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Cumming Georgia
CCC BOYS, IGNORANT OF COMBAT
CAN PERFORM VITAL BATTLE
WORK
Husky Youths Know Army Routine;
Are Ready To Repair, DriTe Tanks
Lay Phone Lines, Build Bridges,
Cook.
Weep no more because the boys of
the COC have not been trained in the
manual of arms and close-order drill.
The have learned other things that
make them more vital cogs in the sys
tem of national defense, that make
them in fact, men too valuable to be
handed a gun and sent into the front
lines.
Tf war comes, the men of the CCC
will be specialists in a dozen fields,
masters of noncombatant technique
as vital to the carrying on of conflict
as firing a rifle or machinegun.
Here are the things they know that
make them soldiers already, in fact
if not in name:
They know how to live together in
barracks, under discipline that is as
rigid as that of an army camp even
if punishment is less severe. Any phy
chiatrist can tell you this alone is an
important factor in the making of a
soldier
Thousands of them know minutely
the workings of engines, and how to
tear them down and rebuild them in
a hurry. Modern war travels on its
machines, and the CCC mechanic
would fit perfectly into the personnel
of a mechanized division. A tank is
only an armed and armored tractor,
and the CCC mechanic who knows
the workings of a caterpillar would
find the motive machinery of a tank
no puzzle.
Many of them are expert drivers of
heavy tractors. There is little differ
ence in the process of driving a trac
tor and driving a tank.
Many of them' are expert drivers of
transport trucks. It is the same truck,
loaded and handled by the same mili
tary rules, as the truck a soldier driv
er would handle.
Many of them are expert welders.
There Is no difference in patching
the steel flanks of a tractor torn by
a landslide and patching the steel
flank of a tank torn by a shell.
Many of them are expert telephone
men. There is no difference in laying
an emergency line from a OCC camp
to a fire-fighting crew in the woods
and in laying a line from a command
post to an observation outpost in
no man’s land—no difference 'except
the danger of death, and not even
the army can train its men under
actual battle conditions.
Many of them are e xpert wood
workers, and there is no difference
in the tools and techniques used in
making wooden frames for truck cabs
and the tools and techiques used in
making wooden pontoons for bridge
es.
Man y of them have better than a
fundamental knowledge of the use of
surveyors’ instruments and the tech
niques of throwing a temporary span
across a stream. There is no differ
ence in their talants in these lines
and the talents of the German “pioner
es” who kept the mechanized troops
of Hitler moving even though bridges
were down in their path.
Many of them know the operation
of field radios, having been trained
in this task by figghting fires. There
is no difference in their knowledge
here and the knowledke of a signal
corps man in the army.
There are even parachute experts
among them. In the far northwest
CCC men have been trained to jump
from planes to fight small isolated
fires in bacckwoods areas where no
truck trails lead. They are supplied
by planes dropping equipment packs
and keeps in touch with headquarters
by portable radios.
There are expert photographers
among them, and mapping a forest
area by photography is little differ
ent from mapping a battle terrain.
KNOW FIRST AID
They all know first aid. There is
no difference in patching the leg of
a comrade struck by a splinter of
shell and in patching the leg of a
comrade gashed by a falling rock.
Some of them are expert carpenters
The barracks they build for them
selves are no different from the bar
racks they might "be called upon to
build if war came.
There are expert cooks among them
They cook the standard army ration
on the standard army range, with the
standard army utensils. They observe
the army standards of cleanliness
and of order at table.
They have been soldiers all along,
whether they knew it or not. They are
soldiers now—trained in everything
hut the techniques of slaughter.
The day of a CCC enrollee, follow
ed from dawn to dark, shows clearly
how close their lives parallel the life
of a soldier in camp.
They rise at 5:30 to the notes of
a whistle instead of a bugle. They
dress in the same fatigue clothes
that a soilder would wear. They go
through the same calisthenics that a
company of soldiers would go thrugh.
Early Breakfast
They go in to breakfast at 6 o'clock
the same breakfast they would get in
an army camp. At 6:30 they police
the camp, the same routine a soldier
would follow, even down to making
the beds and folding the covers back
in the regulation West Point fold.
They stand to for roll call, just as
the soldier answers drill call. Even
the terminology of the army is used.
A company is a company, and though
a squad is a “crew,” the man who
heads it may be on the books as
“assistant leader,” but to the men he
is a corporal. By the same token the
"senior leader” may draw his pay
under that title, but to officers and
men ailke he is "first sergeant.”
