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...sixth issue of "The March of TIME " . . The sequence concerning the bootlegging of coal in the rugged hills of Pennsylvania was good likewise the scenes concerning Ethiopia, the east branch of the Nile, and Italy's Il Duce were brilliant, but it is the story of the CCC camps which I wish to commend the editors of ''The March of TIME...
...tour of duty I am not Fascist conscious, military minded, nor have I absorbed the so-called lazy qualities falsely attributed to the Army. What I have seen of the U. S. Army, they worked just a little too hard to suit me when I first entered the CCC...
...small town of Sanford where our camp was located was filled with such tongue-wagging gossips as TIME pictured who had nothing better to say about the CCC except that we most certainly would rape their entire female population under 25. After a two-months' sojourn there, we had the whole town on our side. Of course our camp contained the usual percentage of undesirables. What camp didn't? And our Commanding Officer, a jolly Captain, by knowing whom I feel a better person, weeded these characters out precisely as TIME showed, by the dishonorable discharge method...
...year has passed since my CCC days, and I am back into the whirl of city life again a job . . . nights at the University . . . and I have nothing but extremely pleasant memories of the Civilian Conservation Corps. "The March of TIME" helped me to live those "dollar-a-day" days over again. ROBERT F. CASEMORE Dearborn, Mich...
...into the library, announced his decision. The problem, said he, was simply one of dollars, men and time. PWA's heavy program could not get well started until next spring. So far the relief program had put only 800,000 persons to work, 500,000 of them in the CCC. Therefore from December to March most of Work Relief's loose change was going to Mr. Hopkins for his quick, small, cheap jobs?adding up to something like Mr. Hopkins' old "leaf-raking" CWA program. By March, declared the President, that program could be tapered off, and Mr. Ickes could...