Evening star., 1933-07-03
FOREST WORK HELD
! BIG AID TO IDLE.
Gave Army Quick Experience
IN Mobilization, Fech-
ner Finds.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
It's director finds that the Civilian
Conservation Corps Is helping to Grip
pie Old Man Depression, besides giving
the army some quick experience in
mobilization.
That was the report Robert Fechner
submitted to the President, saying that
Mr. Roosevelt's program for the en-
rollment of 274.375 by July had been
carried cut. Parenthetically, Fechner
added that "the mobilization Of this
quarter Of a million young men for
forest duty has gone long way to-
ward breaking the back Of the depres-
sion"
Appended to the statement Of prog
ress was War Department report that
the mobilization provided the most
valuable experience the Army has had
since the World War"
$4,000 Veterans Selected.
The workers, Fechner said, were
taken from every township in the Ma
ton, and now are located in 1900
camps, sprinkled throughout every State
except Delaware. Twenty-Five thousand
war veterans also have been selected,
and soon will move into the Conserva-
ton Corps camps.
Four Government departments-War
Labor, Agriculture and Interior-co-
operated and worked at top speed,
Fechner said, to carry out the program
on schedule.
The War Department. he said. en-
listed and transported to camps during
the three months since the forestatio
program was initiated more men than
were mobilized by the department
during the first three months of Ameri-
can participation in the World War.
BY July /, 1917, the department had
modified 117,00O men in the Regular
Army, $4,000 in the National Guard
and 5000 in the National Army-a total
of 181 900.
SS5,000 q Day for Food.
The Army Quartermaster Corps Is
charged with feeding, clothing, shelter
ing and transporting the workers. Full
use is being made of existing Army
stocks. The Army spends approxi-
mately $4,000 daily In handing to the
forest workers the same food given
Regular Army soldiers Beef from $50
steers is used daily. Bread consump-
tion totals nearly 225,o00 one-pound
loaves a day.
The report of Col. Duncan K. Major
tr., War Department representative on
the Eme1 gency Conservation Work
Council. which was included by Techner
in his statement to the President, said
THE mobilization of the Civilian
Conservation Corps with time as the
essential element in the execution Of
the task has been the most valuable
experience the Army has had since the
World War 1t has tested the organi-
zation of the War Department and of
= the corps areas in responding to q
mission very similar to mobilization for
war"
Faith Declared justified.
Fechner told Mr.. Roosevelt his faith
In the Civilian Conservation CORPS
project has been more than justified"
adding:
Young men who never had a lob
and whose morale was at q low ebb
have been taken from the distress Of
the family circle and the perils Of the
street corner to the helpful environ
ment Of the forest camp, and given the
satisfaction Of being well fed, and do
ing an honest days work. They have
been given chance Overnight they
have become contributors to the family
needs to the extent Of at least $25
monthly, with direct benefit to their
relatives and to local relief agencies"