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Considering Harrison Gulch to be a typical "Poor Young Men's" camp, permit me to point out that out of 165 enrollees two-thirds of them are taking correspondence courses which are offered by the California State Department of Education. One-half of the enrolled body are interested in completing their high-school work. They will receive credit for work done in camp through the local high school.
Although an average of four classes are held nightly, a clamor for more is being voiced. Vocational subjects attract the majority of students and most of them are learning skilled trades which will be of inestimable value to them when they leave the CCC. Informal activities such as photography, glee club and amateur radio enliven the educational program.
According to the leaders of CCC Education, the 1,500 CCC camps scattered through this country have well-planned educational programs. . . .
PHILIP PANKOW
Assistant Educational Adviser
Headquarters, CCC Company 210
Camp Harrison Gulch
Knob, Calif.
"Grass Roots Press"
Sirs:
Thank you for dressing us up in our Sunday best, even if you did rig us out with a fiddle-player's hat and a necktie sure to get caught in the job-press. Thank you for telling the world that the country newspaper is a going concern.
But with the way neighbors borrow and swap, you do us a sorry injustice by limiting our readers to the total number of our weekly circulation. More accurate would be 17,000,000 weekly copies; 85,000,000 smalltown, rural and homesick metropolitan readers. For ours is no subway sedative completing its life-cycle from press to ashcan within two hours. . . .
H. R. LONG
Publisher The Crane Chronicle
Crane, Mo.
Sirs:
Apropos of "Grass Roots Press" (TIME, Feb. 20), it is heartening to realize that our Bill of Rights makes possible the stabilizing influence in a great democracy of some 10.000 weekly newspapers. A lot of mighty levelheaded editing comes from the lads whose feet are still on the land. . . .
T. T. ALLEN
Detroit, Mich.
Who wondered, after reading "so many ignorant and screwy letters" written to TIME by its 7-out-of-10 college-graduate readers, "whether it's smart for me to finish college."
Who objected (TIME, Feb. 13) to TIME'S figures comparing Hitler's new study with Mussolini's.