1. Advisory Council, Minutes, Feb. 10, 1939.

2. Ibid., March 28, 1939.

3. Ibid., April 20, 1937.

4. Ibid., March 20, 1939.

5. McEntee to Fechner, Nov. 24, 1937, Director, Correspondence.

6. Advisory Council, Minutes, Feb. 6, 1939.

7. Ibid., May 26, 1939.

8. Interview with Dean Snyder, Dec. 12, 1962.

9. Snyder to State Directors, March 16, 1937, S.D., Discharges.

10. Miss Gay Shepperson, supervisor, CCC Selection, Ga., to Snyder, March 20, 1937, ibid.

11. Connecticut Director to Snyder, March 1, 1937, ibid.

12. A. C. G. Miller, supervisor of selection, CCC, Ia., to Persons, Sept. 28, 1937, ibid.

13. M. L. Cooper, state supervisor, CCC, N.Y., to Snyder, Aug. 23, 1939, ibid.

14. J. L. Hill, state supervisor, CCC Selection, Okla., to Snyder, March 16, 1939, ibid.

15. H. G. Chafey to William H. Stone, supervisor, CCC Selection. Mo., Jan. 25, 1940, ibid.

16. Kurtz to Snyder, May 24, 1937, ibid.

17. Persons to State Directors, Oct. 14, 1940, ibid.

18. S.D., Digest of State Reports Concerning Non-Honorable Discharge for Desertion, 1940, typescript.

19. Ibid., pp. 2, 4, 11, 16, 19, 23, 26, 27, 35, 39.

20. Ibid., pp. 4, 11, 27, 40.

21. Ibid., pp. 2, 4, 8, 23, 25, 43.

22. Ibid., p. 8.

23. Ibid., pp. 23, 36.

24. Ibid., p. 30.

25. Ibid., p. 32.

26. Snyder to Selection Agents, May 1, 1938, C.R.M., Appendix V.

27. Advisory Council, Minutes, Nov. 22, 1937.

28. Persons to Miss Helen Lowell, supervisor, CCC Selection, Ind., April 11, 1938, June 9, 1939, S.D., Discharges.

29. Persons to State Directors, Feb. 15, 1939, C.R.M., Appendix IV, Document 594.

30. Washington Times, Nov. 18, 1937.

31. Commanding Officer, Third Corps Area, to Fechner, Nov. 22, 1937, Director, Correspondence.

32. Ibid.

33. Advisory Council, Minutes, Nov. 10, 1938.

34. J. Fred Kurtz to Commanding General, Third Corps Area, Jan. 31, 1939, S.D., Discharges.

35. Advisory Council, Minutes, March 20, 1939.

36. Commanding General, Third Corps Area, to Camp Commander, Oct. 22, 1937, Director, Correspondence.

37. Persons to McEntee, Jan. 13, 1938, S.D., Discharges.

38. Advisory Council, Minutes, March 28, 1939.

39. Ibid.

40. Fechner to McKinney, May 22, 1939, Director, Correspondence.

41. New York Times, Jan. 14, 19, 20, and 22, 1938.

42. Gov. Richard C. McMullen, Del., to Taylor, June 23, 1937, S.D., Negro Selection.

43. Walter White, executive secretary, NAACP, N.Y., to Fechner, Dec. 28, 1937, Director, Correspondence.

44. Fechner to White, Dec. 29, 1937, ibid.

45. Fechner to Persons, March 23, 1938, ibid.

46. La Follette to Fechner, Dec. 19, 1938, ibid.

47. Taylor to La Follette, Feb. 21, 1939, ibid.

48. William Kelly, executive secretary, Milwaukee Urban League, to Taylor, Feb. 23, 1939, ibid.

49. Carl Martin, supervisor, CCC Selection, Ill., to Persons, March 4, 1941, S.D., Negro Selection.

50. George N. Sadka, supervisor, CCC Selection, Miss., to Persons, Feb. 4, 1941, ibid.

51. Louis Howe to Fechner, April 3 and 7, 1934, Fechner to Howe April 4, 1934, Director, Correspondence. Howe confessed that he did not "give a damn about this thing."

52. Memorandum for Press, Aug. 7, 1936, Director, Correspondence.

53. Fechner to A. Williams, March 6, 1939, ibid.

54. Persons to Maj. C. C. Graham, district commander, CCC, Little Rock, Ark., March 16, 1940, ibid. See also chap. v, above.

55. Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, Fiscal Year, 1941, Hearings Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, 76th Congress, Third Session, on H. J. Res. 544, A Joint Resolution Making Appropriations for Work Relief and Relief for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1941 (Washington, 1940), p. 206 (hereinafter cited as Relief Appropriation, 1941, Hearings).

56. I.e., Rep. J. G. Scrugham to Ickes, April 1, 1938, Secretary of Interior, Records. Rep. Vincent T. Harrington (Dem., Ia.) wrote to 179 congressmen and forty-four senators in an effort to prevent the closing of drainage camps in his district. See McEntee to James Roosevelt, May 18, 1938, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 10; Advisory Council, Minutes, April 9, 1938.

57. Advisory Council, Minutes, Nov. 2, 1937.

58. New York Times, Jan. 11, 1938.

59. Advisory Council, Minutes, Nov. 2, 1937.

60. Menominee, Mich., Chamber of Commerce to Roosevelt, Feb. 28, 1938, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268—Misc., Box 19.

61. Earl H. Hanefield, director of agriculture, Ohio, to Henry Wallace, Feb. 4, 1938, ibid., O.F. 268, Box 9.

62. Sen. Victor Donahey to James Roosevelt, March 14, 1938, ibid.

63. New York Times, Nov. 1, 1935, June 29, 1937.

64. Secretary of State to Fechner, Oct. 15, 1937, Director, Correspondence.

65. Advisory Council, Minutes, May 26, 1939.

66. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (New York, 1949), pp. 192-193.

67. Washington Times-Herald, July 16, 1939.

68. Collier's, Aug. 19, 1939, editorial.

69. Mrs. Cora Willis, Lonsdale, Ark., to Mrs. Roosevelt, April, 1938, Director, Correspondence.

70. Woodrow H. Hopkins to McKinney, March 13, 1939, ibid. As a result of his camp experience, this youth had been able to get a newspaper job on leaving the CCC and was currently manager of the Springfield, Ill., circulation branch of the Chicago Daily News.

71. New York Times, Dec. 21, 1937.

72. Des Moines Register, Dec. 24, 1937.

73. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to Ickes, Jan. 25, 1938, Secretary of Interior, Records.

74. New York Times, March 21, 1938.

75. Ibid., June 2, 1940.

76. I.e., San Diego Sun, Aug. 6, 1938. "It would be a denial of democracy to make only those men for whom the economic machine had not been able to find a use, subject to military training."

77. New York Times, Oct. 26, 1938.

78. Ibid., Dec. 15, 1938, Jan. 5, 1939.

79. Washington Daily News, Dec. 6, 1938.

80. Dallas News, May 10, 1939; New York Times, May 14, 1939.

81. C.R.M., No. 784(7), Military Training. The first to introduce bills in 1939 were Rep. James P. Richards (S.C.), who wanted six hours of training a week, and Sen. Robert J. Reynolds (N.C.), who wanted two to five hours of training weekly. Six out of nine similar bills introduced between 1939 and 1941 came from Southern congressmen or senators.

82. Dayton Jones to Snyder, May 15, 1939, S.D., Military Aspects.

83. Chicago Tribune, Sept. 9, 1939.

84. Greensboro, N.C., News, Nov. 11, 1939.

85. Washington Post, Nov. 16, 1939.

86. Ibid., Oct. 1, 1939.

87. New York Herald Tribune, Sept. 12, 1939.

88. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 16, 1939.

89. Washington Daily News, Dec. 7, 1939.

90. New York Times, Dec. 18, 1939.

91. Washington Star, Dec. 30, 1939; Schlesinger, II, 339.

92. Washington Post, Feb. 16, 1940.

93. Relief Appropriation, 1941, Hearings, pp. 186-206.

94. Ibid., pp. 191-192.

95. Ibid., p. 188; New York Times, June 13 and 21, 1940.

96. Advisory Council, Minutes, Aug. 26, 1940.

97. Ibid.

98. New York Times, Aug. 17, 1941.

99. Termination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration, Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, 77th Congress, Second Session, on S. 2295. A Bill to Provide For the Termination of the National Youth Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, March 23 to April 17, 1942 (Washington, 1942), pp. 254, 258 (hereinafter cited as Termination of CCC Hearings, 1942).

100. Ibid., pp. 253-280.

101. Quarterly Selection Report of the CCC, Oct., 1939, p. 2; C.R.M., Appendix V, Document 668.