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you give young people good food for a week, you can build them up quickly. Degenerative diseases have not begun in them. They are capable of learning. Also, young people of that age are capable of going into a strange and new area and accommodating themselves to it, whereas old timers can't be moved into a strange area. They'll be terrified of the woods. It will be a total flop if we take middle-aged men on this. We'll have to take the young ones and make it an educational project.”

He had thought this all out and I agreed with him right away. “What's more,” he said, “we must take these boys from families where the families are known to some social agency.”

I remember saying, “I think that's pretty selective.”

He said, “This is a selective kind of relief. If the family is known to a relief a agency and the family has been receiving home relief, a young man between the ages of 18 and 21 may be recommended by that social agency to apply for this Civilian Conservation project. They will be referred by the social agencies, through the relief director, right straight to our offices and we will sign them up. At that point the military come in to give them a physical examination to see if they are in good physical condition and have no deteriorative or communicable a diseases, and also to provide