Endnotes
Chapter 1
1.
Conrad L. Wirth and James F. Kieley, "It's 50 Years Since CCC
Went into Action," Courier, The National Park
Service Newsletter, 48(April 1983):3. A number of
histories have been written about the CCC or aspects of the program. The
best single volume to date is John A. Salmond's The
Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942: A New Deal Case Study (Durham,
N.C.: Duke University Press, 1967). For a view of the CCC from inside
the National Park Service, see Conrad L. Wirth's Parks, Politics and
the People (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980). Additional
works of interest can be found in the bibliography of this report.
2. American Council on Education, Youth in the
CCC (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1942), p. 15.
3. John J. McDermott, ed., The Writings of
William James: A Comprehensive Edition (New York: Random House,
1967), p. 669.
4. Salmond, pp. 4-5; and Arthur C. Ringland,
"The Patriotism of Peace," American Forests 40(January
1934):3-4.
5. Daniel Aaron, Richard Hofstadter, and William
Miller, The United States: The History of a Republic, 2d ed.
rev. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967), pp.
706, 712, 713; and Milton Derber, "The New Deal and Labor," in The
New Deal: The National Level, ed. John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner,
and David Brody (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975), vol. 1,
p. 123.
6. U.S. Congress, House, Emergency
Construction of Public Works, Report 2104, 71st
Cong., 3rd sess., 1930, pp. 3-4.
7. John T. Gibbs, "Tree Planting Aids Unemployed,"
American Forests 39(April 1933):195, 160, 161, 173; "Roosevelt
and Forestry," American Forests 38(December 1932):633; Salmond,
p. 8. For more detailed information on the Great Depression and Franklin
Roosevelt, see Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Roosevelt,
vol. 1, The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933 (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1957), vol. 2, The Coming of the New Deal (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1959), and vol. 3, The Politics of Upheaval (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1960). Other works of interest are Frank Burt
Freidel's Franklin D. Roosevelt, 3 vols. (Boston: Little Brown
Co., 1952-1956); Rexford Gay Tugwell, The Democratic Roosevelt: A
Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Garden City, New Jersey:
Doubleday Co., 1957); and James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion
and the Fox (New York: Harcourt Brace Co., 1956).
8. "Forestry as Relief Aid to Unemployed
Takes Limelight," American Forests 38(August 1932):469, 550;
Richard C. Keller, "Pennsylvania's Little New Deal," in The New Deal:
The State Level, ed. Braeman, Bremner, and Brody, vol. 2, p. 53;
Basil Rauch, The History of the New Deal, 1933-1938 (New York:
Creative Age Press, Inc., 1944), p. 71; "Forest Protection in the
Emergency Relief Act," American Forests 38(September 1932):516;
and Salmond, p. 5.
9. "Forestry as Relief Aid," American Forests
38(August 1932):468.
10. Salmond, pp. 8, 9; and "Forestry as Relief
Aid," American Forests 38(August 1932):662.
11. Roosevelt to Freeman, September 6, 1932,
Record Group 35, National Archives (hereafter cited as RG, NA).
12. Salmond, pp. 8-9.
13. "A Forest Work Plan to Relieve Unemployment,"
American Forests 38(December 1932):662; A.B. Recknagel, "Woodland
Work for the Unemployed," American Forests 38(September 1932):494;
and Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People, p. 73.
14. "A Month's Work for Two Million Men," American
Forests 39(February 1933):88-89.
15. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the
People, p. 73; Salmond, pp. 9-10; Charles William Johnson,
"The Civilian Conservation Corps: The Role of the Army," (Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Michigan, 1968), p. 8; U.S. Senate,
Civilian Conservation Corps, Doc. 216, 77th Cong.,
2d sess., 1942, p. 17; and "Roosevelt Shapes Unemployment Program
for $500,000,000 Outlay on Improvements," The New York
Times, March 12, 1933, p. 1.
16. Schlesinger, The Coming of the New Deal, p.
337; Salmond, pp. 11-12; Johnson, pp. 5-6; U.S. Department of Labor,
Handbook for Agencies Selecting Men for Emergency Conservation Work
(Washington: GPO, 1933), no page; "Jobless Aid Bill Near Completion," The
New York Times, March 14, 1933, p. 20; and "Farm and
Job Bills to Go to Congress," The New York Times,
March 14, 1933, p. 20. The complete text of this act as passed on March
31, 1933, can be found in appendix A of this report.
17. U.S. House, Committee on Labor, Message
from the President of the United States on Unemployment Relief, Doc.
6, 73rd Cong., 1st sess., March 21, 1933, p. 2.
18. Stan Cohen, The Tree Army: A Pictorial
History of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 (Missoula,
Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 1980), p. 6; U.S. House,
Recommendations for the Enactment of Legislation Making the
Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency, Doc. 196, 75th Cong.,
1st sess., 1937; and Salmond, pp. 6-7, 12, 14.
19. Salmond, pp. 12-15, 19-21, 23; and Johnson, pp. 6-8.
20. "Points of First Roosevelt Bill Aimed at
Unemployment Relief," The New York Times, March 22, 1933, p.
1; "The President's Message," The New York Times, March 22, 1933,
p. 2; and "Roosevelt Asks Congress to Make Work for 250,000: Form Bill
Foes Unappeased," The New York Times, March 22, 1933, pp. 1-2.
21. Albright to Field Officers, April 13, 1933, RG 79,
NA; Salmond, p. 39; Associate Director to Dorr, ca. 1933, RG 79, NA;
Johnson, pp. 92-93; and Wirth, Parks, Politics and
the People, p. 83. The Army divided up the country into nine
administrative units known as corps headquarters. These were located in
Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York; Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; New Orleans, Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; Kansas City,
Missouri; Seattle, Washington; San Antonio, Texas; and San Francisco,
California.
22. "The Civilian Conservation Corps," American
Forests 41(September 1935):530; Salmond, pp. 29-31; Statement of Mr.
Robert Fechner, Director of Emergency Conservation Work with Regard to
the Proposed Bill for Making the Civilian Conservation Corps Permanent,
ca. 1937, Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps, RG 35, NA;
"Roosevelt Signs Forest Jobs Bill," The New York Times, April 1,
1933, p. 6. Robert Fechner was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1876.
He dropped out of school at the age of sixteen and became a machinist's
apprentice. He became active in union activities in 1901 and in 1914 was
elected to the General Executive Board of the International Association
of Machinists; he later became a vice president of that organization. He
held this position when contacted by representatives of the president on
March 22, 1933, to become director of the Emergency Conservation Work.
He served in that capacity until his death on December 31, 1939.
23. Albright to Field Officers, April 8, 1933, RG 79,
NA; Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People, p. 86;
"Fechner to Direct Forestation Work," The New York Times,
April 4, 1933, p. 15, and Salmond, p. 30. Roosevelt's insistence that
the CCC camps have 200 men led the Forest Service and Park Service to
request that side camps of smaller numbers of men be established to
accomplish specific tasks. This led to a confrontation with the Army
which will be more fully discussed later in this report.
24. U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation
Corps, p. 19; U.S. Department of the Interior, A Manual
on Emergency Conservation Work, Civilian Conservation Corps
(Washington: GPO, n.d.) p. 1; "Roosevelt Issues Forest Job Order,"
The New York Times, April 6, 1933, p. 6. The complete text of
Executive Order 6106 can be found in appendix A.
25. Cohen, p. 7; U.S. Department of Labor,
"Selection of Men for the Civilian Conservation Corps," Monthly
Labor Review 40(May 1935):1162; Albright to Field Officers, April 8,
1933, RG 79, NA; Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People, pp. 83-84;
Albright to all Superintendents and Monument Custodians, August 9, 1933,
Box 1, A98, Harper's Ferry Center; and Salmond, p. 31, 36-37.
26. ECW, Two Years of Emergency Conservation Work
(Civilian Conservation Corps), April 5 - March 31, 1935 by Robert Fechner
(Washington: GPO, 1935), pp. 8, 11; James F. Kieley, The CCC
(Washington: GPO, 1933), p. 10; "Roosevelt Orders 275,000 Men to
Conservation Work Camps by July 1," American Forests 39(June
1933):272-273; U.S. Dept. of the Interior, "Office of National Parks,
Buildings, and Reservations," by Arno B. Cammerer, in Annual Report of
the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1933
(Washington: GPO, 1933), pp. 154-155; Wirth, Parks, Politics and the
People, pp. 89-91, 94, 107; and Salmond, pp. 31-32, 37-41.
27. Salmond, p. 31, 36-37; and Cohen, p. 7.
28. "50 Forest Camps Chosen for Corps," The
New York Times, April 12, 1933, p. 2; Department of the Interior
Press Release, April 25, 1933, RG 79, NA; and Salmond, pp. 31-32,
37-41. For a complete listing of NPS camps, see appendix C.
29. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the
People, pp. 76, 172; Cohen, p. 91; and Demaray to Fechner, March
16,1935, RG 35, NA.
30. U.S. Department of Labor, Handbook, p. 7;
U.S. Department of the Interior, A Manual on Emergency Conservation
Work (GPO, n.d.), pp. 12-13; American Youth Commission of the
American Council on Education, The Civilian Conservation Corps
(n.p, n.d.), pp. 6-8; Salmond, pp. 110-111; "Plans Shaping to Continue
Emergency Forestry Through Winter," American Forests
39(September 1933):420; Demaray to Field Officers, August 1, 1933, RG
79, NA; Department of the Interior, A Manual on Emergency
Conservation Work, p. 2; Department of the Interior
Press Release, August 31, 1933, RG 79, NA; "The C.C.C. Begins a New
Year," American Forests 40(April 1934):178; and U.S. Department
of Labor, "Eight Years of CCC Operations, 1933 to 1941," Monthly Labor
Review 52(June 1941):1406.
31. C.R. French, "A Workable Plan for
Prefabricated Housing," American Forests 46(November 1940):512-513;
"Plans Shaping to Continue Emergency Forestry Work Through Winter,"
American Forests 39(September 1933):420; "Civilian Conservation
Corps Recruits for New Period," American Forests 39(November
1933):516; and, Emergency Conservation Work (National Park Service
Circular 38) Winter Camps, July 26, 1933, RG 79, NA, p. 1.
32. "Public Works Program includes Many Conservation
Projects," American Forests 39(November 1933):516; "10,000
Replacements" American Forests 39(August 1933):370; U.S. Department
of Labor, Handbook p. 12; Department of the Interior, "Office of
National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations," by Arno B. Cammerer, in
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1933 (Washington:
GPO, 1933), pp. 157, 180; Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
November 7, 1933, RG 79, NA; and Ickes to Fechner, April 29, 1933, RG 95,
NA. The entire listing of work performed by the ECW can be found in
appendix E.