At 7:05 they load into trucks, to
be hauled to road or forest'for their
job. If they were troops enterucking
to be hauled up to the battleltne they
would not vary this routine one whit.
Mess is hauled to them on the job,
and they eat from the same messkit
that a soldier uses. The food brought
up to them in the same marmlte cans
that would be used by an army field
kitchen sending grub up to the front
At3:ls they are back in camp, to
take up again a routine almost ex
actly like that of the army. They go
to school at night, to study the special
ties for which they have shown tal
ent. They read or relax in a recreat
ion hall. They turn in at 9:30 when
the “lights out” whistle blows.
One mnght well wonder just liow
many men have been trained in these
special techniques that could so quick
ly be converted to wartime use. “Hap
py Days,” the national weekly news
paper for the conservation corps,
published at Washington, tells the
story.
What Has Been Done
There are 1,500 CCC camps. There
are 44 central repair shops now train
ing 2,000 skilled mechanics, and there
will be 63 by fall. In addition, each
of the 1,500 camps has its own garage
ggiving basic mechanical training to
9,000 men a year. There are 40,000
pieces of automotive equipment op
erated by enrollees. A total of 72,000
of them a year learn to operate trucks
tractors, bull-dozers, drag lines and
scrapes. More men learn than are
used in actual operation of machinery
In 1939, 45,000 learned to drive trucks
and tractors, 40,000 learned how to re
pair them, 17,000 learned blacksmith
ing and 8,000 learned electric welding^
Cooking and baking schools have
trained 22,000 men since the CCC
was founded in 1933. An army still
travels on its stomach. A CCCcook
is as good as any to keep that
stomach filled.
Last year alone 52,000 men learned
first aid. Since the CCC was founded,
300,000 have graduated. There are
3,000 OCC medical aides and orderl
ies in camp hospitals.
As engineers they have built 114,-
000 miles of roads over the roughest
terrain in the United States. They
have spanned streams with 7,000
bridges. As communications men they
have laid 79,000 miles of telephone
wire through rough country.
They have been trained in short
wave radio operation until now thehe
are 18,000 of them who know this
important war-time technique. There
are 26,000 photographers among them
Let ther be no feeling the nation
has failed to help defend itself by
not training the COC in the manual
of arms and close-order drill.
Woody’s Gap Camp
Go up, instead, some afternoon to
Camp F-l at Woody's Gap. Look at
200 men lined up in company forma
tion while Camp Commander Lieuten
ant P. A. McCartney conducting an in
spection rigid as any army inspection
barks a quick command at sight of
a loose button, a dusty pair shoes, an
untrimmed neck.
Look at them standing there in the
kahaki uniforms of soldiers, jaunty
overseas caps cocked over one eye,
rigid at attention, tough as whale
bone from hard work under the stern
eye of Forest Service Projject Super
visor Claude C. Boynton.
Watch them as, at word of com
mand, Old Glory comes down from
the'tall flag-staff, and the jaunty over
seas cap comes off to be held over
the heart in the OCC salute to the
colors.
Soldiers? No. For they don’t know
the technique of killing.
But specialists who, if the time
comes, can keep the motors of war
roaring, 'the wheels of war turning,
the fighting men moving up to the
lines in trucks, the communications
flowing between units by ‘telephone
and radio who can repair the broken
tanks, rebuild the blasted bridges,
perform the thousand noncombatant
duties without which an army cannot
ply its trade.
Alpharetta Route One
Mrs. Laura Thompson of Atlanta
visited Mr. Howard Thompson and
family last week
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Holbrook
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Holbrook
The Forsyth County News
Mr. Thad Tidwell of Suches, Ga.,
spent the week-end with home folks
Mrs. Pearl Cox and children spent
one day last week with Mrs. Laura
Mae Cox
Mrs. Cynthia Spence and Miss
Mirian Bennett spent Saturday after
noon with Mrs. Estelle Frances and
daughter Louise
Miss Alice Lively spent one day
last week with Miss Alice Boling
The League party given by Misses
Lucile and Evelyn Holbrook Friday
night was enjoyed by all present
Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Bennett visit
ed Mr. Erlie Bennett and chcildren
Saturday night
Mr. and Mrs.C. E. Holbrook and
Miss Imogene Lewis were bed time
visitors of Mr. W. C. Gibson Saturday
night
Those visiting Mr. J. E. Boling Sun
day were Messrs Edwin Bennett and
Eugene Fare of North Carolina, Mr.
and Mrs. Burrell Bennett and Mr. E.
