Show AWAY FROM HOME in the civilian conservation camps located in utah are about 1630 boys from the states of 0 virginia and new york A large percentage of these boys are not more than 20 years old and are doubtless having their first experience away from rom home almost over night they were dropped from the environment ot of now new york city or up state farms or the hills bills of 0 virginia into a camp life in the rugged hills and mountains ot of the ot of the arid west did you ever stop to think what it has hag meant to those lads to go suddenly from behind the soda fountain or a newspaper route in new york city to a pick and shovel in it the rocky hills of the west do you suppose they have been lonesome or thought 0 of their mothers or pals at home I 1 wonder what the reaction would be it 1300 utah lads were suddenly dropped into the environment ot of new york and as suddenly be required to take up the varied work of 0 that great city would they feel at home or would they look more awkward and out of place than did these boys of the east when they undertook their new duties these boys ot of the east were selected from homes ot of all walks of 0 life where the pinch of 0 the economic sit nation has brought distress and need they are the boys ot of good parents who like the parents of our own utah homis homes are wondering day after day how keith jim or john are getting along they are wondering it if an accident will come to their boy or it if lie he will got get into trouble or will make good and be a credit to himself the ni mothers others and dads of 0 these boys are doubtless experiencing the same feelings as to their boys out here as would the parents of 0 utah of 0 their boys it if they were placed in a similar position perhaps 1500 utah boys boya not more than 20 years of age aro are out in the camps and man many of them too have had but little to do with tools used in mountain work in organizing this movement the president did not have in mind the assembling ot of an all organization 0 of trained men to the contrary lie he had in mind giving young men that have been coming into manhood during the depression and had no chance to work an all opportunity to work and gain experience ile he wants that these young men should be given a chance to become useful citizens 1019 easy to find tault fault or criticize but it is more constructive to help remember that these boys both our own and those from the outside are away from home and their parents wherever they may be will be grateful to those who will extend a kind word or a helping hand band when needed J S richfield |