Evening star., 1933-04-02
Government Agencies Will Ar
range to Carry Out Re.
forestation Program.
THOUSANDS ARE APPLYING
FOR RELIEF EMPLOYMENT
Nations Foresters Arriving Here
to Plan Work, Camps and Other
Preliminary Details.

Preliminary plans will be formulated
here tomorrow to send ar army of
25o,ooo men into battle along Nation
wide front to rehabilitate this country's
vast forest lands.
Throughout yesterday men wearing
wide-brim hats and thick-sole shoes of
the timber lands hocked into Washing
ton, summoned here by Chief Forester
r. Y. Stuart Of the Department OF
Agriculture, to discuss with him a pro-
gram to be presented at conclave here
on Thursday with foresters Of 48 States.
BY Thursday night Department of
Agriculture officials said yesterday, the
Government, through their agency, and
the Labor, Interior and War Depart
ments, will be ready to 60 ahead i'm
mediately with President Roosevelt's
program Of unemployment relief through
the performance Of useful public forest
and soil saving work.
Many Apply for Jobs.
Meantime, the City Post ONCE yes
terday hauled Secretary Of Labor Per-
kins' mail to the Labor Department
Building In truck. Letters containing
applications for jobs in the provisional
forestry regiments filed several of the
sacks and clerical detail was ASSIGNED
to assort them.
1t will be Miss Perkins task to re-
cruit workers from all walks Of life for
this emergency work. Hard pressed by
other unemployment projects, the
woman cabinet officer as yet has not set
this organizations machinery into
action. However, her aides said yester-
day they expect to have a perfect or
night.
They view their end Of the vast pro-
Ject as the most gigantic the Labor De-
partment ever has been called upon to
perform. Preliminary plans call for
formation Of registration offices in key
points throughout the country where
applicants viii be passed on. Each
State probably will be placed on a quota
basis and the jobs will be given only to
those who are actually in need.
Camps Being Arranged.
The War Department announced yes
terday it was speeding up its part Of
the program. Army officers will be as
sembled at all key points where are
applicants successfully passed by La
Dor officials will be examined as to
physical fitness and arrange for trans
portation to the thousand or more
camps, each averaging about 200 men.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace ex-
planned that work contemplated on the
national forests will be in line with
existing long-term plans for the de-
velopment and protection of the forest
resources, and hence will not include
made work" intended merely to keep
men busy.
He said the plan will mean a vast
speeding-up of an established national
forest improvement program and will
include control Of tree diseases and in
Sects.
Because the reforestation act au-
thorizes the unemployment relief pro-
gram to be carried orly on State-oWned
forest lands as well as federally-owned,
Secretary Wallace has asked the Gov
ernors Of all States to send their forest
ers here for the Thursday conference.
Private Lands Included.
AS amended, the act also provides
for extension Of forest work to privately
owned lands under cooperative ar
rangements to be made by the Federal
Government with the States. This will
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