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Army that has been somewhat OBJ
scured. It is the yeoman work done
by Regulars and Reservists In making
the Civilian Conservation Corps a
worthwhile organization. Just now
there are some 400 Regular Army
officers and some IL, 500 ReServists
on duty with the Triple C in the
capacity of camp commanders, super
visors and inspectors. Regular and
Reserve Navy and Marine Corps Off
GERS are likewise detailed to this duty.
Now that the President is about to
double the c. c. c., additional officers,
mainly Reservists, will be called upon
for the expanded activities.
At the outset, when the c. c. G.
was started on March 81, 1888
few short days after Mr.. Roosevelt
took off1ce-and 350,000 young men
came trooping in to the camps over
the Nation, the armed forces were
called upon to aid. The War Depart
ment assigned and transported the
youths to reconditiooing camps; en-
rolled them; assessed their physical
condition; transported them to the
camps in far distant points; furnished
the officers to command the camps,
administer them, maintain discipline,
aid in supply, sanitation, medical care
and disqualification. 1t was great
experience for the Army in rapid
mobilization and tackling an entirely
new problem.
More men than were mustered into
the service during the entire Spanish
American War were thus handled by
the Army in few brief weeks.
IRON February 10 to June l of
last year the Army few the air
mail, by executive order Of the Presi-
dent.
The Army's Corps of Engineers has
been tower of strength to the public
works program. Construction work on
some 100 projects has been prosecuted,
representing an outlay Of $340, 0,000 900.
An important phase of the emergency
work is flood control, which is being
carried out in various sections of the
land. Army Engineers have been with
the P. W. A., have served with the
N. R. A. and the Civil Works Admin
istration in administrative and execu-
tive capacities.
The Army'S Finance Department has
played an important role in various
governmental activities. markedly the
Civilian Conservation Corps and with
various operations under the N. r. A.
and the Department of Agriculture.
Payments to the young men them
selves and their hundreds of thou
sands of dependents are being han
died by the service. Millions of dol
lars in payments under the Depart
nent of Agriculture's purchase of
hogs, wheat, butter and other COM
nodities have been the cork of the
Finance Department. Millions more
have been diSbursed under the
N. r. A.
Feeding the Civilian Conservation
Corps has been task for the Quar-
termaster Corps of the Army. Cloth
ing valued at more than S56,000,00
has been purchased and manufactured
by this branch of the service for the
young men and funds spent for sub
sistence for them exceed $4,000, 900.
Some 1000 camps have been built
under the supervision of quartermas-
ters in the various corps areas of the
Army
Transient camps have been estab-
lished on some of the military reSer-
vations. Thus the War Department
has lent helping hand to the Tran
sient Bureau, the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration and other units.
The New Deal has been helping
the Army materially and, contrarwiSe,
the men in olive drab and khaki have
aided in no mean measure the New
Deal.
But the work the Army normally
has to do must go on. 1t must be
about its business of being the Ma
tons defender on land. Accordingly,
this Summer some 242,254 civilians
will lay aside their regular pursuits
and don khaki and 90 into training as
soldiers. There will be 6,829 in the
Reserve Officers Training Corps. 30,-
355 in the Citizens Military Training
Camps and 1853 in the Organized
Reserves, and National Guardsmen to
the number of 14,047 officers and 49,
2T4 enlisted men will be in training.
Participating in this training will be
4.501 officers of the Regular Army and
51,095 enlisted men.
A FTER the national industrial re-
~A covery act was passed in June,
1888, one of the first acts of Mr..
Roosevelt in allocating money from
the S3,300,000,00O authorized under
public works was to set aside $685.
100000 for building 80 new warships.
The first of these destroyers will soon
be ready for commissioning.
But. in addition, out of this cauldron
Of gold known as the public works
fund the Navy has benefited immeas
urably. More than S25,000,0O0 was
given to the Navy for shore construc-
tion. All told, the Navy was allotted
upward of $277 900 900 from the orig
inal $3,300,O00,000 fund, and out of
the latest public works sum of $4,880,-
100000 it hopes to get a generous
slice.
Out of the $2SS, 100000 the Navy is
constructing heavy cruiser, light
cruisers, Q aircraft carriers, 20 torpedo
destroyers, 2 gunboats and 4 subma-
rines-32 vessels in all-which will
make an imposing addition to the
feet.
From p. w. A. the Navy has received
$7,500,000 for aeronautics, $2,850.000
for machine tools, $712,500 for engi-
neering, $330,225 for ordnance. $685.
S62 for supplies and accounts and So