33. Demaray to Dorr, March 27, 1934, RG 79, NA,
p. 1.
34. U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National
Park Service," in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1934
(Washington: GPO, 1934), pp. 168-169; National Park Service Press
Release, January 20, 1934, RG 79, NA; Department of the Interior Press
Release, August 15, 1934, RG 79, NA; and "Many CCC Men Aid Parks,"
The New York Times, July 8, 1934, p. 13.
35. Hawaii National Park Press Release, ca. 1936, RG
79, NA; U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation Corps, p. 20; Conference
of Superintendents and Field Officers, November 19-23, 1934, RG 79, NA,
pp. 145, 152-153; ECW, Third Report of the Director of Emergency
Conservation Work for the Period April 1, 1934, to September 30, 1934
by Robert Fechner (Washington: GPO, 1934), p. 28; ECW, Report of the
Director of Emergency Conservation Work from the Period Extending from
April, 1933, to June 30, 1935 by Robert Fechner (Washington: GPO,
1935), p. 38; Demaray to Fechner, March 16, 1935, RG 35, NA; and
Emergency Conservation Work Press Release, January 10, 1934, RG 79, NA.
36. Cammerer to Fechner, May 20, 1935, RG 79, NA.
37. Cochran to Ickes, November 14, 1935, RG 79, NA;
"President Roosevelt to Request Continuation of the Civilian
Conservation Corps," American Forests 40(November
1934):540; James F. Kieley, The CCC p. 14; U.S. Senate,
Civilian Conservation Corps, p. 94; ECW, Two Years of
Emergency Conservation Work, p. 1; U.S. House, Draft of a Proposed
Provision, Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935,
74th Cong., 1st sess., Doc. 192, 1935, p. 2; "President Orders the
Civilian Conservation Corps Doubled," American Forests
41(May 1935):232; "C.C.C. Ordered to Prepare for New Period,"
American Forests 41(April 1935):178; "President
Widens Authority of PWA," The New York Times, June 6, 1935, p. 6;
and "C.C.C. Expansion Gets Under Way," American Forests
41(June 1935):286. The recruiting drive for 600,000 fell short of this
goal by a little over 90,000 men. Still this figure represented the
zenith of CCC enrollment.
38. Salmond, pp. 58-59, 63-64; "President
Announces New Program for Civilian Conservation Corps," American
Forests 41(October 1935):600; Wirth to All Regional Officers, November
5, 1935, RG 79, NA; "To Cut CCC Enrollment," The New York Times,
December 2, 1935, p. 6; "Will Close 389 CCC Camps," The New York
Times, December 12, 1935, p. 8; Tolson to Director National Park
Service, January 27, 1936, RG 79, NA; Wirth to Director National Park
Service, January 27, 1936, RG 79, NA; and "Roosevelt Orders CCC Cuts
Modified," The New York Times, March 22, 1936, p. 10.
39. Wirth to All Regional Officers, November 5, 1935,
RG 79, NA; and, Evison to Third Regional Office, November 13, 1935, RG
79, NA.
40. "Strength of C.C.C. Set at 428,000,"
American Forests 42(January 1936):35; "President Firm on CCC
Reduction," The New York Times, March 17, 1936, p. 2; Wirth to
Parker and Thurston, March 20, 1936, RG 79, NA; Wirth to all Regional
Officers, April 7, 1936, RG 79, NA, p. 1; Cammerer to Field Officers,
October 12, 1936, RG 79, NA, p. 1; National Park Superintendents, Regional
Officers of State Park Division and Emergency Conservation Work Conference,
January 25, 1936, RG 79, NA, p. 26; and "New Civil Service Jobs for C.C.C.,"
American Forests 42(December 1936):574.
41. Salmond, pp. 145, 147-148; U.S. House,
Recommendations for the Enactment of Legislation Making the
Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency, p. 2; "Roosevelt
Recommends Permanent C.C.C.," American Forests 43(February 1937):87;
and Minutes of the Advisory Council for Emergency Conservation Work,
January 8, 1937, RG 35, NA, p. 13-15.
42. U.S. House, Hearings on Making the
Civilian Conservation Corps a Permanent Agency, 75th Cong., 1st sess.,
1937, Report 687, p. 1-2; and Salmond, p. 148.
43. U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation Corps,
pp. 17-19, 21, 72, 94; Johnson, pp. 70, 73; Salmond, pp. 153, 156; "CCC
Extended for Three Years," American Forests 43(August 1937):401,
417; Civilian Conservation Corps, Standards of Eligibility and
Selection for Junior Enrollees (Washington: GPO, 1939), pp. 1, 22-23;
U.S. House, Proposed Provision Pertaining to an Existing Appropriation
of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Doc. 208, 75th Cong., 1st sess.,
1937, p. 2; U.S. Department of War, Civilian Conservation Corps
Regulations (Washington: GPO, 1937), p. 2; and U.S. House, Civilian
Conservation Corps, Report 1032, 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937, no page.
44. "CCC Extended for Three Years," American
Forests 43(August 1937):401; U.S. Department of the Interior,
General Information Regarding the Department of the
Interior, October 1, 1937 (Washington: GPO, 1937), no page; Wirth,
Parks, Politics and the People, pp. 128-129, 132; and "To Study
Recreational Needs," American Forests 43(April 1937): 186.
45. Ickes to Colby, February 8, 1937, RG 79, NA;
Wirth to Regional Director, Region One, October 22, 1937, RG 79, NA; Wirth,
Parks, Politics and the People, p. 128; Johnston to Director,
National Park Service, March 20, 1937, RG 79, NA; Johnston to White,
September 15, 1937, RG 79, NA; Evison to Jones, September 10, 1937, RG 79,
NA; U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National Park Service," by Arno
B. Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1937
(Washington: GPO, 1937), p. 35
46. "CCC to Enroll 85,000 Men in July,"
American Forests 44(July 1938):328; Salmond, pp. 170-171; "CCC Camps
Reduced," American Forests 41(January 1938):38; "Fechner
Announces Reduction of CCC Camps to 1,210," American Forests
44(April 1938):172; and Wirth to Fechner, July 7, 1938,
RG 35, NA. That year a Park Service camp was established for the first
time in Mt. McKinley National Park in Alaskan territory for the purpose
of park improvement and cleanup.
47. Cohen, p. 144; U.S. Senate, Amending
Act Establishing a Civilian Conservation Corps, Report 950, 76th
Cong., 1st sess., 1939, p. 2; U.S. Department of the Interior,
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1939
(Washington: GPO, 1939), p. 303; Johnson, p. 54; U.S.
Department of Labor, "Eight Years of CCC Operations, 1933 to 1941,"
Monthly Labor Review 52(June 1941):1405; U.S. Senate, Civilian
Conservation Corps, pp. 2, 72; The Civilian Conservation Corps:
What It Is and What It Does (Washington: GPO, n.d.), p. 1; and
Salmond, p. 177.
48. Cammerer to Regional Directors, National Park
Superintendents, and National Monument Custodians, October 7, 1939, RG
79, NA.
49. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1939 (Washington: GPO,
1939), p. 303; Superintendents Conference, January 17-22, 1938, RG 79,
NA, pp. 3, 68; White to Director of Personnel, October 3, 1939, RG 79,
NA; Wirth to Director NPS, December 27, 1939, RG 79, NA; and White to
Director NPS, August 26, 1939, RG 79, NA.
50. Wirth, Parks, Politics, and the People,
p. 63.
51. "Death Claims F.A. Silcox and Robert Fechner,"
American Forests 46(February 1940):72; Cohen, pp. 29, 176; and
"McEntee Named Head of CCC," American Forests
46(March 1940):129. President Roosevelt eulogized Fechner as a man that
"brought to the public service a great administrative ability,
vision and indefatigable industry. His death is a loss to the CCC and to
the nation." Fechner's successor, James L. McEntee, was born in 1884 in
Jersey City, New Jersey. He served as an apprentice toolmaker in New
York. He later became a representative and officer of the International
Association of Machinists. In 1911, he met Robert Fechner and they
became close friends. When Fechner was appointed director of the CCC, he
requested that McEntee be his executive assistant director. President
Roosevelt on February 15, 1940, nominated McEntee to replace Fechner.
McEntee remained as the CCC director until the termination of the
program in 1942.
52. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1940 (Washington: GPO,
1940), pp. 201; and Salmond, p. 200. New CCC camps were established in
Badlands National Monument, Chaco Canyon National Monument, Saratoga
National Historical Park, and Kings Canyon National Park.
53. James J. McEntee, "The CCC and National
Defense," American Forests 46(July 1940):309; Wirth,
Parks, Politics and the People, p. 142;
"CCC Defense Bills," American Forests 46(July
1940):324; Salmond, p. 197; Cohen, p. 145; and, U.S. Senate,
Civilian Conservation Corps, pp. 5, 90-91, 107.
54. Wirth to Director, August 20, 1941, RG 79, NA;
Lisle to Director, March 7, 1941, RG 79, NA; "Fewer Youth Props,"
Newsweek 18(November 10, 1941):24; Salmond, pp. 209-210; U.S.
Senate, Civilian Conservation Corps, pp. 2, 21, 39, 104;
"CCC Camps Reduced," American Forests 47(May 1941):242; and
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service," An Annual
Report Fiscal Year June 30, 1942 (Washington: GPO, 1942), pp. 161-162.
55. Evison to Wargo, November 3, 1941, RG 79, NA;
Evison to Amos, October 30, 1941, RG 79, NA; Evison to Donnelly,
November 5, 1941, RG 79, NA; Chief, Office Management Section, Branch of
Recreation, Land Planning and State Cooperation to Regional
Director, Region II, January 28, 1941, RG 79, NA; Maier to National Park
Superintendents, Inspectors, and CCC Project Superintendents, April 14,
1941, RG 79, NA; Civilian Conservation Corps Press Release, June 20,
1941, RG 79, NA; and, Minutes of the Advisory Council for the
Civilian Conservation Corps, August 26, 1941, RG 35, NA.
56. Wirth to Director, August 20, 1941, RG 79, NA;
Evison to Diggs, October 30, 1941, RG 79, NA; "CCC to Intensify
Defense Training," American Forests 47(July 1941):345;
Goodwin to Director, July 19, 1941, RG 79, NA; Superintendent Lassen
Volcanic National Park to Regional Director, Region Four, May 1, 1941,
RG, 79, NA; and Assistant CCC and ERA Coordinator to Regional Director,
Region Four, July 30, 1941, RG 79, NA.
57. Federal Security Agency, Annual Report of
the Civilian Conservation Corps for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1942
(Washington: GPO, 1943), pp. 36-37; U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1941
(Washington: GPO, 1941), p. xxvii; Salmond, p. 208; "More CCC Camps
Close," American Forests 47(November 1941):534; and U.S.
