, and she got the divorce"
He said after the breakup he had
drifted from place to place, finally
ending up in jail, doing time for some
thing somebody else should have been
caught for" 1t was after he had been
released from the Jail, in Alabama, that
he went to Richmond and then into
Washington
Two South Carolina boys also are CIV
ing their money to charities they prob
ably never heard of before. The boys,
each about 19, joined the c. c. G. after
a wild ride on freights from their home
at Lotta, during which they were shot
at twice by railroad police and finally
arrested in Alexandria.
THE police in Alexandria are the
ones who suggested this forestry bust
ness" said one of them. Lloyd and I
just got notion to go up North and
look for job. So we hoped freight
going through town, along with col
ored fellow we both knew.
Down in North Carolina, we switched
trains. Just as was getting on last,
saw Nose hop off and start running.
thought maybe we was on the wrong
train, then I saw Lloyd leaving in a
hurry.
Dodges the OfficerS
1.-THE reason was a big railroad Off
Ger. I looked up and he was standing
over me, pointing gun into the bushes
where the other two were running. !
knew 1t wouldn't do me any good to
run, so jest sidled over out of his
sight, then ducked behind bush. The
police started firing. don't know
whether it was at me or at the others.
Anyhow, he didn't hit any of us.
The same thing happened in Alex
andria, only there we got caught. And
maybe it IS good thing, cause here we
are now, both in the same tent, and
both of us with jobs"
A New York college man, who spent
four years studying for job only to
learn he couldn't find one, donated $40
of his $50 month to a church char
ity in the Capital.
But, on the other hand. there Is an
other college man, Washingtonian,
who is enlisted in the conservation
corps simply to get in condition to be
a wrestler"
Ever since I finished up at George
town I've been sleeping in the mornings
until 10 or IL o'clock. That softens
you up, you know" he added, glancing
critically at his hefty body.
Then my sister found out about this
reforestation army and here am" He
swung sledge. hammer at a pile of
rock, then added: "Six months of this
ought to put me in fine trim; maybe
I could get in good enough condition