| Show IDEAL LIFE SOUGHT FOR FORMEN FORMEN MEN IN FORESTRY ARMY Sports Will Help Keep Up Morale of W Workers Washington Work Wort Work In the new reforestation camps camps and and there will be he plenty of It It-Is It Is to be well balanced with play No one knows better than army officers old hands at training large arg bodies of men the valuable truth of the old adage all aU work and no play pIny mal makes es Jack Jacka a n. dull bo boy Since President Roosevelt elt ordered ordered ordered or or- dered the army to take e charge of the he men while they are In camp Maj Gen Hugh u h A. A Drum deputy chief of staff and his nl aides es have ha been busy drafting a recreation program for the new army of I labor bor Specific hours for play will be beset beset beset set aside and It will not Interfere with the schedule of work worl Rather officials e belle it will add tremendously tremendously tre tre- to the efficiency of the workers Baseball Heads List Baseball will of course head the list 1st of sports for the quarter milIon million mil mil- lion Ion unemployed city dwellers who are arc to be given gI jobs In the healthy outdoors Each of the camps Is to have o men In It un under er tentative e plans Officials hope to develop elop a n spirit of rivalry rI between camps lo lo- located catell within a reasonable distance of each other to build bull up keen com petition Camps will be located near a stream whenever possible and this will provide pro e another much much loved loved sport sport swimming For the lon long cool evenings In camp there ther will IlI be indoor games of all sorts an and movies Cards wi will be provided pro and there wIllbe will willbe willbe be checkers dominoes and the Inevitable In In- evitable saw jig puzzles puzzle Secretary Dern has bas had a n number num num- her ber of offers from colle college e heads throughout the country countr and as as' a n result there may be he Instituted In Inthe Inthe inthe the camps educational courses designed designed de de- signed ned to prove pro highly valuable to the recruit when he leaves the conservation conservation con con- corps nn and goes back bacI Into the life he hc carne came from LIving LI conditions for the men will be similar to those of the army The food will be Just as good as ns army rations Often it will be bet bet- ter Forces working In the forests will be able to procure more fresh food than the dough ho boys s Personnel will be under arm army supervision supervision su suo su- su demanding a clean camp regularity of habits babIts and a n high mo mo- rale The men will not be expected expect expect- ed to maintain a schedule as ns rigid and tiring as ns the army deman demands s. s Because the army Is the only force qualified to carry the burden burden burden bur bur- den of p personal supervision of the forestry workers their mode of life will be formulated somewhat along army lines Another thing Neither the army which is supervising the work worl camps nor the forest service which will twill supervIse the actual work In Inthe Inthe the woods wants shirkers Medical l reserve corps officers will bo be stationed at nt the camps Field FIed medical kits will provide pro everything e necessary for tor treatment of Injuries except those of a n major nature In such cases arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- arrange arrangements ments will be worked out to pro provide provide vide speedy removal remo of all nIl patients to a medical center who take to the woo woods s when the mercury climbs Into the upper brackets will find Ond the acres of ot national forest even en more pleasant than usual this year New forest trails and roads pub lie lIc camp improvements and a n Hm amount of tree planting are only ODy a n few of the additions to the vacationers vacationer's pleasure that President dent Roosevelt's civilian conserva conservation conservation tion corps will bring In the field of safety from fires there will be new telephone lines strung new lan landing Ing fields set out for airplanes new fire breaks breal s lookout towers and observatories and range water development Also the reforestation army will wIIl tackle the job of Insect and tree disease control and other range anc and forest work ork I |