Department of the Interior, "Civilian Conservation Corps,"
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 1942 (Washington: GPO, 1942), p. 259-260.
58. Salmond, pp. 210-212.
59. Director NPS to all Field Officers, ca. 1942, RG
79, NA; Wirth to Regional Directors, December 13, 1941, RG 79, NA;
Minutes of the Advisory Council for the Civilian Conservation Corps,
January 2, 1942, G 35, NA, pp. 6, 9; Minutes of the Advisory Council
for the Civilian Conservation Corps, January 27, 1942, RG 79, NA, pp.
2-3, 5; Civilian Conservation Corps Press Release, April 26, 1942, RG
79, NA; and "CCC and Forest Protection," American Forests
48(March 1942):137.
60. Salmond, pp. 215-217; and U.S. Department of the
Interior, "Civilian Conservation Corps," Annual Report for the Fiscal
Year Ended June 30, 1943 (Washington: GPO, 1943), p. 317.
161. Evison to Regional Directors, May 22, 1942, RG
79, NA; Minutes of the Advisory Council for the Civilian Conservation
Corps, June 8, 1942, RG 35, NA, p. 9; and, U.S. Department of the Interior,
"National Park Service," Annual Report for Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1942 (Washington: GPO, 1942), p.168.
62. U.S. Department of the Interior, "National
Park Service, An Annual Report For Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1942"
(Washington: GPO, 1942), pp. 167-168; "Weeds Replace CCC Handiwork
in Parks of U.S.," Chicago Tribune, September 6, 1942, no page;
Superintendent's Annual Report for Shenandoah National Park for Fiscal
Year 1942, RG 79, NA; and Minutes of the Advisory Council for the
Civilian Conservation Corps, June 26, 1942, RG 35, NA, p. 3.
63. Minutes of the Advisory Council for the Civilian
Conservation Corps, July 1, 1942, RG 35, NA, pp. 7-8, 10-11; NPS Director's
Staff Meeting, July 2, 1942, RG 79, NA; and Director's Staff Meeting,
July 9, 1942, RG 79, NA.
64. Superintendent's Monthly Report for Glacier
National Park for July 1942, August 1942, RG 79, NA; Superintendent Isle
Royale National Park to Regional Director, Region Two, July 10, 1942, RG 79,
NA; Director's Staff Meeting, July 31, 1942, RG 79, NA; and
Superintendent's Monthly Report for Mammoth Cave National Park for August, 1942,
September, 1942, RG 79, NA.
65. Minutes of the Advisory Council for the Civilian
Conservation Corps, June 26, 1942, RG 35, NA, p. 8-9; U.S Department of
the Interior, "Civilian Conservation Corps," Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1943
(Washington: GPO, 1943), p. 317; Wirth, Parks, Politics
and the People, pp. 144, 147; Director's Staff Meeting, July
31, 1942, RG 79, NA; Strawsen to Tolson, September 15, 1942, RG 79, NA;
Maier to Director, September 21, 1942, RG 79, NA; NPS Director's Staff
Meeting, October 7, 1942, RG 79, NA; and Johnson, p. 218.
66. Tolson to Drury, July 13, 1945, RG 79, NA; and
Tolson to Regional Director, Region Two, December 11, 1946, RG 79,
NA.
Chapter 2
1. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People, p.
73; Glimpses of National Parks (Washington: GPO, 1941), p. 12;
and "Roosevelt Defers Public Works Bill," The New York Times,
March 11, 1933, p. 7. For more detailed information concerning the Park
Service on the eve of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the expansion
of the Park Service in the 1930s, see National Park Service,
Administrative History: Expansion of the National Park Service in the
1930s, by Harlan D. Unrau and G. Frank Williss (Denver: Denver
Service Center, 1983).
2. Albright to Field Officers, April 13, 1933, RG 79,
NA; U.S. Department of the Interior, A Manual on Emergency
Conservation Work, p. 1; Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
May 11, 1933, RG 79, NA; and Albright to All State Parks Authorities,
ca. 1933, RG 79, NA, p. 1.
3. Wirth, Parks, Politics, and the People,
pp. 75-76, 157; U.S. Department of the Interior, "Office of National
Parks, Buildings and Reservations," by Arno Cammerer, in Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1933 (Washington: GPO,
1933), p. 157.
4. Before 1935, the Branch of Engineering was involved
in handling engineering questions in 58 eastern ECW camps in national
parks and monuments. They prepared plans, directed construction work at
camps, acted as work crew foremen, and directed advance planning work
using ECW labor. This work included hiring engineering technicians to
conduct topographic surveys at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County
Battlefields Memorial National Military Park, Petersburg National
Battlefield, and George Washington Birthplace National Monument. The
same type of work was conducted at the proposed Kings Mountain National
Military Park, Ocmulgee National Monument, Shenandoah National Park, and
Mammoth Cave National Park. Along with this work a boundary survey was
made for the proposed Everglades National Park. Monteith to Story,
August 9, 1935, RG 79, NA.
5. Robert Y. Stuart, "That 250,000-Man Job,"
American Forests 39(May 1933):197; Demaray to Superintendent and Field
Officers, June 28, 1933, RG 79, NA; and National Park Superintendents,
Regional Officers of State Park Division and Emergency Conservation
Conference, Janaury 25, 1936, RG 79, NA, p. 16.
6. U.S. Department of the Interior, "Office of
National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations," by Arno Cammerer, in
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1933
(Washington: GPO, 1933), p. 157; Albright to Field Officers, June 12,
1933, RG 79, NA; Demaray to Field Officers, October 10, 1933, RG 79, NA;
Demaray to Field Officers, September 14, 1933, RG 79, NA.
7. Demaray to Dorr, July 30, 1934, RG 79, NA.
8. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People, pp.
76-77, 105, 110-111, 130; Director NPS to Park Superintendents and State
Park Authorities, August 5, 1933, RG 79, NA; and National Park
Superintendents, Regional Officers of State Parks Division and Emergency
Conservation Work Conference, January 25, 1936, RG 79, NA, pp. 5-7. The
states belonging to the East Coast district were Maine, Vermont, New
York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama.
The Midwest district consisted of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The Rocky
Mountain district consisted of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, North
Dakota, and Montana. The West Coast district consisted of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Arizona.
9. Wirth to all State, County and Metropolitan Park
Authorities, ca. 1933, RG 79, NA; Instructions to District Officers
State Park Emergency Conservation Work, ca. 1933, RG 79, NA, pp. 1-4;
Minutes of the National Park Service Conference of State Park
Authorities, February 27, 1935, RG 79, NA, pp. 391-395; and Department
of the Interior Press Release, July 13, 1933, RG 79, NA.
10. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People,
pp. 111, 113-114.
11. U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation
Corps, p. 36; U.S. Executive Order 6129, May 11, 1933 (Washington:
GPO, 1933); Albright to Field Officers, June 21, 1933, RG 79, NA, pp.
2-3; U.S. Department of the Interior, A Manual on Emergency
Conservation Work, pp. 1-3; Wirth to District Officers, August 31,
1934, RG 79, NA, pp. 1-2; and Wirth, Parks, Politics and the
People, p. 148.
12. U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National
Park Service," Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1934 (Washington: GPO, 1934), pp. 168-169, 184; and "The CCC Begins
a New Year," American Forests 40(April 1934): 178.
13. Ballard to Nichols, June 2, 1938, RG 79, NA;
Wirth to Johnston, Blossom and Ventres, April 21, 1938, RG 79, NA; Wirth
to First Assistant Secretary, February 14, 1939, RG 79, NA; and Civilian
Conservation Corps Press Release, August 2, 1938, RG 79, NA.
14. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1940 (Washington: GPO,
1940), pp. xvii, 201; Salmond, p. 200; and Wirth, Parks, Politics and
the People, p. 15.
15. Executive Order 6542, December 28, 1933, RG 79,
NA; "Public Works Program Includes Many Conservation Projects,"
American Forests 39(November 1933):516; ECW, Two Years of
Emergency Conservation Work, p. 3; Demaray to Fechner, March 16,
1935, RG 35, NA; "President Roosevelt to Request Continuation of the
Civilian Conservation Corps," American Forests 40(November
1934):540; Department of the Interior Press Release, ca. 1935, RG 79,
NA; U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report for the Fiscal
Year Ending June 30, 1936 (Washington: GPO, 1936), p. xiv; ECW,
Annual Report, Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1936 (Washington: GPO,
1937), p. 38; Wirth to Fechner, June 28, 1937, RG 35, NA; and Director's
Staff Meeting, National Park Service, February 15, 1939, RG 79, NA.
16. Cammerer to Simons, June 30, 1936, RG 79, NA.
17. U.S. Executive Order 6684 (Washington: GPO, 1934);
and U.S. Executive Order 6910-A (Washington: GPO, 1934).
18. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People,
pp. 118, 130; Cammerer to Godwin, July 9, 1935, RG 79, NA; and U.S.
Department of the Interior, "The National Park Service," by Arno B.
Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1936, pp. 102-103. The state park districts or regions were set up in
the following manner: Region one consisted of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, with a
regional office at Springfield, Massachusetts. Region two encompassed
the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, with the
administrative headquarters located in Bronxville, New York. Region
three included Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North
Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, with
headquarters at Richmond, Virginia. Region four included Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, with the administrative
center in Atlanta, Georgia. Region five was composed of Kentucky, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin, with
administrative headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. Region six was
made up of the states of Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota, North
Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, with the administrative center in Omaha,
Nebraska. Region seven consisted of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado,
Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, with headquarters in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. Region eight encompassed Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
California, and Nevada, with administrative headquarters in San
Francisco, California.
19. U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National
Park Service," by Arno Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year
Ending June 30, 1936 (Washington: GPO, 1936), pp. 101, 103; Demaray
to all Field Officials of the National Park Service, May 4, 1936, RG 79,
NA, pp. 1-3; and Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People, p. 131.
The new ECW region one was composed of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware,
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and the District of Columbia. The
administrative headquarters was in Richmond, Virginia. Region two
consisted of the states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado, with the regional headquarters in Omaha,
Nebraska. Region three consisted of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and
Arizona, with administrative headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The fourth region was made up of the states of Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, California, Nevada, and Utah, with administrative headquarters in
San Francisco, California. Demaray to Ochs, September 27, 1937, RG 79,
NA.
20. Cammerer to Washington Office, February 4,
1936, RG 79, NA; Demaray to all Field Officials of the National Park
Service, May 4, 1936, RG 79, NA; National Park Superintendents, Regional
Officers of State Parks, Division of Emergency Conservation Work
Conference, January 25, 1936, RG 79, NA, p. 2-3; Wirth, Parks,
Politics and the People, p. 118; and Wirth to Field Officers,
January 31, 1936, RG 79, NA.
