Evening star., 1940-05-25
Survey ShowsC. {. E.
Has Given 100000
Military Rudiments
Corps Also Hos $4,000
Pieces Of Automotive
Equipment in Use
BY the Associated Press.


Surveys of Americas potential de-
tense material find in the Civilian
Conservation Corps 100000 men
two-thirds trained and $4,000 pieces
OF automotive equipment.
Students of C. C. C. work during
the last seven years say that it has
turned out 100000 and now has
100000 men who have experienced,
under Army officers, every impor-
tant phase of military training except
drill in the manual of arms and
target practice.
They have taken the oath and
been taught the duties of the cit
izen. They have learned military
discipline and courtesy. They
understand camp rules and regi-
mented living. with regular periods
for mess. sleep, drill, study. training
and play. They have been taught
TIE care of equipment. clothes,
quarters, grounds, personal hygiene,
sanitation and first aid
Trained as Engineers.
One memorandum, surveying the
possibilities of adapting the c. c. c..
enrollees to national defense needs,
says:
IF military training is to be given
the c. c. c.. it should be tied into
the daily field work as much if not
more than that of the camp. This is
because by and large most of the
daily conservation work of the corps
is essentially the type of work done
by Army engineer troops.
'If military training for the C.
c. C. is adopted, it should be with
the aim of training the enrollees for
military engineering work; thus
would the enrollees be able to make
their greatest contribution to ma
tional defense. Such pre-trained
enrollees would fit into Army bat
talions of sanitary, road and for
estry engineer troops"
This memorandum points out that
the type of work c. c. c. men have
been doing equips them particularly
for the service an engineer corps
renders, building bridges. roads, tel
ephone lines.
Protests Are Quieted.
Oddly enough, where any mem
ton of the possibility of using or
converting the c. C. C. into an Army
training unit would arouse sharp
protests a year or so ago. officials
now speak openly of its possibilities.
One official who mentioned such a
possibility above whisper a year
or so ago drew a sharp reprimand.
Even now, it is spoken of only as
a potential unit from which to draw
partially trained man power.
And, just as their figures of po-
tential man power to be drawn from
the c. c. c. include all past en-
rollees, as well as those now en-
rolled, so do they think of how those
two million men who have now
passed on into civilian life might
be mustered back, voluntarily
through the ties that were en-
gendered during their c. c. c..
training.
400 Enter Maritime School.
The c. c. c. announced yesterday
it had released 400 enrollees to the
United States Maritime Service for
Coast Guard training at Boston.
An additional 100. officials said,
will be given similar training at st.
Petersburg, Fla.
James j. McEntee, c. c. c. di-
rector said the relea SOS vere in con.
nection with program initiated
year ago to train young men for
the American Merchant Marine, and
were not connected with President
Roosevelt's national rearmament
program. The boys were discharged
from the c. c. c. when they enrolled
for commercial sea service.
The director said 300 would be
trained for duty as ordinary seamen
and 200 would be schooled in radio
and signal work.