S. Bennett and chcildren
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Parks and daugh
ter of Atlanta visitetd Mr. Willie
Hardin and family Saturday night
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Little of
Macon visited Mr. H. L. Wills Sunday
afternoon
Miss Sarah Ann Reid of Cumming
is visiting her grandmother Mrs. H.
L. Hardin
ROUTE 5
Messrs Lucine Bennett, Clyde Cox
and Homer Perry visited Mr. Clyde
Pendley Saturday night
Mrs. Lura Bennett and daughter
Grace visited Mrs. Pearl Cox Satur
iday night
Mr. Ben Saine spent last week with
his parents Mr. and Mrs. Mixe Saine
Mr. and Mrs. Bice Bennett, Mr. J.
i F. Elliott and Mrs. Esther Gilbert at
-1 tended the fair one night last week
Mr. Charles Elliott spent last Sun
1 day afternoon with his father Mr. J.
F. Elliott
I Mr. and Mrs. Loy Elliott spent last
| Sunday with his father Mr. J. F. El
liott
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cox and son
Lemar and daughter Eloise spent last
| Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Claude
I Cox
Mr. and Mrs. Lucine Bennett spent
last Saturday with her father Mr. A.
jJ. Green
1 Mr. Ernest Brannon and wife spent
last week-end with his father Mr. J.
. F. Elliott
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Perry, daugh
|
, ter ot, and sons Harold and Donald
j spent last Sunday afternoon with Mr.
and Mrs. Luccine Bennett
Mrs. Minnie Saine spent last Sun
| day afternoon with Mrs. Lillie Ben
nett
Beaver Ruin
Mrs. Edith Gravitt and son Manard
spent Saturday night with Mr. and
Mrs. Hoyt Heard
Misses Ina May, Ruby Lee and
Ollie Perry visited Misses Lether
and Evlyn Shadburn Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Ivis Vaughan and
daughters visited Mr. and Mrs. S. J.
McGee Sunday
Mr. Bradford Shadburn and son
Jimmie visited Mr. Elbert Shadburn
Sunday morning _
Mr. Dan Shadburn spent Saturday
night with Mr. Clarence Gravitt
Mrs. Eula Jene Shadburn, Mrs. Lula
Mae Smith visited Mrs. Mollie Smith
Sunday
Mr. Pledger Strayhorn visited Mr.
Lewis Perry Sunday
Mrs. Troy Shadburn visited Mrs.
Elbert Shadburn Tuesday night
Mrs. L. J. Ellis is spending several
days in Atlanta
Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. Eli
Smith Sunday -were Messrs Johnnie
and J. B. Redd of Atlanta, Mattie and
Wansley Redd
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Smith attended
services at thisplaee Saturday and
Sunday
Those visiting Mrs. Edith Gravitt
Saturday afternoon were Mr. and
Mrs. H. E. Shadburn and Mr. and
Mrs. Hoyt Heard
iMr. and Mrs. Hansel Smith of Bu
ford visited Mr. and Mrs. Jason
Smith Sunday
Miss Viola Shadburn spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Troy
Shadburn.
We are sorry to report that Mrs.
Toy Hansard is real sick at this
time.
Mr. Junior Shadburn from CCC
Camps visited his father Mr. Hershell
Shadburn this week-end
Mr. Ben Perry and daughter Ruby
Lee were in Gainesville one day last
week
Miss Mattie Payne visited Mrs.
Mollie Smith Tuesday
Mr. and Mrs. Hershell Mills and
Mr. and Mrs. Hershell Payne visited
Mr. Early Mills near Coal Mountain
Sunday
Mrs. Mollie Smith visited Mrs.
Mittie Payne Sunday night
Mr. Bart Smith visited Mr. Ben
jamin Samples Sunday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. Hob Phillips, Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Youngblood visited
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Henderson Sunday
We had three good sermons here
this week-end. Rev. Martin preached
Saturday afternoon. Rev. Flanigan at
night and Re. Dishroom Sunday. We
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welcome them to come again.
Everybody come to Sunday school
at 10 o’clock
Guess everybody is looking forward
tothe June singings
Expansion of recreation and health
aid urged to build morale.
Farm produce price average near
high set since war begun.
Thursday, June sth, 1941.
A complete farm plan for soil and
water cons rvation fits the land a .
nature made it.
The south now has a largernumber
of arrive cotton spindles than the
northeast.
Never in the history of Georgia has
the need for an abundance of good
planting seed been more important.