21. National Park Superintendents, Regional
Officers of State Parks Division and Emergency Conservation Work
Conference, January 25, 1936. RG 79, NA; pp. 8-14
22. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People,
p. 119.
23. Cammerer to Field Officers, October 26, 1936,
RG 79, NA; Cammerer to Secretary of the Interior, December 7, 1936, RG
79, NA; Cammerer to House of Representatives Select Committee on
Conservation of Wildlife Resources, ca. 1938, RG 79, NA; Cammerer to
Secretary of the Interior February 28, 1936, RG 79, NA; Slattery to
Williams, December 23, 1936, RG 79, NA; Taylor to Assistant Director,
August 3, 1937, RG 79, NA; National Park Service Directors Staff Meeting
Minutes, September 14, 1937, RG 79, NA; Tolson to Cammerer, July 16,
1937, RG 79, NA; Tolson to Cammerer, May 26, 1937, RG 79, NA; Department
of the Interior Press Release, July 14, 1937, RG 79, NA; Ickes to Colby,
February 8, 1937, RG 79, NA; Yard to Secretary of the Geographical
Society of Philadelphia, February 3, 1937, RG 79, NA; Demaray to
Slattery, January 26, 1937, RG 79, NA; Demaray to Secretary of the
Interior, RG 79, NA; January 12, 1937, RG 79, NA; and, Wirth, Parks,
Politics and the People, p. 119.
24. Johnson, pp. 65, 92-93, 71, 12; "Army Develops
Civilian Supervision of C.C.C. Camps," American Forests
40(May 1934):224; and Johnson, pp. 66, 106-107.
25. Johnson, p. 101; and Demaray to Field Officers,
August 1, 1933, RG 79, NA.
26. Johnson, pp. 92-94, 100-101.
27. Director NPS to Field Officers, August 15, 1933, RG
79, NA; Director NPS to Field Officers, November 7, 1933, RG
79, NA; U.S. Department of the Interior, A Manual
on Emergency Conservation Work, p. 3; and Johnson, pp. 92-93.
28. Johnson, pp. 95-99; and, Demaray to Dorr, June 29,
1933, RG 79, NA.
29. Johnson, pp. 96-99; Minutes of the Advisory Council
for Emergency Conservation Work, July 19, 1933, RG 35, NA, p. 4;
Emergency Conservation Work (National Park Service Circular 37)
Side Camps, July 24, 1933, RG 79, NA, p. 1; Salmond, p. 46; and
Minutes of the National Park Service Conference of State Park
Authorities, February 27, 1935, RG 79, NA, p. 410.
30. Johnson, pp. 66, 106-107.
31. Johnson, p. 107-108; Major to Fechner, June 11,
1934, RG 35, NA; and Fechner to Upp, June 5, 1934, RG 35, NA. A sample
of one of these documents can be found in appendix D.
32. Minutes of the National Park Service Conference
of State Park Authorities, February 27, 1935, RG 79, NA, pp. 398-399,
410-411; and Johnson, pp. 101, 106-107.
33. Johnson, pp. 65, 73, 79; Salmond, pp. 172-3;
and U.S. Department of War, Civilian Conservation Corps
Regulations, p. 4.
34. Wirth to Shanklin, July 15, 1938, RG 79,
NA.
35. Salmond, pp. 171-172; and Johnson, pp. 48,
53.
36. Salmond, pp. 175-176, 200; and Johnson, pp. 54,
56.
37. Memorandum of Agreement covering Federal
Bureau Responsibility for Work done by the States on State Park, State
Forest and Private Forest Land under the Emergency Conservation Work Act
between the National Park Service and the United States Forest Service,
May 10, 1933, RG 95, NA; Wirth to Director NPS, May 10, 1933, RG 95, NA;
and Wirth to Morrell, August 10, 1933, RG 95, NA. Later in 1933 Wirth
requested that a state parks camp in Cook Forest State Park,
Pennsylvania, and possibly a forest camp in Ohio be transferred to the
Park Service state parks program, while the Park Service wanted to
transfer two camps in Missouri to the Forest Service.
38. Wirth to Morrell, August 10, 1933, NA, RG
35.
39. Cammerer to Secretary of the Interior, April 8,
1938, RG 79, NA; Wirth to all District Officers, September 27, 1934, RG
79, NA; and Wirth to District Officers, November 16, 1934, RG 79, NA.
40. Granger to Files, February 8, 1935, RG 95, NA;
Fechner to Silcox and Cammerer, April 8, 1935, RG 95, NA; Morrell to
Fechner, April 6, 1935, RG 79, NA; and Cammerer to Secretary of the
Interior, April 8, 1938, RG 79, NA.
41. Demaray to Secretary of the Interior, May 22,
1935, RG 79, NA.
42. Cammerer to Secretary of the Interior, April 8,
Wirth to Demaray, August 30, 1935, RG 79, NA; Officers, October 9, 1935,
RG 79, NA; and Schellie Officer, October 19, 1935, RG 79, NA. 1938, RG
79, NA; Wirth to Regional to Sixth Regional
43. Reed to Adjutant General, August 10, 1938, RG
407, NA, pp. 9-11; Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People, pp.
132-133; and Salmond, p. 188.
44. "Charge CCC Defrauded of $1,250,000," New
York Daily News, January 21, 1938; Newspaper clipping, "Stitely
Draws 6 to 12 Years in CCC Fraud," ca. 1938, RG 79, NA; Newspaper
clipping, "U.S. Clerk Sentenced for Theft of $84,000," January 22, 1938,
RG 79, NA; Newspaper clipping, "Intrique and Fraud Described," January
17, 1938, RG 79, NA; Newspaper clipping, Ickes Must Explain Fraud,"
January 20, 1938, RG 79, NA; "Fight Over Money Blocks Expose in Park
Service," Philadephia Record, August 1, 1937; "Officials Shift
Voucher Theft Responsibility," Washington Post, January 19, 1938;
Newspaper clipping, "No Dummy CCC Camp," January 18, 1938, RG 79, NA;
Reed to the Adjutant General, February 18, 1938, RG 407, NA; Newspaper
clipping "Fairy Tale CCC Report Denied," January 18, 1938, RG 79, NA;
Newspaper clipping, "Tapping of Wires from White House Hinted in
Inquiry," January 17, 1938, RG 79, NA; "Pay Roll Padding Evidence
Grows," Washington Star, June 17, 1937; Newspaper clipping, "Army
and Interior Deny Blame for $87,000 Fraud," ca. 1938, RG 79, NA;
Newspaper clipping "'Dummy CCC' Theft Blame Laid to War Department by
Park Head," ca. 1938, RG 79, NA; Office of the Inspector General to the
Chief of Staff, January 14, 1938, RG 407, NA; Newspaper clipping "Probe
Reveals Government's Wire-Tapping," January 17, 1938, RG 79, NA; and
Newspaper clipping "$84,000 Fraud on U.S. Bared," January 13, 1938, RG
79, NA.
Chapter 3
1. Johnson, p. 12; Albright to Field Officers, April 25, 1933, RG 79,
NA, pp. 5-6; American Youth Commission of the American Council on
Education, The Civilian Conservation Corps pp. 10-11; Salmond, p. 87;
U.S. Department of the Interior, A Manual on Emergency Conservation
Work Civilian Conservation Corps, (GPO, n.d.) pp. 6-9; Wirth to Dorr,
June 3, 1933, RG 79, NA; and U.S. Department of the Interior,
Handbook, no page.
2. U.S. Department of the Interior, A Manual on Emergency
Conservation Work Civilian Conservation Corps, (GPO, n.d.) pp. 1, 5;
American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education, The
Civilian Conservation Corps, p. 11; Demaray to Field Officers, October 2,
1933, RG 79, NA; and Albright to all State Parks Authorities, May 6,
1933, RG 95, NA.
3. Demaray to Lassiter, March 26, 1934, RG 79, NA;
Demaray to Dorr, March 27, 1934, RG 79, NA; and Emergency Conservation
Work Press Release, March 24, 1934, RG 79, NA.
4. U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation Corps,
pp. 47-48; and Wirth to McEntee, Director Civilian Conservation Corps,
May 7, 1940, RG 79, NA.
5. Wirth to District Officers, Inspectors, Park Authorities, Procurement
Officers, and Camp Superintendents, July 15, 1933, RG 79, NA, pp. 1-3;
Albright to all Field Officers, April 13, 1933, RG 79, NA; and Demaray to
Field Officers, August 1, 1933, RG 79, NA, p. 1.
6. Albright to All State Park Authorities, May 6, 1933, RG 95, NA;
U.S. Department of Labor, Handbook, pp. 9, 15; U.S. Senate, Civilian
Conservation Corps, p. 19; Johnson, pp. 93-94; Salmond, p. 41; and
U.S. Department of the Interior, Handbook, p. 1.
7. Emergency Conservation Work (National Park Circular 38) Winter
Camps, July 26, 1933, RG 79, NA, p. 1; "10,000 Replacements Ordered
for Conservation Corps," American Forests 39(August 1933):370; Associate
Director to Field Officers, August 23, 1933, RG 79, NA; "Plans Shaping
to Continue Emergency Forestry Work Through Winter," American Forests
39(September 1933):420; "Civilian Conservation Corps Recruits for New
Period," American Forests 39(November 1933):516; Demaray to Fechner,
March 16, 1935, RG 35, NA; "Civilian Conservation Corps to Continue
Another Six Months at Full Strength," American Forests 39(October
1933):464; Camp Superintendent's Narrative Report For Period from
October 1, 1933, to March 31st, 1934, for CCC Company #323 at Colonial
National Monument, April 1934, RG 35, NA; C.R. French, ";A Workable
Plan for Prefabricated Housing," American Forests 46(November,
1940):512-513; Acting Associate Director to Dorr, June 23, 1934, RG 79,
NA; Salmond, pp. 47, 136; "Selection of Men for the Civilian Conservation
Corps," Monthly Labor Review 40(May 1935):1165; U.S. Department of the
Interior, "Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations," by
Arno B. Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1933 (Washington: GPO, 1933), p. 158; Demaray to Taylor, August 24,
1933, RG 79, NA; Kieley, p. 9; and Cohen, p. 25.
