Evening star., 1940-03-31
By Margaref Osfeyioh.

ACAl SANlAdl SollNCl NoelOll Sol pD
camps in the Washington metro
politan area will join with approxi-
mately 1900 c. c. c. units in other
parts of the country in observance
of the 7th anniversary of the corps
next Friday.
There will be open house at all
the camps with the public invited
to come in and see the results of the
agency's youth and natural resources
conservation programs that were
tnaugurated on April s. 1888.
Three of the metropolitan area
camps are at Beltsville, Nd, where
the c. c. c. enrollees are employed
on the National Agriculture Re-
search Center. Three others are in
the Cabin John, Md, neighborhood,
where restoration of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal is under way. They
are Camps NP-2, at Cabin John:
Company 325, Camp Carderock, and
Company 333 at Camp Towpath
The other camps are Nal,
Twenty-eighth and M streets NE,
in the Benning section; Company
235l at Anacostia road and E street
Sc: Camp NP-14 at Oregon avenue
and Bingham road NV. for work in
Rock Creek Park, and the camp at
Fort Hunt, Va.
At least one and maybe more of
these c. c. c. units expect to present
special birthday programs possibly
featuring prominent public figures
as speakers for the occasion.
Will Show Results.
The open-house program will give
the people an opportunity to see
the results of the c. C. C.'s guild
ance, training and placement pro-
gram. This educational aspect of
camp life is little publicized, but it
1t is basic part of the C. C. c.
program.
Its value becomes apparent when
1t is considered that a typical en-
rollee is a youth of 20 who has
never passed the eighth grade, sell
dom has had more than sporadic
occupational experience and, as a
general rule, is discouraged boy
when he enters a C. c. C. camp.
Suppose we call this typical en-
rollee Sam Duncan. Sam may not
know it, but when he enrolls in
c. c. c. camp, he is taking an i'm
portant step-the first of six steps
in the C. c. C's program of guild
ance for boys like himself. The six
steps in that program will have
great deal to do with changing his
outlook on life. He probably didn't
know he was experiencing the Sec
ond step that first day in camp
when an older member of the corps
met him, introduced him around, and
showed him where to wash up.
Then there was that first-night sup
-. per and the movie in the recreation
hall afterward-a movie made by
boys in c. G. C. camp showing
C. c. C.. boys themselves driving
trucks, playing baseball, surveying
land-taking advantage of all camp
opportunities to better themselves.
Visit to Building.
Next day Sam found himself be-
Ing given neat, new. green uni
form and pair of good shoes. The
company commander took Sam and
the other recruits into one of the
long, low, brown buildings. He said:
This is our school building. At
the far end of this long room We'll
have movies you can see if you care
to-movies about the lumber indus
try, the story of printing, film strips
showing how cars are made and
how Diesel engine works-and
Ann Sheridan's latest picture, too.
This is the library. We have
over 1,400 reference books in here.
We have travelling library, too.
It has about 100 fiction books in it.
The fiction library keeps moving
around, so we get new set of books
about every three months. We take
about 30 magazines, too. and you
might find your hometown paper in
the collection we get
Here tive journalism class assem-
bles news, types it up-makes up
cartoons for our camp newspaper" +"
the company commander explained
upon opening door. land here's
where we mimeograph the news
paper. We get it out twice a month.
It has a four -ating-best in
the district"
The group went down some steps
into the basement of the educational
building and entered small room.
Hand tools hung on one wall. This
Is the carpentry shop Here's the
lathe: over there's the scroll saw and
this is circular saw. Those chairs
and tables you saw in the reception
hall we made here in the workshop
whats this closet for?" asked
one of the enrollees, upon opening
q door.
That's a dark room where we de-
velop pictures. That enlarger in
there-it's just loaned to us from a
photo shop where a couple of our
enrollees got jobs. That enlargerll
blow up an inch square print to any
size you want-three feet square