Show A helping hand to C C C boys away from home in the civilian conservation camps located in utah are about 1530 boys from the states of virginia and new york A large percentage of these boys are not more than 20 years old and are arc doubtless having their first experience away from home almost over night they were dropped from the environment of new york city or up state farms or the hills of virginia into a camp life in the rugged hills and mountains of the and of the arid and west did you ever stop to think what it has 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 the rocky bills of the west do you they have been lonesome or I 1 thought of their mothers or pals at home I 1 wonder what the reaction would be if 1300 utah lads were suddenly dropped into the environment viron ment of new york and as suddenly be required to take up the varied work of 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 cast when they undertook their new duties dulles these boys of the east cast were selected from homes of all walks of life where the pinch of the economic situation has brought distress and need they are the boys of good parents who like the parents of our own utah homes are wondering day after day how keith jim or john are getting along they are wondering if an accident will come to their boy or if he will get into trouble or will make good and be a credit to himself the mothers and dads are arc doubtless experiencing the same feelings as to their boys out here as aa would the parents of utah of their boys if they were placed in a similar position perhaps 1500 utah boys not more than 20 years of age are out in the camps and 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 of an organization of if trained men to the contrary he had in mind giving young men that have been corning coming into manhood during the depression and had no chance to work an opportunity to work and gain experience he wants that these young men should be given u w become use useful cipp new theory of french professor holds that life is merely a dream then since october 1929 it must have been a nightmare |