8. Weatherwax to Johnston, August 29, 1939, RG 79,
NA; Wirth to Weatherwax, September 2, 1939, RG 79, NA; National Park
Service, Procedure Manual for the Civilian Conservation
Corps pp. 1-3; and Charles Price Harper, The Administration of
the Civilian Conservation Corps (Clarksburg, West Virginia:
Clarksburg Publishing Co., 1939), no page. The number and dimensions of
CCC camp structures according to the August 22, 1939, revised plan, were
as follows:
Five (5) Barracks, 20' x 120' 7-1/4"
One (1) Mess Hall and Kitchen, Type A, 20' x 120' 7-1/4"
# One (1) Technical Service Quarters, 20' x 80' 7-1/4"
One (1) Officers' Quarters, 20' x 40' 7-1/4"
* One (1) Technical Service Headquarters and storehouse Combined Building, 20' x 80' 7-1/4"
One (1) Army Headquarters and Storehouse Combined Building 20' x 70' 7-1/4"
One (1) Recreation Building, 20' x 100' 7-1/4"
One (1) Dispensary, 20' x 30' 7-1/4"
One (1) Lavatory and Bathhouse, Type A, 20' x 40' 7-1/4"
One (1) Latrine, 10' 2" x 25' 7-1/4"
One (1) Garages, 24' 5-5/8" X 60' 7-1/4"
** Four (4) Oil House, 10' 2" X 25' 7-1/4"
*** One (1) Pump House, 10' 2" X 10' 7-1/4"
One (1) Generator House, 10' 2" x 10' 7-1/4"
One (1) Blacksmith Shop, 20' X 20' 7-1/4"
One (1) Educational Building, 20' X 130' 7-1/4"
One (1) Equipment Repair & Maintenance Building, 30' 9-1/4" X 30' 9-1/4"
* - Soil Conservation Service and Division of Grazing Camps, 20' x 90' 7-1/4"
** - One Army garage; three technical services.
*** - Army 10'; technical service 15'.
# It is also the responsibility fo the Army to provide
shelter, rations, and bedding for supervisory and facilitating personnel
desiring to avail themselves of such facilities. Such personnel will
reimburse the company mess fund in cash for the value of the rations
received. Deductions for quarters are made in accordance with fiscal
regulations prescribed. Laundering of bed linen must be paid for by the
individual.
9. Demaray to Fechner, July 7, 1933, RG 35, NA; and
Stuart to Fechner, July 6, 1933, RG 79, NA.
10. U.S. Department of Labor, Handbook for
Agencies Selecting Men, pp. 1-6.
11. Robert W. Fenwick, "The Civilian Conservation
Corps: They Took to the Woods . . . and Came Out Men," Empire
Magazine (newspaper clipping file; Western Historical Collections:
University of Colorado, Boulder), no page.
12. U.S. Department of Labor, Emergency
Conservation Work Bulletin No. 1, pp. 2-3.
13. ECW, First Report of the Director of
Emergency Conservation Work for the Period April 5, 1933 to September
30, 1933, by Robert Fechner (Washington: GPO, 1934), p. 24.
14. Salmond, p. 135.
15. "President Inspects Five Forest Camps," The
New York Times, August 13, 1933, p. 3; Fenwick, "The Civilian
Conservation Corps: They Took to the Woods . . . and Came Out Men,"
Empire Magazine, no page; Salmond, pp. 135, 137; and U.S.
Department of Labor, Handbook, p. 11. On a trip down to Warm
Springs, Georgia, in 1938, President Roosevelt was disappointed in the
poor quality of dress uniforms that he observed worn by CCC enrollees.
He believed that the shoddy quality of the uniforms contributed to the
low morale of the men and asked the Department of the Navy to design a
special CCC uniform. This new uniform was a better looking spruce green
coat and pants with the same olive drab shirt, black necktie, and black
shoes. The uniform was in widespread use in 1939. Salmond, pp. 137-138;
and U.S. Department of Labor, "Eight Years of CCC Operations, 1933 to
1941," Monthly Labor Review, 52(June 1941):1409.
16. "President Inspects Five Forest Camps," The
New York Times, August 13, 1933, p. 3; Cohen, p. 8; and The
Civilian Conservation Corps: What It Is and What It Does, p. 7.
17. Cohen, pp. 18, 25; U.S. Department of the
Interior, A Manual on Emergency Conservation Work, Civilian
Conservation Corps (Washington: GPO, 1939), pp. 4, 5; Executive
Order 6126, May 8, 1933, RG 79, NA; and U.S. Senate, Civilian
Conservation Corps, p. 3.
18. Charles H. Taylor, "Progress and
Accomplishments of the Civilian Conservation Corps," speech given before
Kiwanis Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1938; Toleson to Field
Officers, August 4, 1938, RG 79, NA; and Wirth, Parks, Politics and
the People, pp. 125-126.
19. Department of the Interior, Annual Report
for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1941 (Washington: GPO, 1941), pp.
276-277; U.S. Department of Labor, "Eight Years of CCC Operations, 1933
to 1941," Monthly Labor Review 52(June 1941):1408; and American
Youth Commission of the American Council on Education, The Civilian
Conservation Corps (n.p., n.d.), p. 16.
20. American Youth Commission of the American
Council on Education, The Civilian Conservation Corps, p. 5.
21. Salmond, p. 135; and American Youth Commission
of the American Council on Education, The Civilian Conservation
Corps, p. 9.
22. "Forest and Men Benefitted by CCC," The New
York Times, October 8, 1933, sec. 9, p. 2; The Civilian
Conservation Corps: What It Is and What It Does, p. 7; U.S. Senate,
Civilian Conservation Corps, pp. 51-52; and Salmond, p. 139. The
second year of the CCC found the parks modifying the work schedules for
local conditions. For example, at Colonial National Monument, the park
officials found that if the recruits were given an hour for lunch that
they would play around, get lost in the woods, or get out of the mood
for working. The park solved this problem by shortening the lunch period
to half an hour and bringing the men back to camp at 3:30 p.m. Camp
Superintendent's Narrative Report for Period from October 1st, 1933 to
March 31st, 1934 for CCC Company #323 at Colonial National Monument, RG
35, NA.
23. Howard W. Oxley, "Recreation in the CCC Camps,"
School Life: Official Journal of the U.S. Office of Education,
26(February 1941):151-152; Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People,
p. 99; Albright to Fechner, July 8, 1933, RG 35, NA; Department of the
Interior Press Release, August 23, 1937, RG 79, NA; Weekly Report for
the Department of the Interior to the Director of the Emergency
Conservation Work, February 3, 1937, RG 35, NA; Kittredge to National
Park Service Director, November 4, 1937, RG 79, NA; Weekly Report for
the Department of the Interior to the Director of the Civilian
Conservation Corps, October 14, 1937, RG 35, NA; and Salmond, p.
131.
24. "Study Hour in the CCC," The New York
Times, October 1, 1933, sec. 9, p. 11; and Salmond, pp. 140-141.
25. Salmond, p. 140-151; ECW, Second Report of
the Director of Emergency Conservation Work for the Period April 5, 1933
to March 31, 1934 by Robert Fechner (Washington: GPO, 1934), p. 5;
and "Forests and Men Benefitted by CCC," The New York Times,
October 8, 1933, sec. 9, p. 2.
26. Salmond, p. 141; The Civilian Conservation
Corps: What It Is and What It Does, p. 7.
27. Cohen, p. 48; U.S. Department of Labor,
Handbook pp. 14-15; U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation
Corps, p. 52; Salmond, p. 142; and U.S. Department of Labor,
Emergency Conservation Work Bulletin No. 1, p. 6.
28. The Civilian Conservation Corps: What It Is
and What It Does, p. 6; and U.S. Department of Labor, Emergency
Conservation Work Bulletin No. 1, p. 7.
29. U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National
Park Service Summary of the Director's Report," in Annual Report for
the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1932 (Washington: GPO, 1932), p. 109;
Associate Director, Office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations
to Orr, ca. 1933, RG 79, NA; Wirth, Parks, Politics and the
People, p. 88; Demaray to Field Officers, August 1, 1933, RG 79, NA;
and U.S. Department of the Interior, "Office of National Parks,
Buildings, and Reservations," by Arno B. Cammerer, in Annual Report
for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1933 (Washington: GPO, 1933) p.
185.
30. "Study Hour in the CCC," The New York
Times, October 1, 1933, sec. 9, p. 11; Wirth to Morrell, January 27,
1934, RG 95, NA; National Park Service Press Release, January 20, 1934,
RG 79, NA; Department of the Interior Press Release, January 20, 1934,
RG 79, NA; and "Three R's and the CCC," American Forests 40(March
1934):142.
31. Emergency Conservation Work Press Release, ca.
1933, RG 79, NA; "Office of National Parks, Buildings, and
Reservations," by Arno Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year
Ended June 30, 1933 (Washington: GPO, 1933), p. 167; Emergency
Conservation Work Press Release, October 18, 1933, RG 79, NA; Director
NPS to Park Superintendents, Naturalists, Historians, State Park
District Officers and Inspectors, October 23, 1933, RG 79, NA; and
Stupka to Director NPS, November 3, 1933, RG 79, NA.
32. U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation
Corps, p. 31; Salmond, pp. 47, 50; The Civilian Conservation
Corps: What It Is and What It Does, p. 8; and Tenley to Members of
Committee on Job Training, April 14, 1936, RG 79, NA.
33. ECW, Second Report of the Director of
Emergency Conservation Work for the Period April 5, 1933 March 31,
1934 by Robert Fechner (Washington: GPO, 1934), p. 7; "Marsh Resigns
as CCC Educational Director," American Forests 41(March
1935):146; "The Civilian Conservation Corps," American Forests
41(September 1935):533; and Johnson, pp. 122-123.
34. U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National
Park Service," Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1934 (Washington: GPO, 1934), p. 184; Salmond, p. 51; U.S. Senate,
Civilian Conservation Corps, p. 71; Oxley, "Recreation in the CCC
Camps," p. 151; "CCC Educational Advisors Named," American
Forests 40(March 1934):124; "President Approves Education Program
for CCC," American Forests 40(January, 1934):35; "Three R's and
the CCC," American Forests 40(March 1934):152; and Conference of
Superintendents and Field Officers, November 19-23, 1934, RG 79, NA, pp.
159-161.
35. ECW, Two Years of Emergency Conservation
Work, p. 8; Johnson, p. 135; Evison to all Regional Officers and
Inspectors, September 27, 1935, RG 79, NA; Goodwin to Director,
September 30, 1935, RG 79, NA; and "CCC Enrollment Lagging," American
Forests 41(September 1935):552.
36. Wirth to Field Officers, June 24, 1936, RG 79,
NA; U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National Park Service," by
Arno Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30,
1936, pp. 127-128; Associate Regional Director to Director, November
8, 1938, RG 79, NA; and Statement of Mr. Robert Fechner, Director of
Emergency Conservation Work with Regard to the Proposed Bill for Making
the Civilian Conservation Corps Permanent, ca. 1937, RG 35, NA, pp.
6-7.
