Evening star., 1933-02-14
conference IS DUE /
ON YOUTHS CAMPS.
Senate Passes Army Bill With
$22, 600, 900 to Open C. M.
T. c. to Nomad Boys.

The Army appropriation bill, carry
ing a Senate amendment appropriating
an additional $22 900 900 to throw open
the Citizens Military Training Camps
to the thousands of youths roaming the
land in search of work, probably will be
sent to conference in the House today.
After voting this sum, added to the
1870, 900, 900 already carried in the mil
itary bill, the Senate passed the supply
measure and paved the way for final
action upon it. War Department off,
cials are reported as well satisfied with
the Senate bill
The camp proposal, approved without
dissenting voice, was suggested by
Senator Reed Republican) of Penn
sylvania and accepted by Senator Cou-
zens (Republican) of Michigan, who Of
fered it as substitute for his original
amendment to the War Department
supply bill which would have taken the
transients into regular Army posts.
s5,000,O00 Would Be Available.
Another amendment put through by
Couzens would make S5,000,000 of the
fund Immediately available, the remain
utI W Dt SpCIlJ Ill bllC IlCAl lloSo4 yCdl.
Under the plan agreed upon, which
must receive the approval of the House
and the President before becoming law
any youth between Is and 81 who has
been out of job six months could ap-
ply for entry into citizens military
camp, but to gain admittance he must
be an American citizen and be of sound
mind and body. He would be trained
the same as other boys in the Summer
camps.
Reed said the War Department had
estimated under the $22 2,000,000 it could
care for $4,000 of the jobless youths.
at an expense Of $3.50 each year.
The present citizens camps accom-
modate about 10000 and run for only
four weeks in the Summer. But Reed
said under the national defense act
these could be extended, so Couzens
provided the camps at which the jobless
would be absorbed could run for year.
No Training Provided.
The principal objection to the origi-
nal CouZens amendment was that it
would have demoralized the regular
Army posts because no provision was
made that the youths take any train
ing. They would have been required
only to subject themselves to military
ulSClpllne anu TAKE the IOuClne nedlIH
exercises.
This, opponents contended, would
have led thousands of youths to de-
nberately avoid work for six months
to be eligible for admission into camp
where food and clothing and bed
would be provided without work.
Senators La Toilette, Wisconsin;
Cutting, New Mexico, and johnson,
California. Republican Independents,
Joined Couzens and his colleague, Sena-
tor Vandenberg, in urging quick ap-
proval of some form Of relief for the
transient youths.
La Toilette Opposes Method.
La Toilette, author with Senator
Costigan, Democrat, of Colorado of
$500, 900 Federal aid bill for the
destitute, said he was opposed to the
method proposed in the original Couz-
ems proposition, but would have voted
for it because it was the first measure
to come on the floor this session deal
ing directly with human suffering.
He urged night sessions from now
until adjournment March 4 with sole
attention devoted to unemployment,
farm and bankruptcy relief legislation,
even at the expense of failing to enact
all the vital appropriation bills.