Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-28
HENRY FORD HAS
LAUNCHED A new.
SOUND, MOVEMENT

tional Youth Movement" of his own.
To $4,000 other industrialists and
manufacturers in all parts Of the Uni
ted States he mailed a booklet point
ing out the opportunity open to every
employer of labor to help in solving
"our gravest national problem-youth
unemployment"
"Of al 1.-The opportunities confront
ing our country today" Mr.. Ford
said, zone of the most important is
the creation of openings for unem-
ployed youth.
ITO an extent impossible to exag-
gerate, the future character OF our
America government, institutions and
ideals-depends on what is done a.
bout this opportunity today.
"As see it, American business and
industrial management-have ready
at hand the means to approach this
opportunity constructively.
municipal, State and other govern
mental agencies cannot attack it eff
fectively. They doubtless have done
their best but at most their measures
are temporary; they can do nothing OF
substantial and lasting good. Any
project that tends to decrease youths
initiative and stulify self-reliance is
unwholesome both for youth and the
nation.
widespread action by private bust
ness and industrial management, each
industrial concern starting five boys
or twenty or hundred, according to
its ability, in trade school or on the
land, on basis that permits youth to
retain it's self-respect, will abolish
youth unemployment at once.
IT have a deep faith that, if each
business and industry will make it
part of it's business program to do
what it can to create opportunity for
youth to get started-the problem
will vanish"
The booklet explains Mr.. Ford's
ideas on how to meet the situation
acknowledgement the results he has
attained at Camp Legion and Camp
Willow Run, respectively at Dearborn
and Ypsilanti, Michigan. To these
youth camps, one in it's third, the 9TH
er in its second year, Mr.. Ford gives
his personal. daily attention.
"I'd rather do this than anything
else know Of" Mr.. Ford told news
papermen. "These boys need a chance
to get started. If we have faith in
the American way of life, we will
help them get start, and when they
start they will carry on the faith in
America.
"If it is impossible for industry to
employ all of them at once in regular
jobs, there remains something else
it is one of the most constructive
things that could possibly be done.
"They can be given a chance in
trade schools within the industries
themselves, or a chance to work for
awhile close to the soil. They can
gain in health, self-reliance and self
respect, earn something and learn
something at the same time. On the
land they can learn what city boys
and town boys, especially, need to
know: that the ultimate resource of
this nation, or any nation, is it's land.
"It would be fine thing if business
were to accept this as social respon-
sibility. Whether it is done by indi-
vidual business men, by cooperative
business group in town or city or by
= community itself, it can be done
and it needs to be DONE"
At both Camp Legion and Camp
Willow Run is a group of IS boys.
Before coming to camp, all were un-
employed. Most of them are sons of
dead or disabled veterans. Each group
has 32O-acre tract provided by Mr..
Ford to work on. They are taught
the fundamentals of agriculture and
plant, cultivate and harvest many diff
ferent kinds of garden crops. The
products are sold at wayside stands.
From the revenue the camp operating
expenses are paid. The boys sleep in
tents, have their meals in a special
mess-hall and each receives 81 a day.
At the end of the season the cash bal
ance remaining after payment of oper
ating expenses is divided among the
boys equally. Last season each boy
received $128 in addition to his wages.
The boys govern themselves and
maintain camp discipline through Off
GERS chosen by themselves from their
own number. After the season ends,
those who wish may enter the Henry
Ford Trade School, or get jobs in
Ford factories.
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