37. "CCC Extended for Three Years," American
Forests 43(August 1937):401; Frank Ernest Hill, "The CCC Marches
Toward a New Destiny," in The New Deal, ed. Carl N. Degler (New
York: Quadrangle Books, 1970), p. 124; Department of the Interior Press
Release, May 14, 1937, RG 79, NA; CCC, U.S. Department of the Interior,
Responsibility for Job Training by Guy Arthur, (Washington: GPO,
1940, pp. 1-3; Johnson, p. 134; and Salmond, pp. 163-164.
38. Zerkel to Albright, June 20, 1933, RG 79, NA;
U.S. Department of Labor, Handbook, p. 13; "Forest and Men
Benefitted by CCC," The New York Times, October 8, 1933, sec. 9,
p. 2; Livingston to White, October 29, 1937, RG 79, NA; "10,000
Replacements Ordered for Conservation Corps," American Forests
39(August 1933):370; Johnson, p. 55; and Superintendent's Monthly Report
for Glacier National Park for June 1940, July 13, 1940, RG 79, NA.
39. Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr., "The Civilian
Conservation Corps in South Dakota," South Dakota History,
9(Winter 1980):4; Department of the Interior Press Release, October 11,
1933, RG 79, NA; C.N. Alleger and L.A. Glyre, comps., History of the
Civilian Conservation Corps in Colorado (Denver: Western Newspaper
Union, 1936), p. 10.
40. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People,
p. 106; Demaray to Field Officers, August 1, 1933, RG 79, NA; Albright
to Barret, May 19, 1933, RG 79, NA; Barret to Roosevelt, May 19, 1933,
RG 79, NA; Abbott to Dorr, August 29, 1935, RG 79, NA; and John B.
Byrne, "The Civilian Conservation Corps in Virginia, 1933-1942"
(Master's thesis, University of Montana, 1982), pp. 23-24.
41. "Forest Camp Bears Fool East Side Boys," The
New York Times, July 4, 1933, p. 8; Schlessinger, The Coming of
the New Deal, vol. 2 of The Age of Roosevelt, pp. 338-339,
Johnson, pp. 221-222; Minutes of the Advisory Council for Emergency
Conservation Work, June 27, 1933, RG 35, NA, p. 9; Toll to Albright,
June 21, 1933, RG 79, NA; and Demaray to Guthrie, March 27, 1934, RG 35,
NA.
42. Minutes of the Advisory Council for Emergency
Conservation Work, June 23, 1933, RG 35, NA, pp. 4, 7-8; Minutes of the
Advisory Council for Emergency Conservation Work, July 19, 1933, RG 35,
NA, p. 2; National Park Service, Civilian Conservation Corps Program
of the Department of the Interior, March 1933 to June 30, 1943 by
Conrad Wirth (Washington: GPO, 1944) pp. 10-11; and Minutes of the
Advisory Council for Emergency Conservation Work, June 27, 1933, RG 35,
NA, p. 4.
43. Bryant to Lassiter, October 20, 1934, RG 79,
NA; Demaray to Dorr, March 27, 1934, RG 79, NA; Austin T. Haws, "Looking
Ahead with the CCC," American Forests 41(May 1935):214; Graves to
Secretary of the Department of the Interior, October 8, 1934, RG 79, NA;
and "Colorado CWA Men Ousted by Hopkins," The New York Times,
January 30, 1934, p. 4.
44. Newspaper clipping from Washington Post,
September 17, 1934, RG 79, NA, no page; and Fechner to Cammerer, October
5, 1934, RG 79, NA.
45. Emergency Conservation Work Press Release, May
23, 1934, RG 79, NA; and Evison to District Officers, April 17, 1934, RG
79, NA.
46. Department of the Interior Press Release, March
31, 1934, RG 79, NA.
47. "CCC Boys Beat Officers," The New York
Times, November 7, 1934, p. 30.
48. Taylor to Lassiter, September 24, 1934, RG 79,
NA.
49. Wirth to all Regional Officers, December 16,
1935, RG 79, NA; Strong to Cammerer, November 4, 1936, RG 35, NA; Wirth
to Field Officers, June 25, 1936, RG 79, NA; White to Boulen, May 20,
1936, RG 79, NA; Carlos C. Campbell, Birth of a National Park in the
Great Smoky Mountains (University of Tennessee Press: Knoxville,
1960) pp. 125-126; Michael Frome, Strangers in High Places: The Story
of the Great Smoky Mountains (University of Tennessee Press:
Knoxville, 1966), p. 222; Dube to Evison, October 14, 1937, RG 79, NA;
Libbey to Director, NPS, August 31, 1937, RG 79, NA; The New York
Times, August 6, 1936, p. 13; Ovid Butler, "Misrepresenting the
CCC," American Forests 52(September 1936):413; and Salmond, p.
186.
50. Johnson, pp. 142-144; Salmond, pp. 88, 96-97;
and U.S. Department of Labor, National Emergency Conservation Work:
What It Is--How It Operates (Washington: 1933), p. 4.
51. Johnson, pp. 154-155; "Eight Years of CCC
Operations, 1933-1941," Monthly Labor Review 52(June 1941):1412;
Salmond, pp. 88-92, 96; Robert F. Hunter, "Virginia and the New Deal,"
in The New Deal: The State Level, vol. 2, ed. Braemen, Bremner,
and Brody (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1975), p. 127; and,
Raymond Walters, "The New Deal and the Negro," in The New Deal: The
National Level, vol. 1, ed. Braeman, Bremner, and Brody (Columbus:
Ohio State University Press, 1975), pp. 191-192.
52. Minutes of the Advisory Council for Emergency
Conservation Work, June 10, 1933, RG 35, NA, p. 7; Superintendent's
Annual Report for Gettysburg National Military Park for Year Ending in
September 30, 1934, September 30, 1934, RG 79, NA; Emergency
Conservation Work Press Release, December 8, 1933, RG 79, NA; Johnson,
p. 173; and Salmond, pp. 95-96.
53. Johnson, pp. 147, 159; Fechner to Cammerer,
July 25, 1935, RG 35, NA; Cammerer to Fechner, April 24, 1935, RG 35,
NA; Minutes of the Advisory Council for Emergency Conservation Work,
September 9, 1935, RG 35, NA, pp. 15-16; Merriam to Regional Officers,
August 1, 1935, RG 79, NA; Tolson to All Field Officers, July 31, 1935,
RG 35, NA; Salmond, pp. 98-99; and Federal Security Agency, The
Civilian Conservation Corps and Colored Youth (Washington: GPO,
1940), p. 4.
54. Federal Security Agency, The Civilian
Conservation Corps and Colored Youth, pp. 1-5; Superintendent's
Annual Report for Gettysburg National Military Park for Fiscal Year
Ended June 30, 1940, RG 79, NA; and Johnson, pp. 167-168.
55. Johnson, p. 167; Smith to Russell, ca. 1936, RG
79, NA; Spalding to Regional Office, Region No. 1, September 10, 1936,
RG 79, NA; and Superintendent's Monthly Report for Mammoth Cave
National Park, ca. 1936, RG 79, NA.
56. Fechner to Wirth, November 16, 1937, RG 79, NA;
Evison to Smith, October 28, 1937, RG 79, NA; McColm to Director NPS,
August 13, 1938, RG 79, NA; Salmond, p. 189; Minutes of the Advisory
Council for the Civilian Conservation Corps, August 29, 1938, RG 35, NA,
pp. 1-4; Superintendent's Annual Report for Getttysburg National
Military Park for Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938, July 2, 1938, RG
79, NA; Savannah Chamber of Commerce to Director National Park Service,
June 3, 1938, RG 79, NA; Evison to Smith, August 3, 1938, RG 79, NA;
Superintendent's Monthly Report for Mammoth Cave National Park for
December 1937, January 8, 1938, RG 79, NA; Roberts to Director
National Park Service, July 19, 1938, RG 79, NA; Smith to Russell,
August 5, 1938, RG 79, NA; and Roberts to Director National Park
Service, July 25, 1938, RG 79, NA.
57. Demaray to Cammerer, March 25, 1939, RG 79, NA;
Scoyen to Regional Director, July 10, 1939, RG 79, NA; Scoyen to
Regional Director, July 31, 1939, RG 79, NA; and Scoyen to Regional
Director, March 21, 1940, RG 79, NA.
58. Burlew to Humphrey, January 6, 1941, RG 79, NA;
Gurney to Regional Director, Region One, July 8, 1940, RG 79, NA;
Tilleson to Director, March 14, 1940, RG 79, NA; Federal Security
Agency, The Civilian Conservation Corps and Colored Youth, pp.
1-5; Superintendent's Annual Report for Gettysburg National Military
Park for Fiscal Year Ended June 3, 1940, September 28, 1940, RG 79,
NA; and National Park Service Press Release, ca. 1942, RG 79, NA.
59. "CCC End Affects Negroes," The Pittsburg
Courier, June 13, 1942, p. 18.
Chapter 4
1. "Praises CCC Work in National Park," The New
York Times, November 29, 1935, p. 36; and Emergency Conservation
Work Press Release, October 23, 1933, RG 79, NA. In Glacier National
Park in 1933 the ECW cleared fire-burned areas to encourage new growth.
Albright to Fechner, July 8, 1933, RG 35, NA.
2. Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
October 23, 1933, RG 79, NA.
3. Emergency Conservation Work Press Release, May
23, 1934, RG 79, NA; and Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
October 5, 1934, RG 79, NA.
4. Forestry Circular 1, March 25, 1935, RG 79, NA;
Demaray to Fechner, March 16, 1935, RG 35, NA, p. 5; and U.S. Department
of the Interior, Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1935 (Washington: GPO, 1935), p. 40.
5. Coffman to National Park Superintendents and
Custodians, August 3, 1936, RG 79, NA; McConaghie to Coffman, August 13,
1936, RG 79, NA; Superintendent Yosemite National Park to Director,
National Park Service, August 17, 1936, RG 79, NA; Rogers to Director,
National Park Service, August 17, 1936, RG 79, NA; Vincent to Coffman,
August 22, 1936, RG 79, NA; White to Coffman, September 15, 1936, RG 79,
NA; and "CCC Saved Isle Royal Timber," The New York Times,
September 14, 1936, p. 29.
6. Cammerer to Field Officers, March 10, 1937, RG
79, NA; Civilian Conservation Corps Press Release, July 21, 1937, RG 79,
NA; Weekly Report for the Department of the Interior to the Director of
the Civilian Conservation Corps, September 16, 1937, RG 35, NA; and
"Forest Fire Cut Laid to CCC," The New York Times, October 26,
1937, p. 46.
