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them with such clothes as they need, because these bys will all need warm underwear, shoes, sometimes more. The Army, we assume, has got old overcoats and uniforms of one kind or another on hand. They will provide them with clothing. They will provide trucks and transportation. The Army will transport them. We'll make it a policy to transport them to the nearest area from the place where they are recruited where the Forest Service has a job for them. But the Army must be in full charge of the camps and in full charge of these boys, otherwise we will have bedlam. The Forest Service cannot discipline them. They're not trained in handling men, or in disciplining them, or in keeping order, or in keeping track of them. They employ able-bodied men who want the work and pay them a wage. You don't have to discipline them. These boys have never been employed and are going to be a hazard if they're not properly handled. We'll have to see that the Army handles them properly.

The trick will be that in a City like New York, Syracuse or Chicago the families will have applied for home relief and that one boy in the family will be given a chance to go in this corps. The Army will then take him over, look after him” (process is the word they'd use today, but they didn't use that word then) “and take him, along with others, to the camp which the army officers have already established.