Show TRAINING PROGRAM IN C C C CAMPS TO BENEFIT ENROLLEES ROLLE ES information has been received by the utah state department of public welfare from mr W frank persons special assistant to the director mr J J mcentee that all attempts by members of congress to urge the passage of legislation calling for military training in camps have been defeated the training programs pro program graml of the civilian iCon conservation ion corps under the terms of the new newl byrnes amendment will merely in 1 volve an expansion of much of the i 1 useful technical training which is i I 1 now available to young men in CC camps k senator james F byrnes stated defore the committee on ampro 1 privations of the U US S senate in I 1 i regard to irs hs amendment that i it seeks to provide noncombatant non combatant training for enrollees in the it would mean that there would be no justification or little justi 1 1 fi cation certainly for the I 1 I 1 ment that the young man who was dependent or who was in need I 1 was required to take military training this does not require that the enrollee shall ever anteri enter the united states army or navy I 1 I 1 his status would be no different from that of every other young man of his age in case war should ever come in case war should come however and there should be a draft there would be this inference gerence that the enrollee in coq camps who had been trained as a mechanic as a photographer to as a radio operator as a cook or baker or engineer might as a result of such training when it was disclosed in his questionnaire be assigned to noncombatant service instead of combatant service so that there would be an advantage to the enrollee who acquired in camp training of the nature intended by this particular amendment |