7. U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National
Park Service," by Arno Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year
Ended June 30, 1937, pp. 41-43, 52; Superintendents Conference,
January 17-22, 1938, RG 79, NA; p. 98-100; and Erle Kauffman, "Death in
Blackwater Canyon," American Forests 43 (November 1937):534,
558.
8. "Forest Fire Methods for CCC," American
Forests 44(September 1938):424.
9. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report
for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1939 (Washington: GPO, 1939),
pp. 273-274, 296.
10. U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National
Park Service, Summary of the Director's Report," in Annual Report for
the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1932 (Washington: GPO, 1932), p.
111.
11. U.S. Department of the Interior, "Office of
National Parks, Buildings and Reservations," by Arno B. Cammerer, in
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1933
(Washington: GPO, 1933), pp. 157, 180; and Superintendent Yosemite
National Park to Director of the National Park Service, June 6, 1934, RG
95, NA.
12. General 0-204-0, Forestry Commission, RG 79,
NA, pp. 5, 9-11; Department of the Interior Press Release, May 6, 1936,
RG 79, NA; Statement of Arno B. Cammerer, Director of National Park
Service to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Conservation
of Wildlife Resources, ca. 1938, RG 79, NA, p. 3; U.S. Department of the
Interior, "The National Park Service," by Arno Cammerer, in Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1936, (Washington: GPO,
1936) pp. 117-118, 131; "Wildlife Work Under E.C.W. in the National
Parks and Monuments," RG 79, NA, pp. 21-22, 32-34; and U.S. Department
of the Interior, Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1938 (Washington: GPO, 1938), p. 19.
13. Department of the Interior Press Release, April
18, 1939, RG 79, NA.
14. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People,
p. 113.
15. Glimpses of National Parks, p. 12; and
Albright to Field Officers, June 7, 1933, RG 79, NA.
16. Conference of Superintendents and Field
Officers, November 19-23, 1934, RG 79, NA, pp. 29-30, 273, 315-316; and
Peterson to Breeze, January 18, 1934, RG 79, NA.
17. Radio Address by Robert Fechner, John D.
Coffman, and Conrad L. Wirth, April 6, 1935, RG 35, NA, p. 10.
18. Address of Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes to the National Park Service Conference of State Park Authorities,
Washington, D.C., February 25, 1935, RG 79, NA, pp. 15-16.
19. National Park Service Conference of State Park
Authorities, Washington, D.C., February 25, 1935, RG 79, NA, pp. 11, 35;
U.S. Department of the Interior, A Manual on Emergency
Conservation Work, p. 3; Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
May 17, 1935, RG 79, NA; and Bryant to NPS Director, October 11, 1935,
RG 79, NA.
20. Leonard William Wing, "Naturalize the Forest
for Wildlife," American Forests 42(January 1936) :293; National
Park Superintendents, Regional Officers of State Parks Division and
Emergency Conservation Work Conference, January 25, 1936, RG 79, NA;
"Wildlife Work under E.C.W. in the National Parks and Monuments," RG 79,
NA, p. 40; and Report of Superintendents Conference, January 23-24,
1936, RG 79, NA, pp. 24-25.
21. "CCC Needs Clearer Policy on Conservation,"
American Forests 44(May 1938):224; Superintendents Conference,
January 17-22, 1938, RG 79, NA, p. 50; National Park Service,
Procedure Manual for the Civilian Conservation Corps (Washington:
GPO, 1939), p. 5; and Demaray to Troy, February 25, 1939, RG 79, NA.
22. Conference of Superintendents and Field
Officers, November 19-23, 1934, RG 79, NA, pp. 29-30, 273, 315-316.
23. Ibid., pp. 45, 298.
24. Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
August 23, 1935, RG 79, NA; and "Praises CCC work in National Park,"
The New York Times, November 29, 1935, p. 36.
25. "Wildlife Work Under E.C.W. in the National
Parks and Monuments," RG 79, NA, pp. 20-30; and Weekly Report for the
Department of the Interior to the Director of Emergency Conservation
Work, February 28, 1935, RG 35, NA, p. 1.
26. Wirth to Washington Office Technical Staff,
August 1, 1935, RG 79, NA, pp. 1, 3-4.
27. Weekly Report for the Department of the
Interior to the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, October 14,
1936, RG 35, NA; and U.S. Department of the Interior "The National Park
Service," by Arno B. Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year
Ended June 30, 1936 (Washington: GPO, 1936), pp. 120-121.
28. Statement of Arno B. Cammerer, Director of
National Park Service to the House of Representatives Select Committee
on Conservation of Wildlife Resources, ca. 1938, RG 79, NA, p. 6.
29. Harlan D. Unrau and G. Frank Williss,
Administrative History: Expansion of the National Park Service in the
1930s (Washington: National Park Service, 1983), p. 66; "The
National Park Service," The Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 1934 (Washington: GPO, 1934), p. 182; and Department of the
Interior Press Release, June 7, 1938, RG 79, NA, p. 5. Unrau and
Williss, Expansion of the National Park Service in the 1930s,
gives a much more detailed discussion of this period in National Park
Service history.
30. MacArthur to Fechner, May 10, 1933, RG 407,
NA.
31. U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National
Park Service," in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
1934 (Washington: GPO, 1934), p. 182; Emergency Conservation Work
Press Release, March 28, 1934, RG 79, NA; "CCC Continues Work in
Morristown Park," The New York Times, October 21, 1934, sec. 2,
p. 14; and Emergency Conservation Work Press Release, August 12, 1934,
RG 79, NA.
32. Conference of Superintendents and Field
Officers, November 19-23, 1934, RG 79, NA, pp. 302, 437; and Emergency
Conservation Work, Suggested Portion of an Article for Mr. Fechner's
Signature, ca. 1934, RG 79, NA.
33. Department of the Interior Press Release, June
9, 1938, RG 79, NA, pp. 1-5; Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
August 12, 1934, RG 79, NA; Conference of Superintendents and Field
Officers, November 19-23, 1934, RG 79, NA, p. 308; Robert Fechner,
"History and Emergency Conservation," ca. 1934, RG 79, NA, pp. 1-5, 7;
and Emergency Conservation Work Press Releases, October 9, July 6, July
7, March 28, 1934, and April 9, 1941, RG 79, NA.
34. Radio Address by Robert Fechner, John D.
Coffman, and Conrad L. Wirth, April 6, 1935, RG 35, NA, pp. 5-7; ECW,
Report of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work From the Period
Extending from April, 1933 to June 30, 1935 by Robert Fechner
(Washington: GPO, 1935); Byrne, pp. 49, 52; Demaray to Fechner, March
16, 1935, RG 35, NA; and Booth to Superintendent, Colonial National
Monument, April 11, 1935, RG 79, NA.
35. National Park Service Conference of State Park
Authorities, Washington, D.C., February 25, 1935, RG 79, NA, pp. 35-36;
U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National Park Service," by Arno
Cammerer, in Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30,
1936 (Washington: GPO, 1936), pp. 114-1 15; Cammerer to Fechner,
April 9, 1935, RG 79, NA; and Department of the Interior Press Release,
December 13, 1935, RG 79, NA.
36. Weekly Report for the Department of the
Interior to the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, February
24, 1934, RG 35, NA; Weekly Reports for the Department of the Interior
to the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, November 4, 1937,
September 16, 1937, and November 24, 1937, RG 35, NA; Weekly Report for
the Department of the Interior to the Director of the Emergency
Conservation Work, November 11, 1936, RG 35, NA; Weekly Report for the
Department of the Interior to the Director of the Civilian Conservation
Corps, November 18, 1937, and October 14, 1937, RG 35, NA; Weekly Report
for the Department of the Interior to the Director of the Emergency
Conservation Work, June 17, 1937, RG 35, NA; Department of the Interior
Press Release, June 16, 1938, RG 35, NA; and Civilian Conservation Corps
Press Release, November 21, 1938, RG 79, NA.
37. Address by Robert Fechner to American Planning
and Civic Association, January 20, 1938, RG 79, NA.
38. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1939 (Washington: GPO,
1939) p. 275; Superintendents Conference, January 17-22, 1938, RG 79,
NA, p. 180; "Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Form National Recreation
Area," American Forests 44(October 1938):469; and Demaray to
Troy, February 25, 1939, RG 79, NA.
39. Assistant Chief, Project Development Division,
to Gerner, October 30, 1940, RG 79, NA; Taylor to Acting Director of the
National Park Service, June 24, 1940, RG 79, NA; Federal Security
Administration, Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian
Conservation Corps, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1940 (Washington:
GPO, 1941), p. 46; Superintendents Annual Report for 1941 Fiscal Year
for Colonial Historical Park, July 17, 1941, RG 79, NA; and U.S.
Department of the Interior, Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 1941 (Washington: GPO, 1941), pp. 285-286.
40. National Park Service Press Release, January
20, 1934, RG 79, NA; Walters to McNary, October 31, 1934, RG 79, NA; and
Wirth, "Parks for the Millions," American Forests 43(November
1936):505, 531.
41. Weekly Report for the Department of the
Interior to the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, November
27, 1936, RG 35, NA; "The National Park Service," by Arno Cammerer, in
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1936, p. 104;
and Department o the Interior Press Releases, May 15, 1937, March 9,
1937, February 9, 1938, and November 10, 1936, RG 79, NA.
42. Merriam to Branch of Planning, ca. 1935, RG 79,
NA; Wirth to Hogan, February 16, 1935, RG 79, NA; Demaray to Washington
Office, August 7, 1936, RG 79, NA; U.S. Department of the Interior,
"Then National Park Service," by Arno B. Cammerer, in Annual Report
for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1937 (Washington: GPO, 1937),
pp. 38-39; Department of the Interior Press Release, October 22, 1937,
RG 79, NA; Demaray to Superintendent, Yosemite National Park, January
19, 1937, RG 79, NA; Wirth to Regional Officers and Project Managers,
December 23, 1935, RG 79, NA; and U.S. Department of the Interior "The
National Park Service," by Arno B. Cammerer, in Annual Report for the
Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1936, p. 101.
43. Department of the Interior Press Release,
December 13, 1935, RG 79, NA; ECW Press Release, August 23, 1935, RG 79,
NA; and Demaray to Washington Office, August 7, 1936, RG 79, NA.
44. Department of the Interior Press Release,
January 23, 1938, RG 79, NA; National Park Service Press Release, April
22, 1938, RG 79, NA; and Civilian Conservation Corps Press Release,
August 1, 1938, RG 79, NA.
45. Civilian Conservation Corps Press Release, July
31, 1938, RG 79, NA.
46. Address by Robert Fechner to American Planning
and Civic Association, January 20, 1938, RG 79, NA.
47. Federal Security Administration, Annual
Report, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1940, p. 48; Director's Staff
Meeting, National Park Service, October 7, 1942, RG 79, NA; U.S.
Department of the Interior, Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 1944 (Washington: GPO, 1944), p. 202; and U. S. Department
of the Interior, Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for
the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1945 Washington: GPO, 1945), pp.
213-214.
48. Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
November 14, 1934, RG 79, NA; Weekly Report for the Department of the
Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, October 26, 1934, RG 35,
NA, pp. 1-2; and Department of the Interior Press Release, August 15,
1934, RG 79, NA.
49. Ickes Press Releases, November 19, 1933, RG 79,
NA; Fechner, "My Hopes for the CCC," American Forests 45(January
1939):30; U.S. Department of the Interior, "Office of National Parks,
Buildings and Reservations," by Arno B. Cammerer, in Annual Report
for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1933 (Washington: GPO, 1933), pp.
157-158; Fechner, "The Corps on Review," American Forests
41(April 1935):167; ECW, Two Years of Emergency Conservation
Work, pp. 2-3; and Fechner, Radio Address, October 24, 1934, RG 79,
NA, p. 2.
50. Goodwin to Director, September 30, 1935, RG 79,
NA.
51. "CCC for Virgin Islands," The New York
Times, February 14, 1935, p. 19; Cammerer to Secretary of the
Interior, March 30, 1940, RG 79, NA; Weekly Report for the Department of
the Interior to the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, August
22, 1935, RG 35, NA; and Superintendent Isle Royale National Park to
Regional Director, Region Two, July 10, 1952, RG 79, NA.
52. Evison to Fourth Regional Office, December 20,
1935, RG 79, NA; and Fechner to Demaray, January 23, 1935, RG 35,
NA.
53. Weekly Report for the Department of the
Interior to the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, November 27
and 11, 1936, RG 35, NA; Superintendent's Monthly Report for Glacier
National Park for October 1936, November 1936, RG 35, NA; Weekly Report
for the Department of the Interior to the Director of the Emergency
Conservation Work, August 20, 1936, RG 35, NA; Weekly Report for the
Department of the Interior to the Director of the Emergency Conservation
Work, October 14, 1936, RG 35, NA; U.S. Department of the Interior, "The
National Park Service," by Arno B. Cammerer in the Annual Report for
the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1936 p. 103; Glacier National Park
Press Release, April 1936, RG 79, NA; and Wirth, " Parks, Politics
and the People," p. 120.
54. Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People,
p. 193; and Interview with Michael H. Bureman, Historian, and Nathaniel
Kuykendall, Planner, February 21, 1984.
55. Department of the Interior Press Release, ca.
1938, RG 79, NA; Weekly Report for the Department of the Interior to the
Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, March 17, 1937, RG 35, NA;
"20,000 Trees in Seedling Plan," The New York Times, May 23,
1937, p. 9; Acting Director, National Park Service, to Edwards, January
29, 1937, RG 79, NA; Weekly Report for the Department of the Interior to
the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, February 3, 1937, RG
35, NA; Civilian Conservation Corps Press Release, ca. 1938, RG 79, NA;
and U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report for the Fiscal
Year Ended June 30, 1938 (Washington: GPO, 1938), p. 19.
56. Emergency Conservation Work Press Release,
January 22, 1934, RG 79, NA; Albright to Field Officers, April 8, 1933,
RG 79, NA; U.S. Department of Labor, Emergency Conservation Work
Bulletin No. 1, pg. 5; Salmond, pp. 46, 139; ECW, Report of the
Director of Emergency Conservation Work From April, 1933 to June 30,
1935 (Washington: GPO, 1935), pp. 31-32; Emergency Conservation Work
Press Release, December 21, 1933, RG 79, NA; Department of the Interior
Press Release, August 3, 1933, RG 79, NA; and ECW, First Report of
the Director of Emergency Conservation Work for the Period April 5, 1933
to September 30, 1933 (Washington: GPO, 1934), pp. 50-52.
57. Civilian Conservation Corps Weekly Report, June
9, 1938, RG 35, NA; Weekly Report for the Department of the Interior to
the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, March 3, 1938, RG 35,
NA; Glacier National Park Press Release, April 3, 1938, RG 79, NA;
Civilian Conservation Corps Press Release, ca. 1938, RG 79, NA; and CCC,
Annual Report of the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps,
Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938 (Washington: GPO, 1939), p. 43.
58. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1939 (Washington: GPO,
1939), pp. 64-265, 268, 275; Department of the Interior Press Release,
May 17, 1939, RG 79, NA; and Department of the Interior Press Release,
June 27, 1939, RG 79, NA.
59. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual
Report for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1941 (Washington: GPO,
1941, pp. 300, 303, 456-457; and Kelley to Director, December 20, 1940,
RG 79, NA.
Chapter 5
1. Byrne, p. 1; "Eight Years of CCC Operations,
1933 to 1941," Monthly Labor Review 52 (June 1941):1405; Robert Y.
Stuart, "That 250,000-Man Job," American Forests 39(May
1933):195; Albright to Fechner, July 8, 1933, RG 35, NA; Fechner to
Roosevelt, April 5, 1935, RG 79, NA; ECW, Two Years of
Emergency Conservation Work, p. 1; "Fechner
Reviews Six Years of CCC Conservation Work," American Forests 45(August
1939):418; Arthur C. Ringland, "The Patriotism of Peace,"
American Forests 40(January 1934):4; U.S. Senate, Civilian
Conservation Corps, pp. 1, 17; Albright to Field Officers, April
8, 1933, RG 79, NA; Wirth, Parks, Politics and the Peo p le, p. 88; and
Fechner, "The Corps on Review," American Forests
41(April 1935):166.
2. U.S. Department of Labor, Emergency Conservation Work
Bulletin No. 1, p. 1; ECW, Second Report of the Director of Emergency
Conservation Work for the Period September 30, 1933 to March 31,1934
(Washington: GPO, 1934), pp. 4-5; U.S. Department of the Interior,
"The National Park Service," Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 1934 (Washington: GPO, 1934), p. 168; ECW, Two Years of
Emergency Conservation Work pp. 4-5; Wirth, "Parks for the Millions,"
American Forests 52(November 1936):505; Hengstler to Keeley,
October 26, 1936, RG 79, NA; ECW, Report of the Director of Emergency
Conservation Work from the Period Extending from April, 1933 to June ,
1935 by Robert Fechner (Washington: GPO, 1935), pp. 34-35;
Department of the Interior Press Release, ca. 1938, RG 79, NA; and
Wirth Parks, Politics and the People, pp. 149-150.
3. Demaray to Fechner, March 16, 1935, RG 35, NA;
Salmond, p. 47. A list of the ECW films made between 1933 and 1935 can
be found in Appendix F.
4. "President Inspects Five Forest Camps," The
New York Times, August 13, 1933, p. 3.
5. "Fechner to Recommend Continuation of CCC,"
American Forests 40(October 1934):490; Emergency Conservation Work Press
Releases, January 22, 1934, April 11, 1934, and August 23, 1935, RG
79, NA; and "President Roosevelt to Request
Continuation of the Civilian Conservation Corps," American
Forests 40(November 1934):540. At Death Valley National Monument,
campgrounds, wells, ranger stations, and road improvement work
accommodated public use. At Mesa Verde National Park an extensive
erosion control and road improvement project was undertaken. At Sequoia
National Park the ECW was used to improve inadequate park
facilities.
6. Emergency Conservation Work Press Release, July 27,
1934, RG 79, NA; Camp Superintendents' Narrative Report For Period
From October 1st, 1933 to March 31st, 1934 for CCC Company #323 at
Colonial National Monument, April 1934, RG 35, NA; and Acree to Floyd B.
Flickinger, January 11, 1935, RG 79, NA.
7. "President Orders the Civilian Conservation
Corps Doubled," American Forests 41(May 1935):240; ECW,
Report of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work
From the Period Extending from April, 1933 to June 30, 1935 by Robert
Fechner, (Washington: GPO, 1935), pp. 1, 31; Wirth to Hogan, February 16,
1935, RG 79, NA; Ickes to Roosevelt, ca. 1935, RG 79, NA; "The Civilian
Conservation Corps," American Forests 41(September 1935):532; and,
Wirth, "Parks for the Millions," American Forests 41(November 1936):531.
8. "Roosevelt's Speech at Park," The New
York Times, July 4, 1936, p. 3; Charles W. Hurd,
"Roosevelt Urges New Park Areas to Correct 'Tragedy of Waste,'" The
New York Times, July 4, 1936, p. 1; "Work Well Done," The New York Times,
July 4, 1936, p. 12; U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation Corps p. 26;
and Weekly Report for the Department of the Interior to the Director of the
Emergency Conservation Work, July 16, 1936, RG 35, NA.
9. Weekly Report for the Department of the Interior to
the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work, July 2, 1936, RG 35,
NA; Weekly Report for the Department of the Interior to the Director of
the Civilian Conservation Corps, October 21, 1937, RG 35, NA;
"Forest and Men Benefitted by CCC," The New York
Times, October 8, 1937, sec. 9, p. 2; Weekly Report for the
Department of the Interior to the Director of the Emergency Conservation
Work, February 3 and 24, 1937, RG 35, NA; U.S. Department of the
Interior, "The National Park Service," by Arno Cammerer, in
Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ending
June 30, 1937 (Washington: GPO, 1937, p. 65; Merriam to
Director, NPS, December 12, 1938, RG 79, NA; Minutes of Advisory Council
for Emergency Conservation Work, January 8, 1937, RG 35, NA, pp. 1-4;
and Johnson, pp. 167-168.
10. Department of the Interior Press Release, December
21, 1937, RG 79, NA; U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report for
the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938 (Washington: GPO , 1938), pp. 13,
33-34; Department of the Interior Press Release, June 23, 1938, RG 79, NA;
U.S. Department of the Interior, "The National Park Service," by Arno
B. Cammerer in the Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30,
1937 (Washington: GPO, 1937), pp. 39, 43; and Civilian Conservation
Corps Press Release, July 31, 1938, RG 79, NA.
11. Department of the Interior Press Release, March 15,
1939, RG 79, NA.
12. Salmond, p. 192; Wirth and Kieley, "It's 50
Years Since CCC Went into Action," Courier, The National
Park Service Newsletter, 48(April 1983):3; and "Windsor Confers with
Roosevelt on Island Bases," The New York Times, December 14, 1940, pp. 1,
5.
13. "President Lauds Record of the CCC," The
New York Times, April 8, 1940, p. 3.
14. Fanning Hearon, comp. "The Year's Progress,"
Park and Recreation Progress 1941 Yearbook (Washington: GPO, 1941),
p. 1; U.S. Senate, Civilian Conservation Corps,, pp. 26-27, 65-66;
and Wirth, Parks, Politics and the People, pp. 150-151.
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